skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big part of the argument here that is that what is and isn't misinformation is largely unknowable by any individual, and that different people disagree on different experts' authority.

But that's just not true.

It's true that there is no easy solution, but that's because it's an education problem. When Bob and Steve think Infowars is a more reliable source of information than the journal Nature, Bob and Steve are just wrong, and we shouldn't help them make other people also-wrong, and we probably should try to prevent them from confusing other people too.

It's relatively easy to learn enough science to be able to correctly distinguish the 10% most extreme dis/mis-information. The amount of effort we're putting into getting people just to that level, as a society, is extremely low.
Why should it be an option? Because we live in a free country, and should be free to spend our money as we see fit. Even if others don't agree with it. Why should we all be compelled by the force of law to divert a huge fraction of our income to an organisation which is so ineffective and inaccessible?

We are forced to spend a significant fraction of our salaries on the NHS whether or not we want to. If we feel that this is not good value for money, or of poor quality, we don't have any real option of choosing to pay an alternative provider. Like all nationalised industries, it's inefficiently run because top-down administration of huge organisations blunts initiative and freedom of action. It's run by Whitehall and politicians, with little input from those actually doing the real work. And the result is that it's in perpetual crisis, with COVID having pushed it right over the edge. Is it really fit for purpose? I don't personally think so, and haven't for many years.

Competition is good for many reasons. It improves the quality and value of goods and services. The NHS has no real competition. There's no direct cost of failure, no direct cost to poor purchasing decisions, no direct cost for poor quality of service, and no real driving reason for improvement in the quality and efficiency of its services. They get the money anyway.

Other healthcare systems in Europe have fully private provision--you have the choice of where to take your money, even if you paid into a public system. If a particular hospital or clinic is providing poor or expensive service, you can take your money elsewhere which is better quality and better value for money. That's a very real incentive to drive improvement and efficiency. That is not the case for the NHS system. There is no choice, and the incentives to improve are minimal.

If there is to ever be any improvement in the NHS, there needs to be competition. The NHS should be somewhere you choose to have treatment because it's the best option, not because it's the only option.
Re: Teaching in Norway

https://rebekahjbuchanan.com/2018/10/21/teaching-in-norway

The environment Rebekah describes seems like a modern US tech business. Everyone is expected to be where they're needed, treat each other with respect and focus on their work. Sometimes I wonder why successful businesses can create the environment schools can't and then remind myself that businesses (and private schools) can easily exclude troublemakers, malcontents and people who don't fit in for whatever reason. Also some of the things you mention (e.g. mono-culture) make it easier to create an environment suitable for learning.

It shouldn't be a priori to honor the private sector and shit on the public sector but as long as we do we shouldn't be surprised at the results. Teaching and education simply needs to be valued more than it is. We shouldn't have to beg people to do the job. Instead we should reward and honor the profession so well that we can set high standards for teachers and still have a surplus of applicants.

Perhaps if we compensated teachers more like police or firefighters and required advanced credentials as more successful countries do our schools would be better.
Well, we all know what power does…
The mistake of this article is that it assumes that the cost of energy would be constant for such a large user of electricity. Firstly, the $0.07 industrial price for energy is driven by grid consumption. You're paying for some very cheap, bulk, steady usage production (e.g. nuclear), some very cheap but intermittent energy production like wind, and a lot of very expensive gas/coal production that can be turned on and off. If the load is extremely predictable, or the consumption can be switched off at various times, it should be possible to dramatically reduce the overall price of electricity.

For a simple example, it's usually assumed that installation of 1kW of solar power costs $1000 (of which $200 goes into the panel). Well located, it'll produce at least 5kWh per day over its lifespan of about 20 years. This would produce you power at 1/3 the rate quoted by the article. But, if you were installing thousands of such things, the labour would likely go down a huge amount, and the panels would, too. Imagine the panel costs the same and the labour costs $400 instead of $800. You'd suddenly be at about $0.01-0.02 per kWh.

Let's take this further. Imagine you laid down a 100km/100km area with solar panels - every inch, and somehow you could feed that into your CO2 vacuum cleaner. This would cost you about $50B/year to build and then maintain, but after 20 years you'd have a (average) 2TW power station.

Let's say that sounded like too much work, and you wanted to go nuclear instead. It's claimed a new nuclear power station costs about $5k per kilowatt. That would cost a _lot_ more to build - $160B per year of expenditure to build up over 60 years and not 20 - but the result is the same, you'd have a 2TW power station. Arguably with a nuclear power station, if you were building a really big one, you'd use the same designs and it'd get much cheaper as a consequence.

According to the calculations in the article, that would be enough (with the carbon vacuum cleaner) to suck up about 1.5 megatonnes of CO2 per hour, or roughly the same amount as the US produces each year.

It'd be a frighteningly complex project, but at least the cost in terms of power alone comes out cheaper than covid or the Ukraine war, right?
How much should public funding be a taint to things it buys?

You can easily get to a point where public funding can’t buy anything and can only be used to produce things directly.
> completely pointless to run them again without inputs changing

What if I installed some dependency outside of my project?

What if I'm trying to test performance with `time make test`?

What if it failed due to a transitory error—or I'm simply trying to discover if it is transitory?

What if I made a change to the way the tests are run in the Makefile or a different file not in ./src? Like running `npm install`?

What if I want to set an environment variable or pass an argument to the test runner?
Well, I wasn't really looking for any but I was wondering what anyone was doing with it now. (It appears, basically getting it up and running to take a look). There are still people developing for the ST, aren't there?
Romania (from where I’m from) recorded the least number of monthly deaths in June 2022 since at least 4 or 5 years (I’m on my phone, I have the Excel file with the stats themselves on my computer at home), and, comparing June 2022 to the average of June months for the 5 years before the pandemic, we had 15% less deaths (so you could say we had 15% “less” excess deaths, if that’s even a term).

The explanation is simple, most of our excess deaths happened during the pandemic itself, October 2021 had close to 100% more excess deaths compared to previous pre-pandemic October months, and while that was the worst month for us in terms of extra deaths there were still others with 30-40-50% excess deaths.

In other words it looks like, to put it bluntly, many of the people who would have died in June 2022 out of non-Covid causes had the pandemic not existed actually died in 2020 or 2021 because of said pandemic. In countries like Spain or Portugal not that many people died during the pandemic, hence those countries are now getting “out of it” with a weakened populace, a populace who dies “more” because of that “weakness” generated by the societal effects of the pandemic (less access to face-to-face doctor consultations, for example).

A true science-based society will try to look at all these numbers in 5 years’ time with a neutral mind, so that when the next pandemic comes we will be better prepared to make decisions about lockdowns (“is it really worth it to close everything down if people will die nevertheless when the pandemic ends?”), but I have a feeling that won’t happen.
Yeah? It was a toy then, and it's a toy now.

Yes, it's a much better toy, but it's still a toy.
Right? It’s so ridiculous how you’re supposed to use Snap to install certbot. The (well, one of..) GitHub discussion is just beyond the pale:

https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/8345#issuecomment-...
And based on the creator's tweets, it's likely to be released tomorrow: https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1561314736742060033
What's a better system then? Because it certainly isn't privatization. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming that's what you're arguing for.

>you pump unsustainable amounts of money into the service over time. This allows you to offer a great service until in the future you can't pump enough money into it anymore.

This is how every growth based juggernaut business works as well. Quality of service always goes down to continue growth of profits, especially after you've crushed the competition.

IMO, healthcare of the public should not be a profitable business. Or the business will always find ways to squeeze their customers who simply need care for the health.
Some books have been removed from this Texas school district
Yeah IMHO this is the way to go. Individual web apps managing their own SSL certs is a longterm mess. Only your proxy or HTTP gateway/router should ever touch or know about SSL certs.
> Now I can't copy & paste a block anymore (into the shell, to run it)

You likely can, actually. Most terminal emulators have a key you can hold (ctrl in gnome-terminal, alt in urxvt) to select a block of text that doesn't start at the beginning of the line. Doesn't work if your lines wrap, of course.
If I sell software to a government agency am I morally obligated to give up my copyright?
https://archive.ph/2022.08.21-151424/https://www.nytimes.com...
I feel like I explained what bothered me extensively.
While I certainly use it for that as well, there are a few shows that I do like to actually watch and pay attention to.

Re-watching Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters, or watching Good eats, or Worst Cooks In America....
This is why I use a "slug" when I use a VPN:

https://john.kozubik.com/pub/NetworkSlug/tip.html

"A Network Slug, or "Slug", is a transparent layer 2 firewall running on a device with only two interfaces ..."

"So, while the device participates on the physical layer of the (probably ethernet) network, it does not have an IP address and cannot answer IP (or even ICMP) requests ..."

In my case, if I needed a VPN, I would use the excellent 'sshuttle' on, for instance, port 40 and then set the slug to allow only TCP port 40 and nothing else.

No misconfiguration possible. No footguns.
The NHS spends a lot of money trying to get people to use the right level of care, like pharmacists, info on the web https://111.nhs.uk/ and by phone.

I don't particularly see a face-to-face visit to a GP when you think you have an issue as preventitive, but if it was, I still don't see how telemedecine wouldn't be a partial solution to that problem, not make it worse.
Tone aside, I agree. The net result is an unreadable mess of niche configuration that could probably be avoided by having the Makefile simply do less.
Where does rote memorization come into this story...?
Android has immeasurable value, by way of ensuring Google didn't get locked out of the mobile ecosystem. What happens to Chrome's market share without being a default on one of the most used operating systems in the world? How about Google's traffic data for Google Maps without billions of devices they own reporting in every 60 seconds?

Android's value may not be easy to measure, but it's worth in building and maintaining Google's moat positively boggles the mind.
No, we really did import a lot of skilled labour and did not train enough of our own people.
This is just false. UTS#18 specifies multiple levels of Unicode support. \X is part of level 2. It is perfectly valid to generally say "has Unicode support" even if it's just Level 1, assuming you document somewhere what precisely is supported.

For example, I regularly say that Rust's regex crate has Unicode support. But it does not support \X. It's more precisely documented here: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/blob/master/UNICODE.md
Sure they do, what they are saying is that the data format is just the raw format they use in memory after loading it from a database.
The Mac is a nearly $40B annual business: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263428/apples-revenue-fr...

It's small compared to iOS, sure, but I think it's still an important part of Apple's overall portfolio. It's currently what all of the iOS developers need to use. Its what Apple's own people use for their work.

I guess the difference of opinion may turn on the phrase "invest a whole lot". I have no idea what kind of investment Apple is making in Mac native GUI frameworks. It's obviously non-zero and is likely what most would deem non-trivial, but I'd argue that it's worth a decent size investment because it is still a potential differentiator for a $40B part of their business.

I will also note that there are some excellent professional native Mac apps, even beyond Apple's own. Things like Pixelmator and the Affinity suite, for example. I'm definitely running a combination of native Mac and Electron apps right now, but I still appreciate the native apps when they're available for the job at hand.
> I now live below the poverty line, using food stamps, have a child with a partner, am growing a community of supportive loving people, and am pursuing radically different projects of my own creation, including a culture construction carnival that's donation driven.

Reading your whole post but coming to this, it reads like Frank Gallagher from Shameless.

It sounds like you’re capable of much more, but you choose to live on food stamps because “debt” is a myth, among other advice you gave to op.

100% disagree with everything you said. I definitely support food stamps and other forms of assistance for families in need and people who cannot support themselves, but you’re bragging about living off of others when you could support yourself.

Do better.
They usually don't matter (and unseen-untested portability is simply wishful thinking), but particularly don't matter for projects you're responsible for and decided they don't matter. That doesn't mean you must randomly preempt portability, of course.
I don't see those as mutually exclusive. Apple seems to believe that a company that values a user's privacy can make a profit from that stance.
The people who buy $100k cars will usually refresh them on the regular, passing the car down to another buyer.

But also, the older Tesla's do not and cannot have the hardware for FSD so they really are EoL in that respect.
> most of the good answers and thinking are actually in the third volume which nobody including me has read

If no one, including you, has read it, then how can anyone, including you, possibly know whether or not it contains "the good answers"?
I'm not 100% certain, but I suspect a Makefile with this error will become unusable. So, no need to fix their editor, they will fix it themselves after their builds fail.
Speaking of mirroring, is there a way to download one big "several-hundred-GB" blob with the full content of the sites for archival purposes?

Surely that would act as a failsafe to your problem.
What about the rest of the satellite? Solar panels, antenna, engines?
Curation is hard, particularly for a "community" project.

Every file is there for a reason, and much of the time, even if it is a stupid reason, removing it means there is one more person opposed to the concept of "curation".
Quite, but then the posture of "you're doing it wrong" is utterly incomprehensible. It's clear that the author is making rather strong assumptions about the runtime environment.
In Firefox there's a browser extension to stop youtube from doing that.
What about them? I don't use Python or Golang, but I install the requested versions of each if I need to do something that uses them. Folks who don't use GNU Make can do likewise. It's not a big deal.

For me, every Mac I touch gets a GNU userland by default (and Homebrew comes with shell helpers to switch to GNU userland aliases temporarily, it isn't a hard switch unless, like me, you lock it on all the time) because it's really not worth the time and effort to remember what bits are GNU and what bits are BSD. So I picked the one that has the most stuff that makes my life easier.

There's also just the more basic thing of "the author doesn't care about portability to environments they consider out of scope," and that's totally fine, too. In 2022, the barriers to entry to installing the necessary bits of one flavor or another are very low, and if you choose to make them harder for yourself that's mostly on you.
Apple, because of their proclaimed fealty to user privacy clearly have the most to lose if they should violate that bond.
I wrote a fairly simple "Who is hiring?" browser (using this API) that fetched the post listings and stored them locally in an HTML file accessible by pointing your browser at file:///... . It supported filtering by "Remote", "Interns", and "Visa" with buttons, had an ad hoc Regex filter, and the ability to remove posts using a delete button and not see them again (or to restore all deleted posts) using the localStorage api.

It was indeed barebones but I'd like to think it helped me find a job. I would link the code (it's on GitHub) but today the "Who is hiring?" posts include a few considerably more advanced and capable "searchers" right in the top of the post:

> Searchers: try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.

It was fun; I enjoyed working on it.
>programs not conforming to current mores. Like Cookie Monster promoting obesity

That was addressed 17 years ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_Monster#Development
Inside the brain there's a kind of meat computer. In biological systems there isn't a distinction between software and hardware. There's no sharp boundary between psychosomatic and physiological causes. Most (but not all) medical conditions can be seen as communication between the meat computer and the conscious mind (which is a tiny subset of the actual processing going on in the nervous system at any given moment.)

> > the subconscious mind [computer] is unlikely to produce [program] symptoms [output] that will be easily seen [dismissed] as psychological [not a serious fault condition]. But since humans continue to experience great stresses [trauma] and strong emotions, paralysis [ignored signal] has been replaced by [other warning signals] chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, and many other symptoms.

Sometimes the communication is as simple as "stop drinking" but other times it's something like "This job sucks." or "You forgot you wanted to be an artist."

Another aspect of "psychosomatic" issues is that we develop patterns of chronic tension in the body, which impede the free flow of the various bodily uh, flows of blood, nervous signals, etc., often becoming so severe that numb areas develop where the conscious mind is literally unable to sense some parts of the body. Proprioceptive feedback is distorted or even muted (numbness). In time secondary symptoms develop.

Ergo, directed self-awareness is a kind of panacea. As you "irrigate" these neglected areas of the body with your attention (though whatever method, there are dozens) they heal. Correct the conditions leading to the need for the communication signal and the signal "magically" ceases. The meat computer does not experience subjective pain. It has no interest in hurting you, it literally just does what works. If paralyzing your leg or stabbing you in the lower back keeps you from going back to your shitty job that you hate, that is "Works As Intended" from the POV of the meat computer. The good news is that you can reprogram the computer. You can negotiate less painful signals, or simply incorporate its feedback into your life decisions directly. But you can't fight it. The meat computer runs the physical body, you have no leverage to fight it with, and you are not supposed to fight it anyway. You are supposed to work together.

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

The ancient tale has a deeper meaning. The meat computer, what we call the "unconscious mind", is the blind giant and the conscious mind is the sighted but helpless lame man.
The Means Justify the Ends
FYI for anyone who doesn't know: that other shortcut is Command+` to cycle between windows of one application.

It's totally nondiscoverable (I read about it here), but once I learned that, it felt amazingly intuitive to separate the concerns of application-switching and window-switching. And Command+` works consistently on MacOS, unlike on Windows where every app reimplements its own multiple-document interface and so Ctrl-Tab hardly ever works.
I have private health care through my employer, I've only used it once but it was very handy. I don't agree with your take at all, there's no way a private health care outfit could efficiently provide an effective emergency service across the entire UK for all possible injuries and illnesses, completely replacing or duplicating the NHS. The USA has tried this and it's an incredibly expensive disaster.

Employed middle aged workers in the USA pay about the same as we do for the NHS to support Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP through taxes, and then have to pay about the same again to actually get health care for themselves. Plus the system that costs twice as much as ours per citizen still leaves tens of millions of Americans without health insurance. It's utterly godawful. Our current system where everyone supports the NHS, and if you want top up services you pay for it, ensures solid funding for everyone's health care. The fact that my private care actually subsidises the NHS by reducing demand on it is a feature, not a bug. There's also the fact that private health care increases overall investment in health care, so in emergencies the NHS can call on private medical facilities which otherwise wouldn't be available. I know there's a fairness argument, but in practical terms our system benefits everyone.
There's a handful of browser extensions to help with testing. In Chrome I've used Screen Reader from Google[1] and SilkTide[2] for testing accessibility issues.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screen-reader/kgej...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/silktide-website-a...
There is lengthy discussion at the end of the video on design changes, primarily for the reaction wheel.

They conclude by placing a digital camera in their lab mockup and taking it to 10,000g.

This probably would not have worked for a phone, but they seem quite confident.