skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once upon a time there was a small country tucked in the southeast corner of Europe, harboring a colorful mix of ethnicities, yearning for peace and prosperity. There were horrible demons in its closet, and they were unleashed upon its present. The rest is history.

1940-1945. Ustaše regime massacres in atrocious conditions ~300k of Serbian civilians from a population of less than 10M. “Even (Nazi) German officers and SS men lost their cool when they saw (Ustaše) ways and methods.”

1987-1991. Slobodan Milošević and his Croat counterpart, Franjo Tudjman, use relentless propaganda to bring atrocities of the past to bear on the present.

> Long before the conflict in Croatia broke out, both Serbian and Croatian media primed their audiences for violence and armed conflict by airing stories of World War II atrocities perpetrated by the other side. Thus, in the Croatian media, Serbs represented Chetniks (or occasionally Partisans) while in the Serbian media, Croats were portrayed as Ustaše.[3] Once the fighting began, these were the labels routinely used in media war reports from both sides, instilling hatred and fear among the populace.[3] The Serbian and Croatian propaganda campaigns also reinforced one another. [...]

1991-2001. Yugoslav wars. 130k killed, 4M displaced. Infrastructure destroyed, economy in tatters.

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

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

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

Love thy Enemy
School children are using orange juice to fake positive Covid tests
>Stuff like this would rapidly ruin wikipedia.

No not really. That is a straw man. Unless the community consensus was that Sanger really was a turnip the edit would not stand.

If wikipedia is not going to be neutral why bother reaading it at all. Plenty of sources exist already that will tell you what to think.

I think neutrality is more important even than "factual" accuracy.
You need a strong brand and good marketing to attract people with a challenge. A normal company has difficulties to reach people.
Utilizing a relationship with a pet to cultivate empathy is a form of exploitation in the same way that being kind and generous to people in order to feel good about oneself is a form of selfishness. The Dalai Lama refers to this as "wise selfishness."

As long as the animal is also happy and cared for, then utilizing a relationship with a pet to cultivate empathy is a healthy, normal, pro-social behavior which makes the world a better place. You could say it's a symbiotic relationship of wise exploitation.

(EDIT: To clarify, the difference here is that challenges which arise in such relationships serve to grow and enhance empathy and love. Whereas with a work animal / tool, challenges in the relationship means discarding the beast and replacing it with something more useful)

As far as the hypothetical situations go, it's a red herring that I don't have the time to dive into.
>In 2012, the media reported the case of John Pittas, whose mother had received care in a skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania after an accident and then moved to Greece. The nursing home sued her son directly, before even trying to collect from Medicaid. A court in Pennsylvania ruled that the son must pay, according to the Pennsylvania filial responsibility law

That is literally inheriting debt. That should be illegal, yet almost half the country allows this.
The columns gave off signals; there's pictures from the reports of the concrete cracking and rusting rebar. There wasn't any need for fancier sensors and data recording technology than was used.
The people talking about mRNA are largely confused except those who are talking about the potential cytotoxicity of the spike protein, it leaking into the bloodstream, and the potential short and long term consequences if that is happening with any non-zero probability (given the scale of the deployment.)
I haven't heard that children are any less susceptible to long-term effects of covid-19. In fact I've mostly heard the opposite that they are just as at risk of long-term side effects of the disease as anyone else.
Yes, I agree. The question is what the system need to change into?

I'm not an expert, but it seems that all known political and/or economic systems fail in the face of greed and selfishness. Or maybe greed is the effect of a failed political system, either or all known systems are a failure from my perspective.

I think capitalism balanced by laws has worked best so far, but you seem to need so many laws that it creates loopholes. I.e blacklists doesn't work that well, especially not a complex blacklist. (And I'd even suggest that the blacklist has been trojaned by lobbyists and other agendas.)
Why are you being downvoted. You are correct.

The New York Times retracted its story on officer sicknick. They agreed with the autopsy. He died of natural causes.

The capitol is broken into quite often, for example, during Kavanaugh's confirmation.
Good. Amazon gets to feel some market pressure to pay people better. This is capitalism functioning well.
Which part is dubious? Do you think this ploy will not work and that Youtube will somehow allow these particular videos to be posted?
And that's cool and all, but - again:

The single most impactful thing you can do to boost your intelligence is learn how to effectively self-soothe

That's a pretty big statement to make. The single, most impactful thing, eh? Reaaaaallly?

I don't doubt that there might be some scientific background, particularly for folks with sensory processing disorders - but to phrase this like the author did - as though it applies to general intelligence for pretty much anyone - just feels very intellectually dishonest.
I would encourage you to watch these two videos and then re-assess whether they were "practically let in":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZvp-Dv0gg (crush inside the building)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEGthdTzedk (mob trying to break in, and beating officers with flagpole and other objects)
Very average IT work in healt-care. Glorified CRUD plus some. Pay is average too.
Ask HN: What to use for cross-platform GUI (Linux / Android)
As the title asks: I have a specific application I need to provide; in the past I have used React Native in this space, but this time around in addition to a mobile target I also need to target Linux, so RN is out of the picture. It is a basic CRUD app that we're talking about, and on the other side of the picture it's exactly what I'd use Lazarus for in the past, but--mobile target.

As a note, React / JS / web are not my day jobs, but I have enough experience, and this type of development makes sense to me.

I have been evaluating Flutter, but for whatever reason it is not clicking with me at all. I might have to go that route and bite the bullet, but I'm wondering if there's any other technology I'm overlooking?
I believe the concept is to stop users from prompting the AI to generate offensive stuff specifically, and then publishing the so-generated stream of offensive stuff as negative PR for GitHub, in the same way the generated stream of offensive stuff coming from Microsoft’s AI was a big PR disaster.
We took our son to an emergency room visit 2 1/2 years ago. The hospital was in network and we had insurance. It was a simple case of croup, we were out in a few hours.

We just got a bill last month for $300. This was on top of 3 other bills we have already paid over the years for the same visit.

The insurance company said they only knew about it a few days before us. So it was a surprise to them too. But by nature of their agreement with the hospital, they were not allowed to fight it.

I still wonder how many more bills we can expect.
Do they work ?
IANAL but spent a lot of time around DMCA and rights... I doubt the cop playing music on a paid Spotify account/etc in this way would be considered commercial reproduction. At least not by the cop - possibly the by the person uploading the video... and thus the issue and the opportunity for take-down.
This a genius response to this if the RIAA actually cared. He is clearly using the music in a public performance as he intends for it to be added to an online video. If the RIAA gave a rats ass about anything but money they could get some serious brownie points by asking anyone who has this down to them to forward the videos so they can serve the individual cops.
I would be curious in any good research on this subject since it may affect my own decision making.

Note: not dumb articles like the one this post is about but published papers.
KDEConnect covers a lot of this, including clipboard sync across multiple devices running the daemon.

It's nowhere as polished and Just Works® as Apple's Continuity, but it's great for me with a desktop and laptop running Fedora, and mobile devices running LineageOS.
As an IBMer at the time, I remember having conversations about how that decision would ultimately doom IBM to irrelevance since it would remove IBM entirely from the consumer market...
At that point though, just about any reasonable actions can be justified even if they're not in the interests of immediate quarter earnings per share. And that's not what most people arguing that the board is legally required to maximize profits are talking about.
AWS Infinidash is undoubtedly a solid product. But we all need an open-source alternative. So, I'm building OpenDash. It is written in dashlang (a thin wrapper around binary code). https://twitter.com/_skris/status/1410527159358083073
The Acer was cheaper than System76 but didn't actually work for the function System76 advertises, which Acer didn't advertise.

That's why System76 charges more.
An arms race, then. We need a service that does the minimum audio modification necessary to ensure the music can't be recognized by YouTube's copyright algorithms.
Yes yes the /r/COVID19 catalogs preprint articles as they appear with some discussion, and while that isn't of course peer-reviewed it's still something to monitor.
With email you also don't have to check 10 things every day.
SEC Charges Hedge Fund Trader in Lucrative Front-Running Scheme
That article is really fascinating
It's not that I don't see anything wrong with it. It's just that it's not a priority for me. I see a lot more wrong with the way people treat people than the way people treat animals, and I don't have headspace for every problem. I guess it doesn't really affect me - out of sight, out of mind?

I know people who treat their dogs like people. Sometimes those same people treat other people worse than dogs. I endeavor to treat people like people, even as I treat my dogs like dogs.
It's a bit late to start the experiment if we need 20,000 working models in the next 6m to avoid climate change. That's the issue with nuclear: to late.
It seems to be the other way around: infering specific unusual incidents from long-term climate change. Meteorologists in Canada are taking great pains to make this clear in recent days.
You both seem to agree on that.

You are only disagreeing on the methods for fixing that. I think one of you is saying 'we need to fix the root cause and stop being racist', and another is saying 'we need fix the symptoms right now because they're suffering.'

What's frustrating is pretty much everybody thinks racism is wrong, and I legitimately think over 99% of the posters here are appalled by racism. But for various reasons, they disagree about methods to correct the issue, and end up despising each other.
> The fact that your immune system will overreact to the virus

It's not a fact, first of all. Second, the vast majority do not suffer that reaction or anything remotely close to it.

For the majority Covid is equivalent to getting a mild cold, or less. Now that's actually a fact, derived from the rather enormous trove of data we have on outcomes at this point.
You're missing the point. The question being raised is if it is a smart decision to get the vaccine after you know you've already contracted COVID.
The only point I'm making is that for those who have already had Covid, taking the vaccine is mostly downside, since it won't offer any more protection than they already have from being infected, and it has the potential, however small, for side-effects. I'm saying nothing about comparing vaccine side-effects to Covid effects.
What sort of "colon cancer scare" resulted in you taking baby aspirin?
Also https://rete.js.org/
"Please don't fulminate."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If we control for those guidelines, your comment reduces to a verbose, and frankly rather nasty "citation needed," which is a shallow dismissal in its own right (not to mention an internet cliché), so in fact it reduces to nothing. Please don't post like that in HN threads.

There's nothing at all wrong with someone writing a speculative blog post based on their personal experience. There's lots of curious conversation to be had about such things.

If it doesn't gratify your personal curiosity, that's ok—there are lots of other links to look at—but please don't post like this. It ends up poisoning the conversation for others, especially once it attracts the swarm of upvotes that angry rants usually do. I'm sure that wasn't your intent, but it happens all too easily anyway.
Why do you buy all those junk products with fake reviews?
clickbait headline
Funny, I switched from neovim to VSCode + the vim plugin. Sure, it doesn't have everything I would do with vim supported, but it's enough and overall it's a better experience
The author's argument is based on the assumption that taking aspirin results "in around one death per 10,000 people".

The cited study [1] does not say that. Those results are specifically for "a fifty-year-old male" (see p. 638), not the general population.

Additionally, the results are from an "aspirin therapy simulation", not real world data [2]. How the researchers ended up with their model parameters, is unknown.

Did the author even read the studies?

[1] https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.26.3.6...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15590881/
Jesus christ stop this.

It doesn't matter whether it's the "first" step or an "early" step. It doesn't matter if the entire process is being summed up as "trial", even though parts of the process are not technically part of the trail.
I don't think OP was suggesting that. Their comment specifically seemed to be about the media drawing unsupported conclusions from specific incidents. That is, as you say a job for the scientists.
If "female" implies "not a [fighter/test] military pilot", and "not a [fighter/test] military pilot" implies "not eligible", then it is true to say that "female" implies "not eligible".
Oops! All fire.
Buddy if the media ramped up dire warnings of climate change by 1000% it probably wouldn't be enough.

People still don't fully grasp the science of this, the time scale, the dire implications - or how dirty we've been done by energy companies AND THE MEDIA over it.
What luck!

I have been trying to move away from Zoho. I tried protonmail for the last month but it's not for me. E2E is great but the loss in functionality is a bit much.

I switched to fastmail today but I have ran into some issues there as well[1] and so far I have seen a lot of recent reddit posts criticizing the extremely slow response time(2+ days) in support tickets. So, now I am not sure if fastmail is a good option.

Migadu has been recommended to me in the past, maybe I should try that out

[1] https://reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/m4rj0g/_/h3tq036/?con...
It's hard to sell in an article because all their releases say Performance Improvements, but this version actually appears to be noticeably snappier in a way that makes a difference in my day to day usage, which is great.
https://www.cruxweld.com/blog/quality-weld-inspection/

TLDR: x-rays, ultrasonic testing, and liquid penetration tests
As long as Senators are carrying snowballs into the Senate to "disprove" global warming I think that it's quite fair to point out specific issues in the other direction even if they don't actually indicate climate change. Climate change is likely going to cause extreme situations to become more common place - shining a light on specific disasters and making it clear, from a media perspective, that they are becoming more extreme and more frequent is likely going to be a lot more effective in convincing the general populace than the technically correct argument.

(Below is an edit in response to a dead reply which represents a not-insignificant viewpoint) In response specifically to "destroying credibility" - if media organizations want to act responsibly and highlight that these events are likely results of climate change due to their frequency while also admitting that similar events would occur without any climate just but with much lower frequency and potency then I'd be extremely pleased with the job the media is doing. The Mark Twain saying "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots" is extremely relevant - lies are being actively spread in the media and they need to be countered somehow. And, at the end of the day, it isn't false to say these events are related to climate change - it's just that a few happening occasionally isn't a good metric to go by.
I’m saying that for all practical purposes I never had an issue. That is, I don’t recollect any case where it turned out that someone didn’t get my email. That’s not to say that it didn’t ever happen in cases that went unnoticed by me, but if so it was rare enough to be a non-issue.
If you want to be really accurate, the women actually participated in a private test that replicated the NASA training program, so NASA had nothing to do with it.

But the entire point of that private program was the show NASA "hey look women can do this too!". And that's kind of the point.

That they were only being denied because of their gender.
"Almost immediately", not really. He had major influence on Wikipedia's early policy decisions, including NPOV itself. And he's not even wrong about verifiability and reliability of sourcing being sometimes in tension with NPOV; it's just that the latter is meaningless without the former.
If they could just sue the police departments as a whole, then they'd have the money they want.
An acquaintance of mine is building https://www.upliftinc.co after experiencing similar issues.
The acronym refers to pay, not tech. IBM doesn't match the pay of FAANG
Lisp machines weren't slow; the original CADR of the late 70s ran at around 1 MIPS on 32 bit data with up to 8 MB of RAM, making it about as fast as the VAX 780. The VAX was a large minicomputer released in 1977 and one of the fastest machines, short of a high-end mainframe, at the time. A Lisp machine also cost about as much as a VAX (but for a single user).

The problem was maybe, aside from a $50,000 PC being hard to sell, that even on such generous hardware with specialized support, Lisp, particularly with the more naive compilation techniques of the 70s and early 80s, and after adding a fairly sophisticated operating environment, was still a rather hefty language.
"Nobody wants to pay for what is a collective problem."

Yet they choose to live in a collective structure. It's essentially another level of government entered into via contract. Maybe they should choose to live in an independent residence if they didn't want that.
Everyone in the healthcare chain in those countries earns less than in the US. The US is going down that road, but it will not be a quick and smooth.
One of the biggest reasons Condos are not for me. I just cannot have my life depend on decisions made by others because we share common areas. Not to mention that Condo monthly fees are still very high and they cannot cover stuff like this.
Women are also currently well-represented in computing in Eastern Europe, Iran, China, and somewhat in Russia.

None of these regions particularly care about "women in tech", and most of them are certifiably more patriarchal than any of the Western countries currently suffering from under-representation of women.

One can conclude from facts on the ground that neither gender equality nor pro-diversity movements correlate with desirable representation outcomes. Yet, those appear to be the only approaches attempted here in the West.

We're not serious about tackling the problem. We are, however, quite good at grifting off the problem with proposals we know don't work.
All that, and no mention of the namesake Welsh poet? ...

I know a man who's brain's so small
He couldn't think nothing at all,
not the same as you and me!
doesn't dig poetry

He's so un-hip, when you say, "Dylan"
he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas —
whoever *he* was!
The man ain't got no *cultcha.*

— Simon and Garfunkel, "A Simple Desultory Phillipic"
Some Common Perspectives on Cryptocurrency
Voting Republican is to enact fascism and tear down the tenants of democracy in the US, while siphoning as much money and power to big business and the upper classes as possible. The ideology you cite is remarkably tame by comparison.
There is some evidence that the vaccine helps with the long-term side effects of the disease.
This was my experience as well. I went to the ER with tremendous chest pain, it turns out I have some issue with my ribcage. Not my heart. UHC decided I did not in fact need to see a cardiologist or an ECG since I wasn't having a heart attack and declined to pay for anything.

Multiple attempts on my part to resolve this yielded nothing. I contacted the state of TX, who brought suit against both parties (insurance & service provider). Somehow, the day before the court appearance they all agreed to settle the claim at no cost to me.
400F, yes but most cooking oils have a smoke point below 500F. Even then, where is the evidence? Where exactly is PTFE banned and where is the strong correlation?
The first woman to become a US fighter pilot was Jeannie Leavitt in 1993. That's not a coincidence: until then, women were banned from flying combat missions. https://web.archive.org/web/20140111222628/http://articles.p...

So yes, requiring applicants to have fighter pilot experience in 1963 was exactly the same as denying women because of their gender.
The Introduction of Guns in Japanese History
I'm saying that people historically sometimes act like monsters when they meet people from other communities. Enslavement. Pillaging. Murder. Rape. Salting the fields. Etc. etc. etc.
OK so it sounds like what I asked for doesn't exist. Sorry, but "I heard" doesn't count for me, since it conflicts with other things I have "heard", being networked with physicians.
There is some evidence that contracting the disease does not necessarily mean immunity. Additionally as I mentioned in another reply there is some evidence that the vaccine can help with long-term conditions of the disease.
I mean, the cases where it tries to assign copyright to another person in a different year highlights that context other than the other text in the file is semantically extremely important, and not considered by this approach. Merely generating text which looks appropriate to the model given surrounding text is ... misguided?

If you think about it, program synthesis is one of the few problems in which the system can have a perfectly faithful model dynamics of the problem domain. It can run any candidate it generates. It can examine the program graph. It can look at what parts of the environment were changed. To leave all that on the table in favor of blurting out text that seems to go with other text is like the toddler who knows that "five" comes after "four", but who cannot yet point to the pile of four candies. You gotta know the referents, not just the symbols. No one wants a half-broken Chinese Room.