skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Canada is often pointed at by Americans as an example of a functioning healthcare system.

To be fair, Americans have a very low standard for “functioning healthcare system” due to the American healthcare system.
Because I'm not convinced of the reliability of benfit-to-dollar conversions, especially given their history as a way to distract from falling real wages. I personally value real salary much higher than benefit equivalent. Maybe the police department is overpaying for dental insurance from an agency run by the chief's cousin's wife.

You raise a valid point but it makes the analysis more complicated. Even given the way you run the numbers, however, I think you are still overestimating the hourly rate for the average cop. If you judge the wealth of the world by the top 10%, poverty has been eliminated.
Thanks for responding (and I meant spotify in the excerpt from my post obviously).

I dont presume to know your business, but the way I look at it, there's no inherent rule of natural justice that says you deserve to be compensated for creating (and having the government enforce) artificial barriers to accessing your work. I agree you have real costs, but you have options, for example photographing on a commission from a client that needs a new photo of something. Or if a stock photo service, that has paying clients because derive value from having quality photos aggregated, the service itself paying photographers because they find it convenient to get photos this way, then it all works out. But the concept of intellectual property is not necessary for it to do so. There may be other business models (like I say, I dont know that business) but I don't see how trying to create an artificial barrier around something is sustainable, and I dont see value in the IP itself, only in the convenience of getting it.

Again concrete example, I subscribe to the Noun Project for icons, because they are all in one place, and it makes it hassle free and low cost to get icons for my job. Like Netflix, its about the catalog and convenience, and I pay them even though it's technically voluntary because I see a tangible value in it. Again, IP doesn't need to come into it, it's about compensation for a service or convenience, not inherently about the right to perpetual royalties from a piece of work.
Personal income taxes are only a recent phenomena, introduced to bolster war efforts. Nothing prevents a nation funding itself through corporate and consumption taxes alone.
I want to create a miniature forest on my property one day. Does anyone here have experience doing anything like that?
Honest question: does "sensory perception disorder" come out of evidence-based science? Is it diagnosed just based on symptoms, or can they actually tell something's going on with the brain specifically? I ask because isn't it possible that this could be a sort of "vanity disorder"? Not saying it's good to have it, but people might be tempted to think they do.
Countries back global minimum corporate tax of 15%
As an explanation as to why Google has gone down this design path, I think this makes sense. Basically it’s easier to maintain compatibility with existing devices this way.

From a security perspective I don’t think it makes the slightest difference. Google controls the logic that prevents updating apps with a different signing key.

There are so many conceivable ways that Google could inject arbitrary code into each process (e.g. silently cause a different “shadow” app bundle to be launched, play with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, play with the Dalvik VM, modify Java/system libraries, etc) or read processes’ memory, that it’s safe to assume that if Google wants (or is forced to) to modify your app’s behaviour or exfiltrate sensitive data from your device then it’s absolutely within their power to do that.
It's much worse than that: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Any science you hear about on the news is by selection bias more likely to be wrong than the science you never hear about. In short: news is destroying our trust in science by picking the worst examples of it for clicks.
You can setup a receive connector on exchange online to trust mail from specified souce IP(s) (ie your onprem mailserver) with no need for additional mailbox licenses... good for alerting/reporting/MFP's etc
There are bad actors and then there is Exxon. What it is about their corporate culture that makes them a whole level worse than other oil companies?

Meanwhile, micro-plastics are everywhere. Just today I was thinking about how my dryer lint is spreading small particles of plastic I am likely breathing in. That can't be healthy.
> I can find literally nothing online, or even internally, about using Visual Studio with Dragon NaturallySpeaking

My Talon project is capable of voice controlling Visual Studio, both at the interface level and at the code insertion/editing level. It can use Dragon as a speech engine, or my own engine. It has an existing Visual Studio integration, and Talon makes it easy to write your own context specific app commands or integrations.

- https://talonvoice.com

Here's some Visual Studio support for it:

- https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon/tree/master/apps/vi...

As well as vscode:

- https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon/tree/master/apps/vs...

Here are a couple of public GitHub issues about dictation support in vscode:

- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/40976

- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/117980#issuecomme...
Read the book. The cost of defecting from an arbitration agreement would be very high (i.e. you would be at serious physical risk). You're arguing against a strawman you made up.
Yes.

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2017R1/Measures/Overv...
Impressive how little that battery leaked over all those years. And funny how the transistors have an extra wire coming out of them, but those are all paired and run to the same terminal, I wonder what's up with that.

The beeper is one of those crystal (piezo) earphones with part of the bit that you would stick in your ear cut off.
I liked this quote:

> Intel’s 10th-generation desktop processors are still widely available, and they still perform reasonably well for most tasks, including gaming, professional photo and video editing, 3D modeling, and other tasks that benefit from a lot of processor power.

I could say the same about my Haswell E3-1276 (4th-generation). I play demanding games at 2K or 4K and use some professional apps without skipping a beat. I think Haswell and beyond are sometimes under appreciated in a world where CPUs slowly tick upwards every year. :)
FYI the few times I've half-earnestly tried emacs+evil one of the reasons I've gone back to (neo)Vim is that emacs feels sluggish.

I'm sure at least one time spacemacs was partly to blame (aka ALL THE THINGS activated/installed) - but it's definitely a difference in "feel" where (Neo)Vim feels closer to vi, and emacs feel closer to vs code/Atom.
What kind of physical format do those tapes have?
It has approximately nothing to do with reputational harm. The plausible end result of violating the law is either that you have to accept the result of arbitration or you end up getting shot - essentially the same as today, except you have a lot more flexibility in picking arbitration rules.
it depends amd mostly uses its psp (platform security processor) of course security depends on amd's enclave. it basically uses ARM TrustZone, microsoft explained it in a paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... so the internal storage is eMMC with RPMB and a hardware fuse
Mongoose: A Learnable LSH Framework for Efficient Neural Network Training
Seems like the liability should also be on Copilot itself, as a derivative work.
Yeah, but generating tons of stupid verbose code that nobody will be able to read and understand is more fun. Also, your superiors will be sure you are a valuable worker if you write more code.
That's not my point. Mt point is that society was built the way it is to meet consumer demand. This is not something that was forced on us.
I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this. RSS can make a comeback, but it's going to take a little education. I use a "you probably already use this" framing by connecting it to podcasts.

https://viewfinderfox.com/follow-by-rss/
In addition to other licensing gotchas, a ton of SO snippets are copied wholesale from elsewhere—docs or blog posts. So it's pretty likely that the poster can't license them in the first place because they never checked the source's license requirements.
> How is search better on Linux? KDE's Baloo is worse than Windows Search; it's an unending trainwreck of failing to index files (whether names or contents) on some computers and going stale on other computers. Maybe GNOME's file indexing is better, I'm not sure.

I use Gnome and it works well. I'd say it's how I expect a search to work, at least.

I think search could be even better with ways to index other informations. For example, search into the metadata of audio files. My dream is to have something as good as Google in its prime, but for my own files. I'm still thinking on how to reduce the need for the user to produce metadata. For now, the "best" we can usually do is try to give files descriptive names and then search for it, which is good but still very limited to how the web works for example.

> Do you use the (non-index-based) find and grep CLI commands? In that case you can install them on Windows too, or install fd/rg on both Windows and Linux.

There are also tools to replace the search on Windows, but most people will never install those. My comment was more general, about how lots of people have been trained to not rely on search because the basic search in their files is broken. Maybe a consequence of this is that people have a resistance to search, which would explain why so many of them have trouble using a search engine by themselves. It's also a waste of human time, an enormous one.
This is actually why bios chips fail so often in personal computers.
I’m tempted to add a spam detector rule that runs all From addresses through this.
Yes the group becomes masculine no matter the distribution, this is also the case in Italian. If I remember this correctly, this is because the old Latin neutral gender, in those modern languages, has been assimilated into the masculine gender. (If you study Latin you might notice that in many cases the neutral terminations are more similar to the masculine ones so, in a way, it makes sense that at some point the line started to blur I guess).
Humongous F for the man, the legend, James m-fing Corbett! I can sense the pharma & tech shills at rationalwiki popping open a bag of doritos and lining up for the 2nd jab to party it up like only human cattle can -- with myocarditis and obesity.
"The Last And Only Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out" [1]

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid...
Despite not having one, I was mystified by such the obviously terrible idea of selling off the daily "I love my IBM" from who knows how many tech people's lives.
Tech tools and Indian farming: Are the yields worth the cost?
The fact that it is more ductile probably also helps with the welding process.
Conspiracy theories are not harmful that kill people. This is an idea the media spread in the last little while to label non-approved opinions as harmful.

Facebook decides to blank ban anything that hasn't been approved by gatekeepers and you approved because you are worried that people might hear on facebook that vaccines cause people to go sterile and not get one?

Which one of these things is actually causing harm? Shutting down all discussion or the worry that someone might post and might think the vaccine causes you to be magnetic?

It's crazy people are falling for this.
It is. It has a specific meaning which can be found in printed dictionaries from a few years ago. While language evolves and words can gain new meanings in time this process has been radically sped up in the last few years with the emergence of a multitude of "critical" theories into the public discourse - critical race theory being the one most often mentioned but there are many more. What these all have in common is that they are off-shoots of Critical Theory [1] which Encyclopaedia Britannica describes as [a] Marxist-inspired movement in social and political philosophy originally associated with the work of the Frankfurt School. Drawing particularly on the thought of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, critical theorists maintain that a primary goal of philosophy is to understand and to help overcome the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed. One of the hallmarks of these "critical" theories is that they tend to use common words like "critical" to indicate different concepts [2] from those which these words actually mean, hence the distinction. The critical eye to be used should be the one following the concept outlined in §2.2 of the Oxford English Dictionary's description of the adjective critical:

2.2 Involving the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement.
‘professors often find it difficult to encourage critical thinking amongst their students’

When words change their meaning in a natural way this is called language evolution. When this change is being pushed to serve an agenda it is called language revolution, or revolutionary language. That is why I made the distinction between a critical eye and an eye guided by critical theory.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-theory

[2] https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical/
There are various private court/police structures that end up being socially efficient. You pick a police/court company and they have contracts with other police/court companies that specify how arbitration happens. It doesn't rely on any sort of goodwill or miraculous happenstance. The end result is not that much different from what we have today except you should get more for your money and you have some more flexibility in picking which rules you're subject to. The space of admissible rulesets is determined by the cost of negotiating contracts between your court system and the other court systems you might have to interact with.
Everyone is talking about San Francisco's 'shoplifting surge.' But is it real?
You seem to think I have some political motive, I don't. I just saw a comment that from my perspective and historical education seemed to equate two things that I regard as different and said that it might be helpful to not conflate those. It seems like you did not intend to conflate them and it is a difference in what you and I read into the term "actual concentration camp".

From my perspective this conversation is as if someone said "working for XCompany is actual slavery" and I said "Perhaps don't use 'actual slavery' as a term for something that isn't that?"
Which studies are published and which are dropped is not so easy to calculate. Sometimes the team need to publish to get a grant, sometimes one graduate student needs a paper to get the degree, sometimes some of the team member is too famous or a friend of the editor. It vary a lot, papers get published with not good enough but "promising" results.

Also, if the main objective of the study (like reducing the number of death) is not successful, you can pick another criteria of successfulness like number of day in the hospital, viral load after a week, ... there are many to choice.

In particular in the fists study about hydroxychloroquine by Raoult, he claims that it's a success, but if you read the paper you can notice that there is no one death in the trial group and no deaths in the control group. (And the control group is not a randomized control group, just an unrelated bunch of patients in another city.)

About why early interventions with hydroxychloroquine get apparent better results:

That's a good question, but the publication bias is not the only source of problems.

It's difficult to be sure, but look at the study here in the OP. My guess is that the treatment with ivermectin includes implicitly phones call "Locatel" and that additional care from doctors improve the result. Other studies have similar additional care for the people under treatment.

And if you start the phone calls earlier, it's better that starting late. So you may measure it in the trials.

You may disagree with my explanation, and it's fine. The real problem is how to be sure if I'm wrong or you are wrong (or both). So the solution is to do double blind studies, were some people that get the medicine and other people that get a placebo that looks identical. But the important part is that both get all the additional health treatment. Both get phone calls that perhaps are useful. Both get automatic weakly nurse checks that are common in other treatments and perhaps are useful. ... So it's not necessary to guess if any of the other part of the treatment is useful, because the only difference is drug vs placebo.
People are concerned about Google editing code, which would be detectable through the signed code section or just basic decompilation and would be a nightmare for PR. But people are apparently not concerned with

1. Nothing has ever prevented tampering with the signature before first install.

2. Google owns and writes the OS.

3. Libraries like WebView are both security critical and updated via ordinary app updates, and are provided by Google.

4. The dex bytecode isn't actually run on modern devices. Instead it is compiled into an executable by code owned by... Google.

5. The large majority of developers are using compilers and other tooling provided by Google.

This is why the concern over this change is ludicrous. When you installed Signal or whatever for the first time did you check the signature? Did it bother you that it was technically possible for Play to substitute code? No. Because you are using an Android phone and trusting the OS developer is a requirement for everything.

And there isn't a "total lack of chances to stop tampering", since the code section can still be signed with a different key.

So why is everybody suddenly claiming a conspiracy here?
Unlicensed code just means “all rights reserved.” You’d need to limit it to permissively licensed code and make sure you comply with their requirements.
Maybe Github just doesn't have many repos to control death factories and execution squads?
Lots of things killed people last year, including the lock down. Being allowed to criticize things like that is what separates us from countries that lack democracy.
https://scanlime.org/2008/09/using-an-avr-as-an-rfid-tag/
That's an example of moving the goalpost -- nothing about the comment I was replying to was about animal welfare.

In any case, if you don't eat cheese, I'm sorry for your loss. A good cheese and some ham, along with some fine wine! Makes life worth living.
Physical appearance matters. How you dress matters. It's not everything, but it's more than zero.

Don't have your identity wrapped up in winning. It leads to you being a hypercompetitive jerk, which is hard on relationships.

You can get better at interacting with other people, even if it takes some work. In my case, it took literally writing down every time I messed up with other people, and then talking them over with someone I trusted, and figuring out what I should have done in that situation.

And an extra: When you're asking someone out, don't ask what they're doing that weekend. It's none of your business what they're doing. Instead, ask if you can take them to dinner that weekend. That one turned out to be very important for me...
Well on the way to another STASI.
If you have 10 lines of repeated code with one line changed to make it GET vs POST, introducing an abstraction isn't "silly": it is simultaneously both ergonomic and advantageous, as not only is libcurl's API extremely verbose (as it is a low-level primitive), if you ever need to add another line of code to that initialization--which totally happens over the years, due to various security extensions you might need to either enable or disable with respect to acceptable TLS settings, or to tune performance parameters related to connection caching, or to add a header to every request (for any number of reasons from debugging to authentication)--you can do it in one place instead of umpteen number of places. The libcurl API is itself a leaky abstraction of the underlying TLS libraries in places, so if you ever realize you need to switch SSL libraries (a space in which there has been absolute upheaval in recent years) you are going to reach for shared abstractions; and like... to take this to its ultimate conclusion: I use libcurl as a fallback for Linux, but if you want to correctly support the user's settings for proxy servers--which are sometimes needed for your requests to work at all--my code is abstracted so I can plug in entirely different HTTP backends instead of libcurl, such as Apple's CFNetwork (which you absolutely should be using if at all possible on iOS). You act like abstraction is somehow a bad thing or some inherent cost you want to avoid, when it should absolutely take you less time to wrap duplicated code into a function than to duplicate it in the first place, and if IDE features (including Copilot) are somehow making you think it is easier to throw a ton of duplicated code everywhere, that is part of the argument for why those features are dangerous... they are apparently undermining all the work people did onto refactoring code browsers that are designed to help users locally manage abstraction instead of mitigating poor architecture :/.
Smalltalk-80 had a fantastic work-management facility. I haven't checked lately but I think Squeak and Pharo Smalltalk environments still have it.

On the desktop of Smalltalk Virtual Image you can right-click and say "New Project". This open a new window, which you can resize as you wish. Right-clicking on that allows you to "Enter Project". When you do you see a new desktop into which you can open various tool-windows, browsers, debuggers etc. And you can open nested project-windows inside a project-desktop, as deep as you wish. You can exit a (sub-) project but the (sub-)project still remains in existence, with its window in the parent-project as the handle to it.

As you exit your Smalltalk session you typically choose to "Save Image" which means this tree of projects, each having its own state and set of windows, perhaps a debugger halted on a piece of code, are saved with it. (You will see them the next time you re-open that same saved Smalltalk image).

When you're working on something you often discover that to do this you must first do something else. No problem, open a new "project" window on your current Smalltalk (project-) desktop. Once that sub-task is done you can exit that project and close its window. But you can have multiple (nested) sub-tasks open at the same time.

The name "project" is not the best word for them I think, I think they should be called "tasks". Why does that matter? Because I think it's important to understand that this is not about Project Management. This is Task Management. Something in the spirit of mise-en-place perhaps. You could create a Smalltalk image with tree of "project windows" on it and share it with your co-workers. These sub-projects could describe the subtasks and allow you to record you progress in them, say for cooking a specific type of dinner.

Smalltalk "project-windows" are such a great idea I wonder why something like them does not exist in other environments. No doubt having a "Virtual Machine" whose state is easily saved is a requirement.
The two wires are probably for reliability and/or current capacity.
Where did you read that Zoho is furthering Hindu nationalism? I’d be curious to read a source.
> The average citizen will be better off on the day they are disbanded.

I’m not sure about this. Can you provide some more info? The FBI isn’t perfect but I don’t think they are a net negative. The FBI does lots of good stuff like investigate Ferguson, MO and other corrupt local police departments.