skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two shops around here charge about $175/month for a family ($80/month single adult). That's a difficult price to swallow when you have insurance through work, which almost everyone able to pay $175/month does. There's probably some value, but I need a doctor so little, I just can't see paying for it. It's competing with services like Zoomcare, which is basically an on-call online-scheduled prescription service which works very well for my purposes. I struggle to see these Direct Primary Care services getting off the ground unless they're in a very affluent neighborhood where price doesn't really matter anyway.
We don't know their reasons.

Ostensibly, they want RTO because it's RTO. The controversial theory is that it's all a ploy to get some portion to quit, a layoff in disguise.

The people who they actually need to keep will not be asked to return.
Pretty cocky naming your Amazon AI thing after their ai camera line.

also I gave it a spin but it never did anything
It appears to be an elementary introduction to both. It appears that no prior physics knowledge is needed.
Square root is pretty much equivalent to division in complexity, and computed by similar techniques (digit-by-digit methods or newton-raphson or goldschmidt iterations). Division is often a little more efficient, but square root has fewer messy edge cases (it never overflows nor underflows).

Division and square root are generally slower than the other arithmetic operations, in both latency and throughput. They are finally partially pipelined in recent CPUs (a result every two or three cycles), but were totally unpipelined in mainstream designs for many years before that. A decade ago, they might take a few tens of cycles, now they’re generally somewhere around ten cycles latency on “real” CPUs, vs 3-5 cycles latency for the other floating point arithmetic instructions.
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It was "you wouldn't steal a car". People on the internet rightly corrected it to "download".
It's certainly been interesting watching my opinion of Google change over the years from great to awful. Or maybe I'm just old and grumpy, being over twice as old as Google. :)
Yeah you're 10 years out of date on that too
The top voted comment is always some variation of "capitalism bad".
Echoing other comments that forced security updates feel like compelled speech.

It's reasonable to expect that a company may be expected to uphold any contracts they enter into
It's reasonable to require companies to disclose their update policies and uphold those policies.

It's not reasonable for companies to be compelled to add any security updates for their IoT devices
Survey Reveals Community Preferences for OpenSUSE's Future Direction
They respond to written letters too (and they have a legal obligation to do so).

There is, unfortunately, no way to get every police force on the globe to agree to some authentication scheme.
The Value of a Customer
That is a neat little fact that I didn't know, thanks!
You really need to read some mid-90's books like Microserfs or some of the early Mac histories for some historical context. None of this was new or particularly unusual in the valley at the time.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs.
Definitely. I like to play a game sometimes... more or less based on the idea that bloodletting and rectal feeding and wound probing were medical "best practices" of the past and now seem so obviously ludicrous to us now. So I like to look at something that I think is obvious, some "best practice of our time", and wonder how it might in 100 or 150 years suddenly seem totally ludicrous to posterity with the revelation of some knowledge K where "oh now everyone knows K, how silly everyone was before they knew K."

K=neuroplasticity is an emerging case of this phenomenon for the more recent history, I think the strength of the evidence is high there.

HN has also entertained in its top ranking some articles from Slime Mold Time Mold hypothesizing a K="what if the obesity epidemic has nothing to do with calories in vs calories out, and actually there is some toxin which the body has to sequester in subcutaneous fat and that's why everyone's getting obese" -- that would be a potential modern example, although I don't think that blog makes a very good case for it. (Lustig makes a better case on this front for K="our modern Western diet removes liver protection and starves our gut microbiomes" and I think you could make an even better case that K="the dangers of chronic low-level whole-body inflammation", with Lustig only gesturing at one part of that broader problem maybe?)

A major theoretical discovery of K="computers can't do XYZ" would be another such thing for all of us who in the modern world chase these fads about computers reinventing finance or art or the modern economy. You'd have people in the year 2100 saying "can you believe only 75 years ago, everyone would just believe that computers were magically going to fix X and then they wouldn't and everyone would suddenly believe they would now fix Y and then they wouldn't and then Z and they wouldn't and and and... straight faced rationalist businesspeople acting like 'Tech-Jesus is coming' on August 1st, oh sorry it's September 1st, sorry -- October 1st? November? Maybe in the coming year? well SURELY this decade."
How to grow your career: “She joined Facebook fresh out of college when it was a 700 person startup”.

End of article.
I’m definitely not going to trash unions, big Billy Bragg fan here, but mentorship and training of less senior people is already basically table stakes expectation for staff+ engineers at any competent tech company.

I actually think it’s overemphasized on the internet, if anything. Staff+ engineers should still edit (I don’t say “write” because “delete” is even better) code. Otherwise what’s all the training for? Getting the senior- engineers up to “mentoring” roles, to train even more senior- engineers, …?
You might consider the Evergrande story side-by-side with Huawei, it's not all roses. They also angered many western companies of the last decade and the state of foreign investment is very different from their boom days. As we move into a bi-polar world again, there will be much uncertainty. I'm on the BB side, if only for the fact that communism has never outlasted capitalism, and Xi is reigning things in over there of late
If by purity you mean any sort of "alien substance" whatsoever, stick with liquid water. And I hope you don't like any colored minerals, as those all have "alien substances" inside.
The difference is that thanks to Google and Facebook you can now do it on an industrial scale. It's like comparing an iPhone to two tin cans connected with a string.

The Hungarian government is also using ads to brainwash people very effectively here. You can't watch a YouTube video without seeing some kind of propaganda.
Hm, almost 5x the thermal conductivity of copper. Since this is HN.. let's say we were actually to build such a pan, is it practical?

My first thought is that the high conductivity doesn't necessarily mean it won't, being loose and hand-wavey with terminology because I don't know it, fracture with thermal shock, like non-borosilicate glassware (don't change the temp. too quickly) say, or ceramics (don't introduce too much of a temp. delta across the item, e.g. heating on a hob)?

Second thought is 'is it too much better than copper', in the sense that is the conductivity no longer the limiting factor? Copper is prized (and actually bloody hard to get these days - afaict everything on Amazon is copper-coloured or at best clad aluminium) because of fast 'response time' to change in heat, as you adjust the burner or pull it off the heat altogether. Conductivity also helps with even heating of course, but it doesn't help it cool particularly, which is limited by the rate of loss due to convection through air (and what's being cooked, which is what we want to limit if we're hoping for it to cool) and radiation?
I know what cracked means, but this didn't communicate anything to me. It seems that you'd need to both know what cracked means and know who "RAZOR 1911" is in order to get what's going on here from context alone.
Sure. Here you go:

https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Match-Rates-...
Well, to get actual impact you'd need infrastructure-wide tracing and that's hard.

Like, you could hit a cache and serve 95% of page from it. Or hit some long path that will burn half a second on 20 servers in the backend to serve some big query

But yeah title is useless
It is built in, and it’s better with eglot. It’s just not enabled by default because emacs isn’t used exclusively for programming.
There's a certain kind of wood from India (acacia I think) that a lot of new hardwood furniture is built with. I've seen it everywhere from Home Goods to West Elm to Crate and Barrel. If you seek it out, you'll get good, modern looking hardwood furniture at a good price. I find the way hardwood ages over time (it won't be pristine forever) to be preferable, and the ability to pay somebody to refinish it one day is a nice perk.
Maybe a bit optimistic but I don’t think it’d be to hard.

Most devices already use pretty standard components, a microwave for example would have “something” to switch the thing on and off. It might be a solid state relay or something like that. Maybe it has multiple, one to control the fan, light, motor to turn the things around, and the thing that emits the microwaves.

But once you figure out what signal is needed to start those (a bit of intuition and a multimeter might suffice) you are off to the races!

One you open a few house appliances it’s easy to see how they optimized for cost, so you seldom find fancy protocols or components unless they are absolutely necessary.

In a toaster over for example, you might find a temperature sensor and it would likely take a bit of fever engineering to calibrate the temperature to the voltage output (I’m assuming that is a cheap analog sensor instead of something that spits a digital I2C signal for example).

So yeah! It shouldn’t be too hard to hack your devices :-)
>Finally, I’m willing to bet a tenth of my monthly pay that should wage transparency become mandatory, the overall salary range will fall throughout the industry (at least in the short term), as this is how organisations generally deal with forced initiatives.

I would like to see how this would all play out. Generally people know roughly what the market is paying, and unless desperate, people probably aren't inclined to pursue roles paying far less than a) they are currently getting, b) the market is generally paying. So assuming the industry drops rem in lockstep, people stick to their current role, or they wait for an org to need talent enough to raise the pay on offer. The market evens out again eventually, surely ("at least in the short term"). That said, I'm a casual observer and I'm speculating wildly. Did find the "aw, poor HR" moments in the article amusing though.
However, the Linux one grabs two from third party, to GitHub, repos. These seem relatively safe, from official systems level projects — snapcraft and docker. I'm going to suggest to Codium they add a SHA to pin those, just like I would suggest they unpin GitHub Actions if they'd had them pinned. Sorry I was looking at the Mac one because I have a Mac even though the link up the thread was for Linux.
"whichever comes last" got me haha
Yes! Fairtrade coffee and pre-owned clothing is the least we can do in the face of capitalism's worst excesses. It won't end horrors of humanity that have existed since before capitalism but it's something. Hoping a usable Fairphone comes to the US, but getting a refurb iphone is still better than getting a new one.

You can't fix the whole world with personal choices, like an eyedropper against the ocean, but you can still opt out of the worst excesses without having to compromise every modern convenience.
Oh yeah. Just a little bit of snark-slash-commentary since humans are being treated as profit centers. My FP of 20+ years also retired after selling his practice, as per the article. I do think it's sad (no, I'm not depressed!) that the race to the bottom, with a dash of enshittification, now encompasses health care, which we all need.
But that's exactly the point I'm making.

The slight differences in each drink, the chaos, the humanity of it all, the Wabi-sabi is what makes the beauty of life. I would take that any day over a robotic alcohol prescription that is identical each time.

It's the same thing with batista vs vending machine coffee. One is a celebrated art form, one is not. The practical difference in the product may not be the big difference, it's there, but it's more.

It's not that I don't know that a robot would be mote precise, consistent, steal and complain less, on and on. I agree. I just think those things are features not bugs.
Because it's not even remotely true. I've been homeless, divorced twice, kicked out of a school under suspicion of crime, driven nearly insane at one point, desperate enough to embezzle cash from a retail employer 21 years ago, guilty of arson when I was teenager. I still have a perfectly good job that puts me in a higher pay echelon than I ever would have imagined at one time in my life, even a top-secret clearance. I owned my past mistakes, cleaned up, and am entrusted with state secrets. America is the land of second chances. Look at our last two presidents. Perennial fuck ups, and depending on your party, at least one of them is probably a criminal.
I hate this so much. Almost as much as I hate that we have been squandering it with an artificial price cap so we can fill party balloons cheaply. We have strategic reserves so we have resources when they are needed.
Thanks! Yeah, looks like there are some openings. Also looks like that is one specialty that has increased its slots by over 25% in the past 5 years. Progress
To clarify, I have a degree, worked at a faang and have a squeaky clean criminal record. However, I hopped around early in my career working for a number of startups tried to found a few as well. I walked away with great experiences, but after attempting to transition to a TPM role I seem to have black balled myself in the process. Yes, I understand the market isn't great but at 5 YOE I feel hopelessly lost and only manage to get a handful of interview offers...

Currently doing a startup but I'm starting to feel like this isn't what I was built to do.
It is maybe a little bit crazy to design a system that charges people based partly on how well they are able to self-assess their need for care.

The ER and urgent care at my local hospital are next door to each other. Until the last year or so, it was the only urgent care in the area (and is the only ER).
When I worked at a state university, every salaried employee's pay was public information. You could just look up anybody and see how much their salary was. I never paid a lot of attention to it but some people did and seemed to obsess over who got paid how much in comparison to themselves.

They paid pretty poorly compared to what many in the tech sector can make, but it was low stress and you had a lot of PTO and decent other benefits.
Take plenty of underwear and plenty of socks, say 10 of each. (But see below)

Take very little clothing with you when travelling internationally. You don't want to be seen wearing 'tourist clothes' at your destination which will advertise to every crook in sight that you are a target.

I used to take maybe two sets of clothing, because I knew that I would almost immediately buy clothes from the local foreign supermarket. Those clothes are a souvenir of your trip as reminders for months or years afterward, but more importantly you will be wearing what 80% of the people around you are wearing. Which means you just blend into the scenery with everybody else. Much safer that way.

Money. Never use those stupid travel cards that you pre-load with currency. Invariably, they will end up with small amounts of unusable cash that the banks really enjoy. Do the same thing by pre-loading your ordinary credit cards with money before you leave home. Draw out foreign currency whenever you need it at the local foreign ATM. You should have at least two credit cards. If your cards run low, top up your credit cards with online banking.

Have two phones. Keep one for incoming calls from home, unless you're lucky enough not to need that. Buy a cheap pay-as-you-go SIM for local use in that foreign country.

If you're American, learn to use your 'inside' voice, not your 'outside' voice. Your words should not be audible more than 10 feet away in shops and restaurants. Even better if the people at the table after the one beside you can't hear your words.

Learn 'Good Manners words'. So words for 'hello', 'goodbye', 'please', 'thank you', etc. Learn when they are used. So in Paris you would say to the shop-girl 'Bonjour Madame' when you enter the shop, and 'Merci' when you leave. If you don't do that you will be considered 'Pas bien élevé' (Badly brought up, uncouth).

Medications. Take sufficient with you when you leave. Enough to last the whole trip until you get home again. Some simple items can be bought without prescriptions in foreign countries, but even then you might be permitted to buy only a few tablets at a time. Best to go prepared beforehand.

Above all, don't expect foreign countries to have things or do things like at home. They won't. Instead, enjoy all the little differences. They'll be the things you miss when you return home again.
So what? Neurons can be simulated with computers, from which it follows so can a human-like mind. Unless you propose a non-physical source of consciousness.
Also you can have laboratory cloud subscriptions seperate from production, where devs have full permissions.
Yes.

https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Match-Rates-...
Yes and:

Union wages are known by all their members. And somehow the world hasn't ended.

Transparency seems reasonable to me. A good first step.

For the game theory minded, highest recommendation for the book The Logic of Collective Action. Explains the free rider problem, debunking the prevailing economic folk theories of the day (1965).

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

TLDR: Collective bargaining keeps everyone honest.
My dad had an Uncle Charles (probably born around 1910) who didn't live with the family. He was what was called a "spastic" -- probably cerebral palsy. The family (out in the bush) couldn't look after him so he was committed to an institution.

My dad visited him as a kid. Uncle Charles had never been taught to read or write but he was an excellent chess player and (like his brother, my grandfather) could do complex arithmetic in his head. What a waste of a life for him!

On my grandmother's side, her youngest sister Jean wasn't allowed to marry because her job was to look after the parents when they got old. And when they passed on she had no skills as she hadn't been able to acquire any. What a waste of a life for her!

Most of 20th century Australia was tough.
That kinda presumes that those countries will be understanding. Call me cynical, but it seems more likely that having an Android 14 device will be considered as implicitly wanting to not install the country CA.
but you are suffering because others, or even you yourself can't recognize what you are good at, so how does that invalidate your suffering?
What 'using open source' is some special thing people need to learn ? You install a program and you use a program, 'open source' changes nothing there unless you want to start modifying it
The nation states in the EU agreed to join knowing they'd negotiate with third party countries as a bloc. And they benefit from that. The EU is doing to the UK what it's meant to do, protecting the interests of EU nation states. The UK wants to do 1:1 negotiating because then it's a more even playing field, but that's almost certainly a detriment to each state within the EU.

Occasionally some politician in the EU is going to be swayed to argue in favour of individual negotiation. But, as far as I know, no nation is pushing for a change at the EU level. If they were I'd expect it to be for political rather than economic reasons anyway, i.e. somewhere like Hungary wanting to have a trade relation with Russia against EU policy.
Boggles my mind how ignorant some people are when it comes to oil and gas. The modern world is not possible without them. No solar panels, no electric cars, no cellphones for everyone and their mom and no food for 10Bn people.
If you're going to mandate support for firmware updates on just a subset of products you may as well do it for all of part 15. Companies will find a way to game the system to shirk their responsibility if there are any loopholes based on product classification.

The FCC could also stand to step up seizures of imports that lack proper EMI shielding and other compliance issues. Nobody seems to care to address those violations so why should IoT be singled out? Want to boost electronics production in the America's zone to gain independence from SEA? Stop forcing companies obeying the law to compete against law breakers.
My take is that if I want to run a business on open source, I license as AGPL3 with asterisk.

Asterisk: if you want a permissive license, our salespeople are _right around the corner_, and they will take you to a steak dinner with our professional services lead, and you will have a fantastic white glove onboarding, and it will be absolutely lovely for everyone's bottom line.
Oh, sounds like you're part of a prior generation. It doesn't seem to work like that anymore per my anecdata.
>AND be obligated to release the full source code for the device once they decide to end support.

This is unreasonable. Code is often reused in the next generation of a product. The company may not have the rights to release all of the code.