skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same reason the US can spend what it did on the war in Aghanistan and still end up with the Taliban taking control of Kabul as they're on their way out. Total incompetence, no decent end game, and human nature in people that they just won't be able to change. Just a bunch of people lining their own pockets along the way.

If the US has a culture of people making poor decisions for their own health, exploiting systems for their own benefit, and of government bureaucracies utterly failing to achieve the ends they're supposed to achieve with no accountability (and it does), no amount of tax revenue is going to suddenly provide everyone with world-class healthcare with no concern for their own money.

I'd love to never have to deal with my insurance company again, or take diagnostics or treatments without being able to find out how much I'll have to pay. I really would. I just have zero confidence that any of that would change no matter how much more of my money gets taken by the US government.
The bigger you are the harder it is to do things properly or react fast enough to changing conditions. This is why most companies get huge and then end up failing...they can't change fast enough to stay competitive.

It's one thing to be a Scandinavian country that has a homogenous culture and smaller population (and land mass)...and another to mix large amounts of different cultures across a giant nation of states and have everyone agree upon the same thing or be able to institute the same infrastructure.
> you really love attacking strawmen

Are we having the same discussion?

> I did make a deliberate choice to not reproduce specifically because I didn't want to bring a child into an environment that's on the brink of collapse

I suppose I assumed you didn't think "the brink of collapse" would last 100-200 years, rather, that you fear your children would have to (in their lifetime) deal with the fallout from such a "collapse". And that such an event will be so traumatic that it would be better they weren't ever alive to experience it.

I take your pivot towards attacking me as a compliment, and a sure-fire sign you believe your position has weakened. Though I don't care either way. You are free to make whatever decisions you want for whatever reasons you want. I can respect that.

The impetus for my original comment was an "in good faith" attempt to get you to consider (or reconsider) a decision I believed to have been made in ignorance (or at the very least with a healthy dose of hysteria). I have no inclination to change your mind. That's for you to do.
Decent amount of libraries (eggs) for one(and a package manager). Follows a language spec (R5RS).

Then we get to the personal preferences territory. You may prefer a Scheme(with its hygienic macros and other goodies). Or the way it generates C code (which is then compiled).

As an example. At one time I was experimenting with writing iOS games in Scheme. The usual option would be cross-compilation. I would cross compile my Scheme program as a library and add the to project. But XCode is annoying because it wants ARM code for the actual device, and X86 code for the simulator. Rather than building a complicated build system, I just told Chicken to stop at C code generation, then added the generated code to the XCode project. XCode could now compile the entire thing as if it was all C+Objective C code in the first place. Add a couple of instructions for the actual embedding and there's my hybrid Scheme+Objective C program.

Related to the example above, I was missing an OpenGL ES library. But I found a similar library from Gambit Scheme. Given that they are both Scheme, the code would work with almost no changes. The only changes were related to the foreign function interface (to call C), which were not standardized. So I just wrote a 'compatibility' macro, and the code would now run.

Ultimately though, it's all up to you. I'm just happy there's always some healthy baseline interest in Lisp-like languages.
Before the GDPR almost no company gave me the option to delete data collected on me, download the data they collected and companies did not have to disclose what third parties they share info with or why.

That's a big difference. I've worked at companies with large web presences and I can honestly say that having the GDPR meant that we collected a lot less data about visitors since we had to justify it before collection rather than just seeing if something interesting came out of it.
Exactly the never ending quantitive easing has just been piling more and more money into the hands of the rich in the name of helping the poor. Heaven forbid we have some deflation, and assets cost less while wages get stronger.
Well the money is already in the economy now, the only way you see deflation is if that reverses, not just stops. You're probably right that as evictions begin to happen there will be a reduction in housing costs, so that is good. But as far as the new money circulating, the inflation rate might just go back to normal but the inflation that already happened is probably here to stay.
see also "Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment"
(Tom Blake, Chris Nosko & Steven Tadelis) in which EBay did the same experiment (they stopped advertising), and also "The Unfavorable Economics of Measuring the Returns on Advertising (Lewis and Rao) which talks about how hard it is to measure impact.
>"the scientific method is perfect" is a very bad misquote of the OP

:o

It's not a misquote, the comment I replied to really said that!
Completely apparent, and I appreciate that you saw the same thing and that you've coined the word marketroids for me.

Makes me worry when those in charge appear to have impulse control problems. Why not listen? Or use discretion? It does feel like discretion was more of a 90s-00s thing that's gone. Does that resonate with others or is it just me?
They were close enough (and downwind-enough) to experience direct effects from Chernobyl, no? Destroying contaminated produce, taking iodine pills as a precaution, that sort of thing, and, I'd guess, worries, for a time, about much worse consequences before the emergency was contained.
> You can practice science yourself

Being a gentleman scientist, back when it was a thing, required you to be a gentleman, that is, rich... and well, usually a man too, but that was how it was back then.

Science needs years of study, training in the use of complex machinery and strict methods, access and being able to understand scientific publications meant for peers.

Chances are you're not a peer. With much effort, under the right circumstances, maybe a stroke of luck in your youth, you could aspire to be one of such.

But you probably aren't, and trusting the science means trusting scientific institutions, men and women in white robes delivering what's, at this point in time, accepted as truth.

That's a big responsibility to bear of them, and if there's an erosion of trust in social institutions, then people won't bestow it upon them either.
Draftbit – Visually build native mobile apps
If it’s $39.99 on W-S.com, I definitely want to see the place that’s willing to sell the same pan for $34.99, the EBay listing for $32.50, and the one selling a competing similar one for $29.99 even if those sites don’t have the organic search SEO juice to land in the top 10.

As a Google search user, why wouldn’t I value these? If Google doesn’t serve them and another search engine does, I’d be inclined to switch to the other one.
Billionaires at least introduce a diversity of perspectives & approaches.

Such diversity is usually missing from the mandarin class of ivy-leaguers & federal-government-lifers for which Vox's 'explanatory journalism' manufactures consent.
I've tried to write a bot for a website and it caught naive bots and just put them in the same lobby as other bots. If wasting time of abusers is your goal it's a pretty effective strategy.
This might be a game changer in the space, I really like the idea of self-provisioning runtimes
So much more to do, but it's amazing how much you can build with the basic stuff that's already in place.
Google employee fired for questioning equity training
OK, that actually makes sense. I suck at interpreting graphs.
I guess the argument is that if google could make the perfect search result, ad spending would, by definition either be exploitative of the advertiser by providing no change, or providing value by changing the results from perfection.

In reality, Google is not perfect and you can argue that ads do provide value by promoting relevant content, even if its gameable by our capitalist system.
Musk offered NASA and the military a free satellite launch on the Falcon Heavy test, with the caveat it might blow up.

They didn't bite.
> Waste.

Not least of all the waste of all the parallel, sometimes overlapping and sometimes mutually exclusive public and private healthcare systems.
It's only waste if you aren't one of the people pocketing from the inefficiency.
The discussion and debate about nuclear energy needs to be a constant war of attrition against the long held and stubborn inertia of anti-nuclear sentiment.

This letter signed by 25 "intellectuals" (oddly vague name for writers and journalists) is part of the puzzle insofar as it gets the discussion into the news. But unless there is a sustained conversation which carries the attention of the public and really drives and beats back the misinformation back to the shadows, nothing will change.

The same tired anti-nuclear talking points need to be systemically deconstructed and refuted over and over again until it is pushed into being a fringe belief.

Unfortunately humans are really not set up to have these conversations about "boring" things like global warming and nuclear energy. Unless there is a crisis front and center (like the pandemic) it is hard to reverberate change throughout society.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but watching all this play out is like witnessing a devastating car crash happen in slow motion, and being helpless to do anything to prevent it.
Seems as though French engineering has been sufficient for nearly half a century now.
Sounds like you dont live in the EU.
Germany has required such information for any non trivial website for a long time (Impressumspflicht).
And here to me, it seems very obvious that vaccinating children is utter madness. Children are not at risk of covid.
Yes; very good point. Although Blue Origin has done an excellent job so far, it's important to remember that space travel is very dangerous and eventually there will be an accident and people will likely die. It's not an 'if' but a 'when'.
Apologies for the Fox News link, I tried to find another source but it appears no one else reported on it.

You may be more interested in the memo that got Kobernyk fired:
https://www.scribd.com/document/511320061/Taras-Kobernyk-mem...
They don't get their million dollars.
npm was about 6 years old and im pretty sure a lot of corporates have adopted node by then.

I don't think it has so much to do with quality but rather we like to re-invent shiny "new" wheels and then the new tooling must iron out all the corner cases.

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283
> Healthcare simply has too many hands in the pot. Government pays x amount but it costs hospitals 2x...so they charge 3x to insurance companies to make up the difference. It's insane, but making it "free" may not be what fixes it.

One of the biggest debates getting stonewalled right now, is whether or not the US Government should negotiate prices for Medicare.

Making this a "free healthcare" debate is just... missing the forest for the trees. There's a political party that's against even the US Government negotiating for better prices but otherwise keeping the same system.

As if negotiations are a bad thing or something. Look, I'm not liberal to believe in free healthcare, but... surely making the government pay less money for the same services is a good thing?
“Man, this will be such good PR”
From what I hear, FedEx nationwide is extremely understaffed and they can't hire enough workers. UPS is also understaffed, but is not having the same issues hiring because they are unionized and offer better pay and benefits.
Seems like the typical whataboutism regarding 1) waste and 2) Chernobyl.

Perhaps more informed people are having more nuanced conversation but I sure haven't heard it.
This American does.
Came to post this too. Bill Gates has plenty himself (and worse ones so far as I am concerned) but no one seems to mention that with the frequency they do Elon. Perhaps far fewer envy Gates' life compared to Elon's?
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I agree with the rant how Google introduced a tax that wouldn't have existed in a world without Google. And, technically speaking, it would have been possible for Google to not charge for that tax (but would you have done that in their shoes? It's not like their market share is suffering).

But if you are implying that brands should not invest in on-brand search campaigns, then this is a really bad advice. It's a known fact that targeting your competitors' branded terms is ROI positive, which definitionally means that the affected brand is unable to capture all the customers who were initially searching for it.
If you could seize anyone's wealth at will, without any regulation, you would be like China, or Venezuela: A dictatorial state.

I recommend watching the series " Billionaire " on Netflix.
It's funny that you use the term "actual" to describe the guidance from the US government. They don't really know what they are talking about. Their release process for guidance takes so long that by the time it's release, it's out of date. This is absolutely true for k8s guidance. Last I checked, they were suggesting everyone use "Docker Enterprise" on their guidance long after it no longer existed (are vendors supposed to magically know mirantis is now an option?)
Depends on the brand, right? If I search for Klenex or Bandaid, or Advil, I might be fine with the cheaper generic.
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Amazon Seeks Used Long-Range Cargo Jets Able to Fly from China
Plus parts of Germany were actually impacted by Chernobyl with measurable radiation in their food / water / livestock. Low levels to be sure, but in the context of the cold war I'm sure there's a long memory for a massive nuclear coverup by a antagonistic neighbor that pollutes your land.
Wow this video perfectly captures what I thought about visiting the US. At the time I couldn't describe what was making me critical of the way it was built, but this is so well described.

In Europe a street as wide as that would be a main thoroughfare. I seemed to see them all over in the US, like every road in a grid would be super wide, but also have shops.
Say again!
> and given the track record of those solutions, I feel justified in not listening.

But that's one of the biggest problems with the ideology you're critiquing!

I mean, what are the odds that a Frankfurt School-educated critical theorist in the 70s would be confronted with a product of capitalism that undermines one of the fundamental assumptions of both capitalism and classical Marxism? The likelihood is so low I'm sure they believed they could call it 0% and get on with their work.

And in nearly all cases they probably could.

Then the personal computer revolution brought the idea of zero marginal cost into the realm of practicality for most of the Western world. And the one field which claims to study hidden corner cases of the struggle for freedom and self-determination is stuck writing about the impact of zero marginal cost data only in retrospect. It's an embarrassing oversight, especially for a field that seems like it was designed specifically to illuminate (and predict!) esoteric social and technological developments that other fields would miss. E.g., the cheap, ubiquitous zero-marginal-cost factories that are our smartphones and laptops.

Anyway, if your aim is to become the kind of ideologue you're attempting to avoid, by all means use your proposed filter to interpret the few interesting writings you come across as noise.
Anecdotally, no. Young Germans (at least, mid-late twenties into the thirties) tend to have the same sort of sentiments.
I've never understood how common this opinion is online. I want to assume good faith but you must be doing something wrong to end up in cheater lobbies that often.

I've played pro cs since 1.3, made it to global elite in cs:go, and predator in apex legends, multiple times in each game. I rarely run into hackers, I run into good players that can aim, players that make good shots, and the VERY odd blatant cheater.

Seems to me like you are losing to better players and are willing to install invasive software to protect your feelings.
<raising hand> Ooo! Ooo! I know this one!!! I know this one!!!

Over the past 30 years, steady changes to regulations in healthcare, education and infrastructure have created a system where we pay HUGE premiums for similar services compared to almost every other countries.

It is the result of unabated, in-the-open, perfectly-legal, endemic corruption.

This should be a universal and bipartisan issue that unites people, but it isn’t.

We’re too stupid to stop fighting each other. We always take the bait from the armies of talking heads telling us how to think and who to hate.

In the lovely words of Amy Mann, “It’s not going to stop until you wise up”
I like this idea and this framing of it. A way I've put it in the past is that a postmortem is only really useful if you thought that you were already doing everything you could to prevent an issue of this type. In 95% of incidents I've experienced in my career, this is just not the case. There was a known lack of testing, the deadlines were too tight and we decided to push through and take shortcuts to launch anyway, there was known tech debt where everyone on the team was scared of this code but it was too much work to address it so it kept getting put off, etc.

Often every person on the team could rattle off 5 major problems off the top of their head. That's it, that's your postmortem right there, let's go and prioritize solving these underlying problems. But engineering orgs get obsessed with establishing a sacred heavy-handed process around postmortems. There must be a reviewer, and a chairperson, and a standardized form that takes an hour or two to fill out, and several rounds of revisions. This gives you a nice shiny metric to point to where you can say that 100% of incidents were followed up with a postmortem. If any big picture questions come up during the postmortem, well that's not the kind of thing you can just make a jira ticket for, i.e. "don't make the deadline so short next time". So we'll move right past that one and then make one or two actionable jira tickets like adding another view to the metrics dashboard which overfits on this particular issue while doing nothing to address the underlying problems, and then get back to work taking shortcuts and building up more tech debt on a whole new set of features.

A premortem may end up with the same sort of perverse incentives, but it's an interesting thing to try. If it's something the org commits to actually putting aside time for ahead of every deadline, I could even see it potentially helping a little bit to address some of the underlying problems.
> We should not be naming anything after anyone. It serves no purpose other than to create cults of personality.

To inspire the new generations to work hard to move our societies further is a basic goal in any schools and has proven to be a really profitable move for everybody.

On the other way, falsely accusing main scientists of "the sin of the jour" is harming deliberately the trust of the new generations in knowledge and any school doing that should close ASAP. Linnaeus was as racist as me or you. His real sins were much, much worse.

1) placing people among monkeys in the order Primates.

Religious people are trying to disprove that without any success for more than 250 years. Yes we all are "monkeys" and chimps are our closest alive relative in the planet. Linnaeus was right. Deal with it.

2) Exploring the logical possibility that if a genus can include more than one species, our genus could do the same also.

And he was right also in this. The genus Homo includes more than one species. Period.

This is not debatable or unclear and is not racism. Is the naked uncomfortable truth that will make your life much more complicated if your goal is to promote a Creationist agenda.

Of course he was wrong with the species proposed, but before to blaming him we should remember that genetic analysis were not available in 1768. And he still somehow managed to find the right answer in thousands of cases without knowing anything about the DNA. And this is really impressive if we think about it.

People being racist or more and more stupid with time and some obscure agents promoting "cancel knowledge" is not Linnaeus fault in any way.
> very outdated information

no rush on that -- we have another 21,000 years of half-life to talk about it, right?
>Politicians. College has gotten to expensive because the government is involved and has made it a priority for everyone to get a college degree...when many of the people going to college have no business being there. Give out money to kids to go to college...demand goes up...prices go up...give out more money...and the cycle continues.

What you are ignoring is that government is more involved in colleges in these other countries and they manage to keep it under control. Again, how is the US screwing up whereas everyone else has it working properly? You haven't actually addressed this.

>Healthcare simply has too many hands in the pot. Government pays x amount but it costs hospitals 2x...so they charge 3x to insurance companies to make up the difference. It's insane, but making it "free" may not be what fixes it.

Again....you are ignoring my point...It is working in other countries right now! If making it free does not fix it what will? The only other option is going further in the opposite direction of all the working systems...

>What safety net does the US not have? Over 60% of people paid no federal income tax last year and we have huge numbers of programs to help low income people.

Most programs have very strict criteria (thanks to corporatist Republicans and Democrats) such that you either have to fall into very bad poverty to even quality, wait a tremendous amount of time to get in, and then have to contend with so many criteria that forces you to either remain in a certain state of poverty or else you are kicked out of the program before you have gotten back on your feet. This is no real safety net like what other economies have. This is bolted on garbage to use as a talking point for people like you.
> ...and then we couldn't blame billionares for being the problem.

Of course we could, and would. The narrative would then just shift to be "because these ruthless bastards didn't pay their fair share when it counted and was needed, now we're in a situation that the problem is too big and it's too late....because of THEM. You are suffering because of THEM. Look at history as it's been done a number of times.
Why is this fallacy used EVERY single time someone points out the absurdity of liquidating every billionaire.

I would make the same claim. I'm not rich. I just don't want people with "good intentions" creating "bad consequences" because they don't understand fundamentals.