skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of the ontological argument as a kind of pointless philosophical roundabout which only connects in a circle for some because they already believe God exists and can't -- emotionally or physically -- truly posit a world where He doesn't.

The argument "works" because they simply can't/won't think of atheism as a legitimate position. I've had exactly that kind of "debate" with the religious where in the end it falls down to either "how can you actually think that?!", or, worse, "you're crazy/silly."

In that mindset, the argument seems self-evident. Or something.

And I tend to think of the intricacies of the words of Anselm and others of his era like this:

We sit on these forums debating programming languages, or go off and write code, or play with mathematics, or etc. because our human brains love intellectual puzzles.

However in the middle ages, dark ages, whole swathes of intellectual paths were essentially off limits, or not even imaginable.

So if you were of the intellectual bent, and love brain puzzles, you naturally engage in the form available to you in the dominant ideology and permitted by society at the time. Theology, theological philosophy, religious music, poetry, and art. They had all sorts of fun reinterpreting (pre-Christian) Aristotle and Plato to try to puzzle a way to get a Christian spin on them, for example.

I remember in my 2nd year philosophy of religion class going through all the theodicies, and in the end summarized with: there are profound holes and problems with all of these. But in the end the only real argument for religion and God that works is the argument from experience. If people feel they experience God ... I can't really argue or debate that. That's for them. Which is why I leave my heavily religious sister and parents alone on this topic.
Maybe the Mt. Chiliad Mystery will be finally solved

https://gta-myths.fandom.com/wiki/Mount_Chiliad_Mystery
I'm really grateful for the gift of life, my family, parents etc. I'm full of hope and optimism that 2024 will be even better.
Maybe the load times can be improved even further now…
This is a map of countries in which abortion is legal:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ab...

This is a map of democratic countries:

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/18737.jpeg

You might notice a resemblance. Want to do gay rights next?
You sure that's really the Tenderloin or along the edges which is more like Nob Hill?
It's considered "polite" to imply that the woman in question is obviously still an unmarried hottie, which is why you always "err on the side of Miss", rather than "mistake on the side of Mrs."
Why Americans may be dependent on processed cereals
I will MDM lock away anything that looks like side loading on phones I might have any reason to support.
Homicides are decreasing exactly the same way inflation is decreasing. Down from recent highs but still quite elevated.
Go walk around any toy section...
> The response is to the authors conclusions, which are wrong.

How have you come to the conclusion that the author's conclusions are wrong?

Many in this thread have rightly pointed out that the author is speaking of the future which can't be know with certainty. Are you telling issue with the level of certainty the author seems to have, or do you fished with the argument of impending doom?
Enforcing the current laws would be a good start.

https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurance-denials-...
> And what makes it a “bad contract” anyway?

Yes, I was also bothered by the term "bad contract". The phrase feels a bit Red Pill to me.

Without children, there is essentially no alimony system in Japan. So, divorce for a middle aged housewife is essentially ruinous. It is awful. As a foreign parent, you are likely to lose 100% access to your children. It is demented.
This has existed for a while, it's called Whispersync for Voice. Not available for all titles but it's there
Can you cite this growing consensus?

I’m agnostic whether you are right or wrong but one side brings data and you just have an anecdote.
Here's an anecdote: I haven't been the victim of any type of crime for the last 15 years, whereas I had multiple break-ins and near violent encounters in the 00s and 90s. My neighborhood and city (I live in Northeast Minneapolis) feels dramatically safer than it did when I was younger. My relatives in the burbs think it's some sort of crime infested hellhole. I'm inclined to think that a actually, crime IS dropping and that people who think that it isn't watching and reading a lot of media that is filling their heads with nonsense.
No, I'm pretty sure gp means drawing conclusions based off of lived experience instead of more general statistics. Or at least, not putting so much faith in statistics to allow them to cancel personal experiences which are opposed to them

Maybe an argument for that could be that statistics are normally framed in a certain way, or may obscure certain things, or may be inconclusive. Statistics can be gamed, sometimes common sense is more trustworthy

And I don't think flagging is an appropriate response to gp either, there's definitely room to discuss that type of perspective
I had to get someone to unlock a case the other day to buy underwear at Target. Other times it's been toothpaste or deodorant. Someone want to explain to me why these things are locked up now, but they used to not be? Someone want to explain to me why I see videos of people stealing without consequence while security looks on powerless to do anything? Someone want to explain to me why there are open air markets for stolen goods on the streets? Yeah, I'm sure crime is down. That sounds right.
Ask HN: Whats the best bookmark manager app for smartphone and desktop? And why?
I didn't meant this one was caused by batteries just that it increases the risk of fire.
Sure, of course that's weird. You'd say "thou ought know thyself".
Right, but I’m wondering if the notch was actually useful for legitimate passengers in the event of an accident.
Pokemon game fan gets fish to beat game all by itself
I am not the one who normally says this, and I will admit I know little about US Health system ( I assume the complexity of it means no one really knows )

Given the insanity of it, and US being capitalist in nature, may be the best way to fix all of these isn't more regulation, but to deregulate the market so they could compete?

And on the topic, I am wondering if anyone knows a good site that compares the Medical System around the world?
Have a friend who is in security, when they have to cuff someone and call 911, they often get sent to voicemail. 10 minutes later 911 calls back and if the issue isn’t live anymore they refuse to send anyone.
Had another incident personally where the police never came.
Several friends have had similar experience, while not scientific it indicates there is at least a local problem.
The other cities I look at seem to have similar issues in the news. There is no way crime is getting better right now.
Fair, though we're generally in agreement. My point is that there are many who don't want the savings, because the over-payment is what fills their bank accounts. I was trying to point out that their last refuge, even when things improve objectively and across the board for the vast majority of Americans, is that single-payer or even a public option would hurt their pocketbooks. Like I said, I'm happy to throw insurers under the bus.
> So, the only war left is small-countries vs small-countries.

That sounds like a recipe for Oceania/Eastasia proxy wars in the Disputed Territories?
- helix editor

- tmux

- bash
> The V is gradually being dropped in Spain and in the last few decades the process seems to have accelerated

I own a Spanish textbook printed (in English) in 1958 that says about «usted»: ‘It is the universal respectful address of society, and the only one the foreigner is ever likely to employ or hear addressed to him, unless he marries a native or forms intimate friendships.’ How times have changed!
Unfolded foldable phones are basically the size of a tablet so they are already a foldable tablet, no?
>A prominent anti-vaccine influencer complained that when he asked Grok why vaccines cause autism, the chatbot responded, “Vaccines do not cause autism,” calling it “a myth that has been debunked by numerous scientific studies.”

"Elon, this AI of yours isn't protecting my worldview!"
Clever!

Do you have enough control over your mind to command it to contemplate what the truth of the matter is?
You should be able to tell from the calibre of your people if they can be “trained” to actually do what you’re asking right? It sounds like a combination of experience, intelligence, and conscientiousness. The first can be changed but the latter two hard to do much about. That may not be resolvable as a “more training” issue.
Not according to this chart: https://www.statista.com/chart/31062/us-homicide-rate/

Pretty clearly the inflection is at 2020. It was flat before that, so sure, you can draw a "trend" upwards since the lowest point in 2014 or so, but that's just playing games with curve fitting. I can equally tell you, with the same kind of support, that clearly the trend is downward from 1991 to today. "Just look at the numbers!"

And more importantly, the rapid rise in 2020-21 is dropping rapidly now.
> but honestly it's not far off that level of “well, duh”

I think the real problem is that other apps do use ssh and malicious actors can inject untrusted input without the user's consent.

The git POC is one example, and while I do think that git also needs to be updated, fixing the problem on the ssh side is also a good idea
I recently heard that hospitals still benefit from people who don't pay off their medical debt. They sell it for fraction of the amount and use the loss to offset earnings to dodge taxes. Prices of their services are inflated for this purpose (among others). It's better to have triple price, have insurer pay third of it and sell the debt of remaining two thirds as half-price. This way you get all the income and zero taxes. And if some chump patient decides to actually pay them they get ahead even more.

Does it sound plausible?
Is it growing? That was the consensus for as long as I remember. Great scene about it in the big lebowski.
Recently in 2020 homicides peaked in the aftermath of the “mostly peaceful protests” and the subsequent law officer retreat to the donut shop. Traffic deaths also surged due to depolicing.

It’s good though that we’re still down from the bloody heights of the ‘90s era crack/cocaine wars!
Don't we all have a similar anecdote to tell?
I was one of many that spent a lot of time with computer magazines like Computer Shopper. A few years back I was in a bookstore and took a look at the current offerings. There was some shock upon seeing the price, they were quite thin, and the articles had a feel of content written to meet a quota rather than a love of hacking. Maybe it was just the few I checked out that day, but it would not have been rational to buy them rather than a book.
Fell back to pre pandemic levels? I guess people are right that the last few years (covid era) have quite concerning crime rates.
There's a (non-religious) form of it in the start of Spinoza's (rationalist) Ethica, too, where he posits the existence of a singular "substance" through a similar sort of intellectual trick.
It is odd to write this and not in one's conclusions realize or call attention to how this "Whose responsibility is this?" problem all goes away with single payer. In countries with single payer healthcare, this problem never comes up.
No doubt there's a cuneiform tablet somewhere with a priest complaining the generals are always preparing to fight the last war instead of the next?
Actually, most patients have no clue when they are receiving good care or not. For example, studies have shown that patient satisfaction after an office visit is highly correlated with whether they received a prescription. A lot of patients feel like they got their money's worth if the doctor hands them a script, regardless of whether they needed it.
Because Pontiac had no unique models. They were a 100% rebadge of existing cars.

And GM never sold the hummer brand, they still own it. Hence the hummer EV.
this thing is kinda interesting (though maybe not for sub use):

https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-unveils-roadrunner-a...
In some areas a non negligible part of recycling goes to incineration because incinerators can't work without enough fuel and cardboard, paper and plastics are necessary.

And in some other places any contaminated recycling (oil, food residues etc) is redirected to landfill/incinerators.
Some years ago, a dude set himself on fire in front of my town's city hall.

It was a difficult year, and people took to the streets all over the country. They were not as divided by all the polarizing shit on the Internet yet.

So, early in the morning, this guy goes up to city hall with a can of gas. Cops come up to him, ask what he's doing. He says he's gonna set himself on fire unless the protesters' demands are met. I think that included the mayor's resignation, and rescinding the extortionate utility bills that everyone got that winter.

So the cops poured his can of gas all over him and lit the match. By the time I got to the hospital to donate blood, he had already left this pathetic excuse for a world to its own devices.

Well, a world where this shit happens isn't getting any gratitude from me, that's for sure.

Gets weirder.

Both his first name, and his last name, were rooted in our language's word for "fire". "Nomen est omen", as they say. Was he perhaps a pyromaniac, or destined to die by fire? Or did he never exist in the first place, the whole story being an early artifact of political technology, disseminated in order to get the mayor to resign (so that a guy who was actually good at graft could be elected)?

A world where I can't even be sure this shit really happened or some ad guys made up his entire story out of whole cloth to influence public opinion, isn't getting any gratitude from me, either. And idk if anyone's noticed, but that's the kind of world we've all been living in for some time.

So, if I ever caught fire, I would be grateful if the people who came to pour more fuel would at least be honest with themselves about what they're doing. And not frantically try to get me to convince them that they're actually pouring water, or ask me to justify the undesirability of being on fire in the first place. Because I've noticed a lot of people tend to do exactly that, any time someone is experiencing any form of suffering less obvious than being literally on fire.
What about helixes of semi-precious stones?
a bad contract is based on the probability of expensive clauses being activated. in any other financial arrangement, a 50% chance is a very bad contract that would just be avoided. a “30% chance amongst parties in their late 20s and older in higher socioeconomic brackets” is still a very bad chance in literally any other financial or business agreement and would be laughed at, as it would be devoid of all the cultural baggage and conditioning to engage with. a 10% chance would be bad too!

this is mutually exclusive of understanding the purpose of the clause and seeing the benefit of it.

this is merely saying, objectively, based on the aforementioned criteria, this is a bad contract.
these are wonderful insights; thank you very much!
Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?
Hello HN,

I'm considering the development of a new programming language, drawing inspiration from Rust's strengths, with a focus on compiling to JavaScript. Here what I'm considering are some key features:

- Strict Typing System: no type-related bugs.

- Algebraic Data Types.

- Exhaustiveness Checks.

- 'Unsafe' Mode: Directly interact with external JavaScript/TypeScript.

- no 'null/undefined': Option/Result instead.

- Trait-Based Programming.

- Backend Development Focus.

- Compiler: dead-code elimination and partial evaluation, similar to Prepack[0] (by Facebook).

I believe this approach could bring significant benefits, especially with recent additions like TypedArray and worker threads.

Would this be of interest to the community? Looking forward to your insights and discussion.

Currently I don't feel confident to complete the project as I am so any recommended resources[1] would be extremely helpful, especially around the area of implementing types.

[0] https://github.com/facebookarchive/prepack

[1] https://github.com/taosx/axido (nothing is decided)
It's not a strawman if you keep avoiding the specific, true history and instead make up bullshit.

Stick a Christmas tree up your ass.

I looked at your post history and saw your discussions with other people, and it seems this is your modus operandi: spout bullshit and then dodge direct questions. You did this here: you basically avoided all direct statements and instead went on fantasy tangents.

Fuck off.
I can be down for this. To anyone who doesn't deal with the innards of US health insurance, this is better coverage than every health insurance plan in America despite the bar seeming so low.

I do think your bar for catastrophic is far too high and should probably be ~$10k cumulative spent in any span of time less than 12 months because $49k is ruinous to almost every American.
The sub Saharans from Comintern also fought in combat roles, what’s your point?
Yes it is just that the US is extremely late to any good sense like that.
And even Aquinas, who did not think Anselm's argument worked, thought it worthy enough to engage.
Cleverness does not equate to wisdom.
Esp32 ( https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32 ) are what most folks should be using to do that stuff. It’s a great platform to build upon.
I’m young enough to not have cared about healthcare pre Obama, but my understanding is the risk of less regulation is the “preexisting condition” trap where insurance companies basically price you out if you need a lot of medical attention.

So basically if you are poor you just… suffer
And yet nitter is still faster with only 47 contributors total. Says more.
As in they take most things even if you don't buy anything?
There was an infamous ransomware attack. One of the hackers was convicted this week hence the timing of the leak https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67663128
It doesn't take above average intelligence to go through med school, so long as you have high discipline and motivation. Good memory helps the most, really.

There is a simple way to know that we could train more doctors - failure rates are very low, which means that either the MCAT is a better filter than the exams (unlikely!), or that it would be possible to train a lot more doctors.
I don't trust the stats. Things that would have been reported as crimes 15 years ago aren't being called in now.

* Leaders inside the police force have incentives to make it look like their departments are effective and nudge the numbers.

* Elected officials, such as the mayor, have incentives to make it look like the police department is effective and reinforce the number nudgers.

* This has a reinforcing cycle where number nudgers are promoted and in turn promote other number nudgers until leadership is saturated. More creative accounting practices are encouraged as the environment becomes more competitive.

* Many District Attorney's are happy to prosecute lesser charges that are easier to convict on instead of more serious charges that more accurately reflect the reality of what happened.
Nobody cares that it dropped in 2023. We care that it's worse than a decade ago, which it is. We hit a local minimum of 4.4 murders per 100k in 2014. It was 6.3 in 2022. That's a big difference.

Property crime goes unreported. It's not worth the trouble. I've had a dozen packages stolen, for example. My apartment building had 30 bikes stolen and hundreds more packages stolen. None of these will show up in the statistics. I have friends that have been carjacked or witnessed carjacking. Carjacking numbers are way up in my city compared to 10 years ago. Murders hit a low of 246 for us in 2013. The last 3 years were 499, 562, and 516, and they now cook the books by not counting suspicious deaths. We're down this year, which is great, but the past 5 years have been bloody as hell.

Major crimes dropping 8% from recent local maxima is not an achievement and doesn't mean people's perceptions of rising crime are incorrect. The past single year's delta alone is just not super relevant.
Your maps appear to support the premise put forward by aaomidi.

The USofA is labelled there as not very democratic, grouped as with "Flawed Democracies" and the premise put forward was that US Democracy was stripping rights (eg: abortion) and perhaps wasn't a great example of a good democracy.
Yes some cities are littered with these. Around cannabis dispensaries where they are often given as gifts it is even worse.
> For anyone who wants to complain about what doctors should or should not learn during medical school: first go learn what the curriculum does teach, then ask yourself if you're even mildly qualified to make those judgements based on your understanding of healthcare, and then maybe you could comment on what would have to be left out of education to accommodate for X, because the curriculum is already super bloated and a firehose of information.

I think this knee jerk reaction is unwarranted. The writer is a doctor herself, so she's well-versed with the breadth and depth of medical school curriculum, and everything that comes after that.

But I don't agree that your breakdown about medical school curriculum is accurate or correct, definitely not across different schools. For example, the Harvard Medical School curriculum offers classes for Sports or Rural medicine practice (subjects for highly specialized medical focus), so I don't understand why something for autistic or disabled patient care cannot be included in either those subjects, or separately. My guess is that it probably is to some degree, but not to the degree that this article writer would prefer. Source: http://tinyurl.com/mr8ncn2p

All specialized fields have "firehoses of information", and dismissing an opinion about improving the quality of care for patients who have different needs as "adding too much" is just lazy.
What’s new about these incentives? Why would this be happening now, uniquely?
Here's the October 29, 2016 front page of the NYT: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/p4som5mZ1n0DTPOmd6YXUuVh7wM=...

I think their bias is not entirely straightforward.
Someone want to explain to me why my tax dollars should go towards protecting target and Walgreen’s inventory? When they have one security guard in their entire store? When police could instead be spending that time finding the driver of the truck that smashed into my car and drove away?
Sam Altman is not the hero we deserve but the one we need ♥
'Every time an international relations professor wishes that their work was ‘policy relevant,’ another stubby, desiccated digit uncurls on the monkey’s paw.'

from https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/my-time-in-the-torment-...
Most haven’t been through 2011 or any decent earthquake over there so they say stuff like this
My counterpoint is that for a family of 4 it’s $28k total per employee at my company for health insurance. If even half of that was put directly into an HSA the bar could be hit quickly. It’s just amazing how unbelievably expensive and wasteful US healthcare is.
> I feel that it's the kind of argument you devise when you think language is the fundamental basis of reality rather than a (flawed) way to model it.

I think it's both - unless ~everyone is secretly playing a gag and joking about everything they say (as opposed to being mostly sincere about their claims, as I believe the case to be, and I've never once encountered someone mentioning it), I can't see how it is otherwise.