skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I know neither the doctor will see that, nor will I pay anywhere near that. It wasn't a "complex" visit, though there were a lot of convenience. Medicine consulting, in-house blood work, etc.

Sorry for the confusion. I stated the EOB to hopefully clarify that. Assuming that they got even 90% of that the doctor would be pushing $200+/hr. just to take my temperature.
And if I recall correctly, it wasn't so much "offered" as "inextricably bundled to the TOS syndication rights so if networks wanted to keep running that series they had to bankroll a season of TNG."

Smart business practice but kind of rude to the stations.
Is everyone on this thread a bot or paid NSA agent?

You all need to check this racist rhetoric.

The facts on the ground are that over the last 30 years the only country that has consistently carried out military death dealing operations (we talking in the order of 100 operations) throughout the world and far from their own borders are the US and their NATO military alliance.

This whole situation is nonsensical and it's more likely to get us all incinerated in nuclear hellfire than achieve anything the majority of the world population want.
It makes total sense. Twitter was just bought on Friday. All existing shares are now owned by Elon. There are no private shares of Twitter yet, and it won't be ready to distribute by Nov 1, which is Tuesday.
They’ve been doing something similar for Telegram for a long time: https://twitter.com/durov/status/671357796730834945
Well, you learn something every day! That's fascinating; I'll have to take a look. Thanks:)
Exactly my first thought.

“The core symptom of depression is said to be anhedonia, which refers to loss of interest or a loss of feeling of pleasure in certain activities that usually bring joy to people.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(mood)
>That happens with thin events as a matter of course, right?

No. If you send no data, what is the race? You can structure an API where there are no races. If you concede to API access the API can provide any sort of historical data necessary. The issue is with incomplete event data and assumptions around what the state was when the event was sent.

>As I have stated twice before, it's a non-trivial _reliability_ difference, and that's the key

You can state it until you're blue but the advantage _is_ usually trivial or there would be no debate. It just doesn't bite that often.

I would say the buggy and prone to rot coupling of baked in event data is a bigger concern for most.

That said, I'm making an argument about what is the best bet for dev time and it sounds like you're making an argument about what is best given infinite developer resources, an unchanging APIs, and full knowledge of what data the consumer needs.
Advanced Air Mobility Reality Index
This more pessimistic then the reality. For example a woman in Africa figured out how to compress recycled plastic into bricks suitable for build houses. There are lots of people in this world that could benefit from this.

The real problem is not the technical and labor hurdles, but our application — doing things that actually work,, rather than politically expedient.
The nature article, moreso political opinion, fails to point out: The supreme court isn't even ruling on this opinion take.

The supreme court has already ruled its illegal if an unqualified person receives benefits over a qualified person. Which is an important point the article completely fails to address.

The current case is in such situations where that law was violated. Which is common knowledge now. Affirmative action placing unqualified people into schools they should not be in, leads to them racking up debt and flunking out of the school. This has been detrimental to the minorities they propose to be helping.

The large problem of racism is when you ban the racist, they imagine a new legal way to harm minorities. These racists need to be stopped and banning affirmative action is how you do it.
My friend is using an old Mac laptop what can't display webp on webpages. A Mac laptop!
I want Lula to win, but only because I want Bolsonaro out. To call Lula Innocent like the left does here is absurd. You had huge corporations returning billions of stolen Reais to the government, some even took out whole page ads in the big newspapers to apologize and admit their guilt, and yet the left still maintains that the whole operation to go after them (these corporations were in bed with Lula's party) a farse. Completely ridiculous. The left here acts just as dishonestly as the right.
PwshPaint: A pixel art editor for the terminal in PowerShell
A lot more Asians at top universities.
Not this publication, but most discussions I've seen of this
use essentially the same points: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php
I don't entirely disagree with you about old vs new Trek. But I think it's important to avoid the idea that Roddenberry was "trying to achieve" some grand vision. What Roddenberry was "trying to achieve" was to make a TV show, and then he was the target of hero worship by some overzealous fans, and then he bought into the hype himself. It really weakens the argument to continue to present Roddenberry as a bold visionary when this is known to not really be true.
That really depends what metrics you think are relevant.

On the one hand, the average black person in the US is more disadvantaged than the average white person. That much is true. If you meet a random person, and they are black, statistically they are more disadvantaged than if they were white.

On the other hand, I'm fairly sure it's the case that for almost any given threshold of disadvantage, there are numerically more whites below it than blacks, simply because there are more white people in the US than black people. So if you are a university with hypothetical applicants drawn randomly from the population, the majority of the disadvantaged applicants in the pool are white, for most thresholds of disadvantage.

A system that treats disadvantaged whites, who are quite numerous, as if they are advantaged, based in the colour of their skin, is incredibly unjust, and creates deserved resentment. Frankly, even if disadvantaged whites were less numerous it is still incredibly unfair.

AA based on poverty and socio-economics directly, rather than the colour of one's skin, would be more just (and is more how things are done where I'm from).
That makes no sense at all. The demographics of America have changed substantially between then and now.
> Should people selling seeds/seedlings be criticized accordingly?

Well, the line of cancelling someone until they literally cannot attain food has not been crossed... yet. But if say the Nazis were selling organic food to fund their activities, plenty of people would say it's wrong to sell seeds to the Nazis.

I'm not saying that I support this, just that this is what I see the "duty to cancel" arguments implying under these circumstances.
My smoke alarms go off.
How are they supposed to make decisions under it if they aren’t allowed to interpret it?

You can’t apply a law without interpreting. If the courts can’t interpret the constitution, they can’t apply it either. Marbury v Madison was just stating the obvious and inevitable consequences of having a judicial branch.
> You say I should not be silly but I can believe what I like. Which is it?

They aren’t mutually exclusive.

> The government does not “own assets” on paper but it has a whole lot of influence over agency

Feel free to believe that your agency is under government control.
Wrong. You’re using data to ignore people’s problems because their skin isn’t the right color. Get rid of affirmative action and replace it with income/poverty level. Basing it off of race will always be racist, and never be fair, as highlighted by GP’s example.
I've spent some time with a full frame Canon SLR with a few different fixed focal length lenses. (35,50,&85mm). My favorite lens is the Zeiss Distagon 35mm/1.4 even though it doesn't have autofocus.
That being said, I have moved to the Fujifilm x100v and I'm happy with the results.
I understand, but unless via a crony system, (which has obvious problems, re free speech) it's hard to do that kind of IDing without expense. However, I would like to see a not-someboy-but-a-verified-specific-human-not-bot account designation, too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiftmoonwalkers/moonwa...:

> Fast and effortless, get to your destination in less than half the time with a 250% increase in your walking speed.

> Top Speed: 7 mph

For that to be a 250% increase, your walking speed must be 2 mph. That’s about the speed of the grim reaper (https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7679) aka “very slow for healthy youngsters”. I would call 7 mph about double walking speed.

The thing is aptly named, though. At almost 2kg/shoe, you probably won’t lift them from the floor much.
Ivy's were one example of the problem. Not of the white minority. As far as I know, ivy leagues do not have a white majority (owing to the legacy membership programs at many of them). However, one article [0] points to this happening in the midwest. It is also becoming the case at my local university who follows harvard's doctrine of race-based SAT/GRE admission standards.

[0] https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2022/08/29...
Very rarely used property you can get temperature swings underground next to these pipes. But in normal domestic or municipal settings the regular water through the pipes is going to equalize temperatures year round to within a fraction of a degree at 3-4 feet underground outside of extremely long runs.

Also of note, ~25feet of one inch pipe holds 1 gallon of water. So there can be quite a bit of lag involved, but water is unlikely to spend that long in these pipes to change temperature. Thus the ground temperature would need to be extremely different to make a significant difference once the temperature equalized.
“Liberal white people are ridiculously easy to guilt trip”

It’s more that they are terrified to talk about it because they risk being fired from their job and losing everything for talking about it. And they’re also not allowed to talk about how they are not allowed to talk about it. So this is the way it comes out.
Hasn't been lower when looking at data going back to 1972. It would be really interesting to see what approval was like going back another 100 years.
https://designation-systems.net/usmilav/missiles.html

Theres’s an entire system for how the designations work.
Seems like a straw man, it's like asking - I'm not husband of this woman but I could, so should she split this kid with me if I want to?
This is different to sharing wealth, we already tax people so we share their wealth with the rest of the society but we don't share other people kids, wives or Air Force One.
Targeting poverty/income as oppose to race seems like such a no brainer to me. It still solves the same problem, except that it wouldn’t ever discriminate and if there was equal equity in poverty you’d expect equal equity in targeting it.
Do you want to know the “answer” or do you want to know the answer?
Black Ray-Bans, drop top Porsche, and a Maxell Metal Cassette playing PsychOS trailer music.

It's a good Sunday.
> What’s obviously incorrect to one segment of the population is obviously correct to another.

That's exactly why I call it gaslighting. It brings to mind Sarah Palin's "alternative facts". Despite your miscellaneous feelings, objective reality exists, justice exists, and, ideally, the courts would be bound to follow both.
> I don't see a realistic path for popular opinion to overturn a bad SCOTUS decision,

SCOTUS rules on what laws mean. People can demand legislators change those laws.
But bots can't walk into most businesses in person. My point is that I don't want to hear from an account that isn't at least verified to be set up by a verified specific human being.
It sounds like you're assuming "managing up" is about managers who don't know how to do their job. I don't think this article is saying that.

My best managers weren't ones who knew every detail of each project and could give unsolicited effective advice. They were ones to whom I could tell what was going on on my project, could ask for help, could tell them what I needed, and then rely on them to follow through on helping make that happen. Sometimes that was needing more time for a deadline, sometimes it was needing a mediation in a complicated relationship with another team, and sometimes it was using manager clout to go escalate a request for compute resources.

In any case, two-way communication is going to create a more effective relationship than expecting your manager to simply _know_ what you need.
Folks tend to get so upset about the title of "DevOps". I am unsure if it is because of:

- just dealing with bad Ops engineers at work that "don't do much"
- employees taking advantage of the DevOps movement to make more money
- System Administrators complaining that 'this is what we have always done'

System Administrators, though skilled, had a much different mindset in the 90s when I worked closely with them. They were more focused on keeping Sun hardware running and keeping the SAN from filling up. That server room was their 'production'. They were still on call for when a server went down and it took days for a new server to be rebuilt. The best of them wrote scripts to make their lives easier but that wasn't often the focus. They were too busy keeping the systems running to automate much of it.

I find that DevOps is a different level of abstraction compared to Sys Admins. In general, they do not need to know how to build a server and fight with the OS as they can use tooling to spin up 100s of machines in the cloud. The amount of knowledge they need is much broader and less specialized than a System Administrator. Where the Sys Admin would need to know the ins and outs of Cisco Routers, the DevOps engineer only needs to know how to use a Load Balancer. If lucky, there is a tool that makes it easy to create them.

I find the list in the guide to be quite accurate but you do not need to be a master of everything in the list.
Again, a macroeconomic analysis with no explanation of how this is relevant.
Agreed. FWIW, I liked the direction Picard goes in for both seasons. Exploration of what happens when Starfleet fails to live up to its ideals, and how decisions people make determine who they are determine the decisions they make, were quite fun.
You missed the point. Star Trek never showed and endlessly peaceful universe, or a Federation that refused to act in self defense.

But it systematically depicts war and violence in general as not being a solution, rather a problem to be solved, a wound to be healed, an understanding to be found.

[yes, there has been few shocking exception, including Archer in Enterprise torturing an alien]
No additional information, but if you Google images of his clerks and then for images of the source for that claim, only one that appears to be trying to look like a model is the source.
I agree with your second sentence wholeheartedly [0]. Running with that, wouldn't it be better to be less forced into market dynamics? Or at least less oppressive ones? To me, that is what capital being distributed means. Say you own your own home outright, rather than renting it from a bank. That gives you a certain kind of freedom where you're not trying to make a huge mortgage every month (or at least not nearly as much, you're still paying the town rent every quarter), so you can spend less time earning wages from the financial system, and direct your efforts to non-system-legible endeavors - for example your restoring the biosphere outside of profit motives. It's the financialization of everything that drives the lifestyle inflation ratchet - since most of one's income is mandatory to service debt, one might as well have nicer things, right? Whereas without that stress, the incentive to keep earning more at the expense of accomplishing meaningful things just isn't there.

[0] With the caveat that I also see the opposite side of the coin about the utility of market signals. Both critiques are valid.
Got it. Does it make any difference where I register first? E.g. if that instance disappears overnight, will I be able to recover my account or not? I understand that I can access posts from all instances in the instance I use, but not sure how account handling/ownership works.
Yeah, all my walls are filled with loose cables taped together. I wish I had nice things like conduits.
Love the idea, hope you can continue improving on the execution, I am also fairly incapable of producing good manually drawn illustrations even though I used to be a junior designer early in school. Moved away from it as coding seemed like a more natural fit for me and helped me write games and do generative art.

But this really seems like something that would let me scratch my itch to produce nice illustrations, though ofc won't give the pleasure of learning that skill myself but surely stuff like this can't hurt. :3

Really cool project mate. :)
There is going to be a certain percentage of the voting population who is going to be very upset in a few years after they found out just how much AA has been helping their admission numbers [1].

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uncomfortable-t...
Nice project, learned a bit from it about some Vanguard funds I didn't know about previously.
Maybe it’s easy to disable? The guys I see commuting to work with action movies on those giant dashboard TVs are all driving Teslas.
I've had relentless cold sales spam including calling my personal cell number multiple times from both Dynatrace and Kong.

I refuse to do business with them out of principle.
It'll do so as soon as politics gets its fingers out of science and universities.
This will go away eventually.
> White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists.

Just… wow.

This is some next level nonsense.
That's sort of an antisemitic question.
Admissions everywhere should be blind to color and privileged influence. There's no way to apply affirmative action without racial discriminating. Scholarships though should be weighted towards those who actually need it.
> Who is going around saying how great big tech is?

I think that that’s the thing. They don’t have to say that. The attention that their products get, good or bad, speaks loudly enough.
Is SciFi a genre that reflects societal health? I have the feeling that SciFi is a phenomenon that appears and disappears in waves depending on how well a society is function.

There was SciFi coming out of the communist block (Lem, Strugatsky brothers, Zamyatin) which was a comment on the system, there was SciFi from England in early 1900s (Wells) - comment on industrial revolution - and later Orwell - post war, societal controls - and Adams - the world should be more worried about external forces. In the US the genre appears to be a constant starting with Poe[1] followed by Huxley, Dick, Clarke, Asimov, Gibson, Bradbury, Heinlein commenting on all sorts of societal issues. And recently China with The Three Body Problem by Liu. France had Jules Verne but that was more for profit than comment on societal issues.

Coming back to the question, is the popularity of SciFi an indicator for potential fears within society? I know that my favourite bookstore recently had a run on PKD, the bookstore happens to be in mainland Europe.

And what is the relationship between SciFi and philosophy? Philosophy being one of those sciences whose purpose is to question societal forms, constructs and norms.

[1]=https://psyche.co/ideas/are-successful-authors-creative-geni...
>>>> Systems are now run by software - and the inevitable conclusion is that coders are the new managers.

I shudder at the thought of being managed as badly as most code works. Most sufficiently complex technologies have to be operated in manual override mode most of the time.
Not parent, but I liked it a lot. But I wonder if by now the ideas have permeated thinking-person culture enough that it’s not worth it.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1265714-turn-360-degrees-and...
> Now that a narcissistic billionaire bought Twitter and will likely make it Nazi-friendly

Instantly lost credibility for me
I think the problem is that advocates do not believe that race is a just proxy for socioeconomic status. There also seems to be a common belief now that justice for past wrongs means equity of outcome, not only equality of opportunity.

I'm not going to try to defend or argue against these beliefs, but I think a big difficulty in these discussions is that people aren't even understanding each other's arguments and worldviews. Of course, looking at and staying focused on actual data and research would be nice, but frankly that's not easy because social science data tends to be messy and social science research is extremely difficult to do correctly. You also have to be able to at least define and agree on operational goals/outcomes, which might be a challenge in and of itself.
I'd settle for standard voltage and frequency.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems to have just started a few years ago? Suddenly news publications all started capitalizing "Black". Maybe it was to provide parity with ethnic groups named after locations with proper nouns, like Asians, Hispanics, Indians, Pacific Islanders, etc.?

Of course a decade or two ago there was a push towards "African American", which has two capital letters, but that didn't quite catch on.

If White people want to be capitalized, maybe we can call them "Euros"?
Ubik is the only PKD novel I've read and man did I struggle to finish it. Once in a while a passage caught my interest and then I would realize that I was reading was basically a summary of some myth from Gnostic scripture. A real slog, on the whole.
Life is a filter bubble, this is what our brains do best, it is what our bodies do, filter out information. If you could not filter out signal from noise then you as a human would die pretty quickly.

When it comes to our digital lives it really is no different. If we couldn't filter out salespeople and propagandists would fill every moment of our existence with their slurm making this medium useless.
I hope Mastodon (ActivityPub protocol to be precise) could be statically hosted, like a podcast or rss, yes it's only one-way but hell it will accelerate adoption.
Instead of creating a new service, it would be better if this read from https://keybase.io since those mappings already exist.
> I don't usually go in for conspiracy theories

I thought HN didn't like 'conspiracy theories'? Or is it that they are only acceptable if its for either things that most HNers use, or there is a villain to scream at like Meta, Big Tech, Elon Musk, etc I guess?

Either way, seems like an interesting one, if true that is.
Interesting tool. This reminds me of the initial steps in the vampire attack idea.

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/04/16/vampi...
> Is "race" (and its manifestations) is a protected class? I'm not sure what the law says.

It's listed explicitly in the Civil Rights act of 1964, except I don't think it mentions something that applies to this situation - the phrase "affirmative action" was created just to get around it. I guess this will be about whether it applies/should apply here in addition to the rest.
Unless the thing that qualifies someone for being the joe biden of $country is just winning against the trump figure of said country that makes absolutely no sense. Can't even begin to think about any similarities you'd see between biden and lula to preemptively address.
Whites and East Asians are socially dominant in many professional fields (e.g., relevant to this forum, computer programming) compared to some other groups, though you can certainly also find plenty of racism vs. East Asians in the USA.