skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe cartel is a strong word, but there are many states in the US where, in order to operate a medical facility or provide a service, you must get permission from all of the existing facilities in the locality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

This extends to even purchasing medical equipment.
The reason everyone believed it was Israel is because they do it all the time. Today they bombed a church.

I find it funny (as long as you ignore that these events involve dead people) that Silver here is up in arms for an alleged misattribution when it happens otherwise every day and nobody is bothered.

A novel thought: maybe stop bombing civilians and the chance of you unjustly being accused of bombing civilians goes dramatically down.
Thanks, this really useful and will help our team. We struggle understanding SDKs
> A numbering scheme doesn’t really make it suck any less.

Yes it does, because that "numbering scheme" tells my users when and if breaking changes happen.

It also allows them to avoid them. Don't want to keep up with the dependency? Make the version a hard requirement. Done.
The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue
You can probably find any data in pi, not just your birthday:

πfs – A data-free filesystem (github.com/philipl)

155 points by zapdrive 4 months ago | 108 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36357466
This mitm may be as a part of Genesis Market takedown, but it's just out of the blue.

https://therecord.media/genesis-market-takedown-cybercrime
FWIW those DV TPO are handed out like candy and not evidence of anything. David Letterman had one for bit because a lady (he didn't know, in a different state) accused him of sending her secret abusive messages through his TV program. It's kind of insane to depend on that for an opinion let alone stuff like constitutional rights.
Jimmy Kimmel is extremely funny; Seth Meyers is too nice to be super funny; Colbert is not very funny now, and a little too self-involved -- I think he will eventually end up on the wrong side of some future controversy.
Bridging the Tech Gap in the release notes
In the ever-evolving world of software development, one common problem has persisted for years – the communication gap. The jargon-rich release notes and complex updates crafted by my technical team often left me, as a solo creator, in the dark. How could I bridge this chasm of understanding and foster collaboration across the aisle?

For years, my software development efforts had operated in their own universe. My release notes were meticulous, complex, and meant exclusively for the eyes of those who spoke the language of code. However, this approach unintentionally erected a wall between my technical work and the rest of the organization. Product managers were baffled, marketers were frustrated, and my customer support team was left with more questions than answers.

It was during one of these cross-functional meetings, marked by confusion and miscommunication, that I stumbled upon a solution – Changelogit. This unassuming tool promised to harness the power of my Git repositories' "CHANGELOG.md" file. With a few configurations, it could transform the technical updates into content that spoke the language of both the tech-savvy and the less tech-inclined.

What Changelogit brought to my organization was more than just user-friendly release notes; it was a bridge of understanding. The technical details were no longer confined to a single department but were now accessible and comprehensible to everyone. Product managers had a window into the coding world, marketers could craft messages that resonated, and my customer support team could provide assistance without needing a technical dictionary.

One of the most remarkable features of Changelogit was its ability to customize how I shared these notes. It allowed me to broadcast my updates through the channels most relevant to my various audiences – Discord, Slack, email, and more.

It's important to understand that Changelogit didn't disrupt my workflow; it improved it. It wasn't a revolution; it was a harmonization. The divide between the technical and non-technical sides of my solo project began to fade, and my communication barriers started to crumble.

Changelogit has become the solution I never knew I needed. It bridges the communication gap between my work and my teams, making sure that everyone involved can access and understand the latest updates. My deployment discussions are now clearer, more productive, and collaborative.

But I'm curious to hear from you. Have you encountered similar challenges in your solo projects? How have you tackled the communication gap between technical and non-technical aspects of your work? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments. I believe that by sharing our stories, we can all move toward better, more effective communication in the world of technology.
Starship Troopers, Forever War, Ender’s Game, why is it always bugs?
As best as I can tell, the main reason for that was internal USA politics.

Biden will run for re-election and needs to accrue political capital.

The USA came up with a lame excuse to veto the Brazilian resolution in the Security Council. At the same time, Biden was there "trying to convince" Netanyahu and al-Sisi to allow humanitarian aid through the Rafah crossing into Gaza.

In the end, even though the agreement Biden got was a lot weaker than what the resolution was trying to achieve, it gets spun as a diplomatic victory for Biden.

This is all very simplistically explained, of course. Reality is more nuanced than that and I could be wholly wrong, but this is more or less my understanding of the situation.

---

Edit to add: here [0] is Alonso Gurmendi [1][2] explaining to an opposition Brazilian senator why Brazil was right not to cave to the USA's veto excuse. Along the way he shows how even the previous administration, of which he (the senator) was part, also stood by the same principles.

[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1714781170100003061.html

[1] https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/our-people/alonso-gurmendi/

[2] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alonso-gurmendi-dunkelberg
I'd take it more seriously if the website wasn't in color and animated
I have also switched to rtx, and even use it in the Next LS build pipeline as an easy way to install Elixir & OTP.

https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls/blob/main/.cirrus.ym...
I've always assumed that we (the west) do.

Stuxnet, e.g.?
Exactly. What does this person think the Wikipedia articles are based upon? There's supposed to be a real source!
If you think the warrant wasn't requested well, you kind of have a point. If the police simply had the "you know, I bet the arsonist would have used google maps to get directions to the place they burned down," that seems legit to ask for the information from Google. They would have already scanned phone records, and that seems... fine?

I could see arguments that they need to scope down the time of request for that warrant, as well. But flat out disallowing it feels just as wrong as opening it up for no process.
Not sure how 256x256 is going to make potential customers happy.
Yeah but that serotonin crash afterwards was bleak. At this point in my life I can do E about once a year. Any more than that and I get really depressed afterwards.

Although I do know people who are clinically depressed, and the hangover/crash doesn't bother them as much, because it's their normal state anyway.
> No, that wouldn't be cool at all.

It also already exists, but in a better form. If you find something is interesting, write about it. Then to connect with others you can find others who have written or researched it and then write them a letter/email/message. They will likely not be an island and you can get connected to a group of people who are genuinely interested in a subject without the degenerative downsides of a social media platform.
Since this is just for books , why does it need to be "VR"?

Couldn't you use a single e-ink screen and project/reflect the results onto areas in front on both eyes?

I'm not sure this will work out , but it is nice you tried.
Does this robustly support altering tables? What happens if a column is deleted - does it delete historical data, or mark the history column as nullable? As the OP article notes/hints, there are all sorts of performance and regulatory considerations around this.

Separately though, it's great to see that there's still people trying to solve this problem at the extension level for Postgres. I was sad to discover that Postgres for a very long time had an official extension for time travel - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/contrib-spi.html#id-1.11.... - only to realize that it had been removed in https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit... - with a note that "it's easy to implement this separately" but no real hints that anyone was taking up the mantle.

As a simpler alternative, if you're only modifying data via Django and can tolerate some unreliability, https://django-simple-history.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ can get you much of the way there without a need for extensions. We've built on top of it with some domain-specific modifications to visualize and filter diffs, giving us at least a best-efforts audit-esque log system.
What I really appreciate about X is that stories too crazy to be true (like that one about protestors occupying that House office building) is that when someone posts a sensationalized but FAKE version of the headline (“Congress Invaded Again! Just like Jan 6!”) it often comes with a Community Note attached (“This was the Cannon Office Building, not the Capitol”). The Community Notes feature set allows users to attach important context to stories and keeps things from spiraling too far into one narrative or another at the expense of the truth when a tweet starts to go viral.
That’s definitely a missing aspect of the TVtropes dataset - what is the influence timeline of the trope? Which instances are referencing other instances? When did it transition into cliche? When was its tropiness punctured to make it into something that could be parodied or lampshaded?

While I’d agree post-Die-Hard vent spelunking is likely to nod to the Die-Hardness of the situation, the trope had a long life before Nakatomi.
Site Reliability Engineer is a newer title than DevOps.
Keep in mind that these are the same conveyor belts which somehow work even before you built your first electric power plant. If they're magic enough to transport items without any power source, they can be magic enough to transport items in space.

> [...] so you could just have launchers and catchers that just hurl material along.

Take a look at this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RenaiTransportation
Many ideas started out as "it's just for me and my problems..." but end up helping a lot of others. What you're working on is actually humanitarian on many levels. Please continue!

Once ready reach out to community of psychologists and doctors to help get your product in the hands of their patients!
The ugliest edit war I've seen involved a less-known adult film star.

Her legal name had appeared in some public court filings, and some user had added it to her Wikipedia page with the reference.

Someone else (purportedly one of her co-stars) had requested removal.

A Wikipedia editor then got involved, and refused to budge from the position the original actress was notable enough to merit inclusion of her legal name.

Cue months of back-and-forth deletions and reversions.

Finally, I think a year later, someone quietly edited the legal name out and it stuck.

Sometimes people with a little power are the greatest assholes. Probably because they sought the little power.
Imagine a compression that is just a counter aka pointer + size, pointing to pi. If you want to trade computation, you could even add recursive hop pointering. As in the place this points is pointer to the next location with size.
I agree with you it’s not a dichotomy of one or the other happening per se, rather the choice is the risk of one vs the other happening. The risk that a nation could become fully infected with racist or tribalist views is unfortunately anything but a straw man. I’m not arguing for anything resembling censorship, but i think there’s a reason that moderation on social media platforms is a big topic right now.
I think that comment is completely OT (the topic being: corporate censorship) but... I quite agree with it ;-)
> His personality seems to have changed since the Daily Show and he just seems so much more self righteous and arrogant.

The sheer level of selfishness, lies, obstruction and callousness in American politics would change anyone and he's been exposed to it all for too long. He fought tooth and nail against the US government for the healthcare of 9/11 responders - and it was a fight spanning many years. That alone would change most people's outlook on things. He knows he's right about a lot of things and it must be maddening to continuously see how awful elected officials can be while people suffer. Can't blame him for being tired of repeating common sense to people who don't want to listen.
Severance is excellent and I recommend it to anyone working a desk job with computers
Many Hamas rockets fall in Gaza killing Palestinians. There's something like a 30% failure rate.
And yet many people support an automatic loss of constitutional rights if one is issued.
Useless Ruby sugar: Pattern matching
I found mocking blue-haired non-binary gender-fluid moralists way funnier. It would draw a really big audience, but you may not mock them - it's hate speech.

edit: speech not crime
I'd fall asleep in 30 seconds.
Common Changelog
A style guide for changelogs, adapted from and a stricter subset of [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/)
No. I should prune them, honestly. I earn about $100 / month on them; I played around with it at some point mostly to understand the advertising ecosystem. Half of the links to Amazon are broken at this point. My hosting costs are about $20 per month now thanks to optimization to the search engine and offloading larger objects and pi fragments to cloudflare. (Used to be higher)

I do want the site to be at least "self-maintaining", though.
Chimpazees do hunting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee#Hunting

" their sharp, pointy teeth." Humen can create weapons and fire. No need for long teeth.

Australopithecus did eat animals.
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus#Diet"

Its a common misconception among vegetarians that humen were originally vegetarians. Quiet the opposite is true.

we have evidence for hunter gathering societies since 1.8 million years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer#Archaeological...
I didn’t see it in the article but that’s exactly what https://postgres.ai/ is doing already unless I’m missing some thing.
How Much Lithium Is in Your Twinkie?
A news organization like The NY Times is absolutely expected to verify its facts before reporting. This isn’t a random blog or buzz feed.

At least that used to be the standard. At this point they’re just like everyone else, after clicks no matter how much damage they do.

Their was a time not too long ago when they had some journalistic integrity.
If you were a tree, what kind of a tree would you be.

This is what happens when sycophants get promoted.
The list of "Exempt Organization Types" on https://www.irs.gov/charities-and-nonprofits is pretty heavily societal/community style purposes. (Political organizations is the most debatable on there.)

That there are all sorts of loopholes and tax fiddles possible doesn't change the underlying theoretical motivation.
> Even if Qualcomm delivers an Arm chip that's significantly faster and more power-efficient than its current offerings,

So it is vaporware.
It it sees the light of day, will be nice to see how it compares to Ryzen. (and no, laptops are not really PCs).
The third film is fantastic, including in ways relevant to the article, playing with similar abuse-of-infrastructure ideas at city- rather than building-level.

It's actually a better city-level example of the first film's architectural ideas than the Nablus raid the article brings up. The Israeli forces' (horrifying, from the account in the article) "reconfiguration" of Nablus was a massively forceful one, blasting through wall after (residential) wall throughout the entire city *. In Die Hard (1 and 3) the protagonists' interactions with the civil infrastructure were far more involuntary and far less forceful, with the characters often being imperilled by those hostile spaces. Blasting through them like a Terminator wouldn't have been at all in keeping with the movies and the article does the first one a disservice by describing it in those terms.

The second one isn't great but I've always rather enjoyed it too. Far from diarrhoea, anyway.

* I should say, I know absolutely nothing about Nablus besides what's described in the article, and have no idea how accurate it is.
Agreed. I'd add that it feels there's less of an establishment to rail against than in the Bush days. I'd bet there was a drop in numbers in 2009, when Obama started.
"raped by the NPD all night" seems to clearly reference (evidently fictitious) off-camera events.
Varda Space Industries looks at Australia for future capsule landings
> While all of us needed a break from the edge and toughness in the world

I think that is just an issue with expectations. I also started watching his new show assuming it would be funny and lighthearted and was initially disappointed. The title of the show should have given me a clue about the change in format.

The Problem with Jon Stewart is not comedy. He's trying hard to bring our attention to problems, so we can change our public stance and fix them collectively. I'm sad the show has ended.
You forgot the leaked intercepted call from a Hamas terrorist claiming that one of the rockets fell on the hospital.
Nice! I had a similar problem but went in a different direction with the solution: a browser extension that downloads every guitar tab you open on ultimate-guitar.com

It's available for chrome and firefox (which is supposed to work on Android too soon)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/guitar-tab-archive...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/guitar-tab-ar...
The media coverage in general has been atrocious of this issue. In this case, however, the original headline seemed pretty reasonable. Why?

1. Israel had struck the hospital 3 days earlier [1];

2. Israel ordered an evacuation of these hospitals becamse of impending military action [2];

3. The only direct video evidence showed a large explosion that was inconsistent with a misfire or any explosive capability by any group in Gaza. This occurred at night. At day, it was shown that was no large crater consistent with a high-yield explosion (eg as delivered by JDAM) and the explosion occurred in a car park, not the hospital itself. There are now several theories but an Israeli airstrike hasn't been ruled out; and

4. Israel and the IDF lie all the time. In this war we've had videos posted by official Israeli and IDF channels only to be deleted. Same with statements. We saw the same thing with the assassination by Israeli snipers of Palestinian journalist and American citizen Shireen Abu-Akleh [3]. Israel initially attempted to blame this on stray fire from militants but these lies were quickly debunked.

Traditional media bends over backwards here. I mean look at headlines like "Reuters journalist killed in Lebanon in missile fire from direction of Israel" [4].

We saw this in the Hamas attack too with unsubstantiated stories about "beheaded babies" [5], a story that the President repeated, claiming to see evidence of this but then having to walk it back [6].

I don't know the answer to this but here's my question: does Nate Silver have this same level of skepticism for anything Israel or the IDF says? I hope so.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital#Rocket_s...

[2]: https://www.who.int/news/item/14-10-2023-evacuation-orders-b...

[3]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/5/22/lies-investigat...

[4]: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/reuters-videograph...

[5]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-behea...

[6]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/white-house-walks-...
If I had a database with articles (deleted or not), each with an ID, and knowing the ID range at each app server - and I want to roll a random non-deleted article:

I'd have 1) a remote cache for deleted articles 2) the application servers adding to the remote cache whenever they roll a deleted article. The remote cache can be data-center local and backed by durable storage, with a long TTL. It's possible to not roll un-deleted articles until the cache TTL, but that's ok. Data-center locality ensures some level of fault tolerance and low latency. Durable storage means restarts don't have as much of a cold-cache problem. The ID range maximum water-mark can be updated asynchronously. It's ok if new articles don't show up for a short while.
I can only speak for myself - I like reading while lying down (and holding a Kindle in front of my face), and my arm does get tired, but even in bed I don't think I would sacrifice awareness of my surroundings for slightly more comfort.
> The show was cancelled because

this is an assumption based on an unattributed quote. the assumption could be real, or it could be bad ratings.
Ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil is a different story.

Now there is endless talk about “ethanol from cellulosic biomass” but it’s like the talk about pyrolysis or the fast breeder reactor.

I think ethanol is not even interesting as a sustainable aviation fuel, as the industry seems to reject any kind of oxygenated fuel for reasons I still haven’t figured out. So they are falling back on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry and similar boondoggles.
It's not comparable. You can compare with a meter yourself.
> There is no onus on the dependencies maintainers to care about whether I do my maintenance or not.

There's no "onus" on Flask to do anything they don't want to do. But if Flask forces every package that depends on them to fix a breaking change that they could have avoided with a one-line import statement, I would argue that is not very respectful of all those other package maintainers.
budget software ≠ accounting software
Actually https://github.com/dpaetzel/buchhaltung could fit your needs. Just found it because I thought that someone must have built this already.
Ah, but it is so difficult to stay focus with all kinds of shit blown up and getting pinged in 10 channels. This is one skill that the military people are super good at.
So IOW, he wasn't very funny, and his writers mostly gave him his funny segments, like New York vs Chicago Pizza, Bullshit Mountain, etc? Do you have a link to support that claim?

(I'm even more shocked bc I don't enjoy any of his writers' shows you mentioned)
> As soon as the story broke, it was clear to me that whoever did it, it was an accident. So in that sense, it doesn't really matter. It's an unfortunate casualty of war, in which innocent people suffer even when it's not intended.

What’s this based on? Vibes? People are upset about this because it, in fact, does matter. Intentionally destroying a hospital is an atrocity; in the context of a war, it’s a war crime.

This kind of false, lofty even-handedness doesn’t really work when the matter in dispute is human rights violations.
That is what I said, isn't it? Not clear on the relevance here, though. Google had information that they were compelled to hand over on someone else. If we want to argue that Google should not be obligated to record that information. I can get behind that. I could go as far as to say they shouldn't retain it for long, period.