skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dental insurance in my country (NL) is limited as well; for one, it's a surcharge on your health insurance (€15 a month or thereabouts), you have to have had it for a year before they start covering things, and then they only cover up to a few hundred € per year depending on how much you pay them, while dental work quickly adds up.

I mean I think mine covers €250 a year and the cost is €150 per year, so only if I have recurring dental expenses like that is it financially beneficial for me to have the dental coverage.
Is any of this not working towards equilibrium in an open free market? I'm talking about products created thanks to private research, since I believe that research done with taxpayers' money should be open and free (even across countries).
Some people can not brush their teeth for extended periods of time and not get cavities. It really depends on your diet, mouth flora, etc. Some studies suggest xylitol and other artificial sweeteners may have a positive impact on tooth decay because they cannot be used as food for bacteria and some substantially change the bacteria that live in your mouth over time to those that are not harmful to the teeth.
At some point we will hopefully tire of meaningless (not random but actually purely statistical) interpolations of human creative works, whether text, sound or image being presented as intelligence.

There will be some use for such algorithms, anything that processes information in controlled ways is a tool in our arsenal, but the deceit that these are actually "writing" anything is astonishing.

In effect, driven purely by commercial objectives, an entire era of "AI" is selling humanity short.
There are also a few startups (in the US e.g. Levels, Veri) which offer more insights than just using the libre sensor „as it is“. Unless you already know a lot about metabolic health, I'd recommend going that route over just getting the sensor.
I just shared it here because it because it is a good excerpt from one of his most important essays and the editor gave it the fantastic (and nowadays clickbait-y) title of 'Human and Divine Nomenclature'. I was just flipping through this volume because I found it referenced on de Maistre's wiki page, and figured I would share it somewhere (I don't use any conventional social media).

To the issue of American "civic" nationalism: I must say I have always been perplexed by the phenomenon, but it is perhaps most unsurprising to witness among Mormons. Quite like the framing of the Constitution, the LDS is undoubtedly freemasonic in its origins, and many Mormons are themselves heritage Americans. There's also that whole BYU-CIA recruitment thing.
There was a scandal in italy a while ago because in a certain hospital they were doing an abnormal number of c-sections, because it counts as surgery and they get paid more from the state.
It's less than three months since it was launched... like most tech I'm certain versions 2 and beyond will improve upon things, not that these will replace authors in my opinion, at least not in my lifetime.
They did it according to the article, but 200kg was seen as insignificant. I bet it is hard: imagine driving 100 miles and them trying to gauge from the fuel used if there is a leak that lost you 200ml.
The competition (Intel) allows them to do this considering their k cpus have a tdp of what? 125w?

People are still buying Intel so might as well try and convince them that AMD is just as "fast"
I can confirm that black coffee usually works just fine when doing intermittent fasting.
Wow! Only $25 a month to display a little message at the bottom --- and for the *privilege* of having your privacy invaded by GPS tracking.

It is impossible to overestimate the stupidity of the American consumer.
I've read a lot of assertions that this is true, but I'm looking for reports of this actually occurring. Either case studies from medical journals, or even newspaper articles.
It could also be linked to a change in your diet.
I have the same kind of experience, but I eat less sugar and this helped a lot in my case
If google is on the way to fix this, a look at the resources on (EVERYONES LOCAL!) not de-duplicated $GOMODCACHE would be very welcome too!

(At least from an enviromental perspective.)

Easy to verify, get a report [1]:
go install paepcke.de/fsdd/cmd/fsdd@latest && cd $GOMODCACHE && fsdd .

[1] Warning: Apple user with fixed restricted & expensive nvme space maybe very upset. Easy fixable via fsdd . --hard-link.
It's interesting to find out what the sensor may be actually measuring, and that it might actually be something, but I'm still left with the questions:

Is that stuff actually harmful?

If so, what could you even do about shower mist (at scale, as a reasonable thing to make a policy applying to all 7bn of us)?

And doesn't it still sound like the gas stove does not stand out as some special problem?

Or at least that, no article based on this source of data can be said to justify that conclusion.

Maybe the stove is doing something so much worse than farts and showers that it's worth giving up the utility and efficiency*, but this source of data does not show it.

* Efficiency including other gas appliances, ie, a gas clothes dryer is more efficient and interestingly, less fire risk than electric, but mostly the utility. Nothing else comes close to cooking with gas, it is simply by far the best tool for the job, and that is not an insignificant dismissable item.
This is depressing to see and confirms what I thought. We recently went to see a family friend dentist and they just did one small touch-up and a clean-I hadn't been to the dentist in a few years and was expecting a load of issues.
I was curious how the High/low Socio-economic status would have played out in Methodology:

> To indicate a higher socio-economic status, the test patient wore a high quality suit and high-end accessories such as an expensive watch, a car key and a new and expensive mobile phone. The test patient specified his occupation as a translator at a bank when asked to fill out the patient form.

> In the lower socio-economic status role, the test patient wore cheap unbranded
clothes, an old backpack and had no accessories. The test patient declared to be a student of translation doing an internship.

> Note importantly that in both socio-economic status-roles the patient signals to have studied. Hence, the level of education was kept constant across the two conditions.
By making a wrong diagnosis, that it is needed.
It's not really just that it's bland.. it's a parody of bad writing.

These authors are clearly just having fun. A serious attempt at using GPT to write a Holmes novel could achieve quite good results, I reckon. It would involve more interaction and deliberate structuring of the story via prompts.
I just realised you were working on Feetr! I learned you guys were using Common Lisp on Twitter. Small world really.

What implementations are you using, and how are you running it in production, if it is not a secret? Any performance issue with the GC at large scale?
CNC for marble? I mean that's not really news. Here is CNC machining marble from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLC_Ldv59Uk

Only difference now is, that this time it is on a robotic arm.
It doesn't.

I've tried it as an experiment a long time ago but was very unsatisfactory. I've already did some other transpilers to C in the past and can say that it is a terrible compiler target (you'll hit a lot of edge cases pretty fast with sometimes really awkward workarounds and very slow and memory hungry compilation).

Unless you're doing something very close to C the optimizations don't really help for performance either.

A fully optimizing AOT compiler is on the plan in a more distant future. I might try to revisit the idea to output to C from an already language specific optimized compiler output. Probably again as an experiment only. I don't see much of the upsides.
I used to have a lot of cavities due to poor oral hygiene, after I had a complications with my wisdom tooth, I really decided to step up my game and take care of my teeth. Brush 3 times per day, 15 minutes after every meal. Floss two times per day. Reduce soda intake. Reduce sugar intake.

Cavity free for 4 years now. I switched dentist and after several visists she accused me of seeing another dentist because I didn't have any new cavities. Anyway ...
Love the breadth and depth of opinion in the comments.

I have French press, Aeropress, Chemex, and Moka pot at home and am currently using them in descending frequency. I’m using the French press more now since I stayed at an AirBnB that had the Timemore Small U French Press [0] - it’s a really well-resolved bit of kit. I have a wooden stirring stick which was once a large rough chopstick, and I am enjoying feeling it acquire smoothness and patina over time.

[0] https://us.timemore.com/collections/other/products/timemore-...
I am well aware of the profit incentives for my data, and selling manipulation as a service. It is why I opt out in every instance I have a choice.

I use Whonix for most personal browsing, I use 0 GAFAM services or products by surveillance capitalism companies, I do not own a smartphone, I randomize my wifi MAC addresses, and the majority of my transactions are in cash or anonymized bitcoin.

License plate plate cameras, facial/gait recognition systems, and airline tickets are about the only automated ways left to track me that I am aware of.
Clearly the work of rabid anti-dentites.
What's the reason for the offset (~55ns) between GPS/Galileo and GLONASS?
> Girard himself, in his native language (cf. Girard, Cours de Logique I, Hermann, 2006, Section 1.B.2), writes:

> "La logique linéaire est issue d'une prise en compte systématique de l'interprétation catégorique. En particulier, les espaces cohérents [...], proches des espaces vectoriels [...] font apparaître des structures logiques familières en algèbre linéaires [...]"

> Translation: "Linear logic developed from systematically taking into consideration the categorical interpretation. In particular, coherent spaces [...], similar to vector spaces [...] give rise to logical structures which are familiar from linear algebra."

> So, in one sentence, it is called linear logic because it involves semantics which resemble structures from linear algebra.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2339147/why-is-it-c...
Everybody who uses a password manager encounters stupid password rules regularily.

It matters, because it is annoying. Password security rules should achieve two goals:

1. Actually improve security

2. Make it easy for users to choose a good password

A password policy of "chose one or more lowercase, one or more uppercase, two or more numeric and at least one special character, but not the one that you have been thinking of" does not achieve that goal, especially if they limit the password length to 15 characters.

Just tell give them a reasonable minimum length, check against the most common passwords and their username and call it a day. If you need more security, increase the minimum length.

Maximum length should be chosen in a way that nobody who is not malicious will notice it (e.g. 128 chars or bigger).

This produces safe passwords, is understandable and people with password managers are served as well.
Swiss parliament votes for mandatory ID verification on streaming websites
Because JS strings are obviously arrays (or if you prefer lists) of characters.

> The String type is the set of all ordered sequences of zero or more 16-bit unsigned integer values (“elements”) up to a maximum length of 253 - 1 elements.

Everytime the computer has to compare two strings it will have to compare the length and check whether each character is identical.

The fact that a choice was made to make strings immutable or how to implement comparison for arrays doesn't take away from strings being arrays of 16bit chars.
the vast majority of people who can afford an airbnb can float for an alternative place for a few days

all the places i travelled to, airbnb had the cheapest offers. in one place where i could not get airbnb because hosts were not responsive (it was christmas, and i was booking on short notice) i ended up switching hotels twice before we found something in our budget range that was barely acceptable, while there were airbnb listings for full apartments in the same price-range.
Also this:

https://goog.space/?data=eyJ0eXBlIjoidGV4dCIsInZhbHVlIjoiIyB...
If you ever have a long layover in Bangkok be aware that there are plenty of very professional reputable places that offer a proper tooth cleaning for ~$50.

They don't view you as a repeat customer, ask for an opinion on your way out. I'm quite sure they never bullshitted me once and I say this as a notorious anti-dentine.

Several other places I can recommend trying this:
Lima (Peru), Buenos Aires, Israel.

I have no idea why that is exactly but I assure you that you would not be compromising on the quality of the care. Quite the opposite.
” So in 2033, maybe the writer's main job will be adding personality to otherwise bland AI-generated stories. ”

To me, this is about the same as suggesting chefs will be relegated to adding flavour to frozen pizzas.
I found this forum thread where the topic is exactly about my question, so it's good to see some conversation about this:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/question-about-zil-slog.8...

> (part of the reason is) to group tiny sync IOs together in a persistent form

Yes, that seems to match precisely with what the latest messages seem to clarify in that discussion.

(Just dropping my suggestion for the article author) Seeing that this looks like a reasonable doubt that ZFS newbies might have, it could be an interesting point to mention. The article goes in great detail into the internals, so it probably is already well posed to include a mention about why the ZIL makes sense even when no SLOG is in use.
VLCD is extremely difficult to do. I doubt that many people would be able to stick to it outside of a controlled setting.

IF on the other hand doesn't require you to eat less calories than your body requires. Skipping breakfast works pretty effortless on the long term.
Disgusting behaviour. If you've ever spoken to anyone who's had one, they are a huge life-disrupting procedure.
Well, that's bad practice, and I hope it's not too common. I teach at a non-elite university at a peripheral place and we use TurnItIn, but we would never fail anyone without a human check to see exactly why the work was flagged.
No user data input either, so why bother.
Even worse when it does work to login, but you're logged out on the next navigation because the login cookie does not support passwords longer than 16 chars (don't ask me how this is possible)
The Theory of Positive Disintegration
Trustworthy Open Source: The Consequences of Success (2022)
We asked 180 developers if we should rewrite our tech stack in Rust.
This has been in place for a few years and seems to work quite well.

(Google does a lot of creepy stuff, but HN should also give them credit when they do great things)
I don't see anything about including other Justfiles or just generally other file.
Might be nice to split up huge projects.

The alternative Taskfile can do that https://taskfile.dev/usage/#including-other-taskfiles
Ask HN: What do you think about wireless charging?
Since I got a gift of a pair of earbuds with wireless charging, I have been thinking about the energy loss happening during the process.

As far as I can tell, wireless charging is (optimistically) 70-80% efficient. Now I agree it hardly matters for small/niche earbuds, but with Apple moving their iPhones [0] to fully wireless Qi charging. I think a 30% waste on that scale (once the ecosystem fallows) could become a problem.

What do you think about that waste? Or am I over-blowing the issue?

[0] https://onezero.medium.com/dont-be-shocked-if-your-next-phone-has-no-ports-at-all-50a132df0d64
> If Microsoft were to charge only $10 for it, its market share would be in the single digits.

This might be true. I wouldn't stop using it because I dislike it though. Only that if I'm going to give money, I'd rather do it to pretty much any company that's not Microsoft. I would probably pay for JetBrains stuff at that point, even though I could never get used to their products.

> It's the same with MS Teams. A bad, sluggish program full of bugs and weird behavior

Teams is the worst. VS Code OTOH is not bad (subjective, of course), definitely not sluggish (it's faster than emacs on my laptop, except when opening it the first time - which happens at most once a day) or full of bugs (at least none that get in the way of me doing my job efficiently).
For queries in my field (materials science), chatGPT actually seems pretty good about citing real sources, often one of the canonical sources for the topic

An acquaintance who works in the NLP space says this is done in post processing, where GPT probably hallucinates a reference but they run a web query or something to try to fix it up.
I think it's a combination of your flora and genetics. My father's best friend was also his (our) dentist and used to refer to my dad's and grandpa's teeth as "the yellow rocks". Men in my family piss stones more than any people I've ever encountered, to the degree that our family folklore includes a highly effective means of dealing with them involving vast amounts of Guinness and tying your genitalia with string. But somehow, our teeth seem to be practically immune to getting cavities.

The men in my family are also all strangely averse to sweetened drinks, sugar, candies, desserts, etc; we tend toward the salt, tobacco and whiskey flavor profile. So maybe that kills some of the destructive flora. My mom has 16 fillings; her parents and brother all ended up with false teeth by their 40s. None of my 3 brothers by my father have cavities. It's definitely something that runs on the male lineage, for us at least.
Sorry to hear it, it's true many dentists in Berlin have questionable practices. I assume because there are so many dentist offices they have to get the money somewhere.
I've been to at least 5 and it's usually "you're ok see you in 6 months" but one doctor told me I needed an Anti Grinding Teeth Protector (I didn't but it's covered by insurance so whatever) and one did a filling that had to be remade later by another. So I would recommend to find good busy dentist in Berlin as they don't need to extract money from insurance because they have many patients anyway
I like the idea, but JVM is a show stopper for me :/
Hope its okay if I post something tangential to the topic.

I just recently started working with OBS and I want to get into recording and potentially streaming linux gaming on Debian based systems, but what a hassle it's been to do what is pretty effortless on Windows! The AMDGPU and AMF stuff is so horribly fragmented, its really made me remove the rose colored glasses of AMD "just working" on Linux. It just works for gaming, but learning about why AMF won't work on a Debian based system (Linux Mint in my case) has only been the first few leagues down a rabbit hole that's shown why Linux isn't totally ready yet, sadly (DaVinci Resolve not being compatible with Debian systems as well)
How much of the country is truly technical enough to install (and want to install) self-hosted solutions though.

I'm an engineer by day, and even I can't be bothered when google does practically everything I want it to
Optimizing a Python Script
Just further proof in my mind that GPT-3 has been writing netflix scripts.
I ended up loosing a tooth due to similar experience, although my started with a tooth bleaching from inside, and now due to my own detal structure getting an implant is quite hard procedure if at all (without damaging other teeth in the process).

Every time I go to a dentist in Germany instead of my home country I get the feeling that they are always trying to sell me some additional care, while back home I get treated for what I actually have.
Vitamin D 5000IU daily, when I have respiratory disease I increase my daily dose to at least 15-20K IU

Vitamin C and multivitamin with various vitamins, both these in drinks

Vast majority of population is vitamin D deficient all year round, even spending at least 4 hours a day half naked outdoors in Hawaii would not provide you enough vitamin D [1], even 80-90% of Indian population living close to equator with much more sunlight is vitamin D deficient [2]. At very least I'd recommend following Finnish guidelines. [3]

[1]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17426097/

[2]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6060930/

[3]
https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/27/2/268/2670162
Very well said.

I consider the lack of respect for experience and skill one of the biggest failures of western culture. It also applies to things like mathematics where nowadays some people are even proud about their lack of skills. But the end result is that most people are amateurs in their own job.
This is a great take, but good luck explaining the difference to the majority who are unfamiliar with the technology/mathematics behind it. Most people won’t attempt to understand the difference - and worse they won’t care. It’s just another tragedy of the commons.
> I've worked with tons of Japanese devs and English didn't hold them back much.

Survivor bias?
I’m in the UK and lucky to be registered with an NHS dentist (places are scarce) so they have no incentive to treat problems I don’t have. I have to pay a token amount for dental checks and hygienist visits. Something like £15 a time.
gcmap can map path with etops consideration http://www.gcmap.com/mapui

> pacific islands

Depending on the jet streams, the flight can take the great circle route [0] or taking advantage of the jet stream [1] and flying more southernly

[0] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL6/history/20230108/02...
[1] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL6/history/20230105/02...
“DrawBridge” Lets You Read and Write to Amiga Floppy Disks
A lot of people are incapable of rationally talking about perverse incentives in the medical industry, especially in countries with social healthcare schemes. It's absolutely a problem. Dentists have a bad reputation for this, but there is no reason to suspect it's not a problem in other fields of medicine, hospitals, insurance, pharmaceutical, or medical device manufacturers.

I've had a dentist insist I must get my wisdom teeth out and fillings about 5 years ago. Never had the procedures done, never had so much as a toothache. One suspects that patient health outcomes and evidence-based treatment are not always at the forefront of every medical professional's decision making process.
You seem oddly defensive of Amazon. Do you work for them?

In any case, you've missed the point. If Amazon is competitive and better than others on pay and conditions as you say, sectoral bargaining would be good for them, because it would stop them getting undercut by worse employers.

> Firm B would be pretty easy to compete with, because it would end up with the worst human capital out of all of the firms, and a firm with better people would find a way to add value that Firm B could not.

This is obviously not true. Plenty of companies pay terribly and get away with it, and plenty of companies thrive because treating employees badly is their primary innovation. Uber, for instance, has found success through paying "employees" effectively below minimum wage.
Tesla was a "forcing function" that caused other car manufacturers to build EVs. AI lawyer technology may be the catalyst needed to trigger reform of the legal system. It's clear that up until now there has been no reform forthcoming.
The Simple Guide to Deep Learning [pdf]
Then that would be more of an issue at the exchange end. The current issue is that homes are running copper cable and so the cable needs to be changed for fibre to every street.

At least if you start with fibre to the street/house, you can update the backend infrastructure without the customers' involvement