skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like the biggest thing the US could do is remove means-testing from our disability aid programs.

The problem isn't the means testing the problem is it's applied with broad strokes like all well meaning but inevitably awful government work. First, everyone pays into disability. So everyone should be able to get their share when necessary. Second, means testing includes things like housing, retirement accounts (which will be penalized severely if accessed), assets, and other things than just raw cash available. Just having a half decent computer is enough to make you fail means testing. So people who are on disability are almost universally forced to be poor. Don't try to hide your assets either. Shifting money/assets/etc to a family memory will still disqualify you.

In a practical sense we also need to prevent the exploitation of disability programs. For example, self-inflicted disability (morbid obesity for example) should be subject to a different test of means than birth defects. If you're only disabled because you eat too much and can't be bothered to exercise I question whether you're actually disabled. Every "class" of disability is not equal and so we shouldn't treat them exactly the same. But, like all things, because the government runs it disabilities must be treated this way and as a result everyone suffers.
I agree with you - we still have work to do.

That said, if there's any suspected discrepancy between recorded choice and the QR code encoding, the ballots can be statistically sampled for divergence.

Scantrons might be difficult to implement for ballots with lots ballot choices or lots of options. You'd want to maintain readability for those with poor eyesight.

You probably don't want to hold up the line with people scanning the matrix to make sure it encodes the correct choices, either.

I'm not sure what the optimal solution is here, but we are improving. No more "hanging chads".
Not sure if you’re being facetious, but some of us have too much of our pay deducted from payroll throughout the year compared to our tax burden, so the IRS returns the extra money to us.
> It's mostly machine learned from the environment and other humans. We call this child development.

Yes, exactly. The software lies in humanity collectively. Not inside us, but in between us.

Which is why it cannot lie entirely in the brain. At least not entirely in one brain.

A new node born into the network, learns the network. Individual nodes perish, and new ones replace them. But the network doesn't go down. Or it hasn't yet.

Much of conscious experience is the network. Isolation is painful because it deregulates the connection to the network.

But even on the "hardware" side, there must be so many kinds of developments that must occur simultaneously. Some of it is as you say, environment based child development. Others that we may not quite be aware of, say patterns of neural firing, or growth patterns. Such developments probably get passed on in shape (DNA or X) to the next generation.
Agreed on all counts- those gains when you first start on a 3x5 or 5x5 are exhilarating and, short of making sure to eat enough, I wouldn't recommend anyone waste effort complicating that magical phase.
Do they do NPR, number plate recognition, in the US. There is a lot of it in the UK, in fact I think average speed checks are based on them. I would have thought it would be hard with all that decoration.
Yes, there's evidence that eye rubbing is a risk factor for keratoconus.

Not sure I follow what your point is about sleeping. Some folks may indeed rub their eyes unconsciously while they sleep, but that doesn't mean it's healthy.
Suppose you do capture what you are looking for. How would you present the information to courts when you illegally captured the information.
Roblox facilitates “illegal gambling” for minors, according to new lawsuit
anyone there you do tolerate?
Sadly, a lot of commenters seems to take the attached article as fact, as if the replicability crisis never happened
> I want millionaires to be using government aid to help their children: just like with free education, when everyone who needs help uses it, the richer parents will demand, and ensure we pay for, higher quality for all.

Beautifully summed up.

I don't want people to have to impoverish themselves, burning through entire life savings, to 'qualify' for small assistance. IME, it reinforces a 'why bother trying' attitude amongst people struggling on the lower end, and reinforces an 'I got mine, I'll protect it at all costs' attitude from people who've managed to save more.

Money saved from reducing means-testing from the administration of benefits/services might not be massive, but it would be a move towards "more efficiency", something many folks claim to value/support.
At Meta it’s the managers that are predominantly remote anyway
>If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

too good to ask for a salary that you know will throw off most recruiters? HN loves to boast about those kinds of hard balls.

>Who's the customer, the employee or the employer? The system is working as expected, it's not made for me.

I never had it work for me, never thought it did. But yeah, that's my entire life.

Personal life aside, I just bear with it until I don't have to anymore. And I have at least a decade more to bear. I don't want to be hired and laid off less than a year later, I don't want to blindly throw out apps into a job portal that aren't checked over half the time, I don't want to have to filter through a bunch of spam recruiters to find leads, and I don't want to have to do 5 rounds of interviews over a month only to get an automated rejection letter with zero feedback. I don't want to be 3 interviews deep before revealing that a "flexible hybrid role" in fact required me to move across the country for full in-office work.

But I also know I'm not some crackshot charismatic programmer who worked for FAANG who has buddies that can drag me into the next big thing. Nor am I close to retiring or even breaking off with current finances. I'm mostly alone, and I'm at best average. So I gotta jump through the average hoops until I can secure myself away from corporate.
Also see Gerard 't Hooft's site on how to become a good theoretical physicist (https://goodtheorist.science).
Not by choice, I was given a new laptop from HP that required signing into a Microsoft account before the computer would continue its initial setup. I to create a throwaway account just to access the computer my office paid for. That and the cloud-basing of all software (can you even get office for desktop anymore?) and increasingly, it seems like the management of software is taken out of the hands of the user.
Hold the Moon's buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles
Insisting on just one button for basic interactions and swipes for the rest was a mistake.

On top of that apps (looking at you, Instagram) are often simply buggy. You can have the same video play or not play depending on how the winds of load balancing blow. No graceful degradation or anything.
"Horrible Histories is a hit CBBC show that explores the side of history that they don’t teach you about in school! From the Vicious Vikings and Awful Egyptians to the Slimy Stuarts and Terrible Tudors, Horrible Histories covers the funniest, yuckiest and most gruesome bits of history for kids."

https://www.youtube.com/@HorribleHistoriesOfficial/videos
I'm gonna guess 3, since my flagged submissions page shows 3 entries and I don't recall flagging any of them.
That's more I think that the business model was B2B and fairly high-touch-per-customer -- "are you a mobile phone handset manufacturer who wants to ship a MIDP Java engine for it? come talk to us about porting our stuff to whatever custom RTOS you're running on it". It was never intended to be direct to consumers or to run on hardware that an end-user would have the ability to install new code to. The Windows and Linux ports were there as the development environment/tools.

I think the main reason it didn't work out was that there was a brief window of opportunity where mobile was a thing but where there was a massively divergent variety of custom platforms and OSes, and so "we can port this to anything and it will then be a common platform for running games/MIDP applications/etc" was a potentially sellable product. But then Android and iOS came along and the whole mobile space coalesced into "there are only two platforms, plus web apps are feasible for a lot of cases, and it's pretty much all Arm", and the need for a middleware layer that abstracted away CPU and OS differences basically evaporated.
Most US states do not have red-light cameras, and some that did, have withdrawn them. For example, see the Redflex bribery case, and other legal challenges.

YMMV in other countries: some are packed full of red-light and speed cameras, with phone-use detection expanding rapidly.

Most toll systems use different tech (e.g RFID), reinforced by plate readers to identify violators.

However, plate readers will always be a part of national security, and certain local law enforcement tactics.
And if they wore a MAGA hat? Just a piece of clothing, right?
Place a small animal in the cage giant bug zapping cage (esp a dog). You'll catch 100x more mosquitoes
High severity vuln in WinRAR could allow code to run when files are opened
An ancient method of keeping a raft manoeuvrable is to draw a chain that touches the ground in order to move slower than the water, and using a huge double rudder. The raft can then be moved to one shore ore the other like a cable ferry. As a bonus, with a long chain that can be pulled in or let out partially, you get variable delta v.

Another possibility, since they were two people, would be oars on the stern and bow of the vessel which allow to move orthogonally to the river flow.
But that's what you want, no? I just visited SquareSpace and their homepage seems to work as I'd want. When my viewport is narrow enough that there isn't space for the horizontal navbar at the top, it switches to hamburger menu.

Surely this is better than cutting off the navbar and half the page content in the middle vertically, and requiring the user to scroll horizontally?
You are not ridiculous and yes, the problem is gravely concerning.

I would recommend, instead of saying what people should do, is investigate why this parasocial relationship failure mode exists. Why do people not only end up in a losing proposition, but actively seek it out?

(I am quite sure there is no nice well contained single answer)
This is advice HN tends to trot out periodically, but I find it off-topic at best here.

The point of this blog post is to elicit empathy, something often lacking in healthy people who cannot envision themselves suffering from some ailment. Eventually everybody's bodies and minds will fail. Whatever specific mitigation strategies you deploy will eventually become ineffectual and your capabilities will degrade, either by means of age or disease or accident or all three.

We can and should do more to make things better for people who have differing levels of physical and mental capabilities because it is the right thing to do, but if that isn't enough, we should also do it out of our own self interest.

I'd suggest that bringing out "just get strong with these easy steps" as a response to a person who suffered an injury is particularly missing the point.
The thing is, if you really know it's just a fear, it's much easier to name it and overcome it. I know from myself that the worst thing that can be is anxiety of unknown origin.
Not sure about Bulgaria and Cyprus, but in Romania's case having a visa refusal rate of above 3%

From my circle of friends it seems like random chance, and because there is no reason given for the refusal one can only speculate. When I got my B-1/B-2 visa, my interview was very quick (I'd even dare to say closer to 1 minute). Whereas I have a couple of friends that applied for a travel visa and were rejected after being "interrogated" more heavily. When it comes to travel visas, I would assume they would mostly filter for potential illegal immigration, but all those I know that got rejected were pretty well "rooted" in the country.

There might just be the fact that getting an invitation letter from a company is considerably more important than receiving one from anyone else.
Nothing prevents DMV and police having interconnected database. Which would allow automatically communicating vehicles removed from use or with lapsed MOT.
You might enjoy Classic Shell Start Menu.

http://www.classicshell.net/
We call it ALPR - Automatic License Plate Recognition and it is both controversial and omnipresent. Average speed checks are not a thing here, ALPR is used primarily for toll collection ("pay by plate") and secondarily for law enforcement and asset reposession. (If you drive with a suspended license or don't pay a car loan, a mobile ALPR may bust you) Most plates are still legible to these systems despite the decorations - the remainder are verified by hand for applications such as toll processing.

People do stuff like obscuring the plate with a bike rack, a magnetic leaf, tinted license plate cover, etc, but it's a risky game to tempt the toll collector like that.
At very least, it'd be nice if the means tests were tied to inflation rather than being increased based on congressional whims.

I'm certainly pro universal health care, it would GREATLY simplify mine and my son's life. Private insurance is simply garbage when it comes to services for people with disabilities. With that in place, a much simpler trust system would work for my kid. It wouldn't be this complex system of checks to make sure they stick in line with current legislation standards. I wouldn't have to spend a large chunk of my child's funds on lawyers and trust administrators just to ensure legal compliance. I could cover basically all my kids needs other than medical, that stuff is just too expensive for anyone to afford.
The creator of The Incredible Machine made an HD remake called Contraption Maker:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker

It's extremely faithful to the original in terms of "feeling", to the point where it satisfies my TIM nostalgia
I was pretty skeptical from the original article, since it totally seemed like correlation. But the study looked at directionality, that inflammation one week results in more social media the next week. The paper also describes other research that producing inflammation increases social interaction, so this study isn't just a random thing. My conclusion is that this study is legit. The one important thing that I didn't get from the summary is the size of the effect.

Here's a link to the paper (partially paywalled): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08891...
I just ordered a HDMI 2.1 AOC cable yesterday. Isn't it only 4k@60 without DSC?
I call it negative intelligence - people who are so stupid they make everybody around them more stupid.
Hmm? They specifically taught me in driving school how to parallel park using just the side mirrors.
I should have phrased it better, indeed what I meant is self hosting by "declouding" from public clouds. My only concern is realiable self hosted backups. But I already have my own setup for newsfeeds, document storage, even for calling friends and relatives, and at the fraction of the cost (I factor in the value of my privacy as part of overall cost). I think there is good potential for self hosted products out there. A major pain point though is self hosting emails, since that requires a lot of work around spam protection and availability.
I find the verified blue mark referring to the 10$/yr for the domain to be both hilarious and legit.
How about a bat box so more bats live in the area and eat the mosquitos. Salamanders also eat mosquitos but the materials most people use to kill mosquitos, like permethrin, unfortunately also kill salamanders.

I am a mosquito magnet too and spend summer in an area that's not quite subtropical but is pretty full of them. I find them to really just be a minor nuisance at certain times of day which I can avoid with the right clothing or staying behind screens. And I often don't even bother and just tolerate some minor itchiness from their bites. I don't really get all the fuss.

Apart from regions with malaria, I don't understand the lengths people go to eradicate them, especially since they are usually pretty ecologically destructive.
It's almost like all the college and university CIOs are choosing the same software platforms. Now why might that be?
I bought an SD card for someone a couple of years ago and he had no issues, but I can't remember if it was after the acquisition or before.
haileys/bark: live sync audio streaming for local networks
copy/paste/“improve”

the only thing scarier than seeing your personal “not for prod” code running in prod by someone else’s hand. the “improvements.”
I don't think it's your fault and I don't think you're using the wrong browser.

> I should be working out the dependency story and compiling some driver from Github myself.

no, nvidia _should_ make it easier for people using the 3rd most popular desktop OS to use their hardware. It would make them more competitive against AMD and Intel, which both support hardware video decoding.

That's probably not going to happen, so the next best option is to install a package from the package manager [0]. There might be some kind of compilation needed, but in my experience that's rarely an issue (aside from time), especially if it's coming out of the package manager for a popular distribution.

> It's just not a real option for maybe 99% of PC users.

well, 99% of PC users with Nvidia hardware. It's an important distinction since this problem is specific to Nvidia. If the solution is to installing a package from the package manager, it's only as difficult as installing the browser in the first place.

I do agree there's some extra questions that may make things difficult, or unfamiliar for the vast majority of people, though. Like how is someone supposed to know they need the nvidia-vaapi-driver package anyway?

[0] - https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#package-manag...
Simple Method of Light Field Calculation for Shaping of 3D Light Curves
Add "desire for anonymity" to that list of symptoms. A recent survey (1) found that "because I'm afraid of crazy people tracking me down" to be in the top 3 reasons for preferring anonymity on social media.

Consider that. A whole population afraid of each other. That's some kind of epidemic.

1) https://lemm.ee/post/4655237
If it was true there would immediately be competition. By “immediately” in this space I mean 2-3 years.
The example worked at expected here, except correcting swiming loses the subsequent blank line, and tapping the SuggestCat highlight gives the swiming tip.
Not my project, just thought it was neat (:
Standing next to a building doesn't sound as good, marketing. Stuff like this actually makes me really sad because people should not really be this gullible.
Most of this is obsolete, especially the complaints about size.

Worth reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29316024

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31406556
28ms is a VM; in hardware you can't get through firmware in 28ms. Apples to oranges.
Government Blocking of “Tornado Cash” Was Legal, Didn't Violate First Amendment
Inflammation is a key factor of many medical conditions, many which can be identified by a "-itis" suffix. Might just not be in your bubble if you haven't crossed paths with these kinds of conditions.

Personally, I had not come across much inflammation talk until I had uveitis, which led to an identification of my ankylosing spondylitis (a form of spinal arthritis) which has also brings me enthesitis. All of these are inflammation based.
Why not give in and pay for the SQL Server Hyperscale instance? Isn't there enough BS to worry about? Why continue to waste time on tired old OLTP/OLAP/scalability/etc. conversations in 2023?

Unless your business can continuously write >100 megabytes of transactional data per second, this solution would almost certainly address all of your needs forever and ever. Up to 100TB too. It just works. It offers transactions exactly the way most business expect them to be conducted. No weird code, no weird client libraries, nothing. It works more or less like it has for the last 30+ years.

I can tell you for a fact that simply setting up a gigantic shared database called "company" and getting the team connected to it did wonders for us. When you stop worrying about "will it scale" you can start to collaborate and do amazing things again.
> If you're only disabled because you eat too much and can't be bothered to exercise I question whether you're actually disabled.

Perhaps there's a distinction between chronic/permanent disabilities and transient disabilities? If I'm obese to the point where I can't walk, I am, indeed, disabled, but don't necessarily have to be for the next 20 years. Diet/exercise/surgery/etc could all reduce the obesity, but in the immediate 'now', I'm disabled and need assistance.
Facebook Dating Website – Facebook dating 2023 – Facebook dating app
It's in the first paragraph:

> Across three studies involving more than 1,800 participants, the findings — published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity — indicate that increased levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), which the liver makes in response to inflammation in the body, can promote social media use among middle-aged adults and college students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-reactive_protein
They’re trying to pay you more than you currently make, or offer some kind of career growth you don’t currently have, and you have bills to pay and ambitions in life. It’s not complicated. Telling yourself so is only making excuses for the company.
So they can’t restore it?! They have backups. Come on. It’s just incompetence and lack of care.
It is not, at least on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
> You literally don't need to use those features to use systemd. There's no requirement on journald or systemd-resolved if you just want to use systemd as an init.

Unit/Service file syntax controls per-service logging, PID1 is rather tightly coupled to journald in implementing those features.

Hence the service manager explicitly checks that journald is running at startup:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v254/src/core/manage...

Other components like resolved and networkd are optional however.
This is very interesting.

I saw the Twitter post first and the blog next. The premise is compelling but it's been a promise made to the data and software world for decades together.

The architecture and the core primitives are something that we agree with a lot. Use cases and business value are a whole different ballgame.

We have invested the past 5 years at InfinyOn building Fluvio our open source rust implementation of core event streaming primitives which is implementing this architecture to orchestrate data as efficiently as computationally possible today. I am happy to see this project as an effort in the same direction.
I would argue it is not a social media platform for a few very important reasons.

- No infinite scroll

- No algorithmic content recommendations (ex: if you like X, you'll like Y)

- Highly targeted and moderated content

- The user is not the product (this is maybe the most important and has far reaching consequences)
Plenty of toll roads recognize number plates in Europe, but it may well be that it's easier to implement this system when there are typically only two or three plate designs per country, and they're generally all pretty much the same — black letters on a white or yellow background.

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