skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who knows emergency vets, you have no idea what you're talking about and this is incredibly offensive. Vets don't go into veterinary care to get rich. They get into it because they care deeply about animals.

If your dog is bleeding out or not breathing, nobody is going to sit there waiting for you to swipe your card; they're going to try to at least stabilize your dog, and then talk to you about diagnostic options and so on. Emergency vets charge an up-front diagnostic fee and anything that is not "your pet will die if we don't act right now" has to be pre-paid.

There are no government funded veterinary clinics.

There is no legal right to emergency medical care for pets.

There is no government agency guaranteeing the vet ER gets paid if the owner isn't able to, or simply refuses. Debt collectors typically pay out a fraction of any debt they agree to collect...assuming the ER can even identify them. ER vets can't put liens on your property like hospitals can.

Most pets are not insured, and frankly pet insurance is a ripoff. Lots of exclusions and a lightning-fast "prior condition" reaction is how they avoid payouts. It's not regulated because in America, we don't Do That Sort Of Thing (no step on business snek, as business snek regulated by free market!)

Emergency medical care for humans is the most expensive kind of medical care there is. For one species, one usually able to communicate at least on some level.

Now imagine all that, multiplied by multiple species. Equipment, a pharmacy, and staff able to care for patients of almost any size, multiple species, of wildly variable temperament, who have nearly no ability to communicate or participate in their care. And who have an evolutionary drive to hide injury and pain, usually.

Part of the reason ER vet care is so expensive is because they do not "demand you pay" while your pet bleeds out or sits there on the table not breathing...and when people inevitably don't pay (in part because they're people like you who shout "well my dog died anyway, why should I pay you!?"). That has to get amortized over all the people who do pay.

The vast majority of pets that end up in the ER are dogs, and the vast majority of those are in the ER from getting hit by cars, into fights with other dogs, or poisoned/obstructed by things they ate - most of the time because they were not on a leash.

What do you expect ER vets to do? Who pays to keep the lights on? The massive pharmacy stocked? The staff trained? The imaging equipment working?

The magical pretend emergency animal care fairy?
Maybe? It depends on the situation! There exist situations where cars are the best option. The point is: they don't need to be the only option because the US is big.
Like I said, ancient PRNGs written by confused people.
I guess it is fitting to mention the famous Wandsworth Constant (first 30% of the video can be skipped).

In seriousness, having had some exposure to the Langlands program (through the wonderful Love and Math by Frenkel), I was counting the minutes to hear about it.

I found the video to have a great layman explanation of what it is about.
interesting. I haven't used fixtures before. Wouldn't this make individual tests slow (like in development?) since all fixtures must be inserted all the time?
I did the unscientific math on my Volvo (recommends premium but takes anything) and while the efficiency on premium is better, it's not worth the large price increase over regular.
I think it would be possible, but you'd likely need to drop into the open firmware and type in a magic incantation to make the bootloader think it was a supported system (don't ask me to remember exactly what that might be. It was a looong time ago, but I did get both PPC OS X and Darwin to run on an unsupported mac clone that had an upgraded cpu. I remember submitting a posting to resexcellence about it!)
What “totally legit” things have you been doing with crypto? Curious to know more.
And honestly, I'd find meaningful answers from Terry's RNG to be more indicative of a ghost in the machine than from a GPT clone. That is to say, not that meaningful, but at least it wasn't designed to mimic meaning via statistical inference.
Fat is bad, sugar is not
FingerprintJS Is Now Fingerprint
As a foreigner myself, the winter is my favorite time of the year in Iceland. The landscape is beautiful and the glacier lagoon is quite full of icebergs and excursions like [into the glacier](https://intotheglacier.is) or snowmobiling are very enjoyable on a clear day.

30 days on either side of the peak of winter (21st of December) daylight is limited and that can make seeing things more difficult. The sun rises not very far from the horizon between 11am and 4pm but enjoyment of most activities will primarily depend on what you plan on doing and how lucky you get with the weather. It’s very unpredictable, even hour by hour, so you’re at the mercy of nature to have good visibility from frequent snow storms.

As a tourist in Winter, you’re probably best to be taking guided excursions from Reykjavík and not backpacking the highlands or driving the ring road in a camper van. Those activities could in fact be very dangerous if you aren’t prepared.
Good luck arguing with someone who says "FIAT" as if that's the ace up their sleeve.
walk-though video --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri1U-bJ-6vc&t=4s
He must have enough experience by now of knowing how floppies can fail (especially when doing something so odd) to know it’s useful.

Probably just hard won knowledge that almost no one else would ever have.

Kind of cool in a way.
Hilarious technicality. Nice.
We have a very short collective memory. While fuel prices have been quite low over the last ~3-5 years, most people forgot the period between 2008-2014 where fuel was (relatively) expensive and went on right back to buying fuel inefficient SUVs and large trucks. Only TWO of the best selling vehicles in the US in 2021 were anything other than an SUV or pickup (Toyota Camry & Honda Civic). Now all of a sudden fuel is expensive again and people are being reminded of how expensive it can be to lug around a single person in a half-ton pickup every day.
Local clinics pay higher rates for supplies (few economies of scale) and depending on the practice, often do quite a lot of charity on the side. There are private practices that compete with the corps on margin, but they're relatively rare to my knowledge.
What do you mean by "B who is x2, and C who is x2?"

I think the fundamental insight provided by the model is that each of A, B, and C are human, and have comparable intelligence, skill, and efficiency. But if B draws half the salary of A for 12 hours of sales calls in which he gets a lot of details wrong, while A spends 600 hours customizing the product for the user, that's ridiculous. It's not believeable for one expert witness to be worth thousands of dollars an hour while someone in the same profession with the same education and experience, but without connections to some buddies who went to law school, is only worth $20/hr. That's why juries freak out when they learn what expert witnesses are compensated.
At least we won't be compelled to roll through the Donbas in a t62 anytime soon
No architectural design is an „End of all best solution”.

Best solution is to get very smart ppl and listen to them.

Thats the part most companies fail at.

Until Software Engineering becomes a real ENGINEERING, companies will do half-ass job just to push something out and make quick bucks.

Rarely you gonna see nowadays a craftsmanship brilliance.
Zero rate interest - almost free money given to large institutions - creates possibility for all PE firms to buy up entire industries and jack up prices.
There are now several datacenters in Finland that link into local district heating.

Microsoft recently announced that they build similar data center in Finland too
https://www.fortum.com/media/2022/03/fortum-and-microsoft-an...
> We also don't really want amateurs vets opening up clinics and just winging it with people's pets.

In a couple decades, people will be saying this about to fresh veterinary school graduates who want to open their own hospital instead of joining one of the conglomerate private equity firms.

We don't have a backlog of trained unlicensed veterinarians because it's the training that's the bottleneck. You could be the most ambitious person in the world but if you don't get into vet school then that door is closed. You can't get a license if you don't go to an accredited institution.

I wouldn't get rid of the license requirement, but I would definitely change it to something that is not rate-limited by the number of available vet school seats per year. Imagine if drivers licenses were handed out the same way, if each DMV only offered the mandatory prerequisite training to 500 people per year and nobody else was allowed to drive. Driving would become an elite institution too, and we'd be complaining that it's better that way because nobody trusts amateur drivers operating these several-thousand lb machines.
>> I remember paying $1600 for an extra 32 MiB RAM around 1996

That's odd - I remember memory prices being really low around those times, and my friends and I loaded up our Windows 95 machines with 16 or 32MB for $50-$150 when it was on sale

1996 Best Buy ad for reference:
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/web...
> if you target 2% inflation every year it's all but guaranteed that $BTC will simply be "worth" a lot of dollars (or $0).

FWIW, the BTC money supply increases at 1.7% p.a. right now (until the next halving).
So many HNers are libertarian right up until it concerns something they need.

Then it's "why do I have to pay for that!?"
I wasn't aware that restating an entrenched state of affairs is an argument in a discussion.

Doubly so when that entrenched state of affairs is actively being attacked every day for years now.

But sure, let me not stop you.
Personally, I find the notion that our sentience is not particularly exceptional to be inspiring, as opposed to the alternative of "all alone in the Universe.
I had no idea thunderbird is still around
I miss our lunchtime banter so much!
Sugar, despite popular belief, is not a stimulant (I’d have to pull up my Intro Psych textbook to find the citations on this, but it’s been deeply studied).
I don't know of any electric RVs, but I'm curious about seeing what prices you are working with in your calculation. 6-12 months is an awfully short time to reach even break-even with an EV, let alone any savings.
Do you disagree that the monetary policies of the FED messed up the economy? How is that OK?

The point of Bitcoin is literally decentralization. Centralization is control and anti-freedom.
If someone recommends "don't do that" and you do that anyway, you can't reasonably blame their advice for being wrong because things went wrong when you did the thing anyway and then justify it with "well, sometimes people don't listen to your advice, so clearly it's not good enough, we really need to do more of the thing you advised against to fix this."
That's pretty good snark, but please don't be snarky on HN - it's a kind of collective poisoning in its own right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Could it be a coincidence that this occurred after John Oliver's report [1] on tech?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg
Over the weekend, some of us old timers were reminiscing about the bad old days of the early Avid NLEs. The damn chain of ADB dongles to enable the software and various plugins that to the uninitiated looked a lot like S-Video and would ultimately get plugged into the wrong port, bending pins ruining the dongle, then being told by support that a dongle could not be replaced. Striping 7 full height media drives in a SCSI enclosure just to get enough bandwidth to record the video, but not enough for audio that got saved to yet another drive.

Also, SCSI chains requiring terminators (or not), and internal SCSI drives with the jumpers in the wrong pins. Original Wacom tablets built like tanks. 21" CRT monitors that weighed a bazillion pounds, had half-a-mile of bezels, and sitting 2 side by side caused EMI so the images were disturbed. ProTools requiring DSP boards that numbered more than slots in the computer. Expansion chasis to handle all of the extras. All now outpowered by your damn social media device, er, smart phone
Calculated risks, yes, like going in to the same building as an active shooter. They're not going to jump in front of a bullet to protect anyone else, though. The primary responsibility of any first responder -- police, fire, or EMS -- is to preserve their own lives.
Yes, LaMDA is not sentient. But this begs the question: as these models become more sophisticated, and we did end up creating a sentient AI, how would we know?
Don’t know of any on the market yet - the closest thing is the towed fifth wheel as mentioned.
They're definitely not money laundering by any real definition of the word. If your goal is to launder money you're probably not doing it by buying stocks and vet clinics.
This is a great first step to making dependencies more secure in the Ruby ecosystem. Congrats to the whole team for getting this done!
This question is like asking if a soul exists. I don’t think it does. I think, the state of brain gives way to us feeling alive. There is nothing special in there that happens outside of the physical reality. So by this view, simulating a person does indeed produce consciousness.

Another (unsubstantiated) way of looking at it is that the universe is a kind of computer already, which we seek to emulate. We are already running on a computer if the universe can be considered one.
I think if you get a bad performance review, they should probably just send you to prison.
> HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it...

I'd not mind if news.yc is spun off as a non profit, relying on funds from the community it serves (only if that was a given...)
But they would also have Edge installed in Windows Server 2022. It's a very small population that has a trivial workaround: use the _default_ default browser that came with the server operating system.
You're basically asking for a Supreme Court shakeup and an overturning of stare decisis. That's the only way any criminal charge would even be on the table for discussion.
The average person throughout history did not have a refrigerator or global trade. Therefore any decline in todays society is moot.
It seems that, if Taiwan is lost, and if China and the West stop cooperating in the semiconductor industry, then both sides will lose, and the world's semiconductor capability, as a whole, will be set back. Because the West makes the machines you need to build a fab, and the software you need to design chips. But China actually will have the fans. Neither side will have everything that's needed, and the world will simply lose fast cheap chips.
if there was good gun control, or heaven forbid no guns in the first place, this shooting would have had a much lower chance of happening
Ask HN: Do you know any webs to find best books by discipline?
Not necessarily just computer science/business related, but in general. I feel all the main books sites categorize books by the same criteria... hard to discover gems
Not Icelandic but been there a couple of times. In winter you can actually go on the glaciers with guided tours (costly but nice), in summer there are a couple of spots you can drive towards them in a normal rental car.

They are nice everytime of the year so, and quite spectacular. Road conditions in winter can be trickey, but manageable.

My opinion, you have to visit Iceland at least twice: once in winter and once in summer, it is completely different! In case you want to go to the highlands, go in August or late July. A Dacia Duster rental will get you there. Winter trips can be shorter so, in summer you go around Iceland or cross it which takes more time.
Safari?[0] It's especially a problem when Apple don't allow other browser engines on its devices, although governments are looking into that.[1]

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/safari_risks_becoming...

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/10/uk-antitrust-agen...
Shouldn't there be free discussion on it though? What do you mean by much heat and little to no light?
You’re kidding right? Anchor was famous for 20% APY - I know people who got very rich off this Ponzi.

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/03/25/anchor-protocol-...
How about doing something to deter PE firms snapping up rental and housing properties? Is the FTC doing anything about it? Housing affordability (or lack thereof) is the issue plaguing the millennial cohort and even incremental progress on this front can make a big difference to a lot of people.
I’m not suggesting at is beyond reproach, simply pointing out that the given example is not uniquely applicable to sex work and thus is not a good example for why sex work is worse than any other kind of paid work. Objecting to sex work and sex work alone is often couched in language that tries to paint the situation as uniquely terrible for the people being used as examples.. but it’s disingenuous because there are equivalent non sex work examples of the same work related perils that people opposed to sex work usually don’t care about. (I see plenty of people online that care, but I’ve never met one face to face who wasn’t a genuine communist)
Oh no, the trick is to buy the sirup from a discount supermarket (for example Aldi's Diet Orange soda sirup) and dillute it with water from your sodastream (or sodastream knock-off, also from Aldi). This way you will always know that there are three components in your soda: sirup, tap water and CO2.
> You have your entire contribution history and they have a product to help managers analyze contributions across teams.

So any contribution not logged in their system, doesn't exist.

Yeah, terrible still.
Isn’t this a self-created problem? They had no real excuse to carry on QE past 2010 when the economy had started recovering.
I would probably not leave the buffet in order to maintain my high… thankfully in small tech I’ve only been offered access to water and coffee.
So if the person ends up dead, the police can hide the videos. That seems ripe for abuse...
Not as far as I know, but that would be quite interesting
Let's remember the last efforts to reinvigorate IE: https://www.youtube.com/user/internetexplorer
I have to agree with Meth e-hack
We had this challenge when we moved into our house. Our current vet was over 30 minutes away and we have to take our dog in 3x/week for fluids. Our new neighborhood has five vet clinics. Four were not taking any new patients. Luckily we were able to get into the fifth clinic because they were brand new and were building up their client list.

That wasn't unique to our area either. We've heard from several friends that they've had similar issues getting into vets.
I've read a lot of opinions from credible people who take opposite positions on every conceivable issue in regards to the economy. The state of the dollar as the reserve currency for the world is just one of many examples. At a certain point it starts to feel like nobody really knows for sure, and they're largely just guessing.

It's a weird feeling to understand that there's little that can be done, because so many of the issues we're dealing with were locked in carbonite many decades ago, e.g. Social Security unfunded liabilities. It's like a game of musical chairs, only there is only one chair left, but 27 people are still circling around it, and every few seconds another person shows up to play.
It was more than the ESC key imo, though that was my biggest complaint. It was far too easy to mistakenly hit the touch bar and trigger something unintended. I also found zero real use for it aside from looking nice.
Thr ring road is usually well kept so, if you some experience driving in winter conditions you are fine. I don't recommend the camper van, mostly because I don't like winter camping myself.
It's almost as if civilians (read: police) and soldiers are trained, equipped, and deployed to different environments, with different rules.
Have you been to any southern ormidwestern towns? Plenty of guys druve $50k+ pickups to sit at a desk for 8 hours
> Now, HTF do you convince a C-Level of this truth? Seems like there is never any time for any sort of housekeeping until the house is literally on fire and the whole world is looking at our smoke pillar.

I've had minor successes with advocating for a tik / tok approach, ie every couple iterations you have one iteration where new feature work is banned vs cleanup, bugs long ignored in the backlog, etc. I haven't found a simple way to explain this, but product centric executives do seem to see "ok, they get one iteration of what they want in trade for me getting what I want in the others" as a reasonable trade to keep the dev team happy.
Was this for a case that you had strong feelings about, or was there another reason that you did this pro bono?
Exactly what you should expect from a high-tech, fully digitized and "decentralized" payment (slash gambling) solution /s
You're scolding this person for their impassioned comment but should also maybe self-reflect a bit. Maybe this person is upset because you're casually throwing out baseless, unsubstantiated claims.

If you want to have a constructive conversation about real life events, you may want to have more evidence for your claims than "I’m more inclined to believe" and "There likely was..."
Yea - I was just saying it's probably the closest we have ever gotten. The chicken example is interesting b/c what would you actually compare gold to? Say chickens were commonplace today and could be had for 80 milligrams of gold but then some disease wiped them out and only 10,000 could be grown and sold each year. Obviously they'd be worth more than 80 milligrams of gold - but as prices for other things perhaps come down and become more plentiful (or new products/services emerge) 80 milligrams of gold may buy something completely different at a great price.

I mostly agree with you here. Keep in mind I was preliminary responding to someone else w.r.t stores of wealth. It may even be the case that storing wealth is nonsensical as a matter of physics (either natural physics or economic physics). Perhaps what we refer to as wealth storage is really just scarcity of a physical item, whether that be a house, a collector's edition widget, a car or piece of art, or in your example, a chicken. Maybe the goal in what we would call wealth preservation is to find assets that either do not decay over time, or that decay very, very slowly over time? One thing that comes to mind then is how fiat currency plays into this decay? What would it represent?
They also weren't really concerned about the leak as it destroyed the households below it, that is until the people on the floors under them started collecting the water for their own use (increased wages) and the pressure in the penthouse bathrooms started being the subject of complaints, then they had sudden urgency to resolve the situation.
I want very badly to listen to a bunch of old N64 game tracks on this thing.

This is the stuff of legends, nice work Paweł!
There are a few, but I'll sumarize;

A) data merging. Merging multiple data sets together with auto-Inc is tricky - especially in the case of related tables.

B) data distribution /replication - especially on and off phones - especially if phones are creating data records offline, then syncing later.

C) parent-child forms. Parent has to be committed to the dB before children can be added.

D) data imports - again especially related data.

I'm not doing justice in such a brief question, each item above deserves a whole exploration.
There are no right answers when a pandemic shuts down the world.