skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If agents are prevented from capturing illegal entrants and the current administration invests $0 in upkeep of the border wall then this seems inevitable.

After the newer border wall was built, it reduced crossings in those areas by >70%.

Of course, when the current policy amounts to 'we won't stop you when you come in', it not only doesn't deter crossings but it encourages them.

It's ironic, because it reflects the shifting landscape of Democrat policy, who's members repeatedly voted for a border wall and border security measures (Biden voted for the 2006 Secure Fence Act and has previously stated employers who employ illegals should be jailed).
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> It's also why people living in the only nation that really has a choice all measure distance and height in (square) feet, inches, and kilometers (per hour), human weight in pounds (and very rarely ounces), most other weight in grams and kilograms, non-cooking-related volume in liters, and non-cooking-related temperature in celsius.

If you're talking about Canada, none of that mess comes from a plethora of choice, it's just the result of American cultural and economic influence, in addition to history. Yes Canadians are well versed in both systems but it's not like we particularly like having to deal with US units in our lives.
But that’s also highly dependent on how good the doctor is at finding the problems. Apparently doctors in the US find precancerous polyps 40% of the time according to the article. That may not be so great given the time between screenings (ten years) if one is missed.
Current/Faraday efficiency is an entirely different thing. 100% current efficiency means you won't get a buildup of side products or erosion of your electrodes due to stray electrons. In isolation it is not a measure of power efficiency.
If someone else hasn't clicked on the article link (people still do that?) it says literally this:

Are colonoscopies better than other screening methods? I don’t know. Maybe!
JetBrains' 11th Annual Hackathon
Speaking of aftershox how about disabling the absolutely useless "redial last number" function... I've accidentally triggered that like three times. I would never ever want this feature.

Actually, one of those times was on a different bluetooth headset so it's not Aftershox specific... just the unreasonably locked down, uncustomizable nature of Bluetooth devices I guess!
I wish it had been defined in relation to the speed of light in a vacuum. 299,792,458 metres per second. Set it at 300,000,000 meters per second and derive the length of the meter from that.
Probably never. The US government has a lot of laws, ignores a lot of things.

The issue is more that it is impossible to have an open border combined with any sort of welfare state. And there is a question about political compatibility - at some point there is a difference between individual migration and an invasion. But realistically, the US had the debate on this decades ago and has decided that insofar as there is a national culture it doesn't consider it threatened by migrants with foreign views. It is a bit late to get worried about it now for obvious reasons.
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My uncle had one, it almost killed him when the probe breached his colon causing an internal bleeding. It was done with anesthesia, which according to him could be a major contributor to the incident.
It might seem like all Indians are trying to get into US by hook or crook.

But to be honest its just from 3 specific states out of the 28. Pareto blah blah. I wont name the states.

The people who do have confidence in migrating illegaly successfully have a very very strong community over there who can help them out with basic needs like food and shelter and can get them blue collar jobs.
Sure. Will do.
Thanks
I have built something like that. You make templates that fit in the context window and have ChatGPT via API function calls select a template, fill it in and maybe generate a few images.
I did not go to bar yesterday. I saved way more than $11.

If this is not something which would run on a solar panel back in the woods then additional +5W is nothing in the common household.
Neat, it encourages one to keep the whole 3d structure of the map in the players head. Is the track static or does it change shape over time?
It is interesting, that the lack of a feature that would cost $629 to add is significant enough to make it the the HN front page.

Makes me feel like I would like to learn more about open source. What drives it's development and what the business models are.

There are 152 contributors to this project who wrote 21,686 commits. If each commit took an hour of work, and we value each hour at $50, that is $1,084,300 worth of time.

How can a project gather over a million dollars worth of work time, but not $629 for a certification service?
home.arpa

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375
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In some areas, illegal immigrants are allowed govt welfare. Starve in your home country, or endure a miserable and dangerous Journey for security? That is what brought the original European settlers over...
Over the past decade "status" has become much more important for a lot of people, and what better way to show it than with an expensive car? Clothes don't shout "hey I'm expensive", if anything luxury brands are less loud. Property, meh, other than your neighbors nobody sees your house. Everyone has an iPhone and Apple Watch, and real expensive watches like Rolex are for old business men. So all that's left is cars.

I live in a post-Soviet country where minimum wage is something like €600/mo, yet the amount of luxury cars I see on the road is honestly staggering. I have no doubt these are on lease, but the payments and insurance must be thousands per month.

The funny thing is the tagline for Porsche here is "standout from the crowds while others dissapear". Sometimes it feels like I'm being a rebel by not having a Porsche, BMW, Audi, Mercedes or Range Rover.

(I drive a 18 year old MPV I bought for €3k earlier this year. It works amazingly well at getting me from point A to point B)
> It was done with anesthesia, which according to him could be a major contributor to the incident.

The article suggests his reasoning could be well founded.
This might be a misunderstanding on my part, but why does the ImageMagick code-signing certificate need to meet CA/B Forum requirements? My understanding is that those requirements apply primarily to the Web PKI, and not other PKIs or certificate profiles like Authenticode.

(Regardless, vendor-specific code-signing schemes are a racket.)
Synthesizing high explosives from anhydrous ammonia is not trivial and no random person would ever bother. There are easier precursors to work with and much easier ways to acquire high explosives than trying to bootstrap from ammonia.

And if someone really was bent on mayhem, well, anhydrous ammonia is nasty toxic stuff as is. You don’t need to do anything chemically to it to kill or injure a lot of people. On the other hand, it isn’t a chemical that sneaks up on you. If you are being exposed to dangerous levels, you’ll know it.
I really like rtings.com.

I am using the Dell S2721QS for my home office. It is a cheaper version of the S2722QC and does not have the integrated USB hub.

Before WFH, at the office, I used the U2723QE which is excellent. But for coding work it is visually indistinguishable from the S2721QS (and probably the S2722QC). The S2721QS has a slight issue with "ghosting" or "fading" near the edges. However it is only an issue if looking at the monitor from a far angle which is rarely the case for me at my desk. I'm not sure if this has been fixed in the S2722QC.

Dell monitors consistently impress me with their top-notch construction, sturdiness, and dependability. One of my pet peeves with monitors and TV's in general is panel gap which is the space from the end of the panel to the plastic frame. Dell monitors usually minimize that.

Just to share my setup:

2x 4k monitors, portrait and landscape, both at 125% zoom (effectively 3072x1728).

IDE is primarily opened on the landscape. Portrait monitor is split into 3 sections: browser, Outlook/Teams/Slack and terminals. I use Stardock Groupy [1] to combine Outlook/Teams/Slack into "one window" and Windows PowerToys FancyZones [2] to manage the split.

[1] https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...

From my vantage point, it's a precarious time to consider a new monitor or TV. We're amidst a technological showdown featuring QLED, OLED, Mini LED, and Micro LED. In my gaming setup, I've opted for the LG OLED C2 48-inch. My home theater will most likely continue to be traditional LED/LCD or Mini LED because 85" OLED is too expensive. I'd like my next work monitors to be 5k or a 2k5k Ultrawide (the vertical resolution must be 2k; many ultrawides are not) and either OLED or Micro LED.
I don't know what this means. Can you expand on your statement? Who is this person? What would we be farther forward to?
In Denmark, when you turn 50 you start sending in a stool sample every other year. If it works, I think I like that model better.
func QueryDatabase(sql string) (string, *DatabaseError) {

Returning *DatabaseError instead of error is a pretty clear programmer mistake, which should be caught and fixed by any reasonable kind of code review.
I"m curious what the actual negative impact of this would be - ImageMagick is a command-line tool (or runs in-proc somehow) and rarely used directly by end-users, just like LAME and ffmpeg - and the binaries are far more often shipped as part of another application.

My day-job SaaS uses ImageMagick on Windows (long story), but this doesn't affect us - I imagine most other users will be the same.

I'm surprised they even make an installer for Windows at-all instead of only shipping portable zips.
Hamas's October 7 Attack: Discourse in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
We need a LetsEncrypt for executable signing. Although I suspect Microsoft and Apple are making distributing executables for their platforms costly and inconvenient on purpose in order to drive developers onto their app stores. If that's the case, I guess we'll just have to train users to ignore all the security prompts about unsigned installers (some developers already do).
Error handling is just as important as "happy path" code.
Sorry thought I was on Blind.

> In early 2016 I wrote to the European Commission requesting a formal legal clarification

I don't think their opinion is law. The law is the law and until it is it is tested in the courts it is not illegal.
The track is constructed procedurally, so it's different each time you play it, but remains static after it's been constructed. There are about 20-30 "chunks" that get remixed into the track at random, except for a small number of "black listed" tracks after certain chunks, where they would make the track too hard. Additionally, some of the more difficult chunks only appear after the first 20-30 seconds.

This is a time-tested strategy for simple procedural "endless" games, starting with Adam Saltsman's Canabalt in 2009, and one of this game's inspirations, Terry Cavanagh's Super Hexagon from 2012.
Do you really think the government doesnt know about this ? That too the country known as "Big Brother" ? Americans want people who can work below minimum wage so they get to work the illegally migrated for low paying jobs like delivering food, getting their houses cleaned, gardening, construction work.

The governemnt gets to play both sides by making labour cheap and also campaigning "Build the Wall".
Any opinions on this tool? I've literally never heard of it before. Seems like it's good for simple bulk editing.
Woah. Where can I read more?
> Sure but procedural complications are actually quite rare, as alluded to in this article.

article actually says that perforation (requires emergency surgery as per article) is between 1 to 100 and 1 to 20000 base on some studies, which sounds very high if it is not mistake.
ImageMagick is the most widely used open source image processing library and tool in the world. The source code kinda sucks but it does everything you could want, pretty much
And of course, much the same thing is true for the frontend as well. Most of the time, the worst takes off frontend excess or backend complexity are being told by people who aren't working in field, and just looking in from outside.

Rendering everything on the server and adding a bit of Javascript along the way works - it had its flaws, but so does everything else, you just need to figure out which flaws make sense for you to deal with. For a little extra complexity, use Vite as a bundler, and add a framework - Vue is pretty simple to get started with - and you're almost immediately away. You even get some stuff like Typescript for free at this point.

And like you say, you can make things more complicated with various other tools, but if you need that, you probably know you need that, and you know what it's doing and why it's necessary complexity.
And the big disadvantage that to get there your need to book 2 professionals (?) and take pretty much one day off, and there are risks associated with anesthesia and the procedure itself

I don't think it scales

(Not to mention the interests of doctors of suggesting things that make them more money)

Edit: now I see TFA mentions risk of perforation and that the risk is smaller without anesthesia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

He had very sensible ideas about hand washing a hundred years before it was accepted by most doctors. He was a bit weird though, and ended up being ignored.
I would like some community feedback on this. I have been attempting to try Elixir and Phoenix and did with some small projects. However, when it comes to db, that is where I found it challenging. Ecto supports SqL and Absinthe provides graphql. However, if I want to roll out some of my own with Surreal, edgeDb and Mongodb, Neo4j or something else. I am forced to eject out ecto. I am fine with that, but how do we support other Dbs easily as Ecto or Absinthe. Are there any libraries I am missing? Has anyone tried with other options. I saw somebody mentioned mnesia. It can be an abstraction maybe .
I love finding hacky ways to save money on hardware, but unfortunately NVidia is just too good at the game and the 170HX was destined for the landfill at birth. God forbid a few of us enthusiasts get A100 performance for under a grand.

The next best thing is a 3090 or the like with a broken PCIe power connector or some other minor defect. My 3090 is simply missing the bit that holds the clip of the power connector in, however it’s a snug fit anyway and with the cables crammed into my case as they are, I don’t think it’s going anywhere. I paid $200 less than market for that 3090 as a result. Less than a gram of plastic. $200 off.

Meanwhile, as the article points out, AMD is nowhere near as hostile towards its customer base, and modified Radeon cards can apparently be had for $100 or so (from China). The caveat of course is no CUDA support, so it’s kind of moot.
It didn't mention the bias from those that don't want to pay for the procedure which was a little unbalanced, perhaps.
Haha yeah. I posted on totse from 2003 til the end and then moved to zoklet until that shut down too.
Any self-selection where higher risk individuals opt-in more, increases benefit/cost ratios.

That seems like a pro invitation argument. (I.e. pro treatment for the invited + opt-in cohort.)
Did you read my comment?

I'm saying that the Americans want colonoscopies to remain unchallenged because they make money out of it. This has little (or nothing) to do with the cost-benefit trade-off that the article discusses.

I didn't find this (self-evident) idea anywhere in the article.
Having worked in a variety of related fields, my take on this is that hypervisors like VMware have largely eliminated the need for proprietary hardware with “support” contracts. Just buy 3x the capacity in white boxes and turn off anything that breaks.

The problem is that the industry hasn’t noticed this yet. The hyperscalers have, and are printing money as a consequence.
Manufacturer claims around 8% false negatives, 92%-94% sensitivity, 87%-90% specificity and 99.94% negative predictive value.

Published study:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24645800/

It appears they calculated the negative predictive value based on the population sample of that study. It may differ significantly from the negative predictive value for the general population.
Can we stop referring to Europe as "the rest of the world"?
I remember when this was a conspiracy theory and there was no crisis at the border.
Because the contributers do the work (the coding) for fun. If they would need to pay $50 so someone else does the work (the fun part) they wouldn't do it.
Yes, and yields were crap back then. Guano and then synthetic fertilizer changed everything.
That’s the idea behind Sigstore[1]. The larger challenge is the vendors themselves: Sigstore (or anyone else, really) can give code-signing certificates and tooling to developers for free, but that tooling has limited value if the host OS doesn’t bundle the CA certificates that would enable native validation.

[1]: https://www.sigstore.dev/
My father died of colon cancer at 52, so I've been getting colonoscopies every 3-5 years since I was 22. Yes, that's really early, but in the span between age 30-33, I grew a large polyp. My doctor removed it and it turned out non-cancerous, but if I waited until 40+ to start who knows?
Here's a tip for the future: typing a name into Wikipedia usually yields great results.
> I wish it had been defined

Wish what had been defined? the second?
Trust me the ones truly starving in our country do not have the enormous initial capital to pay the mule for crossing the border illegaly. Its NOT cheap for someone in India to illegaly migrate to a country soo far away. Maybe to a neighbouring country but definetly not to somewhere like USA, Canada, country in Europe.
> even if individuals raise some amount of animal for extra money or protein in their diet.

It happens more often than I expected, but of course it's still not common.

A friend of mine living in an apartment in Shanghai once complained to me that her neighbors were keeping a chicken in their apartment and she was irritated by the daily crowing.

But she took the philosophy "soon enough they'll eat it and the problem will go away".

Hard to imagine something similar happening in the US.
What curl is for network requests, this is for image operations. It is ubiquitous and pretty much a de-facto standard utility.
Maybe someone can start signing a Windows release of GraphicsMagick? http://www.graphicsmagick.org/index.html

Also FYI, Bob is pleading for some volunteers to help manage the project; he's doing it all on his own as a side project. If you can, please put the word out
You guys are asking for permission and scheduling time to do your rewrites? Leaders? Pfft. Bang it out over a weekend and then slide it in on a slow Monday morning.
Tata to make iPhones in India after buying Wistron business
(Increased influx === Modi is bad) is just plain untrue because the state of Punjab's police was never under Modi. In fact, separatist supported government has been in power in the most recent elections. Maybe US and Canada should investigate if this separatist movement solely exists so that people can enter the US and Canada. In 1984, there were massive riots and many sikhs got to immigrate to the west. It was followed by demands of a Sikh state. Now, we are not sure this movement even exists in India. India is not Europe where an independent land locked state can exist with limited resources and Pakistan as its western neighbor. This is just a Schrodinger Cat experiment where immigration policies of the west actually make the movement exist. Also, this reads like a full propaganda piece which even promotes a Shah Rukh khan movie. Maybe not worthy of an HN first page post.
As someone who used to work there, I can attest that this description applies to all of Apple's software projects under Craig Federighi.
You guys are asking for permission and leadership supervision and scheduled time to do your rewrites? I was planning on just banging it out over a weekend and then sliding it in all stealth like on a slow Monday morning. I ain't no fancy nuclear weapons silo programmer like the author here.
A very good example of the risks of AI: belief in its output influencing discourse as "ground truth" by naive readings. The article points out the GIGO quality of what's going on: it's a biassed input state which is going to be merry hell to deal with. Unbiassing social contexts itself has risks.

Rinse and repeat for racism, emerging nazi themes, prompts given to people with active psychosis to go and try to kill famous people...
You are right. But there are many Individuals/companies who cannot benefit from DocuSign's trust because of the price tag. We want to provide them the free/ open source option and during the process build a brand that is equally trusted if not more than DocuSign.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Process:

> ammonia production is energy-intensive, accounting for 1% to 2% of global energy consumption, 3% of global carbon emissions,[23] and 3% to 5% of natural gas consumption

Big if we can improve this.

For more on the Haber process and its impact on the world, I highly recommend this book: "The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler" by Thomas Hager.
Can we call it nonconsensual ideation? Maybe that can be workshopped into something less wordy? Mind rape is too off-putting to generate good discussion, imho.
Wow, this is just up my alley. I started a side project recently using Tesseract to read book spines for inventory purposes and hooked it up to ChatGPT to clean up the text, having it "fill in the blanks" so to speak. I'll definitely give this a go, having using two OCR engines I should get better results.

Any plans to add other OCR engines?
I am building https://subzero.cloud

If your data is in pg/mysql/sqlite/clickhouse this might work for you

That is for js/ts stack
Interesting is a pretty generic attribute. Can you fill out any point you are making further?
In The Value of Colon Cancer Screening (https://www.blackliszt.com/2023/01/value-of-colon-cancer-scr...), David B. Black argues that colonoscopies are a net negative, based on the “high confidence result of harm based on millions of patients [1], vs. the nearly identical low-confidence results of benefit from the NordiCC study”.

[1] “14.6 major bleeding events per 10,000 colonoscopies (95% CI, 9.4-19.9; 20 studies; n = 5,172,508) and 3.1 perforations per 10,000 colonoscopies (95% CI, 2.3-4.0; 26 studies; n = 5,272,600)”
Dont think its suppose to be every few years. I was told it’s good for 10 years. Unless you are in high risk category. Specifically one with a family history of colon cancer. That’s what I was told when I got one as soon as I turned 50. I don’t have to get another one until I’m closer to 60.
(Contributions amounting to $1e6 over 33 years, assuming there is no history-losing VCS migration in the statistics you quoted, and a service that costs $630 per year. While 2% of development cost is still not a lot, it’s not vanishingly small, either.)

The economics are probably pretty simple: you can have fun contributing your time to a project, but you can’t have fun contributing money. It’s also easier to get your employer to okay your spending time to upstream bugfixes or even features than to get them to pay money to what’s likely a very vaguely defined organization for a very fuzzily defined service as opposed to straightforwardly buying a thing. (The money itself would be negligible—the accountants’ and lawyers’ time will cost more.)
> If each commit took an hour of work

> we value each hour at $50

If you start with fantasy hypotheses like these, you're going to obtain fantasy conclusions.
As someone who recently migrated from YNAB4, I am incredibly thankful that this exists!