skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brazilian here. The Biden administration and the CIA openly pressured our president to accept the election results before they happened. I gotta at least wonder if they knew he was going to lose.

Now there's nation-wide protests, calls for military intervention, election denialism with some rather convincing evidence, blatant censorship of anyone who's so much as asking if this is going to be investigated.
Why is gross margin relevant?

>Their profit (~5% as you mentioned) comes after they pay their relatively consistent operating expenses out of their gross margins.

Just like in any other business.

>The increased number of people getting insured is not what has driven up the insurance companies profits. Those numbers don’t add up.

Their profit margin has not been driven up [0].

>It’s not competitive at all, imho. It’s an oligopoly.

In an adjacent comment [0], I posted profit margins for 7 different publicly listed multi billion dollar health insurance businesses, which excludes Kaiser Permanente. If that is not a competitive business sector, I don’t know what is. If you are claiming collusion, I would need proof.

>That said, the hospitals and insurance companies are feeding at the trough, they have established a new excessive normal, and they will fight any change to the 80/20 rule by comically pleading poverty.

How are sub 5% profit margins feeding at the trough? If that is feeding at the trough, what is Apple, Microsoft, Visa, Alphabet, etc doing?

If insurance companies had the pricing power you are claiming they have, why would the shareholders accept anemic profit margins?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33503127
The original title is bad as well, because it is clickbaity.

Best title for submission would be: OpenSea administrators can take any tokens minted on the OpenSea Shared Storefront
This guy is known for saying ridiculous and highly sarcastic things. They also left out key parts of this specific statement:

> My answer will be delicate, sophisticated, and forgive me - ambiguous. We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way. During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once.

This is pretty much non-news coming from this guy. He said it to rile up the reporter. And the US media is eating up like a bunch of fools.
I wonder if it's white...
I found watching Kevin Powell's intro on YouTube really helpful. I already had a basic understanding of grid before watching it, but this helped me make sense of the snippets I'd pieced together in my brain over the last couple of years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg7Fvvl3taU
The marginal cost of digital goods tends to be low

A bigger issue is that anyone with a VPN can access the discount
Sales volume dropped from >$150M per day in the beginning of the year to ~$8M today (and the trend is still going down).

Keeping in mind this is an established market now (5+ years old) - and that the vast majority of sales are known to be wash trades - this is a small, extremely insignificant market.

Magic the Gathering, at this point, is substantially larger than the non-wash trade NFT market.
Nice job killing one of the most interesting parts of twitter culture. Sigh.
It took quite a while for the US government to get around take oral histories from persons born into slavery, but it did so: https://www.loc.gov/collections/voices-remembering-slavery/a...
The only off putting thing in redux-saga for me was the over use of verbs in the API. The `put, call, take, takeEvery, all`. That makes me somehow a little tense. I don't agree with the testing part though, We used helpers like `runSaga` method to get this done easily, also generator value can also be passed in using `generator.next(//value//)` if I remember correctly.
Parody and fair use are copyright concepts, not trademark concepts.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33373729
That thread links to https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/monads-gats-nightly-rust/ which is very nice. Bottom-line: Rust GATs are not enough to get Haskell style monadic programming yet.
But don't the prosecutors have to prove you knew they were proceeds of crime?
Another plug for Volumio. I added smart features to my hifi system with it. Very reliable and great Spotify integration.
I was in Delhi in June for the first time. The air was initially ok as it had rained the days before, but by day 3 our throats burned and we felt exhausted after a few hours outside. At that time, it was 110+F and the AQI was 300+.

The impact of that hit me when I was sitting in a taxi at a stop light and watching brick layers work. No mask, no sun protection, and in the middle of rush hour traffic.
If we ever go back into a mercantilist economy based on bitcoin, the US is setting itself up to be in a solid position.
I’m personally more annoyed at the SVG pollution in modern day frontends. I’m not saying I hate SVGs but why in the heck are we producing 10k like html files by incorporating SVG paths directly into the HTML? There should be a standardized browser protocol to be able to insert SVG via filename and pass it any styling references.
Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and Khrushchev all died peacefully.
Serious Question: Do you think that all software should have to be completely and constantly open-sourced? Do you think that all blueprints must be made public? Do you think that all recipes for food must be made public?

Creation is hard and should have some potential for rewards. I think we need software patents (especially) to be shorter lived and non-transferable. They can only be licensed and the licensing schedule should have to be public and available for all people at the same price. The employer can get a free license as part of the patent process for company use. This gets rid of trolls and patent farms.
That's a really far-fetched and generous interpretation. The comment is obviously just sarcastic NFT bashing, picking up on the lowest denominator in the parent comment and not talking about the platform or article at all. Come on, we can do better. Instigating another generic NFT flame war is pointless and off-topic.
They own it, sure, but they license it out freely. They've released their work under a license that allows anyone use of their trademark, as long as they stick by the AGPLv3. The AGPLv3 is written permission.
The thread developed into E2EE. Threema was an example how to do it more correctly, and to show what the others are doing wrong, giving an incorrect sense of security when there is none.
Apple cut the production of the iPhone SE because of low demand. If it would be true that women would like to use small phones but cannot buy any, this is very hard to explain.
As a whole, modern CSS features feel unintuitive and often require a historical knowledge of the problems this new feature X was trying to solve…

Disagree.

The beauty of CSS Grid and Flexbox is that you don’t need to know anything about the hacks and work-arounds which were the industry standard to approximate what these specifications give us today.

The reason why you see seasoned web developers go on and on about how it used to be is due to how unintuitive and fragile those methods were compared to today.

It’s similar to young people today: they don’t need to know anything about using a modem to dial-up to an ISP to access the internet in the age of broadband and Wi-Fi.
Conditional on being in a crash men are probably still more likely to be killed or injured, because the crashes men are in tend to be more severe (often due to their driving decisions).
Sorry, I don't see how that follows. A guarantee that "you will only get sentenced for X years regardless of what you admit" does not seem meaningfully different if X is zero or one.

edit: not meaningfully different with respect to the 5th, obviously it's meaningfully different with respect to "justice", as getting off scott free rubs many people the wrng way.
> By focusing so strongly on only specific groups (women in this case), I think sometimes these larger issues get kind of lost, even though the specific focus isn't really a bad thing in itself

You can suggest testing a wider distribution of crash dummy types without also inventing a scenario in which this article somehow prevents that from happening.
Planning and Notes Using Markdown in (Neo)Vim
Fatter. Why use euphemisms to avoid using the term "fat" when it's literally the case. It shouldn't be considered a loaded term, Americans need to admit they're fat instead of constantly moving the goalposts
Yes, you should say you will accept the results of an election before you know whether you will win it. This is the basis of the peaceful transfer of power. It shouldn't be hard to accept this. To accept only those elections you win is to deny the legitimacy of democratic governance altogether.

If there is evidence the election wasn't fair, you should object. But your evidence that it was unfair shouldn't be your own hurt feelings and propaganda.
It's exactly the same you don't like it you stay with Windows or Twitter oar Facebook . Why do people have to jump to the Fediverse now. They don't like it they just can stay where they are , everybody happier.
The only thing similar about them is the acronym:

GATs are generic type aliases which are defined inside traits.

GADTs are generic sum types with extra constraints on which variants may be used with which type arguments.

There is no reasonable way in which they are "quite similar," nor do either of them have anything at all to do with affine types.
there goes my evening, that's what I like about HN. thanks for the refs!
I think people that don't look exactly like crash test dummies are more likely to get injuries
I agree. Mastadon is great in theory but when you actually use it you quickly understand why it will never gain traction beyond a certain crowd.
The AGPLv3 only requires that you make the source available, that can even be on request, that can be on a CD. You can even, to quote the AGPLv3 itself, charge for that CD "for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source."

But that's not what's going on here. If the source is unchanged, it's perfectly valid (and often done) to just point people upstream. That is providing the source. And the code used to build their snap is available*, and you can see all it does is repackage upstream's official package.

* https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/blob/master/s...
Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server
That doesn't help at all for following a particular person. (For example, consider finding the account of a band that you already know.)

A Google search is probably the most common discovery mechanism. Once people start putting their Mastodon addresses on their web pages, it will start getting easier.
Ok, done. (Submitted title was "Backdoor in OpenSea allows to take anybody's tokens".) Thanks!
Dennett is making a (naive) philosophical point about the nature of consciousness, not a linquistic point about the nature of language perception.

You don't need a Cartesian Theatre, or even strict reassembly. I'd expect something more like a hierarchical/nested structure of template recognition for common word sequences and sentence structures.

Brains notice certainly when out of order are words. But brains can still make sense of them - with some extra effort - as long as there's still some templated structure left to work with.

You need to randomise much longer sequences before the templating breaks down.

None of this says anything relevant about what consciousness may or may not be. It's still the same old problem of qualia, only now it's about qualia that are perceived as linguistic and conceptual relationships, not trivial perceptual identifications. ("Dog", "orange", "philosopher", etc.)
It's very likely that this would fall under fair use.

The risk for the developers is that they (probably) don't have the money to fight IKEA in court. Thus, placating them is a more reasonable approach, especially considering that IKEA seem to be good sports about it.
That all connects to a working end implementation, which can be presented to the patent process.
ARM would need to contractually secure themselves on their own untill an implementation can be presented though
Title change? The linked content is fine but the submitted title ("Motto: Unsafe languages allow mostly-safe implementations") doesn't appear anywhere in it.
Which HiFiBerry DAC are you going to use? Looks like they have about a dozen different DACs and I'd love some guidance on what would probably be a decent default choice.

Also, you mentioned that volume control is a next step. For me, that feels like a pretty fundamental thing. Isn't that built-in to the Spotify, AirPlay protocols, and DNLA protocols?
> silver-colored

So they weren't actual silver... So they were probably just novelty display pieces?

And even if they were real metals, the total dollar value of that lot isn't very high.
Can you elaborate on this? Does Mastadon not have a reporting feature or something? I don't use it or Twitter, so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question.

It just initially came across to me like "people leave social media platform due to poor reporting environment, move to new social media platform with no reporting environment", but I assume I'm misinterpreting somewhere.
Agree 100%. An average person that just knows how to send whatsapp/text/messenger messages & make calls will get put off by the high barrier to entry. Anything more complicated than a @handle and password (maybe phone number too) to sign up is just too much. Even then things like dealing with the concept of having different servers etc is just too much. It all needs to be abstracted away so that anybody can use it.

Anyone that's ever worked on a helpdesk in a large business can spot these faults - you really have to cater for the lowest common denominator.
I disagree. If you get to a part of the book where you have some knowledge of the industry she's criticizing, it's clear how mistaken is. For example, her bit about phone sizes was glaringly bad. She thinks that every phone manufacturer is sexist and builds large phones which don't work as well with women's smaller hands. While the hand size thing is obviously true, women prefer larger phones because larger phones have better battery life, better hardware specs, and better cameras. And since most women carry purses, their phone choice isn't constrained by pocket sizes.

If women really did want smaller phones, then the iPhone Mini would have sold far more than it did. But phone size is a tradeoff, and smaller phones are a niche product due to their worse specs. It's as simple as that. No industry-wide sexism is involved.
.. I now fear for the judges life.
Love the enthusiasm!

I guess the "following" keyword could be helpful in case additional information would be needed. Maybe "blocking"? :-)

On the other hand, then it's already becoming a potentially bloated idea with infinite expandability, which also would make the endpoint name weird or redundant. Both options have pros and cons, I guess.

It was mainly meant as an idea, though, just as an example of how this type of data could be shared easily without needing a megacorp hosted platform.
How do you prevent people from spoofing or using VPNs to get a lower price? Or do you not, and let it be just another cost of doing business?
This article really had me excited. I really wanted to click the "Join Mastodon" button at the bottom of the article.

But there isn't one.
Thank you for proving my point. Please look at a map of California and notice that the SF Bay Area is not directly south of the Oregon border; there's a huge space there. That's where I lived. It takes about as long to drive from my parents' place to San Francisco as it does to drive from San Francisco to LA.
It was by a guy called Dombrovski. I started digging, trying to see if I can track him down in other ways and ask him for a copy, but then I wish I hadn't done that because I dug up quite some dirt... (seems like he was sort of a con man, his website dombrovski.com now just redirects to a court case, which makes me think that his domain was seized and maybe also his other sources of income such as his bandcamp account)
By that argument JavaScript is also compiled, so this point is wrong no matter how you interpret it: if "interpreted" means source code is transmitted and then executed in whatever fashion, then both JS and CSS are interpreted, if "interpreted" means a specific execution model on the client machine, then they are both JIT compiled and neither are interpreted.
I remember hearing somewhere that a number of the men involved in "speed and drunk" crashes are going through financial issues, life insurance doesn't pay out if you commit suicide but it does if you crash into a bridge at 100mph.
I think it helps but it's hard to measure as long as the outside temparatures are not comparable to last years. I follow the diagrams for Germany and right now consumers use about 30% less than the average of 2018-2021[1]. I think many people reduce their heating not just to help Ukraine etc. but also because they (we) know that it's way too expensive and we certainly weren't looking for much cost savings before. I thought I did last year (remember: already 2021 there was news that russia was not delivering as much gas as they usually do) but I'm actually on track to use like 50% less than last year. But yeah, thats just anecdata.

[1]https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/erdgas-versorgung-europas-...
> A lot of the time the people making these types of comments about McDonald’s are just plain bitter that their favourite $3_STAR_MICHELIN_RESTAURANT is mostly a rounding error in terms of visitors.
Why is this shocking? Smoke is, unfortunately, fairly common in some areas, especially during seasons where there may be fires. A weather widget that doesn't have that as an option would be fairly negligent, as it's relevant to the weather outside.
I like Mastodon, and have been on for years, but I don't see it breaking out of a relatively small nerd-y social circle. The vast majority of users want convenience. And the majority of content creators (who use Twitter to broadcast info), want large audiences. Mastodon provides neither. It's cool, like IRC is cool.
How is this any different from typing @gmail.com vs @yahoo.com? People seem competent enough to handle emails...
I've never seen it but I know it's extremely common in these. And worse, it's been mentioned in reviews since they started the ultra-thin line so they are clearly aware of it yet it's still a problem many revisions later.

It's kinda crazy my $180 Chuwi LapBook with about the same thickness doesn't suffer from this but a $1500 XPS does.
No, their goal is indeed to have a specific election winner and to foment division. The IC has been quite clear that Russia had a strong preference for a Trump victory at least in 2016. [Removed a section on GOP preference for defunding Ukraine since this is not a party position, just a growing position within the party]

Everything else you've said is true though - no reason to stick our heads in the sand about their preferences or to hate our fellow Americans because an adversary picked their side (worth noting Russia has also been involved in far leftist movements in the US for quite a long time).
I have been to Delhi many times in my previous jobs. On one occasion one of my colleagues got massive breathing problems and needed hospitalization and oxygen. On really bad days cleaning your nose turned the tissue black.

Air purifiers are not able to keep up with the pollution especially if your house is not air tight. What works well is to make use of positive pressure systems with high performance filters [1].

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/positive-p...
You Desire Distractions – On trying to quit social media
> The corporations in this case a) hold assets and b) provide liability limits. That is the basis of all corporations.

Surely the basis of all corporations is to trade and to undertake usefull economic activity.

We spesifically don't want them to limit liability where profit is made upfront, owners take off with the money, and there is no-one left to pay the costs.
Probably related, I’m not an native English speaker, and I have noticed that sometimes I don’t understand what someone is telling me in this language , just one or two words, and it kind of gets saved on a buffer in my mind and they keep talking and after a few seconds what was in the buffer gets “processed” and I understand it at the same time that whatever is being said to me currently. It feels weird.
Hmm. Lenz ( @phryneas in most places) could speak more to some of this, but I don't think RTKQ really supports the idea of "canceling" a fetch in general. Can you give some specifics about what that means in your case?

As for the timers and toasts go, I can think of two possible approaches off the top of my head.

First, you could provide a custom `baseQuery` function [0] that wraps around the built-in `fetchBaseQuery`, does a `Promise.race()` or similar, and then triggers the toasts as needed.

Another could be to use the RTK "listener" middleware [1] to listen for the API's `/pending` actions being dispatched. Each pending action would kick off a listener instance that does similar timer logic, waits for the corresponding `/fulfilled` or `/rejected` action, and shows the toast if necessary .

If you could drop by the `#redux` channel in the Reactiflux Discord [2], or open up a discussion thread in the RTK repo, we could probably try to chat through use cases and offer some more specific suggestions.

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/rtk-query/usage/customizing-que...

[1] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/api/createListenerMiddleware

[2] https://www.reactiflux.com
As usual Neal Stephenson was ahead of the game. The plot to duplicate "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" is facilitated by Confucians needing educational materials for vast numbers of girls (maybe clones?) being raised on nursery ships.
Of course putting ePHI in PowerPoint presentations should be against policy. The thing is, when it does happen, it's almost always inadvertent. Unfortunately, the "oops, my bad" defense isn't valid against violations of the HIPAA privacy rule.
Lots of words about Ukraine, but precious little about actual election interference.
Except that you can't currently create new accounts on mastodon.social.
> Conditional on being in a crash men are probably still more likely to be killed or injured

Sounds like the "probably" here is a guess?
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Just going to echo something that's been said a bunch - I think having to choose a server to register on is going to be a huge barrier for people interested in Mastodon.

Following the "easiest way to sign up" link takes me to a list of servers with no clear default choice. The top few options all require applying for an account, and are for special interests (Ruby/Anarchism/Animation Professionals). The first "open" server is for the Glasgow area. I think tons of people will give up at that point.

At the same time, enshrining some general-purpose server as the default try-this-first one, would run counter to the core idea of Mastodon, so there's no clear solution to this problem.
I don't like stories but at least there is a way to opt-out.
Many people do like them and expected them so it's understandable move
What is the issue exactly ?

AFAIK email to fax (and vice-versa) converters have existed for a while ?

I'm much more annoyed that in 2022 we are still misusing pdf, treating it as a digital-first format rather than one more appropriate for archival of paper documents... (and with the associated "pdfs cannot be modified" myth)