skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you’re trying to do there but you should have said “one” instead of “you” to have the same effect!
That makes sense assuming engineers don't need to practice this skill very often. But doctors need to do fluffy, compassionate every shift.

Nothing about the story makes sense. Doctors and nurses say these kinds of things to patients every day (I'm an EMT, I've watched them do it and I do it myself). I'm seriously wondering if the relatives were responding to the fact that the clinician was visibly reading from a piece of paper and that somehow made it more 'official'.
iOS Lockdown Mode? Ever heard of PRISM?
> As is less known, authorities used dynamite as a fire-fighting technique. There was no water, and they thought fire would spread less readily across rubble. It wasn’t very effective, and the collateral consequences were tremendous, but no other solution was at hand, so authorities kept at it, blowing up larger and larger patches of the city: first, select buildings, then half a block, then an entire block, and eventually, twenty-two blocks of Van Ness Avenue — a mile and a half of “handsome and costly” Victorian homes that were mostly untouched by the quake. For the better part of ten days, explosions happened every few minutes, day and night, each one ratcheting the panic and exacerbating the unease.

Whoah. I wonder if supporting vs not supporting this caused societal rifts similar to what we saw with COVID lockdowns.
You can explain it in simple terms. Does not mean they'll listen or agree. Some people just want to feel validated, and they need it repeatedly.
> There are quite a few niche YT channels in the 25k -> 100k range who are getting by, but most of them only make any money from sponsorships and product placements.

Isn’t this a pretty good definition of the long tail though? They are able to sustain making content for a niche audience, driven by access to a platform that enables distribution that will allow them to reach that audience who would not otherwise be able to find the content at a scale that would make sponsors interested.
Read what I wrote again.

I'm stating that money IS lives. If you spend $100 million to save one person when you could spend $100 million to save 10 people you're wasting 9 lives.

Even purely commercial monetary gains can be inefficiently converted into lives via government taxes that then get spent on road safety, pollution regulation or healthcare.
Hard to be sure because of the population difference, but India's got to be well up there. US border control is a paramilitary operation; India's is a bureaucratic one.
> what makes Russia objectively powerful in the international arena?

Could it just be inertia of thinking from the Cold War? The USSR was known to be powerful, and Russia is kinda the USSR, so it's assumed Russia has to be kinda powerful.

It's going to be interesting to observe how will Russian standing in the world change, now that the war is revealing that the Tsar has no clothes.
FZF.vim is what you need, both for opening files and switching buffers.
Hosting a small language (Ovo2) from scratch in Elixir, pt 5 Evaluation
> English language

Nominally, but I suspect that may have been translated. "Planification"?
Dispelling a myth: the average cost of downtime is not $5600 per minute
Two shocking things about this article:

The first: with his doctor hat on, he should understand that the value is the piece of paper and reading from it consistently to relatives who may have mild cognitive impairment.

ChatGPT wrote essentially identical content to the words he'd been delivering himself.

The professionally responsible thing to do would have been to type up or get someone to type up his _actual words_, print those out, and sign his name to them.

He is -- for marketing hype cycle reasons -- projecting magic onto AI and ChatGPT when anyone who has ever known anyone close with mild cognitive impairment knows that the consistent, calmly repeated message is the magic.

This is really irresponsible at worst, and empty, AI-hopey-changey nonsense at best.

The second: everyone here suggesting that this is a valid or appropriate or even appealing use of AI.

Look: if you can't do empathy (and not all of us can), hire an actual person who can do empathy! Make that their job, support them in it, celebrate their ability to do it and reward them properly. They are worthwhile people do who important jobs.

Don't give the job to an AI to produce a fake veneer of empathy.

If you can't understand why faking and automating empathy is not a substitute for actually trying to find real empathy in a role where someone could be an effective emotional bridge between two worlds, and if you can't see that this kind of bland/BS/automated sincerity application of AI is really toxic, I don't know what to say to you.
Individual pumped hydro locations scale well, there isn’t enough locations to make ~1,000 TW of pumped hydro thus it doesn’t scale.

Compressed air and thermal aren’t economically viable, which is why decades after introduction there isn’t large scale deployments of the stuff.

> Any sort of heat utilization or recapture massively increases efficiency for some of those ideas.

Low grade heat has minimal to zero economic value. This is why nuclear power plants need to build cooling towers etc rather than having something useful to do with all that heat energy. There’s some very niche utility, but it’s competing with other extremely cheap sources of heat like solar thermal which itself has barely catch on despite rapid payback periods.
Unless we punish all burglars, we shouldn't catch any burglars.
Friendly reminder that the US does have such a program (the Navy's nuclear propulsion program), and several reactors are commissioned every year.
so they want to help unpaid actors to spend more time doing unpaid work in moderating content on reddit and they have now granted exemption to tools those unpaid mods used to do their unpaid work. its brilliant.

you don't have to pay any mod for all the work they do and with this announcement, reddit seems to show that how great they are at at allowing exemption.
You would think over-impulsive anger would subside if you drive for that long.
He sold his SaaS ($14k MRR) for $128,000 – But why?
You can kind of do that, although the process is a bit inverted.

BIOS settings are "measured" into the TPM, into a set of "platform configuration registers" (PCRs). The TPM itself takes no position on what the "correct" value of the PCRs is; however, it is possible to bind data against the PCRs. For instance, you can bind your disk encryption keys against the PCRs. Then, if the eeprom changes, the PCRs will be different, and the TPM will refuse to give you the disk encryption key.

The hardware itself is still valuable in the sense that a common thief cares about, but all of your data is protected, and you are not any more risk of using a compromised system then if the attacket simply swapped the unit for one that looks similar.
I don't know if it's true but I've seen it argued that shortsightedness of western capitalism was kept in check by the five year planning of the eastern bloc, and when the wall fell, that check was essentially removed and most of our problems today is a result of that.

As I said, I don't know if it's true, but it's certainly an interesting notion. Maybe it's true at least in the sense that during the cold war, the west couldn't really afford to rest on its laurels. Even the most dysfunctional market had to be compelled to beat the Soviet null hypothesis as a matter of survival for the way of life.
You're not really refuting my point, which is that the truck drivers should be working on demanding stuff like this. Lobbying themselves, or as a union require certain standards before accepting a haul etc.
Does that even help? That's a huge reduction in userbase for third party apps, with little confidence reddit won't change their mind again.
Ask HN: Cheapest way to do foreign exchange between USD and NOK for company?
What is the cheapest way to do foreign exchange between USD and NOK for a company?
What am I supposed to do with wealth if I shouldn't use it to purchase it the childish things that I enjoy?
I've seen speculation that we are slowly returning to a less flat, more depth-oriented design trend based on what Apple showed in the Vision UI demo (skip to 15:13 to see all the components): https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10076/

Notice the shadows inside of the in the inputs, and the 'shine' applied on the bottom. Web designers from the 2000s will remember all this stuff. What's old is new again!
Privatising utilities like this (and electricity etc.) has never made any sense to me. It all happened in the UK well before I was old enough to understand that sort of thing. I have grown up very aware of the failings of privatising public infrastructure.

Can someone explain what the problems were with this stuff being owned and run nationally that privatisation was supposed to fix?
The article fails to point out that cryptocurrency has already effectively been banned (or at least delegitimised) in other major economies like China and India, so the US is in some sense just playing catch-up. At this stage, at the national level, cryptocurrency is primarily supported by mafia states like Russia, rogue states like North Korea, micro-states like various Caribbean islands, and otherwise failing states.
Interesting. I thought neovim is the reason I don't use ctrl-o, because it has floats. With my config I can gd to go to definition (and then sometimes ctrl-o back) but often do gpd to peek it in a tiny mini window.

By the way even without { and } which I never used really my ctrl-o history seems to be too verbose, I wonder what I am doing wrong.
I always found it amusing the Dell Latitude models and probably overs had a list of permanent bios passwords you can find online that would override any user set password.

Great security there.
Microsoft probably never anticipated needing more than a month or two of uptime, since they roll out restart-required updates more frequently than that.
I think we're starting to see the death-throes of Uber.
The beatings from AMD and Nvidia will continue until morale improves.

Put another way,

“GPU prices will not be dropping so you’d better get used to it, and better start spending.”

- joint statement from Jensen Huang and Lisa Su.
It seems rather naive to think that's the reason why there was so much progress then rather than say due to there being more low hanging fruit.
Federation is a technology. As we have been reminded a billion times, users don't care about technology. So it really matters what people will do with the technology.

The second thing to realize is that federation is a superset of centralization (it includes it as an edge case). People are used to centralization thats why the main mastodon instance is much larger than everything else. But with in a federated architecture there is not intrinsic obstance to developing more diverse patterns.

So just conceptually thinking federation will "win". But how exactly is not clear. Efforts in this space are still grossly underfunded, in some cases overly ideological, distracted by web3 and always too influenced by the walled gardens.

My feeling is that the most interesting cases will develop around federated wordpress and reddit-alternatives. These will be driven by creators and publishers in specific domains that want something less oppressive and value-destroying of their work.

The average user/consumer is indeed hopeless. They are just shoved around and abused like sheep and they take it because there is no obvious / easy alternative or any warning from trusted entities.
There's no mention of money or real estate prices, nor of extended educational requirements and time in university, nor the increased cost of child-rearing. For a couple, following (what's claimed to be) the traditional path means spending tens of thousands of dollars on an engagement and wedding, hundreds of thousands on a mortgage, having each parent work a full-time job, and buying all the overpriced junk that's expected as part of raising a kid.

People are still willing to follow that path, of course, but they increasingly need to build up their savings to afford it. It's incredibly unsurprising that big barriers to entry prevent people from passing through traditional life stages, and instead lead them to sit on the couch smoking weed and watching anime.
Already on it- see the PR!
After, in order to try to confirm that the pre-commit kernel didn't have a latent bug. In other words that the commit clearly triggers the hang. (This doesn't necessarily prove that the commit is wrong - it might simply be exposing another bug that never occurred before, in fact that is the current thinking.)
> A quick google search shows that the there have been policies [0] to prevent ocean dumping of nuclear waste due to adverse effects on the environment.

Check the citations. The wikipedia article is conflating general oceanic waste dumping with nuclear waste dumping. Things like oil float(!), come in huge quantities and react both physically (coating) and chemically with wildlife. As best I can tell dumping solid dense nuclear waste onto the abyssal plane has no known or theoretical environmental effects.

> Also it seems like you are implying that spent fuel and raw, unenriched uranium are somehow the same, which is also not true.

You're correct here. However the moderating effects of water mean that if you did glass solid nuclear waste and dump it in the abyss you'd get no detectable increase in ocean radioactivity.
Part of the trick of having an edge over the rest of the market is to not tell anybody, at least not widely.

That's why all those "I tell you about my secret to making 5 grand a day if you click the link below, for free" youtube ads are obviously all scams.
Had to laugh at this part: “the infringements have given Twitter an ‘unfair advantage’ over competitors - including TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat - which pay for music licences.”

I’m an independent musician and my royalty statements for my songs used on Tiktok, Snapchat and Instagram are always $0.0000000. They aren’t paying anything to artists either.
bethesda helped by nuking it completely.
Remembering Robert Gottlieb, Editor Extraordinaire
Headless browsers are expensive, but if you needed them, I suspect there are easy wins to be had on the performance front.

For example, you can probably skip all layout/rendering work and simply return faked values whenever javascript tries to read back a canvas it just drew into, or tries to read the computed width of some element. The vast majority of those things won't prevent the page loading.
Dang: Please change the title so "crypto" becomes "cryptocurrency". I realize that's the original title, but here at HN the term "crypto" is confusing (I presumed they meant cryptography, not cryptocurrency). Thanks so much!!
Idk, use it to make the world a more just and survivable place? Help to develop practical fusion power so we can avoid extinction? Preserve some biodiversity? Anything vaguely useful to the next generation?

Nations prosper when old men plant trees under whose shade they will never sit.
Perhaps he’s buying deep out of the money puts instead of actually shorting
My usage is similar. I also use all the time

- shift - v - } to select a block, or v - w to select a word. It's not strictly needed but help ensure selecting the right stuff

- ctrl i - ctrl o for navigation

I've never been able to use tabs, buffers, multiple file edition, that's just too much overhead for me. I rely on vscode for that.

That being said, I don't think using vim gives me a competitive advantage. I'm also rather proficient using standard OS shortcut. I like vim out of laziness, it minimizes hand motion, but don't make that big of a difference IMHO.

(also lots of young guys use vim too, some younger guys in my team even refuse to use vscode...)

EDIT: also vi adds a lot of value in the terminal where standard OS shortcuts don't work, at least on MacOS (i'm waiting for comments telling me how to make them work!)
It happens on both quite old qemu and the very latest qemu from git.
Made perfect sense. Uncomfortable length to drive, and end to end trip time would be shorter (and more comfy) on a highspeed train than on a plane (getting to the airport early, security, baggage collection, taxi to the city, etc).
> what the problems were with this stuff being owned

If you're a director of a publicly owned company and you loot it, you go to prison.
In the 90s, every year during my school's spring break I would go to my dad's office in downtown San Francisco. I was too young to be alone all day.

There is a fountain that survivors of the 1906 earthquake would meet at on the anniversary of the event. Because my spring break cooncided with the date, I got to see the survivors gathered as my dad and I walked to his office.

Of course there were already very few survivors left by then. I think I would have seen it around 1994 through 1998 when I was old enough to stay home on my own. Even in those few years, I could see the number of survivors shrinking.
I get what you mean, but in this case, I'd ask under what circumstances Russia would come to the defense of the US. NATO is an alliance of allies in that sense.
the flip side of this is that the model acts as a universal translator. not just for language but also for emotional valence and context.

are you a doctor? worked in an er? there are a lot of strong words about what doctors should and shouldn’t do, with regard to empathy and compassion. there is a shocking lack of compassion or empathy in the very words demanding them.

(there is also a rather large assumption that the doctor would individually be able to hire someone on a whim, to talk nice to people. in an er?)

the value of the paper, of the words, is that it helped bridge a recognized communication divide. the purpose? a combination of compassion and treatment. help the well-meaning elderly children understand well enough to keep them from indirectly killing their mother.
Great satire, but when you consider there are lots of real-life applications that follow exactly the same patterns… you have to wonder.
"An analysis for the Financial Times suggests that since privatisation the companies have taken on a combined £51bn in debt, and paid out £56bn in dividends."[0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50802783 (2019)
But bombing Serbia was a good thing, they were having a happy little genocide going and the US interfered. Similarly, the recognition of Kosovo is good in that context. Why are those in the list?
They'll still have a problem with the bank as the check will eventually be reversed. With the know your customer laws banks are getting pretty cautious dealing with people who deposit checks that are associated with money laundering scams.
My mother has an aide who has fallen for a couple similar scams and is now unable to open a bank account with the major retail banks.
> Imagine every time you needed to troubleshoot something in a computer, you had to break out the multimeter.

What disturbs me sometimes is that many people in software engineering approach debugging like empirical science. Run experiments, gather data, fit some curve, essentially. In the end, a program is a product of the mind. It's pure logic, and fundamentally it's understandable, unlike the real world which can at every turn have new surprises for you. We should think more and measure less.
I think the fault lays with the journalist, if they are the ones creating the faulty product. But, without the journalist, the public would have to learn to read scientific papers on their own, which they probably wouldn't do even if their life depended on it. So this battle can not be won in our current society.
No. How could you even think there is any logic in such a question?

Nuclear plants are vastly different from PV plants. PV involves a large number of loosely coupled modules with very large amounts of redundancy. Malfunctions in individual components do not affect the system as a whole. Contrast this to a nuclear plant, where redundancy when it exists is on a much smaller scale. The parts in a nuclear plant must be constructed with much higher reliability in order for the plant to operate. The consequences of failure are much higher.
So before 2001 your OS didn't have a scheduler and was incapable of handling more than one process at the same time? The user interface was simply hanging when you told your CPU to do something?
Has anyone tried with "tsc=unstable" on boot?
It made no economic sense at all.
Not private any more.
How is this different from an investment in, say, BioNTech?

In other words, if this single product the company is working on succeeds, then the unit cost can be brought down so much that it's still a gold mine.
If you don't agree with my outlook on cryptocurrency, you're mafia, rogue, too small to matter, or failing otherwise.

Sheesh, what a well balanced outlook on the state of affairs.
Depends on what you want with the data I guess. From a search engine point of view, the SPA case isn't that relevant, since SPAs can't reliably be linked to and in general tend to not be very stable and it's overall difficult to figure out how to enumerate and traverse their views.

I think a good middle ground might be to do a first pass with a "stupid" crawler, and then re-visit the sites where you were blocked or that just contained a bunch of javascript with a headless browser.
The Guardian bans all gambling advertising
I heard that cloud seeding and other weather controls are affecting the natural rainfall of the water cycle, meaning that water that would usually fall in these places, is not. Is it really feasible that cloud seeding programs are causing less rainfall elsewhere in the world?
> Women only become fertile at age 15

More like 12-13, but you are right. I did not consider that.
When AI Overrules the Nurses Caring for You
I'd bet money that the Medium article has also been, in part, rewritten by ChatGPT.

Here's why: the story being told is that of a doctor, needing to communicate, being able to get through to 'regular folks' through talking down to them using ChatGPT (which is actually well suited to that task, once you acknowledge that hallucination can also mean losing stuff in translation).

Then, the article itself, including the description of the loving family's reaction, is VERY characteristic of the way ChatGPT 'talks down'. It's hallucinatory happytalk that paints with a very broad brush, and delivers not the tone you want, but an abstracted 'popularized' tone likely to convince large numbers of stupid and gullible people.

That tone's hard to miss, and it's popping out all over the article.

Points for committing to the bit. However, what's pictured is clearly a level of Hell, or possibly an out-take from Idiocracy. You won't believe what happened next! :D
Remember that the AMA has been limiting the supply of doctors in order to maintain high wages, and the working conditions for interns/residents amounts to hazing.
This is interesting, thanks for posting.
> Russia was already violating rights of its own citizens in 1993 [0] with full US blessings

Why are the Americans (or NATO) always responsible for the awful things the Russian government does?
I still weep for Boots the Chemist in the UK that this happened to. They used to be a great British company.
They stood on the shoulders of giants just like we do.

It seems naive to think that getting on those shoulders in this modern age won’t create a brand new batch of low hanging fruit to pick if you’re willing to put the effort in
https://archive.is/66Ztf
> The Sunday Times, one of the oldest, most reliable newspapers in the world,

(cough cough bullshit cough) The Times is not quite as bad as the Torygraph, but it is a paper that has clearly been run directly to push the political views of Rupert Murdoch for the past three or four decades.