skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah. If it'd be only about the costs - I have a good insurance and decent income, but but I find the overall system very confusing. Five years and I can't say I've figured out how to use it.

Dentists and ophthalmologists - super easy. I pick a place I like (based on location and reviews), I fill a form online (or give them a call if this doesn't work), I tell what I need or want, I make a visit and get full information on what should I do next. Simple as anywhere else in the world.

But the other medical stuff is confusing to me, or makes me have reservations about it.

- The majority of places seem to be affiliated with religious megacorps - they just bought out nearly every other hospital in my area. I'm not a woman, but I'm no fond of contributing to companies who then lobby for medical restrictions based on their religious beliefs.

- Then, there's also a lot of alternative medicine, way more than in any other country I've seen. Holistic, osteopathic, chiropractic, you name it. Yes, I've read that DO in the US isn't exactly a quack who's gonna suggest a manipulation that has a chance of getting a person quadriplegic, but a cheaper way to get a medical degree than an MD (and the osteopathic junk tends to just gets thrown out of the window after graduating), but still - weird. Just something that scratches at the back of my mind.

- Finding a GP is something I still haven't figured out in five years. They always seem to have appointment times in no less than half a year (!) so I'm really not sure how to find one I would like. And I'm still not sure what they do exactly, because I can go to the specialized doctor (like a dermatologist or otolaryngologist) directly anyway - and somehow it's a matter of weeks, not months. I've had a GP which I visited exactly once - should've went for urgent care, but I wasn't aware that's what I needed - then they stopped working at that hospital and I haven't explicitly asked for a new one so the whole relationship just lapsed somehow. In other countries, I went to GPs either for a quick dispatch to a specialist (next-day appointment for "hey doc, I've got $symptoms, can you send me off to $specialist and/or $lab") or for managing (simplifying) routine checkups (them organizing it instead of me running on my own to different labs and specialists). I should figure out the routine stuff, but still haven't - must be that the whole system operates on some unspoken rules, and I'm just unaware about it because I grew up elsewhere.

At least the urgent care works in a way I understand.
I don't know about that, but there was also the idea that optimising the code would take longer than waiting for hardware to catch up – this was known as "the free lunch".
Great read.

Stories like this put in perspective people that are moaning about tech debt... by which they mean some functions written a year ago in a style they dislike.
first thing it does is force me to sign up for an account? that's a no for me, dawg.
Sure. Let's look back at history. Things that changed photography were the Kodak Brownie, 35 mm photography, the digital revolution and camera phones. So basically affordable image taking devices. If the device used to view the content is priced like the Vision Pro is, looks like scuba equipment and weights more than a pound, I quite doubt it would have much of an impact.
> For added irony, the coordinator had taken on a native name and touted her native ancestry. But it was later revealed that she was Caucasian.

This isn't the first time and there should be no excuses for that. It is racism and sanctioned racism by large companies. That certainly includes Microsoft and Github, which are quite leading with this bullshit.

Even if there are unresolved issues, corporate leadership champions putting those issues on the shoulders of other people so they suffer this toxicity too.
The original star has an "event horizon" in the sense of a Schwarzschild radius which would be interior to rhe star's full radius. The black hole's event horizon would be smaller in diameter than the original star simply because so much mass would have been ejected away.
I want my machine to just work, not being another programming environment and Macs give me that.

> you don't get grey screens of death regularly, it doesn't send tons of telemetry back to the mothership, and you don't have to reset the PRAM and SMC every goddamn week just to get the thing to boot.

I’ve been using Macs only for 5 years straight and have no idea what you’re talking about.

Also, shortcuts on Mac just make sense, unlike Windows and Linux.
Is this actually a GPU? Ie. can it even render graphics and scan out to a monitor?
This functionality is still there, it was integrated into the standard Google Camera on Pixel devices, as "Panorama". Also the pixel photo gallery has a view mode usable with cardboard style contraptions.
Text-only Usenet shouldn't cost much to host and operate, and close to nothing if rethought to be distributed serverless p2p style, possibly encrypted. I was used in the past to wait ~3 days for my Fidonet post and their replies round trips, I don't think many people would mind waiting a few minutes for their local msg base to sync with the distributed cloud.
Incredible run! Thanks for all the tools you’ve given us. But more importantly all the relentless passion for automation has been very inspiring! Chapeau, sir! All the best in whats next for you.
No it's not. That's not what a reference frame is. Stars in the Milky Way are in approximately the same reference frame as Earth.
You have this backwards. In your example it would have been 48x read and 8x write.
And in another 300 years or so they will leave the solar system again when they reach the Oort cloud, and in another 30000 years or so they will finally leave the solar system for the last time when they leave the Oort cloud
RAG does not guarantee elimination of hallucination it seems. If the foundation model's training outweighs what it is in the external source, it will still hallucinate.

Interestingly ChatGPT-4 gets it right. I tried your first question with ChatGPT-4:

User: what’s the single-engine service ceiling of a Baron 55

ChatGPT: The single-engine service ceiling of a Beechcraft Baron 55 is approximately 7,000 feet. This is the maximum altitude at which the aircraft can maintain a specified rate of climb, usually 100 feet per minute, with one engine inoperative.
Stipulating for the purpose of conversation this claim:

> Four decades of war on the middle class by the elites in America have seen steady ratcheting of less and less thinly veiled racism.

If the former "middle class" feels wronged by rich people, why should they be taking out these frustrations on poor people?
Agree,

4. Someone following a link from HN

I'm often confused when clicking through from HN and can't figure out from the website or README what the project is doing.
Sysadmining your machine doesn’t make you a better developer.
That's a terrible way of framing it because taxes for a corporation are involuntary.
Japanese arcade cabs typically have control panels that can be swapped out with different button layouts to accommodate the particular game in the cabinet at the time. So the same cab can go from accommodating two players side-by-side playing Street Fighter with two sticks and 6 buttons per player, to a setup with three buttons and only one stick for shmups.
Another difference is that we sent Voyager traveling orthogonally to Earth's orbit. Well, not exactly, but you get the point...

> Voyager 1 is now leaving the solar system, rising above the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 35 degrees at a rate of about 520 million kilometers (about 320 million miles) a year. Voyager 2 is also headed out of the solar system, diving below the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 48 degrees and a rate of about 470 million kilometers (about 290 million miles) a year.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/fact...
From the examples in this FAQ, it seems like protected works a bit more like Java's private - you can use it only inside the class, but for any object of that class, not just self, right? (with the exception that it applies to subclasses)

So Ruby's private only allows you to interact with other methods on the current object. Protected allows objects of the same class to send each other the message, but not other classes. Would this be a fair summary?
If you tell me about a supernova that "absolutely shattered" a star, you better be talking about a pair instability supernova or I'm going to be disappointed. I got excited thinking maybe they'd observed one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova
Please include PostGIS
That’s fascinating, and going to send me down a learning hole! I had never before considered speed of sound in space.
You’ve described really narrow embedded niche which has nothing to do with general computing.
I didn't know that the speed of sound in the interstellar medium is 100 km/s. That seems surprisingly high, given that there's more atmospheric material here on the surface of Earth, and the speed of sound is only about 330 m/s.

How can sound travel so fast in the interstellar medium?
If you use bigquery in big lake mode - i.e. with parquet or iceberg or delta files on GCS (or other object store) you can easily pull in the data into duckdb as well
I wondered whether my page had crashed.

I couldn't get anything to work.
Starlark is nice as well, it’s syntactically based on Python, and behaves a lot like regular procedural languages, but it’s meant to provide a pure and safe environment for configuration and be embeddable.
> Compare Dr salaries to other countries. Doctors in the US make 2 to 10 times as much as other counties.

This is slightly unfair if you don't consider the cost and time of becoming a doctor. That is not to say that the AMA doesn't purposely enforce a shortage as an attempt to drive up wages, but many doctors spend the better part of a decade (or more) before they're really earning any reasonable amount, and they have large debts from paying for school.

> Start educating way way way more Doctors

Yes. But that will hurt those who are already doctors somewhat, so there's a strong incentive to limit the pool.

> encourage people to go to low cost universities (which do exist - but everyone wants "the best").

These don't really exist in any reasonable amounts. You also have to consider how much of a doctor's education is outside of a university. And it does make a difference which hospitals you have your rotations and residency at. If you want to be doing EM, you're not going to want to end up in some sleepy town in the midwest where the most that happens is some drunk dude needing his stomach pumped. If you want to end up being in a specific field, your choices tend to be relatively limited in where you can actually get the education and experience you need for that specialty.

Anyways, all that is mostly to say that the healthcare 'system' in the US is a clusterfuck for many interconnected (and entangled) reasons and there is no one simple issue to address.
>Literally, every single announcement (and action) coming out of AMD these days is that they are serious about the software. I don't see any reason at this point to doubt them.

I have a bridge to sell.
In my opinion the main issues are a layer up from that, it's more of a customer experience and brand building exercise to solve by actually improving the tools people use. Today NVIDIA is the default if you want to get work done and not have a lot of tooling issues. Nobody is going to forego that experience to work with flaky slow products from a late number three entrant but that's more or less the perception today. What's weird is they actually have the high ground in an important area: They ship more GPUs than just about everyone and have for a long time, their integrated graphics drivers are pretty good (virtualization!), and they have a deep bench of performance engineering talent. NVIDIA structurally has no way to reach the same volume. Intel with some investment of time could be the most productive platform for AI developers but it would take creativity that is hard in a big company and acknowledging that in that effort they're starting as a distant #3.
>Would you consider “I follow your reasoning, but I'm still not going to be swayed by it” to be a violation of evaluating first order statements? It's clearly part of critical thinking to be _capable_ of suspicion of purely logical reasoning, which to me is a pretty plain demonstration of my point.

In the context of a given axiomatic system, if a certain conclusion follows from the axioms, but the AI is incapable of seeing that the conclusion follows from the axioms, then the AI isn't capable of evaluating first order logic. Of course the AI is free to reject that system of axioms or refuse to use it as a model for formulating behaviour.
> Man, what on Earth has happened to Microsoft?

> It’s not just Edge, Windows is a disaster too

It was always like this, getting in the way of the user.
You can theoretically do the 22 light-hour trip in 1 hour of subjective time if you travel at 99.9% of light speed.

At least if my math is correct (?)

Now, if the time is measured from standing still, it will take a lot longer. At least at accelerations that a human can survive.
Well... when I click on the link it gives a 404 error! :)

Nintendo's lawyers are at it again!
IMO, throwing out more Voyager like probes is not really the next step in humanities evolution towards space. It was a good step in the 70s, but now we're working to the lay the foundation and hope that one day space travel can be nearly routine as air travel is today. Higher volume of launches, bringing down the costs, etc... will allow hundreds and thousands of Voyagers to be sent out aimed at specific, distant locations.

You may dislike Musk, but SpaceX is pushing getting to space forward.
That was a good page. At first I thought "But what is out there, outside the solar system?" under the assumption that there was nothing there. And there is nothing there, but nothing in galactic terms: the entire galaxy is there! And apparently it behaves like a gas, despite its low density.

So although solar wind sounds hardcore, at that distance its pressure about matches that of the nothingness that makes up most of the galaxy. Interesting!
no. it's just a tcp client/server model like any other. your isp probably won't let you host services but that's been the case for decades
Risk is an economic factor and thus applies to software no differently than management and manufacturing. The technical field best at describing risk is security management, but that will be far too heavy to teach risk in isolation.
Wrong reply, please ignore.
No, it's not. None of the equipment and processes involved in the process of going to the Moon or building internet are more sophisticated than the processes involved evolving a human from scratch.

Yes, factual knowledge across generations accumulates, also being lost, too. However, even if it's not lost, the theory still holds true.

Nature is evolving, everything gets better over time. From bacterium to apes to humans. We evolve, accumulate knowledge and being able to build more sophisticated machinery, or tame more complex processes to build more sophisticated things. Even bacteria transfers memories across generations.

However, this doesn't remove the ceiling. Total human knowledge will always be larger and deeper than any A.I. we can create, because the upper limit is always what we can consciously manipulate and put into something. Your next car has the possibility to contain more technology, because we can build more complex factories to manufacture them. Yet, a car can't be more complex/sophisticated than its factory.

Consider a semiconductor fab. You can use the output of that fab to design/create better fab, but the process needs human intervention. Invention of new things are generally necessary. Better processes, optics, hardware, etc.

Another nice example is reprap machines. A reprap can print all plastic parts required for the machine. You need to get metal parts yourself, and assemble them. If you want to be able to print metal parts, machine gets more complicated. So a reprap which can build itself completely is at least sophisticated as the resulting reprap itself, but you need to hand assemble it again.

If you want an assembling reprap, now that thing becomes a factory. Again, the complexity of the product is at most the same as the building machine. You can create better factories which has more streamlined processes, but the gap widens again. The factory becomes more complex than the output.

As a human, you're the factory. Your upper limit is another human. You can create things more complex than a human by using multiple humans, but the creator ends up more complex than the creature itself.

You're moving up the ceiling, that's true, but everything we build is capped by our collective capacity. That's the truth.

A.I. is glorified search. It can wander in the box you create for it and show places you missed inside it, but can't show something outside that box.
And everything is iOS first, lol. Is there anything going for Android except for FOSS scene?
Interesting why? What were the pain points?
Can you back that up a link to said clinical data?
>Both AMD and Intel (and Qualcomm to some degree) just don't seem to get how you beat NVIDIA.

That's simple, just do what Nvidia did. Be better than the competition.
:) Reminded me that i still have node red spinning on my home server handling automations. Without any upgrades for... forever

Integrating IKEA five button remote with Sonos speaker.
Now then.. if I am a professional spammer (which I am not), what stops me from buying a second hand mac or a second hand iphone (for $150 each) and start 'doing business' with iMessage?
Unless it's an issue of 'iPhones can't be JB-ed like Androids can be rooted to run all shorts of malware/spamming softwares'.

I get Apple's "this is our toy, you won't be making $2/month/user on us".

But "keeping the spammers out" it's a bit.. weird..?

Can someone please describe the WHAT is the technical advantage of Android users to spam over iPhone/Mac users to spam.
Everything is possible, especially what they have in mind, where they will do a custom implementation. CUDA is important for the existing ecosystem, but that doesn’t make it the only show in town.
lol. They clearly chose dishonesty.
Same problem with iCloud Photo Library- fantastic app/platform, but incredibly difficult to leave. Things like facial recognition (it's very good), search (by person, year, or subject!) and live video are not easily duplicated in a cohesive package anywhere else. They lock you in with a few subtle features and make you feel like you need to keep it - and they target you where it's personal. Your photos.

Did iCloud Photo Library change photography? I would say not.

Most people take personal pictures with their phone. When you take pictures of your child with spatial video and get that little extra detail, then upsell a product like Vision Pro - you're most likely going to want to get one. You're also not likely to leave the walled garden if you have thousands of photos bundled up in there.

Have you tried to export your photo library from iCloud Photo Library and take it elsewhere? A veritable nightmare. I have tried multiple times and failed. I have over 200GB of photos + videos (almost entirely personal photos with things around me and my family and friends).

- Albums are given to you only in a csv format, not folders or anything useful of the sort.

- Images are dumped all in one folder, not separated by something useful- like YYYY-MM-DD.

- Live videos are dumped as .MP4 and indistinguishable from your normal videos.

- The useful metadata from each photo is not saved 1:1. Comments, any adjustments and edits, etc. Edits just get dumped as another photo. Apple saves a set of metadata on top of the ones that are included with the image EXIF data and there are no EXIF data included with videos. Those stay in iCloud.

I get it: you can't expect Apple to make it easy- but if their product is so good, then they wouldn't make it this hard.
iDisk came out in 2000 and functioned like iCloud Drive has, with local caching, since 2003

It predates Dropbox by almost half a decade
Cool, this means it the end of the occasional Google Groups link to Usenet posts.

This also means many broken links, I hope a solution will be found for this.
> Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown

Fish ? What fish ? /s
They just drowned due to bad weather.
Is it even physically possible to compete with Apple when Apple booked all (90%?) of the next gen manufacturing capacity from TSMC?
For the past ten years I've worked at multiple companies where the engineers were issued Macs. We're talking about four companies and several hundred engineers in total.

And friend, this is nonsense right here:

you don't get grey screens of death regularly, [...]
and you don't have to reset the PRAM and SMC every
goddamn week just to get the thing to boot.

I don't know where you've been working or what the maniacs around you have been doing to your Macs, but I guess I worked with the luckiest ~250 Mac owners in the world because that stuff was not a thing for us.
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It's not really astonishing. People don't usually have knowledge beyond a quick google search. If you google XML, you'll see a lot of negative sentiment about XML specifically related to mid-00s Java frameworks and some people chunk this fact as "XML old and bad". If you google YAML, you'll see that lots of people like using it for relatively simple things (Rails config files...) and some people will chunk that fact as "YAML good".
However, half of people on farcebook are over 60. They must have started in their 40s!
If you didn't say it, the rocks would cry out. Personally, I'll believe AMD is maybe serious about Rocm if they make it a year without breaking their Debian repository.
Ultimately it comes down to Intel and AMD being penny wise, pound foolish. They're unwilling to hire a lot of quality software engineers, because they're expensive, so they just continue to fall behind NVidia.
> Similarly it's rare to see jobs paid 2k Euros/month but get a 3k Macbook from your employer.

My first job (small dev agency) after moving to Amsterdam was all Macs despite peanuts salary.

They regularly offered decommissioned Macs on a big discount, so that brings some return.
Unless their hardware is on the official support list, I wouldn't be too hopeful for a quick resolution. Still, it's even less likely to get fixed if it's not reported.

If nothing else, I would be curious to know more about the issue. Personally, I want to know how well ROCm functions on every AMD GPU.
We randomly have it enabled on our 365 tenant (we're an ms partner) and I tried it the other day for help with a Power Automate script. It had a good stab at the problem but didn't quite get there. Maybe with more experience at both prompting and power automate I would have had better luck with it.
Show HN: ideaNote – Note-taking using Markdown, Scraps, and more
Hi HN,

I created a note-taking app called ideaNote that allows you to create Markdown, Scrap or 2 types of notes.
The problem with this is that CNN is party-run media, so the reporting will be framed as required by the Administration.

What would be far more useful is independent coverage.
Yeah, there used to be ksonnet [0], but it didn't take off. I think the k8s world wasn't ready for the complexity, and wanted something simpler. However, it's definitely more powerful, could be a future solution.

[0] https://github.com/ksonnet/ksonnet