skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We should just get rid or corporations. And we should get rid of prices too. And profit of any sort should not be tolerated by the Government. We should all have exactly the same possessions and live in identical houses that the Government provides. And these shouldn’t be better for people in the west. We should all have free healthcare too, and unlimited credit that can be used for loans that never have to be repaid.”
—The Guardian
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I am using a monitor light bar (Xiaomi) instead of a ceiling light when working at night. This gives a very nice atmosphere and saves a few Watts, but it will take some years until the energy savings compensate the price for the light bar.
I guess to me the words matter, and calling it “systemic racism” means that somewhere in there, there should be identifiable racism and not merely structural inequity, aka property ownership and capitalism.

I think saying you can’t go back in time and capitalize on an investment 60 years ago that also comes with an accrued property tax advantage is true, but has nothing to do with race. Anyone can start accruing their own tax advantaged status under the exact same Proposition, and no one can ever try to take it away from them on the basis of a protected trait, right?

I guess what I’m asking is, is there anything specific about this tax policy that accrues benefits to a historical capital investment which makes it “racist” over any other tax policy that accrues benefits based on historical capital investment?

There are so many race neutral policies that provide accrued benefits like this. Even social security benefits accrue based on historical wages. But also things like Roth IRAs which provide compounded tax free growth. You can’t contribute the same dollars today to a Roth IRA and get the same tax advantages as someone who contributed the same amount but over the last 60 years, the benefit can only accrue over time, just like the CA property tax benefit can only accrue over time.

Not everyone pays the same tax rate on their income or their property, nor are they provided the same level of government benefits. In many cases that tax rate or benefit level will be based on historical personal or family wealth. Often times it works out to be a progressive tax, sometimes it’s regressive depending on so many policy goals that are often in conflict with each other.

Simply put, any of your neighbors who have owned their (family) property for several decades have accumulated a several thousand dollar a year tax benefit for being a long-time owner. You too can accrue a several thousand dollar a year tax benefit the longer that you hold your property. You don’t get to buy in and get that benefit on Day 1, and neither did they.
> or even stuff like raytracing?

Someone correct me if I'm remembering wrong, "sound raytraycing" was a feature in the game Thief if you had a compatible sound card, right?

I (also not sme) think the best graphics analogy would be holograms in Star Wars - object is at point-in-room, and you can hear/view it there.

The big tech here is the ability to spacially position the audio in the physical space the speakers sit in, by automatically mixing it between the speakers.

Sorry if I misunderstood the question, or a smarter person answered while I was typing.
"Genuine Apple parts and tools can now be purchased by US customers" it's great us non-US people know though, kudos to them :)
Great. iPhones are now cars.
On one hand this move makes no sense. Poor countries have every motivation to print fiat currencies to fund operations. Heck, even "stable" currencies like the US dollar and euro are currently inflating to prop up spending in the issuer economies. Bitcoin can't be controlled in this way by the countries that adopt it as legal tender.

On the other, it could make sense. If a country is interested in accumulating bitcoin as a reserve asset, accepting bitcoin tax payments would be a way to do that. This hasn't been discussed much in the articles on this topic, though.

Also, both El Salvador and CAR effectively don't use their own currencies anyway. El Salvador uses the US dollar after a disastrous bout of inflation. CAR's currency is pegged to the euro. So adding another currency not controlled by the country doesn't exactly change the ability of the government to inflate its debts away.
This is a legal problem - allowing broadcast advertisements to the general public for pharma products is where the problem started. Before that, pharma had to advertise in targeting media directly addressing the medical profession only, e.g. JAMA, NEJM, various trade magazines, etc.

That's how this should be fixed - return to those limits. In an online environment that would mean limiting ads to doctors et al. on sites that require password and professional identification/validation. Otherwise information on drugs et al. should be presented only neutrally and scientifically to the broader public - marketing should be banned from the process.
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I think the reason for the return credit is to prevent another phone or device manufacturer building a device around an apple component.

Apple displays and cameras are certainly not something you can buy in bulk on the open market as a device manufacturer.
Years ago I worked with a start-up called MetaMed, funded personally by Theil, to provide a team of private medical researchers.

They didn’t make it, but the premise was sound / that standard of care is about 30 years behind research (at best).

The mindset I learned there helped me overcome a diagnosis of Bipolar / schizoaffective by doing primary research and rejecting the medications of Standford Psychiatry…

8 years later, with a mix of shamanism, spiral dynamics, mens work, underground mdma therapy, 5meoDMT, somatic therapy, biomythic.com and coaching and I’ve finally got some place to stand within itself, no need for medicines, and no longer dealing w suicidal depression or manic psychosis.
That would require a lot of wire and a lot of amplifiers. I bet we'll see an installation or two of the proposed design for proving it can be done.

Still, I bet most spatial audio systems will use software and fewer drivers ( potentially these drivers) to create the intended effect.

It just costs too much to wire all them up.
> So please tell us, u/car_analogy, what exactly is your issue with this report?

Is all you got from my post "I don't like it"? Because my entire post is explaining what my issue with the report is. Even if I could explain it more clearly, it would be useless, as you are already determined to not understand.
I got my start in 2008 with Prototype and the effects library Scriptaculous (built on Prototype). Prototype would actually alter built-in JavaScript objects, which could cause problems if you introduced scripts not built with Prototype. It was still a breathe of fresh air compared to using vanilla JS back then, with all of the incompatibilities between browsers. Once jQuery was introduced, and decided to wrap objects rather than alter them, it really changed the way development was done. I still build all my web apps using progressive enhancement, and try to use static HTML as much as possible so apps still work without JS. It really doesn't take any extra time to build this way, and I separate my backend logic so I could easily move to a SPA if a client desired it (NOTE: most clients really don't care as long as it works, and they don't have to wait too long for page loads).
One of my good co-workers is daughter of a dentist from the UK. the practices there are much different. We have had him analyze xrays and scans, he says its fine the people here just want/need your money!
Using a generic template like that just screams spam/scam to me these days. Definitely a weird site.
> Not sure if such a thing already exists for CL

couple of solutions exist for this

https://github.com/bendudson/py4cl

https://github.com/pinterface/burgled-batteries
Wouldn't the accumulated effect be viable though? I mean, air molecules are tiny, but there are lots of them vibrating in a coordinated way to make bass..
No they fundamentally don't. We have chosen to organize society in this particular way, and we could choose differently.

Stock ownership is highly concentrated among the rich. When we prioritize the interests of those owners over the customers, the majority lose. Maybe those stocks should crash. Growth by just raising prices isn't really substantive growth for society anyways, it's just moving money from consumers to investors.
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> It feels like (to me at least) that at this stage it is quite clear that using NPM is an anti-pattern that is best avoided if possible (security, requiring a "dev machine" with the right version of NPM installed etc, general bloat)

For all it's problems, it's still is the killer feature that makes it easy to develop JS apps. The things you mentioned can be mitigated with proper practices.

1. Security: Supply chain attacks can be mitigated through being deliberate about versions and making sure your CI systems always install a "frozen lockfile"

2. Requiring the "right" version of NPM: Can be easily solved through "engines" in package.json. You can basically tell your project to not run unless the dev has the right version of NPM. This is not that big of a deal since a dev can just install the correct version with npm. You can take this a step further with yarn and pin a specific binary in your project so it doesn't matter what version your devs are running, they will automatically use the binary you specified inside the project.

3. Performance and Bloat: Besides NPM, there's also Yarn and PNPM (Performance NPM) that both work much faster than NPM and are fully interoperable with existing package.json's.

The ecosystem is still not perfect and security is still the biggest issue. The other issues you mentioned though can be easily mitigated through good practices.
I'm able to browse many traditionl http sites with my 8088 with 640k RAM
This seems to ignore Ethereum's rollup-centric approach to scalability. Many of those interactions you mention (such as sending coins, interacting with a smart contract) can be batched and, in a single L1 transaction, their integrity verified cryptographically with succinct zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARK/zk-STARK).

To the user, eventual UX is similar. Direct CEX on/off ramps to rollup, trading, DeFi, NFTs, smart contracts, etc. It is all "on-chain" by virtue of it being cryptographically verified on mainnet Ethereum (and, likely in less time than the finality of a single BTC transfer).
> It doesn’t make any sense on its face other than as a way to con certain ideologies.

Meh, Netflix does produce a lot of low-effort woke content: Sense8 and the one where they stopped a school shooting through interpretive dance comes to mind.

I'd love to watch more high budget series where diversity is achieved without it being shoved in your face (all female Ghostbusters / all female oceans). They come across as pandering to their audiences instead of progressing societal views elegantly - hence why people say Netflix produces woke content and loses subscribers.

The goal should be subtlety and not wokeness. So far the only show (of Netflix) I've seen that hit these tones was Altered Carbon and it was aided a lot by the fact that it's set in a futuristic society where bodies are viewed as disposable sleeves.
Sure - Completely agree with having the air conditioning or heat pump running, there would be a higher power consumption compared to the average UK property, however this is about idle consumption.

When these devices are in "sleep" the unit is doing nothing more than looking for an IR signal from the remote controller that it's been turned on, just like a TV does etc, so it's odd to pull such a large draw in this sleep state.
I have noticed the same. My wife has some chronic problems. I figured going to a specialist would be able to give some good advice. For a few thousand in fees you'd think the hospital would be able to give you a book or at least a link to some reputable websites, instead we got a photocopied page and told to google it.
I‘m really not trying to sound snarky, but - is this the supposedly high quality treatment that U.S. citizens get that is so much more expensive as opposed to the „socialized“ insurance we get in Europe that is cheaper for everybody and supposedly therefore not as good/cutting edge?
Many TV's have a small ARM computer running constantly in the background, regardless if the screen is on or not.
One change I have seen in recent years is that I find fewer and fewer new engineers learn SQL, especially folks entering the industry from bootcamps. And conversely, more and more folks from a business/econ/etc background learn at least a little bit along with excel.
My android phone came without a calculator app. I recently realized this in a setting where I needed a calculator. I commented out loud about the lack of calculator and got some responses from the group I was in at the time.

"Just download one from the app store," I was told. "But be prepared to grant it network access, file access, contacts access, camera access, and email privileges."
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So your opinion is that if research tells you that you should overrule a doctor's opinion, the right course of action is to not bring it up, not do the research in the first place, because the doctor "knows better"?

In my opinion if you disagree or have doubts about treatment you should definitely bring those up with your doctor, see what they say about your reservations, and either get convinced or find some second opinion to increase trust in the expert opinion vs your own research. One thing I've learned from living with a doctor for several years is that an informed curious person on a very specific subject knows more than a doctor that has to know about a million things and probably isn't up on medical research papers. Your duty should be to bring up that research to your doctor and bring them up to speed. Once they read those they'll understand them better than you, but before... not a given.

Discussion is always better than no discussion. Engineers get thing wrong all the time, but code reviews help. You should help your doctor to minimize mistakes rather than just accepting everything.

Not only that, medical history is often wrong. I've often corrected previous notes to a new doctor - learning only then that the previous one hadn't actually understood what I had shared. There's a million ways in which your active involvement and care improve your outcomes.

Another time I asked about several aberrations in an x-ray after a surgery, and the doctor admitted there had been a slight mistake during the surgery that chipped a bone, but that it wouldn't have negative consequences. He didn't bring it up until I asked.
> It is a modern day phenomena

"Phenomena" is plural, i.e. it refers to multiple "phenomenons".
Yeah, I just mean the metal shell is at least slightly better than straight wood. Usually the exterior doors don't have that gap to shove a blade in (gap is exposed on the inside), but it depends if the trim can be ripped off to expose the gap from the outside. Basically, I guess all I'm saying is Sawzall would not be my first choice since there are generally much faster methods depending on the specifics.
Related to that I would look at the position of women in e-sports and streaming.

It's widely accepted that men are bigger and stronger than women; a woman couldn't be a quarterback in the NFL because of the danger of injuries.

In the case of e-Sports physical size and strength don't matter so much so you'd think women could advance further. Practically they don't so one is left wondering if this is because fewer women get started in e-Sports, they run into various problems that cause them to drop out, or maybe there are differences in performance like there are in regular sports.

Frequently though, when people are asking the question "Why don't women do X?" and you look closely at X, you start to ask the question "Why do men do X?" That is, X is demanding, doesn't pay that well, it doesn't look like a career you'd choose unless you got typecast into it.

(For instance I think of a certain camera store in Manhattan where all the employees wear the uniform of a certain religious-ethnic group. Are members of this group getting a good deal when they work at this camera store or is the camera store getting a good deal hiring members of this group? Or neither? Or both?)

Another factor is that both men and women can make money streaming without participating in e-Sports tournaments. Certainly some people are interested in watching people play games even if they aren't good at them

https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Kizuna_Ai

my son and I have thought about making a channel where we mock single-player games that we play but we figure it's a crowded market. This guy is 33 years old

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

and has 17.6 million subscribers on Twitch and is ranked #2 among Twitch streamers on Wikipedia. This 25 year old woman

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

has 9 million subscribers on Twitch and is ranked #9 by Wikipedia. She has participated in tournaments but I don't know if that really moves the needle in terms of following and revenue for somebody like that.
It's not that cut and dry. Just because you have a small carie doesn't mean it's only going to get worse. That's the reason for fluoride in our water, in our toothpaste and in the wax the dentists applies at the end of your cleaning (that for some reason, insurance never wants to pay for).

Fluoride treatments and good dental hygiene can reverse carries. Carries should only be treated if they're large, or if they're still growing after discovery and alerting the patient.
Given Apple's culture and anti-"everything this pretends to fix" I wonder if this yet another one of those things to serve as a talking point for Senate hearings but in reality they'll sell you some parts at 80% of the price of a new iPhone... ( that old gag ).
> But what's worse (and what makes me disagree with your comment) is that even after a year of being online it still wasn't clear how to make it not suck!

Were these Zoom classes? I can't think of a single synchronous (like Zoom) class that didn't suck.

What I liked as a student was prerecorded lectures that could be replayed at high speed (or even skipped) on my own schedule. Personally I much prefer these over live lectures.
It will hurt only the EU the exports that 1. Are manufactured in EU and 2. In a way that requires large amounts of gas.

For Russia, the loss of European sales will eventually be made up by East, sure - except they were selling gas to China below cost even before the war, and now, because they can no longer sell it to the West, they will have to lower the price even more.

And at the end of the day, gas will be slowly phased out anyway, replaced by green energy, leaving Russia without any significant exports at all.
> You're reading this in a year that starts with "2" so the only possible starting point is Google.

LOL. Seriously? Google the biggest known data whore, worst privacy invader on the Internet, whoring personal data out to any john willing to pay. Yeah. The year starts with 2 and Goog has been pimping your data for 23 years now and people still haven't learned they are not your friend.
Honestly, "just because I want to" sounds like a more compelling argument than talking about enlightenment. Mainly because the latter implies that people who don't know lisp are somehow unenlightened or lacking in some way - that comes across as really arrogant and it's clearly false since there are many successful and highly skilled programmers who don't know or care about lisp.

I kind of agree with the GP comment - nobody needs to learn lisp. The main reason to learn it is some personal interest or curiosity.
Hopefully you have another heating system that's more efficient than direct electricity, though!
The thing that bothers me about React and other frameworks is the look of the code. React components look like every other React component. There are few signals of “hey, I’m a dropdown” or “hey, I’m a table” due to caked on layers of abstraction and indirection. One thing I like about serverside code is that a tree processor looks like a tree processor while a state machine looks like a state machine. I don’t have to think hard and can use pattern recognition
Better down the drain then to radiate it back into your air. Then you gotta spend more energy pumping that heat outside (if you live in a hotter climate like I do).
I would guess it'll be free, but you'll have to give your identity and you'll only be able to do a few per year.

That way they lock out third party repair shops.
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Excellent? Whew. You must be privy to some private systemd dictionary somewhere.

Meanwhile, I am holding my own just fine, latest systemd-wise.

https://GitHub.com/egberts/easy-admin/blob/main/500-dns/512-...

It is all about reading the friggin’ source code … of systemd.
Interesting - I hadn't thought about putting that right on the homepage. The GitHub README has that: https://github.com/simonw/datasette

I worry that my target audience for the homepage won't necessarily have access to a working Python and pip, and so won't be able to just run that command without additional guidance (see https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/installation.html )

That's why I emphasize trying out a hosted demo on the homepage instead.
> Why are dentists so scammy?

Because everyone is and you can generally afford it when cheaper professionals do it and don't know when expensive ones (doctor, lawyer, etc) do it.
I use and prefer my in-car nav system to attempting to find a spot to put my phone and keep it charged.
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But you can pay off your taxes with a big bag of coins. Pay off the car loan with a big bag of coins etc.
They have to start somewhere. This is somewhere. Sure, they could do better, but if this turns into just a thing that they do for all new phones they release then it'll be great. Hopefully they will keep having availability of parts and tools even after software and security updates end for given devices.
if the target users are advising each other to disable it... then the tool is definitely more complicated than it needs to be.

This does not follow. I you ask a 5-year to repaint the Sistine Chapel and the result is somehow less than stellar, are you similarly going to blame the paintbrushes used? There exists no situation where the task at hand is too complicated for the user?
Having an unexpected cost and thereby not making a profit isn't actually a punishment - it makes the risk calculus a tame "I probably won't get caught", while the expected value remains positive. I realize I'm criticizing our entire enforcement philosophy for white collar crime here. But still, unless there are actual routine-disrupting punishments like jail time for violating basic professional responsibilities, we would expect unethical behavior to just continue increasing.

And this goes double for setups to make such violations "nobody's fault" like the creation of perverse incentive structures. In the context of blue collar crime, that's called a "conspiracy".