skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious how this strategy updates now that drones make war even more asymmetric. A drone worth $100 can destroy a tank worth $1 million or a helicopter worth $10 millions. It's theorized that a drone swarm can sink an aircraft carrier group, which costs billions of dollars.

New technology used for war such as lasers or AI will only make war even more asymmetric.

So essentially, big-countries can't attack other big-countries because of nukes and MAD (mutually-assured-destruction). Big-countries can't attack small-countries because of asymmetric war. Small-countries can't attack big-countries for obvious reasons. So, the only war left is small-countries vs small-countries.
I assume rockstar didn't pay, so they leaked the source code. Not sure why anything would be delayed because of this.
Really wasnt that bad. Not great. But far from awful.
"non-residents": Did you mean non-citizens? Else, I do not understand the context of this term. Clearly, the OP was talking about living/working in Japan. That would imply residence. Yes, there is national health care. For working age people, it costs about 10-20k yen per month (many factors can change the final cost). Co-pay is 30%.
Yes, this is in fact one of the few cases where a philosopical question has clear-cut, empirically verifiable right and wrong answers.

(Merry Christmas btw)
And meanwhile we select by willingness to go through basically hazing on top of inteligence. And meanwhile we routinely have doctors to perform in severely sleep deprived state too for no reason at all.
Oh cool, I didn't know about field-sizing. Thanks.

And yeah, this definitely set off my alarm bells like "maybe I shouldn't be using React here." I guess the initial goal was just getting something that works out there using the thing I know best (React), and the second phase could be a rewrite using a better tool for the job-open to any thoughts and suggestions on that.
Depends on your level of abstraction, I guess. GP stated "We all speak English because at one point the English practically owned the entire planet."

Which in our case is false. We stopped learning German as a second language because of the Nazi aggression and atrocities during WW2, and started learning English as a second language due to their aid and closer relations during the war.

But yes, it's obviously not because of any linguistic merit.
You probably want to defer the division until output, and not do the loop each time - instead, just subtract back N samples when adding the current sample.
Every single study I have seen refutes your point, which was commonly brought up during the Obamacare discussion days and never had any merit to begin with. Here's the NIH itself estimating a 13% savings compared to today: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8572548/

What you're missing is that the current "system" is so utterly wasteful and inefficient that even if we cover people's shitty lifestyle habits it would still be cheaper than what we have today. Which is basically what TFA's main point is about.
Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong
After thinking about this a long time, and doing a lot of reading on the subject, here is my solution to American healthcare and perhaps in other countries with collapsing healthcare like the UK and Canada:

Most medical interventions, even ones that are serious like hip replacements, can be scheduled. It’s annoying while you are waiting, but it’s the rare case where emergency medical attention must be applied immediately.

All hospital systems should be deregulated - no more “certificates of need” and monopolist hospitals that can veto additional competition. If any entrepreneur wants to open a facility with licensed medical doctors, they should be able to service any and all ailments.

Finally, there will only be 2 official options for payment - retail and single payer. Single payer will kick in whenever bills go above $X, call it $50k. Retail will be out of pocket for anything lower, and people will shop for their own solutions. They can always buy additional insurance, and fund tax advantaged health savings account, but the single payer will not kick in until a catastrophic amount is reached.

The nightmare of medicine stems from the desire of doctors to be paid what they are worth, and the desire of government to cover everyone for “free” but never having enough money. We need to unshackle the market to let doctors get what they are worth, but drastically increase competition and the entrepreneurial animal instincts to destroy the bureaucratic mess that has bogged everything down.
GPL'd source is an intriguing prospect to me. I'd BSD or MIT the libraries, engine, and other building blocks. But the games .. GPL feels right. With the assets being copyright probably?
No, in the sense that the 996 is a bit hard to imagine in a western company.

Otherwise...
This is a weird question. Why would any highly advanced country want to allow this scenario? Foreign randos move to your country and pay no local tax?
You're right, of course; reality is coupled with _all the viewpoints_, not just one. I think you're interpreting my philosophy as "kids shouldn't see videos I don't like." My philosophy is "kids should not see only videos that some company wants them to see."

Reductio ad absurdum, if you watched video of one side of an argument a thousand times and never got to hear the other side of the argument, I think you'd have a pretty messed up understanding of the argument and it would be the fault of 1) the jerk who made the algorithm, 2) the people who gamed it, or 3) you, for being an inattentive parent.

I'm not saying you should keep kids from facts you don't like. Although even I get lazy with language, I deeply believe that they're not our kids; we're their parents. But showing a kid a video of an atrocity a thousand times _without_ the context that there was an atrocity before that, and an atrocity before that, and that's not a great way to conduct a civilization is a terrible idea. I get it that you disagree with me and that's cool.

I just believe that there is something to curation (e.g., college > TikTok), and that the combination of dOiNg YoUr OwN rEsEaRcH and busted algorithms leave a lot of people lacking.
> We can't trust foreign companies for various reasons.

Removing the xenophobia:

“We can’t trust companies for various reasons.”
Your first link explores local forces in Northern Italy trying to organize a surrender. Not even remotely close to Nazi Germany as a country attempting to side with the Allies.

> Operation Sunrise (sometimes called the Berne incident) was a series of World War II secret negotiations from February to May 1945 between representatives of Nazi Germany and the United States to arrange a local surrender of German forces in northern Italy.[1] Most of the meetings took place in the vicinity of Bern, Switzerland, and the lead negotiators were Waffen-SS General Karl Wolff and American OSS agent Allen Dulles.

From what I can tell, this was done totally on the initiave of local commanders, not Hitler.
You're missing out on the real REPL experience if so!
Not only that, but also there has been an order issued by Stalin NOT to kill the pilots of German spy planes, if\when caught, but to send them back safe and sound. That was happening due to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (first violated by the Nazis), and in order not to have any reason whatsoever to be invaded earlier than it actually happened.
American healthcare is truly apocalyptic. It is the worst of all systems in the world. Even developing Asian countries have figured out better systems.

There is no one single root cause to fix here. The entire system needs to be uprooted - entire companies and shareholders will need to get wiped out. Unfortunately, ain't happening in ultra capitalist America.

For other countries, there is still hope.
> It is a bit more complex than that. My father (American) learned German because his mother considered it "the language of science". That attitude is mostly gone.

When my dad did his chemistry degrees (a bachelors and a masters by research) in the late 1960s / early 1970s (Australia), they made him do a unit on how to read German, because that is the language of a lot of the older chemistry literature. I don’t think they care anywhere near as much about German in chemistry nowadays, although (from what I understand) learning to read German is still an expectation for some humanities PhDs (such as Egyptology)
Why not GPL the building blocks if you want the end product to be GPL'd as well?
The strange thing about that modification is that it appears on the surface to be a legitimate safety improvement. Could the underlying test be subpar?
It's fun to see this, mostly because things from Rhode Island don't often end up on the NH front page :)

A related organization, the Rhode Island Computer Museum [1], is also great. Their warehouse (which is unfortunately by appointment only) is full of all sorts of really important gear from computing history. Their Learning Lab is more easily accessible, and has a few old PDPs, if I recall correctly.
Ken Shirriff, naturally, has tackled the subject a while back in a multipart analysis of the Yamaha DX7.

https://www.righto.com/search/label/dx7
Operating systems and hardware drivers are big ones. Compilers do a lot of silent stuff behind the scene that can interfere when bare metal is involved.

Example: https://github.com/dddrrreee/cs140e-23win/blob/85b9ae3bd46c7...
they say the 2020's is the new 1920's in that regard
Ismo is the shit :)
Only this year, did the most central parts of Tokyo finally return to their peak property prices from 1989. Tokyo is a steal compared to its "Global Alpha" counterparts.
Indeed. New York’s Central Park historically has incorporated a lot of the American Elm.

If you look the park however (particularly among the mall/promenade), many of the trees have undergone severe trimming to try and manage the effects of the elm borer and the diseases they spread (particularly Dutch elm disease).

It’s pretty unfortunate.
You end up punishing the wrong people, i.e. you punish people who might have unknowingly gained from this, but did not cause it.

You also end up punishing ordinary people who did nothing wrong.

A better punishment is putting the company under receivership whose goal is reforming the behavior of the company.

If you can identify the right people you can fire them, but it's not always possible: The manager pressures the employees to deliver better results, the employee cheats "a little", and doesn't tell the manager that that's how he got results.

In that scenario who is responsible? The manager will say "I didn't tell him to cheat, and I didn't know he did it", the employee will say "it's not my fault, the manager set such expectations that he forced me to cheat".

There's no clear answer, so instead focus on reforming the culture.
What about removing the undergraduate degree requirement. That would free up years.
agreed. when i had to get a pen & paper to jot down symbols for an early Alan Wake 2 puzzle it was refreshing.
First capture - https://web.archive.org/web/20040724145729/http://www.tcf.vt...

Last capture - https://web.archive.org/web/20070606024231/http://www.tcf.vt...

An FAQ from somewhere in the middle - https://web.archive.org/web/20060708113430/http://www.tcf.vt...
Mexico has been developing faster than the usual suspects in Asia. It is almost fascinating to see the boom in Mexico since around 2016.

More and more Americans are expatriating or gaining residencies in Mexico to escape from America. And I can see the allure of a modern, rapidly developing life in Mexico as opposed to rent-extraction-life in America.
>Twitter is slow

It’s faster than it’s ever been, and seemingly without 85% of its staff. Says a lot
I suspect removing outputs where P(truth) is low is about as hard (and arguably a superset of) detecting code for which P(bug) is high.

As an aside, I think these are both roughly equivalent to detecting code for which P(halts) is high!
Not at all. The article is about TikTok but all algo feeds could use more transparency.
We still build production systems with interpreted untyped languages like there's no tomorrow...
You can always replace them with RP2040 which have integer performance similar to the Cray-1 if that makes you feel better.
> This is the first time I've ever seen the phrase "Greater Israel" mentioned.

Well, it is unquestionably the stance of the entire political party in which Netanyahu is a member of.
Thanks for the heads up? Do you think it's changed in recent years? I'll look at the link.
“Standardizing an interface between health care providers and insurance companies would be a huge win. No matter how badly designed, it would be better than the current mess, and save several percent of US GDP.”

A new regulation was actually proposed by the federal government a year ago to do that: https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/burden-reduct...

There’s also a new program to reduce fragmentation for dementia care in particular: https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/innovation-models/...

Solving the sorts of problems highlighted in the article (from 2017) is well-recognized, by elected officials in 2023, as a priority of their constituents.

However, neither of the initiatives linked above will systematically address the underlying issues, which are:

1. Conflicting and overlapping objectives between federal, state and local governments, as well as between the different branches of government.

2. Partially privatized administration of government programs, such as Medicare. This inevitably results in further conflicts of objectives, and incentivizes gaming the system.

3. The only real way for the government to learn from failure, and adapt to it, is by creating a mountain of new regulations, which just makes everything more expensive / take longer.

4. Extreme caution, in regulated industries, around sharing information with external parties, due to liability concerns. This drives further consolidation.
I call China "squiggle squiggle" out of respect.........
somebody set up us the bomb
Highlights of RisingWave v1.5: The Open-Source Streaming Database
Thank you so much for sharing this! I've been in Rhode Island for a few years and never heard of this. I'll absolutely be making it to their next open house.
I found it to be a generally useful rule to never "ORDER BY created" but instead "ORDER BY created,id" instead to achieve stable sorting.

I recently added some indices to a few tables to speed up a complicated query with lots of subqueries and joins and ran into many unit test failures because usage of the new indices changed the order in which items with the same "created" values were returned.
I think this was true a year ago too. They peaked in 2021, were dead in 2022.

For me the most impressive part is how high it peaked. This wasn’t just a flash in the pan, fleecing people for a $1000 here and there.

Beeple’s $69.3M price makes it third highest art sale by a living artist ever, for all art.

This category came out of nowhere from nothing to top 3 in the space of a couple of years. Then died just as quickly.

> The composite’s sale is not just a standout in the NFT world but in the broader art market, too. It is the third-most expensive work from a living artist ever sold at auction—behind only $90.3 million spent on a David Hockney painting in 2018 and the $91.1 million for Jeff Koons’ stainless-steel Rabbit sculpture in 2019.
How is this dystopian? Plastic is a really great material -- and way more eco-friendly than metal for building computers. It's only mass-produced single-use plastics like water bottles that are bad for the environment.
No. The Cray-1 ran batch processing jobs, mostly scientific simulations which took hours or days to compute. It had a terminal interface and wasn't used for real time interactive applications.
Admittedly the article is poorly written and presents things in an extreme voice which is alienating to an outside audience. These are easy things to point out and have been used in this thread to dismantle the message of the article. However, I ask anyone with a dissenting opinion to provide an argument against the premise that: "Civilization is facing numerous grave threats with few solutions on the horizon nor substantive international cooperation working towards serious solutions. Furthermore, the graveness of these issues should be communicated to the general public as a call to action.", which is what I believe the article is really about.
for people outside the sphere of US healthcare it can best be compared to the Warhammer 40,000 series Adeptus Administratum. Such is its immense size, that whole departments of the Administratum have been submerged by a sea of complex bureaucracy, becoming lost in loops of paper trails. Other departments have continued to dogmatically operate and carry out their founding function, even if the intent and requirement behind them no longer even exists.
> And who is hurt?

from the POV of management, a leak of the source might prevent a future re-release, which cuts into future potential profits!
Maybe one day we can have a CRISPR solution that’ll bring them back?
So all those WPA documents and inter war pan socialist unity texts, and the Fabians like Sydney and Beartrice Webb...
ubisoft deserves to get the source code for all their old games leaked. One by one they have shut the servers down (quite understandable because of server costs) but offered no ways or means whatsoever to play them alienating the old fans really hard. Some of us have memories of playing the older games which we can never relive again. It should be illegal for a game company to shut an online only game down without offering a LAN patch. Developers should bake in LAN functionality from day 1 but keep it hidden which the patch must fix at EOL for games
Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom and AMD pretty much go bankrupt if China invades Taiwan. Intel will just lol their way to the bank.
Not exactly what you're asking, but reading and manipulating asm is critical in several parts of infosec: reversing, vuln analysis, sploiting and manipulating, etc. The same goes for somewhat related fields suchs as game hacks, cracking and so on. To some extent this also includes writing raw asm.
It is a feature. People need to look at this from the same angle as dark patterns. The goal with all of these interconnected but disjointed systems is so that the person holding the bag is constantly changed.

It's unfortunate that the author of this article in question manages to take away the wrong impression.

> It’s obvious how to fix health care. Just make everything run systematically, like FedEx or Amazon. There are no technical or business obstacles to this. Anyone who understands IT and/or business can see how to do it.

> Health care is notionally a profit-driven free market. This looks like an easy opportunity to make trillions of dollars by making the world better for everyone. Why doesn’t someone do that?

The thing they miss is that healthcare companies are already making trillions of dollars. They make trillions because the system they designed is working as intended. You look at other countries and how their healthcare systems work and you will see a vast difference in functionality and efficiency. Because they know healthcare being a for-profit driven industry with weak government controls leads to the shitshow we have in America.
Governments are not people groups -- harmful governments can and have been deposed of without violence against its people.
it sounds like it wasn't in the production vehicle.
It sounds like you’re really experienced with Nix or perhaps a contributor. We’re new to Nix at Elide (makers of Buildless) but we’d love to collaborate :)

I just tried it for the first time the other day and although I’m not ready to move to it yet, I can already see the brilliance.
It looks like the link may have been missed, but this looks like it's the website: https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home

Thank you for sharing this!
The idea of the overton window shifting makes a static neutrality highly suspect
> a series of one-year guns pointed at your head

Renewals in Japan are guaranteed if you meet the requirements. Japan foreign worker visa rules are very straightforward. The number one cause for concern would be if your business generates insufficient revenue to pay your a minimum salary required by the visa rules. And the minimum is rather middle class. Before you reply very quickly saying: "What if they business has a bad year?" ... please answer from the perspective of other highly advanced, wealthy nations: Do they want to allow people to stay who are running weak/failing businesses? Probably not.

> in Singapore during COVID ... suddenly announcing that spouses of employees could no longer apply for work rights

This is the reason that I never recommend to live in Singapore as a foreigner, unless you are working as a senior manager for a very large corp.

> Countries can and do summarily change the rules for work visas all the time

Not in Japan. In the last 50 years, they have universally become more liberal about allowing highly skilled people to live and work in Japan.
I don’t write it but I read it almost every day while working on high performance C/C++ code. Reading the generated assembly almost always gives me hints on how to optimize the code better
This would make sense since the Gallup survey is based on people's perceptions based on social & traditional media that they see regularly. People remember notable events or shocking things, no one remembers the regular days where everything just went as normal - and the media doesn't cover such things since they are looking to grab attention with headlines.

The article mentions this at the end as outlier incidents, but just giving people the overall statistics may not help change their mind either because of what they perceive from other media sources.
Nah it's less safe if they think you have something valuable on you and don't look like someone who'll put up a fight. Gangs you run into nowadays are more into robberies & break-ins that fighting with each other.
Yeah the “Bamboo” fabric was fantastic marketing. I’ll still take cotton, thanks.
My boyfriend woke up one day to find out they couldn't pee. After a few ER visits and an MRI, they determined he had Stage 2 bladder cancer. However, because they had the audacity to seek immediate medical treatment for a life threatening health issue, they have now been saddled with thousands of dollars in medical debt. I had to personally dip into my earnings from my Big Tech internship to help pay some of it off. Luckily through their job they have some of the best medical insurance in the state and have been getting treatment at UT Southwestern. They pay little, but there was an instance where one of their physicians had to appeal to insurance to get a scan done (thankfully the insurance acquiesced). It doesn't make sense and all this debate around single payer healthcare is just obfuscation and distraction from investigating actual solutions. The vast majority of doctors genuinely want to help people and are more I interested in practicing the skills they've honed for decades rather than deal with faceless automata at health insurance companies who deny claims upon a mere glance. As long as people like Rick Scott can not only get away with introducing inefficiencies in the system, but defraud people and get away with it with no consequences other than personal enrichment, we are doomed.
> It cannot stomach the thought of losing dominance over them

Historically, there is a reason for that. Those countries are used as a buffer against an invasion from Western Europe. US and EU officials have tried to convince Putin that this was no longer the case over the years, but he never bought it since NATO continued to expand despite Russian protests.