skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "manage the lines" do you mean ID verification, boarding pass check, etc?

I assume all the biometrics for Clear aren't just to prove your the person who paid for Clear?
Those are Cruise vehicles, though, not Waymo. I have not ridden in a Cruise so I don't know if the experiences are comparable. I am aware of the concerns portrayed in the media which is why I felt offering a first-hand account to be valuable.
> I should have just bought a Mac a decade earlier.

I switched to Macs nearly 20 years ago from Windows and have been mostly very satisfied. But a recent upgrade from Mohave to Monterey has changed my opinion. It deleted all directories at the root level that the system didn't know about, including my backup (which I had to recover from Backblaze B2), deleted emacs, protected all the system directories to the point where, if you build things in weird system directories, forget it - it's impossible.

Maybe all this protection is good and necessary for the average user, but for me, it has turned my regular development laptop into a web client and I had to back off to an older Mac for development. Apple shoves more and more rules and restrictions down its users' throats, along with shiny baubles I don't care about, and I'm kinda over it.
Reality is that whenever US automakers make money, the unions strike and eat up the profits, then when sales slump the companies go bankrupt. Also, the pension and healthcare costs keep expanding and expanding, so that the big 3 American automakers are not really competitive and the Japanese automakers make thousands more per vehicle.

Tesla is winning, because they don't have the legacy automakers cost structure or a labor force that is taking all the money in the good times.
As a student I was similar to you, I learned best by reading a textbook and working through problems. But I also knew other people who learned best by going to lectures. And still others who learned best by having a TA work through problems or questions with them and have a one-on-one conversation with them (as a TA I was often the other side of that). For some visual imagery was extremely helpful. For others (including myself) not as much.

And what works best can even depend on the subject material for a single individual.

In my experience, the way people learn best is far more variable than a fixed set of learning styles.

And the way our education system works is usually a shotgun approach where they same material is taught in multiple ways and hope that one of them works. Which ends up wasting a lot of the students time with the approaches that don't work for them. And of course there will be students where none of the methods quite work for them.
This is why we have trades unions.

I just am astounded, horrified. The answer to abusive management is simply rebalance power. The answer to abusive markets is pay more (Edit: better supply chain ledgers)

Just horrified

re supply chains - the simple way to stop sales of any product is a shelf market like this: "The product X was manufactured by the small child who last month was mutilates by a factory accident. Nice picture. our product has the following verified supply chain. but it's more expensive. your choice of course"
No, I’ve seen paragraphs and even single sentences split across multiple posts.

It’s literally just bad UI.
I find text editing on mobile to be fine, I'd have to try this to see if it's any better.

The article did skip over one important QOL feature that every modern keyboard has: Swiping the spacebar to move the cursor. It solves a lot of the things the author complains about.

The thing that causes me physical pain when writing something on mobile is the web. Browsers/websites misinterpret inputs into text fields all the time. Trying to scroll the text field while it has an active selection? Great, now your keyboard is closed and the selection is gone.
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> we’re still breaking a paragraph into separate posts

Um,... just because OP does that, doesn't mean it's necessary.

Here's an example of a long-form post, with embedded images: https://twitter.com/myles_cooks/status/1689022160780791812
I think they're referring to the aggressive rate-limiting that prevents people from reading tweets/threads without an account.
> As for cursor positioning, holding down the space bar on iOS works pretty well—although it took me a few years to learn about it.

It’s great until you need to move the cursor downward. Being completely undiscoverable doesn’t help.

Maybe we need something like the old thinkpad nub on touchscreen keyboards.
We are Calvinists down here, so bad people were always predestined to be bad and they deserve to be punished. Corporations making money must have be good because they are succeeding, so why would we hurt them?

I will never be punished for being over- or underweight since I am good. The universe would have to be broken for me to be taxed.
> I think nowadays you can't properly set up a new state, period. It’s just impossible.

Scotland had a chance, but the population democratically refused to take it.
Creating a good system for advanced users is not magic.

In practice, what tends to happen (when things go well, that is) is that people follow the same course as Douglas Engelbart’s development of the NLS system, which he called “bootstrapping”, and which we today might call “agile” or possibly “devops”. I.e. the initial users are using the system from day 1, and developers are constantly giving users more options and features to aid the users, and since the developers are either in close cooperation with the users, or the groups simply overlap, the finished system (that is, when it starts to change more slowly) is one in which the system is quite complex, but all users are also advanced users who can use it at high speed to tremendous advantage.

This is the point at which you should go back and add intermediate levels, tutorials, easy modes, child proofing, etc.
Nuclear subs are a lot more exotic, you need to go from 0-60 in a few seconds, so they make fuel plates instead of rods so it really bumps up the neutron population quickly.

There’s no need to adjust criticality that rapidly at a generating station.
I have a multi-display desktop. I accept I’m not going to have full capabilities if I’m not at home. For travel an external display on an iPad is a nonstarter.
Android nowadays only ships with Gmail app. It can do generic IMAP but it's never been clear to me if the process is entirely on-device. I'd rather not keep Google in the loop.

That said there are some generic mail clients for Android. Not many are good, but they're out there. K-9 has recently received some love again.
I worked with a gentleman who worked with Asher. I learned a lot about databases and people's data through those conversations.

I think the solution to data privacy is to require companies to provide the receipts of where they obtained the data. Know my age? I didn't tell you. You bought it? From whom? Follow up with them. No receipt? Fine paid directly to the individual. Make PII data property.
What’s a fair price? Spending well over $20k on dental work over a lifetime is easy for many people. Adjust for inflation and it’s a steal. Cavities often lead to eventual root canals which require a crown which one day will probably require an extraction and a dental post and prosthetic tooth. That is probably around $8k or more for a single tooth at todays rates.
Or why pick any straws unless you have a medical condition that prevents you from just drinking.

We typically order water to drink in restaurants and when it gets to the table, the servers almost always toss some straws on the table. If we say we don’t want them or if we mention when ordering that we don’t want straws, we get looks like we must be some weirdos. Why automatically push straws for everyone?
See https://www.explainthatstuff.com/plasma-arc-recycling.html
Yes, a big part of the problem is that so so many words need editing.

I updated to ios17 excited about the new transformer model, and it still predicts absolute BS words I’ve never used in my life.

I definitely remember typing working better on my iPhone 5 which was 20% smaller so I don’t know what’s gone wrong, but it’s gone really wrong and the fixes also suck.
IANAN, but typically you're talking chronic kidney damage with regards to habitual dehydration, in a healthy person.

+100 on cancer support via nutrition and hydration though. Folks don't realize how many cancer outcomes are exacerbated by "I just won't get my nutrients checked and continue with my normal diet." Your body is fundamentally different, especially on chemo, and needs different support.
The bottlenecks holding back the energy transition
Proton literally never worked without JavaScript, so I'm not sure why you're getting on your high horse here...
What about all the other harmful activities? Recent studies about alcohol usage shows that even small amounts can be much more harmful than previous estimates. In addition to the health issues, we also need to consider all the accidents and violence that is connected to drunkeness.
When you live in poverty and have no prospects for the future. Some mass produced cake from the supermarket might be the only thing keeping you together. As soon as the work of the laptop class is automated by next generation agentic LLM's, you will probably understand.
The company that made the bacteria gets less money and any ill-effects will need active management going forward.

The key is whether the unknown active management of this bacteria is preferable to the immense expense and problems of tooth decay.
You can engineer something yourself using a kit like the one they give to iGEM participants. If the business model relies on exorbitant pricing, then there's something off somewhere.
I hate to break it to you but Lou Reed is dead and has been for 10 years.
The tomato was thought to be poisonous in late-1700s Europe (2013)
The question I always have with this type of stuff is: why is it not _already_ huge. Cavities were a big thing already in 1985. If this was a miracle cure in 1985 then I do not believe that this study would have ended in 'ok that was fun, back to normal life'. This has huge commercial potential if true, so the apparently implications is that there is something blocking that commercial application.

Was it FDA? Was it side effectives? Is it impossible to scale this up? What is it that made this "miracle cure" just stop.
I don’t understand why a tablet requires lugging a briefcase around? Just carry it raw between meetings and put it down if you need two hands for something. If you already carry papers around, get a folding keyboard case. Maybe we’re just thinking of different working environments and I’m imagining an office whereas you’re imagining a job site or something.

The actual reason that a tablet isn’t the answer is that the Google docs app for iPads is incredibly bad (I’ve had one second per letter max typing speeds with it, though thankfully it buffered my key presses). And then the solution kinda sucks because you would want a light laptop (eg MacBook Air or windows equivalent) but closing the lid will add too large a delay so you’ll need to carry it around half-open, which isn’t great but also isn’t lugging around a briefcase.
FWIW, I'm not a professional, but I've worn a full-face respirator while spending entire days working in extremely hot crawlspaces, demo'ing and removing heavy antique cast iron drain pipe, running a wet saw for large-format tile, etc.

I'm just one datapoint, but my assumption would be that if it's truly too much of a burden, their employer should be buying better respirators and/or filters.
Interestingly there were no major (or minor) media articles about this at all (or at least what I usually follow). Which goes to say that it was either a cover-up or parts of Croatia don't exist outside of major cities. From my experience its more of the latter as Croatia's public media houses are notoriously terrible and they don't bother reporting on something unless you literally write an article for them.
It does remove a lot of entropy. The number of distinct bridge deals is 5 x 10^28 (source https://jlmartin.ku.edu/~jlmartin/bridge/basics.pdf ). log2 of that is under 96 bits, which does seem small by today's standards of cryptography.
>Often, the people who are not cynical or angry are avoiding the real problems. Or they don't care, are just hanging around collecting a paycheck, etc.

I vehemently disagree with every thought presented in this comment.

These sentiments seem to come from a very jaded space. To think that the only people who are not cynical / angry are those that are avoiding the "real problems" (in what/ whose definition?).

In my experience, the happiest people are those who have acknowledged these problems. If they have the opportunity (and power) to act on resolutions they do so and if not, they came to peace with that reality. It certainly is possible to process the same things as you and engage with these so called real problems without turning into a cynic.

Perhaps these "happy bullshitters" are more adept at acknowledging these problems and their ability to act on it.
Yep and 16 bits per parameter means 360 GiB, then because you typically first allocate an empty model then separately load the weights, 720 GiB.
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Longevity biotech came from a similar milieu and has been doing very well: https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2023-07-17/t...

(along with AI companies of course)
The article doesn't mention two great features on iOS:
- Move cursor by tap-and-hold on soace bar
- tap-tap for word selection and tap-tap-tap for sentence selection.

I use these two constantly
Yeah, if it's in "patent hell and FDA hell" there should be applications and evidence of that online, right?
It's easy enough to test this without investor money, you just need a simple kit and some dentures (not literally, I meant teeth essentially). The design of the experimental protocol is key.
I'm not so sure about that, you don't seem to be aware of the fact that there is an incredibly long list of examples demonstrating that governments and corporations will regularly violate the law if they have the technical means to do so. The only way to prevent abuse from these bad actors is to make such abuse either technically impossible, or immediately detrimental to their own interests (keep in mind that these are amoral actors that are historically never held to account). So what is more likely to succeed: an upstart technology, or a fundamental rework of the incentives undergirding all social constructs? You really should be suspicious of anyone proposing such performative busywork with no hope of success, because they are worse than defeatists - they are actively protecting the status quo. If you are dissatisfied with the present situation, by all means - write your congressman... but if that is the extent of your corrective action, because you've deluded yourself into thinking "I'm really helping with this political act!", then you and everyone else are actually worse off for it.
It’s somewhere on a beach. When the tide goes out, it creates those ripples in the sand.

Then you need a cool rock formation and some mountains.
https://archive.ph/35BV3
I have been using this sine iphone 6/3d touch era and it is ok, but has gotten worse.

1. The space bar is a much smaller target than the original whole keyboard and I often find myself needing multiple press drags.

2. Something changed recently and it is harder to hit your placement target in text especially in single line inputs. When this happens your cursor ends up back where it was or at the start of the line. It is particularly difficult to edit or select a url in the safari menu bar.

Note: I used the space bar cursor placement at least 5 times writing this. It would have been much more difficult without.
Is a morning cigarette skipping breakfast?
Alcohol is usually taxed. Just like tobacco. Although sugar and other harmful substances should join the former.
"it is what it is" plus having a hungry family to feed?
> The latest change is that they now insist printer manufacturers use UWP printer apps rather than drivers to add custom functionality to their printers; these apps are usually written in languages like C#

it would be nice, however .NET Native is deprecated, Native AOT doesn't do UWP, and WinDev is pretty bullish in C++.
Don't want to get too conspiratorial, but dentists make their money on cavities, not cleanings.
OK, do I understand correctly you are offering 10000 USD for someone who recreates this service (=a website that generates an Excel formula based on its description in English) in a week?

Frankly, and I don't want to downplay anybody's work, but this seems doable. The core engine based on API calls to OpenAI is probably a few hours. The remaining time is for user authentication, subscriptions, payments, graphics and so on.

I know this because I'm using OpenAI API for personal automation projects and in spite of its quirks it's relatively simple especially if you don't need continuity and each task is independent.
Reminds me of those tedious recipe blogs that require so much scrolling, but even worse since there's no easy print on X.
I don't presume to know this case. I was replying to what seemed like a characterization of the medical testimony in this case as belonging to the latter group, when in fact it has been shown over time to be as invalid as the former.

There ceased to be a distinction between the two groups in your original comment when the weight of evidence started to clearly tip away from prosecutions like these.
This is exactly the approach I took in my own cross-platform "standard" library. It works.

In particular, paths must be a different type than strings.

As a bonus: it becomes easier to implement niceties like path concatenation and realpath.
Better question: do any increased risks from this outweigh the risks incurred from poorer dental health and procedures to address these? (particularly at high age)?
Perhaps Xubuntu [0] or Lubuntu [1] would be better go-to lightweight distros.

These days with the web having taken over much of what people use desktop computers for, I think Xubuntu + Firefox should go a long way even for a non-technical user. Admittedly I have little experience helping non-technical people use desktop Linux.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xubuntu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu
So wait, will this let me micro-dose alcohol at the same time?
The way cursor movement by touch was implemented on BB10 Wwas also the best I've ever used on mobile. Some kind of adaptive zoom and tap to move by one position.
Ditto it’s been driving me crazy. Why is everyone talking about Lou as though he’s still alive???
So a patent that predates their work could, at most, frustrate them for 20 years, or two decades. I have no idea who these guys are or what patents they're referring to, but the use of the word "decades" here is not obviously deceptive.
Off topic, but I love the concept of knowledge distillation.
The average time from scientific discovery to commercial success in biotech is measured in decades. Barry Werth's book The Antidote goes into why it's so slow and complicated: https://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Inside-World-New-Pharma/dp/1...
Oral bacteria are a complex system of delicate balance. There are second-order effects that can arise which undermine the benefits of the first-order effects.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324621
Technically yes, but there are caveats to this. Drug companies regularly create new variants with no distinguishing characteristics but which reset the patent clock, using litigation, trademarks, secrets, and other tactics to prevent the original variants being used.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/17/appeals-court-halts-...

Yes, this article is from 2016. Texas also has a strong law that allows throwing out "junk science". This case didn't make it through appeals because the forensic criteria that is suspect was such a small part of the evidence.
Canada doesn't let anyone in? Over a fifth of their population was born outside of Canada.

Edit: Actually over a quarter.
>What I find interesting when comparing the US the Canada on topics like these is that in Canada, there is self-interest in demanding workers be protected. Like beyond the fact that it's a good thing you do.

Is there any evidence of this? That the Canadian Gov cares more about workers than the US Gov?

>Because we have a public health care system, funded by taxes, having a large number of young men out of the work force (not paying taxes) and using the health care system effectively means my taxes, everyone's taxes, are higher.

What evidence do you have that this is the case?

>In America, there's only the "because it's the right thing to do" reason, which is never enough for anyone to actually do anything.

Is this your opinion or is this the reality. I don't know if you have ever walked by a construction site in Toronto to see guys cutting cement or stone. None of them have masks. Sometimes they will have a wet saw when cutting cement on the street but that is to reduce dust for traffic and pedestrians and not so much for their health. The Canadian Postal Union fought the Federal Gov for years to provide an environment where paper dust was considered a health hazard and workers need to be protected. Many postal workers suffered from COPD because paper dust was too fine for the Lungs to filter. What about farmers and dust? I'm sure they suffer just as much as American farmers.

I've come to realize Canadians suffer from an inferiority complex and have to constantly try and make comparisons to make themselves feel better, it's a strange phenomena.

- Expat....
If the bacteria is in the public domain, is there a way we could just order some and try it out ourselves? I'd be interested in being a test subject. They've got decades of evidence showing it had no side effects so it's not even a risky thing.
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Gah! Thanks, corrected above.

Thanks for the additional detail, I'd wondered about the bpp and individual colour-sensing elements.

Point remains that RAW images are large.
Let's say your laptop's broken and you have important data in there.

How would you recover it if you don't have the expertise?

I also regular give my apartment's keys to maintence workers or landlord.

If something goes missing I'd know who took it

From one angle, I get where you're coming from. In the US people are really defensive for their homes.

Where I live if I behave a bit closed off they'll think I'm growing drugs at home or something sinister like that. So it's a great privilege if you can be super paranoid about things like that.
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