skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question I always ask myself when this topic comes up is, Trump and Russia colluded to do what?

I want to be clear that, if Trump's campaign in any way worked with a foreign power for the purpose of furthering it's electoral interests, that is something which is quite shocking, and anyone involved should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

However,

I think a logical leap which is often made, and which it appears that you may me making, is that if 1) Trump worked with Russia for the purpose of winning the election, and 2) that Trump in the end did win the election, that 3) working with Russia caused Trump to win the election.

This last part is where we run into a bit of trouble.

Returning to the original question: Trump and Russia colluded to do what?

Let's take it for granted that Trump's campaign met with Russian government agents, talked strategy, and funneled information which could be used for targeted advertising and other purposes.

In this scenario, what exactly is Russia doing which is aiding the Trump campaign which any Super PAC would not be able to do? The answer is not very much. It's not like Russia hacked into the voting system and changed votes. Trump was, with his message, able to convince a large enough share of the population to take the electoral college, to vote for him. In other words, Trump is the primary reason Trump got elected. Russia at best put a finger on the scale, or added a little bit more fuel to a fire which was already burning.

To make an analogy: let's say that I made my house out of matchsticks, and you came along and set it on fire with a magnifying glass and sunlight. Yes you might have committed an act which triggered this event, but who is primarily responsible for my house being burned down?
>and those who accept that we can’t.

So prove it with more than your ridiculous anecdotes and metaphors. You do a lot of claiming and literally no sourcing. Try again, this time with data.
It's a combination of a lot of things. But the data is clear people don't want to move to California and the people who do live there are leaving.
So $7k per person per year.
Same here in Turkey. But this one is an int'l transit provider.

Posted this[0] months ago, even sent emails to Cloudflare NOC multiple times and nobody did even care.

[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/censored-pop-orpheus-not-...
Not everywhere, BBC would be a good counterexample.
Yes, I see the piece as a call to action if you have the means. Like it's almost a moral obligation to yourself or society.
If there's no corporation, then there's nobody to do that compliance. You can't get $50k per day out of a nonexistent corporation.

And in general, you can't go after the actual people -- the point of a corporation is to limit the liability of the people involved. That corporate veil can be pierced, and it's up to the judge to decide when. It's not at all certain that a judge would decide it's valid in this case.

I won't try to talk you out of the equivalence you're drawing, which I believe is false. Even so, I think you should consider that this case represents a serious accusation that turned out entirely false, and it's a positive thing that they are being required to follow the laws about it.
How Signal is playing with fire – A push into untraceable payments
Your analogy is slightly better, but even then it still misses the whole idea of hubs and connecting flights, because it's not just your trip to the beach, it's a whole network of cars trips to the beach that also depend on your trip to the beach in order for the system to function.

Once you start removing trips and other people take your parking spot, you don't always get your parking spot back or even one close, sometimes you might have to find all your cars a new beach to use.
Ask HN: Is DRM the reason Amazon Prime don't have playback speed adjustment?
Amazon Prime Video maybe the only video website in the world that can't adjust playback speed. I suspect that it is because Amazon Prime require DRM module in browser, which will consume too much resources on poor hardware if have playback speed adjustment. Or is there any other reason?
The good old days!
Your comment is correct. There will be always some networks that do not behave the spec compliant manner or have limited connectivity. However they are most likely unfixable on application level and unless the network admins themselves do something then some applications won’t work.
If only Moderna had realized in that they could "do all the steps [they] can in parallel to speed things up" 8 years ago! They managed to accomplish what had eluded them for 8 years in a matter of weeks. Astounding stuff.
nice ad!
> but I can't help but think altogether they're creating a division of the web into premium services the rich can afford

If I may, there is huge complexity at hand here. It is one thing to offer a meditation app for $2/mo, where its peak complexity is changing colors on the screen. It is entire different to be able to offer the entire internet searchable in less than 500ms in the palm of your hand. The ability to offer that at $20-30/mo with robust privacy protection is frankly a miracle.

Second factor, is that Kagi is bootstrapped and our priorities are quality of services offered, not the number of users. And knowing what I know, it is simply not economically viable to do this at a lower price point and hope for sustainability of the business.

Finally, the price is only one side of equation, the other is value. The question is will you be getting enough value for your money? For me, the ability for my children to use a search engine without being bombarded with ads from an early age has a lot of value. I already pay $15/mo for YouTube Premium for the same reason. I understand that not every parent is in this position to choose, but many are.

Having said all that I do not pretend that Kagi is designed to be for everyone, like Google is. It is a premium service for a reason - the cost of providing the quality that we provide is simply what it is, and we clearly said no to the ads from the get-go. Remember that the main reason most of the mainstream web is free are ads.

The ideological consideration you refer to is something I agree with, but that role is on governments to fullfill IMO. I do not think they will anytime soon so I am doing what I can. Access to information like access to water should be part of public infrastructure and we miss the latter in the modern society (as public libraries are not enough anymore). We can easily get into the realm of politics here so I choose to stop :)
If you are looking to offload some money I'll take it! It would better my life.
GBC carts run at 5V. If you compare the edges of GB/GBC and GBA carts you'll see a cutout on the side. The cutout is there so GBA carts don't trigger the switch that puts it into 5V mode for use with GBC games. DS lacks the switch and parts to run 5V carts.
Found here: https://kubelist.com/
I use something like this:

for dir in /path/to/dir1 /path/to/dir2; do
case :${PATH:=$dir}: in
*:"$dir":*) ;;
*) PATH=$dir:$PATH ;;
esac
done

If PATH isn't set, ${PATH:=$dir} sets it to $dir.

case :${PATH:=$dir}:

wraps PATH between colons to take care of the "it was empty" / "dir is at start/end" edge cases.

The first case is hit when the PATH contained the directory already (no-op); the second case prepends the new directory to the PATH.
You haven't understood the proposal at all.

The idea is to stop paying health insurance to private insurance companies, and replace that with state taxes that pay for all health care instead.

Depending on your income level, the most likely outcome is that you'd see very little change in your overall compensation, plus your health insurance would no longer be tied to your job.
Kragen, I want to say I am always impressed with your insight. Thank you.
This is great! But I did notice that when clicking in Chicago, it flows from the Chicago River into Lake Michigan, which is inaccurate. But to be fair, we did reverse the flow of the river around 100 years ago, which makes it one hell of an edge case. The subcontinental divide technically goes right up to the lock between Lake Michigan and the river.
the system is one of the worst in aggregate even if top percentiles are the best. it's extremely unbalanced.
Rules like that aren't uncommon.

Netherlands is like the one exception that doesn't require parties to win >4-5% of the vote to get into parliament.

And all of these systems are more democratic than what the USA uses.
Yes, as I said from the other comment, I provided that when I started. From GP's comment, I thought they are saying they had to provide the SSN before they started.
Such a massive lib. Interesting, if not too extensive read.

I understand the FB rationale to have it, but what whould be a reason for other projects to adopt this lib?

I won't imagine maintaining such a lib as a dependency by ourselves. Maybe for one short-term purpose, but then it's still safer to go with standard or boost, or, God forbid, carve out some pieces and wrap them up.
If a person decides to add parentheses to some booleans or arithmetic,

(4 + 5) * (8 + 2)

(this and that) or (theother)

These elements should not become 1-tuples after the interior contents are evaluated. I sometimes add parentheses even around single variables just for visual clarity.

Also, this allows you to do dot-access on int / float literals, if you want to

# doesn't work
4.to_bytes(8, 'little')

# works
(4).to_bytes(8, 'little')
This is pretty cool.
One thing is that it seems to get confused by nearby (smallish?) bodies of water. Near my house there's two creeks, they meet sort of forming a D shape. The traced path jumps across a small land mass once or twice between the creeks.
Ultimately the drop would have ended up in the Raritan Bay regardless (although tool says Atlantic Ocean, I guess that's just me being pedantic) as the two creeks merge right before the mouth. Still, pretty cool.
Gotcha. 3D on all those sprite/character based hardware of the 8/16-bit era that didn't allow pixel access to the display buffer is a nightmare.
"last year"

I'd hope most of us know better than to try and make arguments like this about once-in-a-hundred-year historical anomalies.
> it’s unknown that they will add that sum to my salary

I'm pretty sure I do know the answer to that question...
completely bad faith titling.

"CA considers publically funded health care" would be just as accurate.

please fix this.
Clinical trial data is full of personally identifiable information and health records. Redacting that much information takes a bit of work.
Some system to earn tax credits if you can prove that you lead a healthy lifestyle. Maybe verified by the doctors in the unified health system.
The funny thing is that up until Kaczyński openly admitted to the authorities using Pegasus, the authorities would respond to the accusations with derisive comments about a game console.

Why a game console, of all things? Well, back in the early 1990s here in Poland, a local Nintendo NES/Famicom clone called Pegasus [1] was a thing among the kids. A hit, indeed.

Here’s [2] the deputy Minister of Justice dismissing the accusations in this regard, a few days ago.

Except the photo posted by him doesn’t even depict Pegasus the console. It’s another Famicom clone, whose chassis is a rip-off of the design of the PS One (2000).

[1]: https://culture.pl/en/article/pegasus-other-famiclones-how-p...

[2]: https://twitter.com/MWosPL/status/1477938410849452034
About user-grown features. Over time, Java let users expose more lower level details to the language than before.

But, really, watch the talk. It's one of the best conference talks in computer science history.
In the US, part of the insurance premium is paid by the employer and part by the employee; only the employee part would be shown on pay stubs. (however, yearly pay statements (w-2) mostly have the employer part listed as well). Of course, sometimes the employer part is zero.

It's a little trickier to account for when the employer is 'self-insured' for healthcare. They'll use an insurance company to administer benefits (and pay for that), but they'll pay the costs for treatment rather than paying into an insurance pool and having the pool pay the costs.
What does Exxon have to do with the FDA or how medications are authorized?

Also, I don't think that the manufacturer of Oxycontin has tricked the authorization process (and then successfully covered up this fact for 20 years). As far as I know, the problem was their marketing strategy, how they convinced doctors (medical practitioners) and probably patients (I can remember the details). So while it's troubling, it's a completely unrelated process and thus unrelated issue.
I don't think GP was talking about replacing all downloads with malware, just key ones, like individual targets.
Please elaborate on what you mean when you say that US health care treatments are the best in the world.
I personally love kaiser but I know others who strongly disagree.

Maybe it would be a good idea to lean on the better insurance companies (are there more than kaiser?) to administer.

Personally I think there needs to be stronger regulation so that they can still make some profit (not obscene) for incentive to get more efficient, while regulating they can't take that profit at the expense of patients & access to care.
Agreed, post for paid subscribers only?
> Isn't there a serviced lane in other US states?

No, because there is no demand for full service at the extra amount it would cost to hire someone. I actually would not pay any extra for someone else to fill it, as I would prefer to not have someone else touch my credit card and risk overfill my fuel tank.
The United States is still the only country in the developed world without a system of universal healthcare.

Breathlessly comparing the USSR's economic policies with the raising of taxes to cover such a fundamental service betrays a staggering ignorance of economics and history.
As your article states, the wake word (and those phonetically similar to it) may activate the voice recording. But the device isn't recording audio 24/7. Presumably other voice assistants like Siri and Google have made advancements in activation hardware/software/algorithms in the 4 years since that article came out.
> my actual change is net zero, in most cases

It's designed to be a progressive system, unlike current health insurance, so almost nobody's change will be net zero, even assuming the cost of providing the service is the same (which, who knows). Low-income earners can probably expect to pay considerably less, and high-income earners can expect to pay considerably more; only people right at the crossover point would expect no change.
Obvious warning to all reading: The catch is "net profit."

This is used to harm actors all of the time. Basically, the company is heavily incentivized to get really creative with their accounting, so even on lucrative projects they don't have to pay you much of the value reaped from you. One of the oldest scams in the book, and the incentives are such that the company (Homestead in this case) would be acting irrationally if they didn't practice it. It's a no-win situation. Either they're acting irrationally, in which case why trust them? Or they're acting rationally, which means that you lose if you trust them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_accounting
And how much will the cost of health care increase now that the insurance companies have the state government footing any bill?
So, we are not building new hospitals, not creating new ICU beds, not investing into more medical programs at universities (or making them more affordable), not cracking down on opaque pricing and exponentially growing hospital administration. Instead we are introducing another bureaucratic layer to manage access to an extremely limited resource that has not been keeping up with the increasing population. What could possibly go wrong? /s
Pure unadulterated power. And all the benefits that come with it.
This is key when you note that for good private insurance for self+one, you typically have to pay out $1.2k / month at least. Did that for a number of years.
The EU is not a federal state.
Edit: My apologies to Kragen for the stuff I misattributed to him. It was a long back and forth thread between us two and I didn't realize you had interjected at the end. My mind was locked into thinking I was in conversation with denton-scratch.

I admit my use of "pathetic" was self-defense from being accused of being a hijacker, which I found to be a personal attack against something objectively untrue based on the Oxford English definition of the word "anarchism."
Particles Make Their Own Movie
Shouldn’t do this no matter what ofc. But why the devs? Sure the devs are well paid and privileged. That’s mostly relative to others in society. They are still more cogs than anything.
> and I have never considered leaving my state before in my life so it might not be quite as one-sided as you think

It's an adverse selection problem.

People who are most subject to the tax are inclined to leave.

People who benefit the most from the trade are inclined to move in.
Haha awesome! Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been toying around with unity and have thought up a chaos engineering game or two. I haven’t done anything yet but I certainly will want to. I’m reading through the code now :)

https://github.com/Shogan/kube-chaos/blob/master/Assets/Kube...

…and here is one of the interesting files. Looks like the game is running shell commands (line 93). I predicted a C# library being used or hitting the kube API directly. Neat! I love seeing how people do stuff.
Change the title here please dang?
History and society in western countries is absurdly Euro-centric, it sounds like an oxymoron but it should not be. You must be aware enough to realize what is an absolute truth and what it is just relative from your POV. The other day I had a discussion online mocking the concept that "Aboriginal Australians are so unique because they split from the Europeans first" as if they cannot say exactly the same.
You wouldn't even need to serve actual malware, just give people an old version of PuTTY with either a known vulnerability or insecure defaults.
> so they abandoned it

Did they repeal the tax increase?
The Steel House Saga
This is not taking into account CA government efficiency. I've lived here for 30 years. I'm not putting my family health into the hands of a government that has zero successful large scale projects under its belt and can't even run a parental benefits system where people can get their checks sent to the right address.

No thanks. We're moving. More real estate and jobs for the rest of you true believers. Enjoy the weather. I will miss it.
I studied computer science at the University of Washington in the mid 90s. One of my professors there would tell a story about how Adleman was notorious for answering email days or weeks later, but one time he sent him an email asking a question about the movie and got a response five minutes later.
I am not sure increasing housing supply is a good idea in California. Taxes are increasing as well as cost of utilities. We are in perpetual drought and there is now mandatory residential rationing of water to at least 15% lesser consumption(or into $500 fine). But with increased rates.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Schools are over crowded and Unions are becoming more and more demanding that state pension liabilities keep increasing without any improvement of quality of life. There are road diets and traffic jams on the highways to hell making multi hour commutes an economic drain. There are power cuts and wild fires.

We are 40 million. It’s time to consider drastically reducing population and housing. We need sustainable housing and better infrastructure for walkable high density cities. Perhaps when we have figured out infrastructure, they we can consider increasing housing stock.

We need public transport, a cut in wasteful spending, better schools and roads. Taxes must be diverted provide free utilities for all. And free internet. That should be a right. Instead of paying for pension liabilities of union employees of public sector , I would rather have our taxes go towards creating a better California and towards free utilities, healthcare and environmental protection/conservation and public transport.

I cannot support your startup and the sector is set up to fail and will be damaging to Californians in the long run.

My advice is for you to pivot. Self sustaining tech supported ‘villages’ within Dunbar numbers or anything that creates little townships away from the tyranny of Sacramento will be a better loftier goal, imo. Create homesteads with large farms that are businesses. Look into 3D printed structures and creating high density tech-eco cities.

Making housing better in California is useful. Increasing housing stock is like scratching a bleeding itch when there is no doctors or pharmacies around for miles. Please reconsider. I cannot wish you success…it sounds mean, but I am being honest..regretfully. But I wish success for you if you can make California better. Regards.
> If the candidate did not disclose his salary history, the obvious assumption is that it is not a positive, and the candidate will get a lowball offer.

I disagree that this is the obvious assumption[1]. Even if I were true,
it seems to me like your prior is all lowball offers are the same. They are not. If a candidate was underpaid, an uninformed "lowball" (from prospective employers PoV) would be much higher than if they knew the candidates previous salary was about half of their budget.

1. My salary is above average, but not an outlier,but I will not disclose my salary history before getting an offer. I will not disclose it after getting an offer, even if it's too low for my liking. The only number that matters is the one I am willing to accept. If you share your salary history, you may be lowballed an not even know it. "Anchoring" is a well-studied phenomenon - anchoring on your past salary may leave you underpaid relative to the rest of the market (or your colleagues).
As a Brit and in the interest of accuracy, Britain declared war on Germany both in 1914 [0] and 1939 [1] after an ultimatum to Germany expired. So technically 'we' did "start" the WORLD WARs (if we hadn't declared war it is debatable war would have spread to the rest of the world (at least immediately)).

[0] 23:00 August 4th 1914, in response to the invasion of Belgium by Germany.

[1] 11:00 September 3rd 1939, in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany.
Like most states, nonresidents owe California tax on income from California sources.
I had to close this immediately due to the auto-playing video. Do you have an article from a less obnoxious source?
This Google's internet. You just play in it.
If you want an extreme example of how bad a single payer system can get, look at Canada. Not only do we have a single-payer system, we've actually banned private pay of any kind for "medically necessary" services.

The net effect is predictable - Canada consistently ranks very poorly in international health system comparisons. 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.

What states should do is encourage more competition as a way to lower healthcare costs. Y'all actually have one of the best systems in the world, it's just way too expensive.
> I also find the Chinese writing system fascinating in that it's the only one that didn't evolve from representing concepts to representing sounds.

It did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCshu

China has had enough cultural continuity to maintain its own writing system over time.