skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no-one has ever looked at the NHS as a reference to be copied

You added "to be copied".

Many countries (eg: Canada, Australia, other Commonwealth countries) have looked to the NHS as a reference, both for the intial launching of their own national health services and for ongoing comparison as the decades have passed.

Australia has a hybrid health care system that works better than the US system, it was built with reference to several other global health care systems and is still modified to this day.

Much as Australia has a "Washminster" system of government that was designed with reference to both Washingtond and to Westminster.
Thank you!

Actually thats a great idea and should be doable! I already do some analysis on the images. Will take a stab at it in the next few days and post back here.
Ah yes, the "I'm not the target audience and I don't use this product, so no one else uses it" argument.

I do agree with you though that social media is more about being "flavor of the month" and riding popular trends. In that sense, I think one trick social media companies are very risky.

However, Snap has enough inertia to last for some time.
Very cool.

I tried tapping on the knife name several times before realizing I had to tap the image.
ServiceMaybe
> any jet fighters available to buy that Finland would be the only operator of?

The concern isn't being sole operator at time of sale, but decades down the road. The Gripen, for example, is used by Sweden, South Africa, Hungary and Czechia [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
Mass education is like mass transit. It gets the majority of the population somewhere. Not everyone gets to take the ferrari. Someone will always be left out and we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Neat.

More things should be links. Like if I'm on

https://www.knifegeek.io/blades/pro-tech-malibu

Most all the words on the page should be links. "Pro Tech", "Wharncliffe", "Damascus", "Malibu" etc should all be clickable to view similar things.

Oh, and you should add a metadata field for locking mechanism.. fixed, friction, lockback, liner, frame, button, axis, butterfly, etc.
Cool, a little feedback:

Back button is broken, for example search for balisong knives, click on one, click back - your search is gone.

Also, suddenly the search stopped working - maybe you just pushed an update? Now when I start typing into the knife type search I get force redirected to a login - but I don't want to login - I want to search.

Edit: Now I see in your description you force the login after a few advanced searches. I don't know why that is, but the experience is jarring. If you are trying to block bots a cpatcha is probably a better idea.
The calculus is pretty simple. The F-35 costs about as much as a modern 4th generation aircraft these days but consistently slaughters those 4th generation aircraft in exercises due to its unique capabilities. This gives it a high force multiplier for the cost that works well no matter the quality of the adversary. I think everyone expected the F-35 to be much more expensive than advanced 4th generation aircraft, which would change the argument, but that turned out not to be the case.

That dozens of countries are buying fleets of F-35s also makes the practical logistics, operations, interoperability, and maintenance of the aircraft attractive. It is quickly becoming the new F-16 in terms of ubiquity in a modern Air Force.
Sejda pdf works well enough for me.
> to not let women get a college degree

There's no reason for me to stick to your exact argument since yours is a subset of a problem which is occurring in several places. For us this issue is settled and there is no reason to undo the progress which has been made.

> I would prefer to live in a society where it's considered a good thing to not let women get a college degree and marry them off in their teens and if this were up for debate, I sure hope I would not get convinced of the opposite.

This implies that you are assuming the perspective of a person which is in favor of a patriarchal society, let's take Afghanistan for example. The people you are referring to there do certainly not want to get convinced of the opposite of their beliefs, they would be giving up (unfair) privileges. There is no value for us assume their point of view, there's nothing to gain but an understanding of which methods could exist in order to try to educate these men to make them understand that those are no human rights. The author implies that he accepts the point of view of those people which he talks to, which is perfectly fine, but in this case, it is unacceptable. There is nothing left to debate. In that case the only thing that can happen is that some courageous women fight for their rights, but we also have to admit that it gets harder and harder the more modern a population becomes. Take Iran for example, not that they have the education issue, but there it's about some freedoms which some citizens want to obtain, but it get's harder because there's the new technology which the oppressors can make use of.

Where is the point in debating that murder should be an accepted and not punishable fact of life? You simply can't put a person with me in a room which is pro-murder and have it debate with me that it is ok. There is nothing, absolutely nothing for me to gain from his point of view, with the exception of me maybe getting to understand how a murderer thinks which could be a benefit if I would be a detective, which I am not. There's also nothing for me to gain by having some Taliban with me in a room and he trying to make me understand that women have essentially no rights. There's zero reason for me to even listen to a single word which this person has to say to me in this regard.

That is what I'm trying to explain, that some things are not even worthy of debate and if those were assumed that they would be worthy of it, then I certainly would not want to lose those debates when engaging in them. The other person should be the one learning something. There are hills I'm willing to die on. Sometimes the other person is, simply put, a stupid person.
I guess students will get recorded writing their homework, say on a tablet.

Then of course the AI can whisper the student what to write to your ear. So perhaps homework will have to be done at school? School that checks its students with a metal detector when they enter. (Some schools use them already to check for guns?)

On a side note Im very shocked how lax is everything in those proffessional chess tournaments. It feels there are many ways to cheat and they dont try to do anything against cheating. They should use metal detectctors (to detect computers inside stomach or tooth), they should host everything inside a bunker (so no radio), without audience (who can do various tricks) and in a secured environment (all cameras chcecked to be sure they are legit).

Those chess tours look like cheating galore for me, although I dont play chess.
> With 50,000 W of power, we go by faster miles an hour.

With the radio on! https://youtu.be/6ZWoJ8_75Mo

> Shortwave, on the other hand, is alive and well. You can find some really nifty stuff out there. Everyone ought to own something like the old Realistic DX-350 and scan the bands now and then.

The current model Tecsun PL-330 supports SSB, and is a champion portable receiver. Contemporary SW radios offer amazing performance at a low price. I wish there were more to listen to, though.
The issue is, suppose you implement an HTML viewer component in Java/C#/whatever, which could be used, for example, to display help pages in a desktop application. You’d like to tell the users of that component that it supports HTML version x.y, but with the “living standard” there is no x.y to point to. Content providers instead have to use trial and error to see what renders in that viewer and what doesn’t, instead of having a specific standard they can refer to.

Similarly, you can’t have an HTML content generator that would guarantee that its output conforms to HTML x.y, and thus could be used to produce content for the viewer component.

The only thing that the respective providers of the viewer component and of the content generator could do is to provide a copy of a snapshot of the “living standard” to express which revision they support. But since there are no named/numbered versions, that’s not very practical, and it makes it hard to determine compatibility between such software modules.

This is what the “living standard” fails at, as a standard.

As pointed out elsethread, it also fails by leaving a lot unspecified.
I normally use Pocket
Just visited it and saw several racial slurs and other profanity.
Glad you like it :). Yes, i'm actually working on that at the moment. Should have filtering by lock type, blade color, handle color, and use case out by tomorrow.
Why I don't use ChatGPT to solve regex problems in Ruby? [palindrome-example]
FM does not transmit to thousands of kilometers...
I was put on the list for a procedure in the Australian system. Took well over a year of waiting to eventually get a call to schedule it. But I could afford it through private health insurance, so I had already had it.

But I‘d rather an inefficient system that manages to treat some people that can’t afford procedures.
Nobody knows exactly why he was banned (except for the people banning him), because the ban was not communicated to him or anyone else (at least according to his words). However, he did get banned after putting the issue into the golang issue tracker, so there is at least a temporal correlation.
Obviously you don't believe in reality, so it's worthless having any discussion with you.
F-35 is multi-role while the F-22 was optimized primarily for air.

The "multi-role" thing is what made developing and debugging the F-35 such a pain.

However, that seems to be paying off as now it gets manufactured in more and more volume.
I've never even looked at Starcraft 2 with it's "micro" reputation.
I favour Supreme Commander.
To be fair it is: Supreme Commander + Forged Alliance + FAF online community.

Persistent between games: Configurable building templates - one building command queues whatever you set in whatever arrangement, rotatable on placement.

Factory infinite repeating queues with waypointing including automated airlift ferrying for ground units if required.

Adjustable waypoints. Move, insert, remove waypoints without having to redo the whole set from scratch.

Plus I like the storage aspect of resource management and the titanic units. Not so sure I care much for nukes though...
SQL is declarative in the sense that you dont specify the strategy to employ in retrieving the data (ie which index to access and how, whether to sort and merge or build a hash table etc etc) however you DO need to specify how to represent your data as records (which could entail specific cases for when certain values go in the same cell as you pointed out).
not well. That requires an unbiased sample which they work really hard not to show.
I still use bookmarks... but I don't categorize them using a nested folder structure, I simply tag them instead. I use the address bar to search for them: * tag

But you aren't the only one thinking that:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ask+hn+bookmarks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32505314

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105561

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064096

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34176035
Yeah it was less convenient and now it will be more convenient.
>The last decade was marked by dramatic evolution in China’s innovation capabilities and strategies, much of which was driven by the transition of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and state leadership from Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping and the introduction of China’s latest major innovation policy framework: Made in China 2025 (MIC).

Reads like a lot of things from Chinese state media these days, which seem obliged to always lead with kudos to Xi.

But to the point, of course China has tons of smart people, and has the raw capacity to innovate all day long. What really stands in the way is the extreme risk aversion that exists at all levels. Management is is extremely risk averse and so is the party. No “innovation policy framework” will change that.
It's not about wanting to steal anything. It's that making a copy is trivial, so there's no point in worrying about how you can "you can ride a coach and horses through the access control".

Don't worry about the barn door when there is no side on the barn.
That has nothing to do with the question “Who uses Snap?”
This. SNAP has been a publicly traded company for 6 years, one cannot just ignore and hand wave away this expense, especially given how much growth prospects have deteriorated.
> They same forces in the record industry have figured out how to screw streaming up in their favor now too.

That force is simply the economics of a winner take all market, especially where the product is a luxury good that people can do without. The record labels do not earn huge profit margins either.
They're really expensive so the US cancelled the remaining production.
You'd use an ADC.
Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Gnome just embeds a JavaScript runtime (and probably not a particularly good one) as an embedded scripting language. It's not using a web engine (which would handle styling, layout, accessibility, etc in addition to running JS).

https://gjs.guide/
For instance:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6681443/
Some of his points are correct, but it's an opinion piece written by a med student. Not exactly groundbreaking.
Huh, that probably explains... I was in a youtube rabbit hole right around then when some videos suddenly wouldn't load, turned out that I might've been the final viewer of the (small) channel that had had been banned at that moment. I was wondering what the chances were.

edit: Seems like it. The channel[1] name probably raised some new flag, and Google did its thing. Seems fair, it's not like a reasonable moderator would know of a concept of a second chance or anything.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtu... https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtu...

// Ah, that channel was a pretty interesting part of the rabbithole of net culture-related parody too - rare to see collaboration like that
I over simplified - the recent 12 years of UK conservatives have been really sticking the knife to the UK's NHS .. but it already had problems from prior rounds of UK conservative governance ... I suspect Thatcher started the trend as she was such a fan of privatised benefits at with socialised costs.
> 5,000 of them is enough.

Why? You don't have to use ALL of them. Just pick one.
So this is what's happening, but it's still messed up. The menus appear, but don't disappear, so pretty soon I have 20 menus all over the screen. Also no mouse pointer until I click. Also, the menu entries don't do anything (yes, I'm holding until the entry is selected, then releasing).

Anyway I tried it in vnc4server, where it does work, though you have to start it with LANG=C. But now I can't find any programs that are not working.. I'll have to use it for a while.
Well because in combat seconds and centimeters can make a difference. You might know it is capable of Mach 4 and can plan for that, but if it's capable of Mach 4.2 and you haven't found it economical to respond to that, it is the difference between life and death.

"All warfare is based on deception" - Sun Tzu
I generally tend to think of code as "encoding" or formalising intent. If the intent is obvious from the code comments are usually not necessary, but if the intent is hard to decode when glancing at the code, then I comment on it.

Sometimes things are just complicated and they require explaining the intent to help the reader understand the code. It also helps spot bugs or allows someone smarter than me to rewrite it in a better way (for different axes of better)

There are other situations where comments are useful that are covered elsewhere in the thread, too.

So, I've gotten some good ideas on how to improve my code comment etiquette!
I suspect there’s some sort of weird money cleaning operation with AM radio.

The crazy talk people are pretty toxic for normal advertisers, and it’s dominated by weird supplements and other weird stuff. Plus, all of the hosts say the same thing, all of the time.
It depends on whether you called your family care doctor or went to urgent care.
The F-22 is a single purpose machine like a Ferrari or Lamborghini, whereas the F-35 is more of a utility vehicle like a Toyota Hilux. The F-35 can do vertical takeoff (VTOL), carrier landings for the Navy (F-22 cannot), and has multiple variants to support these deployment scenarios. The F-22 doesn't really have any variants, it is an Air Force plane thru and thru. The A in F-35A designates air force, conventional take-off and alnding. Other variants exist, like the F-35B (this one can do VTOL) and F-35C (catapult-assisted, aka getting yeeted off of an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean). All of this comes at a trade-off / engineering cost, of course. The F-22 is more of a specialized scalpel, the F-35 is meant to be more versatile and operate in more environments. There is a sacrifice to be made there. The F-22 is more stealth, has more thrust, is faster and more maneuverable - meant to be used in air to air combat. The F-35 is smaller, slower, but can do things like vertical takeoff. It is designed more for ground assault type work, bombing runs, etc.

In a dogfight I do not think that there is an aircraft on this planet that can compete against an F-22. The F-35 is no slouch, either, but the F-22 is the alpha predator.
> You added "to be copied".

well, if you are going to be that pedantic: I agree it definitely serves as a reference

... on how not to structure your health service
Ask HN: How do you start contributing to big OS projects?
I'm a junior software engineer, I've been programming for at least 10 years, wayyy before college. I am working on a lot of interesting side projects but I've never really jumped into a big open source project.

I recently wanted to apply for a position in the Firecracker [0] team because the project really interest me and gets me excited, so I thought that contributing to it would increase my chances of getting an interview for that position.

The problem I'm facing right now is that the project feels very intimidating, it's giant and I don't know where to start/how to lay down a strategy to slowly get myself comfortable with it.

Maybe I started with a project that is too complex and definitely requires much more knowledge that I currently have, but I would really love to know other stories and approaches that the HN community have to share on open source contributions other than the classic "start with the good first issue".

[0]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
No, synthesizers and guitar pedals are as much computers as a trumpet. "It translates the lip movement through the horn and amplifies the sound, thusly it's multiplying and therefore a computer!"

That is stretching the definition of a computer to absurdity, sorry.
The Life-Changing Magic of a Urologist
As an aside, my first try is always to try to clarify the code itself if someone has a specific question, so the obvious answer is in the code. But if I'm unable to signal that in code, a comment will do just fine.
I know how to disable SIP. It does not change what I mentioned.
But your counter isn't necessarily saying what you think, either. A lot depends on what the response was. For example, if the response was an aggressive rollback, having lower load reduced the blast radius.

And fair on OT for weekend work, but again, a lot depends on what was done to fix. If it was a rollback and retry next week after fixing any findings, this is a lot less bad than the high energy frustration of trying to rollback during peak hours.
https://archive.ph/bljIC
Highly recommend both of these. In particular the Distributed Systems one has an amazing format (read a paper each week, the lecture goes into detail about the nuances). Also implementing raft was challenging and frustrating but incredibly fun.
Oh snap, just pushed an update that should fix that. thanks for the feedback!
Settlements already have companies contact you to ask you to opt out, they should change that to opting in.
You could take this idea further by adding an "array_ref" type to the C standard where it is a length and elements. In practice this would be broken into separate parameters when passed to a function so existing functions could be fixed post-hoc using attributes - similar to printf formatting attributes. Then passing an array_ref to a function that expects a pointer/length would let the compiler automatically translate. Then you could define the rules for how an array_ref decays to a pointer and how to make one out of a pointer and length.

In other words the C standard could make bounds-checking of arrays possible with a good interop story if the standards committee believed it was worth doing. Compilers would have a flag to enable or disable the runtime checks based on safety/perf tradeoffs. Libraries would slowly add the relevant annotations. Eventually most code would have the option of having all array accesses bounds checked.
As far as I understood, they are talking about a certain homeostatic state of the brain which is optimal for the right amount of signal transmission between neurons. If a set of neurons are on the critical point, they neither fizzle out the signal nor amplify it.

I think this is somewhat related to criticality in nuclear fission in nuclear reactors - if a reactor is sub-critical, then any reaction fizzles out; if it is super-critical, then the reaction is exponential. If the reactor is close to the critical point, then the reaction is sustained at a relatively constant rate.

The brain probably couldn't function very well if their neurons were generally super-critical and all fire very quickly if one fires. And the brain probably wouldn't function well if the neurons were all sub-critical, and any attempt at transmitting a signal would die out.

The researchers studying this critical point theory for the brain also seem to be seeing parallels in brain activity and other critical systems. Particularly, that a system at a critical point can be easily tipped over the critical point with a small input or simply a change in one of its components. And that some systems in nature seem to use this to stay organised.

The hypothesis is very cool and seems to be sensible, but the article and video depart a bit too much into adjacent topics to offer a good introduction to the subject. For example, I couldn't find the relevance of the critical point between random and organised systems in metal atoms. The example of seeing predators in nature was also a bit contrived although it illustrates how a small change in a large neural net can produce large meaningful organisation in the activation of neurons.

It feels very intuitive that a brain needs to operate at this perfect balance between super-criticality and sub-criticality, I can understand why some scientists feel so strongly about it.

I would welcome corrections if I did not understand something as intended.
Yup. The TikTok for text is Twitter and it’s 280 character limit.
This thread is about SNAP's financial results, and SNAP's valuation has long been dependent on future growth prospects. Ranking within the top 20 is not a good sign to that end, especially given how SNAP managed to lose $1.5B in the last year and has not put forward any credible plan on how they might make a sustainable return for shareholders.
Best to join an early stage startup as a technical co-founder or CTO. You get best of both worlds where you get to bootstrap an app and then grow the team.
It is a bit odd. Considering you can get 800mg of potassium from a single glass of pomegranate juice.

Nowadays everything has large doses of potassium in it due to modern farming practices. They use almost exclusively chemical fertilizer containing potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen.