skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Saving" someone against their will is not a good thing, so even if the FDA had saved more people than it killed, it wouldn't justify its coercive powers

Is it against their will though? People want someone making sure pharmaceuticals and other medical companies aren't doing dangerous things. That's why the FDA was created. People forget that most of these agencies like the FDA and EPA weren't created out of thin air, they were addressing real problems affecting real people.

> but people have much more recourse when they are harmed by an insurance company compared to a government agency

Strongly disagree based on real life experience. If the FDA is blocking some life saving treatment do due to unnecessary red tape I can harass my congressman or senator. Oh sure if it's just me they probably won't care unless my story is particularly poignant, but get a few people writing them and they'll take notice (seriously people underestimate how important writing your representatives is). My insurance company doesn't give a shit. My sister has severe MS. Her doctor prescribed a medication meant for people like her, her insurance company said no, they wanted her on a different medication that had never been studied for MS, much less approved. She appealed, the insurance company denied the appeal. The hospital appealed twice, denied both times. A lawyer advised there wasn't much point in fighting further. There's no recourse against the insurance company beyond being sufficiently wealthy to either not need them, or challenge their lawyers.

I trend pretty libertarian when it comes to people dealing with their own bodies. Want to drink formaldehyde because you think it'll cure your cancer? You do you. But if a company wants to sell it as a cure they should have to do some bare minimum of testing to ensure it works and won't just give you more cancer. That's the FDAs job.
It's your right as a consumer to have a pro-consumption attitude, because you're spending your own money. Be thrifty. Be profligate. You choose.

But having it as a developer is a different matter. That "powerful machine's resources" aren't yours. They belong to your customer, and it isn't your business what your customer is doing with the computing power your program isn't using.

Writing programs that demand more resources than necessary forces people to discard and replace otherwise perfectly good computers. Which, again, you as the developer don't have to pay for.

If tragedies of the commons don't bug you, then none of this matters. But if they do, then imagine millions of people ordering millions of cardboard boxes from Amazon containing millions of sticks of DRAM to run that O(n^4) loop that you're about to check in.
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What about Signaling NaN?
What’s the bit arrangement for 32 bit Float Signaling NaN? And do all laptops honor it? Or just x86
And you should produce a single line of output for each request that identifies all of the pertinent information. You can have more than one, for e.g. a thread dump, but there should be one that provides a complete summary. I've lived with apps that logged at each stage of the process as separate lines, and that's just not useful data when grepping for anomalies.
I've never had this happen to me. Could you describe what happens a bit more clearly? Now I'm curious.
That would make sense, but the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow estimate for Q4 is still surprisingly high: https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow

> The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2022 is 3.2 percent on December 9, down from 3.4 percent on December 6.
I don’t know where your French data come from… but I live in the French Riviera and no one here works overtime… my company office is empty by 5h30 (and the boss is the first to leave). And all my friends in the region share the same experience.
I remember it well! Many many years of listening to a floppy drive grind looking for a disk or a bad sector.
Yeah the wine tank sounded silly at first, but I think it makes a lot of sense with the number of bottles and weight you'd save.
Sure. We can always use a hash set, but then you need to use chaining or some other collision resolution policy. The whole of this whole exercise is to avoid that and get something really fast and truly constant time :-)
Wrong article for headline
So still no sideloading, Apple still has to sign apps (a barrier for free open source apps) and could even charge royalties.
https://archive.vn/4ezzO
The maternal Z is not a common denominator of female chickens. Female chickens have a Z chromosome from the sperm and males have one each from the sperm and the egg. For a laying hen to have a female offspring, it has to pass on a W. Therefore, if you make the mother hen's ovary produce eggs with a lethal z, but a non-lethal W, normal sperm will produce viable ZW females and Zz males with a lethal mutation.
https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

I imagine it covers dentists, specialists, traveling out of country or private coverage because it's faster. I know for a fact my healthcare spending would be higher in Australia than it is in the US despite it having free healthcare. (As in, I’ve paid it.)
Because until now contained ignition has never produced anything meaningful. We've had failed experiment after failed experiment. Now we finally have an experiment with a meaningful more amount of energy out than in.

Is this the right approach? Who knows. There are many fusion designs in the works, and those may ultimately be the right call. Or some yet-to-be-created design. That's even probable. The NIF is for simulating nuclear weapons, not creating energy. None of that takes away from this breakthrough - we've never had meaningfully more output than input on a repeatable basis. It's proof that contained fusion for energy isn't just hypothetical, which will also mean funding & interest will generally increase from this point on.

I think you're setting too high a bar. It's like saying no milestone should be celebrated until we have a working metropolitan-size plant running that's cheaper than anything else. Punch cards in the 1950s are insignificant compared to modern SSDs, yet they were an important step even though we don't use anything like it now. Breakthroughs are breakthroughs.
> And yet that's exactly why the NIF was actually built.

You're both half-right.

The NIF is the replacement for nuclear tests. It's necessary to maintain the arsenal in a working fashion, as the warheads degrade over time and have to be replaced with new ones. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=655921...

The NIF is not for more powerful nuclear weapons, as that's entirely unnecessary. If anything, most interest these days is in less powerful weapons for potential battlefield use.
> I don’t understand the bi-partisan dislike of Tik Tok. As far as content goes, [...]

The quality of the content is the reason. It's excessively cringe.

If it were simply "because China" then this bill wouldn't be targeting social media specifically. But it does, and other Chinese apps aren't addressed. If it were because of foreign social media influence, this bill wouldn't be calling out TikTok solely and specifically, and would presumably also mention WeChat, etc. But it doesn't. It's about TikTok specifically, and I think the reason is a visceral disgust for the content on TikTok.
Wait...did you say "fax"? In 2022?
So that means that for life to form, we probably need a star to die so that the heavier atoms used in complicated life forming chemical reactions (correct me if i am wrong here as what I'm about to say depends on it), hence it could be the case that if the universe is 13.5 billion years old, then we humans are appearing in the universe at the earliest possible time.

13.5 billion years seems like the time required to create a star, have the star die and blow up, have all that material settle and create a new star, then the planets are formed, than enough time on one of those planets needs to pass for life to form, then complicated life.
> They do not have an interest in going for crazy moonshots at all, and are very unwilling to just give millions of dollars in funding to a startup in the hopes it could become the next Google or Facebook. What they are willing to back on the other hand are 'boring' SaaS businesses usually aimed at the B2B market.

That is, they are not venture investors, they are just normal, low-risk-stable-reward investors.

This neatly explains why runaway successes in risky areas do not normally happen in Europe: not enough risk appetite, and the size of the market is initially smaller because of language barriers. (Also, likely just not enough money.)
Signed up & browsing "Flickr30k" repo (auto generated) repo & it was really slow for me. Like CSV, does it also supports other data formats like json, yml etc.,?
I think what it comes down to is who is decided what's harmful and do you trust those institutions.

Is spanking harmful? It seems close to one of those things that get one into trouble with CPS

What about letting a kid walk home from school on their own? We've seen parents get into trouble for that.

How about letting the kid watch tv or eat too much junk food?

What about teaching them certain ideas, ranging from racism to creationism to socialism to Amish-like beliefs?

If you presume that parents love their children and want to do what's best for them and you inform the population of the collective belief on what is good or bad for them, parents will do their best to make careful trade-offs and are in the most informed and most invested position to make those decisions.

Obviously some people are just terrible parents, but if there's any doubt at all I think we should err on parental sovereignty. Likewise, when considering what is beneficial or harmful to one's self, for the same reason, I think we should err on the side of individual sovereignty.

There are cases where individual or parental authority should be overridden, but to my mind those should be chosen very, very carefully.
I agree. This mostly confirms my suspicion that multiple cursors are a better solution than Vim for most editing tasks.
Aka "labor, fiery tart" from the anagram generators?
What I've seen a lot of is "startups" that exist primarily to fulfill the role of "startup" in some kind of grant program that pays businesses to partner with startups. And if you are trying to start a tech company in canada, you end up bombarded with information about how to do this, it's all anyone really wants to talk about. Imo the while ecosystem is corrupted by government incentives or in some industries outright pretent and basically just bought with government money
The laws of physics also a limiting factor
You can start with backblaze articles on their data storage tier, will give some hints

Also note, comments on this thread are heavily biased on DYI things and not covering enterprise storage areas, which for instance can come as Blackbox with exported LUNs
IPv6 shows what happens when you deal with the real problem. Nobody adopts the solution!
Regarding streaming, I know that zoom and meet.jit.si work. I think we can safely assume that if any other service blocks Firefox it is not for technical reasons.
Tritium is very popular on gun sights as well- as it's a glow in the dark sight that doesn't need to be charged. I'm now questioning the practice of appendix carrying with tritium sights.
I wrote Ruby for years (for fun). I always had to stop and think twice about 'unless' and translate it into 'if not'.
why don't we have passports to restaurants that track our exercise and diet status? that would have reduced mortality so much more than vaccine passports
Ask HN: How to protect my data at work
I work for a medium sized private investment organization (~$6B AUM - 30 people). Our cybersecurity is truly lacking and it’s something I’m working on fixing. Im an investor, not the IT team (that is outsourced to an MSP).

Im concerned about the inevitable ransomware attack that is coming to our network.

What can I do as an individual worker to not be blocked on that zero-day. We have no DLP and no one would care if I saved files to a flashdrive / Google Cloud. I can pretty much do whatever I need to to be prepared.
I don't think this is a fair comparison, on one side it's a whole pack of cigarettes per day and on the other one glass of wine.

How about we compare two bottles of wine every day with a whole pack of cigarettes. I think that's comparable and both would be terrible for you.

I hate smoking, I had a really hard time quitting 8 years ago and in general I dislike being in a room where people are smoking.

However my grandmother smoked 1 cigarette every day with her morning coffee after breakfast her whole life and it did her no harm whatsoever. I think with most substances moderation is always an important factor.
My cynical take is a lot of people are subconsciously unhappy with how BS and mundane their "tech" jobs are. They chose money+cool, only it turns out the 'cool' part was a lie to get them to churn out as much useless BS work as possible. So they get through the day by fooling themselves: slap a cool tech name on your product, make trendy graphics ( https://traefik.io https://github.com ), pretend you're doing some sci fi shit. Then any real tech happening in the world exposes your BS so you need it to be framed as a disappointment.
why does authentication with github require access to private repos and all organizations?
To play devil's advocate: If child A can verbally bully child B into giving them a cookie/lunch money/pokemon card, from their perspective its a valuable skill!
> He was also impeached twice, which is the same thing as being indicted (and convicted too).

The Senate trial is the equivalent of conviction; the House impeachment trial is more the equivalent of a grand jury indictment (although a very politicized one). No US President has ever been convicted in the Senate trial, Trump included.
>How can either side get an accurate assessment of the other in such a short time?

Hmm? you just perform 1-2h interview and decide?

>These are the N phases, we aim to be completed in X days/weeks and you will always know what's next and when it will occur."

Why would you need N technical interviews to decide whether somebody is worth their money?
What does immense mean in the context of game dev?
The Martian atmosphere may not but the surface of the planet does, cutting half the yearly dose versus being in deep space. And I'm not sure I buy the argument that the atmosphere provides little protection. There's a lot of atmosphere there still, enough you can push down on it and rise into the sky if you have some carbon fiber blades moving at very high speeds. I'd think a iron nuclei would hit a lot of atoms on the way down.

> you'll still get all the cancer sooner than later.

Cancer risk from radiation is probabilistic. If you spend all day outdoors then you increase your lifetime risk of cancer by a significant degree, but it's not like you're definitely going to get cancer. Additionally, most habitation modules, at least early on, are planned to be buried in martian regolith.

Also the moon is worse than Mars in all respects with regard to this so you're effectively arguing that humans should never leave the orbit of Earth. I'm not a fan of that future.

(BTW, we deal with much higher radiation levels in hot cells in reactors here on Earth, and those even have windows into them. I'm sure we can work out something.)
> The Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence, and Algorithmic Learning by the Chinese Communist Party Act (ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act)

...that actually is a pretty good name.
Yes[0]!

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To my understanding they just give a paper now that you have to sign. It's an agreement that "they don't know the price yet because it's ER, and so they will tell you later"
Right, but we're saying "enough to start a small business" which is similarly varied.

Is it upsetting that someone on minimum wage won't be about to become a tycoon overnight? Is it upsetting that people have to talk to others to convince them to give you money?
mkvtoolnix to add the subtitles you want as well as remove the tracks that you don't need.
Ironically, as someone who’s been to a few communist countries, cigarettes are common, legal, and cheap. Micro managing people’s personal lives is an old school progressive philosophy that goes back to Prohibition, and before that, it was the Puritans.
Dominic Lieven: 'It's Against Ukraine's Interest to Take Back Crimea'
South Africa has high taxes on cigarettes making cigarettes relatively expensive. The result is black market of unregistered cigarette brands. A good number come across illegally from neighbouring countries. Perhaps NZ being an island nation might be able to control illegal imports better.
The point is to get some of it from somewhere cheaper/free - mass, or outside air as in heat pumps.

You can't run your laser on mass or air, if you need a coal firing power plant to run your fusion reactor, from which you get less than you consumed from the coal plant...

It's great progress, it's just not as close to viable as it might sound like - more breakthroughs needed.
It's not just the technology to get there we need. We need the technology to live there.
Ye, maybe it was just too bloated for the machines at release time which wrecked its reputation.
Luajit isn't really a replacement for lua though, if you don't want to use lua.

The only thing I've seen that's really comparable to lua/luajit in terms of size and simplicity of embedding in a C program is janet. It's bigger but still a single file. I would assume also somewhat slower but if you need raw perf C is right there.... But you get a much more usable language with an actual stdlib so it's a good tradeoff for a lot of applications.
DOS4/GW and Desqview were the two main extended memory systems IIRC. Manuals in storage, sorry I can't look up here.
You're right! It makes way more sense, in the long run, to abuse a tool like git in a way that it isn't designed for and which it can't actually support, then instead of actually using git use a proprietary service that may or may not be around in a week. Here I was thinking short term.
Companies that can't survive on a 30% cut but can survive on a competing store's 12% cut will survive and flourish
>There was a time when I was younger when I really liked the GPL (v2), but as I got older I realized that even though I am a strong supporter of Open Source (...), and I strive to use only Open Source components, I've always been perfectly fine with some applications that are proprietary.

Whenever I hear someone start to reason with "as I got older", I interpret it as: I've gone back to the fridge more than a dozen times by now so I've lowered my standards far enough to not care anymore.
I think I agree. A lot of it is models that don't predict things ( but that is waved away by saying those are not complex enough to reflect real life ), psychology and opinions.

Personally, long term I am perfectly willing to accept that deflation is a bad thing for society, but at this time? We should welcome deflation with open arms. Things are way out of whack already and decent price correction is needed for just about everything.
This is a somewhat ignorant (though I don't think bad faith) comment.

Muslims historically (and now too) took great pride and put great effort into architecture and calligraphy. Gulf Arab leaders are idiotic noveaux riche on steroids, and the only thing their building plans have to do with Islam is that they evoke Islamic eschatology, which predicts that towards the end of times, "shepherds will compete to build black towers" or something like that.
> the reaction becomes self-sustaining

This is applicable only to continuously running reactions like in jet engines.
I grew up in the Deep South in the waning days of school segregation. One of the claims made in support of segregation was that white students learn best from white teachers, and black students learn best from black teachers. This work is an echo of that philosophy.
100% agreed, but for the CEO's who are making the above mistake, if they have other bad news to deliver to the board (low revenues, etc), then they might be afraid to deliver yet another piece of bad news on the hiring side.
Quick link to 2022: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_seuUbfUGw

Although I get the impression a large part of Buffet's normalcy is because he's chosen to spend his time making money for other people.

If you're ridiculously rich... you could do worse than thinking of common people as your boss, for perspective.
Isn’t this basically what structured binary logs are? Instead of writing a string like `Error: foo timeout after ${elapsed_amt} ms` to the log, you write a 4-byte error code and a 4 byte integer for elapsed_amt. I know there are libraries like C++’s nanolog that do this for you, under the hood.
If it's bad enough, they'll switch back to using Apple's store, and it'll be a wash; but, we won't know until competition exists
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Hi: Is there any possibility of TSO and GRO working on Android?
Oh man, I remember that “game”! Ironically, I lost my fleet while I was on a plane to Germany to visit a friend doing a semester abroad over there. I logged into a computer lab at his school, bore witness to the destruction of my fleet and shrugged my shoulders and logged off that game for the last time.
Nope! My point was that your comment assumes no further increase in Q-plasma. But the experience of the last few years suggest that there’s reason to hope that won’t be the case. We can come at the problem from both sides.
It's very likely, they've tried playing the same games with other jurisdictions, "sure, you can use your own payment processor, and still pay us 27%", but it's very unlikely those tricks will hold up to further legal actions.

Fighting monopolies is hard, but the penalties scale up the more games these companies play. They know it too, but all of the **holes running these companies are worried about is cashing out their bonuses and retiring before the regulations finally get things to where they should be.
Choosing between the windows and windows-sys crates
I explained the title change here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33974170. I think you make a good point though, so I've edited it again.

For those curious, the originally submitted title was "Ask HN: Why are YC companies breaking hiring laws?" and the first edit was "Ask HN: Why are YC companies hiring in NYC not posting their salary range? I've just edited it a second time, to "Ask HN: Why are YC companies in NYC posting their salary range, as law requires?". I don't think that's a very good HN title, as it makes a general claim about "YC companies in NYC" which is almost certainly both untrue and unfair. But for reasons I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33974170, I suppose it's ok as a tradeoff.

Edit: whoops that second edit dropped the 'not', which was obviously critical. I've replaced it with Ask HN: Why are YC companies in NYC not posting salary range, as law requires?.

Edit 2: I've changed it again in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976153. It's now "Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?"
A pony is a small horse dude
I'm not a utilitarian because I think there are many things that we should do that can't be justified with a straight-forward look at the bottom line. Judging things this way can end with things that are pretty ethically dubious, e.g., forced abortion for fetuses with condition X, where X may be various levels of impairment whereby the resulting human is not profitable.
As an example, look at table A in the bls.gov release. Each column is a roughly 20-dimensional vector, with both positive and negative components. Positive components (those which had price increases in the past month) include food and shelter, while negative components include energy/gasoline, used cars, and medical care.