skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Italics is a poor choice for the text, feels like it takes more mental energy to read so it's easier to gloss over.

The color scheme doesn't seem to match the rest of the website, so it's easier to write off as an ad or to just ignore it out of disgust.

The main text on the left, "Homebrew Page", doesn't necessarily register as synonymous with "Unofficial" to me, so even if someone gives it a passing glance they might just assume it's a specific version of D&D and therefore official. I'm not deep in the community though, so most players may already understand what it means.
iPhone 13 mini
Starting Jan 1, 2022, a healthcare provider has to provide an estimate and you are only liable for that estimate plus $400 in case of overage.

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/consumers/understanding-cost...
FBI and MI5: The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology
FWIW, pretty sure duffpkg was involved in the creation of OpenEHR, and therefore probably has heard of it.
Proposal for a full-fledged C String
Dynamic allocation, SSO, views, refcounting, etc.. are spread on various implementations.

C++ separates string and string_view. And they're not fully compatible. (Ex. you can't concat cross-type !?).

Rust has str, &str, String Box<str>, ... ?

In the spirit of "a slice of a string is still a string", why not pack it all into a single type ? And offer security in the process.

Here's the scheme : https://github.com/alcover/buffet/raw/main/assets/schema.png

Here's the code : https://github.com/alcover/buffet

NB: I'm talking string/byte buffer. Higher string tooling like Utf8 would go a layer above.
I disagree. Pedantry adds no value, and moralizing semantics seems silly at best. What counts is that people understand clearly, and in this case everyone did.
Be really careful with this kind of emailing flow. We were booted off 2 mains email provider because our B2B apps allowed people to send invitation to their colleagues... I'm thinking that big email providers (like Mailchimp) don't even try to understand your usage and largely prefer to ban any non-big players from their network.
I know Schmidhuber is an important figure in deep learning and I barely know anything about deep learning. The guy is on top of the world and could find better things to do than whine.
I have had PPO high deductible health insurance for 14 years, and I have been able to see whatever doctor I want whenever I want.

Obviously, I need to pay out of pocket until I meet the deductible, but it all counts toward the annual out of pocket max and I get the negotiated pricing between doctor and insurance company. After I meet the deductible, however, the insurance still pays for a consult for anyone I want to go see. Not necessarily for any procedure though, without justification. But that applies in any situation, PPO or not.
How we searched before search (2017)
Do you not generate any value by providing data to google maps?
You are making google maps better when you do it. Why does google get to benefit from your work?
Its clearly not reasonable for everyone to demand payment for this type of work, but I think its worth questioning why we let huge companies build products that require this kind of donated labor
The Sankey relationship is strongly hinted in this diagram:

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/04/Four-ways-of-meas...

Even in a traditional energy-flow Sankey diagram (see the LLNL examples: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy), the four concepts aren't always clearly expressed.

LLNL also includes numerous assumptions and framings which aren't necessarily clear. The "wasted energy" component, which in my experience people always focus on strongly, for example, is based on an assumed efficiency of processes, it is not directly measured.

Another aspect I'd not realised until the past year or so is that the values associated with renewables (hydro, geothermal, wind, solar) is based on the inputs of equivalent fossil-fuel thermal generation. You'd only get that by reading the tiny and faint legend at the bottom of the chart, e.g.:

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2022-04/E...

LLNL don't seem to have a methodology published anywhere that I've been able to find. The fact that Our World in Data does is both remarkable, refreshing, and quite helpful.
There is nuance, but in the opposite direction. Microsoft did not adhere to the original court order, and fought it to the supreme court, where it was undecided when the CLOUD Act came into force and a new warrant was issued for the data held in Ireland.

It is unambiguously an expansion of Government powers. You're the first and only person I've ever come across who has argued the opposite. It's such a ridiculous thing to write that I am wondering if you're trolling me?
I thought this was a joke about the large banner at the top of the SO page. https://i.imgur.com/nIrgPJi.png
I second this. Training people is even harder, because you have to train their English and teach them the work culture to avoid conflicts.
iPhone SE2
My own advice, on the other hand, is to use Tailwind. Tailwind is far more flexible than Bootstrap and it's super easy to understand. If you pair it with the Intellisense plugin, it's a total game changer. I've been writing CSS for over a decade and I'll never go back to normal CSS after trying it.
> scrapping attack
> most "good" house music, or house that is considered tasteful, doesn't have lyrics.

I agree.

> but you can generally consider most house music to be instrumental.

If an instrumental is music without words at all (not even in voice samples), as far as I've experienced, Techno instrumentals are far more common; House instrumentals have always seemed somewhat rare.
Show HN: PoC AI that builds its own source code
PTG => Parse Thingy: https://poi.apache.org/apidocs/dev/org/apache/poi/ss/formula...
The NASA Engineer Who Made the James Webb Space Telescope Work
Demonizing an enemy by personalisation and reduction to one evil dictator is a known propaganda / manipulation technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonizing_the_enemy#Personifi...

This has always been a standard operation model for the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...

So yes, Putin's Russia is used intentionally to introduce the same feeling as Hitler's Germany. That's the way how Biden's USA works, supported by Ursula von der Layens EU, Stoltenberg's NATO and their minions.
That's a large part of what the entire legal system is for.
My eyes can’t handle the dimly lit room they once could, especially not when reading code. 400 nits is a minimum for me now.
Check out:

https://docs.lowdefy.com/introduction

You need Node.js installed so that you have npx, but otherwise you just write your UI in yaml, because why the hell not?
Why did my add-blocker not remove that... scroll 2 clicks...
https://archive.ph/X7W0p
I get paranoid about bending my cards, so I tend to shuffle in a less swift way to avoid bending them (I don't care as much about it for traditional playing cards but kind of a habit from my hobby board games where everything is a lot more expensive to replace and often out of print).

Command-line Cribbage is interesting, might check that out sometime.

I'm partial to the Cribbage Classic iOS/Android app, as it can analyze your decisions if you enable it, and let you know how optimal your choices are and even can provide a full ranked list of each 4-card hand you can make out of the 6 cards, with minimum possible score and average score.

It can also remind you when you're about to miss a scoring opportunity (like you place a card down to get to 15 and score 2 points, but it goes "yo dummy, you've got a card that can make that a run and score 3 points, you sure you want to do that?). I don't really need that now, but when I was learning it was useful to enable.

I think it helped me get better at the game a lot faster by seeing "Oh damn, my choice is like the fifth best? What's the best one....oh, okay, yeah that makes sense" Although sometimes it's like "Hey, that hand is only going to score on average 6.16 points. You should pick this hand which will score on average 6.18 points!"
While Mithril is interesting unless you are resume-building I'd avoid anything React-like until you are a small team and just go Vanilla JS with events, it can go a long way if you are a solo dev, especially if you have a backend experience and can write clear and simple code.
And also provide a considerable to major contribution to the GDP of affected countries. We like it or not it is an export.
'Mathematical calculations show that quantum communication across interstellar space should be possible'

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-mathematical-quantum-interstel...
Bitcoin uses less energy than Gold Mining and the Banking System
https://twitter.com/topimp21/status/1542863870552936448

"Bitcoin uses 2-56 times less energy than the fiat system"
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-environmental-de...
Do you have some article related to this I could read ?

Germany is really similar to Japan in that it’s exterior seems very different to what’s going on internally.
There is some evidence that at least some HPV vaccines can help against existing, symptomatic HPV.* The one I linked was with a quadrivalent HPV vaccine, so, not the Gardasil-9 that is currently in use. I know there are even more case reports about this topic out there. If it works like that for already symptomatic infection, it will work equally or better against asymptomic / presymptomatic infection. But, an authoritative answer to your question does not exist.

*
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

Besides that, there is the high likelihood that you aren't infected with all variants of HPV the vaccine protects against, so go for it.

I can only repeat my claim, that getting the HPV vaccination series is a good idea for almost everyone at every age (the younger the better), besides almost esoteric exceptions (e.g. those severely immunocompromised people that also don't create covid vaccine antibodies and monks with life long sexual abstinence).
"If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else’s Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there." - the incomparable Douglas Adams
> Is there any precedent for this? Have governments ever ruled on how people can use their computational power?

Yes, they have. For instance, the DMCA is a USA law which, among other things, forbids people in the USA from using their computational power to circumvent an access control system (for instance, by brute forcing a cryptographic key) which happens to be preventing access to a copyrighted file. An older example is that encryption within France used to be severely restricted (quoting from https://www.theregister.com/1999/01/15/france_to_end_severe_... which is from before the current laws: "Until 1996 anyone wishing to encrypt any document had to first receive an official sanction or risk fines from F6000 to F500,000 ($1000 to $89,300) and a 2-6 month jail term. Right now, apart from a handful of exemptions, any unauthorised use of encryption software is illegal. Encryption software can be used by anyone, but only if it's very easy to break.")
Simple? vanilla html, css and js.
Super Bowser now has his own 2,807-piece Lego Mario set
Repeating yourself 3 or 4 times is okay. After that, it is probably worth cleaning up.
Can't tell if sarcastic or really asking...
It won't help with the browser-side part of the story though :-)
Right, but it probably sucked. We heavily romanticize it today, but we romanticize all sorts of things that were actually not so great.
I've only lived in Germany, and while I was doing so, I went back to the States to buy an iPhone to save $600 USD at the time between the German and American prices.
> If you don't want to get stuck on C++, stick to C! )

You can't use C directly with the official WxWidget library. For instance, here is the first line of WxWidget's manual:

"Welcome to wxWidgets, a stable and powerful open source framework for developing native cross-platform GUI applications in C++!"
Best recommendations.

Just one thing: do a favor for your visitor's privacy and don't use a CDN, download the css/js packages and host them yourself.

> An easy way to try out Mithril.js is to include it from a CDN and follow this tutorial. [1]

[1] https://mithril.js.org/
‘Elected official’, appointed by default
Thanks! Another very good example of why DRM is bad for my list.
"fully decommissioned" by some somewhat unintuitive definitions:

> The DOE was required by contract and statute to begin removing spent nuclear fuel and GTCC waste by January 31, 1998. To date, the DOE has not removed any spent fuel or GTCC waste from the CY site, and it is unknown when it will.

The current 'plan' is for the companies looking after the waste on the original site to sue the government every few years to get paid for looking after the waste.

http://connyankee.com/
My wife and I are dealing with this as new parents. Even setting aside the COVID vaccine which looks completely unnecessary for infants, there were a ton of other issues that lost our trust. The CDC does not for example recommend aspirating the needle anymore during shots because "there are no large blood vessels" (this is wrong - anatomy has outliers, and anyway there are smaller ones) and it "might be more painful for infants" (this is a not a good reason). This shocked our doctor who said they always aspirate and were trained to do so. We had our pediatrician aspirate and it took less than a second. I could write more about why we insisted on aspirating but that's another can of worms to make the same point which is you can't take CDC at its word. We are scrutinizing every advice and every vaccine whether the benefits (individually and to society) outweigh the risks. So far I think we probably will end up doing the main ones, but we're doing it our way, on our schedule, and specifically choosing vaccines with certain ingredients to minimize risks. We know other parents that are opting out completely and I can't blame them. It would be easier if we could just trust the CDC.
Insurance companies have always given out prices. I have been able to type in CPT codes online and my insurance tells me the price on a map of all the providers in network in my area.

Before that, you could call and give them the code and they would tell you the price.

The problem is the doctor will not give you a code, and sometimes that makes sense since they do not know what they will be seeing or doing, so they cannot know the code in advance.

But I have also had doctors not give me codes for completely preventative services, which makes no sense.
The product that lifted Apple out of mediocrity and into the public eye was the iPod. The iPod, especially in its initial release, had a feature list that was explicitly derived from the failings of competing products. The idea was to take and dominate the mobile music player market. All of the biggest power moves Steve Jobs made were about eating someone else's lunch.
I agree with you however truly innovative things that are not making anyone poorer are way rarer than author of this post suggests. Even Steve jobs devices, given here as an example, was taking part of the cake from someone else. First thing that came to my mind is original VCS made in 1972 by Bell Labs. This was an invention that genuinely created profit from place where no one else was making any money.
Is this much different from LinkedIn vs hiQ?
Show HN: AppBlocker – Android app that you can use to block other apps
Hey everyone,
This is my most recent side project that I actually managed to finish and launch.
AppBlocker is a productivity app that helps you block annoying apps like social media, reduce your screen time and increase your productivity. It helps stay on track with your goals by eliminating distractions and unnecessary scrolling.
Currently, I'm still working to improve the app so any feedback is welcome.
In general I agree that harvesting public data is moral.
I think that in these particular cases it's:
1) extracting data from profiles that opted for not being public (only available to logged in users) and
2) reposting scraped data (publicly?) as belonging to the guy who scraped it without users consent.
The sellers don't attempt to follow you around until you die.
DALL-E 2 vs. Midjourney comparisons
4k looks vastly better and many laptop users seldom or rarely run off battery for more than an hour or so.
> I would prefer developers to spend more time implementing features, and less making bling-bling UI things.

So many apps twenty years ago had features that apps today do not. It was really frustrating to see instant messaging services regress in features as people migrated from one to another to a third to ... today's dumpster fires.
Paying for DRMed media is for chumps. While I agree with you overall in spirit, lets not forget that there are in fact 100% DRM free quality stores out there. And for music and games not minor ones either, in music in fact humanity outright won that war and DRM free is the standard for purchases not the exception. Even for games the selection at stores like GOG is in no way minor with lots of full AAA titles. Lots of DRM free places for ebooks too, though admittedly that one for some reason is less extensive.

But it's movies and TV shows that are the real odd ones out. That industry has always been some of the worst, and unfortunately they seem to have watched what happened with music and learned all the wrong lessons plus had the opportunity to stop the particular path towards DRM free music took from happening to them. Things are a complete mess a true perversion of the point of copyright. I hope this sort of thing eventually prompts backlash that results in legal changes.
Right before writing that, De Botton wrote:

> “The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm.”

Is that "wise"? Who reads this and nods?

Self-help is rarely written by successful people. Napoleon Hill (a fraud) was no exception.

It focuses on superficial behavioral and cognitive changes, based on "wisdom" that half the audience will cringe at (see Twitter gurus). The more intellectual kinds of self-help (like De Botton, as opposed to Tony Robbins) essentially help people domesticate themselves, by becoming low energy, excessively self-reflective (which is what the word "neurotic" means) and permanently stuck in their head, as opposed to taking action in the real world.

The more you believe you are afflicted by various subjective, non-clinical, non-diagnosed emotional issues, the more they will consume you. You will be raising waves where there is no wind.

The most effective self-help is either the Lindy kind (reading the Bible; joining a Buddhist monastery), or just aligning your behavior with what you want out of life, without caring for the "childhood reasons" for your behavior. "Self-awareness" is a lie; you are just projecting meaning and patterns where none exists. The ultimate embodiment of this navel-gazing is Lacanian psychoanalysis, which has enormous suicide rates. Just reflect on whether your behavior is aligned with your goals, and choose to change your behavior accordingly, without imagining that you need to change an entire machinery within your mind beforehand.
I think the way it is usually done is that the JIT assumes, for example after profiling, that an expression has a specific type, generates code according to that assumption and adds strategic guards to check that the assumptions are still valid, with a fall back path to the original unoptimized code. Thanks to the magic of branch prediction the guards have little runtime cost.
Paying for media is a good thing. Paying for content without getting the media is a problem.
Are You “Socially Mad” or “Capably Glad”?: What Movies Say About Your Mindset
> All these ideas are great. But remember that the fundamental goal here, is to send a POST request with a single JSON object. That is a very, very simple thing to do. Now we are talking about all kinds of fancy programming stuff to try to solve problems that only exist because we don't want to repeat the same 6 line snippet in a handful of different places because DRY tells us that's bad.

Yes, that is a very common beginner mistake. Sometimes a little copy-pasta is needed to avoid over-complicating what needs to be simple.

Where DRY is really important are things like:

- Hey, you seem to be using "foo" and "bar" all over the place. Put those strings in constants.

- Hey, you're using magic numbers all over the place. Use an enum (or constants depending on your language / situation.)

- Wow, you copied and pasted that logic all over the place. Now when we need to make a change we have to make it in 20 spots. That should be encapsulated in a function / method / object

- (And to get closer to home) Even though you just want to "send a POST request with a single JSON object," we have a common session management pattern and error handling pattern in our application to deal with this API. That particular pattern should be encapsulated so you aren't repeating it for every #%$#@ API request.
I used it some years ago. The PythonCard library made it very easy to use.
Took a few seconds to load a purely text-based page on my browser, with several roundtrip requests.

I don't think this is a good toolset in terms of simplicity...
Should have done a clear banner, with maybe a red or yellow border, and an icon. Preferably inside the content area, just like Wikipedia does on disputed articles or current events.

His banner has stylized fonts, a photo as a background, and as such looks like an ad or something decorative.
Buying digital licences is for suckers. Piracy is forever, plus you learn practical skills like redundant data storage and offsite backup methodologies.

Seriously, the 'value' related criticisms of cryptocurrencies have come true, but for digital licensing.
>There is nuance, but in the opposite direction. Microsoft did not adhere to the original court order, and fought it to the supreme court, where it was undecided when the CLOUD Act came into force and a new warrant was issued for the data held in Ireland.

What part of this do you think is incompatible with the fact that almost everyone expected Microsoft to lose the case?

And in fact, Microsoft, Apple, and Google lobbied for the CLOUD Act.

So maybe instead of accusing people of bad faith, you should have a little humility and open-mindedness to improving your understanding of the world. Believe it or not, techie discussion forums and Wired are not reliable sources of legal information, so that would explain why you're so misinformed.
Well it depends on the country.

In France for example, people who are anti-abortion, anti-cannabis, anti-EV, etc (most often those are Conservative people) are also anti-wind-turbines and pro-nuclear.
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I don't consider Svelte a simple toolset because it can't be published statically
Looks promising but the landing page barely showcases anything

> Twidere X has perfect Twitter browsing experience. Supports platform crossing, viewing tweets and replies by timeline, sending tweets with locations and searching for tweets, media and users and more...

This is not a perfect Twitter browsing experience, this is at most a standard Twitter browsing experience.

Other than changing the color (which I think you can do now on the official client as well?), I don't see what is unique about your client and why I would bother trusting your app on my phone. Not saying it isn't there, but I don't see it.