skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I live in Canada, where we have socialized medicine. Our survival rates for major cancers are on par the US

That's not really true. Cancer is one area that has been extensively studied over multiple rounds of years-long comparative studies, and while Canada is not as far behind the US in survival rates for cancers as other developed countries are, it's still decisively behind the US.

You're correct that the middlemen here serve no purpose and are effectively leeches upon the system (with patients paying the price in the end, with both their wallets and their health). However, cancer is not the example that proves this point - it's one are where the US system does quite well, by the numbers.
But not every game does have those, which is why they must be coded. How else does the system be flexible enough to make either a 3d fps or a Bejeweled puzzle game from the same API?

I generally agree with you btw, but I think it's just a matter of course.

I tried gdevelop before and I think it's the closest thing to what you might be looking for. You can make a sprite, then give it the "player movement behaviour", get a box and give it the "mouse draggable" behaviour. Etc.
For a while Ford was importing Turkey manufactured small vans with seats in the back as passenger vehicles, immediately un-bolting and shredding the seats after they'd arrived at the US port, and selling them for their real intended purpose (small electrical/telecom/plumbing/other trades services vans).
This tweet would never have received 17k likes/retweets on pre-Musk twitter and the missing Community Note on this tweet (and other tweets pushing far-right disinfo) is proving that the twitter management supports it.
Xkcd 2169: Predictive Models (2019)
> Uranium could power the world as far into the future as we are today from the dawn of civilization—more than 10,000 years ago.

Thermodynamics would like to have a word:

> […] the Earth has only one mechanism for releasing heat to space, and that’s via (infrared) radiation. We understand the phenomenon perfectly well, and can predict the surface temperature of the planet as a function of how much energy the human race produces. The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate (conveniently chosen to represent a 10× increase every century), we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
Sorry, but it just doesn't cross my threshold for 'mainstream', whereas Lua does at least get within striking distance.
I created a minisite alongside my WordPress website
Running a small personal website on WordPress is like piggybacking an elephant.

I found inspiration in the No CSS Club to build a simple HTML-only website alongside my WordPress one.

I tried to make the content update process as simple as possible. I just add the .txt file to the folder and link it to the HTML file. Syncthing syncs the folder between my computer and my local server, and a cron job syncs the latter with my web-hosted site. It's so lightweight and easy that I'm feeling like dumping WordPress now.
The stage fright comes from a place of lack of psychological safety. Too many mediocre managers see asking questions as poor performance.
I also found it a bit too philosophical in the sense that we can already explain a lot of the variations in outcomes to infection.

For example, HLA/MHC is a family of genes tasked with the presentation of antigens (e.g. chunks of proteins) from pathogens and your own cells to the immune system. It is a very polymorphic region, i.e. full of genetic variants that lead to lots of differences in the peptides that are presented, to stop spread of infections at population level.

If you have one of the lucky/unlucky alleles, you will have high chances of protection/susceptibility. Some alleles, like HLA-B57, protect against HIV but it's a tradeoff. Carriers are much more susceptible of autoimmunity [1].

From an environmental point of view, if you have dysbiosis, e.g. if your gut microbiome ecology is altered, T cell receptor distributions will be altered and you are more likely to have a bad response to certain infections.

[1] Effects of thymic selection of the T-cell repertoire on HLA class I-associated control of HIV infection. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08997
Sometimes golden handcuffs are very comfortable because of the aforementioned gold.
Also worth pointing out that there are plenty of low-lying inland areas both critical to the global economy and vulnerable to damage from climate change. Relevant to my own background: California's Central Valley sits pretty darn close to sea level, and is already dependent on rather elaborate levee systems to keep floodwaters and delta seawaters at bay. Said region produces large swaths of the world's entire supply of various fruits and vegetables; that farmland turning into ocean (a very real risk per various climate models) would be catastrophic for the global supply of said produce.

And that's just around sea level rise. The Central Valley's water issues are another probable symptom of global climate change, and just because the Valley lucked out with a wet winter this year doesn't mean that luck will persist. If push comes to shove, I'm sure California's agricultural sector would much rather invest the billions necessary for desalination and upgraded levees to address those symptoms than abandon California entirely - but those are still costs being thrust upon California due to a continued reliance on fossil fuels.
> The hardest part of implementing a quantum state vector simulation is understanding how the tensor product expands an n-qubit gate to apply to an m-qubit system. (A third of the linked post is dedicated to it; appropriately.)

This feels like it could be the "git gets easier once you understand branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space" of physics.
As far as my citation, Ill defer to the US Constitution:

Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government

The establishment of a Republican form of Government wasn’t an accident. The word Democracy doesn’t appear in the Constitution once, that also is not an accident.

I’d recommend reading the Federalist Papers and understand why the Founding Father’s were against a Democracy and advocated for a Republic. Federalist Paper No. 14 written by Madison might be particularly helpful as he highlights how people wrongly confound Democracies with Republics.
Just got one to stuff into my kid's backpack, for tracking and emergencies. I'm probably going to buy a Unihertz for myself, when it's time to upgrade. It's a little thick but it fits in a pocket so much better. I'd actually trade but the size is necessary for stashing in her bag.
“That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, & Computer Culture
The more things change…?
The LPL is a highly-skilled picker; he has access to all the right tools; he practices a lot; he researches every lock before he starts the video.
As someone who bikes in the touristiest Dutch city of them all, we aren't going to hit you.

It is possible to do something so monumentally stupid as a pedestrian that you get hit and nobody could have helped you. That thing is to start crossing a bike path and then suddenly go backwards because you got scared.

As long as you don't do that, you'll be fine.

And the cyclists aren't nearly as annoyed by pedestrians as they are by mopeds.
A content management system where the content is stored in flat-files like csv.

You know, like dos-on-dope -

https://github.com/secretGeek/dod
Ask HN: How do you shorten your resume when you have a lot of things to put in?
I'm pretty young, so I guess I should keep my resume relatively short(1 page?)

But I've had 2 full time jobs, an internship, a dozen freelance gigs, 3 schools, maybe at least 5 interesting side-projects, I can't possibly fit everything on one page

How do you decide what to keep?
Technically it could use some more advanced regex/filtering on the OCR output, you're right! I found that with some receipts, you actually can omit cropping with some exceptions. I'd definitely like to remove the need for cropping altogether.
Agreed. Its always "Finally we have added xyz support for our abc module, now you can just call mnb by using the cba function!!" while (I believe) 90% of the people reading that just want to know what kind of tool it is.

On topic: This tool to make diagrams using plain text looks great. Definately going to see if I can utilize it in a project.

Example: https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/try/?examples=graph-domain/other-...
Thanks! Check out the themes also: https://t.mkws.sh/

You can replace the bin/mkws script with a Plan9 mk file to get incremental builds:

#!/usr/local/plan9/bin/mk -f

URL=//example.com
SHARE=share
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

THEMEFILES=$SHARE/l.upphtml\
$SHARE/s.uppcss\

TPLFILES=`{find . ! -name "l.upphtml" -name "*.upphtml" | cut -c3-}
HTMLFILES=${TPLFILES:%.upphtml=%.html}

$URL:V: sitemap.xml $HTMLFILES

%.html:Q: %.upphtml $THEMEFILES
>&2 echo Making $target
pp $SHARE/l.upphtml ${target%.html}.upphtml $url > $target

sitemap.xml:Q: $HTMLFILES $SHARE/sitemap.uppxml
>&2 echo Making $target
pp $SHARE/sitemap.uppxml $url > $target

clean:VQ:
Removing "$HTMLFILES" sitemap.xml
rm -f $HTMLFILES sitemap.xml

It's drop in!
Agree and there’s something nice in using a paid product with a simple and straightforward license, no silly subscriptions and from a team that genuinely cares about the product.

Plus the product itself is incredibly good and it’s getting better and better over time.
Freedom to live your life on your own terms and as evidenced by this thread, providing a beacon on the path others can choose to follow.
I'm curious what games you made without the concept of a scene or node.. at least from an code organisation standpoint.

I used to try and write GLES games back in C++98 out of highschool. I find modern engines much quicker and easier to understand and use
Wait, isn't laravel based on/using a bunch of libraries from symfony? Or did it just use to be that way and it has changed?
Exactly! A curl 1-liner to get root access to the Linux shell running on my Rigol scope (an older 1074Z-S...do I even have a webserver?)

Think of all the awesome things I could do!

This security vulnerability does not make me worried, it makes me happy. Rigols have always been somewhat hackable, this is an even easier way to do it.
Well, you could scram a supercritical water reactor too. If there's an emergency that warrants scramming the reactor, the time it will need to restart should be low on your list of priorities.

As for refueling, in some designs like CANDU refueling can be done 'online', refueling one tube while the others are running.
> (I think the author’s predictions about the collapse of civilization are overblown, but still, if you’re going to engage in a middlebrow dismissal, at least do us the courtesy of reading and understanding what you’re dismissing.)

You should probably do me the courtesy to not make assumptions about what I've read and understood. This is such a common trope on HN that it made it into the guidelines.

The whole idea that the collapse of civilization is something slow is a massive assumption, it could be all over in a few microseconds so fiddling around with tech at a level like this is an exercise in futility: if this is the level that you end up at that's pure luxury and proof that civilization has not collapsed and likely will not collapse in the near future.

Microchips are not going to be much use in any situation where they can no longer be produced. They are the pinnacle of a very large pyramid and without the base the tip is next to useless.

A better - and far more immediate - use case would be to target the re-use of scavenged chips in the present day undeveloped parts of the world which are 100% dependent on imported goods.
My transistor-level simulator shows that the 8086 will generate a divide by 0 interrupt if you give the AAM instruction a divisor of 0. But I haven't tried this on a real chip.
"Noisy" UI have been made before. Possibly a few times, though the only one that comes to mind right now is the "Audio Finder" experiment at Apple. It did things like play sounds for drag events or the mouse pointer crossing a window boundary. Reportedly, after the beta test users had to give it up, they missed the feedback.
To be fair, this thing is not new at all
How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists and twisted by the Nazis
Related:

Dancing Plague of 1518 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35509132 - April 2023 (84 comments)

Dancing Plague of 1518 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27028941 - May 2021 (2 comments)

Historic Hysteria: The Dancing Plague of 1518 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957689 - Jan 2021 (5 comments)

The Dancing Plague of 1518 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499671 - July 2018 (6 comments)

Dancing Plague of 1518 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7571625 - April 2014 (2 comments)

Dancing Plague of 1518 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083844 - July 2013 (1 comment)
You make a lot of assumptions here, about the directions in which future technologies can possibly develop. The thing is: if we are making decisions right now, we should make it based on what we know for sure, not based on our hopes and dreams, which might never materialize. In 20 years time, if the technologies you mention do indeed appear, we can re-evaluate our approach.

> Uranium (like fossil fuels) is not everywhere, a shift of geopolitics will affect availability, sun and wind are everywhere, maybe not constant, but hardly vanish for long periods everywhere..

Sun disappears for half of the day, every day. Strong wind is not that common at all, except in few selected areas, like the seaside.
By 1851, Hincks and Rawlinson could read 200 Akkadian signs. They were soon joined by two other decipherers: young German-born scholar Julius Oppert, and versatile British Orientalist William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1857, the four men met in London and took part in a famous experiment to test the accuracy of their decipherments. Edwin Norris, the secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, gave each of them a copy of a recently discovered inscription from the reign of the Assyrian emperor Tiglath-Pileser I. A jury of experts was impaneled to examine the resulting translations and assess their accuracy. In all essential points, the translations produced by the four scholars were found to be in close agreement with one another. There were, of course, some slight discrepancies. The inexperienced Talbot had made a number of mistakes, and Oppert's translation contained a few doubtful passages which the jury politely ascribed to his unfamiliarity with the English language. But Hincks' and Rawlinson's versions corresponded remarkably closely in many respects. The jury declared itself satisfied, and the decipherment of Akkadian cuneiform was adjudged a fait accompli.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_cuneiform
We have plenty of proof that you can build successful large-scale software without synchronization or zoom or in-person meetings.

A successful project that makes use of synchronization doesn't prove that synchronization itself is successful. At best it proves that synchronization may not destroy the craft entirely.

I admit that synchronization may add something to the development of business software, but we have plenty of business software that doesn't use synchronization, like Gitlab, Tailscale, etc.
But the science of bird study was advancing, and a close-knit group of scientists was experimenting with using radar imagery, satellite photos, and citizen science to add precision to the dozens of conventional bird counts done for groups of species.

Curious how this determines the total bird population today vs the last 50 years without a whole lot of speculation and estimation based on ___________.

Is the author assuming that when a wooded area is cleared to make a pasture, the birds just vanish? Is the author assuming there are no tree lines or hedgerows surrounding pastures? Is there an assumption that fields don't have an abundance of seeds? What exactly is citizen science? This kinda sounds like a problem formulated to generate more study/grants.

The end is neigh.
It is interesting a bit like catching the sound of a distant rave on the wind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOFAR_channel
Wow, that brings back memories. I had a link to this in my Usenet sig.. well, back in the era where one had a Usenet sig.
No, I imagine the average person in the U.S. is using their truck to drive to and from their office job and taking their kids to and from school. And for that these tiny trucks obviously would not work.
Thanks that is useful. Indeed I worry about cargo weight and sometimes avoid to take things I'd otherwise rather have with me.
The arcade family restaurant concept was also a previously untouched market.

I guess Mickey Mouse is just an animatronic rat too!
The Maverick Design Choices That May Have Doomed Titan
>"My build pipeline is failing. Can you help me?"

Even that is better than someone pinging you "hi." It's such an immediate red flag in communication skills.
HTML isn't some arcane binary format or compressed or something. You can view it anywhere you can view a text file. If as a publisher you want your HTML to be readable in a text viewer it's trivial to run tidy (or whatever linter you prefer) on it. You'll get nicely indented text blocks perfectly readable in a text viewer. The output is no less readable than "plain text" marked up with a bunch of faux page layout like hard line breaks and lines of dashes under headings and the like.

The JavaScripter über alles crowd generates some downright abusive HTML and CSS even when generated as a static document but there's no intrinsic reason for that. HTML can be a fairly lightweight markup on top of text. Even while being lightweight it can bring significant enhancement over plain text by being able to carry metadata, encoding information, semantic information, and even provenance through comment tags.
Adblockers help prevent data collection, which I’m sure YT does have a problem with.
Also automobile engines tend to have vastly more horsepower for their size now than they did 25 years ago.
States are not required to register cars just because the federal government allows them to be imported or sold. They can add requirements consistent with their own laws, as California infamously does causing 49-state cars and parts.

Whether categorically blocking kei car registrations is consistent with the laws of some of the states doing it is a question in some ongoing lawsuits, though.
Exact link first posted 6 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743660
If cars had been as popular as guns when the U.S. Bill of Rights was written, then such a right might have been included.

Hypothetically, "Motorized transportation, being necessary to the mobility of a free State, the right of the people to keep and drive automobiles shall not be infringed."

Imagine the vehicles we would have. For one thing, the impossible-to-meet CAFE standards, which make it economically infeasible to sell compact pickup trucks in the U.S., would probably have been declared unconstitutional. On the other hand, laws requiring seatbelts and airbags probably would have also been unconstitutional.
I generally put Postgres WAL on nonvolatile RAM (battery backed thing) and the database on a bunch of NVMe RAIDz3 arrays striped with two 64-core AMD EPYC CPUs. Is fast.
Email is for stuff on the record, slack and teams not so much. Especially in client service.
I've got a feeling some people might consider this to be a rather snarky response, but honestly a lot of trouble comes from assuming you can muddle through CSS, and you can. Unfortunately that means it's easy to always be an expert beginner, and never quite grasp the underlying logic, as obtuse as it may be.
I wonder about the possibilities for AI to provide better bedside manner and support difficult conversations for clinicians. Obviously there are risks with increased reliance automation, but it seems like there are also possibilities for improving communication and reducing emotional labor while still letting humans drive the knowledge work part of medicine.
Serious problem with this collection: Many of their icons require attribution, and they do not offer enough detail about the licenses to credit the authors.

For example, this baseball icon:

https://svgmix.com/item/yBq8JY/ball-baseball

says that it is licensed under the "MIT License". That means that, if you embed the icon in a product, you're obligated to document the fact that the icon is copyrighted by its author and explain what license you used it under.

The link they offer for the license is this one: https://opensource.org/license/mit/

It just says "Copyright <copyright holder>"... they don't offer you any way to identify the actual copyright holder and credit them according to the license they claim for the icon.

That's bad. To the point of making it nearly impossible to reuse these freely offered icons.
My father (ex air defense, working around really high current - ~40,000 volts) taught me this from long time - when you are about to touch a cable always do it with the back of your fist, because due to electricity you may clench your fist, and if that cable was there you won't be able to release it.
You've got an interesting way of reading charts... are you classifying trains, trucks and boats all as cars? And classifying all process heat used in industry as "energy" is certainly true but you're abstracting away way too many details if you just suppose all of that can be replaced with electrical heating. A lot of process heat could be provided by very small nuclear reactors on site, but honestly that seems like a pipe dream.
I'm a firm believer that we will never meet alien life beyond a microbe.

Also I'm on the side that we are likely the only life active in the universe. As it is said by many scholars life should be common. If life is common. If indeed it is possible for life to spread across space it should overrun the galaxies by now. Even at sub-light speeds. However it clearly has not. The in the face obvious conclusion is that these speculative theories are wrong and life is not actually common and life does not spread easily. I'm not sure why so many other people are dedicated to believing the opposite of this with no actual evidence beyond theory.

Yeah dark forest theory. Yeah forerunner theory. I've heard them. Maybe...
guarding a single storage facility is easy: just put a thousand men with machine guns between it and anyone who could possibly try to raid it. Guarding against nature is even easier: we have at least a century worth of climate data, it's not that hard to select one place that is safe from earthquakes, hurricanes, and other disasters.
There are different technologies. Cadence Sensors are cheap but only good for long commutes an a bike lane, they don't kick in immediately (less efficient). Torque Sensor is only sensible thing to use in urban settings.
Just curious, what so you do for a living? Or what's your hobby?

Isn't the F250 a huge vehicle and that trailer seems huge, is it a boat?
"Please give me a direct answer, without any additional explanations, disclaimers, expertise limitations, or guidelines on human interaction."
Yikes - you can't attack other users like this on HN and we ban accounts that do, so please don't.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I've ridden the Citibikes with the gearless hubs, and I assume they wouldn't install something that breaks down easily, but it's so hard for me to imagine that something like that isn't a maintenance headache waiting to happen.

I do love the experience of using it though.