skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe age? You are new? Or better than others at saying 'no'?

I would definitely not get too arrogant that you don't have this problem, just that you haven't been swamped yet. Haven't pushed this threshold.

On other end of spectrum, I've also encountered people that are always 'chill', and don't have this problem. But they are also not the people moving the needle, or being assigned the difficult tasks.

It's a balance. Sure, it's easy to not have this problem simply by not pushing yourself. But the ones that do push themselves and get overwhelmed, or have difficulties, are also not a good example.
I can just as easily make the counter claims to all the proposed areas of pseudoscience and then make the same argument you just did: “it’s not about the authority of the person making the argument, it’s about the weight of the argument itself”. And then I can tell you how you can just look up the counterclaims and find supporting evidence (which you probably can). Just because you can find supporting evidence for your view doesn’t mean it’s right, and I like to know all sides of the story before I make a decision.

The point I’m making is I’m definitely not qualified to analyze all these claims that you’re making in support of these being pseudoscience. Sure your claims sound reasonable, but people also thought the earth being the center of the universe sounded reasonable. The thing I like about hacker news is people usually don’t just make unsubstantiated claims, and when they do they usually get gut checked by opposing views, which is a good thing.

And OP didn’t really make any claims, they just listed a bunch of fields and said they were all pseudoscience. I appreciate the fact that you’re at least giving an explanation as to why it’s not considered science.
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The UK is vulnerable to this because the weather is miserable.

Other than last year, I can't remember a year in the last 2 decades where going to the coast wasn't such a massive gamble.

Even I have given up and decided to spend a week in Turkey.
I think his general idea was that money invested in London was of greater economic benefit to the whole country than investing the same amount elsewhere.
Or UBI to make people have some way to actually think about what they wanna do.

I see the pattern that people are too busy with their lives to realistically start thinking about how to come out of it.

But I don't think that will ever happen, because it lowers power of other people. If you have someone that is too busy with the life (job, maybe children, etc.) you get cheap labor that and work force that is just above slavery.

It would also make stuff like involuntary (if there is a voluntary one) prostitution, cheap apartment cleaning, etc.

But then the power that people have over other people would be severely cut, so short of a revolution giving people the power to get out of a shit life isn't likely gonna happen.

People having the means to have meaningful lives or simply things they want will reduce that power.

Of course it won't remove workforce or reduce productivity. That's been proven in many studies. The opposite is true.

But it also means that if you right now have some kind of workforce that ruins their physical and/or mental health for you they'll at the very least ask for adequate compensation. The reason is that people do strive for more. So even if they have enough to come by they will want that car, that vacation, that travel, that iPhone, etc. So they'll work. But they are less likely to damage themselves in the process, if they have air to breath, to think about stuff, or bluntly to have options.
> journalism is being starved to death by sites like facebook

No, journalism is being starved by digital peer to peer communication. Facebook is the thing. People being able to say “hey, did you see this?” instead of needing to read a newspaper.

And of course, the real problem is that newspapers sold their own ads that no one cares about any more (classified).

I think newspapers dying is a problem and would like them not to. But taxing or forcing Facebook to do something is not a solution and it won’t affect the future of newspapers.
Smart Doorbell Focuses on Privacy
Empirical Study and Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs
I’ve been imagining a slightly different hypothetical future.

- LLMs and GenAI can potentially replace many OS layers
- They can translate text directly to machine code, or a portable representation like LLVM IR/MLIR
- They may do this by making system calls directly - or have a lightweight kernel of its own supporting basic GUI primitives and web-views

Even better, imagine an LLM fused with a web-browser core. Like Chrome OS, but with LLM powered interaction. Capable of conjuring windows with rich GUIs that are purpose built for the task at hand - using WASM code.
I've had several issues with Ubuntu on servers and Raspberry Pis, so recently I've decided to switch (back) to Debian.

In particular, Ubuntu snapd decided to fill my /tmp folder with gigabytes of data for no apparent reason and that made me 'snap' as well.

I also dislike the new Ubuntu auto-install installer[0], which is an absurdly complex kludge that doesn't provide me any benefit over the old and trusted Debian installer.

[0]: https://louwrentius.com/understanding-the-ubuntu-2004-lts-se...
You can’t legislate a waiting time! Laws act on people, not reality. What if it takes the doctors longer to work on the people in front of you? What if more urgent cases arrive and goes to the front of the line?
Looks the same here. Welcome to the world of professional (senior) developers who care a lot.

On the other hand, why don't you access it using private browsing mode, and accepting the cookies (assuming that you still want to access it, because their courses are pretty good according to you)?
What's even more insane is Ukrainian War Refugees are returning to Ukraine saying life is easier/better even under constant bombing than in Canada. There are few good options, work is difficult to find, housing is beyond the reach of families, prices for food and fuel are astronomical and the future seems to hold no possibility of a better life.

Canada's largest city Toronto is a dysfunctional nightmare of pollution, traffic and over crowding. They continue to pack people into smaller areas without the infrastructure to support them. Hospitals that served 20k people now serve 200k people and are overwhelmed. Water, electric, roads, transportation are all stressed to a point where they can't keep it running normally. City Gov is useless and has done nothing for decades. As someone who considers myself quite well off, I find prices for everything in Toronto alarming. I spent a few months in Europe this summer and was very impressed with Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Poland and Ukraine. Some of these Eastern European countries lack a strong tax base but everything functions well, with clean streets and parks, etc. I understand why no European in their right mind would ever want to come to live n Canada.

I believe Canada can't and won't solve their problems with massive Immigration. All it seems to do is create more problems. The country just doesn't have the ability to absorb the millions it needs without destroying what it already has or forcing the entire population down to the lowest common denominator. There are sunnier shores and only the most desperate will find Canada better.
Death to money at all cost. Demand quality. Demand the truth. Let fake products die.
Thanks for not only building the tool but also releasing such a great technical writeup. This is a wonderful blogpost.
It’s not a binary choice between living on the street and mandatory internment in something that resembles a prison, which is what I suspect was happening earlier.

Other countries solve it by having protected communities, with more or less supervision and independence depending on the condition.
As an AI language model trained on data from before September 2021, I haven’t personally read this book, but based on its features and customer reviews, I can confidently give it a five-star rating.
That’s basically every rich lefty. “I’m rich” -> “I gotta vote for small government and low taxes” is not an obvious step to me at all. I’d much rather live in a town with happy people, low crime and high income equality than in a gated community full of rich people with guards and fences to keep the bums out.
Agreed, ZigBee is great.
Even when communicating important information, using the company design has been the norm since graphic printing was invented. Even something as transactional as a bank statement or court summon will use the sending organization's logo, fonts and colors.
No, it’s more about pervasive lack of well being induced more lack of well being, including degraded health. It discusses poverty more, because it’s maybe a more encompassing topic and easier to identify, but they also mention abuse induced disorders and unwellness in general inducing SLS.

I don’t think the wealthy or whatever are exempt from SLS, but you do tend to find more abuse and other factors in communities crushed by poverty.

But overall it reads to me as SLS is essentially “things are so bad they compound on each other, further perpetuating a downward trend in quality of life, affecting everything around them including their health.”

I don’t think there was an implication this is unique to the UK, but it is interesting to note even with the NHS there’s a sense they don’t have the resources to address the scale of the problems they’re seeing.

Basic income might help, but it also might just mean a marginal increase in life comforts to prevent the most extreme poverty but not enough to move the needle in something like this. At its core it sounds like an issue of lack of education, opportunity, hope, and mental health.
Your experience isn't from Scandinavia I take it?
Above:

> It's primarily the uneducated who fall for nonsense arguments...

Article:

> Personally, I saw this when I first arrived at Yale. I recall being stunned at how status anxiety pervaded elite college campuses.

Though they might lack official names, formal rolls of members, and designated leaders...I'd say that there are some rather strong mass movements with majority-educated membership.
I was also thrown off by the use of '4th Gen' since that was the exact term used for new languages in the 90's. I kept trying to fit this into context with the earlier attempts.

So this latest should be called '5th-gen' or '6th-gen', if they wanted to relate this to the historical lineage of 'the next great time saving way to generate code'.
IP is like the car: an interesting idea that has been pushed way too far.

It's hard to even imagine the number of problems that would go away instantly if we got rid of it.

And if someone wonders if people would stop creating if there was no more IP:

1/ Creators always create; that's what they do.

2/ Arguably, the best works of art were created before IP even existed (invented at the very end of the 18th century).

3/ And most importantly, IP doesn't pay creators. That's the whole point of the article. IP pays the studios' CEO ridiculous salaries, and their lawyers' whose sole job is to create artificial scarcity.
How do you bring this up with your doctor so I know where to ask for or be directed towards?

Like what did you have to ask for to initiate all this?
In this age of anti-intellectualism amongst certain political groups in the U.S. it wasn’t too foolish to think “educated” was the intended word.
The Netherlands became a post religious society in a single generation. It wasn't education, it wasn't ideology. It was materialism. Capitalism responded to rising wages with entertainment and leisure. Sunday became fun day.
On individual scale you’re right, but on the collective level I think both you and GP are right, it’s a feedback loop.

Places become poor for different reasons: shifting economic realities, fall of the previous civilization (eg USSR, which is my experience), etc.

Places remain poor when people feel trapped inside vs consciously deciding to call the place home.
Comparing NextJS and SvelteKit by rewriting an older SPA
I wrote a post in which I compare SvelteKit and NextJS by creating a PoC in which I reimplement features from an older SPA.

This is part of a series.
My hiking group, revue theatre and place of employment have no enemies at all.

This is a weird way to think.
The US has huge open areas too.

Actually, the biggest difference might be public transport: as long as they live in a decent city, you can give people transit passes and they can start to visit doctors, apply for jobs etc. like anyone else.
Those filtered communities provide a value though- a marina for your yacht, a good golf course to play on, etc etc.

The issue with this is that they don’t provide any value beyond the filter. So it seems as useful as a yacht club that doesn’t have a marina, it’s just people who claim to have yachts to talk with each other.
Eh, leaded solder is just fine with some basic precautions (and still indicated for military and space ratings) but the smell is probably a highly reactive core flux (rosin) that will eat away at anything it's used on and needs to be vigorously cleaned off after soldering. It may also be a sensitizing allergen so maybe kabdib shouldn't use it, at least not without an extractor.

If you're doing more than the once a year small project you should have fume extraction, occupational (or hobby-based) asthma sucks. As does metal flu (zinc for welding and tin for soldering although I expect that's rarer).
I'm guessing we'd shorten the name to just vu. djvu is a mouthful.
Ah I used to be so jealous of people with their T1 connections while I was stuck on a 56k dial up connection trying to play Unreal Tournament '99. Good times.
"Seller" definitely seems to be a misnomer here. That said, I'm not so sure it's out of line with publisher tradition as units shipped is often used to hype (alleged) demand. The music industry had the same problem (along with payola).

The more things stay the same, the more we really don't change.
Well you’ll be delighted: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789957648
Yeah, for urgent care that can happen wether it's free or not.
Free, universal health care works extremely well in Australia, New Zealand and the Nordics (as noted).
We wanted the singularity, but all we got was an AI powered post truth world.
When you remove lack of funds as a reason to stay out of the queues, you do indeed tend to end up with demand more accurately reflecting need, and sometimes that leads to queues.

When you also have private care available, as you do in almost every country with universal healthcare, the proportion who opts to go private is a good reflection of whether people consider the public care sufficient. I don't know about Finland, but e.g. in the UK only about 10% opts for private insurance - most of it as incidental employment perks in higher paying jobs rather than an explicit choice -, despite private insurance here being far cheaper than the US (in part because the NHS offsets some of their costs by renting out excess capacity, and insurers mostly offer "top up" services - e.g. faster access to specialists etc).

The low level of private healthcare spend in countries with universal healthcare - especially in those, like the UK, where taxpayers pay less in tax per capita for public healthcare than in the US (NHS costs less per capita across the whole population, not just users, than Medicare and Medicaid) - to me is a fairly strong indication that most people don't consider them to provide bad quality of service or too long waits.
The US will never end homelessness because the small town people who have never see a homeless person outside of a TV show want to lock them all up and throw away the key and the people who live in large cities want to spend endless amounts of bond money on programs that give drug addicts $100,000 parking spaces.

It’s the same reason we’ll never “cure cancer.” Cancer isn’t one thing, it’s many things, and it interacts with a complex system. The US is not even one complex system, it’s hundreds of them.
I don't know how people can justify using ReMarkable for work? Device is not encrypted, so it is a huge security risk.

The company seems to be not interested in adding encryption, so this is just a toy.
Or $12k is just a cost of doing business to scam or market. And not a good filter at all.

I’m not against spending $12k/year on luxury items. But I’m against spending $12k/year on pointless things.
Crabs in a bucket :(

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
You're generalising far too much. Of course replacing "red" with "scarlet" generally would make a difference in understanding, not least because "scarlet" is more specific than "red". But that doesn't at all speak to what is going on in this RFC, which is already technical documentation and very specific. If you want to talk about connotation, the entire point here is to get rid of terms that connote horrific crimes. Maybe not to you, but clearly to enough people that this change has been made.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of this and was just about to buy one of those super cheap thermal printers you find on AliExpress. That’s less junk filling up my house.
Fair enough. Everybody can try to create their own community with their own rules. You seem to have decided that you prefer a community that doesn't adhere to licensing agreements. Don't be surprised if other communities exclude you.

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It's left out of the article that the US Air Force already has the perfect blended wing body they could dream of. It's the B-21 Raider. Its range is classified, but there are quotes from some USAF generals that it exceeds expectations, which can be taken to mean it easily exceeds the range of B-2 (about 11000km without refueling).

Of course, the problem with B-21 is that it's quite expensive. If you made a life size replica entirely out of gold, it would be only 5 times as expensive as the real thing.

That's what the USAF is looking for here: an affordable long range aircraft that does not need to go in the heat of the battle like B-21, but can be used for refueling, cargo movements, etc.
> How does that work? Minutes read?

It's based on the number of words read, not minutes.

It can't be pure junk, or people wouldn't be reading enough of it to make it climb the charts.
He had long since left Debian, so it seems unlikely he had any Debian plans.
I’d suggest reading the link the person you’re replying to posted.
You can legislate it because it puts the government in breach of law if they don't provide sufficient funding to ensure sufficient excess capacity to meet the criteria. Governments legislate standards of care all the time.
It's so much better now that these people receive treatment on the street, you can tell they are being treated because of all the hypodermic needles they leave laying around that formerly contained medcine.
Why do people seem to prefer Chrome's devtools over Firefox's?
Many Americans wrongly believe exposure to marijuana smoke is safer than tobacco
> IMO it's worth keeping in mind that an "actually immutable" guarantee is pretty hard to enforce for value types without being willing to set aside performance, especially for interop.

Well, there's the issue of tearing for values beyond 64 bits, which users will need to accept to flatten those types (although it only occurs in the face of a race, i.e. a bug in the program, anyway), but Java's native interop is quite careful. As a general rule, Java code can manipulate "native" memory but doesn't hand out pointers to Java objects to native code (don't forget, we like our moving collectors).

Also, only a small minority of Java programs call native code outside of the JDK itself, and the new FFM API, which replaces JNI and is generally safer, separates safe and unsafe parts: https://openjdk.org/jeps/442. The unsafe parts require an opt in.

The goal -- which we're quickly approaching -- is that 1. no "integrity" rule will be possible to break without an explicit opt in (what we call "integrity by default"), even through native interop and 2. that only a small minority of programs (~1%) will need to opt out of integrity: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8305968
1) should actually be “some people just want to be homeless.” Including people who could already return to a nice, clean home, but do not. So that remains unexplained.
It might be amusing to contrast the last week's media coverage with the book: how well did their AI do at predicting what got said?
If you are homeless in Finland then you will freeze to death in the winter when it is -10-20 degrees.
haha, poor Blackpool.

Really though, anything north or east of and including Bristol is pretty depressing.
humans. humans did this. not an ai. not some cold machine. cold humans.

the simplification/corruption of discussion through misuse of “ai” has been happening for decades. the shift is that now it is being used to shield humans from responsibility. that cannot be permitted.

humans did this.
What Socrates understood was that wise people exhibit humility. Educated people usually exhibit such humility because they understand how limited their breadth and depth of knowledge is. On the other hand, neither the proudly uneducated nor the proudly educated have such a trait. Of the two, at least the latter is easier to reason with than the former.

The qualifier "proud" makes all the difference.
Think this is describing other frameworks that do this. Isn't this how ELM works? Or ELM architecture in general?

This is kind of how some 'functional' web api's work.
I interpreted the statement as, “dead end tech, which happens to use node/js”.
I thought asylums were by-and-large just hellholes we locked people up in. I have no source, but my impression was that for every one person adequately treated, there were 20-30 that were neglected or horribly abused, like having all their teeth removed.
And the law is frequently violated.

Nowadays more than 50% of Finnish newborns are covered by voluntary private health insurance, although all of them are covered already by public health care. I think that tells very much how much people still trust in the public health system.
How are people supposed to tell falsehoods from truth? If such a thing exists - many things aren't b/w, but shades of grey, undetermined, or "it depends".

For every scientific study that shows X, there will be other studies showing !X. People aren't scientists peer-reviewing or questioning paper author's (potential) conflict of interest.

So they seek trusted 'authorities' to tell them what's what. Like friends, co-workers, news anchors, talk show hosts, sometimes government institutions. Or these days... cough. influencers.. cough.

In many wellness situations, there's at least some kind of trust relation between practicioners & clients. So having them serve as source-of-truth is not that strange, really.
We simply don't have 1) and 2) - 1) nobody fancies freezing to death and 2) mentally ill people like you have do not exist over here. I can think of a maximum of 5 occurences in the past 10 years I've seen someone roaming on the street yelling obscenities, something you see on every block in SF.

3) The state will nurse you happily until death no matter how irresponsible you are. Truth it is has turned into a problem long ago which will be very painful to reverse.
Interesring pointing. But can you sight some sources? Or at least elaborate on your "quite well off" and your relationship to Canada and/or Toronto?
I tried it, but the results are just bad
Your hiking groups enemies are the people who litter the trails.

Your revue theatre’s enemies are the people against the arts.

Your place of employments enemy is lazy and rogue employees, or even competing employers.

There are enemies all around if you are willing to find them.
The solutions here are one of these:

Have the maintainer do stable/oldstable updates when backwards compatibility is broken.

Have the package removed from Debian stable/testing and have it only in unstable and the new fastrack.debian.net repo.