skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And health care in Canada is a joke.

Unless you have terminal cancer or close to death, good luck getting any specialist’s attention. You’ll wait for a year on a waitlist for someone to care. Doesn’t matter if you have money either, no way around it.
I got the cert 10 years ago (EPA 608, not automotive EPA 609). 60 minutes of studying two different study packets I found online. Found a local test-giver, and called them up to schedule the test.
One person's nordic winter is another person's Californian desert.
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I see no particular reason why existing diplomatic courier services, chain of trust, and verification procedures can't be used for key exchange. What are the failure modes you are sceptical about?

>Will any of this work under wartime conditions when people are moving around, using random webcams and mobile devices?

Just follow the procedure to establish trust cryptographically, then arrange the meeting by any channel you like.
cardamom, truffle could be considered one?
Hahaha that's amazing, also I didn't know there were other spellings. I was thinking about yacc as I wrote yakk but I guess it's yak. Funny how associations work. And don't forget bike shedding and cargo culting!
FWIW, I felt the same way. Studied French for years, through middle school, high school and college, and never gained any real degree of fluency. Then I moved to Japan and took language classes for 4 hours a day for a year. It worked.

There were people who still raced around me -- I'm not gifted at languages, by any means -- but for the first time in my life I'm actually modestly capable in a second language. I continue to study now, and it's still accumulating, however slowly.

After this experience, I believe that most people can learn a second language, but they don't because the barriers to entry are insanely high. If you really want to learn a language to a conversational level of fluency, you either have to be truly gifted (5% of people) have to want it so much that you'll immerse yourself in it 24/7 (the rest of us).

> I did 4 years of french, 2 years of spanish, 4 semesters of Arabic, 2 semesters of german, 1 Berlitz tutor session for 3 months in Russian and 3 months of tutoring in Farsi

It took me about 3 months of daily immersion in Japanese life (plus the 4 hours of daily school, of course) just to get to a point where my ears could hear words reliably. If you translate this to coursework...it's got to be 1+ years of college-level study.
>This website has been temporarily rate limited

>You cannot access this site because the owner has reached their plan limits. Check back later once traffic has gone down.

should have paid a little bit more for hosting then
Hi folks!

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- On-campus activities
- Students from the same nationality as yours
- The university's status or ranking
- University's majors or area of studies
- Tuition
- Scholarship

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There is Sourcehut, which supports Hg.
Yeah I love Python for quick work and prototyping, and it's great for small web services and as a DSL for data analysis. I suppose I could also envision it as a backend language for a fleet of microservices too.

I think Python gets bailed out a lot because those things turn out to be a lot of programming these days. The people who have a beef w/ Python are those who've worked with it on large, old codebases. This is a tough job for any language though like, raise your hand if you've ever worked on a large, old codebase in C++ or Java that you liked.

Usually when people push microservices I'm quick with Conway's law, saying "this is a tech solution to an organizational problem that won't actually make a difference", and I think I'm right about that. But I think I've been ignoring that a really nice thing about microservices for engineers is you can keep using languages like Python on small codebases, and at least mentally and emotionally avoid the feeling of working on a huge monolith. That counts for something.
Brin was implemented in a lazy fashion already. So concurrent reindexing isn't a thing
The real challenge is finding a remote job then finding a city with good internet.
> For example: an Alabama woman charged with manslaughter after getting shot and losing her unborn baby [1];

Damn, I had to check like 4 sources to make sure that was real.

Why is the US like this? What a shit show.
Oh yeah those numbers were hogwash, I was just looking for a number less than 3 :P I was thinking like small mom and pop shop that has like a small Dev team for some reason might be able to reduce it down.

Vox hosted a fantastic discussion with artists after showing them Dalle, and their thoughts on how it'll affect their jobs are very interesting! Would highly recommend. https://youtu.be/sFBfrZ-N3G4 it notes a few times in history when people have thought a technology would dangerously displace jobs (eg photography replacing painters), but that in general new, unforseen jobs appear.

I know some argue that UBI is the natural conclusion of AI replacing more jobs. Or jobs shifting to be more coordinating the AI (the Vox video uses the term "prompt engineering" to describe this a bit). It's definitely an open question! But I'm honestly a little excited (and nervous!) to see where it goes. It could have realty positive impacts on humanity if we're careful! I think these tools could allow a certain level of individual productivity that would allow people to achieve more of their goals in our limited lifetimes :) But the future is murky and not guaranteed.
"rm" was made in the '70s. Git was made in the '00s.
I don't see them as a blight. I just am always rather amazed how much prime real estate bank branches take up. Yes, people need bank services now and then and often want a convenient branch to conduct business in. But I know I like doubtless many/most others, rarely use an ATM any longer much less go into a branch to interact with a human. Even the very small city nearest to me has 3 or 4 different bank branches in its tiny downtown.
The novel is short enough that I'd recommend it. If you really don't read much, though, the short story gets the point across.

Either way, highly recommended.
Kinda, but you need to set the incentives right. Both the importer and the overseas manufacturer will have the incentive to underreport the emissions and overreport the paid carbon tax (China could easily collect it on paper, and then offer some rebates).

So you would need to bring together the board of local manufacturers interested in making imports prohibitively expensive, and a board of importers interested in making local production economically unviable. And you would need to have a process where they would need to come out with a compromise satisfying both parties. Both parties should have respect for each other and be willing to find a middle ground. That's how democracies work, that's why U.S. managed to become the #1 economy.

Except, this mechanism is broken. Whoever owns the media can point the finger at the prospective manufacturer, scream "climate change denier" and the public won't listen. Because the public sentiment is that some opinions, depending on the identity/affiliation of their sources, are just too dangerous to be heard. And this is heavily abused by those who know how to play the system.

The public gets screwed long-term. It's already prohibitively expensive to raise kids in the U.S. (good luck competing against 5-people-per-room countries), it's unviable for most people to have retirement savings, or even own their place of residence. But the public doesn't connect it with the fact that the remaining local jobs have zero economic leverage and are made to easily replace people on a whim. We keep screaming at the next "enemy of the people" and stubbornly refuse to notice how wealth and economic leverage is being siphoned away from us.
Elementary's Pantheon was a breath of fresh air in the field of average user's DEs, but sadly they seem to have encountered some internal issues within the company and it's unclear if the future is bright.
I take gray and gloomy with cold and dark winters over hot and humid summers, thank you very much.
My needs are modest. I want a machine that could be a daily driver for development. either as a board you build as a kit or a full NUC style like an apple tv or the snapdragon kit Microsoft only sold in the US

The Orateck Tofu/CM4 is the right idea. But I could do without so much jank in getting the thing to boot off the m.2 that complicates things and acts as a barrier to entry for new comers. The pi4 is fine but having to use a USB adapter to get reliable SSD storage seems to be an unnecessary complication and feels like being held back on purpose.
The 111th had the best chance in my opinion. I also think 105th ironically could have as well, despite it being GOP controlled with the right Clinton deal making. The current congress could have as well if they had focused right at the beginning of the term and not went off on witch-hunting and posthumously impeaching former presidents.
Yeah but Copilot is actually generally available. DALLE 2 is invite only.
It's all well and good saying Dublin, but just try and find a condo there for rent!
> However, the numbers may sound more alarming than they really are because honey bees are efficiently bred and managed by humans.

Could that be part of the problem, they mention diversity loss in habitat, how about diversity of honeybee genetics. At the same time, HoneyBees are basically barnyard animals, we don't monitor the collapse of pig populations as they head to the slaughterhouse. I understand its not quite an apt analogy because that is the known causative agent and nobody is trying to slaughter their HoneyBees. All the same, they are not natural, I wonder if the public realizes that.
Ask HN: For a startup, what are the consequences of a bad serie A ?
Hello HN,

I am seeking your knowledge today because the startup I am working in is in a tough spot, and I want to know more about the reasoning/consequence of our decisions.

We raised seed money last year for about a bit more than 4 millions $ and due to our traction/growth, investors pushed us to hire more people to grow faster.

We were planning to raise more money (round A) at the end of the year and our expectations were high > 20 millions $, VC were full of promises.

Sadly, it was before today economical context set in, and after recent discussion with VC, the speed at which we burn cash due to salaries make them afraid/reticent to invest in the new round.
We are still able to raise, but much less, let's say < 10 millions $ but for the same dilution.

So it was decided to layoff people, even if we are already understaffed, because founders don't want to dilute that much for so little money. Founders want to increase company runaway to last until end of next year, in order to let us time to have better numbers to show and hope that the economical context will be more favorable to them to raise money.

So my question is, is there a downside, beside for founders and dilution, to make a Serie A at such a low lvl ?
What are the consequences/downside if we decide to take the money even if it is not at our best advantage ?

Thanks for your knowledge/answer :)
> the 30W is much smaller and sufficient to charge most laptops

Even the M1, which is praised for it's power efficiency can hit 40-50W under load. Such a charger will let the battery run down if you actually use your laptop for intensive tasks while charging. I don't think that qualifies as "most laptops" (and forget high end Intel laptops that are more than a generation old, they'd draw more than that watching a 4k movie)
100,000 /day https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/
I know a few devs who have their home base in Bali.

Seems to be a nice place for remote work.
The article about the RQ-170 states that the aircraft uses inertial guidance for its flight path so as to avoid GPS spoofing attacks. But then no explanation is given for how that might have failed. Is anything else known about how the attack worked?
People will always click on apocalypse stories, so the market will keep supplying them.
To be honest, I wish that better code repositories we're given more weight. Microsoft's should be given more weight, especially considering the security issues that is autosuggested by copilot.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09293
Google Cloud Architect
Ask HN: For what you use Cloudflare Workers / Deno Deploy?
It's just a spelling mistake, I've meant https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anecdata
I can second this, I love living somewhere with deep winters and frigid temperatures, although we do also have beautiful spring and summers where I am now. I spent years in the bay and even there was pretty hot and humid, not to mention having wildfires and having my power turned off because PG-E cant update their infrastructure.
Sorry to hear that. I won't try to fault your experience, just state its not a given this is the case for everyone. I have been a vegan for 16 years now. I would say I am in excellent health. Each year I run several 100 mile mountain races along side training all year (running, swimming, hiking and biking), and will be attempting 258 miles non stop race for 5-6 days in the middle of the British winter 2023 (the montane spine race), so I must be doing something right. I very rarely get sick. I also manage a large team of engineers at work and have a young family.
Transforming Burnout with Selfishness
You don't have to go very far for some links that echo what I said above:

"Moderate is an ideological category which designates a rejection of radical or extreme views, especially in regard to politics and religion.[1][2] A moderate is considered someone occupying any mainstream position avoiding extreme views and major social change. In United States politics, a moderate is considered someone occupying a centre position on the left–right political spectrum."

Very uncontroversial take by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_moderate

The pinning of subjective elements and personality traits to your political opponents is as dangerous as it is unscientific (and people both on the right and the left do this).
What about General Data Protection Regulation and anonymization? My source code files usually start with copyright notice with my name and email address followed by a reference to the license. In this case anonymization may be against my interests and rights.
Is there an open source version of the M8 around?
Microsoft Wordle (play Wordle in a MS Word document)
MS Word as a game engine!
Disproportionate in what sense? In terms of funding? Users? Red Hat has some of the most popular distributions and backs more open source devs than anyone else.
>sold off to developers to "fill in" with profitable (but in my reckoning totally unneeded) housing

I have no idea what "unneeded" housing is. Are these units sitting empty?

YoY house price growth in the UK is running at around 10%. I am not aware of a glut of "unneeded" housing.
The problem of rebasing off a broken main can be kinda avoided by keeping a separate "last-built/main" branch around that is automatically updated. People have to be quick about fixing main when it breaks though, else they get out of sync.
Probably because you can move between U.S. states without a visa, which is required to permanently work in another country. I feel like Google could do something similar between it's different offices in the Schengen area, but moving from Ireland to Mexico or from USA to Italy is going to require a lot more work and paperwork than most people are willing to put in, especially if there's a simpler option already available.
I was first exposed to it in movie form, called Charly and starring Cliff Robertson.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062794/

It had a big impact on me and I immediately wanted it in book form after seeing the movie.
Lennart has a kiss of death. Or was it a death of KISS? Or both?
Sometimes I just want to just browse and consume content and don't need a keyboard. Sometimes I want to annotate and handwrite on something and the ones with keyboards that fold back, become too thick.

The iPad has a great size and depth for this. When I use my wife's the thickness is not bad. If I want to annotate a PDF, I can sit on the couch and it's super easy and not heavy or too thick.

Videos, I can easily remove the keyboard, prop it against something and it doesn't take more space. However, I rarely do this for long periods. My main use to watch videos is to figure something out and take notes.

I want to be able to take handwritten notes, highlight and annotate PDF's, and research using a full featured browser. So it's an in-between. I think the iPad is close. Hardware is there (same CPU/architecture). Just needs software support.

We also have leaned towards mac's just for the UNIX tools but also it has a ton of nice things so that's why I think that the OS would be great. Copy from your computer, paste it on your ipad, keep going or open it through Files.
Dad-3DHeads: 3D Head Alignment from a Single Image
I had a look at the Oberon+ language definition and noted that one of the most annoying Oberon shortcomings (as compared to Modula-3) still remain:
...from the point of definition to the end of the scope...
Oberon+ should have a look at Active Oberon 2019, not for its "active" aspect, but for its syntactical and semantic improvements, like the correction of the above problem.
Dev here. I'd be happy to answer any questions!
Um. Emissions standards make a huge difference locally. CO2 is not the only pollutant.
> The Supreme Court returned the question to the legislative branch. That’s it.

What new legislation is required beyond the 4th and 9th amendments? Along with decades of legal precedent, these ALREADY protect US citizen's medical rights sufficiently. Yet the court saw fit to ignore them, effectively saying that a) we are no longer secure in our persons from unreasonable search if the state says so and b) rights retained by the people (but not explicitly in the constitution) can be denied by any legislature. This is a radical departure from our current legal structure, a complete re-interpretation of the constitution undertaken by activist judges behind closed doors in direct opposition to precedent and their public oaths - "That's it" doesn't begin to cover it.
Does MacOS support all the little tricks here that the article mentions Gnome is missing? Apparently they only support middle-button pasting within the terminal. And I seriously doubt they support the "scroll on title bar" trick. So if we are to take Apple's UX decisions as an example to follow, then it would seem like Gnome was correct in ditching these small tricks.
I've come to believe that multicellular life is an art form. What we see as individual organisms in relationship are really extensions or dreams of the unitary cellular mind. We are Solaris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)

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A fascinating article but there doesn't seem to be any mention of alcohol?

Fermentation is a easy way to create your own fuel. (E.g. see https://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com/ It seems they have updated their website since last I looked.) It's easy, carbon-neutral, etc.
If fracking was related, we'd see a dramatically higher die-off around the permian basin and more or less no die-off whatsoever in the north-west and north-east. This isn't quite what we see: https://fractracker.org and https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-map-highlights...

Now, as for fracking and air pollution, I am not an expert, but I did have a very interesting set of discussions with a fracking engineer who made a good argument that fracking shale in particular has dramatically decreased air pollution from oil extraction. Here is an article about it https://www.energyindepth.org/report-data-indicate-that-mass... (should be noted that this website is run by the oil industry, so take this line of argument with some salt).
It might be hard to tell whether a foretold disaster never materializes because a) it was sensationalized or b) because the attention spurred action (which is good!).
“Addictive” brings a negative connotation, like pointless time/energy sink or unhealthy use, which HN is not. It’s just a great e-place in which I like to e-hang out.
After your recent experience, do you still want to run a company?

While there can be a difference in growth prospects between a product company and a consultancy -- because a product company can have economies of scale and a consultancy can only scale linearly -- both are directly dependent on the hustle of sales closings (and only indirectly on actually providing value to customers or clients).

To be fair to yourself, there was the pandemic and it changed the business landscape.
I left dev.to awhile ago, largely in part because they encourage sexism, racism, etc. as prat of their code of conduct. It's truly sickening to me for a platform like this to not view all forms of sexism and racism as bad, not just the "correct" ones.
I'm have been hosting Send for a long while at send.vis.ee. You might find it useful!
The hard part is finding companies that will hire you in wildly different time zones and figure out all the payroll headaches. Not every company wants or is able to have a bunch of 1099 contractors doing core work for the business.
I am all for independent discovery but the author should know in the language modeling community we have known this for years [1]. The authors of DALLE are well aware of it. We have many concerted efforts to try to solve for it. Heck even have whole conferences (semeval, *sem) dedicated to a host of known issues beyond negation (try adding quantification (every/some), or quantity (1,2,3, one,few,many) to the prompts) that we just know both theoretically and empirically dont work with our current embeddings (see [2] for a great overview sorry is paywalled).

[1] https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.698/
[2] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-lingui...
I think the issue isn’t the wilingness to spend. It’s the lack of willingness to make it effective.
You can place all n vertices within a unit sphere, with a roughly uniform distribution. Then the distance between two vertices is at most 2 and at least roughly around the cubic root of 4π/3n (sphere volume divided by number of vertices). So the maximum factor between edge lengths in that construction is proportional to the cubic root of n. I would suspect that it’s possible to construct graphs where that factor cannot be significantly improved upon.
"They also should not care about what the impact would be downstream of their decisions; their reasoning should stand on its own."

Do we live in the same reality? As the dissenting justices stated, "The majority's refusal even to consider the life-altering consequences of reversing Roe and Casey is a stunning indictment of its decision."

Judges are not law-interpreting robots and no one ever pretended they are supposed to be (until you I guess). Their decisions impact the health and welfare of hundreds of millions of human beings and to not incorporate that reality into their work would be monstrously inhumane. There is a long history of rulings directly referencing the impact of decisions, to argue otherwise is a lie or disingenuous.
There are some valid insights in this piece, but just a note of caution about the book by Johann Hari that he cites a lot. This Twitter thread unpicks a lot of issues with that book: https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/147912591089697587...
Indeed. And it wasn't written in 1965, despite this title.