skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The research out there found no meaningful difference between both styles

I don't know which research you're thinking about, but if it's the one I've seen, it was empirical analysis and it's worthless because it's subject to survivor bias: whatever the tool you're using to make a program, it's going to be polished just as much as needed for it to fit its market, or it will die, simple as that.

If one paradigm lead to much more bugs per written line of code, but you're using it anyway for mission critical stuff, then you'll fix those bugs or fail. On the other hand, if one other paradigm leads to very little bugs compared to others, but you're using it somewhere where reliability doesn't matter, then the few bugs that are there from the beginning will stay there.

We can even call that the iron rule of bugs: No matter what tools you use, your code will contain roughly as many bugs as your business can tolerate.

The real question is how much effort does it take to achieve the same level, but it's obviously harder to study.
The past webinar was really good by you guys, hope this one will also be amazing.
Evidently itself is an open-source ML monitoring tool with 3m+ downloads so it's fairly popular https://github.com/evidentlyai/evidently. The course will show it but also other OSS tools like Mlflow and Grafana.

Disclaimer: I am one of the people working on Evidently.
Average nurse salary in the US: $82,750

Average nurse salary in California (where ~10% of US population lives): $124,000

Average nurse salary in Spain: €29,277

My sources are probably junk, but even with insurance companies out of the picture what is the math that would make the US healthcare cheaper?

This is without tackling the earning rates for specialty MDs, like vascular surgeons, who are not that numerous to begin with.
>The screen is crisp and clear

Most reviews I see do not like the displays because they are not clear due to their not being a back light or even a front light. The screen holds the device back needlessly.
it does not need ground friction and what you're proposing could absolutely work if water could be sourced in sufficient quantities.

in that region, maybe they get enough snow that they don't need to truck in water....
One of my best friends when she transitioned literally did change her name to Cassandra because of this
OMG soft field technique in an Airbus! I'm sure there is no published flap setting for that. I wonder if the company would even hint at a best guess. I suppose similar to short field which probably is in the book.

I want video... from the cockpit!
5 times, (first was a late app) have done $200K in revenue since march 2022. I am older (35) and a technical founder, so this time I really focused on just the business mechanics and Ive been REALLY slow in building the product side of it (we're doing it pretty much manually right now) never heard back. I feel like its almost a ritual to just apply now and show the progress (which has been pretty fun - the first time I applied we made our first $5K and it was just me and my first employee) - now we're like 11 people and have done 200K.

I do want to get in, dont get me wrong, it would accelerate the idea like crazy and I genuinely think I am the perfect founder for what YC was built for, but at the same time its kind of funny that Im OK with not getting in
It is a good thing that we have an economy where there are jobs for people to do things that 'don't need to be done'. This is the only way that a highly specialized capitalist society can provide income and purpose for everyone, and drive further innovation. People need income and jobs, even as we add more automation. As long as our society produces enough basic needs to actually support people, it is better that people are doing 'unnecessary' jobs rather than being unemployed as the result of automation.

Everyone is worried that automation is going to steal people's jobs, and jobs won't exist anymore, but that has already been happening in full swing for 100+ years. 'Useless' jobs are and will continue to be the solution to that problem.

(And I am using 'useless' rather tongue-in-cheek. The jobs do have real functional value, even if they're in higher parts of Maslow's hierarchy)
It is. NHS is more of a de facto state religion than it is a decent healthcare system.
This is not a D vs R / lib vs con issue. It is not a progressive vs centrist Democrat issue either. It's a healthcare industrial complex issue. The US spends 16.6% of GDP on healthcare. The OECD average is 9.7%. (https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SHA). That 6.9% difference is $1.5 trillion! That's 2x defense spending!

That 6.9% of GP is supporting millions of jobs, and to remove an inefficiency like that would put them all out of work. It is not possible to do that in a democracy.
Because it is still massive. The 6" Nexus 6 is 3.3in wide whereas the 6.7" Pixel 8 Pro is only 3" wide. Even omitting the bezels, the Nexus 6 has a screen width of 2.94" vs. the 8 Pro's 2.75"
Extraordinary claims need some evidence to back them up.

Mine has only gotten faster after the patch? Any evidence to backup your claim?

https://imgur.com/a/SR1hoXo
What happens if you email support@airtable.com?
Does that cover e.g. flash degradation over time from just normal write cycles?
There are serious people predicting the collapse of global civilization by 2050. I think that might be about right. One of the things we should have learned from the consequences of the COVID pandemic measures is that global supply chains are extremely fragile, and once things start breaking down, getting them restarted again takes a huge amount of effort.

Eventually, if we don't do anything, we'll reach a point where the amount we're spending on mitigation measures becomes nearly equal to the the damage caused from the consequences we're supposed to be mitigating. At that point, it all becomes pretty pointless.
> Their total profits last year were $2.8B and their membership income was $1.5B.

According to their 2022 annual report, their membership revenue for their reporting year (the 52 week period ending August 28, 2022) was $4.2B, and their net income for the same period was $5.9B, so neither your numbers nor the relationship between them seems to be correct, unless Costco committed massive securities fraud.

https://investor.costco.com/financials/annual-reports-and-pr...
There's almost always year over year changes on the same chassis.
Excited to attend the webinar! This is a great learning opportunity for data scientists and software developers.
Sounds Intreseting. Would love to join and get to know more about the graph database
Geez I'm already suspending disbelief when I get on a plane.. there's no way I'd ever fly again if this information were available.
With a completely separate architecture that also loads the root zones in a completely different way?
The vast majority of people who have money didnt inherit it. The vast majority worked for it.

You dont have it because you didnt earn it. Instead you're on the internet demanding like a child that you dont need to work for anything. Thats the difference between people with money and yourself.
Frankly I'm surprised that there even seems to be a vogue/fashion on this.

I learned programming with types (C++). Was then beaten over the head that types didn't really matter/yolo. And now we're back here again.

It could have always been this way. And for some, I'd imagine the type party never took a break.
dang this redirects to nest homepage for me in nz - perhaps direct product link would work better https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_8_pro
Right, among other things and not “on the spot”. And I would argue that being unable to communicate about your experience is, to an interviewer, pretty similar to lying as they’re just a candidate making unverifiable claims.

Many people lie about their experience. Usually it’s glaringly obvious.
That's totally a fair point, but at least phones were actually adding new features year to year a decade ago. It's fair to have new stuff releasing yearly when you're in the "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" phase.
My 15 year old son has been having a blast with the Flipper Zero
Health _insurance_ would ideally become a market that simply ceases to exist. It's a uniquely pathological case of market failure.

I've got no love for drug company lobbyists, but drug companies do actually manufacture real things.

Health insurance companies are different.

Once it becomes a government benefit, there are no more lobbyists. There is no market actor to lobby on behalf of, because the market ceases to exist.
They'd have to expand the header in a backwards-incompatible way, yes. IPv6's issues don't all stem from that. Changing all the existing addresses, adding new special kinds of addrs, trying to ditch NAT, and maybe even changing the human-readable format of addrs created most of this resistance. Asking someone to go v6 is asking for a whole network redesign, with an end result that isn't exactly simpler.

Swap in v4.1-compatible stuff and you'd be done. Sending to short address uses v4, sending to long uses v4.1.
> Green bubbles can be worth a few hundred dollars.

I'm sorry, but what? To whom? I have an incredibly hard time believing it's actually something which makes a concrete return on investment, but maybe I'm wrong and the world is even dumber than I thought.
Microsoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days
Some of that is inflation (and it's claimed the iPhone 15 Pro at $999 is the best deal since the original adjusting for inflation). I also think that in order to continue shipping something new each year back in 2010 all you needed were some same-price-new-generation silicon/battery/screen improvements. These days the tech has plateaued a bit and we've seen a number of years where the improvements come from adding another camera, then another camera. More and more sensors. Some stupid and more expensive features like under-screen fingerprint readers. A phone could cost way less, but the table stakes are now much higher so manufacturers can get away with phones costing nearly a grand (and sometimes much more).
Sometimes I read docs. Other times autocomplete (and hover-over docs) gives me exactly what I need right when and where I'm actually writing code.

Static typing makes it easier for my computer to get me the relevant docs.
That seems still high to me.

I have a Xiaomi 10 or something I bought in 2020 I paid 279$ for, almost 4 years later it comes at 0.18 and I see like 0 reasons to upgrade.

I admit I'm not the most social (media) person out there, I'm not into connecting my phone into every other device on this planet (as Apple people consistently remind how easily they interoperate their devices), but it does everything great: camera, battery, messaging, games.

To me to see people thinking it's normal to spend so much money for a phone is borderline crazy.
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They could possibly get important ongoing support from institutions like the EFF and Berkman.

But I think that's less likely if they're gleefully bragging about civil and criminal liabilities.

And also chilling future data-sharing willingness for other orgs (because someone is coming along and ignoring assurances).
We already are performing our own unintentional form of geo-engineering with our relentless pumping of CO2 into the air. That said, not sure blocking the sun is our best plan right now for avoiding the worst of climate change. Instead of trying to have our cake and eat it too, we need to accelerate our focus on reducing carbon output, decarbonize electricity and transportation, and invest in massive amounts of energy production to the point where energy is so cheap we can use it to pull carbon from the air.
Ahh... Classic!

https://www.theonion.com/new-device-desirable-old-device-und...
IDK, I've never had a RPi corrupt an SD card to my knowledge. Also, there are now SD cards optimized for the load patterns similar to that of an OS.

There's unfortunately slightly different issue here: if the phone vendor puts the OS on an user-replaceable SD card, then the UX quality and reliability of the device depends on the SD card vendor, which is a bad position to be in, given how much fraud is happening in this space.
While you shouldn't trust everything, trust is certainly still necessary since few people have the experience or resources to do independent scientific studies.
I don't know why people get paranoid about this, in the US and most Western countries payment processing has minimum security requirements and you have blanket protection from fraud by credit card companies anyway. All of this means in practice consumers are very safe putting credit card details on websites. The websites that don't have the skill to meet minimum security requirements find a payment processor, so a hacker wouldn't get it from website, they'd have to get it from a processor like Stripe or Paypal.
I never said we should not credit people. In fact nowhere in the thread have I expressed a single should or ought style opinion on anything.

Rather I'm pointing out that this is some weird "back in my day things used to be X" where we're still in that day and I can clearly see with my own two eyes that things aren't X. Whatever other ills can be laid at llm code generations feet, icons not getting credited isn't one of them.
It doesn't have to be actively malevolent. It's enough for it to be sufficiently powerful and to have goals that aren't properly aligned with ours. See https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/squiggle-maximizer-formerly-pa...
With cloud backup... this isn't as defensible as it used to be.

Today, Apple/Google could design a phone with (a) a user-replacable battery & (b) no flash, only RAM + removable SD storage + long-life EEPROM.

Boot loader, SD validator, and minimal image retrieval goes in EEPROM. Storage contents continually backed up, encrypted, to cloud with delta updates. Customer prompted to replace SD card and device reimagined whenever there's an issue.

Apple/Google sell cloud storage subscriptions.

Aka the cockroach phone.

That they aren't even interested in that model is because they're in a Faustian bargain with cellular carriers to drive device renewals and post-paid plans.

And integrated batteries and flash memory happen to be a convenient "Oh well, we can't possibly design it any other way" excuse.
Hi! I'm a recent graduate from CMU School of Computer Science and I'm really excited about the SWE roles at Datadog. I have an extensive programming background, prior data science and machine learning engineer internships, and various personal projects (most recently I developed a javascript-based chrome extension with a Python backend that levargaes LLMs for its autofill feature). I would love chat and learn more about the company and culture if you have some free time or can refer me to other engineers who can share their experiences. Thanks!
That sounds infuriating. My iPhone SE (2022), bought second-hand for $250, has a fantastic fingerprint reader; indeed, when I have headphones in and Siri asks me to unlock my device to do something, I slip my hand into my pocket and find the sensor with my thumb.
> I reject the idea that pg/DHH should be treated with any authority here, and I reject the idea that I need to prove my authority to you.

> That said, yes, of course my post is arrogant and dismissive. I am outright saying I won't engage in a conversation. I'm comfortable with that.

This is an extremely toxic attitude. I wouldn't be interested in working with you in any professional capacity, on an open-source project, or having you as a friend, and as a matter of fact if someone expressed this attitude at work I would complain to HR.
As I originally mentioned, I understand what you are talking about, but I just don't agree it's a real distinction. I believe people who claim to have an inner monologue and people who claim not to are having more or less the same types of internal experiences, they just describe them differently. As the Wikipedia article you linked to discusses, this sort of thing is difficult or impossible to study because it is a subjective experience within your mind. Since most of the research angles involve self-reported studies, it's highly likely that these differences are illusions created by trying to explain mental experiences with language that cannot capture it.

From the tweet I linked earlier:

> This is just an issue of these things being extremely hard to explain using language, and people using words in subtly different ways.
I've heard this narrative over and over again yet every time I look at it the NHS budget has been consistently increasing year over year for a long time.
Avoiding repairs, even if some of them might be expensive, is still insanely cheaper than leasing a new car every 3 days.

People lease for many factors, not just to avoid tear and maintenance.
I think you mean "involves non-static typing"? If so, Python. You can't (for example) do something like '1 + "2"', because those types aren't compatible. It's dynamically, but strongly, typed.
What is the point of being one of the largest technology companies in the world if you can't even provide basic global coverage to your websites and products?!
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Webassembly is far more constrained in the browser than Javascript. Exploits are flaws in the implementation that can be fixed, but what is being asked for is an environment that has fewer privileges by design.
https://archive.is/GXQxl
That's... not a magsafe charger? That's a USB-C NFC charger. By all means show it's shit in every possible way but let's not grace them by acknowledging it has anything to do with magsafe. That's a Applified Qi charger.
To what extent do the randomly-named Chinese Amazon storefronts manage to circumvent Amazon's price-competition algo? If you make a storefront named qwduburtf on Amazon and a storefront named civendntip on eBay, I can't imagine Amazon would be able to match up your product listings between the two sites.
The Baltic countries are northern Europe, not eastern.
Interesting question: Can a jet take off from a (very) low friction runway? Seems similar to the classical problem of whether a take-off from a conveyor belt is possible :)
im all about keeping my phone 5+ years, but I think that “significant” progress is likely only realized in small incremental amounts..
> the mantra of "if it compiles it works"

Very few people have this mantra, much less without qualification. That's more of a ML or Haskell kind of point of view, and even then it's known to not be a guarantee. A type Int -> Int -> Int isn't going to enforce that you implement multiplication correctly, instead of add or just 0.

"I refactored, fixed type errors, and it just worked!" is a thing I see a lot, but from people who just experienced it, because it happens a lot. It's a good thing.
It isn't. The users are just conditioned to shut up. Technology universally sucks, but it's magic, and it's all a supplier-driven market with high natural barriers to entry - meaning vendors don't give a flying fuck about what the users think, the users are to buy what they're given and be happy about it - so everyone just accepts it's how it's supposed to be, and adjusts their lives to work around tech being shit.
10/10 satire. No notes.
I think you are right. I think McCarthy straight up quit. As much as it sounds plausible for a handful of moderate Dems approving a moderate Repub, it won't happen. Not least of which because at least 10 Repubs won't support a moderate Repub. They'd need at least 20 Dems to cross the aisle for somebody truly trustworthy, respected and commanding and that person just doesn't exist. The only names besides McCarthy that have been floated are all far to the right of McCarthy who had already signed off of horribly objectionable policies (shutdown and impeachment). There's just nobody who can fit the bill in the GOP. After Hakeem Jeffries, the next most likely candidate would be like bringing Newt Gingrich in off the street.
Even in those systems if you have more money you can get better and faster care. Something like 60% of Canadians have private insurance. I live near the border and several of my friends have visited the US for to bypass lines.
I think the alternative was somewhat obvious: Meetup's original focus was always on Discovery. "If you like this community, you might like these others." If a group dies, because yes of course they will that is natural, recommend new ones, bring the members of the dead community back into the Discovery loops. That's opt-in and should, in theory, have put Meetup's best foot forward that their main tools/products worked as designed.

There certainly is some value in "this community has been going strong for X years" metrics in that Discovery loop for entirely new people looking for a "sure thing", but that's a trap for so many reasons: it led to Meetup doing what they did to destroy communities I followed; it led to stagnation in people afraid to create new communities simply because Meetup's Discovery engine was down ranking new stuff; arguably part of their multiple pricing change fiascos was that they weren't growing new communities as fast as old ones. There should have been other tools at Meetup's disposal to enhance their Discovery engine for new communities and for new forms of old communities rather than rely so heavily on old communities it "couldn't" let die.
If you are interested in retro game consoles, search for Miyoo Mini Plus or Anbernic. These consoles cost only £50 - £90 and allow lot more customizations and roms etc. Playdate on the other hand is an expensive device. I learned about these consoles very recently and waiting for Miyoo to arrive.
What are the best approaches for turning an image into a plottable vector graphic?
>Yahoo will own a stake in the new company and will be one of Vespa’s biggest customers for a long time to come.

what's usually going on in scenarios like this is either: the subsidiary is in growth mode and needs access to public capital markets to raise large amounts for building infrastructure (and sharing the expenses with others) to compete, or what has been built is going into profitability mode and the profits are better protected/hoarded in a private company where disclosure requirements are not onerous. If this move represents the former, expect the latter in a few years, is why yahoo would maintain a large stake.

(I'm just pointing this out because there are frequently underlying reasons that have nothing to do with the type of stuff that's in the press release, "successful venture, income/exit event" etc.)
Ask HN: How much of a threat is device fingerprint spoofing?
I am looking into various trusted browser flows and I wasn’t sure how high the risk is of device fingerprint spoofing. I feel like the most secure solution would have the server generate a key+ salt and sign it in addition to the fingerprint . I feel like a lot of implementations may rely solely on the fingerprint , however .

What is the best practice here ? How much of a risk is it to rely solely on the device fingerprint ?
Error Processing the Word Document: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'children')
The audio is so good!
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Meanwhile, I'm wondering whether it will be economically feasible to have another dog in ~4-8 years, after my current dog has died.
> "we are like a banana republic that has to import its bananas from Finland"

Wasn't there some trade policy wierdness back in the 90s that made Finland (on paper) one of the world's top banana exporters or something? A short search didn't come up with anything, so I can't tell if I only imagined that back then.