skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is the regulation that mandates people have insurance or be punished

Which is the cornerstone of any universal healthcare system? It only works in other countries if the healthy subsidize the costs of those less fortunate.

Also Switzerland had compulsory fully private insurance. To be fair they do suffer from similar issues as the US. Healthcare prices are very inflated compared to the surrounding countries, accessibility to some services (e.g. dental) is poor for low income individuals etc.

Of course it helps that Switzerland is a quite homogenous, has low inequality and subsidize access for low income individuals. However inherently the system is not that different from the one in US (I mean Switzerland is closer to US than either is to Britain).
you definitely shouldn't trust NFL quarterbacks. https://people.com/sports/former-packers-quarterback-brett-f...
He just wants to impress his girlfriend, who seems to have turned herself into a monster by doing enough amphetamines to replace the contents of her brain with Slate Star Codex.

https://twitter.com/0xhonky/status/1591630071915483136

https://twitter.com/autismcapital/status/1591601671943393280

(From the first tweet, it doesn’t seem like anyone in the conversation has read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(probability_theory...)
Even after controlling for work region, and for other variables, a sizeable gap remains, at least according to this government report.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

4.3 Explaining the Class Pay Gap

In order to disentangle potential sources of the class pay gap we next use regression analysis to see how the gap is affected when we adjust for five sets of factors often identified as sources of income inequality. Figure 3, begins by showing (in the first bar) the raw average earnings gap reported in Figure 2, while the second bar shows the average earnings gap in pounds per week when we control for gender, ethnicity, age and hours worked. In the next bar, additional controls for educational attainment are included; then human capital, work context (work region, industry, firm size, public vs private sector) and finally the individual occupation the individual works in.

[..] even when we control for all of these variables, Figure 3 shows that the class pay gap remains substantial and statistically significant (see Appendix Table A10 for standard errors). Thus even when those from working-class backgrounds are similar to those from advantaged backgrounds in every way we can measure, they still face a 7% or £2242 a year pay gap in Britain’s professional and managerial occupations.
I first took an intro class for a widely-used language, to get 'oriented'. I didn't have access to that language then, so tried others with similar syntax. To learn one better, I modified other people's programs to add desired features. Then I started aiming my programs at hardware ... where reaching the goal is easy to verify! and the value of optimizing can easily be tested. By then I knew enough to tell the difference between a kludge and art, and read up on that.
How many people do they need to change a lightbulb at CERN?

> 4 software engineers and a programmer

>> 4 people to debate the merits of LED vs CFL, one to screw it in (probably an incandescent when research money starts running low). Same as today.
I have an old Samsung (2015). I stream jellyfin via DLNA. Works for me
IIRC the kernel module also uses a compatibility layer, which is also unlikely to ever be accepted.

So its a technical issue too
What I learned from this mess: nothing new. If anything this just reinforces what should already be painfully obvious: invest in real world value that you understand. I have not seen the real world value of crypto or understand how that makes makes outside of itself. Even before crypto currency markets were a thing and were like setting money on fire.

I apply that reasoning to all investments. Sure, I miss out on all the easy money hype trains, but the investment decisions are almost always safe and still better than market average.
a bit o.T. but maybe relevant for the viewpoint on this question.

i've used turbo C in the 80ties - afaik the system was very similar to the turbo Pascal environment:

it was an early form of an IDE ... imho. this was THE outstanding feature of all this turbo $LANG environments by borland.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Turbo_C

just as an example: in the late 80ties i used it on an atari 1040STF - it had as the name suggests 1 MB (!) of RAM w/o a HDD (!) ... i was a teenie back then & HDDs where prohibitively expensive.

i copied the whole turbo C environment during the system-startup from a floppy-disc into a (dynamic) RAM disc - about 700 kB - and worked with the rest of the available RAM :)
it's still the theranos playbook, it's just a different image projected. and it still serves the same role - tapping into SV narratives and preconceptions to create an image that is super appealing to investors, the media and employees in order to spin up the hype flywheel, and excuse inconsistencies and misbehaviour. fundamentally both still took advantage of contrasting their traditionally inscrutable fields to contrast their highly visible images and paper over any skepticism.

either way the failing is the same - investors failed to preform adequate due diligence and lent their credibility to things they didn't fully understand because they were distracted by the charisma of the founder and were worried that they would miss potentially outsized gains. as long as large amounts of capital keep flowing to private markets (especially VCs) this will continue happening
you'd need several square meters per person of skylights or other windows to feed the rosemary
"and 97% of the population probably would not be nearly as enthusiastic"

Thats likely a strong understatement.
I think GP's issue is not lack of technical solutions but that most OSs and BigTech are increasingly user hostile to extract more revenue.

I alsobfind it concerning that they are succeding. We now have whole chunks of the world's demographic that don't even know it doesn't have to be that way.
You can disable Online Media Sources in the settings and unpin any section you're not interested in from the main menu.

I've done this and the only things that I see in my Plex app are locally-stored contents and my TV channels (delivered over IP by my ISP).
Bingo, that's the problem.

Even the "ban what is illegal by law", aside from some common stuff, varies from country to country. Anything above that is pretty much politics.

Like, it's fair to say "okay, this community is to discuss X, we don't do politics coz that's always divisive", but the moment mods try to play moral guide and decide what's wrong think and what isn't any bias they have will be magnified by the power they have.
What do you mean by “spot”? I feel like half the articles on this site have been “crypto is an insanely dangerous pyramid scheme”.
Yeah, you are right. That is still bonkers crazy nuts.
Driving now but stay tuned.
I think Space Invaders actually is most known and played on the 2600, at least in the US. It didn't quite have the same reach in arcades outside of Japan, compared to the biggest titles like Missile Command, Galaga, [Ms.] Pac-man. It was the big system-selling killer app for the 2600 before Pac-man came out.

I wrote a more arcade-accurate Space Invaders port for the 2600 (in 1997, when homebrew games were getting started): https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=283
We didn't know what the balance sheets of FTX and Alameda looked like, and most of us don't know enough about the space to guess this was happening. Brian Armstrong (founder of Coinbase) was on the All-In podcast yesterday and said he was curious how SBF had so much liquidity, but even he admitted he didn't see this coming in the slightest: https://youtu.be/Id7cNqwqt1I?t=2612
It's not about ideologies, using modules outside the kernel is never a good experience for those who use up-to-date distros (e.g. Arch, Fedora etc).
Alastair Reynold's novels have so many really interesting and cool ideas in them.

I think the greenfly are what you're thinking of, but in that series, there was also the case of a neutron star that was entangled with itself and functioned as a giant, time-independent computer.
GraphQL has been downgrading their API product for a long while, now React will also downgrade their front pages product. I saw a html/custom-elements advocate engineer left a year ago, .. my speculation just kicks in.
The model-T is an amazing car even today. It had no oil/water-pump that could fail.

This is the reason you go back to simpler things, everything today is over engineered.

That said the C64 is a better device to learn for since it matches the NES in more domains and is a real computer with a keyboard!

And now it's easy to connect it to the internet for multiplayer games!

If you really need to go Atari then 7800 is the way.
Are you referring to Andy Weir's "The Egg"[1]?

[1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
A lot of us are told to specifically not give feedback on the candidate's interview directly. Refer to earlier comment of mine, some people take it REALLY poorly. If you've been in industry for a bit I'm sure you've heard the stories.
I don't get it. So, do all these clusters mean anything at all? It feels like that should be telling us something eerily important about numbers. Granted, I don't really understand UMAP, but still, if it's any good for dimensionality reduction at all (and it appears to be), then clusters are clusters. This seems to have way too distinct structure to be essentially just a weird artifact of UMAP itself. Or is it?
The audacity to even ask for such a light sentence. No normal person would.
I don't know about FTX, but Binance has been shady from the very beginning. They got large quickly because they listed all kinds of **coins, had negative trading fee promotions, and in general did lots of shady growth hacking marketing tactics and partnerships. If you wanted to gamble altcoins, those would be on Binance, but not listed on Coinbase. That was many years ago when they started out of course. I'm curious where they are today. In my mind, the shady image of Binance hasn't changed, but maybe they got lucky with their investments and are actually fully backed and profitable now. Who knows...

Coinbase used to be US-only, and is still very US-centric. Binance and FTX are international. They only opened US exchanges later, but they are separate, and tiny compared to their international footprint.

I'm also curious how FTX got so big. When they started, the market seemed saturated with exchanges already, and they didn't really have differentation.
The end is always death. That is neither good nor bad, but simply final death. So to me what matters is all the life before and not just the moments before fading out.
> Imagine if JP Morgan Chase's entire value was in JP Morgan Chase stock, and they just reported that as their value in cash. It's like recursive valuation.

While I think real world finance is on much more stable ground than crypto, I thought it'll be funny to point out that many of the world's central banks back their liabilities (the currency they issue) with own government's bonds. Luckily, the bonds are denominated in the same currency. There is no chance of the central bank going broke, as long as they hold the bonds to maturity.
A blockchain is a kind of transaction log, but if you evaluate all the transactions you get a database at the end.

A Google Docs spreadsheet also has a transaction log (a CRDT) while you have it open to do the updates. (Well, I assume it does, anyway.) Of course the security models are different, but you could say the log is a dual of the database.
Wow. 2016 ist "the old internet"? Kids these days! To me "the old internet" ist the one before the web.
Marketing with enough money you can make every fraud legitamite for some time especially now in the world of influencers.
I never used Dylan, but isn’t Julia kind of similar, as a Lisp with multiple dispatch and a main-stream syntax?
That was a far more impressive bit of coordination and analysis; this really boiled down to looking through a stupid number of photos for the three-pronged staircase
Will it keep up with security patches?
When I was there in the winter, the locals still brought their children to kindergarten by bicycle with -30C! So much for weather as an excuse not to cycle!
It still would not tell you were the aliens came from.

It only adds a layer.

I would be curious for this layer as it would be novel.
I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager
This is an incredibly deceptive article. It makes it sound like DV victims are singled out. All it says is DV victims have to follow the same rule as other immigrants on Svalbard -- i.e. they may be deported when they can't support themselves.
I don't really mind it, you can do whatever you want. I just have a problem with the choice of the word fork in this context, but I guess technically you're not wrong per se. Although it's more a fork of that dot browser build than of firefox itself, is that correct?
In terms of "what is art" I think it's just normal ludditism. AI is a tool just like the "sharpen" button in Photoshop. Sure it takes it easier, but so does using a computer and being able to draw on different layers make it easier than using paint and a canvas. People, now just like decades ago, are just grumpy at the idea of someone having an easier time than they had.
Frankly:

> His autobiography has been published as a book and he may have been the basis for the movie The Terminal.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri.h...
Sadly merely artifacts .
Is calloc avoided for a good reason? Or is it something that people should be doing in most cases?
That's right. I don't claim to be the smartest. But I've seen a lot of Silicon Valley businesses and technology to know that a decentralized Uber will never work. But there are enough suckers in the rest of the world to buy into BS token projects like decentralized Uber/AirBnB.
Out of personal interest, can you elaborate why Haxe turned out to be a bad idea?
Maybe the third kind that forgot

./sim “config (copy 2).bak.json” 2>&1 &
LockBit ransomware suspect nabbed in Canada, faces charges in the US
The tell for me is that when asked to describe the first/preferred version they played, most people will eventually mention multicolored invaders. So either they're falsely projecting today's images back (possible but I think unlikely if they don't regularly see it still today) or they're remembering an arcade version with an overlay.
And if you had an "FTX" alert on HN/Twitter, you'd have seen:

Sunday 11/06

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494404 Due to “recent revelation” Binance is liquidating their FTX Token holdings (twitter.com/cz_binance)

> Context:

Friday 11/04

254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464494 Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent (dirtybubblemedia.substack.com)

--

All in time for:

Tuesday 11/07 -> Monday 11/06 ("yesterday")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518961#33520094

> I admit I did panic and tried to withdraw my funds yesterday. They just processed it today. A bit delayed but still processing.

--

"Get Out" vibes for sure.
For me, the main thing that's lacking in Plex is good support for audiobooks.

The storage and metadata backend are good, but I'm on Android and just couldn't find a good app that would:

1. work with Plex

2. play books both online and offline (by pre-downloading)

3. not require the Plex server to be exposed to the internet

4. (nice to have) sync reading position across devices

I played with the Plex app (doesn't remember where I left off), Chronicle (buggy to the point of unusable), Bookcamp (very fiddly to set up, requires the Plex server to be remotely accessible even when on the same LAN).

How's the Jellyfin ecosystem in this regard?
Charlatans have exited for as long as recorded history. As have suckers for them to exploit. "Spotting" them won't change that.
As in laptops that work fine in other place ? Sounds like electricians fucked something up...
I don’t post my private data in public places and expect everyone to stay away from it. Maybe I’m missing the contradiction somewhere else?
> Bike theft has long been a problem in Burlington, a city of about 45,000 residents, but it seemed to intensify over the summer and into the fall.

Several paragraphs later:

> And in June 2020, the Progressive members of the Council successfully sponsored a measure that sought to reduce the size of the city’s police force by about 30 percent.
Love the language and how much has grown, but could never get past the 1-based indexing of table arrays.
People understand what you mean they just don't agree with you...
What’s the problem with having the end parens on a single line? I never understood why languages with curly brace syntax don’t do the same. A line of code containing nothing but a curly brace seems like a waste of screen real estate to me. It contains absolutely no information (the end of the block can be seen by indentation anyway).
GraphQL is a language.
> Of course it does, it doesn't need to be studied;

No, public health mandates are not something you derive from first principles, but from actual observational data about the effectiveness of interventions.

It's like the difference between a drug being effective in vitro rather than in vivo. There are many confounding factors and side effects that need to be understood, so it is irresponsible to skip directly from the in vitro study to mass distribution of an intervention.

To help illustrate this point, let's assume that wearing the N95 masks reduces the likelihood of getting infected by some fraction, but not enough to drive the reproduction rate down below 1 (which is certainly the case). Say you only get from 2.0 to 1.8. Therefore unless this difference is the key to overwhelming hospitals, it should make no difference to death rates. However:

Those who have lung disease (14% of the population) are less likely to wear these masks because it makes breathing more difficult for them, so they will become differentially more likely to catch the disease as a result of the healthy population wearing the masks than if no one was wearing the masks. But since herd immunity will be reached anyway (just at a later time), this intervention may result in an increase in deaths as the population of infected people will have a greater share of those with lung disease than if no one wore the masks.

Now, is the scenario I laid out true? Well, we don't really know what herd immunity is here, and we don't know whether differential rates of compliance are big enough, which is why you have to study it. You always have to study. You don't go from a thought experiment to an intervention without study, because there are always confounding factors that can reverse your thought experiment once the intervention is applied in the real world.

This is actually historically interesting, because it was the ineffectiveness of masks during the 1918 flu epidemic that was one of the major findings of public health, distinguishing it as a separate field from immunology. E.g. everyone assumed you needed to wear masks, but ex-post studies showed this made no difference for death rates in the 1918 pandemic.

Now, I'm not saying that the 1918 data is decisive here, because they didn't have N95 masks then, but still use of the masks they did have was considered a best practice by immunologists, so it was still a shocking result how something that worked in the thought experiment could fail when deployed as an intervention. All of a sudden, people began to realize that "Yes, you need to study these things. First principles and logical deduction is not enough." That realization that public health is not immunology plus Aristotelian logic but is instead its own field -- that is the bedrock axiom of public health.
it has two arguments
One thing I noticed is in C, probably C++, if you create a struct on the stack you can set every field in the struct and... alignment means the empty areas between your fields don't get set and thus leak information that was on the stack.
No thanks, it would be too weird out there, and I’m pretty sure I would stand out like a sore thumb. Leave me in the matrix please.
What do you mean by 3D HTML? That is very interesting. Your page goes to 503 atm.
Yeah, the paddle controller on a zero-lag CRT offers an incredible experience that no modern hardware does. Super Breakout's progressive mode is still amazing today. Kaboom is the other big one, also Video Olympics in the higher speed modes. There are rotary controllers to work with Mame but they're a pale imitation of the real thing.

For sports, there's one surprisingly good (American) football game on the 2600: Super Challenge Football. You invent your own play calls every down by instructing each player individually. It's quite unknown, as it's only playable 2-player (no computer AI), and came out late in the system's life as a port from an Intellivision game. There's also a Super Challenge Baseball, also 2P only. Both games use weird control schemes that you'd never figure out without the manual, but do a decent enough job of controlling the sport with only one button.
If you need 100Gbps of IDS you probably are running that in front of something internet facing.
FTX likely printed SRM token out of thin air to prop up their balance sheet.

https://mobile.twitter.com/LucasNuzzi/status/159159590823988...
> A camera is possible without the artists it replaces.

Is it? Or does the idea of a photo presuppose the painting? Could a camera have been invented by someone not looking at the world through the lens of a very particular tradition of art?
Meta grew it's workforce by 50% from 2019 to the layoffs.

They appear to think they can get away with 10 or 15 percent RIF to restore profitability.

The rest of the industry seems to think so as well.

Higher interest rates means expensive financing and poorer stock performance, meaning in addition to reduced profits - overhead just went up a lot for companies using debt rotation to finance operations to preserve equity.

However, the shift to remote work is real - so companies providing those services are going to stay. That's an entire market segment that simply didn't exist before 2019.

My prediction is that maximum pain is 4 or 5 months out, then we will start seeing salaries rise again and the labor market tightening back up as the companies that make it through see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Specific governments - even all existing ones - are likely to fall before electronic networking.
A democracy functions up until the people learn they can vote themselves rations from the larder, money from the treasury.
book value. Companies don't get to count the value of stock owned by other people as assets.
What I miss most in FireFox is better multiline script support in the dev console.

The current solution to copy the whole script into the console every time you run it is pretty cumbersome.

Also, when you opened the script from a file, ctrl+save should let you save it back with the same name. Not suggesting a name like "console-input-2022-11-13_9-36-47.js" every time.
i've seen lots of crypto takes but crypto-theism is a new one
I'm in Kazakhstan, Astana. City itself is not that bad, but surroundings are bad.
and there is foobar2000 for Mac[0]

[0] https://www.foobar2000.org/
Well… your anchors of eth and btc are down about 25% in the last few days. And their reported “assets” are huge chunks of the total market value for a lot of these tiny sketch coins. So yeah, I expect its going to be rough when this get liquidated or it simply turns out your counterparties are actually the sketchy exchanges who dont have anything to back it up.
Stop drinking coffee for a while. It can upset the GI tract.