skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same reason why startups often phrase what they are trying to do as "change the world" and not "become filthy rich" to their employees.
I do not see any fine print about the samples being Creative Commons.

Oversight? Or will they sue anyone who starts making good money using this software and loops?
How can a state do universal single payer of its own design when there are multiple direct federal health care systems covering a substantial portion of the population, plus a huge tranch of the money states rely on for health care tied to a federal/state cooperative program with federal programmatic and eligibility constraints?
I don't think so exactly. I was born the same year as Google.

I thrive on information, I might make 20+ different Google searches an hour on a random assortment of topics.

Modern smartphones + 4G really is a blessing in that regard. If I was born a decade earlier, I most likely would have read many more books.

I will say social media does overwhelm me, as a lot of it is low density information with very short lifetime. Facebook and Twitter are the worst, certain parts of Reddit as well.

I think I survive because my internet usage is heavily question driven. So it is very transactional rather than passive.

HN can be great as it can offer many jumping points for new questions.
If you are in need of cavities repaired I suggest getting in touch with your local dental school. Once a year there will be a practical where students have to repair caveties on a patient, so they will often offer free cavity screening + repair to the public for these exams. When I went to one, they discovered a few very small ones that looked like they could get bad in the future and opted to just do them right then. Dental schools outside of this are probably the cheapest way to have competent dental work done especially if you are uninsured (payment plans will be very permissive too)
GitLab Product Leader here - we do focus on MVCs and have built a lot of breadth in our product, that's something we are proud of. I do think we do a good job of pivoting and removing features where appropriate. For example we started with a not-secure-enough mechanism for attaching Kubernetes clusters and shifted to the more secure GitLab Agent for Kubernetes[1], deprecating the certificate method. We also started with a "must install Prometheus and Elk on your cluster" Observability solution and are now (after our acquisition of Opstrace) working to make observability on-by-default[2].

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/clusters/agent/
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/monitor/observability/#pr...
Just because everyone else is more terrible doesn't mean Apple still isn't terrible.

It's a design decision to use proprietary batteries that are difficult to change by consumers and can't be easily manufactured by third parties. Batteries aren't expensive enough to warrant that kind of service charge.
Why the downvotes? It's a genuine question.
I have an old saw about UTF-16 not being an irredeemable format and UTF-8 eating the world being bad, and I'm happy to dig it out again.

UTF-16 is great for lots of East Asian languages, which billions of people use. In UTF-8, most of those languages require 3 bytes to encode a 32-bit codepoint, in UTF-16 they only ever need 2. This ends up being a huge savings.

The main benefit of UTF-8 if you're say, Chinese, is interop. Everything else is worse.

You might think "but BOMs are super evil." Checking a BOM is extremely, extremely easy. Furthermore, you don't get to bail out of checking anything just by using UTF-8, you have to check to ensure you have _valid_ UTF-8. That's right, you gotta scan the whole bytestream anyway, so you may as well just check the 2-byte BOM at the beginning too.

You might also think "what about ASCII compatibility?" ASCII compatibility is an anti-feature. You should never be indexing into UTF strings (you always have to iterate, or save the results of an iteration), upper/lowercasing isn't addition/subtraction, etc. etc. You also can't just forget about encodings as a result--you can store ASCII in something expecting UTF-8, but you definitely can't store UTF-8 in something expecting ASCII. So if you're sniffing/decoding/tagging a format anyway, you may as well be agnostic.

You might also think "OK OK, you could be right, but what about HTML, which is mostly ASCII and would nearly double in size if it went from UTF-8 to UTF-16." Practically all HTML is gzipped, so the difference is pretty small, plus the majority of text isn't HTML (almost anything stored in a database, almost anything in a file on your computer, etc.)

Different encodings are good at different things. There's no one superior encoding for all uses. What we need is text encoding agnosticism.

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In fairness, I will say I've heard that UTF-8 is pretty popular in countries with exactly the kind of languages I'm talking about, so the issue is mostly moot at this point. I just think UTF-16 gets a really bad rap, and I think we shouldn't just gloss over UTF-8 having won because it's good for European languages.
My theory based on reading comments from ZFS devs is that as resources are somewhat limited and most people who use it are a bit technical these kind of things are low priority so they go slowly.
> 2) Meta can't by market share anymore thanks to regulators in all major markets being finally awake
> 3) Meta has never created major new innovation/product in-house after Facebook.

I guess, previously they bought some growing/upcoming competitors. Can they satisfy regulators and buy up new innovative companies with complementary rather than competing offerings?
Astrologizer - Digital Human
> $400-600 soon imho.

Revenue growth is stopping, no way they’re going to that level anytime soon. Also, if a recession is coming, as some say with interest rates rising, ad expenditure will fall, affecting Meta greatly.

OTOH, it has a moat from its network effect and its earnings are insane in absolute terms, so could also pivot to become a nice cash cow instead of a growth stock in the coming years.
They might think you’re doing a J in there
> The electoral college is not a bad idea in itself.

I'm prepared to grant the idea that an extra layer of defence against populism is in-keeping-with the idea of representative democracy itself, and even that there is some merit in giving extra representation to low-population rural states in order to reward them for joining a union where they may be out-voted by the more populous states.

What I can't concede, though, is my position that the electors for each state should be assigned proportionally, as would have been the case if the bipartisan Lodge-Gossett amendment had been adopted. The article below explains why it is an inferior solution to just implementing a national popular vote, and I don't disagree, but I think the Lodge-Gossett proposal is a more "conservative" reform and thus harder to argue against:

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/analysis-fractional-prop...
Yes, it should be indicative of a problem. The fact that nurses are overworked, and underpaid is a big issue.

> If there are people with the skills that are willing to travel, it seems that a system that maintained maximum capacity in all locations would be a very wasteful one.

The general idea here is that more and more nurses are willing to do this because they are underpaid and overworked in their regular (non-Travel Nurse) positions. I didn’t see anyone arguing for “maximum capacity” either… just better wages and working conditions.

> basic skills appear to be VERY transferable from location to location

If you read the parent comment by sllewe you will see that there are other costs and concerns around this which do more to stress existing nurses at whatever hospital is being filled with travel nurses. Imagine training a new someone every week (or however often new travel nurses pop up) while also having to do your own job… especially when you are already being overworked and when a miscalculation on your part could result in loss of life. All the while knowing that the travel nurse is making significantly more money than you, negotiated their hours of availability and doesn’t have to care about the unit beyond whatever contract length they signed up for..
How ironic they are now the largest manufacturer of Unix workstations...
> I trust that Boeing design engineers would have know full well that this tight tolerance would cost a lot of money, and would therefore specify it only if necessary

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Source: worked in places that manufactured aerospace stuff.

The .005 is likely the output of some other calculation that got copypasta'd because why not.
> there’s nothing particularly secretive or nefarious going on.

Other than selling data and ads to foreign groups that use it for electioneering / sowing domestic discord. Minor detail though, I’m sure.
The manner of NYRB book reviews -- essays often covering 'n'
related books on a given topic, are also more specific to NYRB's formula. Form and function...

The length of their reviews & essays isn't common among other, similar lit rags.
I think it's more the cost and awkwardness of the headsets and the lack of any "killer" apps that are holding VR back, moreso than dystopian sci-fi.
Isn’t Tornado stuck on Java 8?
I can only react with this face: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/112/480/Opo...

Help me understand this. Make it make sense...

1. Hospitals pay their nurses $X, which is way too low

2. Nurses quit because they're underpaid and overworked

3. Hospitals have a nurse staffing crisis and so pay travel nurses 2 * $X (or more!)

4. Hospitals are in a panic over the cost of travel nurses, yet instead of paying their nurses more to keep them around and eliminate the need for travel nurses, they ask the government to cap the cost of travel nurses

My mind is exploding over the ridiculousness of it.
> - $10 billion to Reality Labs R&D in 2021 expected to increase annually will eat into earnings

Seems like that is a knob that can be changed at any time to give more profit.

> - Last year saw first ever decline in US Facebook user base, expected to continue shrinking (albeit slowly)

Including instagram? Regardless, this was right after the pandemic, some people will switch from screens.

> - 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.

> - Hugely negative public sentiment* hurts adoption and makes continued litigation headwinds likely

Doesn't seem to really be hurting IG adoption that much. The real risk is litigation.
I think it’s fairly common in Japan to have music continuously playing in shared toilets. With a strong preference for brass bands.
This looks like it could be super fun for breaking the fourth wall during a presentation
Increasing the surface area of blogging
I bought one and I can’t stand it. Too heavy and uncomfortable. The UI is annoying and confusing. I tried to find some games for my kids (ages 7-9) but they either couldn’t figure them out or they were boring. What’s up with that start area, why can’t I explore it? It’s collecting dust for me. I see the potential but it seems a ways off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk_nVyhL1MI
Well, where interview requirements reflect actually doing the job, I'd guess the correlation would be significantly higher, no? If interview requirements don't correlate with job performance, I'd conclude the interview process is flawed. After all, the whole point of an interview is to assess performance capability, if it isn't doing that then you need a new process.
That was not the point that I am trying to make. Of course it's faster.

It's also much closer to Python or nodejs in its use-cases than C++, while still being faster. It's not meant as a replacement for other compiled languages, it is intended for backends.
I'm not necessarily talking about bots clicking ads, could just be fake profiles for whatever reason: inflating the number of likes of a page, writing reviews, phishing attempts, propaganda etc

Let's say FB has 200 million bots.
Do you think businesses could tell that there's actually 1.7b users and not 1.9b?
Current generation VR just doesn't excite or interest me.

But I am excited for what's going to come, now that VR is getting some serious investment.

My wishlist:

- no motion sickness or headaches (not sure if this is going to be possible for 100% of people)

- lighter, less bulky, less ridiculous looking, more comfortable headsets; the dream would be something like a pair of regular glasses, or goggles
- higher resolution

And, with time, I'd like to see hardware become less expensive, giving it a chance to become more mainstream.
How often do you certify a new plane of this magnitude? I’d wager you would have to plan on contracting that out vs hiring a bunch of people to only work periodically, and how are you going to find contractors who know how to build these?
In the case of North Korea, the state of computing norms in the rest of the world have no bearing on the situation there.

Even Linux spies on users in North Korea.

If every smartphone on the planet had full root access, NK would simply not allow smartphones.
My compsci program had an almost 50% drop out rate in the first two quarters. The classes were almost designed to destroy people, but if you did survive, you ended up doing pretty well career-wise.
Dilbert wasn't a webcomic, it was in the paper.
>Are you suggesting they build the entire fuselage as one piece and "glue it all together"?

That's basically how they build ships. The glue is just a little hotter.

It seems doable but QC would probably be a nightmare and it wouldn't be very repairable adding up to it not being an economically sane choice.

Edit: Since apparently this has to be said, they weld ships together creating what is in effect one single piece assembly. The point is that while the techniques for joining fibrous materials are very different, large single piece structures that flex and bow are fairly well understood and there's no reason you couldn't create one out of carbon fiber if doing so penciled out.
Thanks for this clarrification.
> How exactly will sites remember that you are logged in?

I don't want them to. I log back in if necessary (browser remembers id/pswd). For those few I need to stay logged in, I use a VM and save the state - I'm more concerned about controlling JS than cookies in such cases.

> And how would be have any web apps that aren't horrendous without JS?

I don't use web apps. My tradeoff.

> Also, where is this burn-a-core-for-every-open-tab stuff? Many websites are highly optimized and do not use much CPU.

Oddly, it seems to be corporate bullshit sites that are the worse offenders. Can't find one but you're right, it's not all by any means. I retract.
I'm not sure this is out of alignment with being a serious student, it's just out of alignment with how the uni wants to teach classes. This is how I did school in 2000, even when classes were not recorded.

This is a problem I have with online classes as well, the material is all done already, why are we running it temporally, instead of DVR style.

You can still weed people out and have a strong "certification" program without requiring real time in person attendance.

I'm a serious viewer of Better Call Saul, but I watched it all right before exam time.
US Government Research on Worm Holes, Anti-Gravity, and Invisibility Cloaks
If you want a laugh, walk into a chiropractor's office, and learn about the many issues your spine has.

People tend to be unfortunately incentivized to find something wrong with you, as they get paid based on treatments performed.

In the US, this produced the idea of Health maintenance organizations (HMOs), where there is a large member count paying a fixed fee. The hope was they'd want to spend on preventative care, and minimize other costs.
"Unlimited" gets a bad rap.

At the place I'm at right now, we have an unlimited policy and I've got 25 days of PTO planned over the course of the year that's all been approved.

But yeah...I do know not every place is that good about it.
I was just looking at AWS App Runner today and just thinking about how miserable it would be to figure out how to use AWS's proprietary build pipeline tools to replicate what I have with Heroku - and I've been using AWS forever - I just hate their UX, their docs, really every thing they do except the actual infrastructure services. So I was just thinking someone should build a product that gives me the Heroku CLI, pipelines, add-ons, review apps etc but implements it all on top of standard AWS services. No runtime services at all, just orchestrating configuration and metadata, service provisioning etc. I know there are other companies in this space but I wish someone would just blatantly steal the Heroku UX and then sell me that.
The iPhone 8 was released in autumn 2017, 4.5 years ago. It still gets regular software updates for security and new features and the hardware performs well compared to newer smartphones (Apple chips have been loads better than other mobile chips for a long time so an Apple chip from a year or two ago is often bested only by the newer apple chips in metrics like single-threaded performance or power efficiency).

I think it is mostly silly to accuse apple of planned obsolescence when their hardware functions well (and retains its value) for much longer than the hardware produced by their competitors. It feels to me that paying for one phone 4.5 years ago, and $50 for a battery replacement (all lithium ion batteries degrade over time) that will extend its useful life is a pretty efficient use of money.
5 thousandths is a pretty standard spec for precision parts
i understand, but the next step is what i wrote.
Employers are going to pay the minimum wages they can in order to retain sufficient workers. They obviously aren't going to voluntarily pay extra just so that employees can flourish.

There are a lot of jobs openings available to someone with an RN certificate and some experience. Unemployment in that group is close to zero. They don't all work in direct patient care roles.
> high-powered fans that are surrounded by mats woven from the Vetiver plant

For what it's worth, I haven't seen vetiver cooler mats in well over a decade. All I see are mats stuffed with wood shavings.
I read that as Shweng.
Russian school propaganda lecture on Ukraine special operation [video]
I'm Canadian. I finished Grade 12 mathematics (and took the "school leaving" exam in that subject) when I was in Grade 7. Simon Fraser University (where I attended) has a special entrance category for "secondary student with superior academic standing" to take "one or two courses" while still attending secondary school.

I was admitted under this category, and when my "one or two" courses ended up stretching into half a degree... well, as long as I was getting mostly A+ grades, nobody was going to step in to say that I wasn't allowed to take any more courses.

As a practical matter, I'm sure it helped that my father was a Professor of Chemistry and a widely-respected member of the University Senate. When my admission required approval from the Dean of Science, his response was "no problem, I'll see him at lunch tomorrow". I like to think that I could have gotten in without that connection, but having someone on the inside who knew how the system worked absolutely made things run more smoothly.
Quest 2 is hardware, not market share.

Nothing in Meta's VR research is something that competitors can't do. It's just basic incremental improvement you get by throwing money into it.
https://herbertograca.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/100-explic...

It's definitely not a square, and a circle would imply no difference from either point of view of the circle..

At least that was always my assumption on that lol.
I honestly think this is malicious on Microsoft's part. Ignoring the fact that this is being portrayed as a Linux flaw when it's really a flaw in a project called networkd-dispatcher, the original article seems to suggest that this project is part of systemd-networkd, when it's really just a third party project with no relation. I'm clearly not the only one who thought this, as most commenters seem to have come to the conclusion that this is a systemd project. It's not even packaged by that many distros (just Debian and derivatives) [1]. The developer even said that no one contacted them [2]. This on top of having typical "exploit marketing" (like a catchy name, a big ASCII art banner, and a long blog post with graphics) really can't lead me to a charitable conclusion.

[1] https://repology.org/project/networkd-dispatcher/packages
[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/04/micro...
The person inventing the jailbreak method is typically "classically trained" in CS, notable exceptions like Geohot.
They serve another purpose. Credentials with red tape to get test another aspect of someone's capability: the willingness to tolerate senseless bullshit in order to get ahead. For a lot of jobs that's a requirement, you won't do well at some places and in some fields without it.
Ooh, that sounds like a lot of fun, I'd love to play that game with my online friends sometime!
The original hand drawn bézier curves are also interesting:

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-graphics...
Sure, they just want to govern 'misinformation' but surely they don't mean to censor anything. Sure... Why would you even dream of giving the DHS the benefit of the doubt?
> What was the original intent of open relays? Why allow emails without authentication?

Store and forward.

Do remember that email was THE great federated protocol.

The goal of a mail server was to get your email "at least one hop" closer to your destination. And that wasn't an easy task.

Servers came online and went offline. Users logged in and out. Connections came up and went down. IP wasn't the only transit. DNS? Oh, the hosts file? Even higher things--thing DECnet and Janet.

Email was barely functional most days. Your best bet if you weren't an Internet God and weren't able to write your own super complicated sendmail.cf was to know a sysadmin at a node who had an Internet God and ask him if you could forward emails that you couldn't handle to their server.
No need to tap any cables if you're the OEM for the gear at the endpoints.
As someone who had bought ads there, I can tell you this is not as true as you think. You pay for the ad and the business picks up a bit, but the reported conversion numbers at least for me never made sense. It's really about making more money than you put in that you keep it going. Now given the ethics around Facebook, I don't do it anymore. I say it's all about CPC, I admit here it isn't.
the reason why i react like this is that i have seen a proposal like what i describe a few years ago in a country in europe.
This is why I like going to dental schools faculty or student practices. They are all about saving the teeth if it can be saved and will need to see sufficient evidence in the imaging before moving forward with just about anything. Things seem to take longer and involve more appointments (e.g. i have to schedule a separate appointment with dept of radiology vs the private practice dentist walking me to the next room with the xray), but it seems like every decision involves multiple dental professors looking at my imagery or feeling up my teeth or gums before anything is done, which definitely boosts my confidence. I like having a committee and hearing them discuss the evidence in this war room setting when I'm laying there on the chair mouth open
GCP Cloud Build + Cloud Run is a pretty good alternative for Heroku