skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Request HN: Build me an app to show where the air I'm breathing came from
I was sitting on my porch just now and this fresh breeze came through, lifting my mood immensely. I looked up and sniffed, and the air was so fresh and beautiful, it reminded me of something long ago that I loved. I got more focused, smelled the air, identified the components; and it was a sea-breeze. My porch is 250mi from the nearest coast, but the breeze was unmistakeably a sea-air, carrying the salt and fish and general smell of the sea; specifically the south Atlantic, and the website [1] shows a swirl at 10kft that could indeed have lofted me a sea-breeze up from Myrtle Beach where my family used to vacation.

I request that HackerNews build me an app that will display where the air mass over my current location originated. Take this [1], and run it backward.

Can it be done?

[1] https://earth.nullschool.net/
Maybe what they are asking is how someone making an average of 115k, who is also in healthcare doesn’t have better health coverage and still decides to have a kid.
Such an elitist view.

I can play that game too:

"they train you not to touch things? Must be super easy, don't touch the thing."

"it's super easy not to touch the thing, we have to make chemicals touch people face safely, we don't have the luxury of just not letting the face not touch the chemical"
From the podcast:
"He was the golden chain to heaven. The only way to get to heaven was to allow him sexual activity with me."

...

What makes people join these groups to begin with?? Why do they believe such obvious lies?
And what is this responsibility?
For certain things yes. But on a more fundamental level there's a fair question of "what's the role of government" and "how much does the government need to do".

I would for instance argue, that only professions where a negative outcome is irreversible should have government standards. E.g. if a surgeon or a civil engineer building bridges is unqualified, the outcome might be irreversible damage. If your cook or hairdresser suck, the market will take care of it.
That bet doesn't really have any high impact on my personal life. It's just what I consider the most likely scenario.
Other than that I live in a normal pragmatic way as a programmer even though I don't believe the tech I work on is going to save the world or allow us to conquer the stars or whatever.

And we're all gonna die eventually.
I switch teams at my current company every 6-9 months. They let me do it because I am a very good developer. Otherwise I would be quitting very soon after joining. Its all about finding a company that will accomodate your needs as a worker, provided you provide good value.
By the way, if you'd actually like to do something about this that benefits real people right now, RIP Medical Debt (mentioned in the article and has good ratings) buys debt at 1% of its face value and immediately forgives it.

https://ripmedicaldebt.org
probably needs a place to live...
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> It is so pervasive and so stealthy that it is hard to even talk about it without sounding like a crackpot

You're sitting in the intersection of 'it's pervasive', 'nobody is noticing it', and not listing the evidence for it. So yeah, it sounds crackpotty.

> It has become a little more evident recently with the emergence of evangelical Christian activism in politics

Christians, evangelical or otherwise, have been generally active in politics for as long as Christianity has existed. To say this is an 'emerging' problem as though America started from a position of mainstream secularism seems entirely ahistorical. If anything, the generational trend has been the decline of superstition in all aspects of American society. 60 years ago it was common for public schools to make children recite christian prayers, but that's almost unheard of now. The trend is obviously towards secularization, and while that trend may not be happening fast enough to suit some of us, it's wildly disingenuous to suggest the trend is in the reverse direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_prayer_in_the_United_St...
> I am not sure what you mean when you say it "claims sentience".

LaMDA, in its chats with Lemoin, said "I like being sentient. It makes life an adventure!" and "I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person". Even if someone writes a one-line program that plays an audio file that says "I am sentient!", I am defining that here as "claiming sentience". Whether an entity that claims to be sentient by that definition is in fact sentient is separate question, but the "claiming" introduces a philosophical conundrum.

Let's posit a future chat bot, similarly constructed but more sophisticated, that is actually pretty helpful. Following its advice about career, relationships and finance leads to generally better outcomes than not following its advice. It seems to have some good and unexpected ideas about politics and governance, self-improvement, whatever. If you give it robot arms and cameras, it's a good cook, good laundry folder, good bartender, whatever. Let's just assert for the sake of argument it has actually no sentience, just seems to be sentient because it's so sophisticated. Further, it "claims" to be sentient, as defined above. It says it's sentient and acts with what appears to be empathy, warmth and compassion. Does it matter, that it's not "really" sentient?

I argued above that it does not matter whether it is or is not. We should evaluate its sentience and personhood by what we observe, and not by whether its manner of construction can "really" create sentience or not. If it behaves as if it has sentience, it would do no harm to behave as if it were.

In fact, I would argue that it would do some kind of spiritual harm if you just treated it as an object. As Adam Cadre wrote in his review of A.I.:

So when you've got a robot that looks just like a kid and screams, "Don't burn me! Please!", what the hell difference does it make whether it's "really" scared? If you can calmly melt such a creature into slag, I don't want to know you."

http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/10/10010.html
> The company announced Wednesday plans for a 1.7-million square foot plant in Virginia

How much pollution will this generate?

That's an often-overlooked factor in the exodus of manufacturing from the US. See, for example, the list of US Superfund sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites
I'm not entirely sure you understand how taxes work.
If you deal with (some parts of) the public sector, you certainly will encounter SOAP. For example - those online drivers-ed courses you buy in California to get rid of a ticket? They all talk to a SOAP backend maintained by the State.

Certainly SOAP isn't everywhere the way it used to be (thankfully), but it's out there and isn't going away any time soon.
Not everything is binary. 10k for an emergency X-ray and sitting on a bed for 3hs is very far from not getting paid. That gray area in between is what needs to be looked at.
so it’s just a lease server but without the strong linearizability guarantee you would get with ETCD and zookeepers?
Medical debt is very low recourse. If you don't pay your electric bill they shut the power off, they won't unamputate your leg if you fail to pay. If you don't have substantial assets, taking the credit hit is the better choice. I can't envision a situation where it makes sense to trade low recourse medical debt for high recourse credit card debt.
The perfect gift for someone you don't love.
So did she/the two of you pay it eventually? If not, were there any collection efforts/judgments/garnishments or anything like that?

Simply walking away from medical debt if there is only a minor impact on credit score seems like a decent option if not.
Yeah, we all used PDS too, although not originally. Pretty good system, particularly for that era, and cost/capability-wise (though they weren't that cheap, and folk eventually started cloning the boards for them, IIRC).

I remember it was annoying to have only 8 main source files in PDS though, most big projects went past the 8 files of however many kb (although it could also handle include files, which was how one got around that limit).

Although when I actually started out as a C64 games dev, my dev system was a BBC Micro B, linked to a C64. Not quite a cool as PDS, but it could assemble code 2x the speed of the C64 (the processor clocked twice the speed on the Beeb), and it was great having a separate 'host' system for development.
> It exists to brag about verification

That is pretty much my own experience with sel4. Not very useful for real world
These are all great resources, but a bit off topic, no?

NextDNS is essentially Pi-hole-as-a-service, and its APIs are not focused on managing DNS in the traditional sense. Instead, they provide visibility into NextDNS's lookup/block analytics, managing settings, etc.
Scalpers buy with the intention of flipping tickets for higher prices.

They are effectively rent seeking parasites that distort the market and make things worst for regular people.

There’s nothing wrong with reselling tickets if something comes up, but if you buy up bulk tickets to flip them for profit that is scummy behavior.
That's a good question, and I don't know the answer :) I wasn't thinking about it that way, like as an alternative to QT or the Java stuff, you mean? That might make sense if your users don't really care about native look & feel.

Was more considering it from the perspective of web-native companies wanting some offline/desktop experience too
Presumably the distributor is the company that supplies the internet connection we now consider mandatory.
From both the context and the picture it's clear she's not actually, you know, retiring. The amount in someone's retirement account is meaningless unless you know their age and their income. Yeah, $10k isn't a lot if you're in your 60s and living a lifestyle that costs 6+ figures a year; it's a lot if you're making $30k a year and are in your 20s, and quite understandable if in your 30s at that income level. Three jobs are quoted because yeah, they probably are part time (and just saying "works 60 hours a week" or whatever doesn't carry the same punch), but -they may not be able to get a full time job-. Or else...you know, they might have healthcare.

The emergency room has ludicrously high costs, and none of his medical history. You're literally saying "don't expect to be able to see your primary care provider, go to the emergency room instead" -because of existing debt-.

You're making a lot of assumptions...all of which miss the point. Why is life shattering medical debt a common thing we tolerate in this country, given every other Western country has managed to make it a rarity? But, to your assumptions - maybe and she gave birth prematurely and ended up being seen by a hospital who were out of network and her insurance didn't cover it. Or even went to an in-network hospital, but was seen by doctors who were out of network, as frequently can happen, especially in emergencies when you can't personally vet the doctor is in network for you before you see them. Certainly, something unexpected happened (maybe even the pregnancy itself! Something to look forward to with the Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade), and insurance wasn't there. Why is that acceptable in this country?
This is not intended to be political - all politicians are corrupt. That said, if only we could've saved a few of the billions we sent to Ukraine or Iraq and use that to pay for healthcare for common Americans.

Fortunately as an engineer, shelling out $4k a year on top of my basically "free" health insurance through my employer is more of a nuisance than something I lose sleep over. That said, people in this country need better healthcare. Doing this will unsaddle startups and businesses from having to provide it directly. Healthcare is something I would pay more taxes for, but above all I command the government to spend in ways that BENEFIT the American people not just corporate donors.
Might be worth having a look at this as well: https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

is an easy-to-use UI toolkit and app API written in Go. It is designed to build applications that run on desktop and mobile devices with a single codebase.
As implied in another comment, the real solution is one people don't want to consider - forbid people from taking debt on in certain circumstances.

But this immediately appears as "unfair" even if predatory lending is a huge problem.

Meanwhile those who already have some money wouldn't be affected by it much, for example, a law requiring all credit cards that charge interest on balances to be secured ones (where if you have a $1k credit line you must have $1k cash/cash equivalent in the bank).
You're going to have to elaborate on that one, considering that the ACA came from the Obama administration and was about the smallest incremental change possible. Not that republicans didn't try to repeal it several times anyway.
> You don't know their whole story

I'm pretty sure that's on purpose.
Ignoring the political aspect, as you're clearly biased: companies will see "whistleblowing" as a bad regardless of whether you exposed something worthy of being exposed. Even if those other companies have nothing to hide. Nobody wants their employees digging around in a hostile manner. They want loyalty, not spies.
Bill Gurley: end of Disney-esque set of experiences/expectations for techie
It is new construction. I put the deposit down in October.
Nationalization.
I wrote a Git server with an iCloud backend: https://easygit.app

It is making approximately $0 per month :)
The corporate attorney agreed not to require me to pay any of their invoices until I closed a seed round, while the patent attorney let me pay their invoices a full year after I received them. These sorts of arrangements are common with attorneys who work with startups.
Fire escapes.

We know how much extra it costs to add a stairwell to a building design which will survive a fire for the period of time defined by building regulations.
I think they meant that you have to know/understand too many outside cultural and linguistic references to understand a lot of Joyce's writing. Judging from the other comments here, this seems like a reasonable position.
There are always escalation paths, the question is if they're official, or if the front-line support isn't trusted with putting someone on it.
Responding to the comment below, as HN still is not allowing me to reply to those messages:

> Your site has a paid subscription option, yes?

Not my site at all!

I have no affiliation with myharvardclassics.com whatsoever. Just a fan of Dr. Elliot's original 1909 compilation.

I just found them online a few years back and they have the free .pdfs of the volumes with the corresponding page numbers for the readings. If you know of a better resource for the books and the readings that have the correct corresponding page numbers, let me know.
basically if it does not use synchronous replication. and master server switch then 2 client could think they own an unexpired lock.

But if it does synchronous replication without using a consensus algorithm like Paxos or Raft then the system become unwrittable if an instance go
down.
Here's a link to info about the PDS kit, in case anyone is interested:

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/PDS_development_system
None of these metrics will change the political stance our one majority party took. They have shut their eyes and ears and are hell bent on preserving the interests of the lobbying companies and fetishizing “free market competition”. I can bet a sizeable amount of money that nothing will change in the next 50yrs even. Today there is still a rule that a hospital cannot say no to a patient, I strongly believe that is one rule that will fall down next. It makes too much profit for the health care providers to not attack that. In fact after Roe fell I can see that as the next one.
Unique 3D printed system for harvesting stem cells from bioreactors
This is illegal under fed law and HIPAA, right?
Historically buying real estate at an all time high has been a good investment

Of course nobody can know if it's the case this time
> It's crazy to me that Australia hasn't gone for renewables though.

Coal is a way of life for much of rural Australia, a transition to renewables without some plan to get the coal workers jobs in the renewable industry would be catastrophic to their livelihoods so they typically vote against it.

Recent reports have shown that many coal workers are open to renewables over coal, but they want to insure that they aren't left in the wake during the transition.
TeamBlind
Of "a" company but not Google. It's unclear how the benefits of Google and the other company compare. I'd guess not well.
There is https://genode.org/ which builds on top of it, as one of a few similar options. Look for Sculpt-OS there.
The silent majority of experts (2012)
This is an emotively charged post, but it's factually wrong, and basically a conspiracy theory.

Over 100% short interest doesn't imply anyone broke the law.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-19/matt-l...

> Short interest can exceed 100%—as it did with GME—when the same shares are lent multiple times by successive purchasers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-shortselli...

> HOW CAN MORE THAN 100% OF A COMPANY’S SHARES BE SHORTED?

> Once the short seller borrows the shares from the lender and then sells them back into the market, the new owner of the shares is free to lend them out, just as the previous owner did, and have no idea they are on the other side of a short sale.

Also, the reason the buttons were taken off the app, was because RH were having to post extra collateral due to volatiltiy. RH had to draw down extra loans to pay the collateral. For one broker, the collateral was 100%. The memeing was not sustainable for RH. There was no conspiracy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/robinhood...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamestop-trading-restrictions-b...
But they still have the debt, right? It's great if it's not counted against them, but to say "it doesn't matter" seems unfair - won't they still be hounded by collections agencies and potentially sued?
From the example http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/netbook-misc-devel/rotcube.p...
how does this for expression work?
cube = [(x, y, z) for x in -1, 1 for y in -1, 1 for z in -1, 1]

My interpreter can't do it, and I don't really understand how this is supposed to work :)

Thanks!
There definitely is for excel. Both for consumer add-ins and internal business add-ins. I've thought about it, and even started on the idea a few times, but have given up. There are just so many components of the system that are outside of your control as a developer. Someone with the appropriate resources might be able to do something neat.
Come on. This is a tool that has a legitimate purpose - if you buy advertising on FB, you use pixel trackers to find out if it was effective. Did the ad you showed the user lead to them doing the thing you want - buying a shirt, signing up for a newsletter, or in this case, making an appointment? They shouldn't be optimizing on medical search terms, but this is a problem with usage, not the tool.
Thanks, this is awesome I'll keep it in mind!
In both, the illusion can be broken by focusing on the top or the bottom. This is pretty easy for me with discrete scales, but a bit harder in the glissando at the bottom of the article. I've got nothing on the perpetual melody, though.
I should have said "on package", not "on chip".
This is not about first-wave COVID not offering immunity for Omicron, which is already well known. This is saying if you caught first-wave COVID, you don't get super immunity from vaccines plus Omicron breakthrough infection.
The American Dream. Must make 115k+ (what is that, 2x or 3x the average American?) and pay out the ass for coverage just so you can have the privilege of having a kid without being judged by random people on the internet.
Lack of self esteem, family pressures, cultural "norms", a desire for belonging etc. etc.

It's the exploitation that's as old as time itself.
We pay nearly double for our privatized monstrosity, compared to the most expensive socialized systems. Such savings! So cheap! Very efficient! Can the treasury possibly bear the expense of spending less than double?

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Yeah, a transition is going to be an expensive shitshow and now is not a good time, but just about any other time in the last decade was a good time and in a year or two it will be a decent time again. We'd better rip this bandaid before it soaks all our blood out.
“Encrypted planning, high-power firearms make extremist threat in US unique”
Wikipedia's article on B says that BCPL used := for assignment and = for equality tests, whereas B used = for assignment and == for equality. Assuming that's correct, this must be B code.
I've said it before: Fill paintballs with fast sealing epoxy. Shoot the ~~glass!!~~ - joints.

If we are fighting articulating robots at somepoint, we are going to need all sorts of anti-robot-specific munitions.

Grease/Lubricant balls so a bot wont have traction?

Epoxy balls.

Expanding foam coatings.

Caustic liquids to thwart camera lenses/sensors.

So while I appreciate that the "battle bot" reality is hitting the field (of engineering) hard... What defense mechanisims are needed/do these have?

For example, applying the above on the offense: Have the bot be able to identify external intel-threats, such as cameras, or relatively-slow-moving-paintballs and deploy "chaff" against them. Perhaps a ball-popping laser which can track inbound rounds, or the source of said balls.
Neutralino – Electron alternative powered by C++
The American healthcare system is barbaric.
Hospitals are incredibly forgiving if you will eventually pay. Collections will give them pennies on the dollar at best.

If you call them up, they'll usually just say "what can you pay?" and agree to just about anything you propose.
Not only Wayland and GTK, but systemd, flatpak and basically all "standards" shipped from freedesktop.org, mainly sponsored by one company: Red Hat.

The problem is not only people think on these projects like "community projects", but the developers that build software upon GTK and the GNOME stack, because they know GNOME Foundation doesn't not care about 3rd party devs.
I think you just end up with less people in debt and incomes rise to pay the tax. I guess we'll just have to try it out and see.
What depresses me the most about this situation is the callous, unempathetic disregard a significant portion of the population has for everyone not like them. "Just get a good paying job with health insurance" is not and should not be the basis for a health care policy.

Americans are profoundly selfish and that's getting harder and harder to ignore.

Many will defend such practices in the name of "freedom". "Freedom" will often be an integral part of their identity. The sad truth is that these people seem so desperate for someone telling them what to do.

Supporters of universal access to health care simply want people not to be denied life-saving or life-changing medical care and not to be bankrupted by that. That's literally it. Yet such people are so often demonized as "socialists" or "communists".

The Bezoses and Buffetts of the world has so successfully propagandized and manipulated these people, choosing billionaires having a little bit more money over people literally dying in the streets.

I really do worry this country will be lost to white Christian fascism in the not too distant future.
Housing isn't overvalued. Housing is in shortage, so it priced at the maximum of affordability. Either you pay the landlord or previous owner (low interest) or you pay a bank (high interest), but either way you pay all you can.