skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What fight? Suffer how?

Interviews are conversations, not fights.
A mushroom is a weird example for empathy for a few reasons. First, the part you eat is really just the "fruit" or reproductive part of the mushroom that only lasts for a short time before withering away. Second, mushrooms very happily eat you after you die, hell, even before you die you're covered in all kinds of unicellular fungi which are actively trying to eat you.

More to your philosophical point, the beauty of life is always transitory. Life begins, blooms, withers and dies but also passes on the small immortal spark that it all came from to the next generation so it can repeat the cycle. I'm against cruelty to animals but I also recognize that eating them is part of life and that it is possible for us as conscious beings to give them a better life than they would have in the wild and then kill and eat them and I'm ok with that. I don't want to live in a world where all cattle or pigs are reduced to a few wild populations scrabbling for survival against the elements and disease while being occasionally mauled and devoured alive and screaming by wolves and other predators. To me that's more immoral than a properly maintained herd that is sheltered, fed and given medical attention and then slaughtered as painlessly as we can manage.

Before all y'all reply with "factory farming", yes I'm aware of its prevalence but that just means we should be working to reduce that type of treatment, not eliminating raising animals for meat entirely.
Would be interesting to know how long ago this trait evolved, and whether the current state of affairs is stable or if adaptations are in progress.

It's not too hard to imagine a mutation from a toxin that causes painful bites, to something more lethal - and this would dramatically increase the amount of 'food' available to these critters.

Hopefully that doesn't happen for at least a million years or more, bc if you thought mosquitoes were bad ..
I had to enable JS to view the content. I was disappointed to see that this is about running some Grafana tool an K8s.
It had to do with the number of abortions that take place in the US every year - over 600,000 per year.

This number shocked us because everyone in the room thought we had heard everything about this issue, but tacitly assumed a much smaller scale. In my head Bill Clinton's quote about it being "safe, legal and rare" still ring out.

It kind of smacked us in the face to realize we were talking about an issue for years without even realizing how often it happens. Maybe you had to be there but it really adjusted a lot of people's views.

Maybe it was especially powerful because the fact was dropped on us by someone who wasn't part of the debate, they weren't a prolifer but someone who "could see both sides"
Today is January 21, 2023 and JavaScript must die.
One of the worst things I've learnt about US, is that like the poor can't just go to vote, as it is not a public holiday but they need to ask for permission from their bosses? Like there are a lot of bad things I've learnt along the years about of US treats poors, and I think this one is on the podium
Good to know, I don’t have personal experience with POCUS devices (radiologist). I think traditionally Butterfly was much cheaper than Clarius, and had better software assistance / AI for things like TGC sliders and gain. Looking at the Clarius offering now it seems much closer in pricing and they’ve improved their software package.

Surprised to hear that they have separate USB-C and lightning offerings in 2022/2023, seems archaic.
I haven't done a ton of PowerPC assembly but I knew this. Frankly, it seems that the people writing the PowerPC output didn't know PPC that well, which is always a problem. There are probably more bugs than this.
You're a minority. Most people don't have strong passwords. Problem solved for Apple.
Anecdote: I went to see a doctor in California without health insurance. Saw a doctor in the format of urgent care. [Actually, I'm not sure of this - it's pretty likely, but there's a chance I saw them by appointment.] Got prescribed nothing. ("We call this desquamation. It means it's peeling. We don't know why.") Total cost for the visit + nothing was zero dollars.
True that makes sense. Although managing two products vs. one , Server and Data Center, even if they are mostly the same, is not free. As @adra noted, subscription revenue (although there are always support payments) is a likely driver.
> Twitter is no longer part of their identity, now Mastodon is

And this is why so many people are put off. The Mastodon die-hards are ready to defend Mastodon from any perceived insults. So that when people have genuine questions or issues, it's like you're insulting the users themselves.

It doesn't help that Mastodon fans heavily evangelise the tech, as if anyone other than tech bros care.

"What do you mean there's no good content on Mastodon? You blah blah blah decentralised blah blah blah fediverse..."

So back to Twitter/Reddit/Facebook people go, where you can get your dopamine fix within about 2 seconds.
Aaannnd its all wasted on arms deals.
Sounds about right! And look, so much less expensive than Data Center per year!
> I was consulting in Atlanta once and people thought I was insane to walk two miles to the office.

Culturally in the US South, walking is viewed as having a high correlation with poverty, so it's a low-class thing to do that people avoid as a signaling measure.

A relation that runs for exercise visited a semi-rural area there, and people would stop their cars and offer a ride because "not being in a car" was strange.
Yeah, basically by bypassing the OS VM memory switching/context-switch with their own brand of memory-switching/context-switching, but with one notable difference: stackless internal representation (IR) bytecodes.

Can we open up a new class of vulnerabilities in Mitre?
I think a better contribution to the discussion would be more details or a better source.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/exploring-science-acupuncture

They found a mapping of neurons that match with how acupuncture determines location, intensity, depth of the needle. Leading to specific neurological firing enabling reduction in inflammation.

Many in our society look at the ancients as stupid because they worshipped gods or spirits. Constantly we’re finding what they discovered and said has evidence according to our “god” of science.

I think throwing away their wisdom is a mistake, we should look at many of their practices like the pyramids, trying to find what they may have seen that we do not. Not throwing it to the wayside because it’s “woo-woo”
The suicide part is deliberately avoiding actions that would increase your chances of survival because, and I quote, "My sincere hope for my family and I in a mid-grade to all-out nuclear exchange is that we perish immediately".
I made one of these online tool from which you can create deep links to an FTP server like this: https://demo.filestash.app/login?type=ftp&hostname=ftp.gnu.o...

It works not only with ftp but sftp, s3, webdav and pretty much any other storage backend you can think of.
Very good point. I also dislike the presupposition that since there was malpractice in one instance, one must assume the same in all others.
The manual override switch I mentioned should disable the smart control completely. The switch would have to be designed to work without the smart control in the first place which would mean it would still work when the smart control was disabled or malfunctioning.
The solution was created based on the feedback we received from our customers. They needed a Git backup solution which works (and notifies you when something is not ok) with a big number of repos, has support for multiple cloud storages, encryption, incremental backups, audit logs, real time logs, auto-discovery, etc.

If a script triggered by a cronjob which does not include any provider metadata (issues, pull requests, webhooks, etc) is enough for your case, go for it :)
Selfish till the end
Final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository
Maybe because we were early power users and knew how well it used to work?
Maybe. With a human being there’s an issue of consent. I don’t believe frogs are intelligent enough to be able to give informed consent, but for people that would be an issue. But setting aside the issue of consent, then yes.

(Caveat: I don’t believe this hypothetical is possible anyway. I am of the opinion that there is a dividing line in sentience beyond which improvements are possible but are more like upgrades than something more radical. There’s a phase change between sentience and non-sentience, but no further ohase changes to be had (I think))
How is the argument in any way similar? iCloud is a known destination that the iPhone can easily verify.
Do you know the rationale behind this? e.g. is there some networking rules? If your company is behind some zero trust network, that's would be a non-issue.
Animals are tortured today like they have never been. Animal husbandry harms the planet on a massive scale. It cannot be reduced to what you suggest.
The reason sounds rather lame. Better reasons to limit remote work to a single state include the need to comply with another set of tax and employment laws, health insurance policy may be based upon all employees residing in a particular state and not wanting to establish a physical nexus in another state.
And why did Ukrainian MoD paid 15 million dollars to the victims' families exactly?
Every year filling my taxes reminds me how lobbyists representing firms like Intuit (TurboTax) have gone out of their way to make tax filing a free service of the IRS. I don’t know why we allow this to continue in the US.
It works pretty great on mobile too!
If I'm going to make-believe for fun I'd rather pick something that invokes enjoyable thoughts and not religion. I'd rather take up something lame but fun like role playing, or I dunno ... Y'know, suddenly, I feel like I now understand overly-attached adult anime and video game fans a little better.
Upvoted from South Africa! At our exchange rate we are hugely disadvantaged on all USD / EU / GBP priced products, which in turn affects our ability to participate in global markets on the same footing. Whilst there are alternate products, everyone we work with uses the Adobe suite for good reason, it is a superb solution, and we haemorrhage our bank accounts to be able to use these tools which we love so dearly.
Ask HN: Is inflation-resistant stablecoin possible?
In page 92 of Messari's 2023 Crypto Theses, there's a paragraph stated that “As reserve currencies continue to inflate away purchasing power, we need new currencies that maintain their purchasing power. I believe we’ll get an inflation-resistant stablecoin in my lifetime. And it will be glorious.”

My understanding is that the author believed that inflation-resistant stablecoin is possible and well needed, but isn't inflation-resistant stablecoin impossible?

If the supply drops, inflation happens, every currency that can be used in trading is affected, included crypto coins.

On the other hand, if a crypto coin is not being traded, it's possible that its price wouldn't be impacted by inflation, then why would anyone need a coin that can't be traded.

My question is, how can an inflation-resistant stablecoin can possibly be designed?
Bringing the first native OS for Arm back from the brink
Agreed, since, according to the article they have not shown that, nor explained the linear breaks.
How China planted an FBI mole, discovered only after gutting CIA's spy network
How Hard Choices Lead to an Easy Life
Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs
I'm somewhat reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om...
To demonstrate a mechanical analogy for impedance, something-something use electrolytics in place of diodes.
Well that sounds like a moral philosophy that is alien, unappealing, and downright evil in its consequences. I mean, by that exact logic—if you truly believe it—you should be out euthanizing homeless people as a net win.

Every human life has value. There is no instance where I would value the life of a frog over the life of a human being. By logical consequence, I should always prefer one more human over one more frog. QED.
Do you know what the facility/hospital fee component is out of curiosity?
> I failed to convince them to undelete my account (the deadline is currently 2 years), but there is an HN support incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715866#18717279.

A lot of companies have a habit of keeping data but not migrating dead customers to newer schemas and systems.
I stopped using google a while ago, but try searching for something unusual, add doublequotes around it and notice how your search engine blatantly ignores double quotes (and even your verbatim operator) in order to inflate results.

This cost many minutes most times and is seriously annoying because the search engine ignores me and lies to me.

Machines shouldn't do that.
I just don't understand how this keeps happening?
Legal and tax issues is the main reason. Most companies don't want to deal with them. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. For example companies like Automattic, Convertkit, and Safetywing are fully location independent. Employees can work from anywhere.

For the past 6 months I have been trying to develop a home for digital nomads to find location independent jobs. Most remote job boards are filled with remote jobs that restrict working outside the country just like you mentioned.

FWIW, I am currently building a paid Discord server to send instant job alerts for location independent jobs. All jobs are hand curated by me to only include the companies that are nomad friendly and care about diversity. If you may find it helpful, consider subscribing. Thanks.
Similar. End of 2008. Decided I didn’t want to do back-breaking work anymore. Always loved and used Linux and decided I must be a NOC tech in a datacenter. Got onto SLUG (Tampa) irc, found out about a local hosting company that owned a DC, relentlessly called/harassed the NOC Manager until he let me intern/work for free. Been in tech ever since.
Yes, yes, yes. I have bought a screen and plan on integrating exactly this sort of setup into my routine, mainly for the focus benefits the author notes.
Building and delivering front ends at scale
There is the mental function signalling "hang on, you're about to do something unsafe. Are you sure you want to do this?"

But I think there are some scenarios where it serves a practical security purpose as well:

- You're in an office, went away to grab a coffee and left the screen unlocked (bad!). Without sudo, a malicious person could indeed quickly install a backdoor or keylogger and take over your system.

- you're executing a third-party script on your user account. Without a password prompt, that script could trivially escalate its privileges by embedding sudo commands. With a password prompt, you'll hopefully stop and ask yourself why the script is asking for your password.

Basically, you actually cannot assuming that every running on a user account is really authorised by that user. So asking for the password is an attempt to reaffirm that it's really the user who gave that command.

> If an attacker is already in the system, it can install key logger and whatnot without the root password.

Yes, but that would require the attacker to, well, run sudo...
Some people like to hope the company selling you a $1500 phone might not feel the need to also extract $3/month from you.

Naïve, I know.
This is only true if you're talking about some sort of fringe view like flat earth theory. Once a stupid view reaches a critical mass of popularity, even people capable of rational thought will start to believe in it unless if they see evidence that contradicts it.
Seeing so many people calling THEMSELVES 10x here is both sad and funny.
I don't think it will solve the micro sleep problem because that's arguably more of a political issue than a technical one. The issue is rarely the drivers trying to drive till they drop but rather the businesses themselves trying to force the drivers to take on extra shifts (due to lack of drivers) or drive longer to deliver sooner rather than sleeping. In such cases in the future people will find a way to simply turn off the checks and still crash.

Regardless these long-haul issues should be resolved by automated driving anyway given that long highway journeys are a decent use-case for automation.
I use a stethoscope to listen for airflow in the lungs and murmurs of the heart. In both cases I would still order more imaging before finalizing a treatment plan unless it is for something emergent. Ultrasound cannot assess airflow well so I don't see it replacing the stethoscope in that regard.

My unpopular opinion is that point of care ultrasound is a fad and will eventually be phased out of physician workflows. This is because I haven't seen it actually change someone's medical decision making. More often, people use it as a means to justify why they haven't actually made a treatment decision yet.

The only way I could see it have adoption is if actual radiologists (which as of now are the only physicians that went through standardized examination confirming competency in reading ultrasound studies) started doing rounds in the ER and on the wards.
One major aspect of primary keys not mentioned in the article is the performance of queries. I did some benchmark recently, where serial (32 bits) was significantly faster than the native Postgres UUID type. The worst scheme you can use is a string; if you encode something like ksuid as a plain string rather than an efficiently packed byte sequence, query performance becomes significantly worse. I didn't benchmark sorting, but I assume it's similarly impacted.
Inspired by https://twitter.com/twowordhorror
I'd be happy if FaceID was enough though?
Agree that close to the metal threeJS gets you best performance but don’t sleep on Unity WebGL.

They announced at their Unite conference a few months ago they were gonna add proper mobile support for it. Nice to see them investing.

Also shameless plug for [https://spatial.io]. With Unity’s URP we can get near AAA visual quality in the browser. Plus hosted multiplayer, chat, native web/mobile/vr apps, etc.

The future is bright for web and no install! And with App Store’s 30% cut the economic winds are at our back!

[https://spatial.io/toolkit]
Show HN: Transkript – Whisper backed local transcription and dictation for Mac
Hey HN!

I am excited to introduce Transkript, a new transcription and dictation app for Mac that's powered by whisper, working in local. With Transkript, you can transcribe audio and video files, faster than any other app because it's not uploading or waiting for Apple speech API.

I've also added a podcast transcription feature, so you can easily search a podcast or add an RSS feed link to transcribe any podcast episode. I've also built a dictation tool that allows you to create notes simply by speaking. Everything is done in your Mac.

Let me know what you think!
Ad 1: That's a huge chance. Just imagine how many nurses there are in the closest hospital, and that each of them had a 2% chance for some unvaforable pattern.
I’m SHOCKED to read a staff physician, especially as young as you are, is performing egophany and percussion. If your comments didn’t so strongly suggest that you are a very competent and diligent physician I would honestly call BS.

Good for you though, I haven’t seen these exams performed done since the clinical skills course during preclerkship of medical school. It’s honestly a running joke in my medical friend group, when we used to teach the medical students we’d have to pull out a copy of Bates and remind ourselves how to do those and whispered pectoriloquy haha.
I am lucky to have grown up in a village where we could see milky way at night with our naked eyes. A dim cloud of stars going from one end of sky to other.
TIL: HN strips emojis from the comments but it does allow then in submission titles...
I remember bouncing off OS/2 when IBM was still pushing it. The installer had a whitelist entry for my brand of CDROM drive, but with "4x" in the string; my hardware had "8x" and so it didn't want to install.

Great example of "Walk the extra mile to shoot yourself in the foot" thinking there.
Why is a frog's life more bleak and meaningless than a human's life? We can't understand animals' thoughts, but that doesn't mean they don't have them.

A frog spends its time chilling in a pond and swimming all day. People pay good money for vacations where they can do exactly that. Sounds like a good life to me.

If I was a frog and you turned me into a homeless guy who has to go get a job at an Amazon warehouse to afford food, I'd use my newfound intellectual capacity to plot revenge on you and everyone you love.
I don't appreciate the sarcasm but I think it's obvious that you improve the world by, for example, correcting falsehoods and criticizing bad behavior, not because it effects the target (although I suppose there's a tiny chance it might), but for the rest of the audience, some of who may not know better or just may not have even considered it beforehand. Every little bit counts.
Anyone liking Lena might also like to read Vernor Vinge's 2003 novella The Cookie Monster, which at least ends on a bit more of a hopeful note.
>I don’t know why we allow this to continue in the US.

It makes me wonder who "we" are in terms of controlling policy and direction in the country. It also makes me wonder what the motives are of the "we" if it's really inclusive of your typical voter and not a small subset of self-interested parties, many of which may not even be people.
This is still the case with PeopleSoft (32 chars limitation, and truncation)
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Opens the Door for Flight on Other Worlds
Could operating systems use this technique to speed up things?
Ew, no. Chatgpt is a parlour trick
And getting eaten by birds. All life in nature (except of top predators like us) is harsh, brutal, and short.
A few years ago, I worked on a (company-strategic) experimental project that used Python. Apparently, it only worked on some specific versions of Python, due to changes in the internal order of sets, a fact that was of course not documented or checked in the tool.

Not the reason for which the project failed, but the weeks lost trying to replicate results between teams certainly didn't help.

Python is very readable, but I agree that the stdlib is anything but simple.
Augmented reality feature embedded in article and accessible on iOS is amazing. Here's what I got when I tried it:

https://youtube.com/shorts/w8OAnwcRpLc?feature=share

https://archive.ph/aOXII

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/ingenuity

mission website: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/
My bank requires a password of exactly 8 digits. In 2023.
Backed by I bonds?
It might just imply that Gates reads Martin Gardner (who had a column in a popular periodical) or the equivalent, but I don't see why he wouldn't have been able to figure expectation values in his head?
There is no fiducary duty to maximise shareholder profit. It doesn't exist, it's basically made up. (There is a duty not to intentionally screw over shareholders, but that's far narrower.) In particular, most US corporations are incorporated in Delaware which has something called the business judgement rule, where so long as executives have reasonable belief that their actions are in the best interests of the business they're protected.
The typical password managers allow you to generate up to ~120 characters, I would go for 500 just to be on the safe side.
If you file a complicated tax return and the "prepared by" line is not a CPA, you get targeted as someone who probably did something wrong. The IRS is more likely to go for you.
> Every human life has value.

You say that because you're a human. If you were a frog, I bet you'd value frogs' lives more than humans. Why do you think it's your place to change others' lives into whatever form you personally prefer?