skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
about #3 that ain't a design issue, it's a policy issue. Until healthcare in the US is about maximizing profit extraction by every party involved things will not change.

For profit healthcare is an abomination and a blight on the very soul of this country. If I believed in religion I would say God will judge us very harshly for allowing this system to stay in place for so long.
Yes, my organization is unable to receive/send e-mails since around 16:20 UTC-5. Nothing on Google's Workspace status page :(
Bizarrely, same! I actually thought I was getting it wrong but was like "Damn, too bad this stuck in my head" haha!
All of those reasons are why VR will be a niche, as in not mass market like smart phones, for a long while.
We’re seeing the same issue as paying GSuite customers.
> urely a coffee maker would get a break in the afternoon/evening?

I know a lot of people who drink coffee all afternoon. Plus, they won't hesitate to dump and rebrew a pot if its been warming too long.
> - no motion sickness or headaches

We can do this right now on the Index. You need:

- A computer that can output 144 fps consistently without drops.

- Well-positioned lighthouses.

- Software that only moves the virtual world in response to the player moving in the real world (except via blink teleportation).

Unseen Diplomacy, The Lab, and Half Life Alyx, when played with the right settings or hardware, should make basically no one motion sick.

Unfortunately, people don't like blink teleportation because it usually sucks. Games like Unseen Diplomacy are able to create large spaces without teleportation, but have pretty large play space requirements. IMO, there's room for more creativity in this space. Budget Cuts, for example, manages to make blink teleportation really work.
>The market partly anticipates it already. Twitter’s stock is currently trading 11% below his offer price – a fairly wide spread for a deal with little antitrust pushback. Musk’s tweets criticizing some company actions – potentially flouting the merger agreement - already suggest he might be starting to lose interest. Most likely, Musk's attention will wander elsewhere. It wouldn't be the first time.
Grant is the most recent Republican I would vote for.
For me it's been there spam filters... Seems like it's not catching anything... But yeah, now that I checked I was unable to get to my "Sent mail folder".
This is the direct and extremely unalterable consequence of one decision, to base our medical system on profit, instead of results, or capabilities. We've left a matter of national security in the hands of rent seekers.

The tragic insertion of a middle layer, the insurance industry (AKA Death Panels), makes it even more tragic and inefficient.

You can not seek profits in a competitive environment without reducing every cost to the bare minimum. Of course they are going to cut staff costs, and the number of properly staffed beds to the bare minimum, it minimizes costs. If a surge happens, they're happy to pay a little bit of a premium in the cost side for extra staffing. It's more than compensated by the extra billing.

But the recent public health emergency was a seiche, a tsunami, a pulse of unanticipated magnitude. (Unanticipated in the minds of those looking to meet this quarter's numbers, not in the minds of long term strategic thinkers).

The wrong type of people are in charge of health care in the US, and our nation will not be secure until this changes.
A relative of mine works for a state level LEO targeting financial crimes - they've spoken often about how "smaller government" advocating politicians have repeatedly hamstrung the organization when it tries to go after large corporations. They've still managed to do good work going after smaller scale offenders that fleece investors - but I wouldn't put the blame on those employees for doing work you don't find useful... it's mostly up to politics.
Umm, is this newsworthy?

I am surely glad it is happening, and hope that it happens more.

But perhaps the article draws regime attention to vulnerabilities, and helps the regime defeat them?

Not everything interesting should be published.
> this isn't a "parts stocking" programme, it is a self-repair programe

Why can't it be both? Most existing "self-repair" programmes (before such things had to have a specific name instead of just "buying parts") such as the ones for cars work just fine on the model of "show up at the dealership, give them a part number & payment card and walk out with your new part". They don't care if you're buying these parts to repair your car now or keep it for later and managed to stay in business for decades just fine.

> You obtain relevant parts on a Just-In-Time basis.

One major advantage of a self-repair programme (as opposed to just doing the repair at Apple or an AASP directly) is that you can work around some of the logistics and make the operation quicker/more efficient.

If you are particularly careless and smash your phone frequently (or your friends do, like in my case) you can keep spares of commonly-broken parts in advance so that the actual repair process is really quick and only involves a couple hours or downtime.

Having to order parts in advance and having to return the old part in a specific timeframe means you need to schedule the entire thing and plan around the logistics of it and it can no longer be a "I have a couple hours to kill tonight, let's make my phone new again" thing, at which point you get back most of the inconveniences of doing an official repair such as scheduling it, waiting for shipping, etc. I suspect this might be the point of these restrictions.

> If you want to stock parts, go become an Apple Authorised Service Provider.

Can I become an AASP if I do one repair a month? If so sign me up!
IBM took away in-house coffee in Australia about 10 years ago. Cost-cutting. What's coffee, cents a day? Great. So now all your consultants spend 45 minutes every morning going out for coffee.

Before I worked for IBM I asked a friend what it had been like. "Unbelievably bad", they said. "Worse than everyone had said it would be."

So I thought, it can't be that bad. How could it be? And when I worked there it was worse! So when the next friend who got approached asked me I said, my god, remember how bad friend -1 said it was, well, it's worse! And that friend thought, no, it can't be that bad. And then they worked there and found it worse than even I had explained.

And so it goes.
Kia is not Hyundai. Hyundai is the single largest shareholder in Kia, however, holding just under 34%.
Quite true. C bitpacking is lousy.

The best "bitpacking" I have ever dealt with is the "Erlang Bit Syntax". I really wish more languages would adopt it.

See: https://www.erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.h...
FWIW that's a "soft limit". I've deployed slugs over that limit without trouble. Idk if they have a hard limit.
It doesn't seem fair to compare Facebook to the other companies you listed, with respect to negative public sentiment. People rightly criticize FB for the numerous scandals, data leaks, and lack of ethics, and as Zuckerberg runs the company, he deserves that criticism.

It's one thing to buy the stock and be bullish, and another to turn a blind eye to the horrors this company has created.

Youtube has it's problems, Google Search is going down the drain, and a ton of other websites run off ad revenue, yes. Those services are not responsible for organizing genocides, providing political analytics companies access to unauthorized data, or running unethical experiments on users to test their impact on the users' mental health.
Facebook makes more profit in 1 quarter than all of those combined had revenue over their entire lifetimes.

Stalin used to say that quantity has a quality all its own.

The world has changed. Even if Facebook decays, it could decay over literal decades, still being profitable. Yahoo is still around ($1.3bn in revenue), IBM is still around, SUSE is still around.

We only talk about the cool tip of the iceberg but IT/tech/software is huge.
The compiler can rewrite it as:

choice ? ((a.x = val),a.x) : ((a.y = val),a.y);

The trick with a compiler is to rewrite complex constructions into simpler equivalent ones, then the code gen is much simpler and more reliable.

For example, in the D compiler the `while` loop doesn't survive the semantic pass, as it gets rewritten into a `for` loop. The `for` loop then gets rewritten into `if` and `goto` statements. The code generator only needs to learn about `if` and `goto`.
If you miss Shadertoy it won't be hard to imagine other similar things, of which there are plenty. Anything that requires interactivity beyond the one provided by HTML & CSS will obviously require Javascript. Any personalized experience (not only suggestions which yes are evil, but also personal storage) will obviously require cookies to function.

Deleting Cookies on exit (and/or at regular intervals) will probably not help much in terms of avoiding tracking, especially if you log back in using your reinitialized cookies.
This sounds like a one-pixel attack, but on robotic corporate procedures rather than robotic neural networks. Corporate culture as an entity, with rules of it's own, that evolves just like a neural network trained on weights is a great analogy to chew on...I wonder what determines the architecture and weights of that NN?
While most comments focus on fiction, I find the real value of the NYRB for me are the reviews of nonfiction books. These reviews go into much more depth than reviews in other places and often compare and contrast multiple books on the same topic. The nonfiction reviews are great for both finding books to read and learning enough about a topic so that you can decide that you don't need to read a book on that topic.
None of those every turned into real businesses, whereas Facebook is one of the biggest money printers in the world.

Also, Facebook has been around for about 18 years now. Myspace was a major player for like 4 years.
Yup I was going to comment basically the same: in this case Emacs itself is the REPL environment (Emacs user here).
I would support that, as long as I get to choose Jetsons sounds.

But really I'd rather just make the sound go away entirely.
I also got a Quest 2 and am amazed by it.

I loathe Facebook, and use their products only when absolutely necessary.

But after reading a comment on HN about value the Quest 2 delivers for exercise, I decided to give it a go. I had and used the Oculus DK1 but had done zero VR since.

> I think people are really underestimating how much impact these technologies are going to have.

Unquestionably. People are totally underestimating VR/AR.

> I just hope someone can compete with FB.

I think FB will be competing with Snap, Samsung/Microsoft and others for the Android market.

If you use the Oculus in a room with Siri enabled (via homepod / smarthome stuff like fans / lights) it becomes obvious the experience must stretch beyond the headset.

Facebook has neither the privacy track record nor smarthome footprint needed to support this. Though Oculus will have existed first, and FB may get an improved headset to market out in the meantime, Apple will create the market expectations for VR/AR
> Another, admittedly extreme, case was Ludwig Wittgenstein getting his PhD from Trinity College. He had already written the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus on his own, then basically showed up and presented it as his dissertation, defended it, mocked his friend Bertrand Russel during defense and got the PhD.

> What's crazy to me is that if Wittgenstein was alive today he would not be able to achieve this anywhere.

Not so. Cambridge still does it, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey in 2000.
The author is well known for proposing theories that essentially everyone else disputes:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/how-basel...

https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/deb...

https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/pro...
I've worked public and private sector and know plenty of people in both and I've not noticed a huge difference in the number of people just coasting vs those who really try to make a difference.

What makes you think government is that much worse than the private sector in this regard?
He is, perhaps, the greatest living songwriter. His lyrics are haunting and mindblowingly evocative.

Recommended: Magpie, Dilaudid, Until Olympius Returns, and many others.
From what I'm reading, Time Machine has been using APFS snapshots for local snapshots since High Sierra, and since Big Sur for the primary backup (assuming target drive is APFS formatted).
GP isn't interested in communicating. They are pandering. You can tell by the coded language: "orange" "45" "owned da libz" "uneducated" etc.

It's more important to GP to score points and signal that they are part of team blue and (big E) "Engaged" than to communicate, actually engage in a discussion, or even (ironically) think critically or be correct about their statements. GP is so busy calling republicans stupid and talking about how they vote against their interests that it never even occurred to GP that this may actually be a carefully crafted plan that actually targets left leaning counties nearly exclusively. In other words, Republicans may actually have "owned da libz" in this situation but GP is hilariously incapable of seeing it due to their disdain for the other side.
>3. IT systems that they have to use were designed by people who have not talked with the workers who use them.

Every time the computers went down at a friends ER, the waiting room emptied out as the staff were able to use paper forms and just get their jobs done, instead of being forced through thousands of menu clicks and choices that made no sense.

EVERY SINGLE TIME -- Epic or as I call it... the Epic Failure. I always give my condolences to staff forced to use it.
> at the time of acquisition Heroku was still Ruby only

Uhhh... I don't think that's true. There were 3rd party buildpacks available.
The BioRevolution and Van Heron Labs
I guess you have to read "moved the HQ out of SEA" (to Chicago) and "intentionally picked SC [for 787 final assembly] to union-bust their own workforce" separately, then it makes more sense...
Maybe my view is warped (I'm from Germany) but 95% seems a tad high...
We were in the same position (although luckily far fewer repos than you!). It took a bit of fiddling, but in the end I found that it was actually quite easy to fix this by tacking on a force push to the main branch of the heroku git repo at the end of our existing CI process (essentially treating heroku got as a deploy api that happens to use the git protocol)

Don’t blame you for wanting to move, but you might find that approach helpful as a quick fix.
It's honestly not that hard as long as you're patient and can follow instructions. I replaced both the battery and lightning port in my iPhone 6s with parts from iFixit and was more than happy with the results.

That being said, I mainly did it myself because I like doing this sort of thing and there's no Apple Store near me. I'd also heard of them refusing partial repair when you have a damaged display and I had a crack on the corner.
There are coffee machines that pour coffee straight into thermos.

I personally can't stand the taste of 'cooked' coffee. I'll grind and make another mug when needed in an espresso coffee maker. Doesn't take long at all. Mine is manual but you can have automatic machine to shave off even more time.
This was a tough read. I've been on the other side of this when my wife passed. Not knowing if you have days or weeks or months ahead is hard, both on the person suffering but also their family. Thankfully the hospice was amazing and they really helped her through the last 10 months of her life. It was a rough road.
Steve Blank has a great essay on this.

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
I can't wait for the cognitively dissonant marketing campaigns for EVs in the next 10 years telling me to buy more new globally produced things that are marginal upgrades to what I already have here locally.

OTOH when is the last time you've ever seen an ad for a Trek or a Schwinn? This is the time when bike marketers can come and eat everyones lunch with simple facts and logic. Much better to only need 15 pounds of metal and your own power to move around than 4000lbs of metal and power from a natural gas plant to move yourself around. Hopefully we see more ads for bikes in the coming decades.
There is a finite number of hours in a day -- unfortunately
The elves leave middle earth
I should say "are supposed to be* bestsellers. I have heard horror stories where someone gets a lead title package and the book still flops. Whether that's because of a bad book or just terrible luck, I don't know enough about it to say.

But the chain bookstores are definitely a big part of the problem whereby publishers are expected to bet big on a few books ("lead titles") and let the others wither. The publishers didn't ask to be in this world.
Fort Worth, Texas Becomes First City Government in the US to Mine Bitcoin
> - Apple’s 2021 opt-in privacy change makes FB/Insta/Messenger/WhatsApp ads less effective permanently for the highest margin demographic (iPhone users)

> This will be worked around - the impact isn't as large as people make it out to be.

And you think Apple will stay put and do nothing? You can expect that as soon as they find a work around, Apple is gonna screw them again. They have no chances.
Sure if you want a lot of them to go through but not necessarily all.
If someone marks your email as spam you may have to start all over again. If you want to send more than a few emails per day you have to warm the ip by sending specific volumes over time. It's doable, easier with a service to help you.
Tip for your first point: make the CI server push to heroku.
Also, unless their configuration has changed things, C-x C-e will print out the results in the mini buffer at the bottom. So it retains each of the read, eval, and print parts of the read, eval, print loop. And since the program doesn't terminate (unless the expression you provided causes that), you're still in the loop part until you close emacs.
It's interesting that we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop in that Apple is forever "about to" release it's XR devices. Yet so far it hasn't happened. Apple is famous for waiting until quality hits a certain mark, but nonetheless, it tells me that what Oculus/Meta has achieved is more special than people think. This stuff is hard. It looks simple on the surface but watch any of John Carmack's talks and see how much complexity there is underlying it all.

I do think Meta is completely wasting its time with it's current approach of trying to re-invent Facebook inside the Metaverse. Hopefully they get past that sooner rather than later. But I have no doubt this is going to be an extremely important platform in the future and other than Apple if they ever show up, it's very hard to see anybody catching Meta.
Not much pre-www experience here but I'll say "usually not". As a software dev, my approach has always been to just start doing the thing and search only when I get stuck on a specific concept.

And I say "usually" becase right now I'm learning a new cloud (Azure) and the docs insist on force feeding me, with equal parts minutia + core knowledge. I am indeed overwhelmed, trying to separate and apply the useful bits.
VR? Maybe. AR? Likely 5 years away.
> this is barely even intelligible as a line of reasoning.

You are literally engaging in a straw-man argument. Nobody said any of those things verbatim, no matter how much you wish they had. This is bad-faith commenting and you should consider taking a break to de-escalate.

> perhaps I'm missing something very obvious

The title "Your Echos are Heard" is a pun. One meaning of "Echos" is the Amazon product, and the other is a vocalization reflected back. It's stretch, to the point where it's technically spelled wrong for one of the meanings of the word. But it's a pun re-enforced with the word "heard" and thats enough for people to make the connection.

The complaint is that the article title heavily _implies_ the study finds devices are listening to your conversations unprompted, without actually doing any such science. The clickbait title is bad enough, but when there's already a partisan comment brigade ready to claim that "science is on their side" it's definitely worse.
Cars breaks as a rule can out power their engines, it’s why they can stop faster than they accelerate. It’s one of those tropes you see in movies but it’s a terrible assassination method that basically requires someone to make multiple mistakes.

There several ways around it from going to neutral to turning off the engine or even crashing is generally survivable, but they depend on the car and roads. Aka I don’t know what would work in a Model T.
I recently deployed a web app on render.com and it looks it fits the description. I just told it to set up a PostgreSQL database, pointed it at my git repo and told it how to build/run the static site, web server, and cron job. It was pretty simple, it's got great features like logs, a console, and monitoring. The price is reasonable too.
Similarly via a quick Google search:

- "Almost HALF Of San Francisco Residents Considering Leaving City" (according to survey of 500)

- "One in three New Yorkers Considering Leaving The State"

- "Over Half Of Young Lawyers Considering Quitting by 2027, IBA Report."

Look for X people considering Y, and you'll find them. Considering is cheap.

The awful experience of nurses, absolutely, true. But this, like so many others, is a silly poll that doesn't say anything.
This is probably the real reason why Chinese networking equipment was banned in the US and other Five Eyes countries.
With mine I was most surprised to find that LibreOffice had somehow become comparatively lightweight and fast in the last 20 years, lol.

If you're not running a web browser with serious intent, it should be a perfectly capable little box.
Well CL is pretty useful, lightweight, featureful… and Emacs Lisp is very similar to it, so you won't be lost.
Dosen’t criticising competitors increase competition? “We taste better than x”, “we have higher quality than x”, “we’re like x but cheaper?”
Honestly its the road noise thats even louder than the engine in new ICE cars. All I hear when cars pass is the rushing wind sound from a 4000lb chunk of steel rolling on cement, maybe a small hum. Old beater cars, dudebro trucks, and ricer/sports cars are the exceptions of course, but EVs aren't going to quiet the freeways like people expect imo.
Ah well, no I did not know, thanks :) in my case it's not too bad because I use kaniko's option to make a single layer of my changes, but good to know.
Umm, he did address this on his Twitter.

> I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong.

He admitted that he was wrong, and did the responsible thing which is not speculating anymore about things he does not understand.
Not a single mention in your comment that afterwards, Snowden apologized and said he would refrain from making statements on topics he didn't understand which could be considered misinformation.
They do what they must because they can.