skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sad to say that it does not surprise me at all. HN with some regularity gets issues of morality horribly wrong, the good news is that at least in this case I can't read the GP.
I’m surprised how blantant the narrative pushing is orchestrated. This example happened the other day on NBC news(main channel). So regardless of your stance on ivermectin, this is what played the other day:
Aaron Roger’s used ivermectin at the advise of Joe Rogan. Ivermectin is oftentimes used a horse dewormer.
<cut to Pfizer commercial>
Return from Pfizer commercial. Pfizer has announced a new Covid antiviral drug that combines mRNA therapy with a low dose HIV drug and has proven (some high 80s/90s number). Pfizer is asking for an emergency approval for treatment with Covid 19.

Look, I don’t know if Ivermectin is effective for Covid or not. From what I have heard it seems like looking into it with an unbiased lens may be worth it. I don’t care if it is effective or not so much as I don’t think news and corporate interest should drive the national opinion.

I’m not even that scared about the anti viral that Pfizer is pushing. HIV drugs have been around long enough to establish a safety profile and weigh the risk vs reward.
I do think, that despite reports ivermectin has a pretty solid safety record.
However safe HIV drugs are, the commercials for them list significant side effects. Again I hesitate to post this as someone thinks I’m pushing ivermectin as a legitimate therapy. I truly do not know…

To me the sequence of the story commercial and the counter story made me feel a bit queasy.
I think activists and journalists will make the sacrifice considering the nature of what they do.
i'm in the US and do not believe i've heard that
Well, no, as a species we have progressed because we are ruthless, smart, have ridiculous endurance and breed all year round, with social structure being important but coming in last.

I mean, come on, people walk by other homeless people every day with zero care. We, from the "developed" world, bomb the fuck out of poor sods in less fortunate circumstances, regularly.

We let people suffer and kill themselves, considering them weak, unworthy of living. Of course, not out loud.

Modern medicine is great, the modern healthcare system in any country is garbage.

And humans are still, for the most part, garbage. We're living in the best times only thanks to some smart people putting in some good systems in place.
Do you really honestly believe that the paperwork burden would disappear if the government took over medical care? Can you think of anything else the government runs which is free of mindless bureaucracy?
this reminds me of CollapseOS https://collapseos.org/
Why is this question flagged and/or downvoted. Seems like a totally legitimate question from outside the culture that uses saying. EDIT: Nevermind, it was flagged and fading in to oblivion.
From the same source two weeks ago: https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/10/26/china-has-already-re...

Do they read their own news?

China won Exascale.
Twice.
Before anybody else.

Is there an MI200 systems in the Top500 yet?

Supercomputing 2021 is running and the updated November 2021
Top500 list was announced.

There is only one system in the top 10, and that's an NVIDIA A100 system from Microsoft.

The only 2 systems with > 100 PFLOPS are Summit and Fugaku.
I agree with you. One reason you don't hear about this kind of company is the owners don't want competition. "Oh yes, my hobbyist website/forum is clearly struggling... no need to launch a new website in the same space. Ignore my 700k house and paid off Model 3."
The sad truth is people only realize how fucked the US healthcare system is when they or their loved ones get sick. I was the same way until my son got sick (type 1 diabetes.) From then on (~2013) we've spent $20,000+/year to cover health insurance premiums/deductibles/copays. It's truly bonkers.
Because it's hard work, and it states that both partners are going to do that work.

It can be hard work to get pregnant, hard work to stay pregnant, hard work to carry to term, hard work to deliver and it is unbelievably hard work to raise a child. Two partners trying to get to the finish line have to make incredible sacrifices, and make huge changes to their lives in order to support each other.

Saying we're pregnant and sharing the state of pregnancy vs just saying she's pregnant, acknowledges the the shared work and the shared responsibility that is taken up by both partners, and it acknowledges the shared joy in bringing life into the world. And when you say it to someone other then your pregnant partner, you make it clear to them that you are picking up a huge responsibility and that they should recognize it.
Liberals Accuse Rittenhouse of Trying to Avoid Punishment Through Legal Loophole
Sorry to hear that with your thumb. I guess safari devs made it clear that if you shit on their browser you will next time lose more than a thumb. These animals…
Of note, ironic that the writer seems to think Indiana govt "cares" about his child. The likely author of a lot of Indiana Medicaid rules was likely Seema Verma. She most emphatically does not care.
I don't want to speak for the writer, but I would personally hope that my community (via medicaid) would do a better job taking care of my child than a for-profit private insurer.
Because poor people often live together with our poor people and rely on each other, and the question of "why don't you, your partner, your parents who help you look after your children, and everyone else don't just get a job in the same area that won't pay much less than what all of you are getting now?" has many answers.

One is that minimum wage falling way, way below living wage ensures that the employers can always pay lower for even low-paying jobs.

Another is that perverse zoning laws often don't allow people to work where they live.
Mixtape: Cassetternet
Air cargo is suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping
Little Snitch says otherwise.
Such an incredible book
I’m listening to long asmr videos which have non-intrusive repeating sounds which I personally like. No voice, no fast changes. It helps masking the office ambience (a separate room which still may be a bit noisy) and my irregular tinnitus. Music usually interferes too much, unless it’s “deep space” psytrance or non-aggressive liquid/dnb/jungle sets on low volume. The result is better with well-known tracks, but some new sounds still do. Then there are atmospheric videos like fallout 4 glowing sea ambience (and similar on that channel).

Also, I don’t mind playing two or more videos simultaneously by mixing different types, e.g. (ambience, asmr, music) in some volume combination. It helps not only to mask the environment, but with proper lighting may also take you to a completely different place.
It would be so much easier if the RAM just got moved onto the CPU. As chips get more dense and NAND becomes cheaper, I could see rowhammer-susceptible DRAM just going away completely for many forms of computing.
Anderson Cooper 'confronted' Grosskreutz about contradicting his sworn testimony, but the guy (clumsily) dodged the question, and apparently Cooper wasn't interested in following up on it.

Cooper: On Good Morning America today you said that you were absolutely not pointing your gun at Rittenhouse. Can you clarify there?

Grosskreutz: Yes, absolutely. Um. First and foremost, [the cross examination] was a very tense situation. Something that I've never been in before. Just like never being shot before. I think it's important to note though, specifically during cross that, if there's skilled attorney, they're able to present questions to help support their narrative. That's their job. And with one of the exhibits that Attorney Sharrad(?) had introduced, there's a photo of me with my gun pointed towards the defendant. Either just after or right during he had shot me in my right arm. I think it's important to note though that the physiology of my wound would be inconsistent with someone being shot with their arm in.. we'll say the traditional way that you would point your gun at somebody or something. The only way that I could have sustained the injury that I have is if I had been shot with my arms up.

Cooper (looking perplexed): So... so you're say--did you ever point your gun at him?

[someone speaks to Grosskreutz off camera, he looks at them, turns back]
Grosskreutz: I think that in the still photos it certainly looks like it. But never intentionally. You have to understand that, following that gunshot, I was--I had no use of my arm. I wasn't able to move anything. I--and--in my right arm, or in my right arm.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/11/12/gaige-grosskreutz-i...
> It's a bad system in many ways in and of itself, but at a high level they do need some way to confirm that Elon Musk isn't applying for Medicaid just for shits and giggles.

A better system would provide healthcare to everyone and just tax Musk more to pay for it.
There is: https://github.com/calebdwilliams/element-internals-polyfill
I really enjoy git way more than others but working in unreal engine and with binary assets. I've always felt like git filr locks were an area that still needs more attention.

I know file locks are almost an antipattern for git. But there are definitely good use cases and arguments for better git support and related tooling support around them, especially for binary heavier areas.

The other thing I saw other day was sparse index or something. At work we have a monorepo and I wish that was more control or granularity over checking out a subset of a repo somehow. Our clones even with shallow fetch and lfs can be 5+ minutes for an area that should only take 3 seconds. But no good subset checkout.
I believe this would work with type sets:

type Result[T any, E any] interface {
T | E
}
Will have to test this at night. Apple TV app is barely useable here at 8-9PM here, constantly dropping to 480p or worse. Torrents is still better UX in 2021.
Today a Blender beta version with HIP support has been released. This is working on RDNA hardware (RDNA2 officially supported, RDNA1 enabled but not supported).
I guess a release date for ROCm is approaching after all.
One project file :). And project files are a thing in our business :)
It doesn't appear at all to be something they are avoiding, it's more that they are A-ok with it and not at all shy to be advocating for this.

Speaking for myself I'm super happy that I was never in these poor people's shoes.
this is so sad. I am sorry for your loss and this tragic story reinforces my thinking that the American health insurance system is a Kafkaesque nightmare.

I work in healthcare tech working on tools to explicitly lower readmission rates and frequently wonder if my work helps to make it easier for healthcare systems to KYA (well, KTA) and streamline "bulk-handling" patients as opposed to effectively providing care for each individual patient.

But really it seems insurance companies are legit the devil and in this case, the opaque bureaucracy of the US Medicaid system
I think this story and it’s horror masks the banal evil of these systems. Medicaid enrollment and other benefits are demeaning and cruel processes.

Even for a healthy child, you need to go through the humiliating experience of weighing your child at a social services office to prove that you are feeding it, for example. Failure to appear can impact your benefits.
Can we get over the notion that foreign state interference is not a thing in our media? There, you have your culprit; outside of other national interests whom social unrest and division benefits. They play both sides, same as the admen. Suddenly, what is happening and why is crystal clear.
Probably said "well, they should've aborted".

Insensitive, but imo, logical. Probably why I'm banned lol
Real-Estate Investors Bought 18% of the US Homes That Sold in the Third Quarter
Upper Middles selling Upper Middles and Middles fake status symbols, but really elevating the esteem of a singular Upper Middle, and making themselves stand out as fake Upper Middle class.

Fascinating meta gameplay here.
How so? It's about as lean as it gets. It also provides so much standard functionality which is where other frameworks fall down.

Easy to make a simple endpoint for a tutorial, but after building any serious application the other language stacks end up hooking together several large packages and modules just to get the same standard functionality that ASP.NET provides.
i think there's some way in which the brain "crystallizes" as one grows up, and the modes of cognition which are the most used in daily life are deepened at the expense of others. i'd compare it to trails being worn into the dirt by foot traffic; the most trafficked paths will remain for years and years, while the unused paths slowly disappear, until eventually they show no sign of their existence at all.

the example i'd give is to think of a kid playing with hot wheels. the kid is not playing with the physical toy; the toy is an avatar from which the kid is building a vivid imaginative playground. the kid is playing within the world of their mind's eye. adults, for the most part, can't play with hot wheels and dive into that same mental landscape of imagination and association. an adult just sees a small die-cast car. rather than being an inherent part of growing up, i think this power of the "mind's eye" is simply a mode of cognition our society doesn't reinforce and select for; so, for most, it's lost as they grow.

however, there's really a lot of utility in the power of imagination, and so we also see people who either never lost the ability through repeated reinforcement, or went to great lengths to re-activate it - artists like Katsuya Terada or Kim Jung Gi. notable with these artists is the way they're able to draw photorealistic pieces of eye-watering detail, without construction or perspective layout; they simply start from any point and draw, somehow putting every line in its exact place. when asked about how they possess what is essentially an artistic superpower, they've both related that they are able to visualize the scene in a vivid, consistent, and complete way in their mind's eye, and they simply draw from the mental image. both have said that they drew for hours a day in this "rakugaki" (doodle) style as kids, and never stopped the habit. in doing so they were able to retain and reinforce the power of visualization, a mode of cognition that emerges naturally, but is not retained if not practiced.
In general when I see no comments on a video I know the video is garbage, so that helps on its own.
Source on 400-650Wh/kg? That’s significantly higher than what’s even reported in Tesla EVs, and I’m curious if that’s lab or production figures. Even going up to 400Wh/kg and 95% efficiency only yields 237 miles for a 737 equivalent, which isn’t enough.

The top spec 777 would give you 677 miles on batteries, assuming 400Wh/kg. Enough to serve the LAX to SFO route, but a fairly limited vehicle all things considered, especially for the price and size.

> Long range jets can fly 20,000 km with passengers.

Sure, but economics begins to dominate here. There’s a reason I chose the 737 as a reference benchmark; it’s the gold standard of short to medium range airliner, and absolutely the vehicle that we should be aiming to minimize. If you have to pull out a 777 sized aircraft to service LAX -> SFO, then the price of tickets is going to begin rising significantly to cover the higher vehicle cost. I’m also genuinely quite doubtful that many airports can handle 100% of their jets switching over to wide body aircraft, which this would require, without significant improvements to the terminals and other facilities. If governments are forced to upgrade airports to save money on rail, I’d argue that that’s penny wise and pound foolish.

All of this can be done, of course, but it really begins to erode all of the supposed cost savings over HSR.
You missed the elephant in the room - wine.
Not even checking what matches that user-agent would be a deeper level of “screw it”. You’d google what you’re banning before banning it.
Bitcoin is the horse and buggy in this comparison - while attempting to naively remove control possibilities and making it "trustless" aka a free for all/wildwest where nations can't use financial levers to try to economically punish known bad actors, e.g. Magnitsky Act.
Not just mastadon, but the fediverse in general, which encompasses quite a diversity of software (pleroma, pixelfed, etc.) and has apparently now even started to threaten twitter enough to make it start initiatives to try and EEE it.
No, but at the very least Firefox has the bare minimum needed not to crash js execution when it encounters usage of the API. Safari doesn't recognize the syntax (or at least didn't when I tested this ~5 months ago, though it looks like nothing has changed on the safari side).
My son is currently in the GA Tech Cybersecurity online Master degree program. Seems like a good program over all, very project oriented. I would say he spends 15-40 hours per project, and you have a new one every 2 to 3 weeks. Project are not for the faint of heart...
Please don't take HN threads into political flamewar. It destroys what HN is supposed to be for, so we're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. It destroys what HN is supposed to be for, so we're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The author doesn't seem to be a native English speaker. She probably meant "ended up liking GNOME" rather than "ended liking GNOME". Mistakes like these are easy to make as a non-native speaker.

I don't know if the Gemini protocol (using which this article seems to have been published) has a way to correct the title, or if the author is even reading these comments.
In a world where insecure high density exists, secure low density is at odds with cloud computing: the cloud makes sense only if you can efficiently utilize you computing power round the clock and make it cheaper than shipping mostly idle terminals. If securing the cloud is expensive, then there's a cutoff point where it's better to ship highly dense, cheap terminals.

So maybe "screwed as a field" is not an exaggeration if the field is butt computing.
Yes, which is why all ransomwares ask money in USD, right?
Maybe we should turn off the internet for people who are troublesome.
More Eyes on Polluters: The Growth of Citizen Monitoring
This might be a tinfoil hat take but for me the default is planned obsolescence, simply for the fact there is no reason for companies not to do so (negligible downside, a lot to gain). Right from slowing down old smartphones, college textbooks, un-repairable electronics, the examples are plentiful.
You're assuming the motive of the commenter, who followed up and clarified that it was asked in earnest. It's a reasonable question for someone who doesn't follow crypto closely to ask
In such setting I would expect OCR to have higher accuracy than humans.

Apparently I would be wrong.
Techno works well for me. I struggle with voices and spoken word but repetitive beats work just fine.
Unlikely. 8 months of paid parental leave would not encourage multiple births considering the true cost of raising kids. You've got to clothe, feed, and house them.

But we are also in population decline and that is worse than having decent parental leave.
Thanks for the background. Fascinating analogy that YouTube is allegedly equivalent to a holocaust denier by removing streams in a biased manner.
All else aside, Cuba actually has a pretty decent healthcare system - in a some ways on par with the US, in some ways better, according to the 2000 WHO survey. [1]

Outcomes in the US are pretty bi-modal, for those who can afford care and those who cannot. This pulls down the country in most rankings, often quite significantly, as many studies weigh access to care in addition to quality for those who can get it. In some ways the system is just objectively bad - it's among the worst for maternal mortality rate in the OECD. [2] I do believe it's improved a bit since then, as that article came out in 2017.

Life expectancy is dropping, and costs are rising. Generally cancer outcomes are regarded as a bright spot for US healthcare but a lot of that is attributable to early detection leading to rosy 5 year survival rates - without commensurate drops in its mortality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/528098789/u-s-has-the-worst-r...
In the Mail app, tap Edit, then select the empty checkbox to the left of the top email, then drag from the second email down to the bottom of the view (it'll autoscroll.) Then you can move or trash the emails all at once.
I never understood why the semantic web failed.

Is there anything better than RDF?
You don't have to make the algorithm do it, is what I'm saying.
Shhh.. Just keep looking at only the positives and the future, no time for criticism and addressing the known pitfalls!
Heard several people claim that, along with stories about how Office 365 wouldn't work, or Photoshop, or recent browsers etc. Each time I would check I was able to call their bluff.
I only said to use bash for small scripts. Basically just a series of commands. Maybe setting up one or two environment variables. Anything more complex or involving "if" I would almost never write in bash.
At 36 I couldn't stand working for people who didn't realize building cheap software cost a fortune and sadly, that's just about every business out there. I believe there are very few sectors that will give you the luxury of building the right things.

Unfortunately, I had a C+ GPA in my comp.sci bachelor's degree which welded grad school shut. This however gave me the perfect excuse to do a math degree which is an opportunity I regretted. I sold my house and enrolled, graduated winter 2021 right before my 40th birthday. I'm doing a couple of computer science classes this semester and am enrolled back in the computer science master's in Winter 2022.

Here's what I learned:

- If you don't have children, 30 is stupidly young.

- The oportunity cost is obviously 500k+ (gross), but that matters only if your concern is accumulating wealth. All the houses/hotels and money go back in the box at the end of the game regardless.

- The first semester is really difficult but you'll get most of your mental nimbleness back mid second-semester.

- Your memory and intuition will be worst than your peers but 20 year olds don't have a work ethics so your discipline and consistency will prevail in a major way.

- After your first semester, evaluation will be 0-stress.

If you already have experience in computer science then the path from Mathematics -> grad Computer Science is just as smooth and common. The mathematics program may be more challenging however.
From what I remember, Verizon did this with dumbphones, which I think ran similar OSes. So if you wanted to change the ringtone, you had to buy it from the crappy e-storefront on the phone. Same for wallpapers, and moving phone pictures to a computer via USB.

In 2008 I picked up a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone (Samsung Blackjack) that didn't have any such restriction. USB worked and it had a microSD slot for me to add in movies and music. I could crop an MP3 and simply transfer it to the Ringtones folder via USB mass storage.
True, I started as a COBOL programmer (did a lot of TELON online screens, JCL, CICS, DB2...) as my first job in 2009, for a biggest retailer - personally it taught me a great deal of software engineering - having a background in electronics engineering helped I guess.

The whole stack, and the complex business built around it over many years makes it so difficult for these large institutions to port their solutions on to a new platform in my experience too.

For a lot of these companies, these backend systems on Mainframes just works and I believe there isn't a proper incentive to move on to a new platform anyway.