skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, it makes sense in the philosophical mindset of the time, because they seriously really believed this, or a form of it.

"In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word (Logos) was God"

It's the bread and butter of the Neo-Platonism of the time. And to the Christians of the time, Jesus Christ was the literal embodiment of the Word of God.
In round numbers, US homicides per 100,000 were about 10 in the 80s-90s, 5 before the pandemic, and back down to 6.3 in 2022. --
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+homicide+rate
I dunno, I see a pretty large spike in homicide rate: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=us+homicide+rate

or
https://i.imgur.com/v38RdZU.png
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim... (not per-capita)

Much like inflation, people aren't great at estimating the precise year-over-year change, but the last 5 or 10 years shows some real reasons for concern.
I wonder - when the Sun goes supernova, will the man-made exotic nuclear elements on Earth change it’s spectrum in a detectable way?

Someone on here once suggested shooting nuclear waste into the sun, but apparently aliens would immediately be able to tell we did that from the absorbtion lines, in addition to the impractical delta-V involved.
Propaganda bro. Why would anyone trust the FBI rofl.
A US crime rate is as useful to individual conceptions of potential victimization as US GDP is to employment.
>what you're really making is a submarine aircraft carrier. All the evidence suggests that nobody wants a submarine aircraft carrier.

The Japanese thought they wanted one in WWII:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine
I mean, "lowest level since 1961" is technically pre-pandemic, sure.
From a national security perspective, wealth is important but so is population size. If you have both, you win. Industrial production is a third factor in national security, related to wealth and population size, and Mexico can help with that. At the moment, Brazil is a non-player but in a hundred years that could change given their population size and you could have a potential Brazil-US rivalry. An integration with Mexico will be a contingency for that, giving north US a buffer zone in addition to a larger population.

From a prosperity perspective, that seven percent will grow, especially when Mexico can benefit from strong US institutions. You also have to factor in that the entire pie will get bigger due to free labor and capital flow, which will be the main win here. So it won't be 107 percent it'll be 107 percent times by a factor.

Mexico is also culturally adjacent to the US being a Catholic majority country and immigrants from Mexico have a history of integrating quickly.

Transfer payments may be needed to make the US lower classes "whole" given they're now competing with so many more people which will dilute their wages. But if done properly it should be a positive sum situation where everyone benefits.

Pan-Americanism is a fundamentally good idea if implemented gradually and carefully.
Here are the actual stats:

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/31062/us-homicide-rate/

What you say is technically true but also highly misleading. You're cherry-picking points to put together a narrative that is not the obvious shape of the data.

Peak homicides over the past 10 years are nowhere near the peak in the 90's.

And they trended downward in 2022, and mid-year 2023 estimates were downwards another 9.4% relative to 2022:

https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2023-crime-trends/
Why re release my 2008 game as a remaster in 2023 if Sven in Sweden already patched the (open) source with QOL changes and provided higher texture mods.

It does cut on future dumb re releases :)
Damn I am such an outlier if those numbers are actually true.

Avg miles drive per day:5 (1.5mile commute each way + some extra generous miles)

Avg cost of a new vehicle: idk I've never bought a new vehicle. My last vehicle was a used repo and purchased in 2009. Still going strong.

Fastest selling vehicle ever made: without some data point this seems like complete bs. Toyota, Ford, Honda, insert every major car company, makes more vehicles per year than Tesla could dream about.
The best bet might be an old physics code written in fortran. Maybe calculation of scattering cross sections from matrix elements or something with alot of vectorizable linear algebra.
It would be reassuring if the proportion of murder to other, more common and visible crime was constant. But it's not. You may still get decrease in murders while having 10 fold increase in theft.
Surely making lots of people happier and more comfortable using their computers is at least somewhat meaningful.
1) It's great that homicides are decreasing. But while homicides are one way of measuring crime, there are others. I think many people are saying that the divergence is increasing between homicides and other crimes. Would you agree with the GP that "crime" can be increasing even if homicides are decreasing?

2) While it's rare, there are some well documented cases where "dead bodies" get hidden in the US by unscrupulous police trying to look better in statistics. Here's Chicago from a decade ago: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/chicago-crime-st...
The ones I've seen in person are always the vertical folding "Razr" style phones.
Are they the same Whos Horton hears?
At the time, in Europe, atheism was simply not a permitted intellectual path to take. It was basically inconceivable. So nobody truly needed to "prove" God, and the argument "works" for some thinkers because its presupposition and ends confirm what they already "know" to be true.
It describes a process in which crime reporting progressively gets further from the ground truth over time. This isn't new.
> You look at other countries and how their healthcare systems work and you will see a vast difference in functionality and efficiency. Because they know healthcare being a for-profit driven industry with weak government controls leads to the shitshow we have in America.

You can't boil healthcare down to a single reason.

At minimum, there are supply (providers and facilities) and demand (insurers and patients) sides, each of which have their issues and solutions.

There is no magic bullet that any country has found to solve the problem, other than -- have enough providers and facilities for patient demand and find a way to make it worth their while.
They're outta there by the time their kids hit middle school. It's a temporary stay
I think the cards are mostly plastic by mass, and the silicon is doped with other elements. (mostly lighter, some heavier. IIRC)

The actual metal storing magnetic charge in a hard drive is tiny also, with some drive platters being mostly ceramic. Regardless, if you were to personify the force of entropy, it would be greatly angered by humanity and modern computing.
Taking care of kids is hard sometimes, no doubt. But spending time with your young kids can absolutely be fun and truly enjoyable. It takes effort to come up with activities and start them. When they begin talking it gets way more fun. I enjoy hanging out with my child and I would describe my days as blissfully idyllic a majority of the time. If you put in the work it pays off with intense fulfillment, pride, and a best friend. I think for this to work you need to be present with your child and actively engaging almost everyday for long periods.

I admit I don’t know that many parents personal enough to know if most are feeling more burdened than not. I would hope that is not the case.
About a year ago I took my son to the RI Computer Museum in North Kingstown, and it was awesome.

The people were super friendly, and I got a great explanation about debugging hardware faults on the PDP (PDP-9?) that was there.

Now if only there were software-dev meetups in this end of the state :)
Big countries can still level a small country, they just cant try to occupy without huge risk and expense
If that's necessary to manage waste why not, as long as cost is paid by every city that sends garbage there.
Well, I'm quite willing to entertain this claim, but your response doesn't provide any details about who sold tungsten to Germany during this period. I don't want to go on a wild goose chase learning about the US tungsten industry of 80 years ago, nor learn Russian. If you could cite some specific companies that'd be great. As I pointed out, most of Germany's tungsten came from Spain, which has tungsten deposits in abundance.
Hmm. My hardcover copy has a mangled end-page, as seen in the last example on that page. Everything else looks pretty good, though, and my order history from 2017(!) says it was sold by Amazon Services LLC. I got it for about $59, which is the lowest price recorded on camelcamelcamel. I wasn't aware I'd bought it right at the dip. Today it's $111, which would have been brutal at the time.

I can't really say I've gotten my money's worth, but there's still time. I still want to learn more electronics, but I was left wondering "what's next?" at the end of my Physics BA classes and I haven't stumbled onto the answer yet.
The perverse incentives you're describing were just the same 15 years ago.

And these are national stats so a few DAs in very blue cities not prosecuting minor offenses aren't big enough to have that much of an impact.
I've noticed a general pattern on HN, and I think this thread exemplifies it: If the research confirms someone's personal experience, then they don't question the research methodology. On the other hand, if the research contradicts their experience, they look deeper into the methodology to find flaws in it. It's just a more intellectual form of confirmation bias.
No, but what does that matter?
1) Entity gets hacked

2) Hackers exfiltrate data from the target (this could be source code, database dumps, employee records, emails, or any combination of the above - basically anything that could be seen that has value to the company staying private.

3) Depending on the model used, the hackers either privately or publicly informs entity they have their data and unless a payment of X if made the data will get leaked or sold to the highest bidder.
And floppies before that. I remember getting the Transport Tycoon demo that way.
Have you seen (tiny) houses in 2023s (large cities) -- she's not that far off.
Because Walmart also pays taxes.
The one change I would suggest is switching to the HMO Capitation model.

The nice thing about it is that it can be done a bit at a time, you don't have to change the entire US at the same time.

No more fee for service, Doctors would go on salary, and without fee for service an entire insurance complication (making sure to pay exactly the right amount for services, no more, no less) evaporates.

The downside: You can only see Doctors inside the HMO network. A second downside is handling emergency out-of-network care (this part would get better as more of them exist, as they would sign sharing agreements with each other).

Note: The capitation part is critical, HMO without capitation is worthless.
I think I like time. Though spectral, indeterminate, presently a fixture, essential moments last forever but occur daily. Why would any network encode time if it were all just a crystal vase?
What do overdoses have to do with crime?
> but even it casefolds in the wrong direction

I'd say that it's the only one that casefolds on the right direction.

We don't need to keep using the upper-case only idioms from the 80's. We can have legible text nowadays. (And yes, it's non-standard, but there are plenty of things that are best done by ignoring the SQL standard.)
No it honestly is - the only productive thing to come out of my 5-hour long gameplay session was this blog rant: https://www.cirex.dev/blog/dopamine-hits-hard
honestly this situation is quite common to cyber security and disclosure of vulnerabilities / problems that need fixing. rfc9116 (security.txt) is pretty useless; most of the time just some email inbox to /dev/null

knowing back channels, having the 'village' mindset is much better
The question isn't whether it is or isn't rising, but what voters consider acceptable. If voters find the current level of crime unacceptable, it doesn't matter what the broader trend is.

I personally find the concept of open air drug use, retail theft, and shit on the street unacceptable, I could care less what the numbers say and will vote based off of what I see with my own eyes. And whether or not that's "statistically sound", I could care less. Crime is decreasing? Okay, I guess it isn't decreasing quickly enough
Because those businesses also pay taxes and probably more than you do?
> USA has top tier health care. It's simply not economical to give it to everyone who demands it

I've always thought that this is something basic that we need to address as part of any health care reform.

We can't afford to give everyone unlimited health care, so how do we determine the limits?

I assume that a lot of socialized health care systems end up using waiting lists, perhaps based on the patient's age, treatment cost, and probability of a positive outcome, with the option of going outside the system and paying for more/quicker care, for those who can afford it.

One person I discussed this with assumed that there was plenty of money to give everyone care as good as billionaires get. I don't assume that's true. Has it worked out that way anywhere else?
Fair question. The profit incentive in this case is not meant as a psychological incentive, but a purely economic one.
If I make money doing something, I can keep doing it. If I don't, I lose money and so I can't.

It's a natural selection mechanism that will always happen. We broke it (aka we don't like it) because we moved from the consumer choosing who profits to central banks.

So, doctors that are not liked by the consumer don't disappear as fast as they should. They also don't land where they could do good because we leave everything to arbitrary judgements of well meaning bureaucrats instead of the choices of people that have to be served.

No system is perfect but we are missing something important in healthcare and I think this is the main culprit.
I live in Seattle. We just set a new record for homicides. I think an all-time high.

Also, I don’t think homicides is necessarily that accurate a metric. It’s immune to many things. But it isn’t immune to advances in trauma treatment. I’ve always wondered if cell phones reduced homicides by reducing response times.

I’d love to know shooting victim statistics. But that’s not as complete and comprehensive as homicide counts.
>the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation or raising a different issue.
Not me. Deep in fmx and omab
Cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system
If civilization collapsed, it seems reasonable that anyone predicting it wasn't wouldn't be remembered. Anyone left standing after a collapse would have bigger things to worry about, and the medium in which predictions where published could very likely be lost in the collapse.

If someone were of the honest opinion that broad scale collapse was imminent I can only expect they would also not expect fame afterwards. Anyone sharing this opinion disingenuous is more likely to be sharing it for gain before the collapse that may never come, via book sales or speaking engagements for example.
Great article but the author is missing the fact that this is all designed on purpose. The insurance system is designed around a consistent strategy called “don’t pay out”.

The USA spends more GDP on healthcare than any country on earth and the insurance companies are immensely profitable.

Every company involved is making money off the status quo and wants to maintain the current system. when a patient comes along who isn’t desirable and profitable, they’re screwed.

This is all well documented in research about modern USA healthcare and health economics. None of this is an accident and the fact that this situation persists should be a national embarrassment.
Aye, merry Christmas!
RIP "Living Computers Museum" in Seattle :(
There's an open ticket for languages other than English! https://gitlab.com/smoores/storyteller/-/issues/10. If you want to take a look, please do! I don't have any contributing guidelines yet, unfortunately, but they'll probably come soon. I think Whisper does have Cantonese and Mandarin support, so it should be possible to add support for those languages, though we'll have to look into nltk support for sentence tokenization as well!
This is just ends in a circular argument because in the end NATO has expanded into the areas bordering Russia precisely because those countries (the Baltics, mainly) have a history of having their sovereignty violated by Russia, and continue to have serious and probably legitimate worries about that happening again.

So you have to ask exactly why Russia protests so strongly about NATO expanding? And why countries on Russia's borders were so eager to join it?

The only way Russia gets "invaded" by the "west" is by redefining its borders to include chunks of Ukraine... and now Ukraine defending itself and its internationally recognized borders is an "invasion" of "Russian sovereignty." Preposterous.
I’m always amazed at other country’s tax systems. Here in NZ if you’re a sole trader you only pay personal income tax, if you incorporate you either take the whole profit as income and pay income tax, or take a dividend which comes with tax credits so you only pay the difference between the company tax already paid and personal income tax. So just taking it all as salary is easier.
While I don't know anything about medicine, I have some experience in curriculum design. My rule of thumb is that you can learn two things in a year. That doesn't mean people can't learn more. It means that you should describe the learning objectives you expect the students to meet at that level of granularity.

Anything that gets substantially less than half a year of full-time study is uncertain. Students may encounter it but fail to learn it, or they may learn it and later forget it.

12 years is enough time to learn 24 things. While there are more things you would like every doctor to know, you can't reasonably expect them to know all of that after just 12 years of training.
Flu deaths in the US (2017-2023) per week
I've had quite a lot of medical treatments, due to terrible luck and universal health care.

In my experience (3 continents, 6 countries) medical training does not prepare students for people.

For people with communication issues, sensory issues or disability it has to be even worse.
I prefer to deal with cash anyways
Yup, this is the goal! Library management and a reader app already exist, though there's definitely work to be done, especially on the library management front.
Having an escrow in a structure like the library of congress (or the NSA, they have tons of storage /s) and they get released when company dies or the product isn't commercialised for more than x years. Or when the company decides to.

Maybe it is a bit more complicated with assets rights, that's what a couple game devs told me.
Yeah, the “just do single-payer” people have no idea that identifying that “single payer” will take 40 years of bureaucratic infighting before we can crown the bureaucrats to helm the largest bureaucracy in human history.
I'm not downvoting you, but your take is perhaps a tad cynical.

I get your point - yes doctors have a lot of tools at their disposal, and yes using those tools comes at a cost, but wouldn't you want to use those tools if you were in that position?

X-rays are not exactly cutting edge- if a fracture is suspected they are fundamental. Bloodwork etc are key diagnostic indicators. Sure people lie ("Everybody Lies" - House [1]) tests are helpful to understand those lies.

It absolutely can be economical to give everyone the best possible health care - especially at the primary diagnostic stage. That being true, yes, every part of the system is independently determined to maximise their profit. From the X-ray operator to the blood-test-maker.

It's worth remembering that these common tools, that have been around for decades, are still more expensive (by a lot) in the US than elsewhere. Yes, health insurance makes massive profit. But so does precisely everyone else involved at any level.

So if it is "not economic" perhaps its more any issue of "greed" than math.

[1] House is an old TV show about computer support, using medicine as a metaphor.
There's been some pretty interesting developments in the space of wood fiber clothing without such nasty chemicals:

http://ioncell.fi/

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/ra/c5ra1238...

Probably a decade before it makes its way to a price point I can afford.
Do they, though?
I'm lucky to be alive, grateful for family, friends, and a career.

Thankful that I get to spend time away from work and enjoy holidays.
Didn’t the Apollo guidance computer, which took people to the moon, have 4K of RAM? Today, 1 million times that barely runs the OS and a few Chrome tabs.
Some schools offer combined BS/MD programs that free up 2 years.

https://www.collegexpress.com/interests/health-medicine/blog...
I see that there are some differences in access. Another way of looking at it is that both places allowed a large number of local people to work on their art or engineering projects, and that a loss of such places is a loss for people who want to make things.

I’ve done a lot of metal working. It’s a messy process using cutting oils etc. But once you’ve cut and shaped the metal as desired you wash it with soap and water in the sink before assembly.
No.

The question is absolutely whether crime is or is not rising. Factually.

Another question is what voters think. And yes that can affect politics.

But the truth still matters. Actual reality is still very much the question for a lot of people.

And we can do things like compare statistics with perceptions and figure out what is causing the discrepancies.
X's reduced user base might make X faster than ever.
That's a good point. Throw in a provision to handle workers that don't have benefits packages and still make shit pay and I think that's all my concerns.
I should add that I’m glad the author wrote this as an account of their family experience and I have great sympathy for them, having seen similar experiences up close.
You can do this today, though you would definitely be breaking copyright (you need to strip the DRM from the epub), and if you're cloning someone's voice without their permission you're probably breaking some more laws. You're pretty safe though assuming you don't distribute it or try to make money.

Check out https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts for creating an audiobook from epub. Take a look in the utils directory for notes about fine-tuning a voice clone. I can tell you I've done some voices that are close enough to the original to be pretty shocking.

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions, it's pretty fun making your own audiobooks with the reader of your choice!
In your household, the children tell the dad jokes to dad.
It sounds like hyperbole. I told a dentist I was allergic to ibuprofen and she prescribed it to me. Some doctors will never respect you and think they know better. Just avoid those that don't do nice things like listen to you but also not enablers thsr want a lot of money.

Good luck!
Asking this not because I disagree with you, but because I want to know more about your perspective: what is your opinion of people who are skeptical of/hesitant towards vaccines?
After buying several issues of MaximumPC and many conversations with people at work who could explain to me some of the questions I had, I finally used info from two separate issues to make a parts list. I drove to the nearest Fry's Electronic, Plano, Texas, and build my first PC. What a thrill! I marveled that I could build something that was so cutting-edge.
Reforming Unix