skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>State sponsored assassinations are almost always immediately identifiable

This is clueless and childish naivete; do you believe everything you see and hear? In Geopolitics one should never ever accept the superficial and face-value explanation but should always try to look behind the curtain.

There is a reason China is celebrating his assassination. Abe was single-handedly responsible for establishing, driving and bankrolling the Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between USA, Japan, India and Australia) which is a direct and serious threat to China. And no he didn't disappear after retirement as you seem to think; men of his stature and influence always have the ear of policy makers until the end.

We will see what the investigators uncover but nobody should buy assassin confessed simplistic explanations until we have more information. It is but one plausible explanation among a set which needs to be "proven". Until then we need to explore all possibilities.
"Every warp drops you in a universe where you are the only sentient life." Well that explains the Fermi Paradox.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/weekinreview/27healy.html

Underwear!
I don't use TikTok, but I assume there's also a concern over foreign influence of a nation's voters? Whether you use TikTok or not, that'd be a potential concern. Entire countries could be subtly influenced by supposed algorithms. A finger on the scales or whatever they call it.

I've long wondered if we might (past or future) see a social media company be successful mostly because, in their infancy, they were indirectly funded by intelligence services in exchange for data access. However, I assume as operations scale, it gets harder for that sort of link to stay secret.
Ever get a coupon from a drug manufacturer in exchange for all your personal information and some disclosure for them to share your medical information? That is why.
I live in a blue state and parents never stop gushing about how great the public schools are, how their taxes are cheaper than private school tuition, and how happy they are to vote for tax increases to pay for new school stuff.

And then when their youngest graduates from high school, they immediately start complaining about taxes, and many of them eventually move to a "cheap" red state where a lot of things actually cost more but at least their taxes are lower.

But!

I also know some guys that run an investment group that owns a few small manufacturing facilities. Whenever they get a new, complicated thing to build for someone, they start it at their factory in the blue state and work on the process and quality control. Only once they've perfected things and it no longer requires much thinking to make, it gets moved to a certain southeastern US red state where the people get paid half as much.

This is basically the same thing that happens in Europe. Perhaps it is actually ok; you don't necessarily need all the factory workers to be good problem solvers.
I mean, everything is thick and heavy compared to the watch linked in this post.
The way I look at it, likely seems based on some autoregressive type adaptive model. So having a couple of years of not using definitely dings it down. The score flattens off to some lower value. You keep using it well, pay back on time as good kid - you keep getting higher number. You wean off credit or stop using it - they tone it down.

But without spending thousands and repaying on- or before-time consistently over few financial quarters, how do some people manage to get so close to 800?

(Then, this is either a loophole or some kind of gaming the credit system ? This would be very exciting to understand, if it is)
I mean, you can do more than one thing at a community college.

For core undergrad prereq classes in Illinois, CC credits are as good as flagship credits. If you've got a physics prereq, take it at a CC, pay less for it, and probably get better instruction --- that's the experience my kids had.

If you need a GED, get your GED. Sounds pretty great!

Need a welding certification? The CC has the facilities and instructors.

It'd be one thing if they did a poor job at all (or any) of these things. But from what I can tell, they mostly do an excellent job at all these things.
> Then they start issuing rebates instead of discounts?

They already do, and it's a huge amount of money. It's how they keep prices opaque. There is a list price (retail price), the pharmacy dispenses the drug, and gets reimbursed a variable amount from the insurance company (called the reimbursement price), usually about 50% of the list price. Then, the insurance company gets a kick-back from the drug manufacturer (usually for non-generic drugs). Medicare also gets these kick-backs, and they stopped disclosing the actual amount around 2016.
After years of trying many languages, I started using JS many years ago, and it's so fast and familiar (w/ a big routines library built) and versatile (with HTML & CSS) that I won't be leaving it behind for personal projects.
I did it to grow my credit score. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with a high credit score once I get it though.
umm just provide a loudness level that you are ok with as a reference, and by monitoring the loudness level if sound goes above it, just lower it. this is possible to program in linux and straightforward also. no need for machine learning. but yes machine learning would be awesome.

ontopic this idea is great. you can implement it via formula for loudness that takes distance and decibels as variables.
World War II frogmen who trained in secret off the California coast
And ratings 1-10 and approx time to read,

And ways to sort: best first, and rating divided by time to read?
Are we sure he didn't already do that?
$3.6 billion is not a lot of money.

Edit: E.g. In 2014, end of life care for age 65+ (final 12 months) is 25% of total Medicare spending.

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/medicare-spending-a...

"Medicare Spending at the End of Life: A Snapshot of Beneficiaries Who Died in 2014 and the Cost of Their Care"
In Pearl Harbor. It was later than it could be obviously.
> So when you are blocked because the side project path is not clear, what do you do?

Mostly, I acknowledge to myself that I don't care enough to finish it into a "shipped project", and just let it go.

For me, most of my side projects are about learning and satisfying my own curiosity. The can have accomplished their entire goal without ever being "finished" in anybody else's eyes. Once I've answered "I wonder if you could do {foo} and get {bah}?", I'll mostly lose interest once I've demonstrated to myself that I can (or can't). Often I'll lose interest because in the middle of doing {foo}, I'll discover some other interesting {baz} that I want to investigate more than I want to achieve {bah}.

If you're doing your side projects for other reasons, you'll probably have different motivations. I'm not looking to fill up a portfolio of things to show off to potential employers, or trying to build passive income or bootstrap my own startup. If that what your side projects are for then shipping them actually matters. For me, shipping would be a boring but of extra crap to do after I've satisfied my own intellectual curiosity.
I believe it's therapeutic equivalence that the FDA is lax on, not bioequivalence. Bioequivalence is just "does it deliver the same amount of the active ingredient," theraputic equivalence is "does it deliver the active ingredient in the same manner." The active ingredient is the same, the inactive ones are where the difference lies. Usually, they're similar enough that it doesn't really matter, but some drugs really do benefit from buying the name brand.

A good example is with methylphenidate generics - you get the same amount of methylphenidate, but the name-brand extended release is far more effective than the generic extended release because it spreads the same amount of active ingredient over a longer period (the delivery mechanism created by the inactive ingredients in some generics is subpar).

Occasionally, you'll get non-bioequivalent generics that slip through FDA approval, which happened to some methylphenidate generics [0][1]. I remember getting switched to the name brand when this came out, as the supplier for all the pharmacies near me used a non-bioequivalent manufacturer. (Authorized generics don't have this problem since it's literally the name brand with generic labels slapped onto it, but the one the nearby pharmacies could get through their suppliers was not the authorized generic.)

[0]: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/quest...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/3af86d/fda_rules_2_fo...
That's their stated goal, but their staffing suggests a truer revealed goal, which is political rather than practical: they aren't accredited to offer a degree, the degree they offer isn't valuable in the trades they hope to serve, they don't have instructors with credentials in the trades, and they cost more than a community college. What they do have is a founder and coterie of teaching fellows that share a peculiar ideology.

By way of example: "electrician" is one of their 5 trades, and they have no listed electrician faculty.
So if they are looking at calendar data does "five fewer collaboration hours" only mean five fewer hours in meetings?

Some of the funnest and most productive work I've done was a project with three others where we were all in a single office. We were completely ad-hoc with working alone, pair programming, having quick design discussions, whatever was needed at the time. There was an enormous amount of collaboration (and an enormous amount of deep, solo work), but there were no meetings in my calendar.

Meanwhile in pretty much any job I have had my happiness has gone down the more full my official calendar becomes.
I don't know why the app would need anything more than "I want to be picked up here". Dispatching worked fine when you had to call a phone number. The app could literally be an interface to texting.
Interesting but I thought my mac already does this? Maybe just M1 and Monterey.

I was trying to debug some image the other day, upon inspection I got confused by the shadow dom doing weird stuff, but only in safari; to then realise that it was macOS converting the text in the image to text in shadow dom! ... Good/bad experience report I suppose.

ref. https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/preview/prvw625a5b2c/m...
the front page still contains references to google+
Early explorers, journalists, etc., wore Rolex watches because they could barter the watch to get them out of a jam.

I currently have a Seiko 5 mechanical watch. It doesn't hack or keep time particularly well (runs fast) but I love it all the same for its quirks.
imagine if you used your powers for good, instead of over-critiquing errors.
> Yes. China and Russia are the biggest geopolitical threats to the world.

For many parts of the world, the USA is the biggest threat and tyrant in the world causing significant pain, loss and helplessness for hundreds of millions. Usually followed by deep hatred. I know folks who have lost their entire family to the USA. Unlike Ukraine, US acts of civilian violence rarely make the news or if they do, they are glossed over.
I mean using someone else's membership card. Nothing wrong with using services that don't require membership.
I used to think it was false, and that the price drop wouldn’t pay for the extra distance to Costco, but times have changed since the invasion of Ukraine. It’s probably location dependent. I’m in Ventura County.
This emphasis on developing physical competence in a trade as part of a moral education is very Aristotelian (techne) and by extension, Aquinian, for what I vaguely remember as being the St. Thomas Aquinas and after him the Jesuits effectively reconciling Catholicism with "Hellenist" ideas, which were the classical philosphers. That's literally my depth on it though, like a bit of trivia. I spent a little time with some Jesuits and was surprised at how closely their ideas resembled classical thinking, and was completely unlike the evangelicals and secular teachers I had known. However, the school sounds pretty amazing. Outside STEM, undergrad programs seem to be producing ideologues and not builders and this college seems like an antidote to that.
Did you try getting pre-approved for a car loan? If you applied, what rate did they offer?
I’m honestly not quite sure how to feel about this.
Like in software (less so in the cloud days), marginal costs are not particularly relevant.
'God of War Ragnarok' release date reveal follows fan harassment of devs
API rate limits at the core of Elon Musk’s decision to ditch Twitter
> They also forbade the using of Federal funds to reimport drugs from countries like Canada who negotiate prices

Seems easier to grant Medicare most-favored nation status for prices since that's effectively what reimporting does.
Flutter needs 1.64GB disk space, that's not a light install. Unless I build the app beforehand as others have suggested.
Online it is by steganography. Did you not get the memo?
This is a fun idea, but I did think from the description it would be a typewriter that starts completing your stories for you if you stop typing for too long.
Sure, they fight for pennies for plan administration, but don’t have the market power to have any leverage, by design.

It’s not a meaningful competitive process.
> It's sort of like saying that trucking jobs are safe because there are truck driver shortages today, ignoring the impending doom of automation in the next few decades.

If it's still decades out, that means it's still reasonable to suggest to people looking for a career. Changing careers at 38 is something a lot of people do, for instance after 20 years in the military.
Wolfenstein on the 1979/1980 ACE was a smooth experience. I remember the 286 not feeling on par. Doom was something else.
What would if all new development was stopped, and every structure retrofit with reliable but SotA high-efficiency solar along with efficient-minded environmental upgrades and electrical audit to get the power consumption down, such that ultimately almost every structure generated most if not all of it's own power, many contributed to the improved grid, and all transportation, shipping and planes included, was replaced with green electrical equivalent or even if compromised, obviously dismantled all coal and oil use and speculation, and somehow we got the global population under control, and we stopped contributing to Climate Change altogether?

How much hotter, globally in average, is it likely to get if we suddenly somehow stopped all the major anthropological contributors to Climate Change?

Because I'm starting to suspect we'll start to see large "spots" temporarily appear on the surface of the Earth, perhaps drag across, and everything on the surface in that spot will have a high chance of immediate mortality. Someone chill me out.
This is either the best or worst video to watch...

https://thenewstack.io/artificial-stupidity-one-google-engin...
Everything is a chuckle if you replace phrases like "plausible evolutionary mechanism" with "pachinko machine".
Medicare doesn’t cover drugs, except for drugs administered in a hospital setting.

The Republican position was that drug coverage should be through private insurance (Medicare Part D plans), instead of through Medicare itself. Part of the rationale was that Medicare would have monopsony power over drug pricing: https://www.britannica.com/topic/monopsony, as opposed to a compatible market with multiple buyers and sellers.

The Medicare Part D plans themselves assuredly do negotiate drug prices: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11318 (“Part D sponsors, working with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), negotiate prices with drug manufacturers and contract with pharmacies to dispense drugs to plan enrollees. Negotiated price concessions mainly take the form of rebates (after-sale reductions) from a manufacturer’s list price for brand-name drugs.”).
Libre WiFi is a shitshow, but half the things you cited aren't about WiFi. The "Docker/WiFi" problem that two of your quotes are about isn't about WiFi, it's about "Docker insists on messing with the firewall, and that's a problem because I'm trying to use the box as a router." Docker messing with the firewall would be a problem on any router, wired or wireless; and it's just coincidental that OP's setup happens to be wireless.
I'm not really familiar with Arabian archaeology (never been my area), but my initial guess on only the image is that it looks like a hunting funnel/pen (often called 'kites'). I have absolutely no idea whether that's accurate and someone who's actually done groundwork there would have a better idea.

Also worth noting that kites are a separate phenomenon from the mustatil the article is about.
$10/person year
>TikTok is the most successful espionage operation of the 21st century so far

More than FB and Google?

Press X to doubt.
One thing I omitted that I thought wasn’t particularly relevant to your analysis of the merger agreement and my criticisms thereof, was the way you elided EM’s initial accumulation of shares, the multiple violations of securities laws he quite probably committed in connection with those purchases, the several hundred million dollars he ripped off from other shareholders through those violations of securities laws, and his (belated) realization that by joining the Twitter board, he would have owed a fiduciary duties to the other shareholder (and not just his own interests). So that part of your post was at best overly credulous and in any event dismissive of bad faith right from the outset.

The rest of my post speaks for itself in response to most of your assertions.
ok thank you! It looks solid, great friend! You may want to add your contact info to your HN profile. Good luck!
You might want to take a look at Epiphany[1]. It's just Safari (Webkit, actually), but without the need for Apple devices.

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany
https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/medicare-part-d-a-f...

“The average Medicare beneficiary has a choice of 54 Medicare plans with Part D drug coverage in 2022, including 23 Medicare stand-alone drug plans and 31 Medicare advantage drug plans.
wow. I'm sold.
This is absolutely the best correction I’ve ever received. With complete sincerity, thank you.
Agile has become exactly that. It is where you have people in marketing and business thinking they know more about tech than actual tech professionals.
Just a theory on what happened, but sampling is almost always not fair use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)#Legal_and_eth...), and I see many indie labels publishing music with sampling in them. Regardless of your opinion here, it would make YouTube in the clear.
The University of Austin, if it comes to be, isn't promising marketability, though, just education for those interested in the classic liberal arts canon.

I'm interested, and I already have a career. If I pay for a course to join like minded people and have interesting discussions, where's the grift?

The regular state university I attended that left me with a pile of debt and did nothing to get me a career was the grift.. but I figured that out when I was young and dropped out, because it WAS promising a marketable skill, which I taught myself, and wasn't giving me the interesting discussion or insightful reading or anything else I wanted from a general education...

... Which is why I'm interested in the University of Austin...
Most drugs aren’t commodities.
Now compare the efficiency of minimal logging compared to lotsa logging (even if most of it is only conditionally enabled), when optimising for dev time spent on troubleshooting :)

The one thing from modern Java logging I love and miss in other languages is being able to set log levels on specific loggers while the app is running.

Yeah it involves JMX, which has an annoying protocol that insists on domain names that you can resolve, making it a PITA with K8s from your local terminal, but it's such a QoL feature.
Make education expensive enough, and only rich kids can get one. Not hugely surprising. Education used to be a lot cheaper and you got a lot more first generation graduates.
Elon Musk would spend $4.20 billion on a joke.
> its not accredited AFAICT and seems more like a trade school

AFAICT, trade schools also need to be accredited, if they're graduates are able to get into the trades that they are trained in.
"Tossing bottles at both sides, sure but not taking a side."

In the 1920s, Yellow Cab and Checker Cab engaged in shootouts on the streets of Chicago. A guy named John Hertz owned Yellow Cab. He also owned racehorses. In 1923, he bought a rental car company. In 1929, arsonists targeted his stables. He then sold Yellow Cab.

However the story told by this Uber leak is not about one company versus another. The sides in this battle are (a) Uber and (b) the people, as represented through the state or government.
Emphasis mine:

> Most of the loans on recently repossessed cars originated during 2020 and 2021, whereas origination dates are normally scattered because people fall on hard times at different times; *loan-to-value ratios, or the amount financed relative to the value of the vehicle, are around 140%, versus a more normal 80%*; and many of the loans were extended to buyers who had temporary pops in income during the pandemic.

That's CRAZY!

This means that lenders were, on average, willing to lend not only the full cost of the vehicle, but also up to 40% of the equity of a previous vehicle! (This sounds like a practice that is more common in subprime land, but still, this suggests that you can basically get a loan with weak proof of being able to pay it back).

This article reminds me of the Air France 447 crash [1].

The long and short of it is that the pilots thought they were level based on the data from the pitot tube sensor, but because it was frozen and a SPOF, they not only got bad data, but they didn't know that the aircraft was actually tilting slowly downwards for hundreds of miles! Eventually, the aircraft stalled unrecoverably and crashed into the ocean.

Auto manufacturers have been increasing prices on new vehicles (and dealers on used vehicles) partly due to supply chain tightening, but also due to a perceived increase in people's willingness-to-pay in response to the tightening and temporary pops in income. However, this article suggests that, like the pitot tube in the AF447 disaster, their WTP data is not only wrong, but sending them the opposite way (and taking their financial forecasting and future stock prices with them when they inevitably bring prices back down to Earth).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
Scientists who studied in medieval times how many angels can fit a needle tip must have reincarnated and continued their research in an adjacent field.
> a low cost liberal arts college that also teaches a trade sounds like a really, really good idea

It sounds a little like 1930 New York City high school. My grandfather taught Latin and Greek in the HS in New York, retiring in the early 60’s. That might have been the golden age of NYC public schools, but they seemingly were able to teach practical things like typing, bookkeeping and some industrial arts as well as a lot of history, literature and culture.
The fact is that a manufacturer sells a product at 80% gross margin to a distributor. Attempting to negotiate with the manufacturer is illegal. The resellers of said product go through an intense competitive process and earn a 2-4% margin. So the plans will offer cheap loss leaders… “free metformin!” and make it up elsewhere. Meanwhile, the government is paying $5/pill for some amoxicillin reformulation or whatever.

What “narrative” are you upset about again? Personally, I don’t think getting a stream of risk-free government guaranteed business should yield higher margins than coke dealers.