skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whenever people say “tax the rich” what they invariably mean is tax those that are richer than they are.

Not at all. It's usually meant as "people who have much more money than they objectively need for survival, owning an estate and having some leisure".

No need to resort to a straw man to win a discussion, please.

> If you are arguing from a moral standard, then shouldn’t most Americans be taxed and the actually poor ($2 per day) around the world receive those taxes?

Good idea, a lot of people would welcome it. Although me personally, I wouldn't want USA to become the hub of the world. History has shown us what extreme centralization leads to.

> Which to the average sample of some outside the USA, the vampire is mostly regarded as the USA, using its economic might to equivalently tax most other countries through many means.

Strange thing to say. Plenty of European billionaires are out there as well. Not to mention Chinese and Russian, and who knows how many from other Asian countries.

> Edit: just noticed this quote: “In 1963, 20 percent of Americans lived in poverty. Today it’s 2.3 percent.” If you are not part of that 2.3%, then you are likely the rich of the world that should be taxed?

The biggest problem with these discussions, every time, is that you don't consider that there are a lot of people out there with huge vested interest to misrepresent these percentages. The naive faith in institutions and democracy at large, while commendable, is a huge detractor from the quality of any politico-economical dialogue.

The observable facts -- if you don't deliberately close your eyes, which many do because it's easier to pretend that when you're well-off then everybody else is -- are that democracy has been co-opted and abused as a term while the world is in fact an oligarchy and a rich people club that invents laws to legitimize their behaviour. And that's been true for centuries. But I know I will not convince you. Your criteria for this is likely "well, I don't see armed men trying to storm my house, hence democracy exists" or something similar and thus our discussion is doomed from the start.

Back to "statistics", if you lived in a former Soviet satellite (like I did) you would see through these published percentages in five seconds. There are PLENTY of techniques to misrepresent information and they don't even have to lie -- that's the beauty of it (example: "What is poverty? Let's lower the minimum resources needed to define it. Boom, we have much less poor people officially now! Lol, good job boys, let's go to Thailand and spend money with funds from the fundraiser we have scheduled there.")

And so it goes to eternity.
Come on, it's really unlikely this show will be worse than the Hobbit movie.
Tangential — I wish they or someone else serializes Dune. It’s so tailor made for a tv series.

Also looking forward to Three Body Problem from nflx
Well yes: Apple MVC also isn't really MVC. See:

https://blog.metaobject.com/2015/04/model-widget-controller-...

However, sufficiently MVC for the purposes of the post.
You have to weigh “what could go wrong?” with “what could go right?”

The worst case scenario is far greater in magnitude than the best case scenario.

Just not worth any risk here.
> A question rarely raised: why is Git considered suitable for small or medium projects?

Quite frankly, _it's not_. There's _absolutely nothing_ ideal about git except for its ability to super-scale to that _exceedingly small_ percentage of projects which need that level of scaling. That's its _one and only_ killer feature. If it weren't for github and its ilk, git would be just another second-tier tool like the rest of the SCMs. Unlike every(?) other SCM, fossil doesn't require 3rd-party tools to host over CGI: that's built right in to it and CGI works on even the cheapest of shared-hosting platforms, so no equivalent of github is required in order to host one's own repositories.

Granted, as a long-time fossil dev and advocate, i'm _severely_ biased in this regard, but there's are _reasons_ i prefer fossil over git, why i use it for _all_ of my own projects (fossil.wanderinghorse.net), and why i support and advocate for it (just not for that small tier of "uncommonly large" projects, as fossil has, quite frankly, no business being used there).
His interpretation has fallen out of favor in recent years, in response to results of further research. Check books published since 2010.
I don’t know but I think fedora, archlinux, Debian, Ubuntu are all user friendly considering the amount of docs available and the fact that probably being an old laptop it is already fully configured on the get go, also probably it depends more on what you run on the distro more than the distro itself, try xfce or lxde first and see how it performs
> It feels like Peter Jackson has already tackled all the really interesting parts of the LOTR world.

I would say Hobbit is about the least suited part of the universe for adoption. There are far better stories.
Have you read 1984? Scientology is an outpost of IngSoc which will inevitably win but is under constant attack. Everyone in Scientology is naturally better than everyone outside, because they've accepted the truth. The worst thing you can be is a Scientologist who has left the organization, because you know the truth and you are actively working against civilization, a traitor to the future. You spend all your money on courses from the organization that will get you to Clear, a mystical status that will enable you to completely control your own mind. You spend hours hooked up to a skin galvanometer called an E-Meter while an auditor asks you questions. Anyone who is pre-Clear but not taking the courses and answering the questions needs to be encouraged to join the organization and save themselves so they can help save humanity.

When you go Clear you discover that you are actually just an Operating Thetan I, and you need to pay more money to take the courses to become an Operating Thetan II. Then you learn the real truth: that an alien named Xenu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_%28Scientology%29

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

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

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

... and by then you're willing to do anything to save the world, including torture people by putting them in solitary confinement and starving them.

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

That's conditioning.
> But the muscle mass will rise your metabolic consumption.

Losing weight doesn't have to increase muscle, you might be trying to just actually lose weight. Also, the actual difference unless you replace an enormous amount of your mass with muscle (which unless you're doing an incredible amount of lifting you won't be doing), ends up being in the region of 1-200 calories per day, which is the difference between having a chocolate bar with your tea in the morning.

> But the last mile is really hard to get to without exercises

The last mile is the same as the previous mile. The difference is that many people realise that losing weight isn't the entire story, and the last mile is no longer about losing weight it's about gaining muscle, and _that_ requires exercise.

As I said, exercise is incredibly important, you'll look better you'll feel better, you'll sleep better, but you won't lose weight unless you're running 10k every day _and_ not eating any more to compensate for it.
But they picked someone to "fight" who doesn't fight to show that the outsiders were wrong about the community. They instead picked someone who illustrates the outsider's points.

It's like if the fraternities at a college are asked to send a representative to a committee that is addressing accusations that the frats are rife with excessive drinking and sexual harassment, and the frats pick someone from Animal House, or like if Clowns of America International needed a spokesman to fight the image many people have that clowns are creepy and scary and dangerous, and they picked John Wayne Gacy.
1. No idea why 100cm * 2840 is 18.94 kilometers;

2. I can increase 2840em to somewhere below 5000em no problem on both Chrome and Firefox. Beyond that Firefox hides the element and Chrome cuts off at some point. Not sure if it's dependent on vram or something? Another interesting thing is Firefox's Layout tab shows a wrong, capped height in the Box Model diagram; currently says 8947820px for me, but it even changes from time to time.
Let me try!

> Even a simple merge/rebase leaves one confused. Which should I use?

Merge merges two branches. You fork a branch off master, work on stuff until it's done, then merge it back into master. After that the branch can go away.

Rebase is for rewriting history. To get rid of the 20 embarrassing commits where you tweaked stuff at random hoping to get it to work, or to redo a bunch of changes in a more coherent and easier to review way. It can be used to transplant work from one branch to another. It also can be used to keep up with the changes in the branch you forked off from.

> What is incoming? Why does incoming change as you progress?

Not quite sure what you mean, could you provide more details?

> I didn't change anything (on purpose) but Git won't let me change branches.

Probably because changing branches would lose your current work. It can happen either mid-rebase, or because you modified a file that would be overwritten by a branch change.

> How do I just unfuck what I did and go back to a branch?

You can abort a rebase with `git rebase --abort`. This loses progress.

> Git might have awesome tech underneath, I really don't know or care. But someone needs to really spend time in a typical dev's shoes to make it nicer to use.

I agree the UI leaves a lot to be desired. But the main thing is that you need to understand what it is that you want to accomplish first, especially in the merge/rebase question.
I'm 53, and I've worked for 3 Fortune 250's. Can confirm. I've seen this happen over and over again. Senior management makes some broad pronouncements, and the mid-level lieutenants have meetings with consultants, and then implement new, expensive projects that "will surely fix 'it' this time." Five to ten years later, after the dust settles, and we figure out that we've strapped YET ANOTHER LAYER of technical debt on top of everything else, and things are worse than ever. But at the height of the project, when everything is still rosy, the managers in charge update their resumes, and hit the bricks.

IN PARTICULAR, at one Fortune 250 (which no longer exists), we implemented OneWorld to replace the mainframe. After 7 years, we still had the mainframe, AND a badly-implemented version of OneWorld. Then the company got bought by another Fortune 250, moves were made to "commonize" the IT systems, and then the parent company sold everything. But I'm positive that everyone involved in the project to retire the mainframe made the project look very successful on their resumes.
And we all know how it ended once they ran out of his material. Yes, I'm still salty.
Sean Bean wasn't an unknown. He wasn't a star either, but he was the villain in one of better Bond movies and also was in the first Lord of the Rings.
I'm expecting a 465 million dollar joke about the ease of delivering products to Mordor using Amazon's infrastructure. If not in live action then at least as an advertising campaign based in supporting material.
Where I am various parts of the business run workloads on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. To some extent I think this sort of behaviour is encouraged by large corporates because it makes contract negotiations easier if you're able to wave in the direction of the other cloud providers you're using and suggest it wouldn't be too hard to migrate over to them.
The transfer of various liabilities is omitted from the above tweets, which is clearly worth something to some people.
Speculatively, is there some tax optimization purpose? Eg, if you invest in content that builds technology that could be used for other purposes? Amazon is pretty amazing at tax optimization. But R&D tax writeoffs are pretty great, so not sure what it would accomplish.

hmm, so maybe this is just cover for the UFO skunkworks.
For now my iPhone opens my camera without waiting for an OK from some tech giant. (I don't think that was what my androids actually did but it sure felt that way, they were that slow.)

Also they have reasons ($$$) besides tracking and advertising to keep me in their ecosystem.

It won't surprise me much if they start double dipping though, so I keep an eye on fairphones etc.
Interesting because on https://lsif.dev/ I see that LSIF support for C++, which basically is just a wrapper around clangd AFAIU, is deprecated. Is there something else that replaced it?
I agree on the Silmarillion although every time I reread it I grind my teeth about how stupid the elves were to give in to some empty envy towards other elves when they literally had ZERO problems in their lives.

Hits too close to home and it hurts, I guess. Because I've seen the same many times -- people literally seeking for problems because their lives are so careless and leisurely.
I stumbled across this when it launched. Here's the talk by the artist that gives some background information:
https://youtu.be/bp23r-Gtdkk

Rather than talking about webcam permissions, I think we should talk about how much we use and rely on bad ML models. Dating apps might want to rate attractiveness, but we have no checks in place to see how we're being rated. Especially free open access models probably don't come with a thorough bias&limitations datasheet.
"Even so, never stick the pads on someone who isn't actually in cardiac arrest because if it gets it wrong it probably would drop them into cardiac arrest."

MD here, I strongly disagree - the AED is designed for use by minimally trained people. And the chances of a shock being wrongly administered is many times lower than the chance of saving a life if they are in a shockable rhythm.

I think it's really hard to definitively diagnose cardiac arrest in the first few seconds to minutes, even for some medical personnel - even if you have no cardiac output, a person often still has some residual apparent breathing ("agonal breathing") which often leads people to delay CPR, and delay applying the AED/monitor+defibrillator.

Perhaps we can agree there is no point placing it on patients who can talk to you? :) But if as an untrained person you applied it to every person who lost consciousness in front of you, you would do a lot more good than harm, with almost zero absolute risk of harm.
How can the Pippin relate to any future console endeavour of Apple? I can't think of any piece of tech, or employee, who was there when the Pippin was released.
Could be a scam, but the guy has a Dutch accent and talks about privacy, so it's probably fine.

(I'm 54% averagely normal)
I am 39 and it estimated my age as 10. I am not Asian.
Oh yea totally. It's just interesting to see how everything can be recorded as a series of cycles at different ratios / gearing. Really cool.
Yes, that would be obnoxious ... if that's what they said :)

To be clear, I don't like it either if others consider their taste to be 'superior', but simply stating what you prefer is not - I think - implying anything.

I feel like there's a trap people fall into where they tie some of their self-worth to their entertainment choices. If you don't like the music (say) that I do, then that seems like no big deal to me.

More generally, there is the opposite situation to being a 'superfan' where people delight in putting stuff down. Ultimately if you don't like (say) Marvel movies, then just don't watch them, of course. However it's reasonable to be critical of any entertainment or art form if you can articulate why and how they could be better.

Just my two cents.
Yep, imagine the Valar and Melkor raising and leveling mountains on screen (the very early periods of Arda). Brrrr, that would be epic.
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>I wish they or someone else serializes Dune

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/
He seems to be complaining that you can't say controversial things anymore, then promptly turns around and complains about people saying controversial things about Israel. "don't cancel me, cancel him!"
> [2] The biggest contributors to these are the twin demons of prior authorization and electronic medical records. Prior authorization is when health insurance companies require doctors to ask for permission to perform specific services for specific patients. This is incredibly time consuming (14.4 hours per week as of 2020) and also demoralizing for the physicians, as the ultimate decision on how to treat a patient is often not made by the highly-trained physician or the patient in need, but instead by a 25 year old making 40k/year reading off a script over the phone.

This is a dramatic oversimplification.

The person reading the script may issue a denial, and then there is a process of appeal, which may include other steps.

Physicians interacting with insurance companies practice what is known as a "peer to peer", where a physician discusses the case with an insurance-employed physician, often trained in the same specialty as the physician. Sometimes the notes provided by a surgeon were inadequate, sometimes they need clarification, sometimes the incorrect codes were used, and payment is retroactively denied.

There are a few things too many rejections can cause:

1 - Insurance switches

2 - Regulator problems

3 - Competing model with insurance

4 - Lawsuit, as some legal firms specifically target insurance companies for this activity
> Servers in FromSoft games are only for matchmaking. The actual gameplay has always been peer to peer. The design of the games mean that making the multiplayer entirely online server based would not work. They're peer to peer because that's the best way to support the hybrid singleplayer / multiplayer design where players drop into and out of your world. Otherwise your world state would need to be consistently synced to the server, which introduces major problems -- in particular, the fact that you would be dealing with lag in a game that you spend mostly singleplayer.

This isn't quite true, they could have on-demand spin up of a "server" and hand off relevant gameplay decisions to it but it would be a ludicrous overcomplication and expensive for one small part of the actual game.

Switching to a rollback system for their peer-peer networking would do a lot to prevent exploits though but would likely be a significant and difficult change with the determinism requirements.
> companies that abdicate their informatics operations like this will give their profits to their data-center operators

Is the expectation data centre operators will see margin expansion? (Genuine question.) I had thought data centres were increasingly becoming commoditised.
This would have been great! Allthough, as far as I heard, one of the reasons for stopping was the time jump in the books (full disclosure: I didn't read the books).
In history what have databases of people and state actor interests usually led to if any events are similar?
I thought so too. Encrypt the hash with private key -> decrypt with public key and check the hash.
Yes, better conflict resolution is needed, but outside of scope for git. Do one thing well.
A lot of the press is saying it is, but unclear since “entries” is as vague as the “records” in this 1.2 billion leak:

https://www.wired.com/story/billion-records-exposed-online/

Appears this leak is a single dataset — one I linked to is multiple datasets.
> No personal data is sent to our server in any way. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. All the face detection algorithms will run on your own computer, in the browser.

> In this 'test' your face is compared with that of all the other people who came before you.

No data is sent, but your face is compared with that of all the other people that came before you....
It is both. It is huge, I'd say it's absolutely the latter. but I can't think of a single thing anyone can do about any of it at this point, which also makes it the former.
Perhaps a gimmick — known name, killed off. Buzz!
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Meanwhile Nintendo never releases their games on other platforms, and Sony pays off external studios for timed and permanent exclusives, while sometimes releasing internal ones on PC years later.

Who exactly are they losing goodwill from?
If they make it for half the price, they won't sell it at that price. They'll make sure to make a hefty margin on every console sold. Realistically, Apple will stop putting old phone chips in its TV box, and they'll start putting the more recent chips with good GPUs.
This is correct! Sorry. It's sometimes better to sleep in the middle of a night than to post. So embarrassing.
Presumably some amount of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting is at play. Since New Zealand is footing a fixed percentage of the budget, it would only make sense to artificially inflate the costs.
The last hurrah for web money profligacy maybe. Investors aren't going to be too happy to see so much money spent without a commensurately large return in this economic climate.
So much money for something that I can already tell will flop...

I really don't understand why they put people who have no connection with the IP in charge of this. It's really quite sad to see such a beloved world getting an adaptation that is destroyed by poor writing and design by committee
> becomes a race to the bottom and UPS drop their prices

This is competition.
More like ~0.2M. I updated the figures to use the LTV of a Prime customer :-)
It may not happen with this series, because too many will probably still watch it even if it’s terrible, but it’s bound to happen for some franchise at some point, and maybe things will get interesting then.
I suspect this will go down beside the Fire Phone.

Amazon just sometimes gets this idea that if they spend enough money they're sure to win.

I just wish the government would finally break them up so that AWS could keep it's profits and stop funding the rest of the unprofitable divisions.
The insane challenges can be even harder than boxes imho.

When I first discovered htb I too had a couple months of hardcore grinding to become omniscient, then it became a bit too time consuming to keep doing them once I got in the top 10

I would definitely recommend if you’re gonna keep doing them to make a couple friends who are at the same level, it’s much more fun / less grind to tackle them in groups
This is just the trolley problem from ethics.

A doctor who follows those course grained recommendations derived from statistical evidence will provide the best outcomes to the most patients in aggregate.

A doctor who tries to uniquely discover the best outcome for each individual as they come through, may provide the best outcome for any given individual. But overall the deviation from the statistically recommended procedure will lead to worse outcomes in aggregate. It has to, because if it lead to better outcomes, the doctors 'personalized' process should become the statistically validated process with time.

When initially presented with the trolley problem, most people side with the saving the group over the individual. It's funny how quickly their minds change when they realise that in a healthcare context, they are never the group, they are always the individual.

Measurement in medicine is also in many cases not particularly quantitative. E.g., fatigue, pain, cognitive dysfunction etc. So taking more measurements doesn't necessarily give you any useful information.

In fact, near as I can tell. In the US, there is so much fear from doctors of misdiagnosing and starting patients on the wrong treatment plan, that they order too many measurements. Overall reducing the quality of care. The time needed to take measurements, as well as the risks of measurements are not negligible factors in healthcare outcomes.