skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
then pillorying the insurers with bad press

>"When the McNaughtons first learned of Opperman’s inaccurate report of the phone call with Loftus, it unnerved them. They started to question if their case would be fairly reviewed."

The insurer lied. What is impossible about this situation. The insurer lied to stop spending money.

>In a deposition, Kavanaugh said that after she opened the Kumar report and read that he was supporting McNaughton’s current treatment plan, she immediately spoke to her supervisor, who told her to call MRIoA and have the case sent back to Pabby for review.

>Kavanaugh said she didn’t save a copy of the Kumar report, nor did she forward it to anyone at United or to officials at Penn State who had been inquiring about the McNaughton case. “I didn’t because it shouldn’t have existed,” she said. “It should have gone back to Dr. Pabby.”

They lied and buried evidence against them. They deserve way more than pillorying by the press.
> The Fed operates according to the interests of the wealthy.

That may me true (FWIW I think the Fed acts in the Fed's own and the US Government's interests). However, mainstream macroeconomics posits something called "demand-pull" inflation.[0] The symptoms of demand-pull inflation apply to the labor market, and look kind of like what we see today. I don't really believe in that myself, but the vast majority of professional economists do.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4488432-demand-pull-inflati...
> People employed can afford to buy stuff though, which also increases profit.

Such long-term thinking does not exist in the free market religion. They want maximum profits now, and everything else is "someone else's problem".
Before piling on too much more, here ...

... Cloudflare has a lot of customers[0]. They have to balance the cost of providing (a lot of) human support against the cost they can reasonably charge for their products. It's a balancing act, and one that has worked out well for me, personally. It sounds like this issue is happening related to R2, which is quite new.

You're not likely to see a post hit the front page with the title "I've integrated Cloudflare's products with 30 or so customers and never had an issue" (or even be written). But experience an issue this large and you're going to do everything -- make calls, post things to social media, reach out on HN where you know the CTO is an active participant -- and a lot of those are going to get attention from the small percentage of customers who felt wronged by CF but hadn't spoken up.

It's a crappy situation because it gives the impression that things are a mess when -- I'm willing to bet -- it's something along the lines of a problem in a quota checker and a failure of internal process to escalate the problem appropriately. That happens at every big company in various places all the time.

Really, the only major difference here is that unlike every other big company, their CTO actively watches Hacker News. When a problem pops up, he willingly chooses to be Customer Service and from the sounds of it, that escalation to address "problems like this" is now happening. There's going to be gaps like this at every company. When I worked at "BigCo", if something like this hit the front page of HN, you could expect a mess of people to have their phones ring. Work would be done to respond to the customer (variations on "acknowledge/minimize/suppress" communications -- on official company hosts). Staff would be forbidden from interacting in the ongoing discussion. The CTO might have had to have explained to him how to get to the web site containing the complaint.

[0] I don't work for them; I'm just a happy customer so everything here is my view from the outside.
It produces similar sounding music. but that's not really what one is looking for when discovering music. Example is when I put a Bollywood song, it produces for me similar sounding Latin music which isn't going to fall into a good queue.

how Spotify does this is matching songs that have been human added to the same playlists - hence matching tastes.
Drugs admistered in hospital are handled separately. A brief search suggests generic infliximab is covered:

> Effective December 18, 2020, Avsola (infliximab) will be added to the Ontario Drug Benefit
(ODB) Formulary as a Limited Use (LU) benefit for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
(RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), plaque psoriasis (PsO),
ulcerative colitis (UC), and Crohn’s Disease (CD).

Drug brand names are often different here, which is confusing.

If it is not covered publicly, you need private insurance, or to pay for it yourself.
Wages rising due to inflation does not lead to income equality.

Higher rates will lead to lower wealth disparity though. Asset values over the past decade have been largely driven by ZIRP

Buying power in real terms is mostly driven by productivity and technological advancement driving deflation of goods
The article itself exposes some encoding redundancy too: "[...] the count is masked against 1FH, essentially using only the lowest five bits".

So each rotation instruction is 3 bits free for out-of-band information.
It's the hierarchical tabs that I need. If you are traversing large hypertexts you need to keep track of where you are and where you were.

Middle-clicking to open-in-new-tab together with Tree-Style-Tabs is incredibly useful in this scenario.

You can rapidly open a large number of potentially-interesting links in tabs, and then weed out the ones you don't need just as rapidly. Then wash, rinse, repeat. It's an assembly line approach.
Oh that's definitely a use case that had arisen in my workflow. I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks!
Cancel culture only really pings on right wing culture issues. There’s plenty of exciting and quirky things people can do that aren’t that, like being really into taxidermy, or having a huge predatory insect collection. Or being into a scene like goth or raves. I would even consider, idk, having a huge passion in a specific country’s literature to be quirky, like imagine someone who is hugely in love with Congolese literature.
EU tax for videocameras vs still cameras

Though I wonder who needs to record more than 30 minutes in one take? Seems like extremely niche scenario even with videocameras.

I remember Ukraine or Russia had for many years even crazier tax on cars which were improted partially disassembled and then assembled locally to avoid much higher import tax on completely assembled car, but can't find it now. Seems it was scratched after they joined WTO,m before there was like 30% import tax on cars.
dont know what kind of googling prodigies you are, but I googled 'first browser with tabs' and it says the InternetWorks Browser was the first
That wouldn’t inherently lead to CPI inflation though except that the supply of many, many things is so damned constrained.

Even the feds own reports acknowledge that slightly over half of inflation is from lack of supply, not high wages.

e.g. wages aren’t doubling the price of eggs.
How does the statement "The US violates routinely sovereign airspace" make the point that "China violating US airspace" is not newsworthy? If China routinely violated sovereign (US) airspace it wouldn't be newsworthy!
Yeah, this. All but the most trivial of items I’ve bought this year I was disappointed with. I don’t want my money back, I want the item to be what I expected.
By that measure he's long dead
What is compaction?
Just last month we were in a supposed labor shortage and now the jobs report is strong?
Incredibly based
Your take is not off base.

If the economy hasnt slowed because of the hike in rates, that means inflation could easily spike again (as it did in the 70’s).

That means more hikes, potentially pushing future profits down.

The stock market isnt priced for what happening today, its priced for what the market thinks will happen.
AWS doing tapes like this feels weird to me. The physicality of the thing is kind of the point in my mind. Virtualizing the last line of defense seems wrong, but perhaps I could be convinced otherwise.

Why doesn't Iron Mountain or some other competitor offer a service like this?
This article actually makes a lot of sense, perhaps more so in our media driven, social media fueled society. Everyone has the responsibilities of adulthood, mortgage, job, kids, etc. and all of these things are very important. If one was to be not boring, acting in a new or exciting manner or a way in which might violate anyone's opinion of what is sacred, trans rights, racist, advocate that the poor 'pull themselves up by the bootstraps', attend drag shows, whatever. Each side has their sacred cows and any normal person that catches the eye of the media or socal media "bandits" runs the very real risk of being pulled down, called out and losing their job and career. You even have to fear the police deciding that they dont like you and arresting you as evidenced by multiple stories of parents being arrested for allowing their kids to "free roam". Anything outside of the norm is very much a risk and in todays social media wild west the "bandits" have more power than ever.
Positive review:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460997
I asked rms and Hal Abelson about this a few years ago.

Stallman said:

> The term "MIT license" is a confusion. It is used to describe two different licenses; see https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html. We call them the X11 license and the Expat license. To distinguish them, we do not use the term "MIT license". The X11 license was, as far as I know, first used by X11. I don't know how it was written -- the question is not interesting to me.

Thanks Richard.

Hal recalled that it was drafted by Karen Hershey at the request of the Technology Transfer Office. Regretfully I don't have a copy of his original response.
One more extension related to container management - https://github.com/kintesh/containerise

This lets you set regex/wildcard to contain subdomain or redirect happy sites into a single container
Chinese Spy Balloon Spotted over Montana
Do you think that inflation doesn't affect the poor? Or do you think the Fed has some tool which can reduce inflation without reducing wages, which they are choosing not to use? Or some third option?
Can you cite a source? I'm under the impression that both of these terms are considered outdated, in that modern psychology doesn't really think "sociopathy" or "psychopathy" are good abstractions.

I'm under the impression that "sociopathy" is kind of used synonymously with antisocial personality disorder but has fallen out of favour because of the pop psychology baggage it carries, and "psychopathy" is mostly used in media/criminal justice tropes.
I think this has mostly curiosity/show off value. Encoding messages into executable binaries without changing their running behavior is kinda cool.
I mean real-time apps in the colloquial sense - applications where two people see the same state nearly instantly. In the strict computation sense, it’s true that you can’t guarantee an upper bound for delivery of a message. This isn’t just a limitation of WebSockets, it’s a limitation of TCP/IP, which don’t provide a way to reserve bandwidth along a path between hosts (IIRC).
I was surprised to learn recently that corporal punishment wasn't banned in British state schools until 1987, and in private schools until 1999.

"Surprised" because by 1999 I'd been attending a British private school for several years and corporal punishment certainly didn't exist at my school, or at any school I knew about. Apparently it was permitted on paper though. I'm not sure how common it still was, if it existed at all.

In any case, the worst treatment I received at school was never from the staff and always from the other boys. I can definitely think of some behaviour I saw from pupils back in the day that I'm sure wouldn't be tolerated for a second these days.
No one has complained about the prices being too high in a market economy. In fact, NIMBYs are distorting the market with inefficient regulation. The harm, of course, is that this regulation unfairly favors current home owners.

The state of California has said enough is enough and has rendered the local regulation null and void.

And no one has said anything about soviet style apartment buildings. That is very unlikely.
I doubt that "why does your product suck" is one of the things a Spotify employee is allowed to talk freely about in public!

But I've been watching them, I will speculate. A few years ago, Spotify had two young interns, Sander Dieleman and Aäron van den Oord. We know a bit of what they worked on, because Dieleman blogged on it, and indeed it was something a lot like what OP has made here - only better, I would say. I asked him, and Dieleman was allowed to say that the thing they built was one of the inputs into the then-new Discover Weekly, which made headlines for how outrageously good it was.

But Dieleman and v.d.Oord did not stay at Spotify. They were headhunted by DeepMind, and have had a VERY impressive track record there over the years.

And I wonder why. Was there a conflict between the old school ML of the Echo Nest people and the new fancy neural net kids? Or was it just, as GP alludes to, that the NN methods were just too computationally expensive and they failed to justify their costs to leadership?
“ If there's a free tier, hobbyists and students can do interesting things with them, and this drives innovation.”

Are these innovations in the room right now?
They do, it’s just rate limited. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641623
Eiffel, Ada, D, C++ with extern templates (even better if modules are also part of the story) show ways how this can be improved.

Naturally somehow has to spend time analysing how their way maps into Rust compilation story.
What were some of those little experiments you did?
Mostly because people have forgotten how to tell stories, and, more importantly, how to listen to stories.
> no benchmark rate will change that

It's definitely a crude measure. I think it acts as more of a signal to corporations that they should instigate mass layoffs.

You don't want to be the only company doing layoffs and then just have your competitors gobble up your talent and eat your lunch. So the Fed signals the safe time for everyone to do layoffs simultaneously. It's implicit coordination.
Context, for those that were interested like I was. According to Investopedia, based on SSI data.

Top .1% is $3,212,486/year

1% is 823,763

5% is 342,987

10% is 173,176

I am waaaaay under that. Education is a joke.
So tired of hearing how America is a free market. Supply / demand doesn’t matter here. We’re all owned by the banks, and ultimately the Fed and government pick the winners and losers.
Funny, the IoT space has bought into MQTT but the general internet space has not.

MQTT scales and works. And it's easy, fast, and small.

I've been trying to get our guys to do MQTT-based pub/sub, and they're rather do their own thing with web sockets because MQTT is scary. <shrug>.

That's the problem when front-end guys make decisions about tech sometimes, they choose stuff that seems easy to integrate without caring about things like deployment, scalability, capabilities, etc.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/falcon_extension/

Why don't you just search the add-ons? This would have taken less time than to formulate your post.
I think Twitter was never profitable to start with.
>Turns out, what they mean is "don't use Google to search for software you wish to download".

I think the reality is more like "when you search for software on Google do not use links in the ads that you get at top of the results".

Though of course there may well be "normal" results leading to shady sites, the issue talked about is related to advertisement results.
LOVE It! Turning out pages of JS, SQL, Python code for me.

Plus very detailed explanations. And know, it may disappoint some folks, but it ALL works.

:-)
that literally works in Firefox. It didn't in earlier versions, but it does now.
So true. I use a similar quip at work: "Take the shortcut and if we're not out of business when it becomes an issue, then it will be a good problem to have".
Well, there were algorithm changes like Panda 12 years ago...
sure, but just because it focuses on a single culture issue does not mean the bandits are not real, they have just not focused on your area yet.

Does the fact its focused only on right wing cultural issues make it ok? Does that make the people attacking them and attempting to get them fired any less of a "bandit" to use the articles term?

There have been several articles on parents being arrested for allowing their kids to "free range". Right wing focuses on drag shows. Its all over the place. Bandits are everywhere.
Typical ad blockers surely don’t filter out Google search results.
Not sure why this is front page news [even in Toronto --never mind globally on HN] But...

I've had a couple of photo tickets quashed in UK. one for slightly speeding, another for straying into a bus lane navigating through city centre traffic. In both cases, I wrote to the city council and asked for a copy of the latest calibration report for the camera involved. In both cases I got an "As a gesture of goodwill..." [ie. we know we'll lose if this goes to court] letter in return, quashing the tickets.

I imagine the legalities are similar everywhere. But in UK, all traffic cameras need to be calibrated at regular intervals [not sure how often] and a lot of them aren't because it costs money and councils hate spending money and, besides, most people never question the tickets when the proof of their guilt has been "caught on camera".

Not that I'm advising people to drive dangerously. But, if you do get flashed for a minor infringement, or a slight lapse in concentration [such as straying into a bus or taxi lane], it might be worth a try.

Of course [again in UK] they have a policy of "Pay £X" now or appeal the ticket and, if you lose the appeal, the fine is doubled to £2X. Which is obviously designed to deter people from appealing. So, if you happen to get nabbed by a camera that has recently been calibrated, you're out of luck! It's a gamble.
SPY and VTI are down like 0.65% right now and haven't even given up yesterday's gains. Plus a bunch of non-Meta tech companies missed on earnings yesterday. Come on.
UBI may be infeasible today. There simply isn't enough wealth to redistribute to make it substantial, there are too few benefactors of wealth concentration at the top, and too many below the median wage.

But there probably is enough income. What if everyone had a robot who could do their job, yet still collect the pay check?

Yes, I'm already thinking of STNG:The Measure of a Man.
>A full-time job and adult responsibilities still leave plenty of time to be “not boring” for people who make an effort to manage their time.

It's not about "time management", it's about energy.

After a day at a stressful job, even if it's just 9-5, and with all the commuting, the chores, cooking, and things like working out, etc., you don't have energy to do much else. Add having young kids to the mix, and this gets even worse. Be above 35-ish, where every levels drop even more, and it's even worse.

>The work of running, building, and maintaining the world we all inhabit must still be done

A huge part of that work done today is BS busy-jobs, or redundant stuff we can without, and mostly buy as "shopping therapy" or fashion and fad, because we're too tired to do anything else for entertainment due to the rat race.
Anecdotally, there has been a striking increase in the amount of new service workers in training at restaurants and coffee shops in Portland. There was a very acute sense of labor shortage for the last few years, and that has gone.

I’m hoping that we might see coffee shops (other than Dutch Bros) open past 3 PM someday. Enough operators to keep the buses, trains, ambulances, and 911 call center working are probably higher priority though; those orgs have started reporting better hiring results recently as well.
Startup T2 Wants to Terminate Twitter
I mean, it'd be trivial to write stream replay for MQTT. It's literally just stashing messages and sending them back on connect. Not sure what the issue is there.
Note that there are a lot of ligatures in our symbols:

- ! from “Io”

- ? From “Quo”

- W from UU (or VV, back before U and V diverged)

- And German of course has the ß, ligature of soft s with s.

There is not really a clear delineation between when a ligature becomes a letter, at least before formal systems like ASCII required them.
or shorter: "use an adblocker"
Like many here, I have a sysadmin side gig for my aging dad: uBlock is essentially required as anti-virus software.

While it's great that google figured out how to monetize search by inserting ads, it was a lot more ethical back when their major demographic was geeks who could tell the difference between an ad link and a genuine result. Now? Not so much.
My Little Pony has pretty serious storylines and developed characters. There is a reason why that particular show had rather full on fandom.
Energy efficiency. Electric to gasoline to wheels is probably something like 75% * 50% * 30% == 11% efficient (roughly, very roughly). Electric to battery to wheels is approximately 77% efficient.

We'd need 5 times the power generation capacity, or more, just to support that use case.

The fact that we burn over a million tons of gasoline a day (in the US alone) is a secondary issue, but even by itself that's a hell of an engineering problem to solve. Aviation use is less, but still a lot.
Dumb question, and I'm guessing this is a "if you don't know it's not for you" situation, but what is the point of a virtual tape? Isn't the point of a tape that it's not virtual? Or is this more replicating tape software apis (WINE/proton style) so you can get rid of physical tapes (because you no longer care about their physicality) without having to change your backup strategy?
Except when they do the thing where the real search results appear first, but then the ad pops in a split second later under your mouse right before you click.
Because you're seeing them at the boring times.

I don't need buying groceries to be exciting. I need it to be done.

I seriously don't need my drive anywhere to be exciting.

Also, I notice that for a lot of people, their definition of "boring" is some version of sitting at home and watching Netflix while their definition of exciting is sitting in a different building and watching people do things. What is the difference between seeing a movie in the theater and in your home? A play? A concert? Etc.

Anyone who is promoting replacing a passive activity with another passive activity is only offering the illusion of excitement.
> It's a sad decline from 10+ years ago when I'd type a half-formed thought into the search box and I'd get the answer.

Incidentally the first algorithm updates to 'combat spam' came around by then, starting with 'Penguin'. They were supposed to cut the spammy sites from search. All that they did ended up being removing small sites, blogs and ecommerce businesses from search results for the benefit of mega companies at the cost of search quality...