skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thelema is not some cute LARP for edgelords. NASA is writing Parsons out of their history because someone who adhered to a credo of "do what thou wilt" is embarrassing to have as a foundational figure in the organization.
"Also a very difficult thing to fight when you've got a newborn"

Same for people with a serious disease like cancer. They don't have the energy to spend all their time on negotiating with hospitals ind insurance. They either pay up or go bankrupt.
I'm not sure it exists. Every hospital I've ever contacted is a complete shitshow and can never accurately tell you the price of something ahead of time.

Dealing with our fertility doctor was great though. They knew the price of everything. But they were ran out of an office, not a hospital.
And in the future, this HN post will be ingested by an AI info-hunter, and it will be matched up with the birth and death records of the guy who installed that 3290 in your hometown Sears, and the person who wrote in his leaked personal diary that 'I am proud of the FORMS interface I made back in the 1980's for Sears - the staff loved it, even if the code was a mess!".

By collecting all that data, the AI info-hunter will in milliseconds be able to tell a young girl 150 years from now that "Your great great grandfather was a computer man. I found 168,235 deceased people who directly used his work, and while his work never made it to the internet, there is a high probability that it is recoverable from a trash dump site in California in a red safe buried 13 yards below the surface also containing some car keys and a vintage $50 note.
Shall I navigate there now?".
A different torrent metadata archive (.torrent files) that's somewhat more up to date:

https://archive.org/details/torrent_metadata_archive_sample

(Though, in practice not as easy to download, you need to download a tar ball for each month, the naming is predictable, so you can at least script the download)
I live in France… my wife is pregnant and the birth will cost us nothing! Regardless what might happen.
Over more deals that element of luck averages out. But of course this can also be said for poker.

To be pedantic we should then say duplicate bridge reduces a great deal, but not remove, the element of luck. But that's a mouthful.
The lowest, sure, but those are around $2000/kW. The bulk of the points on the graph are still below $4000/kW. That includes Japan, India, and Canada, along with a lot of early US reactors.

Also, do you have a source for early French costs being unverifiable? I don't see where that's mentioned in the paper, so it doesn't seem right to just dismiss the data unless there's another source giving us good reason to do that.

As for the EPR, seems to me the conclusion there is just to not build any more EPRs.
As a former Navy Electronics Technician, I think some of these books are exceedingly well written and a wonderful resource.
I was a Windows user until I moved to Linux and then Mac. I don't anticipate going back to Windows again, but the one that would tempt me would be an updated version of Windows XP. Like better security, drivers and maybe the search function in the start menu, but otherwise Windows XP.

I feel like this was the last OS where Microsoft gave a damn about you as the user.
People say it's impossible to negotiate prices at modern grocery chains. They only had brand name lactose supplements. The manager gave me a hard time about it, I asked about a price matching policy, shrugged, and let me pay the generic price. I'm sharing this anecdote because I don't think people try hard enough and you might be surprised if you do. You won't win every time, but try asserting some authority.

By assuming markets are so rigged against you, it discourages people from even trying. Price discovery can only happen if you attempt to be firm. If you'll roll over instantly, then sure, they can do as they wish.
The glory days of the semi-welfare state in the US were indeed the 1950s-to-mid-1970s. A lot of those were regulated monopolies - in the case of health care, Blue Shield was a single, private but regulated insurance company owned by hospitals (some portion of which weren't for-profit). The main way Blue Shield was regulated (and it was definitely regulated) was it allowed to maintain complete control of the health insurance market, so that it operated like "single payer" without officially being "socialized medicine". The elimination of this system indeed brought us to the disaster that we're looking at now.
History of Scurvy
When I first visited, I clicked on an arrow that was on a card with the blue creature. I was taken to a kind of shop, that had a picture of plants at the bottom. From there there is no back navigation. This happened twice. But now when I visit the link in your submission, I’m taken directly to the shop, so I can’t reproduce the problem.
Ah, yeah, I apparently missed with Kroger there. Market Street, Randall's, Von's, United, Safeway, Tom Thumb, and Albertson's are apparently the same company.

See: https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/home/default.aspx
We have a fairly vibrant electronics DIY community but the technical skill caps out at around SMD stuff.

I had that experience in the heyday of TechShop. Which I felt was embarrassing for Silicon Valley. Not enough people making stuff.
You still can dispute a charge with a store but like cash it would be up to you to sue to get your money back.

Is it better to have some unknown entity at VISA making these decisions based some internal rules and how they feel today?

Visa can be charged by hand no internet but no merchant will because VISA has a rule saying any fraud with a card without a pin the store pays for which is why VISA is down today.

Businesses would rather use cryto.
the alternative is humans decide to invest their energy in improving the quality of life of other humans instead of pure (financial) domination
Can’t do that at our local hospitals. The forms are all computerized and your signature is captured on a small tablet.
In German, "hamstern" is hoarding.
"I imagine that every minute of talk about abortion or immigration has the insurance companies and its benefactors thinking "wow, we're still getting away with it!""

That's how the US political system works. We are only allowed to debate a small range of issues that don't affect the income of the capitalists.
The house analogy is wrong, we are not talking about using different tech for different apps but different tech for different parts of the system.

Therefore, the house analogy would be using different materials for the floors, for the roof, for plumbing and electricity. Then you will notice that different experts install all these parts. The plumber wouldn't do the electricity. It's not that it's impossible to know plumbing and electrical systems at the same time but it's much easier when you are plumber or electrician instead of trying to be a jack of all trades.
Blame the other vendors for not doing as much as Red Hat...
It's a hidden, opaque file. As far as I can tell, my browser doesn't tell me what its path is on my file system. That path and the file format could change with a browser update. Again, localStorage is nice, but this whole setup isn't comparable to a .pdf or whatever that I can have on my desktop.
Some good news: As of 2022, we have a new "No Surprise Billing" law that covers many of these surprise billing scenarios. There is a specific provision for being charged significantly ($400) more than a "good faith estimate"

More detail about the No Surprise Billing law here: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders...

Sadly this case occurred prior to the law going into effect.
It's possible the economics have changed since the 50s. The non-proliferation argument certainly has: in the US in the 50s, making plutonium was considered a useful feature of power reactors.
Very good idea and execution. I think you could do a lot more interesting stuff than making it about horoscopes.

Also as a turing test you should make one and never reveal it's entirely automated until it develops a big following. Due to the speed of automation you could mass produce podcasts of different types until one sticks, then the ones gaining more traction put 10x more resources into, etc.
McIntosh apples do not keep well, and it's very rare to find them significantly out of season. This time of year it would be difficult to find anyone with McIntosh available, now or a couple decades ago.

They are a very popular apple in the northeastern US, though, so if you grew up in that area it's no surprise you found them everywhere, for probably ~5 months out of the year.

While it's certainly true that the varieties of apple available are much larger now than they were, unfortunately a lot of the common varieties nowadays are bred with longevity more in mind than flavor, and also have parentage from e.g. red delicious and share its distinctive cardboard flavor (in my opinion).
Probably Mac OS 9.
I still hit command + n for a new folder, and get a new window. I loved that OS, but if I checked it out now I sure I’d be very disappointed.
No. However there is a relation.

Ali's grandfather specifically named his son after Cassius to honor Cassius, the KY politician. The son proceeded to do the same, with who would eventually be a famous boxer, M. Ali.

The boxer changed his name to Ali, both due to his conversion to islam , and because he was angry to take the name of a plantation owner.

The latter is true - Cassius was a plantation owner. However, early on he defender ardently emancipation. He in fact suffered multiple murder attempts from actual slavery advocates... who surrounded him in KY
Radioactivity in Ramsar, Iran
I've had the misfortune of suing insurance companies in the past; I'm very aware of how the system works. You are technically correct. It's just that you're grossly exaggerating exceptions as though they will ever be useful to a majority of people.
That’s because forfeiture is a civil claim against assets not a criminal procedure against a defendant. It’s argued that those assets were not the defendant’s to begin with.
They are targets. You need to think ahead. Learned knowledge is used space. By replacing knowledge with tape you have effectively eliminated millions of gigabytes of memory wasted by thousands of burrito wrappers across the world holding this useless knowledge in their heads.

While current knowledge can't be unlearned the skill of proper burrito wrapping is similar to the skill of dialing a rotary phone or using manual gear shift in a car. The future of burrito wrapping is via tape. You sound like my grandpa telling me how he walked 10 feet to school everyday instead of riding a Segway.
The Simply Static[0] plug-in exports all of your WordPress pages and assets into a directory that you can deploy. It basically renders the entire site and takes a snapshot of the rendered HTML.

You'll lose dynamic features (but ideally you'll be doing that stuff in your React app) but the static site is very quick and you'll avoid some of the security headaches of a public WordPress instance.

[0] https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/
90%+
What’s your point against my comment?
What vocal synthesis program did you use? Sounds 100% real at parts.
The issue isn't that speech is too free, it's that people have split into warring factions which use public debate as a battleground. Thanks to free speech, we can publish and read the truth, however inconvenient it is for other people. Many choose not to, and that's a catastrophic, but entirely separate problem, not solved by reducing free expression.

(I don't know how to solve it: my best advice is "everybody just chill the fuck out, please," which tells you why I'm not in a leadership position.)

The issue with controlling free speech is that, once you've done it, you have to make sure to remain in control of it at all costs. Your party cannot be allowed to lose power, and you have to make sure your enemies don't have a voice, because if they're allowed to get in control, they'll do the same thing to you. And now we've got an even bigger problem than we started with.
Is this a project you intend only for yourself? Or is it going to be a product?
How would crypto even go down?
Swapping forms in secret is the opposite of negotiating.
My current team uses Redgate SQL Prompt.
Doctors are also very self-interested and want to advance their careers.

So if the top surgeons at a hospital want the newest, most expensive toys, and will leave for another hospital unless they get them, it might be that the hospital administrators buy unnecessary machines just to keep their best people around, at the cost of increased bills for everyone.

In this story, the surgeons may not be explicitly greedy, but the system sets them up to cost everyone quite a bit.
I'm curious, why did it flop? Internal coordination issues? NLP tech not being ready yet?
i think this is trying to raise awareness of those that produces ozone which is definitely a bad idea..

"careful selection of the UV wavelength and light intensity used in these devices may be able to mitigate unintended chemistry."

Far UV-C 222nm done correctly would be great!
The key is to use the “not interested” button. You have to long press on a video. They make it hard to discover, and it’s the only way to get away from the phenomenon you pointed out. Takes maybe 30 minutes of tuning, and I’m also convinced that yesterday’s “not interested” presses inform the content that shows up today, so give it a bit of time. But it’s hard to gauge how any of these black boxes work.
If you can open up your watch with a coin then obviously the design is affected by this being something you can do. Saying that it doesn't interfere with design, size, weight, or price is disingenuous. Of course it does. It might influence those things positively or negatively, but it absolutely is affected.

If you have to put in a mechanism to easily remove a battery from a phone then how wouldn't that affect literally all of those factors? What sort of properties would this entail and what would be suitably easy to remove? That answer is different depending on the person. Some people perhaps just want the back to slide off, which would probably require a plastic back. You could add a hinged door, but that would certainly add to its thickness and affect the design. You'd also need to have a way to interface the battery to the phone. Phones that had easily replaceable batteries had contacts built into the phone and the battery that were sufficiently large as to make it nearly impossible for someone to fuck up the installation of a new one. This obviously added weight and thickness to the phone.

I'd love to hear how you'd engineer it to be just like a phone without an easily removable battery without affecting the criteria you listed.
If you want people to take you seriously, don't communicate in a series of tweets; on the other hand if you want to look like a raving lunatic on the internet, go ahead and spell out your manifesto in a long series of tweets.
What? Why?

We're talking about taking out a loan where you don't have 100% of the amount in advance.

You could lose your job, your business could go south, you could ditch for another country and never use whatever bank account or wallet you had your downpayment in again, all those things that are basically currency-independent. Breaking a contract is a people issue, turning paperwork into "smart" code doesn't actually tie a chain around someone's ankle, and it certainly doesn't guarantee their future income.
It's frustrating that he's so polarizing that everybody seems to oversimplify their discussions of him by reducing everything to one very narrow perspective. Tesla is a confidence game? Come on - Tesla is a company that has so much demand for its cars that people wait months to buy them, and it's done an enormous amount to shift the entire industry to electric vehicles.

That's not to say that a lot of these tweets are wrong - especially in the early days Tesla was been very much driven by Musk selling futures. He's also said things that were objectively false (see most of the dates he's ever given for stuff). But that doesn't mean the company isn't real - of course it is. And of course there are reasons beyond his charisma and ability to control information that Tesla has had so much success. Both things can be true!

It's the same thing with him personally - he's clearly incredibly intelligent and a very savvy businessman, but he also called a dude on Twitter a pedo because the guy said mean things about his submarine plan. He can be both someone who has contributed enormous things to society (particularly in terms of how much he's helped to push electrification) but also somebody who acts like a real dumbass sometimes.

Edit: typo
Heretic! To the fires with you! A taco uses tortillas...
I’m not in Poland, but I would love to know if all payment processing was down in Poland because it would mean today I wouldn’t get paid by any of my Polish subscribers, and depending on the problem my payment intermediary might incorrectly mark the payments as failed and cancel the subscriptions.
I have to admit that bitcoin is a pretty good non-corroding conductor that is commonly used in electronics, and a nonreactive material for medical and food applications, and it also can be easily worked into attractive jewelry or used in art projects.
It's not that specialisation is bad, more that you can be specialised in an area but that doesn't mean you should not have a wider range of skills, that you are not expert at but you can do it without fucking things up entirely.
> Four-player duplicate needs a fifth person to arrange the deck/hands

I'm not sure what this means. The only time I played, we kept our played cards in front of us, face down, and passed them to the other table after the hand. You need eight players, not four, but I don't think you need non-playing helpers.
Staking is similar to buying lottery tickets at the store, except you need never leave your home or pay any money for the tickets. It’s all about passive income generation.

Mining is a business, with real costs and logistics to fret about.

People should really stop doing the mental gymnastics to make push-button passive income generation seem extraordinarily challenging and, even more egregious, extremely equitable (“it’s _at least_ as fair as Bitcoin”).
for all we know, 99% could be in one guys hand.
> What was logistically involved in getting ahold of one?

Having a grandfather who left the country in 1968 for West Germany gifting me one when we visited him.

> And what were the "legal" alternatives?

Buying one at an outrageous markup in an exclusive shop. I don't remember the exact number (although I could find it out) but the price tag was something like five month of average Czechoslovak wages at the time. Apparently in the US the equivalent would have been paying $10000 for one (in 1988, mind you). Of course in Germany it cost something like 299 DM or so...
> POSReady

There's a name I haven't heard for a long time. I used to work in POS and remember getting big license packs of POSReady in the MS Gold Partner Program loot packs.
> No bank in the world will loan you money without collateral. Now using your example of a loan based on a Picasso painting, the value of the painting is correlated to the money supply.

That's what I wrote. The value of the painting was created by the painter, and money was created to back it. (And that money is destroyed when the loan is repaid, until the next time the painting is used as collateral.)

This is how the money supply (in free banking) naturally rises to match the asset wealth in the economy.

> The bank does not create money.

Of course it does. Your linked article is simply wrong. Trying to equate it to gold bars is a grossly wrong equivalence.
Are you talking about Elon Musk here, or Niedermeyer? The thread is summarizing things he has put down in long form in his book Ludicrous.
The Nintendo character Kinopio (Toad) is a play on words:

kinoko (mushroom) +

Pinocchio
The most revolting part of the US medical system IMO is the complete lack of transparency in prices.

In the ideal case, people would know what they would pay in each hospital when they are still deciding where to go.
Anyone like the idea to use AWS SDK to build deployment automation?
Hi Folks, just saw some post about Ansible. Also lightly tried other Infrastructure as Code like Terraform. Feel getting pretty large/complex yaml files when deploying decent size infrastructure.

How do people feel just using AWS SDK or other cloud SDK to write your own deployment tools? Since it is pure code, it is easy to refactor and test.

I did some prototype building DataPunch project (https://github.com/datapunchorg/punch) to deploy Data Infrastructure using AWS Go SDK. It provides one click command like “punch install SparkOnEKS” which will automatically deploy a ready-to-use Apache Spark environment on AWS.

Want to seek feedbacks and see whether other people have similar ideas?

Thanks,
Bo
You have no right. Visa decides who wins the dispute. That may be the standard but get someone having a bad day and you might get the non-standard treatment.
Thanks for sharing.

Have you considered adding a “business app” category? Thinking of things like CRMs and learning management systems. Maybe Salesforce would be the holotype?
capableweb isn't telling you how capable the web has become, see https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/

note: probably works best in chromium browsers
> For example, AFAICR NotePad++ displays those characters.

Great! Now go back to the other half of the requirement: how do I store all characters that NotePad++ displays in the content of a data field?
and nutella
It still boggles my mind how the US is the "first world power", and yet there is so much gun violence, those healthcare problems, homelessness, high co2 per capita, obesity, the prison system (especially in Louisiana where it's almost still slavery for inmates), money in politics, inability to get abortion...

All those issues are usually found in third world of developing countries, so I'm often quite confused...
How true is that really? What’s the difference in lifetime earnings between a UK and US orthopedic surgeon net of insurance and loan payments?

My sense is that the difference in pay dwarfs the difference in costs.
Man, that kind of experience would really make me lose faith in society. My wife needed a caesarian and was rushed to the operating theatre, but at no point was there any thought about cost — I just trusted that the doctors knew their business (and they did). It's so completely natural that anything that can happen while giving birth is covered by our mandatory healthcare insurance that the thought wouldn't cross your mind in the Netherlands (and obviously no bill came).

Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies do funny stuff with pricing worldwide, but at least patients aren't usually bothered with it.
Because it was mentioned in the article: I looked at the resumes on the Forbes richest people list and found not a single person among the top 100 who came from poor circumstances. The opposite was the case, many of them became rich only through inheritance.
I think the issue here is a lack of opportunities among older people for social interaction in society, not self-checkout itself.

Also, the woman who called the manager to open a till is a classic Karen.
Synthesis of γ-graphyne using dynamic covalent chemistry
pgFormatter

Github: https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter

It's a simple perl script, so very easy to run locally, but there's an online version for those who prefer: https://sqlformat.darold.net
Given how many warts remain in the language, not aggressive enough.
It might be, but I know that I had 200TB of real traffic via Cloudflare this month, while I paid for 8TB on my upstream. Running services of that scale would be utterly impossible for me and probably a lot of other people without their help, so it's definitely empowering.