skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, when you see these giant corporations buy up every private medical practice from one side of the state to the other it’s hard not to see them as evil and profit seeking.

When you walk into the lobby of the hospital and it’s guilded with marble floors, vaulted ceilings, and chandeliers with large spacious “offices” for the billing departments, it’s hard not to see them as evil and profit seeking.

When you can’t get a straight answer out of anyone at the facility regarding cost of a simple procedure, it’s hard not to see them as evil and profit seeking.

When you see the executives of these hospitals wining and dining with the insurance executives then suddenly next year your premiums and deductibles get raised, it’s hard not to see them as evil and profit seeking.

Do I think that all medical professionals are evil and profit seeking? No. Do I think that many of them are content to live under an umbrella of plausible deniability as long as their paychecks increase? Absolutely.
They've already majorly affected what sort of plants get built. For example, most of the new build plants are natural gas based and designed to be started quickly to supplement the current production of power.
> The illusion of impact by writing to your congressman is really just that, a proverbial carrot in front of the donkey of democracy.

This is the hopelessness I'm talking about in the GP. It was edgy and clever to despair, but it's really for losers. Let's get serious; people are dying, democracy is dying; our predecessors managed to achieve great things and there's no excuse for us to sit on the sidelines and whine.
And that entire list fits inside of the rounding error of the number of people who die due to suicide and accident each year. 1.7 million Americans have attempted suicide.
Its funny, we may have to go back to buying encyclopedias in physical stores in order to prevent this terrible future with made up information and no way to know what is a hallucination or an actual article.
Anyone who would argue that YouTube is a monopoly would probably also argue that Burger King and McDonald’s are monopolies. I agree that refusing to distribute snuff porn on YouTube probably has deleterious effects in the audience for that content.

But it is unreasonable and against the core free market principles of our capitalist society for you to be too concerned about what I publish with my web site. I have a first amendment right and you can’t force me, my company, or my property to carry speech.

Which isn’t to say you can’t be concerned about lack of visibility for content that’s banned by big platforms. You can. You probably should! But compelled private speech is not the answer, which is why you will, for example, frequently get pushback against the idea that this is even censorship. (I’m pedantic, but not enough so to adopt that view).
Man who makes 1/3 of his revenue selling to China is sour that he is being prevented from selling to China.
It's weird how impersonal layoffs are. you are escorted out of office in some cases, and keys and other stuff stop working. You have to turn everything in, and possessions shipped to you at later date.
I don't blame him. He has another account doubt_me. His post got flagged there.
> You can still serve ads in the EU.

Irrelevant. Normal ads are barely profitable. Your company will not be able to provide services to users if it had to depend on just normal ads.

> This is a lie. And GDPR should be interpreted exactly the way EU wants it to be interpreted because it's an EU law.

I don't really care about what the EU thinks is right. The EU does not understand what it takes to run a modern web service. It's sensible to fight these absurd rulings in court.

You can consent to drugs or alcohol but can't consent to targeted ads. It's insane.

> Oh wow. "Companies should actually be profitable and not run on unlimited VC money" is such a radical concept.

That profit can be obtained either with targeted ads or locking poor people out of the internet. Those are your options.

> Where "successful tech industry" is "hope there's unlimited VC money so that we can keep running our 'free' business while harvesting all available data on everyone because it's our God-given right"?

How much VC money does Google use again?

This is a blind law that pays no attention to the practicality of running services the world relies on.
No this is not a psychological trick.

Much of what I've done with ai tools I have had to do before and struggled over days. I was a python dev mostly but I had cases at work where I needed to write java, c, or c++. The genicam compliant industrial camera nonsense it got me through in a few hours was insane. And using a fuzzy logic library. I did not have to spend tons of time reading the documentation, struggling with cmake, or figuring out how to install and link dlls or even syntax for that matter. I can start to type a comment of a high level description of a small codeblock and copilot spits it out.
This works in any language.

It isnt that it speeds up every single operation I do. When I get in the zone I toggle it off. But 80% of the time i hit a snag it instantly short circuits me through the issue. I can and do ask follow up questions about how the thing works so the next time I come across it it wont even be a snag. So I have had slowly compounding speed boosts from it for two years. I code faster with it also because it taught me things, and I have learned when to turn it off (often)
Once in a while we are blessed with these people who are completely authentic to themselves, incredibly talented, and willing to share with us. Let's be thankful.

Why does Prince (or Björk or Bowie) do anything? Only they know.
If this these extremely common viruses were the root cause of obesity, then why does obesity affect different countries so differently?

Viruses all passed around globally so you have to assume all developed countries are getting pretty much the same level of population infection.

Maybe it's because if certain viruses do play a role in obesity, it sounds like an evolved adaptation in humans. Ie, if you're sick, you respond by burning less energy and storing more of it as fat.

Like all evolved adaptations, they don't affect all populations equally. I'm guessing if ad36 contributes to obesity, you must first be genetically predisposed to it happening.
If you buy a can of soup at the grocery store, are you taking it away from someone?

If you see someone buy a can of soup in front of you, would you tell them they are taking that can of soup away from you or would you just buy the next can of soup?
Last time I tried to add caching to my actions, I spent several hours and still couldn't get it to work properly in the end. I really wonder how many computing hours have been wasted because the default and most likely to work is to not cache anything.
> You can use Pytorch for more than just Neural Networks

Facts. Pytorch is such a fun too for applied calculus. Just write down a program, compute its derivative, and do any of the fun things you can do with derivatives, like optimization or linear approximation.
A Big Cosmological Mystery
Obligatory: "Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
Realistically, unless you're in Manhattan or in the middle of nowhere, you're never more than 10-20 minutes away from a gas station.
>It's equivalent to an RX570 or 580

RX 6500, in more recent parlance.

I would however wait for third party reviews on these SoCs. They promise performance that's simply unheard of, for an APU. Best to be skeptic than else.
I rent often and almost always from Hertz. They have recently been trying to push me into renting an EV, which would not work for the ranges I drive. I have waited in line behind other customers arguing about not wanting an EV.
Their concern is valid, but it's weird that they call it "in plain text". "Plain text" has a specific meaning of "unencrypted", whereas this is encrypted in a TLS connection. Yes, both TFA and the original heise.de article say (paraphrased) "Although it's in a TLS connection, it's in plain text." but it's just confusing to phrase it this way, especially since it becomes easy to remove the "Although it's in a TLS connection" clause, as you did in your quote.

Their objection is that the credentials are being transmitted to and stored by Microsoft at all, instead of Microsoft generating and storing an automation token / app password. That is a valid concern. But tacking on "in plain text" to it just creates confusion.
Depends where you are but in the UK agents are your best bet
Is it possible to run some user-defined functions (e.g., to perform some transformations) on the subscriber side? It'll be super useful when the external data source is not identical to the source.
> >50% of the country (and significantly more than that when accounting for skewed political representation) does not want the system to change, because to them any alternative is "socialism".

As I said, if we can't overcome that absolutely weak, absurd argument, the problem is us (and many others). Let's get to work and stop talking like victims.
It’s actually even worse. If you (or the Dr’s) could reliably tell how it was even going to be coded (aka categorized/identified) in the system in advance, it would already be a huge step up.

Then you’d only have a handful of different prices you might have to pay.
> buying boring index funds

Which ones?
They never seem to have enough small cars in Europe. I'm fed up of being 'upgraded' to a crossover/SUV. I think it's worse with eg Enterprise because their fleet tends to reflect what people own, because they do so much crash/repairs business. But it happens with most of them
Well, this says a lot: https://hnhiring.com/trends?locations=london
> I think unless you're operating a very privacy focused business where such privacy is the selling point - there is no harm in complying.

Disagree completely - giving access to data to LEOs (or others) that you have no ongoing business use for only has downsides and has zero upsides.

I have made several submissions to judges stating the date and for what reason we destroyed records and every time the answer has been ‘well, you were legally entitled to’ and the cases were dismissed early on.

It is especially difficult in modern times to enact, but my personal view is shred fast and shred often with everything.
Lost Words: Science Ficton That Never Left The Desk Drawer Because of "Jurassic Co*kbomb, the Apocalypto."
our ops group imposed Github Actions on us and build times have tippled on top of being less reliable.
The answer is the majority of the Republican party and their electorate, but just saying that will get you a barrage of downvotes on HN and other similar forums.

We get the system we deserve..
> This is what happens when for-profit health insurance and hospitals are allowed to exist because every other sensible advanced economy in the world has universal healthcare

Many of those universal systems have for-profit insurance and for-profit hospitals too.
That’s true in most cases, but with Teslas and a few others they offer a “model guaranteed”.

See:

https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/vehicleguide/index.jsp?target...
Agreed. Got a Polestar for a surprisingly cheap price on Hertz recently and I was really impressed with it. If I were in the market I think I’d take it over a Tesla.
What platform do you work on? We've had this issue with mac until mutagen-compose made the containers feel like they weren't there
Yes, because the Model 3 incorporates quite a bit of aluminum in the body. This is good for weight savings, but more difficult to work with.

The root cause is that batteries are too heavy so other components must be made lighter.
Meta, but I’m glad to see Eclectic Light getting some love on HN lately, it’s such a great resource for really in-depth articles on macOS internals (and art!)
Containerless dev is just better, because it's a ton of extra work to get things as well. Any chance you can not use containers for local dev?
_he said, his face deadpan._
Well fasting is hardly a consumerist conspiracy, as that would be a contradiction.

It’s likely that the downsides are a necessary trade off for a longer lifespan. The body reduces its metabolism in order to conserve resources and survive long enough until access to sustenance returns. The most dramatic change is the loss in libido; maintaining an active reproductive system has significant metabolic demands, so they are deprioritised. It’s possible that what we consider “healthy baseline” in the contemporary age of caloric abundance is actually a hyper-active state that accumulates rapid damage and dietary restriction brings metabolism down to a frugal and entropy-conserving state.

Edit: those two fantastic papers should provide you with all the help you will ever need in your efforts:

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~vitousek/CRAN2.pdf

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~vitousek/CRAN1.pdf
Americans do dislike their politicians. They also find them corrupt and ineffectual (possibly that's better than corrupt and effective).

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/americans-di...
I guess different strokes.

As an employee, before I escalate any issue I always try to do my best to fix it myself first (barring some efficiency gain like it's far easier for someone else to resolve). And as a manager I appreciate reports who do the same.
I have rented several electric vehicles and while charging is more difficult than getting gas it isn’t really an issue.

The most challenging experience was an electric camper. It had a 100 mile max range. I drove it from LA to Seattle without major issue. The only pucker factor was around Silicon Valley where I struggled to find functional fast chargers. No shortage of chargers, just very few that work.

The state of chargers is atrocious. Many of them do not work and the apps are horrible. Signup flows that ask for too much information and don’t set form metadata for auto-completion. Just endless papercuts.

I used A Better Route Planner which does a good job of tracking what chargers actually work but still has an infuriating UI.

For a regular rental car situation I would not hesitate to get an EV. In fact that’s my preference now that I am over the learning curve.
You're right. You're helpless. Is that what you want to hear? Is that what you say at work? Is that what you tell your kids when they have a problem? Take step back - this response is beneath us; it's making ourselves victims.

I could spell it out concretely, but the problem is the approach, the attitude, that talking like helpless victims is somehow ok. It's completely irresponsible - an abdication of our responsibilities to ourselves, our communities, our country, and future and past generations. Change that, and you won't need me to tell you what to do, you'll be busting at the seams with ideas and drive.

Imagine where we'd be if past generations adopted this helplessness. Imagine Washington, Jefferson, and the rest, facing the British empire. Imagine FDR, Churchill, MLK, and so many more. That's who we need to live up to. I've never heard them talk like Americans today.
2023 Was the Hottest Year
https://archive.is/Umfvr
The VA may suck. But compared to 90% of private insurance, it’s amazing.
I've had to do the same to family members, so yeah, it tracks.
Except, maybe, for the fact that they are attempting to run anything Electron at all on their device, it is not a configuration problem to use a machine that was manufactured a couple years ago and was most likely not top-of-the-line hardware even back then.

(In my particular case I've a passively cooled laptop from like 2021; The limited compute resource available to applications in that device really made me appreciate the well built applications)
Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago
The free version is essentially worthless. Gpt4 is an incredible tool I have learned so much from.
I'm sorry? I was only asking a question about another culture.
> Early on, in the browser wars of the 90s, this WAS what they tried. Netscape and Sun worked together to bring Java to the browser, leading to infamous "applets" that would take forever to load and have terrible UX, etc., but that ran in the browser in Java.

> Then they decided to create Javascript to give the browser itself a scripting language,

I don’t see how that’s a correct description of history. JavaScript is from December 1995 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript).

Java technically was released earlier, on May 23 of that year (https://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2015/05/20/javas-20-year...), but (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)#Hi...) “Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation as Java 1.0 in 1996“. That’s after JavaScript became available on Netscape.

Also, who would be “they”? Sun created Java and the JVM, but Netscape created JavaScript.

I also don’t know whether Netscape helped Sun in bringing applets to the browser. Didn’t Sun use an existing API for browser plugins?
it's clear to me that Americans were sold economic slavery on the conditions that economics keep minorities in check .
And that's why it really Hertz them.
>I don't get my language's build cache unless I jump through extra hoops to mount it into the build image

This is what you should be doing, and you should not be building your artifact with docker build during development. If you can help it, you don't want to compile your application inside of a container at all. Build it outside and COPY it when you're ready to ship, or use a volume during development (docker run -v)

If you cannot rebuild outside of the container, you should be able to build your build environment as an image once, then exec into the running container to rebuild there, but you should NOT be rebuilding your docker images for each compile loop. It sounds like that's where you're encountering the pain.

If you are rebuilding your docker image every time you recompile your application, you're doing it wrong.
In my study of US politics over the last 2 decades, a candidate that campaigns on higher taxes and lowering/simplifying barriers to receiving benefits will always lose to one that advertises benefits, but in reality it is debt underwritten by future federal taxpayers and/or they have numerous requirements to minimize the number of recipients.

As much as they might want to tax corporations, the voters (since they are older) don’t want their 401k/IRA/defined benefit pension plan balances to go down.

Another signal is there is never any mention of implementing a wealth tax (property tax). Politicians will keep knocking around increasing earned income taxes (which affects workers), but because the older people are the most important contingent of voters, touching property of wealthy people who do not need to earn income is off the table. In the most recent tax legislation, they even specifically left the 1031 real estate exchange intact, and got rid of other 1031 exchanges.
12% of phone sales in iPhone-heavy Japan are Pixels and Apple has fallen below 1/2 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/iphones-s...
Maybe the rep suggested the gas car because you hadn't previously driven a Tesla, and by your own estimation, they were providing lower wait times and faster service for their gas fleet.
Wow the child care thing must really hurt. I could absolutely imagine people making career decisions - not to mention decisions about where to live - based on the reasonable assumption that the child care provided by Google wasn't going to be arbitrarily turned off.

I can't imagine part of the Google hiring process was a note that said "do remember that we might change our mind about providing child care, so don't make any crucial decisions based on the ongoing existence of that benefit".
Very good questions.

Here are a few pointers:

Podman runs rootless and avoids (some of) the problems with permissions this way.

It's possible to mount the source directory (when running a container) over the place you copy it to (when building it) so you can start a container once and rebuild and test inside it while you edit outside of it.

I think that containers are a good reason to make a technical distinction between unit tests and integration tests. The former should work outside the container to facilitate quick development whereas the latter can rely on the environment the container provides. That setup saves a lot of headache for configuring paths and dependencies.

Finally, i find it very important that building the software and executing the unit tests should be possible outside the container. This way you can always use your local setup, maybe after some tweaking. This tweaking is the (small) price everyone has to pay every now and then. That way the build environment doesn't run stale. Imagine developing software with a frozen tool stack packed into a container ten years ago. Because that's what happens when everyone just uses the image.
I got to the PDF download link, but I have to have a Microsoft account to actually download it, so that's a bit of a showstopper.

In any case, it doesn't much matter. The threads I'm in here are pretty much just me saying I don't trust Microsoft and others saying that I should, so I'll just bow out and leave it at that: we have different opinions.
Full stack engineering begins with philosophy and ends with assembly. Here we go.
Neat tool! On a related note while I love LibreOffice and the like, I recently wanted to make some authentic Word Art so I grabbed a copy of Office 97 from archive.org. I was beyond pleasantly surprised, not only did it install without issue on Win 10 LTSC, it does everything instantly and the whole thing is 140mb. What the fuck have we been doing for the last quarter century?
I seriously doubt it. Game engines are, first and foremost, designed to provide a 2D or 3D graphics environment and input handling, they don't typically have the richness of UI components that you would expect for building a desktop app. Godot is no exception here, its UI components are very dated and limited in comparison what modern web-based applications can do. Furthermore, Godot specifically is limited to a single window (apart from popups) last I checked.

The other problem with Godot specifically is that every thing is tied to GDScript/the Godot typing system (yes, even the C# and gdextension APIs) and you need to deal with its inconsistencies. I'm currently implementing something as simple as a schema validator (think JSON schema) and it's nightmareishly tough in comparison to any other language I have implemented this in. And then we are not even talking about the almost universal lack of error handling in a large portion of the built-in functions, or really silly things like that opening a TCP connection apparently requiring active polling. I could go on.

I love Godot, it's super simple to build game-related things with, but holy macaroni do I wish they had thought things through just a little more when they implemented them. I would never want to build a data-heavy desktop app in Godot.
You don't necessarily need to run the application in a built container image every time. A container can be a repl (shell) where you just use it like a regular terminal shell, run your app. Building a container image every time you make a change in your editor doesn't sound optimal at all. Alternative you could also just run containers for all other things your app is using (db, caching server, etc) and the app runs in a regular terminal, with container stuff being bound to local ports your app can talk to.

Sounds like you need to re-access how you're using and thinking about containers when doing dev locally.

Look into running a container with the stuff you app needs installed, but running a shell instead of your app directly. Then look into mounting your source directory in the container using docker's or whatever container tool your using. Then things like auto-reloading (if your app supports it should work using inotify-tools).

And by "app" I'm referring to whatever your developing, most likely some kind of backend server?