skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's plenty of circumstantial evidence to support this. Somehow Israel, which has one of the best spy programs on the globe, completely missed any and all planning of Hamas forces to... drive a tractor into a fence for several hours.... but they're perfectly capable of coming up with calls from Hamas militants after the fact. And their utterly superior military force was somehow unable to stop this supposed massacre for hours after it had begun? There's being drunk on kool-aid and then there's snorting the powder straight out of the package. And Hamas, which launched 36K projectiles from 2001 to 2023 at Israel and managed to kill less than 100 people, magically was able to kill 1400 people in no time flat, and just trust them because they're Israel. Hamas is able to list the names and ages and localities of every single person that Israel slaughters, but Israel somehow doesn't have the advanced capabilities to do the same.

It's an awful funny coincidence that Netanyahu, who had been under political and prosecutorial pressure, suddenly and magically found himself a new conflict to embroil himself in so that he could take additional powers for himself.
Absolutely. Seemingly, creating hatred between races, between sexes, and between generations are all part of the same agenda. Class warfare, on the other hand, is conspicuously absent.
The big win for US companies going remote isn't offshoring, but hiring people outside of big cities. The southeast and midwest are much cheaper than CA and the company doesn't have to deal with language, culture, and timezone issues.
I am otherwise unGoogled on purpose (Kagi, Fastmail, Apple Maps, etc.) and YouTube Premium is some of the best money I spend on a monthly basis, especially because of family usage and plan. YouTube Music has been a surprisingly excellent throw-in as well, and I often end up using it more than Apple Music because it's so easy to browser-search with an Alfred shortcut. I want to support creators, and cannot personally wrap my head around western IT folks deeming it worthwhile to either spend time watching ads or trying to evade them.
75 years of occupation, state terrorism and colonial war against Palestinians people but we don't hear so often about their trauma.
Iraq war gave us embedded journalism now we have embedded civilization, where guilt of western and racism are the engines of war crimes and dehumanizing of entire people victims.
AKA spicy pillows, there is a subreddit with the same name dedicated to those puffed up bastards.
The current choices are

1) Uniterested, slapdash care from an MD with 12+ years of training and no ability to listen or empathize but eager to make the money s/he went into medicine to make

2) The same from an assistant of some kind who uses ever-degrading search engines to look up not-your-problem and give you potentially dangerous suggestions

The future will undoubtedly be worse. As someone mentioned below, we'll pay current premiums (+inflation) for a touchscreen interface to Chat-whatever-it-will-be.
If they don't want to have a way to ask a question, they shouldn't have one. The assistant who answers questions has literally never provided value. She is just wasting her time, and mine. I would actually prefer if they didn't pretend you could get useful info through the "ask a non-emergency medical question" option.

And as tssva said, these questions are often follow-ups on topics discussed at an appointment, so it's not untethered from revenue.
I guess if we do develop terraforming technologies I'd rather we test them on Mars first.
If you’re interested in the history of the conservation, check out this entry on how Hornaday became a conservationist [1] and his subsequent conservation efforts. [2] Stumbled on it about a month back and thought it was pretty cool.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_Hornaday#Biog...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_Hornaday#Wild...
You're not their audience. Mission accomplished.
You're implying that my not watching your short video that you sent to me is equivalent to my not paying for a service you just rendered. The fact that this extremist opinion is anything but ultra-fringe is evidence of the deeply greedy, entitled, irrational, antagonistic, dangerous, bully-ish relationship some businesses have with citizens.

The internet is not a platform for exchanging services for the promise that the user viewed a short video. It is a general purpose platform, on which you happen to be able to almost implement said exchange. The fact that it's "almost" is not the user's fault - you are simply trying to do something at odds with the platform you are using. You are free to use a different platform, or adjust your strategy on the current platform in an honest manner. But trying to alter the premise of the internet in order to remove that "almost" is immoral. If you don't feel that way, that's a pretty fundamental disagreement that is likely unreconcilable.
On the one hand, I love the idea of living a slower-paced, less competitive life. Most humans ending up crammed into urban rat-races is a horrible outcome. On the other hand, I like not dying in agony of easily treatable diseases. I like that the vast majority of people in developed countries have zero chance of dying of malnutrition.

Having to choose between one or the other would suck. I wonder if we can have both?
Anecdote that isn't remotely data: I went to an urgent care facility the first time I had a migraine aura without headache. I described it to the receptionist as a "visual hallucination", since it was a flashing checkerboard pattern that obviously wasn't real.

The receptionist _ran_ to the back to get a doctor. The doctor, in an exam room, very careful, and with significant compassion, explained that they don't have the ability to treat me at that location -- but would I accept an ambulance if they called it?

I took an Uber to the ER, where the admitting nurse gave me a flat stare and said "That's not a hallucination," but still put me at the front of the line to have an attending doctor and a bunch of students stare into my eyeballs before confirming that it was a headacheless migraine.

To this day, I use that experience as an example of a lay person and a professional completely failing to understand each others' word choice.
With the farmer? Because it's farmer's fields, as far as you can see? And he harvests and holds the crops?

Guess the sheep have little choice.
I definitely understand your perspective here.

I'm a critical care paramedic, have several friends who are (perhaps unsurprisingly) generally emergency medicine physicians and related (surgeons, anesthesiology, nurses, etc.).

I see the spectrum too. Extremely competent PAs who have long and detailed in depth discussions with physicians as "peers", on one side, and then I see horror shows from people who went from zero to ARNP in programs with "accelerated RN" where they are not functioning providers with far less schooling and clinical experience than even a PA (which is then galling to the PAs, as why are NPs independent practitioners, and PAs not?).

I do think a lot of the issue is in the education and certification process. The AMA is only recently making the slightest inroads into well, not admitting they went too far in restricting physician flow, but maybe acknowledging that there is a problem there. Nature abhors a vacuum, and all.

I had a friend, extremely intelligent, in a BSN program. Called me one day to ask about flow rates for various oxygen adjuncts (nothing fancy, just like "what do you typically run your nasal cannulas at? What about NRBs?") and I was blown away. "Oh yeah, somehow that got overlooked. I know how to set them up, add humidifiers, etc., etc. - they just assume, I suppose, that someone at some point will say some magic numbers to us".

And I'll also say that you see the same pre-hospital too. In PNW, while there are valid criticisms that can be leveled against two of the pre-eminent paramedic programs (UW Harborview, and Tacoma Community), there are far, far, too many "strip mall schools" in other states that will take you from "zero to hero" in 4 or 5 months (of 6 days a week, 8 hours a day, of just class time), and dump you out on the world with just enough retained knowledge to pass your NREMT and the barest amount of ride time to meet DOT mandated minimums. It's scary, to be blunt. These people go out with no clinical experience and are now expected not just to work as a team on a 911 call, but to lead it.

It's the medical equivalent of high school > college > MBA > management position without a day of work experience in your life beforehand. Except now there are literally (at least occasionally) lives at stake.
And why zero was invented.
Why go to the doctor to be told it's a flu or a cold? There's nothing to do but treat yourself well and wait, right? I wonder what portion of visits are for common viruses.
I don't think not wanting to pay for YouTube is the same as not wanting to pay, period. I happily pay for Nebula but block ads on YouTube. I know plenty of people who do the same, or subscribe to patreons and such of people they follow.
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The “don’t work too hard” crowd when you might be working harder than them and “must be nice” when you are relaxing more than them can both be avoided.

People who don’t like anyone working more than them or enjoying life more than them are usually haters who are busy not doing much themselves.

Raising the bar doesn’t mean having to make it more work for everyone.

Those doubt worshipping and self-sabotaging enemies aren’t worth having in your life but it is nice to give a bit of shit about them too.

Move at your pace to wearers what you want and you will find like minded people.
That's pretty close to how power tools work, minus the wireless charging of course. My first concern would be warmth, my phone always warms up when wireless charging. Doing something CPU intensive would probably get the device blazing.

My second concern would be size - is the total package going to get a lot bigger here? If we forgo the pocket and just use magnets at each corner maybe it gets slimmer, but can it be about as slim as they are today?

If we could overcome those two hurdles, I'd be a huge fan of the idea.
"Depends on the irl situation."

Unless we are talking about extreme introverts, I don't think there is a setting where meeting in person is worse, than writing emails/chatting.

Dance hall: you can see how the other person dances and moves in real (and you don't have to be drunk, if you don't want to). How she talks, with whom she talks and how. And yes, how she smells, how she talks, how she acts. And if sparks seem to fly both ways, then you can also go outside for a bit to see if it was more than just the ecstasy of the moment. All of this way more direct unfiltered and unmodified information than an online exchange.

"The ideal situation is an honest dating selection system."

And traditionally this used to be the village dance. Today it is in general mixed, but if you like online dating, then I don't want to talk it out of you. Just that in my experience lots of online romances I witnessed with other persons, turned out to be mostly vaporware, not working in real life.
> Maybe this time is different with higher interest rates?

Absolutely. Startups are a low interest rate phenomenon. With high interest rates, investors become a lot more selective. Fewer reasons to risk money on startups when the government is paying out a nice return. The higher the interest, the harder it is to get credit, therefore there'll be less money circulating which puts the brakes on inflation but also slows down the economy given that easy credit is one of the drivers of exponential growth.
Don't know if it's lying.

>Over half (58%) of 6,000 professionals who responded to a recent Glassdoor poll said they’d never return to a company who laid them off. In the tech sector specifically, just 46% of workers said they’d boomerang. Men were slightly more likely to consider boomeranging than women, and older workers were more open-minded than younger ones.

It's not a super majority, but 54-58% does feel like "masses". I can see it both ways here.
Confidently labeling religious beliefs as "fictions" seemed a bit disrespectful to me.
The page links to a pdf version[0], which can easily be converted to epub using Calibre[0], which is free and open-source.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com/
Blind people would be fine as they wouldn't be wearing the glasses. Being physically unable to see the ads and purposely hiding them, are two different things.
One of my favourite quotes.

It can be made more or less direct to great resonance.

“If you want my help, plan for it and understand I’m not able to help last minute when there’s no planning”
Fyerabend is the top dog right now I wouldn't recommend investing too much in him, he basically thinks there is no demarcation and Voodoo and Einstein are equally valid.

I accept Quine who I admit isn't much better, he thinks it's all about creating a coherent world view. I think he's onto something but he's missing truth which I think is a problem - we want to think science gives us truths about the world, or at least we want a way to get to truth.

There's another view that says science starts with a set of untested assumptions which I haven't gotten around to reading much about
This article wasn't particularly insightful or thought-provoking. Maybe I missed something.
I'd be OK with them taking up to 30 days to do this, but I too expect that they let the owner transfer their domain away. I am not currently concerned, because I think they will let the owner transfer it away probably in less than a week if the owner has a constructive dialogue with them.
Honestly, I think Strang is overrated. Yeah, I know, on HN that's like criticizing Lisp or advocating homebrew cryptography or disagreeing that trains fix everything. But still.

I bought his 6th ed. Introduction to Linear Algebra textbook, and he doesn't get more than two pages into the preface before digressing into an unjustified ramble about something called "column spaces" that appears in no other reference I've seen. (And no, boldfacing every second phrase in a math book just clutters the text, it doesn't justify or explain anything.) Leafing through the first few chapters, it doesn't seem to get any better.

The lecture notes by Terence Tao that someone else mentioned look excellent, in comparison.
This is like the exact opposite of my experience. They’re paid well and have so little to do they invent meaningless problems to solve. Most big tech companies I’ve seen could easily operate with 50% of the engineers.
In this context, most of computer science is more a form of applied mathematics.

Of course there are different ways to look at science, like making a distinction between analytical (or empirical) science, and synthetic science; the science that makes stuff, rather than analysing it. Not sure if that's really a good distinction; the latter is really technology, isn't it?
Gilbert Strang's course on Linear Algebra.
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D

Not as big in scope, though, but great introduction.
Not everything _has_ to be science.
Things happen all the time.

So lending a hand with emergencies that even could have been avoided is ok to help someone new to it.

Caring via software or infrastructure for users is often about effort as you have described.
And to that I say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Christianity has had 2000 years to produce extraordinary evidence. What's the hold up?
Having worked in healthcare IT, and as a prehospital provider who has seen and interacted with many EHR systems, including Epic, Meditech, and ESO (moreso for prehospital)... the sooner Epic dies in a fire the better.

Keyword-driven differentials should be, if anything, the baseline, bottom rung, pattern matching to inspire and drive critical thinking, focused assessment, and diagnostic skills. Not to "easy mode" the path of least resistance.
>That's a ridiculous take

Please chill up and don't forget the HN guidelines [1]

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

That is not the point of my comment, you misinterpreted the meaning of my comments and then built an assumption that it says that "nobody is allowed to start an internet company and make money from it?"

Which is not what my comments says. I will also not try to engage with a discussion in which side don't discuss in a good faith. Specially coming from a new account created for this purpose only.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The project didn't really take off as a business and the team joined Stripe. See the "History" section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB
> they don't sell as well because what the majority of users want is [...]

I think in the current market we have no idea of what the majority of users want because there's no combination of all the available options.

The majority of users might value iOS more than any specific hardware feature. Second to that, they might value price and career rebates.

That makes fringe android phones failures irrelevant and would leave us with only random guesses on what people would want outside of what Apple and Sumsung is offering right now.
I think an anti-adblock is a perfect reason to try to shake off my Youtube (shorts) addiction and return back to more productive use of my time
I haven't found that to be the case at all. You ask someone out, they're interested or not, you both continue onwards in the group with no hurt feelings.

I have tons of female friends in social groups whom I've asked out. Some had boyfriends or even husbands and we all had a good laugh about it afterwards.

There's very little to asking someone out, you're basically saying "I'd like to get to know you better".

Where it gets messy is when people start hanging out one on one with members of the opposite sex, calling it "friendship" despite having romantic intent, and then confessing feelings.
There are certainly issues with having product managers, but the op doesn’t even seem to understand what they do.

I usually see PMs get soft authority, but not a budget.

However, I’ve worked with excellent product managers that can break down features and work through modeling sessions with strong understanding of what the business needs and what stakeholders expect.

It’s a silly article from an inexperienced person.
Those are all examples of building from scratch; not rebuilding, such as after an earthquake or a sinkhole or mudslide... etc
Because women are more picky. Men choose quantity over quality :P For a man any reasonably good looking, reasonably slim woman is good as a potential sex partner (so they will swipe right on Tinder). Women want the best of the best.
Is this different from https://opensignapp.com/ ?
Nothing, but if your only goal is to frustrate people, maybe that's a level of 'service' you should not be offering in the first place.
The Drake equation is falsifiable. All you have to do is plug the values (which are all things that could technically be measured) into the equation, then count the number of civilizations in the Milky Way, and see if that's equal to what the equation predicted. it is possible that it's not, so the equation is falsifiable.

That it's impractical for us to actually do the experiment just means that we cannot perform the experiment and so it doesn't help us in practical terms. But it is a thing that could be done, strictly speaking.

That said, it's also a thought experiment, not a scientific postulate, and isn't meant to be "scientific".
Of course Ublock users think they are entitled to free stuff when the whole point of the tool is getting free access to sites without paying for ad free.
> I think it’s pretty clear people were more content and felt a sense of purpose

From what available data would you derive this and not immediately question selection bias?
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those tik tok videos of showing those techies that do nothing at work.
> so many transit cards

Well,

1. I said I lost more transit cards than credit cards. I’ve “lost” exactly one credit card so far. And I didn’t even
lose it, I left it at a restaurant and when I realized it, it was a few hours later so I just got it replaced.

2. A transit card is something you use while in motion and frequently while in a hurry. When using it multiple times per day while commuting, there is significantly more opportunities than when I use my credit card. Compared to a credit card where the transaction is slower and usually not rushed.

3. Transit cards for many cities (e.g. NYC when I lived there) are designed to be mostly disposable, so they are flimsy. Compared to a thick, rigid credit card.

I also still have dozens of transit cards from different places I’ve visited. But for my home city, I lost it a few times.
Moore is still alive. In 2030 we have an estimated one trillion transistors on a chip. We would need that for our ever increasing hunger for memory and processing power. 1TB model on your iphone 22 with 100 tokens per second.
His lectures are great but I definitely agree about the book. It reads like one of the TAs transcribed the lectures and added some exercises to the end.