skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A clog is a clog. Even flushing twice wouldn't cause this. It would overflow, but at least it would stop. The real problem here is the broken valve which allowed the water to keep running.

Combine that with the clog and you have a literal shit-storm (or drizzle).

How does the valve get broken? Is it one of those shitty thin plastic ones?

Is the toilet one of those California water saver ones? I lived in a complex in CA where they replaced all the toilets with those, even though we all paid our own water bill. Horrible. I've never had to unclog a toilet before this toilet, and I've never had to since I moved out there. But that toilet just didn't have the umph to flush away a healthy fiber-heating adult's waste.

Also, it's a business venture, so being pregnant really isn't relevant here.
If we don't want to import minerals from other countries (some hostile), then we will mine it here. Specifically for Climax Moly, their product contributed to WWII success.
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I don't think he met any of the people in the portraits personally. He said he learned of these people and their stories through social media, at least the ones we talked about.
I believe it requires webgl. Can you confirm whether your browser has webgl enabled?
Let's do what robocat said and find a comparison with health care and school systems.

One big driver to health care costs is artificial price inflation through insurance negotiations. Where insurance brokers need to get a deal but hospitals can't give a better one, so they raise the price and give a bigger discount on that. You know, the same thing that happens on Prime day.

Schools do this too, in many different forms. Let's look at graduate student pay, for instance. A lot of graduate students don't actually pay because they're doing a lot of work for the school and bringing in a lot of money. But if you go look at the pricing of credits you'll find that it is common for graduate credits to be more expensive than undergraduate. Is this because graduate students cost more? No, they definitely cost a lot less. So why is this number high? Because it is used to validate any pay from outside the university for those graduate workers, where the school takes a large chunk of that not just for admin fees, but to cover "the student's academic costs." This too is an artificial "book keeping" number and why we should not be counting this as income (yes, some states want to do that). It also creates for weird situations when a student needs to pay for credits themselves.

Or how about business class on airplanes? Few people are paying that actual rate.

Also, I think you cherry picked form your source. They also say:

> Over the 30 years between 1992-93 and 2022-23, average
published tuition and fees increased from $2,340 to $3,860
at public two-year, from $4,870 to $10,940 at public four-year,
and from $21,860 to $39,400 at private nonprofit four-year
institutions, after adjusting for inflation.

I should also mention that the $2,500/yr claim you're making (drawing from their numbers, but your interpretation) is a clear example of an Aggregation Paradox (see Simpson's and Berkson's). If we took this number at face value the $1.63 trillion debt level wouldn't make sense. Room and board isn't that much, even if many colleges require Freshmen to stay in dorms and buy a meal plan. Given that number, clearly there's a large variance to those numbers. There's always an advantage to reporting the mean, and if we have the mean and average we know these are within one standard deviation of one another. It is interesting to see that college board is reporting averages but when they talk about incomes they are using medians (which are reported from the fed).

Averages, alone, are often a terrible metric and you need significantly more information that that to make any reasonable conclusion from data. Relying on averages alone will make you come to poor conclusions. Reports like these are for bureaucrats, not people trying to understand or solve problems.

https://research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/trends-in-colleg...
Quite a few cyclists and thru-hikers have crossed in recent years. The hassle with the authorities is mainly on the Colombian side, regularizing one’s status there, since the Colombian authorities consider one to have entered the country illegally. Those who get sent back on the Panamanian side generally do so because they look embarrassingly badly prepared.
Have fixed multiple hundreds of laptops over about a decade across hundreds of clients. I've literally seen one ThinkPad the whole time. It had some weird ass 1.8 inch storage drive down one of the side rails of the chassis which is why I remembered it. The machine was wack af from a repair techs pov.

Makes me feel like they aren't that popular outside of IT departments.
This is my core contention: negligence of bringing one's efforts to suitably address the problem is not necessarily intentional a la mens rea, but rather demonstrates that a person is not appropriately engaging their mental and cognitive faculties and in essence disrespects the entire process to which they've assigned themselves. These processes are bigger than individuals and it behooves one to engage in ways that make sense. This lack of attention constitutes bad faith in that it is the opposite of good faith engagement.

Also, they are assuming their participation is a net positive, which is a position that requires some amount of intention to take, so I disagree that intention as you've cast it is really a relevant perspective here. Bad faith is more than just a rhetorical debate tactic, it's a modus operandi with regard to how someone actually engages with the topic at hand.
I see them everywhere.

On the last 4 companies I worked straight, they were either the only option, or an option between ThinkPad or Mac.
Why are we shutting down 3G coverage?
When I configured a base model (in the US) it was $1,399 for Ubuntu, $1,499 for Win 11.
Funny I wasted a few hours today on this map of Second World War defences, pillboxes and all. https://edob.mattaldred.com/map/
Because they don't break as much?
3 days ago my system76 oryx pro 4k 2023 just died dead.

i had 2022 dell xps with 17 4k touch screen. i thought, okey, will plug encrypted nvme system disk. i was doubt it will boot at all, not speaking about sound, wifi and touch.

but magically, after reboot, some firmwares installed. it all worked perfectly. sound, voice, touch, sleep, keyboard, camera.
I don't miss the cholera, typhus, and smallpox.
To be clear, on desktop the horizontal scroll exists but the site is perfectly readable regardless. On mobile you have to utilize the horizontal scroll to see the content.
For extra fun, the YC link there says

> Replika is an AI friend that you can talk to designed to make you…

letting you complete that sentence in the context of this news article.
You are both correct.

Back in the 80s and 90s, it was projected that there would be a physician surplus about 10 to 20 years down the road, so the AMA advocated cutting the number of residency positions [1, 2]. But those predictions didn't bear out, and in recent years (about the past 10 years), they have advocated increasing the number of positions [1, 3]

In my opinion, a lot of the talk about artificial physician scarcity is BS. We have more physicians per capita than the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, but fewer than most EU countries. So we are roughly in the middle of the pack for developed nations. The problem is not a lack of physicians, but the fact that the US has a much larger rural area than most other nations and that you need a certain density of physicians in those areas. But you can't fix that simply by training more physicians -- you train more, and they'll predominately move to the cities too for the same factors.

[1] https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope...

[2] https://www.openhealthpolicy.com/p/medical-residency-slots-c...

[3] https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...
Sure, but that doesn't make it a subjective adjective. It just tells you something about what the person who uses the word thinks about what the word is being applied to.

It seems weird to me to refer to wilderness as "underdeveloped", but more because if it really is a wilderness then it should be undeveloped. If someone starts building things in it but few enough that the zone can be called "underdeveloped" then it's no longer the wilderness. In any case, what the original person said was that the country was underdeveloped. If there's not even a single road or rail between it and its neighbor, I'd say that's a fair assessment.
This is a really great article, thanks for sharing.

Meta has some great contributions to the distributed systems space. I read a lot of their papers for classes during grad school.

I wonder why they didn't join other Big Techs in the cloud hype, seeing that they obviously have the engineering talent to do so.

Is it because they're smaller and its too much competition? They're focusing on their core competencies?
It'll keep being funny until it's not.

The modern debt based economic systems tend to have that characteristic.

https://youtu.be/xmEhTFjQB1g?si=f2hdl8JkqBIox495
This is a really important question! A lot of historical clothing has a survivorship bias component.
They were usually placed along with anti tank defences and/or natural barriers. In truth any land fighting in England would have been a desperate last ditch defence after air and sea defences had been overwhelmed.
I don't understand why this issue was not communicated to Microsoft. They could've just revoked access for this oauth application until the issue was fixed.

Although there are probably thousands of similar bad implementations out there that are connected to Microsoft via oauth.
Wow it was way ahead of its time! While we now have many online virtual worlds, Habitat did it when the internet itself was still in its infancy. It laid the foundation for many of the online multiplayer games and virtual spaces we see today.
When I worked at the Pentagon, the security briefing I got said that anything that was classified as Confidential should be assumed to be in the enemies hands immediately. Anything classified Secret should be assumed to be in their hands within six months. Anything classified Top Secret should be assumed to be in their hands in eighteen months.

I think that's why they invented compartments (Secure Compartmented Information), so that something could be classified at a lower level but compartmentalized, and that would make it take a lot longer to get into enemy hands. You weren't allowed to access something unless you had both the clearance level and had also been read onto that particular compartment, plus were able to show "need to know".

We were also told that just because something was printed in a newspaper, that doesn't mean it's unclassified. There were more than a few times when certain newspapers were banned in the building, because of an article that got printed that day.
Is a blacklist a list of black pixels on the screen?
How is "firing people" more clear in intent than "Reduction in force"? Reduction in force/cutting costs is usually the intent. People getting fired is a side effect. "Firing people" is a more vivid picture, which is exactly why it is not the right term - it's too personal a term for something that usually is not personal. Performance-based layoffs = Firing. Cost/business-outlook-based layoffs = RIFs.
Little Snitch, a proprietary firewall, subscribed to some ad blocking lists can block surveillance system-wide
I'm constantly stunned by the absolute amazing stylishness of Lil Nas X.
You don't think there are a variety of people at a restaurant who might interact with the system? Is this particular detail so very important to the point of the parent comment?
"Being 3rd" while only having a fraction of the populace of 1. and 2. still should give some opportunity for ressources. But sure, I am also not really optimistic that anything big is coming out of germanys space adventures anytime soon - but there would be ressources.
...once a year, on fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras).
Having experienced managers work closely with first-time managers is very helpful. Throwing first time managers into the position and hoping they figure it out is dreadful.

The actual training material available for EMs is not great. There are a couple decent books that will run someone through the basics of doing 1:1s, communicating with the team and upper management, and doing other basic manager stuff. Unfortunately the more expensive and longer form trainings are just versions of this same basic material stretched out into a slog of slides and quizzes you have to click through.

This void has also created a weird class of managers who have read every businesses book and trending LinkedIn post. This gives a false confidence that their book knowledge solves everything and makes them superior to “untrained” managers who haven’t read all the trendy business books. When someone can barely make it through a meeting without a “Have you read ____? It has something to say about this” flex then I start to suspect that they’ve let their book-based confidence take precedence over experience.

The trend is bad enough that I’ve had several peers or managers in recent years who almost couldn’t parse a situation without mapping it back to a book they had read. I lost a lot of time trying to explain to people that I have also read “The Phoenix Project” or “Turn the Ship Around” or other trendy books but the problem I’m describing is something else that can’t be solved by re-reading your book recommendations.
I run two XPS 15s (2015ish 9550 workhorse / main computer, 2022ish 9250) and haven't had the slightest issue with either, although I keep the on board Nvidia disabled on both, which might explain the "reasonable power consumption" bit.

Hardware on the other hand, these things are like caring for an anorexic bubble baby with severe bone density issues. The hardware is a piece of shit, but also extremely easy to repair. Burned through at least 3 keyboards on the 2015, at least 4 pairs of speakers (new set sitting in a parcel in the room right now), 1 motherboard (mechanical stress snapped the heatsink), 2 power plugs, replacement top case because of screen latch stress snapping some tiny piece of plastic, probably more I've forgotten. Separately, the mic seems to be installed literally inside the fans, they made the screen bezel so thin on the 2022 model that they couldn't even include a web cam competitive with the 1998 Game Boy camera, it's embarrassing to videoconf from it
Every single other developed country has 1) socialized medicine in some form or another, be that the UK-style NHS or German-style mandatory insurance with a public option, 2) better health outcomes than the United States on pretty much every measure and 3) spends less of their income on healthcare, even after taxes are included. I'm not sure what conclusion other than the GPs you can possibly reach.
Well the starting premise is very different, so yes the results are also dramatically different.

US, for better or worse, is much more individualistic society, without much emotions for plight of other citizens. Sort of buddhistic/hinduistic approach - if you suffer now, you must have done terrible things in your past life to deserve it, and why should I interfere.

This results in tons of wonderful things in economy but messes up quite a bit too and brings some bad incentives where they shouldn't be. You don't want to be below average/median income (and say have some health issues on top of that), the quality of life is significantly worse than similarly-positioned peers in say Western Europe. But everybody looks at the top 0.1%, which fares, at least financially better.

Strange place and setup for me and not in a good way, but maybe our more egalitarian and friendly/helpful approach is too naive and harsher society is more robust. We shall see.
And check for hallucinations.
The system also appears to select for candidates with an organized, informed, highly motivated, support network. The patient the article was fortunate to have a full-time physician in their family to run the search, because nobody's doctor has weeks to spend on getting one patient into a study.
Holy fucking shit. This is the Poe's Lawiest Poeslaw I've seen in a while.
I'm noticing keywords like "tirelessly" "open source firmware" being used over and over without actually saying anything. Lots of generic terms, instead of being specific about what you mean.

I don't mean to nitpick, but people that actually care about the future of technology and want to make things better usually talk in specific terms rather than throwing out unspecific terminology.
So much specious reasoning here. Is there even a correlation between economic output and national security across large numbers of countries? If there is, how do we know the relationship is causal? How do you quantify better or worse national security?
It was notables and nobles clothing, so 10%? plus military. Plus all the textile workers where tint was available, so I guess quite a lot.
Unfortunately. Even a T490 beats an XPS13 easily.

I own both and I'm happy I switched back to ThinkPads.
Alaska–Ushuaia cyclists commonly take a boat around the gap. It is a bit more expensive than flying, but it allows one to claim that one did the journey entirely overland. (Recently a few cyclists have bought packrafts and paddled along the coast themselves instead of paying for someone else’s boat.) You shouldn’t think the story was “problematic”, the cyclist was validly describing the journey as typically done.

That said, there are multiple recent accounts of cyclists crossing the gap. Indeed, it is a tiresome hike-a-bike because you can’t actually cycle much, but from the account by a German cyclist I read a few months ago, I don’t recall any climbing. It’s worth mentioning that even a traversal of the gap will involve leaving land and going over water along the rivers at some points.
You can also use Freetube on the desktop. Brew install Freetube
Dumbest comment I've seen on HN all week. How is that a suggestion and how can my surprise be downvoted? Sometimes this community likes to think it's superior but acts no better than reddit.
Maybe a sign of progress. Wealthier economies have fewer self employed people than poorer economies.
Quality went downhill since Lenovo.
The live copper wire is much more valuable than consumer cables, but the gauge alone makes it a much less tedious to remove shielding. The fact it is live is really not much of an issue when using the right tools to avoid getting shocked.
This is typical of wikipedia. Everybody knows there's formal dress today vs. functional dress for both men and women. Same shit, different day.
Original WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/militants-behind-israe...

Politicians' letter to the White House: https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023.10.17%20Let...

Chainalysis correction article: https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/cryptocurrency-terrorism-fi...

How Hamas' Crypto Fundraising Backfired: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/10/20/how-h...
Old lenovo/ibm laptops were so so good with linux, that i still fall back on my t420 from time to time.
Not solely for it, sure. But I didn't say it was solely for symbolism either.
I waited for years to replace my 2015 MacBook. In late 2020, I finally ordered a new MacBook by my work. A week later, Apple announced the M1 chip.
According to practically any and every translation dictionary made in the last century, no, it is not.
Had great results with my Dell XPS 17. Everything but the fingerprint reader works out of the box.
The problem with bias is that it generally feels normal, and so without some substantial degree of introspection, you might see everybody else as being biased, while assuming your own views are the truly correct ones. Try to read what you're writing as if somebody else wrote it, and you don't really have any opinion on this issue.

You're talking about a city with the 2nd highest theft rate, the overall 4th highest property crime rate, and comparing it against cities that not only have much lower crime rates, but ones where the clearance rate is at least twice as high for the crimes that are committed. Then there are other probable issues, but ones seemingly neither of us has been able to dig up data on, like prosecution rates vs dismissal/reclassification. To claim these differences amount to nothing, or only exist due to bias in others, is just not really reasonable.

You can accept San Francisco having a high crime rate, but think that the other niceties you enjoy about the city more than compensate for it. Every city, every state, every country has its own set of pros and cons. It's only balance that the 'big picture' really comes out, and that's also going to be extremely subjective.
A PID for keeping temperature.
As a beginner, I've been a big fan of the Digilent Analog Discovery. This guide lists it under "logic analyzers", but it's also a passable oscilloscope if you don't need more than 30MHz bandwidth. Because the target market is undergraduates learning electrical engineering, it's designed to be inexpensive, doesn't take up much space, is easy to get started with, etc.
I Googled XPS 13 and go to configure it but can’t find an option to choose Ubuntu, only downgrade to Windows 11 Home. It is weird.
Jerry Seinfeld: All awards are stupid [video]
> It's a lot harder for people to spread misinformation online in a country like Estonia without speaking Estonian and keeping up with Estonian affairs.

Did you know that media companies are owned by foreign companies ? And when they are not, some people from those media companies are members/close to dubious ONGs ?
> There were 42 digital wiretaps

my understanding is that courts are eligible to request wiretaps by current law, but forcing service provider to break e2e encryption is not so, that's why google, apple, telegram etc can defend such cases.

Your link says that in 180 out of 190 government could't decrypt traffic despite wiretaps.
The show is centered around hard science so it can be a little difficult to follow for some, the series is around 30 episodes and it took a while to make some decent progress in the plot. I like it overall, but have a feeling that the Netflix version may not be able to match it, especially when trying to "westernize" it.
Yeah it’s an intrusion in your private property
Who said anything about comparing?

But now that we're at it, would you prefer to compare yourself to the bottom 1%?
> There's no EU-wide propaganda channel.

Euronews ?
I know I heard a rough number at some point of the value of a Premium view vs an ad supported view. Can't find it without digging, but here's a source for them being a good amount more valuable https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=412
Habitat had pie menus, and the Japanese version let you "bow" and perform other gestures and animations by stroking in different directions.
The best developers in Europe move to the US at the first opportunity.

You have to be really patriotic to not take a 3x raise.

An interesting aspect of European salaries is that the best doesn't get too much more than the median.

This leaves Germany and others with mediocre devs (in general, of course there would be exceptions.)