skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame that (from my perspective anyway) a lot of that state capacity seems to have degassed for the NHS. Right now it's impossible to get a doctor's appointment where I live. If you call any local surgery within a split second of 8:00am then you have a very low chance of getting an appointment, every time I've tried the line's busy or I'm number 60 in the queue and after a 40 minute wait all the appointments are gone. They are also fully booked for advance appointments every day (they limit the time in advance you can book, probably to prevent having e.g. a 2 year wait time on appointments, because it 'looks better' if nobody can go than if there's literally a 2 year advance appointment wait).

The only way to see a doctor is to go to A&E, or convince NHS 111 to give you an "emergency appointment" of some kind. All of this drains emergency resources and are not an option due to the time investment for average people with precarious employment.

Unfortunately many people won't believe these facts, because depending on which area you live in there's always plentiful appointments, in advance or on the day! Where I last lived, getting an appointment was easy, the difference in outcomes based on how wealthy or urban your area is leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Briefly, we had a new surgery open that offered more appointments, at more convenient times of day, and we could actually see the doctor. All the other GP's started losing their patients to them. Then within a few months they were shut down by the local NHS trust, under multiple investigations (one of these investigations was regarding an offensive Facebook post by the surgery's chief, I kid you not). They then later reopened with normal appointment times and no free spaces, like all the other surgeries.

I agree with what you say re the command economy of WW2 allowing the creation of the NHS. But it was not this country that founded the NHS: it is some ancient, lost nation that seems utterly alien to me today. I don't believe we could achieve even a small version of what WW2 Britain did anymore, if our survival depended on it. I cite the UK's response to COVID19 as evidence.
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Do you not realize that the design that TI currently sells is different from the 1965 design that we were discussing?

They are even manufactured using very different technology.

Like I said, just because it shares the same part number and is labelled "bipolar NAND gate" does not mean that it's approximately the same.
Could you name a few? Not trying to challenge I’m actually really curious how the bar has shifted over time. (It also makes me curious if it means newbies have an increasingly high bar to clear and eventually pushes out young people?)
Being a FOSS project not under the scrutiny of 150,000 refugees and just making a fun side project?
Motorcycles have plenty of ways to kill you without a second vehicle, though.
I'm a pretty big supporter of Xbox (had every console they've so far released, heavy into Game Pass) and my god they need to get naming right. They should have called it the "Xbox 4" or something to make it simple.

Though, Microsoft is never one for making names simple.
Do you know if there is any work being done to support a Metal backend for Futhark? That would be interesting for local prototyping on macOS. I've found a fork[1], but it doesn't seem to have been updated since February.

[1]: https://github.com/MilesLitteral/futhark-metal
> That’s why those 400kW CCS chargers exist

If you think CCS chargers exist that can deliver 400kW to a single connector for a passenger EV (as opposed to 400kW shared across two connectors, or specialist charging hardware for semi-trucks) then by all means, edit the opening paragraph of the CCS Wikipedia page (“350kW” -> “400kW”) and let’s see how your revision goes down with the experts that frequent that page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System
‘Miracle material’ solar panels to finally enter production in China
For Falcon 40b, the 8-bit version would probably need about 48GB of VRAM while the 4-bit would need something closer to 28GB.
i like this. thank you
Kotlin does not produce machine executables. Kotlin produces JVM bytecode and JVM languages have not caught the attention of HN folks very frequently. Clojure comes up from time to time but I am sure that's because it is a Lisp which is discussed favorably by HN folks.

Both Zig and Rust fill important gaps in the programming languages. If someone wants a better C, they look at Zig. Zig is simple like C. It has less concepts, good memory management story and protects the developer from shooting their foot.

If someone wants a better C++, they look at Rust. Rust is complex but has strong memory safety guarantees.

Both Zig and Rust are great alternatives for C and C++ both of which have been used extensively in the IT. What gap is Kotlin fulfilling? What is Kotlin doing so well that another language cannot do today?
Carmack got the brain worms? Say it isn’t so. Citation needed.
I also can't get paste the spinner with passwords < 20 chars.
> Java/Kotlin: Netflix DGS (built on top of Spring Boot)

Is that really popular? I'd rather use graphql-kotlin (expedia), graphql spring (yes, recent Spring module), quarkus graphql (code 1st) or just about anything else than that...

> Node.js: GraphQL Yoga + Fastify, Apollo Server

Typegraphql is / was hugely popular; there's also an Express based Graphql server

Aside: there's also Rust and async-graphql
Trademark doesn't mean you can't say “Signal” at all. You can officially call it Whatever but then always say “Whatever (like Signal)” or “Whatever (Signal-compatible)”.
I take issue with the idea that diversity is about things like skin color and gender. Even if a group is all of the same race, gender, language, income and nationality, they can still be incredibly diverse when it comes to their views and experiences related to free software.

If we wanted to encourage diversity in the free software space, we should make sure every type of free software user feels welcome. Not just Linux users, but also BSD users, as well as folks who use Windows or MacOS but enjoy free software like Blender.

Of course, free software naturally has a greater appeal to tech-savvy computer users and software developers, which is a group that is overrepresented by Americans, English speakers, men and white people, mostly due to economic reasons. But these characteristics have nothing to do with free software, and there is already a diverse range of viewpoints and user profiles within the free software space.
And therefore have to omit that poetic line?
Not for the animals.
Lemmy is what it is. Why is it on Lemmy to be what millions of Redditors want as an alternate to Reddit? Your reply seems so hostile when all Lemmy did is exist.

This isn't a VC startup. This isn't even funded i believe. Why the hostility?
no, not that kind of party.. empty four walls warehouse for all of that.. go for it! But honestly back to the subject of you know, art, and stupid two second "mashups" .. isnt there some kind of balance between that cartoon, versus dumping your favorite brainless and overwhelming entertainment over it for a thrill? Isn't the current digital art situation at all similar, where hundreds of hours of labor are fed into a grinder to put some meme on it?
Not in the background. Apple has a very different system for background app refresh. So only when the app is in the foreground or recently closed it can perform an arbitrary http request
We generally have a lot of misconceptions about how extensive trade was in the ancient world. As time goes on we learn it started earlier than we thought and was way more extensive. Consider the Uluburun wreck [1]. This dates from over 3000 years ago and nearly 1000 years earlier than the rise of the Roman Republic.

Goods on this ship come from like 7 different places. One of them, lapis lazuli, had one (known) source in the ancient world: what is now modern day Afghanistan.

We in the West often have this view that Rome was really the start of civilization in many ways. You specifically mention the borders of Rome as a factor. Large empires had risen, lasted centuries and fallen long before Rome existed. The founding of Rome is closer to our time than to the kingdoms and empires of the Tigris-Euphrates region (eg Sumeria, Mesopotamia). The Hittites of Anatolia had extensive writing, libraries and trade. Thanks to the fires in Hattusa firing the clay tablets, we have personal correspondence between the king and the Egyptian pharoah (Ramses II IIRC).

Going even further back and we have evidence of trade 10,000 years earlier (eg obsidian from Turkey popped up all over the place and wheat products were traded in Britain 2,000 years before they farmed it [2]).

Fast forward to the Roman era, and the Republic then Empire and ancient China were known to each other [3] although there's no evidence of direct contact or trade.

[1]: https://www.worldhistory.org/Uluburun_Shipwreck/

[2]: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/27/388822209/st...

[3]: https://www.thecollector.com/rome-and-china/
As a medior, I've led a team of seniors on a mission critical project for several years, after which my manager said "maybe we should consider promoting you in another year or so".

It's not scope and impact either.
In general, a socially and personally healthy life choice is to refrain from pointed criticism of anyone's work whose specific profession one is not in. Apart from instances when their performance has directly impacted you.

If for no other reason than the fact that you haven't attempted it and therefore don't actually know.

After that, the next level of karmic adjustment is to refrain from posting bad reviews of restaurants.
I can't imagine that a deposition lasts more than a few hours and there are only 1,986 claims so Elon should be finished with it in a mere 248 days, assuming he doesn't eat drink or sleep for those 8 months...
Having integer operations wrap by default is a significant source of security issues, so having no other kind of addition and making it even harder to spot when it happens is not what my choice would be (I'd have both flags and trapping as options, at least). I should choose more charitable language.

I'd suggest that the unneeded historical baggage is default-wrapping integer operations, rather than carry flags. Back then, CPUs needed the simplicity.
Reciting her already public twitter bio is not character assassination.
> One question I have is, when you say multiple apps, are you speaking in a sense of they are at all related? Or every small app/project you have related or not?

If you think that people will want to subscribe to more than one app, or if you think you'll want to be able to have a single view of customers/users across multiple apps, that's when I'd extract auth to an auth server. You can use a dedicated auth server or have other apps rely on one app which uses a library/framework.

Think of it as normalizing user profile info. Just like when you normalize data, you get wins (one place to change things, consistent data structure) and you lose things (more complex, have to do joins across tables [or in the auth case, use tokens]).

If you don't ever forsee the need to look across all your users, or for users to log into multiple apps, and you don't need some of the isolation and features an auth server can offer, then it makes sense to continue to silo each set of user data in each app.

You can always make the investment to migrate to an auth server later. Of course, the longer you wait, the more hairy it will be.

Hope that helps, and thanks for the shout out to FusionAuth. If you want to download the free Community version to kick the tires for your own needs, here's the link: https://fusionauth.io/download
Beehaw is a bit dramatic. I'm part of one of the most active lemmy instances, It only just brought in upstream lemmy as it forked 2 years ago when the community was created, because lemmy wasn't ready.

Beehaw has some weird ideas about harassment and hate speech. Essentially civility and concern-troll like behavior cranked up to the extreme.

The instance I'm on is a bit rowdy but has a tight culture and something like 600 average users online at once, 20kish accounts, and a very active banhammer to boot.

We take things like transphobia, homophobia, racism, etc very seriously. The mods have zero patience for wreckers and "debate me" types. As a result, we find historical figures such as John Brown very admirable and hold strong opinions on what should happen to slaveholders and their ilk. Beehaw doesn't seem to like that.
Yes. They were around my age and we had a lot of similar interests. They were an extremely good manager because they were very technical and were kept in the loop because they were involved in implementing minor features for our team. They led with humility instead of an iron fist and made decisions with input of everyone on the team. Also being younger meant less corporate beauraucracy BS. Deadlines were not as important as accurately meeting the business needs. It was the highlight of my career.
Who is convinced by such argumentation I wonder? If there's a hypothesis, and there's multiple examples disproving the hypothesis, and not even a single example proving the hypothesis is provided - how can you be a fan of the hypothesis?

It may be a matter of marketing and luck to make money on a "good" game, but a brilliant game is destined to spread like wildfire, because the gaming community is enthusiastic enough to look for such gems and announce the findings.
No package manager before Nix solved the whole problem at all. Nix is the first of its kind.

A good litmus test: install the gnome and the kde desktop envs on your linux system with your preferred package manager. Now remove both. Will you get back to a fresh install state? And it’s not even a hard problem yet.

Now how would it solve installing a second chromium browser that uses a patched libc beneath?
The four freedoms that free software guarantee are essential for people to be in control of their own computing.

Are you in control of your computer, or does your computer control you?

https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57

People get angry and frustrated when a big tech company makes a decision that is user-hostile, but benefits the tech company's profits. This is to be expected because in almost all cases, the big tech company has no obligation other than to maximize profits.

The four freedoms help to put a check on the power of big tech companies by providing alternatives that keep power in the hands of the user.

That does not mean that free software and big tech companies cannot coexist or even thrive together. Red Hat was built on free software. System76 sells hardware that runs mostly free software.
> Anyone that's been tackling the "long fight" of what they view as oppression has this map in their head of things that add up to their main point in life and cannot help but continually extrapolate it for people.

Well said. This is a good point for any activist to keep in mind.
Rosenblatt had a working perceptron for classifying images in the 1950s (!). And yet it took 60 years before the theory and compute power had developed enough for all of this to be interesting outside of small, purely academic experiments.
From the HuggingFace page:

> You will need at least 85-100GB of memory to swiftly run inference with Falcon-40B.

So it may be possible with less (swap around method), though not as efficiently and also slower.
> Apparently Twitter’s lawyers hasn’t met with the other law firms that have brought arbitration claims yet. But, it seems they’re freaked out by the prospect of having to handle 1,848 separate discovery efforts.

Separate but largely identical discovery efforts, surely? That sounds like a job for one of the leftover devs (who by now must all be extremely hardcore rockstars sleeping in the office, since Elon fired everyone else) to generate 1848 separate zip files of documentation.
https://whoisylvia.medium.com/richard-stallman-has-been-vili...
It's impossible to criticize RMS now because the cult has fully hardened. The moment anyone does, even if they were on the FSF, you will see the warriors come out with swords and axes ready to commit war against them. That was their #1 mistake when they brought him back and now it will forever plague their mission.
I think if all images were hosted not on my infra it would be fine. I am not aware of any laws that forbid sharing information about weed.

But it would need to be heavily moderated. There are already some "trees" communities. Subscribing to them from our instance I wouldn't have a problem with

Edit: position: no, unless we get other moderators and admins we can trust. Currently it's just 2 people doing admin n moderation. Having a community like that may be a lot more involved that I would want to be.
Some communities do run Discourse. All I see are lots of questions and now answers or discussions. It doesn't really work.

Slack was popular before Discord.

I'd say it partially has to do with a learning curve.

More people are likely to have accounts for Slack / Discord / common tool than a custom forum. Internal (employees) and external (customers) are also likely more familiar with it.
i hope that fly-out menu with 432 packages has filtering capabilities. otherwise that's a big UX nightmare right there.
> It's probably a problem with your auto generated password.

I am not using auto-generated passwords. Like I said the browser is not sending any request at all to the server.
I have a one that immediately comes to mind:

Chicory, A Colorful Tale is way less successful than it should be. It’s a cross between a Zelda style game (upgrades, bosses, dungeons, exploration) with a coloring book (you color the world) with a deeply touching plot about impostor syndrome and the pressures of being labeled a talented artist. It has a huge number of accessibility features, co-op mode, an amazing ost, difficulty settings, runs like butter, and is all in all a super polished game. IMO this was GOTY shit and I don’t know why it didn’t take off.
Significant numbers of motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle crashes; and of those, many are not the motorcyclists "fault" as you could commonly ascribe it (hitting an unknown oil slick that wasn't the center of the lane on a turn, hitting the guard rail, and somersaulting over the handlebars and down a cliff).
No, just the "Twitter is being run poorly" horse.
IMO, you cannot solve the issue from within the system. Period.
Hmm...is this really surprising to anyone? Yes, I'd like the purpose of a tech company to be to "make developers heroes," but in a capitalist society, companies exist to make money. I'm not saying I like it, but that's just the way it is.

I think developers have been treated extremely well--justifiably, I might add, given the profit some of these tech companies are making--but at the same time developers expect things from their companies that no one else would. Could you imagine your local barista complaining that Starbucks isn't giving them a free gym, free meals, transportation expense reimbursements, and making them heroes?

Again, I'm not saying I like it.
Interesting.

In Spanish, "bajar de la carreta" (step down from the wagon) was the pre-automobile version.
Musk’s MO is to use the legal system in bad faith. That’s his primary tactic. He even does this with his vendors and his customers. With his vendors he just stops paying and then waits until legal action is threatened and then tries to negotiate a deal. With his customers an example are the solar roof customers where he tried to double the costs even with a signed contract and threatened them until the customers signed a new contract agreeing to pay double the costs.

So the opponents to twitter should use this to show that musk is always trying to have his cake and eat it too so that their request for consolidation of discovery can be denied.
> Kotlin does not produce machine executables. Kotlin produces JVM bytecode

Strictly speaking - not true. JVM languages via GraalVM have been able to produce native executables for quite a while already. A lot of frameworks / libraries support this too.
Does it work on a laptop or so you mean iPad?
If I buy a house that needs work, contract that work to be done, and then sell that house with the work done, I believe I have distributed the result of that labor.

With the proprietary software model, I would not be able to sell a house that I have had electrical work done under contract. That is bogus.
/me English from England.

"We got out of the car and went inside", "I joined the queue to pay for groceries", "He had/held/put-on a party to celebrate [...]".

I wouldn't describe my versions as "correct", but all of the renditions you've offered look to me as if they should be spoken with an accent not from England.
> People defining dialects because of their political agenda?

That is absolutely the case with mainland China where the CCP has weaponised the dialects rhetoric and declared all other Chinese languages that are not Mandarin as mere, lowly dialects despite then being closely related, yet different languages and comprising a larger Chinese language continuum. They have their own respective grammatical and, naturally, lexicon differences.

Such an attitude is also partially rooted in the history of the development of linguistics in ancient China where it was not recognised as such until the encounter with the linguistic studies in neighbouring ancient India as part of the inevitable cultural exchange, but the western style development of linguistics was always stifled in ancient China due to the «celestial kingdom» concept (i.e. no need to learn barbarian tongues).

Predominantly Mandarin speaking young generation (mostly from the north) get a surprise or a few when they 1) come across another Chinese language in writing (officially, it is not meant to exist), 2) realise that the grammar of another Chinese language is incomprehensible to them. It becomes an eye opener to them.

The reality is a bit different, as almost everything in the mainland, and most children are bi- or trilingual if they happen to have been born into a family where parents speak at least one other Chinese language. In between peers, they speak their own language reverting to Mandarin when speaking to a person not native to their region.

The Taiwanese have eventually got it right, and officially recognise Hokkien as a distinct language and now teach it in school as well as fund the Hokkien studies. Hong Kong and Cantonese are somewhat a grey area at the moment, although Cantonese itself is thriving nevertheless.
I don't quite get the saturation/brightness difference here. Isn't $fff "whiter" than $eee? Where whiter means brighter? Then why couldn't the whitest color be even whiter, and hence brighter, in a larger color space? (I assume the answer is that a larger color space contains colors that are "redder" or "yellower", but not "whiter", for some reason.)
I thought that for this reason any party can ask for it to become a class action, not just the complainants.
Yes, with tiny thumbnail images; it's only good for forcing you to click into the site. Jef's feed has large images that display right in your feed reader.
I've seen at least one comment arguing that the plaintiffs would be better off with a true legal trial, than with arbitration.

But is that necessarily true? IIUC, class-action participants typically get screwed over because the class attorneys negotiate a settlement that optimizes their profit.

Is arbitration subject to the same problem?
Agreed. This is a strength of federation. Pick an instance that defines the term the same way you do. Communities with strong usage guidelines, like HN, can feel very safe to use.
If your father fixed something for you, it could feel like a betrayal of his memory to hire someone to fix it again for you.

Though personally, if I had the deep emotional connection with it, I'd want to fix it myself (almost certainly with assistance from some amateurs who know the radio).