skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Like something from an emerging market, where sure there is universal healthcare, but you generally avoid it if you have the means.

Already happened. It's impossible to get a primary care physician in the Maritime provinces and in BC.
Idle hands are the devil's workshop > Restrictions are Satan seminars.

I'm going to use that last phrase with good, but obtuse effect, I'm sure.
I agree.

But, what's it that they say -- pride goeth before a fall?

If Twitter collapses into a burning hulk is that -really- a bad thing?
> This is a long-winded way of saying UTF-8 can't really be NULL-terminated because it can contain NULLs as a matter of course.

UTF-8 "can contain NULLs as a matter of course" in exactly the same way that ASCII can.

Any system that doesn't allow null bytes in ASCII can just as easily not allow them in UTF-8.

A system that does allow them can just as easily allow them in both.

There is no difference between the two here.

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Edit: Oh, wait, maybe you misunderstand UTF-8. The 2+ byte encodings never use bytes below 0x80. They never cause a null byte to happen. The only way you get a null byte is if it's an ASCII-compatible null character, code point 00000.
Exactly my thoughts! Calls himself a digital nomad with a photo of just two suitcases, yet each photo is a different wardrobe and a different country.

Either I'm just being jealous, or he is indeed this vain, or both.
they literally should be able to

that is the whole point of owning land and being a member of a community
Solving concrete issues in VR is mostly money and resources. Go listen to an interview with Zuck regarding VR, he understands the problems in the space very well. He also understands what brings users to a platform, made evident by Meta's complete dominance of the social network space.

Not sure what you're alluding to by his viewpoint, but his company has a userbase of over 3.5B which is the vast majority of the internet connected population of the world (excluding China, for obvious reasons). You might not like him, but he knows how to drive adoption.
Responding to both you and the comment above/below you:

Women have a hard time getting symptoms, esp around pain, taken seriously. Oftentimes these symptoms are downplayed or ignored, regardless of the sex/gender of the medical professional.
why is everyone entitled to housing wherever they want to live?
We just don't know. Could be anything.
UTF-8 Doesn't contain zero bytes, except for code point zero. Anything above code point 127 will be encoded as multiple bytes, all of which have bit 7 (0x80) set and are therefore not a zero byte. So NULL-terminated works fine for utf-8.
A Java char can hold any valid UCS-2 character, i.e. U+0000 to U+FFFF. If you need to use, say, U+1F4A9, you can't represent that with a char, so you need to use an int to hold that codepoint. A cursory glance at Java's string and character APIs reveals an awful lot of duplication between char-based "character at" and int-based "codepoint at" methods, with the former being a) broken and b) largely undeprecated despite being clearly broken.
right, this is what I meant. Running a covid tracing app requires a certain number of people. Splitting those people into "govt employees" and "contractors" doesn't reduce the number of people involved, it just adds an arbitrary boundary between them, which hinders their efficiency.
Actually had the source code still kicking around on my laptop and it had a comment {ACSM Algorithm 415} which I think means, Communications of the ACM, Volume 14, Issue 12, Dec. 1971 pp 805–806 https://doi.org/10.1145/362919.362948 , its Pascal-ish pseudo-code with jumps/labels. So maybe the ACM was being generous not the US government.
> It took MONTHS to become proficient at early-ish frameworks like ... Knockout

Nah.. I don't know about the others but Knockout was super simple to learn and get going with. React was way harder IMHO.
It's cheaper and freer so I think it's likely. Services like ipns://stealthhealth.crypto (access via Brave local IPFS node) have no server costs, no domain registration maintenance costs, no banking costs and no obvious vulnerabilities for shut down or data leakage.
I simultaneously think polling analysis is a good pivot for stack overflow and that having Nate Silver takes of the analysis is basically value destruction. Pontificating about the least involved or educated margin is not good polling. It’s editorial detritus.
This would totally fly at my current company, and I'm going to use it.
“major”
you can do it that way but you can't add the map method to a struct like persons.map() which would allow you to chain methods. But I guess with the multiple return value convention, you can't chain anyway very nicely.
Your last paragraph is exactly right.

Contrary to your first statement though, there’s very little turnabout in the Go community and your Go-hating child posts fit into the two camps you mention at the end. We wanted it too, even feeling hamstrung!

I’m an old Gopher and I’ve spent a lot of my career in C++ and, now, Rust, so it’s not like I don’t understand generics. But I’ve also seen the space-cadet architectures that come out of overuse thereof. (Rust has a latent version of this, what with Arc<Mutex<T>> being the only way to get things done, come at me).

A common argument from the peanut gallery is that Go folks hate generics. No. I just hate the overly meta use thereof. I’ve long wanted an honest generic in Go for a few container types. This shows up as a desperate need, eh, maybe twice a sizeable project (and in a different way each time!). And I hate working around it but I do.

So it’s disingenuous at best to say Go folks don’t understand generics or are buying a party line thereof. We know it well, and know the nightmares it can lead to. So maybe appreciate some caution in giving the mice a cookie?

This isn’t the first iteration of this war, even. Another thing Go eschewed (that I rarely hear argued) is classes and, particularly, subclasses! Yet, every so often (including a recent project) that would be a really useful paradigm. But OOP is not “in vogue” and so that’s not one of the BS battlegrounds. Point is, all languages have pros and cons and there’s no one right way.

To quote a famous film, “Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something” :)
Terraform is for specifying deterministic, idempotent results given a set of conditions and inputs.

Music apps like Spotify and Apple Music are about whimsical, serendipitous discovery independent of rational thought. At least, for me, anyway.

The two are wholly incompatible. I'm shocked that this exists. It calls into question how I think of music streaming platforms, what I think they provide, and how I interact with them.
Substrings just get the BOM too. EZ.

Re: HTML, people usually bring it up because it's a lot of ASCII that'll all double up under UTF-16. Mostly my argument is that most text isn't HTML, so size savings on other text files still matter.
Companies go bust all the time. One of the corporations I've worked for simply disappeared (Data I/O). Corporations disappear all the time. Remember RCA? No? How about Kmart? Sears? Kodak? Tektronix? Novell? Lotus? Wordstar? AOL? Zilog? Myspace? Zenith? Curtis-Mathis? RCA was once the biggest corp in the world.

I've known people in every corporation I've worked for who accomplished nothing and were not managers. I was often given the job of trying to turn whatever they did into something useful. Everybody knew who they were. I remember one person, we'll call "Smith". "Smith" would check in code, and it was always so bad that someone else would have to redo the whole thing. After a while, the term "smith-code" became a generic term for code that was worse than nothing.

How bad can you be that your name becomes a generic term for useless work?

"Smith" eventually got laid off. The team was relieved.
Define “general-purpose”. All languages have limitations on what it can be used for out of the box (unless it can be cross-compiled into a different language as needed).

Define “good”. Good for what? Do you mean productive? Productive for whom? Do you mean “I like it”? In what environment?

Different developers like different languages. For example, some developers love explicit types. Others don’t.

In other words, there is a reason why we have many different languages and development environments. The same reason that explains why we will always and forever have new languages, frameworks, libraries etc. solving the same problem in a new different way.

That of course doesn’t stop developers from trying every day to come up with a “one-size-fits-all” language/framework/library/architecture that will solve all problems for all developers in all situations. It will never happen of course. But it sure is fun to see the language/framework/library/architecture wars from the side line. Bring popcorn! :)
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NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars with Ingenuity Helicopter
One aspect of entropy that I always find counterintuitive is that unlike mass, charge, etc. it is not a physical quantity. In fact, from the point of view of an experimenter with perfect information about a physical system, the entropy of the system is exactly conserved over time (as made precise by Liouville's Theorem). The Second Law survives in this setting only in the most trivial sense that a constant function does not decrease.

It's only when you start making crude measurements---lumping positions into pixels, clouds of particles each with their own kinetic energy into a single scalar called "temperature," etc---that you start to see a nontrivial entropy and Second Law. Different ways of lumping microstates into macrostates will give you different (and inconsistent) notions of entropy.
What if my music tastes change moment to moment?
People care. What can they do?
China detects first human case of H3N8 bird flu strain
This is a really cool project, but I have to ask a very simple question: is there an immeasurable impact of trying to measure all the impacts on your life?
Yeah I agree. Having to have Heroku and AWS simply because of this missing feature is annoying.
Kia is one of the fastest growing car brands, probably #2 after
Tesla.
Do that enough, and Big Corp gets overtaken by a smaller, nimbler company that does better. See the book "The Innovators Dilemma" for one aspect of this.
You’re conflating MacBooks and phones. Size matters for things you put in your pocket and purse, less so for something like a serious pro laptop.
I’m actually building an app to allow more precise control over the algorithm. https://tommygeiger.com/tuner
Would love some feedback!
For anyone interested in the X-29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GEB-7Gw-_0
Theranos and Enron went bust. Government bureaucracies never go bust.
The whole reason he is there is due to one of the greatest acts of dissent in American history.
Most people have no idea (and don't care) how any of this stuff works. They don't know or care whether it's done with resistance heating or by running an air conditioner backwards. All they know is it's a machine which makes hot air. If you try to tell them how much more efficient it is to move heat from the outdoors to the indoors instead of just turning electricity into heat they will stare at you blankly and say "but it's a heater, right?"
I'm an information addict. To the point where it's detrimental to my life.
> My last 3 cars were Teslas.

You bought 3 Teslas back to back?! You must really love it. Why did you then move to the Telluride?

I thought Tesla lasts really long. So why 3?
Small nit in case the author sees this: the image labelled "Entropy of each configuration of system with two dices where the observed macrostate is their sum" is either incorrect or mislabeled.

For example, 2 and 12 each have 1 microstate, and ln 1 = 0, so the entropy of 2 and 12 is 0, but the image says 0.028 (which is the probability of 2 or 12, not the entropy).
Right, that's what I'm trying to say. As another commenter put it,

> Govt doing the same things but having them done by contractors does not make it "smaller".

There's a crucial distinction between "privatization of govt" and "smaller govt" which usually gets lost in the public discourse.
In aerospace, if Alice needed a hole drilled and didn’t care about tolerance, she’d have specified a class III hole per her company’s hole drilling process and gone to get a latte. The process document has the appropriate tolerance called out for each diameter and class.

Not every hole needs a tight tolerance, depending on the loading and assembly methods. And manufacturing prefers a standard tolerance range to be specified to enable consistency in manufacturing operations, rather than some weird lopsided super precise tolerance callout. So you determine the largest tolerances that will meet your design requirements, then select a fit class from the manufacturing standard that meets your tolerance requirement.
When I mentioned AirBus, I was thinking of this - that the Max crash is clearly due to corporate greed. I am not aware of any such scenario with AirBus. Not only that, according to the Netflix documentary, Boeing was trying to blame the pilots of the Indonesian and Ethiopian airlines initially. Then in turns out that the Indonesian pilot was an Indian who was trained in US, and the Ethiopian pilots followed Boeing's guidelines on MCAS failure properly.

I am looking at these blames on outsourcing from that perspective - that Boeing is trying to blame others to hide their greed.
> :hook ((python-mode go-mode) . lsp-deferred)

Heh that’s a neat use-package feature I’m about to rewrite my .emacs with.
> I am not - talking about stopping or curtailing speech for everyone.

> But we should stop people from saying things we know are lies.

Paraphrasing the last bit.
No, it has not. And it probably is false. It is unquestionably simpler to design devices at Apple’s scale if the battery is hard to replace. Whether you think it’s worth the trade off is a different question.
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Watch his Apollo mission videos.

I love Jared Owen. He’s so damn good at explaining how stuff works.

It reminds me of my grandpa always taking time to explain how things worked by taking it apart and showing me what the insides looked like. Things like his transistor radio, table fan, etc.
> Splitting those people into "govt employees" and "contractors" doesn't reduce the number of people involved.

It increases it, because (even optimally) you need the same number of people doing the main work, and as supervisors, HR support, etc., for the main workers, plus you have additional contracting and contract management overhead on both sides.
From what I gather prop C is a tax raise on businesses to help secure funding to combat homelessness in SF.

It is a very common trope that you hear when politicians are trying to raise taxes that "rich people will leave if you do that" and certainly some will do that. I think in the USA this is particularly problematic because there's a huge different between moving from a country to another and moving from one state to another.

But what should be done about it? It is very likely that simply the state getting more money is not really going to solve a crisis that is much more systemic. Not that I'm against taxes against businesses, specially these extremely high gross businesses. But SF needs to really examine what is going wrong and why they're incapable of solving their problems because somehow I have the suspicious that more money isn't going to solve everything. I mean, isn't SF one of the richest states in the world anyway?
At the time the program was shut down in 2019, it was completely legal, having been written into law. You are claiming that the NSA is doing something illegal, yet in the vast trove of documents that Snowden released, there was only one program that was possibly illegal.

Prior to Snowden's leaks, I would have been more open to believing they were involved in the type of extralegal activities the CIA was notorious for, but after Snowden's leaks, it became clear that this wasn't the case. Suppose Snowden were the SharePoint admin at your company and leaked all its documents to the press. Do you think there would be only one questionably legal program in there?
I want so badly to use pulumi's tools, but relying on them as a 3rd party service is just not acceptable to me.
Not so fast. JavaScript/C++/Python/Java are world class Champions. Having out-competed and destroyed literally thousands of competing languages. They are the battle hardened, scared veterans of years of battles. And they are still standing strong in the middle of a field of language corpses, taking on all competitors. Don’t assume that you know what it takes for a language to be a winner. Especially if you think the Champion languages that have survived 20+ years of fierce hard battle are “shitty”.
Entropy isn’t measuring a loss of energy, but the loss of the ability for a closed system to do useful work.

Order is often used to describe what’s going on but it’s not the kind of order we normally think of. Sufficient cold water in a warm room is just as capable of preforming work as warm water in a cold room.
He could take bold actions against the nation that he lives in and then flee for safety.
Gotta love these interactive websites.
Also, repairs still have a deductible. It's not "two free screen repairs a year", it's "up to two screen repairs at $29 a pop with a $150-200 up-front fee", vs $129 a pop for replacement screens (and newer models are more expensive). So if you need it once you're coming out equal, if you use it twice you come out ahead.

I looked at it when I bought my first iphone a couple years ago, it was my first "expensive" phone and it was stressful, but the math is solid, even if you use the service once you're only breaking even, and even then you're getting a repair on a phone that has likely depreciated substantially (yes, even apple) so it's a $150 repair on a $400 phone with a worn battery, etc. At some point even if it's not utterly destroyed, it financially just doesn't make sense to throw more money into it. And this is with me buying a relatively expensive high-capacity model that is "more expensive to total", just wouldn't make sense on a base-tier model unless you routinely manhandle them into an early grave.

Haven't done the math on newer models (mine was a couple gens old, got it as an apple refurb) but it does look better for premium ipad models. $200 for the warranty and $49 service fee, vs $700 (!) for replacing an ipad pro 12.1" screen. If you've got a premium 12.1" pro with a TB of storage, that's easily a $1500 device and would be worth repairing and certainly worth taking out the warranty beforehand.

I originally got my (base-model) iPad for $229 back in 2018, and the screen itself is $249 to replace, vs $80 for applecare+ and $49 for the deductible... so you are coming out WAY ahead if you actually need to use it. I cracked a corner of the screen (took it out of the case ONE TIME and of course I drop it...) and it's basically totaled, it's more than I originally paid for it and only $50 short of a new base-model iPad if you get them on sale.
Yes. Every. Single. Time.

I’ve been using Heroku since 2013. In both a hobby and professional manner. I was even one of the first employees at a Healthcare specific Heroku clone (before we expanded to other products). I’ve been extolling the virtues of Heroku for nearly a decade.

Whenever something new comes out there’s always some critical piece that’s missing. The simplicity and the “it just works” factor of Heroku cannot be understated.

Take logging for example. Let’s say I want to add papertrail to a Heroku project. How do I do that? I click one single button. Heroku handles the environment variables, standing the logging container up, making sure I have access to it, etc. I don’t have to do literally anything to get it to work. The same goes for any add-on or service. Need Redis? Sure! Just click this button. That’s quit literally all you need to do.

Compare that to AWS, which is a nightmare of config hell, permissions, roles, policies. And that’s just getting it created and stood up. Not to mention maintaining it.
If I can pick your brain, there’s a related concept — entropy production. How does that relate with these ideas?
At least on the current Android version it's actually possible, it seems to not be available in the browser version though
Complex systems are net increases in entropy. The water is flowing downhill, but it takes a really weird organism-shaped path to get there. Self organization is supposedly interesting because we don't know why such a path manifests. Thus far, nothing has given the second law a second's (ha ha) pause. It's not impossible, but considering most of our foundational physics is time-symmetric it makes sense to call entropy irreversible. Even if it could be reversed (and don't hold your breath on that one), it's still the cause of the arrow of time.
Even having a mildly sick child is devastating as a parent. It guts you. I can’t fathom what it would be like to lose a child. I’m sure it is a major factor in many other poor outcomes for the family and community.
Do you really think whatever this is, is going to take off?
Seroprevalence of Infection-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies
I call bull s*t..

He was speaking metaphorically about how we as a people are responsible for all children.
Had a quick discussion about a use case for Web3 based self-hosted emails yesterday that didn’t get downvoted into oblivion by HN for once :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180379&p=2#31180968
Because the problem is super, super hard. I did a whole thing about it here: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-most-under-appreciate...
Maybe if this guy jump cuts and yells enough he'll get somebody outraged?

Very low quality content. There's plenty of well articulated arguments against crypto out there if that's what you are looking for. No need to listen to / promote hyperbolic brain junk food.
I'm still mad about top and bottom when truth and beauty were right there!
> Grouping those agencies together is an oversimplification as they have wildly different authority for data collection under the law.

They routinely operate outside of the law, using classified interpretations of what they believe the law allows them to do. This is not about what is or isn't lawful, they don't give a fuck about that. The CIA hacked American congressional computers to delete evidence (about the CIA torturing people), got caught, and lied about their deleting evidence, and nothing happens. What is or is not permitted "under the law" is completely, totally irrelevant and bringing it up is a red herring.

> Also, saying that commercial data is available “without a warrant” is a strange framing of the issue. It’s available to anyone as long as the check doesn’t bounce.

This isn't true.
I know this exists in Android: you can pull down at the top of a playlist to reveal the search bar and sorting options. The sorting options should include recently added.
Hehehe, after reading this post I dug through my college projects to find my B+ tree implementation
I see your point about experience with a specific procedure. Makes sense.

About the cheapness aspect, what I've seen in India is that if a hospital specializes in a specific type of treatment, there's a good chance it is going to be expensive. Unless it's run by the government or something. But a lot of super-speciality hospitals near me are private hospitals.
Someone here recently said that the Lambda Python runtime is not stock Python (apparently it's compiled without optimisations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30953202) - maybe that has something to do with it?