skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow 40 percent of Americans have THREE months instead of ONE month of expense money saved up. Truly thunderous debunking by Noah Smith.
You don't _have_ to enable Mallett's Law.
I'm of two minds when it comes to surveillance. I don't like that businesses, airports, etc do it but it is their property. I don't like that they can run video feeds through software, either in real time or after the fact, to so easily find and track my every move. But again, its their property.

Where the line is always drawn for me, at a minimum, is what they do with the video and who has access to it.

Video should always be deleted when it is no longer reasonably needed. That timeline would be different for airports vs convenience stores, but I'd always expect the scale of days or weeks rather than months or years (or indefinitely).

Maybe more importantly, surveillance video should never be shared without a lawful warrant, including clear descriptions of the limits to what is needed and why it is requested.
This is a pretty ignorant stance. It implies that the issues would somehow be easy to address if they were just acknowledged. Are you aware of the efforts that have been put into this so far? Have you considered that achieving the vague improvements you are asking for, working on a groundbreaking technology while holding together a rapidly growing community, is just really hard?
So you are mischaracterizing the biologics then. They are indicated for UC in the US. It's just that the doctor thought that combined, higher doses would work better (and apparently it did).

The prednisone still had him shitting blood 20 times a day. Cheap indeed.

How do we even have a conversation if you take drugs that are approved for treating a condition and just hand wave that they are "not tested"?

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2024/76...

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2013/10...
I wish people would stop linking Noah Smith substacks. He makes a strawman out of the LendingClub survey and then beats it with surveys that do not contradict the original survey. In fact, a lot of his writings are strawman beatdowns.

Living paycheck to paycheck has low bearing on savings. The LendingClub survey is self reported, and includes people whose finances fluctuate seasonally (they overall live paycheck to paycheck but wind up with random windfalls) and people who maintain a small pile of cash but are always counting on the next paycheck to avoid dipping into their savings. The report even mentions that a chunk of the paycheck to paycheck people are superprime credit consumers, but Noah refuses to stop and think about why that is the case.

I personally know people who very well off who are riding the razor’s edge so to speak- they have huge savings but 100% of income does straight to bills.
There are summer suits and sports coats that are unlined or half -lined (e.g the sleeves are usually lined for ease of wearing and removing).
Sure you are. Literally everybody is. That you believe you aren't is (I know this is a slippery bit of rhetoric, but give it a moment's thought) itself a strong indicator.

Bear in mind what you're saying here is that you haven't met a person who opposes the cold-blooded murder of a health insurance executive. That seems incredibly unlikely.
> Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job.

I don't believe you have children of your own; is this an armchair opinion or your own lived experience?

Anyway while on paper this is true, in practice kids will ask for this and may get it as a treat, or they may get it from somewhere else. And as a one-off, that's fine, but they do get influenced by ads to want more of it at any time. Same with fast food chains, somehow the ones that aren't available where I live got an almost mythical status with the teenager here. A Taco Bell did open here but honestly it was mediocre and overpriced.
Social security is well failed in my country, we are paying both for the retirees and for our future selves. So if tomorrow ends up like children of men, sure, no problem.
Imagine if he was though...
> ASCII

JSON is notable for making UTF-8 encoding a hard requirement.

…which was pretty ballsy back in the mid-2000s. We were still fighting with Shift-JIS and Windows-1252. Excel didn’t add proper support for UTF-8 until depressingly recently.
Good that they are trying but “ …aired after the 9:00 pm” running ads after 9 pm is even worst. If you need to consume sugar you might as well do it in day time.
Why would a comment be required for this when they can just use a string property? YAML has comments, and they are not used by any DSL abomination that I'm aware of.
This one unambiguously seems like a mistake. Is there any steel man argument for why an extra comma should not be acceptable? Save a byte over the network?
> all of the old flat file systems with no directories (like on the original MacOS, CP/M, MS-DOS 1) are all comprehensively obsolete and ignored.

not quite true. The classic flat OS/360 filesystem is still heavily used on IBM mainframes. Of course, probably your app will never run on a mainframe, and if it does, it will probably run either under z/Linux or the z/OS UNIX filesystem (zFS). But there is still a lot of actively supported in-production software which does, since born-on-the-mainframe apps mostly use the classic filesystem and the POSIX file API is mainly used by apps ported from elsewhere
In physics research, things are discovered. In engineering, things are (mostly) invented. Mathematics can be thought of as a combination of those. There are “physical” parts (think of facts of Euclidean geometry) and “engineering” parts (e.g. proofs).
Maybe, but China has also poured so much capital into infrastructure projects that don’t deliver ROI. This has harmed their longterm growth. We didn’t do enough when interest rates were low and we have a hard time with complicated projects, but China isn’t perfect at this, either.

Also they march people out into fields and execute them at point blank range. Worth keeping in mind.
If you've received the output of an AGPL-3 program after requesting it through a network, you have interacted with that program through a network.

Why does it matter that it's gone through several API layers, a queue, an email system that takes 3 days or whatever? That's what a network is.

The demands of the license seem broad and clear.
Capitalist structures have a long history of pushing ownership of problems to the powerless individual, then exploiting information asymmetries (and actively obfuscating the truth that would allow for better informed decisions) for profit.

Suggesting that the average person should be able to make medical decisions and override their health care provider’s recommendation is ridiculous.
Vegetation-type is determined by temperature and precipitation. You can't un-desertify a true desert unless you irrigate. Most of these projects that "succeed" - miraculously correlate with good rainfall experience.

Most of the Sahel revegetated all by itself, when the decadal drought ended in the 90's.

Re-vegetation projects can help put vegetation back when it's been removed by shitty management practises like severe over-grazing.

It can also help speed revegetation if there are no nearby seed sources and dispersion speeds for those species are low. But dry-adapted vegetation seeds can usually persist for very long periods of time waiting for water.
They still get stuff though. Daytime advertising for toys is basically aimed at kids' birthday / christmas wishlists, pocket money, etc. If you add it up, that's hundreds of whatever your currency is per year across birthdays, gift giving holidays, and family / extended family.
TDMA. Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time.
As I understand it, the ACA caps profits by requiring that insurance companies spend 80% of their revenue on "medical care and quality improvement". Therefore, the only ways for insurance companies to make more money is if they get a lot more customers OR if the price of medical care skyrockets.

I suspect the reason why UHC has decided to deny so many claims is that this will allow them to marginally lower he price of their premiums relative to their competitors. This'll get them more money via method 1. The whole industry is working around the clock on method #2.

Anyone more informed, feel free to correct me.
I mean, "monkeys might fly out of my butt" is possible, I suppose. And it seems to be about the level of response merited by your comeback.

It's also possible, as you state in your comment, that I have literally never read one article (or book) in my time being ruled by the US on how their legislature functions, and that I'm wholly ignorant of the mechanisms of the US legislature.

It's also possible that you have your head up your ass because the fantasy that either party has the actual ability to fix what are deeply structural problems, much less has the will to do so, is more appealing than registering the depth of the problem.

I have in the past, believed that these reforms were possible, and I still believe that they are "possible" in the sense that literally anything is possible in this world. You don't respond to the question all that begs, which is why, if everyone in the US deeply hates the healthcare system, none of it has yet been fixed.
There's a new edition coming out next year, and I think this edition is already outdated, the most recent one is the 6th edition from 2017.
The imperative install is as many lines of code as the flake itself. That’s what’s bothering me. But a meta package would be a step in the right direction.

Thank you!
It's been a long time since Marvell was seeing any lingering benefits from that XScale acquisition. Their more compute-oriented products owe a lot more to the Cavium acquisition.
i was going to comment on this. gambling ads of all kinds, sky-bet, sky vegas casino + whatever in their hydra form. in depressed places like luton - you see how gambling has destroyed the little that remained.

ban gambling companies from sponsoring sports teams, from being associated with sports teams etc.
This also means that the people who want to be paid will tell you exactly how on their page. E.g., all the “buy me a coffee” links you can find on open source projects.

The author of this article wants a special HTML meta property but we’ve already that solved: plain text and hyperlinks.
Frankly this doesn’t sound so great to me. “Not very well and too late” sounds like something you should expect from a poor country?
It's easy for other people to have access to this higher truth, and most people do. Basically by definition, the sentiments which are truly "overwhelmingly shared" are the sentiments you can talk openly about with strangers without fear that you might leave a bad impression. I think the vast majority of people supporting the CEO's murder would immediately understand that they should not bring it up when meeting their in-laws for the first time or something.
> It’s better than having to deal with the ad hoc out-of-band data formats that people would inevitably have stuffed into comments if given the opportunity.

As has been pointed out multiple times in the thread so far, a random string that is ignored by the receiver is semantically equivalent to a comment, and people totally stuff random crap into strings to extend the data format in sometimes-horrifying ways. Banning comments doesn't stop us from abusing strings, it just means we don't have a good way to indicate that a part of the file should be ignored by the parser because it's not actually data.
> Theoretical atrocities are never justification for actual atrocities.

If only that were true...
Still shows ~35 of your most recent photos every time you open the app. It's insecure and an abomination.
The regulation would apply to the UK. UK brands and goods sold in the UK, by established/registered companies the UK.
Not possible to sell any retail goods of the sorts w/o a registration in the UK, so stopping them advertising won't be hard.

I don't think US administration would be able to do anything, much like GDPR.
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The middle class is the bourgeoisie, not the 50th percentile.
And more should do so. Employer based insurance should be abolished. I would also close the VA. One health system for all
There is also the option that he paid a year worth of rent in advance, which emptied his bank account, and now he has no liquidity, but has a place to stay for the next 12 months.

But you are right that this is not clarified anywhere in the post, and the math as described does not add up.
And one effect of that is that the energy/investment level of legit promoters of blockchain has gone down while other promoters have stayed the same or increased.
Maybe wearing enough makeup to hide your face would fool an algorithm, but be conspicuous enough to get you noticed anyway.
Thanks! We created a custom professional voice clone for this purpose using a voice actor. Let me check with Santa to see if we have permission to make his voice public :)
Triumph of the orcs: why Britain needs more Games Workshops
Mirror: https://archive.ph/tDVNY
I don't even have to pretend!
You don't _have_ to, I think the parent poster is just giving an example of how this can be used.

The "Zero Knowledge" part is that you can tell me "for this particular program code, I know an input that gives an output of 'foobar'" and I can be convinced that you're telling me the truth without seeing what that input actually is.
this sound interesting - do you have any more samples on how you win twitter arguments with this?
because medicare is a giant bandaid on the problem that is private health care. so removing the bandaid may cause the evil system to collapse through revolt or otherwise.
Single digit cents is not a large fee, but blockchain fees are dynamic. And the more traffic, the more expensive. I would not appreciate if that 2.6 cents suddenly became $2.60. Also the maximum number of transactions for Bitcoin (not sure etherium) is about 10/s. Processors like Visa and MasterCard process thousands of transactions per second. And if every article read is another transaction that would need at least 1-2 orders of magnitude more transactions. The way I see it, blockchain is a broken model for micro payments. If I am missing something, please let me know.
Why am I always the last to find out
But it happens. 'npm install' will edit your json file, but so can I.

That said, I don't like it as a config file read/written by humans.
So everyone who messaged you privately in support of your position?
JSON wins because it can be casually inspected by people testing bizarre theories. The importance of this is lost on people who don’t treat triage as a skill that can be honed.

I like to solve problems - or at least bringing them to me doesn’t result in a loss of status for either party. People notice this about me and bring me problems. Someone recently described to people what is essentially my process: the likelihood of the cause divided by the difficulty of verification. Partially sort and just start checking off assumptions.

A lot of cheap but low probability options get shuffled higher, and just sending the wrong data is a common enough problem, especially with caching. And if it’s nearly free to look at the payload, it’ll get checked. If it isn’t people will try everything else to avoid it.
What example(s) of file format would you say are designed for humans to edit and still represent the kind of structured contents that json does?
The argument is that comments are often used as an escape hatch from specified formats to carry further instructions. So you got a properly specified format and then want to do vendor&extensions but not break other implementations ... just make your extensions a comment. Then other parsers ignore it and you can do your thing.

The idea is that this forces better formats.

How well this works? Well, then I got an "x-comment" property or non-standard comments. Nonetheless. If people see the need to hack some extension in, they'll find a way.
Should we not allow comments in HTML, then?

There are parsers which allow for comments if one wants, so if someone wants to engineer an insane system no one is stopping them, provided they can ensure the parser on the other end of it.

This is a data format meant to be readable by humans. As such, it's natural to want to support things like configuration via end-user editing values in the text as a use case. Data is occasionally going to need comments to explain valid options or add context for people to edit. This is a reasonable thing to have.
Are you able or willing to share the sauce recipe?
If you have some sort of proof that people are upset by this action you should post it. Using ad hominem against me isn't accomplishing anything. You can't just claim people's observations are invalid because we're all in a "filter bubble".
// or /* */ comments?

Doug, please adopt me!

As a file format, just use jsonc or json5, if you want to use comments.
>I have deep experience with black listing on the net, and nothing compares to the Chinese censor machine. A comparison with mundane things like malware is dishonest

The comparison was with how both the chinese censorship system and other blocking systems can be susceptible to the same attack (ie. people posting UGC to get a site banned). At no point did I imply that they were comparable in any other way.
So Romania does not have politicians living in homes, or driving around in cars owned/financed by their political supporters?

And what about assets owned - not by particular individual, but by their friends or family.

BTW - sorry if that's a bit Too Balkan ;)
I fully expect that if I built (or bought) a power supply, plugged it into the wall, and it caught fire due to my own negligence (unintentional), that the resulting losses to the structure would be covered. (I'm in the US.) It would seem no different than if I built a fire in the fireplace that caused the issue, had a 3D printer catch fire, or had a grease fire cause the issue.
> Why is that relevant?

Thank you for asking. I would be happy to help you understand here.

The answer to your question is: The important piece of information is that people should not be denied lifesaving care just to increase or maintain margin. Thus, someone who does the former is bad, and someone who criticizes a bad person is totally okay in doing so.

Compare to marking up a bag of juice at 100%, which is also totally okay because you aren't effectively killing people by doing so. Thus, no contradiction exists.

To dig even deeper: because a life is worth more than the markup on a bag of juice. A thousand bags of juice marked up 100% would be morally better than denying lifesaving care just to increase margins 1%.

> people like to complain

This type of commentary is better suited for Reddit.
Here's a marketing video for a multi-camera tracking system which does just that.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07inDETl3LQ
Thanks for the feedback - What do you mean by the censor? As in safety moderation? For this specific agent I had to prompt it very carefully to makes sure people wouldn't ask Santa for anything dangerous :)

Billing component is noted, round-up doesn't seem fair. Let me check this.
There is no human right to university application ina foreign country
It exists now, since the tech was repurposed for Apple’s Communication Safety (scanning for all nudity, not just CSAM): https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

How do you validate that your OS, your apps, and other actors in your image/video processing and storage supply chains aren't doing surreptitious CSAM scanning? I have no idea. All I know is that Apple is being sued for not doing it.
I seriously pisses me off that they make the font so small on the opt-out signage and you get told by a uniform to stare at the camera like you have no choice. Everything you don't fight for ends up getting taken.
This is a really interesting solution to the problem with renewable power that there's no way to store it efficiently when demand is low, except batteries which are way too expensive.

They could sell power during the day and mine bitcoin at night, whichever is more profitable at the time.

edit: I just read the article and actually they're not selling power at all. Oh well. Bitcoin must be more profitable than selling the power. The free market at work.
This same discussion has happened a bunch of times with regular non-A GPL3, ie "If my code just shells out to a GPL3 binary, my code doesn't need to be GPL3 right?" The usual answer is that it's subjective because it depends on how strongly coupled your code is to that particular binary - does your code work without that binary, is there some other implementation that it could work with, do you provide that binary or does the user provide it, etc. The third one doesn't apply for the AGPL network service case but the first two do.
It's about kids, ads targeted at kids (according to the article)
Doesn't the name of the function select for the types and use of the parameters? But I haven't written in C for a long time, and this I think could be done more clearly in C++.
I can’t think of anything that is not painful in some way.
Only if you don't also validate JSON schemas.
It's definitely no good for JSON that you don't write yourself. But that's not the JSON that you want to write comments into.
Can you clarify how you arrived at the conclusion that I was implying fixing the UX is easy, or where you saw me asking for "vague improvements"?

While we're on the subject, I can assure you, Nix is far, far from groundbreaking tech.
I appreciate that Python makes you choose between a “full” parser and a safe one.
For a very narrow target audience (programmers), JSON is fine. If you want the file to be edited by anyone else, JSON is pain.
so it doesn't exist?
> Make it personal for thousands of people and some of them will inevitably be radicalized.

I fully understand the motive and can empathize with the alleged assailant but that doesn’t mean I am celebrating the fact somebody got murdered. Being able to empathize and understand the motives doesn’t make what the person who shot that dude morally or ethically right.
The author’s right about storytelling from day one, but then immediately throws cold water on the idea by saying it would have been a bad fit for this project.

This feels in error, as the big value of seeking feedback and results early and often on a project is that it forces you to confront whether you’re going to want or be able to tell stories in the space at all. It also gives you a chance to re-kindle waning interests, get feedback on your project by others, and avoid ratholing into something for about 5 years without having to engage with a public.

If a project can’t emotionally bear day one scrutiny, it’s unlikely to fare better five years later when you’ve got a lot of emotions about incompleteness and the feeling your work isn’t relevant anymore tied up in the project.
In order to verify the proof, you only need a "commitment" to the fact that you passed specific input data. This can be in the form of calculating a cryptographic hash.

Imagine that you represent a program and data as a flat byte array (which is the typical case for risc-v). Your program contains a prologue at the very start (0x0) that calculates the hash of the rest of the memory and checks that the hash is equal to some value hardcoded right after the prologue and if it doesn't match - then it panics. Then if you can prove that the VM followed all steps exactly as the hardware architecture prescribes, it's just impossible for the result to be any other way. What you need now is to only send to other side this prologue together with the hash. You don't have to reveal the rest of the memory.

Of course I'm simplifying a bit, but I hope the idea is clear.
True, but that’s made possible by the aggregator (the publisher who’s printed the magazine)

This dream of eliminating that middle-person is still a dream.