skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just told you a fact and you ignored it. Even in the electrical industry there are coal plants shuttering every year, and there are NO new coal plants planned in the US, for any purpose.

And yes Natural Gas is increasing, but we were talking about coal. Coal has been going down for over a decade now in all sectors, and will continue to go down.

US electricity generation for coal has been going down every year. In 2020 combined renewable energy generation (hydro+solar+wind+biomass+geothermal) surpassed coal energy generation.

So you're talking nonsense.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=0...
> The stacking of improbabilities is a head scratcher. 12 million vote increase over Obama with 300+ fewer counties. Must be wildly more popular.

Counties are a meaningless, nonuninform unit, and even if they were the exact same counties minus 300, so what? That just means bigger margins in the counties he won, which would be consistent with greater regional polarization.

> Yet was losing the nomination of his own party.

Biden was the clear winner much sooner in the process than Obama was.

> more black people turned out to vote for him in Detroit than Obama.

Why is it surprising that more black people turned out to vote against Trump than McCain? (That votes in a two-party system are quite often more against the oppoaing major party than really “for” the partt marked is well-known.)
Sup…nice company. Definitely filling a need that is very beneficial to an ignored group :) I run a digital recruiter and can tell you for what you are offering - work from home at $24 per hour, that is a very excellent and competitive wage across numerous markets in the US. One thing to note is that, in one example, people who were in heavy labor don’t want to go back and want to try something new because of the pandemic. Something less hard on their bodies per se. so what I’m trying to say is that you should also have a good sized talent pool at the moment. If you are willing to hire younger people and give them a chance - low skilled and young labor is asking around $15-$20 hour which is really high for their level, but for the type of talent you’re looking (I’m assuming) you’d be a standout match and be able to accommodate. There’s also lots of justice involved individuals (those that were formally incarcerated) that need jobs and you get tax discounts for hiring them as full time employees. Not sure if you have security issues with them but this segment would very much appreciate a job such as this. Best of luck - if you can market your positions well, you will not have an issue getting talent unlike everyone else right now…

Tl:dr - you’re paying a very good and fair wage for what you’re offering and should probably have many interested candidates when recruiting.
My immediate thought on seeing the margin was that I would not be getting good value for my money with this service, as the site doesn't really indicate to me that they provide additional value other than finding a person, which I could plausibly do on Craiglist.

Anything about added value the site provides, such as interviews, background checks, etc would make me want to pay the premium and make the Craigslist option seem less safe.
"... and our attack goes according to the plan." - he added.
Yeah I can't buy a gallon of milk at Kroger now without the whole transaction being recorded on video. They don't have my consent, but they do it anyway.
> lower the price of the value of those shares

short selling doesn't lower the price of a stock. Short selling is one of the actions which may reveal the true price, which may be lower than the current market price. Or the short seller may be wrong, in which case they paid a fee for a loss (or at best, for nothing in return).
I noticed this too. When the author mentioned crying all day that stuck out as unusual.

Getting fired instantly and paid for two months feels like a win here. Getting fired vs having your company shutdown affects you more personally. It takes a strong person to not think I suck and this was my fault.

Being in that situation I wouldn't know how to explain it. Looking at it now I would be honest and say we created an a and the team was let go after the demo to investors.
I liked your page. I might even use it!
So why is size and complexity an issue? Why is it that in a country of 1.3 million people I pay a reasonable amount of taxes, get free healthcare and even if I do prefer a private provider pay EUR 50.- per visit. But a similarly sized US town can’t do that. So maybe the role of the feds is to make it so that the size and complexity would matter less?
libgen scimag collection contains all 85M papers collected by SciHub (77TB compressed and distributed via 850 torrents)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...
I’m totally not getting this. You pay money to make sure someone talks to your family members? Or lonely elderly people pay to talk to stranger that they have no connection with?

I find the “old people” in the link title quote condescending.
Neither actually. I suspect you already have some vetting process for callers or have at least thought of this. Just lay it out on the signup page and you have sold me on paying extra.
> past few weeks

Legitimately laughed out loud. A person jumped off of Amazon HQ because of the brutal pressure.
I agree that "anything anytime" is a bit much.

I grew up in a country town with 3 TV broadcast channels, that expanded to 5 by the time I left. No cinema. No cable. But two video rental shops at least. But because my social groups were all in the same boat, there was little in the way of being left out.

I recall going to two different friends houses to watch a video on two consecutive nights - Friday, Saturday. They both showed Groundhog Day... that morning clock radio still rings in my mind.

Usually, being part of a social group involves effort/cost expended. It has to cost you something or it doesn't demonstrate care for the social groups interests.

Most everyone agrees - even the pirates - that people who put effort into creation/distribution deserve reward. The problem is the details of who/how-much/how-long-for.

I like libraries. Not quite up to date and with the latest zeitgeist, but good enough for me.

But if you need the latest zeitgeist - for example, as marketing bombarded, self-image conscious teens trying to define their identities in society are wont to do - then as far as I can see Piracy is the easy "I disagree" button to the corporate answer. Unless you can hang at a friends place.

I don't like piracy. But I also don't want to see a war on piracy ruining the lives of those who are just trying to fit in. Not for extra $ in MPAA coffers.

I kind of wish there was a single low cost streaming site using bittorrent, that hosted everything. But while it may be good for consumers, it wouldn't be good for distribution corporations and content creators would lose regional pricing.

Aside: I loved Tyrion and Bronn together.
Not many are offended about taking pictures.

What people should be offended by is that so many people on here think it's totally acceptable to install spyware onto computers without the owner's consent.

This isn't some kind of whistleblower situation. This is someone fucking around and installing spyware. That's illegal! There's no grey area here, regardless of the lack of action by the AG.
The ”premiere” fee for streaming the new Avengers movie was over 20 dollars, supposedly due to ”exclusive” access.

And you don’t even get to keep a copy.
Sorry to break it to you: https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/7/229036-c-is-not-a-lo...
I used to do this when younger (in person volunteering in a hospital). There were many older people who were alone, often getting a visitor maybe every few days if they're lucky. They had some amazing stories and it seemed like I gained more than they did from the conversation.

Good luck with this, I wish you the best
great catch thank you!
Does anyone think that Google cares about the free and open Internet anymore? I don’t mean they oppose it, I just mean it doesn’t seem like it’s on the list of things the company prioritizes.

It sometimes seems like Google’s internal self-image is stuck in 2001, when they were an idealistic search engine company whose goal was to organize the world’s information.

Today they are an ad company, running some office apps and cloud computing on the side. The transition has been great for revenue but it seems like they long ago sold the moral authority to make pronouncements about the free and open Internet.
It could easily be the case that without the advertising spend they would not be profitable. Do you think these publicly traded companies are wasting tons of money on advertising? Where is the shareholder outrage?
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If the ads appeared in-world instead of replacing the program material, I would have no problem with this.
The secret service don't prosecute people. The prosecutors reviewed the evidence from their investigation, decided it was not a sure thing, and/or considered intent etc. and declined to prosecute as is their perogative.
nono, he was publishing. Maybe it was a requirement of the grant or he didn't want to be behind the paywall-of-shame, but he spent all the grant money on the research. (Bad budgeting? Unexpected bill? dunno).

I guess he would have paid out-of-pocket if the journal didn't accept the sob story.
You would be surprised at the number of elderly in nursing homes who are next to never visited or spoken to except by staff.
Are you speaking from a place of expertise and knowledge of the current law, or drawing conclusions based on how you think it should work? I am speaking from some experience and this is the prevailing opinion in the field. Here is a decent primer on the topic [1]

>Why bother evaluating safety and effectiveness at all if that's supposed to be purely a case by case judgement call by a physician?

The point is to prevent the manufacture, false advertising, and sale of snake oil. Surely you see the value in this even if it stops short of telling doctors what to do in their own offices?

As mentioned above, I wholly agree that intended use can not be separated from device. The FDA can absolutely revoke approval for one of a devices uses and not the others. The FDA can pull a device from the market entirely. However, doctors do not need approval from the FDA to use a device approved for one intended use outside of it's scope. If it is clear that a device is being used on a regular basis for an indication outside of the labeling, the situation then becomes an FDA and manufacturer issue.[2]

I sincerely hope this helps.

[1] https://aaos.org/contentassets/1cd7f41417ec4dd4b5c4c48532183...

[2] https://evtoday.com/articles/2003-mar/0303_181.html#:~:text=....
The early (invite-only) versions of gmail were fantastic, especially given the narrower pipes we were all surfing with in those days.

It seems lately that Google has just become Yet Another Large Software Firm, with everything that that implies.
Samsung's Internet browser has a neat "make this viewer friendly" function in the URL bar that worked a charm here.
This is the saddest thing I saw today :(
I'm rather amazed that it's possible to install software on public computers in the Apple Store. And since it apparently is (or was), that this sort of thing was not happening daily.
Yikes, the sign up page asks for the phone number of the recipient. Basically amassing a database of emails, phones, names, and a loved one's name for people who never used the site. That is really valuable information for a social engineering attack, particularly against someone who may have a caring, affluent relative in a tech field.

This almost seems like some kind of parody or phishing attempt or something. This does not seem reputable.
>I find it incomprehensible why Netflix still does that since clearly it does nothing to prevent piracy: Every new Netflix show is instantly available as 4K torrent.

I assume they are appeasing technically illiterate movie execs or something similar.
Every caller will be screened by me before they get to an old person. That is step one in fraud protection - open to advice here!
that would be cool, the only problem is size of data, about half a petabyte of pdfs uncompressed (77TB compressed). OCR and indexing at this scale would be pretty costly.
Charge less and take a smaller cut. My partner was immediately excited when I mentioned she could talk to older folks, but told me "I'd never work for someone taking that large of a cut".
I wasn't, so I went and looked it up and you were right from what I found -

Healthcare:

The federal government spent nearly $1.2 trillion in fiscal year 2019. In addition, income tax expenditures for health care totaled $234 billion.

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-much-does-...

Defense:

Defense spending amounted to $714 billion in FY 2020—and is expected to increase to $733 billion in FY 2021.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-415t
On current pro versions, you can’t really disable the live protection constantly, but you can add a permanent exclusion for your home folder or the whole drive. This should greatly speed up operations like that. Still a lot faster to do them inside a Docker container/volume on the same Windows host.
I fully expect that Google will someday require you to login before you do a search.

Disclaimer: I worked at Google for 12 years.
Bull. Shit.

"We got situated in the store, double checked with an employee that it was ok to shoot video"

There was no consent to install software onto their computers. They just tried to find some consent loophole.
Even for ER visits alone, it's not true that patients are "usually" incapacitated or on the verge of death. Something like a third aren't even urgent and only a small percentage are admitted to the hospital. And the most common reasons for visits are mostly pain complaints with a conscious patient. On average people get triaged to the waiting room to wait for 40 minutes or whatever.

There was a thread here a while back about something like an emergency-mode uber for replacing ambulances for most ER trips. Something similar might also be done for shopping for cheaper urgent care too perhaps. Say a clinic that is open late and will check out your scary rash/cough/pain without charging so much.
PRISM was just the internal NSA source designation for data obtained under FISA warrants, which are not optional.
HDCP is absolutely a byproduct of abusing a quasi-natural monopoly.
According to one google search result total pharma ad spend was $6.58 billion in 2020.

According to the CBO pharma R&D was $83 billion in 2019.

References:

https://www.fiercepharma.com/special-report/top-10-ad-spende...

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57126
> We will match you with one of our qualified callers and introduce you to them... You decide if they are a fit

Are you doing anything systematic to try and improve probabilities of a good match?

(And if not, do you want help trying on some ideas?)
Used to pirate a lot as a poor kid in eastern europe, as there was no way I could either afford it, find a legal copy or both. Now as a paid developer I always buy the software / games I use, as its much less of a hustle, and I’d like to support the people whose work I’m using.

But I still have some friends that never buy anything digital, after being brought up on pirated software they would describe buying it as “nauseous”. They might own multiple cars and expensive real estate, but still pirate their windows as a matter of principle.

I have a feeling a lot of kids brought up in eastern europe have similar sensibilities.
> maybe then his lawyers could have explained to him why what he did was wrong.

It sounds like his lawyers recognized that what he did was so obviously not illegal or with sufficient crimnal intent that they were sure the charges would be dropped. It certainly seems like a stretch to apply the CFAA to these actions, what other laws do you think applied?
Either the elderly person or a representing party like a child or friend who wants them engaging in more social interaction.
China to order Tencent Music to give up music label exclusivity
Some of it is on archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140607001646/https://www.quirk...

You can use this tool to download the files for the site:

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader/
Viragen which was working on the anti-cancer Multiferon treatment which was showing a lot of promise?

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/viragen-inc-multif...

They were forced to shutdown by short sellers:
https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2002/04/08/...

Others have managed to stay alive by the skin of their teeth:
https://marker.medium.com/i-run-a-public-company-5b6347fc0b1...
That's actually something that PeerTube does and is enabled by default! It uses P2P Media Loader to have peers share HLS segments.
True, although my wired Apple headphones never lasted more than two years, which seems to be roughly the useful life of AirPods.
Total hog wash.

Superannuation is one of the best piece of gov't policy ever conceived, with the exception of probably free public education.

It has made australians one of the richest in the world. It has allowed people who would otherwise squander their savings to have investments that they can live off in their retirement.

I do agree that some superannuation providers are price gauging on unsuspecting customers - but realistically, these people should have known better, and shop around. Good industry-run super providers are very cheap and cost effective, and generate at least market returns.

The problem of inequality or poverty for people with low balances in their super is not something that this policy aims to solve. There will always be people in situations where they are unable to contribute. That's why the pension system exists - a final safety net.

Super is not a mistake at all, and I'm very glad that this policy is instituted for australians. They would've been very much poorer over all, had it not been done.
If you've got old people who want to talk, can't you connect them with each other and not have to pay people to talk to them? Then you can charge a lower price since it's merely a matchmaking service.

Or is the payment an incentive for someone to be a willing audience to be talked at? I think that paying people is an implicit admission that the benefit of the conversation is pretty one-sided.

Others have noted that the pay/hour is actually pretty reasonable, but unless it's a video call I can see the "volunteers" just going "mm hmm, wow, that's interesting" at every break in the conversation and not actually engaging in the conversation. The more sophisticated volunteers might even set up a soundboard to do this. I have a hard time believing that you'll get a lot of quality conversationalists to sign up.
I don't need to get paid.

I have great elderly neighbors, with whom we've shared many life experiences via conversation. I consider it a privilege.

But if you're willing to pay me money for it retroactively, I can DM you my Venmo account.
Did the increase in cost also come with an increase in outcomes? I don't think it's counterintuitive that people who couldn't afford healthcare see a doctor, you'll see a lot of issues; did we see a decrease in medical issues across the population?
Would be a fun story but Bezos is still the executive chairman of Amazon, so his user account will be left very much intact.
You can't freely use money that is, on the preponderance of evidence, proceeds of crime. If you ask me that's true of all bitcoin (or rather, all USD that's the proceeds of selling bitcoin), since while there are plenty of speculators moving money around, most of the money coming into the system (i.e. the part that makes the bitcoin price higher than 1/50000 pizzas) is from scams, drug deals, or scam drug deals.
Question: it seems you help find a caller, then the same caller calls every week, and instead of a one time commission, you keep charging 60% afterwards for no obvious value-add. So what stops people from cutting you out of the loop after a successful match?
Do you have more steps? "Open to advice" is a bad approach to ethics. Perhaps hire a consultant?
The cost is a consequence of a complex system out of hand, not a target metric. I would argue that paying $30k a year would be beneficial, _if_ the resulting system incentivized cost reduction. So the if is not in the cost but in the belief in the consequence of the change
Capcom themselves did it with the rerelease of RE2 and RE3
… all US-funded work needs to end up publicly accessible within a year of publication

I hadn’t heard about this, is there a keyword I can use to learn more?
There's plentt of things that cops (including Secret Service) do an initial review of and find that it is probably criminal but not a priority to do the legwork to even get a prosecutor involved, or that they do minimal legwork, and get a prosecutor involved who decides that its criminal but not a prosecutorial priority.
There goes my Saturday... ;)
What I choose to use energy for is valid and worthwhile. What you choose to use energy for is invalid and wasteful?

Maybe we just get on with decarbonizing the energy system, make sure everyone is paying for the energy they use, and then we don't have to worry about making moral judgements.
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I am dyslexic, I swap words like that frequently, shit happens.

But if that is all you have to add to this discussion, I wonder why you bothered.
I vote with my wallet. I don't support DRM: I don't ever buy anything with DRM. I go out of my way to buy DRM-free stuff. (sometimes I buy a couple of copies)
No, McDonald wrote a timelapse program that took pictures, detected faces, and uploaded them to his server.

> I started working on a modified version of the timelapse application. Instead of saving to disk, it sent images to my server. And it only saved photos containing a face.
I understand how full charge might have an adjustment period, but how is volume affected?
It's interesting that you are satisfied with GKE. Do you rely on the k8s-API to be (high) available?
We were using the API as our source of truth for Patroni, but we had to configure some really high timeouts in order to compensate regular multi minute API downtimes.
> However, using a bunch of regexes reminds me of painful regex writing

I searched "regex" in the repo, the only places it appears are in the code (as comments) and in the parser spec
Or sometimes six months ago…
Well, the Obama admin that included him was fully in the pocked of the bankers as revealed by Wikileaks. They chose 29 of 31 cabinet positions. Seems that not much has changed there.

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-r...
The future of web design. Soon React will add a way to render updates during blinks and you can kiss what little notion of object permanence still remained online goodbye.
> They might own multiple cars and expensive real estate, but still pirate their windows as a matter of principle.

Not paying for recent version of Windows seems like a poor example, because not paying for spyware is a pretty good principle.
$100\mo NOT to talk with your family? Not a bad deal financially. Also... Not good ethically. I HATE this idea with every single fiber of my being. "Dial a friend" will never ever replace connections born of shared experiences. I will get downvoted to hell: but fuck you. Full stop.
I'd just like to chime in to cheer this type of business. My airpods were dying within 60 seconds of putting them on and now they live again.

(For anyone in Taiwan or Singapore, check out https://www.dr-pods.com/. Roughly 40USD replacement fee. No affiliation, I'm just a happy customer).
Europe does drug R&D and still manages to sell their drugs at a reasonable price to sick people (generally because their governments utilize their buying power for the good of their citizens).

It seems to me that US people have been sold FUD by there own pharma companies, if I’m honest.