skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Euro and Yuan don't claim to be the ubiquitous currencies in your region. Bitcoin would want to be that. Or at least that's what it was made for.
Do you have peer reviewed evidence that lockdown is responsible for the excess deaths and not - for example - a deadly virus that happens to have been ripping through the population?
So wait, lawyers are state entities?
Common Lisp code does have checks for NIL. When they are missing you get bugs like this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl/+bug/2002244

https://sourceforge.net/p/sbcl/sbcl/ci/06f1639e53e99365f48a1...

If you are calling a generic function you can sometimes avoid such checks by introducing methods specialized on the type NULL (which contains only NIL).
Life expectancy in the USA is significantly shorter than other first world countries with national health systems.
> There is also a "Men's rights movement", but it's not political to state that you are male.

Absolutely, but there are certain terms used by MRAs that are political. Just as being gay isn't political, but pushing pronouns or wearing rainbows can be.

GP appears to be making a factual statement (these things are often used for allegiance signalling for political groups), whereas you seem to be attacking them personally. You may need to reread the HN rules.
Stalin erased Trotsky a bit more violently than we are contemplating here.
Spending on the NHS is increasing a rate that is below the rate of increase in demand (the gap is about 3% year on year IIRC). Informally you might say this is a cut. It's easier to communicate to an unsophisticated audience.
I always thought the file format was going to be tightly bound to Arrow but looks like they aren't encouraging feather. Should we just be using Parquet for file storage?
If I remember correctly it was because she rode on a cart.
Employer / Employee has to be a match. If an employer prefers employees who have a social presence, then you and them are not a match.
No, I am observing that what Canada is doing here is fulfilling its obligations to NATO and, more specifically, the US. The comment I was replying to, and others here, seemed to assume that they bought these jets because they actually needed them for defense, or because they are just great airplanes.
Pollution is a tragedy of the commons. Individually, polluters gain more than they suffer. But collectively, they suffer as well (though I admit it remains to be seen how much, since the IPCC reports on economic impacts leave a lot to be desired [1]).

It is the job of the government to maintain the commons, because it can't get maintained through individual incentives alone.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34005635
The NHS is also suffering as a result of other departments' cutbacks: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/13/hospital-bed...

The tl;dr here is that there's a striking number of patients in hospitals (up to 30% in some areas) which are ready to be discharged from hospital, but cannot yet be discharged since they're waiting for the availability of social services that aren't handled by the NHS. I've mentioned it in all my comments here but this is the cost of austerity, and it's making healthcare not just worse but more expensive.
that is extremely toxic and misleading. how the fuck is that allowed?
Say the mining rewards fall off as planned and electricity prices go up. What percentage of miners is going to stand up for purity of the original vision versus voting for them to make more money? As we’ve seen so many times already, wasting lots of resources doesn’t make cryptocurrency middlemen any less tempted to abuse their positions, there’s nothing like the democratic accountability which keeps most sovereign currencies more stable than Bitcoin, and every major holder knows that they’re holding the weakest fiat currency and will only profit if they cash out ahead of everyone else.
Three great unsolved problems in computer science are naming things and off by one errors.
Austerity wasn't even that austere. Government spending didn't even reduce.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/298465/government-spendi...
>> Most advanced country have seen a few successes and has a decently sized software development power, but not that much bigger than Japan, and certainly not to the scale of the US. The real story would be to me "the US ate everyone's lunch"

They did. By virtue of being the only advanced economy that didn't need to focus on rebuilding after WW2. They have been capitalizing -rather successfully- on that breathing room since then -be it for the space race or software industry- and the advantage has only grown.
Gee, what could possibly go wrong?

mankind doesn't have a particularly strong track record of messing with mother nature without all kinds of unintended side-effects down the road.
I try to keep my calm but it’s a stretch on these topics.

There is nothing ethically superior about any financial manipulation. @sama just raised a multi-billion round on OpenAI. “Open” “AI”. Loopt sold to Greenpoint with thumbs on the scales from both pg and Conway, which is why he’s in a position to do that.

Parsing the details about how wealthy people with the right parents extract wealth is an exercise in parsing minutia.

The chosen get richer. The militant guardians of freedom fight for Drepper’s ideology (he works for Goldman Sachs).

And I’m pretty comfortable with all this: it’s the same as it always was.

Most crypto is a fucking scam. But it’s the same amount of cynical and worse connected than YC.
What does it mean to act as a ballast? What are some signs? Is there a general terminology for this? Are you talking about "meat-shield headcounts"
I often pray for anyone working on my behalf, and that certainly includes delivery drivers, food processors and subcontractors. I want their work to be safe, light and joyful.

Obviously there are some HN readers that will detest this suggestion, but for those who believe, please save a word or two for them.
Climate change is real, but taxing people and yelling at them has led to a lot of people disconnecting.

I’m not sure how else to explain this to folks passionate about climate change, but telling people the world is going to end, calling them stupid for asking “are you sure?” and telling them to pull out their wallet - is not effective policy.
I love this.

Another issue I have with descriptive names is that wrappers and other components quickly get out of hand, then you have machine-learning-worker-wrapper-utils and conversations about this become impossible.

Someone argued that cutesy name hides the responsibility; Personally, I think the effort of resisting making cutesy name do stuff it wasn't originally designed to do is well worth the ease with which you discuss these now concisely named components.
Firm C that combines the advantages of firms A and B will eat their lunch.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by underpaying? If people are willing to work for a company, and everything is as promised, what's wrong with that? (If things are not as promised, the legal system can help.)
There are some who would like that but I don't think many in government. Although if you include the civil service...
How to Connect Siri to OpenAI GPT
The result is not super smooth but it gives a nice idea of what Siri could become if Apple connects it to an LLM.
This. Balance is key imo.
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Austerity IIUC is more about reducing the deficit than reducing spending.

Usually the way you achieve this is by reducing spending to reduce the deficit.

But you could also increase taxes.

Government spending will eventually be paid. It's whether it gets by the people now, the people in the future, or the bagholders (bond holders when the government or currency collapses).

Of course life expectancy is going to decline if you can't force your grandchildren to pay for your healthcare costs now.

But it's not clear to me that's the most evil thing in the world.

Back when most spending was infrastructure and growth was high, you could argue this would be around forever, and it should be financed to a large degree on future generations.

But now that a huge percentage of spending is entitlements and growth has slowed, it's less clear.
"Peoples identities" is a relatively new concept, and certainly still a political topic. Do you really not see the political undertones?
You don't want it to be a free market. People who need urgent health interventions are not ordinary rational consumers. They may not even be conscious.

Combine this with providers incentivised to provide as much healthcare as possible at the highest possible markup, and insurers incentivised to deny as much care as they can ... and you have what always looks (from the other side of the Atlantic) like a gigantic life-and-death financial nightmare.
OP's problem is not about telemetry. Their problem was exactly what the title meant, "Opt-in" means user should make it true if they need, instead they have an opt-out with a name opt-in.

Imagine buying wipes labelled wipes, but they were actually dry tissues.
Sean Carroll is not the originator of the MWI by the way, Hugh Everett is.
Are they? I've read several lengthy threads by now and haven't seen such stance being proposed.

The issue with Pathfinder is that it was a derivative work of D&D, and although it has been rewritten since it's not clear whether the rewrite still is or not. If it is, then it couldn't be licensed on anything else than OGL and may be affected by OGL 1.1; if it's not, then it's simply unaffected by OGL 1.1 (or at least not in a way that will cause any troubles), since it's not up to WotC to decide how is this work being licensed.
Like many others and OP - I don't participate in "social" part at all and the employer does not require it and I too have been employed for ~2 decades in the industry, 17 of which with same employer (with full freedom to be creative and everything a senior dev expects from a good employer).

I'm not interested in writing blogs, I use Obsidian to create snippets and link up things I stumble upon and find useful or to note down my own code snippets, techniques and similar. I find blogs very hard to read, I often need technical info only (i.e. config reference, code sample or syntax example).

The whole "social" part of the current web is not something I can relate to at all, it feels fake and too inflated with useless information so I tend to avoid it.

If there were requirements to virtue signal, to write blogs, to write all over Linkedin "I am great but I would not be here without my $team of awesome $people who inspire me $some_other_generic_motivational_anal_alpinism" - I think I'd burn out and pursue a different career.

I ignore the popular "social" platforms, I use IRC and phpbb/vbulletin based forums to interact with people that have similar non-work-related interests. I don't think I'm missing out on anything and I feel no curiosity to be a part of this post-2010. part of social web.
> So well done, I guess? I am really happy to see library authors taking performance seriously!

> EDIT: This is assuming the benchmark is actually fair. I haven't looked at it, but it's not uncommon for benchmarks to be comparing apples and oranges.

What is the point of this negativity? Why are you implying that the benchmarks might not be fair because you "haven't looked at it"?
Author of typedload here.

Pydantic is indeed really slow (https://ltworf.github.io/typedload/performance.html)

typedload is faster and written in pure python (unlike pydantic).

I know they are rewriting it in rust… but I don't know what will come out of it. After all my pure python implementation already manages to beat pydantic's binary, and when unions are in use, also apischema's binary.
I like descriptive names that fade. It provides a sort of local etymology. Maybe not good for business, but definitly provides some interesting discussions at the pub.
We'll have done it in 4 decades ... if we don't mess it up again before that?
If those things were "cured" and a person could live to 150, or 200 or more, it would likely spell the end of the planet due to over consumption, over population, depletion of resources, etc. So you'd need to choose your way to die somehow.
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Of course Android has a camera API.
It is up to the App-Developer if he wants to trigger the default camera application and get a picture returned by it, or talk directly to the camera within the app (using the Android Camera APIs).

Larger Companies opt for the latter and make a own camera UI to take full control of the experience (and to be able to add features like filters etc)

Google has a project for developers to help unify the experiences across different apps, but it is up to the developer whether he makes use of it or not [1]

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/camerax
there is a health crisis in France too with underfunded and understaffed public hospitals (lots of healthcare workers resigned after covid)
Create content using GPT with this app
> The Conservatives deserve to die at the next general election for this and should be replaced by a completely new right of centre political party as the opposition.

The Lib Dems?
"extraordinary rare" is still too much, and trivialises the issue. There is serious lobbying in place in many countries to make it happen more. As you know, the only acceptable rate is 0. One important
stepping stone in getting this rate back down to 0 is to make it illegal tout court even for adult. There should not even be medical infrastructure for such mutilation.

Aside, your user name here is after an organisation founded by one of world history's worst mass murderers. Can I suggest to show empathy with his victims, and not use this term? Using it trivialises his crimes.
The demo is impressive for something running on a browser.

> Planned Features
>
> ...
> Multi-cursor support
> ...

I can't live without that though. SublimeText spoiled me, my editing flow is heavily based on multiple cursors.
>The best time to start training more doctors and nurses is ten years ago. The second best time is today.

The comment seemed to be observing a failure in resource (medical professionals) allocation on the part of the central planners.

We don't need to get into the weeds of what is communism or neoliberal third-positionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way
If you can build a coinbase equivalent with 16 people, the real question to ask is why hasn't anybody yet.
Please glimpse at the article. "No evidence of vaccine effect" in that context meant "no evidence that the vaccines contributed excess deaths in 2022"
This is one of several uplifting stories - especially for beekeepers - the past few years around bio controls for pests.

In Australia we've recently had (yet another) incursion of Varroa (a tiny mite that invades brood, resulting in deformed bees that can't fly, slimed honeycomb that typically ends with the colony either dying out, or giving up and leaving). We're the last remaining large landmass that doesn't have this pest, but we do have small hive beetle, foulbrood, wax moth, etc, that are common around the world.

There's some promising work on a fungus-based control[0] for Varroa (that might then translate to controlling other parasites), or a highly targeted hormone based pesticide [1].

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-evolve-fu...

[1] https://canberraweekly.com.au/australian-scientists-buzzing-...
There are orders of magnitude more crypto gamblers than people buying drugs online.
Solved with company name or product name prefixes, like “discord-routing-service”
The UK is down with leading countries like Colombia in the doctors-per-capita rankings. The NHS could be a lot better, and most doctors want it to be a lot better. If there aren't enough doctors to provide an adequate service - and there really aren't - it's not the front line staff who are to blame.
Attorney here, I think it’s too early stages to run with this tech. It’s not just the confidentially incorrectness people have mentioned. If you ask it for legal citations for an argument, it makes them up because it has no concept of truth to filter on. Make all the jokes you want about lawyers stretching the truth, but citing State v. Johnson, (Minn. 2007) when that doesn’t exist is going to be bad for the individual. The average person also likely isn’t going to be able to recover from such a flub if they are relying on the AI to tell them what to say. They may double down because “that’s what the AI says” which will make things worse for them.

I’ll also throw out the libertarian posturing of DoNotPay seems shortsighted. Sure, it might be all fine for awhile as individuals move faster than the system and gain an upper hand, but when the Comcast Customer Service Rep is replaced with the tech, that benefits only the shareholders. If you thought customer service calls were insufferable before, imagine an indefatigable, perpetually nice adversary out to screw you over.
Permissionless, as in don’t need anyone’s approval and anyone can participate, transfer of value backed by trustless, as in don’t need to trust anyone’s word for it, global consensus system.
Author here: Git integration plugins will come later, but it's planned. I hope the project gets enough visibility to get some collaborators :)
> Tesla produced about 1.4 million all electric vehicles in 2022 with a growth rate of about 40%.

And their inventory is growing, their backlog is shrinking: https://twitter.com/TroyTeslike/status/1609346097733828609

And you are almost for sure American. Check out how many EVs/PHEVs were sold by:

VW

Mercedes

BMW

Renault

Volvo

Chinese manufactures

Everyone is catching up to Tesla and it's going to be just a face in the crowd in about 2-3 years.
I always love that the solution to all government failings is simply spending more tax dollars or incurring more debt....
Do you mean Camera2 API? https://developer.android.com/training/camera2
What a hilarious question. Doctors make far more than software engineers and are respected. The profession carries prestige by default. Software engineering simply does not.

Becoming an dev good enough to pass a FAANG interview is orders of magnitude easier than becoming an MD.

It's like asking why do people become pilots instead of chefs.

Imagine saving someone's life as opposed to writing JS for an image app that provides filters. Incomparable.
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Could try and do both? Drew lives in The Netherlands nowadays. I don't know where Sourcehut is based legally, and I realize the Dutch court system is also overburdened & expensive but it might be worth a shot. I wonder if Drew considered it, and if he'd been able to use the Dutch court system. If Drew needs a good Dutch lawyer, I can recommend Arnoud Engelfriet of ICTRecht (has a blog on Iusmentis.com, legal advice is free if he's allowed to publicize it).
I think this is on the right track, Japan has a fantastic hardware oriented manufacturing culture, but this can be a serious impediment when it comes to approaching software development. One symptom is that software teams are seen as part of a product line team rather than having their own org.

Famously this was a major issue at Nokia and Blackberry, who institutionally believed that their competitive edge was in the hardware. Device specifications would change late in the product development cycle due to constraints on manufacturing or cost targets, and the software devs would just have to work around it. Adopting software platform, like Symbian at Nokia, was primarily seen as a cost and resource saving move to speed up development using a generic solution.
Who wouldn't empty their regulated bank account in order to get their kidnapped firstborn released?
I utterly disagree with you. After 30+ years of doing this, I almost always despise "descriptive names" - they are almost always wrong, generic, and hard to say/type. They are difficult to change, and even if you do change them, you just end up with another crappy descriptive name. "database-writer" or "user-database-writer" or "database-post-writer" or "event-logger" or "event-logger-2". While every once in a while you'll encounter a descriptive name that lets you actually know what it does and doesn't change over time, the vast majority of the time that name is still hard to write/say and so people use initials which makes the descriptive name pointless.

Use a non-descriptive name, because you can't tell what a service/app does by just the name. People say "google" not "global-web-searcher". You can't tell what a service really does by just the name, so stop trying.
That would not tell you anything about how much someone values a product. Everyone will happily pay 0 for something they value at 10. It's a fantastic deal for them. Too discover the true value you have to raise the price until they refuse to pay it. Which is what a market is intended to do.
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If he's able to sue in Dutch court I can recommend a good lawyer, see my other reply.
> It's a room full of employees, and you are the manager. Will you hear plenty of bullshit? Absolutely, but you will also get heaps of useful output that can solve your problem, make you think outside the box etc. It's all about how you interact with it.

I find GPT very useful as well!

Strictly from a rhetorical position, I’ve noticed that the “GPT fails like people fail” argument has not been very convincing in these discussions for whatever reason.
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Plenty of wildly successful companies (Google, FB, etc.) have all had junior engineers interviewing people.
Lol. FAANGs have hundreds of thousands of employees. They aren't Einsteins.
I enjoy hobby coding in Rust, however I see its main use case being deployment scenarios where no form of automatic memory management is considered a viable option (tracing GC, RC, mixed RC/GC, ARC, whatever).

Additionally I see a possible future with automatic memory management + linear types for low level coding, like Haskell and Swift are looking into, as more interesting.

The sweet spot of productiviy of automatic memory management, with the control of type system for low level coding, if really needed.
Tell HN: ChatGPT Should Stay Free
OpenAI is currently evaluating monetization strategies for ChatGPT. Tell them ChatGPT should stay free so it can benefit humanity.

OpenAI's mission is: "Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."

https://openai.com/about/

Having an intelligent helper to benefit people but cutting off access by charging for it does not benefit all members of humanity equally. Instead, it should keep it free but sell businesses subscriptions to train it on their own documentation.

Additionally, all the free users generate free press as well as buy-in at large companies. When large companies have users using it, those same users will champion for the company to invest in the business version trained on company documentation.

Therefore, it should stay free to benefit everyone, while charging businesses so that it can take advantage of the generated free publicity to create a source of revenue to continue investing in research and development.

Let OpenAI know the same.
Can someone comment on the code quality of Arrow vs other Apache data engineering tools?

I have been burned so many times by amateur hour software engineering failures from the Apache world, that it’s very hard for me to ever willingly adopt anything from that brand again. Just put it in gripped JSon or TSV and hey, if there’s a performance penalty, it’s better to pay a bit more for cloud compute than hate your job because of some nonsense dependency issue caused by an org.Apache library failing to follow proper versioning guidelines.
This comment strikes me as naive.

If a child is financially dependent on their parents, they are not capable of living independently. A parent who isn't providing support, has no right to dictate or interfere.

Personally, independence defines adulthood.
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