skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I plainly saw your point that people do dumb things with their money, suggesting I didn’t begs the question: did you actually read and ponder on my comment? My apologies for thinking you had something else to say on the matter of consumerism which is what I was attempting to engage you in discussion about. You see my examples built off of yours but you neglected to imagine the broader world without consumerism. I should made my expectation of you more clear. Apologies. I’ll summarize the point I was making explicitly for you. Capitalism is impossible without mindless consumerism. If mindless consumerism falters for a moment markets panic and the dominoes start falling. We cannot talk about ending mindless consumerism without talking about tens of millions of unemployed Americans, contagious economic crisis spreading from market to market (thanks financialization of everything) and everywhere else unpredictably.
Perhaps? Languages and common vernacular evolve in surprising ways.

The use of 'shot' was originally meant to indicate that it is given via injection; however the word 'vaccine' may have become less common because rapid mutations result in new flu vaccine versions twice a year, and vaccination only gives a limited time resistance. It would make sense this would leads to a less formal vernacular.

Since orally administered flu vaccines are in clinical trials, we might get to see vernacular evolve to accommodate them soon.

All that said, "flu shot" is a common name for influenza vaccines. There is no requirement that a vaccine be highly effective or impart a long-term resistance. Rather, vaccines which are not safe and measurably effective are not desirable and thus tend to not be made available.
and _that_ imnsho is a serious problem for political discourse. in paper days you inherently knew that we both had read the same text in that same newspaper --- today you don't know that anymore. kind of byzantine generals all over the place.
Drug contraindication flagging is not something a computer can do effectively. Garbage datasets on drug warnings, garbage data on patient conditions - it truly takes a highly trained human.

Maybe not for filling your 1 script - but for polypharmacy patients it saves lives.
> Rust in the kernel is not due to a careful balancing of risk and reward, but because the Rust community wants Rust in Linux

I think this sums it up pretty well.
Exactly. And it is, indeed, still hard to become famous, but not as hard as 30 years ago.
I don't get your questions. People have realized this, and many other things, just fine.

It's not like realization is a magic reality bending power however. You can both (a) realize big incumbents are not fair and (b) still have no choice but to go them if you want to make money from your app.
I said dynamic, not interactive. The image and the image map are updated every few minutes. Within the image map there are links to external space weather resources you can click. These are updated in real time as they become available. The image is dynamic with time as are the links to the resources within and they're all displayed in a single unified time plot that loads instantly and displays on everything back to the 90s.
Hence webcam vs. webcam site.
Do you want the friend to show up on news dot ycombinator dot com? What entitles this forum to that? HN isn't a court of law.
Accessibility Pledge
Doesn't "free up" actually, eventually mean "fire"? Reduce employment costs?

Like kiosks at fast-food places?

Personally I'm sticking to mail-order rx for the rest of my life, pretty sure I caught covid at the pharmacy from the pharmacist who was refusing to mask. Imagine how filthy that checkout pad is at the pharmacy with every sick person touching it. Plus the prices are much more competitive.
> TI doesn't hate small-volume sales like Broadcom.

I didn't like the way TI exited the Android world; I'm glad the beagleboard lost. However, my ideal is for both TI and Broadcom to lose.
> pretty sure Apple wants their Photo app to be one of the walled gardens…

They're doing an awful job of it then.

If you read the link above you already know that HEIC (HEVC in HEIF) isn't an Apple invention, but an ISO standard that Apple chose to adopt. With macOS Ventura, Photos will also support AVIF (AV1 in HEIF).

In addition to those HEIF-based formats, Apple Photos supports any image file/container and media formats you might expect should work, along with RAW formats from these camera: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212821 You can also export to JPEG, PNG, and TIFF.

There's a whole ecosystem of apps that can work with the Apple Photos catalog directly, an extension system for 3rd-party developers, blah blah blah.
Personally I would think so. Some people don't want to be bothered, but if they aren't bothered then they don't become statistics. It's interesting to think that no matter what TikTok advocacy movements appear, there could be a subset of individuals for whom the advocacy would never reach, and it's supposed to be that way. Hardly anyone thinks of the invisible, mainly what is passed in front of their eyes.

If letting their conditions be heard for the purpose of having them fit in only serves to exacerbate the problem, given that the problem is the perception of needing to conform to have any chance of acceptance from the outside, then I can imagine an advocacy movement for such a demographic wouldn't be able to sustain itself.

It has been shown that the perception of preferential choices like those of sexual orientation can be changed if the cultural timing is right. Behavioral advocacy stemming from immutable brain structure could be harder, if not infeasible in some cases, especially if you'd be advocating for people who wouldn't want to interact with you after putting in all that work advocating for them.
Very confidently incorrect. Doctors generally know very little about drugs and dosing - the pharmacist is the one protecting you from mixing inappropriate meds.
I’m not saying the BS about “Wrote a React app that brought in 50% more revenue”.

I’m saying “Used React to create $YetAnotherSaasCRUDApp”. I want to know you did something with it besides write Yet Another TODO app following a tutorial.
> As someone who got involved in an open-source version of the Ultima Online server, this is a fun read

Ultima Online emulators were what took small interest for me and blew it up into a career. But for me, it was pre-RunUO: SphereServer (aka GrayServer, I think) and UOX3. C++, with its own scripting engine built in. It wasn't exactly closed or open source. It also got me into Linux: while some emulation servers were run on home PCs, others were run on hosted machines. Debugging often meant the server administrators would give you root access to debug their running server. New Ultima Online releases meant being late for school to try and debug the client code changes to be able to quickly update the server, otherwise no one could log in.

It was incredibly buggy and never, to my knowledge, reached feature parity with the full game. The workarounds individual servers made through the rudimentary scripting language was impressive (many of these hacks were then copied into the core emulation scripts).

For trips down memory lane, these sites are still live -- and being updated? Wow.

https://www.sphereserver.com/

https://www.uox3.org/
Let’s not pretend that yellow journalism is a recent thing. It’s been around since before the automobile. The difference is that we have internet. So it’s easier to fact check, but it’s also easier for lies to spread more widely before being corrected.
One (common) prescription I get I just get a pre-packaged prescription bottle with a label slapped on. Not sure why my other equally common prescriptions aren't provided in the same form.
God damn it. I have to jump on ideas much faster :D
It is the same in the US. The problem currently is the volume retail pharmacists (not hospital pharmacists) are asked to fill - it is harder to have time for interventions.

I think most pharmacists would welcome the chance to count fewer pills and apply their PharmD skills.
So I had to look up drug packaging and the second sentence on wikipedia says:

Pharmaceutical packaging is highly regulated but with some variation in the details, depending on the country of origin or the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_packaging
It's super easy to do this. You can hook ffmpeg to capture webcam and send that into nginx. Then, nginx will natively run HLS to stream the video over the web.

I do something similar and run nginx in a docker container, so all I need to do is 1) run a docker container and 2) run ffmpeg elsewhere to send an input stream to the docker container. There are tutorials all over the web for doing this. Try searching for "ffmpeg nginx rtmp hls docker" without quotes.
Maybe try again without resorting to the Munich or WW II analogies.
Ironically beatles famously used an analog tape-based predecessor to synthesizers in "Strawberry Fields".
How can a person possibly be better at knowing the graph of drug interactions better than a program can?

Like, isn't the human just going to have human error (like the doctor)?
You would be astounded if you looked more deeply in to this. I have tried in vain to get my landlord to stop paying a lawncare company to regularly (every month or two) dousing the patchy, dry, awful grass patches some call a lawn with fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides.

There is a huge business around doing this as well, you may not see it if you don't walk suburbs during working hours when much of this is done.
> The real loser here is the publisher, wasting money on server bandwidth.

The marginal cost of delivering a web page is near 0. In fact, many major publishers frequently buy "traffic" (read: bot clicks) that is designed to bypass the major bot detection firms like Doubleverify, IAS, etc. It makes them a lot of money and bots don't care about the quality of the articles. There's another related category of fraud called "cashout sites" or "ghost sites" where they make a website (usually celebrity news), get approved to put ads on it, then get a bunch of botted ad clicks on it.

> As an example, if the max CPA for furniture suppliers is $500, if we eliminate ad fraud, furniture suppliers won't get a cheaper CPA, they'll competitively bid up the CPM / CPC until the point of a $500 CPA once again.

In every fraud the fraudster siphons dollars at someone else's expense. Those millions of dollars the government seized in the Methbot case necessarily have to have come from somewhere. An ad fraudster makes advertisers pay for views/clicks that never actually reached real people. Paying $1/click in a system with 0 fraud has a higher ROI for advertisers than paying $1/click in a system where 10% of clicks are fake.
Interesting. I also fly out/into Boston typically and have never had an issue with Lyft in either direction, and at all kinds of odd flight times, and also arranging rides for visiting friends, relatives, etc.. (I always use Lyft and have never signed up for Uber due to it's fractally exploitative business practices; if I can avoid such a company, I do).

So, it seems, as usual, YMMV.
In bash or bash-like shells you always use the double square bracket tests! They support everything the regular test syntax does, but have some extra features that make them "safer" to use.

Some code style guides for Linux distros or work places like Google actually enforce this!
Nicely done.

I made one[0] for myself that splits by day, and otherwise orders by score within day, but grouped into categories and keywords (or site). Clicking the title shows yesterday's or older stories. It started out being a single page view that I could load while commuting in the subway that had intermittent Internet on my phone, and load several story links at each stop. I've since stopped commuting of course but still use it so I'm not playing dopamine slot machine.

I still want to improve it to be able to categorize story groups lower (or suppress them) and surface niche stories that may not have made the front page but of non-mainstream interests that I (or others) may care about--perhaps with some sort of reader-driven tagging system.

[0] https://hackerer.news
Lol, this is hysterical, it's basically physics with Britney pictures along the way that barely relate.
That makes no sense. They could just make stuff up, it wouldn't be any more or less believable.
For me, the most beautiful representation of a loop is like this:

for((x=1;x<=5;x++))
do if [[ -v x ]]
then echo $x
fi
done
Two humans looking at something are better than one.
Spoiler, It’s a new webcam.
> Except that if you look at their financials, it’s clear that they make very little on them.

As opposed to losing money, which is what happens with consumer sales with at least one model, hence limiting to one per customer
I hear what you are trying to say but mental issues don't discriminate.
We already do this for Zithromax Z-Pak, Imitrex, Diflucan, and Medrol DosePak where the directions and prescribed quantity are always the same.

For other drugs, in practice you get short supply on a drug, and can only fill a partial, or you have patients that only want a weeks worth.

Another factor is the packaging adds extra cost, and it's cheaper to order a bulk 500 count bottle.
Nobody who bothers to check what the tool does will be swayed by this. If someone wants to make shit up, and their audience will not bother to spend 30 seconds looking at their "sources", they could just write a script that outputs whatever they wanted and then point at that script.
How can this be? Every prescription I’ve ever had was dosed by my doctor. How can you possibly prescribe a drug without knowing about drug dosing?
The host actually did follow up in person and tried to escalate. There wasn't another doctor's office to send them to, because the tests were explicitly called by a specific doctor and there would need to be authorization to transfer the tests... authorization from the doctor who wasn't responsive. Like I said, this was extremely distressing to hear about the host needing to apparently decide that this was their fault and the resultant distress the host was experiencing when after two weeks and many attempts from many angles, they were unsuccessful, and according to the advice they had no one to blame but themselves.
Why? You only get to talk to matches anyway. Most users are not getting very many matches.
Shellcheck warns you about it:

$ cat foo.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euxo pipefail
declare x="$(err)"

$ shellcheck foo.sh
In foo.sh line 3:
declare x="$(err)"
^-- SC2034 (warning): x appears unused. Verify use (or export if used externally).
^-- SC2155 (warning): Declare and assign separately to avoid masking return values.

For more information:
https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2034 -- x appears unused. Verify use (or ...
https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2155 -- Declare and assign separately to ...

And the Bash man page mentions it a couple times, particularly around Pipelines, pipefail, Lists, and Compound Commands. You can also check exit status in the PIPESTATUS array.

I almost never use set -o pipefail, and often not even set -e. Your scripts end up failing for mysterious reasons and it takes forever to figure out which part of which pipeline failed. Instead, I simply check the result of the end of the pipe (did it return any data? does it look valid?) and that is good enough 99% of the time.
Here's a post from 2020 about the data one anti bot firm collects: https://smitop.com/post/whiteops-data/

They collect even more now.
Why do you want a CEX and the government to have their hands in your transactipn? Does the recipient also have to deal with a CEX? If yes, that is another hurdle. And why do you keep referring to package theft when the cash is sent in an envelope and not in a package? Packages get stolen because they have stuff inside. Envelopes that look like random personal correspondence is much less attractive. If you have any stats about mail theft that is about envelopes, I'd like to see them, but stats about packages are something different imho.

Fwiw, I live in an apartment, and any letters are delivered to my mailbox, which has a lock. There is not much likelihood of letters getting stolen after delivery. Packages that don't fit in the mailboxes are left on top of the mailbox, and those are much more exposed to getting stolen.

Yeah I'm not speaking for other countries, not all of which have functioning payment systems. ETH (current version) does sound more efficient than BTC.
Being famous doesn’t require my personal attention, just the attention of people who actually downloaded the app of the week.

The barrier to being famous dropped as people spend less time on any one thing. A few seconds of attention is qualitatively different than reading a novel or even watching a movie.
But a program could still have a much lower error rate.
> most deadlines are bullshit

Arbitrary deadlines are bullshit but I never mentioned deadlines. At the end of the day, people get paid to do a job and businesses earn revenues by doing things. Someone needs to do those things, and if these hypothetical developers "barely doing any work at all" aren't doing it, someone has to at the end of the day or everyone is going home.
Optimism of spirit, pessimism of the intellect.

Living in a dream world not only fails to solve problems, but I have noticed, tends to perpetuate them.
I don't see it as jobs lost, but jobs moved. You still need people to build these robots (or self-service kiosks), and you need people to maintain both hardware and software. One less pharmacist at the front-line is one more developer working on the software, or maybe that pays for two technicians instead. It's no different at the fast food level ether, it's just Industry 4.0 thinking in retail.
All these stories about Lyft are cute but if you’re traveling or not in the US then you most likely use Uber.
Once again, programmers forget alphabets other than the Latin one exist. And by Latin, I mean the one containing only A through Z, with no “fancies”.

Then there’s the issue of character encodings, which the article does a decent job explaining! Nitpick though: they claims it’s a UTF-8/ASCII thing, but it’s actually a UTF-8/Windows-1252 issue.

In related news, even GNU coreutils fails to support UTF-8 properly despite a claim of support for multibyte character sets: https://catgirl.ai/log/cut-c-harmful/
Almost everything that Bash is good at, other languages have already adopted with a superior syntax. The only thing Ba/sh type syntax has going for it is the *nix ecosystems (note the parallels with powershell). That will keep it used for the rest of our lifetimes, if you're only interested in short-term thinking.

Ofc this is bigger thinking than the Powershell vs Bash debate, per se. Powershell is more useable as a language, if not by pure syntactic maturity, than by features alone. There will always be someone who will disagree with the obvious, but there's no doubt that the algol syntax is going away...however long that will take.
upvote for reminding me of the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Humans aren’t perfect, but computer programs are only as good as the programming.
I had a doctor mistakenly up my dosage tenfold when doing a routine renewal. My pharmacist didn’t notice the change and filled it.

Surely an algorithm would have flagged this as suspicious (I’d been on the same dose for years).
I agree SNL was always hit or miss. That’s the nature of comedy.

I remember when Comedy Central used to show just standup after standup. Sometimes the joke worked, sometimes not… it was always fun to see someone’s work flop that you recognize would work later after it evolved more.

Most of the great SNL skits I remember were surrounded by really bad stuff, by the same cast. Really you watched hoping to see one or two good ones a night.
Edge cases? That's why they are called disasters. That's why there's disaster planning. Ever read https://www.ready.gov/ ?
There is quite a different vocabulary between academic/numerical/scientific computing and "commercial" software engineering. Perhaps my previous comment should have been more explicit that I was talking about software engineering, but given the context I think it should have been clear.
I never said that the OP implied it was reasonable. My point is that there's a level of activity at which you likely can't eat enough to get fat.
I really want to use xonsh as my daily but everytime I try to do a git rebase it doesn't handle the inputs properly for my editor.
Something of almost no significance to freedom of speech.

Universities are advising their staff not to council in favour of abortion or offer condoms for the purposes of birth control (but OK for purposes of diseas prevenion). Violating these rules can result in felony convictions.

This is what an attack on freedom of speech looks like. And the consequences are of far more significance in this case.

Being fired for bringing the university in to disrepute barely even registers.

So if you want to know whether someone's position on free speech is hysterical posturing, or whether it's genuine, you can compare their reaction on these two paired issues.
I've driven and flown across the United States multiple times. There are far more people in my camp than yours, about 75% of the nation.
A very important point which I have not seen anyone make is that RISC is not only about having simple instructions and implementation BUT ALSO doing that in a way that does not harm performance.

The early simple computers also had very poor performance, not just in an absolute sense (of course they had primitive circuitry) but RELATIVE to the technology they used e.g. the delay needed to clock two values into two sets of latches (flip-flops), feed the output into a full-adder, then clock the result into another (or the same) set of flip-flops. How fast can that clock cycle be in the technology? Now take some fixed task and measure how many of those clock cycles it takes to complete it. The much-maligned Dhrystone will do.

How many instructions are needed to complete the task? How many full-adder clock cycles in total do those instructions take?

Modern RISC does a good job of minimising those clock cycles while using a small amount of hardware.

The first computers used a lot more clock cycles. That applies to not only the first mainframes but also the first minicomputers and the first microprocessors. They were simple in a way that seriously hurt performance.
Maybe he will go back and get a PhD now and work on something that might enrich humanity.
This reminds me of the assassination of Lord British: [1]

"Lord British was a player character created by Richard Garriott, the producer of Ultima Online. Using this character, Richard acted as Ultima’s King and would sometimes interact with other players. Lord British had considerable protection from an entourage of bodyguards and was even explicitly coded to be invulnerable to virtually any attack. During the game’s online beta test, Lord British gave an address to fellow players at his Castle Britannia. But while British was giving his address, a player character known as Rainz cast a spell scroll that set the Lord on fire, killing him instantly.

"It turns out that shortly before this event, the server had crashed and needed to be restarted. Garriott forgot to reimplement his invulnerability flag, leaving him open to being killed. If that wasn’t shocking enough for the attendees, a fellow developer of the game known as Starr Long, with his in-game character Lord Blackthorn, summoned a horde of demons to kill the assassin. Not only did the assassin manage to escape, but the demons had killed nearly every player attending the address..."

[1] - https://www.cbr.com/ultima-online-lord-british-assassination...