skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, and did exactly that by generating C++ from typed Python -- https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/05/mycpp.html

However the usual counter-argument is that you're inheriting horrible C/C++ semantics, which often but not always true.

That was for the implementation language of Oils, not the shell language we're exposing. So I'd say it's a very useful and fast technique for tools, but not for future-facing languages that you want people to use :)
It would be interesting to compare the India sub-continent to Asia (China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Hong Kong, etc...) along with Europe and South and Central America. I think folks would be enlightened as to where the issues are.

International Energy Usage Coal Report
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/91982b4e-26dc-41d5-...
For simple hedonism, not even pricing in the environment, we have:

paper straw < no straw < plastic straw

A soggy straw is pure masochism.
> Cancer is not rare. Early detection heavily skews the odds on one's side.

Depends on the cancer and even the doctors are torn. Most breast tumors and prostate tumors will not kill you or affect your life much. Treating them likely will (especially for prostate). Depending on the model, the overall health of the population is actually reduced by early detection because in most of these tumors treatment is worse than the disease.

One of my doctors is a strong believer in periodic prostate exams after 40. The other recommends only if there are other symptoms. You can guess which is the older one and which is the younger one.

Years ago there was the whole Gardasil controversy. What was often excluded in the noise was that if it were mandated for all girls as some states were recommending, it would be so expensive that funding for other health programs would need to be reduced. The studies were showing that this kind of preventative approach would again reduce the health of the state's population.

Preventive medicine is good - to an extent. Beyond that it is bad.
Houston itself is losing people, even if the area is gaining.
The mere possession of a fake ID is illegal. Even borrowing an ID is illegal.
It's the rise of an administrator class as services get decoupled from any real market pressure. You're citing mostly government and banks where it's worse. Bureaucrats can add friction almost infinitely without ever feeling the consequence, and without a countervailing force, it just keeps progressing.
Pop quiz, what's the somewhat-related significance of these longest words?

canvasbacks

counterconvention

photofluorographies
Those interested in the topic may check my video here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B3NuJt6ttOI

It's much more visual and easy-going. I created it upon finding that several software developers were unable to understand in spite of many resources already available on the topic.
Must be all those progressive union teachers infesting rural Eastern Kentucky?

idk, when do conspiricists need to be coherent?
It's a local exploit, which are not uncommon in Linux.
This strikes me a little like the rational economic model of criminals, i.e. they weigh the cost of getting caught * likelihood against benefit of the crime.

In reality, having data people are biased towards action.

But I agree, a holistic interpretation - including the population level "bad decisions" - is the ultimately correct approach. The caution I would urge is not to allow "no true scotsman" arguments, ie "well it's a good thing as long as people are careful".

Many people aren't going to be, which is part of the calculus.
Yep! Physicians are motivated to treat pre-emptively, not wait and find out.

It is much easier to say after surgery: “All is good; no cancer, we took out a small bleb of tissue we thought was a tumor” than to say “Sorry, we thought that was a benign growth and that is why we did not recommend surgery 6 months ago, but it turns out we were wrong—it was a malignant tumor that has now spread.”
To convict Microsoft or Meta of hypocrisy, you need to find some official statement from the company which says that web scraping is wrong.

Hypocrisy is the professing of a moral position to which one does not conform.

If you don't preach that web scraping is wrong, and engage in it, that doesn't mean you can't defend your site against it.

Everyone shits; it is not ipso facto hypocrisy not to want it on your lawn.

Hypocrisy could be involved in the way you articulate your wish not to have it on your lawn.
I totally agree with you. This idea that “there is no problem if we don’t look for one” is absurd. We have plenty of statistical techniques to prevent unnecessary surgeries for every anomaly in an MRI scan; let’s utilize those instead of keeping medicine in the dark ages.
> there's some weird culture war shibboleth about using disposable plastic to own the libs now.

You know what's older and more traditional than a plastic straw?

No straw.

(Or, actual straw. If that was ever a thing people did.)
It's not that aenemic in current form though, with the 1TB model it has 16GB.

I'm pretty sure Final Cut Pro would export a video in the background of an 8GB MBA just fine.
The MisoFluent Postcard: 1 Haiku, 1 Artwork, 1 Language Learning Tool
Casio watches are timeless.
End of an era. It's crazy to think that there was a time where it seemed like Netflix had every movie that ever made it to DVD (at least in English)
The places that burned down, maybe we shouldn’t rebuild those, or let a free insurance market determine if the rebuilt housing can get insurance or not. Zoning is one of those things that prevents you from building near the tree line or building too much when you have to rely on septic, etc…
Pretty sure if you set the starting area to the max size it does exactly what you asked
Hey if anybody reading this is affiliated with the https://tempo.si.edu research group that did this work: you need an RSS/Atom feed!

Your work is awesome, but nobody's going to come to your website every day just to check your news page. Add a feed!
It's an unconvincing argument, but not an attempt to shut down anything. By comparison, the grandparent comment was emotional and reactionary beyond the point of being expressly uncivil.

A better response might have been to point out that the level of POW is reactive. If there are no attacks ongoing it will use little to no resources. If it's effective, the attacks will largely stop (no point in attempting an attack that won't work) and so paradoxically this can potentially provide its benefit without actually having much usage.

If it works out that way the benefit vs costs are very good for pretty much any way of evaluating the costs. This is the kind of nuanced thinking that you'd expect from smart people, as the prior poster suggested (and, in fact, is pointed out in the design document).
also the mild winters excuse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

and the flat excuse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWnreLG_cvc
I couldn't disagree more re: legal blocks are ridiculous, and this is a very pro-privacy decision.

I shared info on LinkedIn for use by myself and other linkedin members, and for linkedin to use in their various products. You can't be pro-privacy and simultaneously believe that my putting info on LI has granted the entire world license to do with it what they will. Including running research programs or ML stuff or whatever hiq's business was, selling it to spammers, and using it in products by other companies that I've never heard of.
You're attacking a strawman. I think it's clear that it's the dose that makes the poison. Hate speech laws and debanking are a recent phenomena and add a degree of severity to the punishment that the governments can mete out that has not existed in modern times. Additionally the internationalization of policing means you can no longer easily escape to another country. You can't go hang out in Canada or Switzerland anymore. And there was a culture of high tolerance, I remember it, 'I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death for your right to say it,' that has all but disappeared.
You're correct, I should add something to my post.
For web browsing I recommend installing Firefox Focus and then using that as a content blocker.
>OTOH, I have yet to hear a story from someone who had some sort of scan done, found something worth to take a look at that turned out to be nothing and that, for some strange reason, was significantly affected by that

The go-to for a lot of the "take a look at that" procedures is a biopsy, and a biopsy is not a risk free procedure. I'm surprised that you know more than one person that's had a full-body scan, but don't know anyone that's had a biopsy complication, I know one person who spent several days in the hospital on IV antibiotics after an infection after a Prostate biopsy (which was negative)

>>these scares can absolutely fuck up a month of your life

>That sounds quite immature, tbh. It's definitely a small price to pay compared to all the trouble you save by potentially detecting issues early on.

Have you ever had a cancer or other serious disease diagnosis? It can be surprisingly stressful and detrimental to your health even if it is something that can be effectively treated.
The article and all the comments I’ve seen really miss the essence of winner’s curse.

Let’s say there’s an auction for a gold bar. Everyone has to use their own scale. Our scales don’t have bias, that’s easy to detect and fix. But, they do have noise. Let’s say +/-1%, all equally likely.

There are 50 people at the auction. The bar is 100g. The two highest readings are going to probably be near 101g, and those two are going to bid each other up. The winner will have overpaid. Simulating this, the mean second highest estimate will be 100.96.

The essence of this is that valuations have a randomness to them. It doesn’t have to be a scale. It could be a model or just the ideas of a person. Because of the ways auctions work, the highest valuation gets chosen. So, the noise in your valuations doesn’t cancel out. The winner is cursed by overpaying.

You can correct for this. There are formulas. But there are also things you can use intuitively. This is only for cases where you care about the value of something, like you may resell it. Bidding on a taxi to make it to a wedding doesn’t apply.

Never bid what you think is a fair price, like you might in an open market. You need to be getting discount. The more bidders and the noisier the valuation, the higher the discount. If you’re bidding on something where it could be worth 1/2 or 2x easily and there are 100 others, you need to think you’re getting a screaming deal. Cause the most likely reason you’re the higher bidder is you were unluckily high in your valuation. Again, if you have a reason to bid high (that was my dad’s corvette!) this doesn’t apply.
No, I don't. The word has many meanings, especially these days. And it's doing a lot of work in your argument.
Hi I just see this via Twitter.
My name is Tom and I have found JS SDCS inner works and OS in 2021/22. I’m an ‘old school’ abstract artist and got through it by image research. Also my dad is a screenwriter so the tv was present in my upbringing. I have my personal story but it’s not about that. Under NDA I’m willing to share my sources and proof. Two people have validated my findings. One is too busy but has his own way by modern algorithms, one is taking it back to the past from step one. I need help and have a certain sense of urgency, btw I’m not afraid to be under attack. I cannot code, math, engineer or program properly. I do know how art, nature and stories of people work quite well. Thank you for your consideration and seriousness. I do need help to proof it with working samples. It’s one YouTube link away basically : ) and if you get it, it can be quite simple. Ty. Tom, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Also some parts of the border are overly secure (airports) while others aren't secured at all
I mostly use the iPad for reading, ebooks, pdfs, saved web articles, HN, etc.

I initially got the biggest iPad but it was certainly too heavy to hold like a book and read comfortably. I switched to an iPad mini which was perfect for reading everything but PDFs, the problem is I read a lot of PDFs. I currently use an 11” and take the cover off to read with it, I find it to be the right trade off between size and weight for me.
Interesting. I was wondering why the 100 mile border zone extends acoss California almost all the way to Reno, Nevada, and I found this (https://law.stackexchange.com/a/43233):

> The immediate explanation is the substantial eastward jog created by Suisun and Grizzly Bay. This would follow from 33 CFR 2.20, defining the territorial sea baseline, following the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone. The zone would fall just short of Lake Tahoe. It's based on tidal waters, see 33 CFR 329.12 for similar definition of the US baseline in terms of waterbodies subject to tidal action.

33 CFR 329.12 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/329.12) says:

> (b) Bays and estuaries. Regulatory jurisdiction extends to the entire surface and bed of all waterbodies subject to tidal action. Jurisdiction thus extends to the edge (as determined by paragraph (a)(2) of this section) of all such waterbodies, even though portions of the waterbody may be extremely shallow, or obstructed by shoals, vegetation, or other barriers. Marshlands and similar areas are thus considered “navigable in law,” but only so far as the area is subject to inundation by the mean high waters.
Remembering John Warnock, Co-Creator of PostScript and Acrobat
I agree. Though how much is too much remains to be seen. The pendulum will swing too far one day. The more progress we make, the sooner it's too much to take.

In future generations we'll have the War on Drugs to look back on, so we won't make the same mistakes, but drug use will become too much at some point, and we'll look for other ways to curtail it.
Rampant makes the enemies smarter, but not necessarily harder. If you've learned how to defend from the biters in vanilla, some of the new tactics will catch you by surprise. But the answer is still the same: build up your defenses to the point where no attack wave stands a chance.
I understand that psychiatric complications are common with COVID and especially repeated exposure. If you get vaccinated, it can help. Good luck.
Not the person you asked, but I needed a place to run my shitty python scripts and the minimal requirement in my org was 'stand up an ec2 and get the OS managed by (insert other team)'

I complained about it and designed and built an MVP for a k8s SaaS in a week or so and pitched it to leadership and got some buy-in.
Not for the purpose of the 100 mile border zone rule, apparently.
> I have yet to hear a story from someone who had some sort of scan done, found something worth to take a look at that turned out to be nothing and that, for some strange reason, was significantly affected by that.

Silly comment. They tell you there's a 16% false positive rate. Maybe you don't know any of these people, but I'd certainly be willing to bet money that some of them got worried sick about it.

In addition, an older case is prostate cancer. At least in the older days, they would do painful procedures that left the patient with significantly lower quality of life, when in fact, many men with prostate cancer die of something else. Nowadays they're a little smarter about it.
If apple did a proper convertible laptop format, which is a hinge and touchscreen away, how many pros would care about the iPad? It would be lighter than the iPad and keyboard combo too.
Phind did the fine-tuning, not Facebook.

This is actually an excellent demonstration of a good reason to open source something. Another company immediately made a dramatic improvement.

Now anyone from Facebook or any companies they have invested in can benefit from that improvement and information about how they did it. Facebook could even take this exact model and add a coding assistant into Messenger if they wanted (not that they are interested in that). Or apply it to other things.

OpenAI has a big lead. The most effective counter to that is actually to team up.
Can i not use it without paying?

16:20:50 You: tell me about my infra

16:20:55 Error: Unexpected Error: err=Exception('got 400 from
Release API for https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations'),
type(err)=<class 'Exception'> Trace Id: 3f448f09-9cdd-489a-b59d-34f1fb03e3e3

16:21:10 You: what kind of databases am i using?

16:21:15 Error: Unexpected Error: err=Exception('got 400 from
Release API for https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations'),
type(err)=<class 'Exception'> Trace Id: 8d173a36-fd0a-42f6-b62d-0a4721423301
Hey, the 'A' in 'GAN' doesn't mean adversarial for nothing.
As I understand it in the US you legally have access to the data as it's part of your medical records.

In my experience it's as simple as asking, they give you a CD-R containing some DICOM files and a freeware DICOM viewer. Maybe more modern health systems will let you just download the files.
I don't know if we are still talking about California, but if we are, note that there is not an analog of the federal system within the state. Cities are not independent and do not have powers and cannot abrogate the state's powers with what amounts to an HOA. Cities in California are political subdivisions of the state and they exist to further and promote the policies of the state.
Second fun fact: the Gog Magog hills outside Cambridge are the highest point between there and some insane distance to the NE.

How can this be, you ask incredulously? It's almost entirely open water between those two locations, other than incredibly flat land as you cross eastern England and ditto before reaching wherever the next spot that is above 300'.
1. I've used it, and I don't think so.

2. Obnoxious? This is my opinion, I don't get what Sam Altman or 1+1=3 is supposed to mean in this context.
> It's either a problem or it isn't

That's vacuously true. The problem is that we humans can't always discern the truth of the situation. Not even doctors.

They perform a lot of unnecessary procedures. It's well known and not a conspiracy. Sometimes they do it to make money. Other times it's so they don't get sued. Scan the comments here and you'll see sentiments of people upset that their doctor didn't do a procedure and blaming them for adverse health problems.
I’m head of security at a fintech and working with our fraud team and general counsel to mitigate identity fraud is a component of my work. Statute around this is somewhat robust and effective as long as you put the effort in to pursue.
Must be some kind of local rules because I've signed up for accounts (BoA, Discover) and have never submitted a picture of myself (govt issued or not) to a company.

For me the only one that hurt was AirBnB when they imposed the picture requirement. That was a useful service.
Ah yeah possibly. It just isn’t quite what they said.
You can already get numbers like that. Put your cholesterol and blood pressure values into this one and see!

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/locations/cannon-fall...
20km radius from my home reaches precisely 1 other settlement. Ah, the American West ....
It's even sillier than that, because the point of searching something at the border is to identify contraband. Drugs or explosives or invasive plants.

The border is not a chokepoint for information traveling between countries -- anyone who wants to transfer information internationally can just use the internet. So it makes no sense for the border to have any less strict of a warrant requirement for the information content of a device than there is anywhere else.
Or they can leave it in the body and give it a 360 hinge
Yes 100% true.
When someone gets a well-deserved black eye, most folks would rather put on concealer makeup than be forced explain how they got their shiner. I doubt they want to draw attention to how badly they just pissed off the open source community.
X-Ray Beam Interstellar Communication and Implications for SETI [video]
> a large portion of research computing standardized on Red Hat (see e.g. Scientific Linux). The stability is quite important when trying to run ancient/niche scientific code that sometimes would only support (or even build on) Red Hat

> I hope at this current juncture the HPC community might rethink its investment in the RHAT ecosystem and give Debian a chance.

Nowadays Nix and Guix are available, and they're fundamentally better fits for this problem. Traditional Linux package managers aren't really suited to scientific reproducibility or archival work. It would be much better to turn more towards functional package management than just swap in another distro.
Show HN: Notifications for Jobs on Hacker News with Elixir and Telegram
Wow I am surprised monsanto etc. hasn’t come up with and patented a seed to work well on US soil (pun intended)
Is an end to using imperiled horseshoe crabs for U.S. drug testing in sight?
If I am to believe Louis Rossmann ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tB3t7xGWjk ), this would still be a marked improvement over the current state of affairs, where Apple ostensibly offers tools, but the terms end up forbidding their use in serious repair shops. If they actually offer a good selection of OEM parts, that'd be good for the end user.
Encryption of secrets stored in state and or support for a would be an excellent first fork feature to pull ahead. Maybe something that supports backends like AWS KMS (for encryption) or AWS Secret Manager (for storing/retrieving ) secrets.

Stringing together resources to pull from a secrets manager and still having the secrets stored plainly in state is enormously frustrating. We aren’t all living in a nirvana of fast rotating out of band secrets.
> apple's repair program is much more extensive than virtually any other phone vendor

The Fairphone? The Framework?

> OEM 16" XDR Liquid Retina screens have an estimated BOM cost of $250, versus applecare at $350. If you have a broken screen that costs you $100 with applecare or $450-750 without. So basically you are prepaying one screen and then if it happens you just pay cost of labor.

Why is the range so variable? If part ($250) + labor ($100) is $350, why is the minimum $450 and how could the maximum possibly be $750? Where does this extra 100-400 dollar cost originate, if it's not only being applied artificially?

> And that's why people like rossman complain when apple launched the self-service

Who is Rossman? Maybe you're right here but the way you invoke this guy and claim his intent without stating his actual complaint makes it feel like you're attacking a strawman. From your post I gather that he wants to be able to use third party parts on the cheap if he would like and that the Apple system somehow impedes that, which seems valid.

To be clear, I am of course against e-waste and very much in favor of having the right to repair my own devices with whatever parts I can make work. If Apple is swinging that way, great, but this post comes off as accusatory for a reason I'm having a hard time discerning. It's still hard to trust Apple on something like this when there is so much obvious money to be made by behaving subversively when it comes to pricing out their repairs.
This was supposed to skip to 0:59 but HN stripped the timestamp off the URL for some reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfGnmA3GfY&list=PLaEYPgNFlk...

The talk is ~ 15min (remainder of video is Q&A).
JS made a copy system, which behaves metaphorically exactly like a seed.
> They should find time to regularly fly here and be with me.

This but unironically
Great links! Thanks.
Well lots of companies want it, as this article shows, so maybe KYC is just an excuse they're using. Did KYC laws suddenly get stricter?
Speaking of Elixir, I wrote a simple guide on getting an Elixir web app set up in podman (safer Docker). Also it uses Plug to demonstrate how the framework Phoenix is built.

https://spacedimp.com/blog/dockerless-setting-up-an-elixir-w...