skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better than most.

I'd recently complained about my local Council (in the UK) failing to provide accessible information.

If you're into horror shows then feel free: https://eyesiteview.co.uk/galacampus/informal-consultation/e...

It previously used to 301 if you were on Linux and a whole host of other user agents saying "you cannot view this page due to incompatibility".

After 30 years of the web, publicly funded information should be available to all.
Speed is not the only factor. In fact, most people thought their Wi-Fi was fine because for non-real-time usages, TCP will conceal occasional dropouts. Your in-browser test might be showing 500Mbps while what's really happening is +500Mbps in between bursts of nothing. Applications such as iperf3 would be able to tell you more (as they can report in much quicker intervals, allowing you to see spikes that would be averaged out) but a quick test is to just ping your gateway and move around in any area you will potentially use your device (even your orientation matters; if your body is blocking the line of the signal it could have a disastrous effect on an already-weak connection) and see if you notice any spikes. If not: congrats, if yes: you have shit Wi-Fi that TCP has been successfully concealing but the illusion will break down when you use a real-time application where retransmissions can't work (because they would be too late).
Tried saying it politely. Still get downvoted. Thought I'd try a bit sharper on purpose.

Despite what it may superficially sounds like, it's an attempt to reach out and help people. If it hurts, you know, think about it. Maybe don't do something that hurts so much because it "must" be good.

FP techniques in imperative languages is a tool. A good tool sometimes. But it shouldn't be an aspiration.
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How much does it cost to invent a manufacturing process for synthetic insulin?
Lenses don't help. They just make copying and updating large data structures cleaner to write. They don't solve the performance problem of copying everything.
Not fractional scaling, just dpi scaling instead of integer scaling.

Sadly, macOS and Gnome refuse to support it, which is ridiculous, because macOS UI Toolkit is originally based on PDF to allow arbitrary scaling.
It's good we are not all the same, as to not put all of our eggs in one basket, that's why humans have varying tendency toward conservatism and liberalism.

Maybe in 30 years we will notice something interesting about Berkeley's population and a multivariate study could even isolate the effect of 5G. But probably not.
We've known the basic physics answer to this for ages, yet even my old physics teacher in high school used to say that he's careful around a lot of electromagnetic radiation like WIFI router at home because he can't be sure it doesn't have an impact.

Empirical evidence always helps, but in the discussion around science results etc. people always seem to forget that there's another important type of evidence, which is the mechanical understanding of a model/system.

You don't really need empirical evidence to know what happens when you throw a ball in the air inside a locked box. Technically the laws of physics could magically change and produce a different outcome, but using your understanding of the mechanics of the underlying system you can predict that the ball is going to fall inside the box with a very low error rate.

Still relevant since this applies to the new covid vaccines as well for example. People worrying about their potential negative effects are worrying for nothing, since even lacking long term empirical evidence we know how they work and have a deep mechanical understanding of mRNA vaccines, and they are not going to cause issues, period.
Every animal has different behavior in different situations. Pet kennel software manages these incidents and helps daycare attendants.
curious about the keyboard in the last image. extra keys under space?
Using the interpreter example in the article, would it be accurate to say that the author's inefficient "each instruc­tion copies the existing bytes into a new array, change the byte of interest, return this new byte array, and abandon the old array (which would even­tu­ally be garbage-collected)" is "manipulating the state directly"?
We have a strong right-wing that will shoot down any attempts at fixing our medical system. The problems we have have absolutely nothing to do with NATO obligations or foreign aid, it has to do with the fact that the scare from Reagan's Welfare Queen and Free-Market ideology has taken hold of medical discussions.
Just curious, is there any special significance in pointing out it's owned by Mormons?

The Mormons are really good at this sort of thing. Really really good.

Also, it's trendy for a subset of angry people on the internet to hate the Mormons for various reasons, both real and imagined.

And, there is a very tiny, but very vocal, number of people who will not use any service that might be even tangentially related to a religion. They're afraid of getting Jesus cooties or something.
University programming education is a dumpster fire. Teaching C++ as "C with classes" amounts to malpractice and student abuse, and in a better world would generate dismissals and even lawsuits.

Beginning students are, by definition, by far the least well equipped to understand what would be most beneficial to learn. That universities fail to step up is a disgrace. Those students who learn Rust instead of C++, or "C with classes", will graduate very poorly equipped for what will be expected of them.
Yes, indeed. Thanks for explaining. In birds, pair bonding is seasonal. It’s a reproductive strategy to ensure survival of the fledglings.

Of course, there are exceptions here too..there are brood parasites too. Long migrations, short nesting periods .. long incubation time and of course anything that requires courting displays (like the peacock..swans etc) make monogamy a necessary evolutionary strategy.

Some migratory birds return every year to the same spot they roost every year and such memorized cooperative efforts make them staunchly monogamous. I have had the good fortune to witness a pair of nesting ospreys for the past five something years. Nature is wicked smart.
Did I miss why the study was only done on women?
It sounds like you've arrived at the conclusion that someone wants you to have.
No is problem, you can buy pharma stocks and reap the profits yourself. Then use said profits to buy your insulin.

s/
I have intermittent (usually bi-annually) severe back pain stemming from what has been determined by MRI as a congenital/hereditary narrowing of the spine that causes muscle spasms and long-lasting pain.

I'm currently in one of my bi-annual cycles and this one is particularly nasty. 800mg ibuprofen + 1500mg of acetaminophen + 10mg cyclobenzaprine every four hours was doing absolutely nothing for the symptoms. I ended up trying every other remedy under the sun including epsom salt baths, Tiger Balm, etc., for relief. What worked? CBD balm.

I don't believe in anything that can be attributed to the placebo effect and that's what I consider remedies like CBD balm. But, it worked and I am going to run w/it. I wish it were easier than me having to fork over $30 for snake oil to trick my body into a positive response but here we are.
Oh wow this is great! It's been years since I switched to Mac from Windows, but I really can't get used to this even now. The split seems so illogical and in almost all cases I need exactly what alt+tab is on Windows.
On a technical level the webcam resolution is low, and center stage adds additional cropping. This problem may not have a software fix unfortunately
If you're self-hosting gitlab-ce (which should really be open to internal traffic only) and want one more layer of protection from all this stuff, it's easy to throw it behind http basic auth. In your gitlab.rb:

nginx['custom_gitlab_server_config'] = "auth_basic 'Restricted';\n auth_basic_user_file /etc/gitlab/.htpasswd;\n location ^~ /.well-known { root /var/www/letsencrypt; auth_basic off;}"
Naive question: If the insurance providers are the payers, why aren't they incentivized to collectively negotiate down the cost of drugs?
For every person like you who has mastered the topic there are thousands who have no idea it even exists. https://xkcd.com/1053/

You should indeed feel free to share your knowledge; likely someone will find it useful.
duh. anything that surprised you?
Are American insulin prices really subsidizing insulin prices for n other countries? Hasn't it been known for long enough that it is not so encumbered with ip problems that might be present for recently developed drugs?
I think iTerm has a similar feature where you can configure the keyboard shortcuts to use normal system style text selection shortcuts.
Minimalistic Version Selection might have been a better term for it.

That did confuse me a lot. Selecting the maximum makes a lot more sense, since that gets SemVer assumptions correct.
Glad to see Cunningham’s Law working its magic. The article was a good read, and the HN comments section has a lot of good alternative solutions to the proposed problems.
The point of ZTA, the idea of strong per-application RBAC, is that if you do it right, VPNs are useless.

To need a VPN for "defense-in-depth" is to admit you don't have or want ZTA within parts of your perimeter. And that isn't a bad thing! ZTA is really hard to do unless you're building your business and all its core apps from scratch.
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Price-fixing is the best way to create shortages.

How this problem is solved in pretty much any other area of economy: improve supply, or in other words make sure it is as easy as possible to import or create and sell competing products.

How easy is to start an insulin providing business tomorrow in the USA? Exactly. But planners gonna plan...
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Disputing the transaction with your card issuer is the only answer companies will understand. The company wins as long as more users eat the losses (essentially giving Amazon free money) than those actively fighting for their money back.
There is a technology component not yet discussed. Agriculture mainly still use flood (a.k.a. furrow) irrigation. Colorado is semi-arid, so the evaporation loss is much worse than in the Midwest. And even worse evaporation happens with spray irrigation, but less runoff loss.

The solutions thus far try to avoid runoff (surge irrigation) or recapture runoff. Nevertheless agriculture consumes a huge amount of water and in Colorado right now in effect the practice exports water.

There is a huge cost looming, whether change happens or not.
My only quibble with this review is the USB-A port thing. 6 devices is a lot, but even if that were the real number, if the problem is the type-C connector, you can buy very inexpensive cables or even "caps" (like $5 maybe each) to get your USB-A device into a type C port. This is a thing on your desk, so there's no reason not to have it just plugged in all the time with a new, inexpensive cable, or have the cap on the end of your existing cable.
What does a latch key mean in this context?
As for any pair of [technology] and [hipster-fad].

What matters is whether they come out equipped to do what is needed. Those picking up Rust will graduate finding very few places to use it, and will have to pick up C++ as best they can under much more difficult conditions.
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The piece of paper on the MacBook with the cut out fo the TouchID is interesting.

Is it because the keys are as ugly and scuffed as they are on my MBP and you can't stand to look at them?
`number` also unlocks the ability to use a numerical input on a mobile phone. In fact, I imagine this is why there's so many websites using it inappropriately on desktop: because it makes the mobile experience better.

If I was maintaining the HTML spec, I'd do two things:

- Deprecate the use of spinboxes on `number` input. Browser vendors would be free to remove the spinbox or only support it in certain circumstances

- Add an explicit `interface` attribute (or equivalent CSS properties and psuedoelements) for specifying the kinds of input UI the form author expects to be available to the user. You'll be able to apply multiples of these and to any form input type (including <select> and <textarea>) without changing their validation rules. The browser picks out options that make sense for the current platform and input type and implements those.

Interface hints themselves would be things like:

- `keyboard` - widget should support virtual input and/or IMEs (on a select, this would also trigger a combobox)

- `numeric` - implies `keyboard`, plus virtual input should be optimized for numbers (on a phone, this means give the user a numeric keyboard)

- `text` - implies `keyboard`, plus virtual input should be optimized for text of the input widget, document, or user's current language

- `nokeyboard` - widget should not support virtual text input of any kind

- `increment` - widget should have numeric increment/decrement buttons (e.g. use a spinbox)

- `noincrement` - widget should omit numeric increment (no spinbox)

- `content` - contents of the field should be visible to the user (even if the field is type=password; this would allow a "show password" box that does not expose the password to predictive text input)

- `obscured` - obscures the text input like type=password

- `nocontent` - contents of the field are entirely hidden, would allow hiding even the length of a password

- `predict` - widget should participate in predictive text

- `nopredict` - widget should NOT participate in predictive text, and should not have it's input be fed back into the predictive text system, like type=password

- `passwordrecall` - widget should support password recall through a password manager

- `nopasswordrecall` - widget should NOT support password managers
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While I do think this is a general move in the right direction, the cynic in me can't help but to think this recent spotlight on insulin in particular is a red herring to distract from the Democrats' inability to make headway on prescription drug and general healthcare affordability.

I mean, sure, diabetes is a big issue in the US, with type 2 being particularly problematic and prevalent among the least advantaged demographic groups, and efforts to keep insulin affordable will be massively beneficial to a relatively large number of people. But simply ensuring that insulin is affordable does nothing to address the underlying nutrition and healthcare access that lead so many to end up with type 2 diabetes in the first place.

The measure also seems woefully inadequate for addressing insulin access for the uninsured, which is going to dampen the effect as well.
This sounds like most of the aside conversations between author and reader in Douglas Adams' writing.
Time to start an insulin only insurance company.
Well, excluding the approximately 50% who have a Y chromosome.
Can someone explain to me why insulin, essentially a commodity, can fetch any significant price over cost? Why isn't there more competition? Is barrier to entry for low-cost competitors the difficult of manufacture? Or is it patent enforcement?

If it's patent enforcement, wouldn't a bill that reforms the patent protection for insulin makers make a lot more sense than this bill?
But price regulation is socialism. ;)
I don’t know how you could believe in freedom and not have that opinion about the US federal government. But I’m not sure why you brought that up in this context.
dems had control of all 3 branches of gov and didn’t do shit
Yes, sure. That is what taxes are for.
The wind-and-solar song keeps booming despite false notes
> I don't see why a sufficiently advanced artificial system as complex, capable and sophisticated as a human brain could not also have experiences.

Neither does Searle. He says that humans are such machines. Per Searle, if you want to build a system that has subjective experiences of consciousness and understanding, it would have to have physical parts that correspond to some degree to the physical parts that give rise to our subjective experiences (or an animal's subjective experiences). It couldn't be a list of instructions to be executed.

I don't know if Searle is right about this but I find myself unable to dismiss his argument as obviously wrong.
Got it. Now, where is the car?
A bit late. The “controversy” has left thousands of pages with spurious but believable arguments, unfounded hypotheses, and fallacious reasoning, along with more or less conclusive studies that can be used to argue for any point of view.

Politics and opinions move too fast. Science does catch up eventually, but by then a lot of people end up with ossified beliefs with a significant emotional investment that are hard to challenge.

That said, I’ll take any good study. It’s useful to have more data even with no new insight.