skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't need propaganda to be convinced: we tried the whole "borders can move, nations can break off" thing and it generally resulted in a lot of pain, death, and suffering in the previous century.

It seems especially tone-deaf calling it propaganda when we're currently experiencing how it usually plays out with what started as a small scale conflict over borders in "Donbas".
This is part of the problem. The community "moves" but the old wiki isn't down, and it picks up contributors from sheer SEO rank.

UESP predates Fandom and was extremely fleshed out, and is frankly superior to the Fandom version at every point in history. But even with the "head start," UESP has really suffered due to the existence of Fandom, for no reason other than artificial SEO dominance.
Adblock is and always has been a band-aid, and pulling a “see no evil” doesn’t mean the ads no longer exist, as such it is reasonable to expect that any random user will be subjected to it unless otherwise stated.

My problem with the ad soup that is Fandom is that the community that is providing the content and inhabiting the space is not the one benefiting from the placement of the ads. This creates a perverse incentive for Fandom to maximize ad revenue at all costs. A publisher who is also the steward of the community will typically be more selective with what ads and where to put them.

I find it tragic that after the heyday of self hosted software like forums, we entered what I fully believe will become a dark age for the internet where content is walled away by the larger providers who have every incentive to extract value from users and hoard their data, both given and created, to maximize their own interests.
Sure, I don't disagree with any of that. But contrary to the claim made in TFA, SBS is not junk science, at least not if you consider the Mayo Clinic to be a reliable source. It's a real thing. What constitutes sufficient evidence to convict someone of it is a different question. You can't just dismiss a claim of SBS a priori as "junk science".
Need to no, but even Wikipedia’s mentions them:

“The word is derived from the Latin aequinoctium, from aequus (equal) and nox (genitive noctis, plural noctium) (of the equal nights). On the day of an equinox, daytime and nighttime are of approximately equal duration all over the planet. They are not exactly equal, however, because of the angular size of the Sun, atmospheric refraction, and the rapidly changing duration of the length of day that occurs at most latitudes around the equinoxes.”
> I could do this for other decades.

Please do this for the 60's and 70's and IBM's 70% market share that actually eventually led formally to an anti-trust case against the company [1].

You seem to conflating the availability of occasional and niche alternatives with an actual competitive market concerning products with major mainstream adoption. In a real competitive market you would have like five to ten providers for substantially the same product or close substitutes. This kind of market is when buyers benefit and this is when producers are forced to compete on price or features. Of course producers hate competition. Its less profit for the same work and a constant threat of extinction if you don't deliver.

Various arguments have been advanced (by vested interests, most notably Microsoft trying turn black into white during its own anti-trust case in the 90's) to justify ex-post the pervasive tech exceptionalism in matters of market concentration and associated regulation: "network effects" and innate "winner-takes-all" in tech being the most prominent.

> its really only on the PC and server PC where x86 was dominate. Turns out that's not all of computing

Its a very strange view: If an entity is not dominating 100% all related markets its not a monopoly. Monopolists would love to have you as jury member in an anti-trust trial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM
Does the typescript language server even look at jsdoc comments in libraries?
let's say only large few lines of text are okay, and some images are... okayis. everything else is a magnificent display of massive UI failure, sadly it took us 20 years to actually start talking about this seriously.
Thanks for the suggestion. This particular one was classified as failed, I don't intent to work on it. I'm focusing on another one, which is close to be released as private alpha. This one, I'll try to pin everywhere.
I think you missed the point? You're putting a price on people's privacy. Not everyone who feels their privacy is being violated really wants payment in exchange, they just don't want their privacy to be violated.
Article doesn't mention this, but the previous year, 1872, the there was a massive financial panic due to equine influenza, which brought the transport system to a halt. Which could be a good reason for overinvestment in "iron horses"
“What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus?” – An Empirical Study (2000)
I've been using a mobile device for programming since 2012 and I developed a mobile text editor and screen keyboard that I use myself. I think I have the richest experience here. The problem is that the people who create mobile input interfaces developed them on a computer in order to make a “product” for a company, not for people. This is also due to patents and other problems not related to this task like "It’s not the flashy feature that shifts your Net Promoter Scores"
Would this not just bring about a new era of warring city states, usually acting as puppets to other larger foreign powers, a la Italy before Italy?
Torrenting from your home connection is a fools mission. Shared infra in a friendly jurisdiction is less than a Netflix subscription, and comes with one-click web UIs for your favorite torrent client.

Clicking around in my providers web panel yesterday I discovered they went so far as to serve up my downloads directory over http behind basic auth so I can download things directly to my phone while on the go.

A little bit more secret sauce: I have a script that rsyncs everything from the downloads/kids dir into a folder the kids can access on the Linux machine plugged into the TVs (and idem for the adults dir for wifey and me).

It is always the year of Linux on the desktop if you're willing to make your family suffer! Freedom from the copyright subscription fascists etc...
Exactly. Their body their choice. And if there are thousands of people going out this way it should be a trigger for society to do better and work on reducing the suffering.
> Small clarification - early detection is most often curative and cheap.

> It actually provides a pretty good incentive for insurers to cover screening and early detection beyond what is mandated by law.

The evidence in favor of mass screening programs in the hope of early detection is actually weak to non-existent [1].

> In total, 2 111 958 individuals enrolled in randomized clinical trials comparing screening with no screening using 6 different tests were eligible. Median follow-up was 10 years for computed tomography, prostate-specific antigen testing, and colonoscopy; 13 years for mammography; and 15 years for sigmoidoscopy and FOBT. The only screening test with a significant lifetime gain was sigmoidoscopy (110 days; 95% CI, 0-274 days). There was no significant difference following mammography (0 days: 95% CI, −190 to 237 days), prostate cancer screening (37 days; 95% CI, −37 to 73 days), colonoscopy (37 days; 95% CI, −146 to 146 days), FOBT screening every year or every other year (0 days; 95% CI, −70.7 to 70.7 days), and lung cancer screening (107 days; 95% CI, −286 days to 430 days).

There are large institutions, both nonprofit and commercial, which stand to gain by convincing people that mass screening is useful and important. The available scientific evidence does not support their position.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
You could argue that more sick people is good for the US economy, and it helps rich people get richer.
Wow. Is this some new Macron or Elizabeth Bourne kind of law? Where do they put the licence plate? Any link, even in Fremch is appreciated.
Where did I do that? I asked how is she -American in my OP.
Isn't the counter-example in America cars? It's definitely cheaper to have an econo-box but instead we drive 8 seat tanks to get groceries.
you are right, thinking the same - the solutions are more in the same directions, but not actually something in the right directions.

the windows mobile had some interesing design decisions with text, and particularly nice large menus that... were so big they didnt fit the screen. best stuff I've seen in UI design for like ever since.
Cash doesn't have this problem.
You can reenable the web interface in iCloud settings under system preferences on a Mac (not sure if it’s on iOS). The web interface will require just in time verification with an iCloud device to confirm log ins though. Works pretty well.
A huge part of what we are building at https://redact.dev is a unified software suite for managing all data about you and that you created.. To date, that has mostly been data you create yourself ( tweets, fb posts, discord DM's, emails, etc.. ) but the bigger challenge is creating a simple interface that allows people to manage all this data about you thats floating out there that you DIDNT create.

Its not just data broker removals- Its alexa recordings, youtube search history, your mailing preferences, and like 9999 other things. Data brokers are just one part of it.

I enjoy the work we do but it also sucks having to do it. Each endpoint is its own challenge and doing something as simple as automating removal from one database can take days of a developers time. It will be a beautiful day when this stuff gets outlawed eventually.
When stronger groups want your stuff it doesn't matter what world you're living in. The same is true of non-Libertarian states like Ukraine.
Fair enough, guess my problem would be that since these things would be implemented by politicians it would end up being driven by fads/popular opinion, and without strong evidence (of which there's very little) you'd essentially be conducting population level experiments even if you wanted to be scientific (eg. food pyramid to the extreme)
I’d love to read more about your contact system if you’ve written about it or care to. I’m mostly unavailable on the phone except to people who are in my contact list (do not disturb mode) but I wouldn’t mind considering how to take it a step farther.
This sounds like an issue with CSS authoring tools, and not CSS itself.
How The Strange Idea Of ‘Statistical Significance’ Was Born
> This, again, makes me lose all confidence toward humanity

Mobile text editing issues were what made you lose confidence? The fact that we have the luxury of nitpicking about such mundane issues (as opposed to, you know, starving) makes me realize how great humanity's innovations have been.

I looked at the video for Messagease, and I feel like this must be a joke. I can easily type their sample "the quick brown fox" example using Swiftkey-like tracing easily twice as fast as what they showed in their demo.
> Note that public health system in Canada is not “free”.

I'm enough of a pedant to annoy the fuck out of most anybody who knows me, but really? Look, there is no "free" health care anywhere, but it's a term that has (perhaps unfortunately) become widely used as a synonym for, depending on your sensibilities "no charge at the point of service" and/or "socialized health insurance and health care coverage".

And Canada is certainly one or both of those.

The metric "well, they don't provide it for undocumented persons" is a weird one, as is the use of California as a counter-example.
and yet blackberry went away…
>The good news is that airports and flying are abjectly miserable experiences

I have always had fantastic airport and flying experiences.

Of course, I pay today almost exactly what I paid for airline tickets in the 80s and 90s, adjusting for inflation.

That means I don't buy $90 fares on airlines where I have to scramble like a pig at a trough for a seat.
maybe voice commands, will after all, catch up properly with LLMs now. but who really wants to talk to Her on a daily basis, I doubt to many sane people.
When I was a lad and had to study physics, we got told thats because the microwaves are at the resonant frequency of water molecules (2.4Ghz iirc), and they cause these water molecules to oscillate causing friction which generates heat, and thus the microwave can cook food.

So this is why my question about the Russian body suits using microwaves to heat occupants in the polar regions is not a silly question.
Text editing done right requires either a true keyboard to manipulate it, or true AI that understands every small nuance one might want to apply to a text.
Unfortunately until AI catches up, the best tool we could use for text is a real keyboard, or a virtual one that doesn't suffer from the lack of usable space of mobile devices, which would probably make use of an external wearable, possibly BT connected, device. Years ago I thought of one shaped as an "ergonomic potato" that uses a few keys (3 or 4) and an accelerometer for hand orientation detection, so that one could use a mix of the key combination and hand position to rotate and find the right char/symbol on a virtual ball-printer-head-like "thing" shown on the screen. I never went beyond the "what if" stage; the contraption would probably work, but would also be too cumbersome to use.
>I used to be a 10X programmer in Visual BASIC 6.0 but it is obsolete now and replaced with C#

C# was not better, it was different. Visual BASIC 6.0 has never been replaced, it's all been a downhill slide towards more boilerplate, and less usability. Domain experts could readily use VB6 to get things done, instead of dealing with the intricacies of the C# compiler.
@masterismail Hi, do you have an email we can contact?
It’s great until you need to move the cursor downward.

Actually I just discovered the spacebar trick thanks to the parent comment and... I can move up and down in a block of text by using the same method.

Maybe I don't understand what you mean?
Sources please, I’m genuinely curious.
> because Falcon 180GB is open source, so you can run it for any purpose, without worrying about license restrictions.

This isn't as big of a deal as people try to claim it is.

LLama 2 can be used for almost anything unless you are like Google or Apple.

But if you don't work there, then you are basically safe to do almost anything with it.
You cannot edit much on a virtual keyboard imo. That's where BlackBerry and sidekick excelled but and touch screens would always be subpar. It's a tradeoff.
>So for me, I don't think it's so much about self-deception and more about self-belief (and other-belief), as I'd argue that people who believe in themselves and others are happier and more successful.

An aspect of Self belief is self deception. This is when you believe in something that isn't technically true. This is the literal definition of what the words mean in English. I believe this aspect of self belief is what podcast is referring to.

>By what objective measure are people terrible?

There are objective measurements of universally terrible people. It is hard to measure though because it lives on a gradient and it also lives in contradictory circumstances. So people can be good and terrible at the same time. They can be good in one situation and terrible in another situation. There are even people who are neutral, or in other words people with zero allegiance to good or evil.

While the gradient is hard to measure, people on the extremes are much easier to identify and measure. Psychopathy is one such condition. See here: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/. While not mentioned in the article psychopathy is actually physically detectable with a brain scan and can be correlated with associated behaviors.

Through the existence of people at the extremes and people obviously not at the extremes we can infer that the story is much more complex than people are "generally good".

>I appreciate you continuing with me on this and reinforcing that I listen to the podcast because for many years now I've talked about being honest with oneself and emotional honesty and such, and I think I want to focus more on loving oneself and others. In such conflicts, choosing to believe in our good intentions, our good abilities, our overall goodness instead of choosing to believe in the opposite. So thank you for helping me see this more clearly today.

No problem. I think the difference between our views of the world is that I view it through a data driven perspective while you view it through a more personal lens with personal experiences touching your interpretation of the world.

I'll just say this. The truth, if it exists at all, lies in the data. But like my point, the truth isn't necessarily what you want here is it?
If only we could be investing so much in railroads once again!
Why would swallowing the plaque be significant?
Do you have a reference for this? This was a weak hunch for me before but I always assumed I was wrong based on e.g. insurance rates. If insurance prices it higher, it must be more expensive to cover?
Canadas temporary foreign worker program means you don't need to illegally hire day workers, you just keep the wages low enough that nobody will take the job and then tell the government you need to bring in foreign workers - not for professional or technical work, not for picking in the fields, but for working at McDonald's and tim Hortons.

They also allow international students at diploma mills to work 40 hrs a week, above the table.

It's a sham.
I agree in the sense that in both cases the argument that holds water is less about what’s “better” and more about what’s practical. The status quo is how millions of people do it, so if you want to communicate with them you’ll probably be more successful learning their conventions vs. convincing others to use your own.

Getting philosophical, I believe there could be a more efficient/learnable notation system, but I’m bearish on one inventor or committee inventing it in a lonely tower, because of how e.g. the French and Spanish academies try so hard to prescribe clarity for their countries’ official languages and then people just go and do the organic language evolution thing to meet their local communication needs anyway.

But there are rare counterexamples like Shong Lue Yang, a spiritual leader who created an effective writing system for Hmong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shong_Lue_Yang
>The abstract seems pretty clear to me. In essence low cholesterol is associated with even greater risk than high cholesterol. The optimum is somewhere around 200 mg/dL. The study was performed over a large group of Koreans over more than ten years.

This sentence is an EVEN easier read and is more suitable candidate for an abstract.
there are many projects trying (tried) to take decentralization seriously, but ... drumroll it's fucking hard, and then they usually end up with some unusable piece of shit, due to the horribly misaligned incentives, easy money running out (or easy money pivoting to some even more insane project, cue network state)
No mention of "undo"? That's usually my biggest bug bear, no way to undo accidentally deleted/garbled edits. Oh and the fact that intended deletion of half a sentence via backspace often ends up deleting far more than intended.
In the article they directly call out correspondence where Serbia disclaims the region, Croatia wants the exact opposite.

> their border claims then they should see Liberland as strictly Serbia's problem.

They don't want it to just be "Serbia's problem" they want a signed document by Serbia accepting Croatias definition of the entire border stretch.

Also just because both sides do not want to claim the territory does not mean you can leave it entirely lawless. Hell there is a small but popular lake near my home town that the three towns bordering it disclaim any ownership of, which doesn't get rid of the issues surrounding the lake, like the fact that they have to pay for road maintenance and everything else related to it, it just makes it a mess to sort everything out. Police would also drag of any group of crazy people trying to create their own floating country in the middle of the lake.
Remarkable,

Just the other day a friend went to a concert, Mr. Bungle, and so ended up on wrong wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_in_Cyberspace

So I went down that rabbit hole, read the essay, bought the book, and days later here appears Karl Porcupine
>> American automakers have gone all in on pickup trucks because they are massively more profitable per unit. <<

They are massively profitable because foreign‐ made pickup trucks are subject to a 25 percent import tariff -- ie, limited competition:

Since a 1964 spat over European tariffs on poultry, the US has levied a 25% tax on imported trucks, now known as the “chicken tax.” That surcharge largely cleared the road for Detroit’s truck titans — at least until Japanese brands established US factories to get around it — and today means tricky economics for any foreign automaker looking to crack the lucrative American truck market.
I do not see how any of that is relevant.

The point is, you pay more, you save life time. The government could have chosen to make it free so everyone can access these time saving measures, but our leaders did not, deeming it acceptable for further tranches of society to be publicly displayed.
Do you know what dust this is? Is it natural? May I ask what country you’re in?
It's totally possible to beat the old wiki on Google! We did it for runescape.wiki, which was the most popular wiki on Fandom before we left in 2018.
1/3rd of current energy needs. Come back when you can do 100x that on renewable or more. We aren't going to be able to get by with just current outputs. Several orders of magnitude greater are needed.
Same. I used to read a lot when younger, then grad school happened.

I think it made me burnt out of reading.

I think practice and keeping up with reading is part of it. But I think a larger part of it is now that I associate reading with time management and stress. The brain is active.

I've had this conversation with others that went to grad school. It's like the brain can't read or learn something without constant pressure and stress to understand everything about it.
And there is little reason to believe that ethanol producing bacteria have a selective advantage. Why would they be maintained in someone's mouth microbiome?
Interesting.

I would have walked out the surgery if the doctor refused to perform this simple safety precaution.

"Destroying the vaccine" sounds like a peculiar argument against aspiration.
Seriously, it is beyond ridiculous that the default keyboard doesn't have an undo button anywhere. Copy/paste take way too many taps too. I like the changes to cursor motion proposed in the article.
Any idea how complete the COLD dataset is compared to the Caselaw Access Project?

Unfortunately Caselaw limits access to the full text bulk data of most jurisdictions without a research account and I’m trying to find an alternative.
A DNG is in no way an obscure file format. iPhones shoot in DNG when using proraw. DJI drones shoot in DNG. Etc.