skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not particularly a fan of Disney or the Florida legislature so I totally agree with your second point.

The point I was trying to make is that regardless of the recent motivations, the end result is that a mega corporation is stripped of privileges that they shouldn't have had in the first place. I would support that in this case and also the other fictional case I presented with Koch Industries.

So I guess the point of contention is in the motivation, but that doesn't matter to me as long as the end result is the same.
There is also a dial in old school mac bbs with like 6 duplex lines going in, you telnet in. I wish I could remember the guys name.
While I don't doubt that nurses have very high stress jobs, the reason why you'd take a pay cut to become an nurse is because their job is a lot less technically difficult.

I have some friends from university who became nurses, one of which I was roommates with for two years during school. I helped them study for 'their most difficult math test' and it was a relatively straightforward test on changing units. They would not have passed a first year calculus class. The majority of their academic work was memorization, and then lots of hands on work in hospitals. The reason they get paid well is because the job is important and stressful, not because it requires highly technical people of which there is limited supply.

I don't say that as a slight - I know many nurses who are very intelligent people, its merely a judgement as to the academic rigor involved in getting your nursing credentials.

PS I worked at home depot during busy periods in the summer when the store was understaffed, I've worked as a waiter where I was the only person on shift because the owners/manager were idiots, and I've worked cleaning big chicken barns out in preparation for new chickens and those were all significantly more stressful than my technical work. Stress is not correlated with difficulty or limit of supply.
I think that is a pretty fair and accurate assessment of it. For me, with a lot of experience, the credential + filling in some gaps were what I really needed and the WGU degree was a great way to take care of both.

As for recommending it to a super-gifted kid - I don't think the program is setup to allow that. You have to have a high-school diploma and at least a bit of work experience to even be admitted. I also think that one drawback of the program is that you can graduate without having written a ton of code, which is fine for someone who's been doing it for a long time, but less ideal for someone who hasn't?
Brilliant suggestion.
Some of us still remember the days when we were paid to be creative engineers, solid creative engineers, designing elegant solutions. Didn't know or need to know how to type, design layout of reports, kerning and fonts, didn't keep track of bills and accounts:
Just engineering. (Of course report presentation, review and editing were still necessary, not not the actual technical aspects.)
I think the root problem is that administators without practical skills are running everything.

Since they got by without any practical skills, they don't value such things. Now, they want to eliminate them entirely from the educational system.

The managers are at war with the individual contributors, and they don't understand that someone has to actually do work, or the system will collapse.
Trusted applications can be full of vulnerabilities that allow them to become malicious. SELinux and such can limit the capabilities of such trusted applications to do only what they were designed to do and not execute reverse shells or run Crypto mining software etc..
I started after doing 3x 6 hour homework assignments in a row that got ignored and thinking that was such a waste of my time.

At the same time I tried to see it from the companys perspective that they did want to see some sort of evidence that I could code.

Hence I wanted a portfolio online that belonged to me that proved I could code that I could throw in the face of any more companies that tried to gatekeep first stage interviews with a homework assignment.

I continued coz it was fun seeing the stars rack up and coz it did seem to give me a mild professional boost.
Telecom and Military
Progressive JPEG has ~10 scans by default in libjpeg/mozjpeg.
Lossy JPEG XL always allows minimal progression (2 scans, 1:8 followed by 1:1), and uses maybe 3-5 scans when encoding with more progression.

In any case, I think the "costs too much cpu" argument is not really fair, since there is nothing forcing an implementation
to do explicit flush/repaint at every scan. In fact, browsers will only do a refresh when cpu is _not_ the bottleneck, but network is. When cpu _is_ the bottleneck (e.g. the file is loaded from local cache), you can just decode the whole file non-progressively and have only a single refresh (just like with inherently non-progressive formats).

If network is the bottleneck, then the choice is between cpu time (avoiding progressive previews to save some cpu effort) and human time (show previews so something can be shown earlier). I think human time is more valuable, by a few orders of magnitude.
It's a pretty good strategy to be honest... much better than hoping to get lucky in the lab by yourself (even with a handful of postdocs)
Why not just pipe into a python program that uses a mature JSON parser? These “*q” things are really boring.
What you just described absolutely has financial benefits, in time and opportunity costs.
It's so strange to see the left concerned about free speech. Is that concern really about the principle, or is it purely partisan?
iMovie is perfect for your needs, it’s free. (If you have a Mac or iPhone.)
Because the profession is meant to serve the public interests and not just be a money grab. According to government data, the median lawyer is in the top 10% of income earners.
Researchers enable users to interact with their phones tracking eyes movements
We talk about insurance killing the medical field, but I'd also argue that EMR companies are doing a number on the profession as well. Have you seen the Epic campus? Epic - located in Wisconsin (not the gaming company). The amount of overhead a hospital needs to support/run that behemoth can't be small. And Epic is _swimming_ in cash.
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Would this be appropriate for someone fresh out of high school? The only concern I can think of is the lack of socialization, which is easier to address during high school than university.
I don't know that. My research didn't turn up anything about taking both at once. I think, either way, it would have been safer to try anti-biotics first then the steroids. It's not like I was suffering from the ulcer, I had time to experiment, so why not go with the simplest and safest treatment route?
Is go's json parser less mature than python's?
> Modern audio codecs/standards (Dolby Atmos, DTS:X) have moved 'beyond' individual speakers,

What you're describing is representational. You still need individually controlled speakers to position audio in the room according to the positional metadata. The question of representation really isn't relevant to the question I answered, nor is it to my answer, but it's an interesting topic.

> Given the (x, y, x) co-ordinates of an audio signal/object, the codec algorithm figures out which speaker(s) should get what signal

...and for the signals to be distributed accordingly, you need to be able to address each speaker individually.

In the domain of representing positional audio, this is also nothing new. No one mixes surround sound in terms of speakers, and that has been the case for decades. No one would manually pan a sound "carefully from the Right speaker, through the Center speaker, to the Left speaker, and on down to the Left side surround and the Left rear surround before it faded out entirely". What object-based codecs bring to the table is that the positional representation is encoded in the data stream rather than mixed down to per-speaker audio streams during production, which means that the distribution and filtering can be tailored for each setup individually.
I had the exact same thing. Started humming it but it made no sense,so I thought "nah, probably some new song that I don't know". Interesting!
> left the next day, and the bill to insurance (which of course they won't pay) was $69,000

I agree with you and the quote above is because of insurance. Medicare will pay 10% of that total and your father would be charged 2-5%. If he has private insurance you’ll see something different, maybe 15% and your father would be charged 3-6%. If he’s going out of network could be 100%. Hospitals / practices charge insane bills because people pay just a small fraction typically. It really impacts those without insurance or private insurance the worst. It is insane.

This is why I have suggested deregulation, particularly around licensing. It drives down the cost. Insurance may cover doctor X, but if nurse Y can do it for 5% the price... well use the nurse. All doctors would have to reduce prices and insurance would have to raise the coverage amount to compete. It’s what is done elsewhere in the world.
> "You don't seem to understand the fundamental contradiction. Demanding growth/capital accumulation, where there is no growth can only be satisfied by taking from one group and giving to another."

the irony... you've literally just described greed. it can, and does, happen in any economic system (communism, mercantilism, socialism, all devolve because of greed); capitalism isn't special in that regard. it just happens to be more efficient at it (and in general) than other systems. you must account for greed in any and every economic system.

americans generally don't realize that our 'innovation' wasn't capitalism or democracy (rah-rah words), but it was the intrinsic separation of power and wealth that formed the basis of our eventual prosperity (along with resource-rich, isolated, and plentiful land). unfortunately, we've allowed that separation to be corrupted from both directions in the last half-century.
At a 2000 bed facility though, you could specialize in specific types of heart surgeries. At a general hospital you're probably more likely to take on a wider variety of heart procedures. It's not just experience, but experience in specific procedures that can dictate outcomes:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-quality-surger...

Maybe cheap is the wrong term, but less expensive? I mean $800 may be expensive but certainly it's better than more?
Author here. I didn't expect this to show up here. I found containers on lambda to work really well. I can easily test them locally and they scale to zero when I'm not using them in AWS. So it's perfect for things that are idle a lot.

I have a follow up coming where I use go in a container, and the request speed got a lot better.

The service in this article is my html to text convert, so having a container where I could install OS-dependencies was crucial to getting this working. It's covered here and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30829568

https://earthly-tools.com/text-mode
Filters like this one:

WHERE users.name = 'Joe' AND todos.completed = true

Have most of the problems I mentioned above unless "many" rows match the filter.
Lack of ability to seek to specific rows in the data hurts.

RE: Arrow.. I haven't read too much about the compression scheme(s) it uses. If it only does dictionary compression, that is reasonable easy to make incremental, so its possible Arrow doesn't have that specific problem.
If your goal is deterrence you have to ask who's more likely to commit an offense. When you lump someone into a group and apply different levels of punishment based on their group, that's just wrong and evil. You think its fine because [group] is some group you may not like (rich people). But if you start treating people differently based on [group] you risk losing control of who is defining the group. The simplest and fairest way is to treat everyone equal in the eyes of the law. That's the ideal and when possible we should reach for that ideal
.NET Annotations Lambda Framework (Preview)
> $1B for some reason isn't enough for these people

I feel the same way, but... when I was younger I always thought that if I could ever get to the point where I made half what I currently make, I'd be "set for life". Now I make twice that much and... it's still somehow not enough. So maybe you and I think a billion is plenty and maybe they thought that until they got to that point.
We've seen plenty of examples of people using interesting materials to visualize harmonics on surfaces. Everything from rice to gloop.

A given surface can have many resonant frequencies, where volume pitches upward dramatically. That's a lot more than just beeps, but a good deal less than human speech or music. With enough separate speakers you might be able to manage, but old hi-fi sets had 2-3 speakers per channel at most, and you'd probably need many more than that. At some point you'd start to wonder if a phased array were a better option.
That feels like the kind of thing that sounds good on the surface, but breaks down when you actually try to size it. The incremental value of that data vs search data seems nearly 0 - I would guess almost everyone who has searched for a fridge has said some variation of "fridge" out loud, and there would be so much additional noise from people who say it but aren't in any way intending to buy a new fridge.

But don't get me wrong, it is totally plausible that some eng team somewhere would still build it because it's a shiny new tech, it just doesn't seem like the kind of thing that has any real world value.
Show HN: One-click interactive source code stats using animated charts
Given a source language and a destination language, I wonder if a linguist could design a series of translations that exacerbate the loss of meaning which occurs when words are automatically translated from the context of one language to another. When I write something that I intend to automatically translate, or that I know will likely be read in translation, I often use a simple reflexive translation from source through destination and back to source in order to detect any lack of clarity in my words. Seeing a smoother, more automated feedback while writing for translation would help people improve their communications.
> Removing an unfair privilege is only "harmful" to the person with the unfair privilege.

Yes, so (independent of whether the status quo is just or not) the act is:

(1) harmful to Disney, and
(2) motivated by Disney’s exercise of its first amendment rights.

> Considering the full context makes it not actual harm.

No, it doesn't. It makes it harmful in a way you believe is warranted for reasons other than the actual motivation.

But the fact that an adverse government action would be warranted for reasons other than the actual motivation does not make taking the same action in retaliation for exercise of Constitutional rights permissible.
That is convoluted. Then again, it's Germany. Here in NL most places have a meter that beams usage to your utility, which send me handy montly reports. By default it's only allowed to transmit twice per month, but you can allow it to be done daily or near real time (some energy co's require it, they'll charge you different hourly rates). The privacy around these numbers are guarded: they may only be used to calculate your bill.
If you have an enterprise contract with AWS bring it up with your AM & TAM. They will pull in direct resources from AWS.
If you had said "US people", I'd have agreed with you (at least to a greater extent". But I took "US thinkers" to be a subset of "US people", differentiated by ... well, thinking :) This is not meant to be patronizing - a lot of people just don't think much about politics, policy, philosophy, ethics, for whatever reason.

However if someone is in that subset that does, the chances are much better that they are aware of left-ish ideas.
Hey HN,
CodeViz Stat is an open-source tool that automatically visualizes the contents of a software project in VSCode. It's built as an example of what our open-source library Vizzu (https://github.com/vizzuhq/vizzu-lib) can be used for.

It's convenient to get a quick overview of your project and then dig deeper into a subfolder while keeping the context. It also comes in handy when you want to show your code to a new developer.

Here's an online example: https://vizzuhq.github.io/codeviz/

CodeViz Stat is built on top of Kentaro Usiyama's great VS Code Counter (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=uctakeof...).

What do you think? How should we improve it?
(Gross oversimplification but..) One seemingly innocuous bug deep in the encryption "library", that no letter could map to itself, plus a bit of social "engineering" in taking advantage of the fact that messages often included the same text (e.g. "heil hitler") often in the same position, with a smattering of German complacency and arrogance assuming that their machine was uncrackable.

Pretty funny that the lessons learned here are still relevant to this day.
If anything, their story is more likely than not showing that the centralization is not going to happen. If the users of the instances were the ones doing the segregation (due to some tribal/cultural divide), then you'd end up with a small number of highly polarized instances.

But if this is only a fight between admins, the intuition is that we would end up with the big instances constantly losing users to smaller ones (created by those breaking away from the bad admins) who would then federate among themselves.
You're not understanding the power dynamics at play.

The agency reps a lot of celebs who don't want to see insults in their blue check notifications.

Twitter wants those celebs to be active on Twitter and doesn't need Milo.
This is a hilarious retort to the armchair RTR crew that has been whining of repairability sabotage and price gouging conspiracies for profit. You want the proper tools to do it right? Here's all 70Lb of them shipped to you. Have fun.

I hope it seems a little less predatory and "worth it" to people now to just pay for an OEM part, installed by a professional, with proper tools on hand. I don't think many people will use this, but I admire the engineering and initiative behind this program.
So long as the humidity is low, it won’t kill 20 million people (like the book). All about that wet bulb temperature!

But, they sure ought to consider their plans for stratospheric sulfur injection.

(I never got past the middle of the book. Did it pick up?)
During the 2007-2009 recession, I worked for a software development company that provided custom software development services to local and state governments. My understanding was that their sales rose during the recession because replacing government agency staff with our software was a cost saving measure.
Pachyderm (YC W15) Is Hiring SDET/Build/Release Engineers
Oh, don't get me wrong. The way nurses are treated is horrible. I wasn't arguing that and I hope it didn't come across that way.
Pay is a problem. I don't disagree with that.

But, before COVID there was already a supply problem. The supply problem has been slowly getting worse for years and then COVID accelerated it. If every nurse came back to working as a nurse who wanted to work there would still be a supply problem.

Supply has not been growing to meet the demand growth for years.
I am from Pakistan and have been in UK for last two years and it feels very weird when people start screaming "too hot" on 25C~30C. 25C to me is good weather, hot kind of starts to feel at 29-30 but it requires just a little air from a fan or from outside to feel good.

In hot cities in peak summer, temperature often goes up to 48C and rarely to 50C even. Air Coolers https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Air_cooler.jpg are the most common (affordable) tool to bear all this heat.

On the other hand, when I am outside shivering and freezing with cold (in UK), I see people walking around very comfortably wearing t-shirts and other short dresses.

I am not sure if its just me or people coming from hot temperatures feel the same way.
A few reasons:

1. The vast majority of images on my blog are game screenshots. Often, a good portion of them are solid colors/gradients[0] or have blurry textures[1], which helps. When I played around with AVIF, 0.6 bpp was enough to keep the prominent parts, then tried less. For photos, unless it's a picture of grass, gravel, or trees[2], the same holds[3].

2. I encode only high resolution (x2) images as AVIFs, so blurriness gets covered up by downscaling or high PPI screens almost all of the time. On a desktop 1080p screen, you're looking at up to 2 bpp effectively.

3. I keep individual image sizes below 160KB (0.61 bpp@1080p) to keep page load sizes at 1MB or less.

Of course, I keep an archive of everything in PNG/RAW/etc format to redo if needed.

Blog link: https://theandrewbailey.com/

[0] https://theandrewbailey.com/fileImmutable/AXW_xuoI/post/2018...

[1] https://theandrewbailey.com/fileImmutable/AX3-7eYX/post/2021...

[2] https://theandrewbailey.com/coroner/404

[3] https://theandrewbailey.com/fileImmutable/AXW_xuox/post/2020...
Out of stock again, it would seem
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I work at GitLab, but curious what your use case is for just VCS? I assume your company has other solutions for the software lifecycle that you are happy with?

Depending on the size of your org, If it's small GitLab CE is free and can readily handle VCS no problem, you won't have a support contract though.
I also didn't go to college but did a pretty solid set of online CS and math classes while working as a software developer. I'd love to get a masters degree, and it would benefit my career quite a lot.

Auditing classes is fine¹ but probably not enough value for me on its own to be worth the time and opportunity cost. I'd want the degree and I'm fairly sure I have the skills and knowledge to begin a CS masters. But I can't get one without doing a BS first, which makes it overall just not worth the effort.

¹ Actually is it? I hear this recommended a lot but I don't know anyone who has audited a university course while not being a student. I tried it once at my local state school but it was an amazingly complex process to get signed up, and then I was told I could have a slot if there was ever an open one. There never was.
How long does it take to fetch the container - is it warm or cold? For AWS Batch it was taking me 1-3 min. So I was really surprised/ happy to see this lambda container post.
I think the truth is actually that we are MUCH less unique than we would like to believe, and that some combination of age + gender + location probably predicts like 80% of our interests.
That's very interesting. I never thought to relay mail internally to dkimproxy. I'll have to give that a shot. I like the idea of hosting the entire solution myself and not relying on any 3rd party solutions, but relaying through SMTP2Go was the only thing that I tried that actually solved the problem. Perhaps this will offer a good solution! Thanks!
I think there's some middle ground between "Hey, we need some more support, our conditions suck" and "Fuck it, we'll let the sick die I guess"
Haha 100% sure there will be rq…
"Well. Then I guess the goose is cooked. We no longer have the resources to run a functioning society. I want you to think about that, and maybe think if we could get the funding from somewhere."

Absolutely! Thanks, this made me laugh out loud. It's almost as if the people in charge of society don't have the same interests as the rest of us..
A headline stating that a 4-year degree can be earned in 3-months? That alone is a huge red flag suggesting a degree mill. Lack of national accreditation is red flag #2. I don't mean to say that this is a degree mill, but the nature of the article does raise reasonable suspicions. Alumni are rightly critical of such articles that make their school sound like something it probably is not.