skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, more journalist hate. Let's blame the journalist for writing a well-researched, thorough article citing multiple primary sources, because it tells us facts we don't like. It's gas lighting by the elites after all! This is why, whenever I read an article about anything, I blame the gas lighting elite journalists in their cozy chairs with their opinions backed by nothing. Those damned journalists, always reporting things.
Yeah but that data can be used to make things better for you later. For example, with the burn pits in Iraq where soldiers no longer have to individually prove harm: https://www.publichealth.va.gov/docs/exposures/ten-things-to....

This data could lead to a discovery like “hey a statistically significant portion of people deployed at (x) between years y and z developed this type of medical condition - the military is responsible and needs to pay them.”

If there’s no value to digitizing this data, why is the military paying Google to do it? It’s not like Google is purchasing it
You experienced the transition from not being born to being born. And from not existing to existing. And yet I am pretty sure you don’t remember any of it.

Same with falling asleep. At some point you are awake and at some other point you wake up from having slept. Death is like falling asleep. That’s why sleep in some cultures is called the “little death”. You practice dying every night.
I think "this is what I was told" is a poor excuse these days. Information on jobs & careers is more available than it ever was in your day, or your father's, or his father's. At one time in the distant past, a B.S. in English might give you an advantage in the publishing industry, but those days are gone. If you got a degree without thinking about what comes after, that's on you.
I wonder if it's like hitting buzzwords on a resume. You find a way to throw it in, because it costs you nothing to add it, but you might get dinged for not having it.
I only remember 10% of what I read, so I agree it's not
efficient, and certainly not fun. But reading is the only
way to become a better writer, and that's still worth something
in my circles.
This looks pretty cool! A few questions (specifically for early years):

- 5 books seems quite limited, especially for early years where shorter books are better. My kid currently reads 1 to 2 'readers' per day at home, outside of school. He not only gets bored reading the same book multiple times, but like most kids he ends up memorising a bunch of it so it's less 'reading' and more 'remembering'. How do you plan to give kids ~30+ books a month?
- There's a lot of nuance in learning to read - my kid would take the easy way out if he could. The easy way out when we read together is to try with a word once, struggle, ask me what it says and move on. Depending on the context we do that sometimes, but most of the time we spend time dissecting it, comparing it to other words, understanding the context etc. He doesn't have the self control (do any kids? lmao) to do that by himself, or to be persistent enough. With support it's great - how do you plan on working through that problem, especially being able to dissect and compare previous experience?
- I'm sure other parents can relate, but when it comes to learning to read, a lot of support is in keeping the child focused on the task. We generally like trying to read in a distraction free environment - after the novelty of Ello has worn off, have you seen any negative impact of having a screen with you constantly while you're learning to read?
- Depending on what you research, there's a general sentiment around 'talking through the book and understanding it' is key to help children develop reading skills. It's less 'learning the sounds words make' and more 'reading for information'. Early readers attempt to do this with basic questions like "what color was the ball" or "where did the dog sleep", but i've never had much luck with those. We tend to have more success in talking about the book as we're reading. How do you plan to support that kind of learning ecosystem?

Again, this looks very cool! The above are just questions I'd ask myself before I'd buy one and 'outsource' some of our reading work, so just interested.
They have much more than just 19th Century records. Where'd you get 19th century as an upper bounds from?

It seems hard to find date ranges for what they exactly collect and store, but I found this relevant line that gives 2002 as an upper bounds:

"More than 99 percent of the 338 specimens from 1917–1969 were completely desiccated, as were over 72 percent of the 218 from 1970–2002."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236827/

Also, this gem:

The JPC does not have documentation regarding any consent forms signed by patients or research participants whose data or specimens were submitted to the repository (Baker personal communication, 2011a). Such consents may have been obtained for clinical procedures used to excise specimens at facilities where people received medical care, but it is highly unlikely that they included notification that the specimens could be sent to a remote repository or used later for education or research purposes. Consents for research use may have been obtained for some materials gathered for the war or cohort registries, but the JPC has no documentation on these (Baker personal communication, 2011a).
They just want free sacrifices for nothing or for firing you.
I don't know if a lighter than air brick of aerogel has ever been manufactured. Would helium in the crevices generate enough lift to make a neutrally or negatively buoyant solid?

If so, I want one.
I worked on a project once and had to prove to several team members that their very slow minification tool in the build process might be reducing the uncompressed size by seemingly quite a bit, but was kind of inflating the compressed size and making the site slower for everyone in reality than the unminified files shipped directly to the user. Performance work is generally underappreciated anyway, but that was particularly underappreciated performance work. "Everyone says minification speeds up the sites! That's just best practices!" versus "Did you actually test this or look at this performance tools?"
> The key insight that makes DALL·E 2’s images possible — as well as those of its competitors Stable Diffusion and Imagen — comes from the world of physics.
Url changed from https://gcaptain.com/us-navy-opens-medical-vault-for-google/, which points to this.
This is what Google claims when you work for them.
> in a cohort of grey mouse lemurs
The price will come down via clone products from overseas manufacturers.

Oftentimes recently it's been the reverse; the well funded product is an expensive clone of a readily available but niche thing that can be bought generic.

I just checked. If you look up "motorized shoes -moonwalker" you'll see lots of designs. It looks like a busy but not well funded market
Not as helpful as wishful thinking and being unrealistic, so, thank you.
M1's CPUs can't achieve that rate fwiw. It's also generic LPDDR5, not actually anything particularly new or exciting. The 800GB/s isn't to a single compute unit, either, it's 2x 400GB/s controllers.

Regardless, no that's not the drastic shift necessary. It's not even a shift at all. 4, 6, and 8 channel memory architectures have all existed for a while now in data center SKUs. It hasn't changed the desire for GPU compute in the data center
About 7 times lighter than air, AFAIK.
More moving parts when something goes wrong, which it will. You don't have to specify that you're using "macOS Ventura with the Glendale desktop environment and Hwy 101 window server" or something. Win2000 help might even be relevant in Win10 cause they prioritized familiarity.

Even at my job where gurus are managing our workstations full-time, Linux users randomly had to all switch desktop environments cause of X dependency getting too old, and the new one partially broke compatibility with our remote desktop. It's not a perfectly layered cake.

I also don't believe that people's use cases are really so different that there need to be so multiple widely-used Linux DEs. I'd get it if there were GNOME for almost everyone then other niche DEs for the rest. Again, so many people with a variety of use cases have managed ok with the basically unchanging Windows UI for decades.
Ok, we've switched the URL from https://gcaptain.com/us-navy-opens-medical-vault-for-google/ to the original source, and corrected the title as part of that.
Yeah I don't understand this point either. I would like to even see where this is cited. If this was actually the case, GNOME would look like Cinnamon, Elementary, or KDE Plasma, which all have interfaces the average computer user is familiar with given the popularity of Windows and macOS.

Seems like a misinterpretation by the author.
Is the argument here that unions are needed to guarantee minimum pay and benefits for these highly specialized jobs so that they feel safe enough to specialize? Wouldn't that depress effective wages for these techs and make the jobs as appealing as less skilled labor?
> Netflix pays all base, with separate allowances for benefits

The details from 2020 (only ones I can find) I've seen posted say they have, e.g., a $15k allowance for health insurance, of which only $5k is refundable as cash if not used, and a 5% on top of base “free option” stock option purchase in their ESPP, as well as choice for elective purchase, and other compensation in excess of salary and hourly wage.

OTOH, if they actually are just calling their “base” (which is in fact at least potentially salary) “total comp” when it is isn’t actually total total comp, just closer to total comp than base salary typically is for the industry, that’s probably not a violation of the law.
> Your gaslighting is not as subtle as you think it is.

> The gaslighting was referring to the industry's messaging as a whole and you knew this

I guess "your" means "the industry"? I'll go add that to the dictionary right away.

"My" 4 claims are your 4 claims.

For 1, context was Fukushima, which was a partial meltdown. So I gave a matching example about a concern about a meltdown. You extrapolated that yourself to mean that the only risk that exists is meltdown. I don't think that. Should have been easy to clear up early on.

For 2, I guess we should just trust you that there will never be a solution and never talk about it again? Ironic, coming from you. But also, I want to point out how I agree with you here. Most proposals are just defense in depth. People talk in circles when they can't categorize a proposal as defense in depth vs elimination by design.

For 3, I can't see anything I wrote to suggest this. It looks to me like the only evidence you had that I might think that was your misunderstanding of 1 and 2. Either way, I don't think that.

For 4, I don't even know how you got there. But again, I don't think that.

You're still adamantly telling me what I'm thinking. I'm still telling you that I don't think those things. How can I be a poor communicator if you're the one who's deciding what I'm saying?

Look at this from my perspective. You tell me what I said, and then rant about it and accuse me of being a bad person. Every time I try to tell you what I actually think, you say "no, this is what you think, and now I'm going to rant some more and tell you how you're even worse now". The only person who has the power to stop this cycle is you. You have to stop fabricating what I'm thinking.
Changed from https://gcaptain.com/us-navy-opens-medical-vault-for-google/. Thanks!

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> When it comes to “my way or the highway”, I noticed that users mainly reference GNOME, far more than any other project. There is one main reason I can think of.

either this, or, bear with me for a second, maybe because GNOME unlike most big OSS projects has people going into issue tracker of other software and asking them to do things specifically for accomodating GNOME at the expense of other DEs (https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685 for the most famous example - who the f* says this really: "I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I'm sorry that this is the case but it wasn't GNOME's fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry. It is my hope that you are a GNOME app. Yes this kind of fragmentation is unfortunate. I'm not happy about it either. Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up. Wish you the best."). Only other project I've ever seen this with is Rust people spamming RIIR issues on gh.

Or stuff like this insane thread: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
> There's no reason why the gterminal, for example, should replace the top most item in the right click menu with hex/oct representation of a number you happen to have selected

I like it. It's useful during programming and it never gets in the way of anything. If you're going minimalist, why even use the right click menu at all?

> Compare gedit vs gnome-weather vs gnote vs gcontacts - sometimes there's a hamburger menu, other times there's contextual stuff under an icon, or a button, or a button with a contextual menu. Variety is the spice of life, right?

Most options with descriptions are behind the kebab menu on every app, quick controls are icon buttons. It all looks pretty consistent to me. gedit's open/save buttons are a bit weird, I suppose, but if that's all then I don't see the problem, really.

You'll find inconsistencies like these on every OS. KDE has its fair share of wonkiness as well if you switch. Even Windows, the most popular operating system in the world, has a range of hamburger menu icons and placements.
Being a programmer at 50 is much harder than at 25, a bigger difference than plumber at 25 and 50.
How is it for profit? The government is paying Google, not the other way around.

Your former employer is paying a 3rd party service to digitize your old health records.

I’d much rather have digital records instead of paper files which can be trivially destroyed or lost. Imagine if I got cancer and had to sue this former employer and I could subpoena for this info.
The D-Bus focus is understandable if one recalls some of the early discussions on Wayland. Namely that all sorts of stuff were to be relegated to D-Bus interfaces instead of protocol extensions.

Essentially, GNOME project is going Wayland purist way.
Do any of our close relatives swim? Do chimps and gorilla?
Given that you have more specific requirements for the role, why are you comparing your salary with that of Walmart?

> don't think they will have reliable people (based on past experiences)

People who have been burned become insecure. Insecurity can lead to irrationality. This is something which effects relationships.
But you are doing exactly same stuff as software developer - sitting all day at computer is not healthy for body or mind either.
You might be on to something. I hear the Utah drug cartels are responsible for all the beheadings plaguing Salt Lake City.
I work at a union plumbing company in a major metro area and union plumbers make very good money here (100k+).

We aren’t losing any business to YouTube. We only do service for commercial businesses, and the house engineer isn’t going out of the way to do any more work than what is absolutely necessary.

You will still need a plumber if you do a large remodel or new construction. Good on you for learning how to do more yourself, but this trend has negligible impact on the industry at large.
Your approach makes a lot of sense. I wish more people would do that.
https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/over...

You can do all sorts of things with them. Use them like symbols in Scheme, say to name fields `get #name user` or to access database tables, etc.

But what's even more interesting is that the name is reflected up into the type. `get #name user` won't fail at runtime. Your database table name can be checked at compile time.
Owning the Quality
> When an able bodied, single, mentally competent and healthy young person

Might want to add 'male' to that. I'm a female with a damn high risk tolerance (I worked third shifts in major cities, lived alone in one of the most dangerous cities in the country, and had no problem walking alone in a Middle Eastern country where I didn't speak the language well) and I wouldn't hitchhike. And I definitely am not sleeping in a train yard. So that cuts out half of Gen Z right there.
> According to them, you are a "sex offender"

I don't know why you're putting this in quotes as if it's not true, I just looked up the public records and here he is in the sex offender database:

Crime Information

Sexual Predator
VICTIM WAS 15 YEARS OF AGE
OFFENDER WAS 26 AT THE TIME OF THE OFFENSE

Crimes:
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION/EXPOSE ORGANS
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION/EXPOSE ORGANS/2ND

So there you go.

> In terms of your children, you have to accept that your wife did this to them, and whatever lower quality of life they experience is your wife's fault, not yours. They wouldn't be experiencing this if your wife didn't do this.

Excuse me, what? Why on earth are you blaming the wife for something this guy did and is wholly responsible for?
I mean that the researchers submit jobs to the data owners who run the jobs, possibly in the cloud, and return the results to the researchers. The researchers don't need direct access to the data. I, along with millions of others, have opted out of every NHS digital initiative because I don't trust them. And my instincts were right because the data was given to Palantir. But if I was given the choice I would allow my data to be used in the privacy-respecting system described above.
Great, but how long before we get a proper emacs version in WASM.
Noob question- must one write avx512 assembly directly by hand, or is this something a c compiler would do for you?
and once you adjust for cancer (microtransactions, skins, grind2win, slightly lower code quality, thought police, platforms like steam, no control over versioning, no ability to make your own server) you get the same value as they were back in the 90s.
There have been proposals to use things at that kind of altitude for power, but the ones I've seen have been for wind power rather than solar power.

The idea is to have something that is tethered to the ground and held aloft by the winds at high altitude and that has wind turbines to generate power, which is sent back to the ground by cable.

There are pretty much always strong winds over much of the US at 5k-6k meters, so such a wind power generator would provide 24 hour a day power most of the time.

Here's a site showing the wind over the at around the height [1]. Click where it says "earth" in the lower left to change the height. The height is given in pressure. My link is for 500 hPa pressure which is somewhere around 5500 m. The 700 hPa option would be around 3000 m, and the 250 hPa option would be around 9000 m. Here's a site with a graph of pressure vs height if you want to know the heights for the other pressure options [2]. That graph uses kPa. 0.1 kPa = 1 hPa.

The proposals I've seen I've proposed a few different things to fly. One is basically just a kite carrying turbines. Another is a parasail. Another is some sort of rotor aircraft similar to a quad drone. I believe I've also seen some that use fixed wing aircraft with propellors.

The ones with the rotors or propellers would have electric motors powered from the ground that can be used to get the thing up to operating altitude, and then they switch the motors from taking electricity to drive the rotors/props to letting the wind drive the rotors/props to generate electricity.

[1] https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/o...

[2] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-altitude-pressure-d_4...
Why would I need someone for a small job if I’ve spent years tackling small jobs? It’s the big jobs the OC specifically mentioned maybe needing help with.

It’s like insurance at this point. I can probably cover 90% of the small stuff. But when the big stuff hits, I call someone.
I honestly don’t get all the file routing hype. How hard is it to setup a React Router? It’s like a few lines of code and you get a massively flexible setup, without any lock-in.
I don't feel the need to read Reddit, since I worked as a lineman for several years. It's possible to make bank in all kinds of trades, but that is absolutely not the norm, or even the average.
So how can they be accused of my way or the highway? Even windows and macos give you more "ways" than gnome
What causes your brain to procrastinate and how to face it
I would subscribe but your website doesn't have a clear demo video of a child using the product to read. It looks very interesting and useful though!
I find that reading gives me the opportunity to hear some of the author's deepest thoughts; I think that reading is the very best way to "expand my mind" by discovering what someone else thinks important.
If you don't like Gnome, and it doesn't cater to your requirements, there's plenty of other options that may.

I don't really understand people who keep saying they wish gnome was much more like KDE, for example - there's already KDE existing in that space for users.

And it's not like Gnome are paying distros to ship it as default - they ship it because the maintainers think it's a sane default. Petitioning the distro maintainers would likely be a much more direct path if you disagreed with that and want to change it.
https://archive.ph/LekE8
It sounds pretty similar to Qualcomm's hexagon ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/13680/snapdragon-855-going-in... ) and probably whatever Google is doing with their Pixel SoC

But otherwise that's less than what mobile GPUs can do, although those take more power they're not in entirely different ballparks either
Oh right, I didn't pick up that those were the things that were unique. But yeah that makes sense!
NYC Journalist Opposing SBF's Request to Keep Additonal Bail Sureties Secret
The Boglehead community in the US spurs from the type of investment that Americans are passionate about: stocks

Culturally Europe is all about Real Estate and Bonds, that's what people are trained to think about it ever since they start approaching the world of investments in their 20s/30s. If I had to give a suggestion I'd say that although the term BogleHeads comes from Jack Bogle, the name of the institution is Vanguard which is an Asset Manager and provider of Mutual Funds

So maybe look if a similar culture developed around the long time clients of Asset Managers and providers of Mutual Funds/ETFs in Europe?

Legal&General, Aviva, UBS, Allianz, Amundi, BNP Paribas, Aegon, Naxitis, Generali Assicurazioni are among the largest in Europe according to the Thinking Ahead Insitute[0]

In general again the whole thought leadership thing doesn't find fertile ground in Europe (except for politics) and especially in the realm of business and investing even those who get to the very top don't feel the need to propagate their doctrine, unlike the U.S. In Europe the focus shifts on enjoying the money by again acquiring Real Estate, Football Clubs, Vineyards etc.

At the end of the day Jack Bogle, Graham etc. were thought leaders, everybody who writes a book positions themselves to become one, or at least aspires to be.

[0] https://www.thinkingaheadinstitute.org/news/article/top-500-...
> important that they don’t agree on a sentence too early

The point is the prosecutor can’t agree to a deal. They can agree to recommend this or that. But a judge ultimately sentenced.
When I elected to not fill them in, HR told me that they would answer the questions for me. This was due to a "limitation of the system".