skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the last ~3 years I've noticed a lot more private healthcare being advertised direct to consumers, particularly in London and particularly targeting busy, high earning professionals.

I'd have expected this to go down pretty poorly because while high earning busy people tend to be more open to spending to fix problems, the idea of paying for healthcare here is nuts – you either use NHS services, or your employer gives you private healthcare.

I wonder if, as London becomes increasingly diverse with more workers from overseas, the acceptance will increase as there are more people who don't have that cultural blocker to paying directly for healthcare (rather than via taxes).
Nemo Mobile and/or Mer are, I think, the FOSS builds/parts (I forget; there are way too many pieces and too many names in the mix), but the sailfish GUI is proprietary so YMMV.

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=PinePhone_Software_R...
Its a breakdown of trust in our nations institutions. The older ones who refuse mostly don't believe the vaccines will work. So based on that wrong fact, they are acting in their self-interest.

Bad faith exploiters who peddle fake news are much to blame.

But our institutions should reflect on why people trust dumbasses on facebook more than them. Our public health officials 1) aren't really competent on average, 2) have been constantly wrong, but worse 3) have lied (with noble intent I guess) about covid.

Nobody trusts the media in general. It's all biased and sensationalist.
When I'm at a site with many different topics in a list, it's nice to see which ones I've already visited. Links that don't show this or (even worse) don't differentiate as a link until they are moused over are one of my pet peeves.
I think you have that backwards? For thousands of years, you were only told what the people in power wanted you to know. With the invention of the internet, free information flow became the default. I think this may be the first time in history that an average person can come to their own conclusions. The problem is that we've never had free speech to this extent before. It's a new problem that hasn't been solved yet. I just don't think that censorship is the answer but a regression to the old ways.
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You might be joking, but I am not.
When put on a Kardashev scale, all these energy concerns seem pathetic. Terrawatts? Lol. Zettajoules of energy await us in the stars!
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https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/support/html/Docs/resources...
Sigh. I mean are people really this unaware of the decades long efforts by oil companies to cover up the truth of what was going on?

I'll act in good faith and believe they are.

One quick summary by the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53640382

Choice quotes from above: "... I created a model that showed the Earth would be warming very significantly. And the warming would introduce climatic changes that would be unprecedented in human history. That blew my mind.

They (the oil execs) were saying things that were contradicting their own world-class research groups..."

An in depth look in podcast format.

https://drillednews.com/podcast-2/

Season Summaries:
Season 1: The Origins of Climate Denial traced the corporate-funded creation and spread of climate denial, including interviews with former Exxon scientists, primary source documents, and an in-depth look at the history of fossil fuel-funded influence campaigns.

Season 2: Hot Water follows a group of West Coast crab fisherman who are experiencing first-hand the devastating impacts of climate change. And this unlikely group of climate activists just became the first industry to sue big oil.

Season 3: The Mad Men of Climate Denial digs into the history of fossil fuel propaganda and the few “Mad Men of climate denial” who shaped it.

Season 4: There Will Be Fraud follows the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to use the COVID-19 pandemic to push through its wishlist of deregulation and subsidies.

Season 5: La Lucha En La Jungla looks at the decades-long battle between indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian Amazon and Chevron.

Season 6: The Bridge to Nowhere: A season in three parts about the past, present, and future of the natural gas industry.
Arguably the only thing propping up the oil industry is lies as well... If it wasn't for the big lie that Climate Change isn't real, then the USA would have never left the Paris Accord, and would have much stricter Climate goals already in place.

So yes, lies and lobbying are propping up big oil.
I have 8 lines in total, three of them free, plus a free unlimited tablet plan.
> "The network’s own research shows that users consider each title for a whopping 1.8 seconds, and that if users don’t find anything in a minute and a half, they’re gone."

It's Netflix's fault this is true!

There's no way to review the content that is actually on the service. I look at an item for 1.8 seconds because I keep being shown the same five promoted shows and I've already decided about them two weeks ago, or already seen them, or whatever. I click off after a minute and half because I'm seeing the same shows and there's no way to find different ones or scroll through all the content.

What these streaming services actually need is a thorough catalog listing with a text description of each show. People will occasionally spend 20 minutes scrolling through that, tagging what they want to see (like the old TV guide). And then on a day to day basis, they'll spend 20 seconds deciding which of the already-tagged-by-yourself content they want to watch today.

All the streaming services are way over-optimized and it hurts them badly. One complete scrolling catalog with lots of ways to search it, lots of ways to page through it, and easy "I want to watch it" tagging.
Also, closed source shoos that actively promote patching are ok by me.
They've generated a few trillion dollars in profit over the past few decades, and now they have tens of billions at their disposal to invest in R&D now that there's a market beginning to demand it.

From an innovators dilemma perspective, if they can pivot, they will have nailed the balance perfectly (granted, we may have fucked the planet in the process, but that's just an outcome of a demand function).
> recently reached the threshold of (mostly) supported everywhere: the .webp file format.

Why has google (via lighthouse and pagespeed insights) been pushing webp so hard if it has only recently gone majority green?
When theft has a better user experience that’s important. Important because it’s more user oriented than the plethora of poorly designed apps with dark patterns to piss me off but keep me subscribed.

It’s important because it’s the reality.

Today, my janky RSS feed setup dumping stuff to a network folder is better for discovering new shows and movies. I’m more likely to see new content released through my tracker, browsing in 10 seconds than spending minutes scrolling through Netflix, and Hulu, and Prime. Just to see if there’s something new.

These services make it hard to use. I’d pay extra if Netflix just gave me an RSS feed and let me filter it. The fact that pirates are able to do this, volunteering is only part of it.
I was kind of surprised the article didn't discuss the BBS culture that existed before the internet. The blue link may have started after this but maybe it borrowed a bit from the colored keyboard characters used in text-based menu systems.

I also used the something-folio hypertext system before I used hypertext on the web. Did it have blue links? I can't remember.
If you're willing to discard any objections to the contrary, it's also easy to fix on the other side too. Require rental contracts to be filed with the city like deeds are, and immediately remove anyone reported as trespassing in a place where they don't have a lease on file with the city.

I think you're also ignoring that we're not out of housing. We're out of housing in the places many people want to live. If you go to Detroit, you can get a house for a song. Alaska will literally pay you for living there.

There's a difference between having a place to live, and living somewhere you want to live. The former is easy to solve, the latter is hard to solve because demand is often driven by exclusivity.
My Samsung monitor does that.

It's bad enough that I lose several channels on my Samsung TV when my Samsung monitor is on if the TV antenna is in the same room as the monitor.
San Francisco is like Disneyland for the nouveau riche. Rents, wages, everything is insane because workers have to get shipped in. Your breakfast plate in Manhattan, where poor people are still allowed is pretty cheap.
They'll be claiming fish & chips isn't an English dish next!
this is the perfect example of how to write something wrong on internet, so you can get all the correct facts for free from strangers and you can write a correct article
If you can gain unauthorized access by simply choosing not to follow a protocol that says you don't have access, there aren't really any access controls in the software at all.
Improving energy supply methods would have been tough without future knowledge. Reducing energy consumption was however much more doable.

For example, the West switched quickly from Incandescent bulbs to CFLs to LEDs in the 2010s. But CFLs was arguably doable in the late 1970s, definitely in the 1990s. We could have had a far earlier CFL transition, saving decades of incandescent bulbs.
The real "fix" for this issue will be to adjust the logging rentention policies to 24 hours.

Then nobody can prove who/what/why data was illegally accessed.

And if some judge forces you to turn over those 24 hours worth of logs, you fix the ACL's and respond to the judge tomorrow, when the logs show nothing unwanted.
>unpaid

You might be surprised how easy it is for mods of even somewhat popular subreddits to monetize their position. Of course not all do, but there are absolutely subtle ways to profit.
I'm going to hazard a wild guess here that there's a lot more pro-car lobbying going on by the car companies than there is by the oil companies.
You can argue smoking/addiction is a disease, possibly genetic which reduces the element of choice involved, potentially creating a problem. Vaccination status wouldn't have any such issues.
> People who say "they can just build their own search engine" should try Apple Maps.

... to be validated by concrete demonstration that Apple is capable of building an excellent service if they put their mind to it...
No, you have to do the math. Do you mean to say we have excess energy availability? If so, you have to support that statement by running through the calculations.

For starters, we don't build power plants to provide two or three times the power we need. Most power plants run at somewhere around 80% utilization with a margin for peak periods.

In addition to this, if we are serious about a transition to an electric transportation infrastructure by means of electric cars, trucks, boats and planes, well, there is no way the current installed base of power plants can handle this.

Again, easy math. For example, the US has somewhere around 300 million cars and trucks. The power (not energy, power is very important) an electrified version of this fleet would require far outstrips what we have available today.

Aside from this, you have to look at the historical timeline. 62K power plants were not built in 10 years. If we are optimistic and assume a 50 year timeline, well, quite a few of the people reading this will not be alive by the time 30,000 non-trivial anything is built. And the impact from these 30,000 whatever-they-are will not be seen for a long time, more than likely thousands of years. That's on the very benign assumption that they actually do something. The more likely scenario is that they do nothing or make matters worse.

Everyone was convinced that renewable energy was the answer...until someone actually bothered to do the math and physics work to try to understand. And the conclusion? Paraphrasing:

Even if we deploy the most optimal forms of solar and wind energy (forms so efficient they are yet to be invented) at a global scale, not only will this not stop atmospheric CO2 accumulation, it will continue to rise exponentially.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

Physics can be a real heartless monster.
Blue has an established connotation for marking up text. E.g once upon a time a newspaper editor would scribble notes in original copy before sending to the printers. It stands out against black text but is unobtrusive.
I'm gonna voice a rather unpopular opinion.

The only thing crypto is good for:

- earning money by spinning up GPU fans

- playing the crypto stock market

- money laundering

- buying weapons

- buying drugs

- buying humans

I'm glad that the EU is at least trying to put an end to this:
https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/07/21/eu-will-make-bitcoi...
> The average rent per m^2 is 11.3 euro in Stockholm and 19.5 euro in Helsinki.

With the difference being that 19.5 EUR would give me a square meter in Helsinki tomorrow. 11.3 EUR doesn't give me anything in Stockholm for the next decade. ≈ 30 EUR give me a second hand semi-short term contract in Stockholm.
Maybe people back then want something different because the most common monitor back in the day was a green on black monitor. Having blue is refreshing looks new.
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Isn’t this because London is used as a safe place to park dirty money?

That is, the supply is artificially low because oligarchs, off-shore billionaires, and others buy up the supply?

That is, London’s failure isn’t about free market pricing vs rent control; but about deficiencies in residence and ownership laws?
At my last job, memory ended up being the bigger cost factor.

We were running t3.xlarge (4 CPU, 16 GB) instances with the CPU hardly above idle, but constantly running out of memory.
This isn't a terrible argument, it's the entire reason we have free speech. If you set precedent that silencing stupid opinions is OK (assuming that the opinion is, in fact, stupid) then you have to trust that the people determining which opinions are stupid will continue to A) be correct and B) continue to act in good faith. Historically this is a pretty much guaranteed fail on a long enough timeline.
I think they did support Android apps at that time, but only on the official devices (which is the same situation as now).

I flashed 2.x back then, too, back in the glory days of flashing ubuntu touch and firefox os, etc. I loved the UI of Sailfish. Fatal flaw for me was the inability to group text. As far as I know there is still no group texting. The European users/devs claim this isn’t an issue, because they all use third party messaging apps.

I’m glad they’re still developing Sailfish!
> I'm sure it's both. As in, much of what they did spend likely went to snake oil salesmen. I've met lots of security consultants who did not have backgrounds in math or compsci.

I'm going to bet that they did have qualified engineers, because I like to assume the best in people, but I also assume that those engineers may not have been able to make the changes they want to.

In my experience in big companies, corporate bureaucracy and a complete unwillingness to change processes or systems is usually a bigger hinderance to security than the skill level of consultants/engineers.
Big oil downvoted this.

Jokes aside, I really don't see the reason for downvotes. Oil made our world what it is; but any company who still focuses on its profits while knowing alternatives exist that are better for the planet, and parallelly spending billions in PR, is downright evil.

I'd even say it's much more evil than Facebook's or Google's privacy issues that HN bashes every week.
Most community platforms out there suggest that the main problem for brands is setting up community tools. But really, the struggle is keeping members engaged and coming back.

With Beam.gg, we're committed to enhancing engagement in online communities through gamification, and we absolutely don't charge customers for unengaged users in your community.
I knew this was introduced by NCSA Mosaic. I remember it well.

It was actually a very good browser. Not as many features as Netscape but it was very fast. Netscape added too many fluff features like backgrounds and moving GIFs which were abused way too much (see any "1990s retro web site" for what I mean), so I often opted to using Mosaic even after Netscape became mainstream.

It makes sense too, black doesn't stand out enough from unlinked text. And can be confused with regular non-link underlining. It could have been any colour but it's a good convention. After all we could also have used green for stop and red for go (like in the first episode of "Sliders" :) ), but at least everyone around the world uses the same.
Controversial thought(not my opinion)

Fossil fuels are good for the world, The reason we used them was because we did not have any real alternative at the time.
For the vast majority of history, people were dirt poor. By utilizing fossil fuels we were able to lift billions of people out of poverty.

Think about it, you cant really run an industrialized economy on 100% reneable energy.

Wind and solar are variable energy sources the more we add to the grid the more storage you have use to balance it out.

Hydro(which has its own environmental problems) and geothermal are constrained to certain regions which have favourable geography.

Fossil fuels are literally stored energy that you can stockpile and use when you want to.

We talk about replacing plastic but plastic is one of the greatest materials we ever made(its waterproof, light, flexible, we can shape it into any form and its cheap so it is accessible) just think about all the food we buy at the supermarket most of it is stored in some form plastic to keep it fresh( not talk about things it does not make sense to store in plastic ie fruit that's just silly/wasteful)

Our modern world is built with cement just look around it is everywhere, we use asphalt to build our roads and steel to build means of transport ships, trains, cars etc

We talk about decarbonization but some countries have not even really carbonized to grow their economy to what could be considered a decent standard of living.
I can't see how we can look at 3rd world countries ie India/Africa and other 3rd world countries and tell them they can't grow their economies because we used up all the carbon "budget".
I find Apple Maps totally fine and basically on par with Google maps today. It was indeed trash when it came out but I use it exclusively now and haven’t had any issues in a couple years. My one gripe is the deep Yelp integration.
That happens whether you drive a tesla or not. Probably a lot more if you drive a Tesla. A Tesla Model X weighs 30% more than a BMW X3.
I actually think everyone understands that dealing with climate change means increasing energy costs substantially. Oil companies wasted money on lobbying. Human nature would have given us the same result
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> But individual and collective action don’t have to be pitted against each other. Individual choices do add up (they just don’t, in McKibben’s terms, multiply). That vegan options are available at a lot of fast-food chains is because enough consumers have created a profitable market for them. We do influence others through our visible choices. Ideas spread, values spread, habits spread; we are social animals and both good and bad behaviors are contagious. (For the bad, just look at the contagiousness of specious anti-vaccination arguments.)

Strong agree with this. I see people argue all the time that individual action won't do anything when it's at least a part of getting to a tipping-point where big changes are made.

It's like the public (who want stuff), companies (who want money), governments (who want votes from the public and approval from companies) and countries are locked in a stalemate all pointing fingers at each other over who is responsible and should change first. Everyone has to do their part and stop making excuses.

Eat less animal products, fly less and drive less where practical is the bare minimum everyone should be doing in my opinion instead of trying to cling on to unsustainable lifestyles as long as they're allowed to.
>Cambridge alone added nearly 50,000 new jobs

But not 50,000 new residents. Adding jobs doesn't necessarily mean more people, just more employed people.
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https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/support/html/Docs/resources...

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Amen. The principles behind Six Sigma are solid. They're just a repackaging of Deming's SPC principles after all. However, too often it devolves into a box ticking exercise. That being said, in my experience just educating everyone in your organization on the basic principles (e.g. what Six Sigma would call yellow belt) tends to be quite valuable. Even without a lot of statistics, teaching people to first properly define a problem statement and emphasizing finding root causes before taking action tends to lead to better decision making.
They do have pressure. But here’s my theory:

The big complaint they get about content is that there isn’t anything that is appealing enough to get customers to start watching. Once people start watching a show they usually are pretty happy. But they spend 30 minutes trying to find a show. This is why they implemented the button to pick a show for you.

In short, they want you to start something. They think you’ll like most of the stuff they recommend to you. The worst case is you click nothing and then go to Hulu and browse there.

Note: Every assertion I made is made up by me. Just my theory.
Yes, I think the informed Bitcoin investor is well aware of the value that decentralized peer-to-peer censorship resistant electronic money brings to the table.

I care. Everyone I know cares. The core developers care. The ecosystem cares. I think you are radically underestimating the value of such things.