skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it got to the point where it replaced the feature set of Adobe XD, and it remained free and open source, I could see this being useful. It took me a while to get the hang of Figma, and sometimes you don't need that sophistication at the very early stage.
Yeah I read that, and for the folks that believe it - please note that I’m currently running a Holiday Spacial for several famous bridges
I know someone who had what can only be described as a nightmare scenario from using couchsurfing. I don't know many of the details, and not something I want to pry into, but she was essentially kidnapped, trapped in a house, and had her passport stolen by the host in a foreign country where she didn't speak the language and on her first trip overseas. This was also before smart phones were just commonplace such that everyone had one.
I will fire up my heater that burns used oil thinking about you today.
That's nothing in comparison to what we get in Switzerland. I went to a public parking garage yesterday that advertised ev charging spots. I get there and there's just an nfc module. I had to look for and google some logo on the station only to find out that to charge with that provider you need to order a physical badge and pay 50 bucks upfront. That sort of crap is why I don't rely on anything other than Superchargers. And I won't for a long time even after they do get their act together. It's just too much risk.
There's a YouTube channel called 3D6DownTheLine which has video series of two campaigns using OSE (one in Dolmenwood and another in a popular megadungeon). I can't really comment on how close it fits D&D from 30 years ago but it at least seems like it plays like how people describe old-school D&D (more emphasis on player skill and creative problem-solving).

From just watching a little bit of those videos, I think a significant part of the appeal today is that it's much quicker (thinking mainly in comparison to 3.5 since that was my introduction) to roll some attributes, pick a class, and go. It also makes the GM's job easier because they don't need to worry about balancing skill checks when the game doesn't even have skills.
Population density relative to population. The US is not dense. There are legitimately strategies that will not work for us given some of our "large population centers" are actually pretty tiny when considering hpw developed we are. This is also why the US has 3rd world problems like issues getting water and electricity to some citizens. The population density in some states can drop very very low and we have a lot of people on those low density areas. It becomes a horrible last mile problem.

Honestly, I'd like to hear from Canadas and Australians about the rural experience. They have the same density problems and I think their solutions are nore relevant. That said, I'm not really a fan of the outcomes from Canada, so who knows maybe high population, low density is just a bad hand for a country in this context.
That's the reason I personally avoid Nostr. I know it's unfair because Nostr itself is actually a cool protocol that has nothing to do with bitcoin, but the stench of that is hard to wash off. I wouldn't want to build something that becomes associated with bitcoin just because of the name of the protocol.

It's like whenever there was a reddit/twitter/etc alternative some years ago following outrage, it'd get flooded with some of the worst people on the internet. Voat comes to mind as a pretty competent reddit clone that had potential, until it got overrun with nazis/racists and other kinds of losers. I was very close to releasing an app for that one, but abandoned it once it became clear the direction the userbase was going.
Wish I could motivate my mom. She's quite overweight and she even agrees she needs to lose it, but she just wont exercise or stop buying sweets and snacks. My father and I have told her we're happy to go without that stuff in the house but she still buys it. Whenever she eats the stuff she has some excuse.

I've tried to teach her the IIFYM approach so she can still enjoy treats but she resists and insists that 'intermittent fasting' (eating almost nothing on Monday and Wednesday) has been succeeding for her. She'll lose two pounds and celebrate, then gains it back.
if you follow the money, it is pretty easy to connect the dots - ask yourself - who benefits the most, and makes the most money keeping people fat, and on lots of drugs?
One of the side effects of printing $4T+ in new money is an increase in dealmaking.

Most of the new money was poured into the top of the system and it had to go some where, investors threw much of it towards the tech industry as it seemed they could at least keep working and where potentially building businesses that would boom during such a massive a pandemic response.

The recent drop in dealmaking is important and newsworthy. I think the point being made above was simply that reporting seems to ignore the context of how this year's investing compares to 2019 before the massive influx of inflationary cash rolled in.
Thanks! Your kind words just made my whole day. I appreciate that even when people disagree they can be civil.
I have looked and I don't buy it. I think any realistic transition to a single payer healthcare system in the United States is going to result in us still being the most expensive health care system in the world for lots of complex downstream consequences reasons. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. It means we should just embrace paying the most to get the highest quality product instead of pretending that the goal should be to somehow be less expensive than everyone else while still getting the best care. It's unrealistic. You get what you pay for.
Surely food companies will just stand idly by as their revenues drop 20-30%

Surely they wouldn’t figure out a way to produce even less nutritious, less satiating, more flavorful (and therefore calorically dense) foods, would they?
Doesn’t sharing your pub code also kind of build a network of “proof” this is you? As in sure Billy knows its you but so will a court have that same evidence, making denial “thats a spoofed message” harder.
> used "EU" as umbrella term to mean the institutions and national governments

I.e. "the people", according to the various national constitutions. Unless you're actually stating that all EU governments have never represented their electorate for over 50 years, which is a bit of an extraordinary claim, your original point is fundamentally baseless.

> EU law extensively governs these aspects as well.

That's basically not true. The Dutch government can and does, for example, tax non-Dutch citizens extra amounts for healthcare, and/or remove them from the country. It can, and does, regulate how the non-Dutch can rent or buy property and where. The only thing it cannot do is stopping people from entering the country from another member country to look for a job, or stop them from getting such job. Everything else is fair game.

> And here we have it. The usual blurb

Please read what I wrote, not whatever strawman you wish I had written.

> We could divide immigration by 10 [...] and still get the real, actual "talent".

Note that I said talent and labor. You need basic labor to grow as much as you need advanced talent. Even Japan imported Iranian laborers during the stagflation years, effectively just to maintain the levels they already had. That's a simple function of increased wealth: the more people get wealthy, the less they want to break their backs doing hard jobs. So you either push up wages around the board, with massive inflationary pressures which will make everything even worse, or you import some basic labor. That doesn't mean 700k, obviously, but realistically it doesn't mean 1k either.

> They are used to hide the decline of the UK economy

I think you overestimate the strategic abilities of UK politicians. They are just incompetent buffoons propped up by propaganda based on obsoleted assumptions and lies, without any real ideological horizon.
The system you describe is common for Europe and it is not perfect, but you would still pay more if the American model of healthcare would be in place. European system can be fixed by some country-specific tweaks, American system can only be replaced.
Building a tiny Web server, with dB and stuff was the subject of an old FOSDEM talk.
Yes. There are many companies and technologies out there which made little sense but had money dumped in it because it was cheap to do so. Cryptocurrency is one example
Well, if you follow ther IHRA's definition of antisemitism that says "criticism of the state of Israel is considered antisemtic". Germany adopted that. But there are other definitions of antisemtism. The jerusalem declaration of antisemtism for instance.

Btw: Israel is currently governed by an ultra-right fascist government with members like Ben Gvir (convicted terrorist), Smotrich, and the likes. They have incited pogroms (says the IDF) or have openly called for annexing all of West Bank. So criticism of this government is--according to IHRA--antisemtic.
I took up swing dancing (originally Lindy Hop and now Balboa). I'm a very different and much happier person as a consequence. YMMV.
Well, the fact that this stuff still makes it to the front page of hacker news and generates this very discussion right here proves them right. After all, media is not about providing information. It's a business to generate income by grabbing your attention.
Technically it was a house, so he was just ahead of the work-from-home era.
You tape a meter long piece of easily visible string to the middle of the disc underside. (e.g. that shiny packet-wrap thing you use for christmas presents). Then your disc will be under the snow but at the end of the string.
From their About Page...

Mission Focus Areas

Crafting broad-ranging solutions with immediate impact.

Might want to have the PR dept take a look at that wording.
I detest these types of arguments. People renting multiple apartments may be a part of the problem but surely the main cause is an undersupply of housing. Homelessness is not caused by this person renting multiple units.

It’s like when SF kept reminding that I needed to ask for a water refill because we need to conserve water while farms in the Central Valley are using the majority of it.
Profits are a strong incentive to innovate. We should subsidize those profits but not do it the stupidest possible way by making consumers pay insane drug prices.
Correct. And as a result of underfunding it's also underskilled. Not that those that have not yet left the system are not capable of performing, but rather those that are new are not the best - who would want to work in a system that underpays and overworks? Literarily all students I know studying medicine wish to stay away from the NHS and work in private health care. When speaking to foreign prospect students in my network I get the impression that studying in the UK is the running joke - both in pay prospects and tuition quality.

I really really wish the british public would reflect more on understanding how corruption works, because "government that hates public services and would like us to move to a monstrously inequitable but profitable US-style system" is precisely that.

Constantly demanding higher taxes to patch the system is one of the means the public is steered towards wanting it to be privatised, yet many fall for it.

> Brexit, which caused many healthcare workers from the EU to leave the country

Turns out european workers were not in demand because they were cheap, but because they had critical expertise. Allowing people to come in and work on equal terms and equal pay meant attracting the best and the brightest. Now the system attracts the desperate, willing to work for nothing and providing quality comensurate with pay.

And this is reflected in all areas of life in the UK, private or public. The number of times I had to correct my lawier, solicitor, doctor, mechanic, plumber, and electrician, is ridiculous. Take this as a cry for change as I love this country.
> i get two MRIs a year

If I may ask a personal question, why?
"because med school is just so expensive"

Doesn't the US also require that people study medicine as a second degree? That can't help with the costs...

e.g. Here in the UK you can go straight from high school to study medicine at university.
It’s actually similar in the USA but quite hard to hit the amount of the exemption.
This seems somewhat pedantic to distinguish surveillance capitalism from surveillance marketing or for profit surveillance.

Modern capitalism is tending towards large, powerful corporations and there are important network effects/economies of scale which drive pervasive surveillance. If you want to argue that this isn’t surveillance capitalism because capitalism can take many forms I’m not sure that’s especially enlightening.
> so that my nephews would have cousins to hang out with.

That is a very weird reason to have lots of children, unless you were speaking in jest. If you do decide to have many children, I hope it'll be for more than the mirth of your nephews.
Let's nuke the moon to solve Global Warming lol

love it
Pricing Americans with finite-difference
Question from someone who doesn't know anything about architecting services that require fault-tolerance: are those hours or days-long delays tolerable in transaction/request processing applications? If so, what would be the benefit of transferring a live VM to retain capacity, versus simply starting a new instance from scratch?
That's not really a prediction of 2024 as much as an explanation of what I've already seen in the tech startup world in 2023.

Hiring has slowed for many and paused for some, and the focus already had to shift from how to show growth to how to show revenue.
Maybe in US, in many other countries being a tech worker isn't a guarantee of having a secure job.
This is a great idea. Single-video pose estimation has just become decent hasn't it? I guess the problem is the "matching" of the two pose animations to give the minimum difference.
Decentralization does not mean anarchy. The discipline and the laws come from the bottom up. Also, they are usually better than the ones imposed by a central planner because they can be developed faster and within the context of the social norms and culture of the people who are subject to it.
I suspect they are slowly making 4 worse so that when they launch 5 it will appear so much better than 4
In addition to what’s already said in other comments, in some cases in Germany you don’t even pay for your insurance. It can go as part of your unemployment benefit, included in the insurance of your spouse at no extra cost or payment can be suspended while you are on parental leave and have no income.
If they have the same combined population, then it’s not misleading. There are no other first world countries with 300 million people, so it’s pretty obvious that the comparison is with the combined 6 countries.
Yep. https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

We spend more via taxes than any other country spends total... and then we tack private spending on top of that. We've picked the least efficient, worst aspects of both types.
I spent 11 years at university and came out with a medical degree and a couple of others for ~100k AUD, whilst also receiving government assistance whilst studying. The for profit education sector and price inelastic nature of demand have a lot to answer to
I've lived in Canada with its vaunted universal healthcare system. While it sounds great on paper, in practice it means you'll wait forever for appointments.
>> Well, physicians have to be paid accordingly for their time and financial investment... Baker estimates that the salaries of the roughly one million doctors in the U.S. account for about eight percent of total healthcare spending.

This is exactly the attitude as to how American costs are out of control. If American healthcare budget was halved (which is still much more per person than other nations), then physician salaries would be 16% of the total. If American healthcare budget was a quarter of its current total (in line with many other nations spending), then physician pay would be 1/3 (32%) of the entire spend!

Clearly, if American healthcare is going to see a 1/2 or even 3/4 cost cut as the proponents of universal/single payer healthcare predict, then physician pay must take a similarly massive cut.

Just as you can find reasons why physicians cannot take a pay cut, so too can every slice of the pie claim that their slice is valid and uncuttable.
Built environment causing sedentary (and socially atomizing) life and cost of care seem like the two biggest issues. I think we should just start solving both instead of debating which is 1 and which is 2.
Getting rid of centralized moderation and unilateral censorship is not the same as "getting rid of moderation, bro".
I don't think they were implying something is inherently wrong with agencies. My interpretation of their comment is that 'agencies' who sell assembling plug-and-play UI kits are not the same as 'agencies' who design and build bespoke products from scratch.
This wasn't a big refactor to be honest. It was just a recursion which ChatGPT suggested to be replaced with an iterative approach. This is why I've asked the question, as maybe I'm not setting the right context. I've provided regexes that were overflowing, etc.
Warped incentives and we sit in cars for roughly 100% of the time that other civilizations spend walking
Sadly, you are 100% correct. Once our American brothers wake up the down-votes will start pouring in.

The numbers are inflated because you get charged hundreds of dollars for an aspirin tablet in an emergency room and thousands for a 10 minute ride in an ambulance. What is particularly sad is that to the rest of the world this is absolutely insane but if you try to explain this to Americans they'll tell you they don't want no stinking communism. It's fascinating how deeply indoctrinated this nation is.
I don't think the two things are comparable.

Germany is religiously pro-Israel and any attempt to bring more nuance into it than "Israel good, terrorists bad" is seen as antisemitism. This also nicely fits with the idea that antisemitism is mostly a problem of Muslim immigrants or of the political left (to be clear: the dishonest framing of the NSDAP as a "left-wing" party is largely an American thing so this is entirely about the conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism, not about labelling the left as Nazis).

The problem with Covid was that although Merkel initially talked about following the evidence, the start of the pandemic fell right into the leadup to election season and she had already made it clear that she did not want to run for another term and this created an additional internal struggle for the positions of both chancellor candidate and leader of the party. This resulted in the various minister presidents of the Länder (states) to use the pandemic to demonstrate their political savvy which was made worse by the federal system delegating various decisions to the individual Länder rather than allowing the federal government to call these shots.

In the end the response to COVID in Germany was a mixture of overly draconian measures (e.g. banning meetings between different households even in the open, making demonstrations illegal and shutting down playgrounds) and ineffective half-measures (e.g. appealing to "personal responsibility" and letting schools figure out their own hygiene rules without giving them a budget). This also played into the existing Q-Anon-adjacent movement (the second largest one internationally after the US), anti-vaxxers and other fringe extremist groups like the German monarchist-flavored sovereign citizen Reichsbürger movement giving rise to the ("non-partisan") Querdenker or Querfront movement which was primarily focused on COVID denialism but used it as a jumping off point for various conspiracy theories and New Age beliefs. This movement in turn saw a surprising amount of popularity with celebrities and thus resulted in anyone opposed to any anti-COVID measures for any reason to be lumped in with the movement, much to its benefit. The Querfront movement seamlessly moved on to being a "peace movement" in opposing the military support of Ukraine against the Russian invasion, although this incidentally quieted down after the EU sanctions against Russia forced Russian state media to pull out of most European countries.

The problem with getting info on Gaza from Twitter however is that Twitter is now filled to the brim with disinfo and misinformation. While the pro-Israel propaganda is mostly easy to spot because it originates with the IDF or Israel government affiliated accounts, the anti-Israel propaganda is mostly spread by random people for engagement and clout.
Getting that first appointment for a specialist can definitely have a long wait time. It took me 1 year to get in with a specialist to see my daughter diagnosed. I was was several waitlists trying to see any doctor. Granted this is the worst it'll ever be because covid caused a backlog, but I'm told by other parents they had to wait 3 months. It took me 3 months to get that first appointment with mu specialist too.

Now after I've seen that doctor once? Now I can make almost same day appointments and I have access to staff nurses for basic questions, etc. But yeah the wait for specialists can be long. It's usually not for generalist specialists. Like I saw a neurologist within a week, but the really specialized neurologist I got recommended out to was a 3 month wait.
Isn't that also visible downstream with Chinese companies enroaching into US markets to the point where bans need to be instated to protect stagnating US companies?

Just a decade back it would be unthinkable to have Chinese companies compete on anything besides cheapness against US tech.
Your native tongue holds a special place in your brain
Yeah, I know but still had no time to dive into the theory enough to get a correct intuition of how it works on why there's no guarantee for a physically correct solution... Fortunately, my colleagues are the professors in my university who teach these, so I'll find an answer :-)
That concept breaks down with the multiple thousands of default key bindings in a typical Emacs setup (source: go into an org buffer press C-h b, then go to a Python buffer and press it again, and so on)
Praise, Criticism, and Dialogue
Physical and sexual abuse are not exclusive (or even nearly so) to family...
I had a similar experience with tool-assisted speedruns! Videos were huge and had terrible quality, but I could just download a small "movie" file for an emulator and watch the game play itself with superhuman skills.
The page that you've linked for France says: "Total cost for the employer: 4970 EUR (142 % of gross salary)", so it's a lot more than what you say...

Those 22% you mention is extra cost for employees, on top of the gross salary (in Croatia that's called gross1, while the actual total amount for employees is called gross2)
For those having issues , here is one that works with cloudflare dns: https://web.archive.org/web/20231219133912/https://www.theat...
> How is this any different from phone lines,

Its not, apart from currently, there is a plurality of providers for delivery.

Obviously that doesn't exist for most utilities. In the states, that causes significant problems
I'm going to quote from a recent FT article that I felt was pretty succinct https://www.ft.com/content/cb93c040-a719-446f-9ec2-9ead9f130...:

>[On women having children] There is no other job in the world about which people in polite society would say, “Sure, it comes with a heavy hit to your career earnings, there’s still a risk that you might die doing it, but don’t worry...
How long does it take to get you appointments here? I have waited months for simple items. I'm already waiting as long as my Canadian friends for simple things, but paying way more.
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