skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. There was nothing wrong with the interview itself. I don't think they looked bad. Fox News did their bit of trying to ridicule the person to please their core audience but the person handled it relatively well and people who were likely to support the AntiWork cause would be able to see the reporter in bad light and be interested in the subreddit. So, the attention they received was good.

If everything had gone well, they would get a swarm of new users to the sub-reddit, people who thought this was a bad idea would dominate the discussion for a few days, but when the dust settled, the subreddit would be much better off for it.

The problem here is that the person being interviewed has a shady past. They have boasted about sleeping on the job, have had multiple allegations of sexual assault and other controversies, which people brought up all the time, which is the reason they had to go private.
Discharging Remote Workers Trigger the Warn Act at ‘Single Site of Employment’?
I blindly trusted the post’s claim that “Maybe” means “the letter is in the answer but in a different position”. If you use that definition, you’ll arrive at the same conclusion.

The post should be updated with the correct definition.
That's a big part of my reasoning, there are some fundamental impracticalities to personal aviation that limit it to particularly niche use cases. Those don't really change just because it's a flying car or jetpack.

I can of course picture a world where there are automated skyways, and electric AVs guide themeselves from abode to shopping mall airport, I'm not without imagination. But I'm not hopeful.
How to prevent health insurance company get hold of private health tests
Today's something very strange happened for me where I live (Turkey). I got a health insurance offer (from Allianz) that precluded certain conditions. I had made a request about 10 months ago from the same provider, and had not had this excluded set of conditions from the insurance policy, but had decided to not proceed. Since then, I have had a private set of blood and related tests. I paid for these tests in full, one in cash. When I showed the results of the tests to my doctor last year, he concluded that I had no health issue with respect to these tests to worry about and I decided to get a private health insurance. I wonder how the health insurance provider has heard of this set of tests I had done. National equivalent of GDPR is certainly not enforced appropriately. I am not sure what I could do to prevent this kind of thing. Perhaps a startup could be appropriate to solve this kind of problem, anonymization of health results.?
https://archive.fo/stDMo
The "original" Wordle[0] only lets you play once per day, so if potential addiction is your concern, it shouldn't be a problem. It should take up less than 5 minutes of your time per day.

[0]https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
What's wrong with the icons being GIFs?
yes but the way to make cars safe is to - seriously constrain their movements (all cars here move in this direction, you can get off here, you can get on here etc. ), have different types of licenses for different kinds of cars, and limit their speeds based on location.

Jetpacks, and the flying car, have more possible ways to move.

The Jetsons used to show the flying car working the way the normal car did - highways in the sky - that's basically the way it would have to work to be made safe, as long as there are any sizable amount of users of the jetpack or flying car.

The jetpack has of course other hazards associated with it such as the engine being really close to the human operating it with significantly less shielding than one has on the car.

on edit: I think there might have been problems with the car in some Jetsons and George had to parachute to safety, arms crossed and a seriously miffed expression on his face.
Sure, I don't disagree here. My point is that whether it is fit for purpose remains to be seen or whether it's a solution in search of a problem versus alternatives.
Bonus points for ingenuity, I guess? /s

As a non-American considering going through the Green Card process and with an American-born daughter, stuff like this dampens my enthusiasm for living here long term. I guess the USA is just a place with an enormous spectrum of opinions...
I donno the mandolorian maybe?!
Jetpacks don't have brakes. Once you start moving, coming to a stop is very difficult or very harmful. You have to be a highly trained specialist to operate a jetpack at all, while you can gently learn to operate a car.
Don't you find it ironic that you are posting a comment about how people were flabbergasted that the lab leak theory was dismissed and banned from discussion, on a thread about someone being dismissed, and calls for his ban from discussion are coming from those same people who banned lab leak discussion?
I have to assume you live on the West Coast. I have spent a couple months in and around SF during pandemic, but I live in NYC and have travelled to many other places.

The West Coast experience seems to be a singularly restrictive experience. I'd hesitate to assume the entire nation is experiencing things the same way as you describe them (they are not). Though it does seem like many students across the nation are getting the super-restrictive experience as well.
Utah has a couple spots that are popular for paragliding. I'll never forget the time we visited one of the popular launch spots and saw a man get so high within minutes that we couldn't see him anymore.
48 million Americans get food poisoning every year, many dying. Are you going to stop cooking for your family and friends?
> Could say the same about the wright brothers in the early 1900s.

Yes, you could. But that’s not actually an argument that jet packs will follow a same development path, it’s just survivor bias in action.
A net positive :)
There is no way that you are not having your intake of air restricted by putting a piece of cloth or fabric over your face. For the average person it probably doesn't make a difference in the way their body or mind works. But small changes can and do make a huge difference in people who are not neurotypical, or have breathing issues due to their sinuses.
§ 103.15 Operations over congested areas.

No person may operate an ultralight vehicle over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons.
> Some of us still live in functioning democracies.

Where I am now I need to show a QR code to buy food and there is a curfew at 10pm. None of these measures had been discussed in the latest elections and they even violate existing laws.

I don't know how you can call most of the world a functioning democracy.
Only because of the communist past. Most states privatized these operators and the yellow pages continued to be published by them as private companies without any need for regulation.
ChapoTrapHouse promulgated marxism, so nope. I've seen enough of that in history. And the fact that it requires violence to implement, was fine with them. Also a no from me.
Exec summary: N95s work. Others, not so much, and less than we’ve been claiming up until now.
> The last time I had a conversation with Paypal, the customer support rep said that Paypal will release money after 180 days of the last transaction, which is January 25, 2022...

Paypal is awful for this crap. I understand why they do it, but they literally cripple small businesses with this policy. At the very least they should make it very clear under what conditions money will be locked.
I still think that's an understatement. Not that it matters really, but did you forget about the ubiquity of Blackberry's for nearly a decade prior to the iPhone?
Having learned both the implementation details of various QR methods and seen QR pop up in proofs elsewhere I think that it can be helpful as a building block rather than useful standalone.

That being said I’ve seen lots of algorithms that are only practical given that the matrix is in a special form for decomposition/inversion/etc and if you’re trying to implement an existing algorithm, tweak it, etc. that knowledge is critical.
Probably difficult as FB used to allow a lot more leeway on how FB groups and their posts were shared. The road to xx,xxx group members is a lot harder than it once was.
Shenzhen went from 30,000 to 16 million people in three decades without turning into a mess like Mumbai or Rio. That's impressive.
Funny you mention that. I just saw the below on reddit the other day.

https://explorersweb.com/jetson-one-giant-passenger-drone/
How much time were you required to devote to teaching? I would have a nearly impossible task trying to split my time between work and schooling my young children.
Amazon didn't invent this, they are copying from B&M retail. So they're all bastards. It's unfair to single out Amazon.

Some of the stores do this because they have the market reach and leverage to do so. Some of them switch to this out of desperation. Two recent and famous examples that I can think of are Fry's and Toys "R" Us. Now they didn't do it as a proactive strategy, but still. I believe Best Buy is an example of a successful retailer using this sales model.
> and safe enough?

They're like motorcycles. Do everything right and it's almost safe (someone else can hit you on the road and there are rare meteorological phenomena able to bring a paramotor down, e.g. a microburst), but even small errors can result in severe injury or death.
I just want to point out that global iPhone market share has been hovering between 15% and 20% for years. Android has almost all of the rest. Iphones are not dominant.
I wonder if the shallowed breathing is a physiological response that only some of us experience while wearing masks. It could explain why there are two very different experiences for people when masked.

I fortunately don't experience panic attacks from wearing a mask, but I will consistently get a headache from wearing one. And it's the same-feeling kind of headache I get from being in another enclosed space without air circulation.
I don't understand why Argentina doesn't just do like Brazil did [0] to fix its inflation.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidade_real_de_valor
And I don't know how to be more clear that the disclaimer is not the only set of facts in this situation.
On the contrary, studies have shown that this comes from an excess of empathy. Studies have shown that when empathy is controlled chemically, increased empathy correlates positively to increased tribalism.
You can still go online with a 1980's Amiga, send emails, write a novel, etc... Most of which is being talked about here.

Hell you'd be surprised how much you can still do on a old 386 with win 3.1. Pretty much anything word processing was perfected in that era, those old versions of office still work just fine.

While you could write all you wanted with an apple ii, I wouldn't really call that as usable as something like an early version of word which is very familiar for anyone that used word pre ribbon.
The point being that Java-specific things like WARs, Tomcat, etc. were almost exclusively used by Java shops whereas more general tools such as httpd are used across multiple communities. A C++ shop can host their app behind httpd/nginx/etc. the same as a Swift shop even if they don't otherwise use the same tools.
> you're probably only going to kill yourself if something goes wrong; and what can be more American than allowing that?

I don't think the reason for this deregulation is that the FAA doesn't care if you only kill yourself, but rather that the number of people interested in doing this is and was in practice incredibly small. Yes, anyone can go buy a paramotor for $10,000 and probably figure out how to operate it just well enough to be able to kill themselves, but in practice this is extremely rare.

You can be sure that if it somehow became wildly popular for people to buy these things and it was causing lots of problems, the regulations would change. The exact thing happened with the massive popularity of "drones," which were similarly deregulated because the usage of RC aircraft had also been limited to a small number of RC clubs around the country.
Reproducible builds allow the user of the software to verify the version that they are using or installing. They do not, by themselves, allow the sort of remote attestation which would permit a service to verify the context for authentication—the user, or a malicious actor, could simply modify the device to lie about the software being run.

Secure attestation about device state requires something akin to Secure Boot (with a TPM), and in the context of a BYOD environment precludes the device owner having full control of their own hardware. Obviously this is not an issue if the organization only permits access to its services from devices it owns, but no organization should have that level of control over devices owned by employees, vendors, customers, or anyone else who requires access to the organization's services.
We solved stability for a rigid drone that’s symmetric and designed for purpose. That’s a lot different than solving for stability for a variable size and weight human that’s wriggling around.
In the US, at least. In countries like Italy, they mostly wear surgical masks and have started a broader push for FFP2 masks. I find this kind of bizarre - the US has a lot more money than a place like Italy, but I guess they cared more about trying to layer some preventative measures instead of turning crappy cloth masks into some sort of weird self-expression thing.
> Digital media: most popular boats have satellite com on board and produce one quality youtube video every week. Photos, blogs, manage fans on Instagram. You were hoping to get away from the hustle? You will be back in it quickly.

There is a subtle assumption here in your aside remark that you think those interested in sailing are also interested in being popular doing it, probably because you’re interested in being popular doing it, and are very, very comfortably the outlier in the global sailing community. I’ve heard this from some hands, too, who are obsessed with the appearance of the vessel when near harbor.

When I bought my boat I didn’t see Instagram fan management nor sailing for others in the requirements of taking care of it. That’s your interest, and casting it as an inevitable future of boat ownership is almost as insufferable as what’s happened to camping and vans. Please keep in mind that most do pursue this hobby precisely to avoid getting on with that faff, and your experiences make you unique, not representative of ownership.

The experience is for you. Share it with those you love. That’s my take, and we will clearly disagree, so don’t think I’m trying to convince you. I say that because you’ve just become an advocate for sailing in this thread, and I’d rather the vast majority of people who find that type of thing intolerable don’t come to think it’s all sailors do and get turned off the hobby.
And this is my point. Because of the makeup of the US government - by the constitution - the red states have more influence on the government than their populations should allow. You add on gerrymandering, it gets worse.

It’s a structural issue. The majority of people in the US are for universal healthcare, freedom of choice, more gun control, etc. The majority of states oppose those things.

We already have to deal with tyranny of the minority in our own country, why would we want other countries involved too?

None of the issues you raised have anything to do with private companies.

No one is forcing me to use any of the Big Tech companies’ services. They can’t force me not to state my opinion like the federal government can - there are laws in some states where abortion providers must tell their patients things that are untrue. Other states have laws forbidding doctors from asking patients about whether they have guns in their house.

As far as myself, I have a lot greater chance being treated fairly in tech (where I have been working for 25 years) than if I as minority get pulled over by the police (the government).
Netflix Is Now Streaming AV1 Video to Select Smart TVs and Game Consoles
> So having 1B of mortgage backed securities go from being owned by JPMorgan to 'The Federal Reserve', just means it's more evenly distributed across all banks, not that 'the government' now owns the debt.

What's the practical difference between:

1. federal government owns mortgage backed securities

2. an agency controlled by the federal government owns mortgage backed securities

Please explain in detail, without resorting to "the government does/doesn't own it".
> But what happens when the world's currency also inflates?

It's a relative premise of course. The USD Index [1][2] (currently over 97 and rising) indicates the USD isn't being debased at a faster rate than the other major currencies. The EU, China and Japan have debt & spending problems every bit as bad as the US (with the EU and Japan having far worse growth problems), choking at their economic and political systems persistently and requiring forever interest rate games. So if, this decade, Argentina's currency debases at 20% per year and the USD debases at 5% per year, and there are no superior alternatives in the currency realm (eg the other major currencies are doing something similar), you'll largely mentally disregard the USD inflation, as all the major boats are getting the same tide, and your USD choice is still the right one vs the local currency. And if you can, you may properly choose to diversify whenever possible into inflation hedging assets with surplus cash, trying to balance holding enough transactional USD vs inflation hedges to limit some of the USD damage.

[1] https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?p=d1&t=DX

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/usdx.asp
Neil is yesterday, Rogan is now and the future. I guess Spotify looked at the numbers?
On January 26, 2022 Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance ("UINP"), a central executive body operating under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, presented[0,1] photo album dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence.

> “Independence. Prime Time” — a unique photo album to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence.

> On the pages of the publication of 30 years of independence are shown through the lens of photo respondents "Ukrinform". Photo archives of the agency are the largest in the country, it has more than half a million photo, so there is the most complete photography of our latest statehood. Most pictures are published in the album for the first time.

> The photo album is issued immediately in Ukrainian and English.

Printed 1000 copies freely distributed on request to schools, universities and public organizations as part of promotion of Ukraine.

Digital version in form of PDF-file (~ 26 Mb) freely available on UINP's site for everyone.[2,pdf]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAtj4oLvdW0

[1] https://uinp.gov.ua/public/uk/pres-centr/novyny/u-kyyevi-pre...

[2] https://uinp.gov.ua/uk/elektronni-vydannya/nezalezhnist-nayk...

[pdf] https://uinp.gov.ua/elektronni-vydannya/nezalezhnist-naykras...
So basically, mashed potatoes should cover it all? Heck yeah, and probably tastes better than those meals in a bottle too.
Blood-oxygen level is not relevant when it comes to mental well-being. I have the exact same problem as the parent commenter. I've tried exercising with a mask (cloth and surgical), and it feels like getting waterboarded (because the mask inevitably becomes soaked in sweat).

It causes a great amount of anxiety for me, and literally feels like torture. I don't care about what lung volume/blood oxygen "studies" say.
That is my assertion as well. The simple physics of it require that filtering air effectively will reduce the air-for-effort. If you're not experiencing this, you're pulling air from around the sides of your mask.

(Note that not noticing it is not the same as not experiencing it.)
I'm Venezuelan and today argentina's inflations look like the venezuela's one in 2014~2016 and as you may already know that only got worse and worse, hopefully, that is not going to happen this time but looking at this trend I believe the best course of action would be to be prepared to leave the country before all collapse
> For example: June 29, 2021: "I actually do not wear masks unless the business asks me to, bc I feel really protected by my vaccine, and I also feel that I can't spread it to others...these vaccines are effective against variants, they make it so that you can't transmit..."

That was exactly the CDC’s publicly stated view at the time. Pre-Delta, it was to a first approximation true. Citing this as if it’s evidence of her spreading misinformation is exceptionally dishonest.
Yep, you can try https://wordhoot.com if knowing the answers are accessible somehow decreases your enjoyment of the game.
It appears that the article is looking at vaccination in addition to mask usage. There are many areas of the US where vaccination percentages are relatively low and vaccination percentage of children between the ages of 5 to 11 are even lower.

While children may not wear masks correctly, at a population level, it stands to reason that wearing masks will reduce the chance of transmission. Just like condoms have a theoretical effectiveness of 98% when used properly, but real world use shows an effectiveness rate of 82%, mask usage should still reduce transmission, but not to the extent that they would given proper use. But that doesn't mean that they're not effective at all and there's no need to use them. Looking at it from a population perspective versus an individual perspective in terms of transmission and the chance of contracting the disease, they should still have some beneficial effect.

The other part of the equation is the use of multiple strategies to mitigate transmission. For example, social distancing, limiting the number of people, and reducing the time spent indoors. All these factors put together will reduce transmission even if people aren't perfect in terms of compliance.
Actually, the high level question in here is quite interesting (and has even been discussed in some sci-fi).

Humans evolutionarily think about movement with a 2 dimensional mindset because for much of our history we only needed to think about 2d movement. It's why even modern flight is centered around the idea of stacking multiple 2d environments (via elevation / flight levels) and then just ignoring that 3rd dimension for the most part.

This is why something like a car is operationally intuitive -- humans don't need training to quickly pick up the interface for one, even a kid could operate a 2d vehicle. The systems around them mainly manage the risk around _conflict_ introduced by having multiple actors.

This is also where a plane (or submarine, or jetpack) is fundamentally different. The systems around those need to manage not only conflict but also our sensory deficiencies. It's very easy to get disoriented in 3d movement (it's very easy to lose the ability to tell up from down) and there have been plenty of plane crashes due to this. That's why pilots need to infer their orientation from instruments rather than just their senses. That's also why flying cars and jetpacks are not widely available -- the amount of training just to operate such devices _alone_ is already very high, let alone having to manage conflict in addition to that.
I've found myself leaving them on on the walk back to the car a whole lot more now that it's Winter. Zero extra safety, but it keeps the face warm.
If the childhood mortality risk associated with Covid is comparable to the flu (which seems to be the case) why weren't we masking every child before Covid?