skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree that moderation matters.

But when you say "whenever we would come back to visit the US ... we would always have mild digestion issues and stomach cramps for a week or so" this does imply that there's something wrong with American processed food, and this isn't an issue of moderation.

Despite not liking the man, I actually agree with RFK on the healthy eating and think it's good that he has raised awareness of it. Red dye has finally been banned, this is good! Heck, I'm very liberal, this kind of regulation is what the US should have been doing a long time ago and happy to see it happening.

My point about RFK was not that he eats processed food sometimes and therefore he's a hypocrite, it's that he's willing to compromise his values for access to power. But hopefully it's just that one time to get on Trumps good side and he actually makes some good regulation about poisonous foods! The market is good at a lot of things, but not at keeping things healthy, so I'm glad republicans are seeing the value of regulation over unwavering belief in the free market.
From a geopolitical standpoint, for the US specifically, yes. It's probably the most cost-effective (in money and lives) military spending the US has done since WWII.

From a human standpoint, I wish they'd given the Ukranians ATACMS and HIMARS and F-16s on week two, when it was abundantly clear they had the will to fight. The dribbling out of slowly expanding limits has been painful to watch.
Lots of kids home lives are worse than your school life. But that's not the point I was making. You are letting your personal horrible experience define the whole discussion for you. But that is completely beside the point I was making. Yes some kids are physically abused even tortured at school, some kids are physically abused even tortured at home. You don't make policy decision based on outlier cases that are already illegal.
"cautionary tale in how capitalism only promotes rent-seeking and regulatory capture" is a weird takeaway from this when the same applies to government-run healthcare. medicare, medicaid, veteran's affairs combined almost approaches OECD levels, but only covers a fraction of the population.
Yes, which is literally what I suggested it does in my original comment.
Pay wall.

Side note: I haven't liked anything of Harris since about 20 years ago during the new atheist movement, any suggestions for some of his more recent work?
You don't, because they are trolls.

You can't possibly argue in good faith that being able to provide less than 0.1% of novel treatments is somehow more valuable than providing good, standard healthcare with already existing drugs and treatment protocols to the other 99.9% at a sane cost.
Why would anyone expect it not to go to the right?

I wonder if places that read right to left also chart things so that 0 is on the right side and the positive numbers are on the left.
See also: Zombocom problem [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542280
this has to be sarcasm
> But that's not how things end up happening, because other forces are at play.

Is it really not how things end up happening? We must be living in two different realities. The greater the power, the higher the likelihood it becomes corrupted. With such a high incentive to give into corruption, you can’t just hand-wave it away with “but I’m sure it gets balanced out by something”. Your local family doctor might be a good enough person to help you get better without expensive drugs, but the head of a large institution? Fat chance.
if they did that the US government would then be spying on US citizens by monitoring TikTok data.

how in the world would that show a modicum of honesty?
China didn’t need to fight to keep Grindr because all the value from the acquisition was realized as soon as they ran a database query to compile a list of closeted Republican senators. No need to hold on once you got the spy treasure.
Maybe the bigger question is whether something like Product Hunt even needs to exist in the ecosystem. I think it had its place circa 2012–2014, but does it have any "real" users anymore? Or is it all founders and growth hackers trying to juice their launch, and an army of dummy accounts from people who sell votes?
In elementary school I had a girl in class who the other girls made fun of. There was nothing physical. Boys kind of made fun of her as well, but what really stuck to her was the other girls. She did therapy, but even her therapist told her that she is a hopeless case. Which is obviously extremely unprofessional and terrible. She ended up taking her life in her 20s. It was just mental bullying by peers. It is very sad to think back at the time. There was absolutely nothing wrong with her to deserve this bullying, and peers did it as some sort of self esteem popularity type of thing.

I do remember school being this survival of the fittest type of thing as well. Some were naturally good at it, others not so much, different people handled it differently.
The point is that other countries are realizing the same or better (generally better) levels of care while confronting the same issues.

Privatization and ineffective/lobbyist-written regulation is and has been the problem from the beginning.

Adding "but before all those complex concerns, our number one priority is making a profit" is literal insanity.

Add to the mix that employers are only incentivized to provide care for accute conditions that jeopardize productivity (rather than things that improve longevity and quality of life), and I mean... what did anyone expect?

Healthcare is complex but understanding why we're living in a failure mode isn't. The fundamentals are completely incorrect.
1. The slides cite an anonymous, context-less, singular sentence claims that they change. With no indication of why they changed, or if that change was valid.

2. The sub can change, while keeping the same email, because it is in fact a different user. Just using the email is categorically wrong.

Again, so much hysterics, and I have serious doubts about the, thus unsubstantiated, entire premise.

Let me be more clear, I _do not believe that claim at all_. I find no other evidence of it. I've worked with RPs that allow Google auth and similarly have never experienced this or heard of it happening.
> biotech and wearables

Tracking and data harvesting, excellent!
How about like 10-15 years ago when everybody and their mother could spin up a RAT and do drive-by installations with a webpage?
> it's about the ability of a foreign adversary

Hang on, 'foreign adversary'? Who makes all of America's stuff? Who sent so much of the jobs and manufacturing over there?

> to influence the American populous [sic] in subtle ways over time.

Eg, pointing out Israel's atrocities and how they lead right back to us, or about advantages of socialism compared to oligarchy.

Most other countries allow foreign media to be aired quite freely. Any 'subtle influence' is in a sea of other influences, and quite diluted.

Diverse media with free exchange of ideas leads to a populace with a chance of being informed. Restricting media to the US megacorps is obviously a terrible idea, no?

> That's what propaganda is and it works.

The solution to propaganda is to educate people and teach them critical thinking. However, that would damage the yacht class far too much.
Interestingly my wife is offered O365 online as part of her Master's school as a way to write research papers. When she submits them in canvas, it cannot link to the document she wrote online, so it must be downloaded to her laptop which is a Mac. When that happens the only way to look at it is in our personal version of Word, locally, which distorts quite a bit of things, losing indention or adding spaces is common. It was surprising to me that a docx file is rendered so differently between the 2. This is a common problem for the professors it seems as they are asking people to download the docs to personal office apps and export them to PDF, negating the entire purpose of O365 online that they provided...
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It's great if you have a team that does code reviews. It works less well for reviewing contributions from external contributors on an open-source project,a as the contributor likely just wants to get their PR merged and doesn't want to learn a special reviewing tool.

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I clicked the link wondering if it would be about this "Arnold the Cat" or perhaps related to Simon's Cat:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316638111
Second stages definitely are getting dropped elsewhere, commonly the southern Indian Ocean, as well. Point Nemo doesn't always or even often line up with the target orbit, and you can't keep second stages in space for extended periods of time, because the propellant needed to deorbit boils off.
I'm glad that you have a way to help your daughter. But there are many kids with similar issues and homeschooling can't be our solution for all of them. Instead we need to figure out how to accomodate them at schools.
Many of the beneficial affordances you mention that are available for print but not in ebooks is partly because ebook technology is kind of bad. Navigation and annotation for example could be much better in ebooks if developers put more care into those ergonomics.
Businesses are immortal unkillable people, per the Supreme Court.

If they kill people, they pay (small to them) fines.

Oh wait, the have special tax laws, depreciation, and deductions that real people can't use.

It's almost like he only recourse is to print out a gun and (censored)

Happy capitalism everybody.
Yeah, I'm confused by this to. Did they not even date first, or was this how they asked her out?
the challenge is I don't love my books for the content, but for their essence, so ebooks just aren't as valuable. If my physically books were destroyed in a fire I would be sad because i lost the objects, not temporarily lost access to the contents.
I absolutely agree that some people use jargon as a gatekeeping device or an in-group detector, and that's lame.

But jargon does have value in communication where you know the person you're talking to understands it at the level you do. Jargon, when used well, can let you be simultaneously more precise and more terse.

Think about times you've sent email or even just chat messages to different professional audiences. You're probably going to use different language when talking to a manager vs. a sales person vs. an engineer. I'm not talking about level of formality; the actual language you use to describe the topic at hand will change. Some of that will be a matter of the level of detail you provide, but some of it will likely include jargon (when you're conversing with someone in the same "group" as you), and you might not even realize it.
Are these applicable to the openrsync project?
My point being that politicians were going "ooh computers are good, let's slap a computer onto everything", but then only where they can bikeshed computers into the system as it seems easy at first (education). But without national guidelines to make it good, and no guidelines for medical IT and friends. It seems like Estonia "did computers right" more than Sweden.
It’s also worth nothing that the TSMC plant is basically as far north as it’s possible to be while still counting as part of the (huge) Phoenix metro area. The vast majority of the 5 million residents of that metro area are nowhere near the plant and very unlikely to be affected by it in any way.
And which countries would those be?
This email mentions a bunch of operations that are done per file to ensure the file put in the final location always has the correct contents:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/12/msg00540.html

It claims that the fsync is needed to avoid the file appearing at the final location with a zero length after a power loss. This is not true on ZFS.

ZFS puts every filesystem operation into a transaction group that is committed atomically about every 5 seconds by default. On power loss, the transaction group either succeeds or never happens. The result is that even without using fsync, there will never be a zero length file at the final location because the rename being part of a successful transaction group commit implies that the earlier writes also were part of a successful transaction group commit.

The result is that you can use --force-unsafe-io with dpkg on ZFS, things will run faster and there should be no issues for power loss recovery as far as zero length files go.

The following email mentions that sync() had been used at one point but caused problems when flash drives were connected, so it was dropped:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/12/msg00597.html

The timeline is unclear, but I suspect this happened before Linux 2.6.29 introduced syncfs(), which would have addressed that. Unfortunately, it would have had problems for systems with things like a separate /usr mount, which requires the package manager to realize multiple syncfs calls are needed. It sounds like dpkg was calling sync() per file, which is even worse than calling fsync() per file, although it would have ensured that the directory entries for prior files were there following a power loss event.

The email also mentions that fsync is not called on directories. The result is that a power loss event (on any Linux filesystem, not just ZFS) could have the files missing from multiple packages marked as installed in the package database, which is said to use fsync to properly record installations. I find this situation weird since I would use sync() to avoid this, but if they are comfortable having systems have multiple “installed” packages missing files in the filesystem after a power loss, then there is no need to use sync().
> or just very very very bad luck.

You're underestimating the odds. The odds aren't "bad luck", the odds are "statistical impossibility". Literally any other explanation holds with orders of magnitude higher certainty.

> It is insanely difficult to project circles. Most of time we just pretend it never exist.

Open Google maps, find the equator. That's a circle, rendered on a projection. (But far from the only example possible.)

(And lest I get more objections, a perfectly spherical earth was also an assumption of this assertion that circles don't exist. My coworker attempted to draw/show a circle onto an actual sphere we fortuitously had handy, and no dice.)

(Note the other way exists too: a projection can have a circle rendered on it, though it wouldn't be a circle on an actual sphere.)
It's my understanding that the discount cards somehow work with pharmacy benefits managers (which the person I responded to mentioned). How and why they work has never made much sense to me.
Without knowing your bandwidth usage, it's probably because your bandwidth isn't that high? They're not charging based on revenue. Every major law firm in the world could probably be hosted on Cloudflare Free Tier with a basic static website, but still make $100+ M per year.
“all kids are facing abuse by definition when home schooled” is still ringing.

By your own words here you should be agreeing with me, that homeschooling should be a legal choice.

That making a policy decision based on an outlier (home abuse) that affects everyone is bad.
> look at combined hospital and physician expenses compared to insurer expenses; it's pretty black-and-white

I mean, yeah. They're doing all the work.
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I never got hooked on audio books, even back in the "on tape" days. So slow and I have trouble visualizing and immersing myself in them.
Somebody got a promotion for this change
Anything above what Medicaid pays for drugs/procedures (and maybe a few % over to account for health insurance salaries) is overcharging.

Is that clear enough for you?
Cat Tax
Australia, New Zealand, etc…
To a degree. I was tiny in school, always smallest kid in my grade, and lugging 30 pounds of books around every day means I now have scoliosis.
This is of course not an exact science, and you make good arguments for WW1. The fact that it (maybe) depends on a single shot at a chance encounter makes that extra fun to speculate over.

But I think you underestimate the Russian Revolution. Without the Soviet Union, there is no Cold War, and there is no way China goes communist, stopping a number of genocides. The consequences are huge, and very hard to imagine.

You can even make an argument that without german communists, the Nazis don't take power in Germany, but I admit that's a stretch. And of course, in this alternative world other terrible things would happen.
This is what blows my mind about the universal health care opponents in the US. We would literally be spending less for better health care. People just cannot stomach their money going to the government instead of an unelected mega corp.
You are absolutely ignoring the fact that you don't just get cheaper care (and lets also remember that spending is inflated by the bullshit of insurance "negotiation"), but oh, now everyone has healthcare, not just those employed with a decent employer who provides it.
I'd call your reasoning shallow, but there isn't any. You state a bunch of stuff about a hammer and conclude "therefore TikTok cannot influence public opinion." It is manifestly obvious that many advertisers pay TikTok huge sums of money to literally influence not merely public opinion (of their products) but to incite action (buying those products).

Tiktok has incited action on its own behalf:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-cal...

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releas...

Your claims are ridiculous and your arguments are nonexistent.
Sam Harris used to be respectable but he really started losing his balance and rationality after the 2016 election. I hate to use this term, but he really does have TDS and probably now, EDS. I was upset over Hillary’s defeat too, but as Sam became more and more one-sided, and spoke about voters in a sort of vicious elitist tone, listening to him became more and more difficult and I stopped subscribing. For those who are reading past the paywall, all I’ll say is - try to find other sources to know the other side of any situation or event he’s talking about.
you forgot to mention that Cloudflare is the by far the largest MITM operation on this planet

oh, btw, hello NSA o/
Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) is capped at 85% in the US which means 85% of revenue must go to patients. This is roughly inline with other countries with universal healthcare (MLR ranges from 85-95%).

The fundamental problem is that we don’t have enough resources to take care of everyone. Insurance companies are faced with the impossible task of allocating resources and making care/nocare decisions.

I don’t get the “endless profiteering” angle against insurance companies. If anything it’s the providers who are screwing over patients by gaming insurance and taking more than is necessary from the shared insurance pool of money.
Haven't seen a bank offering software TOTP in Poland. Over a decade ago, before smartphones became ubiquitous, I've seen a bank offering a physical TOTP device. These days, as far as I've seen, it's either SMS codes or single use codes on a physical scratch cards (haven't seen one in 5 years, though), or in-app confirmation.
As long as it’s generating hype and funding, it brings us closer to their own definition of AGI. It’s the perfect plan.
What text editor do you use where loading a large text file doesn't put that entire text file in memory? In a world where even sub-$100 devices have gigabytes of memory, this doesn't seem even remotely problematic.
Although I do agree that the idea of making a dumb ereader that is specifically tailored to the educational environment sounds like a cool hacking project, there's a much simpler approach that basically solves 90% of the problems: just take the WiFi card out!

The problem here is not with electronic textbooks per se, but the pervasive adoption of networked applications for school assignments — which in turn is used to decrease grading time so that schools can shove more students onto a single teacher.
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Yes. AFAIK, it evolved over time across 3+ package managers (`npm`, `yarn`, `pnpm`, etc), but the current state of that ecosystem is similar (including the behavior of dependabot).
And inefficient to boot!
I'm sorry you experienced that, and that kind of hate has not been my experience - though that kind of negativity in other online cultures certainly has been.

Trans people behaving badly does not make me want them to cease existing, or make me feel less for their cause. "Trans people want hate spewn at them to justify their worldview" feels like a hilariously backwards belief outside of a few professional activists, who I am not particularly inclined in listening to in the first place.
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Paywalled unfortunately.
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Technically, they have the ability to choose whoever they want, they just have to pay full price with post tax income. If people accept their employer's choice, then they get to pay for a lower, employer subsidized premium with pre tax income.
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I mean this is why the smallest bikes for kids are literally without pedals and that's been the case for many years now. I mean training wheels was an 80s-90's thing. It disappeared when this knowledge became mainstream in the 00's and the "Balance bikes" became norm instead of training wheels. At least that's my experience with it but I bet this revolution travels slowly, judging by some comments, and the article itself.
> I have no idea what the correct margin for essential cancer drugs is.

So let's talk about it and think about it and form an idea. There's no universally right or wrong answer, but you should at least be able to decide what answer is right to you.

> I don’t think it should be a 10x markup.

What about 1x markup?

> Intuitively, it seems that there’s something wrong with price gouging

There is, but you're relying on the word "gouging", and without identifying what price you think is gouging vs reasonable profit, stopping at the point where you express that "too much is too much" doesn't get us any closer to having actionable goals.
I don't think it creates a huge problem. Are there states where you are not getting an inspection of registration renewal at least every two years? Report your millage accrued, pay then or on a plan (because right now, most people pay-as-you-go for the roads via gas tax, lump sum is not going to be reasonable for a large number of them)

It's certainly a solvable problem
It wasn't a high bar, but they cleared it. Going to miss the faint hope of progress in that direction.
I'm bummed that this is a paid post. I'm not sure I care enough about it to subscribe to another substack. If there are revelations in the lower half of the post, please share and I can change my mind.

I can say my own personal worry/concern regarding Elon and similar, is I don't know how far "similar" goes. I'm fairly skeptical of any hero worship in the business sectors, but it is hard to shake the idea that a lot of current tech leadership is a bit more certain of their views than they should be. Especially politically/socially.

All the more frustrating, as I feel that open criticism and dialogue have been weaponized against folks to a degree that we started punishing people for honestly acknowledging mistakes in the past.
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