skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth noting how the car industry fought their damndest against safety features.

After Ralph Nader published Unsafe at any Speed, the car industry set their goons after him. Blurb from Wikipedia

> In response to Nader's criticisms, GM attempted to sabotage Nader's reputation. It "(1) conducted a series of interviews with acquaintances of the plaintiff, 'questioning them about, and casting aspersions upon [his] political, social, racial and religious views; his integrity; his sexual proclivities and inclinations; and his personal habits'; (2) kept him under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable length of time; (3) caused him to be accosted by girls for the purpose of entrapping him into illicit relationships; (4) made threatening, harassing and obnoxious telephone calls to him; (5) tapped his telephone and eavesdropped, by means of mechanical and electronic equipment, on his private conversations with others; and (6) conducted a 'continuing' and harassing investigation of him."[12]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed
Whether Americans pay less in tax is debatable once all taxation is included.

Whether Americans pay far more for health insurance, and whether they're far more likely to be bankrupted by a health crisis, has a very straightforward answer: "yes."

Privatised social services - most obviously health, but also some utilities, transport systems, rented housing, and so on - are de facto corporate taxes.

Americans are subjected to constant and insistent "private good, government bad" propaganda from birth, so it's not always easy to get this point across.

Even so. If you're being forced to pay for essential services, and those services are unaffordable and/or may bankrupt you, you would - unquestionably - find that public ownership would be significantly less precarious and more affordable.
I have not done deserialization in Go, but my understanding of what he meant via context was that because everything has default values, it is possible to end up with a struct even if the JSON (or whatever) isn't actually well-formed. I don't know how true that is or to what extent it causes issues.
The ‘Lazy-Girl Job’ Is In – Here’s Why
I don’t know about the nice houses, but technical analysis has one thing in common with astrology: one can make a living selling the ideas to other people.
Thanks, we report _many_ of these every day to all the ecosystems. It's wild how many malware packages get released. Doing our best to help clean up these ecosystems for everyone!
Not terribly on topic but I truly don't understand how people can smoke unless it's just a genetics thing?

Smoke smells and tastes awful. I know the addiction is pretty much the answer but I don't get how people don't hate the smell/taste more than the buzz lol.
To add onto this (given the actual numbers of ~11 billion collected) you’d actually need 23.63% to quit to lose the same revenue as you’d save with just 1% quitting.

Of course if you had nearly a quarter quit you’d save even more, so…
I would argue that Classic Mac OS was not that much better off.

It still lacked protected memory and preemptive multitasking.

The Amiga OS still had far better multi tasking abilities than Classic Mac OS
Since we are on the topic of Medicaid and I'm the resident whistleblower here:

Medicaid could save some insane money if people had to pay some deductible or copay.

I can't tell you how many Medicaid patients come through our clinic and will milk it for every drop. Our clinic likes it because its easy money and you don't need to take any payments(although payouts suck).

Meanwhile BCBS patients are hyper sensitive since they pay until they hit their max out of pocket. We work with them to get their visits down from ~16 visits to, 4-6. They can do a lot of the work at home, so they are motivated to do it without the $125/hr fee.

But medicaid patients would much rather have a doctor watch them, give them instruction, and do some hands on work. Its free, why not?

There is a huge disparity in treatment between the lower class and middle to upper class. At the end of the day, it seems everyone gets better. The payouts are the same ~16 visits * 40$ vs 4 visits at $125.
Yes it is, but groupthink sometimes makes it self-fulfilling.
I just don't think that approach has worked well so far because there often isn't a near term positive vision to go alongside.
True... I was trying to be generous. (...or conservative; whichever way you slice it.)

It is fascinating how early "goop to replicators" happened in our history. It really highlights how common life must be where there's water.
In the real life (instead of the heads of famous youtubers), piracy is fought on each country, by the local country. That's agreed upon by almost every country on the world, and the ones that don't agree or don't hold their part are cut from the global economy.

Despite what a famous youtuber like to preach, the US participation is on the US and very few countries that explicitly call for help. And when countries need help, it's not usually the US that they ask first.
Probably even more, but reducing smoking rates is very cheap for a government to do than trying to combat obesity.
You gotta keep clicking the individual posts at the end to continue the thread (I really don't like the Twitter/Mastodon format because of stuff like this).

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cfenollosa/103471067353770271

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cfenollosa/103471732465361915
It's long past time we should stop tolerating the semantic evasion of "anything that I don't like to talk about is political and therefore out of bounds".

The term itself has been stretched and mutilated to the point of absurdity, and especially any topic that has valid and exhaustive empirical research should be discussed in those terms and not shut down with a big taboo sticker slapped on it.

Discussion of the state of the world's climate and humans' effects on it: science.

Inventing a bunch of word games, truisms, nonsensical "decorum" rules about discussing factual evidence: political.
A lot. The US gov actually already spends more on healthcare per capita than most of the European countries with socialized medicine.
Textbook TA uses a lot of voodoo which, itself, is helpful for understanding market psychology. The fact that maybe 20% of market participants give significance to a simple moving average calculated from a certain number of days or weeks-- useful explanatory information!

But the core proposition of TA is that a scientific approach to analyzing past price movements will at least hint at the future, sometimes. Not all the time. That's not controversial, and wouldn't be in any other discipline either. Whether it can be profitably exploited at a particular scale or by a particular person-- another question entirely.

The interesting thing about applying TA to live markets is ... its adversarial. A pattern becomes known, and that leads it to change. If it doesn't change, we can consider it based in fundamentals. For example, markets are more volatile, on average, in the Fall. Why? Well, it's got to be fundamental because everyone knows this pattern and yet it very often repeats. TA is helpful because we would not identify the fundamental mechanism without first observing the historical cycles of prices.
Just a heads up that Prefect integration link on the landing page doesn't work - 404. This is the one I was interested in!
Pay less medicaid, pay more social security
Somehow the rationalist community started at empty platitudes like "correlation is not causation" yet has ended up at substantive yet amazingly wrong conclusions like "correlation is identity", amazing turn, I gotta say I did not see it coming.
I think the distinction people are grasping at here are monocoque constructed vehicles (the vast majority of cars/crossovers/SUVs on sale today) and ladder-frame/body on frame construction - most trucks and some really big SUVs/offroaders.

It's the body on frame vehicles that end up being heavy and compromised much of the time - its a way of manufacturing a vehicle that stretches back practically to the stone age. I also agree crossovers do not deserve to be compared to body-on-frame construction.

In interests of not upsetting anyone - I also agree there are some limited usecases body on frame is better! But for most private passenger transport, a monocoque construction will have advantages - size, weight, fuel economy (function of weight reduction), driving dynamics, pedestrian safety etc. Body on frame can also make it easier for a commercial vehicle to offer bed customization options, given the car structurally is just a pair of rails on wheels that can be extended or shortened as application demands. A monocoque generally can't change its length as easily.

There are new pickups flirting with monocoque construction - the Honda Ridgeline, Ford Maverick, Hyundai Santa Cruz, famously the Tesla Cybertruck...
Patrol dogs are mauling prisoners inside the US
Useful concept. I used to call them 'signals': like alarms going off that I should pay attention as they may be telling me something. Specially when the alarm goes off for no good reason: my mind is trying to tell me something I'm not aware of (anxiety/depression are some of these).

Learning about my emotions is the only other thing that has changed my life for the better comparable to learning about computers. 10/10 would recommend trying to understand how to deal with you 'inner monkey'. You've been rooming with it in your mind since the day you were born and how you relate to it shapes every aspect of your life.
This is almost certainly a mistake at best or completely bogus at worst. Reminds me a bit of that situation with someone who claimed they had evidence of successful human cloning - when it turned out all their results were lies.

If it is true, it would be a revolution for nearly every field. So I certainly hope I'm wrong!
This is a key point. The best way to make money in the stock market is to do it with other people's money.
That county-level obesity rate map of the US looks nearly identical to a county-level map of average household income. This search for a complex chemical cause is farcical in the face of the obvious: poor people eat cheap food. Cheap food contains high amounts of carbohydrates, containing well beyond the caloric needs a normal person should be eating in a day, while not being nearly as satiating as a more healthy option. So more gets eaten.
I love this idea of taking "taxation without representation" and using it at a lens for companies which are often as powerful as governments in some ways. I'm not sure what a good solution would be, but something like the BBB with more power seems like it's be useful so people can report companies and have them fined proportionally to their income so it's an effective deterrent.
"The patterns themselves become reality rather than just a representation of reality."

This is known as a "hyperstition". It's a cool concept that I believe is more and more relevant as the world becomes more and more connected. Things like "meme magic", etc.
I've been interviewing for a two dev positions, and from the employer side here is what I'm seeing:

1. 31% of applicants are dev shop / staffing co lead generation / fraudulent applications. This is pretty normal. I'm sure the that this works enough to make it work for the people selling contract developers.

2. 17% of applicants cannot work in the US. We disclose you must be legal to work in the US and what visas are acceptable.

3. 19% can pass code test on senior developer on the first try, 28% pass if given a re-do. Code test is part q&a and part write a function from requirements.

4. 22% of junior devs can pass code test on the first try and just 23% pass if given a a re-do. Code test is part q&a and part write a function from requirements.

5. 87% junior devs are willing to relocate to work in the office. 95% of senior devs want remote.

6. Of the developers who pass the test, 76.4% end up passing the tech interview, which means the decision is really about what additional skills, experiences and abilities they bring with them.

Takeways: about 50% fraud/non employable. 20% can actually pass a very simple code test.
Your 2nd point rubs me the wrong way, though it could just be the wording.

Depending on the organization, by the time it got to you, there may have already been discussions about scope and business need.

Unless you're an SME, your evaluation of what is needed is not better than that of those who are requesting the work. Sure, your knowledge of the effort is better, but that's not the same thing.

There's a decent chance you're going to come across as difficult to work with and then you're going to build a solution that doesn't fully meet their needs.

I get where you're coming from, but I've spent time on the other side. Requirements take negotiation and collaboration.
Ask HN: Any good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
Google Analytics seems super complicated...looking for better alternatives.
I can't tell you how many patients we have that are obese, have knee or back pain, we fix it, and they come back ~1 year with knee or back pain.
There are always genuine interests for various good reasons. The problem is that the limitless logic of software creates a power dynamic of all or nothing. Situations are comprised of multiple parties, and one party's "good reasons" ends up creating terrible results for the other parties. For example, Apple's attestation on hardware they produced now becomes a method to deny you the ability to replace part of your phone with an aftermarket part, or to unjustly deny warranty service for an unrelated problem.

So no, I do not buy the argument that we should just let manufacturers implement increasingly invasive privileged backdoors into the hardware they make, as if its inevitable. With the mass production economics of electronics manufacturing, the end result of that road can only be extreme centralization, where a handful of companies outright control effectively all computing devices. If we want to live in a free society, this must not be allowed to happen!

> But I wonder if we had started that way with web attestation, would it inevitably turn into this anyway?

The main threat with web attestation is that a significant number of devices/customers/visitors are presumed to have the capability, so a company can assert that all users must have this capability, forgoing only a small amount of business (similar how they've done with snake oil 2FA and VOIP phone numbers, CAPTCHAs for browsing from less-trackable IPs, etc). So creating some friction such that most devices don't by default come with the capability to betray their users would likely be enough to prevent the dynamic from taking off.

But ultimately, the point of being able to export attestation keys from a device is so that the owner of a device can always choose to forgo hardware attestation and perform mock attestations in their place, regardless of having been coerced into enrolling their device into an attestation scheme.
Likely, but if the collapse happens in say 2030, the rest of my life and that of almost everyone else, however short or long that may be, is not going to be pleasent.

Regardless, I would like to see humanity safely thrive. I don't want earth to become an example of the great filter theory.
its been 4 months since they first synthesized it !
It depends how the question is framed: are you asking to confirm humanity, or confirm LLM.

If you are asking, is this LLM text Human generated, and it says Human (yes), then it is false positive.

If you are asking is this LLM generated text LLM generated, and is says and it says Human (no), then it is a false negative.
They probably get used to both, and don't notice it anymore
And yet somehow, the illegal copy is the one you can trust will always work. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned for the DRM producers here.
I do not believe this first off. Healthcare is an endless money pit. The cost will always equal precicesly what the buyer is willing to pay
US sales taxes are about half of most European countries, which have VAT.
Smoking significantly suppresses both senses.
It does in these cases protect employees, but that's not the design. It's designed to avoid accountability. If a company decides to illegally dump pollution into the ocean or bribe a foreign regime, they by no means want the executives who made those decisions to be easily identifiable. Companies don't go to jail.
You get used to it very fast and it becomes a pleasurable smell...but only your own smoke. If you smell someone else's, especially a different brand, it smells bad still. Now that I've quit for a while they all smell terrible again.
And these garbage men used to have a decent job with good benefits and a salary that was enough to support a family. Contrast that to the people picking up the garbage bags in the hallways that are probably gig workers.
Man. Talk about a terrible time for me to have installed :D
Totally, but people on medicaid are people who essentially don't have money, right? In order to qualify, you must be below certain asset and income limits.
I don’t understand this isn’t high frequency trading 100% technical analysis?
Does that mean you spent time in university "disproving" e.g. mean regression? Or was it some unrealistically hardcore definition of TA like "any given indicator taken in isolation should lead to profits every time?"

Just curious about the details, thanks.
The London sub-surface and deep-level tubes were made by different technologies. Surface by cut-and-cover and deep-level by tunnelling shield. Both were the first of their kind, and deep-level wasn't possible until electric propulsion was invented. The deep-level tunnels are narrow because of the expense of digging by hand.
> To this day I still wonder if I was really the one unprofessional

As someone who has been in a similar place, I wouldn't think this would be any less professional than if you got in an auto accident, had to be bed-bound for several months, the company couldn't let you work remotely and you had to leave.

Depression's a bitch, it makes you want to not seek out care and makes you more likely to interpret anything in the most negative way. Try to not be too hard on yourself for how you had to handle yourself, for all you know those two extra weeks could have caused you to need to be hospitalized or slowed down treatment.
Same is true of coffee at first... or alcohol!
TETRABURST: 5 vulnerabilities (2 critical) in TETRA-based networks
TETRA:BURST is a collection of five vulnerabilities, two of which are deemed critical, affecting the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) standard used globally by law enforcement, military, critical infrastructure, and industrial asset owners in the power, oil & gas, water, and transport sectors and beyond.

Most of the TETRA:BURST vulnerabilities affect all TETRA networks. Depending on infrastructure and device configurations, these vulnerabilities allow for realtime decryption, harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks, message injection, user deanonymization, or session key pinning. Firmware patches are available for some of these vulnerabilities, while compensating controls are recommended for others.
I can relate to that. I moved out of a big city to the suburbs of a smaller one. Monthly expenses are roughly flat, but I own a house instead of pinching pennies in a small filthy apartment. I'd much rather work in person, but it doesn't feel possible to maintain a decent standard of living without scoring at least an average tech hub salary while working remotely from somewhere cheaper, at least not solo.
I use FreeAgent. It connects with all my business accounts and does automatic transaction matching to invoices. Sends emails and follow-ups. It also figures out all the tax things for me in the UK, not sure about other countries though.

https://www.freeagent.com/
Not the federal rebate, but California sends rebate checks. You also can make quite a bit of money and get significant rebates back in the state.
Well, times have changed, and vampires have changed too.

Instead of ravenously draining the life from your body and swallowing your final screams like pez, we've taken a more egalitarian approach of slowly crushing the life out of thousands of people simultaneously, but also giving them time to recover so we can get as much delicious pain juice as possible.
Is this place really ugly though? I've always found this trend of claiming a website is ugly if it's content dense or minimalistic to be a bit disturbing. It does sound more like preference than anything else, I don't see anything wrong with what I perceive to be a clean design.
> But now technical analysis has been democratized and everyone has access to the same indicators. So the value has been destroyed.

Oh no, the Efficient Market Hypothesis strikes again!
I looked it up, and aww :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

Unlike many of the things people talk about on this website that I didn't experience growing up, I actually did download this on Windows Vista once. It might have been a version with malware, but I don't remember.
Usually this is hyperbole, I doubt that many people believe psychedelics are actually a cure-all. It's more like they just get hyped up a lot, because people who have been through the experience can tend to think very highly of it.
I can't say that I have found the right to be any more accepting of wrongthink.
Aren't they kind of right?
If you are a rich dude living in an airconditioned mansion even big climate changes won't affect you that while they can seriously ruin a poor farmer or cause a significant loss of bio diversity.
If it gets bad for them they plan to dim the sun.
Oh, right, the 12-inch macbook. That one was truly stupid: like it was designed solely to test if you could abuse users with "an iPad with a keyboard" at a laptop price point.
I happen to speak German, thank you!
The first part is more the hook than the thesis, as the rest of TFA explains. (The first paragraphs outright admit that it’s not actually that defensible if taken literally.)

The actual point is that every potential term and phrase in a text you’re reading should be preemptively searched for (across e.g. your web browsing history, reading list, etc.), marked up inline according to the rough potential usefulness of the results, and in any case those results should be made quickly accessible through user action, whatever the machine’s opinion on their usefulness.

So less manual hyperlinking and more web searches. (Manual hyperlinks have their place as well, but that place is things the author thinks especially relevant, not literally every point they want to make or refer to.)
Congrats on shipping. It's great to see more alternatives in this space, I built https://noscript.it a few years ago to allow me to selectively disable javascript in Safari. But I rarely use it, or any of the other alternatives (like Stopthescript and Brave) that is available because so much of the Web is just broken beyond repair without javascript and there is no incentive to try to reverse this trend.

I mean, most noscript users are invisible to analytics, so even if there was a lot of us, which there isn't, nobody would know :-)

And also the worst pages which abuse javascript the most, and where users would benefit the most from noscript have negative incentive to allow that as it a lot of the bad JS is ads.

Sorry for turning this into a rant about general things instead of your app. I have a lot of feelings about this :-)

One idea for your app though, what do you think about a shared broken-blocklist? It's something I considered a few times, as displaying a white page isn't great UX. And without great UX the critical mass of people without JS enabled will be hard to reach. So my idea was to have a blocklist shared between either all users of an app or all noscript solutions. I think the UX would improve if we could just show a informative error message instead of a blank or mostly broken page, and crowd sourcing a list of pages which won't work without JS might be the way to go?