skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> moderate liberals feel like the media is strongly biased in favor of the progressive left

I haven't heard that. Do you know any research on it (edit: I understand if not)?

IME moderate liberals just adopt a position between the left and right, regardless of the positions. It's navigation, not opinion.

The progressive left thinks the NYT, for example, is conservative and corporate.
well, the united states didn't have to fight the cold war. the idea that, because a leftwing revolution happens somewhere, the united states has to pour money and arms into a counter revolution is insane. even if it was a soviet vacked revolution: we did not have to be at war with the soviet union.
This will likely exacerbate the country’s situation, though it’s a pragmatic way to help the victims.
Pushing for an ‘apolitical’ workplace is immoral (and unrealistic)
> Sugar is not "literally in everything." Not for the dictionary meanings of "literally" and "everything."

I think you know what he meant. I remember having a similar discussion with my dad. He was surprised to learn his peanut butter and bread both had sugar as one of the top ingredients. Sauces in a lot of restaurants have it in high quantities. Even things like beef jerky can have twenty grams of sugar per serving.
What's the line from The Big Labowski, "That's like... your opinion man."

That said the first thing is a bomb.

The second thing is a - presumably - harmless addiction foisted on a group that's not really in a position to harm other people and will have a reasonably hard time harming themselves. I mean, children, sure but honestly they don't really have all that much agency.

There's a lot of upside on #1 but I'd expect a huge amount of downside too. #2 doesn't have any upside but I don't see a lot of downside either.
Funny, all the e's look about the same to me. Do you just not like the style? That's not my complaint about the o's. I'm complaining that some are square and some are round. Specifically the o In "Notice" looks roundish and the O in "Today" is squared off.
Honest question, why the push for 'barely seasoned'? What are the dietary implications of a dash of pepper, paprika, garlic powder, turmeric, garam masala etc. if the salt and sugar is kept in check?
It sounds like you don't really understand what A1C tests are meant for either. There's a reason it's not part of a standard physical while blood sugar is.
Tank man and Winnie the Pooh, drawings of the prophet, copies of the bible (surely you can adapt this to text), wikileaked documents and video (or other embarrassing news), or just DMCA abuse. There are endless things governments will censor with this
For that matter, even if I'm attending an event, meeting with customers, talking to press, etc. I think the only place I've ever needed to get a "business visa" is China. I'm guessing there were other cases where I was technically supposed to but no one does.
And?

Do you think a developer who ticks that checkbox is going to be unhappy with this functionality?
Meaty savoury dishes can be healthy. I really don’t understand what you think is wrong with them.
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Any tax on food hits poor people much more than wealthier people. You are taking food out of people's mouths.
Even assuming this is true, this is just the 'if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about' argument, which has been shown to have numerous flaws and counterarguments.
This absolutely accurate

https://youtu.be/QplQL5eAxlY
"...Commonwealth, which has raised more than $250 million so far and employs 150 people, received a significant boost last year when physicists at M.I.T.’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and the company published seven peer-reviewed papers in the Journal of Plasma Physics explaining that the reactor will work as planned.

What remains to be proved is that the Commonwealth prototype reactor can produce more energy than it consumes, an ability that physicists define as Q greater than 1. The company is hoping that its prototype, when complete, will produce 10 times the energy it consumes.

So far, the best effort to reach positive energy output from a fusion reactor was achieved by the Joint European Torus, or JET, project, a Tokamak that began operation in 1983 in Oxfordshire, England. The device was able to produce 16 megawatts of fusion power while consuming 24 megawatts..."
There's a word for an everything shortage: "inflation."
On windows 10 here, the font rendering was also what put me off immediately in the demo.
> Over the past two centuries, billions of humans have been lifted out of poverty

> by entrepreneurs seeking great fortunes

No. It was technological innovation, made by the brightest heads of our species that did science themselves or at publicly funded institutions. The private sector took these innovations to manufacture and accumulate, while the innovators were criminally underpaid.
If-Then-Else Had to Be Invented
For me it was a combination of fasting and cutting out as much added sugar as possible (I still do natural sugars in fruits, etc). I'm down 20 pounds since June, and it's mostly been all fat. My exercise level did go up a bit (from ~5 miles a day to 6+) simply because I'm a teacher and didn't have school all day, but in general I'm just all around healthier from really focusing on fasting (was doing it before, but more stringently now) and cutting out sugar. It's been great.
Good luck explaining to people that Apple Juice has a sugar tax applied to it now even though the only ingredient listed is “apples.”

And, yes, it’s just as bad for you as soda.

Don’t forget that we'll be needing a flour tax too…
One would assume that you tax carbon across the entire value chain for any product that's to be sold within your borders.

Insofar as the atmosphere doesn't confine itself to political boundaries, it certainly seems to me like that would be the sensible way to attempt such a thing. Why faff around?

Companies that don't want to pay this tax would, of course, be free to simply not sell their products in the USA. But I doubt that every participant in, e.g., China's consumer product manufacturing industry would be able to stomach such a course of action.

It would be similar for a hypothetical sugar tax. Which, of course, the US already has something like that, but of course it's currently being used to favor domestic sugar production over international sugar production, so it's not applied consistently to all sugar. But still, I think we can see from that that it's not a question of practicalities. If we can do it for the sake of economic protectionism, then I'm sure it would also work when the motivation is to mold people's diets.

(In case I need to put a finer point on it, I'm speaking here about the feasibility of actually implementing an excise tax policy; I'll refrain from speculating about its ability to achieve its stated goals.)

Long story short, I think that this sort of thing is probably less a question of practicalities than it is a question of political will. If you have political reasons to like this idea, it's very easy to come up with motivated reasoning for why it would be something approaching a panacea. If you have political reasons to dislike it, it's very easy to come up with motivated reasoning for why it could never work.
"It only shows definitively (In a sample size of 100 birds) that birds don’t transmit virus after they die."

They also showed that the cumulative genomes shed where higher for vaccinated birds vs unvaccinated birds when dealing with more virulent strains. And that this did influence the sentinel infections. Yes, that's due to death. It still shows that if mutations become statistically more likely with the cumulative genome shedding, then leaky vaccines do not prevent this and the genomic pool will be skewed more to the virulent side than it would have been otherwise. That's all pretty definitive. Now, does that definitely support that a specific outcome will occur, like vaccines causing more sereve strains- no.

Although this is kind of besides my point - that the two studies are not in conflict and perhaps the two parties are arguing two separate topics.
HN is becoming less and less a place where issues are rarely discussed.

The most irrelevant comments always rise to the top and more and more people join in and waffle about nothing.

The interesting point in the article is this one:

"Snopes VP of Editorial and Managing Editor Doreen Marchionni suspended Mikkelson from editorial duties pending “a comprehensive internal investigation.” He remains an officer and a 50% shareholder of the company."

How can the whatever whatever suspend her boss from editorial duties pending a comprehensive internal investigation? Did she clear that with her boss first?

What Covid has proved is that the whole media has become a pack of shills, which is false because they have always been pack of shills, only they were more subtle about it?
Totally, I am a dyslexic and frequent user of my systems text-to-speech vocaliser as well as a big proponent of immediate mode graphics. Every single time this topic comes up people who often neither use accessibility features nor program immediate mode graphics make this point as a cheap put down. Sure this is a downside of the paradigm, just like a hovering dropdown menus is hard to always do right in immediate mode layouts. In both cases there are ways this can be mitigated. This point has been made so many times that I got my cheap comeback ready: Here is a blog post by the web agency of the W3C giggle explaining why they had to create there own CMS system because existing solutions don't have good support for accessibility giggle: https://w3c.studio24.net/updates/on-not-choosing-wordpress/
Worked so well for windows mobile !
Case in point: On Jan 6, NPR published an article with a 10AM headline and timestamp about the upcoming Trump rally.

Later in the day, they changed the headline to be something like "Insurgents invade Capital building", but did not change the 10AM timestamp up top. One had to read the article to find the update timestamp.

Newsmaxx, and thus many if its viewers looked at the headline and headline timestamp and trumpeted "how did they know?! It's a conspiracy!"

I had to look into the wayback machine to see the original headline to show to a relative who'd bought the Newsmaxx narrative. I'm not sure they totally believed or even understood what I was telling them, but I am certain it raised some doubt.

All of that would was unnecessary, if only NPR had done proper change management on its articles.
> NASA has developed into a bureaucratic machine with risk averse incentives.

Consider that once companies got involved in space they had incentive to lobby congress to make NASA less competitive.
Virta Health has peer reviewed studies showing that type 2 diabetes can be reversed in many patients through dietary changes, specifically nutritional ketosis. Many of their patients are no longer insulin dependent.

https://www.virtahealth.com/research
I’ve become disillusioned with knowledge in general.

A lot of what i know turns out to be wrong or disproven. I do just as well acting emotionally and impulsively as i do when i think logically.

Not to mention following what everyone is doing is fine most of the time. Starting to feel that knowledge is a trap. Only way out is to not play.

Only exception is for basic math/physica that I can grok.
Likewise, there's the idea of "creating value" and the idea of "extracting value".

- If one buys wheat, bakes bread and sells it making a profit, they're creating value.

- If one buys all the wheat in the region, creates a shortage and price spike, and then sells it at a profit, they're just exacting wealth.

The second case is not contributing any value to society -- quite the contrary, they're just redistributing the existing one for themselves, giving nothing in return (hence "extracting value").

Sure, the second option is legal, but that just seems like an oversight when law-making, and it definitely harms society more than anything else.
Hell, I use display scaling to make everything large on my TV and everything tiny on my laptop.
> An interesting side note to the debate emerged when Liang Wang posted about LLVM creator Chris Lattner's offer to try to get LLVM's copyright assigned to the FSF back in 2005. It was part of an effort (that seemingly went nowhere) to integrate LLVM and GCC. Stallman never heard about the message:

So basically, if Stallman hadn't have missed the message, there's a very real possibility that LLVM would have ended up licensed under GPLv2 & then re-licensed to GPLv3. The engineering world would probably look radically different if that had happened.
I wouldn't worry about purely display devices like TVs sending hashes. They don't retrieve the entire file, and hashing streamed data has challenges that tend to break the active stream. They would need to have a large enough sample of the streamed media, and most importantly it isn't illegal to watch pirated materials, only to distribute or publicly show them.

The television manufacturers simply don't have an economic interest in trying to do so when they can easily collect data regarding subscription based app use. The cops asking them to do so wouldn't change the fact it would cost the company money to implement and maintain, and no real pay off.

There certainly is a slope to worry about here, but the slope is in the direction of corporate profits. Anything that doesn't result in profits is a slope up hill and nobody wants to be the one pushing that particular rock up hill.
There's an inherited kind, an earned kind, and a "whoops, diabetes!" kind.

My sister spent the first 36 years of her life without diabetes or symptoms of diabetes. 5'3", 130 pounds. Then she had her second child, and whatever happened during that time eradicated her ability to deal with sugar. She had been perfectly healthy aside from an ovarian cyst which was removed before she was pregnant with the second child.

So now she's a type 1 diabetic, complete with a blood glucose monitor and an insulin pump.
>Deciding not to get vaccinated massively increases your risk of transmitting the virus to others.

Can you source this claim? In the original Pfizer, Moderna, etc studies, they never tested for transmissibility, only reduction of COVID-like symptoms.

>Any way you parse it, vaccination is preferable to infection.

And I disagree. I would rather have SARS-COV-2 injected into my arm personally. I'm not at risk, so taking on additional poorly defined risk such as the vaccine makes little sense from a self-preservation standpoint. From what I've seen there's not enough data to support vaccines reducing spread, but I'd like to see what you may have. And then we have the issue of variants that go right around the vaccine.

Here's a relevant quote from Fauci:
"Even though you’re vaccinated, because you could get infected, not know it, and be completely without symptoms because the vaccine is preventing you from getting symptoms, but you can have virus in your nasal pharynx and then inadvertently and innocently, pass it on to someone else who’s not vaccinated. That’s the problem we’re facing."

I don't know where we're at now, but early on when the vaccines were being first deployed, it was unsure if they'd reduce transmission, even between vaccinated populations. And you see Fauci here certainly implying that's the case.
Too much sugar causes high insulin. Prolonged high insulin causes insulin resistance. Insulin resistance causes diabetes.
One of the best descriptions I have read of modern journalism’s impact on people is as follows:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” - Michael Crichton
I took up IF a while back, and I wish my adherance was better but I have noticed once you get into the groove fasting days are fantastic, I do feel "lighter" and I have also realized that most of what I thought was "hunger" is "boredom" and most of my cravings are quite easily handled.

Really we should start teaching people the value of IF.
When you took it isn't really the issue as much as where you took it. Some schools and college majors choose different ways of teaching. I liked my exposure which was over 3 courses: Calc 2 had an embedded LA course; a 2xx level computational-focused LA course (much expanded version of the 2 or 3 week Calc 2 version); a 4xx math major only proof-focused LA course.

Most students just needed the brief intro. A substantial fraction (but not the majority) got the 2xx computational form. A very small number of us took the 4xx version, and since (by then) you understood the applications there was little need to focus on computations since the interesting (to the course) bit was the higher level understanding of LA.
I know it well, and a agree to a great extent.

I'm mostly responding to attacks on the NYT from the right; it's interesting to think about it to a great extent. My first impression is that the NYT has broken from the 'consent manufacturing' apparatus, which is why so many 'moderates' attack it.
Your argument that because a known biased “fact checker” chose not to pounce on Trump for one absolutely stupid Reddit-style hive-mind circle-jerk, they are a bastion of impartial fourth estate in a significant number of articles?

You may have poor judgment when it comes to outlying events fitting in a trend.
Share ownership can be transferred.
What a monumental waste of money. Could have left after Osama was killed 10 years ago and nothing would be different.
What do you mean by "dividend" in this context?
Not saying I disagree but to play devil's advocate here - wouldn't them spending on luxury items still benefit society overall rather than them keeping it locked up somewhere? Working class people are the one's making and selling the luxury items and once injected into the economy the money they spent on said items would be taxed further and spread around as others spent it.
> and the OS

At least as of Android 8, the OS still supports hardware keyboards (and likely the rest); my current phone has one and can scroll by swiping on the keyboard.
Which imaginary years were those? The years where a proliferation of marginal drug improvements (due to expiring patents) were replaced by a cure? Where access to diagnostic equipment and preventative care wasn't severely limited by for-profit healthcare companies? I'd like to know more!!!
A very large black hole would have a hard time sneaking up on me, but one the size of a bowling ball on the other hand...
Seasoning isn't the problem... Turmeric and cumin added to your pulses aren't going to give you metabolic diseases...
>This assumes what needs to be proven.

I think it has been, dramatically, over the last 120 years. Plenty of countries have tried radical appropriation and redistribution, and it failed spectacularly every time. Meanwhile a prominent Marxist country, China, turned to capitalism and within a generation has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into urban middle class lives. Meanwhile Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea.

Of course Capitalism has failure modes, because people are imperfect. All the flaws levelled at Capitalism are also found in spades in alternate economic systems because they are flaws in us. That's where accountability through liberal democracy and a decent system of laws come in. Yes that's always a work in progress and no it's not perfect, but it does work.
> well when their job is to write about politics, do you really still think that is true?

Yes, but ...

> I'm not saying to disregard those sources as illegitimate, but take them with a grain of salt

we agree.
“… poor and living alone – rarely left her apartment, ordering fast-food delivery instead of risking the grocery store”

This poor lady was given such bad advice. Groceries can be delivered too, diabetes+fast food is a recipe for disaster.
That's the cost in Karachi with its completely depleted water table, where water comes from tens of kms from outside of the city.
Wasn't this standard in Home Ec classes in the 40s and 50s?
The best solution is that people choose to eat less sugar. It's better because it doesn't require treating adults like children, or humans like pets or cattle.

Diet choices are not a problem of policy.
Billionaires are going to react by lobbying very heavily to get loopholes created in the legislation. And each country writes their own legislation, which means each country creates their own set of loopholes.

The net result is going to be that the tax system gets more byzantine, the government says "look, we started taxing billionaires", and the billionaires still aren't paying. But filing taxes will get more complicated for millionaires and upper-middle-class people.

I'm not normally a highly cynical person. But I am cynical about the government's ability to wisely write legislation in the face of a heavy lobbying blitz.
Also legal citizenship/visas are a real crapshoot in the US due to the extreme (and by extreme I mean it sounds like hyperbole and would be hilarious if it weren't people's lives getting screwed around with) incompetence, slothfulness, and general unreliability of the USCIS.

Most people who live here have never dealt with them and have no idea just how bad it really is. I think their interview process might include an IQ test with an upper limit for acceptable candidates.
> If you distribute the excess wealth, you will create a lot of inflation because if people have twice the money they will be prone to pay a twice bigger rent or a twice bigger restaurant check, or twice the money for the same land plot.

Ah, I see! So what you're saying is, if we tax the poor instead, that'll deflate the currency and make everyone richer!
Consider checking out CGMs (continuous glucose monitors) for what I think is a pretty comprehensive solution. They can even be useful for people who don't have diabetes, but are just interested in maintaining healthy blood glucose levels during the day.
Terrible, but not surprising: misogyny, or, more properly, gynophobia, is the beating heart of the Islamist Death Cult
According to the source, the rate of hospitalizations and critical cases is higher amongst the vaccinated, even adjusting for the higher overall vaccination rates. You could make the claim that it isn't age adjusted, but it's hard to make that case when almost all (90%+) of the people being hospitalized are vaccinated, when the general population is ~70% vaccinated.

I agree the source isn't great, but it's hard finding information that hasn't been spun by tech companies at this point. It's worth watching the data coming out of Israel.