skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you have a lot more faith in "state public Healthcare system". Many comments were about how corrupt the politicians that led to this system were, so I imagine they would be equally as corrupt when they're "setting prices".

The alternative would be to allow people to break the third party payer system and allow people to buy and import drugs from whomever they want. You can do this now on the grey market, but it would be great if it were legalized. Then you can probably get it for the same price as any other country, probably even lower. If you want, you can have the state cut every insulin user a check for $10 a year or whatever it would cost in a free market
Wait you don't have a /root/btc_bounty_private_key.txt with 600 permissions in every server?
Archaeologists discover 3k-year-old victim of shark attack
I know nothing about bitchute, but I am skeptical of the Wikipedia article you cite.

This Wikipedia article excerpt seems like editorial, not information. It might be 100% accurate but the spin is so blatant that I don’t trust Wikipedia on this.

Similarly, I wouldn’t trust a Wikipedia article about Adolf Hitler if it began “Hitler was one of the most evil men of the 20th century”. Although I believe that statement to be true, there’s too much editorial bias.

I want an encyclopedia to tell me unbiased facts and let ME make the moral conclusions.

“Conspiracy theories” and “right wing” are labels of opinion, not fact, these days. They don’t inform, they label.
Fast pages are good for the web generally, but Google treats the entire internet like pages of search results and this can punish some people who aren’t building search results. There are lots and lots of good experiences on the web that are optimized for multiple page views because they’re communities, educational, or some other kind of application - they’re designed for people who stick around.

I worry that if core vitals becomes too strong of a signal it will over homogenize things to the point that we’re further ostracizing parts of the web that aren’t built like fast results pages to get an answer and bounce off of. We need more differing alternatives to Google.
They did have startups and private investors, but it was obviously black market and was punishable by death.
> There are no free market health systems in leading economic nations

That also does not exist in the US and hasn't in more than half a century. The US could hardly be any further away from a free market in healthcare. It's hyper regulated, and hyper dominated by government programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and dozens of other programs and agencies).

The US healthcare system is controlled top to bottom by rigid, strict government regulations and oversight. It's the way it is precisely because there is no free market at all. The corporatist interests like it just the way it is, and work with the politicians to constantly maintain that highly regulated environment: it's regulated in their favor, exclusionary of nearly all potential competition. And it's insanely expensive to try to start anything in healthcare, which favors the incumbent further.

Try starting a hospital or opening a clinic. Try becoming a doctor. Try getting a drug to market. Try getting a medtech device to market. Hyper regulation every direction you look.

Free market? Ha.
While your skepticism is certainly warranted, some individuals at McKinsey are deeply committed to sustainability, and arguably their involvement with the firm provides opportunities to have real-world impact.
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> employees are de facto dependent on their employers for their ability to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves.

This is false. This presumes that all employees are incapable of saving money or seeking alternate employment quickly.

Neither is true.
Previous submission with comment from creator is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26937223
Unless your firmware vendor updates the microcode embedded in your firmware and you update to that newer firmware, the new microcode is loaded at runtime and won't persist over power cycles. The old microcode is still available, yes.
Discussed at the time:

Data-Oriented Design (Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1004569 - Dec 2009 (28 comments)
The larger point is: you can't replace a healthy investment ecosystem with grants. A government fund is itself representative of a lack of ambition. If the EU actually wants its own SV, they're going to have to address regulation, not throw money around.

The real problems startups face in the EU are labor and tax laws. Companies can't use equity as compensation (which is a big lure for talent) and it's extremely hard to fire people (which makes pivoting or dealing with general market changes impossible for small companies). Pro-employee policies are necessarily anti-employer. Smaller, more innovative, companies have a harder time surviving such policies. So long as there is greater risk in EU companies, investors will take their money elsewhere.
yeah C will be order defined in code, rust will reorder to save space unless you attribute it not to. interesting trivia a blind guy wrote the reordering code. if anyone knows his name please post.
> So if we could find a way to bake that decentralization into the protocols even more strongly while making them accessible to non-technical people, that's the change I would make.

Have you heard of Holochain?

"Holochain is an open source framework for building fully distributed, peer-to-peer applications.

Holochain is BitTorrent + Git + Cryptographic Signatures + Peer Validation + Gossip (data propagation).

Holochain apps are versatile, resilient, scalable, and thousands of times more efficient than blockchain (no token or mining required). The purpose of Holochain is to enable humans to interact with each other by mutual-consent to a shared set of rules, without relying on any authority to dictate or unilaterally change those rules. Peer-to-peer interaction means you own and control your data, with no intermediary (e.g., Google, Facebook, Uber) collecting, selling, or losing it."
1D syntax assumes a linear pass from beginning to end across the bytes of a program to build the AST. You have concepts like brackets and parens and quotation marks and colons.

2D languages have none of those. They imagine all programs as laid out on a grid. Think of a spreadsheet. For trees, you use indentation. There is not a single computer language in all the world that cannot have it's semantics represented with just that 2D syntax. This realization has long fascinated me. It knocks me off my feet, the same way I feel about binary notation.

Here is a talk I gave in 2017 about 1D vs higher D languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldVtDlbOUMA

Here is a video that makes the connection between programming languages and spreadsheets clearer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QWH-iV3k
> If you're a software engineer working on a project with ethical implications, please consider the kind of world you're building.

You'll find them on Twitter falling over themselves to tell everyone how morally upstanding they are
>"This was just an idle conversation we were having at work. Imagine that one day you wake up and you've been sent back in time, where you are now a researcher at DARPA in the early 1960s. You've got the influence to effect fundamental changes in the next sixty years of the Internet's history, and can make your changes any time in the next sixty years - but you know that as soon as you change one thing in history, you'll be sent back to 2021, to continue living in the world you have wrought.
How are you going to make the Internet better?"

You leave it the hell alone! <g>

You leave it the hell alone -- because if you don't, upon returning to 2021, you'll discover that in addition to your wanted change -- there will be all kinds of unwanted "butterfly effects" in the world, resulting from that change, and not limited to the Internet, either! <g>

Like, propagating in and through actual reality -- not just constrained to a computer screen or virtual world!

Unwanted/unforseen/unexpected (but mostly unwanted!) "butterfly effects" (imagine just how scary these could be if you were unprepared for them -- the scariest Stephen King novel wouldn't do them justice!) resulting from Chaos Theory (which programmers know to be actual fact -- make a small change early on in a program -- get vastly differing results later on, as the program moves through TIME...)

So if it one day happens that you magically appear (through time travel, or other plot element) at DARPA in the 1960's -- then you take a quick look, like Clark Griswold in "National Lampoon's Vacation", when he takes a brief look at the Grand Canyon (all of a few seconds!), and you appreciate all that DARPA and all of the other earlier Internet researchers did -- and you leave all of it the hell alone! <g>

Yup, sorry, nothing to see here, nothing to change here, no changes for me! Just passing by, not going to touch a single thing! <g>

You also appreciate the fact that while today's reality is a mess in many ways (and it is!) -- it could also (with Time Travel/Butterfly Effects/Chaos Theory) -- have been a much, much bigger mess(!) -- with Butterfly Effect horrors beyond your wildest understandings! <g>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

Disclaimer: The above was written for thought-provoking and
possibly (depending on the reader's viewpoint!) comedy purposes only! <g> (Though it also works if read from a serious viewpoint...)
Whenever someone does this comparison it's a good sign I can ignore pretty much anything they say afterwards
I've found ad blockers to be the best malware defense for my older relatives. Specifically ublock origin and nextdns. After installing those, virus/malware infections have dropped to pretty much zero.
The US has (amongst other things) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIRs) Grants/Contracts, that the DoD plus various other gov orgs (NIH, NSF, NASA, FBI, etc) put out once or more a year that looks for research ideas for lots of things. I worked for a company for almost a decade and a half that dealt with them, and it lets you work on lots of fun stuff!

https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/topic/current

There are some startups that actually launch using them, but they are relatively rare because when you are a startup you want to focus on finding your product or service, and not spend a lot of time filling out grant proposals and progress reports and going to governmental meetings. So they can be a big distraction. Still, it is an option.
This is a "no true scotsman" fallacy in which one can shift goalposts endlessly with any misinformation with "so and so wasn't really highly educated".

Give me concrete, well-researched, well-evidenced claims about the easy identification of misinformation, because it's so easy.
It depends on what you mean by bug. Often, requirements change, and now the program doesn't meet requirements; that's not something you can avoid.

Ensuring your requirements are correct is possible, but often hard. Ensuring your software meets the requirements is possible, but often hard, especially if you need to consider hardware failure or defects.
If it can't be explained in a tutorial or two - is it a good idea to use in (most) production environments?

(I know, I know - your environment is a special case).
This is the way to go. Seeing removed videos, which you don't even remember the topics of, in one of my YouTube playlists is so frustrating.
Nice analysis!
Ideally the site should store the destination in something like redis or memcached and hand the browser an endpoint with an opaque token for the redirect. After login the endpoint gets the token, looks up the actual destination, and does a final redirect. The bonus to this method is that the site can store more than just the destination, but keep useful state, as long as that state is safe across authentication boundaries.
I think the complaint of "censorship" might have some basis if the reason why the company changed the character models is to comply with obscenity laws in the most conservative country in which that particular game will be distributed.

There is a case to be made that in a world where creators sell their content globally, conservative regions with a lot of potential customers might influence content that ends up also being sold in liberal regions. This might not be censorship, exactly, but it is an annoying side-effect of a globalized information economy. Instead of the world opening up and becoming more liberal, it might actually end up becoming more conservative, if transnational corporations decide that catering to the lowest common denominator is a more profitable route.

I suppose the workaround for consumers is the same as it is for movies - to avoid the content designed to appeal to the broadest audience, and seek out indie creators who are still willing to cater to a more local or specialized audience. In the mean time, I do think it's fair for consumers to advocate for generally more liberal themes in games, although I'm not sure the sexiness of an outfit is really the hill to die on.
I think you're still overestimating. VCs would run away from a company that was vetted by the government.
Keeping me and my family from a horrible death is good enough motivation for me to keep working.

And that's ok. When I work, I also provide value for others and they give me valuable things in return - like money for food.
> To implement all of these things at the scale needed is politics

In America, where actual implementation of technology is carried out by private companies, this is simply not true.

This is like saying that the engineering work on the internet was "done" in 1996, and the work of driving adoption of the internet at scale was "just politics".

You can quibble over the definition of "engineering" but the fact remains that there are millions of person-hours of work to be done by people with the job title "engineer" in order to transition off of fossil fuels.
I think you're misreading this. The real issue here is that Youtube does in fact have policies and algorithms in place to censor right-wing and "conspiracy" content, but it seems that now some left-wing orgs are upset to find that these same rules also apply to them. Dozens of popular conservative channels have been permanently banned over the last few years, including Alex Jones, Stefan Molyneaux, Nick Fuentes, as well as many others, but I'm guessing The Daily Beast or Right Wing Watch weren't complaining when that happened.
Lutris is wonderful, the answer is yes. https://lutris.net/games/grand-theft-auto-v
Lets go over the numbers shall we ?

"Just build nuclear" - As per the post itself, we need to build 3 nuclear plants every day until 2050 to replace the entire grid with nuclear. Yeah not realistic.

Carbon capture [0]

1. We take 5 billion cubic meters of Oil out of the ground

2. We emit 30 billion tons of CO2

3. We can only capture from big sources like power plants and industrial sources - Maybe about 40 % of Co2 can be captured

4. Half of the capturable CO2 is about 6 billion tons of gas

5. We will have to liquefy it so it has to go into the ground.

6. We have to shove 12 billion cubic meters of Co2 into the ground every year to sequester only half of the capturable CO2 however the scale of this is greater than the entire Oil industry that was created over 100 years and cost trillions in capital.

7. After this you're still only capturing a fraction of the carbon. You'll have to pay heavy taxes on everything you buy.

8. Who is going to live next to these billions of tons of C02 in the ground ? This will leak and kill people.

Electric cars [1]

1. The global vehicle fleet is estimated at 1.4 billion vehicles travelling 28 trillion kilometers

2. Powering this is estimated to require an *additional* 17k Terawatt hours of carbon free power generation. The current global generation of electricity is 26k Terawatt hours.

Phasing out fossil fuels from power generation entirely

3. The author estimates that we need to build 165k new power plants that are a mix of solar, wind, hydro and nuclear. This while most of the worlds existing infrastructure is crumbling.

4. We need 200k storage stations that can store 100 MWh to act as backup for solar / wind. This will need 90 million tonnes of batteries.

5. If you want to replace the Gas used for heating as well and go completely zero fossil fuel the estimate becomes - 6 million storage stations and 2 billion tonnes of batteries.

6. The entire known reserves of Nickel, Lithium, Cobalt are not enough to make these many batteries. We need another 7 Australian Lithium deposits.

India and China continue to rapidly increase their emissions. Poorer nations cannot stop they are too poor to even begin.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIjlZQf28I - Vaclav Smil

[1] - https://youtu.be/n_gvvj56rzw?t=2025
Indeed and it's worth mentioning that when every job has that sort of notice period it's less of an issue than you might think. Not to mention there's always room for negotiation with these things.
I think that the problem is not that people over-estimate what politics can accomplish, the problem is that people (correctly) believe that they have approximately zero influence on politics, and therefore try to look for alternative solutions.
Not being able to (meaningfully) save money is a harsh reality for many people, what are you talking about?

The fact that some (tech/highly skilled) workers have actual leverage doesn't negate the fact that many, MANY others don't have any.
The rust structure is defined as repr(C) so there is no reordering.
The parent mentioned growing their own grain, which is substantially more difficult (planting, harvesting, milling) than growing your own yeast.
“I liked them, but not enough to find a way to fund them” isn’t the best endorsement ever
Correction

> One in four patients say they’ve skimped on insulin because of high cost

> say they've

^ is the key component. I expect the vast majority of those people had a choice, and they chose not to take it. A poor choice, and a choice they shouldn't have to make, but a choice nonetheless.

The point is, if you're going to fight for positive change, use an argument that can't be trivially dismissed because it isn't true. Fight effectively.
Yup. Don't know what the other guys is talking about. I think he's just referring to his common thinking. :)))
I'm going to shamelessly plug my own emacs org-mode extension:
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Write all your notes to org-mode files in a git repo, sync these (selectively) to Anki. No need to depend on proprietary services.

Ironically though, the easiest way to get your cards to AnkiDroid/AnkiMobile is through ankiweb.net (a free service) then you could manually export/import cards and stats should that disappear. org-anki saves note ID within org-mode, so you can keep updating cards after an export/import.
The big problem is FB, YT, etc. don't seem to be able to tell apart aunt Rose's conspiracies from those fabricated by NK, RU, or CN troll/bot units.
I was fired by an algorithm in early 2019 when working for Amazon Flex. Basically, on the app, "blocks" would appear, which would be a set $ amount for approximate X number of deliveries to X location. Then you would drive to a "fulfillment" center to pick up your boxes. You had to be quick to grab a block before someone else did. Occasionally I would drop a block and grab a higher-yielding one. It wasn't clear to me that this was frowned upon by the app. After a few weeks of this work, I was "deactivated" without any warning. I called their customer "service" line and was told that I was deactivated in their system and there was no recourse for me. That really sucked.
My ISP provided shell access via dialup to download a starter pack, Winsock, Mosaic, etc. All via lsz/zmodem.

I rarely used floppies, we did most trading via BBSs or even direct dial. Telix was in my autoexec I used it so much.
As a Canadian, discussions like this threat make me slightly wishful of better options for national forums or censorship of foreign speech. Of all the comments decrying how horrible this is, how many of you are Canadian or at least familiar with the practice of limits to expression in Canada? At present I don't feel too strongly either way about this bill but I think by and large the judicial system has shown itself to be capable of reasonable enforcement of necessarily vaguely defined terms so I don't anticipate many/any outrageous enforcement actions. We are much less politically polarized than the US, especially the judicial system, so there is a smaller risk of the law being interpreted in extreme ways. That's not to say this is necessarily a good law, just that I don't find it as horrible as many of the comments are making out.

I feel like our culture and values are at risk of being overwhelmed by the US's since the media and online spaces are so dominated by American voices. Apart from a few Canadian themed subreddits (and who knows how many of the comments are actually from Canadians) and maybe friend groups on Facebook, there aren't many online spaces for Canadians to talk. I don't know how to deal with this problem. I love forums like Hacker News and and any nation-specific space would be unlikely to be as good. I don't want the great firewall of China either (I wonder how the Canadian Shield will turn out [0]). So I don't know what the solution should be but threads like this do feel like a small part of the problem.

[0]: https://www.cira.ca/cybersecurity-services/canadian-shield
Are you related to https://www.tree-annotation.org/ ?
Facebook wins dismissal of FTC's antitrust case
How can startups and the HN community respond to the climate crisis?
The Northern Hemisphere across the world is seeing record smashing temperatures. What can startups and the HN community do to address the climate crisis? Are we all just going to carry on with business as usual as we drive earth off a cliff?
In essence financial slavery...
Grants are limited (even with a budget of 1Bi EUR). News at 11

Being overwhelmed by applicants is a good problem to have (as opposed to having few applicants. That would have been worrying)
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Yeah not only is there a 28 day lag time, but _new_ content on your site is grouped with "similar" URLs, using some secret Google special sauce to determine other pages on your site to use as a baseline. This has been one of the most frustrating parts.

Or to take it further, it's still nearly impossible to use google's tools and determine that a particular DIV or Ad is causing damaging shift _in aggregate_.

Worse, it's impossible (and probably will always be) to tell the dollar value of getting all the web vitals to "green". They are pretty agressive targets for most publishers I think, but it's unclear exactly how much these fixes are worth (in additional traffic, seo performance, carousel inclusion, etc).

This is a bit "the nature of the beast" when dealing with Google rankings, their most valuable corporate secret, but still, this is a big, hard, expensive job, with relatively clear inputs and measurement, but with totally opaque outputs / ROI.
I don't wish any individual with a disability ill, but journalists should not write misleading articles. I follow the chess scene closely and never heard of Jessica Lauser. No USCF or FIDE rating is mentioned in the article. She has a FIDE blitz rating of about 1700 according to https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2041049 , which makes her a typical club player, not a "chess champion".
I tried this kind of news aggregation but unfortunately the source material is mostly garbage and people prefer a few hand selected news to an automatic feed.

The classification problem is interesting though. I ended up with a long list of hundreds of topics. Most articles fall in two or more. There's also a sub-problem of clustering news by subject.
That's his point, you want to 1-align the struct to disable the padding to ensure the size of the structure is portable.