skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably like many here, I read this and just had to vent outrage at the sheer injustice and inhumanity. This comment is for you to rage upvote.

Compassionate capitalism is more needed today than ever. Sure, this is likely just some low-level buffoon at a chain mouthing off in ignorance. But that's why it's dangerous; toxic capitalism has thoughtlessly metastasized to the middle.

Given the severe and extreme states most commodities markets have found themselves in of late, I expect an exacerbating withdrawal of liquidity by most market participants -- even posting margin for normal hedging requirements is beginning to require completely untenable amounts of free cash flow. I fear that severe inflation is very much looming at the door.
Note that they don't care about the themes their end users pick, though. You can theme your app just fine. They just want operating systems using their software (with their logos, trademarks and support links) to stop shipping their custom themes by default.

They just don't want Canonical or Fedora to ship a theme that makes all applications that didn't come bundled look like shit. If you like the Windows 95 Hotdog Stand theme, you can configure that and everybody probably agrees that that's great. If you inflict that pain upon yourself, that's your problem.

The current "solution" to themes breaking applications is to just not follow the system theme any longer. Everything gets packaged with a hardcoded theme in a sandboxed environment and you'll just have to live with that.
Are you sure it's profit, as opposed to certainty, that drives the investment mindset here?

I agree that renewables and distributed energy generation are the path forward, but I can understand a lot of investors having reasonable scepticism (even after more than a decade of proven wind + solar ramp-up) about those technologies remaining market-leading.

Under that mindset, it's not so much about "will investment in this individual company make {me/my portfolio audience} the largest return", but moreso "is this the investment that I can leave as-is for twenty years and be most-confident about".
No, I'm not an x-ray operator, but I work in health care and have good knowledge of what it costs to run a hospital in America.

What you are describing is what your out of pocket expenses were. That's completely different from "what an x-ray costs". For example, if your expenses were lower than it cost the x-ray provider, they had to have some extra credit from- say- a health care org or the government. Where did the government get that money... well, taxes, of course! That money you paid to them (if you had to pay taxes) eventually gets converted into paying doctor and X-ray tech salaries, the cozy office for the hospital administrator, electrical companies, x-ray companies, etc (x-ray machines cost $5-10M to install and over a million a year to operate).

The way to think about this is the "all-in" cost: if you could somehow magically see the bills the hospital pays you'd see that out of pocket payments are only a fraction of the total costs of a service.

(I am not arguing that $69K is a reasonable expense for a routine x-ray. It's just that most people don't pay that, and in this case, nobody did- the health care org paid a different amount entirely, which was negotiated between the health care company and the service provider).
It definitely has sentimental value.

I'll try this over the weekend.

Thank You !
> The only issue with it is that font rendering looks horrific, but that might just be my machine.

This is because GTK4 enables pixel/scaling-independent fractional vertical positioning, even with hinting enabled. There's a long (somewhat ongoing) discussion at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787, though I haven't followed the last few months of discussion.

Even though GTK4 aims to achieve scale-independent layout, the 4 horizontal/vertical positions still produce a bit of judder, and fonts do not scale smoothly (even with bilinear interpolation) with hinting enabled, and (unless fixed) there are rendering issues due to failing to clear the texture atlas properly: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4322

Interestingly there's a proposal to switch GTK4 fonts to SDF-style rendering. This is somewhat like what Qt Quick 2 implemented already (and KDE turns off and reverts to FreeType rendering, to make QML apps mimic Qt Widgets font rendering more): https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2022/03/20/rendering-text-w... However, I looked at https://github.com/behdad/glyphy and it seems to implement vector-based SDFs, instead of earlier texture-based SDF/MSDFs used by Valve games and Qt Quick.
I regret to inform you that the latest release of `find` has been renamed to [magnifying glass emoji].

For example,

# Find directories the old way.
find . -type d

# The cool new way!
[magnifying glass emoji] . -[keyboard] [folder emoji]

Edit: HN appears to strip emojis, so my new edited comment doesn't pack the same punch.
Not worked up. Just stating the facts. Don't understand how his twitter invalidates the fact?
Like what? I don't use Reddit.
New construction is unlocked by increased income-linked demand and rents only marginally increase.
Financial stress on the customers means also likely means smaller tips. With fewer customers, that also means fewer tips, and fewer hours. So the employees are fucked even if Applebees doesn't say, "Hey if you twist this knife handle a funny noise comes out. Here, you try it."
> It seems like every SaaS out there is targeting only the very occasional users and large enterprise users, but nothing in between.

It's like that for everything IT related. I've done part time IT service work for 20 years and in the last 5 years the cost of IT for small businesses has drastically increased. I'd estimate that things like email and network devices (management + updates) have increased by 5-10x for a lot of small businesses.

Family run businesses that are providing income for 1 or 2 people can't absorb those kinds of costs. Imagine if every appliance in your house all of a sudden became an annual subscription that's the same amount as the one time cost used to be. That's what small business IT is like now.

Normally I'd be optimistic and say all that means is a lot of opportunity for anyone that wants to start a business, but it's not. The high prices are being driven by consolidation and reduced competition in every area where there's some type of barrier to entry. Network devices are the best example. You can't decide to start a hardware manufacturing business without a ton of capital.

It's only going to get worse too. My prediction is that within 2 years Ubiquiti will go subscription based, within 5 years Windows will be subscription only for business use, and getting a perpetual version of MS Office will be nearly impossible within the next 3-4 years. I also think both Microsoft and Google will discontinue their non-profit / education offerings by the end of the decade because all the budget friendly options (aka competitors) will be completely eliminated by then.
FWIW I had the same experience with Embark Studios. (Game Dev in Stockholm that prides themselves on doing gamedev in rust.)

Applied for a rust job. Got a Go coding assessment. Was told that the job was Go based.
I don't use Reddit. I wouldn't know where to look. Can you just tell me?
Paying Mozilla is mostly a donation, not a purchase.
It is reasonable to scrutinize on the accountability when it comes to donations, even for normal donors.

I do have a regular donation to the Mozilla Foundation but I too wish I could chip in specifically to Firefox proper.
This is a stretch. The corporate office may or may not have the contractual ability to intervene; they can't just cancel franchisees because they feel like it.

More importantly, it's up to journalists and even randos on HN to avoid trying to confuse the relationships involved. If some McD's manager said something stupid and offensive, we can't indict the whole chain. Individual humans have agency.
so sad that apparently nothing can help people from believing their car is more important than pretty much anything else...
I agree with the key points though, which is that distros need to stop messing with themes unless they can validate that all applications work with custom themes.

They bear no ill will against users who download or make their own theme.
Thinking more, Nokia went with the Android One program while that was a thing. So maybe my phone did ok at first because it didn't have too much junk preinstalled. The flagship phones - Samsung in particular - all seem to have all the junk.
> Are there things the current batch of safety focused languages do to mitigate these types of ordering errors?

Rust's NewType idiom can often help here. The author makes a bunch of arrays of bytes, like "Keys" is just all arrays of bytes with different meanings, and so if you mistakenly try to use the ServerPublic key as a ClientHandshake IV the types match up but it can't work. NewType would encourage you to have types named AESKey and InitialisationVector and X25519Public and so on, whereupon the compiler will tell you that your AESKey isn't an InitialisationVector etc.

If you use an IDE of some sort, your IDE will probably even prompt you while writing the code, you should put an AESKey here, not an InitialisationVector, something like Intellisense probably even scans your variables for the type and suggests you should either use my_sending_key or my_receiving_key and at that point it does seem like the programmer is only required to pay a modest amount of attention to produce programs which do what they intended.

NewType would apply for simple integers too. Rust not only has a type for the abstract concept of file handles (pretty common in high level languages, even C can do this with FILE*) but it has a type for Unix file descriptors, even though of course Unix file descriptors are just integers with some promises about which values they can have.

This is a fundamental idea in the language, Rust's str built-in is an array of bytes, but you could write [u8; N] and that's also an array of bytes, however str promises that the array of bytes is definitely UTF8 encoded Unicode text whereas u8 claims no such thing. At runtime they're identical, but in your program they're very different.

Rust gets to do this because it promises types don't actually exist at run time. The program you are writing, and which the compiler is compiling, may distinguish a CodeNumber, an ArticleID, a RowNum, a UserIdentifier, and a mere counter, but the machine code output just uses the same say, 64-bit machine register and 8 bytes of RAM to represent all five things interchangeably, the distinction existed only to make your program easier to understand.
Compassionate capitalism has never existed, and never will. It's not what's either in or outside the tin.

It doesn't matter how much people talk about CSR or stakeholders, it's still about profit, often on the back of the most downtrodden.
But at least they spread out all the unnecessary fluff elements and then made the clickable portions tiny and close together
That's for sure a productive job and it hasn't been eliminated here. Sunnyvale's minimum wage is $17/hr and McDonalds/Wendys/In-n-Out pay slightly above that (I read the posters in the drivethrough.) I've never seen a fast food restaurant in the area close, though of course family run strip mall places have as they often do.

I was thinking of things like servants, typists, textile workers.
Exactly. It's totally reasonable to attribute to the larger brand the shitty actions of their franchisees. That's the downside to licensing out your brand and image to separate businesses. Their actions taint the same brand.

You can't be "Applebees" when you're doing good, then become "Apple Central" when you're getting shady.

It's also why many businesses refuse to sell franchises in the first place. Doing so reduces your quality control.
Nice suggestions. I would also add: disable javascript
Getting rid of themes is a decision distinct from that of choosing the one true theme. Going with FLAT was a poor choice and is what the current discussion is about. If there is any irony it's that more people will want to change the theme now, since the default is worse than before.
I kept expecting a line to drop about a weird murder ala Carl Hiaasen. Florida seems almost impossibly remote from where I live in Oregon in a lot of ways, not just geographically.
JAMstack isn't really serverless at all. It's a myth.
Why would you hire a teenager for a relatively large amount of money?
Such unfounded rage… I hope that anyone who identifies with this comment takes stock in their own life
Wanting to drink may be like a depression or a cold, but proceeding to buy and consume alcohol is something you actively do.

Or are you saying alcoholics lack free will?

Then I suppose drug addicts should be immune from prosecution if they commit crimes to get drugs?
Replication study required with more participants and potentially less extrapolation for higher altitudes. Seems to be a large assumption for high altitude applicability.
> The average medical doctor has next to zero ability to evaluate a study

Yes, but...

> dismissal of any/all critiques by people much more qualified to make these critiques, because "they're not doctors"

... unfortunately, no. While it's true that most MD clinical researchers are depressingly bad, it is also true that pure scientists who never set foot in the clinics are very limited when evaluating practical aspects. So the situation cannot be trivially solved by allowing scientists to do more. In my experience, the problem has no real solution right now and I expect we'll have to wait on technological progress to allow improvements.
They are assuming the long time soft labor market that existed a couple years ago (vs the tight labor market that actually exists).

Maybe out of habit or something?
There was, subsequently, published a Christmas BMJ article reporting the results of an RCT of parachute use jumping from planes. Apart from a few minor confounding problems with selecting the participants, it's very good science! Found no evidence of benefit, sadly...

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
And it has become SOP for the Firefox team to eventually remove these flags later and hope you don't notice.
Side topic: Does anyone know what happened to Vasalgel?
The flatness of some UIs along with the removal of some visual cues has happened that I have tapped on things that aren't actually a button thinking that they might be one.

When I make my own apps one day, I am going to ignore design fads and only make intuitive interfaces.
So, an x-ray machine costs $5-10M to purchase. That's just the capital cost. You operate it 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, 50 weeks a year- that's 2400 x-rays.
So the amortized cost for one X-ray over a year is $2400. But! The x-ray machine runs on special generator power because it's expensive to shut these machines down, and it's run by a fulltime tech, and the hospital has many other expenses related to your visit. This is why hospitals run their x-ray machines at such a high rate of utilization- to amortize the capital costs. NOte that x-ray machines in modern hospitals aren't cheap off the shelf units- they're major installations which require dedicated rooms with shielding, etc, etc.

$200 is the out of pocket cost. Your government has already prenegotiated some payment details that you couldn't see.
DMA: EU institutions agree on new rules for Big Tech
Development of AAA games != good tooling.
Good to see them working on reasonable ways to monetize and support continued development and maintenance
You do need someone with the clinical experience to understand the questions that need asking and to confirm the trends and suspicions seen in clinical practice, but clinical academics are expensive, and also terrible at stats and good research practice. I think the right mix of both is important.
The "Why" page is obviously not aimed at me as I don't understand a word of it: https://styles.master.co/#why

I might need a tl;dr on this whole thing. Anyone?
You might recall 2008, where we tried not spending money and what we got was a 10-year-long recession.

Currently private investors are refusing to invest in oil even without environmental factors in the picture - they think it's a temporary spike and are insisting the oil companies pay them back dividends instead.

https://twitter.com/PEWilliams_/status/1506654993633456137
> Putin knew very well about the "uncontested borders" rule for new Nato countries

It's not a rule, it's just an excuse certain members (NATO operates on consensus, not majoritarianism) have been citing for not moving Georgia and Ukraine from “we expect them to become members at some point” to “here’s a formal Membership Action Plan”, but which hasn't been historically applied to prospective NATO members (who have been admitted with border disputes, including border disputes with other NATO countries, e.g., Spain with the UK) and which could be dropped as an objection to those two at any time with no formal change to NATO rules.
2 people sharing a 1 bedroom is a pretty low bar, I think minimum wage should afford someone their own bedroom. However I do often see people claiming no one should have to have any sort of roommates, even if they are a single minimum wage earner trying to support a spouse and children. I agree with you in that I don't understand why having to share a kitchen or living room is such an issue.
The original suggestion was to tie the minimum wage to housing costs, so I guess this should cancel out the up-bidding.
You may try freelancing.
> As someone who recently complained to the UK Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and got palmed off because the UK legislation doesnt quantify "reasonable care",

Pretty hard to quantify. "Reasonable" is a widely used concept in the law for this reason. What were you expecting them to do? How would you define "reasonable care", exactly?

> I dont know what professionals are being taught in med/vet/law school now a days, but technology is increasingly demonstrating that professionals could be out of date by the end of their course!

Surely nobody ever thought otherwise. Doctors aren't superhumans, none will ever know everything and there are good and bad ones. Exactly the same as any other person in any other field.

> So that problem of trying to stay current in IT is spreading out into other professions and I dont see them tackling this problem like the IT sector has/does.

The IT sector does? How? I thought IT was pretty mediocre at it. And the challenge of staying current with new developments predates the computer by a few millennia doesn't it? This isn't something new to IT.

Have you actually looked to see how the medical field tackles this problem? I'm not in the medical field but some family members are. The amount of training, certifications, exams, etc they are required to do is staggering. Far more than any software developer I've ever known.
I guess this amounts to an urban legend then. So much for 19 years of smugness!
Very cool!

Would you consider this production ready ? I rarely if ever use relational databases for my personal projects, but this could be a great fit at work.

Also , anyway to add an orm layer. I use Firebase right now, so I'm use to that vs writing queries.
I don't even thing it is about right or wrong opinions either, since a lot of popular beliefs held on that site are inconsistent with each other. There is just some sort of orthodoxy that you have to follow or else you are downvoted or deleted.
Yah, no shortage of suppliers for thallium, I was just surprised you could find it on Amazon since its not really used for any consumer product I was aware of

https://www.alfa.com/en/catalog/012131/
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/277932
> It's slow and bloated to force you out of chrome/firefox and into the app they control.

Yes, but nobody makes a slow and bloated app on purpose. It's slow and bloated because they have deprioritized the web app.
> css was not able to be DRY without a preprocessor

This is really nutty, though, considering that so many of the projects where these sorts of things find adoption are exactly the ones that are wont to inject bloated frameworks and brittle tooling into the publishing pipeline, anyway.

Stop removing semantics from markup; keep attaching real class names to things. The class attribute is about more than providing a handle for style sheets to bind to with CSS selectors.
Non techies have been using flat design interfaces for like a decade now and the world hasn't ended. If you personally like another style, totally fine. But it's odd that programmers always think they know more about usability than people who study it for a living.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HXuJo0HhpE&t=126s
On Reddit? Or more generally?

Idk, perhaps something like “that girl at UPenn shouldn’t be allowed to swim competitively”

Insta flame war follows. (Hopefully we won’t have a demonstration here. Don’t let me down, HN.)
They don't have to charge less than market. They charge market rates and absorb 4 families that would've otherwise taken their market-rate salaries and kicked 4 immigrant families out of a 4-plex that used to rent far below market.
Why doesn't MDN go the Stack Overflow route and allow people to ask questions and even answer them and curate it all?
It was a while ago, so I actually don't remember how they regarded the humans -- the bad guys were mostly other animals, right? And then the farmer was some sort of distant menace or something... I think... good stories. I wonder how they hold up to adult readers.
is it just me or does this not feel like a "lot" anymore? this is $20 in storage and a 1s query now

> They generated all songs of length n=12 with k=8 notes, this amounts to a staggering n^k = 8^12 = 68,719,476,736 unique songs.

> All these songs are 12 notes long and have their own MIDI file which adds even more overhead. The size of this dataset is huge, 1.2TB compressed using GZIP.
I mean, according to https://www.metal-archives.com/stats, they have 3265646 total songs listed, so having a few hundred about an empire that lasted hundreds of years doesn't really feel like a "fascination".
I've found cities fascinating all my life - and I've also found them incredibly stressful to spend a long amount of time in. I've also never lived in one fulltime, which may be a factor, and I grew up in a rural, economically depressed corner of England, so...that too.

But the "putting down roots" thing. When the pandemic hit I was renting a cabin in a corner of Scotland after selling my family home, prior to a few years of nomadism in Europe. And I realised I had so many roots online - meaningful ones, some with friends I've probably spent hundreds of hours talking to, but rarely get to meet in person. And maybe that's a new version of "putting down roots" that has never been easier? So maybe there's a traditional prejudice with that term, one that doesn't fit the newer, more fluid reality for so many folk. (Not just younger generations, either! I was 50 last year.)

All this reminds me a bit of Venkat Rao talking about permanent nomads, and how their constant movement is how they feel stable and rested: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/07/31/on-being-an-illegible-... Maybe many folk look "unrooted" but they're actually rooted in ways many people just can't get their heads around properly? Maybe (maybe) it's sometimes not about the place at all?
Many states have variable funding for students based on SES, grade level, and disability and in many states with vouchers, the voucher is some percentage of what the local school would get, not a flat amount...

https://www.ncsl.org/research/education/voucher-law-comparis...
Bitcoiner sends message to crypto scammer after requiring they use Lighting
Quite simple: a person with XX chromosomes. Or are people starting to deny biology now?