skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One such direction software people ARE familiar with is refactoring. At some point we do recognize we have a mess on our hands and it's time to rewrite it on more sane foundations.
The Canadian government on the one hand is trying to position Canada as an international tech leader, while on the other hand are trying to implement laws that are fundamentally at odds with tech norms (i.e. trying to force companies to pay for links with Bill C-18).

It's nice to have the tech workers. But will the tech employers want to invest in a regulatory basket-case country?
by who? the US isn't going to drop nukes to secure Taiwan. that creates the Fallout 3 universe for little measurable gain.

50% of Americans couldn't point out Taiwan on a map. they don't give a shit, and after 20 years of fighting two pointless wars the US public isn't keen on pissing away blood or treasury to defend someone else's freedom. they're certainly not going to risk WW3 / MAD.

the correct choice is what is going on, to hustle fabs and fab construction out of the country, and then jam them full of anti-ship and anti-tank missiles. just like with Ukraine let them bleed the Chinese out and piss away heaps of troops and cash fighting in Taiwan's mountains.
> stopped supporting symlinks because they “caused problems”.

If the reason for that was really written with such vagueness, it's almost certain that there was some sort of vulnerability / Security issue. The most vague, the most serious the issue. If it was just "they cause problems" then someone somehow figured out how to use symlinks to get access to someone else's data.
Let's not ignore the stoner college kid demographic.

You're sitting smoking up in a tiny dorm and the most dominant item almost certainly was your computer. Having it be Bondi Blue colored with beautiful curves made that experience much nicer.
I was commenting in the Discord that this is where this had to have come from.
Explicitly supported many places!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

https://www.warbyparker.com/home-try-on
Show HN: FeedSubscription – Uncomplicated content distribution for Bloggers
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I’ve built this system for a blogger friend of mine, and hope it’s useful for other blogger people too.

Any product feedback is welcome, and if you find it useful, I’d greatly appreciate if you’d share it with anyone you think could use it.

Specifically for the HN community, I’ve created a Demo Account that you can use to see the system from the inside. Here is the magic link that you can use:

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(I’m sure you’ll be able to find a way to see the auto-filled password. ;-)
OK, thanks for the response

I think many people are going to have problems programming with this consistency model, as they will with any that's different than a single machine. But that's basically "physics", so it's inevitable :)

But it seems like great work within the constraints -- look forward to learning more

I have indeed wondered why none of the cloud platforms have built more forward-looking tech like this -- instead it's copies of AWS and so forth
Towards HTTPS by Default
To clarify, what I as a Dutch person would define:

- Debit card: payment is immediately subtracted from the bank account. "Normal". No charge backs. Accepted almost everywhere. No or nearly no charge per transaction (for the user). Return debit possible (when returning an item)

- Credit card: payments either summed as a loan or monthly charged from the bank account. Charge backs possible. Costs additional money each year, and some transactions may also cost 10 or 15 cents. Not accepted everywhere, mostly in diners or super markets - not in most retail stores. Most people don't have a credit card and/or don't use it regularly.
I am part of a two new energy companies in OKC Larkspur Minerals and Operating -https://www.larkspurminerals.com/. We take over old fields and increase production (marginal wells) we also work with renewable energy either through helping companies acquire land and or operating. Given our size the deals sizes are about the same though from a cash flowing prospective Oil and Gas is still king.

A fun stat is Oklahoma renewable electric production is at 47% in 2022 up from 10% in 2011. Now 90% of that is wind power, but we are expanding into utility scale solar. And the country folk are self installing solar panels with cost $.50-$.75 per watt.
There's a HUGE difference between saying "we don't know what's wrong and we're sorry but we can't help with medication, but sometimes there can be mental things that help" and "we've diagnosed you with a mental issue, your body is fine." The latter is way more dismissive and angering, and assumes that we know a lot more than we do about the physical systems in the body.
I installed Valetudo on my Dreame robot vacuum. The process was pretty smooth, not OTA unfortunately, had to use some USB adapter and hook it up to the debug port on the vacuum.
"Don't you guys get it? We did find a room-temperature superconductor! It was us -- conducting teamwork, with no resistance."

Sitcom's live studio audience: "Awwwwwww!"
That’s the point. You’re employed locally and do work for the remote company.

If you don’t want to work as an employee, then you can enter into a contracting relationship, but employers tend to avoid this because there’s always the risk that the local government determines the contractor is actually an employee and taxes are owed.
Just speculating here but... More than just _playing_ a game, I could see OpenAI wanting to go after the 3D assets market by letting players generate levels, items, and perhaps even NPCs, simply by describing them. It might be easier to generate voxel-based assets first though, which would make Minecraft-esque games a logical first target (perhaps just behind 2D games, but I suspect the market isn't as big there).
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gisdyTBMNyQ an entire rotating house
The email looks like it describes Arch with the exception of the installer perhaps
> There's this bizarre reaction I see from many where they see the excitement and curiosity and hopefulness as a form of error and source of embarrassment. When mixed with an open mind and reasonable skepticism, it's a powerful opportunity to get people engaged in imagining a different world.

This should be taken in the context of room temperature superconductors being notorious physics vaporware along with practically useful advances in quantum computers and useful fusion. What these have in common is a sort of holy grail status, where it's obvious they'd be a revolutionary complete game changer. Not that any of these things are obviously impossible, there's just been so many instances of discoveries in these areas that have failed to replicate that there's inevitably a lot of eye rolling in physics when these types of findings are announced.
Reddit's busy thread on this topic:

https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/15s968t/how_canada_...
and that kind of treatment is hardly unlikely (though not, i think, forgivable) when cops find a drunk guy banging on the door of someone else's house insisting it's his own
Simply conserving battery life?

And according to the article iPhone users that thought their Bluetooth was turned off were vulnerable to attacks; that's not a superstition.
My wife and I have definitely used Nordstrom’s return policy by buying two sizes and returning the one that fit worst. But Nordstrom still benefits because we would return the online orders at the store in person, and if we are there we are going to do some shopping.
A lot of Fresh's marketing & docs seems to focus on serverless - I guess because of Deno Deploy?

For example, Fresh "Deploy to production" docs[0] only cover deploying to Deno Deploy

[0] https://fresh.deno.dev/docs/getting-started/deploy-to-produc...
Ugh, not this again.

Our northern regions are rugged, heavily forested, undeveloped, and in the northernmost regions, experiencing loss of permafrost upon which communities and transportation corridors are built.

The southern parts of the country, where most people live, are increasingly experiencing record heat and drought that's straining our cities and threatening crop and grazing land, putting out food system at significant risk.

Maybe very long term northern countries can find a way to benefit from still being habitable, but by then the damage will have already been done.
The article is separating "operational" and "analytical" use-cases.

IIUC analytical = "what question are you trying to answer" and in analytics, RT/NRT is absolutely novelty/vanity. Operational = "what action are you trying to take" and it makes sense to want to have up-to-date data when, for example, running ML models, triggering notifications, etc...
I had an issue returning a macbook to a major electronics store chain within the 14 day right to return law (EU). The returns person and their manager said it wasn't possible to return it because after signing in with an Apple ID when you turn it on it gets "locked" to that ID or whatever. Fortunately there was another store in the city I had to travel to for appointment on the same day and they just took it back and gave me a refund. I hope the person there didn't get in trouble..
Water efficiency by area isn't very useful. Look at calories out or protein out or pounds of dry matter.
Microsoft Windows Briefcase has enteted the chat.

Its claim to fame was bringing the term Architecture Astronaut into common parlance.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/05/01/architecture-astro...

In retrospect, it's quite funny in light of how webapps and Cloud evolved. As Spolsky predicted in 1998:

"between Microsoft and Google the starting salary for a smart CS grad is inching dangerously close to six figures and these smart kids, the cream of our universities, are working on hopeless and useless architecture astronomy because these companies are like cancers, driven to grow at all cost, even though they can’t think of a single useful thing to build for us"
>and therefore is quite worthless.

You are making an assumption that their statement is false without evidence.

Just making that clear.
I didn't downvote your comment:

> Any forum which is against diverse but calmly-presented views backed with data is not a good forum.

but I do think it over-simplifies things.

For example, I find HN to be a good forum for back-and-forth discussions about technical topics. But IMHO discussions involving ideology are far more likely to go off the rails.
I hope this doesn't become a thing, ML is already being abused to track people. I have no problem against the technology but with the lack of laws to address its abuse.

Imagine large models trained on ad targeting+click data, cctv, wifi+location data, sensor and audio crap from phones, geospatial/streetview, widearea sat photos,etc... and you combine that with LLMs

Yeah, very powerful but not only can it be abused, it can't be scrutinized and unlike LLM data, other types of data (specially the private dataset kind) can't be publicly and independently corrobarates in most cases I'd imagine.
Maybe...if they didn't already have direct access to the original via Microsoft.
I enjoy the optimistic takes as well. I think it's really fun to imagine incredible new materials that change our baseline capabilities in design and manufacturing.

All that said, there's also a case for saving all that energy by seeking out skeptical points of view. See thunderf00t's video from 5 days ago: https://youtu.be/p3hubvTsf3Y

All in all, I appreciate that so many people are enthusiastic about one thing in particular: replicating results. So many people will take a press release or an academic paper at face value. But the real value is in replicating the results.
I'm fairly certain the Canadian government has more strength, more endurance, and more defendable resources, then all major tech companies on Earth combined have at their disposal, if they fully set all their efforts in that direction. But this is idle fantasizing regarding extreme scenarios either way.

In reality they likely will commit a small fraction to it and only a small fraction of interested tech companies may loosely coordinate against it. Even in that case I think they have better then 50-50 odds of seeing it through.

So the actual situation could be the opposite.
By then it's too late. If you wait until the engine stalls on a desert road trip to fix the problem of not having gas, what could have been a brief stop becomes a long headache or worse.
The only way a competent clinician can fail to distinguish CFS from depression is if the patient is outright lying. Most CFS patients for example have exercise intolerance, in which after the patient exercises more than his or her limit (which in severe cases could be walking on level ground for 10 minutes) everything proceeds like it does for a healthy person for 24 hours, then he or she becomes incapacitated for days. Eating lots of carbs, glutamine and creatine will tend to make the period of incapacitation shorter than they would otherwise be at least in non-severe cases of CFS. And this is consistently what happens after every exercise session that goes above the patient's individual exercise threshold. And if the threshold changes, it does so only gradually over a period of months. And if it changes, it changes for reasons other than how diligently or frequently the patient exercises.

My experience (in California) has been that most doctors have been willing to assume I am being truthful, but a significant fraction seem to want to spend their time and energy only on conditions that the patient cannot be deceiving them about.
Of course you think it is an advantage, you work for Pulumi

I'm telling you this is not how a potential user sees the same situation, that it is a disadvantage and was one of the reasons we are not making the switch.

This example above is exactly the kind of code we don't want in ops, it depends on the user environment and physical location at the time they run the command, bad practice. Thanks for an extra talking point though
Adults almost never use 'grow up' as an argument. They actually know what their argument is and say that.

Seatbelts are a great example of exactly the stated form of oppression through giving moral busybodies the power to be more than merely annoying with their presumptions and opinions about your life.
Yeah, I had that with a dual boot laptop which I used as a personal and work device. Some companies demand you use their own equipment, which is my current situation.
It's just not necessary, as long as the retailer is honest with their sizing.

Yeah, and if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass when it hops. An otherwise reasonable comment marred by a disconnection from reality.
I would search forums like reddit.com/r/pharmacy or /r/medicine or sdnforum

For example

https://www.reddit.com/r/pharmacy/comments/33ac79/what_is_th...

But you can ignore a lot of the complexity these days due to consolidation. What used to be a health insurance company selling insurance for medical procedures only, and outsourcing the task of of evaluating coverage and negotiating prices for medicines to a third party known as pharmacy benefit managers, PBMs, is many times no longer outsourced.

Hence the term "managed care organization" (MCO) to supplant "health insurance company". Because now, the same business that sells the insurance can also employ the pharmacist, negotiate pricing for medical procedures and medicines, and employ the doctor providing the healthcare in some cases.

From a patient perspective, you and/or your employer pay the MCO, the MCO pays the doctor and/or pharmacist if the service/medicine is covered, and you pay the deductible/copay and this counts towards your out of pocket maximum.

Kaiser Permanente is an MCO that owns healthcare delivery from hospital to doctors to pharmacies. Some MCOs own more of the healthcare chain than others, and on the other side, you have hospital and doctor groups consolidating to be able to negotiate more favorable terms with increasingly larger MCOs.

The pharmacy pays the medicine distributor (such as Cardinal or McKesson or Amerisource Bergen), and the medicine distributor pays the medicine manufacturer (Pfizer, Merck, NovoNordisk, etc).

Most pharmacies themselves are owned by huge entities. Such as the largest retail pharmacy, CVS, which itself is an MCO. Next up is probably Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Albertsons, and then you have the last 2 big standalone retail pharmacies, Walgreens and Riteaid.

Looking at market capitalization graphs for Walgreens and Riteaid will inform you of how "up or out" the business is.
Keeping in mind that I'm not advocating this per se but in the spirit of exploration:

In the case of HN ui, no response from the server is strictly necessary on submit, and thus no reload is needed. Hence mentioning <input type="submit"> rather than <form>. You can indicate that the vote was made by using a checkbox and styling appropriately. A submitted comment can be similarly controlled with CSS.

For non-HN cases, you can do long-polling, where the original response from the server is never closed, and thus you can always append new HTML to the end, hiding outdated elements as necessary with CSS.

Example:

<iframe name="do_nothing" style="display:none;"></iframe>
<form action="vote" target="do_nothing">
<input type="submit" name="my_vote" value="up">
<input type="submit" name="my_vote" value="down">
<input type="hidden" name="comment_id" value="234">
</form>
Well, they did. The repo appears to have been deleted.
> Yes I said it was nationalized healthcare. But Taiwan’s tax burden isn’t oppressive either.

Yes, but let's be clear: It's not 27 USD / month per capita.

I live in Denmark with public heathcare, it's not horrible, but wait times for non-critical things are longer than it was in the US (with a great insurance). Not that it's been a huge issue for me.

In any case, I'm pretty sure our healthcare system is more than 27 USD/month per capita :D

A random search for healthcare expenditure puts the number around 650 USD/month per capita (probably you can find a different number and make it larger/smaller, so I'd take this as a ballpark figure).
I used for awhile. it served my need pretty well.

It can do fancy things but it's definitely geared towards more of a power user base.

I think it's main appeal over all of the other solutions (i hope this is still the case) is that it uses kernel level wireguard instead of userland wireguard so for performance it is unrivalled. It's what I would pick if I was setting up a mesh for servers that constantly talked to each other and exchanged a lot of data
Their statement is pretty clear about what they see as the value add:

> OpenAI has acquired the team at Global Illumination, a company founded by Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon, and Joey Flynn. The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT. Global Illumination is a company that has been leveraging AI to build creative tools, infrastructure, and digital experiences. The team previously designed and built products early on at Instagram and Facebook and have also made significant contributions at YouTube, Google, Pixar, Riot Games, and other notable companies. We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI.

Seems like a very standard acquihire. There's no indication that any of Global Illumination's projects will continue, or that OpenAI will get into the gaming business.
The excitable people are certainly “loud” though.

The last few weeks with the LK-99 hype combined with the usual ChatGPT stories, I actually started feeling that maybe the site should be renamed Hype News.

> but that it's odd when there's people who treat an optimistic outlook as an error.

IMHO it’s best to treat any extraordinary claim as BS until proven otherwise as it’s very easy to concoct BS claims. If we take every one of them seriously, it will consume all of our attention and destroy the signal (actual facts) to noise (unproven claims) ratio on this site.
Despite the marketing, the main reason we continue to use ethanol is because it's a great octane booster, especially compared to TEL (leaded gasoline) and MTBE which was poisoning everyone around gas stations.

If you want modern engines, you need that octane, and ethanol is a great, cheap, safe way to do it. If you want to stop putting Ethanol into gasoline, you have to find a new octane booster that is dirt cheap, doesn't kill anyone, and won't require anyone change their engines.

Or just wait for BEVs to take over.
Right but it’s more like someone is an expert in the “async” method. You’d expect them to be expert in whatever language they’re using, so the framing threw me off.
> our inability to make lasting things for long-term FEAR OF LOSING PROFIT.

I agree that’s part of the problem, but even if that weren’t an issue you’d still have the (IMO) much bigger problem of most consumers preferring whatever product is cheapest.
You can also just sort by name.
>>> frame 5
#5 0x00007f7430627733 in pthread_mutex_lock () from /home/rusty/futex/sysroot/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0

>>> disassemble pthread_mutex_lock
...
0x00007f7430627723 <+211>: mov %rdi,0x8(%rsp)
0x00007f7430627728 <+216>: and $0x80,%esi
0x00007f743062772e <+222>: call 0x7f743062efc0 <__lll_lock_wait>
=> 0x00007f7430627733 <+227>: mov 0x8(%rsp),%rdi
0x00007f7430627738 <+232>: jmp 0x7f7430627689 <pthread_mutex_lock+57>
...

>>> x/w ($rsp + 8)
0x7f7371ff1ce8: 0x08001ea1

I love reading these articles, but sometimes they skip over things that the reader might not understand.

In my case I don't understand where x and w come from, and how the result of 0x08001ea1 is invalid (I can see it's not aligned to a 4 byte boundary).
so, how would communism have solved this problem, comrade?
Because destructive climate change is a condemnation of how we live our comfortable lives in the civilization we've built, and people rightly recognize that fighting it would mean their lives get less comfortable. Therefore, sticking head in sand and going full denial and bargaining is the less painful option.

We all worship the beast that feeds us, right until the moment it turns around and devours us.
> Given time to adjust? Sure.

You cannot mechanically return to the same level of productivity with that tool degradation, so I don't think so.
I've got kind of a funny story of how I got my first Mac.

I moved from SLC to Portland in 2000, and had it in my head that I would join a graphic design firm as their on-hand developer. (At the time, I was of the opinion that design and development should happen under the same roof, a belief that ultimately proved correct, but under the other roof.)

So I spent months shopping around my resume — with a prominent link to my website — to mostly-confused graphic designers, and didn't get a single callback or even an email saying "thanks but no." After around six months I sort of gave up and became the UI guy at a shipping company.

At the shipping co, I saw a bunch of "smurf" Powermac G4s in the corner. "Yeah those are for testing, but nobody uses Macs so we don't really care." I decided to take a look at my website on the latest version of MSIE just for the hell of it.

Instant computer crash. A bug in MSIE's CSS engine took down the whole computer. Not just the browser, the whole thing. All graphic designers at the time were still on Mac Classic, OS X had no penetration yet. I had been walking into offices, and turning off computers with unsaved work for months.

The first thing I did with some spending cash was get a "graphite" 400mhz iMac G3, installed OS X as I was becoming disenchanted with Windows, and soon found that I liked using that pathetically slow machine far more than my tricked-out 1.6ghz AMD Athlon.
I'm all for immigration, but I'm not a fan of companies benefiting from cheap labour and driving down our already middling tech industry salaries. Brain drain to the US is already a huge problem due to the vastly higher compensation available there. This will only make things worse.