skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean the Canadian government highlighted the "cost savings" when they passed the legislation.

https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/web/default/files/Documents/Report...

"The predicted gross reduction in health care costs amounts to $109.2 million while the cost of administering MAID is estimated at $22.3 million. Thus, the difference between the two represents a net cost reduction for provincial governments of $86.9 million."
AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage
Yeah, I've tried doing cloud- based development. It's a no from me. I'd think that's further off being universally workable than the phone-docking idea. Though if you've already decided to get fully in bed with a particular cloud provider and totally tie yourself to their proprietary protocols etc. I can see the advantage.
Macs used to be for professionals, but Apple started seriously chasing the consumer demographic with the original iMac.

The original iMac was released in 1998. What's happening today has nothing to do with 1998 other than it was the iMac that is credited with saving Apple.

Professionals certainly do use Macs in all kinds of industries [1]:

[1]: "Here’s why Twitter, Uber, and more are giving fully loaded M1 Max MacBook Pros to engineers"--https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/08/heres-why-twitter-uber-and-mo....
So any electronics baring a circle with an accent involving thirds is owned by Lenovo huh? Watch out Chromium, they might be able to burn even more goodwill than they did with SuperFish. What am I talking about... obviously they're capable of worse - just look what they did to the beloved Thinkpad keyboard.
Apnews, like Facebook, needs sensationalist content to sell ads.
Your remark is quite the statement. The death toll of CCP is >40 million. The only other organization that might beat that is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
That doesn’t make much sense if the cirrhosis is also caused by the alcohol.
The same reason they created Final Cut Pro X and alienated the users of FCP 7? ;-)
I don't see Carmack bringing anything new to the table.
Yes, I think there is a culture in mathematics where people believe this to be the case, and I think its not correct.

I can think of several ways to motivate software engineers to learn more category theory (e.g. "did you know that MapReduce is basically an application of monoids?" or "did you know you can solve fast document layout updates with monoids?").

One thing I wonder about though. You say "curiosity" - can you explain what this means to you? Why are you curious about a certain concept? There are thousands of things to learn in the world - are you curious about all of them?
I did you just didn’t like the answer.
Is point free that weird? JS pipes are in the proposition process.

Data → Process → Process → Process

Is the above unclear?
Show HN: Daily snapshot of Hacker News' frontpage
Hi there!

I'm trying to fight my bad habits of reloading news sites every 5 minutes while procrastinating work, so I've made this nightly snapshot of the Hacker News' frontpage consuming the API.

My intention is that the third day in a row that I get used to seen the same list every five minutes, I will start killing the (bad) habit.

It has a bit of (mostly irrelevant) text in Spanish because it's part of a larger site I'm building for this, but you can probably ignore that.

Under the hood, it's a simple Ruby script[0] that crawls HN's API and generates a static HTML - run every night in a Github Action that deploys to Github Pages.

Hope it's useful for somebody else out there!

[0]: https://github.com/mgarciaisaia/deja.de.hueve.ar/blob/main/c...
https://archive.ph/8639c

I'm not surprised by this (anymore). The fact that significant amount of people have experienced taste loss/alteration for periods well beyond the initial infection indicates the potential for neurological damage COVID has to the larger population.

I hope this doesn't translate into other hidden long-term effects, e.g. a huge portion of the current population needing fulltime medical care as dementia hits them at a later age..
This post (and many others here) kind of put the ignorance of the "Canadian" system on display. It's not really one uniform system and has varying levels of privatization across the country because it is handled by provinces.

> Arguably, the horrible US for-profit health system offers stronger protection against this. A dead patient can’t be charged for more services. But a system that equates medical consumption with good care has it’s own set of problems too obvious to mention.

This isn't stronger protection; it just creates a different perverse incentive to effectively drag out someone's suffering.
Every professional I know is on Mac
You used jquery? :)
Your argument is that there are adversarial cases? Sure... But that's not what I'm even arguing here. There's more nuance to the problem here that you lack an understanding of. I do suggest diving deep into the research to understand this rather than arrogantly make comments like this. If you have questions, that's a different thing. But this is inappropriate and demonstrates a lack of intimate understanding of the field.
The problem is the logic can lead you down a bad path.

1. Let fully lucid patients make a decision to die.

2. Let partially lucid patients make a decision to die.

3. Let family members of non-lucid patient makes a decision to die.

4. Let doctor make a decision for a patient who "would clearly want to die if they could speak".
I agree with everything you say. I cling to macOS while trying to migrate back to Linux. To Pop!_OS or some other suitable Linux, but for the past couple years it’s been Pop.
Newton worked on alchemy for much of his life.
Good point but I think that's fine ;-) curious about answers...
Within what industry/industries?

Has the same energy as "everybody I've ever met in my entire life both use SUSE Linux".
> The "if iOS is opened up, Meta will put Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp on their own app store and steal user data" doomsday scenario has always seemed a little half-baked to me.

Meta was literally already caught doing this by abusing enterprise certificates to bypass the App Store to spy on people, including children, until Apple stopped them.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/apple-fac...
Thank you for posting this. It's a very long read so I fear it won't gain much traction, but I think it helped shed light on a malaise that I've felt since adolescence. Therapists and partners have told me I don't practice enough self-love, but to say I self-loathe also felt like a lie. This line in particular crystallized the disparity: "Pathological shame is an irrational sense of defectiveness, a feeling not of having crossed to the wrong side of the boundary but of having been born there." I'll keep this writing in mind as I move forward.
AP revenue is primarily content licensing [1]

You could perhaps argue that since their customers probably get their money primarily through ads so AP needs to generate sensationalist content to keep them happy.

They (and perhaps Thomson Reuters) themselves don't need ads to make money that is not their business model (while they do have ads revenue as well it is not key to their business )

That isn't to say AP's quality has not dropped over the years it certainly has. It seems more like given the pay journo's make these days, top talent is simply no longer interested in the field. Economic pressures of online journalism does not reward knowledgeable people taking the time to write well informed pieces, rather content mills are more likely to make money with low quality output.

To me this is more a reflection of us as consumers not paying for quality rather than industry which merely adapts to what users want and pay for ( whether with subscriptions or eye balls)

[1]https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2021/ap-by-the-number...
That it caught on with consumers at large is exactly why Apple became form over function for many years.
I commend your bravery, sir. HFHT sounds like an extremely perilous activity. I'm pruning up and short-circuit just thinking about it.

The MBA surviving that is quite impressive!
The comment you quoted explicitly mentioned doctors and specifically mentioned the Hippocratic oath. You omitted that part of the sentence from the quotation in your reply but it was very clearly about Doctors.
You're right, but: Caltrain is being electrified in order to make the track compatible with HSR. HSR precludes at grade crossing where you'd need to use a horn. Ergo Caltrain is eliminating the at grade crossings as part of electrification and the electric trains will be quieter than the diesels service of yore.

In the North Bay, SMART (which is anything but) applied for and got an exemption for quiet crossings in some spots. HSR is a good idea that's messy and complex because everyone wants a say. SMART is a great example of America proving that Americans don't want rail transit. It's the Pontiac Fiero of transit.
> 4-6 years ago things still looked quite promising

This is very true. However if you bypass the Dream Machine and just use some other router or an EdgeRouter it’s ridiculously reliable in the home setting.

There are a heap of nice features in the UDM line, but wow does it need polish and stability.

My wifi is the best I’ve every used by a million miles, but the UDMP crashes and has weird behaviour that requires heroics to repair.
In many cases, these programs aren’t profitable, especially if the extended warrantee covers products with unknown problems. Neither the supplier nor the purchaser knows the true risks of warranting a new product, they only have historical data to go by. Often they are profitable, on products that actually were far more reliable than consumers expected (eg. Phones whose screens get harder to break).
But even then it doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea to buy it, as you can’t predict the future, you can only make bets and cover your risk exposure to some degree. That risk coverage and piece of mind is valuable even if the unlucky event never happens.

At a bigger scale than product warrantees, Health and Life insurance are both profitable but also often worth purchasing to protect you or your family as it’s the ultimate case of hedging against bad luck. You’re trading reasonable, predictable costs against actuarial events with huge (potentially bankrupting) costs. Some folks that didn’t need it, they spent a reasonable an amount of money and still got value out if it: risk coverage and piece of mind.
The ROGD paper was parents only. Littman included patients in the paper not on ROGD. Her recruiting focus was a problem though.

Even she didn't think 1 paper made a valid medical diagnosis and treatment guidelines.

The 1st letter didn't dispute the critique of her methods. It said the question was important and should be studied more.

The 2nd letter writer didn't understand the 2nd paper apparently. Littman predicted ROGD and childhood onset were 2 different groups. The distribution in the 2nd paper didn't look like 2 different groups. 80% of the parents in Littman's paper said their adolescents had 0 gender dysphoria criteria in childhood. But gender knowledge is 1 of the criteria. n = 173 isn't much smaller than n = 256. The paper didn't say what she said it said about anxiety. It speculated long standing gender dysphoria or social complications could lead to more anxiety. And her speculation about why recent awareness was associated with lower anxiety scores ignored it was everyone's 1st visit.
SSH is super speedy, and for many linux users remote commandline is all that is needed
Remember 2000-2005 Microsoft that tried to lock you into Internet Explorer and was deeply into this thing called "trusted computing"?

That's what you're missing.

You're required to sign in for updates so they can track you. No software patches without monitoring, I guess.

No way to remove iTunes or stop Safari from trying to take over again and again. Even if you don't want music to open that way.

Steve Balmer would be proud.

Remember 2005-8 when you tried Ubuntu for the first time and were wowed with Compiz Fusion compared to the drab Windows XP/Vista/etc window management?

That's the feeling you get every time you step away from MacOs finder and the atrocious Mac window manager.

You shouldn't need a 3rd party plugin to manage window placement. It shouldn't be difficult to navigate to a directory via a path or run a program or have the file browser automatically resize its icon view. But that's Mac.
How does this differ from using "past"?
Ambient Scotrail Beats
I don't personally agree with any story where there's one single 100% responsible party, be it divorce, terrorism or war.

But that doesn't mean that I'm right or that you're wrong...
Its a paid product but NoMachine solves this problem fully, including across networks and between different platforms. Accessing a full desktop computer from your ipad is crazy magical the first time you see it.
Freedom and Privacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
> Another company that puts users first will eventually arise and take its place.

I doubt it, new companies spring up like mushrooms when fields gets disruptively innovated, but big companies tend to stay otherwise.

Can see it here, lots of shifts in the biggest companies the first half, while the second half is dominated by Apple, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Facebook and Amazon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSuloaATQRA

Or ask yourself, when was the last time a new American car brand was created? Tesla thanks to the electric car disruption, but other than Tesla it was a very long time ago. Same thing will happen in software once disruptive events get less common.
I moved on to Windows 10 and FreeBSD after many years on the Mac (I refused to upgrade my Macs beyond Mojave), but this is an interim solution for me since neither Windows 10 nor existing FOSS desktops match even Mac OS X Tiger when it comes to the user experience.

My long-term solution is building my own desktop environment that is inspired by the classic Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, but also takes ideas from OpenDoc, Smalltalk environments, the Symbolics Genera Lisp machine OS, and Plan 9 (itself influenced by Project Oberon when it comes to the GUI) to form an environment that encourages flexible, programmable tools built from smaller components but can be arranged to create complete software solutions, kind of like how a painter arranges colors and tools. Unfortunately I’m still early in the design phase and I have no code to share, and this is also a side project since I work full-time as a researcher and thus I can’t devote my full time to this, but I hope that by 2024 I’ll have an early version working and released.

I am inspired by the vision of personal computing pioneers like Alan Kay, and I hate to see personal computing being transformed from user empowerment to platforms for selling services and serving ads to a captive audience.
Three Ways to Remove Console Statements from Production Build
I'm facing a bitter conflict with Mac App Review. I feel so poorly about this that I can't sleep, and my mind is in turmoil. After 37 years writing Mac software, I'm wondering if there is anything left of the Mac and of the Apple spirit that made such a difference in my life. I hate to give up my current work (5 years and 13,000 lines of code), but in a sense it would be liberating to be free of Apple.
How do you know you’re not an AGI?
Imagine if one were to launch a swarm of cubesats with cameras on them looking away from Earth —- what would you imagine those cameras would see? (Let’s say cameras allow very long exposure shots?) Another way to ask my question is: can cubesat be used as “mini-Hubbles” to get closeups of planets/moon in the solar system or nearby stars?

Second question (somewhat related to first) — can a cubesat stream video to a server on earth? (Or does one need a ‘big Sat’ to do video streaming?
Go is only successful because Google spent so much money propping it up by paying people to write stuff in it. It has so many major flaws that it would have had no chance of taking off otherwise. If Google had spent the same amount of money on Haskell instead, it'd be even more popular than Go is today.
Or USB Killer... Although there's generally no financial incentive for an attacker to mail you a USB Killer.
Not in simple cases. It can get weird very quick though. If I didn't know the intuition behind `(.) . (.)` I would have trouble deciphering it mentally, and would have to derive it with pencil and paper.
My mom died this year; liver and kidneys failed, lungs filled with fluid, suffocating, maximum oxygen support in the hospital. After several days, she was too tired to go on, went with "comfort care", supposedly minimizing suffering, but it's a euphemism for torture. I stayed with her for half an hour after they took off her oxygen mask before I couldn't take it any more -- my mother gasping for breath. After about an hour I was told she'd passed away so I should go back in -- to see her frozen with her jaw locked forward, desperately trying to get a breath. I hate anyone who claims euthanasia is wrong. Why couldn't they just replace the oxygen with nitrogen?
> There isn't many people in the USA that love the idea of driving their car to ride a train so that they can then rent a car to get where they are going.

You've just described airports, except with trains instead of planes. If I could take a train instead of fly I would.
This is what I was talking about:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/virtualization/

goes way back... (and into the contained bug report)

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/please-give-some-ideas-ab...
On the other hand you would be surprised how many families embrace it and come together and celebrate their passing with the individual. Of course they are sad as well but they are also happy with the decision to give the client peace. I am a health care worker and occasionally get sent to work at a hospice house and have been present when MAID was being done.
Hit the nail on the head. For same reason requirements writing is so difficult, to explain every edge case you end up writing the whole software again, using human language.

Writing software is the process of explaining a set of conditions and conversions from input to output. We should assume the programmer does this in as short code as possible (unless we are using a low level language like C which adds a lot of accidental complexity like memory management). To repeat all these conditions in test-code, would be to write the same thing twice, in a different way. Not saying this is wrong, it's just important to acknowledge it.

Testing often becomes more like sampling, with hard coded or generated known set of inputs/outputs, often taken from a scenario derived from a common user journey. This verifies that this particular journey works, but it would never be a guarantee that other edge cases of it does, to do that you do end up in the write-twice situation.
I agree that there are many opinions and that Haskell people don't want to compromise on what they see is the value of the language, but I've also seen a lot of people express their desire for more adoption. For example in threads talking about the haskell.org download page, in threads about improving learning resources, and with the Haskell Foundation.

This desire is usually expressed with sentiments like "let's make this easier to learn" and "Let's fix this so it's not a footgun", and not "success at all cost".
By "documentation", do you mean introductions/tutorials, or references? I'll agree the former could use some work, but I find the latter to be excellent.
Suicide drugs exist but they're generally pretty awful ways to go or very illegal to sell. If the police find out suicidal people use your chemical store or pharmacy as their suicide shop, you can get in huge trouble, up to aiding in murder.

I'm 100 in favour of euthanasia for people who are suffering with no end in sight. If I get sick and face ten years of slowly dying, suffering every day, I'm taking the easy way out somehow, and it's up to the government if that's in a controlled environment or if they'll need to send out a cleanup crew when they find the suicide note.

However, I don't think you should be able to just buy suicide pills online. It's the only way to do it relatively safely and successfully for people in countries where assisted suicide isn't legal, but it's a workaround rather than a solution.
There's this https://xpra.org for X applications, though I haven't tried for awhile.
> According to modern climatologists the cooling trend Mitchell was trying to explain with volcanos never existed at all ... and anyone who says otherwise is a malicious liar

Who are the modern climatologists that are saying that the data recorded and reported by Mitchell does not exist? Are you saying that the NASA data graph is false for 1940-1975? I couldn't find any graph in Mitchell's paper.
The point of the article is that in Canada at least, many people go through with it.

I think the reason people don't end up killing themselves is that actually committing suicide is technically difficult, and terrifying. If one doesn't have access to specific drugs, how does one do it without making a horrible mess that their loved ones would have to clean up?

Even if one can somehow avoid the mess, suicide tells the people who are left behind that one chose death over them; it's a terrible message that most people, justifiably, don't want to send.

A medical decision that leaves little to no trail is a much better outcome for everyone.
> That's not inventing money.

Since the same money can be spent by the borrower and the saver separately and go off into circulation separately then it is creating new money.
Agreed. Likewise though, there's an ethical dilemma the other way: Is it acceptable to force treatment on someone?

These are not easy questions and while I personally believe that assisted dying legislation will prevent a lot of needless suffering, I also believe there will be people effectively killed by this who could have otherwise had fulfilling happy lives but couldn't see the path out of the woods or were unable to make that journey.
> What do you think happens when you put your military bases in the city and put you forces in residential areas?

This sounds more like what the Russians are doing, but the Russians also commit genocide and force Ukrainians to fight for them via conscription in the Donbas Luhansk regions.

> It doesn't make it wrong though, does it? Truth hurts.

Just because someone writes something doesn't make it true thought? The backlash was harsh because the report was crazy and ignored a number of different people trying to provide feedback and context around what was happening.

> So you just dismiss any facts if they don't align with Western propaganda?

You have yet to establish them as facts, and id be more wary of Russian propaganda than anything else, its a good thing its become so transparent now.
The jobs/housing ratio is strange, but I imagine they wanted to add commuters rather than residents, thereby enjoying increased tax revenue without increasing residential density or building upward, both of which could potentially reduce the value for incumbent homeowners and/or change the character of existing neighborhoods. The main downsides for the cities themselves would be increased traffic, potential parking issues, and a completely unaffordable housing market, as well as long-term threats like state intervention.
Does it ever happen that a company manages to grow that big and not become something like that?
SeaTac is out in the middle of nowhere and easily one of the most unpleasant airports I've ever flown out of. Last time I had to go through immigration at SEA there was vomit smeared all over the floor.

Meanwhile the Amtrak station in Seattle is centrally located, about fifteen minutes to downtown by tram. The Amtrak station in Portland is pretty much right in the middle of downtown. I don't know that I'd want to go from the Bay Area to Seattle on a train, but something like Portland to Seattle would benefit greatly from HSR (currently it's about a 4 hour trip).