skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i.e. a patient really has some underlying illness that can be treated, but a doctor will not see it because of their bias and rather prescribe a lifestyle change to the patient.

Or you have those who won't even see a doctor about potentially serious medical conditions because they assume the doctor will put it down to excess weight and not bother diagnosing them properly.
It's easy to be skeptical that's such a big issue if you don't struggle with your weight, but from what I've heard 2nd hand it likely at least partly explains why hospitalisation for particular conditions is more likely among overweight people.
I hope you realize that while you're trying to argue that all of this is a good thing, it's actually making them sound worse-than-FTX levels of sketchy.
yes, my bad, I was thinking of the 911 Carrera GTS and forgot about the Carrera GT, lol
Different strokes, but totally on the same page.

A behaviour I've observed in myself is I gravitate towards big windows and like to work in an environment where I feel I have lots of space, but I am very happy working in complete darkness (but also value sunlight)
I think you can generalize even further and say that this story applies to most companies flooded with investor capital. Take Uber for example. The VC subsidies convinced a significant portion of people to upend their lifestyles and attempt to make money in an ecosystem where prices were artificially juiced by VC money.

It's ironic that free market types are completely for subsidies when the private industry does it, although public and private subsidies both have issues.

At least government subsidies have a benevolent intent usually. VC subsidies are usually about hiding the true market value of a product to attract customers who otherwise wouldn't have shown interest until it's time to crank the money milker.
That would break pretty much every call to malloc, since C allows implicit cast from void* and C++ does not.
Chief Risk Officer?: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chief-risk-officer-cro....
Yes, they have been working on this for years and making progress, what's your point?
Just any kind of “cheating”/intentional tech debt/low quality to meet an arbitrary deadline.
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not the parent, but they probably meant "compared to typical vc-funded startup expected margins". most faangs don't need to ship tons of steel to anybody and their margins are around 25%.

can you disrupt used cars given all the logistics of the physical world? maybe, I don't know, but people here report both carmax and carvana having severe business issues, why?
Watch Designers Want to Make You Smile
For (at least within scanlation scene) english usage:
Manga is comic originated from Japan
Manhwa is comic originated from Korea
Manhua is comic originated from China
Perhaps it's a heat thing, plus the flip chips are in a separate space from the lasers.
True, but even if Ukraine had retained the Admiral Kuznetsov they wouldn't have been able to afford to operate it. They don't have the infrastructure or escort vessels that would have been needed. So, if they had kept the ship it would be rusting at the dock or broken up for scrap (which would be better for everyone).
This topic does seem to rile up techbros a lot lol. Maybe tied with “mechanical keyboards make me more efficient” said by people who barely type 200 words a day.
We've gotten many complaints about you spamming the site with GPT generated responses or the equivalent. That's not what HN is for, so I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I left twitter back in March or April, because I realized I was giving whoever owns Twitter my valuable Intellectual Property.

Can someone still on Twitter tell us what crime(s) does Musk think that Fauci perpetrated?
There really should be a law against this. It's jarring to the economy to confuse people with artificial prices when your sole goal is to snap a customer base into some long term reliability on a platform or product that isn't necessarily any different after the subsidy runs dry and it needs to become self-sustainable.
The CIO, or such, that tries to show he/she is the smartest person in the room. It's especially common in the tech interviews. Or the want-to-be tech person whose conversation is a salad of tech acronyms but has very little understanding of what all of them are about. It's about trying to impress the common person since most people are too afraid to ask what they mean and risk look dumb.
the point is that "first time" happened several times before already according to references.
It would be interesting to know, because driving a car without insurance in the US is illegal, and I don't see how a non-resident can possibly acquire insurance from a US insurance company.

So if your suggestion for buying a car relies on illegal acts, that's a stupid suggestion and a stupid idea.
What’s surprising is Tether seems to keep getting away with enquiries against them. Does anyone really believe that they have enough cash to cover all the Tether coins out there?
I searched and couldnt find anything about a Dutch wealth tax, just answers saying they dont have one.

Do you have a source?

I wasn't aware of any western countries which have wealth taxes, but I was surprised to find that Norway, Spain, and Switzerland do have some.

https://taxfoundation.org/net-wealth-tax-europe-2022/#:~:tex....
Fashion is LITERALLY what you just defined.
It does look really cool, but there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. More surface area means more drag. More complex shape means higher price for the prop and poor reparability.

That doesn't mean it's bad, or that it won't work. It very well may have use cases that are not served by simpler propellers, and where the price is not a obstacle. For instance, I wonder about very large ships where a little bit of efficiency may pay off the purchase price.
Spoiler: Its a fraud
Coinbase is losing money the old fashioned way, just spending hundreds of millions more than they're taking in.
I Just Got Rick Rolled by Chat GPT
My Prompt:
Can you write some python code that gets the view count, the title, and the thumbnail from a youtube video link?

The response:

Sure, here is some example code that gets the view count, title, and thumbnail from a youtube video link using the youtube-dl library:

import youtube_dl

# Set the youtube video URL
url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

# Use youtube-dl to get video information
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL() as ydl:
video_info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)

# Print the video view count, title, and thumbnail
print(video_info['view_count'])
print(video_info['title'])
print(video_info['thumbnail'])

Note that you need to have the youtube-dl library installed to run this code. You can install it using pip install youtube-dl.
I've banned the account. HN is for curious conversation, not generated responses.
You may want to double check chatgpt’s math on that one…
I am someone who believes in maximal decentralization, I am fine with FTX imploding let alone Binance. I am just stating an observation of the Binance situation.
No, I meant etymologically. l'eau is apparently a real hypothesis for the loo. I shouldn't expect anyone to figure out word origin on the spot in a restaurant situation, especially if it's less likely than other hypotheses. But I encourage you to integrate etymology as a method in language learning and as its own effort.
This article's comment section wins the award for most really smart people saying really dumb things because they hold strong opinions on subject matter far outside their area of expertise.
It should be more achievable than it has ever been before with container tech being in a great place, qemu being a thing and the webassembly ecosystem getting better every day.
Maybe my future house should be wired for fiber...
I'll choose to control the computer.
They built in the concept of a sensitive prompt into InstructGPT, so the answer "play back the millions of prompts they've probably collected by now and have InstructGPT rate them, and feed that back into ChatGPT" sounds fairly likely
> Is this article sensationalist?

Yes. The idea that a couple of degrees rise in temperature makes most of the Earth uninhabitable is nonsense. Two simple observations will help to put all of this in a better perspective:

(1) The range of human habitation on Earth is limited by cold, not heat: the hottest areas of Earth are inhabited; the coldest are not. (Also, in the range that is inhabited, humans find it more difficult to adapt to cold than to heat--extreme cold causes more deaths.)

(2) The temperature rise is not uniform over Earth; in the hottest regions (the tropics), the temperature rise is much less than the average, while in the coldest regions (the poles), it is significantly more than average.

Putting these two observations together makes it clear that the overall effect of a couple of degrees rise in average temperature will most likely be to increase the portion of Earth that is habitable for humans, not decrease it. Adding in the fact that humans can and will adapt to these changes, just as we have been adapting to change throughout human history, makes it even less likely that the net impact will be negative--if only the alarmists will stop trying to get huge amounts of resources squandered on "mitigation" efforts that will cost far more than any putative benefits they might provide.
They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated responses. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don't want canned responses from humans either!

Edit: It's a bit hard to point to past explanations since the word "bots" appears in many contexts, but I did find these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33911426 (Dec 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32571890 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27558392 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693590 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22744611 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22427782 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21774797 (Dec 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325914 (March 2019)

We've already banned a few accounts that appear to be spamming the threads with generated comments, and I'm happy to keep doing that, even though there's a margin of error.

The best solution, though, is to raise the community bar for what counts as a good comment. Whatever ChatGPT (or similar) can generate, humans need to do better. If we reach the point where the humans simply can't do better, well, then it won't matter*. But that's a ways off.

Therefore, let's all stop writing lazy and over-conventional comments, and make our posts so thoughtful that the question "is this ChatGPT?" never comes up.

* Edit: urgh, I didn't mean that! I just mean it will be a different problem at that point.
> Just as it is much better to let many innocent people go free rather than imprison one guilty one

Why is that a "rather"? I'm guessing you mixed up "innocent" and "guilty" there, but if so, I'm not sure I could confidently agree with a claim that general (certainly not if the "many guilty" were serial ķillers that went on to commit many more homicides, vs the "one innocent" being given a community service sentence for a minor misdemeanor they didn't actually commit).
1) Sprint boards are not locked and things are added close to end.

2) Sprints are made overly ambitious because if not everything is done it makes it seem that someone slacked off when the achieving all targets was impossible in the in the first place.
Woohoo magic mystery money! How did that work out for FTX with FTT?
It's one thing to work late because someone needs to be at the helm of a business (ie run the register, answer the phones, put out fires and revert builds), it's another to just work people extra hours because the owners failed to execute a plan that will meet whatever product release date they promised to their board or the public or whatever.
20mg Lutein per day.
That sounds like a massive red flagged fraud.
I’m planning how to trial a smaller version on our EFoils in the spring. For battery power, that bump is huge.
Oof. That's 1/10 J. Quite a wallop for a single particle.
Honestly that would be amazing. If you’re comment is so vanilla chatgpt can come up with it, then don’t comment. A new bar, beat the ai retrieved canned opinions
Out of interest, to what address was the letter from the accountants addressed to? A PO box?
What if there were no terms, it's just "if you can, you may." Of course subject to laws (like fraud or vandalism) and the company's moderation efforts, of course.
I'm pretty impressed about this camera and the company.

Pixii do understand the good product design with a premium feel/lifestyle and photographers' needs. In most of the cases, they have made the right choices.

This camera may not be the ideal one for the wedding, sports, but street, travel kind of photography. This is more leaning towards the market addressed by Leica M series and some Fuji Cameras rather the market being addressed by Sony and Cannon.

As some of you may know, Leica M 11 costs around 10K USD and it doesn't have many modern still and video features that come with current mirrorless camera that costs 1/3 of its price.

Pixii being an interchangeable lens camera with Leica M mount is great thing. That means most of the great M lenses available on the market (including 2nd hand) are compatible with this. And the photographer can choose the lens with preferred focal length, quality and size of his/her own preference.

Why would anyone start a new camera company when smartphones have multiple cameras, they are good in quality(?) while they are ubiquitous?
It is true that smartphone cameras have been improved a lot. But photography requires control over the variables in exposure triangle, corner to corner sharpness by larger image sensors, good optics (lenses), accurate colors etc. When Tim Cook says recent iPhone Pros can shoot films, it is only half true.

I'm a software developer who does photography as a hobby. I own Sony A7 IV. I do street photography most of the time. A pixii with a smaller 23mm lens in my pocket would be handier when I'm on the street rather holding a heavy, bigger gear and having to carry a dedicated bag.
C++ zooms past Java in programming popularity contest
I'd a Psion 5 Mx and loved it. It had one of the best small keyboards. It's folding mechanics was superbly engineered.
And by that thinking, if we could only manage historical averages during pronounced low interest rates, what does it say about the prospect of returns for the next few years?
From the second link:

> We still maintain the first one, the TCL tests. They’re still maintained. They’re still out there in the public. They’re part of the source tree. Anybody can download the source code and run my test and run all those. They don’t provide 100% test coverage but they do test all the features very thoroughly. The 100% MCD tests, that’s called TH3. That’s proprietary. I had the idea that we would sell those tests to avionics manufacturers and make money that way. We’ve sold exactly zero copies of that so that didn’t really work out. It did work out really well for us in that it keeps our product really solid and it enables us to turn around new features and new bug fixes very fast.
Ban this silly "submarine" marketing campaign? Yes, please
it seemed pretty reasonable.

but yeah maybe short a year, or short 25% or so.

... this says 116% interest would be required, not 99%.

https://www.calculatestuff.com/financial/compound-interest-c...
Typical vc-funded startups have negative margins.
>extreme cold causes more deaths [than extreme heat]

How would you convince a skeptic that that is actually true?
Copper's loss tangent is high. There's no getting around that. PAM4-based 50GBASE-CR DACs have similar length.

Twinax has more bandwidth than STP. We're at the physical medium's limits. Sure, you can pump the voltage but that quickly hits diminishing returns. Best to use copper for sub 1 meter and fiber otherwise.
That seems very doubtful. I know very few average users who think Windows is getting better, anyway.

But even if it's true, that doesn't make any difference to me. I'm still forced to use it myself.
Something I've heard in this vein was the 20/20/20 rule. Look 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes.
Carvana offered me 36k for a Subaru I had paid 40K for 3 years earlier… that was about 6k more than carmax offered.
I think it means you like teasing people.
Hello friends - you'll be very happy to know that Exurb1a recently had a great video addressing some of these points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv79l1b-eoI
See also the Financial Times, which originally reported the story: https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589...
14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs

This prediction is now true.
India's Tata Group to open 100 exclusive Apple stores
The leap second is being abandoned:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03783-5
People bossing equally qualified and ranked employees around. Weak managers who don't make an effort to address problems and just complain. People who do what they want and then heap criticism on others. Short term decision making. Inability to commit to long term plans. Lazy workers who spend hours on the phone or take the longest breaks and also do very little but talk the loudest. Mercurial people who just like to argue but can never be pinned down on everything. People who just book meetings with no agenda in emails and expect you to commit to things without any prep. People who don't read meeting agendas and relevant documentation before coming to meetings, meaning that they need to be spoonfed. People who passive-aggressively stay silent at decision times and never engage and who then make fuss down the line when it's too late. People whose lives are very clearly not working who give you mediocre surface level advice about what they want to see from you when they're not qualified to offer any kind of therapy or counselling and rather than thinking more deeply about the mechanics of people. Managers who are visiting a therapist/counsellor and regurgitate the advice they heard from their last session to you. Managers who talk about their previous awesome gigs and fantasize about recreating them rather than focusing on the problem at hand. Managers who act like they're not supposed to make 50% of the effort in connecting with employees. People focused on empire building instead of doing the job well.

I can go on.
Gp said give it a few weeks before declaring there’s no one shadier than FTX/Alameda
I think that comment is in reference to “Binance is even more shady than FTX” rather than advice on how to manage your funds.
They’re actually 13W or so? I use a 7-way splitter on 4 bulb slots made for higher watt incandescent bulbs. That helps a lot, then use a corn bulb I bought that uses 100W and puts out 10,000 lumens. It still only gets the room to 7,000 lux, which is less than a bright day. My Lux meter clocked 50,000 lux streaming through the window in October!
https://www.lomborg.com/the-heresy-of-heat-and-cold-deaths

Or, if you are wondering if Lomborg is a partisan source, look at the study in The Lancet that he references:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
That's just the size, to see it with the naked eye it'd need to be bright enough and in the right wavelength range but it is neither bright enough nor in a wavelength visible to the naked eye.
I've used it for work reasons as well, I am not saying it sucks, it's just the troubles I had with updates. They seemed to do nothing in my case. I have always been on Linux desktop since 2015 and now on a Mac. I am not a fan of OSX, I just use mac for the awesome hardware it has.
> why do you allow managers to say how to develop software when you are hired to be an expert on that matter?

Because at most companies, you have a simple choice: follow the prescribed procedures, or work somewhere else. I have absolutely quit jobs that were too egregious, but that doesn't change the situation at that company.
That's one expensive steak.
No? But then again, I've always done my pre-Internet computer parts shopping at obscure specialist shops that are tucked away in semi-derelict shopping malls and are run by misanthropic neckbeards.
As someone who writes C code and couldn't give a rat's ass about C++, I have to ask: why?
> A car is worth 20% less the day you drive it off of the lot and keeps losing value.

But so does a kitchen rennovation.

> Having freezer space can save you thousands of dollars in food.

It can, if you use it that way. How many of the people buying these expensive kitches do?
Most of the people getting promoted/going into management arent the smartest or best fit, its just someone willing to gun for it/jump through hoops. So you get those types potentially bossing around someone more competent, odd dynamic
Ancient diagnostic programs used to probe queue buffer depth in order to differentiate between 8088 (4 bytes) and 8086 (6 bytes).
This has absolutely been my struggle since upgrading my lighting. It’s also so difficult to find data about how bright a monitor actually is! I bought some 1440p “gaming monitors” that I think are around 450 nits, and these are just barely bright enough for my newly lit up office.
It’s nothing compared to the brightness of outside (even on a cloudy day) unless you stare directly into the soul of the corncob.
> Or the the want-to-be tech person whose conversation is a salad of tech acronyms but has very little understanding of what all of them are about.

This must be the person who writes job descriptions.
A vid in which Vim saves me hours and hundreds of clicks (2018) [video]
You can regenerate hydrogen in flight by (1) condensing water from the air and (2) electrolyzing it. It's so much cheaper and more replenishable than helium that it allows much more flexibility and, ultimately, flight safety, because it can be vented in an overpressure emergency without any hesitation.