skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the ethos of how long we've been on the net isn't quite as important as our rationale.

I feel that the sine qua non of "social media" is user generated content conducted between specific users:

tied to specific accounts, where users have one-to-one public conversations and those conversations are foregrounded as the site's content.

I don't agree that knowing who has up/down voted a comment is as fundamental as the fact that the sites' content -is- the comment.

And while the system doesn't foreground user accounts, I have often found it helpful to look at a user's contributions to better understand their commentary.

Finally, the fact that it's entirely possible to implement a "friends" list or a "feed" based on search results (and that this would apply to the foregrounded content of the site) seems to me to indicate that there's not just a social aspect to the content here, but that this is, in fact a social media site.

I mean, I could search user reviews on IMBD, amazon, or the wiki, but I've never found that to be in line with how I use those sites... here the conversations are the entire reason I use the site. That user generated content is the whole thing for me.
I've used the chat export feature of Telegram before deleting my WhatsApp account. It works well and convinced me to use Telegram over Signal in cases where I had contacts on both platforms.

(Personally, I'm also bitter that Signal Android supports backup while Signal iOS doesn't...and transferring from one iOS device to another isn't considered backup).
I gradually dropped out a few years ago. I worked my way up in tech, wearing many different hats, for about 20 years, to a three-page resume and being able to find a six-figure job at the drop of a hat.

But the trade-off was not getting enough sleep, and feeling like my life's energy was being directed to making the world worse, not better. My work amounted to improving the efficiency of profit-making of the business, and getting a small piece of it to keep. I worked in finance supporting applications to facilitate MBS. I worked in advertising agencies to facilitate the sales of harmful products like petroleum and sugar water. All in all, my conscience was not clean.

Then there was the stress of arbitrary deadlines. And the constant disappointment of shipping something written haphazardly and then retired after a couple of years, replaced by another pile of crap.

It was a great learning experience. I think of it as university, where you also do a whole bunch of useless and pointless busywork in order to learn the skills. But eventually, it was time to go and move on.

I live primarily fregan lifestyle now, meaning I avoid using money as much as possible, for both ethical and practical reasons. I am generally able to sleep as much as I want, meditate as much as I want, and refactor my code as much as I want. I am almost never in a rush, and I feel much calmer and happier.
Curiously, a similar organisation would bug same.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210730214414/https://spectrum....

https://archive.is/T16Fj

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Those mouths probably didn't work for free
The FBI sure, but who knows what kind of budget the team was given.

But they did leverage their position as law enforcement to arrest all of their competitors
> can't be as prescriptive as you're asking for.

What do you think I am asking for?
Creator of Phoenix here. I'm happy to answer any questions folks have about LiveView, Phoenix, or Elixir in general. We've had some big LiveView features land recently with uploads and HEEx so now's a great time to jump in!
I wonder how MLRs interact with subsidies, backroom deals and manufacturer rebates - if an payer can inflate their MLR by double paying for a medication - but then they get a rebate back for half the cost they paid will MLR tracking catch that?

Payers often get incentivized to promote certain drugs via manufacturer kickbacks and I wonder if this system is also used to run around MLR requirements.
A few things. It's a big assumption to guess they have no skin in the game. They could and likely do have a net position one way or another in the oil market. There are a few ways that could work. They could both believe this is true, and also have a position in that direction. So publicizing this view might help their position realize gains sooner than expected. This is somewhat of an opposite to how short sellers work, where they will take a position then publish an expose.

But suppose they have no skin in the game. Is that necessarily better? It implies they don't know enough about the market to actually take a position, which calls into question the value of their research.

Of course both of these are huge simplifications. They ignore that GS is a huge organization, not a single person. As schizophrenic we people can be, corporations are that much more so. The left hand literally might not know what the right is doing. Who published this paper may not have authority to trade, or the ears of those who do. Or many other possible explanations.

Anyway, the general point is that disinterest and neutrality do not universally make opinions more reliable.
How many hours do you want to work in a week/month ? For my company, I may have a part time role to work with customers and project implementations. Send me an email and we can chat.
The physics anomaly no one talks about
> I created Phoenix to build real-time applications. Before it could even render HTML, Phoenix supported real-time messaging. To do that, Phoenix provides an abstraction called Channels.

I think it's really neat that Chris started out with real-time messaging. When I first started working with web frameworks, it definitely felt like real-time stuff was an afterthought—a layer built atop an older model that leaked a lot of the details.

Working with LV has been an absolute delight. Need to render a PDF and download? Fire off a `Task.async` to render in a separate thread on the backend. When it's done, that thread can just `send` a message to the LV process to update the UI that the PDF is ready. So easy and painless. LV really hits a sweet spot for me: I'm primarily a backend dev, but with LV I can build really nice stuff on the front-end with minimal effort/headache from NPM.
"damage"? Be serious. Brave even at 40M users has not done enough to the Web to merit such fake-drama langauge from you. What's your issue?
> truly put up with anything to make their lives more convenient

This is a contradiction in terms.
No problem here; I'm happy you went straight to the source. You can also find this code at code.brave.com in the future (to save you some clicks). Note that the source to which you linked does not demonstrate Brave "injecting" or "modifying" any referral links. What is shown instead is our affiliate-code offering, which is presented in the UI of the browser itself when the participating user searches particular terms via the ominibox. We wrote about this here, including screenshots of how it appears in-app: https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/
Why is it that insurers in the US are seemingly the only industry where the person paying the bill can a) negotiate it after services are received; and, b) just decide not to pay it if they don't want to?

Hospitals should set a price for a procedure. There will be some variability of course as people need more or less anesthesia, identical surgeries can take longer to perform (=== more OR/surgeon time === more money), etc. But a $22-102k like in the article is absurd. Insurance companies should be required to pay whatever the hospital price is provided it can be justified. There should be specific courts to handle these disputes until the industry realizes it isn't special. Regardless, the onus shouldn't fall on the patient. Outcomes should be limited to: 1) Insurance company pays without complaint; 2) Insurance company doesn't pay, is sued by hospital, and is ordered to pay by the court; 3) Insurance company doesn't pay, is sued by the hospital, prevails in court, and hospital adjusts accordingly, eating 100% of that loss.

But, we'll likely just stay where we are now where people pay $100 for Tylenol PM and insurance companies get out of paying claims because one person out of 12 in the OR were out of network and they're all contractors.
Quite simple actually: Needed more money, wasn't approached by my company for a customary salary increase negociation in a timely manner, looked for another job.

I like the people, but timing is everything in life, unfortunately.
What market focus? Prices were completely opaque until just a few months ago. Any economist on the planet will tell you that would lead to awful outcomes for everyone except the powerful healthcare lobby.
On The Media did a really good segment with a journalist from Mother Jones of all places. She broke down the rise of Ivermectin and the whiplash response to demonize it even when, as you say, it is safe for human consumption and had at least some positive in vitro test results. As much as it is not worthy of being recommended as a treatment, it's unlikely to be harmful and has/had at least a slim chance of working.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-iverme...
There is no silver bullet. Your absolutist perspective undermines your argument.
I read it as "huge butt drain" since you talked a about butts in chairs. :)
Yes. It could be. The bottleneck is selling it. Healthcare has lots of problems that can be solved with software. The bottleneck is always making a business case and selling to hospitals which is a nightmare.

So long as a shitty excel sheet with inaccurate data fulfills the regulatory requirement, you will find a lot of trouble getting people to pay money for it.
TinyPilot founder here.

Happy to answer any questions about TinyPilot or KVM over IPs.
No change, and less electricity wasted!
Robotics Age at Internet Archive
There is a not so subtle implication of your comments being voted down that those claiming HN is not an instance of social media would be well-advised to reflect on.
The best solutions are to go low tech. Enforcement models and staffing is reliant on electronic technology. Many enforcement organizations are poorly equipted to handle well implemented physical systems.
Thanks David.

I've shared your feedback with my team so this does not happen again and is a rare case which I take full responsibility for. Sorry for the troubles.

I'm really sorry for the experience you had with MicroAcquire and thank you for sharing your candid feedback so we can improve moving forward.

If you'd like to speak with me directly I just emailed you my cell number. Wishing you all the best.

Cheers.
Why does the distributor know the identity of the patient?
If I'm dying, I want the best care I can get. I'm not about to argue with someone trying to save my life to make a political point to an ER doctor who didn't have anything to do with it in the first place. And I'm certainly not about to risk my own health outcomes by withholding the insurance that I paid for to help me in that exact scenario.
It's possible the monkeys might even write an AI that produces physical monkeys who then in turn produce AI!
In my case, the act of writing the code is still a moment in which I'm thinking and analyizing my code, and I might notice if there's some error in my train of thought.

Obviously that is how _I_ type code, and not something that can generalize to how others work. So it's my preference to still think about my code before, and while, I write it.
"I realized was that hospitals are largely subsidizing the cost of the uninsured by over-billing the insured folk's insurance companies."

1. You have to back up claims like this.

2. I imagine for-profit Insurance companies would love to blame their prices on the uninsured.

3. Many poor people actually have insurance in the USA. Even if they don't apply for it, insurance can be applied for after the fact.

4. The wealthy, and the poor are usually covered by insurance. It's the middle class that needs attention. They have insurance, but it's not great.

I still don't belive our healthcare costs are due to the uninsured. Oh yea, every hospital has a fierce Billing and Collections department.

They are allowed to go after your assets if you can't pay your bill, and they do. Obamacare gave patients some rights, but hospitals blatantly abuse the regulations.

The right to collect in municipal court was never taken away from hospitals.

In my local newspaper, it's not uncommon for a hospital to sue a patient over a bill, and put a Judgment lien on the patients assets.

They claim they only do this as a last resort, but bankruptcy due to medical bills are still the number 1 reason people end up in federal court (Bankruptcy).

Your protections under a bankruptcy are not great either.

There are many hospitals that forced a former patient to sell their home (homestead exemption needs to be higher. In TX, they can't touch your primary residence.). under a bankruptcy.

In CA, for example, the primary home gets a $250,000 protection. (Look up that last figure. I know it's very low in CA, and needs to be raised to at least a million. You have a $600,000 home. You are only protected by $250,000 of it's worth.

So in America, if you do get sick, and can't pay all your medical bills, you have no protections. These for-profit medical companies will come after you with more zest than an unpaid credit card. I think CC companies are less aggressive.
Recently we've had a number of fecal transplant articles submitted here on HN, lately with a focus on the benefits of transplanting feces of the young into the old[0][1].

The cynic in me would say the secret to the benefits is the microplastics.

You heard it here first, folks! When petrochemical companies pay influencers to talk up the benefits nootropic/probiotic/performance-enhancing microplastics, you'll know to think twice.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24743630

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680601
Which part and why?
First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative
Hey Chris! First, a huge thank you for making this. I started playing around with LV v0.2 or something. It's definitely come a long way since then!

I've read the blog post about getting 2 million concurrent connections on a single server with minimal tuning. That's pretty mind blowing. How does that compare will real-world scalability with LV? Like, can I actually have 2 million people looking at a LV simultaneously? I think the worry I hear most is whether or not LV scales. I've personally never run into any problems at all, but the projects I've built with LV haven't been the highest-traffic apps.
+1. File History is the Time Machine equivalent for Windows. It works great.

It should be used in concert with an offsite backup service like Backblaze.
This is pretty clearly a low-effort filter for advertisements deemed political.

> 204 "人民报", “People’s daily newspaper”

People's Daily is an official Communist Party newspaper... Why on earth would they blocklist that if this is a politically-motivated censorship program (as the paper/many here are implying)?
Nowhere for me to run.
There is no line for online communities. They are all social to some extent. Karma simply makes them more so.

We are no longer strangers. Social-ness has been engaged ;)
Nevertheless you can distribute your pad once and communicate over clear channels for a long time.

You might even schedule regular communications to avoid being caught by traffic metadata analysis.
Since Codex sends your own surrounding code as context, I'm assuming, though have no way to check, that it picked up on the patterns from the other ASTNode classes. I somehow doubt someone wrote the precise same @logCall decorator and attached it to their toEstree methods on their own ASTNodes. This is one of the things I find valuable, you can give it lots of help just by deciding where you do the generation from, what code is in the context window.
Also, if we're gonna start saying that simple conceptual things like AST processing are licensed, this is a scary world where very little new code will get written.
Occurrence of Microplastics in Infant and Adult Feces
There is much more elasticity than you think. Most medicine is not about “not dying”. Here is an example: I get heartburns pretty often. I take a heartburn medicine omeprazole daily. It’s an over the counter drug, costing something like $0.3/dose. If they bumped the price to $16,000 I would just stop taking it, and started getting regular heartburns again. These suck, but I lived with them before finding this drug, and wouldn’t pay tens of thousands of dollar annually to get rid of them.
Sort of, in that it means people use less, and renewables become more competitive, but also not, because it makes fracking and more oil extraction profitable.
It really just incentivizes further drilling.
Destiny Inc
That must be a joy to edit. "Oh, a new error. Time to recompile the whole system!"
Just recently, when looking for material for my robotics newsletter, I came across this magazine from 1980s and the issue I’ve read was still surprisingly relevant. I thought it might interest the community here
Prices could rise if demand rises. News at 11.
On the contrary, there is, the problem (for some) is that it is indeed a bullet and the people getting (figuratively) shot are the ones who, under this system, are getting very fat on the inefficiencies. They're able to use their illicit wealth to exploit our very broken system of government to maintain their rent-seeking successes.
"They block their rival's ads and bring their own instead" would be taken by most people to mean replacement in the page, and no opt-in. It's misleading with a purpose. Brave is providing users a private (no tracking) ad option with 70% of the gross paid to the user. If only a "rival" did that. But they don't, and we block tracking scripts more than ads (this kills the whole waterfall so blocks most ads). Note we don't block Google or other search ads, or first party ads that don't depend on tracking scripts.
Not true, it's very good at one-shot learning, even from code you've written in different languages.
Thank you, looked all over and failed to find it.
> The company's CEO would walk into the space where the developers worked and loudly comment – even to outsiders – “sometimes it feels like X is the only developer who gets anything done.”

Their analysis: 10X developers are a myth.

Alternative explanation: 0.1X managers are a reality.
This turns out to have been wholly fabricated by tour guides.

Appealing story, though.

BTW, if you like that sort of thing, https://cantrip.org/slow.pdf
In my experience post-ARC almost all memory safety issues are thread-safety related.
Or the implementation does something silly like copy the cleartext and not clean up after itself, or send distinguishing metadata, etc., etc.
Possibly! :) But I think this is just a writing style for this particular website.
> It stands to reason that this includes the information Facebook gathers about you from your WhatsApp conversations.

It stands to reason that they miraculously break the end to end encryption of Whatsapp?
I’m in love with LiveView havent done much Elixir yet but I do Django and have done ASP .NET in the past. I think its a brilliant concept. The only thing kind of holding me back on using Phoenix with personal projects and ideas is really the authentication stuff not being built-in (or when I looked I got this impression). I’m curious do you ever see Phoenix being fully supporting all the vitals or was your decision not to include authentication based on modern approaches differing like JWTs and such? Curious I am definitely going to use it in the future. As a backend nerd I always held love for Erlang and I think Phoenix / Elixir are my real way into the ecosystem.
Mongolia needs allies to withstand China's looming threat https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Mongolia-needs-allies-to-wit...

The implications of the rise of China's military for Mongolian security https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/5340

China accused of 'cultural genocide' in Inner Mongolia https://www.ucanews.com/news/china-accused-of-cultural-genoc...

China’s Crackdown on Mongolian Culture https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/chinas-crackdown-on-mongolia...
Thanks for your work, this really looks promising!

One question I keep thinking about. What if I want to still use React on the frontend, does it still make sense to use Phoenix for the backend then or am I throwing all benefits over board then?
Probably ingested the pour on treatment or one of the brands that mix other active ingredients that you don't want.
Edit: yes. Library consumers don't get to change much, except where you have generic functions that abstract over a trait like `T: Borrow<T2>`, and then you can pass in any kind of owned or borrowed pointer to T2.

Dynamic-extent appears to be more similar to the "register" hint in C than to anything in Rust, in that it's an implementation-defined-behaviour hint. Rust has no such thing as hinting at storage class. Your variables are either T (stack) or Box<T> (heap) or any other box-like construct involving T. You maintain complete control at all times, nothing is implementation-defined, and it's explicit. You can implement (and people have implemented) dynamic switching between stack and heap storage in a Rust library.

https://lib.rs/smallvec (stack to heap), https://lib.rs/tinyvec (smallvec with no unsafe code), https://lib.rs/arrayvec (stack only)

As you can see, these three library authors get to control very precisely how their types allocate and deallocate, and you basically mix and match these and the stdlib's smart pointers (and Vec) + other libraries like arenas, slot maps, etc to allocate the way you want.

> you'd probably achieve that type of resource control by exposing only WITH- macros in your API*

Yes, this and similarly using with_* closures both work, but both are more limited than destructors that run when something goes out of scope. A type that implements Drop can be stored in any other type, and the wrapper will automatically drop it. You can put LockGuard in a struct and build an abstraction around it.
It's not about dating. It's truth that you didn't want to hear. Because accepting truth is difficult, so fight it, deny it instead.

Regarding lifestyle, I chose wrong word, not my first language. It's what and how you want your life that you don't want to compromise for climate crisis.
This Eno quote is the best part of the post, and better than the article. :) As someone who makes some lo-fi electronic music, it really is an expression of limits, where you create and release tension against those limits, and this is what makes it evocative.

Two tracks in particular I created use that sense of old familiarity to draw out memories, using melodic tools from minimalism (Part/Glass), reproducing 1970s blade runner synth sounds, and samples that will only be familiar to a very 'leet few ("requiem for a hacker"), and another that uses sub-bass harmonics just at the edge of what headphones will take to get into the listeners chest register ("sleeping dogs"). Not linking my stuff directly because it feels a bit opportunistic (they're on soundcloud), but lo-fi music is not just technical production mistakes, it's intended to share a direct experience of the moment.