skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of interest, how does this work? In my ignorance, I'd have imagined a number of different chemicals with similar properties DMT that would also dissolve in the naptha. Does DMT just happen to have highly unique properties?
Now popular 图样图森破 meme.
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Study the Austrian School of Economics
This is truly a great improvement, but not including ground ambulances in this is messed up. And reeks of a special-interest lobbying group pushing for it.

This also really bothers me:

> Out-of-network doctors also must inform patients about what their care might cost, and they may ask patients to sign a form that waives their protections. (Be leery of signing this, consumer rights experts say.)

It's a very weak law when you can still sign away your rights to someone who has the stronger end of a power/information imbalance. Emergency care is supposed to be covered by this law, but if you're in bad shape and show up at the ER, you might sign anything just to get care.
Man, I am a young junior developer so I am not aware of all the history of programming, but this past decade really seems like the renaissance of low level programming (at least in terms of new languages)

On another note, as a fan of both C and Rust, I am excited to see new languages that might improve upon ones that I already love.

My big question for Zig is, is this going to be like the D programming language? From what I was told D was better than C++, but wasn't enough of an improvement to fully take hold.

I do like the idea of an improved C though. For as good as Rust is, it certainly can take a while to code up a project, I would prefer C to fire things up quickly and having some modern improvements in a language like C definitely grabs my attention.
> The ideal state of being would be one in which we have limitless fusion power or similar and we basically just do whatever we wish. If we get that and alchemy we win the Universe.

No, using energy inevitably changes the state of world we live in (that is actually the point). Use crazy amounts of energy in a distributed and unregulated manner, and the world will be nowhere like the one we evolved in, and we will die.
It's almost taboo to feel bad for her! I think she committed a crime - but compare to the coverage to, for example, Madoff, it certainly seems rather different.

I guess it cuts both ways - she certainly garnered more attention than your average unicorn startup CEO. Now those same forces are working against her.
this push has been going for years now. One decisive factor is how the structure of these systems have been better understood by people outside the system and outrages across the country erupted, people are getting more educated on the matters, thanks to the Internet in many ways, social media has its benefit in also fast spreading genuine information and facilitate healthy discussions.
kudo to everyone who has contributed to this incredible outcome indeed.

I think as the understanding of the health system continues to spread, it will become more and more difficult for certain unethical practices to survive the backslash.
Is there a fix for this? Is it just a payment of loans issue, or is it a working conditions issue or is it a lack of interest issue? Or is it some combination of the three, or another, unknown thing (or a known, unmentioned thing)?

Granted, I have zero power. I ask because I'm curious and just want to know.
"Zero people died from the plant."
Have you ever searched for czernobyl victims?
I advice it, but only if you have strong nerves.
Especially those poor kids...
So the vaccine that they inject into you, that would cause an allergic reaction, has nothing to do with the allergic reaction?
The only one I can think of right now that releases energy when burnt in oxidizing atmosphere is H2, though there almost certainly are others.
I mean, he's right about that though, even if his opinion on Theranos was 100% wrong
Oh my gawd! How dare they? The imperteninence! I-N-C-O-N-C-E-I-V-A-B-L-E...

I'm at a loss for words for this continous fearmongering.
Wonder where Australian Aboriginal languages fit into this? They have been isolated for something like 50,000 years.
Following the author on Twitter [1] has been a treat for me. Even right now, he's building a 3D visualisation of runners for Hakone Ekiden [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/nagix

[2] https://nagix.github.io/hakone-ekiden/
They’re for integration tests not unit tests. Although the distinction is frequently treated as something that means something by purists, I only use it as a way to distinguish conceptually how many complex layers are being stacked since both run under “unit test frameworks” usually for reporting and assertion purposes. I view mocking as usually an anti-pattern. Careful DI usually gets you far enough and is easier to work with. You want the code under test to resemble what’s happening as much in production as possible. The more “extra” you have, the more time you’re wasting maintaining the test infrastructure itself which is generally negative value (your users don’t care about the feature being late because you were refactoring the codebase to be easier to test each function in isolation.

Empty databases should generally start quickly unless there’s some distributed consensus that’s happening (and even then, it’s all on a local machine…). You also don’t even need to tear it down all the way - just drop all tables.
So cars did this entirely on their own. Come on

You might not like cars but everyone else does. They like and want cities this way and in reality it’s people like us that are the outliers. We aren’t right. We are going against the tide.

We built cities around cars Because we like cars — because they put distance between us and our fellow American we don’t particularly like or want to tolerate.
> It's essentially impossible to reverse the hashed password.

It’s essentially a nontrivial unit of work to brute force the hash (or exploit collisions for a compromised hashing algo). That’s not impossible but it’s important not to overstate its safety too.
I don't feel bad for her and I'm not talking about "Poor baby! Men are such meanie faces!"

Links to things I dared to open my mouth and say in the past:

Me commenting on how I think her gender impacted things:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11450442

Me commenting on my frustration at the amount of press the debacle got:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14143057
She was parading around as a lean forward messiah after the allegations came out and the media was lapping it all up without question. A pretty clear example of the women are wonderful effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect
Article ends with:

> Thankfully for Theranos, in a few weeks this incident will look like nothing more than a minor setback. [...]

> Theranos won’t go bankrupt, their investors are still going to get rich, and Holmes will still be on the cover of tech magazines. In fact, in the next few years Theranos will only become stronger.

Which of course turned out to be hilariously wrong. A lesson in the value of the opinions of pundits (approximately zero).
I upvote now and send a tiny ripple into the fabric of the universe’s karma.
My understanding is that hydro power (at elast traditional hydro) is largely utilized fully in many places and ecologically damaging on a local scale.
There are a lot more of us than the media would lead you to believe. I have 2 shots and have no problem working alongside those with zero.

In the US/Canada for most people to keep your house you have to work for a corporation. Having your employer as the vaccine enforcer means they have no real free choice. It’s comply or become homeless.

Not working for most is far more damaging than contracting Covid. To deny them government benefits they paid for via taxes because they don’t want to take the vaccine is absurd.

The whole “I don’t want the unvaccinated to put me at risk” crowd can just go seal themselves up in a bubble.

You can’t avoid contracting Covid forever at this point. There is 3x vaccine shots to protect you and now antiviral cocktails.
I think this is a perfectly valid opinion, far more defensible than his take on Theranos' coverage.
Writing UseState Hook from Scratch
Same boat. I'm pro-vaccine, but I have no desire to punish those who disagree.
Interesting. With java the just in time compiler starts to work, if you have iterated several thousand times over the same spot (java cmd line option -XX:CompileThreshold sets this, the default 10000 by default for hotspot server) Interesting if lua has a similar thing... have to learn more about it.
Five second Google search shows otherwise: https://github.com/features/copilot/signup
This is pretty sad. Emirates, for all their glory doesn't pay their pilots well. I mean, what's the point in spending on stuff like fancy first class seats and all that without paying pilots well. True irony. Fanciest and the most comfortable airline for the passengers, the exact opposite for the pilots.
So this isn't really deserializing JSON as some of the optimizations they are making are based on them actually targeting a JSON subset. That removes a bunch of conditions and branches. Still, it's interesting, and a great example of ways handling trusted data is faster than untrusted (and I guess more importantly how people writing handlers for untrusted code can accidentally "optimize" things into security flaws :D)

That said, in my experience the real cost of JSON parsing turns out to be constructing the in memory representation of the sources. I'm sure JSON parsing for the purpose of deserializing specific types would be faster as you might be able to avoid some allocations (e.g. imagine a vector type `struct Vector { float elements[4]; }` a generic JSON representation would result in two allocations)
You mean not aging really well? Just compare rise in gold prices in last 10 years to equities or commodities or real estate or crypto.
As long as this is done via Congress passing laws to cover up loopholes, it's not going to work. It takes too many years to push through legislation, and the health care industry can reorient to bilk their customers some other way too fast. A competently run agency with a ton of authority is required.

Not sure that you could get that past the Supreme Court, or run it competently over the long term given our depressing partisan split on health care, but you know. If this were Canada, that would be the way to make this work.
The only news I pay for is The Economist. I like the fact that there's a short daily summary of news and a weekly addition. While I realize articles are released daily, I like the fact that I can read the weekly addition over the weekend and know I'm caught up until the next addition is released. I find other news sources that don't have a prominent weekly section cause me to constantly check for news stories and wind-up reading stuff I don't actually care about because it's there.
Maybe at one point ClearCase could have been considered state of the art, but that ship has long sailed. I used it professionally from 2004-2013, and it was awful. Branching was slow. Well, everything was slow. It was way too easy to miss new (view private) files. Non trivial merges were atrocious. We were begging to migrate to svn...
It affects my relatives when everything they can buy has all the fiber stripped out, and is pre-loaded with sugar. I stay away from it, but my kids have less ability to stay clear. All the media they encounter primes them to believe that sugar is normal to expect in everything. They have no resistance.

My mother-in-law just died of cancer in October. Her heavy sugar habit must have contributed to how fast it spread. In the hospital, the meals they provided were all loaded with sugar and stripped of fiber and fat. So, it affects us all, xbecause the full industrial might of the modern world is turned to pushing sugar on the population.
Well, I can assure you it was a thing, but I would rather not necro old posts to support my casual observation. I also particularly don't want to call out specific evidence as it shines a light on the apparent political persuasion of these efforts and the absolute last thing I want to to furthered muddle this site in political content.

So if you have not observed a radical uptick in political/health posts in the last two years, I tip my hat to you. Perhaps I see more of it because I tend to look at "new" rather than the "popular" news.
It rained fish over a Texas town this week in a bizarre weather event
It's about manned missions. The weight of materials needed to protect them from radiation is just too much with current tech. Here you have the logic.
Trivrost – A repurposable application downloader and launcher
I think the charitable interpretation is she's seriously deluded. She also "launched" a Twitter hashtag if I recall correctly of #IronSisters which had me rolling my eyes. She was trying to evoke Iron Lady a la Margaret Thatcher but it sounds skeevily like iron maiden instead.

Edit: I don't mean the band.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_maiden
It will be interesting to see if this changes anything on my next visit to the hospital. When my child was born we asked in advance both insurance and the hospital for a cost estimate. No one could provide one. We were then proceeded to be sent bills from various parties for over a year. We had no idea if we were to pay it, insurance was to pay it, if we had already paid it and there was an accounting error. Each bill was as vague as the next with only the company name to go off of. The whole thing is/was perposterous. Can the hospital not act as a mediary and collate all of the charges on a single line itemed bill? Because that is how everything else in the world works.

From what I can gather.there is some sinister game hospitals and medical insurance play, but you would think that, oh, I don’t know, it would save time and money for them both to just come up with some agreed upon pricing and save some administrator overhead.
That people ultimately do what they want. They aren’t brainwashed. Car companies or lobbies don’t build our cities. We build them they way we want them. If we wanted them some other way we would. And most people live in suburban sprawl where they distance themselves from their fellow American — who they don’t particularly like very much.
Yeah, you'll get in there, and it will be one of 20 forms you have to sign.
> I want 5 acres of land and don't want to see my neighbor.

You're not making Greta angry enough, don't you want a personal Olympic-sized swimming pool as well??
Except as an object lesson. But we all have read more than our share of bad code already.
DO IT! That sounds so cool!
I’d like a smaller version of this put into a wristwatch with a radioisotope power supply, an ISO-8601 date/time readout, and a built in calculator for measuring time dilation effects with my spouse. A laser pointer would be cool too.
Unlikely, unless the interviewer was just trolling them.

If it was just their attitude, they’d not tell them they were wrong when they weren’t and tell them to work on x y and z to be qualified in the future. They’d just complete or end the interview and say something like, “Great! You should hear back in x days” and then reject in their ATS.

If not, then the recruiter is an asshole and gaslighting the candidate.
Because people hear “unit tests” and “integration test” and “behavior test” and bend over backwards to start DI and mock every single little thing and be very careful about organizing things in that way, which is a huge anti pattern in my experience. You should DI/mock only when you have no other choice (eg you need to corrupt the data returned by an I/O call to test some corner condition). Generally, the less DI/mocking/supporting code just for testing purposes you have, the simpler and more testable (ironically) your codebase actually is. The reason is that you’re actually testing the behavior of each function in a wider variety of test cases than just the ones written for that one function. You use fuzzers or property tests to generate a wide variety of test cases. The purists will argue that this makes tests brittle because changing a core routing can suddenly cause many tests to fail/ need updating. In practice I’ve observed that such updates are typically trivial and mechanical while with mocks you end up doing the same thing anyway (change an interface and suddenly you have a bunch of mocks that need updating anyway).

Mocks and DI can be useful. Don’t get me wrong. But use them sparingly and judiciously when they’re the right tool for the job. Recognize that they’re usually not.
Those are all meant to be investments; gold is for the part of a portfolio that needs to maintain its value in a market crash. Gold is proving to be a much better option than cash or bonds.

And with the exception of the unlucky souls who bought in 2011-2012, gold has been reasonably competitive with equities. Not as good, but much lower risk.
But it won't make your wife/husband have a kid with 1 leg and many other terrible deformations.
Really? So a deep friendship between China and Mexico would be something that the US would have no problems with? The hypocrisy is amusing. The US-Taiwan relationship is perceived as a threat, which makes complete sense from the Chinese perspective.

China has no plans of invading Hong Kong, where in the world is this nonsense from.. As for the consequences of invading Taiwan, of course. Which is why I am very certain it will not happen.

> There is a 100% chance, that if a choice were given to Hong Kong citizens today to either continue on the path to integrating with China - or - to be independent - they would chose independence.

There is no other way to describe this other than complete bullshit. There are polls. Hong Kong citizens can be communicated with. I suggest you find them and do that. And while you're at it, explain how Hong Kong will survive economically and resource-wise in this fantasy scenario. There's no point in continuing any discussion when these basic facts cannot be agreed on. This is a laughably naive idea that is only feasible through Western delusion.

Re: economic comparisons, fair enough, I let myself be dunked on by framing the question in that way. It's skewed by the long tail of rural Chinese - _especially_ in the case of Hong Kong, which cannot be fairly compared to China as a whole, but I wasn't clear.
I'd just suggest looking at growth metrics instead. Taiwan and HK economic stagnation is an old story.
That's a great question. I wonder if they took a belt-and-braces approach — as well as all the quarantining and testing, bring along some remdesivir/molnupiravir/ritonavir/etc, monoclonal antibodies and so on, just in case you get really really unlucky and one of the (presumably quite fit and healthy) people ends up with a severe case.
Didn't age well. To their credit, they've left the story up.
What about RTGs which are common in space use?

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_system...
That was part of it, but there was also a desire to be very sure we had enough address space to avoid needing to go through this again. SEND and privacy extensions also make use of the 128-bit address to add some security.

It's already possible to connect from v6 to v4, and using 48-bit addresses wouldn't make doing so any easier. 48 bits would also be way too small; there'd be no point in going to this amount of effort to update IP only to then have to do it a second time straight afterwards.
Just look at the implementation of namedtuple. It is an utter abomination from an implementation perspective. I’d take a junior developer who sent a code review with that out back and politely beat some sense into them.
Especially with last minute doctor allocations. Arrive for your critical surgery that must be done ASAP and get met by an anesthesiologist (thank you spellchecker) who says "by the way I'm out of network, do you agree to pay me an arbitrary amount? If not, your surgery is cancelled."

Then if you do say no, could the hospital then charge you for cancelling surgery at late notice? Especially given insurance generally doesn't cover such fees.

Honestly any law that doesn't say "if the facility is in network, the insurance company must cover all costs as in network" and get rid of this bullshit concept of "out of network" people in an in network facility is fundamentally insufficient.
https://news.mit.edu/2013/better-cladding-for-nuclear-reacto...
In Africa, South African Airlines also has an exemplary safety record.

Air France dropped of my list of airlines to fly on after AF447.
Never mind the passengers, this would have been pretty scary for those in the houses being overflown by a 777 at treetop height!
One consideration is that if you remove all barriers to entry, your ecosystem might quickly become overrun with bots and spam.

If you're interested in a less commercialized, blogging-oriented niche of the Internet, you might also want to look into Gemini which is a new, simpler internet protocol that is incompatible with HTTP by design, and primarily designed for sharing textual data rather than rich media content. So it's like a modern effort to create a niche in the Internet similar to the Usenet/BBS systems and Web 1.0 era of the past.

Browse through a proxy like: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/

It's kind of neat in that it results in a small, self-selecting, geeky community with some weird, quirky stuff that you don't see elsewhere on the modern web, for example, discussion of the week about topics like broccoli, or 5 questions of the month among total strangers:
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-...
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/soviet.circumlunar.space/whole...
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminispace.info/search%3Fbroc...
No, not yet. In brief, some of the key challenges seem to be:

1) Each person's internal representation of knowledge differs (see [0]). Therefore it is difficult to take someone else's questions and answers and expect them to make much sense, be at the appropriate difficulty, or even be relevant.

2) The current unit of collaboration is an entire deck. This is far too coarse grained and impedes finding and adapting relevant material. In addition, it is a pain to later sync if there are updates.

3) The current unit of work is a single card. This has some advantages, but also makes it harder to make changes, see the forest for the trees, and think holistically about knowledge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)
AlmaLinux also offers support, and if you’re in really dire need so does Oracle.
Added details. Looking forward to our chat!
Have I Been Pwned adds 441K accounts stolen by RedLine malware
Seriously.

Isn't it only relatively recently they've even had to show us prices? And so draw attention to the $15 bandaids, etc?

(I've never had any actual hospital stays while living in the US so have never seen a receipt, and so don't know the progression)
"There are old mushroom hunters, and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters"

"Any wild mushroom can be eaten - once."

I limit my foraging to the mushroom section of the grocery store.
Heh.

I once helped author the hiring guidelines and questions used for recruiting and interviewing. After months of effort, the committee proudly, euphorically called the effort good.

I then asked the committee "Who here could pass the high bar we just set?"

Total buzz kill.

The upside was I was never asked to help again.
The accumulation of contaminated water is visible on aerial views on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/dr7DiK76sSWbLKF1A

Most if not all of these round structures are massive tanks storing contaminated water. Looking at it now, it seems like the amount of space they take has actually reduced in the past few years, I seem to remember them spreading out pretty far.
medman77 only ever posted that one comment and had karma of 81 as of just now (2022-01-02T04:53Z).