skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bangla and… dunno the other one (Assamese?)
Such as?

I’m genuinely asking for examples. I’ve embarrassed myself quite often in French, yet haven’t much in English.

* neither are my mother tongue
> Why with single payer would there not still be instances of treatment being denied?

Typically no - what treatment is used might be different, but that treatment is needed and will be supplied is not usually up for discussion.

> Would this not be replaced with faceless automata in government?

In 29 years living in a single-payer system I've never needed to do this. The government does not get involved in healthcare, they just fund it.
PrivateGPT is one of the better-known examples, but most people are not aware that GPT4 Assistants handle RAG natively now: https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/overview
It's a matter of personal preference and/or which one you've learnt to live with first.

I like how Ruby's imports work - just load a file, similar to C. On the other hand, modules in Python always felt like something to overcome rather than "just works as you expect".
But faster than you can imagine, the next requirement comes in: OR filters!

bicycles that are (made of steel AND weigh from 10 to 20kg) OR
(made of carbon AND weigh from 5 to 10kg)

Hmm.. I don't know if this is a good example. I have been in the product search space for almost 10 years now and that feature request never came up. And I cataloged thousands of feature requests users had about product search interfaces.

In the rare case users do something like this, they usually use two tabs. One, where they compare steel bikes and one where they compare carbon bikes.

It makes sense, when you think about the frontend implications. Users are very used to checkboxes and range sliders. The user would check "steel" and set the range slider to "10-20". Now how do they expect to duplicate the sliders and the checkboxes to construct the alternative configuration? They open the page in a new tab and use the alternative settings in that tab.
Your system, including subsystems, must have a filter for prohibited words, like n-word, f-word, etc. It's very easy to add another one. That could be another subsystem which very few people have access to. I suspect there are different subsystems. One strait with explanations, another shadow without. The second is something nobody talks about in public as it's difficult to explain, may be even illegal. The same way unwanted talks are being suppressed on other portals. Note, it's independent of recommendations system, which can be played with by assigning scores to words and phrases. Engineers who build those systems don't need to know how exactly they are used and what are the key words.

I can give you a first hand example. One big sh*ty bank didn't let me see my accounts if I refused to activate a debit card. After login they showed a message box, when I pressed 'cancel' they logged me out hoping I will 'click through' to get access. This way they didn't have to explain and could claim it was a bug. It lasted for months till I closed all accounts and they confirmed, but actually didn't do it. What I mean by this is don't expect big company to play nice.
I've a similar way of interacting with the API of my product but instead keep everything prefix notation (lispy) so for example;

"and": [
{
"property": "material",
"operator": "equals",
"value": "carbon"
},

Would be;

["and", ["=", "material", "carbon"], ...]
To each their own, I guess. After working with python/lua, I really appreciate not needing to do manual imports all over. I'm glad ruby makes this so easy :)

Oh, and not needing __init__.py files in order to import something. Goodness, what an absolute pain.
Xenogears is by far the best JRPG on the SP1

I'd put Vagrant Story, Chrono Cross, and maybe Final Fantasy Tactics too, I've never had a chance to play it though.

Suikoden II, Suikoden, Final Fantasy 7+9 WOuld be next for me.

Final Fantasy VIII is just weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1njLpZDfUCQ&list=PLihy8fVYWA...
When I say "but file descriptors are good" I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model is the goal.

I don't believe "object-oriented" has any concrete meaning, so I have a hard time interpreting what you mean by that. Window's HANDLE * is good though, and I recall in some cases NT made some things handle-based ahead of Linux / BSDs doing so. (e.g. is `NtCreateFile` older than `openat`? Maybe?)

Powershell is nicer than bash, but doesn't PowerShell run on linux? I would think the integration with a proper standard library and language runtime (C#'s, CLR) is more important than what the system calls look like.

No downvote from me :)
Sure longer then 4 years ans still shorter in total and still the whole higher part of it is on point rather then random.

They don't have 7 years long programs.
No it's deffinately not as easy as that. You need to manage those servers, manage the updates, security patches, roll out updates to the game server... Because it will need updates because things break or need security updates etc. Managing things like that means it needs to be within the existing infrastructure.
Imagine with every old game they just threw up an ec2 and left it rotting, they'd have hundreds of out of date servers running vulnerable software, it would be a nightmare.
> they probably used it for medium-range weather forecasts

in europe
This article is indeed a bit boosterish, but the negative responses seem disproportionate to me.
In theory you could transport the fluid like gasoline so you could charge it in some central facility the equivalent of a refinery, but then you'd need it to be transported both there and back.

The better solution is presumably to charge the used fluid directly at the fueling station using a grid connection, though that does have some issues. What happens if the used fluid out of some random car is contaminated with something?
If the majority of debt was going towards infra, building new factories or improving old ones, reducing cost of housing/health/edu of workers, its all cool. But for a long time now, a mega machine exists that diverts it towards real estate asset inflation, stock market asset inflation, monopoly power consolidation, interest and rent collection, financial sector fees, buying national assets of poorer countries, startup ponzi schemes etc etc. The parasite is fantastic at generating lot of activity. The question for the US has always been how will the parasite be confronted and when.
I believe with version 3.3 Ruby is back in a big way! The language focused on developer happiness and derided for its slowness is slow no more.

YJIT is an amazing technology, and together with other innovations like object shapes and various GC optimizations, Ruby is becoming seriously fast! Big Ruby shops such as Shopify [1] have been running 3.3 pre-release with YJIT and reporting double digit percentage performance improvements.

Personally I'm really excited about Ruby and its future. I can't wait to start working with Ruby 3.3 and using it on my client's production sites...

[1] https://railsatscale.com/2023-09-18-ruby-3-3-s-yjit-runs-sho...

Edit: add percentage to performance improvements.
That's awesome. Any idea why he doesn't just supersede Sidekiq with that? I spent quite some time hacking my own solution.

I just looked at the source, I guess Mike has been mostly working on both projects on his own for the last 4 years, so Faktory has a lot of features that require the enterprise license.

I wonder if he could change the situation it he markets a bit more to the python and more specifically Django community.
> we just need to trust authorities. (Including you!)

That's not actually what I'm saying at all. They're not putting 100% trust in one authority. They're putting a very small amount of trust in millions of others. It's nonsense to say that someone who has never independently replicated Eratosthenes's test doesn't really know the world is round. That's absolute nonsense. Of course they do. The individual tiny pieces of evidence -- yes, including maps and videos and pictures -- form a complete whole that can only be explained by a round Earth. The probability that millions of people are conspiring to deceive them is much much lower than the probability that we're all simulated brains in a twisted alien experiment, or other such crazy hypotheticals. Humans are capable of piecing together reality from millions of data points without needing a White Man In A Lab Coat to tell them. It is not irrational for someone to believe the Earth is round without being able to devise an experiment to prove it. These people are being logical in believing that, and walking around with your upturned nose telling them they're stupid because they can't "justify" their beliefs is not helping scientific literacy in the world.
Indeed, I can take days and sometimes even weeks off fixing things in Lunar, those hours do add up. I still spend a significant amount of those days answering support emails and Discord chats though, there’s just so much an FAQ can help in highly specialized monitor setups. It also took 2 years of 8-12h work days to reach this state of quasi-stability.

And it was my choice to build more apps and continue spending that earned free time writing code instead of using it all for outside stuff. Mostly because I still need more money to buy my own place.

But you’re right, in the end everything will add up and I’ll hopefully have my own place and I’ll be left with enough free time and some of those apps will still sell well enough to make a living. Compound growth is real here, I’ll be getting a lot more worth than $120/hr.
Merry Christmas to everyone here and their families!
This is asking users to generate SQL code client-side, parses the SQL server-side to make sure it's safe, and then generates new SQL for some reason. This seems needlessly complex, requiring more logic on the client side, and putting a lot of trust in the server-side validator. The examples also use non-parametrised SQL, which means the client needs to know how to correctly escape values, and the database might fail to optimise queries. I see no benefits and many disadvantages compared to a simple JSON structure, even if it's custom: it's trivial to generate and parse, it can be used with an ORM, and the server will probably use parametrised SQL, because that's easier than the alternative.
I don’t understand why you’d go to the enormous trouble of extending the syntax when you can write it with perfectly normal syntax. A value-with-unit is, after all, just a scalar multiplied by the unit, and I suppose this would work with the underlying library pint:

>>> speed = 5*meters/second
>>> (2 * seconds) * speed
10 meter

Given the ecosystem problems and other problems extending the syntax gets you, I don’t get why you’d do this at all, when all it gets you is the ability to write ' ' instead of '*'.
Trade volume between Russia and India exceeded over $40B of this year
That's Kabuki theatre, but they are that way also thanks to the immense popularity of shōnen manga, aimed at young boys, where the main storytelling device is "tell, don't show".

As someone that wanted to get into anime and Japanese media in their 30s, this characteristic has majorly turned me off from the most anime, manga-derived games and JRPGs. I just cannot stand their lack of subtlety and nuance in writing.

It is a major and understated expression of the Western-Eastern cultural divide. In the Western world adults tend to appreciate sophisticated stories, maybe too much so, while, from what I understand, the traumatic break from happy school life to overly-rigid business Japanese culture is the reason why even grown adults tend to find refuge in late teen/school-age drama. Most Japanese animated media is made of, but not strictly for, 17 year olds in their senior year of high school fighting the universe and God himself.
SeaMonkey for irc/mail/web browsing, dokuwiki for personal notes, emacs for code editing.
It was somewhat surprising to see the author come up with "we need standardized interfaces between actors" rather than "we solve this with public healthcare for everyone".

But to be fair, you can easily get lost in bureaucracy in public healthcare too, and private health insurance exists in countries with public health too.
This has been an awful year for me. Unable to find work, having to sell off important assets. And for some reason iOS autocorrect is still terrible.

Here's to hoping next year will be better.
No one is going to argue against using common sense to validate statistics and their underlying assumptions.

But replacing statistics with “common sense” is just nonsense. Humanity has come to the point it is now, not by following “common sense” but by following science. And that’s more often than not basically statistics.
There's very unlikely to be a general way to interview people that will fit everyone. These kind of cases happen, but how often? 1% of people? 10% of people?

I'm guessing it's far less prevalent than some people seem to think, and that unfortunately, there's no good general system for solving this.
Strange: not one mention of how flammable old film can be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose#Nitrate_film_fi...
> limited-profit arm.

This is another one of those recent buzzwords that mean nothing. Like oil conglomerates making "green energy" donations and calling themselves low carbon emitters.
With SQLite in the browser via WASM, and the sync technology that's available for that (ElectricSQL (I work on this), CR-SQLite, Sqlsync), webapps are increasingly using SQL in the UI layer to a local DB. It's only one step further to then have a multi-modal app that uses SQL to query the server database for non-synced data.

I'm expecting raw SQL to replace the API for a whole class of apps.

Throw in an event sourcing architecture for server side processing and you have a single SQL based API for all operations.
why did this get flagged? it’s not first time I feel like flagging got out of control. either do it right or just leave it be.
> using SQL has been despised by people for the longest time, probably for good reasons at the time.

Don't be too quick to assign rationality where its absence will do. If SQL has been despised it's quite possible the reasons have never been any good.
It seems the engine supports it as a target, even with NEON extensions
>doing something that you feel it has no purpose in the real world

Bingo! In fact, i've been doing custom dev for my entire career and i developed an instinct that instantly tells me a good client from a bad one. If something clearly has no purpose in the real world, is an absurd bullshit, then i know it's a good project and worth taking. That's just how business works, a natural law of competition: if something makes any sense and provides any value to people, there will be a lot of talented, energetic people doing it so competition will be insane => no money to be made.

After all, it's all just a game, in the end of which money either falls on your account or it doesn't. It's not supposed to make any sense in the first place, otherwise it's no longer a job, it's a hobby.
Emacs is metaprogrammable. vim is a good modal editing system. And if you're really asking, yes, you can have both. Look up "evil-mode" for Emacs.

I can use one without the other, though they work well when combined too. Like peanut butter and chocolate.
Dear back end web engineers: how would you describe back end work?
Hello you all.
I find backend web engineering interesting especially the infrastructure such as http and tcp protocols, key value stores, cache, message queues and so on.
I’ve done some toy web services but personally and I’m curious about the event driven nature of node. I find node actually interesting. I have tried Django but don’t find Django intellectually stimulating at all.

So could you tell me what you do as a backend engineer and what are the challenging and interesting problems you have to solve?

I have googled this of course but I get the same crap so I’d like to ask people here because I think I’ll get better answers. Thanks for your time. Merry Christmas
Q1: Aren't the games flawed, because you can't lose anything?
Q2: And why doesn't wealth give you an advantage and poverty a disadvantage?
Q3: how will it turn out with more random/unequal stakes?
Q4: What if the stakes are not infinitely created out of nothing, but taken from a limited shared pool, and the players know that?
I know, it depends on whether the churches are on Gregorian or Julian calendar.
Intrigued by the title, Moslems read The 99 names of God.
Every few weeks or so the last decade, someone has upvoted the question. Always interesting to see the difference between this question and essentially everything else I've ever written.

Thanks for the answer btw, it was enlightening. I can't help but remember the first lines in my mind each time I get the upvote notification ("Drumroll... !").
What you wish upon others, you wish upon yourself.

Afaik most of Ubisoft games were offline singles. Even the game that sparked always online debate AC2 has been offline playable for very long time.

There are ofc online games that were shut down - that's a problem of whole industry.
What is the alternative? Just let the population age?

I would say change the culture to become self sustaining again. The best time to start was yesterday and the second best time is today.
> We surely don't want to have the webshop-frontend send database queries to the backend to get the results.

We don't? Why not?
So does this support native compilation flags or will it break with -march=native like e.g. distcc does?
FWiW Australia used a CDC Cyber 205 for occassional weather modelling and other mathematical work in the early 1980s.

( There was a seperate dedicated weather computer, this one was used for 'other' jobs like speculative weather modelling, monster group algebraic fun, et al.)

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

The UK was the first customer:

In 1980, the successor to the Cyber 203, the Cyber 205 was announced. The UK Meteorological Office at Bracknell, England was the first customer and they received their Cyber 205 in 1981.
Zotero for Android available for beta tests
I’m always so confused when I read about heat pumps online. In Australia we’ve had heat pump based air conditioning for like decades as far as I understand. Using them to cool indoor spaces is almost essential given how hot it gets in some parts of Australia. However I’ve never come across such a system that isn’t what we call a reverse cycle aircon, that is, it can also heat an indoor space. We do have evaporative coolers in places that experience dry heat, those cannot work in reverse of course, but they are not heat pumps either.

What confuses me is that, I could understand if this is uniquely an Australian experience to have this in your home, office and shops, but don’t all modern cars have heat pump air conditioners? They usually don’t reverse to heat the inside space, the car instead just dumps the engine’s heat into the interior space and/or uses resistive heating, but still the technology is exactly the same! It’s just missing one component and configuration that makes it reversible.

Maybe I’m way wrong and it’s a completely different thing but idk

Do you guys have… fridges? Freezers?
To my ears, supply and demand sounds like it makes a lot of sense here. Romania began as a country where most people owned their home, and still is; and it sounds like making the move from owning to renting comes with significant loss of political privileges, like healthcare, apparently. If I didn't speak English and would lose access to healthcare if I sold my house, I probably wouldn't sell it either unless it was absolutely necessary. Hence the supply is low, and when you throw corruption on top of that...

OP, consider moving to a country where renting doesn't turn you into a second class citizen if this really bothers you so much. It's counterintuitive, but you'll probably find the property markets to also be more sane there.
Part of the problem is that direct observations of supernovas is small and indirect. We have small numbers of recorded occurrences to judge from.
Not every country is as badly run as the UK.
Merry Christmas with from Bali
A couple of examples that come to mind is using the wrong verb form, since English has a lot of irregular verbs, and another is mispronouncing words, since there are many words with the same spelling but different pronunciations. And then you have words like "read", which have both characteristics.
Because it protects both users from developers from tivoization (which is increasingly common) and patent trolling.
Clever and clear formulation. Why isn't this seen as a rebuttal of the ontological argument?
I haven't read Finkel's book on Christopher Knight, but other pieces on Knight were discussed here, with distinct tones to the discussions.

Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13878801 - March 2017 (124 comments)

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993 - August 2014 (86 comments)
Somehow I've known about supernovas for many years without realizing that the word and concept "nova" exists as well. It's from the Latin for "new": the appearance of what seems to be a new star, because the star going nova brightened enough to become visible from Earth. (It got picked up from Tycho Brahe describing what we'd now call a supernova, though.)

The mechanism for non-super novas is very interesting: a white dwarf in a binary star system steals hydrogen from the other star, then heats it until it starts to fuse, which blows it all off into space!
Some people were reporting their google account being banned for using adblockers, is not happening or are you not logged in?
Seasonal energy storage (charge in summer and use in winter) with lithium is not feasible.

If the medium would be cheap and could be pumped into arbitrarily large tanks that don’t need constant energy input to hold the charge then this could be an enabler for seasonal storage.

I don’t know whether either of them are true for flow battery (yet).

They are certainly not true for H2. H2 also has atrocious round trip efficiency, not sure about flow either.
They're a bunch of nice pop songs that came from an era where strong label control meant little creativity. Sure they defeated this system, but it's not like this is some grand revolution.

Take Led Zeppelin, who basically spawned an entire subgenre of rock and roll. What genre did the Beatles spawn? What new vibe or style did they introduce? Just a bunch of pop songs. Even their druggie stuff really isn't that great.

In terms of sophistication, is it any of the classical masters? No. It was remarkable given the desert of creativity it appeared in. Are they better than Jazz masters or the like? I'd say no.

Were the Beatles at the forefront of leading a cultural revolution, a fundamental political shift? Sure they were part of the hippy culture, but are the associated with strident antiwar, communal living, or extreme free love? There are many other 60s acts you can point to as more influential.

Christ, even U2 has a more coherent origin story and central focus around antiwar and activism, as bubble gum as their variant is.

The tension in the band isn't even interesting. Just people making bank from pop success and arguing over attribution. The schisms were bland, not even really about ideology. Just ... credit.

When I hear them now on the radio, when I hear them on the radio, it's not like I change the station, but I don't turn up the volume. In the end, they are a pop band that sold a lot of records. Ok, maybe I turn it up for Elenor Rigby, but just a bit.
Sounds like you are you saying the employee signatures were manufactured and we shouldn't trust anything OpenAI says. If so, maybe you should provide the evidence for these claims.