skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The banks in your country sound much more reasonable and fair.

I'm in Australia and our 4 banks are way too powerful, and some of the worlds most profitable on a percentage basis, with nearly the highest paid executives globally.

In the decade since I deleted that site in despair, there have been several royal commissions /
public inquiries into the shocking unfair and outright illegal actions all the 4 banks systematically entrenched, including forging customer signatures, ripping off customers at every opportunity, including siphoning customers money when the bank knew they had died, facilitating money laundering of cash earned from drugs on vast scales, influencing our captured politicians to roll back recently-legislated consumer protection laws the previous govt enacted, to absolve them from any culpability whatsoever by writing larger "liar loans" they knew people would struggle to live with, and these are which still going strongly (approx 1 in 3 recently admitting to this in a follow-up survey).

The AUD$35 per chargeback was an easy profit centre for them a decade ago, and no way would they ever take my side when it was free money for them.

I had a USD bank with them for the ecommerce dropship account. Our average order was around USD$51 with a little over 10% gross profit.

I was the only one losing out. The bank, my dropship supplier, and the card fraudsters all got paid and received their goods.
> Using git itself is a little problematic because it is very line-oriented and most project file formats for DAWs are not.

Ardour and Reaper use plaintext project formats that work well with Git, at least for basic versioning.

> Regarding plugins, I know that I'm not the only lead developer of a DAW who, if they possibly could, would refuse to support plugins entirely. The problem is that most users want more functionality than a DAW itself could feasibly provide (they also sometimes like to use the same functionality (plugin) in different DAWs or different workflows).

I think the answer to this would be something like Reaper's "JS" plugins, which are written in a small compiled language and distributed as source code. Compared to "JS", it would need to: 1) be open source; 2) be a better language; and 3) support pretty skeuomorphic graphics ('cause people seem to really want that in their plugins). Ardour seems to be working on something like this using Lua (don't know about the graphics, or if the plugins could be supported in other DAWs).
People do seem to detest the concept of random number generators in games. They feel like the "luck" is completely out of their control.

Yet if you give a player a set of dice to give them perceived control over the random number generator, they are much more happy.

Dungeons and Dragons and other dice-based RPGs are a great example. If they roll a 20, they are overjoyed with the results and feel incredibly lucky. If they roll a 1 they are sad or mad, but chalk it up to bad luck.

But if it's a random number generator that they have no control over, they feel it's "random" and there is no luck. And they blame the random number generator for bad results. Even if it's just the same as using dice, without the physical interaction.

I've always thought that even if you just let the player click a button to activate the random number generator, you give them a sense of control. Perhaps you let them hold the button down for a while just like how players rattle the dice for longer hoping for "luck" in the results.
Thx, that’s promising.
I find it interesting that the fda has to play games: technically the vaccine is still under emergency use authorization & not approved (last paragraph)

https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download
Bespoke has some definite SunVox UI vibes going on.
I think you're thinking of a Market Economy.

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

Capitalism is about the private ownership of the means of production and profits.

But yeah, competition for labor (and other things) via differences in wages are attributes of a market economy.

Capitalism can be a healthy part of this, but sometimes it isn't.

Crony capitalism for instance can provide companies the opportunity to collude so they can artificially suppress wages, which distorts the market economy for labor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
> if authorities hadn't lied about, say, masks or this stuff

When did authorities lie? The position on masks changed over time as data was acquired. Unless you mean when the FDA/CDC was worried about a run on masks, which they were right about.

But I think ascribing a malicious intent to that learning process is disingenuous.

The only people that have made literally malicious claims have been people on the far-right, which unfortunately are some authorities so I guess you're right about Trump and his bootlicks who intentionally lied for personal gain. And continue to do so.
The sad part of this narrative, including cursory information both from this article and what mainstream outlets report, is the notion that only a certain racial subset of the country is "unvaccinated". I'm vaccinated and I find it troubling that so many, especially those in my minority demographic, still cite invalid information as a reason to not become vaccinated.

Even as a member of a minority group, the notion that we'd deny healthcare to any group of people especially when there's a connotation of race (yes, even if the narrative is meant to be against uneducated poor white people) is fundamentally wrong.

The feigned empathy for the unvaccinated is down right appalling in this country. One day, we're cheering that white trump supporters are dying en-masse from covid. And now, the calls to continue draconian measures until an overwhelming percentage of people are vaccinated is basically criminal.

This is obviously going to be downvoted, but it's time to really think about what choices we make now could lead to in a not so distant future. If Australia is what 5 years into the future holds, I'm not too interested in remaining in this country.
Do you know how the rate compares to 2019?
People have already largely made up their minds, and nothing is going to change them. This is fully a political-religious divide now, and you can't reason people out of a decision they didn't reason themselves into. The ones who pretend they are on the fence and their minds can be changed by some goal being hit or some facts changing, always seem to move the goal posts instead of actually changing their minds.

In areas where the vaccines are free and widely/immediately available, for someone who has not gotten it already, I can't think of anything that would convince them to get it other than tightened restrictions (employers requiring, etc.) and enforcement. I'd love to hear otherwise from someone who is legitimately on the fence, because I don't think those people really exist.
Yes but the FCC is going the wrong direction with that. Firstly it treats constellations differently than individual satellites which makes no sense from a statistical and mathematical perspective and it would also completely kill off the smallest of satellites that students learn with that are primarily launched by universities.
Changing my answer to therapy
When it comes to comparing the amounts of US gov spending to US household spending (not that I could propose a better mechanism, meaning I understand the value of framing things in such a way, and fully admit I can't think of a more salient way to do it) I'm just not a fan of comparing state level spending to household or personal finance.

It leads to other examples being used that just are not true. Like: "It is similar to a person using his or her credit card for a purchase (rather than cash, check, or a debit card) and not paying the full credit card balance each month".

I cannot sell access to my debt to pay for past debts, which is how the government has paid it's debts since 1837 (probably so long ago because that the last time we sought to destroy debt and not pay for things by monetizing debt, it caused the longest depression in American history due to Jackson's monetary policy in 1835). Nor can I create credit out of thin air, by buying treasuries my member banks. Also, I most definitely do not owe 50% of my non-intergovernmental debt to my own central bank and state and local governments and their pensions. Much less, all the while operating with a currency I control.

So yeah, I don't love it, but I get it.
It's been ages since I've used a "real" functional language but wouldn't it be nice to parameterise externalities like time, and have events occur "spontaneously" that force application state to update? Kind of like interrupts. Or now that I think about it... it sounds a bit like React where DOM events etc force application state to update (in a pure fashion)

Has this been done before?

So your LED function in pseudocode looks like

ToggleLeds(leds, t):
for each LED
LED.power = (LED.start + 1s) > t ? ON : OFF

And this is invoked from main() as follows

main():
ToggleLeds(this.LEDs, Events.Time)

Where Events.Time is some kind of event stream which allows the runtime to reevaluate main() and any other dependent functions each time it's updated

edit: And to sidestep the obvious performance issue with the function being reevaluated every few microseconds :D you would implement something like this

main():
ToggleLeds(this.LEDs, Events.Time(ms=1000))
I miss the vote -1 in HN for this kind of news, such as Reddit or other have it.
For one, taxes are levied by governments not the free market. China has lifted 800 million out of poverty and wasn't because they all of a sudden decided to collectively pull their bootstraps. The free market is what doesn't alleviate poverty, quite the opposite.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview
Why would a reinfection be worse? How would the spike proteins in the pfizer, moderna, and J&J shots work at all if that was the case?
I've had long conversations about the curriculum with a few dozen grads I've worked with or hired over the years because they're obviously a special bunch.
Never seen this warning from Windows before. Happened when I tried to download this .msi

Windows protected your PC
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.

App:
Bespoke-Windows.msi
Publisher:
Unknown publisher
Please don't argue in the flamewar style on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. It is exactly what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Antitrust Economics of Cryptocurrency Mining
What do you (or anyone else) think about the statistical conclusions in this paper? Particularly the adjusted r-squared values reported.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
Can anyone more informed than I attest to the credibility of the institute behind this paper?
Safety - yes, do we really need efficacy trials for such a change? Is it remotely likely to be worse?
That sounds unpleasantly pedantic.
Anyone can claim to be an expert. Once one comes forward we can evaluate to see if their claims hold up.

In this case experts have pointed out that the analysis is wrong because it doesn't compare mycardius in the control group even through we know covid also causes that. Nor do they consider harm, despite vaccine caused mycardious being mild.
If software developers were ever held responsible for defects in their software that lead to breaches of privacy and harm caused through those breaches, I wonder how quickly software development practices would change. Memory unsafe languages like C would probably disappear as a choice for new projects in a heartbeat due to the liability.
Massachusetts Attorney General announces investigation into T-Mobile data breach
Researchers at CERN Might Have Created a New Form of Matter
So, a few issues with this argument.

No one is arguing that fertilized embryos are not life, in the same sense that my cuticle clippings, hair clippings or ejaculate are life. The argument whether they are human _lives_.

Second, even if one was to believe, intellectually, that a fertilized embryo was a human life; I would STILL expect that person to choose to save the actual, breathing, thinking entity. The one that is capable of surviving independently for more that 8 seconds when not biologically linked to another organism. This is something that every human being understands on a deep, instinctual level. The type of person who would make the alternate choice is a sociopath trying to prove a point.

Finally, it would be a mistake presuppose that I fail to understand the opinion of the antiabortionist. I grew up in bible country. I was raised on this shit. I was indoctrinated into these beliefs, and it wasn't until I started examining them under a critical lens that I cast them aside.
You can do this with scripts or native extensions in REAPER

https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascript.php
https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/plugin/plugin.php
If almost no one ever comes to your restaurant, I imagine it’s pretty hard to hire/pay to hire a good manager who would prevent something like that from happening.
But do those include graphical capabilities, USB connectivity, jack for alim, etc. all-in-one and for a few bucks?
I am aware medical devices should provide guarantees, but a smaller guarantee is still better than none at all, innit? For context, in many countries people are simply left to die in the most atrocious ways if they cannot afford care. You should see how african people react when they're admitted to the hospital, even in developed countries.
> Stop mocking people when they die

Yeah. That's not going to happen. The sentiment has turned against the unvaccinated dying from a preventable disease in a very big way.
> We don't know they are safe for children under 12. Pediatrics is a profession precisely because "children are not just small adults". Something that is safe for adults isn't automatically safe for children.

True, and the obvious example is that kids don't die of covid, or so little that it is hard to make statistics. For just that reason, vaccines have to be incredibly safe (basically zero risk) for the risk/benefit to be acceptable.

If it wasn't for the risk of transmission to adults there would be no reason for vaccinating kids.
Well I think it does, because saying 'people making decision X costs us Y' creates a division.

Not to say that education, rehabilitation, etc. as appropriate doesn't have its place alongside treatment. And I'm by no means holding up US healthcare (or expenditure on it) as a model system.

(I'm commenting from the UK - in broadest possible terms, our political left thinks our NHS is great and the model system - just needs more spent on it; the right thinks the NHS is great and Singapore has the model system.)
ISP can see what DNS requests you make.
That was coincidentally about the point I lost interest the series as it totally jumped the shark from “flawed but I can suspend disbelief” to “oh great, another series that’s going to build ever more tenuous conspiracy theories”.
I'm relatively new to NixOS but this is my sense of things too - it might have been better to use a subset of Haskell for the Nix package manager, instead of a new untyped language, for the reasons you give.

One simple thing I like about Haskell is its readability. Instead of cramming both type signature and function definition into the same line, Haskell splits those two into separate lines. Having the type signature in its own line, as the first line of every function, is so much more readable.

It's also interesting that you can outline/pseudo-code an entire program structure using only type signatures and no function definitions, check if the type signatures are all correct, and then fill in the function definitions later.

That said, I'm still new to Nix, and there are probably good reasons it was done this way, buried in past discussions, the creator's PhD thesis, etc. that I haven't read yet. And I hear that types are being looked into for future upgrades to Nix.
Why wouldn't you just have the vulnerable adults get vaccinated? At what point will done of these people just start vaccinating in the womb or just treat it like circumcision? Circumcision is not needed but might as well just poke babies with needles immediately after their born to make sure we traumatize them as much as possible.
> would be pretty interested in cleaning up space junk if two of their LEO satellites collide.

SpaceX satellites are passively de-conflicted. Which means that the orbits are planned such that the satellites never can be at the same place at the same point in time. But yes SpaceX does care a lot about debris in their orbital shell.
> paying insurance

Should vaccine refusal then result in increased premiums, or increased coinsurance for covid-related care? How many people would make the choice if they had to bear even part of the expected value of their increased medical costs themselves?
How to log in Python like a PRO
It is not even remotely close to being over in the US. After visiting SF for a week this month, I don't even know how someone in that bubble could think that, since it's clearly not over there either. It's much different and less problematic in SF than many other parts of the country, but absolutely not over there or anywhere else.
The difference is scope. On a personal level, yes, individuals should stop using Instagram if it's harming them. When we're discussing systems thinking and trying to understand trends that affect entire states, entire nations, or the whole world, we look at the impact of systemic interventions.

Unless telling people to take responsibility for themselves is an effective systemic intervention (it might be!) then it's not very useful, except as a PR strategy to deflect blame from Facebook.
Wikipedia says "Even restricting the discussion to physics, scientists do not have a unique definition of what matter is." (in the sense of contrasting with antimatter), and then later says "In a wider sense, one can use the word matter simply to refer to fermions.". (Presumably this means, fermions and things comprised of fermions. One would not say that Helium-4 is not matter just because it is a boson (and is comprised of an even number of fermions).)

Electrons are fermions.

I am therefore comfortable saying that electrons are matter.

I don't know why you say that electrons are "not particles" in QFT. Sure, there's an electron field, and electrons are just, like, excitations in that field. There's also a quark field. What of it?
If you are saying "because everything is fields, there are therefore no particles, and therefore no matter", you are using the word "matter" in a silly way.

Also, isn't a "particle" just a representation of a compact Lie group? What's the problem?

(edit : though, I admit that I'd be a little hesitant about calling a massless fermion "matter". But, seeing as there are no known massless fermions, meh.)
Oh I see yes.

But I still read it as similar as going to a bank and saying can you supply me a list of people with over a million dollars and the bank says "we used our aggregated knowledge of our customers to create a statistical model of which of our customers has over a million. Plug your parameters in here and see what pops out"

It's a struggle to think this was ever anything but a nod and a wink.
In this example you could query for "poop" and then look at the resulting plot for a sustained period of time with high poop probability? :)
Here's the getting started guide to buying a house and living like a commoner in someplace that isn't SF:

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https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/41290-Rock-Creek-Dr-Mitch...

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What is hard for me to take seriously is that everyone just wants a pill or a shot to solve their problems. If you are obese, COVID is one of many things that could/will kill you. Every human has to eat but they have a choice to eat healthy or unhealthy foods. Just eat healthy and your obesity will go away.
That report doesn’t appear to talk about case rates of myocarditis due to COVID at all. It compares COVID hospitalization rates to vaccine-related myocarditis case rates. Is it your assumption that all myocarditis cases are as serious as a COVID hospitalization?
It can be tracked. It’s a permanent distributed record of all transactions
Topion Network
A networking hub to connect with other entrepreneurs and find business opportunities. Good opportunities for other hacker news members to connect.
If you don't know anything, don't open your mouth to make it clear to everyone.
I'm surprised the app state isn't backed up so that rolling back restores it?
What is 'VMT'?
And that whole side of your family is dead, right?
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Over 100 million Americans have superior antibodies from past covid. Why would you WILLINGLY describe those like that who refuse the vaccination as unhealthy, unclean, and even dangerous? Unless you're naive and don't know history? Or perhaps you simply keep ignoring the links being provided because you've been tricked by the narrative and it feels good to be tribal/partisan about it as if it's a matter of politics? It won't be long now until everyone has antibodies one way or another, yet people falling for the "vax vs unvax" narrative are going to create a problem much worse than covid if they insist on drawing battle lines and inching closer and closer to full-on dehumanization of tens of millions.

Source for how many people had covid:

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

Anew study published in the journal Nature estimates that 103 million Americans, or 31 percent of the U.S. population, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by the end of 2020

The number you mentioned is the number verified, but based on the modeling of infection rates and spread they've come up with the bigger number. It will keep getting bigger.

In any case, "flashing a card" to go into a bar is the precipice of the slippery slope. And yes, it's slippery. It doesn't take much effort to see the writing on the wall and observe the tyranny emerging in other places. If you're not simply ignorant to history and being tricked by the narrative, at least be honest about what you actually want - which is to control others. Don't try to pass it off as being concerned about health though, I wasn't born yesterday.
> apparently not reliable in the US

Which T-cell test(s) are you referencing? What are the rates of false negatives or false positives?
Well to elaborate on that… kids under 16 go to the schools their parents decide on, live in the neighborhoods their parents decide on, and associated with the kids of their parents friends when they were younger.

Those are their peers.

They aren’t their friends. Kids make their own friends, but it’s unusual for them to be able to make lifestyle choices like where they live before adulthood.

To note, your peers aren’t people on Instagram per se. I’d guess a study on the issue would say that a peer group they associate with on daily basis like in school would have more of an effect on their choices than Instagram influencers.
Linked it to a mate...he had a wee geez :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFcGtq_dM8k
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