skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History proves you are absolutely wrong.

Since WWII the world sees unprecedented peace and prosperity, all thanks to the USA being the world police. Just the freedom of navigation of merchant ships, afforded by the oversight of the US navy, is a huge enabler for world trade.

I hope US continues on its course for the next century instead of creating a power vacuum which the Chinese would be happy to fill.
Thanks Much :)
Hyper-specialised labelling is the opposite of nuance.
I found Colbert very bland without the laugh/clap track, too.
You’re right, gp’s “friends” are likely a fiction to launder political talking points.
> DeepMind just published a paper "Reward is enough"

That paper does not mean that DeepMind believes that reward is enough. It is one of their many papers that is seeking to espouse a point a view. It does not mean it is their exclusive point of view.

For example, DeepMind are actively hiring for researchers in open-ended learning (check their website). This is not a new thing for them, e.g. they were quickly on the ball with apprenticeship learning too (https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06617).
> Many people think they have coverage, so they might as well use it. This can happen extremely often and for minor things. Think people going into the doctor or urgent care because they have cold symptoms (for less than a week) and want antibiotics

Do you have anything backing up that assertion?

I've been to the hospital feeling rotten on more than one occasion, and the doctor has said "You have the flu. Antibiotics won't help. Go home and get some rest." The doctor has no incentive to prescribe me drugs I don't need. There's always a few shitty doctors at clinics/hospitals who will over-prescribe, but the health care system has an incentive to find and stop those doctors- they're wasting taxpayer money.

Meanwhile in the US, the doctor would be financially incentivized to request a chest x-ray and prescribe whatever drugs might be helpful "just in case", fearing a lawsuit for doing too little and fearing their employer being mad at them for not up-selling to bring in more money.
This is the model that helped the music industry come out of the Napster era.

$1 single-serve songs with minimal friction to purchase was an attractive proposition relative to file sharing.
Meh I'd imagine this would just lead to even more clickbait to try and get you to pay the $0.10 for an article that actually isn't worth the time to read it.
It's interesting to see the common failing of people in the tech community believing that the apparent simplicity seen on the surface often hides a much deeper complexity. We often fully understand that fact about our own work, but somehow don't believe that it's often true of many other things.

When we find one of the few areas where that is correct, great things can happen: startups and products that disrupt entire industries. But for every success like that there are 100 or 1000 failures.
There are certainly similarities between blockchains and the mind. For example, drug addicts also waste an enormous amount of emotional energy.
Have you noticed that the stock market keeps going up? The upper middle class is feasting quite nicely, I doubt many remember where Afghanistan is. They certainly don't have any skin in that game, that is for certain.
Maybe where I personally land is that someone who produces content has the right to sell it however they like. The deal we can all make is that you can pay the price for the product and consumer it, or not.

In the digital age, there are a lot of people who decide that we get to price the content however we want. We decide that because they are trying to use terrible ads to make money, that we can just go around that and take their content for free.

That doesn't fly real well with physical products (This loaf of bread is priced at $1, but I only want to pay $0.50, so I'll just give them $0.50 and take it), but seems to be accepted with products that have infinite free reproducibility.
This is a very anti-Semitic argument.
I could have sworn that USA Today already had a paywall, but looks like it's just the local papers owned by it's parent company (which largely have the same page layout as USA Today) are the ones with the paywall. Seems obvious that they'd extend that to their national publication.
So I am trying to work out the basics of climate change action needed

1. More efficient agriculture
Cutting and clearing land for agriculture is generally destructive - so a) everyone becomes vegetarian, b)
stop growing food in 2 dimensions c) grow more efficient food
(broth and hydroponics)

2. more efficient transport of food
Don't transport food thousands of miles,
don't refrigerate it, don't fly it,

3. transport to move off carbon
Stop flying, more EV.

4. reduce travel
apart from flights and holidays (carbon tax)
commuting is huge contributor- remote working will impact this

4. Building efficiency
Insulation and ground source heat pumps and so on
See also strongtowns - denser living is halley kore efficient t living

Anyone have any links to the numbers?
Gargarin would like a word.
The U.S. also has an amazing history of leaving behind translators that they promised citizenship to, typically ending in their entire families being tortured and killed.

Can't imagine we're going to get very many more people agreeing to work with us...
I wonder how many of these verbatim examples are because the training data code itself occurs multiple times in GitHub because it in turn was copied from an upvoted answer in StackOverflow, LOL.
It's not so much that "the people" want the Taliban in power, it's that the Taliban are the strongest military force. There's nothing to stop them from taking power. There's also an ethnic component to it. The Pashtuns, from which Taliban recruit, form the largest ethnic group. Afghanistan ultimately has the same problem as many countries in the region: Borders drawn with little regard to populations on the ground.
This is a very strange bot or troll poster.
Right. I don't really stomach how long we've been in the Middle East and I don't like the idea of those with incentives to go to war prolonging and pushing war. But geopolitics is very messy. Instability in a region can encourage other leaders to take advantage and cause even more geopolitical upheaval.
Well that just makes me even more curious. How does a nation of 110 million, 70% of whom don’t even have access to electricity, have a GDP of $272 billion? $2700 GDP per capita would put Ethiopia in the ranks of the middle-income countries.
Amazing of all the things you saw you see ego and ads.

Just glad I don't share that lens with everything.
As a total R beginner I was hugely put off by the complexities of data cleansing especially columns with ?different data types.
Yep, the good ol' "if this feature annoys the hell out of me it should probably also annoy the hell out of the attacker"

(Which is not even remotely true)
Afghanistan is an aggregate of tribes with shifting alliances and ideologies. With that in mind, the question "what do people of Afghanistan want" makes little sense.

If you accept the above statement, then very little of what has been done by US in Afghanistan makes sense either.
I mean, I just gave the solution for software being engineering. Standards need experts to make decisions. Government shouldn’t reach out to an existing firm that’s locked into a specific technology.

The experts need to continue to audit, refine, and integrate on the standards. Locking in a specific technology is shortsighted and will cost a lot later.
"Hey Stephen, can you record an hour of stuff in exchange for a Virgin Galactic ticket?"
Second using Get & Transform (or 'PowerQuery'). Note it is also Power BI's data integration functionality. (Though was recently disappointed to learn it is not available on Mac.)

While I use wide range of data integration and visualization tools, Excel/Power Query with pivot tables & charts is often my go-to for quick data analysis or exploration.

Recently used it to retrieve Our World in Data Github hosted csv file data into an Excel file and then click refresh to get most recent data: https://009co.com/?p=1491
It's incredibly lucrative and their children don't have to go.
People with guns are nothing without support from local people. They'll always lose to other people with guns and support from local people. Because you need to feed, you need safe passages, you need cooperation with local people. If you have strong back up from another country which will supply you with enough goods, you can suppress all local people, but that's can't continue forever.

And yes, as I see that situation, Afghani local people do support Taliban, like it or not. They are Muslim people and they want Muslim country with Sharia law. Forcing democracy on such people does not do any good. You can't quickly change culture. USSR tried to eradicate religion for 80 years and former USSR countries are very religious atm.
Vonnegut. No h. Which book? I’ve read most of his novels and most of what’s considered cyberpunk (well, nothing recent though). I can’t think of any of his books that would fit the cyberpunk genre. Closest might be Player Piano which hits a few of the themes, but isn’t really cyberpunk and is more dystopian.
If that correlation existed no one would need to worry about middle eastern WMDs.

In the UK we have a welfare state to meet some basic needs; entertainment, sport and consumerism to distract us from existential concerns, the rule of law to provide justice in this life, and education to teach us through comparison that all religions can not possibly be true, by implication none of them are.

In other countries where daily life is grindingly miserable and short; more people might place their hope in a future life and hope for some kind of eventual justice.
Without numbers to compare what was spent in Afghanistan vs a specific domestic program, it's hard to evaluate your comment.
Is it still written at a grade school reading level? It was kind of like news for dummies but a step above watching it on TV.
Did anyone here commenting actually read a copy of USA Today on paper before?
The Nieman Lab article is not about paywalls per se, but paywalls in USA Today. People forget that pre-internet, USA Today was basically a news aggregator that just happened to print other people's stories on newspaper form.
Their business model was to bulk sell these papers to chain hotels. Most of their readers had never paid for a copy of USA Today.

So, if few reader in its heyday paid direct for it, and Gannet hasn't really changed the structure or content of USA Today in the last 25 years, what makes them think that readers will pay directly for it now in the internet age?
Romania. It is part of UE since 2007 and this is the way healthcare works here for the past 10+ years. A few years ago the accounting part was changed so all the taxes and any other forms of payments to the state from the payroll appear in the employee payroll, the total amount did not changed but salaries were adjusted (up) to cover former employer part, so now the employee is paying everything (which was always the case everywhere, just differently booked).

Some employers offer as a benefit a negotiated private insurance co-payed; for good contracts the private insurance cover all the costs in private hospitals, for my company it covers about 50% of the doctor cost for consultations and about 20% of the hospital costs. I pay about 50% of the cost of this insurance, the benefit is a discount price versus the regular price of the insurance (about 10-15%).
Who trusts NYT’s reporting on SV in the Year of the Lord 2021?
Bad analogy for countless reasons, including an absences of version control when a commit is to blow something up.
After the first 10 minutes, my wife said "Can we just mute this? I'm getting nauseous from all this stroking of RB's ego".
Correct. My comment made no mention of Bosnians or Albanians, nor did it have anything to do with Serbs.

I’m assuming you wouldn’t pass a captcha test, but if I’m wrong and you want to elaborate on your comment I’d love to better understand the point you were trying to make.
The Invention of Bad Railroad Timetables
When I see "less regulation!" talk, I want to ask "so, you're going to do away with the expensive parts, like the containment building?"

If new nuclear is going to ever be plausible, it has to be some fundamentally new (like reactors with molten salts) that don't need massive containment buildings that can safely contain large volumes of steam in accidents. Such reactors will not be commercially viable soon.
But here you have at least the AtivityPub integration. This allows users at instances of the Fediverse to subscribe and share your contents in a quite native way.

The Micropub / Microsub standard follows a similar, even more granular approach (where content types note and article are existent explicitly).

Of course, those alternative network standards are not attracting the broad majority of users yet but this is not a technical problem.
A small group of friends are doing a book club on I/P and I asked a couple of them who’ve been to Israel on birthright trips if they felt the population was religious or not. Their anecdotal perspective was that there is a large group (maybe majority) who are not religious.

Seeing my home country (New Zealand) rank higher in how important religion is I’m wondering how people are interpreting religious.

I’m thinking of friends and family in NZ who (outside of some weddings or funerals) never go to church or (I assume) pray or have a strong personal spiritual life. But these same people would classify themselves as ‘Christians’ simply because they put up a Christmas tree each year.

The same applies to all my Jewish friends I can think of, except that maybe a dinner with friends on a religious day that is more a reason to socialize than for any religious purpose.
Of course it's an ad - VG is a commercial space flight company - what did you expect?
>had nothing to do with it and what happened during WW2

Outsiders meddling and their uninformed[1] rhetoric complicate things further.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_...
Non-profit with donations or minimal ads such a Google ads?
What do you guys prefer? What do you guys think is actually reasonable for a website?
A company called Blendle tried this in the Netherlands. It didn’t work. Turns out you do not want to have to think after every headline and teaser whether you want to pay to read the full article.
Welcome to being on the receiving end of a travelogue, I guess.
The challenge with such recommendations is that the reader must be able to understand which medicine can be safely skipped. I do not believe most people can make this choice safely.

For many conditions, such as arthritis, taking daily medicine is required and skipping that would decrease quality of life dramatically.

However, if you've a sore head then potentially skipping some medicine is fine.

>> With a very few exceptions, pharma is about temporarily soothing symptoms while doing nothing for the underlying disease.

I think you're quite mistaken. Pharma is about improving the quality of life and health outcomes for the patient. Some diseases cannot be magically fixed with drugs, e.g., Parkinson's, etc.
We spend so much on food and likely half of it ends up in the garbage. Why are we so wasteful?
And Canada has the one time zone that’s shifted by only a half hour, invalidating their positive contributions to time management entirely. :)
You can negotiate the costs in bankruptcy
Do you have all your internal namespaces and hosts on public DNS servers?

Do you post all your internal documentation onto a public repo?

If not you are practicing some security by obscurity.
All recordings are of low fidelity, like they sampled someone talking over GSM over voip over analog.
Many Israelis identify as being Jewish or Muslim, but for many of them it's a cultural identity or tradition far more than a religion.
> Interesting, “work” is kind of ambiguous in that sentence. Either it means the labor or it means the artistic creation.

It is both. Just recording music involves lots of non-creative setup and editing work, and filming typically involves a lot of logistics, set building and other non-creative labor. Equipment isn't free either even if it's not as exclusive as it used to be.

Soundcloud and Bandcamp kind of work for music, but somehow it seems that most of the artists who can get a traditional recording or distribution deal prefer going that way. I've understood that before copyright a rich patron was common way of funding art. I'm just not sure if I'd enjoy watching tech billionaires' pet projects.
Instability can cause upheaval, sure — but are we preventing instability or upheaval? It seems to me that we are prolonging instability and promoting extremism and terrorism by blundering in with our military. Is the Middle East, for example, any less unstable than it was three decades ago?
You are correct, there's just a lot of plants and backwards thinking and political inertia, but fundamentally all that coal is being used at an economic loss.

It is cheaper to replace an existing coal plant with new construction alternative energy even including the new procurement costs. That's without subsidies by the way.

Oil will begin to be subject to this. When BEVs eat into oil demand sufficiently, financing and banking will evaporate for new projects, and the industry will undergo a reverse economies of scale in extraction, refining and shipping.

Oil is already more vulnerable than coal to this, since the cost of extraction for oil is high compared to the old days of "stick pipe a couple feet in the ground and light sweet crude gushes out". The oil is coming out of deep water, fracking, tar sands, etc which all has a price floor which, if oil goes under that long enough (since banks won't float loans on this sector much longer), the entire extraction operation shutters, often permanently.

Although we should absolutely be accelerating the rate of fossil fuel -> alternatives conversion with government subsidies.
it goes to the failure of the survey probably, as it might fail to define what it means to be religious. i.e. there are many many "traditional" Israelis, who might do a form of friday night dinner every week, with kiddush (blessing over wine) and all. They might then go to a movie afterward. They keep kosher in a sense, but not in a strict manner. However, they might not consider themselves "religious" because they are using the term relative to "orthodox" or "ultra orthodox" people, and they don't consider themselves "religious" in that context. Heck, my across the hall neighbors who don't consider themselves religious, due it almost every week with their kids. Personally, my observation is that in the US, we would consider someone who takes part in religious ritual every week to have a significant form of religious attachment.

It might also be that Israel has a large "secular" contigent. Some that consider themselves "jewish" but "agnostic/athiest", and some that don't consider themselves jewish at all. There's a large debate in Israel if this cohort is growing or shrinking. If one just looks at Tel Aviv, it seems huge, but Tel Aviv is a bubble, and there's a large amount of traditional people almost everywhere else. It just so happens that a very large portion of Israle's population is in the tel aviv area.
When I got the idea to write HiColor, I was thinking about the PlayStation's dithering the most.

https://www.chrismcovell.com/psxdither.html

I think Windows never applied whole-screen dithering on the desktop in 16-bit color mode. Some UI elements, applications, and games, however, did their own dithering. (Maybe in Direct3D and OpenGL it was up to the graphics card drivers? I am not sure. I couldn't confirm or refute this with a quick search.) As an example from Windows itself, I switched a Windows 2000 VM to high color, and the gradients in the window title bars became dithered.

https://i.imgur.com/jrzdcNq.png (top is 32-bit color, bottom is 16-bit)
i live in Mexico, when my son was born we went to a private hospital.

i know Americand are imagining a horrible 3rd world facility, but its not. its a beautiful hospital with very kind people who take great care of you. we got the fancy big suite, so we could accommodate a bunch of family and friends. we were there for four days and i ended up paying about 4k USD, out of pocket, without insurance.

and I think this is where the problem is. I personally have friends who are doctors here (private sector) they have great lives financially, (nice cars, big house, trips to europe, etc). I get a feeling healthcare professionals in the US arent satisfied with upper middle class, they want to be hyper rich.

Maybe if youre the only person that can save me from a strange cancer you should be hyper rich, but not if youre doing regular procedures.
https://archive.ph/yPq53
Since its landed its available here:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n202vg/#285e221f
"Geopolitics is messy" is a wonderful way to justify any atrocity. Where is the accountability?
He isn’t talking about the protocol itself, yes a ledger is understandable. What you are ignoring is the effect it is having on the world as people discover for once in the history of humanity we can have a completely auditable open money that has a finite supply, not forever increased and diluted when a rich person decides it is in their best interest to do so. This effect is quite wild and effects far-reaching. Elon, Square, Jack, El Salvador, the Chinese mining exodus, Tom Brady laser eyes, the Fed, my bank account.

How many wars could have been prevented if governments couldn’t have printed way more money than they had GDP for and then needed to start a war to try and “fix” it? This is the hyperobject we could be on the cusp of here.
Is it though? I am a christian in the US and have only met other christians at religious functions save for two or three occasions, where as everyone else I meet is not christian and probably not religious.
This oft-cited paper¹ shows that almost all measures of societal health are negatively correlated with religiosity, across the world. Of course that doesn’t prove that faith causes such things as teenage pregnancy, crime, and drug abuse, but it’s provocative.

[1] http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.pdf
My first 'piracy' would have been the copy of windows + office that my dad had at work and brought home to install on the home computer, well before I'd ever heard of the internet.
The Spiegel is great at this kind of storytelling. I came to see them as the BILD for people abl to read snetences with more than 5 words.
Actually the government of the state is also Pashtun but of a different tribe that the Pashtun "government" of the Taliban.

Some more information here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27792595
My wife and I spent multiple thousands on food (groceries + restaurants) in May, and managed to bring that down by about half (though still well over a thousand) in June.

We live in semi-rural Arkansas, so not a HCOL area by any means.

How do you spend so little?! Why would you? I grew up outside of Philly, so I happen to know a bit about your area, and it's much more urban than where I live now.
Don Quixote is windmillpunk! Less facetiously, it's a work informed by the technological developments of its time. http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/cervantes-bulleti...

According to this article https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/2/plank2art.htm "windmills were first erected in La Mancha thirty years or less before Don Quixote was written" and this gives new nuances to Quixote's delusion.

That's not the only encounter with "advanced" technology; there's also the episode with the water-powered "fulling-hammers" https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/don-quixote/summary...

Don Quixote also rails against modern military technology like firearms.