skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you understand just how long the waits are in Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/patients-liv...

"Bennett was referred for surgery on her right hip in November of 2013 and said she’s been told she won’t get in until early in 2016. She said her joint has deteriorated so much she is unable to work or even function without strong narcotic painkillers."

And you don't think the Canadian Medicare system denies coverage? Or second guesses doctors? It does.
Github Actions now has up-to 64-core Linux and Windows instances.
Just about everyone is being more cautious about headcount and even if they're not net shrinking their workforce, they're looking harder at what people are working on.
did circleci borrow any money? I know they raised $315mil, and none of the smaller companies I've ever worked for have ever borrowed anything.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33901368.
These days, most of my time is spent on video encoding and distribution for fun and profit: https://www.centaurdelivery.com
"Most jarring of all, the law grants civil immunity to drivers who ram into protesting crowds and even injure or kill participants, if they claim the protests made them concerned for their own well-being in the moment."

That's a pretty low bar to get away with murder. But at least they had access to their bank accounts right up until a car smashed their bodies into the asphalt.
It's all a closed source jumble though. Even if they can't do it right now, they have the power to install an update that allows them to add that power, if they had to.
Yes but this isn't archive.org.
This thread is absolutely fantastic. It's hitting all the obscure spy thrillers. First sandbaggers now Len Deightons game set match. What next, Mr. Palfrey of Westminster? ?

That said, you're watching James Bond wrong. Watch it as a porno.
There's a quick excuse for a plot, then you see the "spy" doing all sorts of cool and exotic stuff.

Same thing with movies like top gun, ignore the story and just watch it as an excluse to fly $50M planes near the edge.
I thought federal sentences did not have parole? So a person has to serve their full term.
Considering string theory's historical origins come from solving real physics problems this strikes me as rude and aggressive.

No comment on the quantum computing, don't know anything about it.
It's up to the mods to decide whether they think it's acceptable content or not - flagging simply brings it to their attention. I don't think the HN audience needs to spend their time adding such a horribly-acting person to their consciousness. There could be any number of other, non-problematic "internet people" to focus on in an article, and I would welcome such an article being written and/or linked to in place of this one.
Had to finally make an account just to respond to a subsection of this comment.

>I wish people would stop treating suicide as a mental illness... like it’s somehow wrong and an intervention is needed.

>When someone wants to go, let them go.

There are circumstances where I would be inclined to agree, such as terminal illness. However, this generally doesn't match my understanding of mental health or suicide at all and might be exactly opposite. There is zero chance I would follow your guidance if someone came to me expressing suicidal thoughts and I really don't believe anyone should. I am not knowledgeable enough to defend that view so I hope someone with a deeper understanding of mental health can chime in.
The 50s is your benchmark for emotional intelligence among men?
This is true for wired headphones, definitely. My statement was broad, but was aimed at wireless headphones, apologies for the confusion
That’s inaccurate:

Kim Iverson quit The Hill when they refused to let her interview Fauci.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYdJLj3TLI

Again, with you making inaccurate statements and using ad hominems like “conspiracy theory”, I’m unsure what point you’re trying to make.
The dock that lets Skydio drones truly fly themselves
You can also change to pleading guilty at that point. It is very late but still has an impact on sentencing. It may also affect parole decisions.
I love it, great job, OP!

One question, are there future plans to add either a song editor (so that people can encode their own sequences instead of being stuck with the default 4 songs) or a mode where instead of guiding you through a preset song, it simply shows which notes you are playing? The latter one, especially, is something that I find sorely missing :(
No, but it's now illegal to own most materials (if it requires materials) because they're not safe :)
I don’t think Apple is seriously considering a major play in ads and if they are I think this signals pretty hard that they won’t be doing it off the back of consumer data.

It just doesn’t make sense to their business strategy. Apple is premium, ads are the antithesis of premium. Just doesn’t make business sense.
well, I'm not considering software specifically, but any and all "digital" media; including and without any special focus on software.

I suppose software is the least affected by this alleged "problem". after all, the 'free and open culture' movement spun out[1] of the free (and open) software movements.

[1] citation needed.
Granted, but we're talking about upper-middle-class versus poor. Upper-middle-class means you speak the prestige dialect, you know what "business casual" means and you already have the proper outfit, and you have access to the relevant technology at home, not to mention free time to use it.
Why can't you use it as a firewall? It's weird, and against RFCs for your ISP to only give you a /64, but that should still be routed address space is routed through your router/firewall box, and therefore trivial to firewall with the normal tools. This is also pretty much the necessary topology, because if the box needs to do NAT for IPv4, it needs to terminate the address on the firewall too. You'd need separate interfaces to do some scheme where IPv6 was layer-2 to the ISP, and IPv4 terminated at the firewall.

Most/all such boxes, especially those deployed by ISPs, have a stateful firewall with an allow-out deny-in policy in place by default. I've never seen otherwise, but I guess it's possible?

Back in the day, cable modems didn't include a 'router' and lots of users plugged their Windows XP PCs into them and got compromised. Most weren't really blaming the ISP for this; go buy a router they said. And some providers will still just give you a public IP with full access by default when you plug into their demarc equipment; indeed many users want this because that's what Internet access should be. Security is on the end user. I don't see this situation as any different, though your ISP should know better than shipping insecure-by-default, this isn't really a problem with the protocol.
> depends on the definition of non-standard I guess.

Depends on the definition of 'software' also. Strictly speaking, every npm package is someone else's code running on your machine. Often with quite wide ranging permissions.

If you need approval from IT to add a package or increment a version then your development process is going to be slow for sure.
There are the CSS properties page-break-before and page-break-after.

@media print {
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
page-break-before: always;
}
}

I use the following*, which can be inserted wherever needed;

<div style="page-break-after: always;"></div>

or mostly equivalent,

div.page-break {
page-break-after: always;
}

then

<div class=page-break></div>

Edit:
*This works in markdown to pdf exports using pandoc. Other implementations may behave differerently.*
This guy's doing really great work recently. Keep it up, Georgi!
Expect to get screwed.
Stop burning trees for energy, scientists urge ahead of Biodiversity Conference
In a frictionless ethical vacuum, I think it's pretty clear that knowingly contributing to shipping any severe defect in any product people rely on (or can be reasonably anticipated to rely on) is wrong. It's an engineer's responsibility to society to ensure that the products they work on function and do not cause harm. Software with vulnerabilities is defective and affords the opportunity for harm, in a not too dissimilar way to a faulty airbag (if you ignore the magnitude of the harm being done, obviously a malfunctioning airbag is generally more dangerous).

Your boss's knowledge factors into it in that it is relevant to your forming a professional opinion about whether those conditions are met.

Outside of frictionless ethical vacuums there can be many confounding factors, eg, if making an issue of it would put you at risk of being fired and not being able to fulfill responsibilities to your household, then I think it is okay to take that into consideration, especially if you've made your views known & thus given your boss the opportunity to course correct.

ETA: Reminds me of this conversation a week ago about coming up with a professional code of ethics for software engineers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805884
Is ChatGPT outperforming Google, or Humanity?
Since what Google grabs from the internet is basically just .."Human Input"?
I've often described the type of Engineering I do as "the art of compromise."
You're trusting somebody no matter how you do it unless you own all the hardware that supports your ecosystem.

The Free Software world has had ample opportunity to produce something as carefully assembled, as smooth, and as capable as iOS, and what we got instead was Android.

I've watched the whole FOSS world happen in my career, and there are places where I cannot IMAGINE choosing a closed source solution, given my druthers. But it's also become super clear to me that the FOSS world isn't interested in producing polished user experiences. Sure, you or I could cobble together a FOSS-only phone-and-syncing stack, I guess, but I don't care to. Most people aren't us; doing so is beyond them.

Suggesting a normal person use something OTHER than iOS at this point is questionable at best.
Tim Cook told ROI-focused investors to "get out of the stock."

Unfortunately now you've unlocked the "haven't you heard of platform fees (Google Play) or walled gardens (Nintendo eShop) before?" tangent.

There is no new information here - some people are perfectly happy with Apple's walled garden business model as it is and/or don't think Apple should be forced to change, while some think that Apple should be forced to change it so that customers can have more freedom or developers can collect more money.
Eh, it's just clumsily worded. Here's my rewrite:

> Balwani will likely appeal this ruling. Most defendants do.
>If they wanted to prevent inbound connections then all they would need to do is firewall them.

Note that this already happens to an extent. Some ISPs try to protect their users from UPNP attacks and block certain inbound ports. On the outbound side, many ISPs ban port 25. ISPs could have easily claimed security and limit inbound connections far more - but the reasons for these limits are apparently money+security and not a secret government mandate, so they didn't limit everything.
Yes, but with a MacBook the keyboard is screwed directly into the chassis, which is not threaded for them. It's literally designed never to be taken apart.

To replace the keyboards, Apple internally used to replace the whole top case. You, the business user, are likely to just be handed a whole new unit. This happened a lot for years and years, as we all remember.
Similar in Python
It does to some - I recently rediscovered my love of CD's and was surprised to find they sounded much better than I remembered - I am currently in the process of upgrading my music to CD quality and higher, and was equally surprised to find that Apple doesnt support a hi-res codec for their wireless headphones, even though they offer hi-res music. For me, it makes their $549 (!!!) AirPod Max product extremely confusing, laughable even.

So yes, I think mp3/aac to CD, the change is very noticable. CD to HD (24bit), not so much
I'm a former CircleCI employee (I left the company almost a year ago), and I generally really liked the product.

It's probably a little overpriced, and I wish they had just focused on "doing the same thing but better" rather than spending a lot of efforts on value-add gimmicks, but I do like the core product very much.
People went to jail for Enron, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Kenneth_Lay_and_Jeffr...
it shows how lame a human turned out to be
Substack is having replication lag issues
I assume the 30% platform fee is the reason why nobody uses Google Play and everyone uses other app/game stores instead.
You might be interested in Roger Penrose's ideas about "Conformal Cyclic Cosmology".

As best I understand, he's proposing that the universal will not ever fully collapse into a black hole. On the contrary, it will continue to expand and diffuse, eventually reaching a state in the far future—and here is where the details exceed my understanding—somehow physically/mathematically identical to the conditions that were present at the Big Bang. Or in other words, if you run time out to an infinity in one direction, it sort of "wraps back around" on itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
Publishable? Loads. Many blogs. Especially people with scientific training now blogging from industry.

Genuinely new, very few. Maybe Wolfram, but they're still really academic culture but in industry
Can Originality.ai Detect GPT 3, GPT 3.5 and ChatGPT Generated Text?
> exactly why they got laid off

not really. A circleci pm down a few threads mentions its not caused by any available numbers. Another observation is that currently even perfectly healthy, focused and money-making businesses with solid products (e.g. stripe) also do layoffs.

As for circle, it's ok. I switched our thing to it from internal Jenkins, it has its ups and downs, not the worst in my experience.
It's not exciting enough.
Even leaving alone the fact that we may wish for a computer architecture that could theoretically mmap(), say, the internet... things like CHERI are gonna bring fat pointers back.
If one wanted to learn Julia, where is the best place to start? I looked at https://julialang.org/learning/books/

For new programming language XXX I look for a book like the "K&R for XXX". I see some older ones from Packt, but nothing like the official Rust Book, for example. There is "Think Julia" (OReilly) but its older.
that's just a sigmoid where you haven't reached the upper asymptote yet
Those who have stock or options should not be disappointed by a 3-5x increase in the value of the company and, indeed, they have their own government to thank for the opportunity to convert the company in a way that would not have been possible otherwise: resistance from both workers and EU bureaucrats protecting the local labor market from emerging companies with 800 foreigners would have been blocking.
Contrary to popular belief, black holes do not "suck up everything". The same way the sun does not "suck up everything" in our solar system. Sure, if stuff keeps colliding with the black hole, the black hole gets bigger and bigger (the same way the sun would get bigger and bigger if enough mass would fall into it). But the black hole never turns into a giant universe-eating vacuum cleaner, the same way the sun doesn't "eat" everything that gets close to it (e.g. comets pass very close but still get away... the same would happen if the sun were a black hole, and at the same distance, since the mass is the same)

On the contrary, due to the expansion of the universe, stuff tends to move further and further away from other stuff over time, so the chances of things colliding with a black hole get smaller and smaller with the age of the universe. At some point all black holes evaporate (at least according to current theories) because so little stuff falls into them that the tiny amount of hawking radiation that they radiate is enough to evaporate them over trillions of years.....

Also, the question whether "a universe before the big bang" (if such a thing exists) is "the same" as ours, or "different", doesn't really make sense. If you take all matter in the universe, heat it up so that only high-energy radiation is left, and then let it "create another universe"... . how would you define if it's "the same" or "different"? All matter has been removed and recreated. It's similar to the idea that you take a ship, any ship, and piece by piece replace every single part of the ship one by one. At the end, is it still the same ship or a different one?

To take a more traditional scientific stance, asking "what happened before the big bang" is meaningless because time didn't exist, it was created by the big bang. It's tricky to wrap your head around the concept, the same way that it's tricky to wrap your head around the concept of an "expanding universe" that seems to expand "away" from us in every direction, yet we are not in the center of it. Or that the universe might be infinitely large or even wrap around, yet we will never know because we can only ever "look" 14 billion light years far into the universe. It could be that after travelling for 20 billion light years we wouldn't reach the end of the universe (because it has no end) but instead land back on earth.

Some questions can never be answered because of physics. They will forever be unknown because answering them either makes no sense, or none of the answers you could give could ever be verified/falsified. So: does asking these questions even make sense?
Like how work friends aren't real friends: They stop seeing you after you get a new job.
Agree with all of these points. Multiple Dispatch takes a bit of getting used to, but once you get it it just makes a lot of sense and allows for an amazing amount of code-reuse. And, yes, Julia's REPL is sooo much nicer to use than Python's - I always kind of cringe when I've gotta go back and use the Python REPL as it's so primitive by comparison. You can even tab-complete filenames in the current directory in the Julia REPL. Say you want to open a file called "example.log":

julia> open("exam<TAB>

will give you:

julia> open("example.log"
Hilarious. In a factory handling batteries they can't put out a cardboard fire
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T-Mobile has been IPv6-only for a while.

I guess you can't use NAT64 at Hetzner because Hetzner doesn't provide it.
Exactly... Now you could argue there is an even more complex civilization running simulations of the simulation-running civilization. But you are creating this ever increasing complexity you cannot get away from. In that aspect it's a bit similar to the Gods hypothesis
the backup is the "public" stuff only

this wouldn't backup the apps, and app private data

for example, if your phone was running myapp 1.0 and 1.1 was out, restoring might cause your phone to download myapp 1.1

Also, I think if you had 20 kindle books in the kindle app on your phone and backed it up, after restoring you would have no books. You would have to redownload them all.

(strangely, I wonder if you have icloud backups, do these kinds of thing count against your storage space?)
I touched Java in school and rarely since. Is it the kind of language where you can be production-level productive with just a text editor and CLI, or do you need an IDE to manage everything?

The last time I poked at it, there were just so many config and generated files and so much complexity that it felt like I must use an IDE that hides a layer of “magic”.

Or am I just confessing ignorance and this isn’t a thing and it’s no more complex and magical than Rust or JavaScript or Python?

Edit: thank you all for the helpful responses.
I thought CircleCI offered iOS builds which neither Github or Bitbucket did in the past (maybe they do now?)
It's quite possible that the judge actually had less (for procedural or other evidentiary reasons).
I don't know if that's actually the case, given that SE is noticeably larger than Mini.

The only people I know who pick SE are those who either still want the physical home button or just want the cheapest new iPhone. In all other metrics, including smaller physical size, Mini wins hands down.

So I find your claim about people who loudly demanded a smaller iPhone cannibalizing Mini sales by picking a larger SE instead a bit difficult to believe.
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> If we are going to allow programmable money, we must allow competitors

The 'must' in the second part is more of something that you'd like governments to do, but not something that they in any way 'have' to do. I see vanishingly small chance of any government ever doing so because it would defeat the entire purpose of the central in CBDC.
You thought right. Parent comment is wrong. Many random “bet she won’t serve half of that” comments were corrected in the original discussion.
VC $ works out the same. 18-24mo, with an even higher burn than a bank would accept, and the assumption that you can raise a 2X+ bigger round at the end of it to pay for the previous staff + next round of hires.
Oh. No I don't suppose so. Fixed now :)
> I still don't understand why they shifted from 0:: to ffff::

I think the most reasonable explanation is probably because they thought ::1 being loopback (otherwise it would have to go above 255.255.255.255) was more important (since it would exist as long as IPv6 does) than the transition encoding that presumably would die off over time.
Movies cannot be true to a single held vision like they once were now they are designed by committee and it shows.
This is true. It's better than nothing, but the price they are asking for ($549) for a top tier headset that CANT do hi-res audio is offensive if you know what you are looking for.
> that makes the status quo oh so nervous

Nervous? The Theranos approach could not possibly work, and serious researchers were well aware of that. There's even a completely hilarious video online where some folks point this out with the most astonishing diplomacy and politeness but nonetheless in the clearest of terms, while Holmes is forced into some sort of clumsy damage control.
The same thing applies to people yelling bullshit. Its a lot easier to just falsely yell bullshit than it is to explain why something is not actually bullshit.

Generally i go with the imputus is on the person making the claim. I want the original person to back up their claim before i will care, but i also want anyone counterclaiming BS to also back up their claim before i care.
It can pass easy leetcodes. Here's a transcript of it solving an easy leetcode problem, and I also asked it for additional test cases.

https://pastebin.com/BpdcuWEM

There was another problem I tried where it gave an almost correct answer. Fixing the answer from then was probably faster than if I had to do from scratch.
What? Sounds like user error to me.
It highly depends. Are you writing something with customer data? If I am writing some internal tool that is devoid of customer data just internal configuration I would have no problem with that.
#1 is 99% of the problem, and #2-#7 is 1%.
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