skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there has to be a cutoff on what care will be funded and what will not based on the views of society and the potential costs vs benefits (including probability of success).

It goes even further than that though, when you start to allow for the full force of real-world economics.

These types of discussions (end-of-life economics, life value) tend to make these idealistic assumptions, that actors (providers, payers) are rational and acting in the best interest of the patient against the constraints of reality. Often like the essay, this is probably accurate.

Where it gets messy, as the OP is pointing to, is when you start admitting that sometimes providers, payers, or other individuals or entities don't have your best interests in mind, are irrational, or something else. Canada, for instance, has a socialized health care system, but also has evoked a lot of criticism for scenarios where individuals seem to be counseled into euthanasia apparently because they're lower SES, or to avoid state responsibilities (not to pick on Canada, or to argue for or against their health care policies, only to point to it as an example of potential problems that arise).

We have enough problems accurately valuating lives while people are alive and healthy; doing so with passive or active killing (for lack of a better term) raises even more economic and ethical issues. We tend to think of people as fixed unchanging objects that can be perfectly measured, which is far from the case. I have acquaintances that I can think of, for instance, that spent years doing lower-paid jobs before getting into, and then graduating from, medical school. What is the value of that person and how should we valuate it at any given moment? Are standardized tests a perfect or even, really good, measure of ability? Not really. Why is someone's life situation the way it is? Is there something else that could be done?

In my opinion, before discussions of "life value" have any traction, there has to be an equally skeptical discussion about the value of those valuations to the entity doing so, and why. What incentives do the "valuators" have in making that valuation? Often in the US we even talk about incentives to providers and so forth for artificially prolonging life and providing pointless care, but incentives can just as easily work the other way too.

In a lot of ways this is what's meant by "you can't put a value on a human life". Clearly there's a lot to that statement, but I think in part it reflects the starkness not of death but everything wrong with the processes by which we value people in general.
I can't imagine disease wouldn't fall under "Loss of stock". But even if it didn't, you can usually pay for whatever you need. And if the disease is so rampant that insurers won't cover it, that's a good sign you shouldn't be in the business. Like building a house where insurers refuse to offer flood coverage.
Yes, some antibiotics have been used in markets like China and been found in honey. The antibiotic used is banned in the US due to some sort of negative human impacts. I hear there are other antibiotics approved, but I think it's a patchwork of regulation right now.

Also, I question the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat AFB. If the spores remain viable, reinfection in subsequent years or spread still seems possible.
Agreed, and that is my concern as well that if people get too comfortable with it then companies will keep pushing the bounds of what is acceptable. We will need companies to be transparent about ALL the things they are using our data for.
You've more-or-less described DKIM. You can see some issues with it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail#Wea...
I just assume most everything with any date related value, rarity, antiques, etc sold on Ebay ... are fake or fake-ish.

I casually collect coins and on Ebay there are known high volume scammers selling fakes or coins with heavily doctored images, Ebay doesn't care.

It's to the point that I only by cheap stuff when it comes to thinks I collect that is less likely to be faked or I just don't collect at all. Sad situation.
You mean potential positives. It's not difficult to imagine police doing all sorts of amazing things. But the reality of costs and safety keeps those ideas in fantasy land.

In your example, costs and safety would mandate that the 90 seconds would first be spent determining whether an officer is needed then an additional 5-8 minutes will be needed to respond. There will be fewer beat officers as they will need to hire a crew of drone operators.
I had to read like 5 times to understand that "favorite tracks" is the train tracks haha.
unfortunately, completely agree.. here in the US West Coast in a high crime urban area.. seemingly half the adult population are involved in stupid, confrontational, selfish and haphazardly illegal actions every day of the year. Then a uniformed duo rolls up, no one will talk to them. The boundary line between "thats my important-thing-I-want" and "where is my sh*" is impossible to determine between argumentative and low-language skill adults.. meaning your car, bike or phone (as noted above). Secondly, small-time people discover that they can call law enforcement on people they don't like, and law enforcement figures this out due to years of experience and responds with no-responding.

Meanwhile, a legal, certified and identifiable citizen with stable contact info, decide to have a wood fire. The politically conscious local city council has decided that due to air quality, it costs FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for a ticket for a wood fire. Tickets cost pennies to issue.. bingo - revenue source. Repeat as desired.. there is a lot of desire.

More than half of cities in this part of the country went bankrupt due to drastically reduced local sales tax. Their primary financial liabilities are uniformed services, mainly police and fire.. If the uniforms can make their own money, saves some ugly confrontations from the union at election time! more anecdotes possible..

There is one hundred percent chance that the outcome described above is happening with new drone remote services IMHO
Protobuf is rarely the issue, it's always grpc. If you see someone complaining about protobuf it's almost always because they used grpc. You can see it in this thread plain to see. Anyone who used it on its own is happy with it.
Yes... but not at unlimited cost.

In a society with limited resources, is keeping one old person alive worth 10 child/years of education? Worth heart surgery for a 50-year-old? Worth basic medical care for a dozen poor families?

Yes, the social contract says that we have to care for old people, including medically. It also says we have to educate children, and care for the poor, and provide medical care for everyone else. None of those claims on the social contract gets an unlimited budget, because the other claims are also out there, and society doesn't have unlimited resources.
Is your deliverable source code or is it a binary?

In my experience, Make (and build scripts) work just fine when your deliverable is a binary. You have complete control of the build environment, so hardcoding e.g., /opt/my/cross/compiler or relying on $PATH is a non-issue.

However, if your deliverable is source code, then you can only make so many assumptions about the build environment. This is where GNU Autotools and CMake shine.
The "map" is straight up stolen from this:

https://www.iclarified.com/17844/hand-drawn-floor-plan-of-ap...
People don't see how much unsold clothing gets destroyed in traditional retail.
Don’t forget a lot of crimes were reclassified. Like being able to steal up to 900 bucks and it’s a misdemeanor so police won’t do shit.

Not to mention all the Asians who get beat up in SF and NYC. The perps are let go without major repercussions.

Some people just reclassify stuff in an effort to mislead. But on the ground it’s clear.

Crime might have gone down overall but not exactly the case in cities.

SF for example is fine but the places where you want to be for tech are still not exactly safe. I don’t want to live in sunset where it’s fine and safe and travel 40 mintutes to Hayes/downtown/soma (walking/transit). Ended up moving to Palo Alto where I still get my tech fix and I don’t need to worry about fights and getting attacked by homeless or being caught up in some sketchy shit at night, or have my window busted.
If we can strap a Hellfire missile onto a drone, we can surely strap a taser too.

No wait, they already did it: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/04/1103066205/taser-armed-drones...
I think BIMI works well as a motivator and spotlight to bring attention to these issues. I also think your average user won't mind it. Implementing it as a receiver is full of pitfalls, as we can see.
This is Low-rank adaptation. Not to be confused with Lake of the Ozarks Recreation Area.
Whoever bought this should include this blog post. The forgery/story is more valuable than original/real badge.
Just this past month was my first ever visit to Canada, and the supermarkets here also blew my mind (I spent the last decade in Germany and before that in a mix of Malaysia/Singapore). I heard this was also representative of US supermarkets.

I was mostly surprised at the ridiculous size of the mall footprint (no wonder they need to put these in the middle of nowhere and require cars); of the variety of things (like the parent comment mentioned); the variety of the same thing (30 different types of frozen pizzas), of the packaging (especially Costco holy shit, some package sizes are what some supermarkets where I live have on display).

It is very convenient and impressive, but I have mixed feelings about the trade-offs, like needing a car to get around and carry larger quantities of groceries (though I’m unsure whether big box stores or car dominant culture came first or maybe hand-in-hand), the majority of food choices on offer seem less than ideal for your long term health (lots of packaged and processed meals, junk food), and lack of origin or locality of goods (though farmer / wet markets do exist for that).
HN Hug of Death? Having a hard time getting the video to load more than a half second before needing to buffer, even at lowest resolution.
you would read it, spot the problem, and fix it to make it two lines.

if you dont have space for that one line, switch back to punchcards
Not in a hallway, which is exactly where someone will run when being chased by a drone.
I’m more impressed if his best sleep was done in noise areas.
Insurance has high upper bounds of coverage, liabilities over this are very unlikely to occur. AFAIK you can't get car liability insurance for infinity dollars. So in theory everyone is accepting some risk even with insurance, they just feel that it's small enough to be worth it.

There are plenty of places on earth that have very little car insurance penetrations so we don't have to guess what that would look like. To me it looks pretty much the same. The major difference is that it's difficult to sue for liability and the people you're suing don't have much money so it's often pointless. Society just accepts that accidents happen, people die, and the survivors move on.

In these, often highly unequal societies, the people who have money have a lot of it so they in effect self insure.
I was thinking this was the next step for me and mail server.

https://www.validity.com/blog/how-to-explain-authenticated-r...
I had a friend who suffered through Parkinson's Disease, and he actively sought out clinical trials and any kind of experimental treatment. His attitude was: "I'm most likely going to wither away and die from this thing anyway, so I might as well be a guinea pig and provide data to the scientists on my way out."
I don't know. Collectors?
The benefit of email is its ubiquity and existing deployment. Throwing it away for a new protocol loses all existing value.
Anecdotes about the development of the Macintosh and the people who made it
“The details are not the details. They make the design.” -- Charles Eames
TBH I didn't really mean to situate the remark on an
authoritarian-liberal axis, rather to comment on the congruence
between meat-space and cyberspace in regard to these themes.
The Enjoyable Challenge of Managing Uncertainty
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New police tech always follows a pattern. They say it is to improve existing proceedures, to make them faster/safer/better, but in the end the tech breaks free of old paradigms and gets used in the "bad" ways everyone predicted. Tasers were meant to be used only instead of guns, but now are used on non-threatening people who simply refuse orders. Speed/traffic cameras were to free up officers for other tasks, but cops do as much traffic enforcement as ever before. The cameras are used by companies for revenue. Drones are pitched as being the faster responce, going ahead of officers on foot. In a few years they will be the only response. They will be hovering outside our bedroom windows scouting for wrongdoing.

It is the tech cops dont want, the stuff we must force upon them such as dash/body cameras, that tends to promote the public good in the long run.
Dewalt has battery packs that are quickly interchangeable and pods with rows of batteries that can be recharged inside a car or truck while on the go. I'm hoping this becomes adopted more and more as the tech is already here.
Related to this, many rural farms in the developing world grow heirloom crops of one kind or another. Classic examples of this are Peru's 30k varieties of Potato. Saying that Golden Rice is superior to all of the varieties of rice grown in the developing world seems like a stretch.
The same could be said of HTTP, but we threw it away in favor of HTTPS. Thank goodness we did - and I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the time we tried securing HTTP without HTTPS.

Again, my proposal is not that we completely kill classic email - but rather, we make a new standard, the big players get on board, and there’s a clear deadline that says “your emails will always be junk past this date if they don’t comply.” They’ll still arrive though. Nobody wants their emails to go to Junk automatically - that’s incentive enough.

This is like what we did with HTTP. There came a day where HTTP login screens now have warnings in many browsers. But they still work.
This web page uses over 1.6 gigabytes of RAM.
A doctor friend of mine put it succinctly: let old people die; that's what they do. End-of-life interventions are not for benefit of the old, they are going to die anyway. It is an entirely perverse financial incentive that aligns with a positive "life preserving" incentive that fails to adjust to the nuances of natural human mortality. I believe this applies to the terminally ill as well. This is why most doctors refuse (non-palliative) treatment for terminal cancer diagnoses.
In my naive understanding, it seems a direct analog of any insurable crop, eg corn.
Prompting LLMs to Modify Existing Code Using ASTs
https://www.cerebras.net/product-chip/
We do flatbuffers (super similar) over websockets/http rest. Works beautifully. gRPC is the culprit here.
It's too bad that Thunderbird's UI keeps getting gradually worse, with functionality lost, in newer releases. I don't feel comforted by a website revamp.

(And that's not getting into TB's internal dynamics, which are super problematic.)
The tricky part though is everyone will be part of that group unless they die young.

So reneging on the social contract with the old means reneging on the social contract with essentially everyone.

"Them" being destructive in response doesn't necessarily mean 85 year-olds burning things down, what it means is the 20, 30, and 40 year-olds seeing what's coming and burning things down.
You're describing art. Most people who make "AI art" are not making art: they're using the computer as their own personal content mill.

Well, "most people" might be inaccurate. By volume, the people causing AI-generated content to come into existence are overwhelmingly just cranking the handle to churn out content, and that volume overwhelms everything else to the extent that it appears to be "most people", but might only be a few hundred. In the time it takes you to produce one artwork, they've got ten thousand 4096×4096 squares.
> Real strength comes from knowing that there is absolutely nothing that can happen to you that will stop you from continuing forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
>must take care of its weak and old

Agreed, but taking care doesn't necessarily have to mean extending life as long as possible, all other factors be damned.

In some cases close to me, I believe people were kept alive through treatments that they were unable to consent to, and I believed they experienced a lot of extremely unpleasant things at the end of their lives for no benefit, and were robbed of the chance to say a peaceful and dignified goodbye.
Can you add more detail here? What is your prediction? That they will (1) change their mind and not be at peace, because this feeling doesn't last or (2) they will not accomplish much because ambition is not compatible with being satisfied?

(this is my wild guess based on the tone of your post, just trying to understand it)
For the ones looking for a minimal and conservative binary format, there is BARE [1]. It is in the process of standardization.

[1] https://baremessages.org/
Appreciate the feedback!

I’m currently making a demo video, and a course on how to use it.

Now that you mention it, a demo video on the frontpage and the templates section should be my top priority.

Thanks for the insight
It absolutely does, but that doesn't change the fact that the "fair price" of an additional copy of that software is still its marginal cost of production, which is zero.

Which is why funding the R&D part of any product of such nature has always been so annoying. Today it seems we've settled on Patreon and the like for the individual-scale projects.
An other problem I have is when setting a master password, it doesn't use Linux PAM to re-use login session password
True. For the second use-case I mentioned it still applies though. Where a studio is making a licensed 3d game based on an existing 2d cartoon.
I guess I'll be that guy. "forgery" is an even better form of the word to discuss (the noun -- and of course a forgery is forged), specifically:

3 : an act of forging
especially : the crime of falsely and fraudulently making or altering a document (such as a check)

Fraudulently making a document. That's this to a tee.
It's almost as if policing and imprisonment isn't the solution to crime.
The first ever AFB vaccine was just created recently. It got US approval only last year (first market to approve it I believe). So yeah, a vaccine exists, but it's not widespread as it's extremely new.
No doubt that was the case for many instances; however, I would posit that even if the US had been homogenously either black or white as a nation, in either case as a country we would still have controlled those substances. By and large, the only places that didn't control narcotics were locations with poor/weak central governments or a history of proscribed consumption (central Asia had/has a history where it's customary for older folks to consume, but it is heavily frowned upon for non older people to consume.)
> 99% of the server costs of something like Facebook or Twitter, go toward the backends, analytical DBs, and graphical / ML models used to power "features" that no user wants

This is incorrect. From direct personal experience, I strongly believe the backend infrastructure and staff required just to operate the core product functionality of a successful large-scale social network massively exceeds what could be provided by donations.

Just in terms of core product OLTP data, Tumblr hit 100 billion distinct rows on MySQL masters back in Oct 2012. At the time, after accounting for HA/replication, that required over 200 expensive beefy database servers. This db server number grew by ~10 servers per month, because Tumblr was getting 60-75 million posts/day at this time.

Then add in a couple hundred cache and async queue servers, and over a thousand web servers. And employees to operate all this, although we kept it quite lean compared to other social networks.

Again, this was all just the core product, not analytics or ML or anything like that. These numbers also don't include image/media storage or serving, which was a substantial additional cost.

Although Tumblr had some mainstream success at that time, it was still more niche than some of the larger social networks. At that time, Facebook was more than 2 orders of magnitude larger than Tumblr.
I loved middleman back in the day! Great to see the project is still finding use.

While it definitely works without Ruby knowledge, I found it rather un-fun to maintain a Ruby environment. And I felt a bit locked out of customizing it.

For those with some JS familiarity who want a static but highly customizable site, I recommend 11ty or Astro.build as a modern-day Middleman alternatives. They are written in javascript top to bottom, but importantly do not presume you are interested in shipping a ton of heavy javascript to the client the way Nextjs does.

Hugo, based on Go, is really fast and reasonably customizable. I could just never wrap my head around the syntax of go templates.
Being forced by the government to burn all your equipment and all your bees, needlessly, is not standard practice.
It's like the user agent string in browsers. Using that instead of checking for feature availability directly is always going to end up in a mess like this over time. Heck, there wasn't a Windows 9 because of how much software would break because they had `if (osversion.startswith("9"))` check to decide if it needs to act in pre-XP mode, long after XP itself was EOL. Most people aren't willing to give up functional workflows on principle alone. "stepping on some toes" massively understates the impact.
If China intends to take Taiwan and ultimately go beyond that into other parts of Asia, they have a strong interest in having parts of NATO's forces being tied down defending Europe and the Middle East. And vice versa. North Korea will presumably also help to tie down forces in South Korea.
I completely agree that a marathon mindset is more powerful than a sprint mindset. In your 20s you have so much energy but you don't understand the world well yet or yourself.

Over the next two decades you will slowly lose your energy but what will replace it will be a much better understanding of the world and your self. Your time will become much more limited, but your understanding of how best to spend it will get much better.

And eventually you will find that ambition and happiness pull you in different directions. In your 20s its great to focus on ambition, but in your 40s its time to build a future focused on your happiness.
It's probably a case where it's illegal to vaccinate the hive, because it's not explicitly legal to vaccinate the hive.

For example, in the US, it's legal to use brand name "API-Bioxal", which is Oxalic Acid, to treat for varroa mites. However, one can head to their local hardware store and buy generic "Wood Bleach", which is also Oxalic Acid. It is not legal to use the wood bleach to treat your hive, even though it's the same chemical compound.
Irradiation is the other whole hive method I know of. I think it's not as widely approved though.
This is why I private my social media accounts. There is already enough spam and I don't feel it needs to be any easier.
You are right, I forgot they would go around during the yellow.