skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from a few urban hospitals which were turned into COVID case dumping grounds in the early weeks, no, they weren't. Hospital employment tanked at the beginning of lockdowns and has only just recovered to pre-Covid levels: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES6562200001
Umm..in latest release of Twitter files, you had members of the Biden administration reaching out to explicitly ban and de-platform accounts including accounts that simply showcased the CDC's actual data. There was severe and direct pressure from the white house to ban accounts of US citizens.

I cannot think of a more fundamental violation of the US first amendment.
I think that if one does something for a long time and with constant passion, and then reflects about that in the form of text, podcast or video - they are doomed to become an influencer of sorts. So your recommendation is equal to "do not reflect on your passion in public", which is quite sad.
Could you please run HN effectively? I don't like banning websites at my work, but honestly the way "dang" runs shit at HN it seems like the only option is to start IP filtering you.

How about you take a look at the rules and consider which of them are wrong, and what got you into this situation in the first place.

Your compliance is appreciated.
One day I found, in the parking lot of HEB supermarket, a beautiful, lightweight circular pattern approximately a foot across that appeared to be fabricated. Closer inspection revealed it was a pigeon that had been run over repeatedly over many days.

Day and night the sun and cold air dry the pigeon mat. The smashed meat and connective tissue act as a protein glue to hold the mat together. Each vehicle presses, mixes, and spreads the mat into, on average, a very light colorful circular feather pattern (feathers tend to retain their structure more than bone, possibly b/c of their flexibility) that, once thin enough, wafts to and fro in the parking lot winds before settling gently to the ground.

I first thought to spray them with a waterproof coating and sell them as "Pigeon Frisbees" but alas, they were aerodynamically unsuitable (they rode the air like cattail seeds), and so, in the end I asked HEB parking lot employees to consider cleaning the remains of dead pigeons as a favor to their customers. The parking lots are more pleasant these days.

Plenty of pigeons are killed by cars, esp. females resting in empty parking spots, where they sometimes sleep.
I am starting to hate any service that constantly sends newsletters, feedback requests and other notifications. Usually it’s blatantly obvious that they are not to my benefit but only to their benefit. Facebook is bad that way, Doordash also sends me a ton of stuff that is never useful.
UNC?

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/42s46g/til_i...
There's evidence, posted in the threads, of Twitter doing exactly that about numerous specific points. Twitter has, on multiple occasions, fought against states and government interests to unmask its users.

So, there exists evidence, and examples, that Twitter could have pushed back without repercussions. There is no evidence of Twitter having suffered for doing so.
Sounds like extreme confirmation bias. Just a couple of counterpoints: Everyone taking the vaccine was supposed to be long dead. Women taking it were supposed to be sterile, and men too. There are billions of people who took and still... barely anything.
> This comment gets a lot up upvotes until it gets "flagged" and deleted

This is because your comment is bog standard disinformation. It tickles the groupthink narrative about "lockdowns", even though "lockdowns" did not exist in the US beyond a few counties in California.
> This is a worrisome development.

Governments are working with private corporations to promote misinformation and silence real information and you’re worried about…anti vaxxers?

I can maybe steel man a utilitarian stance for this position though I’m afraid it’s weak to “surely the lepers won’t eat my face”.
What does this man's self control have to do with whether it's beneficial to take vaccines for your health or the health of those around you?
Created? Please, it was already there. Gestures vaguely at every Libertarian, (Neo-)Luddite, Jenny Mccarthy and basically the city of Portland.
AAA used to simply imply good graphics. These days it tends to refer to that and the hand-craftedness of things. Like every moment being designed for some player impact. The new Tomb Raiders are the most emblematic of this imo, though not in a good way. AAA games tend not to feel like a set of standard mechanics and actors arranged in different levels. They have a lot more special circumstances. Worst case this is just cut scenes. Commonly it's special control schemes for specific situations that break the standard game design and may be cool or may suck. I haven't played any of these titles, including Metroid so I can't comment. But... idk Hollow Knight was an excellent 2d side scroller with beautiful art that was clearly not AAA to no detriment, imo. Nintendo does things their own way too so it's always funky.

In my headcannon this transitioned most clearly with the cultural shift of Halo 3 being AAA to CoD4 being AAA.
So what would you call things like the QAnon theories? If you didn't believe them that is.
The biggest issue isn't the dick pics, but him smoking crack and potentially having sex with an underaged woman. He just happened to be naked while doing/potentially doing those things.
Plus foundational work on concepts like Progressive Enhancement: https://alistapart.com/article/understandingprogressiveenhan...

I think if you were not in the front-end scene during the 2000s, you don't understand how miserable it was. For most of that decade, we had to make sure our sites were compatible with IE6. Flash was vying to take over. Without the work that publications like A List Apart did (along with Mozilla) the web might look much different (worse) today. They were thought leaders.

They shaped what was actually happening in the industry in a time when front-end development was changing dramatically year over year. It makes me sad that they seem to be slipping from our collective memory a bit.
> the distrust it created for big government, big pharma, and big tech.

No worries. The people will forget it just like they forgot the Iraq War, the Avandia drug scandal, the Three Mile island, the Mexican gulf oil leak, Iran-Contra and everything else.

They will vote in the election. The administration will change. And despite the incoming administrations will be staffed fully by the SAME people who staffed the administrations in the past 40 years, the people will think that something has 'changed' because the frontmen of the administration have different faces.

Then rinse and repeat.
a similar tool is https://github.com/brunelli/wl-clipboard-x11 and xclip (for Xorg).
I used the TI-Nspire calculators when I was at high school (though not in the US), and found them very capable. Never used an HP Prime, so can't comment there. There's also the Casio FX-CG500 (https://www.casio.com/us/scientific-calculators/product.FX-C...), though you can't use the stylus in your exams for some stupid reason, so I suppose your finger has to suffice? All three have emulators available with at least a free trial, so I'd recommend installing those and trying them out together.
Video: Prof. Culum Brown on Fish Intelligence, Sentience, Ecology, and Suffering
And in 2,000 years, what will they think of them?
I am steadily migrating my critical email IDs off Gmail. I'd rather not have Google gather meta-data about my activities.
? I was replying to your comment.
I’ll explain and you’ll have enough information to find corroborating citations, for most of this

its a symbiotic relationship at fracking sites, where some byproducts are flared into the atmosphere, this is called flare gas

methane (worse than CO2) and hydrocarbons are flared directly into the atmosphere

bitcoin mining companies move operations on premise and use the gas directly to power their machines before it is flared, thereby reducing emissions. Some but industrial catalyctic converters reduce the emissions substantially, leaving some H2O and some CO2

flare sites have problems growing due to state and federal regulations if their emissions are too high, so their desperation results in many ways to help make mining company presence a sweetheart deal in the energy rates the miners receive. (but they still arent expanding, yet, as they get exemptions from the regulations and are courting miners because of the threat that the exemptions will stop. Currently mining reduces emissions, and this is only a matter of accuracy, criticisms about the possible future of too much mining/fracking equalizing into no net benefit are accurate)

in any case, thats before selling to the grid

which brings me to the next point, there are

1) grid connected flare gas miners

2) non-grid connected flare gas miners

you probably wont find much literature on the 2nd type as they are off the grid

but the 2nd type is also not subject to your form of criticism
> far less dangerous than getting COVID

Since the risk of COVID varies wildly by demographics, this leaves open the possibility that the vaccines are a poor risk/reward tradeoff for large numbers of the people it's being recommended to (essentially, everyone over 6 months old). And since they don't prevent COVID infection, "risk of vaccination" vs "risk of a COVID infection" is the wrong comparison to make in the first place.
Wow, Khanna comes off really good here as a rational patriotic centrist. It makes me wonder about his future political ambitions. People should read the interview if unfamiliar with him.
> There’s a revival of kids not being given other vaccines as well.

Yes, the anti-vaxx (and anti-government) sentiment has received an enormous boost from this, time will tell what the damage is but a resurgence of things like Polio is not out of the question.

> I am sympathetic to skepticism when public health officials spent a lot of time lying to avoid having to explain complicated truths.

I'm partially ok with that. They really should give out a double helping of advice: one that is dumbed down for those that lack the necessary background, one that is more on the level for those interested or that do have the necessary background. As it is the dumbed down version is all we've got and the result is that it is too easy to poke holes in it.

At the same time, some of the under-preparedness would have been much harder to deal with without the occasional white lie, it stopped a lot of profiteering and kept some items in supply when otherwise there would have been a run on them.

> But so many bad faith voices and outright scammers with nonsense vitamins to sell are going to get what they want.

Yes, and fwiw I think those people should have gone to jail. We're working on a couple of those cases here NL at the moment and I'm really curious what the outcome will be.
Well your experience is not relevant to mine. My device didn't need a "thorough" test, literally turning the device on and testing its most fundamental functionality would've told them it's broken. No, mine did not have mechanical or sensitive parts like this that could've broken along the way, or anything like that. These were very clearly something they never tested. And no, they weren't $5, they were quite a bit more. And these were very clearly priced just enough below the actual working ones to entice you into buying them.

Of course it doesn't seem like you want to to believe me no matter what, which is fine. I'm not sure what the point of arguing to discredit my experience is. It just drains our energy to no end. I know what I see, and you know what you see, and that's basically all it is.
If you want to experience similar masochism or torture someone else, set their used-memory value very low in msconfig. It can take ages to figure out for a victim.
UX was always a bullshit field. Large tech companies learned they could spend A LOT less time and money by adopting boring homogeneous design instead of paying artists to create beauty. See anything Eli Schiff wrote circa 2015-2016. He covered all of this in detail. Design used to be a respectable field. Now it’s all would be business analysts larping as UX designers who couldn’t draw their way out of a paper bag. They use big words and complicated methods to “design” systems that are intentionally ugly. You could say the same thing about a lot of fields I guess. The world is a now a very dull and ugly place. Just look at how at the past (the distant past), and how much artistry and thought went into even the smallest of everyday objects. This same process of modernization has happened to software. Except it didn’t take hundreds or thousands of years. It took a decade.
I've found most apps too slow or too complex. So much that I've spent the last 3 months building another one, kinda like the author. Maybe my use case is different than most as I only spend 20% of my workday on the computer, but I'm convinced there are others like me. Roam Research was compelling and I paid the $500 two years ago. But found the friction and 12 second load time too slow. I downloaded my graph and realized it's only 250k of text -- maybe I'm a light note taker. Either way, sticking text on a server side rendered webpage seems reasonable. I have my entire graph on one page. Most of the time, ctrl-f will find what I need. Trying to do autotagging and some fun things with open ai. It's unpolished but online if anyone wants to give it a go. Just a hair above plain text files. grugnotes.com -- tech stack is django, htmx on google cloud run. Haven't done much coding in past 10 years, so skipped all the js frameworks and loving it.
This is exhausting
Most people are going to believe what they see on their screens. Therefore, it’s important to the regime to influence what gets amplified or suppressed.
Lol.

(Also note that in Quebec provence flying a Canadian flag can be a bit of a political statement… it seemed easier to me to be carefully neutral on such things).
At least HN doesn't filter COVID disinformation. Your first paragraph is all incorrect. Patent-free treatments were extensively tested and some (notably dexamethasone) were put into treatment regimens for a while but none proven effective. "Corporate" vaccines were very effective and I'm not sure what alternative you're thinking of (artisanal vaccines? Maybe Sinovac?) but either way it's irrelevant. Twitter is just a messaging platform. The people extolling and deriding vaccines were from all walks. Politicians, journalists, doctors, researchers or rank amateurs. Twitter was trying to reign in disinformation from all quarters because it was killing people. There is zero hint of political interference at any level, this was all at the level of bureaucrats attempting to provide a service to companion who wanted assistance.

What if the executive starts censoring politically incompatible thoughts? Trump certainly tried or at least threatened to do so many times but it's nowhere near reality.
I just doubt this is true. I like to say and think I have no social media yet here I am.
I also spend quite a bit of time watching youtube videos and looking at youtube comments.
> There was a noticeable increase in thromboembolic events after COVID-19 vaccination started in my city. Plenty of people were saved by friends in the emergency room.

Thromboembolic events are a common side effect of COVID-19, and vaccine roll out often led to infection surges as the sense of normality returned before full immunity.
The for profit health system has a ton of problems and should be abandoned but it’s not the reason why people lost their minds over Covid. Germany has a better health system (for normal earners. The US system is great for wealthy people) but still has a ton of anti vaxxers and Covid deniers.
I used to work at Novell back in mid 90s. I transitioned from QA to dev in the security department under Roger Schell, who brought me in.
I learned most everything I know about security protocols from that group.
But my favorite memories there were the interviews I was asked to do.
See, I’m not LDS and not from Utah. And I was chef in a previous life. And so they would ask me to take out the “California” candidates up to Oak Room at Sundance, and wine and dine them. It was a rough job for a 25 year old. We knew Eric’s days were limited (especially when he forced that Java crap at us ;-).
I never understood the location in Provo. The campus was across the street from a sewage plant treatment plant! But wait, it gets better, the animal rendering plant was 1/4 mile down the road. The worst, however, was smell of the iron factory (smelter?) or something about a mile away. Ugh. I still think of that when I play Factorio! ;-)
However, the best Indian food I have ever had is from Daniel at the Bombay House. Wow, his food has changed my life. Such love put into it. Who would have thought this possible in Provo? And I worked in Redmond for years too! I think I knew good Indian food (for a white guy from CT), having lived with six Indian guys my last year of undergrad, we would hangout all night, eating, making curry, and talking all night long.
Thanks for the post and good memories!
Exactly.

Contrarians have this utterly weird propensity to demand the "official" or "mainstream" opinion be perfectly accurate, while holding absolutely no standards for the other side of the debate.

"Just asking questions", etc.
> So buying $1B worth of gold should result in a decrease of market cap because the market will typically discount the future value of doing that (ie you should be able to find better growth opportunities).

They bought the $1B worth of gold using $1B worth of cash.

It's true that gold doesn't have future cash flows, but neither does a pile of cash.

> Same goes for mergers - a merger is supposed to get you synergies that grow you more than you’d be able to accomplish by yourself.

A merger not resulting in a stock bump means that the market doesn't think it's a smart merger. My point was that it doesn't mean that the market thinks that whatever you bought was worthless.

If a company spent $1B on a worthless thing (By making a big pile of money, and setting it on fire), you'd expect its market cap to drop.
Maybe swap out the drive and see what happens?

You should be able to swap back pretty quickly...
Agree that RPN is great, though it looks like RPN isn't available in CAS mode.
> Socialism as practiced in Europe these days, with a focus on Scandinavia.

What the heck are you talking about?

Denmark is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a mixed economy. The current government is a majority coalition of a social-democratic, a moderate-liberal and a conservative-liberal party. It is considered centrist. There are seventeen parties in the danish parliament, two are socialist parties, and both are small minorities. Denmark does not call itself socialist or claims to practice socialism.

Norway is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a mixed economy. Norway is often called state-capitalist because of the large amount of state owned company shares. The current government is a minority coalition of a social-democratic party and a centrist-agricultural party. It is considered center-left. As a minority government it relies on opposition votes to rule. There are ten parties in the norwegian parliament, two of which are socialist, and both are small minorities. Norway does not call itself socialist or claims to practice socialism.

Sweden is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a mixed economy. The current government is a minority coalition of a moderate, a liberal and a christ-democratic party. It is considered center-right and relies mostly on votes from the right to govern. Sweden was governed by a center-left minority coalition of social-democrats, greens, centrists and liberals, which collapsed. There are eight parties in the swedish parliament, one of which is a small socialist party. Note it was not part of the last government either. Sweden does not call itself socialist or claims to practice socialism.

Finland is a parliamentary republic with a capitalist mixed market economy. The current government is a five party coalition led by the social-democrats and including a centrist, a green, a socialists and the swedish party, in order of size. It is the only scandinavian country in which a socialist party is actually part of the government, but with 8% it is more the little far-left cousin of the leading social-democrats. It holds the ministry of education and the ministry of health and social affairs. The government as a whole is considered center-left, and there are ten parties in parliament, with the previously mentioned one being the only socialist party. Finland does not call itself socialist or claims to practice socialism.

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For those who can only think in left/right, east/west, blue/red, and are terrified and confused by the idea of a parliament with seventeen parties: to understand european politics one must first learn to differentiate and be specific. For example: "democratic-socialism" and "social-democracy" are two very different political concepts. A mixed economy is not socialism, but a capitalist market economy with strong regulatory oversight and some state owned property, often controlling shares of key industries. And social benefits are an implementation of Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of the first three of the U.N. sustainable development goals.

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TLDR: There is no scandinavian country that practices socialism these days.
First evidence found of a dinosaur eating a mammal
Twitter is in this weird schrodingers cat situation where I don't know anyone that uses it, but its brought up as important constantly. Journalists, Celebrities, and Politicians love it, and that made it seem more important. I hope it goes away forever one day.
Who's "we"? "We" didn't do it as a joke. We just took it as one once it happened. By "we" I mean something like 66% of Gallup respondents at the time.
Traditional finance is what powers the global economy and financial system so I guess it is an easy one.
Or, put another way, people who self-medicated instead of getting the vaccine, putting those around them at risk, who used trickery to order the medication when it became restricted due to an unprecentedly and unplanned-for low supply, who resorted to using animal versions and mis-dosing themselves, risking needing a spot in the hospital that was already desperately needed for COVID patients. Yes, we distrusted those people, and for good reason, I should say.
No I wouldn't say it is a triple A but it is a legitimate installation of the franchise.
Disinformation. In the case of QAnon I'd go one further and call it a psyop. The idea that it's all just a big laugh carried out by Jim Watkins or some 8chan randos is risible.
Wait, isn't marginalia's crawler a bot?

Also, what does any of this have to do with email spam? We're talking about HTTP(S) here, not SMTP, right?
These days, Windows doesn't tend to have monolithic executables - look inside the installation folder of a random app, and chances are good that you'll see a bunch of DLLs aside from the CRT. Also, .NET apps are normally redistributed as a bunch of assemblies, even aside from the CLR.

The key difference is that each app bundles its DLLs for its own private use. From the user's perspective, it's essentially the same as static linking, if you treat the entire folder as "the app".
I would really enjoy a well-researched essay substantiating these points. I've heard bits and pieces consistent with this but when you put it so strongly it boggles the mind a bit. But it's also believable because it makes some sense of why social media is so hellish.
Ten times the Webb telescope showed new images of our universe