skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you put two people in a room, and each one only speaks one distinct language, and their only goal is to communicate with each other. How long before they can effectively communicate?

I would sign up for that even, maybe. I think the main problem with that idea is that willingness to spend time in such an endeavour is highly positively correlated with knowledge of certain well-spread Indo-European languages. ;)
Ask HN: How to stop spam calls and texts for an American SIM?
I've recently moved to America and set up my first SIM card. I now get 2-10 phishing texts or scam calls a day while while the help desk at the telecom pretty much says, "that's just the way it is".

Has anyone had any success greatly reducing this? I'm seriously considering disabling SMS and calls on my mobile and having a home phone connected to an answering machine.
I'm reminded of that Simpsons episode (can't find it on YouTube easily) where they temporarily have to take in boarders: backpackers and so forth.

Then the financial problem is fixed, and Homer carries one of them, all the while spouting about the European health system, to the garbage can. He says "Time to take out the Eurotrash."
Watch an American Ship Get Locked Down in China
“A sword was seen in the sky”: A true and wonderful narrative (1763)
when i make a mistake, i apologize and correct it.

Especially one as minor as misgendering, which inevitably happens and is easily fixed with a quick: "oh, they*! My apologies!"

so your assertion "i don't care" comes off as flippant and aggressive.
If that matters why hasn't the internet exploded yet?

Hardly anyone is doing that thing and it seems to not matter. People who panic only when they see $STUPIDLY_NAMED_ISSUE seem fine.
What do you mean? Do they just not offer a plan that is cost effective for a source control only use case? I currently use their source control and CI features, and that's it. No issues.
Thanks also. I had a look about 2 years ago during the big Corona lockdown bore and didn't come across it.
Doctors aren't happy about it either.

I was at my family's Easter lunch last week and one of my uncles who's an MD was telling me about the mass exodus of doctors from the profession since COVID hit. Anyone who was thinking about retiring did so once the pandemic took off.

He then tried to convince me that I'm not too old to go to medical school. Yeah, no thanks.
Insurance companies is a symptom of the REAL issue.

Unfortunately the American public hasn't figured out what the real issue is yet. They reason why they haven't is mostly because the Democrat party , Republican party, entertainment industry , the Main Stream Media, tech industry, and the the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has them occupied with the symptoms of the REAL issue in order to keep them chasing their tails.

The REAL ISSUE why healthcare isn't getting fixed is because of Conflict of interest.The American public hasn't figured out that going to congress who is riddled with conflict of interest and who designed the existing system that we have in place and is benefiting from it, might not be the best idea to fix healthcare.

In fact the best thing to fix healthcare (and the other 99 problems)is to STFU about it and focus ONLY On reducing conflict of interest in congress. Until we reduce conflict of interest in congress nothing will be fixed.

The Democrat party ,republican party, CPD and MSM want you focused on everything but reducing conflict of interest in congress.
In order to fix healthcare and any of the other issues we must FIRST try to minimize conflict of interest by implementing the following as a start:

1. Term limits

2. Closing or reducing revolving doors between private and public sector.

3. No private campaigning contributions. Use tech to overcome the need of money.

4. Reform lobbying by doing away with the money aspect of it and utilizing technology to get your voice heard.

5. Pay congress members more and better benefits, but in return demand complete transparency from financial information to limitations in investments , NCA , and make pay and benefits tied to the general overall approval of congress by the American tax payers.

6.etc

Both party and the MSM solution to fix healthcare is the equivalent of going to the MOB and asking them to fix crime in your neighborhood which the MOB is benefiting from and is promoting. It just makes no sense to talk solutions with people riddled with conflict of interest.

You want to fix healthcare stop talking about healthcare and get the individual republicans and individual democrats to put their political ideology on hold and join forces to demand that their party ONLY focuses on reducing conflict of interest in congress.
Wrong paper, and/or bad fusor.

My stuff printed on HP LJ 4 in late 90s is still as good as new.
As Tom West wrote: not everything worth doing is worth doing well.”. As a student or intern, I would imagine you’re far from the bits that are mission critical. That leaves makework, or kept around as it’s somewhat useful, or some other “ehh” descriptor. And I suggest living will be better if you assume people know more than you do rather than less. Avoids running afoul of the quiet smarties.
That's true - they were as user friendly as the technology let them be.
> People who spend 1000s of hours on something are passionate about it, they really want it.

This does not preclude discipline. Here again, this is long-term. The motivation isn't necessarily there at every waking moment. A runner or bodybuilder for instance won't just take a day off because they're tired and don't feel like exercising. The "I want" assertion can be a matter of moment-to-moment whim, not careful soul-searching.

> I think it's just unnecessary mental gymnastics that may cause suffering.

I'm currently suffering from your mental gymnastics.
> So a simple answer is that global warming is responsible for about 1 degree of the 10-degree heat anomaly.

That is not remotely how global warming works.
> The problem with TPC-E is not many companies publish (official or unofficial) results for it, so its not as useful when comparing systems, which is what we were after in our blog post.

Oh, yeah this makes a lot of sense
Degraded Performance on 1password.com
>> iFixit’s repairability reviews incredibly objective

Which is while Apple doesn't like them. If you care about sales, glowing reviews are always better than honest reviews. There are plenty of people willing to praise Apple and so there is no need to cater to objective reviewers.
Why would Ukraine's missing wheat exports matter that much? Russia and Ukraine are significant exporters of wheat, but their contribution to global wheat production isn't near as impressive. There's plenty of other major exporters who could increase production to help fill the gap. Prices will probably go up in some nations, but I'm sure it will hardly be noticeable compared to everything else the global economy is going through.

And it's not like Russia is just going to stop exporting wheat. Major importers like China will probably be happy to get a better deal on it than years past thanks to sanctions reducing the demand for Russian wheat.

I'd be much more worried about Europe's dependency on Russian natural gas. There are other major natural gas exporters, but I'd expect the market to be much slower to adapt since the product is mostly transported using expensive pipelines. And other nations will probably be more hesitant to increase production significantly due to environmental concerns.
You can take an acting class or a foreign language class without being enrolled in a research institution.

Product tying is often portrayed as immoral, it is even illegal in many places. Why we force a major part of our society to go through a practice that is similar in many ways but is far more expensive is beyond my understanding.
Era 1: Nobody knows what they're doing

Era 2: Everyone uses jQuery

Era 3: Everyone copies Gmail and Grooveshark using Backbone and Angular

Era 4: React is all the hipster bootcamps teach

Era 5: NextJS and React Native is how you build apps
Doesn't anybody at VT care enough to find out where in their supply chain that vulnerable machine actually is.

In real world scenarios you don't participate in a cyber campaign by accident and then put your finger on your nose and yell "NOT IT" when that campaign blows up a quarter mile down the road.
Those are extremely different situations and you’ve not really justified why they’re being compared. A “doctor bias” in every decision being made would ideally prioritize health outcomes over decisions made for profit or convenience. It’s possible that doctors will make poor decisions too, but on balance our expectation based on their training is that decisions made because of healthcare outcomes would be more likely in this scenario than the current state of affairs, which prioritizes economic considerations as administrators in every context currently tend to
What would prevent someone else from coming along and simply stealing (or otherwise tampering with) these things?
If you use zfs, you can get the same kind of histogram with `zpool iostat -w`.
It is a problem fostered by that culture though.
Tesla app may load vehicle data instantly in an upcoming update
I wonder if it's got anything to do with the 34 billion tons of CO2 we released into the atmosphere.
FWIW I have a bachelors from WGU in IT Security was was accepted into GA Tech's Online Masters Cybersecurity program.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
Imagine to go wash your hands and have the sound of a drunk guy vomiting as ambience :)
I'm not sure that there is no empirical support: see [0]

[0] A. Roe, S. Pallas, Y. Kwon, and M. Sur, “Visual projections routed to the auditory pathway in ferrets: receptive fields of visual neurons in primary auditory cortex,” J. Neurosci., vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 3651–3664, Sep. 1992.

PS: I'm not saying that there is uniform initial connectivity. Just, the prediction level units (cortical columns) are unable to predict anything until they learn "something".
Yeah if you have two it's a lot harder to see. I don't have sensors on a lot of individual devices, definitely not the fridge.

But on my house power graph it's really clear when the fridge is on because I see a huge spike when the compressor starts up and then about 50W constant load while it cools. Also, I have temperature sensors in both the fridge and freezer compartments so I can see exactly when it's cooling (which coincides with that power draw).

But almost all my computing devices are low-power ones and that really helps a lot. Some are in the living room so noise was also a consideration. The only big exception is my game PC - I always shut that down fully and only really use it for gaming because even idle it will take 200W or so. I have an RTX3080Ti in it so it's not power-efficient :)
Let's not focus solely on standby devices. How much energy could be saved by simply disabling Windows update or discontinuing use of other CPU inefficient software? I suspect that across the entire population, it would add up to be a non-significant number.
Agree with all of this, and just to add one thing: liability.

Look at the RaDonda Vaught case or the Michelle Heughins case; terrifying to be looking at jail time for a med error.

Many nurses are watching these cases more closely and deciding that since staffing isn't getting any better and they won't be protected, it's not worth the risk.
> Since we're talking about a deadly heat-wave, people will certainly ask what global warming has to do with this. Roughly speaking, global temperatures have increased by about 1 degree Celsius over the past century. So a simple answer is that global warming is responsible for about 1 degree of the 10-degree heat anomaly.

I don't think it's quite that simple; the average temperature has increased by 1°C, but that doesn't mean there can't be spikes, or even that some areas can actually become colder due to different weather patterns. The climate is a complex system with a lot of feedback loops.
Why don't they sell Mac Studio motherboards?
You need to maintain your ip’s reputation, which, for ourselves, is barely possible:(.
Ask HN: Best way to find out when features were added to languages?
An engineer (non-software) friend of mine asked me if range() was a function that had been added recently to Python, or if his professors just never showed it to him.

I told him range() has been there since the 90s and that his professors were just bad at Python. The thing is, I'm not actually sure about the first part. I know the history of some features, for example, I know that list-comprehensions were only added in Python 2 around 2000 and I know that map, reduce, and filter were added pretty early (like 1993) by programmers who were familiar with lisp. But I'm finding it really hard to find out when specific, arbitrary features were added to Python (or to other languages).

Google is no help because regardless of how I structure my query or tweak the search options, it just shows me endless SEO drivel sites that are only remotely related to what I searched. Anyone have a better way to find out stuff like this?
It's executive/board/administrative compensation that's more of a problem than profits for most hospitals/insurance companies.
Heatwave in India you say? Reminds me of: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-fo...

Beginning of that book was downright terrifying.
I'm surprised I had to go so far down in the comments to see this pointed out.

This is an international venture. There are lots of places in the world where no high school education is offered but an internet connection is, or like you said this offering is better.

Online learning is very different and we haven't had many years of experience to perfect it yet. My guess is we will see its effectiveness grow for a few more decades as the nuances get figured out.
Ok. Is this the new "todo list" or "hacker news clone" trend, but for tools? :)

We need competing implementations in more languages!

(Ignore my snarky tone because: why not?)
So...we need to manage that better?
That was my first right as well!
Not exactly. This isn't a dipole, it's expanding and contracting across its whole surface. So, almost no bass (no excursion) and not as directional as if it were a dipole. Electrostatics put out the inverse wave behind them, this is either mounted on a rigid object (no back radiation) or in free air (in-phase back radiation, and front radiation is half as powerful as it would be against an object)
Indeed, they even have their own dieselgate scandal where tv's recognise reviewers test patterns and adjust settings accordingly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhto9MmiExE
The Orbital Index 166
>adverse

That's the key. I'm arguing that "adverse" doesn't mean "not receiving special unfair treatment."
Might be related to the fact that many carbs are a lot easier for your body to break down.
I have a desert cooler that runs probably > 8hrs a day. I live in an area that's relatively not humid. My family is kinda lucky that we have a lawn surrounding the house and that's full of trees, so that cools the house a bunch as well.

Sometimes we do hang a bunch of palm mats on the windows and spray it with water, for evaporat-ive cooling.

Other than this, we also have lots of juices during the summer, and have diluted buttermilk to drink!

Most of us wear clothes that are loose around the groin and areas where sweat production/accumulation occurs the most.
Anyone have experience with gitlab's Auto-DevOps stuff? Haven't really had an opportunity to use it (I do use their CI product) but am curious how people who've tried it find it.
It's not about Western civilisation, it's about economic neoliberalism, replacing every existing metric with a single one: shareholders' profits. Those do-nothing administrators _do_ have a marketable skill: they make money for the company. Or at least appear to, according to (obviously flawed) criteria that are being used to evaluate ones' work.
Curd is a must have for Indian lunches if you want to cool yourself.

Slices of onions, cucumbers, etc. also help.
Anything that assumes low interest rates might be negatively affected. Capital intensive things based on renting/leasing (e-scooters?) are in the cross-hairs.

Credit/pay-later services will have greater credit losses, higher risks and higher rates.

Viewing hours on ad-based tech might not be negatively affected, but that doesn't translate linearly to revenue.
And it's just the beginning of summer.
I don't even think Marx would agree with that. He thought capitalism produced a stage of history that wasn't exactly capitalist, which then would inevitably produce communism through socialism.
I should have looked before making my comment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This too reminded my of that terrifying book. It made real something (killer heatwave) that I couldn't even imagine.
That stock image makes me feel like I'm on the Joe Rogan podcast..
Because in reality, there are always tradeoffs and constraints. In the US, a disproportionate amount of healthcare costs come at the very, very end of life.

It's possible to meet the sole criteria of science, quality, and patient wishes with exploding costs. I think the OP's point was that money has to come from somewhere.
>He did not have much intention of actually learning anything.

I strongly disagree, you are missing the point of competency based education.

It's important to understand that an undergraduate CS degree needs to be accessible even to people without much IT experience. Some people come in with no experience with computers at all.

Look at the names of the first four courses:

C182: Introduction to IT

C172: Network and Security - Foundations

C779: Web Development Foundations

C173: Scripting and Programming - Foundations

Most people on Hacker News would be bored out of their minds taking these courses. Do you know what a computer is? Do you know the difference between HTML and Javascript? Can you write basic scripts using Bash or Python? That's what foundational courses are for.

If you are already beyond this level- which the author clearly was- you can just test out of them. Pass an exam to prove that you already know this stuff, so then you can move on to more advanced material that's more appropriate for you.
Should we also have a single lump sum tax rate that everyone must pay equally?

As LeBron James once said, 'two points is not two points'. If 'fairness and equal treatment' are context-blind, then they are just another empty platitude.
You don't get it. I reject the whole premise of optimizing on "deterrence" based on [group]. If you accept the premise that we should base fees on deterrence, you have to accept where that leads. And that may not lead to your image of the world as being full of honest law abiding working folks and cigar chomping awful fat cats.

> Wealthy people often park illegally and just eat the fine because it's more convenient than the alternative.

Where do you come up with this stuff? Your vision of how "wealthy people" behave is so off from what I've observed.

> Using parking ticket data in 2016 from the City of Los Angeles, this study shows that the number of parking tickets is higher in neighborhoods with a larger presence of renters, young adults, and Black residents.

https://nbrazil.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites...
This was the same for me in Europe, but I’m fairly certain it had nothing to do with difficulty, and everything with people finding out that CS was just not for them.
This is what I'm also way more curious about. 40c in the desert is hot and annoying. 40c in the tropics is fatal just to exist in too long.
Like with all things in life, it really depends.

Some places, like Google, and to a lesser extent, Apple, Microsoft, and a few others, still really require you have to a degree (bachelors or otherwise), at least when hiring from the outside.

Other places, like Meta, often default to experience or degree, but not per se requiring both. There are of course exceptions at all of these places, however it seems to hold true in aggregate.

It won't hurt you, thats for sure, and if (when?) the job market tightens, those with degrees often get preferred to those without. That was my experience in the last down turn anyway
> This is caused by the AMA lobbying to limit the supply of doctors in order to drive up salaries.

This. This is the problem - not the vague spectre of "capitalism" being waved around.
There is a significant population on Planet Earth that are "permahedged" from any material anxieties. Clearly, we are talking about annual consumption trends of $500K per individual, and not in the luxury yacht race. (They likely already have access to one if needed).

This is the market to cater to. The question is: with what truly novel good?
Still sounds a bit lengthy to me.

What I would like to have is a topic approach one. It should be fully online with facilities for student communication such as Discord and online assignment/project submission.

One example: let's say I want to learn OS. The course chain will look like this: Programming class, Comp arch using C and assembly, Data structure, and then straight into OS.

In modern universities you can apply as independent students but the process is often a bit tedious. Also you have to go through a lot of red tapes just to remove some pre-requisite, e.g. as a Math student I don't need Discrete math, and as a Data Engineer I don't need the basic programming class at least, but in reality it's really difficult to get these done easily, if at all.

Of course I can just go to say Berkeley and download their course materials and learn for free. I figured I'm not smart/persistent enough to go through it on my own, so paying some $$ to get a proper learning platform is a better option. Really wish universities such as MIT or Berkeley has such options but I know it's too much for them. Once they open the gate there will be too large a demand to handle.
One addition that would be great is a shower timer, and a humidity sensor to auto-detect how long I'm in the bathroom
> Motivation plays a part, but it is ultimately the action that defines if it was retaliation. The action has to be harmful.

Retaliation is about the why, not the what. Retaliation is me doing B because of A.

def: Retaliation: The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil

In this case, it's about Disney acting in a way that pols don't like. "But here’s the issue, when my 14-year-old or my 10-year-old ask for special privileges? They behave! And they don’t expect those special privileges if they act like jerks. So Disney is learning that they are a guest in this state." - FL Rep Randy Fine
"is quite puzzling"

Is it?

The financialization of every aspect of life, in this case with for-profit hospitals through multiple layers of insurance middle-men, the exodus you describe would seem one of the natural byproducts from miles away.
Regardless of whether Disney should have ever gotten this deal, the taking away of the deal is unconstitutional because it is punishing free speech. That's it. This is not a "left" thing. It is a Constitution thing.

I can both dislike Disney and believe this move was unconstitutional at the same time.
Doesn’t starting someone at 13 fly in the face of the whole “prerequisite experience learned on the job” bit?
This inefficiency and it's resulting poor working conditions aren't unique to countries with health insurance and private healthcare tho, see Canada.
Doctor pay is high because supply is constrained.

We’re “fixing” this by flooding the market with less trained nurse practitioners and PE. Doctors are being gobbled up by regional medical cartels and put where they can maximize billing.
That's ok for transfers, but a 3.0 GPA would make it difficult to go to graduate school.