skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I think the biggest problem is that the providers themselves are as much in the dark as the customers when it comes to knowing what insurance will actually pay. So they submit some highball number and see what comes back. I think what is needed more than anything else is to require insurers to provide an API to providers that will give a legally binding coverage quote instantly, before services are provided, not months later.

There will be some qualifiers to that, like the provider must indicate what conditions the patient is being treated for to qualify for the procedure, and if the patient doesn't actually have that condition, then whoever falsified the information (or was grossly negligent in diagnosing) is stuck with the bill.

Once that is in place, then you can require the providers to give quotes beforehand.
> For the trial hashwall, the browser just does some heavy computations.

Yeah, I figured that out, but someone else might think you are trying mine some *coin or something. I am not sure if I would mind it if you did, but it would be good to tell up front what you are doing. It does seem to be a much better than recaptcha.

The fact that it works is good enough for me. I am going fiddle a little more before I sign up, but it looks like this is fills my needs.
Thanks for explaining this distinction. Of course Assange isn't "friendless" in general, but I would agree that he is with respect to the sorts of people who have any effect on who does and who does not face USA federal charges. That indicts the entire federal judicial system. As if we needed additional proofs of their evil.
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I don't think it required a utopia, he's simply describing warlordism, which was the way of the world for thousands of years before the liberal revolutions. Why we would want to go back to that is a mystery to me, however.
Possible, though we should shame any routers that still allow uPnP. The horror. And MyCloud does default to local only communication.
But it should be.
Self-host might be a good option, or youtube or vimeo. Or even Twitter. But Instagram is a wierd choice.
> But I can indeed see an argument for strain when using the mouse so much. I have experienced that before and improved my ergonomic setup. As an aside, it is curious to me that many programmers are heavy PC gamers as the one true way to game and don’t complain about the mouse use there but will throw out all sorts of complaints when using it to program or use tools.

I wonder also how using visual languages like LabVIEW compares to other mouse-heavy computer users like photo editors/graphic designers, CAD users etc.

> Dataflow is attractive to advanced users as well

I quite enjoyed using Max/MSP a few years ago when I did some stuff with it for a few months. I've always wished I had it available as a general purpose language in my programming toolbox since. As for other advanced users who use (visual) dataflow, my go to example is Ansys' SCADE Suite[1][2][3], which is used for critical systems like trains, helicopters and power plants.

[1] https://www.ansys.com/products/embedded-software/ansys-scade...

[2] https://www.ansys.com/content/dam/product/embedded-software/...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z0h-WeScqw&list=PL0lZXwHtV6... (the third video introduces the visual language)
You seem to be conflating content and product and using "sell" in an overly broad sense.

Understanding the motivations behind media creation is critical for navigating biases.
You should compare outcomes and expenses in the US with really well developed health care systems like UK, Germany, Denmark or others.

US still ranks as spending almost double (in total) per person than any of those countries. Does it have better outcomes? Better late stage life? Does it even have the same level of outcomes, with the higher price?
This is probably the most obvious example of why this would be much more radical of a change than some people would expect at face value. Copyleft literally can't exist without copyright. Corporate interests will restrict their code (and everyone else's) with NDAs instead, and they'll only distribute binaries like it's 1990 again, but worse.
That's what I thought at first, but they also have an "Enterprise" page where you can buy their data, so who knows what they're thinking.

https://rateourcops.org/enterprise
"Like Yelp..."

You know, they may turn out to be more correct than they intended...
One bit of confusion for me was the dragon part of the name.

Peking man was discovered near 'dragon bone hill' (Longgushan) back in 1921 in Zhoukoudian, but this Dragon man was discovered in 1933 in Heilongjiang, and hence the name "Dragon man" (the 'long' (龍) part of the place name meaning dragon). Lots of place names contain dragon this or that in China. These two specimens are not contemporary but separated by at least a 100 thousand years.
It's still not a zero day: Fixed software has been available for months. And it's free.
Tinfoil Hat Disclaimer:

With large ransomware attacks hitting on-premise solutions makes me suspect that perhaps there is a coordinated effort to help “push” people to the cloud.

The massive Microsoft exchange exploit only affecting on premise or hybrid installations. New Kaseya … on premise installations affected…. not newer cloud offerings.

Update: After reading the actual article .. I retract my conspiratorial ramblings…

“ They brought their entire cloud offline. Short of screaming "We've been hacked!" it's pretty certain that they feel it's origin is them.”
There's already some popular evidence of this happening in the wild: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/nbru1d/t...
Run for office. You live in a democracy.
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Technically it can be done and we had prototypes that did something similar.

Hopefully mobile team will manage to implement all the improvements that come from users :)
Property rights cause scarcity anywhere and everywhere; there's plenty of gold to go around in in Goldstrike but only Barrick Gold is allowed to extract it.

Ultimately it comes down to whether one believes that the smart and creative don't deserve to extract profit from their creations nearly as much as the wealthy deserve to extract rent out of physical stuff they didn't create...
Believable deep fakes, at least currently, cannot be created instantly. Blockchain guarantees whatever footage is on chain existed at the moment it was added and hasn't been tampered with since.
Institutional solutions to free-riding in peer-to-peer networks
The paperweight was loaned to me for analysis.

It's pretty cool that you have Ariel 3 telemetry tapes. I agree that the satellite in the paperweight isn't Ariel, but Ariel was the most similar satellite I could find. I'm hoping someone will find a satellite that is a better match. But it could be some obscure proposed satellite that was never built.
This is about as illegal, or encourages illegal activity, as Rate My Professors, Glassdoor or Blind.
They're legal because they're laws. I think you might be asking how they're constitutional? They're constitutional because there's nothing in the constitution that prevents such laws.

Are they fair? I mean ... sometimes? These laws (supposedly) solved a problem where parents would bequeath their estate to their children prior the parents' death and, then, the children would leave their parents destitute. It's not clear how much of a problem this really was (think "19th century); it was probably just a popular image that politicians used as a talking point?

My suspicion is you'd need to use jury nullification to make the law "go away".
That's a very narrow technical view of the thing. It's pretty much only a .zip after AAB. You're losing universality, signature checks, tamper-resistance which made apks apks.
Thank you very much for the explanation and tips. I want to start with a static site as a proof of concept to show some friends. But eventually I would like to advance to a dinamic web app that can be used from tablets or phones.
Looks like napkin could help me start prototyping without having to learn the whole backend stack , which is just another complex new learning process to add on top.
Wouldn't we be able to tighten building codes and enforcement / inspection in Florida for exactly the same reason?
How often is the UI spec modified in practice compared to the frequency of UI changes? I wonder if this scheme actually reduces app update frequencies much. I can imagine that UI improvements often would require spec changes. Imagine adding colors to the map POI's, etc.
Its now speech to hit the delete button on someone else's speech? confusing!

perhaps free speech should fall back to what it used to be, you can say anything except illegal forms, and then platforms can remove only those illegal forms, la a NAP [1] for speech itself

Platforms owning the world's communications but not being subject to aspects in the constitution to protect citizens rights, isn't something that should be considered sustainable, a good read in this, which probably wouldn't fly today, is Marsh vs Alabama [2]

The government fell behind in the digital era, there is no public sidewalks on the internet, no public buildings, etc. The concept of free speech, is not protected on the biggest, most popular, communication medium. Why even have free speech at this point, except for perversion by corporations-pretending-to-have-citizen-rights

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
I think it'd really depend on whether this communication was framed as being from a private organization against the public organization or against the private individual of the officer's own person. And even then it'd likely get mired in a lot of concerns about public safety.

One of the more sane elevated rights police officers have long enjoyed is the right to extreme privacy - their phone numbers and addresses are unlisted by default and sharing the private information of an officer with malicious intent carries a more serious penalty than an equivalent action against a regular individual. Police officers face an elevated level of danger in their personal lives from persons they've arrested or interacted with - if you could spin this website as providing information that makes it easier to identify and harass problematic officers (even if they deserve a significant amount of scrutiny) you'll likely have a strong case to have the site shutdown.
That is why I like the Kaiser HMO system. Most of the rates are pre-negotiated since the hospital and insurance are under the same company. Its typically $20/40 copay for a doctor visit. Even for me with my kidney failure and health issues, the OOP is minimal.
Microphones are ... tricky. I remember seeing a proof of concept of using laptop speakers as a microphone. And more recently, I read about using the mouse to "listen" in on the environment. Apparently the sensors in mice are sensitive enough to detect a lot of vibration. Not good enough to listen in on a conversation, but give it time ...
Medicare For All is the single most important policy in American politics right now, IMO, for this exact reason.

People complain that all the people in private insurance will be put out of their jobs - I view that as a feature, not a bug.
A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb–humans could be next
Imagine 'explaining' the historical context to someone from say, Brazil.
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Technically, you could presumably have a contract with someone who has a contractual obligation to secure the work---you could request arbitration with that someone for that breach of contract. But yeah, if you did something stupid like playing your song in public and someone got a recording, you are screwed.

If your work is important or valuable to you, keep it under lock and key.
Even if people have impressive titles at institutions and landmark discoveries to their name, doesn't mean they are doing either good or correct science.
> One of the most unfortunate things in the past 6 years is that support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks became a partisan issue purely because they exposed corruption in your favorite political party.

This is because Wikileaks is objectively partisan. Do you recall the leaked conversations between Trump Jr and Wikileaks where they suggest coordinating a controlled "leak" of Trump's tax returns in order to bolster their own credibility?

In wikileak's own words: "if we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality".

This doesn't invalidate the content of the leaked e-mails, but it does demonstrate that their goals were partisan in nature.
I have used purelymail for about a year, moved almost all of my correspondance to it (custom domain) and am very happy with it. Good and speedy support when needed. I recommend it.
Fair enough, if I opt-in it isn't spam.
Are you intentionally linking to obvious propaganda?

Click on the "climate change" tag at the top of that story and have a glance at what stories they think are worth telling about climate change.
Maybe! Really depends on the appetite of the Florida legislature and the governor. With DeSantis eyeing a 2024 presidential run, it could be feasible. Hard to say. Without state efforts, it’d be up to each local government.
The trick I've used is that I freeze cubes of the first batch in an ice-cube tray. Then whenever I make more, I unfreeze a cube, so I'm always making a "second generation" batch. My first generation I make from packets you can find online for ~$1.
Yeah, the choices now are shit and shittier.
IP, whether enforced by the government or by private contract, is not a user fee. It's an incentive. To quote the Constitution, IP exists "[T]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings"

How else does such a person learn to discover or create without his thoughts? Taxing IP is taxing the discoveries and the works of a person. Ergo taxing IP is taxing one's thoughts.
I bought an Asus because of this hack[0]. Personally I believe in security through insecurity. It's not working out.

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pan9wn/hackers-hijacked-asus...
> They're not elected, nor are they "public persons." There are plenty of regular folks working for the city, including analysts, beat cops, secretaries, and so on.

As a non-elected “regular folk” kind of person working for a state government (not city, but Constitutionally there is no distinction) a lot of my employment information that would not be public (and that both I and my employer might seek to protect, or different reasons, from the public were I privately employed) is public. Not just in a theoretic sense, but actually hosted and searchable by anyone in the world in numerous databases compiled by media organizations of public data.

Working for the government, outside of where the fact or nature of that employment is itself, say, classified information, is very much a “public” thing.
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Yup. Boil, let cool to 115F, add culture or frozen cube of previous yoghurt, into the instant pot for 9 hours.
You're essentially arguing that legal precedents against any government behavior at all are ineffective and pointless.

Or do you believe 4th amendment issues are somehow unique in this regard relative to other civil rights?
Consider GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 and Pinephone, instead.
> should psychology even be considered scientific or a science in the first place?

You can do good scientific research in that field. But it's much harder than in other fields.
> That's what the filing fees are for.

What is?

> In addition, it's possible to have intellectual property without requiring government influence on someone's thoughts. Case in point, trade secrets.

Nobody is proposing that keeping stuff in your head is going to be illegal or taxed. What would be taxed is puting stuff out in the world and then telling people what they are allowed to do with it. That is only possible by using threats of force or the implied threats of force embodied bybour legal system.
Not forcefully: "...we support the prohibition of the initiation of physical force against others..."

They could talk at you until you cease resisting.
It’s objectively a bad feature because it requires the user to add extra steps to their input for no benefit.
If the buyer brings $X for the reserve, and the reserve gives $X to the seller, the reserve stays the same, and it's as if the buyer gave $X to the seller... Wouldn't that be tend to be reflected in the sales prices? A buyer may only be able to afford $Y, so the sales price would tend towards $Y - $X.
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This website is golden, but there are some issues with fake reviews. For example, the top review of the Chicago Department [0] seems to be from someone very disgruntled at the idea of people sharing their opinions online.

[0] https://rateourcops.org/agencies/1425
The paperweight worked after I fixed a broken wire and powered it from a power supply, and it generated the beeping sound. However, after I re-assembled it, it switched to an annoying fast-beep. I don't know if a component failed or I messed something up during assembly.

You can hear the beeping here: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1411032440534028289
I appreciate you adding a more technical description to aid my inital sentiment, and thanks for sharing your vid, was funny and you actually managed to harness style transfer filters to achieve a particular feeling, which I haven't seen so much
> In addition, it's possible to have intellectual property without requiring government influence on someone's thoughts. Case in point, trade secrets.

Also, all other actual IP.
Is RNZ not available from outside New Zealand?
I haven't watched their Congressional testimony, but I've read Quay's "analysis" and heard Asher propound on his bioweapon theory elsewhere.

Quay's analysis is not a rigorous Bayesian analysis in any sense. It's a series of subjective judgments about likelihoods of various scenarios. It's classic garbage-in, garbage-out, dressed up as science by using the word "Bayesian." The thing is, Bayesian inference is only as good as the information and knowledge you put into it. Quay treats cancer patients and invents medical devices. He has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to virology. It's incredibly telling that he's the guy that pro-lab-leak congresspeople invite to talk, instead of an actual virologist.

Asher is just a career political hack with no scientific background.

Edit: Right off the bat, Quay's first claim in his testimony is highly dubious. He claims that the Huanan Seafood market was not where the virus spilled over, because supposedly the earliest version of the virus wasn't found in patients who were at the market. Two problems: 1. We don't actually know which is the oldest lineage of the virus. 2. Only a tiny fraction of people who got sick at the market have had samples taken. Probably hundreds of people at the market caught the virus and had mild or asymptomatic cases. We only have a few samples, from people who fell seriously ill. By the way, mortality evidence independently supports the Huanan market as the area of the first major outbreak.
> Everyone has a line of how much they are willing to change their language, though.

But that line is constantly moving though. People are forced to adapt, or they are ostracised socially and economically.

If prestigious organisations, people and institutions decide "master/slave" is an immoral thing to say, I have no choice. Eventually I'll need to fall in line or my livelihood will be at risk.
> Copyleft literally can't exist without copyright.

Copyleft (probably?) can't exist without government enforcement. In principle it could be direct rather than by way of copyright.
I don't boil it, but I heat to to 72°C/162°F for at least 15 seconds, i.e. the recommended temperature and duration for pasteurization.
I personally found success in self deprecation. Bully says I drink pee, I escalate and say I eat poo. This is so far off script, the bully stammers and I walk away. Not great for the self esteem, it turns out, but together with running fast, I avoided the worst of it. My mom didn't appreciate that I was also badmouthing her to spike the dozens into the ground, tho
no, that's not entirely the case.

there is, of course, the technical aspect: the blurred edges, the repeated elements, the relative placement of things and unrelated objects, a kind of statistical uniformity/ non uniformity. this is technical aspect which shows they were generated by machine and a particular implementation of neutral networks/ai.

but then there's also the intentlessness that is symptomatic of a lot of modern art, and symptomatic of why a lot of people don't like modern art.

these combine both aspects, and both aspects can be talked about and discussed separately.

To be sure, maybe one day we'll be able to consistently generate something artistic and convincingly filled with what our minds confuse for intent, but these aren't there and ai isn't currently at that level, and there is a particular property of these that make them feel empty, just like a lot of modern art also feels empty and intentless.
Everything you say is true, probably for all fields. There is undeserved faith in peer review processes (https://www.vox.com/2015/12/7/9865086/peer-review-science-pr...), inadequate understanding of statistics (or maybe purposefully poor application of statistics), poor incentive structures, and other issues that corrupt "science". This is why I always cringe a little when someone says "trust the science".

Yet at the same time, I think psychology is especially susceptible to these problems, because it is a more fuzzy "social science" (more like sociology, less like physics). It suffers immense bias due to those who select themselves into the field and also how they study it. Psychology researchers typically conduct non-generalizable experiments with immense sampling bias (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/non-weird-science/20...). Then there are replication problems (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psycholo...). They're also not making any progress in addressing these issues because of meta cultural problems about acknowledging problems in the field (https://www.wired.com/2016/03/psychology-crisis-whether-cris...).
Yes.

> Important: The Android OS does not verify code transparency files at install time, and continues to rely on the APK signing schemes for verification of any installed APKs.

It's pretty much useless because no-fscking-body is going to build a service to gather signatures from a bunch of devices in hopes to catch Google in the act.
Usually Somalia is a strawman, but maybe not in this case.
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Here are more articles and studies on this topic. I didn’t extrapolate from one example, I just used one in my post (this is why I used the phrase “for example”)

https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-police-officers-overwo...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/polic...

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-lender-police-pay-2...

https://www.marketplace.org/2020/07/03/police-departments-ha...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/15-portland-police-officers-see-l...

I’d personally be wary of extrapolating “this webpage says that some police officers that make less money than others” to “$100 is a significant amount of money for an average cop.”
The only reason there's a shortage of housing is because people don't want to pay what housing is worth.