skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful what you wish for. I live in Canada. We have single payer health care here. The system is collapsing. Practitioners are getting burned out and extremely unhappy. Waiting lists for many common procedures just keep getting longer and longer. Many people don’t have access to a family physician and ER waiting rooms are overcrowded.
BUPA is the largest private healthcare provider in the UK: https://www.bupa.co.uk/

The treatment provided will be similar to the NHS, but with less waiting (if relevant) and nicer facilities, such as private rooms rather than shared wards in hospital.
Is your opinion that extremely wealthy don't try to reduce their tax share as much as possible, either through clever accounting on their current year taxes or by influencing politicians/policies to lower their taxes directly?

Why do most middle class earners pay more than their millionaire and billionaire counterparts as a percentage? Sure you might say W2 tax rate is higher than capital gains, but why is that the case?
no. not really. The spread of the viewline fire was contained, the getty villa was saved, the hurst fire is being contained and they were on the sunset one pretty quickly. There was one in culver city and woodley that they quashed quickly as well. They got the divide fire from igniting angeles national forest and the lidia. The royal fire is about where the 2018 fire was and that was taken down as well today as was the sunswept, freddy, and emma fire.

that's the past 24 hours.

If you've been following this, they've done a fairly amazing job at knocking out maybe a dozen fires in the past day. Many of these had the potential to be giant infernos and you can actively see very clear evidence of them being contained and suppressed as the fire crews responded.

The evacuation orders and rescue operations were also effective and remarkably little life has been lost.

On the contrary, with crime, there's things like the 1992 Watts truce, which is credited with a rapid decline in LA street violence, which happened without law enforcement at all.

So unlike with say fire-fighting, there's empirically more effective strategies for dealing with crime. They do, however, require us to not be ideologically committed to punitive incarceration.
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I don’t have a solution for those kids but I know telling them they shouldn’t have chosen to be athletes is missing the point you yourself bring up - which is, their parents made those decisions for them. Humans are not rational economic actors.
> That is messed up.

A "visit" or two are often all that is necessary to convince folks to pay protection money to gangs. Protectors always have a perverse incentive to remind people what they need protection from.

One shouldn't rush to accuse though.
I didnt realise the ship was in a museum - Dundee has the discovery museum for Scotts ship which is good for a visit too
It's a set of guidelines, not a set of promises from the UN. Countries/societies/communities are who implement policies and systems that support and correlate with these extremely-broadly-agreed-upon guidelines.

My point is that health care is absolutely an element of rights (though perhaps categorized separately from _civil_ rights, though that's getting quite nitpicky).
I'm curious if you'll indulge a hypothetical. Imagine executives could be held responsible for deaths proven to be reasonable caused by their actions (or inactions) with penalties comparable to normal penalties for murder/manslaughter. And now this man was found responsible for a countless number of deaths, and thus himself sentenced to death, or lifetime solitary confinement if you happen to unconditionally oppose the death penalty. Would your view change?

I assume the answer is yes, but I'm sure you see the issue with letting laws define one's own personal code. This isn't a 'gotcha' or anything. I myself have lots of cognitive dissonance on this issue, and am just genuinely curious what your take would be.
Trump won the popular vote by 1.5%, which is a few percent off from the polling average. If the polling on Mangione is similarly off by a few percent (within the margin of error), it hardly affects our interpretation of the results.
True but I think it just shows that this isn't malicious on their part, like journalists and politicians aren't all uniformly intentionally creating and maintaining a broken healthcare system that murders¹ thousands of people and bankrupts an estimated 650k people a year. It's rather the very natural result of their ideology, if the same people had to rebuilt the healthcare system the end result would be identical.

There is a reason why Bernie is universally despised by all of them, this is the shared ideology, its this unspoken thing that every CNN and FOX news anchor, every nypost and nyt journalist, Obama, Bush, Biden and Trump all have in common. That's why this Luigi situation was so eye-opening to many people, it showed the cracks in the system. None of those people will ever be part of the solution, it's all of them collectively we need to overcome.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
Open ocean sure but I can see orcas from my house. The average person is still going to know to swim to land and forage for food, even if they fail. But orcas won’t have the first idea how to navigate self checkout.

Why is the human naked? Does the Orca get pants?

What are we talking about?
The tone of this blogpost is over the top. I mean...

The *erasure* of Luigi Mangione
The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, *and how tech always serves the ruling class.*

or

It’s important to *grasp the severity* of my suspension: suspending a professional resource for one year will create a hardship for me. And, I’m one of the largest producers of content on the network

We're not talking about the Department of Defense, or the Catholic Church. StackOverflow is just a popular Q&A website. Since it's popular with the software development community, it's of some importance - not enough to merit using the tone of Woodward and Bernstein or John Rawls.
The "Uber for dogwalkers" service had a problem that people would do an arrangement with the dogwalker outside of its 30% (or whatever) rent-seeking, it even had scary clauses trying to prevent this.

So maybe the solution is to ask the electrician, etc, if you can contact them directly next time, and to ask them if they know any other tradespeople when you need one.
It would then make sense to encrypt the email content.

Repudiation of clear text messages looks like the easier implementation.
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I cannot agree with the quote for 2 reasons:

1) That person has respect for justice, not law. These are separate concepts and people need to see them as separate.

2) It reinforces the view that by making yourself a victim (of the state), you are somehow more virtuous than if you avoid punishment. That only works in societies with sufficient inclination towards justice. It will not work under authoritarian rule like Russia or China, you will just end up in a gulag freezing to death or on your town square bleeding out.

Whether an action was just is determines solely by what preceded it, not by what followed. Making yourself a victim is just a practical way to attract more people's attention.

Practicality and morality are as separate as legality and morality.
I would argue the 2024 election was quite the opposite.

> More than 155 million Americans voted in 2024: 156,302,318 to be exact. That’s the second largest total voter turnout in U.S. history in absolute terms. It is also just the second time that more than 140 million people voted in a presidential election.

https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers
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What is Dallas? What is Houston? Which parts do we measure. are we talking about road distance? That something doesn't change during a conversation is not the same the thing as them never changing
Also see: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/21#issueco...
Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?
In terms of things that we allow to be advertised but probably shouldn't: sodas, medical products, politicians.
An insurance company's "role" is to distribute risk, not to "pay for medical care" without question. The perversion of what constitutes "insurance" in the US medical industry is the fault of our legal system and tax code, and the insane cost of medical care (which is ultimately the root cause of most of these problems) is down to the medical cartel (also legally enforced).
Ok I admit all I write is only guess... in fact what you said makes me relate to some of my mother stories about her childhood. Thanks for remind me that.
And yet the US were created by bloody revolution, preserved by bloody civil war, and made prosperous by countless bloody coups, wars, etc.

Perhaps the problem is that democracy isn't really any different than any other form of country-level government. Perhaps we lost for ever when our ancestors started founding cities a few thousand years ago.
Kamala did quite well in the election, it was close. In hindsight I don't think there was any particular evidence the polls were inaccurate. Poll-watchers like fivethirtyeight.com predicted that the election was a coin toss (with the toss sliiightly biased towards Trump up until their final forecasts from what I recall) but whoever won the coin toss would probably achieve a comfortable victory. That is pretty much what transpired.
What is a proper democracy? The US is both democracy and oligarchy.
Dressed up dbs. That's what 90% of the saas economy is. I feel like I'm going mad. How can such a gigantic part of the software economy be just dressing up dbs and making them hard to interoperate? I can't make sense of it. Any business can run using email and vanilla spreadsheets. Everything else just feels like a surreal dance while I can't hear the music.
If Hitler has been assassinated before he came to power then we wouldn’t have any idea of the significance of that. It’d be hard to say anyone would have supported the assassin besides the most ardent of the Nazi party’s political opponents.
Fwiw these aren't really forest fires, they are brush fires.
Don't know how Apple's iCloud Email will handle it, after all, Apple has always prided itself on being extremely attentive to user privacy and data security.
pretty much the only things that are really important are the last two points

>A real agency is highly unlikely to email or phone you out of the blue with an offer of representation or a claim that a traditional publisher is interested in your work (real agents don’t pre-shop manuscripts for authors they don’t represent).

>A real agency will not require you to pay anything or buy anything as a condition of representation or publication. Other than the agent’s commission, there should never be a cost associated with rights acquisition.

highly unlikely is politespeak for never going to happen unless your self published work is making tens of thousands of sales already.
I'm not sure the recent revival of interest in the Latin mass has much bearing on the number of people who are actually learning the language.

Most people I know who participate at Mass in Latin don't know the language and make little, if any, attempts to learn it. There is often a complete reliance on translations where prayers are recited in Latin but then still need to be read in the English side of the missal to be understood.

There is also an odd, yet quite outspoken (online), contingent of people who promote the Latin Mass while simultaneously downplaying the importance of learning Latin for having a fuller view of history and the science of theology.
I didn't mean to imply he did. But his group, uMkhonto weSizwe, definitely did.
Can't call him a murderer when he hasn't been convicted yet. (Well, you can, but at that point you can do the same for the guy he shot)
Yep, if you boil the frog too fast, it will notice.
Get an AMD GPU? Said no one ever.
This isn’t a news article, it’s someone’s blog. They’re under no obligation to write background for the off chance that their post gets aggregated for an unfamiliar audience.
Can’t you say this for every activity that humans undertake? As a cleaner, you have a very clear purpose: to clean toilets so that you can make money to provide for your family. People can feel a sense of purpose for almost anything, but the fact the you theoretically could come up with a purpose for an activity doesn’t mean they automatically have the sense of it.
> In a non-profit healthcare systems, how exactly the amount of available resources is determined?

You would generally count them. Like, if you have three people in need of a ventilator and you only have two ventilators, then one person is getting denied a ventilator today.

> Any system that actually exists, public or private, does this.

That's true, and I don't have a problem with it. Tradeoffs have to happen. What I have a problem with is incentive structures that attribute greater success for the people at the top when they create outcomes that involve more death for the people at the bottom.

Plenty of systems which actually exist don't congratulate leadership for reducing quality of care.
Interesting info. But neither this, nor the previous post linked from it, explain what exactly the money scam is. I guess the main audience is supposed to know already.
There are no systems anywhere in the world which don’t deny life saving care. All systems make life and death decisions. British NHS, for example, will generally deny life saving care, if such procedure will cost more than 30,000 pounds per quality-adjusted year of life you’re expected to gain as a result of the procedure.

Again, my point is that denying healthcare is not automatically something wrong or evil. This is something that must necessarily happen, and so the details as to why some healthcare was denied are very important. You can’t just say that someone being denied care is basically murder, like some people here, or point to some percentage of denied claims and pretend that this is prima facie evidence of wrongdoing. No, you need to actually do some legwork, and the haters of murder victim are not interested in that, they just want some release by dunking on a literal scapegoat.
All countries are oligarchies.
Huh, there must be(tm) a scanner for malware for these files. I know they're XML, although I wonder how much of it end up being base64-encoded binary blobs...
>Unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for. They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate.

I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter it any further.
I don't know what social circle I should be part of to consider email unsecure.

Even Russian spies use mail.ru and their emails are compromised not by SMTP MitM but by weak passwords, google for "moscow1 moscow2 password" to see what I am talking about )

Anyway. Back to the technical point. Email servers pretty much always use TLS to talk to each other. The connection may degrade to non-encrypted for backwards compatibility, unlike HTTPS. But it's vanishingly rare.

So, for all practical purposes that affect ordinary citizens: injection, scanning and sensitive information extraction, email in transit is quite secure.
That is not how I read the quote at all: the respect for the law stems from the understanding that the only meaningful way to change common law is to challenge it, and defend your actions in court.
I have a feeling this action will only have a Streisand effect.

Personally I didn't know he was on Stack Overflow until I saw this. Had the mods left it alone I suspect it wouldn't have become more than some minor news or comment.
that's definitely a 3d model and the harbour bridge a few hundred metres away is still a flat line on the water
I don't remember anything about the XML ecosystem, but XML is already a totally different format from JSON without considering that.

<body myattr="yeah">
<thing>hi</thing>
<thing thingattr="cool">hi2</thing>
<otherkindathing>hi2</otherkindathing>
</body>

can be thought of as nested objects, each having a typename, text content, and children. It doesn't translate nicely to JSON. Maybe:

{"type": "body", "attrs": {"myattr": "yeah"},
"children": [{"type": "thing", "content": "hi"}, ...]}
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With 16gb you can run virtuals to segment CPU time with memory commits.

With 16gb you can have a massive file buffer cache and avoid disk io delay.
I have an even cheaper suggestion: doing like me, using org-mode for notes and small potatoes computation, Python for more complex stuff, rarely Maxima CAS, and LaTeX to produce documents. All these tools offer much bigger features set, much bigger flexibility, produce much better results and are FLOSS tools.

Seriously the MIT Missing Semester MUST be a high-schools mandatory course, anyone who want to have a non-mere-manual profession must have passed this course. We are in damn 2025, it's about time to recognize that computers are the mean of knowledge like papers and libraries before, not knowing how to use them properly means being illiterate, even with some PhDs.
> 1) That person has respect for justice, not law.

Willingly accepting the penalty means having respect for the actual law that establishes the penalty.
Wind speeds and live fuel moisture level are the critical measures of fire risk in chaparral. Fuel moisture levels have been approaching critical this season in Southern California and, due to lack of rain, didn't follow the seasonal pattern:
https://fire.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/All-Are...

Some relevant research:
https://moritzfirelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/denniso...

Drought is a more comprehensive measure that includes snowpack, rainfall, resevoir levels, etc.
Tourangeau, R., & Yan, T. (2007). Sensitive questions in surveys. Psychological Bulletin, 133(5), 859–883. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6117379_Sensitive_Q...

>"Social desirability concerns can be seen as a special case of the threat of disclosure, involving a specific type of interpersonal consequence of revealing information in a survey—social disapproval. The literature on social desirability is voluminous, and it features divergent conceptualizations and operationalizations of the notion of socially desirable responding (DeMaio, 1984). One fundamental difference among the different approaches lies in whether they treat socially desirable responding as a stable personality characteristic or a temporary social strategy (DeMaio, 1984). The view that socially desirable responding is, at least in part, a personality trait underlies psychologists’ early attempts to develop various social desirability scales. Though some of these efforts (e.g., Edwards, 1957; Philips & Clancy, 1970, 1972) recognize the possibility that social desirability is a property of the items rather than (or as well as) of the respondents, many of them treat socially desirable responding as a stable personality characteristic (e.g., Crowne & Marlowe, 1964; Schuessler, Hittle, & Cardascia, 1978). By contrast, survey researchers have tended to view socially desirable responding as a response strategy reflecting the sensitivity of specific items for specific individuals; thus, Sudman and Bradburn (1974) had interviewers rate the social desirability of potential answers to specific survey questions.
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>Paulhus’s (2002) work encompasses both viewpoints, making a distinction between socially desirable responding as a response style (a bias that is “consistent across time and questionnaires”; Paulhus, 2002, p. 49) and as a response set (a short-lived bias “attributable to some temporary distraction or motivation”; Paulhus, 2002, p. 49).
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>A general weakness with scales designed to measure socially desirable responding is that they lack “true” scores, making it difficult or impossible to distinguish among (a) respondents who are actually highly compliant with social norms, (b) those who have a sincere but inflated view of themselves, and (c) those who are deliberately trying to make a favorable impression by falsely reporting positive things about themselves"

Looking forward to your response.
New just laws are created by injustice. Unjust laws are repealed by injustice. The only vote that matters at the end of the day is the vote cast in lead.
It's a tug of war between institutional capacity (people's inability to act) and injustice (people's willingness to act even if they will face negative consequences).
Mortgage firms demand Home insurance policies which it covers some fires, but not all fires. E.g. if there’s an earthquake and it causes a natural gas fire, you’re not covered by home insurance. Same goes for if there’s a flood and it causes a fire, not covered.

I suspect long term fire insurance due to wildfire will not be covered by home insurance policies. As it’s not a “random” event, and instead a risk of certain areas.
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The emphasis on "trust the science" is the "the science", not "trust". Everyone ultimately needs to trust something, and it is better if that is a scientific consensus than if it's what the anchors on fox news are saying.
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I think there is some overlap, there are some nightclubs that are much more orientated to the cheap scene, I know if I walk into a club with large areas dedicated to bottle service tables, I'm not going to have a fun time and the people will be much more obnoxious.

But there's some excellent venues here in Switzerland, and I think many are helped with arts funding and/or run as artist collectives and non profits.
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I almost feel tempted to use your book to both learn about OS and improve my shitty Japanese. :)
The way killing someone while drunk driving is excused by many is abhorrent.