skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are rich enough to think buying kidneys makes sense, I implore you to advocate for better health care which improves the odds of keeping your own original equipment from the manufacturer functioning adequately.

Transplant is not all upside. You remain on drugs for life. You may die anyway if your body rejects the transplant.

I see a lot of pro-transplant headlines on HN. People don't seem to want to hear any criticism of organ transplants.

But I think organ transplants are "ooh, shiny tech" that makes for good headlines not actually good medicine. I think good medicine would fix you, not turn you into Frankenstein so doctors can feel powerful.

Keeping people healthy is boring, doesn't really get tracked, no one cares. Letting their lives go to hell and then "saving" them makes for good headlines.

I have a condition that accounts for a lot of organ transplants. I would rather keep my own organs functioning.

All of HN loathes me for having that opinion. But if you think you are at risk of "needing" a transplant and have resources, I encourage you to actively look for other solutions to advocate for.

We mostly don't hear the horror stories about transplant. If that got more publicity, maybe people wouldn't be so quick to act like I'm some kind of nutter for having opinions about the topic.
It did not peak 20 years ago. This is laughable rose tinted glasses.

Also you can ask almost any LLM model for that type of answer and get it instantly and personalized.
Potentially, a big player with money to burn can undercut them, but it does not look like that’s going to happen.
Half the country is far too much, but there is certainly a section of people who consider anything other than full-on no-qualifier cheering of Donald Trump to be "left wing biased lamestream media". I don't know exactly how many people exactly bought in to Trump's cult of personality, but it's a sizeable number (10 to 20% at least).

So how do you keep everyone happy in a case like that? Well, you can't.
My bad, maybe it's only getting deprecated in RHEL then?
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Why would the economist say that? If Taylor swift made every penny, then what reason would the business that operates the venue have to operate?
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The current moment is great if you never need to find an old book, fix an old car, fix an old house, identify an old variety of plant, or any of a thousand other things. Basically, if you have no other interests, responsibilities, or desires other than fads, like a child. That's fine. Otherwise, there are decades of useful experience of large groups of human out there to be mined. It can often save you thousands of dollars, but then again, that's something only a grown-up cares about.
> But they were right to say it wasn't a pandemic, because it wasn't one yet.

It was in China. You could see it.

> The east Asian countries have been tough on respiratory diseases for a while because they're used to it

Only two of them. Japan and Korea weren't - Japanese people wear face masks mostly because of pollen allergies.

> and they have a more community/society bent than the western world.

I listed four completely different countries. (Also, IME Japanese people are actually more individualistic than Americans. Though they pretend they aren't.)

> They are also more willing to be authoritarian especially with public health.

Japan's policies involved no such thing, in fact they have fewer legal powers than US public health officers do and explicitly said this was the reason they didn't do several things we did. Nevertheless, they were both successful and reversed policies a lot less often than we did. It mostly involved discouraging large crowds indoors ("C3") but not what you'd call "lockdown".

> Do you think there might be a reason the others didn't?

We don't need to construct a cause, since you do that to predict an outcome, but we could already observe different outcomes from the different growth rate.
Slightly tangential, but is there any hope of seeing Polar return as a (maintained) open source system?

I absolutely love the concept of using a logic language for authorization, and I think Polar's aesthetic qualities make it significantly more approachable for most people (over Prolog/Datalog).

But even without the authorization problem, Polar is just... really nice looking. It would be awesome to be able to use it as its own language outright.
>He’s saying he doesn’t see the basis for the complaints.

Their partisan political coverage is the basis for the complaints.

>the validity of the contents could not be verified

The contents were verified as authentic. Additionally, the FBI had the contents years before the public release and they knew it was authentic.

>Testimony Reveals FBI Employees Who Warned Social Media Companies about Hack and Leak Operation Knew Hunter Biden Laptop Wasn’t Russian Disinformation

>DOJ confirms in new court filing it indeed belonged to Hunter Biden
Not if you are good with ur aria tags.
Now this is how you write an article about this. None of this "astronomers find the largest stellar black hole in the galaxy" bushwah.
One way of adjusting is never legally releasing the game in a country with such laws.
> NPR's own Terry Gross has described Car Talk in these exact words, "an NPR show".[0]

It's interesting that you invoke Terry Gross as being part of NPR, when NPR actually says otherwise:

> Several programs that NPR distributes are produced by NPR Member Stations, not NPR. These include top-rated news and cultural programs such as Fresh Air with host Terry Gross from WHYY...

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178640915/npr-stations-and-pub...

NPR shows are things like All Things Considered. Car Talk was produced by an independent affiliate (just like Fresh Air). Yes, I am distinguishing between the two.

If NPR doesn't consider Fresh Air to be an "NPR show", then nor do they consider Car Talk to be an NPR show.

There's a difference between these and things like TV shows. Stuff like The Simpsons is actually a FOX show (as in whatever company makes them is owned by Fox). Whereas NPR never "owned" Car Talk, just as they don't currently "own" Fresh Air. These shows can always choose not to be part of NPR syndication. It's ultimately a licensing deal. They do own All Things Considered.
The focus of the article is on charlatans selling courses, but I think Amazon deserves more scrutiny. They enable this entire ecosystem of fake books and fake products.

I have to imagine that with the amount of data Amazon collects, they could do a lot more to counter the epidemic of fakes.
By “wrong” you mean in disagreement with you? If not then what do you mean by half the population being “wrong”?
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TES III: Morrowind on Apple Silicon using OpenMW.
> Lots of stuff has been implemented with both

Again, like what ?
Bitcoin's halving makes its future pay-to-play
I'd like to at least see some positive results. Like at least stats on how many and what type of people are being caught or stopped using these powers.
This one is working out fine for VA since they don't have to pay anything now.
> I would pay money for a browser plugin that restyles every web page to a single readable/accessible design that I like.

Sometimes designs you don’t like are intentional.
This depiction actually slowed me the issue was much more subtle and less severe than I thought.. I thought it would have been much worse. I don't think that was their intent!
> they shy away from being based if it could potentially alienate the right wing audience.

Funny typo, considering that "based" means something completely different in the political realm. NPR is most certainly not based...
I appreciate short, accessible writeups on subjects like these.
It makes me wonder if NPR news leadership thinks they are doing a good job? Is there an audience out there that think NPR is doing a good job in absolute terms?

Yes and yes. As rags have become increasingly partisan, the only ones that are sticking around and engaging/paying are those that have also become increasingly partisan. And they think the rag is doing a swell job so the execs only have their echo chamber of ardent supporters to get feedback from.
Strong argument for helping more parents be more involved.
Haven’t read Mr. Berliner’s piece, but I was a listener for 15 years before I stopped altogether shortly after the events of 2020 that do not need to be named (and whose particular name chosen by the speaker usually reveals their political leanings)

Coverage seems to have gotten stuck around that time.
> Companies end up bankrupt with your line of thinking

The point is artists want to have their cake and eat it too. Any artist performing at a stadium could make a solid profit performing at non-TM 5 to 20k-seat arena while charging a similar (or lower) price. They don't because it's more lucrative to perform at a 70,000-seat stadium.

LiveNation is a monopolist. But they also give many market participants cover to charge more without offending their fans.
Ah yes, the Good O' Memory Hole.

Every story that shows in search results is something that dismisses the Lab Leak theory as being farcical and pushed by a Right-Wing Anti-China agenda.

Yet... it was and still is the single most plausible theory - and today there's a lot of evidence to indicate it is more likely true than not.

So yes, NPR did suppress the lab leak hypothesis, very successfully. There are many today that still hold it to be some sort of racist conjecture.

As the parent mentioned - there's many other examples if we review the past few years major stories, including the Hunter Biden Laptop fiasco that, according to NPR and others seeking to suppress the story, was "certified Russian disinformation", etc.
> no system is perfect and perfect is the enemy of good.

Keeping the noise down to a dull roar, least it totally overwhelm the signal.
No not negative at all. It's not the right fit for you. What would you go for out of interest?

Anyway your idea about collecting questions ahead of time is great. I would love to just react to the audience with questions and allow people to get on with things but not everyone will be self directed.

Having questions or topics of interest up front could help strike a balance though!
Stick to checking out books from your library / Libby. You'll save money and might end up making discoveries you otherwise wouldn't.
Gonna plug my project: https://moonjump.app/

I have a keyboard shortcut that opens moonjump.app/jump, which will redirect to a random site
Show me a working request/response that does better than state of the art.
UBTECH and Baidu out of China demoed a clothes folding robot demo two weeks ago (early April 2024), and the video is claimed to be 1x/realtime.

https://youtu.be/8MRDF2pkIRs
I am a proponent of _openly_ embracing bias and pushing a narrative. The problems come when they try to hide it, by claiming to be unbiased (either deceptively or naively) while actually pushing a narrative. If everyone is open about their agenda, then the reader has more agency to triangulate the "truth" without first needing to cut through some layer of obfuscation.
> Empirically, markets with scalpers have lower ticket prices [2]

I haven't read the full paper yet, just the abstract, but the abstract talks about ticket window prices. Do they analyse the prices actually paid by the average attendee, which includes prices paid to scalpers? Or am I misunderstanding the term "ticket window"?

As a lay person, my gut asks: if scalpers don't cause attenders to pay more overall, then why do they exist?
80% of New Employees Fail Within the First 5 Years (2005)
How’s that “democracy” and “bill of rights” working for you my fellow US citizens?
> Most long-running programming on PBS were all "locally produced".

And I would split hairs with PBS as well :-)

As I mentioned in a sibling post, NPR shows are things like "All Things Considered". Stuff like "Fresh Air" and Car Talk are not considered as NPR shows - not even by NPR themselves.
... and if they hadn't covered it, would you criticize them for burying the story?
And how exactly is a local cop in the US supposed to enforce the law against someone who (both legally and physically) is a resident of a country on the other side of the globe (Nigeria)?

Asking because that’s the situation the article in the OP is talking about, and I don’t see how any of what you said applies to it.
While I agree with the sentiment and the conclusion, Ukraine was never an ironclad, formal ally, in the sense that NATO countries are, or Japan or Australia. The closest to a formal alliance is the 1994 agreement, whereby Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in return for its borders and sovereignty being guaranteed, by Russia, UK and USA.

So within these parameters, the USA has actually done a lot, and a lot more than nothing. I'm not sure at what point it has fulfilled its duty.

I'm not defending the US decision though, it seems that bang for buck of helping Ukraine is one of the best spent defence money in this century so far.
I haven't seen that demonstrated myself. Could you point me to a study or two that provides the details on that?
Most of the ones worth watching, I'd guess.
> Just make all sales final.

Couldn't you mandate tickets must be sold back to the original seller if you e.g. can't make it to the event? Rather than to a third party?
Some other UX things missing:

* profile switcher

* Safari "Show tab overview"
I was under the impression that the Shortest Vector Problem was NP hard (at least, in some cases). If this works even in those scenarios, that's an even bolder claim by far.
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That's going to be a no from me.
Amazing. I'm using it daily.
People getting sick and tired of news outlets becoming increasingly partisan are now automatically "conservative"? You're part of the problem
About as well as the 16th Ammendment.
Yeah, the article in question that got this guy suspended was like reading about an alternate mirror reality. If anything has gone wrong at NPR (and similar media orgs) in the past decade it's the willingness to bend over backwards to try to satisfy their harshest bad-faith critics, which is utterly impossible, and results in really terrible coverage.

I find the five day suspension thing bizarre... either fire the guy or don't, whatever. But his claims that they didn't give enough credence to the craziest, most pernicious lies out there is the opposite of true.
> However modern content on modern, decent, LCD panels and especially on OLED panels, blows CRTs out of the water.

Sure, if you like motion blur that makes your content look like a slideshow. I personally don’t. It’s embarrassing that I’m still faced with worse motion qualities than I had 30 years ago.

The sample and hold motion blur of LCD/OLED ruined gaming for me for a long time. 240FPS OLED panels have begun to just make it bearable again when such rates can be achieved.
VLC is great wheb you have 10 mp3s to play. When you have 10,000 you need library scanning functionality, etc. I believe these aren't VLC selling points.
When this merger was first announced over a decade ago, it became like mandatory teaching in Competition Law classes for Law students in the UK.

Much of the legal community at the time was convinced there was no way in hell the original merger would be approved. Even at that time LiveNation controlled an astonishing percentage of the live music venue market - which when paired with ticket master's near total dominance of live music ticket sales... this was one of the seemingly simplest competition law cases in years. Then the deal was approved, of course.

I am not surprised in the least it's finally getting anti-trust attention.
I got some quality issues right now. Kinda works but not as well as I'd want.
Ironic you post this because I just rediscovered a 20yo blog post that I remembered reading, re-read it again and found it very motivating and inspiring and submitted it.
Last time I listened to NPR was in an Uber ride in 2020, it sounded like some kind of right wing parody of far-left activists. I couldn’t believe people considered that “middle of the road”.

I’m rather disgusted that my tax dollars go to them.
> a big player with money to burn can undercut them

Unclear. There are limited cities that can support a 30,000+-seat stadium. Most of them have some already. Unless there is way more demand for these venues than I realise, I'd also guess they're close to saturation, i.e. adding another venue would result in lower utilisation.

This natural monopoly in large concert venues creates a condition where winning is Pyrrhic, since it results in no profits for everyone playing.
As long as shows are sold out, the fan is getting screwed. Where else is money coming from?

Actually allowing auctions for tickets might make it so they can make money directly and not bother ... .ahahaha I can't even write it.
There's often talk about countries not pulling their weight in NATO. What's typically not in the conversation is that many of these countries have agreed not to have nuclear forces. They rely on alliances instead and the world is likely safer. It might be simpler, perhaps less costly to ditch a large military, treaty obligations and just rely on a hundred nukes for invasion deterrence.
Ajit Pai went from DOJ antitrust to Verizon back to DOJ and then to the FCC.
Return with me to the Glory Days of Windows XP which some people are still using
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It's nice to see a reasonable proposal. If you are going to present criminal evidence based on the output of a computer system, it is only reasonable to demand access to a bug tracker, the QMS control documents, audits, and a chain of custody. If you can't produce that easily, then your evidence shouldn't be worth much.

The big win would in this case would be that when the vendor conspired to hide bugs from their own tracker, they would have been creating criminal liability for their employers. Which Fujitsu and their subs richly deserve.
VirtualHere will run over any network connection, that user just happened to use wifi.

All the mice I am aware of that use Bluetooth are travel mice and the like. Even cheap gaming mice use RF dongles that do not have the Bluetooth polling limitations.

You can tell your friends in Fortnite you died because of mouse latency, but lets keep HN discussions grounded in reality please.
No. They can't bury a story after it's been in the NYT.
I used to fish for salmon quite a bit. Herring schools release enough oil into the water to visibly affect the wave action at the surface. You can also smell it.
Hey Tom Scholl, what are you doing about the attacks that are coming from inside the house?
"USA has actually done a lot" - so did USA guarantee Ukraine's " borders and sovereignty"? Or did it not?

The worst thing to do (which USA did) is to make a promise and not deliver. Had Ukraine knew that USA will abandon it, it might have entered negotiations in early 2023 from a much more favorable position.
In the very early days of Terraform, when it was 2 months or so old I helped a little. How many people did (so much more than me) with all these projects to be later betrayed by relicensing.

> git log --pretty=format:"%h %an %ad %s" --date=short | grep "Luke Chadwick"
dcd6449245 Luke Chadwick 2014-07-30 Add documentation for elb health_check
0eed0908df Luke Chadwick 2014-07-30 Add health_check to aws_elb resource
96c05c881a Luke Chadwick 2014-07-30 Update documentation to include the new user_data attribute on aws_launch_configuration
15bdf8b5f9 Luke Chadwick 2014-07-30 Add user_data to aws_launch_configuration
8d2e232602 Luke Chadwick 2014-07-29 Update documentation to reflect the addition of associate_public_ip_address to the aws_instance resource
974074fee9 Luke Chadwick 2014-07-29 Add associate_public_ip_address as an attribute of the aws_instance resource
> So /re/writing a system is a strict superset of both reading a previous implementation and implementing, and is thus harder than either.

As you said, every line in the old product had a reason to be. You can learn that reason in two ways: the way it was done in the first place, or by analyzing the old code. My argument is that the amount of effort required in both cases is in the same ballpark -- it will depend on a number of factors such as the quality and quantity of the documentation and testing in the old product, the availability of people who worked on the first product, etc.

So, no, rewriting a system is not automatically more work than writing the original one. But it is certainly not automatically less work either, and many people make the incorrect assumption that rewriting a system is going to take much less work than fixing the existing one.
The easy solution is to just not enable comments. Nobody has an account on my site but me. I'm endangering nobody's data but mine. No worries.
You asked me why I insisted on responding, I told you why I responded. To not allow exaggerated nonsense to just exist unchallenged.

I used humor in my response. My use of a joke highlighted the absurdity and overblown nature of the original commenters statement and made a reader think exactly what does someone mean by "path to having a family". In actual fact, other people on this page are claiming it's too easy to have a family in Ireland what with all the free housing and welfare. So I'm pointing out the absurdity of the position, especially when it's just blasted out as fact without anything to back it up.
Is it the job of responsible news media to report on hypotheses, as opposed to substantiating things with facts? The lab leak hypothesis was initially pushed in the mainstream as pure speculation in support of the do nothing President deflecting blame onto anyone else rather than accepting the responsibility of leadership. That echoes to this day. There is indeed a huge intellectual travesty around the topic, as well as most other matters about Covid, and blame for that is shared between both teams of partisans.
I think that's great, I'll be able to afford to see the small artists again without paying a huge amount of overhead.
I’m curious to hear about your media diet because that has not been the case for me.
Can’t downvote but this is pure russian propaganda and pretext for the invasion.
It’s a good article but there’s an important point they didn’t mention. Sweden didn’t produce its own missiles. It relied on the US for missile technology. The US didn’t want Sweden to have atomic weapons, and would have cut them off from the missiles. Sweden’s leaders also felt that having atomic weapons would make them a target for a first strike.

To this day the UK relies on the US for missiles (Trident are what the missiles are called, not the actual submarines).
Geocities was mostly a creative experience, more so than something you'd consume. The fun was in participation.
And then what, check the ID of 50k people at the door?
It receives < %1 of its funding from "public" money.