skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are two categories of healthcare right? Palliative and preventative.

The simple answer to this is that “preventative” in the case of billed medical services has a specific and clearly defined meaning - it does not even mean all services that ever would be considered preventative. This definition will be found in your insurance paperwork and corresponds at least to the site I posted - so a further philosophical discussion is irrelevant.

To your actual question - No, the echo is usually pallative. However, right off the bat I'll say this is an overly reductionist and not terribly useful schema for classifying the delivery of medical care. While it might be good as a way for the general public to think about prevention, it’s way too oversimplistic to be useful beyond that.

An aside, palliative has a specific and different meaning within medicine: roughly, treating symptoms without a goal of cure. Reducing a broken arm or removing an inflamed appendix is not palliative care in that sense.

But even if we widen the scope of palliative to be treatment an echo would be neither. An echo is diagnostic - it doesn’t prevent nor treat heart failure or disease. Often when an echo is ordered it leads to some form of treatment for some found disease, in which case if we’re going to stick to the simple classification would be “palliative” - we’re using it to guide treatment, we can’t prevent something that we already see.

> If he had violent symptoms it would clearly be palliative

It's just not that simple. Echos are sometimes used to further evaluate or manage asymptomatic disease, for instance A-fib or a concerning murmur. We're using the echo to rule out suspected coexisting conditions, that's not prevention, and it's not treatment either at that point.
Also, echos usually have some symptomatic indication - and they don't have to be violent, whatever that means.

> it can only be preventative

Can you actually think of a disease that an echo would be used to prevent?

But again, in practice we don’t think of delivery of medical care in such grossly general terms - it’s doesn’t simplify in a useful way.
The specific issues aren't the point.

The point is that most people don't have informed opinions based on fact but rather just regurgitate whatever is fed to them in whatever media they consume.

Us sitting here having an educated debate on the merits of nuclear vs hydro aren't the problem, we lie in the relatively informed group. We have concerns about nuclear (and other technologies no doubt) but those come from a place of reason, not of group-think.

Side note:

Nuclear and it's relation with Green's parties around the world is also special as it was the platform on which those parties were created. So otherwise rational people, i.e environmentalists are irrationally against nuclear power because of long-standing historical reasons that probably don't hold anymore but can't change the very basis of their platform - or at least are unwilling to.

No amount of facts changes that as it has nothing to do with facts and everything to do with politics.
The OP is right.

If you are off-grid and adapt everything to using solar and battery then you can get "free operating cost" with enormous costs and loss of reliability.

However if you are grid-tied then the power company is going to regulate the power output of your solar panels in order to avoid the "duck curve" problem. Meaning that during times of peak potential output the panels are effectively going to be turned off.

Also don't try to get fancy with copex versus opex stuff. It's nonsense for anything other than company valuation and depreciation, especially when it comes to taxes. It's meaningless for home owners. Costs is costs. Money is fungible.

While laudable that you want to get energy independence, if that is your actual goal... the chances of you ever recouping your costs over just using the power grid is extremely small.

And those expenses are real. That is in terms of real resources... raw material, manufacturing, and labor. Unless you can get those costs inversed then chances are extremely likely that you are consuming far more actual resources and creating greater "carbon footprint" than if you just stuck with grid power.

That is... if everybody did what you did then there would be significantly higher ecological impact than the current status quo.
Given their track record, I'd trust Microsoft approximately 0% to secure my critical/sensitive systems. The funny thing is that the U.S. government does, in fact, trust them.
you say that in a manner suggesting that you think holding those political views is both inherently bad, and deserving of arbitrary punishment
I'm not sure what the point is supposed to be of this imagining.

Yes obviously pure capitalism is as shit as pure anything else, and no system made by humans, and made of humans, actually works very well to create sanity and fairness. So even not-pure capitalism creates all kinds of undesirable results, like available tech doesn't get used in ways that would be wonderful for everyone.

What solution to human nature have you imagined in your split second?
> If a government(s) says "you need to veer off this version of Ethereum and run your own.

Which governments, saying to whom? And how would they enforce it? What would be the consequences for those that didn't comply?
Leaving behind the technical details and the energy consumption aspect, it seems to me that the main economic difference between PoW and PoS is that in the former miners are forced to sell their earned tokens due to a high cost of keeping their equipment up and running. This sounds like a healthier approach.

Whereas PoS validators don't have the same burden, therefore they'd naturally tend to simply increase their shares.
> After paying for access to the scraping software, customers self-compromised their Facebook and Instagram accounts by providing their authentication information to Octopus

"self-compromised" lol

clearly these people just wanted an automated way to access their own data
Are You Ready to Be Surveilled Like a Sex Worker?
Dutch Parliament Approves Legislation to Make Work from Home a Legal Right
You can get sued for anything that causes harm.

Relevant life lesson: don't do things to people with money that they might perceive as harm.

Corollary: Being sued is as much punishment as losing a suit for most people.
> An impressively high weasel quotient in these words.

If they changed "evolving" to "devolving" it would be quite honest, since this is clearly a regression.
The Holy See and the International Committee of the Red Cross are the two other non-state bodies in international law (Völkerrechtssubjekt — what's the proper English term?).

Both hold no lands, but only one of them is explicitly religious.
I don't know but it's at least been that way since Aaron Swartz did it I suppose.
- Haskell (backend)

- SwiftUI (iOS/macOS)

- Rust (backend)
This started becoming common in shopping malls at some point during the aughts or 2010s.

Usually accompanied by large in-corridor vendor displays which further obstructed already-crowded walkways.

I stopped going to malls.

High-street shopping districts still don't affect me to the same viscerally-negative degree. Even those which seem to be fairly consciously emulating and attempting to create a mall-like atmosphere. There's something about the open-air nature, and the fact that sounds attenuate rather than echoing off hard surfaces from all sides.
changes all the time. i like to learn new stuff so i always have a go at whatever shows up on HN.

if i had to pick, i'm a fan of nuxt. spinup is quick and easy and i'm a vuejs guy so its not that hard.
Seems true for me at least (1980 birth). One of my first friends died of a cat allergy at 12, another shot himself the next year at 13, my sister's best friend was murdered by her mom's boyfriend right after I graduated, my best friend from high school died from alcohol withdrawals in 2016, and it seemed like for a few years after high school, at least 1 or 2 people were dead from car accidents that I'd known from school every summer I came back from college. A guy I worked with in college broke his neck and died in basketball practice. Probably not fair to count people I met in my 20s since I was in the Army during the Iraq/Afghanistan years, but deaths were pretty regular. I wanna say my 20 year reunion had 12 deaths out of a graduating class of about 200? That isn't quite 9%, but doesn't count those who died before we graduated.

And yeah, clearly the rate is likely to be much higher for people living in Bangladesh or Djibouti or something. I grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs.
https://mobile.twitter.com/enemyinastate/status/154479408272...
Thanks. Yes. I changed "tiny share" to "small fraction," and noted that the industry is much more than LBOs. Note that many other kinds of PE deals -- e.g., infrastructure, real estate, distressed secondary investments -- are done with lots of leverage too.
Wasn’t Meta stealing news articles and not paying news organizations for them?
> There is this beauty of economics – you don’t have to make anyone poorer in order for you to become richer.

At any appreciable scale I disagree with this, or at least believe this ignores a whole lot of complexity.

Like, it totally ignores how profits are allocated within a company, for instance. Jeff Bezos got richer by making his employees poorer, for instance. He could have chosen to make his employees richer at the expense of making himself poorer.

It also seems to ignore the extractive elements of companies. Whether we are extracting raw minerals, agricultural products, or manufacturing capacity.
anecdotally, I had CD player first then I moved to iPod and downloaded limewire
Yeah, I think this is more like the Cambridge Analytica situation.
> mastered it in 2 weeks as a backend engineer

"mastered"
> Traditionally; the existence of a Navy was to project power across a nation's geographically disparate colonies, which isn't in isolation a very valuable thing, so take it a step further: a nation may want colonies in order to bolster mercantile trade, and the existence of a Navy was to assert power over those colonies, and protect the trade ships in-between destinations.

Not really. You might want to read "The Influence of Sea Power upon History", a hugely influential book that was among the factors for the tensions that brought WWI. Historically sea power (navies) were for trade and lines of communication and their security; conquest of enemies/trade outposts; raiding. Framing it all as "colonies" is a very post-Age of Exploration view.
Don't tell anyone, but I hear the internet is going to be big.
This is quite a cool project! Congrats on the public release.
Most LBOs aren’t really that interest rate sensitive, let’s say you buy a company for $100m dollars 12x EBITDA, and 15x unlevered free cash flow ($7m), you would have put $50m of non amort. debt in the business @ 3%, so had a $1.5m interest payment. Lets say that doubles to $3m, earnings would have to be cut in half to not be able to service debt…
You are right, but even if it's simple, it's not something the average user will know.
The legislation was approved by the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands on Tuesday. It still needs a nod from the Dutch senate before its final adoption.
Stop producing pork if its not profitable. No need to protest. When a market is interfered with, shortages or surpluses are normal. When the government places price ceilings on OUTPUTS, if the INPUTS cost more than the OUTPUT, expect shortages.
I think the problem here is a mismatch between the idea of a common carrier, where distribution is content- and audience-neutral, and social media sites which actively analyze both content and audience and distribute the content accordingly. In the latter case, there is no public interest served by limiting liability, and such sites should absolutely be liable for content that they actively present to users.
The whole book is already out: https://nostarch.com/art-mac-malware

It's a great read :)
“‘There is a game of puzzles,’ he resumed, ‘which is played upon a map. One party playing requires another to find a given word — the name of town, river, state or empire — any word, in short, upon the motley and perplexed surface of the chart. A novice in the game generally seeks to embarrass his opponents by giving them the most minutely lettered names; but the adept selects such words as stretch, in large characters, from one end of the chart to the other. These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.’”

—From “The Purloined Letter” (1845) by Edgar Allen Poe
I regularly see code of the form `if(x == false)` as the author has a distrust of `if(!x)`.

I guess the author just distrusts smaller things, leaving me to distrust the author’s larger things.
The secret sauce: Costco sent that TV back to the company who sold it, and deducted the value from the next invoice.

If Samsung, etc didn't like it, Costco would drop them as a vendor real fast. So the merchants would eat it. Apparently it got bad enough that they stopped eating it.
IME, "generation" as a unit of time is usually used to mean 20 years, not 30.
A major problem would he that the temperature delta for storage will be way smaller. There isn't really space for the same 500C below ambient in that direction :)
For this particular flavor of success... luck plays a massive part, and anyone and everyone successful knows it, whether they admit it or not.

And being furious is not really a replacement for luck.
They do have a nice page of screenshots that demonstrate some of the projects out there that use wxWidgets: https://wxwidgets.org/about/screenshots/

That said, I find myself wishing that they'd have a page of screenshots and code snippets for each components, like web development frameworks typically have, for example: https://www.primefaces.org/primevue/calendar

Of course, you cannot run those components live, but might at least have screenshots of each component on each supported platform.
Why put Go and Rust in the same category? I never really understood that.

Either include like almost every language from JS, Java, C# to Haskell, or just list C++ and Rust. But Go is in the former category.
And the people who belong in the job don’t want the job, rightfully so.
KDE team member here: I asked internally to our contact at Slimbook and both the RAM and SSD are non-soldered. This should indeed be on the website, I will try to squeeze some time tonight to do so :)
Thanks! It was initially created to be the backend for the next version of my other open source project - Presentator v3 (https://github.com/presentator/presentator).

You could read more at https://github.com/presentator/presentator/issues/183, but to summarize - I wanted something that could be self hosted with almost no additional setup and no dependency on 3rd party services.
Can you supply a few? Again, this is a fresh account on an anonymous internet forum, and the posts I make generate single digit upvotes.

So what are the motivations to lie in this thread?
What is economics? Physical capital? Financial capital? Land? The human sphere of influence?

If you are generous and argue that humans help plants grow, then e.g. harvesting plants is beneficial for plants and humans and physical capital is not zero sum despite the fact that humans are intentionally killing plants and depriving them of their body.

Financial capital is zero sum, when you borrow money, you create money and debt simultaneously. Pay off all debt and you end up with zero money. Money is zero sum.

Land is zero sum. If one person owns all the land on the planet, everyone else must rent from that person or be homeless.

The human sphere of influence? I would argue that this is zero sum because a hypothetical tribe of neanderthals wouldn't be welcome in this modern world, we would never let them take over the planet, hence our domination over the planet comes at the expense of other species.
I wasn't exactly disagreeing with duffpkg in my little rant there; just reframing the "difficult and expensive" as an unwillingness by various actors to spend the appropriate engineering cost on competently built systems.
Ugh, dammit. Thanks for catching that.
I fed that comment to Sudowrite and here is where the AI went with it:

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As the struggle for survival had escalated over the past few millennia, the human brain had developed a miraculous defense mechanism: the psychic immune system. Simply said, the psychic immune system regulated the production of thoughts and emotions to a sustainable level. But with the new law came a new synthetic freedom to attack the underlying problem of an economy based on coercive consumption. Marketers and advertisers, wielding their mental weaponry, had been on the offensive, attacking minds of the world's citizens unabated. Psychic immune systems, no matter how strong, were helpless against the onslaught.
Now that the psychic immune system had been weakened, everyone was a potential target for propaganda and mind control.
In the following chaos, advertising mutated into a new form. The ban on psychic violence was not comprehensive, and included exemptions for images used in the furtherance of scientific, educational and artistic works. To survive, the advertisers had to learn to speak the language of art. They were the only ones left with the knowledge to speak it.
It was actually ruled in 2014 that virtual currency miners are not money transmitters[0].

[0] https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/news_release/2014...
As I understand it his current term is a month or so short of the person he backstabbed (Tehresa may) to get the position...

It's a petty enough reason for him...
> they are able to later control access to it

This has never realistically been the case. An illusion of control is provided by facebook, but they've never really put much effort into it. For a really simple example, look at how long content remained available to the entire internet after "deletion". Sometimes it took years.

Expecting any semblance of privacy from a company who profits from using and selling your data is, if I'm being blunt, lunacy.
The rates markets (bonds) have had historic 6-month declines.

And other debt instruments price off of these. Not sure the economic fallout has been fully felt yet.

To compare to other periods, gov debt instruments increased in value during 2000, 2008 and 2020.
This is a false expectation and it’s important people learn this.
> having that be true would mean that any given website could create whole new classes of criminal behavior.

While this is true, reading the lawsuit it is clear that Meta is suing in civil court, so maybe they're trying to enforce their contract, especially their automated collection ToS (https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php)?
Collecting the rhetorical BS:

"scraping attacks"

Scraping is not an attack. Monopolists want to pretend they own your data because they get unlimited access to monetize it whereas competitors should have none.

"self-compromised"

Monopolists want to sell you thus it's imperative they maintain the fiction of "one person, one account". By admitting you own your account, they'd have to allow sharing and they wouldn't be able to provide their customers (advertisers) with reliable data about individuals.

"protect people from scraping"

Monopolists will protect themselves and call it protecting you. They will attempt to make you afraid of some other actor using your data in harmful ways so as to detract from how they monetize you and use your data in harmful ways.

"deter the abuse"

Monopolists don't want to argue about what constitutes abuse. Anything they write in their TOS is entirely for their benefit and only constrained by local law (if that). They will abuse you to the fullest extent they can get away with while arguing that any action to use your rights is "abuse."

"safeguard people against clone sites"

Monopolists want to maintain their monopoly, there is no greater threat than a direct challenge to that monopoly by allowing data to move freely.

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More subtle but even more ironic rhetorical points

"for hire" / "paying for access"

Emphasizing that people making money (gasp) for providing this service, is bad.

"industry leader in taking legal action" + "across many platforms and national boundaries, also requires a collective effort from platforms, policymakers and civil society"

Monopolists can pay high priced marketers to rebrand them as patriotic hero figures fighting valiantly for the little guy.
They did but since I believed their promises for too long I was the sucker stuck with a shitty TV.
interesting idea, I had a few questions when looking at it

- afaik size_t and char* types are implementation dependent, not sure if this could cause problems, maybe you already thought about the implications?

- are you hard set on using GPL?
That is why they are suing rather than pressing charges. When someone steals your car you don't sue them you press charges. When someone doesn't uphold their end of a contract you don't press charges you sue for breach of contract.
You're joking but at some point they really used this argument.
It can quite easily with https://primo.so
I wonder if it is possible to design regulations with the intent that they may change and the data may require reformatting. At least a best standards practice of how these regulations should be written should be possible.
These seem to work best for engagement
So you are suggesting to allocate tourist access to the city primarily to the wealthy, especially on the most desirable days such as weekends and holidays? The poor can visit on less desirable days?

I don't disagree with that, but we should be clear that this is what is being proposed.
Russian propaganda op focuses on dividing Western coalition supporting Ukraine
It's a tricky situation. They definitely need entry tickets. You could raise prices until only very rich people can visit. This would probably also produce a lot of income. Or you can handle things with a lottery so everybody can give it a try. There is probably less money in that but it seems more fair.
I've been enjoying "datawave" which a subgenre of synth music that has a pretty strong tech/retro-future vibe.

Datassette, who put together the Music For Programming site, shows up a lot on the playlists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9q6RYg2Pdg ("glitchy synthwave radio for retro computing")

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0gLnq5MERpg58hMfpSqVWr
The explanations like banner blindness, etc. make sense to me, but I think there's still a problem in our society or species in general that people simply do not read things thoroughly. And when confronted with a problem, instead of going back and reading things thoroughly, they blame someone else.

How many of us software engineers have had this exact experience: Someone runs into an issue with your software that can't be papered over because of inherent complexity, and they report the problem to you. You tell them the solution, and they tell you it should be documented. You tell them it is documented, and you even tell them where. They tell you it should be more prominent.

I've had this happen where the warning was in bright red, bold letters at top in a separate box that said "WARNING!" but even after I sent them the link telling them it was documented, they still didn't see it.

I'm sure this banner could improved. I'm not sure the problem could have ever been avoided or solved entirely.
Going to the very unexpressive Go from the expressivity of python is a goddamn huge jump though.

Going to JS or even TS for performance would be saner, and it has a same-ish object model even.
I might accept your advice and do the same. It's really mind boggling how slow it is for me lately after some upgrades :(
DuckDB Testing – Present and Future
it look like Zack is giving up on the Chinese market.