skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit of history many people are not aware of - in the 1980s, Japan developed its own indigenous operating system, TRON. Towards the end of that decade, the Japanese government wanted to adopt it as a national standard. The US government started threatening trade sanctions, which gave Japan cold feet. (Some accused Microsoft of being behind it, although others insist that’s untrue.) How would have the Japanese software industry turned out without US threats, or if Japan had ignored them?
Yes, dental coverage in NL kind of sucks. The way it is structured now, it often makes more sense to make a "dental savings" account rather than paying the insurance surcharge.

There is action to change that though. Doctors of the World currently run a petition for including dental insurance in the basic insurance package (basispakket) [1]. I don't see this happening soon, but it's a start for a future change.

[1] https://doktersvandewereld.org/campagnes/mondzorg-in-het-bas...
I just wanted to add perspective that for these cabbies and normal people it was gambling.

It was not “get free from the government” it was not about convenience of digital payments or whatever crypto promise was there.

For normal people it was get rich quick scheme and that is why advertising was so annoying.

I agree with parent comment - in the end it never really mattered for normal people.
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This is because dentists in germany can charge the services rendered quarterly to the state insurance, but they only get paid a flat flee per insured patient by the state insurance. It means doctors effectively cover the diff/take the risk of unhealthy patients until they are covered. So they have to balance with private insurance income.
Yeah exactly. Nobody's crying for all the industries that were killed when we switched from horses to cars.
> When I upgrade to AM5 I'll go with 65W no doubt

Since C2D days anything over 65W provided diminishing results for a regular user. But then you can't participate in the di^W gigaherz measuring party.
Name one computer game created without any cultural or historical referents then, "from nothing" as it were.

If you mention Pong or Spacewar, you've already lost. Table tennis and the Lensman books, respectively.

Literally anything humans do is based on prior influences, referents and data. There's no aether out of which the "spark" of inspiration strikes, nor does anything emerge from the pure vaccuum, creativity is just neurons doing what they will with the information they already have. Therefore the only difference between human genius and the mediocre output of AIs is complexity, and the only question worth asking is how far that gap can reasonably be bridged.

It's understandable that this is upsetting, because it threatens one of the last bastions of human divinity, and no one really wants to believe human beings in all their splendor, subtlety and complexity are just a pile of ad-hoc stochastic wetware algorithms running on a hemisphere of gelatinous goo, no more divine than a stone on the ground, but eventually as this technology matures we're going to have to come to terms with the fact that creativity can be manufactured, just like anything else, and like anything manufactured, its quality will inevitably surpass anything humans are capable of.
PEP703 Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython
I can't defend Just but everyone on UNIX should know what a Makefile is. Make is a standard. Scripts are just a mess.
An incredibly broad, stupid and merciless generalization - which still applies here - is that while there are people in tech with very deep knowledge of the world (for personal curiosity and such) there are many, many people in tech with no knowledge whatsoever of the world outside tech.

And when those people see tech applied to a non tech-context, they think "wow, tech has done it again!"

Cynical morning, sorry
It's a bit later nowadays, at least in the normal sorts of places you'd go out (Soho, Shoreditch, etc.). Though, what are you doing working until 11pm?

In any case you'll still find the roads can be busy at all hours. The night is used, as you say, for a lot of infrastructure type stuff which means the main roads are still busy, getting the city ready for the next day.
cosmetic? ending up with a scar is cool?
On a slightly different tangent, is anyone using Prolog in production?
> quite a string of issues

Also known as the Swiss cheese model[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
Elsewhere, “quants” with PhDs in astrophysics collate historical data with information about geography, weather, stock prices, and ship movements, searching for opportunities to place ads on mr beast videos.
The Gimli Glider is covered by Admiral Cloudberg here:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-mathematical-miracle-t...

This story is more ambiguous. The plane should never have left the ground and the captain committed a serious error when he decided to depart with no fuel gauge working. According to airline procedures at the time, no plane could be dispatched without working fuel gauges. That wasn't up for debate, it was a hard rule and it was disregarded.

Then, contrary to legend, nobody really mixed up imperial and metric units, but they did the math wrong (twice!) when converting from one to the other. They weren't surprised when they found that 8,000 liters of fuel would weight 14,000 kg. One liter of water weights 1 kg; fuel is less dense than water; without knowing anything else, one should question a calculation that results in the weight of 8,000 liters of fuel being more than 8 metric tons.

So yes, ultimately, the plane landed safely thanks to outstanding airmanship; but it was improper following of guidelines, and math incompetence, that caused the problem in the first place.
" in people with severe hypertension"

This title is misleading. Original title: "Severe hypertension: Drinking too much coffee may double mortality risk".
This is an idealistic view of it, yeah. But in reality your worth is only what people give you; parents, who hate/actively work against gay people until, oh, one of their children are gay, then they suddenly care (or cast them out).

People are plagued by self-interest, we don't unilaterally "care" about one another apart from maybe on a "I'll help you if it doesn't inconvenience me" level. Yeah, I'm sure there are some stellar individuals who go out of their way, but we're talking about the average person here.
This movie has a 3% on Rotten Tomatoes and I'm in it
> Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment.

Does this mean that dentists who are better at dentistry (and as a result have more patients) are less likely to propose unnecessary treatment because they know better? Does it mean that dentists who have fewer patients (and are therefore more desperate for money) are more likely to propose expensive treatment?
Can anyone who knows C better than me explain what the difference is between

constexpr double mu = 3.986004418 * pow(10.0, 14.0);

which is used in the the explanatory blog post and presumably the code, and

constexpr double mu = 3.986004418e14;

which is how I would have written it?
Thanks for the info. I'm also using both SBCL and CCL, both to stay portable and because it sometimes help finding issues detected by one and not the other.

If you end up blogging about CL (and tech in general) at Feetr, know that there will be at least one interested reader :)
Dentists are charlatans hiding behind a blouse
Scripts for game logic are officially a non-goal in Bevy.

- Mentioned here by its creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984942

- Here by a team member: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/2352

- And here, under "Turtles all the way down", in a roundabout way: https://bevyengine.org/news/introducing-bevy/#why-build-bevy
I'm not from or in the US, and I don't get paid from a US company. I'll get popcorn and enjoy the show
Buy good rice. At the very least it has to be round grain. Wash the rice thoroughly. Use a little less water than you think you need. Experiment with different recipes for mixing vinegar/mirin/sugar, and save the one you like.

It's not particularly hard, just takes some trial and error. If you already make good rice you are almost done already, then it's just down to flavoring.
Quite. Unladen Swallow was unfortunately a failure, in part because LLVM at the time was quite buggy, and in part because LLVM wasn't (isn't?) magic enough to speed up a dynamic language.

The blog post here mentions they do their own optimization passes, before handing over to LLVM. I imagine that's pretty important.
There's hope for React yet: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11347
Not sure if the “best” but a place where I have seen folks sell domains successfully is on Twitter.

domain auction websites too.
Everyone talks about the dentist topic. To me, what this points to is much bigger: Expert knowledge is greatly overrated and researcher-subject effects (biases) are greatly underrated. Heterogeneity of results in many fields that deal with humans suggests that triangulation (a concept known in the social sciences - e.g. to use many data source, many approaches and many opinions) is perhaps the only solution to offset human subjectivity.
Not everything is a strategic move on the political chess board.
The threat of getting fired for incompetence is a perfectly good incentive.
The backticks are more of an anti-feature than anything, and it's absolutely not a file or module/package level setting. (I think a lint-exclude at declaration site would also be okay.)

> It's not the business of a language to judge what kind of code is "good".

Well, yes, but no. Language design is just inseparably infused with judgement calls. Making things easy leads to them being used (as the backtick illustrates, making things hard reduces their usage, even if it sounds nice that it allows for special cases).

But as you imply the language has to be flexible and thus powerful enough to provide the option of a seriously different design trade off. (Because backticks are just a bad compromise. It's not really switching to a different design choice after all.)

> I hate such kind of "but we know better" behavior.

I think that implies too much intent on the Scala core team, unfortunately the reality is - probably - that historically someone wanted something, it got done somehow, and that's it. (In the particular case of backticks maybe Martin really had a strong opinion. Dunno. Probably you have looked into this at least a few times if you considered a fork :) )

... related to this the recent discussion about Rust's GAT (generic associated trait) feature is a very interesting case study in the intersection of language design, "project governance/management" (the reality of pragmatic compromises). There a small team spent at least a year developing GAT support for the compiler, and then a bunch of people were asked to decide whether to merge it. And it's a very unenviable position, because of course the work was not perfect. So what to do? In the end, I think at least, the narrative that was comfortable for everyone involved was that "this is the best version we can have realistically, and yes it provides net positive value in this current state".

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/96709#issuecomment-12...
Minimalism and the art of photography
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Version of Uber H3 in Rust: Hydronium Project
Twitter is the best
Might be an unpopular opinion around here, but I think that a random software vendor collecting anonymous basic usage statistics (user XXXXXXXXXXXX runs version a.b.c, with plugins z,w.e.y enabled) is not spying on you, and is totally justified. You and others like you are trivialising the much closer to spying on you done by data hoarders like Facebook, Google, TikTok, and the actual spying done by NSA, CIA, MI6, etc. etc. by lumping everything together. Usage statistics are super important, especially for freemium (open source with optional Enterprise) software. It's not like they have any other way of knowing which feature is actually used, needs improvement, can be safely deprecated, etc.

Would I prefer for it to be opt-in? Yes. Do I understand why they would default to collection considering close to nobody would go out of their way to enable it? Yes.
OpenAI invests in chip startup at $100M valuation
Flying a spaceship is in many ways simpler than driving a car... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's quite a sweeping statement!

But plenty of Japanese programers you know who are extremely competent != all Japanese programmers are extremely competent.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Fasting fasting (2-3 days) was incredibly informative for me for the same reason.

The #1 trigger for me to eat something boredom, the #2 the clock, #3 food being within arms reach, #4 food being visible ... #99 actual hunger.
The difference is basically... understanding. Like yeah, sure if you abstract away the concepts AI writing something is similar to Humans writing something, but let's dig into the actual detail:

>Both of these things absorb huge data sets

Yes, and this point the AI is probably absorbing more total data, but the human understands structure of that data better. A good new book isn't just some new variation of concept, the author has a structured understanding of the relevant work that came before - and it's emotional and cultural impact, and intelligently builds on that. It may be that the AI is doing the computer equivalent of this process. But AI might never write Lord of the Rings because an AI never served in WW1 as a formative experience in it's youth. That's just one more thing that was in Tolkein's "data set". Is great AI fiction only capable of being appreciated by other AI who have the same shared experience?
Yep, this is just CNC machining with extra steps. So who's the "master marble sculptor" now? The designer who creates the model? The CNC programmer who sets up the toolpath? The customer who requests a particular sculpture and describes it vividly?
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This is timely. I've been to a Dentist in India who's suggested that I get a complicated procedure done, and I figured that since I'm living in Berlin right now, I might as well do it here - I've yet to make a Dental appointment. But your post makes me question things now.

I don't trust Dentists in Delhi, but thought the situation would be much better here in Berlin. Guess not.
There is no personal information, only an anonymous identifier and usage information of a specific tool only, so GDPR doesn't come into play.
Your comment just got better and better as it progressed, I wish properly informing patients was standard practice for dental care.
It happens in the US, too. Convenience for the doctor trumps the health of the woman, it seems.
I don't think neither me nor anyone reading that statement would come to a conclusion that the works the way I suggested in that argument.

I can talk about me interviewing and empirical data of talking to dozens of companies from seed to series B and how they have been managing access to servers. But I won't, I would rather urge you to do basic trend search either on google or your favorite platform for SSH PAM via LDAP or SSH LDAP and see it for yourself where the world is heading [1].

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
The difference is that when an enthusiastic but not particularly talented 12-year-old kid who has read all Sherlock Holmes stories writes a new one, that's not as newsworthy as when ChatGPT does it, although it's basically the same level of "artistry".
What is more interesting to me is that ChatGPT chose Sherlock himself as the narrator, while out of the 60 stories, only 4 are narrated by Sherlock.
More likely that the choice is about avoiding the physical effects of the alternative.
This is the critical point to make. Paste a few long texts into the boxes and the url goes into the hundreds of thousands of characters long, whereas this says that anything more than about 2000 chars puts you into uncertain territory:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maxim...
They both apply to Cornwall as it is part of England.
I did.

GDP can get very self repeating. If you ask it for 5 cool names you soon realize it uses the same scheme every time. It doesn't convert formats at all as far as I can tell. If I ask GPT to repeat something in metric it makes up facts about metric instead of repeating what it said. From what I can tell it has zero concept for measurements. And if you phrase your questions awkward enough it would be easy to generate highly false information if you ask clear questions like the LLC example and I highly doubt it can actually differ between country laws and stuff.

Yes we are getting there, but GPT is not it. Yet
I don't know that ideas are really the best example. Most of the valuable ones (in the money-sense) are valuable more due to the person attached to them, and their ability to implement the idea or improve on it.
51% attacker has the ability to block any transaction.
The whole selling point of Bitcoin is that nobody can do that.
Hot take #1: We don't need more Sherlock Holmes stories in the original style. Doyle already wrote so many that the premise has been exhaustively explored (and Doyle knew that).

Hot take #2: Dinosaur Comics is currently the high water mark for Sherlock Holmes parody, and I would be astonished if any sort of "language model" could generate its equal:

https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3228

https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2914

https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3586

https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3926
> why bother

Some modern browsers will refuse to connect over plaintext HTTP. Mine in particular will let me, but it will first show a fullscreen warning
But I don't understand, don't they do imaging work during diagnosis?

Here in Chile, this is usually free with the first diagnosis in private clinics, as a way of getting your business. Plus it's pretty popular to license this software called Dentalink here, which has a patient log complete with graphics on which part of what tooth was treated or if it was just an estimate given and it's pending treatment.

One caveat is that the clinics that do free diagnosis + x-rays don't hand them to you as part of the deal, but you can ask to get them e-mailed. Smaller practices without their own machines just give you an order to an imaging center, those are always yours to keep.

I've had pretty consistent results (and estimates) between the big retail practices for standard dental work like cavities. Some tried to upsell on the cleaning and whitening, but it's not a big difference.
There is an experimental repository you can use now :-) [1]

I'm mixed there. I like the Plasma mobile UI better, I don't like Gnome on Desktop and have been using Plasma on the Desktop for years.

On Mobian, on my Pinephone Pro, I tried experimental plasma packaging.

- The keyboard lacks function and arrow keys. Agreed, it should not be an issue on mobile, but mobile Linux are not ready yet and have a lot of desktop-ism, or bugs that prevent them from being smooth with the touchscreen. It's quite annoying

- The phone seems to be slower, heat more and to be less stable

- there general bugs making it almost impractical to use.

For now, I reverted to Phosh, which I find clunky with its always visible top and bottom bars eating up screen space especially in landscape mode (though I must say, phosh has made incredible progress since 2020 and seems to work generally well now)

Maybe many of those quirks will be solved when proper Mobian packaging is done, and I might go back to Plasma and contribute some fixes. I'm sure Plasma can be as light, or lighter than Gnome technology, and also more stable. It feels like it on desktop.

About Mobian: Mobian is fantastic. It's reliable, improving and they are doing the right things the right way as shown in this post: contributing and upstreaming work to the different projects including Debian.

[1] https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=desktopenvironme...
Here is the full text and pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320070183_Health_Se...
With technology or a product that people will voluntarily pay for, you can make a specific, measurable, concrete difference in a bounded timeframe. If you fail, you can be sure to do so without causing immense suffering across a whole society in the way that government actions sometimes do when they go wrong. If you could "fix the underlying issue" in a permanent way without unintended consequences, that would be better, but no one knows how to do that reliably using politics, and the failure modes of airbnb, uber, and tesla are gentler than the failure modes of politics.
> The supply is finite.

Finite supply is overrated [1].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
That doesn't conflict.
All of those things were created by humans. An AI isn't an individual, an AI must be compared to the entirety of humanity. The Go AI for example is better than humanity at Go, it is capable of being creative at Go and doesn't just repeat human moves in different combinations.

Humans are capable of being creative similarly to how the Go AI is capable of being creative, statistical AI's that just copies doesn't seem to be capable of such creativity.
It seems that Plasma Mobile would be integrated for the next Debian Trixie
To me the main difference is they failed to push an operating system.

As you say, they were really ahead in mobile, and docomo had an honest try to push imode in europe for instance, but it couldn't take off as the markets were too different.

The iPhone not supporting Felica gave the maker a small bubble to thrive but android was too far behind. Now they are barely surviving.
Are chores, curfews and cleaning fees common?

Chores and curfews, no (although they often have rules that you have to be "quiet" after a certain time). Cleaning fees, yes.

Why would anyone use them?

Honestly I can only think of two good reasons.

You want to stay somewhere really out of the way where there aren't any hotels.

Sometimes when you are 5 or more people it can be cheaper to rent one large apartment rather than 3+ hotel rooms.

I know sometimes people also use them if they're going to be staying for a several weeks and want a real kitchen, living room etc.

Other than that, I would never use Airbnb. And even in the cases where Airbnb would be useful, I would seriously consider booking with another company before using Airbnb.

Full disclosure. Never personally had a problem with AirBnb, but heard enough stories and know enough people who have.
Very readable/accessible article. This finding caught my eye:

> Regarding
the treatment—the test patient has a superficial interproximal caries lesion that should not
be treated by an invasive treatment such as a filling—the suggested number of fillings at
dentist ranges from one to six. Moreover, we observe that 13 different teeth to be treated
with a filling appear across all cost estimates. Thus, besides our finding of a considerable
overtreatment recommendation rate, we also observe a striking heterogeneity in the treatment
recommendations.
I had written a sarcastic response, but I'll be nice instead. Don't you think two people could independently see that you missed a joke and come up with the very generically phrased response of "isn't it a joke?" to point this out? I mean it's four words. It's certainly a more plausible explanation than being some sort of grand conspiracy involving sockpuppet accounts.
That honestly means the world to me, thank you so much!
Interesting. My dentist in Poland has quite a lot of German patients traveling just for the visit/procedure but I thought that it was due to lower costs, not possibly higher quality.
It's the same with the people who keep trying to make it solve maths problems.

And then when it fails or produces nonsense they make a big song and dance about how it's rubbish and doesn't work.