skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of what you say is true.

> It has made australians one of the richest in the world.

Which Australians? It's certainly helped already rich Australians dodge taxes, if that's what you mean?

> It has allowed people who would otherwise squander their savings to have investments that they can live off in their retirement.

Why not force people to save 100% of their incomes, if all spending is simply squandering? If you want to increase savings, there are much better ways to do it (Norway's SWF for instance). The idea that a minimum wage worker would be saving 10% of their income instead of putting food on the table is crazy. Lowering the spendable wages of already low paid workers by a further 10% is a terrible thing to do.

> Good industry-run super providers are very cheap and cost effective, and generate at least market returns.

Even "good" industry funds have fees ~20x higher per invested dollar than Norway's SWF, and performance no better than a basic index-following approach with a fraction of the fees.

> The problem of inequality or poverty for people with low balances in their super is not something that this policy aims to solve.

Wrong - Labor and the union movement claim it's about security and dignity in retirement. Of course, Keating's real goal was to privatize a core function of the welfare state, and provide a tax dodge for the rich.

> There will always be people in situations where they are unable to contribute. That's why the pension system exists - a final safety net.

That would make sense if the pension was anywhere near the poverty line - it isn't. And if the pension is there to provide security in retirement... what is super for?

> They would've been very much poorer over all, had it not been done.

Ask elderly women living in homeless shelters how rich they feel thanks to super and a pension that isn't enough to afford food and shelter.

Keating could have set up super to create a Norway-style SWF that funded above-poverty-line pensions for all. But he chose not to because his goal was privatization and the gutting the welfare state.
Ah, there is so much wrong with this comment.

Comparing VS Code to ISE is next level of wrong.

You mention mostly few search and replace bugs as a proof, but those are just bugs. There also is search history just behind a hotkeys.

While I agree that search needs some love, its hardly a show stopper.

My experience is exactly the opposite - VSCode has some of the best product quality I've seen from Microsoft ever, period.
Movies publishers does it as well (DRMs on movies media) since decades and we all know this have absolutely no effect : every movie is available on p2p networks even before being available in stores. I’d add that they even manage to get negative effects since only legitimate consumers are annoyed.

So it would not be surprising to have a similar situation there.
I suspect that the airpods are expensive because of how difficult it is to manufacture them rather than material use. They probably require the latest factories with time consuming manual labor to pack them all in the case and glue it up. As well as a thick markup that you $1 battery doesn't have.
On Slack you just wrap in backticks and it formats as a monospace block and doesn't interpret further, which is nicer even than no formatting IMO.
They will be assigned to performance management, but nobody will tell them.
The principled thing to do about software you consider spyware is to not use it. Not paying for a paid product you use daily and continuously derive value from is hard to justify in my view.
I would like to somehow raise your comment higher becase example you've posted is so simple and clear.

Is it possible to make Rust implementation to be on par with C++ in terms of performance for that particular example without using unsafe?
I wonder why we don't fund drug development directly, using tax money and then let companies produce the drugs for a reasonable fee. I feel like drug development shouldn't be prioritized by the estimated amount of profit one can get from the drug.
I love the historiography alluded to in the paper (and the meta-historiographic discussion of the arguments and counter arguments).

The argument always seemed political to me: just look at Orwell’s Wigan Pier (~1920s) or Wylie’s Village in the Vaucluse, or hell, the 1939 German invasion of Poland with horse drawn cannon to see the flatness of the curve.

Zhou Enlai’s quip about the significance of the French Revolution is instructive here: “Too soon to tell”. For a “revolution” — a true turn of the wheel — is usually a slow motion and almost invisible affair, like swimming through a huge wave. Unless you’re close to the shore where it breaks, it’s hard to see and its implication unclear.

You don’t need a huge first derivative when you are collecting the AUC and that’s why you often don’t see it. Remember the computer “revolution” that was “visible everywhere but in the productivity statistics” (that was Solow in 87). The ARPANET had already transitioned to TCP by then but the consequences were still decades away.

So there was an industrial revolution, but trying to describe it as a kind of Big Bang is a parallel relic of the “great man” school of history.
Looks like a great way to farm a list of commonly used passwords for users or just wifis.

I never trust anything online that generates anything with a password. I got burned from a crypto wallet scam once. but fool be twice...!!!
These visions for the future are putting a serious strain on my mental health. The average person doesn't care. Not even the more educated. Perhaps I'm the coward, afraid of change. But I really don't see how this much control by those in power can benefit anyone other than themselves.
When I was in college --names are elided to protect the guilty-- the school of education was a hot mess. There was a verbal meme around the campus that went something like this:

those who can do
those who cannot do teach
those who cannot teach teach teachers.
The Decadence of Venture Capital – How Modern Unicorns Are Bred
My new router came with the QR code stuck on. ios and apparently android have wifi sharing but its still going to be problem when an android user visits an ios user.
Could the index of video checksums (discovery) be decentralised. Could hosting and discovery be treated as separate problems. Or must they be controlled by the same entity, a company with a monopoly on search, promoting its own hosting service in search results, funded by billions in ad sales and conducting mass surveillance on its users, with the costs of transferring data to Google paid for by those being surveilled. Is there more than one way to do it. Is it possible.

Does video sharing even have to be a business for every single person who participates. P2P is funded by people paying for internet service. Some folks might just want to share video with a small audience, and not for profit. Friends, family, colleagues, etc. Is every single internet user desperate for traffic. Does every internet user have to imagine themselves as a "tech" company, serving ads, asking for fees to "remove" ads, and collecting data about other people. Not to mention using opaque algorithms to generate "recommendations" that favor an online ad services business model.

In any event, P2P might reduce hosting costs, which is obviously a barrier to entry for anyone wanting to host their own video. Even better, it might allow those costs to be financed by other people without:

1. Signing up for anything (submitting personal data)

2. Viewing online ads

3. Facilitating data collection and tracking by "tech" companies
Ah yes, the old "literally can't go wrong trade", FAANG calls
https://archive.is/8vlKQ
Imagine being in your 80s or 90s and being called by someone your daughter paid $100\mo to call you because they couldn't be bothered to spend 10 minutes of their precious time to do it themselves.
From a translation:

>On April 20, the court ruled that YouTube had to put the video about corona protests in Switzerland back online immediately. The platform did not comply with this until May 14, 2020.

>YouTube had deleted the said video at the end of January with reference to its "Policy on medical misinformation about COVID-19". However, the court rejected this. Among other things, it came to the conclusion that the amended guidelines had not been effectively incorporated into the contract with the account operator. An amendment contract is required for this. The mere indication that there may be changes in the future is not enough.

Does this logic apply elsewhere, that terms of service weren't amended correctly, or is it a peculiar legal standard for this jurisdiction?
Quite a few plugins for a bufferline out there, but as it was mentioned - looks like a https://github.com/akinsho/nvim-bufferline.lua with default settings.
> Christianity is a multifaceted historical phenomenon, a cultural tradition of which Jesus and even the text of the Bible is a small part.

Agreed, Jesus Christ’s teachings play a minuscule part, especially in modern American Christianity.
Microsoft might chose Toybox for its zero clause BSD license over GPL.
That's interesting. The person I'm familiar with wasn't allowed to get meds for their strep throat until they went through their regular exams since it had been a year or over one or something. It was all very, very quick, but they were quite serious about getting their regular checks in. The patient in particular was in her 50s at the time, so perhaps that's where the difference comes in?
Apple isn’t really in the business of undercutting competitors on price
Mentally masturbate publicly about something complex the chimp troupe (which is searching for escape and purpose) has no capacity to solve, push some emotional buttons and pay your mortgage. Mission accimplished.
Depending on the contract, publishers might have the ability to get a copy of the source code, but they certainly are not going to be monkeying around with it.

Doing a full build from scratch of a game is a complicated thing. The build systems at a game studios are quite extensive.

Even if you were given access to the version control repositories for a game I think it would probably take you quite a long time to be able to successfully export and build everything from scratch.
One thing that could help a lot would be disclosure of financials of the company. Not necessarily up to the standard of accounting of non-profits but enough to give people an idea whether you "pocket" $6 per call or $0.60 per call.

The first would make me look around for another alternative, the second not.
>They almost entirely consisted of people who were simply interested in using American power and money to enrich themselves.

Uhh... have you heard of this thing called the GOP?
> There's no world in which the owners of those stocks benefit from them being lent out to short sellers, despite creative rhetoric to the contrary.

Not true - many mutual funds pay out securities lending revenue to investors. For example, VTSAX had ~$170M in net lending revenue in 2020, about 1% of fund total income (nearly all of overall income is from dividends).

https://www.vanguard.com/funds/reports/q850.pdf
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Where can I find out more information about it.?
I searched a bit, and found a large set of pages with information on the topic in the context of the 360 architecture. I'd say this architecture is unique in that it is still to this day used to write high level software.

Put "360 assembler macros" in your search engine and you'll find lots of information.

This is a good place to start: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=language-macro-i...
Apparently a lot of devs included SecuROM in their products not as an actual hindrance to pirates, but to placate investors who are concerned about piracy reducing sales.

The people who actually make the software are fully aware that any DRM will be cracked within 48 hours of release (with a few small exceptions).
Founder here - this is really good feedback. Not at all a scam but it’s good to know that the initial data collection is jarring. I built this page in 1 hour. I’m trying to create a funnel for quickly connecting elderly folks to engaged callers. I figure if I get the contact info up front, it saves time post customer acquisition to getting this person onto a call. It would also be a weird UX to take money before we know who is being called IMO but I’m open to that not being true.
Anyone working in IT who doesn't continue to learn will likely be out of a job soon enough, but it's much less likely that anyone would be injured as a result.
> Installing software on an entire Apple Store's set of display models because one employee supposedly "consented" is a serious violation of their property.

I wouldn't have thought that the number of employees asked would be too important here (in comparison to e.g., seniority) - what's your minimum bar of different workers consulted before you'd no longer consider it a violation of Apple's property?
Screening volunteers to deal with the elderly is a fairly standard process for hospitals and care homes. Maybe interview a few of them on how they do it?
Start with the memo written by John P. Holdren, Obama's director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/mic...

This is a "meta-policy" of sorts, in that it directs grant-making agencies to form policies of their own. A lot was written about it at the time, most of which includes its title "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research."

It came up again in 2020 when OSTP considered revising the rules (e.g., https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/will-trump-white-hou...)

Depending on your interests, you could then look at individual agencies' policies.

- Here's the NIH policy: https://publicaccess.nih.gov
Search for something in PubMed and there will be a "PMC Free Full Text" icon if it's available from PubMed Central. Some publishers just lower the paywall, in which case it says "free from publisher".

- An FAQ for the NSF: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18041/nsf18041.jsp

- The DoD hosts its own repository called DTIC. Heres' the policy stuff: https://discover.dtic.mil/policy-memoranda/ Open access is the last section. You can search at the top-right for DoD funded research.

- Not to be outdone on the acronym front, the DOE has a site called PAGES, which ostensibly stands for Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science: https://www.osti.gov/public-access

- Those are the biggies, but there are a ton of federal agencies covered by the policy. Here's the USDA's plan: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-Publ...
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Uh, speaking as an american, yes, it is 100% actually a question, and yes, I do in fact want to actually know how the other person is doing. I'm fine with them leaving anything out they don't feel comfortable disclosing, but … if they do feel comfortable, it's an invitation to just cut through the nonsense and become a friend. It's the most no-nonsense way to bulldoze through the usual pointless formalities and actually get to know someone.

It's a deliberate short circuit to a real human problem - the problem of two compatible people (whether friends or lovers) being artificially delayed on connecting with each other because of "customarily enforced" protocol on how quickly they're allowed to be familiar. That problem is bad enough that it's a staple trope in rom-coms and buddy cop films - and it frequently leads to tragedy because of how short life is, and how opportunities don't last.

It feels like there are a lot of people in the american cultural milieu who've picked this up from other groups of americans (america's a huge country with tons of different culture groups), but … are missing the absolutely CRITICAL ingredient of taking it at face value.

It is exactly what it looks like; it's not facetious, it's not fake, and anyone who treats it like that is kinda cargo-culting it.
Sure but you can make such an argument about every single medical issue. People can drop dead in a few days due to an unexpectedly aggressive toe infection. At some point we need to compare risks to costs.

There will always be a trade-off between quality and cost. If you accept nothing less than highest quality (enforced by law and an extremely litigious society), then you get the US hyper-inflation of healthcare prices.

Also in the US, I think ambulances typically only have EMT's and paramedics. Though sometimes it can cost as much as the ER itself.
Rakun- a Distributed Multi Agent Platform
> Very vague, yes. It's entirely plausible that the author deliberately hid details in that discussion, or just unintentionally communicated it poorly. But in the absence of any evidence towards that, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that the author is telling the truth.

The author wrote a 9,401 word blog post and you think it's possible they were vague with that one aspect of the story for anything other than concealing the truth? Yeah, hard no.

That, and without explicit information about this situation, it is not reasonable to think asking an apple store employee "can I install software on your computers" would get a yes.
AIX has a registry like thing called the ODM. I think it’s an interesting take on centralizing config on UNIX.

Fairly horrific to use, but I always appreciate unorthodox designs in operating systems. They’re exceedingly rare these days.
How would months with more then 4 Mondays work?

If you call on every Monday except some months where there a 5 Mondays that might cause undue stress and frustration with the elder making the service seem unreliable.
That would be awesome! The plan is to survey callers and elderly folks on just general interests, etc. and then do some simple matchmaking. I.e. Jane loves sailing, baking and the red sox - Tom was a former collegiate sailor who owns a bakery and loves baseball: boom, match. Open to any input here
Walmart sells vials of the generic “old shit” for cheap.
> Europe does drug R&D and still manages to sell their drugs at a reasonable price to sick people

Most novel R&D, in America and Europe, happens in biotech. (“Big” pharma does trials, manufacturing scaling and distribution.) The investment thesis for most of this research does not work without the American market.

This doesn’t mean high drug prices are a necessity. Just that the funding needs to be replaced if we want to preserve innovation.
Agreed. The only reason he cares it’s because it cost more to sell their ads on proprietary services
Mapping Perlin Noise to Angles
Triage involves getting insight into running systems, particularly how well they are performing, or not performing, at many levels of granularity. You can make the act of triaging more efficient by building tools that give you quick insight and help you narrow down what is and isn't working, and how it's failing.

I spent years working on V8 and we consistently invested in tools, tests, processes, and best practices to help us fielding the thousands of production issues over the years.

Again, I don't know anything about your system, but my advice would be to be more serious and diligent about the requests you field instead of treating them as annoyances. Take a look at your processes and dispassionately try to figure out why it takes you so long to know anything about anything.
I honestly don't understand where's the fun in using docker for anything.

Unless one is into masochism.
The law absolutely applies. They just decided it wasn't worth their time.

Can you imagine a world where the law didn't apply here? I could just go into an Apple store and install whatever software I want on their computers without the law applying at all?
This doesn't pass the smell test.

Anyone making the decade-old version of insulin and selling it for 1% of the price would corner a large portion of the market immediately. Anyone without good health insurance, which is a large and increasing part of the population, would immediately jump on the lower priced version.

And since when are insurance companies excited to pay for the more expensive drug with limited extra utility anyway?

You are giving far too much credit to what is on the face of it a broken system.
Here's a paywalled clinical journal article about the hazards of poor typesetting!

A nomogram got futzed around and, well, the ruler-only, no-calculator required, calculations were now wrong.

"A set of trial calculations indicate that the nomogram of Burton et al is accurate, but a realignment of Burton’s nomogram (for greater symmetry?) in the Clinical Nutrition text resulted in a nomogram with considerable inaccuracy."

https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/54.3.435
With the rising use of emojis I think the humanity is coming full circle: almost every writing system started with a hieroglyphs, then dumping it for the obvious advantages of alphabetical writing. But now, the pendulum swings in the other direction, and a lot of communications become effectively hieroglyphical.
> At least give the option of the old shit

It’s available. It’s just far less convenient and much easier to fuck up in a life-threatening way.

The insulin price meme is a particularly bad one.
I’d guess there’s a statement in the source code somewhere like

if user == ‘jeff bezos ’

that needs to be updated to

if user in (‘jeff bezos’, ‘andy jassy’)

Pseudo code above. Could be the userids, usernames, internal aliases, levels, etc.

This is first time an Amazon CEO has changed so infrequently used code paths are going to be exercised.
First time?
It doesn't sit well with me that the Unicode consortium decides which emojis to approve based on moral grounds or possible consequences of their use. I have stopped using emojis because I don't want to contribute in legitimizing that.
I thought this was true until I learnt bjarne did some teaching.
And for some people, both authority and anonymity are tools. Neither is an unqualified good in itself, both have places where they should be affirmed and places where they should be limited.
It didn't trick my brain but I'm curious what AI would think about it.
I wrote a 231-byte Brainfuck compiler by abusing everything
Yeah, basically everything you've said is the details of what I meant. Why is this often overlooked? Why is it taken at face value that a central clearinghouse (or similar) is bad??
Perhaps. But perhaps it will create further economies of scale for renewable energy which will accelerate adoption of renewable energy. The more renewable energy that is used, the cheaper it gets, wasted or not.
> How you doing? etc that isn't a question and you aren't supposed to give a detailed response- it is basically just a dumb was of saying hi.

That's a gross oversimplification; the particular question used as an example may or may not be a genuine question and whether it is or isn't varies from person to person and, even for the same person asking, often by who they are asking and the context.

Treating it as a non-question to be blown off with a ritual “fine” can be anywhere from the correct formulaic response to an acceptable way of indicating you don't really want to discuss specifics to a significant insult.
You're being downvoted but this is already happening at a large scale in rural America in places like Kentucky, where food stamps are used to buy cases of Pepsi to use in an informal barter economy.

People will inevitably circumvent the system if it becomes overregulated. It is still one step closer to Orwellian control for the majority of the population.
How to create&build a Docker image – by Dvir Segal – Jul, 2021
For 99% of work out there, flying a plane is higher stakes.
EA released a remastered C&C some time ago. One of the developers involved in that described the problems they had with the video quality, the originals where lost, the best they could do was extract videos from the PlayStation port and try different AI up scaling algorithms. The result isn't pretty.
Do you have any data to back up that claim? Traditionally US pharma has had lower R&D budgets than their international competitors.