skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, but this is also a great example of tyranny of a (demonstrably corrupt) minority. It’s fundamentally anti-Democratic to say “everyone has to suffer worse health outcomes and pay more money because this small group of people has established a quite profitable scam and pays politicians to keep it that way.” This is why most developed democracies don’t allow this to happen. That being said screwing over the majority people to benefit a corrupt, self-serving minority, is about as close a definition of American “democracy” as I can think of, so I expect little of this to change.
This is great. I didn't know that Mutiny[0] from Halt And Catch Fire was based on a real service.

[0] https://www.ryannelson.me/projects/hcf/
Your situation is unusual and you should be grateful. The person described by op is a quasi government employee likely working for a TBTF institution that does not do this
No streetview level, the reconstruction is definitely "impressionistic" in that way. There's only illusion of detail, it does not hold up up close.
In 2023, the web has no shortage of horrors such as our all-consuming platforms. We have endless options for entertainment and news anywhere we go. The abundance of these options gives us decision fatigue caused by using social media, messaging and news apps on our smartphone.
Well they don't follow their own rules then because the "Level 4" diagram on that page is just standard awful UML with no legend or labels.
Yes. Everything I've heard about Cutler prior to the CHM interviews came from people I know who worked with him.
> I could always write a conditional for the hot path up front, but code is for human readers, right?

Does C or C++ actually make any promises that it’ll assume the “true” branch of the conditional will be taken? I always assumed that the compiler could make whatever weird decision it wants for that sort of thing.

TBH I’d probably just write normal stuff as a function, and then call that function directly in cases where performance is really crucial, if it can be done safely… if such a case exists…
> Have you ever been in a situation like you describe?

Knowing that death is certain? Yup. In fact I never expected to live as long as I've lived.

> I think human instinct kicks in.

Well, there's some kind of motive, sure; but "human instinct" implies that all humans have it built-in. I'm a counter-example, and I'm not alone in that.

> It takes a true belief there is no hope to actually want to die rather than fight.

Oh, I don't want to die. I'd struggle, e.g. if I was faced with a murder; might as well have a go. But I wouldn't struggle like the folk in TFA to get access to unlicensed experimental cancer treatments.

I didn't read the first article, so I don't have the full context. It makes a huge difference if you have people counting on you. It makes sense to struggle for the sake of other people.

[Edit] Arguably, participating in a trial is struggling for the sake of other people; but that's not the attitude I got from TFA.
It’s bad because it can’t be settled. If Chase is to assume the clawback from a default settlement, then they are essentially non secured contracts and could have been traded so without the extra cost of the rocks.

But in general you want the people responsible of delivery to be responsible and actually deliver even if 99% of the time the underlying is just exchanged electronically.
Well, when/if they add ads, I’ll reconsider my subscription. As of now, I pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like, and I’m rewarded with no ads.
Yeah, I caught that too. The coherence breaks apart a bit with Orion being a singular hunter versus the three brothers in a canoe. Though it is interesting that they're all chasing the same set of sisters. I wonder how likely it is that the same type of story developed independently? The human tendency to anthropomorphize the constellations limits the ideas which can be imposed on them. Are there other traditions that call the 7 sisters something else which weren't included in the article?
It's less the sharpness than the solidity. An integral mass hitting clog or debris will scour those off regardless of how sharp the edges are. It's a bit like the principle noted in the meterological sector regarding hurricanes wind speeds: it's not that the wind blows, it's what the wind blows.

Ice is good for cleaning garbage disposals. Citrus peels (lemon especially) is good at improving their odour.
Depends on the orbit you want to launch into.
What is depositing money if it is all electronic? And why would numbers in a database at the Fed be more safe than numbers in a database at some other US federal government organization? With electronic funds, all you are doing is subtracting it from one legal entity’s database entry and adding it to another’s.

If people want to invest their money in US federal government debt, then the government has to pay interest. I do not see where thesafety” factor comes from, surely that is ensured by a functioning court system that ensures the numbers in the database cannot be altered.
> The government acts at the behest of the governed

US here. I remember a Princeton Study from 2014 that found no correlation between public opinion and public policy.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Who can even find an appointment at the dealership? In my area, it’s like scheduling for a doctor. Months out.
People have devoted their entire lives to studying this, but I can give a very short overview:

First, there's early colonial maps, such as the Mapa de Uppsala, which give us a decent understanding of the city.
Then there are the accounts of the arriving Spanish. There's also archaeological evidence all throughout Mexico City, though much has been actively destroyed.
Yeah, used to be that if it made the interpreter less legible or straightforward it wouldn't get merged.
Note that Randy Farmer is now the CEO of Spritely Institute, which is taking the lessons from Habitat and other work and applying them into the modern networking and social media context: https://spritely.institute/
The earliest lead-free solders were definitely not beginner-friendly. Things have improved. I prefer an alloy called Kester K100, which is lower melting and more solder-like. Others might chime in on alloys that work for beginners. Also worth considering are solder pastes that you can apply to the joint and then heat up with an iron. And flux pen.
Last week my recommendation and upcoming videos started becoming flooded with videos for children, toys, children's songs, etc, toddler age.

I don't have any kids that age, and I only use youtube to watch music videos. Their algorithm is baffling.
There are a few industries where the purpose of the painfully inflated costs seems to be internally (to the managers of the US economy) justified by nothing more than "creating money", i.e., paying lots of people the wages they need to move money back and forth in the economy for the purposes of increasing GDP. Those people have jobs which allow them to participate in consumption, which makes US industry look good because they have revenue they can report as earnings.

It's real money because of the sovereign fiat nature of the US dollar, but it's not necessarily value. This is ultimately artificial inflation and the subject of Graeber's critique of the modern economic system in his essay Bullshit Jobs.
Non composita legio heroum. Heroes sunt quos legio necat.

(Please tell me how I'm butchering my Latin here, still learning!)

Yeah, I get nothing from a quick search too.

I wouldn't even think to know who would have said something so mundane about the legions. Cesar would never have said something like that. The closest that I can think of would be Pompey, but such a saying would have been too glib even for him.
A few, sure. But plenty?

Even inside the US, that's a very small niche that's present mostly in a few places like in SV, Seattle and NY (I'm sure there are a few more, but you get my point).

The startup world is more about connections than hard work or competence. How many ridiculous startups get money because they have connections with VCs? How many very good ideas never get funding because they aren't in that circle? How many startup founders are 2, 3, 4 startups in and keep failing up? And those who can't bring those ideas to life because they work 2 jobs to sustain their families?

There's more than an order of magnitude of hard working people that will never even get a chance of becoming billionaires compared to the lucky few that were in the right place, at the right time, with access to resources and sometimes were even hard workers (this one is not required, despite the myth).

Meanwhile I've met many incompetent people that hardly work and are still successful business owners and millionaires because... they were already rich.

It's how the world works today. Maybe it'll always be like this, but I like to think we can change it.

> Offering people jobs which they can freely accept, reject or negociate is not exploitation.

Yes, it is if you're the only shop in town. If you can't leave the poverty treadmill because you can barely afford rent after working these ridiculously low salaries. I could go on.

I find it appalling how so many assume that people working in the Amazon warehouses are full of opportunities everywhere and they choose to work there, so they can't complain. I know we're mostly software engineers that are well paid but we could make an effort and put ourselves in their shoes for a second, couldn't we?

No, it's not black and white like your comment is claiming it is, and it never will be.

There's a big difference between choosing to pay the lowest amount possible without having people literally starve to death and a decent living wage. There's still a ton of exploitation that turns into profit for the few at the top, but they could at the very least treat people like... people.

If Bezos (or any other billionaire) chose to reduce their profits a few percent points, they'd already be able to provide a much better life for all of their employees. In my book, even putting the profit debate aside (exploitation of labor), that's exploitation in the moral sense too.
Oh, I agree that would be an improvement. I'm just saying most people will get more emotionally distressed by animal torture than about killing animals for food.

But I should admit my bias here: I am not a vegetarian (although I don't eat a great deal of meat either) and so I'm not upset that animals are killed for food. But I get very worked up about animals being tortured whether they're ending up as food or not, so I'm ascribing to "most people" what I feel myself, which is always a bit questionable.
> Covid came out of a USA funded research lab.

This is ridiculously deceptive.

Some researchers think that it may have accidentally been released in a medical research lab, and that lab may be one that had received research funding from the US. (Which was withdrawn after their carelessness was revealed.) But there's also significant evidence that it passed from animal to human in the wild, with no further intervention.

I have seen zero credible evidence that it was designed as a bioweapon, under US or any other authority.
Nice, but I still like making red-cyan anaglyphs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D

though I think the premium way to enjoy stereograms in 2023 will be with a VR headset (no fan of Facebook but I just got a Quest 3 and wow!)
> Once again, you focus solely on performance. This is why I don't believe you care about correctness.

And once again, you are making false statements about me. In fact, I am one of the people the performance folks are mad at because I'm fighting to buy safety. It is just impossible to do this when the conversation is so poisoned by arguments like yours.

This is exactly the sort of communication that makes it so difficult to make meaningful progress on this problem. People just calling other people stupid idiots who don't care about correctness.

People need to be precise in what they are asking for from the compilers and the committees and honest about what it costs. That is all I am asking.
One of the baffling things to me is lack of price transparency and incentives for consumers to make value based choices.

Example: I just got some medication I take daily forever. Insurance will only allow it to be distributed at 90 days (qty 90) and my co-pay is $30, so 4 trips to Walgreens and $120. I just got them to fill the entire 360 pills using a GoodRx coupon and paid $53. It took a but of convincing the front clerk I knew what I was doing, he couldn't add it up
in his brain how it was cheeper not to go through insurance.

Now imagine managing your health was like running your car. Everytime you went to the gas station you would pay a fixed amount through insurance, but you're only allowed to gas up once every two weeks. Need car repair? I agine your mechanic calling your car insurance to try to get the work approved -- you need a brake job, and instead of costing $500 it will cost $5000, but since the mechanic is in-network they have pre-negotiated the rate to $600 and you pay that amount until you hit your annual deductible of $5000 for the year.

The system is built for manipulation, anti-competitive practices and fraud. Think about it. Who wins? Everyone except the consumer, who has been convinced its the only way to transact is through insurance, and if it were just bigger and more centralized it would certainly be more efficient so lets get a single-payer system! That will be the final nail in the coffin of our world-class healthcare in the US. There will be no more specialization, as the system will incentivize (if not demand) commoditization of skills and services.
Are Economists Overrated? (2015)
And community servers got even less love than with GO. So much potential wasted here...
>They profit hundreds of millions and get a $400,000 fine for breaking the law. This is not an accident.

Can you give an example of this?
> region restriction in DVD players [...] force the manufactures to turn it off

Where did this happen? Some players can be unlocked and others are multi-region, but to this day DVD players are still region-locked, are they not?
[Disclaimer: I work at the BBC.]

...later on, the BBC made[0] the micro:bit[1], another £15 (well, around £15 back then for the V1) computer to inspire young programmers. Funny to think that little did the BBC know that they'd be creating their own cheap computer.

[0]: Well, the BBC didn't _make_ it exactly — rather, the development and manufacturing was subcontracted to third-party companies (though some people at the BBC were involved in designing the prototypes — I've had a chat with one such person who did some prototype PCB fabrication in his own kitchen). The BBC came up with the initiative, though.

[1]: https://microbit.org
Certainly not. Take a look at Blenders new Geometry Nodes system.
So far, only the government's protracted energy transition under Merkel has harmed the economy because it was too dependent on Russia.
Slavs eat a huge amount of fermented cabbage
I had never heard of collies before, this was fascinating! I'm very impressed with the finished product. The 'Baltic slime' graphic in particular was great.
Hey there. I'm from Panama.

The Darien Gap still has foreigners (including wealthy tourists) going there with the crazy idea they can hike through it. The trash being left behind in just the past couple years is just heartbreaking.

Mountainous jungles in Panama are extremely easy to get lost in the overgrown vegetation. Tourists have died in hiking trails in Boquete, Veraguas or Cerro Azul by only going a few hundred meters off path.

Also, most Panamanians are against the idea of building a road between Darien and Colombia since most of us want to preserve as much jungle as we still can.

There is currently massive protests against the mining operation in Donoso by the Canadian company First Quantum Minerals (FQM). I imagine there would be similar blockades against foreign companies trying to build a road in the darien gap.
I think you are correct. People will be fine with the general idea of killing animals.

But.

In those thousand of years, was the meat produced the same way?

What type of antibiotics alternative were our elders using to prevent sickness in large groups of animals?
Did they raised them squeezed next to each other without moving for their all life?

Where our forefathers feeding a purée of the dead one to the next generation to boost their immune system?

Did they had to pasteurize the milk, not for enhanced shelf life but mostly because sanitary condition are so poor that other wise you found particles of shit in it?

I could go on. But I think the comment you responding to as a fair point.
Real; 2023 technic of meat/eggs/milk production are horrifying. we don’t know how the sausage is made.

I’m not vegetarian. I’ve kill and skinned large mammals ( goats .. not that fancy but well ) but I avoid industrial meat as much as possible.

Those are meat factory with advance industrial processes. I do thing folks would be concern for their own health and kinda disgusted if it was displayed more transparently.
I've always been really turned off by this religious fawning over random crypto personalities, including Hoskinson

despite their contributions, the primary similarity is that fans get married to the first personality they get exposed to and elevate that person. just like religion. there is nothing objective about that, there is nothing important about Charles Hoskinson's "surprise Ask Me Anything"

Adam Back has always been floated as a creator for like a decade
The blurb “assumes the sale” and gives you a single point answer to what the problem is not.

The commenter took issue with that which I think is correct.
It also comes to mind that it is relatively uncommon in the human experience for things to just continuously get worse before they get worse. Most people have experienced things eventually getting better, teaching them perseverance and faith.
Don’t worry, their mobile app can also be pretty shit.
I don't have a whole lot that are public. This section describes one of advanced features I use most: http://breuleux.github.io/quaint/syntax.html#rules

I've used it to create operators for stuff like:

* Lead caps

* Formatting dialogue in a screenplay

* Marking something that's a prop in a screenplay

* Parametric links (e.g. defining @john so that it creates a link to the john handle on X/Twitter)

* Tooltips
It's kinda normal that you'd want to let a user log in and return them to the page they were at.

For example, if you're making a shopping website and a user asks to put something in their basket and you send them to log in, you'd want to return them to the item they were about to buy, not dump them back at the homepage.

What's the proper way of doing this, without "abusing state" ?
Or selling you products
Impossible burgers
Tofu.
It's like a coordinated agenda to stigmatize the internal combustion engine and promote renewable energy sources like solar and wind. You might just be in the prime demographics for both but a majority of the population isn't.
Have you even looked at the difference in take home pay is between a practicing medical doctor and SWE in the last 25 years?
I think you've lost track of the difference between other people and yourself. The words you're using seem to talk about how other people feel, but you're actually talking about how you feel and assuming that any difference between the two is rooted in ignorance.

> "your kids’ reaction"

Maybe this should be "my reaction as a kid", since you don't know that person's kids.

> "The emotions one feels"

Should be "the emotions I feel"

> "If people had to see their livestock suffer, they would make a different calculation"

Should probably be "seeing it changed how I feel".

People are more than the sum of our experiences, two people raised in the same environment with the same kind of experiences can have completely divergent values. Therefore it's wrong to assume that people would share your values if they had your experiences. In the case of meat eating particularly this should be obvious; the reality is that most people exposed to the industry, either for the first time as adults or as kids, don't turn vegetarian.
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Did the BBC miss an opportunity to major on the Raspi? For a lot of kids it could have been the only real computer in their house. Another BBC Computer Literacy Project would have been amazing, the micro:bit doesn't feel like it does the business.
Ironically, it seems that this only happens when you are within service.

Another commenter speculated that when you're out of service, the software correctly identifies that there is no tower to connect to and stops trying. But when you're in service, the code repeatedly tries to do the 3G handshake because it can see a valid tower.
This is really hard to read on mobile
I think that's an admirable way of looking at things!
Yeah, maybe using symbols instead characters as a metric would help readability. I'm a sucker for human-meaningful variable and function names. The comments are great though.

I'd love to see a checkers version of this.
As far as I know, his family did speak it never passed it on, so he learn it afterwards. So semi-native, I guess. The variant is a central one, relatively close to the variant that would have been spoken by the Mexica.
> peoples salaries and livelihoods wiped out and they will fight tooth and nail to protect it

And small and big fortunes. Don't forget that those that protect fortunes are way more effective than all other.
Evernote Lays Off Most of Staff, Triggering Fears of Closure – Slashdot
it's worth remembering that interviews of a popular artist like ozzy ozbourne are almost entirely about publicity
Carlin was always a cheap reactionary. we are just a generation past what he was reacting to
Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops
Maybe the implied question is that, the compiler can optimise the checks to the occur in whatever order it wants.
Google will often exclude ignore terms in my searches -- specific error codes and messages, for example -- making it pretty useless unless I add quotes around every term. Even then, it doesn't do a good job of ignoring content in sidebar divs (supposedly related content), which is even worse.
The paper gives the rate of convergence you get with Polynomial interpolants in Chebyshev nodes:

> If f has v derivatives, with the vth derivative being of bounded variation V, then ||f - p_n|| = O(V n^{-v}) as n -> ∞

and

> If f is analytic, the convergence is geometric, with ||f - p_n|| = O(p^{-n}) for some p > 1

You will not get that good of a rate of convergence with cubic splines. See https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243095286_On_the_Or...

This is further explained in Trefethen's book https://www.amazon.com/Approximation-Theory-Practice-Applied...

Quoting from Ch 14

> In fact, polynomial interpolants in Chebyshev points are problem-free when evaluated by the barycentric interpolation formula. They have the same behavior as discrete Fourier series for period functions, whose reliability nobody worries about. The introduction of splines is a red herring: the true advantage of splines is not that they converge where polynomials fail to do so, but that they are more easility adapted to irregular point distributions and more localized.

You can see also the software package https://www.chebfun.org/ for Chebyshev interpolations with Matlab and https://github.com/rnburn/bbai for Chebyshev interpolation of arbitrary dimension functions with sparse grids for Python. And here is a quick notebook for an experiment you can run that will compare Chebyshev interpolants to cubic splines: https://github.com/rnburn/bbai/blob/master/example/13-sparse...
Sorry, no, the app is only available on play store and iOS App Store.