skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GAO's report on the law (https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-13-112.pdf) has details.

> Rather, pursuant to OPM’s methodology, such
payments would be projected to fund the liability over a period in excess
of 50 years, from 2007 through 2056 and beyond (with rolling 15-year
amortization periods after 2041). However, the payments required by
PAEA were significantly “frontloaded,” with the fixed payment amounts in
the first 10 years exceeding what actuarially determined amounts would
have been using a 50-year amortization schedule.

> We also reviewed the prefunding requirements for other organizations
that offer retiree health benefits to their employees: private sector entities,
state and local governments, and other federal entities. Although other
federal, state and local, and private sector entities generally are not
required to prefund retiree health care benefits, a few do prefund at
limited percentages of their total liability.

> For example, Standard & Poor’s (S&P)
reported that 126 of the 296 companies in the S&P 500 that offered “other
post-employment benefits” (OPEB)64 prefunded some percentage of the
associated liabilities, while the USPS OIG has reported that 38 percent of
Fortune 1000 companies that offer retiree health care benefits prefund
them, at a median funding level of 37 percent.
> hard to mess up

I had a co-worker who had earlier in life done that to himself. The bullet took an eye and a chunk of his brain out. He was instantly transformed from one of the smartest people in the room, to someone who could barely keeping up with conversations, with about half of the IQ.
4K LoC is small.
Once upon a time, Google copied the Java APIs. Oracle sued Google. Google won.

We now have precedent. What's stopping someone from copying the ASIO APIs and shipping a compatible SDK?
I additionally love whatever is happening on that mastodon site that takes over the browser back button that somehow involves Reddit.com
This account introduces how criminals import drugs. (ja) https://twitter.com/Custom_kun
How exactly do you ban a browser extension? How do you consider legitimate traffic illegal?
The paper notes as much:

> Since Y. pseudotuberculosis is genetically very similar to Y. pestis, we hypothesised that NOD2 mutations may have provided a survival advantage to mutation carriers in the past during plague epidemics. As supposed, the current frequencies of CD-associated NOD2 mutations [ie, in the offspring of plague survivors] are correlated with the intensity of past Y. pestis epidemics in European and Mediterranean countries.
Where does he even get money from? A quick Google suggests Mathematica is used by approximately no one. Some kinda sweetheart university licensing deal?
As a musician in various bands, I have seen countless times people have been asked to perform or compose for the "exposure." No money, just the possibility of future gains.
Every single time, it's a sham and a scam. I have never seen anything positive come of such an arrangement. I finally learned to run the other way with my hand on my wallet every time I heard the word "exposure."
Before the developer gets hit by the bus, it is cheaper to only have one developer on the project. For many managers, the economical analysis seems to end at this point.
YMMV. My diet to manage IBS has minimal amounts of fiber. The focus on fiber of the past few decades has been mostly sales driven (i.e. breakfast cereals), the research is quite lacking. As usual in dietetics, no size fits all.
A 'luxury' resort from 1,500 years ago
Huge fan of TiddlyWikis. So glad to see more tools spawn around TiddlyWiki to drive adoption.
Most are Hodling. The rest are selling for USD or USDT mostly is my guess
It could have been a poll right here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
So are you advocating taking alternative therapies more seriously as advanced placebos or something? Do you question whether it’s important to distinguish between the placebo and a “real” effect?
Hmm, if I may offer my two cents—while I like what you’re trying to do there I think you’ve made the guidelines less clear. Until you called out Twitter threads explicitly, I didn’t see the connection. And I’m actually still not sure what “name collision” means.

I have no helpful suggestions on how to make this clearer, unfortunately.
That's an awful idea. Illegal, immoral, and would be abused.
Protection and waning of natural and hybrid Covid-19 immunity
A correlation, you say?

https://behindlabdoors.com/content/images/2015/Nov/chart.jpe...
>but I've yet to see participants advocating for Tether to show audited financials like anybody else in their position would be obliged to.

What makes you sure that at least some of the "tether is a scam (or is at least shady)" people aren't also crypto "participants"?

>They appear to all be playing by the rules Tether is setting.

Or maybe they're voting with their feet and moving to an exchange that doesn't deal in USDT, and so won't be subject to tether's rules?
Hi there! I can't speak to questions 1-3, but with regards to question 4, some of the examples we generated were born from early mistakes I had stumbled into when writing the `Tree` functions, so I have some thoughts. It would be interesting to codify the behavior of evaluating the `Tree` in more types, but looking back, the thing that would have helped me most in avoiding some of the missteps might have been a richer test interpreter, where I could have "mocked" a network of, say, 3 nodes and distributed the `Tree` across them, emitting information about where the data was being moved, and where the various functions were being applied. We had actually briefly thought about writing such an interpreter for the purpose of this article and it's still something I'd like to do at some point.
> Amazon doesn't send me shit I don't order and don't want.

Their equivalent are the ads you get on their home page or when you search for things.
It reminds me of how poverty and gun violence dramatically reduced after Roe v. Wade because organizations like Planned Parenthood started installing themselves in minority communities and advocating heavily for abortions.
Honestly, in the big lottery of life, I think I'm still a winner on net.

At least for my case, with minor concessions to diet, and with having health insurance that'll pay for my (expensive) treatments, my symptoms are pretty minor. I think I could count on one hand the number of times this year I've had any serious discomfort that seemed connected to the disease.

The one thing that bothers me is the persistent problem of poorly-formed bowel movements, and occasional diarrhea. You never really know when this is going to pop up. For short-term things like a night out you can plan ahead, maybe take an immodium beforehand. But there are things I'd like to do that this interferes with, at least to the point of being an embarrassing inconvenience. For example, I'd love to take a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, but it seems like managing the issue would be complicated in a situation where the best facilities you've got are a bucket in a tent set up by the guides (and even that is only when it's been set up!), so it's a bucket list thing I'll likely never get to.
I don't think it's that simple. When you award someone a prize, you are potentially giving that person a great deal of influence and credibility not only on issues regarding the specifics of the prize, but also general publicity.
coffee, tea, coke, diet coke, energy drinks all set me off.

decaf coffee and tea do not. So I am assuming caffeine is the problem. Caffeine does increase intestinal motility. Of course it could be something in those drinks, but I'm fairly certain it is the caffeine.
There are upsides and downsides to everything. I did say "don't get me started" on that topic, because while I have lots of good things to say about the personnel in the military, you'll note I didn't say anything about the military in general.
I've heard rentahitman.com is great. For example: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/rent-a...
Why, are you paying for said jazz bar in your taxes ala the BBC news site?
Ah, I see, my mistake. I agree with your guess.
AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before
Funny enough, I’ve almost never eaten spicy foods. Interesting way of finding where/if you have an ulcer!

Mine is in my terminal ileum and I can definitely feel when things are…tighter, for lack of a better description.

Definitely agree with recommending staying away from corticosteroids if you can avoid it. I was on them for a year and the side effects on them were not too horrible, but getting off was a whole other story! I am glad they were there though, as it was only thing keeping me from surgery/the hospital until I found a biologic that worked.
Government will never be efficient because the players knows there are free money to grab and efficiency is not the goal of all the decision makers involve.
First, this an article from CNBC, so I don't think the actual strategy is as simple as this (its coming from an external freight analyst).

Second, my understanding is that Amazon is essentially going to eat into its already thin profits to pull this off. So this is essentially a branding move - aka "we could deliver your christmas presents this year, trust us, others cant, why would you ever trust them?"
True! There's a parallel here between government bloat and corporate bloat. In the case of corporations, failing to eliminate bloat reduces competitiveness leading to disruption. The corp may survive at least temporarily by bullying or buying disruptors, but its just delaying the inevitable.
I'm surprised its not four in four. As a woman who's online a lot, it's literally impossible to avoid men sending sexual images of themselves. I wish society would call it for what it is morally - sexual assault.
There's an argument to be made that the developers are the new crackers, the new enablers of abusive behaviour. Perhaps they should feel some burn for their actions.
Proper link (I think): https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Gravatar

No way to edit URL or delete when this happens?
An FDIC insured bank account is already limited to a specific amount in order to prevent the 'rich' from free-riding.

It still isn't clear to me why you would try to justify a system that doesn't allow an average wage earner or pensioner the mere possibility of earning a positive inflation adjusted (not risk-adjusted) return on savings?

Why are risk-free inflation-adjusted savings options for the working class a negative thing? That's all Bitcoin really is, on a long-term basis for most people.
Same sentiments but I have my reservations. I wish we just have enough Linux users to drive open standards. A lot of proprietary standards became proprietary because companies just doesn't care about a few Linux users.
My family tree from a mere two generations ago is filled with kids who died under the age of 5 - some are mundane but most are undiagnosed. They just know the symptoms that were fatal not the cause. 1960s and earlier. That’s not at all that long ago.
Quite impressive, I didn't get it at first because I thought it was just MDX. Then I saw that there were changes in the video such as "```js focus=2,4[9:30],6", ans I saw that the code in the video was highlighted differently, then I understood the product. It's a way to annotate code more deeply than just with MDX. You need to make that much more explicit IMO, it needs to be quite clear when people read the site. I recommend a site that is more long form and describes the features well.

Also get rid of the weird "sponsorship for unlocking documentation" model. Make the library sponsorware if you need to, as in you can't see the code until you sponsor, but why would you make the docs sponsored? They're what might entice people to actually pay to use your software. As someone else said, you're actually crippling your own sponsorships by hiding marketing material behind a paywall. Marketing should be free so that as many people see it as possible, and some subset will buy. If you cut off the top of that funnel, you just get fewer people buying.
Firefox has that built in; Chrome has the option to block audio. Both support a whitelist; Chrome supports a blacklist. There are extensions with more options.

A combination of the "I don't care about cookies" extension and an adblocker with a couple tracking blacklists should avoid both the cookie popups and the tracking cookies themselves.
I was once presented with such a contract; After returning them a redacted version of the contract with all the offending clauses and pointing out that it was both abusive and unenforceable (as I was working from a country where these clauses, while not completely uncommon, aren't legal), they still insisted.
I did them a counter-offer; I calculated how much money it would cost them to own everything I would produce or think of during the contract, and even told them I would carry a recorder to record every dumb idea, plus a bag to collect all the poop, so they could have all their precious IP. It was a fun discussion.
If we could maybe keep our discussion to one thread that would be helpful.

Meta aside, you described the stock market. You don't even need 66%, just a big percentage of shareholders (there are efforts to do this with big evil companies like Exxon).

Uncensorable is a pipe dream, crypto isn't beyond the reach of governments, as China's mining ban has demonstrated. And you're wildly mischaracterizing the costs of the existing payment systems vs crypto; maybe you think there wouldn't be all the ancillary bureaucracies and services, but that's literally all the exchanges and such are so you'd already be wrong.
I've just joined the technology mastodon because of this link.
exactly, just upstream them, everyone's life will be easier
Thanks for the feedback, I just fixed it!
>Amazon is such a remarkable company.

remarkable is such a strong word for a company that still doesnt pay taxes, violates unionization laws and forces workers to piss in plastic bottles while the CEO charters space flights.
This is especially not good when it wakes my wife up by accident.
It is a tragic situation. These sites obviously provide some value (or else you wouldn't be reading them) yet they cannot get paid for that value because google&FB have coopted the entire ad market for themselves. As technologists this is a problem that we should solve, not simply something to complain about
My wife and I lived in different countries for 2 years, partly because of work. We are not wealthy, nor did we enjoy doing this. You might say that this was a result of bad priorities and maybe it was. We were honestly trying to do what was best for both of us at the time. If we hadn't lived apart, there would have been resentment on 1 or both sides, even though it was quite hard to go through with it. Life is more complicated than your tone acknowledges, unfortunately.
This is why they talk about improvement over placebo
>I mean that you have no benchmark to evaluate the relative metric of how stuck we get.

Well I only just posed the idea, and a lot would depend on working out what the terms mean. Of course it's difficult to reason in cases with vague terms.

Where I part with you is in the conclusion you draw from the vagueness. You rattle off a string of questions, to each of which my response would be along the lines of "good question! How we answer that depends on XYZ, I think this is more likely, this is less likely. In this case you do this, in that case you do this other thing, etc."

For me, those kinds of questions are prompts that allow you continue a constructive conversation in a spirit of good faith and intellectual curiosity. It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without necessarily accepting it, and all that. But you don't seem to want to have the questions engaged with or answered so much as you want to use them in a performative expression of helplessness to show that the whole exercise is doomed. To me that's skipping about 3, 4, or 5 steps in the middle.

>Considering that physicists themselves lack consensus on the question, I don't see how one physicist's philosophical musing on the topic can be taken as more than (currently) unprovable speculation.

Again, you're chasing ghosts. Before you said "how do you know that we aren't prone to getting stuck?" when I had never suggested we are not prone to getting stuck. Now you're saying can't "be taken as more than (currently) unprovable speculation." I agree! It is speculative. Where is this disconnect between what I'm saying and what you're responding to coming from?
Xenobots: AI Designed Life
The OEMs' justification for this is to try to make it harder for greybox importers/resellers or box shifters to tamper with the firmware on phones.

It's not unheard of for modified firmwares with malware to get put onto phones that are being sold into different markets.

If you need to register phones one by one, it slows the process down and makes it harder to modify a large number of phones, as they can try detect and prevent bulk requests. In theory that is believed to make it less likely that a customer buys their phone and ends up with a bad experience (keylogger in the modified firmware) that they attribute to the OEM.

There's obviously a self interest from OEMs to use this to also enforce market segmentation - they don't want people box shifting handsets from low margin markets into high margin markets and undercutting the official retail price. Some OEMs like Samsung have added region locks to their phones in the past because of this (which are released after 5 minutes of a call is made while connected to a mobile network from the original sales market.
Theoretically? Yes.

Realistically? No.

We still have bit torrent don't we?
Yes, the gas fees support the miners directly. Of course, the miners are also financed via the block rewards; the cause-effect relationship is much more spurious there; individual transactors can only be considered responsible for that part of the energy output in so far as their actions cause an increase in the price of ETH, for example by causing ETH to be desirable.

Arguably, a sell-transaction of ETH could be energy-positive in that it causes downward-pressure on the ETH price.

This also means that buying ETH on an exchange can be considered as contributing to the energy consumption of the network.

The fees the miners earn are currently a small part of their revenue:

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/on-chain-metrics/ethereu...
Hard money didn't cause the Great Depression any more than Bitcoin caused the Great Financial Crisis. There were multiple causes for the great depression but sound money was not one of them.

> If you had a partially planned economy to deliver those basics, then you could switch to a harder currency, because an economic slowdown wouldn't head to avoidable mass starvation or homelessness.

This is pure speculation. Luckily we will see the experiment play out with Bitcoin over the next few years. I hardly believe it will lead to mass starvation or homelessness, though the Fiat standard we are currently on already has led to both.
I usually distinguish "readonly" values (references which block mutation, but you can mutate via another reference) and "immutable" values (what OP calls persistent, where modification may copy-on-write but you're certain the original reference won't mutate).
WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”
Unfortunately that scenario only works if there’s a ‘fair’ long/short game beneath the fraud, but the fraud is such that that is not the case:

Remember Folks: Don't short Tether, once the exchange leaks your position to their buddies, Bitfinex shareholders will organize to liquidate you by working with their wash trading bots.

https://twitter.com/bitfinexed/status/1419813435618074626
minority communities or poorer communities? also any link to a study, seems very interesting
Again not my experience at all. And the moment you bring religion, philosophy, history, culture, resource scarcity etc. into the equation things get really difficult. Sometimes impossible to resolve. Which is why war and violence is still with us today.
Right, but the law is written better than my comment :)

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/...
someone had to do it, thank you. ;
One thing I've seen about alternative therapies that work better than "mainstream" medicine simply has to do with a therapist who actually cares about his patients, and at the same time, suggests positive lifestyle changes.

The same effect could be achieved by skipping the magic rituals and by replacing the therapist by a doctor, problem is: we don't have enough doctors! As a result, doctor appointments are rushed. A 10 minute diagnostic, get your prescription, take your medicine, next patient. No time to discuss how your life is going, how you eat, how you sleep, the kind of exercise you are doing, make suggestions, etc...

Homeopathy is one of the best example. The sugar pills don't matter. What matters is that you are supposed to spend a lot of time with your homeopath so that he can find the right treatment for you, good practice also require an impeccable lifestyle. Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy recommended rest, a good diet, good hygiene, sunshine and fresh air. Yep, by telling you to open the windows, homeopathy can prevent covid!
Lithuania did not consult with the whole EU before starting this quarrel with china for seemingly no apparent reason.
My taxes fund the DEA and I don't like them, but that doesn't mean the way to oppose them is to firebomb their offices.
Video ads pay well.
> forces workers to piss in plastic bottles

I think a large portion of the American population would be surprised how often men piss in plastic bottles, and it just goes unmentioned.
They don't need rural area because they import foods.
Other Greek words starting with "μυκ-" include "μυκηθμός", roaring, "Μυκηναίοι" (Myceneans) could well be "those who roar" and their land, Μυκήναι (Mycenae) be "the land of the people who roar" [see edit below].

Although I guess we could imagine that they roared because of all the mushrooms.

Btw, my favourite para-etymology is that of "Xochicalco" [1], the name of a Pre-Columnbian settlement which was explained as "The countryside temple of the Goddess Kali" by one over-zealous Greek nationalist. In Greek, "exochi" (εξοχή) is "countryside" and I guess "calco" ...sounds a little bit like "kali"? That "Xochicalco" is the name of a city built by pre-Columbian Americans is a feature, not a bug, as, if I remember correctly, the book I found this para-etymology in was one of those that claim that the Ancient Greeks had been there before everyone else (bonus: they came from Sirious in spaceships, or something like that. It was a long time ago I read that book, or rather only the first few pages thereof).

So, you know, morale of the story and so on, some caution is adviseable when taking the fact that two words "sound like" each other (we have no idea how ancient Myceaneans pronounced anything btw) as proof that they have a common origin. The French even have a word for this kind of word: "faux ami". False friend. You say "Chaire s' il vous plait" and you think you asked for a chair, but, no. "Chaire" is French for "flesh". Now imagine the faux amis you can find lying about after a few thousand years of language evolution.

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

Edit: To be more precise, "μυκηθμός" describes the roraring _of an ox_ so more like a... cow moo. If you think about it, that's not at all an unlikely name for a city that would count part of its richess in the number of its cattle. So Myceneans could be "the people of the cows". Or, I guess, "the people of the moos".
Shiba-inu coin, NFT's, and GME. Just trust me.