skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I can certainly agree that some would use a broad definition of propaganda.

But it's a very loaded word. One should avoid using loaded words where a less emotional description is applicable. One could as well argue that the use of loaded words is propaganda itself.
Complicated: this mutha is hard all by itself

Complex: we took all of these simple steps, lumped them together, now we have this
And as mentioned above, he later clarified that he was talking about pre-Omicron variants, where that was true. It now seems possible to get Omicron more than once, but since it has virtually no impact (most people never even know they have it, especially here in Austin in Dec-Feb "Cedar Fever" season), it really makes no difference, other than that it's not yet known if it works the other way, so that an Omicron infection may provide protection against prior variants.
maybe they're going over more than you're staying under.
dunno where we’re at today with newer captcha models, but for old-style static image captchas there used to be browser extensions where you could solve (say) 100 captchas in one sitting and then navigate the web freely and the next NN captchas your browser receives would be solved automatically.

or you could pay like $1 to cover 1000 captcha solutions. again, not sure if these still exist for newer style captchas though.
The economic consequences of major tax cuts for the rich
It's about being suspicious of the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA, which has a revolving door that has been abused.

The FDA has never been held to account for its improper handling of the opioid crisis. But the FDA’s conduct is all the more troubling in light of the close relationship between the agency officials responsible for opioid oversight and opioid manufacturers. For example, the 2 principal FDA reviewers who originally approved Purdue’s oxycodone application both took positions at Purdue after leaving the agency. Over the past 20 years, several other FDA staff involved in opioid approvals also left the FDA to work for opioid makers. Last January, the head of the FDA’s analgesic division retired from the FDA to start her own consulting business, which promises drug makers “help” to “successfully and efficiently bring your products to market” with “more than 30 years of experience at the FDA.”

To be clear, the revolving door between the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry is not limited to opioids. A 2018 study found that 11 of 16 FDA medical reviewers involved in approving 28 products now work for the companies whose products they regulated. Without appropriate limits on employment after leaving the FDA, staff might be tempted to put the interests of future employers, whose favor they wish to gain, ahead of public health.

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-fda-failure...
Fair enough; thanks for elaborating.

I just can't help but think that pfizer did this on purpose - not making redacted versions of their data, knowing it would take the FDA forever to do that if it ever got FOIA'd.
thanks for pointing me to that. avant is powered by musicbrainz actually - so I will look to see what I can pull from acousticbrainz!
A 6000 sq ft house seems ridiculously large, about 6 times the size of the average UK home, hardly a "little tin can"
The land is the collateral. The risk is the homeowner forecloses while you're mid project (or the title is otherwise impaired, making it difficult to unwind the transaction or recoup any funds).
Do you have any proof of that? (That it is worse)

Do you have any knowledge of what the typical waiting periods are in the US? How many are postponing care due to inability to cover the costs?
All nations have people who have grivances, the trick is to find a proper ignition point and pour in some gas at the right moment. And it's not like it's something momentarlity simplistic, like a terrorist attack. It takes years of builing a foundation.
Cuba in the 50s was the 3nd wealthies country in Hispanic America. I think it was after Argentina, not sure if Venezuela. Now it is in the poor side of things, and Hispanic America is not too wealthy...
Google Authenticator does now have an export function, it works with QR codes, I just make a backup on a second device.

For non important things I use my password manager.

For important things I have physical security keys if it's supported, otherwise the Google Authenticator app.
I would imagine it's like technical debt. There's benefits to paying that debt down, but there are always other issues that have higher priority. Sure, the software should have been architectured to be easily extensible / system should have been set up to make it easy to release half a million pages of documents, but this update has to be released in time to beat the competition / these drug approvals needs to be completed to save lives.
There's very little reason to believe that the reassignment will actually come from teams working on either of those two problems. This argument is a really long stretch - especially because there are other ways of meeting the deadline than reassignment to the FOIA office (hiring contractors, adding employees, using interns or HR folk) - picking out a highly specific and avoidable method of executing the FOIA to attack the idea of doing the FOIA at all is...questionable, to say the least.

Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. (it certainly wasn't when the House passed the Freedom Of Information Act 306 to 0 in 1966)
Exactly what I'd say to anyone from the UK thinking of moving to an USA-style healthcare system.
Not wasting. They are obviously unused blocks allocated to them.
If you aged the cast of Mr. Robot by a couple decades so that they're middle aged, and transported them and their memories back in time to the early 1990s, and the whole crew was focused on just one hack, that's pretty much the movie Sneakers.
What's the point of professionals and experts if they don't communicate clearly and precisely? Why even have him on a podcast?
>I never know if a few pixels of a pole count as “traffic light”.

Yes, can anyone confirm what they are really looking for in these instances? Further up-thread there are people implying that the "right" answer to the "bicycle" question is that you are also supposed to also be selecting motorcycles. I'd love to see a write-up about this from someone in the captcha department. Do they really want to identify bicycles specifically? But they are apparently getting many people clicking on motorcycles for some reason? And for the traffic light question, I only ever pick the elements that only actually light up, not the support structure. Are 25% of people selecting the poles?
> HOAs are already dense

Very often not, and a central part of their purpose is to prevent densification that might otherwise be allowed by law.
Plus one for this. Especially for older code libraries.
Nit: I believe Elvis was buried, and not that long ago, so the likelihood that enough of him has decayed into atmosphere for you to be breathing him at even 1 molecule per breath is very low.

If you start with the same premise as your linked article, and say how much breath you share with Elvis's last breath, then you can probably assume an atmospheric distribution close enough to the Cesar one in the article.
Given that Accenture does a ton of outsourcing, I'd imagine it is a magnitude less than $30-50k.
agreed. I use git every day and I still have to Google how to do anything that I haven't done in the last week, which is probably 98% of the total number of commands.
> So your for using power to totally destroy all the hard won battles for transparency, destroy trust in public institutions, and feed conspiracy theories?

If the FDA screws up in their now legally compelled rush to produce these documents what happens?

Pfizer could have their trade secret info leaked (like it or not that shouldn't happen)

Participants in vaccine trials could have their private health information leaked (or have their identity stolen)

The FDA is responsible and liable

FOIA abuse is a thing, just like DMCA abuse is a thing. People abusing the FOIA process are the ones who are likely to lead to its power being destroyed, not the government here.

It isn't suspicious...this group is intentionally misinterpreting things in bad faith under the guise of accountability.

It's classic bad faith, and I'm deeply saddened at how easily this country falls for it.
Those are parts of their core purpose, of course they spend a lot of resources on them. They're a regulatory organization that regulates tobacco products. Redacting documents, by contrast, is not a core mission of theirs.
Nothing like a pandemic and millions of people dying to light a fire under some asses.
It's more than just human nature this time around. Something about this whole polarization and specifically this stuff with Covid is just firing off alarm bells in my head.
Agreed. I think this is simply cashing in on the cryptocurrency craze while it's still fashionable. Then again, Moxie Marlinspike was never the most transparent fellow I've seen.

At this rate, I'm probably going to go with a Matrix + element style chat system with my family and friends. I'm getting fed up with the outright grift.
> Just because something runs on servers doesn't mean that it doesn't run on processors that are just enough to run a minimal version of Linux kernel.

Maybe, but it seems unreasonable to hold the world back because of those systems.

> When it comes to bad judgement, C++ gives a lot more rope and especially rope that's C developers are not familiar with.

I think one could just ban most of that rope to junior devs.
"Don't try to roll your own classes or templates, for getting them right requires both skill and discipline."
Also common guidelines ban rope that isn't needed but for implementing the superior alternatives,
that are usually found in the standard library.

You can still program in a procedural way and use just the low hanging fruits of the STL, that was designed for correctness above all, for Alex Stepanov made it to demonstrate his ideas of generic programming: C++ just happened to make implementing it possible.
As a tangent, I'm curious why you're formatting years as five digits?
Can you share numbers from completed projects?
In cases when a gas station's fire suppression is triggered, in how many cases does the fire department never come out? I would estimate that they come out every time anyway.
Except anybody you consider to be a "good" doctor won't take this insurance because the payouts are too low. So, your employer will still buy "aftermarket" plans to provide better care. Now you'll be paying both for a plan you won't use and a plan you will use.
>Yes because it implies there is a conspiracy requiring God-like abilities to plan the long term outcomes of a multitude of decisions and actions many of which have conflicting goals.

Are you sure? You don't need a conspiracy theory. All you need is compound interest. Just think about it. An asset produces returns above what you spend on consumption. I.e. you are a net winner of the financial system. But milk, eggs, cars, houses have to be built by someone and you can clearly see poor people at the construction site of your house. You don't see rich millionaires build your house.

Meanwhile most people are paying into this system and they are net losers.
Glengarry Glen Ross: Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jonathan Pryce.
Kaiser posted $3B in profits in a quarter.

All that money is overhead that can be removed from the costs if health care didn't have to funnel through a private company taking profits from it.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals/kaiser-permanente...
Good point. I'd assumed it was a full RMDB, but hadn't ever really spent much time with it.
I found it useful. I've been using Django casually in hobby projects for a few years now and your article just taught me about the N+1 query problem, so thanks!
That's thanks to the Federal Congress and Jerome Powell, not to California's supposed fiscal prudence.

California has benefited from the Federal spending bonanza and also has famously high tax rates, treats capital gains as ordinary income, and has a lot of rich people. The FTB seems to have screwed up the links[1] and I can't find later data for a complete fiscal year, but check out "Ordinary Dividends" and "Capital Gain" in exhibit A9 for FY2019[2] to get a sense of how important that is to the state budget.

[1]: https://data.ftb.ca.gov/stories/s/Other-Tax-Data/sgxz-494k#d...
[2]: https://data.ftb.ca.gov/download/d6s8-gyup/application%2Fpdf
Media coverage, mostly. Especially one going from the state-owned (or corporate-owned with political affiliation, in case of US) media. It is really the best litmus paper there is.
So people buying 1-2mil+ houses in LA, SF OC etc are not value producers?
> The net effect is predictable - Canada consistently ranks very poorly in international health system comparisons.

Funny that despite this 'extreme example', Canadians have almost 3 years longer life expectancy than us in the US, are healthier throughout their lives, and have comparable or better outcomes with treatments. Where the US has better outcomes (e.g. - some forms of cancer, some organ transplants), it's only very marginally better (like 1% higher chance of surviving 5 years after colon cancer diagnosis when compared to Canada). And for that 1%, you're spending MUCH more money on your treatment.

Basically nearly every measured outcome is better in Canada rather than the US, despite US paying twice as much on healthcare costs per capita when compared to Canada.

> We have far fewer ICU beds, doctors, imaging machines, etc. per capita than peer nations, and the entire country is in varying degrees of harsh lockdown because our hospitals were already overwhelmed during a normal flu season.

That may all be true, yet it's still better care than what the average US citizen gets, despite paying twice as much per capita.

> What states should do is encourage more competition as a way to lower healthcare costs.

They've been trying to 'encourage more competition' for decades now with healthcare costs only continuing to climb while affordable access falls (ignoring the gains that came and went with ACA). "Competition" doesn't exist in industries that are nearly impossible to enter due to regulatory capture and the insane entrenchment of giant healthcare organizations. The few that succeed in making any progress at all get rapidly acquired.

Reality is that no-system is perfect, there will be complaints and tradeoffs. But the US system is broken for a huge proportion of residents, and it's not going to change without drastic measures. I'm all for torching the whole thing and trying single payer. There may be complains about single payer systems across the world, but according to most of the publications I've seen (probably all, but my memory is imperfect), the vast majority of those subject to it would never trade it for what the US has.

Basic healthcare access in 'the richest country in the world' should be a fundamental right, not a for-profit industry.
No, I can have both. For 8 years, they've tried a bunch of different things that they thought would work. Literally none of them did. And then in a matter of weeks, they figured the whole thing out.

Obviously they didn't start from zero. But it wasn't like they had something from, say, 2018 that was looking promising but just hadn't made it all the way through trials yet. They had nothing but failures.
Thanks for the reply. I am glad you are focused on the mission at hand. I hope you will prove a profitable ad-free search engine is feasible . If you're not going to kill google, at least I hope you humble them by having better quality.
> psychological methods learned from Guantanamo and CIA Black Sites,

What would those be? If CIA and such has some special "psychological methods", how comes they never actually used it to achieve anything related to their direct job? I mean, let's embrace the conspiracy and assume they have these spectacular methods that can make anybody think anything and they are willing to use it on anybody, including Americans. Why won't they use it on Taliban or Iranians or Hezbollah and make them love America and crave McDonalds burgers and Starbucks coffee? Why didn't they use it for anything, even if just to get promoted and look good on the annual report?

I think much more realistic hypothesis would be that they have no magic spectacular "psychological methods" at all and are as (in)competent in persuasion as a random politician is, and are forced to muddle through with what they got, and they need "black sites" so that public wouldn't actually learn how low their success rate is and how lucky we are because their opponents aren't exactly geniuses either.
Depends, if someone presented a hello world example in unreal engine I would expect the binary to be larger than 60MB.
How do you account for the reduction in value of the existing home?

Also, how do you deal with existing lein holders? I.e. the current mortgage.
Yes, I'm definitely also looking for the cheapest way of making this happen. So the idea of using some container registry is not appealing to me.
> If I am forced to give any percentage of my income to a government I do not want, I think that is slavery. You wouldn't think it ok if an individual forced you, or the mafia. The government is just big mafia.

The government uses your money to build infrastructure that makes the land the rich own more valuable. The government itself is also a victim.
Could it have been a BBC Micro?

They look a little the commodore but have 8 colours from memory though…

Right time period.

Some had a built in joystick i think from memory but can’t find any photos from a quick search.
Do you have any evidence to support that accusation in the last paragraph or is it just a hypothesis that you linked to minimally related other facts?
I agree - I like the idea and so far have liked the beta. But $10 a month is way too much unless there is something that really makes it THAT much better than other search engines. Look at NextDNS for example - they offer it for free under a certain amount of queries and for home use unlimited is 2$ a month. And it has a lot of features, easy and clean interface, plus custom options. I gladly pay for that because its cheap and I can use it with devices off my home network.

$10 a month is getting into the territory of streaming video services and those require a hell of a lot of bandwidth and infrastructure to maintain.

For business or corporate use though $10 a month / user seems totally applicable.
Global society has slightly different dynamics, though, because of emergent properties of that scale. For example, countries or even some continents could suffer ecological collapse without global society necessarily being threatened.

The other side of that coin, though, is that global society has introduced global risks, in terms of the amount of CO2 it is able to put into the atmosphere (which is a shared resource we all rely on), and the ability to create weapons or pathogens of global destruction due to technology.
Zapping the Brain and Nerves Could Treat Long Covid
Exactly - no doctor who has his crap together is going to accept the government's insurance. Medicare has the same problem. My mother many times can't find a decent doctor that accepts Medicare and when she does, they take so few appointments it takes weeks to get seen whenever an issue pops up.
Enforcement Standards for Telecommunication Lawful Interception ('08) [pdf]
But now it is tied to the government, which is way worse...You can't complain to the government.
I build online assessment edtech for a living. Don't do it kid, it's a dark path.

No but seriously -- awesome work!

No but seriously, how do you normalize score processing for a randomized set of multiple choice questions with partial-score matching questions?

Back to work...
Trust the science. Btw, my name is Science ;)
All the data relevant to the EUA or full authorization is available.

The data not available is personal medical information of patients that has to be collected for and during trials because some of it might become important if something bad happens during the trial. E.g, if some trial patients suffer serious adverse reactions you want to have all their medical information on hand to better understand what went wrong.

For a trial that goes well the vast majority of that information turns out to not have been looked at or used.
> sans the NORAD visits, of course

You didn't prank call NORAD?
-Three.-

Edit: Duh, four.
I have a hypothesis about health care, which is that the public health care systems are more efficient, simply because it's possible to find out where the money goes if it's all coming out of one checkbook. Our system is designed to hide the ultimate beneficiaries.
A lot of people are afraid to say this for fear of alienating the other side
ok. you are young and not a home owner. i mean this sincerely..please pivot. increasing housing stock almost always makes the cities unaffordable in the long run. this is how we have landed in the current predicament.

true to the name of your startup. consider collective homesteads. high density housing is definitely a sustainable solution, but high density without also scaling infrastructure is a bad idea.

like everything, it is a numbers game. and the only numbers that make sense here is in $$$$ that makes sense for investors and the taxman.

not everyone can own homes. and its ok. building affordable rentable communities that are sustainable is also a laudable effort. and it definitely is a profit maker. first infrastructure, then housing. otherwise, its set up for failure.

and the state of california has a really bad record when it comes to how counties are run. their mismanagement over decades have made the state highly taxed and yet unaffordable to most of the population.
And prior to the ACA rule taking effect, denial for preexisting conditions was common practice. See more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-existing_condition
Very much seconded!
This isn't working quite right for me (Firefox on Windows). The SSN field is a single text box and the numbers don't line up with the boxes on the form. I can pad with a single space, but additional spaces don't increase the padding.

https://imgur.com/NXrZGaS
Yea so you then end up on the street when you can't pay those bills and go bankrupt. Either way, my point stands that a lot of people are slaves to their employer for need of health insurance.

Furthermore, proactive visits to the doctor aren't "emergencies." Prenatal checkups aren't either. Mom going into labor is not a good time for the doctors to find out the baby is coming in the wrong way or its head is stuck in her pelvis.

I'm tired of people making excuses for the shit-show that is healthcare in the US. It only looks good if you're coming from the third world.
And then they had to endure another few decades of occupation, putting them behind the rest of western Europe and creating a feeling of abandonment by the rest of Europe. It's common to forget that for some countries WW2 lasted in the form of occupation all the way up to 1989.
I've always wondered why when government receive documents from private entities (because of law, contracts, whatever) and that those documents are likely covered by FOIA-like laws, they don't ask the private party to submit FOIA ready documents in addition to the full version. They could then automatically publish the FOIA ready part without having citizens ask a judge for it, the judges would just have to sample the non FOIA part.
I just played it and it's pretty fun. If I force CGA mode, the Taito title screen is in white/cyan/magenta but the rest of the game (first two levels at least) are in yellow/green/red.