skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> america moment

> Yes I'm trying to frame it in terms the audience of HN can understand.

> I'm not sure what's wrong with that.

What's wrong is that it's orthogonal to the problem, so it risks creating a pointless discussion about health insurance instead of focusing on the technology. The key problem is the ability to regrow limbs is not yet within our technological reach.

Having (or not) health insurance won't get you another pair of legs if you walk on a mine. Maybe you'll get very fancy prosthetics, but it will not be flesh and bone.

In a world where this is known technology, even if the costs may initially put it out of reach of people without insurance, should it just be a gene edit AND we have the ability to gene edit like we now have the ability to 3d print, the cat will be out of the bag, and it will be like people buying 3d printers to 3d print guns in countries where gun ownership is forbidden, or people ordering drugs on the dark web: it may be illegal, but people with addictions (or here, without legs) may not really care about the legality.

Or they will just do a road trip to Mexico, like how it is for dental work.

Health insurance is rarely the #1 issue: I think even Europeans do similar trips when they want something immediately instead of accepting long waitlines or some procedures not being officially available in their country. The only difference is they don't go to Mexico but to Turkey, the Balkans or Eastern Europe.

What we need is more technology, and fewer legal limitations, like how it was pointed out last week about how the FDA risk aversion costs human lives in a way that's impossible (or extremely hard) to measure.

We're very lucky the Trump administration (and a few others around the world) decided to bypass the regular vaccine safety process during operation warp speed: regardless of what you think about Covid vaccines, we now have mRNA vaccine technology, which is already being tested for many other things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906085 was posted earlier, so maybe we'll merge both threads thither. Thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_transmission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_television
Go home.
India needs you.
Jai Hind.
I was just in Safeway (a former Albertson's if it matters) yesterday. I bought a couple of items but bypassed the scanning of a shopper card/entering a phone number. The self-checkout knocked the prices down to the reward card level anyway. I can only assume they've linked my payment method to a reward card in the past. That or they are no longer requiring rewards cards to get the discounts.

Since the register already priced my bill higher at the time I swiped my card and then dropped the price, I have to assume it's the former.
> Like SMS itself is a legacy, insecure tech, it really should not be used at all anymore, unless you really only know their phone number.

I use SMS mostly because the only people I know who don't are using Facebook stuff and I'm not going to do that. But I am nervous about the say when people stop using SMS so much because I don't look forward to having to have multiple messaging apps and trying to remember who is using what.

> You can’t send images/videos through a Short Messaging Service, period.

I do that all the time.
> i mean what is your solution? ban all driving?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Don't forget the per minute charge to use kiosk computers to send electronic communication with family, or the pay to use phone app for family members to get those same communications.

Or that you have to buy any medications sold in commissary from there and won't be given them at medical (which costs $5 a visit when you don't make $5 a month) like aspirin at the for profit commissary that buys from jacked up 'prison commissary' distributors and has a way shorter than what you buy in the store expiration date. Keep in mind you are not allowed to share 'medication' and that having expired 'medication' in your locker can be a shot (writeup, potential loss of good time, potential to have your security points increased and shipped to a higher security(i.e. less safe) prison).
It is. I have the beta on my daily driver iPad and I prefer texting on it.
For me it's things like iCloud Photos having no API to access them and no reasonable way to pull them out or back them up. So very much a trap. Among other things.
Did you end up switching to a different platform? If so, which one?
I'm managing a software engineering team for a medium size startup (400 engineers) and one common question is about the source income restriction of H1B employees. One example is that O'Reilly reached out to one engineer on a book deal, and it seems to be impossible to proceed considering he's on H1B. Any angle to work around it?
RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models
I'm constantly amazed by how people spend so much of their income on Apple products; it's almost like their lives are ruled by the status they feel an iPhone brings (and the consequential sacrificial purchasing).

It likely varies by area and average income, here it's almost an inverse correlation - the less-well off kids at school tend to have parents on iPhones and the comfortable parents are on whatever works for them.
Is that basically serving the same purpose as Android's SafetyNet attestation?
That's the thing, the person that first responded to me mentioned that money didn't matter, class was an attitude that only certain people in certain areas have.

I feel like everyone is talking in circles just wanting to be right on the internet.
What about data science areas like machine learning, deep learning and AI?
That’s wild! I too have seen horror I wish I could forget.

For those still worried, the pain is limited to about 15 minutes of writing a unit file, testing it, and waiting for ci or builds to finish!

I expect to have to do this for older or more esoteric stuff, but I also enjoy writing unit files.
Separation and eventual divorce.
> Not letting you see just posts from your follows sucked

This is why I stopped using Instagram. I have been there since around 2010. Moment when I realized it's waste of time was when feed contained content I did not followed while missing some that I followed.

Irony is that pre-2010 I was proponent of algorithmic feed. Young and naive.
> I worked at Facebook for 4 years and also don't understand that comment.

I have never worked for FB and I thought it was fine. None of that is FB-specific.

> I take it being an L5 is a good thing?

It's implied lower numbers are better.

>> it was me and 20 other L8s interviewing for the same L6 opening

> but just six months ago you were an L8, and competition to become an L6 was a coin toss?

Yes, due to the number of people competing for the same position.

> No idea what 'price discovery' could mean in this situation, other than a fairly weird way to say 'salary range'?

Salary range implies stability. eg What a company is willing to pay for what positions. There has been a lack of standardization in talent across tech and instability in compensation. Another way to think of it is an increased risk tolerance in wages. This has been fueled by leniency in promotion/raises/hiring when profits were higher.

> And any of this having to do with 'the bond market' is just baffling!

Monetary policy (around interest rates) is directly related to profit margins and hiring. Suffice to say, this is common knowledge for anyone who owns property (beyond a car, maybe) or tracks the job market.
> Apple will just need to implement RCS and everything will be better.

I used it for a bit, but learned that RCS is not something I want even a little.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906085, which was the same article posted a bit earlier.

Sorry! We're going to have karma sharing for these cases at some point; in the meantime, it at least evens out in the long run if you keep posting good things.
Most humans as they currently are may need 16 years to grow an adult size limb, but it doesn't need to be that way.

An interesting question would be how long does it take a baby to gain the mass of a limb?

Another interesting question would be how fast can an adult gain weight?

Another interesting question would be if it takes a person 18 years to reach 6' and 160lbs and then they stop growing, how long would it take them to grow another foot or two if they didn't stop growing?
As long as we are comparing anecdotes I've used a cheap one note Android for years and it's amazing
Well then, think of what generation we are creating today with this permanent 1984 atmosphere.
I've thought about it, but water in my area is so cheap the payback would be forever.

I pay about $30/month for local utility water. It's metered, but I rarely exceed the minimum billing amount.
Sens. Warren and Graham to Introduce Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act
Razer and Nvidia drivers almost force a login on you and do things like constantly spin up and wear out your idle HDDs searching for games to "optimize." You often have to do a research project filled with SEO spam to get around stuff like that.
People who are worried about GPT bot armies flooding the Internet.
The confusion is to assume "runtime" is statically defined. JIT generates code which omits type information that's determined not to be needed in the context of the compiled method/trace/class/module. That code still "runs" it's "runtime".
Marrying a US citizen is the only practical way forward for most people. And on top of that, it is only available to people who entered legally initially (which is around 50% of unauthorized immigrants if I remember correctly). It is deeply tragic.
It's all relative. For us, it's fine to watch my kid completely smash a lego set down the stairs because they're holding it like a waiter, it's another thing when it's the Nintendo 3DS (both examples from this week)
> You NEED a smartphone nowadays for everyday life: banking, gym access, maps

It is bizarre to me that anyone would state the few minutes saved per month on these as NEEDS.
US EPA proposes to allow chlormequat on food crops
There's always the Post-9/11 GI Bill. 36 months of tuition at the most expensive in-state rate in whatever state you attend school in plus Basic Allowance for Housing equal to an E5 with dependents is quite good.
It depends on, among other things, the relative power of the speaker and target.

Prejudice, to be dangerous, requires power. Prejudice + Power = Danger. In a world of of 95% Martians and 5% Venusians, if a Martian calls all Venusians corrupt and evil, it's a danger - the Venusians may be at risk; their future - career, safety, status, etc. - depends on the goodwill of the Martians. If a Venusian does the same about Martians, it's easily dismissed because the Martians can continue to live and study safely.

IOW, punching up and punching down are entirely different things. Criticizing the government is punching up; criticizing (e.g.) homeless people is punching down.
Since 2005ish.
Shouldn't this just be like a two line utility function to turn a addEventListner call into an async iterable?
US prison systems appear to want to brutalize prisoners at every opportunity.

Exactly what is the punishment?

Is the punishment loss of liberty for a period of time?

Or is the idea that for a period of time you are subjected to whatever punishments and humiliations and dehumanization the system can hit you with?
Oh wow, Ruffle can finally do blurs, shadows and other bitmap effects! Lots of late Flash games relied on them and weren't rendering quite right last time I checked. Gotta re-test my collection.
Effects of the plant growth regulator, chlormequat, on mammalian fertility
> Android isn't _that_ bad

I recently sold a bicycle to a guy, over Craigslist. He sent me the funds with Venmo from his Pixel 7. Not only did it take tens of seconds for Venmo to initially draw itself, after that the platform offered, in a pop-up dialog, to kill the process every few seconds. The entire experience was pure jank. I don't know what that person had done to their phone but it should have been up to Android to have prevented it. That's Google's flagship phone!
Being paid for labor is not usually considered "profit".
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with” applies here
Hey Peter, I'm currently in high school in Canada and I know that I want to live my life in the US. Ideally I would also like to school in a US university. I also don't have any familial ties in the US. As an immigration attorney, could you map out how I could immigrate to the US, in terms of the visa I need and the process of acquiring a green card? Thank you for your time.
https://www.nand2tetris.org/ - Another course. I'm not familiar with Hotz's course, but I like what this one covers and it's very approachable. It's roughly a survey version of a computer engineering curriculum so not deep (and ignores a lot of technical details, like assuming perfect timing for the logic circuits instead of dealing with actual electronics) but it's pretty comprehensive. It's a good introduction before going on to study the various areas it covers in more depth.

EDIT:

Looking up the course you mentioned it seems like it's intended to cover similar terrain as Nand2Tetris but doesn't have nearly as much material available or a reasonable timeline. Is this https://github.com/geohot/fromthetransistor really all he has posted? I'd definitely recommend Nand2Tetris first, it consists of 12 projects. It can be reasonably completed in 12 weeks of part time effort and then you can take that as a jumping off point into fuller treatments of the topics that catch your interest or where you find yourself with an obvious gap in knowledge.

Also this concerns me:

Section 4: Compiler: A “high” level language -- 3 weeks
- Building a C compiler(Haskell, 2000) -- A bit more interesting, cover the basics of compiler design. Write in haskell. Write a parser. Break this into subchapters. Outputs ARM assembly.
- Building a linker(Python, 300) -- If you are clever, this should take a day. Output elf files. Use for testing with QEMU, semihosting.
- libc + malloc(C, 500) -- The gateway to more complicated programs. libc is only half here, things like memcpy and memset and printf, but no syscall wrappers.
- Building an ethernet controller(Verilog, 200) -- Talk to a real PHY, consider carefully MMIO design.
- Writing a bootloader(C, 300) -- Write ethernet program to boot kernel over UDP. First thing written in C. Maybe don’t redownload over serial each time and embed in FPGA image.

That does not seem like a 3 week project to me if you've never written a compiler or linker before. Especially given he provides (from here) no other material or guidance and you end up using 3 separate languages. "basics of compiler design" in less than 3 weeks along with "if you're clever, this should take a day"? And an ethernet controller, and a libc and malloc, and a bootloader?

If you know Haskell enough to make a compiler, Python enough to make a linker, C well enough to make libc + malloc + a bootloader, Verilog well enough to make an ethernet controller all in three weeks, then you don't need this "course" at all. Just the C compiler in Haskell part is a semester long academic course, and rarely actually results in a full compiler with a teacher setting the pace (with assignments, quizzes, and tests).
Failing?

You do realize that even after the initial drop (which is expected, for something that managed to get so much hype) they’re likely still the biggest app in the history in terms of DAU in few weeks after the lunch?
Edit: To clarify, the court interprets this statute as baring rehabilitation considerations in Federal prison. A Federal Prison sentence has zero intention of being rehabilitative, by statute and Congressional intent:

Title 18 U.S. Code § 3582 - Imposition of a sentence of imprisonment

(a)Factors To Be Considered in Imposing a Term of Imprisonment.—
The court, in determining whether to impose a term of imprisonment, and, if a term of imprisonment is to be imposed, in determining the length of the term, shall consider the factors set forth in section 3553(a) to the extent that they are applicable, recognizing that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation.
Of course. Kids aren't supposed to play instead of working just for the heck of it, there's a real purpose to it. I thought this understanding was part of upbringing and realising what it is you've been doing
Digital Hoarding
If someone comes to the US on a tourist visa for 6 months, but then sends documentation to extend their stay based on another status, can they stay while it's being evaluated, even if it takes more than 6 months? If it is rejected, how soon afterwards would they have to leave, and will their stay be held against them?
I don’t know about outside of the US, but “HDTV” in the US is on the same old vhf and uhf bands as their analog predecessors exempting some carve outs for cellular. The antenna lengths will be the same.
You can pay with a debit card, too. Given the number of data breaches T-Mobile has, there's no way I'm giving them my banking information.
I use Twitter daily and unless you're looking at major threads (like an Elon tweet) it's rarely more than a single verified user (if at all). And they are rarely better/worse than the average Tweet normally is in those mega threads.

It's got downsides for sure but I hasn't killed the UX IMO
I've mentioned it before but Ruth Wilson Gilmore points out that prisons form a system of rural jobs programs. Tying together the 1980s farm crisis and the rise in incarceration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_crisis#1980s_crisis

https://archive.org/details/goldengulagpriso00gilm
Some of these dangers are relative though. A 6 foot fall for a toddler is probably not going to kill them but relative to the size of the kid it's a great height they can experiment with. A 10 foot drop for an 8 year old is a great height to them but they'll survive.

The bison example, I would think any child would be very wary of walking up to a bison. On top of that, if a child were to approach a bison I highly doubt the bison would come out with full offensive. They'd probably assume a defensive posture to scare the kid away. If the kid kept coming you should keep in mind that mammals recognize babies of other mammals. It would be pretty extraordinary for the bison to consider a human child as a threat and attack them.

The cars though, yeah. I don't even want to get into that.
> While the meme of "iPhone is better than Android because iPhone can do X" while Android has been able to do X for over 2 years no longer applies

It applied as recently as 2020 with iOS 14 releasing picture in picture video, which Android has had since 8 in 2017.
> Falling/jumping from great heights isn't something to just experiment with and try. Running in a busy street isn't something to try just to understand the dangers.

Unless your kids are interested in and want to learn free running and parkour, at which point this is how you learn. Of course there is reason to be careful, but fear often plays a large role in that.
I have been playing with this and I really like the concept. A few nitpicky points of feedback

1) It would be nice if the button to play a sample of the song was located on each song or somewhere close to it, so that you wouldn't have to move your mouse to the bottom

2) The volume slider isn't super obvious as to its function, I originally thought it was a seek bar. Maybe a Volume icon would help here

3) Most importantly, it would be great if the app could play full tracks for users with Spotify Premium, preferably automatically as well, so that this could be useful as a "radio". One feature I really want is to have a "tunable recommendation radio" of songs that all sound a certain way and this comes very close.
The Great Malformation: A personal skirmish in the battle for attention
I am still using an iPad Air 2 from 2014. In that same time span, I've had at least 4 different Android phones.

I'm considering an iPhone for my next phone, although I'm a Google Voice user which makes me a little nervous about that prospect, plus I've been less than impressed with Safari's extension ecosystem.
I like their OS customizations, particularly for the Fold their taskbar and window split is great.
What are the requirements for an ordinary worker, who isn't necessarily "amazing", to get a work visa sponsored in the USA? The employer has to conduct a bona fide search locally and show that they were unable to find a local worker to do the job as well as the remote worker? What if the remote worker was already working remotely, and knows a lot of the codebase etc. ?

Would something like this visa be most appropriate:
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...
The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...
It buürns!

(I don’t mind wacky style. It wouldn’t be the New Yorker if it wasn’t weird!)
Guess it doesn’t make the cut because it’s not called “Phoenix Fever”, but Valley Fever is a local affliction, stemmed from dust and spores being kicked into the air. It’s quite nasty, not that anyone here needed less of a reason to visit Phoenix, Arizona.
Sounds fair, $200 to $325 more per month ($6 to $11 per day) to partake in an illegal war. Russia shouldn't be there, BUT neither should we OR NATO member states This is all just 4ucking around with thermo-nuclear war, the hubris and lack of historic overview is simply shocking.
The concert venue I went to last weekend is cards only now. There seems to be a bifurcation in the market where some vendors take cards grudgingly and others want nothing to do with cash.
Well you’re definitely missing the spirit of the comment. Employees do not “profit” off of anything, it’s the other way around. I make a cent, BossMan makes a dollar, etc.
It seemed wild to me years ago, but in aggregate and after reading your comment it makes more sense. Private vehicle ownership is a great deal for for a variety of businesses (cars, insurance, maintenance, road builders, oil companies, attorneys), and who cares if a few people die, because that's how capitalism works. :(
> can't install Gameboy emulator

That sounds like more of an example of lock-out, than lock-in.
The fact that Red Gate is still a necessary QOL add-on for a product that costs that much should be shameful.
What is your opinion of software patents?
In my view, that's a feature, not a bug. Group messages are a plague.
Ok, we've switched to that URL from https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/28/us-iphone-market-share-2/. Thanks!

I've also attempted to make the title less misleading.
Exposure to high levels of chlormequat has been linked to developmental toxicity in animal models. It also affects reproduction in mammals. [0]

Can we not?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlormequat
The relevant part is 8 CFR 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(D)(5) ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/8/214.2#h_4_iii_D_5 )

> 5) A determination by the Service that the equivalent of the degree required by the specialty occupation has been acquired through a combination of education, specialized training, and/or work experience in areas related to the specialty and that the alien has achieved recognition of expertise in the specialty occupation as a result of such training and experience. For purposes of determining equivalency to a baccalaureate degree in the specialty, three years of specialized training and/or work experience must be demonstrated for each year of college-level training the alien lacks. For equivalence to an advanced (or Masters) degree, the alien must have a baccalaureate degree followed by at least five years of experience in the specialty
This looks nice! It says it's not an Electron app, but GitHub says it's written in TypeScript, so what UI toolkit does it use?

EDIT: Never mind this is mentioned in the technical details link, thanks!
> ... judge your peer for not using iPhone.

Ftfy. It's not just iOS and Android out there.