skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I always thought there was some crazy health care regularization that prevented medicine delivery.

Nope. Both major pharmacy chains (Walgreens, CVS) and pharmacy startups (Capsule, Alto) have been around for years.

I used to collect from CVS in person because they were downstairs from my office, but they nagged me constantly to switch to mailed pharmaceuticals. Now that I'm WFH I use Alto, who deliver.
I feel exactly the same way, with respect to "going to battle". Things got much more real after kids, its you they look to when things go wrong and you better have it together.
That's not an embedding API. It's definitely Rust exposed to C, but there's nothing meaningful there as an embedder to get started.

Reading code isn't reading documentation. The fact that someone on HN had to search for it and paste it here tells me enough about where they emphasize their time.
You're comparing an i5 to an i7. Processor speed is also pretty important for dev use.

I run a 15" Macbook Pro and a 15" Dell XPS. The Mac is definitely not "far superior".
> And for most most practical purposes, the distinction between writing in the style of Hemingway, and talking like a robot, is ignorable.

Writing != Talking.

No native English speaker would talk like Hemingway speaks.

The genius of Hemingway's writing can be lost if you look only at his writing style and ignore everything else.
Interesting. How about if you're writing with some technical words (or using the names of projects or companies that are made-up words) that don't appear in dictionaries? Does it have a dictionary that you can add words to?
Windows doesn't even have a single calling convention...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/argument-passing-an...
Ive doesn't unilaterally decide how thin the laptop is.

It's a joint decision made by Hardware Engineering, Product Management, Design, Operations etc.

And frankly everyone wants thin laptops just with top tier performance which it looks like we will get.
Yes I don’t think they can change the default now but many many people operate this way (commit everything not ignored), so most of the time don’t need to separate stage and commit (I agree there needs to be a way to do it, but I use it rarely).

My preference would be a command like git save, but a flag would be fine I guess. This is a concept that most beginners don’t really want or need.

Ideally git should evolve so that beginners can learn say 5 standard commands without args, and that’s enough to get on with their work.

Working should be as simple as:

git save, git amend, git tag, git push

Make everyday use simple and easy.
FYI, the ZX Spectrum Next is still available for pre-order until the end of the year. The original run was a successful Kickstarter campaign, so I had enough confidence to pony up $325 pounds for one. It is beautiful and has a lot of modern conveniences like USB/HDMI/VGA/WiFi...etc. People still make new games too. It's a cool scene.
Run your own DNS server locally. It's not that hard.
I suspect (based on similar issues years ago) that you could get it working on MacOS in either one of two ways:

1. Set a password for the setting “VNC viewers may control screen with password:” in the screen sharing settings. Most of the issue with standard VNC clients is that MacOS uses MacOS-specific login security, but setting a password opens it up to VNC-standard security

2. Install an alternate VNC server on the Mac. This bypasses all the MacOS security nonsense.
> KN95s are easy to get and probably work a bit better than cloth masks (though probably worse than proper N95s).

ISTR recently seeing that 90% of "KN95" masks independently tested do not meet the published requirements for the rating, so, I'd hope that is worse than N95 (the requirements are slightly different, but substantively similar), though still probably better than cloth masks.
Good point. Do users uninstall stuff they use infrequently though?
Cool, that makes you one of the people that's going to keep DoH turned off. What's the problem?
> the primary appeal of masks is for quelling fear and anxiety, not preventing spread.

The appeal of masks for me is definitely to lower spread. Yes there is signaling, but also because masks reduce amount of possibly covid-infected droplets expelled from the mouth and nose while breathing and speaking.

It is not possible to have a 6 foot bubble around everybody at all times. It is possible to always wear a mask.

This is not moralizing, this is science.
The orange thing happened last night here. Wife peeled pith of, 4 yo went ballistic for 10 minutes.
Thanks for your experience, but the passively cooled 12" Macbook is really a different thing. Basically, it isn't a 2.5 GHz CPU that throttles, but a 1.1 GHz CPU which can boost itself for a very short time, and the it runs into thermal limit and returns to a 1.1 GHz sustained performance.

And on hot day, that boost might last 30 seconds and then that's it.
JetBrains products are all Java GUI apps and people love them. Depends on the team building it more than the technology.
Pharmacy is such a small part of healthcare... they are only going to make it worse anyways. They're still for-profit.
How tech is shaping China's countryside (Ling Ma interviews Xiaowei Wang)
We're all familiar with the figurative meaning of "heads on pikes". This not a problem of reading comprehension or not understanding hyperbole or sarcasm. The problem is Bannon himself ruled out the figurative, hyperbolic meaning of the saying when he said it. Here's the complete quote:

"Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci. Now I actually want to go a step farther...I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes".

So please explain to me. What does "heads on pikes" mean if the person who said it has discounted the "fire in disgrace" interpretation of the saying? This is a serious question. What do you think it really means, taking the entire quote into context?

(funnily this is a rare instance where a quote that sounds fine out of context takes on a sinister note when surrounding quotes are included)

EDIT: I see downvotes, but no answers to what I thought was a very simple question.
My main use nowadays is to select files. i.e. I have a folder with many files, and I need to cp or mv some of them elsewhere. If it's more than a handful tab completing them is a chore, so I run "mc".

A gui doesn't help, because usually I'm on a remote server somewhere (using SSH).
Past performance does not indicate future performance, but there are plenty of reasons to think Intel might be around for some time to come.
This is clear only when you compare against an obsolete Intel which is known to be throttling power hog.

The difference might be way smaller or non-existent once we see some comparisons with latest AMD offerings (especially when we have also CPUs with comparable process).
I'd tolerate that if it runs usefully faster every day. Could save money overall.

There are several parts in a workstation that are already monolithic packages. Most GPU+GRAM cards, for example.
Do you see anything happening in the US public sphere to make you particularly hopeful about how we’ll handle the next one? These people are literally dying on the hill of “covid is a hoax”. Half of the country claims they won’t take a vaccine, and the leadership of half of the country has learned they can gain power by downplaying covid.
Somebody on twitter reported that during Rust compilation the Air started throttling a bit (20-30% hit) after 3-4mn. The Pro doesn't throttle.
US healthcare is terrible _because_ it's for-profit. Won't this just entrench it further?
Easily†, for yourself.

Emoji are just fonts, and with some search engine sleuthing, you can find an OG pistol emoji out there, pop open your system emoji font in an editor, and replace the water pistol with a pistol pistol.

Everyone else will still see the Nerfed version, of course.

†For some value of easy
These machines are Apple’s volume in Macs. The MacBook Air, in particular. And today, Apple gets to tout their best-seller is dramatically faster and has dramatically better battery life.

Makes marketing sense to me.
C developers are denying sad reality of obsolete archaic ideas, poor ergonomics, crappy tooling, security nightmare, unreliability, and language that is impossible to scale in a bigger team settings (don't bring up Linux; I am a kernel dev; Linux kernel is relative small, carefully engineered core, and majority of the weight are a leaf nodes of device drivers, implementing small and carefully engineered interfaces).
Even if it worked well, it hard to believe using it would be less effort than figuring things out on your own. Men who care about what they look like are probably going to have decent instincts about what to wear. Men who don’t care, well, they’re not going to try.
Don't know. Thought the same, but my wife said one thing that stuck with me: "Life's short. They'll leave on their own anyway and then you'll miss this".

I gave in and still put our 4 and 6 year olds to sleep in our big family bed, then teleport them later. After being a bit annoyed in the beginning, I've changed my mind by now. Bringing them to bed is honestly the best thing ever.
AMD definitely is the best of the rest, but it doesn't seem quite as close as it may be held to.

In single core tests the 4800u is running that core at 4.2Ghz. Yet it gets soundly bested by the M1 @ 3 - 3.2Ghz (running at a 50%+ advantage, 65%+ clock per clock). The M1 has an enormous IPC advantage.

In a multicore test the 4800u has 8 performance cores with HT. It only marginally beats an M1 with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores (by the scaling the efficiency cores look like they're 1/4 performance or worse -- these are very lightweight cores).

Again, it's the best of the rest, but Apple clearly holds an enormous lead here. Somehow everyone is focused on 5nm, but the A13 on 7nm was still in a substantial lead. The 4800u on 5nm is only going to be marginally better.

Apple clearly sandbagged this first entrant because they're packing it into their "entry level" devices. In six months or whatever they'll unveil the 6+2 core device in the mid range, the 12+2 in the high range, etc, and we'll be back at these discussions.

(Speaking generally) - This whole discussion about Apple Silicon is fascinating because the goal posts have moved so much. Looking back to HN discussions a year ago and everyone was talking about some pathetically weak entrant that would be a joke, etc. Now people are celebrating that it doesn't beat a 24-core, 300W Threadripper. Now the narrative is that it isn't impressive because the v1 didn't overwhelming destroy everything else in the market.
> Can people please stop this latent homophobia? Mozilla fired a person who donated money to a deplorable cause. You can try to hide behind free speech, but we all know what this is about.

He quit. And I don’t agree with it, but I wouldn’t exactly call his cause deplorable. People with those views can believe they’re being completely ethical. That was also in 2008, a different political climate, and nobody allowed him to learn from it or to restitute.

Of course, I agree that wasn’t their downfall—it was simply misdirected goals and funding.
I’m guessing the same reason as browser extensions get sold - remote code execution on a bunch of people’s computers for something they wouldn’t volunteer for. Displaying ads, exploiting data leaks to plugins that might exist in VSCode, waiting for a zero day in electron to drop without a patch, something miserable.
Same with me. I think a few people overstate the feeling of their new bond to the point that it's supposedly become normal.
Firefox by default tries to connect to http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt in order to detect captive portals.
In freaking love my RM2. Use it every day!!!
Are you sure you’ve replied to the right comment?

I was literally making the point that these rumours have persisted for years and nothing has ever come of it.

I couldn’t agree more with the rest of your comment!
I became a dad quite late in life, at 55. It's been an eye-opener. After several months I suddenly realized I'd kill and die for this little bundle. Then it occurred to me that most, if not all, of these parents walking around me are the same.

Being a dad has led me to consider it carefully. I've concluded that, since humans are terrible at long-term planning, deferment of benefit, and putting the benefit of the group ahead of personal gain. So Darwin doesn't rely on any of that, or any decision-making at all. Parenting a baby/small child pushes a lot of major buttons in humans. Hard. Like no drug ever. It is its own reward, which is good; children aren't known for their gratefulness.
Got Pills?™

Yay, Venture Capital x the Pharmaceutical industrial complex. What could go wrong?
In the US we have real anti-leadership. Our leaders repeatedly cast doubt on science and common sense in order to reduce their own culpability. They spread the myth that there is ‘nothing we can do’ about COVID until we have a vaccine when other countries have proven this to be false.
> The Constitution was ratified before anyone accepted that germs cause disease.

And yet state regulations (even once the Bill of Rights was generally -- though not, I note, explicitly) applied to states via the 14th Amendment requiring people to cover body parts in public to protect some vague combination of public health and public morality have remained in place in all 50 states.

I don't think "cover your nose and mouth in public" mandates (by the states) have any federal constitutional vulnerability as long as "cover your genitals and anus in public" mandates are widely recognized as enforceable.

Federal mandates for mask wearing in public generally would probably have to be conditional mandates on the states and/or have travel/commerce consequences for noncompliance to be secure (mandates on the states with state-level travel/commerce consequences being the most secure), though.
yes, but the supremacy clause applies only to laws written within its (federal) jurisdiction, as enumerated in the constitution (and amendments). the battle there, of course, is how much jurisdiction can be finagled under the interstate commerce clause and the like.
Hi Ethn!

Existence of the [Gödel 1931] proposition I'mUnprovable is inconsistent with the following theorem to the effect that theorems can be used in proofs:

⊢∀[Proposition Ψ] (⊢Ψ)⇒Ψ
I just linked to a thread containing multiple sources. It sounds like wearing a mask isn't simply putting some cloth in front of you face and in fact you've politicised it. How amusing.
Is there a chance the Servo code base could be used to develop a new browser? You know, like phoenix rising from the ashes much like FF rose from the Netscape code base (wasn't FF even called phoenix at some point)? Because that's certainly something to get HNers behind.
I enjoyed this app.

Features that occurred to me that I'd want if I were to create an account:

can I mark which clothing options I own vs don't?

For items I don't own, could my account hold my measurements to give appropriate Amazon shopping links (with affiliates to this site probably) so if I want an outfit I just hit 'buy'?

Can I get 5 outfits generated for a workweek, with each of the 5 ensuring they are not reusing tops/bottoms back to back on same day?
This only really really works if you do TAI. Down with leap seconds.
Nobody has ever constructed an independent human-compatible biosphere. We have 0 evidence that it is possible at a practical scale. N=1.
This has been coming since 2018. Is there no end to Amazon's dominance? I seriously worry that it's becoming a real threat to democracy.
The states aren't run by stupid people. They're not gonna send in some state cops start shooting people over masks or to escalate in that direction. They don't have the manpower to enforce mask mandates without the consent of the governed. Their options for projecting power into areas where people have relatively homogeneously chosen to not comply are limited.
Biosphere 2 was originally meant to demonstrate the viability of closed ecological systems to support and maintain human life in outer space[0]

>including humans seem to have caused most of the problems

I chuckled a bit at your reply hvd.

The hardest, seemingly intractable problems in the world aren't engineering problems, they are human ones. If we want to level up as a species those are the ones we will need to figure out how to solve.
Google’s latest Chrome update delivers ‘largest performance gain in years’
The data from your link is 10 days old. In the meantime many more beds got occupied.
Interesting, but I would have preferred to see how these numbers compare to the same time period a year ago.
I've found Hemingway to be useful when writing business-related messages to team mates. I tend to get wordy and intricate when I dash off messages. What this app is good at is poking you and saying "can you make this sentence shorter? Can it be simpler?" Usually the answer is yes. It's a forcing function that deters lazy writing.

It is not meant for writing beautiful, stylish prose. Or, at least, that's not what I'd ever consider using it for.
> Intel just does this. Every now and then, they get so far ahead that the rest of the market just totally disintegrates, (...)

Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Keep in mind you're trying to pin magical properties on a brand, and meanwhile people and technologies come and go.
Does Mozilla compete with for profit companies for C suite market? Which technology intensive company hire a CEO who is lawyer by profession and hasn't had any redeeming resume for management and technology. If you look at firefox's market share, the only growth it had was when she was not a CEO. Seriously, Mozilla is not competing with for profit companies in C suite labor market.
It's both. You can still wear masks in areas where they aren't explicitly necessary. In liberal cities in many "red" states, most people wear masks. It's 100% a "culture war" thing at this point. When I was moving from CA back East a few months ago, I saw practically nobody wearing masks even in rural CA.

That's not even mentioning that it's the people who are electing governments which don't require these basic public health requirements.
Ask HN: Remote Jobs Demand
My company is a household name, and has just switched over to a Distributed Workforce (Remote Work) longterm.

We're having recruiting issues, and the narrative is there are less people searching for remote roles, therefore that's why our recruiting pipelines are a trickle or what they're used to.

To reinforce this I checked LinkedIn which we syndicate postings to, and saw there was no "Company " Remote filter applied jobs.

My thought is, if this is advertised correctly, we'd see an influx of candidates, but I wanted to check with the HN community before escalating this further.

What has everyone seen?
It may replace some software, but it won't really lure many of the C / embedded developers. The problem is that rust developers miss the point of C. People who program with C want the bare minimum, they don't care about classes or other OOP features. If there was something that sort of grogs what C programmers want, it's probably zig-lang.

To put it in short, C programmers hate needless abstraction and work with raw memory and hand-crafted data structures whenever possible. More data, less code.
This would be a front-end to said silicon
And Amazon isn't just a gravy train for Amazon executives and some employees, while people are suffering and going bankrupt?
Nitpick: UCS-2 actually isn't fixed-length either, eg "ẍ̊" (small x+umlaut+ring above) is two code units (1E8D 030A) or possibly three (0078 0308 030A).
Jubilee: Should a Biden administration unilaterally forgive student debt?
The above situation does not fit the definition of monopoly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

> A monopoly (from Greek μόνος, mónos, 'single, alone' and πωλεῖν, pōleîn, 'to sell') exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. This contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly and duopoly which consists of a few sellers dominating a market.[1] Monopolies are thus characterized by a lack of economic competition to produce the good or service, a lack of viable substitute goods, and the possibility of a high monopoly price well above the seller's marginal cost that leads to a high monopoly profit.[2]

For example, almost everyone can get their medication at Costco, Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens.
San Francisco is the second densest city in America. San Francisco has the lowest COVID transmission rates of any city, with recently a positive test rate under 1%. Masks matter.
Having the experience (or, love/hate relationship - so awesomely thin and quiet, so underpowered) with 12" Macbook, one surprise is that throttle time really depends on environment temperature and GPU use.

In a cool room it can last few minutes before throttling, while outside on a warm day it throttles almost instantly.

Also, a thermal budget is shared with GPU, so once you plug-in the external display, or start Sidecar, you run out of thermal headspace pretty much instantly.

I'd love to see these two factors tested.
Suicides in Japan rise in October for 4th straight month
I think Google ran out of good will/benefit of the doubt when it comes to tracking tech a long time ago. AFAIK, every blocker tool I use on any platform, which probably includes most of the well-known ones by now, will block GTM in the default configuration.

If a site doesn't work properly with GTM blocked, legitimate use case or not, personally I normally just move on. Unless I have a compelling reason to need that site, I won't make any attempt to work around it or change my blocker settings.

The only Google property I'm aware of that isn't routinely blocked by these kinds of tools now is Google Fonts, and I think some of them even block that by default now.
That would be the Mac Mini.

But seriously, I share your opinion on laptop keyboards: regular function keys please.
I have seen it noted by product managers that programmers tend to write with a very dense style that typically includes more context switching (for example, this sentence) than non-programmers.

I also find the "dense difficult sentence" example to be neither dense nor difficult but I think this might be related to the huge amount of my life spent exercising that "writing context" brain-muscle by writing "then" statements while keeping the "if" context in mind.

Edit: The point being, these guidelines are not universal and will have varied relevance among different works/audiences.
I love transparency, it looked pretty trash in the vista aero theme because of all the gloss but now I feel like its realizing its true beauty.