skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original commenter made to comparison of anti-vaxxer vs strongly pro-vaccine, to me, that kind of comparison elicits both extremes of the spectrum.

But putting that aside, since I don't think it's a productive discussion- I'm simply pro zero bias. The only bias that should exist is a bias towards non-intervention over interventions. This used to be the standard for evaluating any medicine or vaccine. Or any medical procedure in general.

The real important bias issue that I see with the FDA doesn't have so much to do with vaccines specifically, but more with the incestuous relationship between FDA and Pharmaceutical companies, with there being a revolving door of blurry incentives. There's a long running issue of FDA officials, after approving various drugs and treatments for big pharma...then promoting into a big fat salary with a pharmaceutical company. I'm not sure what the solution is, as it makes logical sense that someone at the FDA would share the same skillsets as a big pharma exec, but- the only solution I can think of is to ensure that there are always skeptics on approval boards.
OK but I'm not sure how any of that relates to why separate legislation is needed.
Why should my money go to someone who is providing services to a movie company.
If we could solve these issues, maybe we could stop talking about them
Thread ended up way more conservative than i'd imagine.
Do website-downloaded apps bypass apple distribution entirely? This hints not:

> Apps downloaded through the web using the API can be backed up, restored, and updated as standard apps can.
Japan has fantastic ticketing system that has reasonable ticket price that is fixed, and no scalpers can buy all the tickets because it is a lottery system.
This last weekend proved to be eventful. With Iran conducting strikes on Israel. With Israel's enemies attacking from all sides, what will be the next move? Let’s dive in deeper and better understand the situation between Israel & Iran. As well as what the next steps may be.
yeah, these geniuses are really doing a good job there. last time they "blocked" a grocery merger, the divested stores were sold to basically a mom and pop operation (haggen) who had no idea how to run a large chain and immediately went bankrupt, and most of the stores either stayed empty or were later re-bought by the big bad merged company they were supposedl reining in! Wow, big win for consumers who now have not only fewer chains to shop at, but literally fewer stores too! The same will happen again. Consumers will be the only ones to suffer.
Affordable tickets requires a way to combat scalping, which in turn butts up against freedom to resell/transfer tickets after purchase. It's a hard game to win whenever scarcity and economics are involved.
To be sure, Live Nation owns and / or operates many of the venues. They also provide management services to artists. So it’s not that TicketMaster demands exclusivity from the venue, they #are# the venue.
From the NPR story:

>In its formal rebuke, NPR did not cite Berliner's appearance on Chris Cuomo's NewsNation program last Tuesday night, for which NPR gave him the green light. (NPR's chief communications officer told Berliner to focus on his own experience and not share proprietary information.)

I haven't seen that episode of NewsNation, but I'd be surprised if this editor were invited as a guest for a different topic. So he did seek and receive permission in one case.
NPR listener for 30 years and I'm having a similar reaction to many of you in this thread. For the first time, I'm finding myself turning off the radio once I'm awake.

It seems like Berliner breaking the rules (or norms) and throwing bombs by way of another media outlet was his last-ditch effort to break through and be heard. In that, at least, he's getting attention, and now let's hope it leads to change.

The examples he gave in the FP piece all seemed very political, focusing on not covering "the other side". Honestly I don't want any of that crap coming at me in the morning, I don't want "other side" coverage just like I don't want "my side" coverage. I can get that anywhere. I listen to NPR because I want good journalism, not both-sidesism. I hope this event can lead coverage back there. With the new CEO, perhaps there's an opportunity.
I would venture that we do not pronounce more than that. "Waters" is "eaux" which is the same sound as "o".

Mot is mo

Phrase is fraz

Maison is mezo (almost)

It would actually be interesting to compute that, possibly by kind of words (verbs, nouns, ...) and prominence.
At least where I live (Texas, United States) from what I saw it's allowed to have legal counsel, although it may be uncommon. I'll have to look into the process more and see if there's anything I can pursue.
I think that exclusivities are a huge source of market problems in general. They are often used in these ways to create sorts of monopolies and drive prices artificially high.

Beatport, a service that sells music for DJs, has started doing exactly this sort of nonsense. They now have "exclusive" tracks for twice the price, and I would guess that the artists also get a portion of the increased profits. However, for consumers the only change is less choice and DOUBLE the price. Seems very similar to what ticketmaster is doing. I have no idea if they force artists to make all their tracks exclusive if one is, but no doubt that is the next step.

There has got to be a better solution here as it doesn't seem very reasonable to literally be doubling and tripling prices like this. And at the least, if an artist is going to do that, it should be transparent and not hidden under the guise of an exclusivity.
Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made
But currently, people are equally comfortable with both; the CLI commands are exactly identical between the two, save for the name of the binary itself. In any org where both are in use, if people are forced to choose at some point, they will have to balance many other factors besides familiarity, such as features and confidence in the platform.
We have a tax rate with negative tax rates at the low end of the scale. For sketchy social policy/political tenability reasons it doubles as a child subsidy and phases in up to a nominal amount of preexisting so-called earned income, but functionally that's what the earned income tax credit is.

Expansion of the EITC program is fairly well-regarded among economists and has been historically quite popular! We should do more of it!
Demonstrably false:

https://www.rtings.com/assets/pages/46ieCfmI/mxvertical1-2gr...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MouseReview/comments/hf1vrd/is_inpu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhb7Njj3h8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy0xmcBg_IY

https://www.rtings.com/mouse/tests/control/latency
I think it's a question of measure. When things are talked about fairly and equally then progress is made - there are serious pressing issues right not and they're not only about identity/race/gender, that these things are ignored is a big problem. When things turn full on on one direction they don't accelerate any progress, it may actually do more harm than good.
No, it is not us "remembering the past far more fondly". Today Google search results yield the same crap without fail.

For example, a search for "how do I repair widget X" will inevitable take me to a garbage SEO site following the same patterns. The internet is less useful today than it was 10 years ago. Probably it peaked 20 years ago, before big money completely took over and ruined the place.
The documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune” presents a fairly strong argument that the “Dune bible” that was assembled for that movie and shopped around to production studios strongly influenced many of the great sci-fi films (or at least iconic scenes in them) in the years to follow.

Specific examples from the documentary were Star Wars and Alien. The latter of which included Dan O’Bannon (screenwriter) and H.R. Giger (effects+concept artist), reprising their roles as staff on Jodorowsky’s Dune.

Highly recommend the documentary by the way. I actually just saw it a couple weeks ago, so the comparison made a lot of sense to me.
Shipping's Shadow World
Maybe I missed something but the adverse experience factor didn't seem to be very meaningful. Not convinced by their argument.

Great title and initial presentation though!
It seems to be a mix of donor capture and lack of relevance at the national level.

Local NPR affiliates produce locally relevant content, but national level NPR has no actual differentiator. The forces them to be much more heavily dependent on their donors (who have clearly chosen a specific side) and also means they aren't top of the list to get breaking news (no Congress member is going to spend 1-2 hours interviewing at NPR when they can have multiple interviews with nationally prominent news sources).

This seems to have caused a vicious cycle for NPR as they need to keep their donors and listeners happy, but at the expense of the long term feasibility of the product.

Furthermore, podcasts are a major portion of national NPR's "bundle", and the podcasting industry is extremely democratized/commodified now.
I actually already knew that, actually have an anecdote with them.

In 2021, I bought a soundbar from Creative. The quality of the soundbar was actually pretty good, but it had a really awful noisegate issue where if the scene was too quiet, it would just cut to zero. For some movies this wasn't a big deal, but for most movies it made them unwatchable.

We put up with it for a year, but we got sick of it and I was about to buy a replacement. I tried the updated firmware on Creative's website, and it didn't help, but then I found some YouTube video with like 10 views that claimed to have a fixed firmware from Creative that wasn't publicly available, and they had a link to some shady mega.co.nz download for it. Stuff like that screams "malware!", but I figured that I was about to throw the soundbar into the Goodwill pile anyway, so if I break it no big deal, and it's not like the soundbar was connected to the internet, just optical audio, and I don't think anyone could install a crypto minor on there, so against my better judgement I installed the firmware and...

It worked! It fixed the noisegate problems entirely, and now the soundbar is actually excellent. For some reason, Creative still hasn't bothered uploading the fixed firmware on their website though.

So it's weird, Creative is still around, and making theoretically-decent products, but they lack a lot of polish. Kind of a sad fall from grace.
> The fact that the father has divorced and is out of the picture puts them at a higher risk of poor outcomes.

Hundred percent agree on this point. My concession was that it's not always beneficial that the parents stay joined nor is it deterministic that a single father or mother is strictly worse off than an intact family with an abusive/negligent/not present parent. Ideally none would divorce, but we can't factor for that.
Time and potentially some filing/service costs. You may be able to claim some of those as well (When I almost had to sue for a security deposit, in that Jurisdiction I could get some filing fees but not service costs for whatever reason...)

That said, if they don't show up, you'll get a default judgement. And if TM doesn't pay, they can have fun with it if there is an office nearby. A while back someone got a judgement against a bank, they didn't pay out. He came by with the sheriff and they started loading up chairs/etc when they hesitated to cut a check. :)

Or, whatever other 'collection' action you may have to motion for after the fact if they don't pay.
Let's call it what it really is - rent

They're rentseeking
Recently I bought a car from the early 2000s, no aux jack or BT and I've been having an interesting time just listening to the radio rather than dropping my phone ecosystem into the car. So I'm listening to a lot more NPR than I have for at least a decade.

And I have no idea where people who are saying NPR has made some kind of hard partisan shift are coming from. If anything, as far as I can tell, most programming is still trying to walk a middle-of-the-road multiple-perspectives this-side-says-this but that-side-says-that, sometimes annoying so.

Of course, there is one group of people that has been casting NPR as particularly partisan for at least 25 years, and a lot of these comments sound like a cross between their rhetoric and NYT Pitchbot.
I find it difficult to understand how we can "Secure the deployment environment" and "Ensure a robust deployment environment architecture" without talking about the elephaNt in the room.

My feeling is that we need to stop relying on a single provider for compute and software. That we should be focused on not complaining about how far AMD is behind and work towards catching them up. That we should be fostering innovation in third parties.

It is surprising to me that the status quo is acceptable to the US govt.
Thanks, that's an interesting idea. We have developers in the US, Europe, and South America. I have no idea what the median incomes are (or how the salary bands were calculated) but I'll check and see if there are enough consistencies to give a meaninful number.
The book is from the institute now defunct given to nobel laureate Manne Siegbahn
That's an excellent observation. When I wrote this I was looking for the questions/heuristics from the study that produced these statistics. I couldn't find much. Do you happen to have a link by any chance? I'm sure others would find it helpful as well.
> He was brilliant. But also a con artist.

Yes, it was very clearly stated that he was a liar. A "con artist" is a significantly bigger liar than a mere "liar".

> You're projecting.

Hmm. "It's not OK to do X. I refuse to do X and you should not tolerate people who do it." That's projecting? I think you need to look up what that word means. Unless you're literally accusing me of being a liar specifically because I am against lying? Some kind of "takes one to know one" Grade-school jab? What exactly are you on about?
So to continue on the example we are running with, you don't believe disagreements like this need to be serviced. So the status quo as it was, say, 20 years ago was perfectly acceptable? Or would you like the status quo today, after the disagreement was serviced in favor of one side of the issue? Basically, are you conveniently deciding that it's not worth discussing now that an outcome you like (I don't know what outcome you like) has become reality, or do you genuinely not give a shit one way or another because it's a non issue to you?

On another point, what constitutes a manufactured disagreement and what constitutes a genuine one?
It might matter what platform you choose at all. If you know Postgres pick that.

What matters more than your storage engine. Your provider, your architecture and design, and your plans for scaling (read plans not actions).

There are lots of companies that cant seem grasp that multi-tenancy would be a win for them. You remove a bunch of pain for customer facing code. Your internal admin and reporting tools need to take that weight. It means that scaling problems are likely to impact fewer customers (and will be easier to address). It means that your costs map more directly to your (hopeful) income.

None of this should stop you from playing with other data engines. If you have the capital, just build a linux box (a few hundred bucks), throw prox mox on it, an extra vm and limit the cores and memory and see what some of these DB's can do. Can you install them. What are the interfaces like, can you build a cluster of them. What is their network IO vs the data IO... Is this a perfect test. No. IF something sucks to write good code and something else is easier where do you take that into account.

If your going to have REAL high bandwidth applications then your going to end up out of cloud and on your own hardware. If you cant install these things then there is zero point in pursuing them.
As annoying as this is, I wish Reddit had done this.
The Laundry Folding Helping Hands will sell so goddamn hard. When the tech gets there, I'll be first in line. I'll even buy the Vegetable Chopping DLC.
Funny how self-proclaimed progressives are not considered progressive by any means by liberals both in EU and Asian countries. But I guess impudence and stupidity can get you a long way in US.
For live service games, self-hosting is increasingly uncommon. During the Source era of Team Fortress 2, Half-Life Deathmatch, etc, self-hosting was certainly a thing. But in the modern era, games like Overwatch 2 have no means to be a server or listen server. Even "custom games" where you can make your own game mode and do fun, arcadey-style things connect to a dedicated server.

For things that are "single player", (e.g. Tutorials/Practice), I agree with you that it's to be expected that some sort of mock-loopback is likely stood up. But what was unusual in this situation is the _entirety_ of the code is there, to the point it even would bind to a UDP port and handle full bi-directional UDP communication.

I would expect that for something like this, they'd include a trimmed down version, and not ship the _entire_ thing.
> We saw this during the pandemic when people in formerly low-wage jobs got a lot of cash assistance and stopped being interested in low-wage jobs. (Remember all the "help wanted" signs and early closing hours at local restaurants?)

Unwilling to work or temporarily not desperate to stay alive? How many receiving assistance were still working, just doing it less?

The only studies on outcomes I recall is that a lot of kids were no longer experiencing food insecurity.
Don't take it from the time you spend doing something you care about. Take it from the time you spend doing nothing.
right, "middle of the road" is now "far left", "crazy batshit rightwing BS" is "the truth". This is overton window war stuff.

> And I have no idea where people who are saying NPR has made some kind of hard partisan shift are coming from.

right wing extremist groups and leaders like Chris Rufo
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Does nitpicking often yield good information in your experience?
I'm 2 generations from immigrants on one side, 2 from pioneers and 1 from blue-collared work on the other. I wish more people could empathize with those who struggle within poverty as it is an incredibly hard row to hoe, not just physically, but also mentally.

I think a lot of people take for granted what an impact a small amount of money, or the lack thereof, has on a person's ability to thrive and contribute to their community, and how much its impact on a person's mental health contributes to hopelessness and often ultimately substance abuse.

I do like your thoughts on things the government could change. Frankly, though, I actually think they know these things but have perverse incentives to keep the population stratified. This country would financially crumble without the abuse of those in poverty for every one of those 7 generations, if not more.

I think managing this pool of exploitable resources is actually a primary component of most govs immigration strategies.
So true. I wish that we could just have corporate death penalty by referendum. If 85% of the voting public agrees your company is net bad for our society, and there is no national security reason to save it, nationalize it and liquidate it and use the proceeds to fund consumer protection regulation. Perhaps if shareholders stood to lose their entire investment by being deleted like this, they would find themselves hesitant to do outright evil things.
David Lynch is not just a fan of meditation, but of the organization Transcendental Meditation (TM). TM engages in many similar questionable practices as Scientology, including recruiting early career celebrities. Jerry Seinfeld is another famous member. I consider it a cult.
Yeah, agree with you that if they used percentages - it would have been much easier to see - disagree with you about what their data is implying. Think it clearly shows that those with less adverse experiences have more success in life.

Took another look at their data visualizations, and yeah, look at 2013, for the people with no adverse experiences, it looks like at least 40% make $45k more, while those with multiple adverse experiences it looks something like 15%.

And, in 2021, it's harder to see (because looks like people's income rises as they get older), but it looks like for no-adverse experiences, good 50% are making over $60k, while maybe 30% for multiple adverse experiences.

... and actually, do agree with one aspect, it is interesting that the older they get, the less the differences in income and other life attributes are. Maybe it just means that for people who had difficult childhoods, it takes more time to get past all the early obstacles, and live a more stable life.
This simply isn't true and you should cite some source for this "known fact". It seems to be a "known fact" passed around by people who "don't know how much anything costs at a grocery store."

Example: A quarter lb with cheese at McD

Average price at a US McDonald's, $6.65: https://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/how-much-mcdonalds-quarte...

Average price according to USDA for home cooked: $2.17 https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...

Fast food is typically much more expensive than home cooked from scratch and people have very confused ideas about this.
> Our current economic system has consistently lifted large numbers of people out of poverty historically, and is still doing it today.

I think you mean China's economic system, which was in turn based on the practices of the USSR. China's economic system is lifting millions out of poverty, but western systems are systematically dragging people into it. Poverty in the US has never been lower than it was in 1973. Since then, poverty in China decreased by about 85%.
There was a meta study published in February.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsc.12074
Yeah. I always find it a strong tell when people make statements like “make the world a bit less shitty” or “… in reaction to the horribleness of everything”. The world is no more shitty than it was 40 years ago - but the general public perception of the world seems to have gotten much bleaker.

Like you, I attribute a lot of that to social media. I left Twitter and Facebook a few years ago and my outlook on life got much better. I want my news to be balanced. Not all positive or all negative. I want to be pandered to sometimes, and sometimes challenged on my world views. So I found sources that would give me that.

I totally agree with your comment - you media diet is pure choice. Make it a healthy diet for you.
I'm sorry, I don't have time to do this at this point. I enjoyed our conversation and you made me think through my positions, which is always good. I genuinely wish you well :)
Winamp was doomed to be a relic of a simpler time. Even if you take the iPod and iTunes Store out of the equation Winamp's file-centric approach was a limitation as people's music libraries increased in size and complexity. All their attempts to add more modern features just made Winamp worse for the people who did like its simplicity and file-centric design.
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