skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a healthcare reform at around the 1970s concluded that the individuals must consent to receive treatment. I don't know the details of the before-and-after of how the healthcare systems provides the services. Nowadays, the adults can refuse medical treatments: One of the family friends considered not receiving an organ transplant and it's ok. I don't know if one can be forced to receive treatment for infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. Even if there's a rule, I don't know if such a rule is enforced.

Perhaps the hole in the healthcare system is that the practice assumes that all adults have a sound mind and can make decisions. Having a rule to force people to do something (such as taking vaccines) put a bad taste in many people's mouths. We Canadians are too nice to tell someone that the fault is on you - As an employer, we could just document how the job does not "fit" someone instead of telling them that "you have a mental illness."

Indeed, my friend's acquaintance (let's call them "G") has run into law enforcement at least twice. An arrest may not be a strong reason to get a psychological evaluation. For one of those incidents, the police called my friend at 10pm asking if G lives in the address. My friend told the police that she knew G but they didn't live here. The police thanked my friend for the info but could not disclose how or why G was with the police at that moment due to privacy laws.

There are organizations in the community providing mental health services. They all required the person to agree to receive the service.
Non image-based link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_recurrence_with_constan... (Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-recursive_sequence#Cl... )
Surge pricing is a feature for customers, not a bug. It means you can pay more to actually get a ride, rather than waiting 30 minutes to multiple hours for a cab. I paid $50 extra in surge pricing once to avoid missing a $1000 flight, and I made it through security with minutes to spare. If I had waited for a taxi I would have been screwed. Customers that are more price sensitive or need to get where they are going less urgently can arrange alternative transport or wait for prices to drop.
Thanks a lot for clarifying! And thanks for not removing the post entirely!
Machine learning and AR are far more interesting applications of the GPU than high resolution traditional games on a tiny cell phone screen.
And it conforms to a Geiger / warppunk aesthetic.
Exactly. All one needs to do is just to buy Bitcoin and hold it yourself. Everything else is noise at best, scam at worse, including the fiat banking system once it unpegged from its gold backing.
> it is possible to be a productive and well-compensated programmer — even a first-rate hacker — without any knowledge of science or math. But I think that most programmers who are serious about what they do should know calculus (the real kind), linear algebra, and statistics

Not surprisingly, those happen to be branches of mathematics with lots of applications. I would argue that programmers should know them, but only superficially, as in having an understanding of what mathematical properties mean in real life and in knowing how to compute them, without having to understand why and when those computation steps work.

For example, when computing a double integral, changing integration order is only allowed under specific circumstances (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_integration_(calculus...).

In a math exam, you’d have to show these properties hold before switching integration order. If you do that well and then make a slight mistake in your subsequent computation, you get a tiny point deduction, but still easily pass your exam.

In physics, you’d just switch order, compute the answer, check it with reality, and if it doesn’t look wrong, declare you solved the problem (that may be slightly exaggerated, ;-)).

The check with reality is important even if switching integration order is OK because, if you make a slight mistake in your subsequent computation and design a bridge based on the result, people may die.

The point is: for physicists, it’s not the journey that’s the reward, but the destination. And yes, ideally they’ll know when their tool won’t work, but physicists rarely encounter the weird constructs that mathematicians consider in their job such as functions that are continuous, but nowhere differentiable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function), or discontinuous at every rational number, but continuous elsewhere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomae%27s_function), and there’s always the reality check at the end that will catch (most) errors.

> Rather than viewing mathematics as an advanced tool reserved for extremely specialized computer applications, Fortran-school programmers view the computer as an advanced tool for doing mathematics.

Here, I’d say Fortran-school programmers view the computer as an advanced tool for doing computations. That’s not surprising; Fortran-style programmers are physicists. They care about the result. Mathematicians don’t, at least not in the sense of something that’s useful in the physical world.
Maybe we could first try distinguish both.
So when I think about it, software development is mostly about the application of mathematics and transformation of information whereas mathematics are about describing the world in a formal manner.
Well that's what Steam does too. Creates a whole new Wine prefix with specific tweaks for this specific game to make it work. Pretty similar if you ask me.
NeXT even had stuff like WebObjects, which was really ahead of its time back then. And AFAIK it still powers some services at Apple.
Been working with a yubikey + pass setup for many years.

My favorite feature being that the backend store supports git, allowing you to sync and backup for password to anywhere you can push a git repository.

Pass stores your keys encrypted using your gpg key. Having the master key on your yubikey adds additional peace of mind

Only place I never use my password manager is my smart phone, out of choice - i don't trust my phone

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pass
Very happy to see boot failure fixes in the release notes. Can't wait to give it another try with beta4!
It's unwise to neglect it in the long run. It's perfectly reasonable to ignore it initially. There are different valid pedagogical approaches here. Your approach may be suitable for the type of student you were interacting with, but the profile you're familiar with doesn't represent every person who might be interested in learning C.
>It's not the donations that are the problem, but the pure bullshit narrative to fleece people a few times every year.

Exactly. Their message is alarmist, as if they couldn't stay afloat. Most people believe it, I certainly did. And it seems reasonable, it is a gigantic and totally add free site, how could they not be facing financial troubles? But they aren't and if they want to fund vanity projects, they should advertise that they are doing exactly that.
The problem you have is from using a proprietary user-hostile operating system, not the open source software.

The Bitwarden client on F-Droid has no telemetry at all, not even to opt into. https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/issues/649#issuecomment-...
I have the same question. I migrated away from LastPass 2 years ago and wonder if I’m still breached
This sounds fishy. I'm a CTO in Europe (UK) at at firm with a similar valuation. When I signed up not only did I get options at the outset, but I _bought_ in on the pre-seed round with the founders very happy for me to do so.

As others have said, you should not be writing code all day long (I tend to dip into coding about 10-15% of my time). Instead you should be setting direction, managing and leading people, and drive delivery of product increments.
I have a bit of a different idea along somewhat different lines. Tweeted at you.
Metal does have that support on the API side afaik.

Just that they didn't implement the raytracing support in the AMD driver side...
Where do you even see them? I clicked around the website for a minute and can't find a freaking screenshot of anything anywhere. How frustrating.
I learned Haskell before I learned to write proofs. And yes it did help.

But no I don't think experience doing boot camps and churning out React apps and gluing together APIs would help with learning mathematics.

Go learn a language that seriously challenges you like Haskell.
This looks cool, but I don’t do a lot of GUI work. Why would one use this as opposed to Qt?
In my mind it would basically be UI skeuomorphism 2.0, this time with photo-realistically rendered materials, lighting, and shadows.
The SaaS age is over. It's biotech's turn now.
I think the bigger issue was obscure pricing. You had no idea what something would cost in the US. The meter would tell you in the end. You at least had an idea of how much something would cost with lyft/uber as long as you didn't ask for deviations in the preplanned route.

I do know that in south america, it was different. You'd negotiate the pay before you got in so at least you knew if you could afford it or not.
any way to run this bare metal on an m1 mac? can i dual boot it?
Roughly 10% of the UK does not use English as their main language.

Roughly 30% of English speakers in the UK are bilingual (or more).

The aim of this is not to improve peoples english ability, it's to ensure that they can understand and access the relevant gov services they require.

There are a significant amount of Gov services available from childhood to adult education to learn, or improve their English separately to this.
Fast Base16 Encoding
I'm not blaming you or any tech workers. In fact, I encourage it - if VCs are willing to give you more money, then of course you should take it. And ask for more.

I'm just saying that the real reason for the chronic underprofitability of startups that emerged in the last decade is high employee costs. The people in charge will have to rationalize that sooner or later.

As an employee, of course you're not responsible; the decision makers - suits and VCs - are. You should obviously make the most of these good times.
Is LAN P2P? If yes, WebRTC is 100% P2P over LAN is it not?
Ask HN: How do you work effectively across multiple teams?
I've spent large spans of my career in roles like support or technical writing, where I'm at least part-time embedded in several other teams.

As an engineer, my priority and focus is always on my team. I don't have to go to three or four team retros and sprint planning meetings or write multiple status reports, outside of (usually) tightly scoped work on specific cross-functional projects.

But for instance, as a tech writer in a company that has more engineering teams than writers, each writer gets embedded in multiple teams — participating in sprints and retros, reporting status, helping plan features alongside UX and product, and working on tickets alongside engineers. I might also be regular part of marketing, support, and product discussions.

In the worst cases as a writer, I've had to juggle working across multiple project management paradigms — one dev team's using waterfall, another's hardcore Agile, another's ad hoc, all using different sprint/work intervals — while also fixing time-sensitive problems raised by people who can't directly fix issues themselves, writing or editing blog posts for marketing as a SME, and juggling release/ops demands around release dates.

Prioritizing work becomes fraught without a central way to report what I'm doing, for whom, and when, and orgs like this are typically in this state because its engineers are understandably its top priority, and the engineers are often against changing any of their working process to standardize under anything resembling cross-functional project management.

Most tools and tactics for prioritizing incoming work requests feel like they're either designed for people who have just one workstream to focus on, or for teams who can delegate cross-functional work. As a one-person team, then, how do you work effectively across multiple workstreams, all of which are organized differently?

Do you advocate for more common processes that might help everyone coordinate work better? Are there tools or tool uses that are particularly effective for cross-functional work? Do you communicate pain, and if so, to whom and how? Do you automate tasks ruthlessly, and on teams without someone technical enough to automate things themselves, how do you get engineering help or budget to implement and maintain it?
> watch the real world examples of “unregulated ethical businesses” melt away into the realm of the theoretical

Try an example of a regulated ethical business. Exxon? Verizon? Amazon? Nestle? UnitedHealth Group? Pfizer? General Motors? DuPont?

Regulation is just as much a pipe dream as libertarianism
The ARM64 port doesn't yet boot all the way to desktop in QEMU, so it certainly won't run bare metal on an M1, unfortunately.

You can certainly dual-boot it on x86 machines, though.
All similarly sparse data samples would suffer from the bachnorm issue. I don’t remember if I tried a convnet with batchnorm on galaxy classification but I did try it on piano rolls - it was bad - precisely because of batchnorm, and had I first tried the same model on mnist I would have caught the issue much faster (I tested it on cifar).

I suspect a chess position evaluation would suffer from batchnorm just as much, if the intermediate feature maps remain sparse.
After 10 years, Meson 1.0.0 is out
User-hostile software strategy #13

Force users to update apps even if they dont want to and with each update introduce hidden new privacy flags set at your desired default option, guessing correctly that the average user will likely miss it
the ones you mention would fall into “essential use”, since its first party and is used for functionality on the site.

what you didnt mention is that:

> We also use LUX Real User Monitoring software cookies from SpeedCurve to measure your web performance experience while visiting GOV.UK.

stuff like this is why they need the consent dialog.

if instead of embedding tracing cookies and analytics JS they processed access logs, they would learn a lot without needing the dialog. However, since everyone just throws up the dialog (and users are trained to expect it) its “not worth solving”.
You might also find sops more user friendly for teams

I never understand why people go all in on cloud based password stores or identify for that manner

https://github.com/mozilla/sops
This is all a result of short termism. Short term profits from dark behaviours trump long term profits from satisfied customers. Why is this behaviour of publicly traded companies surprising to anyone? It’s not unique to software either.

It’s the economic system that needs to change, not the devs.
As i see, maths is more about proof, and rediscovery new theorems, than to write "arbitrary, unproven proof". It's more like 100% unit test coverage of your codebase (harder than writing the code).
What's so sad is that usually bricking is a pure software bug. That overwrites whatever code boots the device far enough so thatnl it can update itself.

If you have the hardware programmer you can most often update the flash directly.

I don't expect everybody to have all the hardware programmers on hand. But I would gladly go to a repair shop to get a quick firmware flash to unbrik some device. Of course this is probably not worth it for manufacturers. It's so infuriating because most device even have a relatively standard programming port already (though you need to open open the device to access it)
Writing Raft: The club that’s write or die
The front-page should probably have more screenshots, yeah.

There's a screenshot tour here: https://www.haiku-os.org/slideshows/haiku-1/

And the release notes, linked from the release announcement, have screenshots: https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta4/release-notes/
I don't want to be pedantic and write "GNU/Linux distributions" every time. People know what you mean when you write "Linux." And the result of the distribution model is something similar to the BSDs (when you pull the projects apart I'd argue they're really not so different socially.)
Not sure if it's just me, but I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years. Instead, I only use a RSS reader software to quickly go through all the unread items and send interesting articles to a read-later or bookmark service. The main reasons are:

- Some feeds only provide title/summary and not the full text article (yes, I know there are full-text extraction service, but last time I tried them, none of them was perfect, and I don't want to play the guessing game -- "Am I reading the full article, or a broken extraction?")

- Some feeds are just better to be read in a web browser. e.g.: Project release notes on GitHub, which usually come with links to PRs, commits...etc, so I need to open several browser tabs to consume the content anyways.

- Some personal blog sites have very beautiful (or interesting) designs that I find myself actually enjoys poking around.

- Ad-blocking -- given the current popularity of RSS, I don't know if it really makes sense financially for websites to do so, but I notice some feeds do inject ads.

- If I ever need to click a link in an article, jumping from a reader software to a browser is too big of a context switch that disrupts my flow -- just let me go through all the feeds right now, and I will decide how to prioritize the most interesting ones and allocate my reading time later.

For my use cases, Unread on iOS gave me the best experience. All the gestures optimized for single-hand operations are just fantastic. Sadly, they switched from one-time payment to monthly subscription and I can't justify the cost when I only use it in a very light way(just for sorting items). Reeder is not as good, but is comfortable enough for me.
Don't you think working to solve homelessness has a slightly threshold of entry than 128x128 image generation?
Yes, as opposed to the Moriquendi.

So his gnomes were not of the, aehm, garden variety.
Feudal Europe for one. The highest paid were often the merchants. The highest status were the nobility
If anyone wants to quickly spin up a Haiku VM I leave here my Docker image [1].

It's just a proof of concept but some people are using it for CI as well [2].

[1] https://github.com/hectorm/docker-qemu-haiku

[2] https://github.com/HaikuArchives/ArtPaint/blob/7f5c49278545e...
I just got my equifax payout. A whopping $5.21 USD.

It looks like they were charged $700MM? I think those in charge should really actually throw the book at these corporations for a change... Not very likely though.
> Is there an equivalent word in North America? Americans tend to get confused when I use that word.

It's an English language word so it's fair game, it's just esoteric.

(I call them "GRE words" -- things you often don't encounter in conversation until you study for the verbal section of the GRE.)

I think the real issue is people not being sure if you said "Moreish" or "Moorish".

>moreish (comparative more moreish, superlative most moreish)

>(UK, informal, of food, drink, or other consumable) Causing one to want to have more.

>Synonyms: see Thesaurus:delicious

>1788, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Second edition, page 322:

>More-ish. This wine has but one fault, and that is, it is more-ish: i.e. more of it is wanted, or there is too little of it.

or

>moorish

>adjective

>Boggy, marshy; like a moor.

I'm still unclear which way Super Hans was going with that one to be honest but my gut says the second given he doesn't seem very uh... happy?

(I have a deviated septum, so I don't know what cocaine does to you... when people offer me the smoked kind I take it as my hint to make like an XBox 360 and get the hell out of that hotel room, bar, or staffer's office.)

Sincerely,
Greg ;-)
Try Upwork.
It's hyperbole, sure. But if you were to put it in a productive-unproductive and bullying-kindness matrix, it's in the unproductive/bullying quadrant.
While the truth is not always in the middle ground, this is one of those cases where it almost certainly is. Cryptocurrency is not some magic silver bullet that'll fix all the world's problems. It is also not (in and of itself) a "Ponzi scheme" designed to defraud people of their money. It's a tool, with proper and improper uses, with benefits and drawbacks, with strengths and weaknesses.
This corroborates my experience.

Reading Society of Mind in undergrad is one of the things that led me to doubt AI progress and to stray away from the field [1]. It was handwavy, conceptual, and far removed from the research and progess at the time. If you held it up to Norvig's undergraduate level Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, you could sense Minsky's book was as wishfully hypothetical as Kaku's pop-sci books on string theory.

[1] Recent progress has led me right back. There's no more exciting place to be right now than AI.
Check out SweetHome3D.
Yeah, I have a framework laptop which is supposed to be fairly good for Linux compatability and I'm considering installing Windows. Horrible standby battery life, random lockups when I'm in the settings app, brightness keys that don't work unless you disable other features, deficiencies in non-integer scaling, etc.

Proton is actually really great for gaming, I just can't figure out how to get full screen games to render at native resolution without turning off DPI scaling across the entire system
No, in the dictionary sense, being told a story is not the same as reading. As with many words these days, certain liberties are taken.
Have you tried the newly-ported GNOME Web browser, mentioned in the release notes? It seems that it solves the "web browser problem" many users have complained about.
Lots of remote opportunities at both https://www.workatastartup.com/ and https://angel.co/ I imagine a mid-to-senior dev would be able to find work at a company listed there fairly quickly.
> More importantly, people who are in those groups tend to be aware how much he stinks of government corruption given his [...] religion...

He "stinks of corruption" in part because he's Jewish? How am I meant to interpret this as anything other than bigotry?
Importing a C file into a Python session is a practice that can ---easily--- cause ---a lot--- of headaches, the packages required to build the code as python library and make it importable will vary between systems and make it hard to debug in case of crashes.
I personally would distribuite the pre-compiled binaries, CI + docker makes that much easier.

The fact that "can be done" doesn't necessarely mean that "it's the right way" to do it.

Going back to embedding auto-generated code, focusing on this specific case, are you telling me that a line in the requirements.txt, on a machine where the user is expected to have access to a compiler, is the reason to keep auto generated code in the repository? Sorry, personally it seems a flaky reason.

Also, the very fact that you mention that users don't have superuser privileges should be even more of a reason to use virtual environments, where you don't need super privileges, or if you can't or want to use virtual environments you can still have multiple paths in the PYTHONPATH env variable and you can install packages in a specific paths leveraging the --target of pip or the PYTHONUSERBASE env variable, solving the issue as well.

I would prefer to suggest my users to improve their runtime environment than enable them to improve the chaos.
New Zealand government hopes to establish a plain language law when communicating with the public:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/new-zealand-ho...

Even if there's such a law, people will find a way around it.
The user guide has some: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html