skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was not the fault of the civil rights activists. The institution were closed because they were gulags and torture centers. I should have a choice of entering a health care facility if that health care facility is mistreating patients. The civil rights activists helped us. It was the states and U.S. Government that failed us by not providing alternative care.

I was literally tortured in a privately run psychiatric hospital three years ago that I was forced to stay in for 10 days because of a misunderstanding. 10 days is the maximum Disability will pay for inpatient. Suddenly after 10 days I was better even thought I was fine on the first. I spoke to a doctor twice for a total of 10 minutes they whole stay.

We are not stupid, the system and society treats us like garbage. And when we just want to be left alone and be simple and free they pass laws and raise prices on everything.
It looks like the author has taken down the post, but it's archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20220523144108/https://blog.derh...
That speaks more poorly of the indefensibly high tuition.
It's standard practice in some hospitals to prescribe Narcan when prescribing large amounts of opiates...
As an industrial automation/controls engineer who just got into a sewing project, let me just echo that old (and new) sewing machines are industrial-technological miracles. And they were built long before servomotors and semiconductors were a thing. Even after watching it work, I'm still incredulous that a combination of castings and camshafts can do 4000 stitches per minute; if you asked me to tie a knot with a strand of thread with my normal modern tools of 6-axis robots and PLCs you'd be looking at a quarter million dollar machine that was two orders of magnitude slower than the Juki I'm used to.

It is unusual for sewing machines that these examples require what they do. But it is also unusual as compared to other technology that your 100-year-old machine is so hyper-optimized, understandable, maintainable, and open that it doesn't require any reverse-engineering or external hardware.
F**stick?
I'd like to have this capability but not if it makes typical web browsing annoying with too many alerts. I'd prefer to have the feature work by default with a blacklist of sites known or likely to do fingerprinting (ie larger social and media sites). Of course it can also have an optional strict mode for those who want a higher degree of anonymity in exchange for more disruption of their browsing.

My personal concern with fingerprinting isn't so much any individual low-traffic site recognizing my browser. It's the higher-traffic sites working together to aggregate profiles. I don't need "zero tolerance" anti-fingerprinting. I just want to make it harder for big data aggregators to compile highly accurate, large population databases. Hopefully, a sweet spot can be found in testing which is minimally disruptive for typical users but frustrates data aggregator's ability to compile highly-lucrative data products across sites. I'd imagine just applying anti-fingerprinting to the 1,000 highest traffic websites might be enough to cut the profitability of cross-site aggregation significantly.
I believe an electric, ground-effect ferry is being planned for Hawaii
These are more akin to advertisements than products.
> Are cryptocurrencies a real danger to regular currencies?

Yes, absolutely.

> Are NFTs a real danger to tangible items? Are DAOs a real danger to actual corporations?

Agree on these - hard no.
This would be a mistake: since the Millennium Challenge war games [1] its been apparent the US is making some very bold (read: dangerous) assumptions about the safety of their fleet operating in coastal areas, and a Moskva-like outcome was something which was essentially predicted by them.

Ukraine (with US support most likely) essentially pulled off this sort of operation in the exact sort of environment it was expected. The biggest distinction is the Ukranians have a very limited number of weapons in play to use on operations like this.

At the very least the US needs to assume that in limited scale regional wars like this, the presumption of ideal warfighting conditions won't exist and you might be dealing with someone overtly receiving a lot of state backing - i.e. the US can't reasonably sanction China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
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Being an economist does not mean you automatically know how Circle (a payments company based in the US) issues the ERC-20 token that is called "USDC", or how the redemptions for that work.

You can read about it here: https://www.circle.com/en/usdc and here https://www.centre.io/usdc

You can see centralized and decentralized exchanges with USDC liquidity here:
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/usd-coin#markets
para-projection as it turns out.

I do understand hating your parents' HOA, I don't get lacking the perspective to imagine a world where someone gets along with it. Sending a Christmas card to your neighbors isn't bootlicking if you like them.
I have noticed (anecdotally) an inverse relationship between PhD candidates and self-guided learning. I'm not entirely sure why, perhaps many coasters may get too comfortable at university and mindlessly follow the track. I think for these types there is a moment where the rubber hits the road, and if you can't be a self starter you will flounder and fail.
Presumably the space and facilities to train, both outside and inside, the time of dedicated teachers/coaches and travel costs (speculating) might all be considered special treatment.

I think physical activity in school is important; but you could definitely argue that these are special treatment.
An ancestor of all cat species lost a gene required for sweet taste, so none of them could taste sugar which could be why they became obligate carnivores.
Your face when in 5 years you find yourself in project management: >:0
Instead of nitpicking terminology, let's talk about the issue directly:

What do you do when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing?

There isn't enough batteries on earth to even make a dent in the storage you would need. We don't want to burn any more hydrocarbons. What are our other options? Massive pumped hydro might get us there, but that construction is on a similar time horizon to a new nuclear plant anyway.
Was it covered by her prescription drug insurance?
You should consider respecting their desire to take it down, at least in the context of the heavily trafficked HN comments section
>> Why didn't schools keep going during the pandemic, but outside or in very well ventilated buildings?

Possibly because the leadership of the associated organizations were raised in an educational system that doesn't promote critical thinking, creativity, or analytical reasoning.
but what to do about it?

we can't just expect parents to get involved. nor does it help to just blame their kids performance on them.

the focus really needs to be on a broader level. what changes to our society are needed so that families can thrive so that they can actually focus on the care of their kids?

things like higher minimum wage, parental leave, easy access to insurance, etc. all the general needs everyone has.

i believe what largely has gone wrong is the idea that in order for people to have a better life they need to start with better academic performance so they can get better jobs which ends in a better life.

but it appears that academic performance is not the start of a better life, it is the outcome.

That's a broken culture

what part of the culture is broken? and who's culture?

how about the broken american culture that doesn't provide adequate support and protection for parents? i don't think being a single parent is a problem in itself. it only raises the difficulty level. it would be less of an issue if parents had more rights against their employers that would allow them to care for their kids, or get enough financial support that they don't need to hold a fulltime job with hours that conflict with their kids schedule. or affordable childcare. there are so many things that could be done, but people just like to point at problems and not think about solutions.
When two or more parties sign a contract, it doesn’t necessarily mean that all the terms in that contract are enforceable.
You mean

sub.domain.com, sub.domain.com. { reverse_proxy localhost:8080 }

?

Because caddy currently doesn’t handle DNS names correctly, so you have to duplicate every single virtual hostname config (it’s a long-standing open bug)

[EDIT: Thanks to francislavoie for reminding me about the shorter syntax for this]
Are you serious? You sound like a parody.. a parrot of the false political attacks on bitcoin. Are you literally an ignorant bigot or a troll?
Achieve Your Goals by Tapping on Intrinsic Motivation
There are several issues that can come up. It can pick up so much background noise, that you need a high and low pass filter, and maybe even a noise gate. Further, a lot of meeting software has issues with echo cancellation when the mic and the output are on different interfaces.

In my home office I use an LCT 441 Flex, but my office is dead quiet.
This would be interesting to get some more context on - were you dishonorably discharged because you were critical of what was going on in your lab?

I’m not sure what you’re saying about the masters, you had that already or your experience + discharge was turned into a masters diploma?
> hole in the road that is about 92 cubic centimeters

92 cubic centimeters is a pretty small hole...

a hole in the road 1.5mx80cmx60cm is pretty easy to understand or imagine, when you know metric system and absolutely trivial to convert: ~0.70 cubic meters or ~700 liters or ~700.000 cubic centimeters

Washing machines comes of all sizes.

Is it like the slim one I have at home to save space or like the ones I find in laundromats?

Metric units have standards.

I don't know how many people would understand "a hole in the road the size of 137 trays of home made tiramisù"

TBF here too when the media want to make analogies, they are pretty terrible: "an asteroid the size of 8 soccer fields" means nothing to me, ~800 meters makes much more sense.
Sounds like a “burbclave” as predicted in the 90’s in Snow Crash
Bundling binary tools in Python wheels
The "browser window prefers a specific size" part is infuriating to say the least. I wonder what the person who came up with this detail was thinking. Can't you just leave the window size up to the user but still keep the other changes?

I'd like to believe that all the other changes still contribute plenty towards obscuring the fingerprint, but there's no way I can adjust to manually having to resize the browser window every time I open a new one.
Does Mycroft still actually do something? So many years later it's still beta quality. And a dependency on Google is a total non-runner for me in terms of privacy.

I remember with the Mark II Kickstarter in 2017 they were kind of the Messiah of privacy-conscious voice control. I really wanted to back them but I didn't have the cash at time. Though that turned out to be great luck.

Because then they screwed that up and nothing happened for years. Now they continue but the project is more like a smart screen than a smart speaker now.

And all this time it's still not possible to run the core locally for true privacy. As it is it's just the same as Google, Amazon and Apple just with better promises on privacy.

Maybe I'm overlooking something because they have long fallen off my radar. But I'm still disappointed about the Kickstarter fail. They have a lot of trust to rebuild, at least with me.
Author took it down for "getting too much attention." Based off the comments here I'm thinking perhaps the author is having 2nd thoughts about making their grievance public.
If you happen to be using macOS, there's mdfind, which uses the spotlight database which is always kept up to date, unlike locate/updatedb, where updatedb is expensive to run, even if you've run it recently.

I have yet to find a good solution for linux CLI... something that uses an internal database that is kept up to date with all directory structure changes.

Maybe someone else has seen something cool for this? :D
Thrasio’s Impending Doom
This is fascinating but how long before some enterprising person mines it and puts it in chic packaging and sells it to bougie consumers as “sea sugar” with implied health benefits?
> It would take weeks to figure out precisely what had happened, but it appeared that the platform had been fooled into severely undervaluing tokens that belonged to its users and selling them to the attacker at an extreme discount.

Q: is the programming language these things are written in powerful enough and have sufficient data access for the developers to include sanity checks that would halt trading automatically if something is happening too far out of the norm such as an unusually high volume of attempted night discount sales? Or maybe that would just block extreme discount sales if there have been too many of those recently?
There are good solutions to the problems you pose. Most of the problems with fission energy generation is due to PWRs and using fuel pellets instead of liquid fuel. Current technology burns only 3% of the fuel in pellets before having to replace them. MSRs can burn 97% of their fuel. Solid fuel nuclear reactors have byproducts that are radioactive for millions of years. The byproducts of MSRs are radioactive for hundreds of years. MSRs can actually burn the dirty remains of the nuclear fuel tossed aside during the 20th century.
The two mitigations I'm aware of are:

1. by default, any non-maximized windows will default to a 1000x1000 viewport. This is consistent with how the tor browser works. Of course, this doesn't do anything when your window is maximized. On tor browser they warn you not to maximize your window for this reason. The idea here is that if everybody's window is 1000x1000, you won't be able to fingerprint based on people's monitor sizes, OS decoration sizes, and the user's window size preferences.

2. you can optionally enable a feature called "letterboxing", which rounds the viewport size to multiples of 100px. This works even if you maximize/resize your browser window.
Wow, even if you put "large format laser printer" in quotes, and put Google in verbatim mode, that smallbiztrends crap comes up first, followed by useless results.
I live in one of the earliest post-WW2 planned suburbs (in Maryland). Many of the houses here are two-storey and were built as such, but with the second floor unfinished (in other words just an attic with no interior walls, decoration, etc) until the owners needed the space and had the money.

On some other streets, people have added a floor to what were originally built as one-level homes.
Many people kept their kids "remote", which started a few years ago in response to the pandemic. Many of these kids did not attend any remote classes or do any of their assigned work over that time. Meanwhile this school reopened in-person almost immediately and many families sent their kids back. So you are talking about kids who don't know 1+1=2 or how to read a single word, when the rest of the class is reading intro chapter books and doing double digit math. Socially they are 2 years behind, which is another issue. Perhaps you are a quick learner, but that's really not the case for everyone.

In her school there is 1 math and 1 reading specialist, who are meant to focus on kids like this. Now they need about 5 more of each but the district has routed funding elsewhere like the Olympic quality weightlifting gym for the high school football team (which is used maybe 1hr per day). Better stop, feeling like I'm about to start ranting again...
I have seen no such linter[0]; do you have one that you know does that?

But, sure, A++ for having to install more stuff when the go compiler considers a different "linter" problem as fatal to the build

0: yes, of course GoLand catches it but prying vim from gophers hands is hard work
Well, not really. The defining thing here is grey-zone warfare.

The Moskva (and ships in general) aren't really made for a war where you can't shoot down AWACS. Because they can't be.

Generally the assumption is that the AWACS is going to be shot down, very fast. It's a pretty solid one to make, too.

But of course there was also a lot of incompetence, and the sheer age and obsolescence of the Moskva didn't help either.
"I did it so there is no excuse for anyone else"

Your response appears utterly useless in this discussion except to highlight that even those who grew up in poverty cannot be expected to have any empathy for those who share a similar background.
I think Julia (built around multiple-dispatch) also ought to be mentioned in any discussion of generic programming in contemporary languages.
I did end up buying a boom stand, but the mic is kind of heavy for that and kept getting in the way. Now I'm learning toward getting rid of the Yeti and shopping for something more versatile for my home setup. No big deal; live, learn, and implement!
I don't like saying "in the old days" much, and I wasn't able to read the article, but this seemed like something you'd rant to a friend or two over a beer instead of to the general public.

That doesn't mean brushing it off though. More of a vent to cool yourself off before taking the next action. At least that's what I've always done.

At least you can somewhat "un-say" things now a days if you control the content hosting.
Since when do point-of-sale terminals send itemized receipts to your bank when using a credit card?
I did a bad PhD, here is what I learned
Hmm. Holding one category steady and checking the others invariably reveals a combination that hasn't been generated (like in dozens of tries I didn't get one pregenerated result), so you definitely need to figure out how to fund more prompt results.

One thing you could try is to treat this as a straightforward content farm and sell ads or sponsorship on the site. Using Google AdSense won't work since they prohibit machine generated content. You might be able to partner with a small ad network to explore specific slices of the combinatorial explosion (eg. "Pets" or "Food").

There is probably a lot you can do in terms of clever yield management such as cheaply pre-generating just the neologism or descriptive term (like, just four words) and checking to see whether it and/or the original terms reveal good search results and/or are being actively bid on through AdWords before you select which to generate the four full prompts for.

Allow users to upvote/downvote results such that disappointing ones should be shown less often or even regenerated if sufficiently unpopular. Possibly have the vote be on a specific prompt and its result rather than the entire set of four.

GPT has shown facility in determining when a prompt doesn't make sense, experimenting with that to better target your limited generation budget to "good" combinations may help:

https://arr.am/2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
Race is just a proxied variable in this equation. The root issue is fundamental inequality in family support, which is shown to be influenced by race, age of parents, wealth, location, etc.
https://github.com/codenotary/immudb
That's funny. It must have been cheaper to use the board they already had than to make a new one with less stuff on it.
I want to avoid closing the door on possibilities that I think likely in the future but a lot of that happens where you make commitments to other users such as in an API or in commandline options. I want there to be a way to add a "v2" to the api if I feel that I have to and I like the commandline option that says --build=android rather than --android because I feel I can more smoothly add allowed options that way. This is the area one needs to try to be forward thinking.

One can way overdo even "door opening" and create pain and complexity for users.

As for the code ..... I like to be able to read it. I prefer not to have to jump around every 5 seconds if possible. I like it to be easy to write tests for. If it's easy to test and I have lots of tests then changing it shouldn't be too stressful.

I prefer to do things the simplest way until I have a good reason why it's not enough.
> Spent a lot of time in academia, and I quite disagree. He's pointing out something that is very common in academia - common enough to be widely accepted. Saying he is unprofessional in criticizing his supervisors is like saying someone is unprofessional in criticizing his boss for demanding Leetcode style interviews.

I specifically said the issue isn't criticizing. The issue is criticizing in a way which is so vague as to be impossible to defend.

It's exhausting commenting on HN. You have to append every minor observation of a laundry list of responses to likely misinterpretations.
I forgot to mention that you need to also add this line to your `prefs_user.config`:

use_heuristic_if_text_summary_not_available 1
I don't know how they do it in the US, but something I like about the British way of doing PhDs (at least University of York) is that they require you to write a 5-6 page proposal for your project. The proposal needs to be at least a little well-researched, with citations and needs to show a minimal level of competence in the subject that you want to study.

I think this is a good idea because it really forces you to consider if you actually enjoy the subject. You work alongside the professors to tailor the proposal, and you'll find out pretty quickly if you hate the subject or not, and if you decide you do hate the subject, at least you didn't waste multiple years (and potentially thousands of pounds) trying to pursue it.
Stevie Jobster I think his name is?
Note that this applies to biology PhD. Isn't a solution to reduce the amount of fellowship offered and increase the stipend. This would reduce the amount of publications, but potentially increase the average "quality" if more money means that students won't have to look for money on the side, and also if there is a more careful selection of the candidates.
updatedb is expensive to run and is usually run by a cron job, whereas something like mdfind on macos uses spotlight, which is kept up to date with all filesystem changes (or at least reasonably fast).

Anybody know of something like that for linux?
An analogy I heard is that there is no single American culture. Or even an "American Culture" at all, and that there probably shouldn't be one. And that various powers/forces/etc have tried to homogenize America into a shared American Culture which can't possibly exist. So, the analogy is America is like a soda machine that has many different flavors of soda and each of them is different and unique and loved by different people. Some flavors disgust some people too and they don't want it. However, we've decided to mix them all together anyways and no one actually likes that. So instead we'd be better off leaving each other alone, allowing different communities with different values to do things the way they want to and to rely less and less on Federal government oversight into social issues. Give more power to the states and in turn the states give more power to localities.
> That is, modern finance and the law also attempt to deal with intent.

It does? Maybe for the poor, but certainly not for the rich/corporations.[1]

[1] - https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/09/tackling-...