skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're not seeing it through the same lens :) Look for example all machine learning, hardware, AI, LLM, etc.

None of that came to be used in the world due to University departments. Maybe some of the theory behind it, sure, but making it useful in the real world through engineering, no.

Microsoft "side project" innovation vs current Microsoft innovation (e.g: what goes into building something like Azure or ChatGTP backend) is also very different :)
Please don't get acquired by Google. We need to bring people _out_ of their ecosystem, not into it.
Oregon's move is exactly backwards. If anything, they should cancel the law school requirement and allow the public to sit for the bar exam. Schools are notorious for graduating incompetent students who's only ability was to take out loans to pay the tuition. Allowing the public to sit for the bar exam without going to law school would be a much better DEI initiative because it would directly address disparities in the ability to finance a law school education.
And here I was thinking %HOMEDRIVE% %HOMEPATH% /were/ the "proper" variables to use. Or at least get to a location that I an responsible for the locations and addressing beyond that point.

Please enlighten me on what should be used instead.
Back in August I queried [1] your usage of "open source" while not being an open source project (ELv2 licensed). It looks like you're no longer describing yourself as "100% Open Source" which is good but you still label yourself as open source in the repo readme and still refer to yourself as open source on the website. Do you intend to keep labelling yourself as open source or is that something you're moving away from?

[1] https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango/issues/900
This is true - but they're usually more predictable. Absolutely nothing in the US healthcare market is guaranteed. And, tbh, in healthcare there can always be complications - a simple surgery or treatment might turn into something much more extensive if things weren't as they appeared initially or there's some abnormal response to treatment.
What are the top items a solo software founder (of a treaty country) seeking e-2 might not have in their application/background or want in the outcome of an e-2?
Every lawyer attending law school is a relatively new phenomenon although law schools have been around in the US since 1817. Previously, many might apprentice, then take a bar exam. Justice Robert Jackson, one of our greatest SCOTUS justices and a personal favorite, was the last SCOTUS justice not to attend the standard 3 years of law school.

However IMHO there are plenty of attorneys, perhaps too many, and de-professionalizing the practice of law, at this moment in time, will not be a good thing for judges, other attorneys, and the administration of justice.

But read carefully what Oregon is doing:

> After law school, candidates will spend 675 hours working under the supervision of an experienced attorney and create a portfolio of legal work that bar officials will grade as an alternative to the traditional bar exam.

I think this policy gets the problem backwards. Kids are actually spending too much time and money in law school. The preparation and sitting for a grueling 2-3 day exam more closely approximates one aspect of the profession, than yet another year of law school. I'd be more pleased if we re-adopted the apprenticeship model, as an alternative to some law school, and reduced the traditional law school curriculum to 2 years.
Oh no good thing this reauthorization doesn't require warrants for purchased data too ffs just read it.
is there a path the GC after 8 years living in the US? (4 under L1 and 4 under E-2)
> The only reason people don't like talking to computers in public is that ...

It does not seem right to speak of a single reason. There are probably multiple. So, IMHO it would be more productive to come up with a list and put some weights on the options if you want to dissect this matter.

IMHO one very strong factor / important reason (one that you ignore) is the social context. Ie the reaction of others in the same physical space, as you start talking out loud, seemingly unmotivated.

Humans are social animals, and so the reaction of others to the actions you do tend to be very important to a large fraction of the population. What is acceptable in one context simply isn't in another. Also, the exact tolerances tend to differ with the local culture (here "local" is used in the sense "geographically/physically local")

It's not just about not annoying others here. In this case it's also about a thing as imprecise as "perceived self image". Some people (I'd argue, most people) dislike having the perception that others perceive them to be mentally unstable or rude. Most people need some kind of social acceptance for the actions they do.

One significant trait of some mental instabilities (as well as some drug induced behavioral changes) is that those affected will spontanously start talking in public. You will probably know the Tourettes Syndrome, and the alchoholic rambling about because these cases often imply quite rude and offensive verbiage and/or loud volume, but these are not the only cases.

People in general are well adept at detecting such anomalous behaviour as it is part of our insticts trained through Evolution. Also the uncomfortable feelings that observing this type of behaviour leads to will lead many to react with a "confront or escape" (aka. "fight or flee") response (a stress signal), which is not beneficial to social interaction in general.

TL;DR: If you speak out in public without a very clear and socially valid reason (speaking to an object is not that) you are not only rude to others, but you also cause them stress... and you will have to face the social stigma of being perceived as insane.

(edit: grammar/typos)
> normal, non-sexual photos of trans people are "nsfw" now

FWIW, the algorithms that big tech companies use are often trained to recognize women’s underwear. So non-sexual photos of trans men wearing women’s underwear are often flagged, even when similar photos of women wearing boxers are not.

I’m not saying it’s right, just giving the actual reason this happens. (Albeit I don’t have Tumblr-specific knowledge.)
Welll... to be fair, that's literally the only reason the platform got as big as it did, and became "the" ubiquitous video hosting platform. They fronted the cost to capture a massive audience, and now they gradually extract more and more value out of the user base they lured in.
Vueflow (https://vueflow.dev/)

React flow (https://reactflow.dev/)
Philips used to be the "good" one because although it's a pretty bad design, everyone had it. Now that lots of people have torx drivers, they're better in pretty much every way. They're a lot harder to strip, they don't cam out as much etc.
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Building software in the manufacturing space. It's been hard.
Do all organized criminals kill people at every possibility?
There is also https://noscript.net/

I don't think umatrix is actively maintained any more
A dogged journalist proved that the CIA lied about Oswald and Cuba
Steam Deck has RDNA2 architecture which is pretty old now. They're probably getting rid off the last chips currently. I'd get at least Zen4/RDNA3 or, if you're in no hurry, even wait for what they release in the coming year. Especially if you want it to drive a high resolution screen...
often times I have been known to give a misbehaving app on my computer the finger. sometimes, when it is really egregious, it gets both barrels. it serves no useful purpose other than i feel a bit better about my silent sign of protest rather than launching into the curse laden tirade that i really want to do. but i've been told (more than once) that is frowned upon behavior in a professional environment.
Criticizing philosophy is philosophy so it cannot be criticized, the classic philosopher get out of jail free card.

Philosophy is absolutely nothing like math. Math can be proven. Math maps to physical quantities. Changing how you interpret math doesn’t change the physical world. Philosophers do what is equivalent of arguing that prime numbers aren’t real because base 10 is arbitrary. Philosophers have proven nothing about the universe, those are the contributions of physics. The things philosophers discuss about the universe is more akin to religion and mythology. You, again, keep trying to take credit for the work of other fields.
Naturalized citizen here: it's not hard at all. You've had the green card for 10 years so the marriage is not even a consideration. For once, you'll be on the "friendly" side of USCIS that wants you to succeed, not the one that wants an excuse to deny.
I've watched enough episodes of Dirty Jobs to know there are still many people out there digging ditches in weird places.
Then stop paying when they do?
Great, because we could really use some modern nuclear power plants here. We do not have the natural resources to provide power base with wind/solar alone and in all likelihood even with large storage banks it would be very hard to compete with what amounts to an atomic battery in nuclear fuel rods.
Illinois and other former industrial states badly need this having lost much of their manufacturing base to southern states, Mexico, etc. The exodus has been accompanied by migration from these states, elsewhere. Anything that creates an economic incentive for good paying manufacturing jobs to return to these states - even if its a decade away - needs to happen.
If you're leaking confidential corporate info, you probably don't want to post the leaks on the same company's platform.
I don't think that government-run health insurance (i.e. Medicare, Medicaids, Tricare) == "single-payer" healthcare system, especially in terms of the effects described by the parent comment.

My perspective is being under Tricare. You can imagine it like a closed system in which Tricare beneficiaries just go to Military Treatment Facilities (Defense Health Agency and service-run hospitals and clinics) for everything, and everything done in those facilities is covered with no questions asked and no bills or money changing hands. But that isn't how it works in practice. A large amount of stuff, like most specialty care, gets referred to places "out in town" (at local, for-profit, civilian providers). Most ER and urgent care visits happen out in town. At times, my wife and kids have been on Tricare Select which works like a PPO and involves all the usual discussions about who does or doesn't take Tricare, in-network or out-of-network, whether something needs pre-authorization or not, why a claim has been denied and how to appeal it, whether we've reached our annual deductible or catastrophic cap, etc.

So under Tricare, I think I feel more protected from profit-driven shenanigans and expensive mistakes than most Americans, but there's still a "cognitive workload, stress and uncertainty." I think a true single-payer system means that you don't have this (because it works like the closed system described above).
Never would've found this myself -- appreciate it
> trying to push current GPUs to do things they are not really capable of doing

Sure, but until we get better GPUs, it's still the better solution to not being able to play it at all. Especially with the Steam Deck being battery powered, so you can't just brute force it with higher frequencies or more hardware. Even this new Steam Deck doesn't include a better GPU.
Incidentally, the only viable gravity batteries known today are pumped hydro reservoirs. On the up side, they only need a hill. On the down side, they need a hill.

(Gravity Vault, BTW, is 100% scam.)

Suspending weights from ocean platforms (e.g. scrapped supertankers), for flat places with deep sea nearby, should be a viable alternative, but it has not been done yet. Deep cave systems are another, either draining water into them or (for those below the water table) pumping air in. There are a lot of deep caves.
I certainly mourn the impending laws preventing end-users from modifying their cars in ways that undermine the nanny-locks.
agree and - the crux here appears to be .. when you are in a moving vehicle on public roads then you have no expectation of privacy -> slippery slope -> license plate readers run by govt 24x7; license plate readers run by parking lots or retail shopping malls; interception of cell traffic via stinger units in strategic locations; interception of the driver's cell phone communications.. etc.

Gov Gavin Newsom preparing to run for President, is OK'ing these uses quickly and without public discussion
I remember seeing a screenshot of the Music Construction Set. It's fascinating how they were able to achieve such complex interface given the size/resolution of the screen and other technical limitations like memory constraints.

It also reminds me that SimCity started as a kind of city construction set. As a genre of software, it does seem related to end-user programming.
Thanks! I was looking for a page like that on docs.rs, crates.io, and possibly on lib.rs as well, but missed it; that is likely to be useful in the future. Actually now I see it on crates.io as well, <https://crates.io/crates/anstream/versions>. Or maybe I saw it before, and just have not found versions <= 1.63.
You can't create a "bubble" of sound unless that just a marketing term for quiet and facing only the user.
> Hacker News has a really juvenile attitude to DRM.

The door is that way.

Anyway. Sure, no one has right to YouTube, but they can't have their cake and eat it too. I think the EU trend is pretty clear: no tracking to make money off our citizens. If you want to sell them a service, go ahead and just name your price. Actually compete instead of giving away stuff for free to undermine competition and then getting the money back by peddling the eyeballs in the back alleys.
"A lot of these issues arise because providers fail to review payer coverage rules before deciding on a treatment plan"

A system wherein the trained professional with direct access to the patient has to defer to a board of anonymous bureaucrats to determine the course of treatment is absurd. These issues don't arise because "providers fail" they arise because the system is built to fail and the burden falls on everyone except the people making the rules (and the profit).
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38204679 ("Reducing patch postings to Linux-kernel" from LWN.net, 12 comments at the moment)
Here is some for the US: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospi...
Pricing is listed on https://zerostep.com - you get 1,000 ai() calls per month for free, and then the cheapest paid plan is 2,000 ai() calls per month for $20, 4,000 for $40, etc. So basically you pay a penny per ai() call.

In terms of reliability - we have a hard dependency on the OpenAI API, so that's what will affect reliability the most. We're using GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models, which have been fairly reliable, but we'll bump to GPT-4-Turbo eventually. Right now GPT-4-Turbo is listed as "not suited for production use" in OpenAI's docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models
Dupe is more fuzzy on HN
My house is full Apple products, the average device is well over 5 years old. The gaming PC I built after the MBP I use is virtually worthless now, as the motherboard is fried and buying a new socket LGA 1150 motherboard just isn't worth it.

All electronics are the result of dystopian horors, and they generally don't have a very good shelf life. Are you aware of how many SuperFund sites are in Silicon Valley?
I think I tried something similar to wipe out the Edge and Onedrive nagware but it seemed to break windows update, so ended up reverting it.
In vscode probably easy because it is all CSS?

Other editors/terminal emulators would probably need to add support for this.
This is why I'm surprised by their tactics.

Google is SO data driven, and many people's objectives are going to be impacted by the reduced watch time.

They're going to have to (or already have) modify the objectives of many, many employees
Actual conversation from a few years ago:

"You are not certified to use this obscure electrical diagnostics tool, I have to do it for you."

"Hey, cool, I helped write the firmware for this tool. Let me show you an undocumented command."

"You are not certified to use this obscure electrical diagnostics tool, I have to do it for you."

"Type this command number in, it thinks you're saying thank-you to it, and it will print You're Welcome".

The guy types it in, it prints YOU'RE WELCOME. I ask if he wants to know anything about this tool from one of the developers.

"You are not certified to use this obscure electrical diagnostics tool, I have to do it for you."

It was a very embarassing interaction.
This exists in some states... sorta.

I have a friend in WA that has been a paralegal for over a decade who is currently going through the process. In most states you are not allowed to take the bar unless you have a law degree, but in WA, CA, I'm sure others, you can take the bar after studying under a lawyer for X hours (not sure the number, but its a lot).
No they only run the niche operating system called Windows.
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Hi Peter! I am a EU citizen with a pending I-130 to relocate to my wife to the U.S. We've been waiting for more than 7 months with no response. In the meantime I acquired a job at a U.S.-based company, although that is without visa sponsorship and I am employed through an employer of record in my country. Yet, I am wondering if there's any way how my employment might help to speed up the process, given that the company would employ me within the U.S. once I have relocated?
Well, I hated talking to Siri in public because about 70% of the time it did what I want and 30% of the time it made me feel like a fool for even trying. That 30% was what killed it for me after giving it a serious go around the time Apple was rolling out shortcuts.

After watching the presentation, I am now curious about Humane’s thing though, but I’m still going to hold off for a bit because I want to see the failure modes first and I also don’t want to rush out and be one of the first to buy the brand new 3Com Audrey.
I haven't used uMatrix in years, but isn't the UI in uBlock Origin > More similar, do you know what's missing?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
The thirst is real. I imagine no publicly traded company will ever stop nickel & diming to the ultimate degree. Even when you think the maximum level has been reached, they'll find a new way to extract more from users.
People who are granted access to opportunities based on DEI and not on merit will be forever indebted to the DEI power structure and will aid them in their long march through the institutions by loyally doing whatever it takes to increase and ensure their political power. They claim that their is a conspiracy against DEI and they are just rebalancing the scale and this is why there are different scores on standardized tests, etc. They say the only way for you to get justice is to give political power to the DEI hierarchy and ignore their crimes and corruption and prosecute to the maximum extent those who want to do things based on merit.
> The Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa south-west of Reykjavík, announced it would close its doors on Thursday for a week

This is temporary, not permanent. Short of the whole thing being swallowed by a lava fissure there's no way they will close Iceland's most famous tourist trap.
What they should be bound to is making "temporary-but-not-really" staff, just staff. But for that, strong unions are necessary, and US unions have been very week for decades (especially w.r.t. rate of unionization and centralization of power away from rank-and-file workers).
Every single streaming service will eventually converge on showing the same amount of ads consumers have shown they're willing to put up with, and that's the amount of ads that are shown on cable TV. That's about 3 to 7 minutes of ads per 30 minute block[1].

Not showing ads is leaving money on the table, and streaming services are like any other company, they will need continuous return on investment no matter what. They will eventually get that return by showing ads[1], shareholders will demand it.

Look at Hulu, Netflix and YouTube. They all show ads now. Netflix previously didn't show ads and now does. Hell, I can't watch a 20-minute YouTube video without watching several minutes of ads.

These services' actual clients are the entities that have million/billion dollar advertising budgets, and not individual customers who pay a paltry monthly fee. Even if services start with no/minimal ads to get their foot in the door, they will eventually have to take their advertising partners' money, and those partners will want to show ads.

[1] https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/ad-supported-streaming-serv...
Which afaik has an expired certificate. Let's not act like anyone outside the hn and og reddit bubble uses it
How is it an own goal? They were bleeding money, so tried to find a way to succeed through growth of users or revenue.

The path where they just left everything untouched is a path to certain failure.
This isn't printer ink, this is somebody working for you full time who you don't want to call an employee because it's cheaper not to.

The idea is that if you treat somebody like an employee, they're an employee, and that idea was allowed to be hollowed out. If companies participate in certain shunning rituals they're allowed to keep those same cheap employees.

The purpose of the ruling wasn't to allow companies to operate in an identical way with identical costs, just meaner. It's not even a perverse incentive resulting from the ruling. It's that we've decided that only superficial, administrative features define an employment relationship, and so long as those rituals are adhered to, the fact that you work full time completely under the control of someone for years on end is not sufficient. There's no limit to the indirection, you may not have ever met your "actual" employer.

This is not an accidental outcome, this is an efficient outcome. It could be ended by government, but for the people who pay the people who work in government, it's ideal.
Native Replication of Postgres Geospatial Data
Sadly any capitalistic company fails for the same exact reasons. They can't continue making more and more money every quarter, so they call it a failure and give up. To these company's, having a stable business is worse than having a failed business. Because a least a failed business can be sold off for parts.
One more reason to use the bicycle.
> You can just kill the process instead.

> Before gently laying this process to rest we would just like to have a minute of your time to gather some information so we can provide our customers with a better service. [Ten question survey follows]
this is definitely one of those "well, they were asking for it" defense situations. literally. they provided me a free form text box asking for my opinion. only an ID10T would expect anything less
This is in Europe: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/contractors-accuse-eur...

A very similar-sounding caste-system. Europe’s great and all but it isn’t Utopia.
Shattering on the floor shouldn't be normal for a device you carry around. Apple fooled you into thinking glass was a premium material.
I really want to know this, too.
Can you describe the fees of those tickets?

Stupid invented fees are what flipped the "never again" switch for me. Every step of the buying process, there'd be a new fee tacked on. You'd get things like "order processing fee, $20, facility fee, $10, service fee, $23, digital copies fee, $10, fee to see what all the fees add up to, $20".

You'd end up spending $120 on a pair of tickets, and $500 on invented fees that any sane person would have a very difficult time justifying.
> host forums

Some of their discussion forums are incredibly toxic though, seeming to have no effective moderation.

Baldurs Gate 3 and Starfield spring to mind as clear examples, though it wouldn't surprise me if there are even worse ones around.
I keep using Berkeley Mono! That font is just perfect!
This font and the styles are a bit wonky for me...