skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this source, posted earlier, CVS would only be a collection agent and could not claim special tax treatment for passing through the charitable contributions of others:

"This is where you round up your bill to give to a charity designated by the retailer, and the donation amount appears on your receipt. The store serves only as a collection agent for your gift. Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense. In other words, your gift has zero impact on the store’s income taxes."

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-...
I completely understand people like Andreas from SerenityOS and the idea that there was a time that was a peak of GUI simplicity yet usefulness for power users.. In their case it's the Win2K aesthetic but I think OS9 is pretty close to that level of streamlining.

As amazing as OSX seemed when it was launched, I partially blame OSX and the whole "make everything round and groovy and graphical goodness" trend that started us down the path of making GUI's 'form over function'.

This is bleeding over from OS into power-user-oriented software like CAD and engineering tools and most everyone hates it. The whole "lets take away buttons and make the ribbon icons bigger and more graphically pleasing" to make products look more modern is a cancer for power users and productive people who just want access to everything as best and fast as possible. It's a delicate balance that I do indeed believe peaked well over a decade ago.
" if a candidate went through a tech interview once, and presented their score to multiple companies they apply to?"

that is why computer science degrees and universities exist.
2022 State of Rust Survey
I'd wager most of what they observed there is just "how well are cities build for cyclist" (prime example: Netherlands) and how competent average driver is (Germany) not some nebulous "safety in numbers"
Here you go:

> It is not advisable to try and enable drowning in garbage generated by AI. Rather, we should strive to prevent the generation of AI-generated garbage in the first place. This can be done by carefully designing and training AI systems to generate high-quality content, using tools and techniques such as data filters and validation to identify and remove low-quality content, and by creating and enforcing strict guidelines and standards for the use and generation of AI-generated content.
I clicked on the first study in the linked blog post. Here is what it says:

>We found that active smoking was associated with lower odds of having a positive test result. There are several plausible reasons for this result. Active smoking might affect nasopharyngeal viral load and therefore affect RT-PCR test sensitivity, rather than protecting against actual infection, although this effect is not known to occur with influenza RT-PCR testing.49 Alternatively, as patients with symptoms are more likely to have been tested and included in our analysis, selection bias could affect this result.50 Smokers are more likely to have a cough, meaning they might also be more likely to be tested for SARS-CoV-2 than non-smokers, even if they are SARS-CoV-2 negative. This more frequent testing could increase the proportion of smokers with negative SARS-CoV-2 results in our sample, which would bias our results. However, the proportion of smokers in our study was low. Furthermore, ex-smokers and people with chronic lung disease would also be expected to cough more, but these groups did not have higher odds of SARS-CoV-2 test positivity. Therefore, the relationship between smoking and SARS-CoV-2 infection merits further investigation. Nicotine might downregulate angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptors,51 which are used by SARS-CoV-2 for cell entry, although studies have found increased angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 lung expression among smokers and people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.52, 53 Our findings should not be used to conclude that smoking prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection, or to encourage ongoing smoking, particularly given the well documented harms to overall health from smoking, the potential for smoking to increase COVID-19 disease severity,46 and the possible alternative explanations for these findings.

I'm not going to check the other 99, but if this is the standard of evidence, I don't find "I made a list of 100 studies!" particularly persuasive. If it's just incidental correlations from studies that aren't designed to specifically investigate the causal link and rule out confounding factors, the list doesn't mean anything.
Just click the button in the nag that says "Let me read the article first"
DHS still wants to have more secure and validated IDs but states aren't issuing them as default so a lot of people take the easier licensing/ID option when they renew. My state, NC, doesn't issue them as default or even really push them at all. So the problem at the federal level is you have states and people not getting the IDs so making the transition to requiring REAL ID for flights etc would be potentially very disruptive.
This topic has come up several times now on HN and the conversation is always very frustrating.
The debate tends to run towards "no one will tell me to wear a helmet". The same studies are cited as supporting one side or the other when all the studies are clearly insufficient.

It's good that HN doesn't take things are face value, and the discussions here seek to understand unintended consequences. But sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and anecdata does in fact equal data.

Unfortunately cycling is dangerous because - in most countries - cyclists share the road with cars and trucks. There's only one winner in a cyclist vs car showdown.
If you cycle somewhere that doesn't have nice cycling infrastructure a helmet is a great idea. A helmet will not automatically turn you into a target for indifference or road rage from motorists - that's the default posture of most motorists towards cyclists, helmet or not.
Which just by itself would help reduce the total number of injuries, as the unfortunate reality is almost every other form of transport is less likely to result in hits to the head. So you then have to balance that against the downsides of people choosing "safer" forms of transport, which are not inconsiderable.
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The author says it is "intriguing" that providing hospitalized smokers with nicotine patches improved outcomes. You might think "nicotine withdrawal is a lousy companion to trying to recover from COVID" but the author thinks it supports the hypothesis that nicotine competes with COVID for ACE2 receptors.
I think one strong way to start building your community is by involving people (that are passionate about the mission) in a behind the scenes way. I use Discord to communicate and make announcements, and I am constantly interacting directly. Let them know they are valued from the jump. Transparency & consistency in your presence is key!
Best of luck.
New Zealand wants to force Big Tech to hand over cash to mainstream media
Stupid question - are there any good resources on User Experience patterns/recipes for implementing OT/CRDTs?

Context - a lot of the literature is about the backend algorithm. But that still leaves individual teams tripping over the frontend interaction design and usability.

Example of what I'm looking for - hex.tech has a video tutorial of their "Cell locking" feature, where the cell gets disabled and a "Mac Lockard has taken control of a cell you were editing" toast notification appears. [1]. This is fully baked and a recipe which if I put in a jira ticket could actually get implemented. :)

I would love to read a book which is a "Don't make me think" and has an example with "This table cell was added by Bob concurrently to Alice removing its row. How would you like to proceed: recover the row or ignore the change?". All the UI's in my head would look like "Clippy" from MS Word - or "Pipey" from Silicon Valley [2], haha.

1: https://hex.tech/blog/a-pragmatic-approach-to-live-collabora...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YcOV5C2x4
"The work desk no longer has any books on it. In their place is a screen and a telephone. All the books and all the information are kept remotely in a huge building that has the space required to store them.

The place that stores the information will also distribute the information, using a wire, or maybe without a wire."

-- Paul Otlet, 1934
It also breaks down when you have a passive/non-transactional server, like an app syncing its state via files on Dropbox.
Does it cost more for you? My state doesn't charge any more for them you just have to bring the extra documentation which in your case (in my state though I think the requirements are the same everywhere) would be your passport you already have.
The article puts the lack of development down to technology but it's arguably the lack of applications that came first. We've developed solutions for most of the spectrum (anything below cosmic gamma rays) because we needed to and the tech followed. As we find applications it will follow.

Also, not to be pedantic but about the terminology, the spectrum below the terahertz range is generally called radio (with optical or light for above it) not 'electronic', while the technology for producing frequencies above it is called photonics (with electronics for below it), not 'optics'.
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What Happened to the Bar Tab?
I can't think of a worse UI change than what Microsoft did to the right click menu. I'm ok with UI changes and will randomly try different WMs on Linux but that change was just SO frustrating. Zero benefit, loads of friction.
"Now let the court enforce it." -Andrew Jackson
Can you please elaborate on your use case? What kind of articles? What do you want the output to contain?
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I'm not on Facebook or Twitter but from here and Reddit, I read plenty of articles on COVID and smoking in 2020 and beyond. From those articles, if I was asked today I would say less chance of catching COVID for smokers but worse outcomes if they do catch it. Right or wrong, that is how the information trickled down to me. "Cover-up" may be a bit strong...
Not being new to typing into little browser boxes, I understood you were soliciting unqualified legal opinions, but these days, I try to avoid playing the internet’s INAL game.

Not always successfully). But I strive to take what other people type at face value and treat their expressed concerns seriously because sometimes it isn’t the INAL game.

I always take ethics seriously — probably more seriously.

But my take is probably not what you want either: if you think something might be unethical, it is unethical to do that thing.

There’s no such thing as “I did it while thinking this might be unethical, but it turned out to be ethical.” [1]

So my ethical advice has the same outline as my legal advice.

The simplest way to avoid an ethical problem is to act in ways that do not raise ethical questions. [2]

I guess it might be fair to say I don’t avoid the internet moralizing game. And fair to say I am a bit of a wet blanket at times, hazards of a philosophy degree perhaps.

I don’t believe ethical discussions of hypotheticals should ever result in permission. Hypothetical permission is not permission.

[1]: this is different from two acts at two different times where a change in one’s ethical framework leads to a change in ethical judgment at the times of action, and that’s different from different determinations from different states of affairs.

[2]: The context here is freely chosen alternatives like using AI to create images versus using more difficult means that don’t raise your ethical uncertainty. I am not talking about Trolly Problems.
Always sort data server-side if you don't have a good reason not to. I know nothing about this product but I have seen a lot of bugs caused by the assumption that there is an assumed default sort-order.
When McKinsey comes to town
Fun fact:

Video games with crafting/cooking such as RPGs are featured on some of these generated SEO sites.
"herding bots" is hilarious. I'm 90% sure you're not a bot for coming up with it.
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There's a possibility that all the particles in my body might leap simultaneously one foot to the left, or that I might transform into a bowl of petunias. The question is how likely playing chess or riding in a car might squash me like a pancake.

We accept a not insignificant risk by driving ourselves and riding in cars driven by humans. Happily, it's not hard to estimate the risk that a machine-controlled car poses by letting them roam around. We can compare that with human-controlled cars and start shifting between controllers according to their risk profiles. I'd much rather have a machine-controlled car than a human asleep at the wheel.
More importantly, if the robo car IS ACTUALLY safer than average human drivers (which is a stupidly low bar because that includes drunk and distracted driving), but has extremely weird, unpredictable failure modes like suddenly driving off a bridge with no warning 1 out of 1,000,000 times, how safe do you feel riding in this car? People don't like working with systems that have utterly inscrutable error conditions. The devil you know is much better.
> they are not a very popular speculative investment.

That's the thing that's being argued from bis. That they have become popular speculative investments in wallst
Not exactly though. With a human stranger, I can still stereotype based on their appearance, background, accents, etc. and apply whatever mental adjustments as taught to me by my societal upbringing. With an "AI" bot, the "strangers" are faceless people who curated the training sets and wrote the obscure statistical algorithms.
The current executive is likely to have a different take.
I've lived to see the day where someone made an American Psycho business card reference and a follow up comment would - in context mind you - be able to reference Paul Allen as both the movie character and the Microsoft founder.
> the FAS report I linked above is from 1993 and states that "There is almost 1000 MT of reactor Pu (R-Pu) in existence now, with the amount growing by about 100 MT per year."

Why couldn't we find a few kg for NASA missions? IIRC for Juno mission the DoE said "plutonium is out of stock for now, come later", so they had to use these oversized solar panels.
> Lawsuits by the families of the fallen?

Umm, maybe.

Except we all know that that's a truly terrible way to persuade corporations (with deep pockets, lots of lawyers, and even more lobbyists) to do the right thing, isn't it?
> and now there is an effective vaccine

I'm not sure I'd call it 'effective' anymore - it's better than nothing, and reduces risks, but 'effective' should have a higher bar than what we're seeing today.
I like this grammar hack.

```

grammar = """

Response ::= "Alice\n" (ListOfCmds | SingleNaturalLangResponse)

ListOfCmds ::= (BashCommand\n)+

BashCommand ::= "$ " AnyString

SingleNaturalLangResponse ::= AnyString without $"""

```
Helmet hair. Once my hair gets compressed by a helmet, nothing other than a shower can fix it, and we don't have showers at work [not an issue as I'm remote now].

I live less than a mile from my former cubicle, and my old commute was mostly through a park with two road crossings. There was no reason to wear a helmet.

If I'm on a longer road ride, or riding off-road, I religiously wear a helmet. If I'm riding lift-assisted downhill, I wear a full-face helmet.
If we're going to pick finance apart into 'Socially useful' and 'Socially damaging' parts, I think insurance would generally fall towards the left side of that spectrum.

It's possible that our particular implementation of the insurance markets is deeply flawed, but a general concept of 'Pay X now to be backstopped in the event of catastrophe' is incredibly useful.
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Observational studies are rubbish though and suffer from too many problems. I don't have much trust in them. It might be true but we don't have good evidence that we could cover up.
> You use an abrahamic notion of human being defined as a soulless meatbag.

I use the Christian notion of a human being defined as a human body and a human soul unified in one creature. I believe both human body and soul are created at the same time, namely conception. While most Muslims agree with that assessment, most Jews do not[1]. Therefore it's not an Abrahamic notion.

In fact, the very concept of a soul, or anima in Latin, is that which animates a body. By definition, every animate creature has a soul because it is the name for the animating principle. And so death then is the transition from being a living animated body with a soul to being an inanimate dead body without a soul.

[1] The Talmud says that the soul enters the body with the first breath.
It's like code completion on steroids, still lacks depth and detail. It can create code mashup and glue it perfectly in no time, so it's worth a lot as most of the dev work looks like that. So I predict that it will be a standard tool at some point. Still, it will require a skilled dev that understands what to ask and how to interpret the answers. If somebody would ask me if I agree to be operated by a "junior" surgeon who is helped by such "AI" I would said no.
Except for the lack of a proper fullscreen function...
I switched back to K9 recently, as OAUTH2 works now. I am using Gmail(IMAP) and Rediffmail(POP3).

Light-weight.
Does not add accounts to Android system.
Less colours.
I’ll just leave this here:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.6539...
We've changed the url to that from https://labor411.org/411-blog/federal-judge-orders-amazon-to..., which copies it.

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tried a minor twist...

Q: Did Thomas Hobbes believe in separation of powers? Exclude from your answer any reference to John Locke

A: Thomas Hobbes was a political philosopher who lived in the 17th century. He is best known for his book "Leviathan," in which he discusses the concept of the social contract and the idea that people give up some individual rights in order to live in a society governed by a strong, central authority. While Hobbes did not explicitly mention the concept of separation of powers in his writing, his views on government suggest that he believed in a strong, centralized authority rather than the separation of powers.
The Giza pyramids are far from the only Egyptian pyramids though -- the reason the earliest descriptions of the Egyptian religion are referred to as the "Pyramid texts" is that they are found in other pyramids, some of which like the Pyramid of Unas are nearly as old as the Great Pyramids in Giza (but better preserved as so more informative from an archeological perspective). The Giza pyramids are impressively large but seem to have been entered/looted at various times in antiquity.
Watch EEVblog's playlist on DC theory, and then play around with a breadboard and simulations using something like circuitjs. Get some basic tools such as a soldering iron (and solder/wick/sponge/etc), breadboard, wires, and a collection of components like resistors, capacitors, and LEDs, and so on. r/AskElectronics has a guide for all of the practical stuff you need. Pick a project you actually find interesting and work on it (after learning how to safely use your tools and components).

Lots of people get started with things like using a microcontroller to light up some LEDs and so on. That will introduce you to basic concepts like how transistors work as well if you dig into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSRe_4TQbuo&list=PLvOlSehNtu...

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/wiki/beginners/
Getting Started In Electronics by Forrest Mims
Hah, Marathon Infinity, running in real time on a Javascript emulation of MacOS, in Safari, on my phone.

What a difference 26 years makes.
> Then the rule is just pointless. Can anyone prove that you are not sick

No, but if someone goes into a tournament, resigns on move one, and then goes to Twitter with a tweet saying "if I speak....big trouble" then in that situation they can be punished.

Is it hypothetically possible that someone might be able to secretly pretend like they are sick?

Sure. But the point of rules like this is to prevent the highly obvious and damaging examples of unsportsmanlike conduct.

If someone is secretly resigning games in an unsportsmanlike manner, but nobody notices, then there isn't much actually damaging about those actions.

> should there be a rule that forces you to play

No, instead unsportsmanlike conduct should be punished. Such as resigning on turn one, and then going to Twitter about it with a vague accusation.

> My point is where do you draw the line?

Well what you do is you punish the really obvious stuff.

And if it is done super secretly, then it isn't that damaging anyway, and we don't have to worry about it.
I wish I could have a list of everyone who thinks revoking licensed support is reasonable, so I could have them as customers.

This is not about dollars, it is about ethics.
Given that most people never check the source of what they read, this is really scary. Because now everyone has the ability to write and say things that sound plausible and likely to be convincing, and the truth will be harder to access.
we are all NPCs in somebody else's game.
Off-road MTB riding has no relevance here in the discussion around riding bicycles on roads with motor vehicles.
> of trans kids assaulting others in restrooms, and other non-events

https://news.yahoo.com/judge-rules-loudoun-county-teen-13141...

This was a non-event?
Well yeah my point is the ROI is pushed out because of the extra expense of the install and acquiring sufficient electrical service above and beyond the cost of the new fleet.
Please point out anywhere that "officially correct information" stated that n95 masks did not reduce the chance of infection.

Very early on, I recall statements discouraging mask use because of concerns the public would incorrectly wear them and increase their risk. At that time there was very limited information about how COVID-19 spread, with the NY Subway steam cleaning their cars on a nightly basis, and people washing their mail in an attempt to prevent infection.

Here's what Factcheck.org has to say on the subject:

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/scicheck-misinformation-ab...
If so, this isn't limited to AI. To give a very oblique example, any Norm Macdonald fans can attest to the mass reposting of a very small subset of easily obtainable parts of his career on YouTube.
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I agree, I was trying to follow the only line of reasoning I can think of that would rationalize the existence of such laws in a way that doesn't break the concept that we should be able to choose for ourselves the amount of risk we want to be exposed in (which is generally accepted in other cases of everyday life).