skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the hospital received a financial payment for classifying this as Covid-related treatment

Can you explain this more? Surely a hospital doesn't just get money for simply classifying it. How does a hospital benefit from classifying someone's treatment as Covid related other than being paid for the necessary treatment?
So their denominator (energy in) is calculated in terms of the work that was usefully done in compressing the plasma, and not the total energy they used to make said work happen?

Any idea what multiple of PdV the input power was? (ie. energy used to power the lasers?) I'm curious what their total Q value would be in this experiment...
Oh oops wrong level of comment. You weren’t saying that my numbers were wrong, my bad. But the other points still stand. Those numbers the person quoted do appear off.

So you agree with my points about the few hundred million getting vaccinated in a highly anxious climate with tons of misinformation about side effects is essentially guaranteed to have high levels of reported side effects simply due to psychology. That alone means nearly all of the articles points fall apart so quibbling with sub comments in an effort to salvage the article is pointless.

Also the article is a long mass of poor quality text. Having section dividers doesn’t make bad references and argumentative fallacies good logic.

For the question you posed about Covid and the excuse giving, yes the number of Covid patients matters.
In parts of Canada, there is prohibition due to epidemic alcoholism. It doesn't solve it, but maybe it helps at the expense of increasing criminal activity.
Actual people dying because of Covid is probably even higher than what the official data reports, see: https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1486075272638119936?s=2...
Thanks, I appreciate the love <3 We love OPA :)
Speaking of TFSA/RRSPs etc. is there a canadian version of bogleheads we should know about?
They can’t compete at scale for small potato clients. They want high net worth people to work with a guy. Ie the stereotypical dentist.

Honestly it’s probably a good thing. Chase is pretty awful at basic retail banking. Really only makes sense if you live in Manhattan or something where there are like 3 mega banks in every corner.
Needs an escape key on the keeb
I had severe issues with this, however only with generic armodafinil. Crazy deep bruising all over my body.
Countries where iPhones are less dominant and the Android SMS app is the default - so we see people using Whatsapp or equivalent.
COVID what-ists? You mean all manner of people who have all manner of opinions and reasons for them that just so happen to differ from the views presented as scientific consensus by government, media and celebrities?

Here is a summary of over 400 studies demonstrating lockdowns are ineffective or harmful:

https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-400-studies-on-the...

Prepare a sufficiently convincing argument against each and every one of them, and against the credentials of each and every author, before using the term "denialist" in application to anyone other than yourself.
I was just about to respond to one of the many "oh, the bias!" comments when I ran across your comment.

I find it likely if one feels the article is biased, it is likely that person is biased in the other direction. The project was dumb, it was lambasted almost immediately by what felt like everybody, and it did utterly and completely fail.

The worst part of crypto is that the only thing it truly excels at is speculation, and in order to be successful at that the hype has to remain at 1000%. This creates hordes of crypto cheerleaders who insist that crypto will do everything from free the poor oppressed masses to usher in a techno-libertarian utopia, while the only thing they truly care about is to see green numbers on their coin of choice.

I think crypto is fun, it was super geeky and I got into and enjoyed it, profited from it quite handsomely in the past mainly due to my curiosity and being in the right place at the right time, but I am under no illusion whatsoever that is living up to the hype and promise of its founders.
I only endorse this approach for when exercising outdoors, riding the train etc.

And actually most of the time when I'm outside the house I prefer to be able to hear my environment, for safety reasons.
You shouldn't overreact this way. Really it doesn't speak well of your platform.
And, even if they got the actual Q up by two orders of magnitude, inertial D-D fusion can never be practical, because you can't fuse enough. And, even if you confined it magnetically, it costs so much to extract D-D energy that it can never compete even with fission. So it is really a dead end.
> That is what's frustrating about negotiating for commodities like food.

While I generally agree with you, if you're buying fresh food at a market, such as the apples in your example, it isn't necessarily a commodity. Quality and size will vary from one item to the next; why must they all be the same price? Places where goods tend to be more standardized seem to rely less on haggling and more on sorting: you don't haggle over the price of an apple out of a mixed lot, you pay a set price for a certain grade of apple which has been separated out in advance.
I am on the train a lot (probably too often considering COVID), and often am forced to stand up, basically eliminating any laptop that requires a lap.

The GPD Win has been great because I can hold it and type with it with my thumbs, not wholly dissimilar to a smartphone, but I have full Windows 10 running on there. It's definitely not for everyone, but for me it's been a lot of fun to hack on Pico-8 during a two hour train delay two years ago.
iPod had 32MB RAM and mostly for cache...
hyperscript is ~22k gziped and cached after the first request

the size is not an issue

now, the runtime on the other hand...
This is what I use for all my notes, and my tasks, and my schedule.

Amazing application. Comparable and better than everything I've seen on hacker news over the years.

My only complaint is no mobile client, though markor can generate a Zim-Wiki file.
Regarding annoyance 6, Apple replaces crackling airpods for free. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-airpods-pro-free-repla...

I've had my left one replaced twice now, no charge. But since my left pod is new, and my right is old, the right has a rapidly decaying battery life, which cannot be replaced free of charge.
Congrats on the launch!

Just wanted to chime in and give you folks some props, I've been using infracost for a few months as a one-man infra team for a small nonprofit I volunteer with. It was super easy to get set up in our CI pipelines in an afternoon, and it makes it much easier for the devs I work with to figure out what their cost impact is. A great product and a great team!
I think we are going to find, when the dust settles and this whole era gets studied, that we pinned way too much hope on vaccines and masks and way, WAAY too little was invested in 1. Overall health / Not being obese, 2. General hygiene and staying home when sick, and 3. Avoiding crowds and indoor gatherings. And I say this as one of HN’s huge and unashamed vaccine cheerleaders.

Everyone wants that easy pill (or shot) to “make it go away”. Or the magical mask talisman to wear and ward off evil. But nobody wants to actually make a permanent lifestyle change to end this.

If COVID at the very least serves as a REAL wake up call about our obesity crisis, it would be a miracle outcome for public health.
What React global state management libraries should you use?
It seems a fairly accurate summary. DoJ was unlikely to win the appeal, so they settled.

As a side not, that Wikipedia article is far from neutral:
> … Microsoft responded that the company would offer manufacturers a choice: one version of Windows that was obsolete, or another that did not work properly.
It also commonly refers to what it does. 'Doom for blind people' would not run on blind people. 'Doom for trackballs' would not run on trackballs, it would let you use trackballs with Doom.

> "It's a very common usage and language is formed by the common usage. Microsoft have this backwards."

Product names aren't formed by common usage, they're defined by the company which creates them.
Do you bank with fidelity to be able to do this?
> * In the first example, an investment portfolio is shown where roughly 10% of the holdings is in a group called "single stock bets." Yikes! Though maybe this a case of "know your audience"? maybe they are trying to convert the hordes of GME-pumpers to try something a bit less risky?

Don't read too much into marketing materials.

It's likely that they surveyed a lot of potential customers and found a significant number were afraid that Wealthfront wouldn't allow them to choose individual stocks. So that factoid filtered its way over to the graphics design department, who were told to prominently display something about how you can still buy individual stocks.
If this were true, then it would help, but I doubt it.

The ideal is to give up on timewasting/unimportant activities(Quadrants 3&4 on Eisenhower Matrix) and try/begin important activities(Q1&2).

It is incredibly challenging, to accept uncertainty & to do what you are SURE is important & will result in a positive outcome.

If I run for 30 minutes every day then I KNOW that it is beneficial to my health. I am certain. My OCD will ruin it by suggesting that I could breathe polluted air, et cetera. By that suggestion alone, I will not run.

It's a strange dysfunction of your brains executive/decision ability. I value what I am not certain of MORE than what I am certain of.

It is my goal to reverse that logic & when your brain is working against you, it feels as if you're swimming against a current.
TuringPi's funds have been frozen by PayPal for almost a year
Well let’s not pretend counterfeit and fraud are only (edit) an Amazon problem. Go to Walmart.com and search for “Pokemon” - 4 of the top 5 results are counterfeit cards. I emailed them 2 weeks ago about it, and by “them” I mean most of their executives, got a response from about it, yet nothing’s been done.

https://www.walmart.com/search?q=pokemon
what machine/browser are you on?

the hyperscript runtime is defintely... pedestrian
This was an extremely lazy article. It doesn't seem like Yglesias made any effort to engage with the Census's rationale for using differential privacy, with the Bureau's historic methods for privacy preservation (e.g., "swapping," a different way to deliberately introduce errors that has been in use in Census data products for decades), or with what might have changed since 2010 that might justify a new approach to privacy. Even though congress hasn't updated Title 13 in the past decade, there have been significant advances in statistical methodology that reduced or eliminated the effectiveness of the Bureau's previous methods of privacy preservation.
At the end of the video you linked, she accuses the author of The Star Builders of "only briefly mention[ing] the total energy gain and never giv[ing] a number".

I had just started the book when I watched her video, and I counted four separate times where he did mention total energy gain. In one chapter (pg. 142 in my kindle edition), he quotes from a source who lays out the distinction she claims people in fusion research want you to be confused about:

Like First Light Fusion, Tokamak Energy is much more interested in power production than energy breakeven. "Achieving a of one is a scientific goal," Jonathan Carling continues, "but it's nowhere near enough to produce commercial energy, which requires a Q [in the region] of tens." As mentioned previously, Q is the ratio of fusion power out to heating power in. His strong view is that unless other star builders have a credible plan to get to factors of twenty or thirty more power out than they put in, then they're in the science game and not the fusion energy game.

This video by the Improbable Matter channel has a good response to Dr. Hossenfelder's general remarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqC8W0_Ups
I added a note to my first comment, basically I think this triggered a realization in a lot of people how assumptions have been wrong from the start.
There's a middle ground here that has existed for a long time. Mail hand-written cheques for your bills, deposit your paystub into your bank account, withdraw cash on a periodic basis for daily spending. You don't even need to use a banking card for any of this.

I haven't been to a store that has refused cash and have never been required to use a banking app.
I have an iPhone 13 and I have all of the annoyances, often, except 6+7. In fact I have had these annoyances with all my iPhone and Airpods combinations. It's probably all due to bluetooth, even though Apple uses their own W1 chip to connect.
beta is correlation to the market (usually refers to SPY correlation). Not sure what you're saying.
Was that really the point?

When people anxiously awaited their chance to get the vaccine in January 2021, were they thinking "ooh I can't wait to free up hospital beds"? Or was it "great now I can be immune and be done with COVID"?
>It is interesting you say that because the first notice I saw of it starting to get politicized was people calling Trump racist for attempting to placing a travel ban from/to China,

Trump has a history of xenophobia. The China ban was viewed as a second Muslim ban. It also appeared to be disconnected from the facts at the time because it was neither a full ban and was only singling out China. So it was clearly going to be ineffective and unfairly stigmatize Chinese people. Considering all of this, it isn't surprising his critics called it racist.

Also now that we are still in a pandemic two years later, it should be obvious that Trump patting himself on the back for this China ban is at best foolish. It was never going to have much of an impact.

> and for using the phrase China virus, when there is a decent history of naming diseases from where they came from.

Just because there is a "decent history" of something happening doesn't mean we should continue it forever. It is known that this type of naming is often wrong (the Spanish Flu likely originated in Kansas) and can lead to unnecessary and unproductive stigmatization. There is already a history of intentionally not using the place of origin to avoid these problems (Ebola was consciousness not named after the village it was found so they used a more generalized area)

> I think in fact your link attests to that because it's not saying anything about COVID it is all about how Trump is being racist for using the word China flu.

Why do you think Trump would consistently use "China flu" other than for political reasons? Isn't it obvious so people blame China for it?

>Personally I can't stand the guy, but if you believe that the entire virus and COVID response was made entirely politicized by Donald Trump, I'd check your medication because you might just be taking crazy pills in that case as you stated at the beginning.

I didn't say he was the only person responsible. I said he was the one who initially politicized it. Once it is politicized, both sides will continue to perpetuate that polarization.
As far as I know, this kind of system is most useful for simulating nuclear explosions while remaining compliant with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963.
The vaccines are extremely safe and the real world data from shows they protect you from getting covid in the first place (and are much more effective at preventing severe covid).

Here's the data from Sen Johnson's state: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/vaccine-status.htm#ca...
Back when I was searching for a good note-taking system, each and everyone of them had one feature that I wanted that was missing. Zim Wiki was the first system I decided to stick with, and after 4+ years I never gravely missed anything. However, if you don't like organizing your stuff hierarchically, your experience might differ. Also, I kinda dig the desktop-centric approach. It feels more like a real tool than just some kind of "app".

Because it's written in python it is comparatively easy to extend and through its integrated web server you can serve up your notes with a custom design in no time.
Counterpoint: it's not the uneducated that don't vaccinate, it's the cynical - and the "educated" are often ignorant of all the ways it's reasonable to be cynical because they haven't been screwed over as much.

At the end of the day, understanding the benefit of a vaccine requires trusting information, and I think that information, and trust, has been compromised. You could equally hate on anyone deciding that smoking was bad for you, not long ago, because of how thoroughly compromised the "science" around it was.
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I wish it would eventually move to Markdown in a large version change, to open the door to direct-to-MD publishing
Sure, you can see it that way, and positive discrimination is bad we can agree on.

But you can also see that pool of 7% containing top tier candidates ignored for the longest time - it's like a tree that nobody wanted the fruits of for the stupidest reason.
I'm guessing they nominate Obama in the tradition of Taft.

In an election year that conservatives are expected to sweep, Manchin/Sinema voters could be upset if their representatives lose them the ability to seat a justice of their choice. It is my belief that Obama is the only nominee that would have widely bipartisan unconditional support.
In the UK, you can have it posted to you, so you don't need a printer.
Google will make free ‘legacy’ G Suite accounts pay for its office apps
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Are you talking about in general or in relation to the pandemic?

In general it was both. Trump was both a reaction to polarization and helped increase it.

With the pandemic, I don't think there was an polarization beforehand. The US usually rallies around even unpopular leaders during trouble. 9/11 is the obvious example. Who specifically do you think caused the pandemic polarization?
Congrats Laura! This is awesome!
What's your point? Trump limited himself to young white Christian conservatives with proven far-right agendas, that's more limited than 7%.

The fact we've had 7% black women for decades and never had a single one as a supreme court judge is something Democrats obviously care to change. They'd like judges to have diverse views and life experiences, reflective of the diversity of the electorate, not just more white Christian conservatives.
Oh good, can't wait for Republicans to somehow claim a current sitting president is ineligible to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and then instantly vote for whatever wacko they pull off the street in 2024.

It's so frustrating that Republicans can just ignore law and continue to get elected. Meanwhile they call themselves the party of law and order, apparently that's only law and order for outsiders.
A strange argument to make. I have a laptop that I got for free from my father in law. But that does not mean one can 'get a Linux machine for €0.00'.
What do you mean, without a paid license? The wording seems pretty clear to me: You can get a paid license OR you can share 2% of your ad revenue.
For now. As an example, there are Amazon Prime discounts available at Whole Foods, and this QR code which asserts your membership cannot be printed because it embeds an OTP-like temporal code which changes every 60 seconds.

Any QR code which can be printed, can be copied. There's a vested interest for the operators of these systems to reduce the copyability of these codes (think: vaccine passports). Embedding a temporal code, changing the QR code every few minutes, and invalidating old codes, essentially OTP, is the most straightforward and industry standard way of doing this; it's inevitable.
Searched for "noble lie" and found...nothing?

> Information hazard: A risk that arises from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of (true) information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm.

I'm getting the sense there is an underlying loop in the reasoning to support this concept of hazard, where the direction of truth and information seems confused. There's also the question of the durability of a given state of truth.

What is the difference between information and fear? (e.g. data about potential information) When and how is information realized into truth, and in turn, consequences? Given we know truth is not a necessary or sufficient condition to have consequences, what are the qualities of information that does? If there were no truth, and in turn, only narratives and struggles for power, is an information hazard just something that hinders your will to power?

Admittedly I find Bostrom's writing mostly impenetrable because he seems to publish things he's still sounding out and I don't quite detect the hand of an editor, but while this idea of a hazard seems interesting, I don't see that he's testing for or discovering its existance so much as coining and supporting a meme. Perhaps I've just missed it.
> Because the code took only the first letter, rather than the complete sound of the character, most regional speech variations did not matter.

This bit is really interesting. This is one of the motivations for an open source Chinese IME framework called RIME: https://rime.im There are configurations available for a number of dialects like Suzhou or Shanghai dialects so that users who prefer those languages don’t have to use Mandarin/putonghua pinyin.
Tell that to the Taliban.
Another option is 2.4 GHz wireless, which is common in gaming headsets, at least, for low-latency / high-quality audio. The downside is it requires a dongle.
I think what you have said is in many ways very true, a modern web browser is in many ways comparable to an operating system and even more so with Chrome's push into new APIs that do things like access local file systems for example.

It seems that we need a better story for when code inevitably can escape the sandboxing that browsers provide because right now it's a straight up disaster scenario. That means you are going to have to rethink the OS underlying it and none of today's options were built with that kind of a threat model in mind.

There is Fuchsia on the horizon which sounds like a MAJOR leap forward but that also seems like it is several years away from ever reaching a desktop for example and it's also really unclear what kind of attacks are going to be possible in the real world against it either.
>It is patient's right to refuse any medical procedure.

The problem is not that they can't say "no", it's that they can't say "yes".
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Yeah you're saying x dollars instead of y dollars over z amount. It's a trivial calculation but it's really convenient
There is no such game plan. It is a giveaway to military contractors, corporate welfare.

Magnetically confined D-He3 or H-B fusion could, in principle, be viable, because there is no detour through collecting hot neutrons, but is harder to achieve.
This article from their help center explains the methodology: https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/209348486-...
And in context, "just dumb as hell" still isn't an insightful conclusion by the author. There's nothing here that isn't in the Verge article outside of links to buy books by the author/submitter.

> viewing your other comments in this thread, I’m inclined to believe it’s the later [sic]

I have one other comment as of now...
How do you sync between devices? Dropbox or Syncthing?

I find myself favoring self-hosted webapps over local running apps. It eliminates the "no client for X platform" problem while also providing syncing across devices.
And ionic is now on the list of "companies that operate at the whim of one person and should not be relied on for revenue"

Harder to fit in your business card, I'm sure, but hey, you've earned it!