skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you be able to post any links to news reports of this?

Hospital software can be shockingly bad. The comments of this article on Ars the other day digressed onto the topic, with several interesting user perspectives https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/new-t...

Edit: can only find ones which are paywalled

https://www.adressa.no/nyheter/i/0QQv6g/arrangerer-fakkeltog...

https://www.nidaros.no/demonstrerer-mot-helseplattformen-sto...
Wait that they replace national courts (that are mostly hostile to swpats) with the Unified Patent Court with handpicked judges.

Some of those german judges already said they can bypass the exclusion of "computer programs" "as such", like the EPO has been doing since the mid 80s.
Wind conditions are more important question this winter than temperature. Good conditions will mean low power prices, meaning that industries, schools, apartment buildings and homes can afford to pay their bills without government bailing people out.

A worse case scenario would had been windless cold winter with gas supplies empty, and a government that have to bailout both the industry, the government institutions, and private people. 3 nuclear power plants provides a bit of backup for that situation.
Can someone help me understand what it means to develop the sixth sense for north? Does it mean:

a) The user must be wearing the anklet at all times to initially calibrate but their body is able to determine how much rotation / transposition they have undergone in order to point north.
b) After training, one could tell which way is north without ever having to put on the anklet again
They might make you remove your belt but they won't open the belt up or anything like that. Plus you probably won't be mugged at the airport itself or make yourself much of a target beyond everyone else putting a $2000 laptop on the conveyer belt.
> Germany was facing a cold winter

Yaaawn.. this doomsday propaganda is really getting old, and lets meet in 6 month again and lets see how much impact and necessity those 3 plants had at all on heating here..

Wait, your are likely not from Germany nor even Europe and state "Germany was facing a cold winter" like fact based on what please?
Also, HELOCs have very high interest rates due to the illiquidity of the underlying asset. If you have a large private company that has some interest from private equity investors, you can get a much lower rate. ELOCs on huge blocks of the S&P 500 (essentially large margin loans) can have rates that are almost at the fed funds rate.
Single-threaded gzip can outperform pigz, or at least come very close, when used with GNU xargs on separate files with no dependencies.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/parallel-shells-xargs-u...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26178257
He's not wrong in this case, though.
Finally! Everybody was telling them to do so, it was very hard to understand why they would do the opposite. Personally I'm very happy reason hasn't lost its way.
> - Kanye just had his bank account closed by JP Morgan (for what appears to be his beliefs)

The article quotes Kanye on this one:

> "I went to JP Morgan but of course they won't give me no deal flow cause Jin Ulrich is on the board of both adidas and JP Morgan."

This sounds like an accusation of conflict of interest. How is this related to his beliefs?
...by 3 orders of magnitude
Gas has lower CO2 emissions and the advantage over coal that it can better supply peak loads. At that point in time Russia was also seen as a reliable cheap supplier of it, as the UdSSR has been since the 70s before.

It's unlikely that coal could have been replaced with new nuclear. It would have probably been an EPR from back then Framatome and Siemens. Construction of the EPR in Olkiluoto started in 2005 and just finished recently.

Keeping old nuclear reactors running and shutting down coal plants instead would have been possible though, but didn't have backing in the population.
A friend of mine in college installed this on my laptop when I had my back turned. For a month or so, I wondered why anyone thought this feature was a good idea, and why no one I knew who used MacOS seemed to complain about it.
Not sure about a physical protest but wasn't there a LOT of online commentary etc about algorithms that were showing bias when used to making hiring or recruitment decisions?
microsofts holo lens didn't do so well either. Nobodies got the money for a $1500 headset.

so unless your going give them away free I don't see it catching on in mass.
> I get my dollar back or not.

This is the core issue.

Note that you can't go to Tether and demand your $1 back as an individual. You would have to use an exchange and hope that you can trade 1 Tether for 1 dollar on an exchange where you can cash out.

Note that the company that owns Tether also owns and exchange, which further opens the door for a lot of fraud and shenanigans as they co-mingle exchange deposits with their Tether reserves. It's possible for exchanges to run for a long time without actually having 100% of funds in reserve as long as the customers don't all withdraw their funds at the same time.

In other words: A hypothetical fraudulent stable coin could "work" for a long time, until it suddenly doesn't work at all and the value plummets.
It's this Gatsby theme - it's a great piece of work! https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-garden/
What is AutoIt? A fork of AutoHotKey?
Neovim + Telescope + ripgrep. It's taken 30 years, but we finally have the perfect code navigation solution.
Belt is better still by the same arc of reason.
You're arguing with people who only see the downside of nuclear power, but refuse to see any downside to other sources of energy. Here we see this for the carbon footprint, but it's also the case many other impacts:

Strip-mining for coal, devastating huge areas? This is fine.

Radioactive emissions from burning coal? Don't care.

Deaths caused by coal pollution and coal mining, compared to deaths caused by nuclear power? 'tis but a scratch.

Permanent problems with groundwater caused by decades of coal mining? Lalala I can't hear you.
Medium CEO here. I saw this thread too late for many people to see my response. I love that the result is basically unanimous. I agree with nearly everything here.

I am a programmer, I've written a programming book, I used to work at a tech publisher (O'Reilly). From O'Reilly, I know a lot about how to build a system around programmers that puts out important and accurate information. Medium started in the ballpark of that and then went in the wrong direction.

I think we can do a lot to change that. For me, change is less about changing our reputation and instead just getting the utility right.

We have syntax highlighting coming out in a week or so and I'll do a bigger post then about what is changing for technical readers and authors.
AA sounds like a horrible company. They had a design legacy from when their logo and identity were designed by Massimo Vignelli, but they threw it away and didn't seem to have any concept of its value. Their website has terrible design and usability. When a blogger posted an article about how bad it was, one of the designers at AA reached out anonymously and said they understood his criticisms and that they were working to make the site better. AA searched their mail servers to find that employee and fired them for... caring, I guess?
Yes that is correct but that is of course correct for any higher education school be it Ivy League or not. Even public school education is restricted to some by economic situation and the quality is highly variable across locations.

By that logic community college is also a privilege granted upon those with enough money for tuition and enough time to attend

This is of course taking one facet of Capitalism, calling it by a scare word (privilege) and forgetting about at all the other identical parts
> Linux devs: "I've got it, let's make another minimalistic GUI that doesn't have enough functionality for daily use."

As a person daily-driving it, I promise it does in fact have enough functionality for daily use. And are you sure those are the same people? My impression is that there are two groups; minimalist hackers who want an ultra-light system and build that, and people who want a system that's easy to use for the masses and build that (KDE, GNOME, XFCE). And because it's FOSS and mostly unpaid, people work individually on the things that they directly value, hence the wide range of options.
“[…] not so because they were sold on Bismar[c]k's theater.” Actually they were sold, and it wasnʼt just theater (‘this man means what he says’), but of course it was indeed the cold calculus of self-interest – that was one of the things Bismarck took into account in his complex calculus. And maybe we can even call it “theater”: in the sense a tightrope walk is, with which Bismarck compared the art of politics.

To be clear: I agree with your main point regarding the present war; I just think that specifically the “Einigungskriege” are not a good analogy, that they are quite unlike Putinʼs war, even before the question of defeat or victory comes into play.

You have shifted the focus to WW1, and I think your analysis of the power relations before WW1 is completely convincing (given the usual allowances due to brevity). (Nitpick: 1872 → 1871)
I grew up in a middle-class family, and as a kid I was generally expected to be aware of when we had a pool day, or a skating rink day coming up, and to be responsible for bringing the right clothing/sundries on every day in school. Using the analog technology of 'remember it', assisted by 'write it down in your day planner'[1].

[1] Which I would never do. My memory, as an eight-year old was, of course, infallible.
The unions that won us the 40 hour workweek and weekends, among many other significant worker protections, lost political power in the 90s when the democrats transitioned to neoliberalism.
In addition it discriminates against anyone who finds themselves even temporarily without power for their payment device whether they are a customer or a seller.

But as the technology gets better and more reliable this gets rarer and rarer so that in the end it discriminates against those who already lack a different kind of power: social and political power. That is, the poor, the elderly, the sick, the disabled, the poorly educated, the illiterate and innumerate, those whose grasp of the local language is poor. I'm sure the list could be expanded.
This might be the sad reality of many once-authenthic-grassroot-movements.
Madoff took decades; there's evidence he was cooking books as far back as the early 1970s.
Yes. But they produces nuclear wast and a melt down could devastate wide regions. Glad that this will all be over soon. I was a victim of the Chernobyl fallout myself, and would not like to experience this again.
https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-rappers...

ranked number 10.

But the interesting thing is that you can see how the rankings favor more recent people, with 80s and 90s artists also up there and with far longer careers, but eclipsed by the more recent people.
Genuinely curious: for what reason?
Pro DJ here... Agree with the rest of your comment except for... "Where vision shines is distinguishing where the signal comes from."

Suggest closing your eyes and having someone else snap their fingers around you, you'll know immediately where that sound came from. This is accomplished by your mind differentiating the slight time difference between when your left and right ear register the noise as well as the volume difference.

This innate ability can be developed by DJ's to take two songs playing at different speeds and speed or slow them down to match. This is called "beat matching" and before software made this more accessible (aka more automated) it was the key skill necessary for DJ'ing as it allows seamless transitions between songs.

I still find your comment insightful and interesting, I just had to nitpick that one part.

Cheers
Proof of... proof?
Millions of people are being served by three grocers? The metro area for my city is just shy of two million. We have Walmart, Kroger, Meijer, Giant Eagle, Target, Aldi, Trader Joe, Whole Foods, Marc's, IGA, Sam's Club, Costco, and Saraga (which is an international supermarket with every kind of produce from around the world) - not to mention all the specialty stores like the Mexican, Mediterranean, Indian, and Asian grocers. Almost all of these stores are within 5 miles of my house - the Costco is an outlier and the IGA is 6 miles away. I wonder how our cities came to be so different - especially when it sounds like yours is a larger city yet has fewer options?
If you really want to enable all cores for compression and decompression, give pbzip2 a try. pigz isn't as parallel as pbzip2

http://compression.ca/pbzip2/

*edit, as ac29 mentions below, just use zstdmt. In my quick testing it is approximately 8x faster than pbzip2 and gives better compression ratios. Wall clock time went from 41s to 3.5s for a 3.6GB tar of source, pdfs and images AND the resulting file was smaller.

megs
3781 test.tar
3041 test.tar.zstd (default compression 3, 3.5s)
3170 test.tar.bz2 (default compression, 8 threads, 40s)
CSS vs. XPath for web scraping – SerpApiPodcast
Why industry tend to use CSS selectors instead of XPath? What is better to select nodes in HTML: CSS selectors or XPath queries?

We discuss these questions in this episode.
I could have been more clear.
I think people do this now already. How many people do you know that host their content on open platforms?
You can often pay with something you wear (with Apple Pay). But I would never depend on it so I do carry a small wallet. And I need keys for my car (which is probably just as well).
> The hosted gitlab.com instance uses EE features so parent is correct to say that the gitlab.com site is not open source.

It’s OSS but with proprietary parts. That’s the issue with the term "open-source": their source code is indeed open [1] but it’s not 100% free (as in freedom).

Edit: mmh apparently I’m mistaken; according to another commenter this is called "open-core" and not "open-source" [2].

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33237641
Those 2 things are not the same thing. Someone who changes their gender to what they feel they should be, including a new gender name is very much different then a person changing their name to a mononym.
Both you and parent are likely incorrect. The truth is, curability depends on a number of things which we currently lack the correct insight and models to correctly analyze. It's likely case-by-case, and ad-hoc, based on the extremely complex history of the individual.

But most importantly, we don't know, so making broad, absolutist claims is a waste of time.
You would have serious concerns about that, wouldnt you? Well, though luck I guess.
> The egalitarian man cuts down all those he fears are better than he is

Yeah or rather that man sees tbat often those who are better have counter-balanced that better by a marginal worse in other dimensions :)
Cool idea, but at that price point I'd expect a smart watch or band rather than a bulky house-arrest ankle monitor.
And actually just to add to the last question of your comment. We'd also pay for doctors bills by either cash, card, or direct debit. Healthcare in Ireland isn't perfect (long waiting times—but you can go private for quicker care), but it's relatively cheap (free under a certain income, in the cases of certain long-term medical conditions, and above a certain age), and heavily subsidized.

My sister recently had a stay in hospital, and then later an emergency room visit. As far as I'm aware, it all totaled less than €200 (half of which will be refunded by insurance, and another 20% of the remainder as a tax credit), which was all paid for partially by card (to the GP who referred us to the hospital), and partially by bank transfer (to the hospital).
Sure, and people who don't want to circle jerk about it can leave. This is exactly how it always worked. I've left a lot of toxic forums.
And who is going to decide what those "fake news" are to censor and how will you assume they won't fall into the exact same trap of wanting to believe in what they already agree with.

We're hot off the heels of hunter biden, surely that should be a wakeup call regarding how "misinformation experts" go both ways.
It's interesting to see how being in the same league as kubernetes could either be considered a compliment or an insult depending on who you ask!
I have what you might describe as a "spidey sense" about whether a photo depicting a North American coastal scene is on the Atlantic, the Pacific, or something else like Lake Erie. You might have this feeling also.

I suspect it comes from an innate, unconscious comprehension of the highlights and the shadows (since the sun will typically be in the south). And I don't mean the obvious shadows but even the subtle ones.

With practice and perhaps assistance, e.g. North Paw, one could learn to harness the association between light and direction anywhere, not just near huge bodies of water of known direction.
Burning coal releases more airborne radioactive waste in a short time than a nuclear plant does over its whole lifetime.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
That's not a way to make people comfortable with radiation, it's a way to make people uncomfortable with air pollution.
The Fukushima reactors and a lot of the german ones were built by the same company. They overlooked the flood risk on the japanese coast (which has huge tsunamis every few decades). What did they overlook elsewhere? After Chernobyl, politicians promised that western reactors could not possibly explode. Fukushima proved them wrong.
If you have a right and the government isn't protecting it, do you really have a right? Sure you can get all philosophical and say things like every soul has a right to X Y and Z, but that doesn't mean anything in practice outside of the ivory tower if the government you are beholden to has a stance to the contrary.

OTOH if its only about values and not about the actual legal idea of freedom of speech, then you can argue with that logic that there is also a moral value in protecting groups of individuals from being the subject of vitriol and hate speech on a forum you own. That's the position Twitter et al. have taken in this regard.
Completely on-topic. Phone-based identification is armed with too much capability inside the black box and limited means for the user to have a clue what is being leaked to whom.
I suspect that’s true, it sort of has to be, but then it seems to contradict various anecdotes. There’s a notion of the prodigy as a different type of person, a qualitative difference in kind rather than a difference in degree (of effort, iq, focus etc).
There is no patriot act in Europe, so court of law etc is a thing.
Again, this doesn't stand up to scrutiny. To pick up radar transmissions reflected off the moon, the moon has to be in line of sight for both the emitter and detector. Puerto Rico is just about the worst positioned place in the US for something to have the moon in line of sight at the same time as the soviet union, and the particular design of Arecibo further limits the angles it can be directed at, so it can't even look towards the horizon where it might conceivably stand a chance. It's fine for a telescope as the rotation of the Earth allows it to look at different parts of the sky at different times, but there's a reason no radio receivers for terrestrial communication are built that way.

Further, Arecibo works at frequencies of 10-40 MHz, substantially lower than even the lowest frequency radars. With secondary reflections you might be able to detect that a radar pulse had been detected, but determining where it came from or even what emitted it would be extremely challenging.

I suppose perhaps Cuba could have been spied upon with it, but again it's just the worst design for the application.
I could easily see an authoritarian country like NK doing something like this as a weapon of last resort to be used like nukes but obtained much more easily .
> Extremely strict RPC settings. I’m talking zero retries (or MAYBE one) [...]

> I disagree

I too disagree with that too, pretty strongly.

The network is unreliable. Technology has become pretty good, to the point that we have become spoiled and take the reliability for granted. But it is at its very core an unreliable medium. Applications should expect that and survive accordingly.

Now, before packets go out to the network, or after they have made their way inside your network, they are in an environment that you have a degree of control. Errors and retries should be monitored. If they increase and remain elevated, they should be investigated. But guess what, if your services are resilient, you should have some time to investigate before things start breaking down - as they would if you treated everything as if it was _localhost_

Case in point: our app started breaking in horrendous ways once we deployed it in China and it tried to cross over the Great Firewall. Most issues would have been survivable if they just backed off and retried. The GFW doesn't usually like the first attempt to/from a new address, but it will usually allow the traffic after a while. We had to pay a company a not insignificant chunk of cash to get better connectivity (that would have been fine as an improvement, but not to make the system work at all).

Retries are at the core of everything we do. TCP has retries (if the author followed their own advice, they should switch to UDP!). Kubernetes has a whole bunch of retries before reaching error states: CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff. Your ethernet card has retries. But it also tracks errors.

Track errors. And have retries. For as long as it makes sense to retry for your use-case.

> well then perhaps implement better logging

Not logging. Metrics! Logs are good for troubleshooting. For signaling issues, metrics are better. Errors can be a simple counter that you increment. Have Prometheus or similar scrape that and throw alerts as necessary.
The current plan I believe is to only run them until they run out of their current fuel. No new fuel was a "hard line" drawn by the green party to agree to extending at all.
Ive been doing some IT work at a cell phone store in a very low income area. There is a large number of people coming in to buy new phones or get their old ones repaired and many of them (especially the older ones) HATE that they need to have a smartphone. I hear at least one person a day complain about how they cant just have a normal land line anymore and need to have a smartphone to participate in society.

Also they REALLY dont like hearing about how the phone they have now is obsolete and theres no way to get parts for it, or its just too far gone and they'll need to buy a new phone. I feel for all of these people as I totally agree with them.
Most artists have to deal with rejection at some point
> It provides isolation vs ground and prevents the circuit from being completed through your feet and the floor:

Ah I think I see what you're getting at. Are you saying if your feet are at the same potential as the chassis then there's an alternative DC path to ground through your body, which the iso transformer breaks?

That's a good point, needed to think about that one a bit!

EDIT: Hmm, in that circumstance you'd be safe (from grounding DC through your feet) if the chassis was live! If the chassis was connected to AC neutral then your body could offer a path for high voltage DC to complete the circuit back to the chassis, but not if it was connected to AC line (hot). Quite an interesting thought.
Back in 2005 my university built this as a belt and ran several studies on it over the following decade.[1]

It morphed into a product for the visually impaired and is still available today. [2]

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C34&q=fee...
[2] https://feelspace.de/en/