skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Since no one said that, I don't know what you are talking about.

> The US wastes $150,000,000,000 a year (the most per capita in the world) in pushing paperwork directly because of our “competing” individual insurance provider model

When you have real competition and the final user pays, as opposed to a third party, you'll naturally have a model in which people pay for outcome as opposed to fee for service. If I take my car to be repaired, I just want the mechanic to fix it at the lowest cost possible. I don't care how many services they have to run. It works in every other aspect of our economy, including safety critical sectors. For instance, I may pay for a safer car as opposed to a cheaper less safe car.

I just want a system in which I can make my own decisions regarding my health.

I don't know why people argue that the US has a free market in health care. It does not, as you have plainly stated. There's a lot of intermediaries and parties involved that are highly regulated and influenced by the state. US spends as much in public spending in health care as other countries. I would prefer to remove the complexity, allow actual competition and remove third party payer as much as possible. Your solution sounds like more of the same but better, which doesn't make sense
I thought about the scenario when some old secret key is revealed. Sure, you can decrypt old messages with it if they were transmitted classically. But in a classical channel if you're capturing all the traffic then you can derive the current secret key and decrypt current messages as well. This is not possible in a quantum case.
meh, if you're going to publish something then I'd rather just have people get their papers hosted on arxiv asap and then get feedback from everyone. I have not seen significant value added by journals and the review process, in my field.
>Why does that stuff need to be blocked or deleted? Most people, even very skeptical people, are smart enough to realize that stuff is BS.

Define "most"? 20% of Americans believe the covid vaccine contains a microchip so they can be tracked. There are so many reasons that is even worse than thinking that it could cause you to be sterilized that I think anyone trying to claim "people know better" aren't being honest with themselves.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx54yn/a-shocking-number-of-...
In Pursuit of the Miraculous
Intramuscular vaccinations are the most important first step and will keep hospitalization down. But intramuscular vaccination for respiratory viruses does not provide long lasting immunity to the surface mucosa tissues of the upper respiratory tract. The IgG antibodies in body serum do seep into the lower lungs and provide robust protection from serious disease, but they do not prevent infections very long in the nose, sinuses, or throat. This is the disparity many studies are now highlighting but failing to acknowledge the cause of.

The required next step is intranasal vaccination to recruit B and T cells to the upper respiratory mucosa and have the B cells produce local IgA antibodies. This would actually stop infections (infections defined from nasal swab testing).

It is up to the NIH and other large organizations in the world to get this messaging out there. There are two types of "breakthrough". There's the fact that intramuscular vaccinations don't protect the upper respiratory mucosa, and then there's the very rare cases when sars-cov-2 actually manages to infect body organs and the lower lungs. They are entirely different things.

The variants currently circulating don't play a huge role in this discrepancy. We'd be seeing the same amount of upper respiratory mucosa infections (not hospitalizations) even if there were no delta and it was just alpha/beta/gamma or even original wuhan sequence sars-cov-2.

ref: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti... page 5, #8. "Whilst we feel that current vaccines are excellent for reducing the risk of hospital admission and disease, we propose that research be focused on vaccines that also induce high and durable levels of mucosal immunity in order to reduce infection of and transmission from vaccinated individuals. This could also reduce the possibility of variant selection in vaccinated individuals."

ref: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/397 "the ideal vaccination strategy may use an intramuscular vaccine to elicit a long-lived systemic IgG response and a broad repertoire of central memory B and T cells, followed by an intranasal booster that recruits memory B and T cells to the nasal passages and further guides their differentiation toward mucosal protection, including IgA secretion and tissue-resident memory cells in the respiratory tract."

ref: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-021-00550-x
> I don't think there's a world where apple switches to bing for its default search engine.

For a long time Siri searches were powered by Bing.
Does anyone think what was done to Native Americans was just?
You did all that in a few months? That actually sounds like something that went quite smoothly. The time needed to engineer that kind of high-scale system at the outset is also going to enter the multi-month range, and with less background info to inform it. The phase-shifts of scaling are by no means easy, but they respond well to effortful, issue-by-issue grinding away at the problem.

The worst-case overengineered projects generally have organizational issues that preclude ever making concrete progress or result in a Juicero-style "why did you even make this" product. Those are the projects that burn people out.
That’s pretty much what I said
What about just syncing the playlist and seek position and leaving the actual playback to every client with original youtube player (or even better music.youtube.com) ?
> But I don't think its outlandish at all to imagine Apple rolls its own search engine and uses that as the default here

I think this is even more outlandish than switching to Bing.

Google Search accounted for $100B in revenues. iOS has ca. 14% browser market share. Assuming that mobile users search as much or are as valuable as desktop searchers, then that suggests iOS users generate ca. $14B in revenue. Of course, it's likely iOS users are more valuable than the average Google user, but it gives a rough run of the numbers.

Google is happy to pay all of this revenue back to Apple so that they don't suffer indirectly in other parts of the business by having an Apple competitor or with Bing as default.

Apple on the other hand needs to generate this value from a standing start. It's difficult to see how they'd feasibly get to > $15B net monetization on such a massive and risky undertaking.
Even the necessary level of reforestation at this stage would probably amount to geoengineering - CO2 is only one of the many ways we are wrecking the planet, countless small, unique ecosystems at a time
At that time the brits, the colonists had plenty of time to reform, just that no one were ever interested enough in that poor uninhabitable land to pour enough resource to it, even if history repeats itself, no one would. Hell, we hardly do enough in Africa today.
Ridding the world of centrally planned currency isn’t shits and giggles. We’re in the midst of the largest wealth transfer in history. Trillions are being given to the wealthy while the poor see their purchasing power wither away. I’m not certain we’ll successfully escape their depraved clutches, but wasting a little electricity is worth the chance.
Sure, a carbon tax would do essentially that, and I am supportive of it.

But absent a carbon tax, the idea that I can morally just consume willy-nilly and blame “corporations” is crazy. It's a form of moral laundering. Exxon isn't spewing CO2 for the heck of it, they're doing so as part of a production process that eventually some consumer demands. That consumer should not be let off the hook so easily.
The story of the blink tag is much more interesting
I was going to leave a comment on this, but I will do it later. :-)
Exactly, for now it works on Chrome and Chrome based browsers.

But a web product isn't good quality when it deliberately doesn't work well on Firefox.

(Yep, I refuse to believe that Google "forgot" to test on Firefox and they aren't so incompetent that they can't make it work if they want :-/)
I think you misunderstood the (G)GP comment which mentioned cross-reactivity, i.e. the immune system's antibodies cross-reacted with both the spike protein and an endogenous human protein, like what can happen with Epstein–Barr virus Nuclear Antigen-1.

The immune system doesn't generate antibodies to an entire virus. It generates antibodies to specific immunogenic proteins or parts of proteins.

If the spike protein resulting from a vaccine causes an immune response that generates antibodies to the spike protein and oops, also some endogenous human protein, that's autoimmune disease.

If you get infected by a virus with the same spike protein, your body will generate antibodies to the same spike protein and also cause autoimmune disease if the antibodies are cross-reactive.

If cells expressing exogenous immunogenic proteins triggered autoimmune disease[1], even the existing wild-type (alpha variant) vaccines would cause autoimmune disease. Presumably that's not happening. The immune system may attack those cells expressing the exogenous vaccine-coded spike proteins, but normal immune systems down-regulate it well enough that it doesn't cause major problems. It would be a sign of a broken immune system if it decided to initiate a long-term attack of human cells just because they once expressed an immunogenic protein. If it did that, any virus would cause autoimmune disease.

Please tell me you work in a field related to immunology and you have a subtler point that I'm missing, and that you didn't just create an account to criticize a point you misunderstood yourself.

[1] to an unacceptable degree. Obviously, things can go wrong with the immune system and almost anything could, if you're unlucky enough, trigger an immune reaction leading to autoimmune disease eventually.
I don’t do anything security related — I’m a lowly bare metal programmer — but I’m still mystified as to how user passwords are securely kept on disk? The only thing I could think of was to encrypt a user’s password with their password…
Unpatched vulnerabilities, Network Access Brokers and Ransomware as a Service are all force multipliers too.

"Money is a force multiplier for crime".
Actually it is not just POLICY. This scanning is build very deeeep in to the iCloud upload process. They need huge revamp for the system, and it seems intentional just because of this speculation. So we are in the same discussion whether this is implemented or not.
Canada’s NDP under Thomas Mulclair running against the Liberals.
Whipple's Index
I'm sure that's what in the mind of Hitler/Romans/Crussaders as well.
Take a look at this. Every gun in the video is privately owned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eV8N0bUzA0

In general, it's perfectly legal for US residents to own RPGs, artillery, tanks etc. If operational, they're classified as "destructive devices", so they have to be registered with the feds, and every transfer happens with their approval as well. It's also very expensive, obviously. But still possible.
Or Curry!
So, who of you earns their money that way?
- The Unicorn Project

- The Phoenix Project

- Clean Code

- The Linux Programming Interface

- Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition

- The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition
I feel like on the nutritional side there's been a (not total, but significant) reversal over the last decade. Some of that gets eaten up by marketing (food that isn't any healthier gets packaged in muted shades of green and brown to make it appear more grounded and wholesome), but some of it is real (I no longer know a single person who drinks soda on a regular basis).

Maybe in another decade or two we'll see a similar shift in the digital space.
The traditional American breakfast is great if you need carbs to do manual labor.
I think the article is more of a musing than a mathematical proof…

I mean who has the time to deep dive into 100% historical accuracy of these things.

I thought it was a neat look at a historical context of something mundane like a hyperlink.
They know all they have to do is wait. The Western countries will tire and move on to something else.

I was in physics graduate school in the ‘80s, when there was still activism in support of Tibet. I had a “Free Tibet” poster next to my desk. A graduate student arrived from China. I don’t remember how the conversation started, but I do remember him patiently trying to correct a group of other students, explaining that Tibet was part of China. It was as if someone had claimed that Nebraska was not really part of the US and we needed to support its freedom.

Indoctrination is invisible to the successfully indoctrinated; it becomes reality.
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Tibetans live in many parts of China outside of Tibet, including southern Gansu and Qinghai (historically known as Amdo, see https://collab.its.virginia.edu/wiki/aboutthl/An%20Overview%...). Northern and western Sichuan province also had large populations of Tibetan people living in remote areas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawa_Tibetan_and_Qiang_Autono...), sometimes near temples such as Langmusi on the Sichuan/Gansu border.

One trend that was taking place in western China when I last visited was out-migration of Han settlers from Sichuan and other more populous provinces to Xinjiang and other areas which were then dominated by ethnic minorities. This is taking place in Tibet as well:

Han Chinese workers, investors, merchants, teachers and soldiers are pouring into remote Tibet. After the violence that ravaged this region in 2008, China’s aim is to make Tibet wealthier  and more Chinese.

Chinese leaders see development, along with an enhanced security presence, as the key to pacifying the Buddhist region. The central government invested $3 billion in the Tibet Autonomous Region last year, a 31 percent increase over 2008. Tibet’s gross domestic product is growing at a 12 percent annual rate, faster than the robust Chinese national average.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/asia/25tibet.html
And while I've yet to see anyone with a librem 5 other than journalists and youtubers my pinephone arrived last year when they said it would. It ain't perfect but its a real product.
Similarly Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) and Herman Li (Dragonforce) ran into trouble performing their own music on Twitch during the pandemic. While in Li's case, it's possible that he didn't consult other rightsholders, Mike Shinoda mentioned that rights for Linkin Park music are held by a small number of people (possibly just the band?) and he offered Twitch that he could provide explicit consent from those people if they could exempt his channel from DMCA enforcement of LP music - twitch replied they simply didn't have a system in place that could handle that.
Not sure but I suspect it would be the "gang of four", i.e., the authors of the canonical OO design pattern book.
> I could also talk about the many ethnic groups in Napal and Himalayan regions, from which the Tibetan Buddhists assimilated many of the shamanic traditions of the region. From those Himalayan shamans perspective, the "lamaists" ganked their traditions and practiced them for the betterment of themselves rather than the betterment of the community.

Even if this is true, it doesn't make what CCP is doing there right. Change can happen from within without a need of a foreign invading force forcing their own philosophy on these people.
> someone else's background or breathing noise

NVIDIA Broadcast (Previously called RTX Voice) is a godsend for those scenarios.

If you haven't seen it, it's worth checking out. It is absolutely magical. https://youtu.be/uWUHkCgslNE

Sadly, AFAIK, it does require an NVIDIA GPU, but it doesn't need an RTX card. I used it on my GTX 1070 and it worked wonderfully.

What's really amazing about it is that you can use it to filter incoming voice audio, so if you have someone in your channel that has tons of background noise or breathing, you can filter it out on your own side.
"accessible" doesn't necessarily needs to mean "free".
In 1491, that number was probably a little different.

Give things 500+ years and Tibetans may be down to 1.7% too.
That really depends on which vaccine. There are several inactivated virus vaccines such as Sinovac used in other countries which we would expect to produce antibodies for more than just the spike protein. However it's unclear whether those vaccines are more or less effective in practice.
Why isn't there more of a push for emergency use of intranasal vaccines? Apparently there are some in the testing phase, but I think if they were given as much resources as the mRNA vaccines were we might have already had an intranasal vaccine in use by now. The Israelis have one in testing but it still sounds like it's a long ways off from being deployed on a large scale. The other advantage of an intransal vaccine is that we might be able to convince a portion of the vaccine hesitant to get it.
I dearly hope so. It's the only thing I don't like about Apple Maps.
How many Americans who condemn the CCP would be in favor of other nations punishing the US for all their atrocities?
I am hoping that someone comes up with a semi-reusable proof-of-work system , like chess board positions, Mersenne primes, or protein folding. Kind of like Re-captcha.
PureOS is officially endorsed by the FSF [0], and it's the most popular one among the endorsed [1].

[0] https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-adds-pureos-to-list-of-endorsed...

[1] https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
It's still a thing, or at least it was a few years ago. I worked with several recent MIS graduates at a consulting firm in the mid-late 2010s. But I'd never even heard of the degree before that point, I majored in math, minored in CS, and did dissertation work in a business school (admittedly, economics, so not particularly business-y).
At least that would slow it down and/or force assholes to pay more.
Interesting that the post's coming from a tangerine lover.
I've completely quit reddit after 15 years and my life is better for it.
> If I get a task to "make the button blue" I'd rather do it in a repo where I need to grep around a little

Except it's not one button, it's 12 of them and they all use different UI elements with different names and syntax, and you can't change one of them because doing so would break some unrelated business critical class.
Overstated in comparison to darker times? Very much. I started web development in 1996, so I know what you mean.

But it doesn't lessen my annoyance. How can you deliver a 90% implementation, and then let it rot for a decade? Effectively delivering 0%, because it's unusable. It just doesn't make sense to me.
Well Apple isn't exactly known for giving things away for free, so putting Yelp as the top-tier result in Apple Maps is a pretty good indicator that a deal was made.
> A handful of greedy CEOs didn't force billions of people to collectively emit 1.5 trillion tons of CO2.

Oh by golly they certainly did! They tore up public transportation, forcing people to buy cars:

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

The suburbs could have had public transportation, but there was an active propaganda against that. Only poor people use buses, manipulating people into buying big, gas-guzzling cars by creating a demand for it.

And then there is 50 years of a few CEOs suppressing evidence that this was wrecking the environment.

So yes, a few evil CEOs really did work to manipulate people into ignoring their actions' consequences. I would say, given the strength of marketing and propaganda, they were indeed forced.
> They were most certainly not dual booting Linux in 1993.

This just isn't true.
Wing nearing 100k total drone deliveries
And then they got invaded by a government that managed to run things even more poorly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

Even if it was a better government invading, the potential benefit would be fairly limited. They probably would have moved away from that social structure without interference. Much of the world used to be crappy feudal societies with powerful religions.
So is Phoenix, for example.
Storage tube monitors did use long persistence phosphors. They were a way to simplify the refresh and memory requirements on early hardware.
Why should newcomers to a city be forced to endure long commutes just because they happened to be born in a different part of the country? We have the capability to let everyone who wants to live in those areas do so. I see no reason that the privileged minority that already lives there should get to dictate that for everyone else in the region

Not to mention, designing metro areas to require long commutes basically amounts to climate arson
Because the relevant legislation was crafted by those who fundamentally do not understand how the web (or computers) work. The relevant parts of the GDPR should always have described a protocol where the browser acts as an agent on behalf of the user to declare privacy intent.
In part due to immunity duration concerns and, honestly, in part due to supply issues - Canada ended up going way wide on vaccines - most people ended up with twelve weeks between vaccinations.
Constantly flagging content that should not be flagged (per HN's FAQ) is a sure way to have that privilege removed in the future.
Right, but what about us 43 year olds in the middle? There's a couple 10s of millions of us. I'm trying to move into the tech field, have a decade of migrating paper documents for law firms into databases & doing other simple ETL, but that is disappearing. I saw it coming years ago and am almost done with my masters in data analytics, but all of those jobs pay $10-20k less than what I was making before. There is no where for me to transition into because I don't have 5 years of DBA experience and am not willing to work for $40k just spewing out simple code for 3 years, not that anyone would hire me for it anyway.

I'm a member of Mensa, skipped 3 grades of math when I was younger, am almost done with my 4th degree, and nobody wants me because I'm not in either of those two groups. 2-3k resumes, 4 interviews made it past the initial phase for Analyst/PM positions. It's a problem, trust me.
Everyone "sucks at supply chain" today, even Apple [0] and Toyota [1].

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/28/apple-warns-of-ip...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794

By the way, many customers reported that they received their laptops on forums.
> Mandating X essentially forces expensive products down the throat of people but since inequality is high they can't afford them.

This is true for anything. For example on classic argument is about consumer safety. If the state puts up barriers to trade (eg. I can't sell my cheap lead painted toys and maybe fake generic medicine and maybe rancid meat), then things will be much more expensive.

Of course the slippery slope is many times just the continuum fallacy in disguise.

In these cases the real problem is manifold, on one part it's a serious lack of social solidarity and social safety net, and the other component is whatever the actual other part is (eg. unsafe toys that babies can swallow, health concerns about food, drugs, etc.).

Real solutions have to address both. Eg. carbon taxes with direct social dividend. (Or other variations, where the raised money goes to directly address those same issues that arise due to climate change.)
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