skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are probably young without kids.

A silver level high deductible health plan in a high cost of living state is about $400 per person for early 30 year olds. You can assume health insurance costs $350 per person, plus or minus 10%, in healthy years. Then you have to multiply by age rating factors. So a family of 4 with parents around 40 will be ~$1,500 per month for a silver HDHP.

This pdf is a good rubric:

https://www.nj.gov/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcrates20...
It's an excellent point and why we're very careful with the claims we make. The claim I think you are referring to is "86% of users report feeling better after their first session with Iona Mind" , which is based upon feedback the users give within the app, but does not relate to any specific measurements relating to any conditions within the DSM-5 which is the standard manual which defines mental health disorders within the United States. We are indeed not a medical device, and we do make it clear to users during sign up that Iona Mind is a self help tool.

If we were making that claim that we treat specific diseases such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) then you are correct in assuming that would require FDA approval as a medical device, although for the duration of the covid-19 pandemic the FDA published the following guidance on low-risk self help and general wellness apps: https://www.fda.gov/media/136939/download

which states:
"... Given these public health benefits, for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency, FDA does not intend to object to the distribution and use of computerized behavioral therapy devices and other digital health therapeutic devices for psychiatric disorders, which are described in Section III.A, without compliance with the following regulatory requirements, as applicable, where such devices do not create an undue risk in light of the public health emergency:..."
These days almost all of those folks are contractors for the government and even contractors can be required to have a security clearance.
Interesting to see an insiders breakdown of the caste system. As an outsider, I've always though that SRE was #1, and SWE second. SRE has so much more knowledge area to cover than SWE... I've been thinking of interviewing for SRE roles at FAANG, but I don't see why I wouldn't just go SWE.
That's exactly how JSP was used. In its first application to COBOL, the JSP-COBOL tool turned structured code into coroutining code with suspend/resume, and tools built later for JSD generated code to save state in a database.
Apple was never pro-privacy. Apple has always been pro-Apple. They will do whatever benefits them the most at any time. It just so happens that with the failure of their own attempts to start an advertising network, they saw an opportunity to spin themselves as the privacy company and take digs at their competitors. Nothing lasts forever. Maybe it's time for a new spin.
I can confirm. I wrote the guide above and spend a lot of time dealing with the immigration office. They're a real box of chocolates, and some are filled with raisins.
If you want a dark, weird take on this, watch Zefrank's YT video: Teddy has an operation.

https://youtu.be/AdYaTa_lOf4
The rich by and large aren't hoarding cash. They own things with intrinsic value.
I was at a social event many years ago at a friend's home. Several families and their children were in attendance. One child started pulling books out of a bookcase. The mother said to the host, "Do you mind Jimmy taking books out of your bookcase?" She answered, "Well, I don't really mind -- but do you really want to be training your child that it's ok to be doing this?"

Yes, I do find it crass and offensive. But the real question is: Do you want to be known as someone who glibly uses this kind of language -- not even in a fit of anger, but totally gratuitously?
invest all the time you use penny pinching into making more money. youll have a lot more in the end and be better liked.

if youre worrying about wether your part of the check is $7.23 or $11.17 because you didn't have wine, you're not in the right mindset to make money.

i follow the rule: if im going to argue over money, its because im going to sue you.

if its not enough to warrant a lawyer, i just take the L and forget about it.

i am however very serious about work and investments.
The problem with both of your examples is that they came from a source which had cried wolf (lied) a nearly unfathomable number of times. As an indie I hate to say it, but when there is so much noise to signal coming from one source, it's very likely for a rational person to default to ignoring info from that source. It's actually a decent strategy when there is more data than processing power. I have no problem with teaching that behavior at all. It would encourage sources to have a better SNR.

I should add that I am in no way validating either of your claims. I have not seen any info that warrants a "smoking gun" analysis of something evil happening in either case. So far we have chatter and some data points. Would love to be proven wrong on this as that would be a more interesting result.
> Quality news, no deception or try to push an agenda

you... may want to take a refresher course in the topic at hand
Same here. I love my job and the volunteer things I do but stuff like this makes me feel like it's all not enough. God must certainly be smiling down on this man.
From FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss, in his book Never Split the Difference, the US government always negotiates with terrorists.
There's a story about the introduction of a scythe to a remote village in - I want to say - 90s or early 2000s, and the mayor thanking the charity for showing them this new invention, that really helped them during harvest. It's not like the place didn't have sticks or blades, but the combination isn't obvious.

I saw it on a TIL on reddit, so take it with a grain of salt. Trying to google it now, but all results for queries containing the word "scythe" seems to be related to a board game.
New funding round sees Reddit gain $4B in valuation since February
Once you have enough money, I’m not sure that’s the case. See for example the complaints about the Murdock punishing biz in Australia.
People increasingly argue with fallacies, so it shouldn't come at a surprise that the frequency in which they're pointed out increases as well.

Public discord really has taken a nosedive and I'm surprised you seem to be okay with people using fallacies to strengthen points. Their points might even be correct, but reflection gets increasingly harder the more you accept these fallacies as arguments.

I'm often speechless how pretty influencial YouTubers/streamers wholeheartedly believe something based purely on fallacies. All the young viewers which aren't able to identify them most definitely become even more susceptible to this kind of logic, worsening the situation in the future.
I can imagine someone feeling all sorts of things but you can also just look away from the screen.

If we're talking ongoing, targeted individual harassment, that's different but still less immediate than a dude physically in your grill on the street.
That’s funny. I consider myself “left” but find these dismissive charges of bias deployed a lot by libertarian debaters.
Emancipation happened over 100 years ago, so no that is not what would have happened when imagining an alternative future starting 100 years in the past.
This kind of stuff is super helpful.

My dad was a surgeon who treated kids with scoliosis. He also happened to make teddy bears as a hobby. So he made a teddy bear with an artificial spine in it that he put scoliosis hardware on.

When he was meeting with a kid for a pre-op consult, he would let the kid hug the teddy bear, and then he would show them the teddy bear's X-Ray. It really helped them understand what was going to happen to them, and put them at ease.
So we shouldn’t bother trying to teach them how to catch even the most basic, stupid, obvious attempts to manipulate them, then?

I guess we shouldn’t patch security holes in any software, either. Attackers will just spend increasing amounts of effort to find new ones. It’s not worth developing vaccines for any diseases, either. They’ll just adapt. Why lock your car or your house? Determined people can pick the lock, or just break a window.

There is absolutely no benefit to be found in raising the bar so that the stupidest, low-effort attacks no longer work. None at all.
And in a while you figure out that you are bringing in DBA/Sysadmins under other hats that you desperately want to un-employ.
My updated version is more like a state machine. Your function and mine give the same answers both with the manual test cases and with a cross-comparison using random inputs:

def monotonic_direct(seq):
prev_value = None
prev_dir = 0 # 0 for increasing or decreasing, 1 for increasing, -1 for decreasing
group = []
#print("Run", seq)
for value in seq:
#print(prev_dir, prev_value, value)
if not group:
# Can only get here with the first element
prev_value = value
group.append(value)
continue

if prev_dir == 0:
# Undecided order
if prev_value < value:
dir = 1
elif prev_value == value:
# Still undecided
group.append(value)
continue
else:
dir = -1

elif prev_dir == 1:
# Monotonic increasing
if prev_value <= value:
dir = 1
else:
dir = 0 # reset for the next run

elif prev_dir == -1:
if prev_value < value:
dir = 0
else:
dir = -1 # reset for the next run

if prev_dir == 0 or dir == prev_dir:
# Still in the same direction
group.append(value)
else:
# New direction
if prev_dir == -1:
group.reverse()
yield group
group = [value]

prev_value = value
prev_dir = dir

if group:
if prev_dir == -1:
group.reverse()
yield group

def run_test_cases():
for dir_case, expected in (
([1], [[1]]),
([1, 2], [[1, 2]]),
([2, 1], [[1, 2]]), # because of the reverse
([1, 2, 3], [[1, 2, 3]]),
([1, 3, 2], [[1, 3], [2]]),
([1, 1, 2], [[1, 1, 2]]),
([1, 1, 0], [[0, 1, 1]]),
([1, 1, 2, 0], [[1, 1, 2], [0]]),
([1, 1, 0, 0], [[0, 0, 1, 1]]),
([3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1], [[1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3]]),

#([3, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1], [[2, 3, 3], [3], [1, 1]]),
([3, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1], [[2, 3, 3], [1, 1, 3]]),

([1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7], [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2], [4, 5, 6, 7]]),
("AABCBADCABC", [["A", "A", "B", "C"], ["A", "B"], ["A", "C", "D"], ["B", "C"]]),
):
got = list(monotonic_direct(dir_case))
assert got == expected, (dir_case, got, expected)
print("All test cases passed.")

def run_cross_test():
import random
for i in range(10000):
n = random.randrange(2, 10)
values = [random.randrange(10) for _ in range(n)]
result1 = list(monotonic_direct(values))
result2 = list(monotonic_increasing(values))
assert result1 == result2, (values, result1, result2)
print("Random cross-comparison tests passed.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
run_test_cases()
run_cross_test()
Crappy jobs shouldn't have to exist just for the sake of desperate people being able to have one. A justice issue demands a justice solution, not the scraps that fall from the table.

See also: the current argument raging around minimum wage in the US, and whether the the millions of grocery-bagging and burger-flipping gigs are supposed to be something you can actually survive on, or are they just meant to be short term jobs for middle class teenagers who have no dependents or living expenses to cover? Or maybe we don't love this reality but there's nothing anyone can do about it because The Market has declared that these jobs are worth less than a living wage so whatever (obligatory FDR meme: https://imgur.com/gallery/SvuwZrm).
You don't have to "what if" it, people have already looked into it. In "The Coddling of the American Mind" they cite studies showing that universities are more left-leaning than they've ever been.
LLC isn't required as long as you have an offer letter stating that you are responsible for taxes in your country, that you are a contractor and not an employee (critical in the EU) and have the company file a W8-BEN [0] with the IRS.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8ben.pdf
The CO2 cost of getting the prisoners from the prison outside earth's gravity well and on their way to planet 9 seems prohibitive.

One more reason for rehabilitation as prison policy.
This being posted on msn.com is only really to fuel the fire. A kind of a guile play into “oh jeez we didn’t see this coming” published by the pawns who are bought and paid for to push this exact kind of thing onto us. Confusion and stupidity is part of the play.

I really wish the HN crowd would take the first step and start flagging any and all pieces coming out of these places - including well known ones like NYT and bootlickers like Daring Fireball, and establish a discourse that can push the Overton window far past.

Unfortunately, this sets HN up to either be manipulated by charlatans or looked upon as a gathering place of weirdos and conspiracists.

Oh well, can’t have it both ways.
I see. Then the expectation is that the user charges only at one charger, as otherwise a token might be reused at a different charger. Thanks, sounds interesting!
`iter` seems more approachable than `__call__` to me FWIW.
smells like cognitive bias
The Fallacy Fallacy doesn't actually do anything because it is covered by itself and creates a loop.
US chip startup: Work with UK’s biggest plant stopped after Chinese takeover
They are worse additions to the local economy than stable warehouse jobs. They offer similar wages but no stability.

That's what big tech has to offer here in flyover country in return for our cheap utilities and available land and some stunning tax avoidance.
It absolutely was reported and tested for, please don’t spread misinformation.
"Let them expose themselves so we all know who to charge and prosecute with criminal behavior". Fixed that for you. There are laws regarding this, so either use them or might as well eliminate them if they have no teeth.

Ignoring them does not work, and only emboldens them. Ridiculing them online seems to act mostly like feeding a troll.
Yeah, no.

Infra is hard to get right, to change, and standardize.

That's why people use cloud providers, but they are very expensive.

With code, you can solve problems using cheap fleets of heterogenous vps from different providers.

And when you have a small budget, that makes a x10 difference in hosting cost. Not to mention you don't need to hire a super dupper 300k <cloud brand> expert to manage your system, a regular dev will do.

Most products don't need unlimited scaling, zero downtime and so on. It can even crash in prod once in a while, espacially in the early years.

You can alway migrate from code to infra later when you need to scale up and standardize. The opposite is way harder, if you even reach the point at all.

E.G: on a video streaming plateform with a decent audience (800k users a day), we had to transcode user uploaded videos then ensure we had several copies of them load balanced accross more or less servers depending of the media popularity. Today you would put some web scale key value store to manage that, maybe a cloud virtual FS or at least some CDN. At minimum, you'd spawn docker instances, kubernatis if you feel fancy. We solved the problem with redis, nginx and the cheapest naked vps possible. The site ran using only 7 servers, including encoding, streaming, database and the django app itself and was super fast.

To this day it is still maintained by one single dev working part time. It's 10 years old and still uses python 2.7, jquery and a hellish handcrafted css mess.

So sure, infra is the clean solution. But Pareto has something to say about it.
It depends on the country I guess, skipping credit card details page forces me back to the account registration step.
Ok - if we are going to narrow the scope of the debate to the nature of the scanning, that is the core of my argument to begin with.

I'm not an expert in how CSAM works, but if it only as a block list against certain images it will be very ineffective.

The way I would expect it to work, is to recognize the content of images. The SOTA on this is pretty impressive. Knowing the content of the images is what Google does in the cloud, and its great. I can search my images for "Green taxi" and it will find it. Water. Sunsets. Anything.

If apple is introducing the ability to recognize photo content on the device (even if right now it is destined for the cloud as a pre-scan), it doesn't really matter that the model is only tuned to find child abuse, as an example.

Tomorrow, the hyper-parameters or the ontology could be expanded to search for anything. Political affiliations, location and timestamps (this doesn't even need modeling!), illegal objects or substances, etc.

The deal is that Apple is saying "we are going to use your device to determine what is in your pictures." The circumstances and scope of those determinations can change, but the expectation that Apple will be doing it is now publicly established.
Or how about government legislation enforcing and pushing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-Based_Black_Economic_Emp...

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_Unit...
"Viral load is a common proxy for virulence."

The measure is only relevant if the other variables don't change. If we want to measure virulence compared to other strains, then you have to do that using all unvaccinated people, or all vaccinated people. Otherwise, the numbers don't matter when changing multiple variables.

"It's proving to be incredibly effective at reducing death and severe disease."

Which is good, but not very relevant to the discussion of genesis of new strains.

"They are being updated rapidly. That is a great advantage of mRNA technology."

Do you have any info on this? There does not seem to be any trials that I have heard of. Plus, the CDC/FDA have not yet recommended boosters for most people, let alone a different formulation.

"But it seems even with widespread vaccination, there may be enough transmission to generate new mutations (Isreal [sic] is 80% vaccinated and they are seeing another wave including breakthroughs)."

"You provide no data to support this assumption."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-vaccine-defiant-israeli-muta...
You mean like the proliferation of BLM online leading to mass rioting, looting, and razing? I didn’t hear a peep from anyone that BLM should have been silenced back then.

And I’m glad. BLM ran its course and that portion of society felt that they had exercised their free speech and calmed down instead of going guerilla underground.
If the time spent stays the same but more stuff gets washed that's still a win for living standards. If you reduce the cost of something then that labor gets spent elsewhere, maybe on more of the same but then you have more to show for it. Labor hours are fairly fungible at scale like that.

Your cuts are less likely to get infected when your clothes don't have the manure you put on the field last week on them.
> distinct from the Codespaces launch

It's mentioned here https://github.com/features/codespaces
There are countless examples of situations where sustained abuse has happened online and then carries on offline.

Sure, post anonymously, and that's fine, but not everyone does (nor should be required to).

It's all roses at the beginning, but when they are targeted, your "look away from the screen" is looking distinctly weak.

I'll stop now. I can't keep up with your edits.
In my experience, healthcare.gov pricing for health insurance and the premiums paid by employers are all roughly the same for comparable level plans (by metal level).
In florida its spreading like wildfire in the kids

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/08/11/pediatric-hosp...

The head of one hospital said the other day said if they had a school bus full of kids in an accident, they would not be able to save them. They do not have the bed space. its full of children.

Here in Australia it seems to be hitting the kids first as well. Its spreading in schools fast so we enter into lockdown to stop it. mostly with success except where they dont bloody take it seriously (cough NSW cough).

I have an 11 yr old and a 13 yr old. While we have approved the vaccine for my 13 yr old we don't yet have the supply.

I'm terrified what it will do to my two if they get it, my daughter gets croup at the drop of a hat and my son is mildly asthmatic.
It's the logical conclusion to unregulated capitalism. Capitalism is centered around the idea that self-interest leads to the common good. That's true to a large extent, but it relies on healthy competition and a basic level of comfort. If someone is desperate or doesn't have a choice because there's no competition, the concept breaks down.

In reality, there's practically no such thing as unregulated capitalism, but the IT world is as close to an exception as you can find.

Don't have anything specific to read. But, if you notice that anti-competition has been very active and successful in IT, and that more traditional sectors have regulators keeping competition in check, to a greater extent, you might come up with ideas about what to read yourself.
Did you provide arguments for why "person being a part of society" means or implies they have to submit and receive the vaccine?

No. You claimed that not submitting to the vax agenda makes them a selfish person who refuses to contribute. Without any evidence.

You were talking down and guilt-tripping people who express concern, arguments or opinions in opposition to yours.
Who do you think is learning from who in this situation?
Massive amounts of resource extraction still occurs in places like the US, Canada, and Australia. The US is the world's largest oil producer now. Canada and the US have huge logging operations, and are huge agricultural exporters. Australia has enormous mining operations. And indeed all three still use and extract coal, and most people rely on internal combustion engines for transportation.

Despite all of this, air quality is relatively high. Water quality is relatively high. Ecological preservation efforts have restored all sorts of habitats and saved species from extinction.

Gina Rinehart has become a billionaire in Australia by owning a massive coal mining operation. A lot of the coal is burned locally, but most is exported to Asia. Asia isn't forced to buy Australian coal. Asian countries could instead put a tax on dirty energy, and encourage cleaner energy. But some combination of reasons keeps that low in their list of priorities.

And even if they unfortunately wish to continue to burn coal, it would be possible to force the use of air scrubbers and purchasing purer grades of coal. But that isn't pursued for the same reasons.
I agree. Phd students are often not particularly wealthy and may have to pay for this service out of their own money. Companies looking for specific expertise however are likely to have funds for it, and be more than willing to pay for a good service.
It’s useful when evaluating your own actions and reasoning, especially when you might have a vested interest in the result. From evaluating investment opportunities to understanding the state of science in an area, being aware of cognitive biases can help you get to the real truth.
You answer makes me believe you really know what you are talking about and you have de-risk lot of stuff from investor point of view. But with that answer, as a customer now I have trust issues with the app as I am not sure if what you are claim is actually true and feels like you have hacked around a regulation that is meant to keep unfair and false app and service in check. It gives me snake-oily vibes.
The media has had a "golden age", where the largest vehicles did research and presented well fundamented ideas. It lasted for at least a few decades, as it was visibly improving at the 40's and was still very good at the 80's.

Things were never perfect, of course. And we have never had as many facts available to reach our own conclusions (so, it's arguable if people are less or more informed today), but looking only at the media, things weren't always that bad.