skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually after we dismissed C# it was the very next one I suggested! In theory it would've been a quite good fit, so it's a solid suggestion. It just didn't really click for her for some reason, possibly partly because when I was looking through its forums for some information on it I came across some really annoying rants from the language's BDFL, and when I showed them to her it really made her feel like it would be difficult and annoying to interact with the community. But that's just a guess idk
The 1/3rd savings (off the top) is from eliminating administrative overhead that insurance (claims & billing) imposes.

Administrative burden (makework) on caregivers would be much reduced.
Not to mention that the private companies will work to avoid said competition. Little wonder why ISPs refer to creating networks where one already exists as “overbuilding”
That would still matter quite a lot.
Imagine a world where every country on earth would pay drugs as much as the US does.
It’s a commercial/legal requirement imposed on developers, not directly enforced through the technology. It comes down to the review process in practice. At some point a human reviewer will need to detect the app is allowing the user to pay with PayPal and therefore block it from distribution.

They’ll probably have some technology to help prioritise apps for review if they’re likely to be violating (by scanning the APK statically for PayPal SDKs or running robot scripts to see if they can be presented with a PayPal form).
> We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine yet social determinism is the driving force in all these areas.

Do we?

We have enough food, but not the logistics to distribute it. I doubt we produce enough of some medicines because they have constant shortages. Whether we have enough education depends on how you define it: I believe we have enough to give everyone access to online resources, but we have an education crisis in the US which is driven by unmotivated students, and the factors which are causing the lack of motivation cost much more (old-style teaching, large classes with disruptive students, poor school infrastructure, poverty at home).

It's a social problem because I'm sure even if we had enough resources, there are people who would get in the way of distributing them, because they don't want people to be educated or feel they don't deserve assistance. Already we have countries which block parts of the internet, and countries at war which block aid. But I don't think it's only a social problem.
If you're in USA or Canada, your house is probably over-wired and can handle some extra load. Plugging into the electric dryer outlet is good for 5760 continuous watts. The stove outlet is 9600 continuous watts. An electrician could easily add an additional one.
Your second point is why the stores need to be opened up.

Nintendo breaks compatibility almost every generation, so if you want to replay old games you already purchased on a previous console, you have to repurchase the ported versions or buy Nintendo’s subscription service. I’ve dropped hundreds in the eShop but worry I’ll lose access one day, when the Switch is EOL.

In comparison, I’ve been able to run my Steam games on multiple devices through the years because PC is a much more open platform. There are multiple shops, so Steam has incentive to keep games forward compatible.
I'm not a game developer, but I was similarly lead to believe that stl containers were especially slow compared to other implementations. This is supposed to be because the stl has more restrictions on the implementation owing to the interface they have to export. The stl hash table for example has to provide low level access to the buckets, even though modern hash tables usually avoid having buckets in the first place. By lifting these restrictions the performance can be improved tremendously. Facebook, for example, are supposed to have their own in house hash table implementation to achieve this.
> an argument that the success of PE funds had everything to do with them being a macro bet on falling interest rates

It’s incorrect. The leveraged buyout, for example, found its footing in the high-rate environment of the early 1980s.
The Gate in Beijing had (or has?) a huge ceiling for a semi-outdoor mall that is all LED video screen, so you would look up and see stuff, like space whales and such. Then there are so huge 3D video advertisements in Japan on building corners that look semi real (supposedly Time Squares in NY also has them?). Just because we can doesn't mean we should, but I don't see the huge harm in it either.
Almost every hijacking of keyboard and other default behaviors of our peripherals is lazy and arrogant UI. One exception is auto focusing on a search input element where that view is only used for that search box. Even then it's annoying because my browser back/forward via keyboard (cmd-left, cmd-right) gets hijacked by the focus.
By this I think they mean “ethical non monogamy” in the US?

People have been screwing around on their partners throughout history. Some cultures turn a blind eye so long as proper discretion is exercised. In others, polygamous marriages are explicitly sanctioned - usually to the detriment of women. The US tends to be a bit puritanical when it comes to sex.
Nice thing about email is Select-All + Delete
The GNU g++ compiler generates notoriously bad error messages, although they have gotten a little better, and you do get used to them (a bit like reading the entrails of a sacrificial victim to divine the future).

The clang++ compiler, much more modern and built on the LLVM inftrastrucure, has much better error reporting. Occasionally, in desperation, I've compiled something with clang++ just to see the error message in cases where g++ was just too unhelpful.
The most pure form of free-market is a black market. Without any government, the free market does not have a mechanism to prevent monopolies (AKA absolute winners). Further, many markets do not even exist without the government. EG: there is no Tesla without the department of Energy [1]. The housing market would be totally different without Freddie & Fannie Mae, the banking system would also be totally different without FDIC insurance.

Capitalism creates bubbles & winners (aka monopolies). Government has to be involved to keep an even playing field and to smooth out the bubbles. No industry in the US has had no government involvement. All industries are involved with government in some form - if only to enforce contract law, or for more physical matters like using public roads, buying electricity from government run electrical companies, benefitting regulation that requires phone providers to provide service, etc..

[1] https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla
I like it! Good job. I like the unique conceptual approach.

It gives you the basic picture (literally) and then you can scroll down for more details.
Everyone already knows that a lot of the world sucks. The important question is how to make it better, but reading bad news stories won't help answer that.
I use FolderSync for Android which works well for my obsidian sync needs
“[Proton] is a collection of software and libraries combined with a patched version of Wine[….]”. That’s all I’m saying. I’m not an expert in Proton or anything. Thanks for the input though.
With the rapid uptick in power draw by CPUs and GPUs perhaps its time for ATX to go and an entirely new standard to come in[0], ditching the antiquated 12v rail and step up to 24 or 48v. We've got the twin kludges of the ever growing main power plug to the motherboard and the growth of supplemental power to the GPU first a 6-pin then 8, then two 6's etc etc and now with 12vhpwr and its attendant teething pains. When is enough enough?

[0]Yes, cue the xkcd comic.
IBM pulled in $60b last year.

For many tech companies (and especially their investors), selling out and realising a return is the very definition of success.
Perplexingly, my color appeared there shortly after I posted this. Does that link contain colors of recently active users, perhaps?
Probability Distributions in Java
The cynic in me wonders what effect this has on percentage of merchandise returned.
Can you as well describe and remind us how logo of PLO looks today ?

You can find it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organizat...
Perfect.

While I've never been as deep in the details, my perpetual answer here is:

"You're so vain, I bet you think this search is about you?"

I understand it because people are human, but I can't help but feel annoyance when people are like "the search engine isn't doing what I want!"

It's not designed to DO THAT, it's designed to maximize it's own sales and we're pretty much at the point where we should try to stop pretending otherwise.
Or you could just tend your own garden.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide
To the authors of this project: I would seriously consider a rename.

* WASP is already an established acronym: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/wasp

* If you ignore the acronym, wasps the insect are not a positive comparison (bees are useful but I don't know anyone who likes wasps)

* The acronym recursion is both awkward and confusing - the "P" stands for "PnR" (a term I am not immediately familiar with), and if I have to do this level of research to understand a project's name I'm skeptical about the quality of their other documentation and disinclined to spend much time digging deeper.

Addendum: I did attempt to understand what "PnR" is without success. That acronym is widely in use as "passenger name record". This does not seem to be the use in this project, but the project page does not elaborate or define it.
There's no shortage of those (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1zDJ1qZTlg and https://youtu.be/F2zm87p8f7M?t=1857 that I just happened to have handy) what there is a shortage of is economical ones (or scalable, the other major obstacle) as compared to the current situation where the negative externalities are not priced into the sales leading to perverse incentives
What do you use for front end for your web app? If you use React or Vue or something that does client-side rendering, you can often turn your app into a PWA fairly trivially by just adding a manifest. That is IMHO definitely the way to go as long as you don't need to use native functionality/APIs.

PWAs are still a little tougher on Apple since Apple holds the reins to their platform very tightly and doesn't want apps getting to users without going through "curation," so if iOS is an important market for you and your users will find you through the app store (rather than looking for you in the app store after finding you elsewhere), then a PWA may not be the best choice.

If you use server-side rendering, then it will of course be more work, but I'd still probably go the PWA route and write it in React or Vue. You already know JS so there's much less learning, and it's the most "write once run anywhere" that there is. You'll likely have to buy a mac though, although there are services you can "rent" one for building/signing/submitting to Apple.

React Native can be a good option as well, especially if you need to call native APIs or must be in the Apple store (Google Play Store can take you as a PWA). Most of your code can be js/ts so less learning curve, and you can generate a submittable app package that can go in the Apple store (and of course Google).

If you need to make extensive use of native APIs though, then a real native app may be better, though of course you will need a separate one for ios and android, and there's a lot of learning to do. And you'll definitely have to buy a mac.

tldr: a PWA is (probably) the way to go
> When you start treating "first person with ethnic background X in space" as "good news", that's how you arrive at lots of effort, time and money being spent on pursuing objectives that have zero value.

Reducing barriers so that anyone can pursue their dreams seems like a worthwhile and humanistic goal.

I do, however, question the use of the label "ethnic background" because everyone is of some ethnic group.
Volkswagen Beetle Lives on in Mexico City
A datapoint I find impressive on the debate "What should we privatize": UK Rail privatisation seems to have worked really well, as shown in this graph:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/GBR_rail...
The main problem is there is still that single point-of-failure in this centralization of a Matter schema server.
AFAIK it's still a flavor of markdown, with some modifications and extensions. Which is pretty common in markdown-land, but could prevent easy adaption of another markdown-tool, depending on what syntax you use heavily.
Can you as well describe us how logo of PLO looks today ?
You can find it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organizat...
I think people are generally more wary of importing drugs than electronics, and it is really easy to import bits from other countries.

Tech companies can definitely put up lots of hurdles here and might even manage to defeat their customers. But at least there will be some possibility to work around it…
Many people in the "west" do not consider Palestinians as past, present, or future allies. In fact most view them as a threat to western ideas.
I thought that Saudi Arabia and Israel were on the verge of a rapprochement before October 7th? The offer on the table was F35's and access to the Tempest program in the UK in exchange for normalization. This would have put the Saudis right on top vs. Iran.
It's harder to build your own note-taking system based on existing web features than to use an app that does it. Even just programmers, and we're talking about everybody. For every human who can and would do the former, there are perhaps millions who can and would do the latter. That's a pretty big difference, to put it lightly.
It certainly appears like 15".
The reality is no matter read we the news or not, there will be misery in the world. But also there will be things worth celebrating. And a healthy society celebrates good news. On the contrast, a globalized out of touch society obsesses over what they can't change, while people that need help are under their nose..
Very rarely, but yes. Generally only fiction.

I have a specific category on Goodreads for reread books. Only a couple in that list, including The Stars My Destination and Manna. There's a handful that I might reread. The Player of Games currently tops that list.
Come on - there is a difference between mild currency fluctuations and wild swings in value (relative to all other currencies, not just USD). You know it, I know it, GP knows it, and this kind of nitpicking isn’t helpful to anyone. Nobody wants a Zimbabwe dollar currency.
Einstein on Collective Punishment
Diseases caused by poverty eliminated by science is not really good news.
"First African country with shared parental leave"

Based on the linked article, South Africa was already ahead of the US.
To be fair, he searched for "laundry detergent" and sorted Name A-Z and was wondering why only 3M stuff appeared. Also I failed to comprehend this one

> Of course the list of switch games isn't under Games > Nintendo Switch Games that would be silly.

Well.. There is a list of games when you open Games > Nintento Switch Games. What is he complaining about?
Not all men are brutes and not all women are ditzy.

But more men then women are brutes. That's a reasonable statement.

Are more women than men ditzy? No that's sexist.

Either way anyone can like anything but you can still make a reasonable guess based off of common sense on what demographic is most likely to vote this up.

There's nothing wrong with that. The only problem here is people like you who want to turn a reasonable estimate into a sexist issue.
I believe it's fair:

* Unlike Apple App Store on iOS, you are under no obligation to sell on Google Play Store on Android.

* If you choose to sell on Google Play Store, it's reasonable to "pay rent" so to speak.

If you don't want to accept payments through Google Play Store, you simply don't sell through Google Play Store.
Don’t you mean the rate of inflation is down? Prices are growing so they are inflating and not deflating. I am an idiot so beeing wrong is my thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation
You can try this newsletter: https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews/. It didn't have that particular story, but there are a lot of climate-related headlines.
[dupe]

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771436
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766570
Don’t shoot the message.
Highly recommend Muji’s gridded notebooks (€1.95 for A5-size, 30 sheets):

https://www.muji.eu/product/recycling-paper-notebook-dark-gr...
I enjoy the idea but the implementation feels lacking: about half of these are statistics, which is on brand for gapminder, but using comparisons from several years past instead of 2022. Which makes it a bit less "news of 2023" and more "news of sometime in the past decade."

Not sure if they're framing it this way to exaggerate the improvement or because the data reported on isn't collected annually.
> open government funded hospitals and clinics and offer it as another insurance option

Agreed. This or/and some other variant of the public option.

I've been discussing this with local politicos and orgs. Socializing the notion. Most everyone is receptive once it's explained.

Some day I hope to muster the gumption to do my own lobbying.
If you're adjusting the number of significant figures you report based on what is practically and statistically significant then it's no longer fixed.
I would like to speed up some parts of SqueakJS using web assembly. For example BitBlt would be a prime target.

For the overall VM, however, I’ll leave that to others (I know Craig Latta has been making progress).

I just love coding and debugging in a dynamic high-level language. The only thing we could potentially gain from WASM is speed, but we would lose a lot in readability, flexibility, and to be honest, fun.

I’d much rather make the SqueakJS JIT produce code that the JavaScript JIT can optimize well. That would potentially give us more speed than even WASM.

Peep my brain dumps and experiments at https://squeak.js.org/docs/jit.md.html
You would need to use a (freemium) app for that: OneSync or AutoSync for Google Drive.

I have OneSync but I'm currently using Syncthing (to not have to buy an upgrade and to better control which files are synced). To reduce sync conflicts, I run an always online Syncthing instance in the cloud with Fly.io.
In other areas, common sense tends to not be absolute bullshit as often as in economics.

Usually just the fact that something never works like the common sense implies is enough to remove a fact from the popular culture.
Just a suggestion … start with rebuilding a used lawnmower engine, sell it. Buy a used automotive carburetor, a brand like Holly, rebuild that then sell it. Move on to a used car that Uses a naturally aspirated carburetor. Start with something easy such as the brakes, then rebuild the engine. The rear end would be rather easy and fun to rebuild, then try the transmission. Hayes/Chilton books worked well. Manufacturer shop manuals are the best. I was able to buy a shop manual book for my Datsun 280ZX when I restored that way back in the day (pre-internet). These days, verify the content in YouTube videos you watch with the manuals if you are not comfortable doing it. Buy the tools as you need them. Find a local machine shop for things like head and valve work, cleaning the engine block and checking for cracks, etc.

To answer your question as to where did I learn that, I did all of the above in a class in high school.
The fact that I can drag & drop pictures to Obsidian and it Just Works was the final nail in Emacs' coffin for me =)
Yes, both mechanisms are well attested. We need to know which one is happening here.
Linux Server Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Beyond
It isn't compelling to say that all these competing app stores form a monopoly. You have single someone out or the argument becomes weak.
Yeah, that's it!
"Historic deal to protect vital water source in US"

This is referring to the Colorado River, and it is WAY too little, and far too late. Real changes won't be made until the situation is dire.
It's an all-government show now. EDF had earlier this year 64.5 Billion Euro debt. It sells electricity to the consumer, operates the grid, operates the power plants, build the power plants. Their mismanagement is amplified by the lack of competition. It hides the large losses of the electricity sector. Now they also pay for the "favor" to construct a nuclear power plant in the UK, where they carry the rising losses, which the Chinese now are refusing to pay. They would need to increase the electricity price to be profitable, but that's impossible, just in case the politicians want to be reelected -> debt goes to the taxpayer. I wonder how the finance all this debt? French debt is now at > 3000 billion Euro. 115 % debt/gdp.

It's a mostly state owned monopoly on electricity. It's not a market-oriented energy landscape at all. Energy socialism.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/...

> declared and enacted government policy

Delivery is the problem. See the main tasks of a) keeping the aging and outdated reactors online, b) building new plants, c) developing new types of plants, d) innovating and e) financing the whole show with government money.

They are so desperate, such that EDF is still cooperating with Rosatom/Russia...
Exactly, you can buy any $ amount that you want.

Way back in Nov 2020, Paypal opened up crypto transactions and for the hell of it, I bought $100 each of bitcoin and ethereum. I haven't touched it at all.

Today, it is worth a combined $742.28. ETH is up 381%, while BTC is up 161%.

It has been a fun experiment and I plan to donate it all to charity at some point.
The difference is iOS has non-standard gestures that is determined by the app, and Android it is enforced by the OS. It is infuriating on iOS trying to locate where someone stuffed the back button (is it a hidden pulldown? bottom left? top left? hamburger? breadcrumb trail? does gesture swipe even work here? ...) Much worse than when apps like reddit/tiktok override the back-to-exit behavior in android.
That user was quite bullheaded it seems, claiming such things are impossible without even understanding how kelp are grown today. They are grown on lines trawled by ships, not the ocean floor where there are urchins perhaps and depth requirements. Its already a massive industry in East Asia. It's the US that is decades behind on this effort. 16 million tons of seaweed harvested in 2016 in these countries:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00318884.2019.1...
Chuckled
Why scooters and e-bikes will soon be harder to find
20 years ago, I worked on a fairly large C++ code base. Nobody used iostreams even then. We used C-style stdio everywhere. You can still do that.
I really want to do this with a pi zero w, but with a larger screen. 7.5” is barely larger than a door placard.
Oh yeah. Thanks for adding this. It's mentioned during the interview as well.
Virtual reality gives a boost to the 'lazy eye'
Aside from using it for all kinds of notes (from work to book reviews to writing blog posts and other stuff I'm writing), I also use it as an RSS reader. Plain text is life.

Shoutout to the query features provided by the Dataview plugin. I have a work note which bundles all my TODOs from various work projects. It's great to be able to get an overview of all my stuff.

```dataview
TASK FROM "Work/Projects"
WHERE !completed
GROUP BY file.link
```
"The company has filed for a Chapter 11 reorganization, from which its operations could conceivably emerge lean and strong enough to carry its investors to the land of profits, and its users everywhere they want to go within about a 10-mile radius." very funny writing Megan McArdle
Emacs is the fastest editor the author has worked with!!??