skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a website that can pass the test to become a doctor now. Why can’t I order my own diagnostics?
This stood out to me as well. Granted, the person people felt "uncomfortable" about only later tweeted out that the 0% black representation was an outlier, but I haven't heard much reason why this is relevant yet.

On the other hand, there's more going on than what's being told publicly. Perhaps racism does play a role in this. The use of the word "uncomfortable" without clear explanation suggests this is more than just "we don't want another reflection flame war".

It's possible that this person was just hoping to use the keynote speaker as a token of inclusiveness, but I have to wonder if there isn't more going on if racism is brought up after incredible vague notions of people feeling "uncomfortable" being given as a reason why they keynote speaker got demoted to a normal speaker either.

I'm hoping the remaining leadership owns up to their mistake, put out a detailed reason why the purely technical topic of reflection is making them so uncomfortable, and lay out proper measures to prevent this from happening again, with the necessary correctional measures applied to the leadership member who went behind the others' backs on changing the invitation. They'd also need to come up with a clear and honest apology, of course.

If they can't give a decent objective reason why they're so "uncomfortable", or don't get real professional real fast, there's much more drama to be had the coming weeks.
Not to detract anything from her contribution but she isn’t funding the whole thing. The way it works is a local nonprofit for a geographic area partners with the Imagination library and funds them to offer the program in that area.

Their website explains how you can become a partner for your area and the costs involved.

In some places it is government funded. The program in Baltimore City for example appears to be largely funded by Maryland State government via a yearly grant to a nonprofit.

https://imaginationlibrary.com/usa/

https://goccp.maryland.gov/the-governors-young-readers-progr...
Honestly I'm not sure you're even likely to get a viable embryo at the end the GPs procedure.

A large -- up to 1/3 -- fraction of fertilized embryos are not viable, largely because of chromosome abnormalities. Sometimes this happens quickly, before you would really say someone was pregnant, but people don't usually talk about their pregnancies in the first trimester because miscarriages are likely for this reason.

Depending on how well you can sequence the genome and forecast viability of the intervening steps, you'd just be compounding this probability each time.

And as you say, without the intervening "natural selection", there's no real evolution, just an increased mutation rate.

There is one interesting thing you could do, which is probably unethical under many ethical systems, which is that you could use the process to generate "many-parent" babies. Take samples from N people, and in a few days or weeks you could produce an embryo which shares all of their DNA (equally, if you start with a power of two). Sure, it would be functionally (and actually, since you have the intervening embryos) grandchildren or great-grandchildren instead, but I could imagine someone wanting that.
Encoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI
IMHO much speculation for the little explanation provided. Do you have more information? Was it offered to the community to take over for those who may want or similar?
What if there are people who need laws, rules, processes to keep something at bay because they are actually suffering from addiction to the very thing they need to regulate.

If they believe that thing is wrong and they see how hard it is to resist, they of all people may jump on a bandwagon.
Is there already a ChatGPT Plugin out to summarise blog posts?

tl/dr: "The key message in this text is a call for accountability following the decision to downgrade JeanHeyd Meneide from keynote speaker at RustConf due to disagreements with his blog post. The decision was perceived as disrespectful and cruel, lacking in appropriate organizational procedures. This has highlighted a larger systemic problem within the Rust organization and prompted the author's resignation. They call for a full investigation, a greater focus on accountability rather than diplomacy, protection of individuals from such unjust actions, and the implementation of safeguards to prevent similar incidents in the future."
Txti.es if you are reading this, can you provide a list of the websites that you had? We can still look at them via archive sites like wayback machine.
Thanks for everything. This was a beautiful concept and hopefully someone can take the mantle.
Bypassing Anti-Bot Keyboard Biometric Protections
French bureaucracy will kill your soul slowly but surely
> AI can copy, emulate, and automate; it cannot create harmonious and finely humanly tuned things. It would never have created the works of art and architecture

I have yet to see evidence that this kind of assertion will age any better than the famous 64kB quote. True, AI can't create masterpieces today, but claiming it will never match humans feels more like emotional wishful thinking.
The typical American buys unnecessarily large cars, lives nowhere near mixed zoning and uses AC in inefficient housing. It amounts to huge amounts of wasted energy. That's not someone to emulate.

There are correct ways that are correct because they're effective and incorrect ways that aren't. Those ways should be imposed on people in tragedy of the commons type market failures. It follows from the social contract.
I am following actual research, as mentioned in the article. It’s not difficult to test the outcome of annual doctors visits, and shockingly they don’t save lives.

You’re seemingly basing your opinion on gut feelings or something.
I wonder, why? I certainly won't be monetarily supporting Russia directly.
Personally I think this is very bad idea especially because it would be be very tempting to use the id to - for example - trivially "decide" if you can, for example, smoke, drink alcohol, watch porn.

But this would also make some tricks to extend the scheme to corner cases (e.g.: refugees will get YYMMDD-NNNN where the date part is when they were registered at entry) fail miserably.

At the very least, a single letter code in the mix would mitigate the problems a bit.
OpenBSD: New Versions of LibreSSL Released
> pharmaceutical companies

But it’s hospitals/labs which are as bad or much worse in this regard. “Greedy” pharmaceutical companies are just a boogeyman, insurance companies, hospital admin and doctors are just fine with charging “random”/arbitrary fees based on clients perceived ability to pay and not in anyway related to actual costs.
What does "bad actors" mean?

What was it this abused for? Malware C2 instructions?
It's not worth because the areas under sea level will have even higher temperature and dryer to dersertic climate https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/the-worst-dam-ide...
I like the State representative speaking for State Farm's reasons.

Don't wanna ask anybody at the company, in case they mention the price control legislation.

Perhaps that's not fair; the insurance market is such that there's never not been "price controls".
The Limits of General Purpose Computation
Show HN: I built a gallary of 200 B2B SaaS pricing pages
I'm obsessed with pricing page design and optimization.

So I went ahead and made a collection of 200 B2B SaaS pricing pages so that other B2B founders can have an easy-to-use resource to go to for inspiration.

Hope someone finds it useful!
I see. The proposed keynote made it about identity politics. I am going to side with the Rust Board on this one.

To me this was a great and necessary decision.
Poland has a very similar numbering system, the PESEL. It can change if the date of birth was recorded inaccurately and you need to correct it, or, because the PESEL encodes gender, when you get your gender marker legally changed.
AI Image Generation Gets a Drag Interface
The personnummer encodes gender in the last digit (which, IMO, is very silly) - so when that changes, the number has to change too.
This is certainly strangely phrased. The version I got from another member was that the content of the talk was to be about a proposed feature that may not actually end up in Rust (in my view it likely would not), and having that be the keynote talk would imply to a lot of people that it would end up in Rust and put the language in an uncomfortable position where something other than the feature's merit would be pushing for its inclusion. Moving the talk away from being a centerpiece, in such a case, makes sense, and I have no idea whether this counts as poorly handled or not but saying it shouldn't have happened at all seems a bit naïve to me.
The ACA got a lot of headlines for a lot of BS but some of the really great things it did were very basic, under the radar items.

For example, a lot of the research that we are reading (including possibly the article we’re responding to) is the result of funding created by the ACA.

My favorite aspect of it is the massive push to digitization which means handwritten prescriptions have pretty much been eliminated removing an entire class of death and disease causing errors (from pharmacists misreading doctors’s handwriting).
Maybe you should step up and do it. It’s not just about paying a pittance but it’s also about the time to maintain.
It's a global problem, and tourism is part of it, overconsumerism, high-polluting lifestyles

Let's stop acting short-term
> what the dreamlike sequences with Stalker’s son meant

I though he had a daughter, am I misremembering?

Interesting tidbit, after a year of filming scenes the prints were damaged in processing and were unusable. [1] He had to completely (almost) reshoot the film a second time. I always wondered about the difference between the original shoot and the reshoot, what no one got to see.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/trivia
Surely the issue is the broken healthcare system in the US?

Proactive care is good. Testing is good.

However the insurance / healthcare cartel behaviour that's fuelled as a result is devastatingly expensive.
I’ve always only been able to upvote; I’m guessing that lurking means I’ve never gained enough upvotes to access anything else.
That is a super valid concern. The solution for that is a product owner position. The product owner should have these qualities:

* Strong written communication skills like a QA but also with a mindset for prioritizing tasks with respect for strategy and expense.

* A technical background deep enough to understand product quality. Product quality comes from measurements of things like execution speed, regression trending, accessibility, A/B testing, service related expenses, and so on.

* A risk taker. An ideal product owner is willing to accept liability for product failures and simultaneously push back on bad ideas. A bad idea is something that deviates from product goals, a budget destroying idea, or something that fails A/B testing.
> Firefox's Stylo engine is fast. Like, really fast. Like, so fast that, if every browser were like Firefox, there would be little point in discussing style performance.

Wow
Emacs has Emacspeak which works on everything.
Capital letter test is a foolproof way of sorting AIs from humans
Kudos to be able to express what I've been vehemently feeling recently.
alias ls='ls -F'
> Throughout the history of the US

Is the US the world's only country?

Throughout the history of the world, who counts as XYZ has been redefined many times to suit the political goals of the people at the time.

I recall when we stopped being Yugoslavian, and started shooting at each other, as Serbs or Croats. The Russian guy sitting next me married a Ukrainian woman a decade ago. Recently Russians and Ukrainians started shooting at each other. There's a great deal to read on this topic if you're genuinely interested.

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
IMHO ARM is one of the best things that ever happened in the computer industry.

> non-toxic IP cores with enough performance from RISC-V

Why would anyone also their designs to be used for free or for cheaper than ARM does?
Derp. You can find a list of archived sites here (10k limit): https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://txti.es/\*

For someone that's interested in crawling all the URLs (by avoiding the 10k limit) that were backed up, I found you can add YYYYMMDD in the * of the URL to see the sites archived during a particular year, month, day etc...

https://web.archive.org/web/2022*/txti.es/*

https://web.archive.org/web/2023*/txti.es/*

https://web.archive.org/web/202301*/txti.es/*

https://web.archive.org/web/20230101*/txti.es/*
But that’s how the system is supposed to work! The goal of the insurance company is to reduce costs. The govt and the healthcare system are the parts of the system that advocate for the patient.
I think you completely misinterpret the situation with Russia and China.

Russia and China have the objectives of their own. For Russia it is to expand their empire that in their own mind rightfully belongs to them. They didn't attack Ukraine because of US actions but because they seriously believe that they have some kind of right over Ukrainians lands, or even more seriously, that Ukrainians don't exists.

If US would have been in Ukraine, or moved in rapidly when the situation became dangerous, there wouldn't be war at them moment. We see this clearly play out in far east, where China has ambition to overtake Taiwan (what they like Russia with Ukraine believe to belong rightfully to themselves). They clearly would have already attacked if it wasn't clear that US will prevent them doing so.

I'm certain that they would have done it, had US backed away from Ukraine. I'm also certain that what led Russia to believe that they could pull off Ukrainian invasion, was the US departure from Afghanistan, not that they did it but how they did it by letting Taliban completely humiliate them without any response. Russia believed that US is weak, not interested, and it would possibly have been like that, had Ukraine not managed to pull off very strong response.

US is there to fill the vacuum. If it was not US, it would be China (or it could Russia possibly). If not today, then eventually it would be one of them. I prefer US because it is more predictable and rule based and in the long run more favorable for the people.
The Faa will never grant approval. Even if China's notorious lack of transparency could somehow be overcome, for political reasons the plane would never be allowed to compete in the market. I think this plane will only ever be used domestically and by third world countries coerced into buying them.
Don't undervalue the less developed countries. Your cost of living may be lower than the property taxes + utilities on a similar house in a developed country.

Consider building sites, apps or other forms of recurring revenue. If you have the tech basics, your next step might be exploring sales.
The Never Married, a New Normal
A personal experience from me is that using cheat codes for video games (eg Starcraft) can completely ruin the fun.
You meant Bill Gates’ 640KB, or is this related to the Commodore 64?
You'll notice that that's not what I (or Nietzsche) said. I agree that Stoicism isn't about eliminating emotions, but it is about not letting them overtake our rationality.

My contention is that to experience the deepest and most profound emotions requires you to submit to them, and Stoicism (very intentionally) prevents that.
Remote PART-TIME US job for non-US citizen front end dev with 2 YOE. Goal $44k+
Hey,

I find myself currently located in Argentina, and I'm not a citizen of the United States. However, my current goal is to secure a part-time job based in the US or find US-based clients for freelancing opportunities.

I have nearly 2 years of experience gained through a remote position with a company in my home country. I also have a university degree and have worked on some projects.

I’m experienced in front-end development with technologies such as React, TypeScript, Redux, Zustand, Figma, some 3D frameworks, and more. I’m also a fast learner and learning stuff in my free time.

My ultimate goal is to earn a minimum of 44k USD per year while working remotely, devoting 2-3 days a week (8 hours a day) to actual coding tasks. While I am more than willing to be available and responsive to messages throughout the week, my dedicated cording days would be, for example, Monday to Wednesday.

What’s the most effective and realistic approach to achieving this goal? Is it plausible for me, as a non-US citizen, to convince a US company to hire me as a remote developer? Alternatively, would freelancing be a more viable option?

If any of you have alternative suggestions on how I can reach an income of 44k+ USD annually while working part-time (20 hours per week), particularly with a focus on US-based job opportunities or US-based clients for freelancing, I would greatly appreciate your input.

I also managed rather a complex project and it was all good, so I think I have some good experience.

Thank you all in advance for your valuable advice and experiences
This continual tech industry drama, doesn't matter if one is talking Rust, Go, Node, or pretty much anything, technology industry members will treat their personal situations and perspectives as litanies of outrageous violations of their integrity.

Fact of the matter: our entire industry is never taught how to professionally communicate, and these constant drama fests are the manifestation of immature communication skills, across the board, our entire industry.
Show HN: fastgron: A JSON to GRON Converter That's 40 Times Faster Than Gron
Hello HN! I want to introduce fastgron, my new project.

fastgron is a JSON to GRON converter, built to be incredibly fast – it's 40 times faster than Gron. GRON is a tool for making JSON greppable, but it can slow down with larger files. With fastgron, even a 200MB JSON file can be converted in just 1 second.

Key features include streaming conversion for memory efficiency and an optimized path reconstruction for faster operations. It leverages C++ and the simdjson and fast_io libraries for speed.

I welcome all feedback, suggestions, or questions. Thank you!
I have had very rotten luck using the web browser plug-in, it almost seems like it only works once per website and then it gets hung up and fails to read any further information.
> Mr Redi reckons each raising of the barrier costs about €150,000 (other estimates are higher).

Why not raise the barrier permanently, then? Build a lock for the ships going to Marghera, reroute the sewage and runoff to the sea outside the barrier.
I wonder how one would implement a reputation-based accounts system, something like lobste.rs has. To get an account, you need to be invited by someone who already has one, and if you get banned, all your children and N levels of parents get banned too.
Popular == Useful: The Case for Smarter Software Development
vim predates the fashion for dark backgrounds, so it gets it wrong for a different subset of people. Try `set background=dark` in your .vimrc.

(I believe neovim uses the DCS 11 inquiry to determine the actual background colour on xterm-compatibles. I believe vim currently does not, relying on environment variables only. I may be stale or otherwise mistaken on both.)
This core is ideal to be replaced in low power platforms like SMB routers that run on MIPS (MT7621). I think Qualcomm and Mediatek is extensively using these in router SOCs which previously were based on MIPS. These cores are probably less 'application' cores and a more designed towards low power helping cores. For example QC uses network accelerators along with the cores. Anything gigabit and beyond still requires bigger ARM cores or Intel but below gigabit these are not bad.
Speaking of aliens, the GPTs sound a lot like the aliens from Blindsight: they don't question the semantic ambiguity in

> our cousins lie about the family tree with nieces and nephews and Neanderthals. We do not like annoying cousins.

They just reply to it regardless and carry on.

The aliens: "We'd like to know about this tree"

GPT-4:

> I'm sorry to hear that there's some family discord.

> [Snip, about 200 words]

> Nonetheless, I understand that your issue isn't literally about Neanderthals, but rather the analogy representing the annoyance you feel towards your cousins' behavior.
That's just shifting the goalposts. Someone gets LLMs to do something impressive? "Ooh, LLMs are intelligent!". Someone shows LLMs falling flat on their face? "Lol of course LLMs can't do that you're using it wrong".

I'd also like to call out the preposterous claim that a human would not pass the example test illustrating the article. While in the normal course of coding and if they hadn't noticed the swap a human programmer could well be tripped by it, presented with the snippet of Python code in the Introduction of the article, most human programmers would have no trouble giving the correct answer.

Because as humans, they understand what the code says and can use that understanding to find the correct answer even when it doesn't agree with their expectation. Humans can guess, but they can also reason. LLMs can guess. The question is whether LLMs can reason. This article shows one case where they can't.
If that individual is distributing his writings or speech by mass media, he is part of the press

Not under the common definition of the press. By all means have a different definition, but if you do, it's only fair that you state up front that you mean something other than the common definition.
It's a dog whistle. What the OP is actually saying is that he's extremely angry and pissed off that this was allowed to happen, and he's noping out for that eminently understandable reason. But if he said that in no uncertain terms (as a European very well might in similar circumstances!) he might fall afoul of the official Code of Conduct for being aggressive and threatening towards other contributors. Hence this weird talk about intimate "weeping" and "pain". Make no mistake, this is not some softy empath talk but quite the opposite!
Want to attend a Ruby conference in October 2023?
At the very least I would expect a keynote to be more inspiring, interesting, groundbreaking and possibly a little less technical/routine. It would be a different speech with a different preparation. So there is that. Plus
bragging rights on CV and what people think of you and how many people turn up, how big the hall is etc. I think I would be annoyed to be downgraded.
Meta: I'm guessing this is a play on name of the television series.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_(Br...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_(Am...
It's important for China and other countries to build a fleet that the US can't sanction.
Alternatively they didn’t cower in fear, they just didn’t see a business case in pissing off a big potential partner just so they could host a free app and gain nothing.
This is a puerile take.

If you ignore the optics of the situation you are going to step in it big time, even if your intentions are completely honorable. You need to be aware of the optics of your behavior, because that's all outside observers see. Your intentions are not something other people have access to.

You going on the offensive like this on this particular point makes you look (see, optics again) either incredibly naïve or covering for some pretty bad behaviour.
I'd imagine it's closer to the original Liu Cixin reasons like security. Ideally you could leave your servers up on the Internet auto-updating, doing their work, and ignore all the "predators competing for attention" from Yancey's theory, but it takes attention to stay secure and keep backups.

Maybe it was more "Tragedy of the Commons"?