skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think the threat of deportation is in any sense equivalent to solitary confinement or extra years in a prison sentence?

To someone who immigrated for work, and decides that the specific and only work they're able to do thanks to how they arrived isn't worth it due to the pay and conditions, the threat of deportation is a very weak threat — more than literally nothing, but very very weak.
I watched the moon landings as a child. I don't expect to see humans set foot on the moon again in my lifetime. I do however expect to see opportunists suckling on the fatted pork barrel here on earth up until my expiry date. Mars is a realistically unobtainable goal but certainly a lot of people will be gainfully employed not getting there.
Interestingly your [1] citation may no longer be the case. The 21st Century Cures Act was signed 8 years ago (but compliance was only required as of 2023). It states that Healthcare Institutions (& EHR developers) must provide a mechanism for patients to access their health records electronically in a standardized format (FHIR).

It's what allowed my open-source startup Fasten Health to even exist. I was diagnosed with a chronic condition, and wanted a way to store my health records privately on my own devices. A bit of luck and a POC later, I was able to confirm that patients can access their own records with little-to-no barriers.

https://github.com/fastenhealth/fasten-onprem
Yeah, have learnt the hard way over many weekend midnights to know these numbers. This particular problem especially leads to exponential explosions - something needs to be pretty overloaded or computationally expensive to take over 30s (or queue cutoff), and retrying it adds more of the same load and makes other messages slower and therefore causes them to be retried again. Not fun.
I'd like to have an configurable AI-based content blocker which scans the video's thumbnail and subtitles and decides if this is wrong or too stupid or anything for my x year old kids
Or maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxMmaygEYP8
I know the article focuses on the UK and what I'm about to state has little to do with the UK, but as a suburban US dad with three children I feel compelled to share that drivers are what keep me from feeling comfortable letting my seven and four year old play outside unsupervised.

I've seen so many incidents of (young?) drivers tearing through sleepy suburban streets at highway speeds here in Maryland that I specifically chose a house on a dead-end street full of retirees in order to lessen the danger of one of my children impulsively running into the street after a ball.

It's nuts. I grew up in an NJ suburb in the '90s and I don't have memories of insanity like what I've seen here.
How sound is this argument? It doesn’t pass my smell test as from what I recall 25+ years ago, some of my friends didn’t have siblings. Yet we ran around up until the street lights were on. Looking at people with children in my circles right now though, they would absolutely never let their kids do that.
The existence of the community edition being mentioned anywhere else than the download page, to which you only get by following info about the paid editions :)

Yep, you cannot find it at a quick glance, which is the intended effect.
Oh no, these friends are the gamer type, not software people.

I don't use plex, but I should set up Jellyfin for sharing my collection with friends... Thanks :3
Case in point with UPS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191723
Seems like a system of 'open secrets' is the ideal for intelligence agencies. Within and between agencies it cuts down on red tape, but classification can still be selectively invoked to target whistleblowers, the public, etc. With classification turning into a vestigial legal enforcement mechanism. Take the case of the Danish spy chief who was arrested for acknowleging that country's collusion with US intel. The people still know, everyone knows, but the govt still retains the right to take espionage cases against ppl who use the informatian to produce speech they especially don't like. Snowden, Manning, Assange, all seem like similar cases.
What are Apple and Google doing to protect their Android and iOS devices from these data brokers? Or are they just allowing and making it easier for them? Why give apps the power to do these things, why not give the power to the person who bought with their hard earned money these devices - why not let them choose whether to allow an app to grab all the data they can?
Nothing more classic than IBM shooting themselves in the foot.
Wasn’t this anti-stall software exactly what caused those two fatal crashes a few years back?
There is an entire field of research on improving the constants of exponential-time algorithms for NP-hard problems.
> Judith Faulkner at Epic (no medical background)

I suppose that's technically true although wikipedia states that she cofounded Epic with a medical doctor and is married to a medical doctor. As a software developer, I rely on subject matter experts frequently. I'm not an expert in radiology, chemical engineering, or any of the other businesses that I support.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Faulkner
I wish more headsets would ape the design of the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap.

Have never owned a Vive but have that head strap connected to a Quest 2 with 3D printed adapters (a setup dubbed by the community “frankenquest”) and it works quite nicely.
We don't have to imagine, we can read their TOS.

We continue to "own" the data, but we've given them a worldwide irrevocable unlimited license to do what they want, limited only by local law.. hence why I put "own" in quotation marks.
Door access and stuff like that is orders of magnitude cheaper. Integrating identity with all the proprietary systems is crazy expensive, I specced it out for about 100 users and it was 10's of thousands of dollars just for the hardware and thousands a month for the software.
I'm not really interested in apple and its ecosystem.

But this review got me really hooked, and I didn't even notice that it was 30 minutes long. Easily the best tech review I've ever seen. And it also felt very well-balanced between the good and the not so good things about the vision pro.
Then your definition must be different from mine.

Which is possible. I mostly encountered them in the context of Ergodic Theory, in which case a preserved measure is very much non-optional.
Didn't get to the download page. Why would I? I only wanted to check what they're offering this week, not download anything.
There's either got to be a big generational gap on preference for this, or a lot of folks out there have developed mousing ambidexterity.
The specific example isn't a developer decision. It's a combination of vendor risk management teams, hospital InfoSec/security/compliance, legal teams, laws, and location of computers. Nevermind that setting is just as often a workstation GPO to lock the screen and not even the choice of the software.

(Work for a PACS vendor, subject to the same stuff).
COLORTERM is also a very weird thing. Most of the time I don't need it to be defined, but when using a screen session it suddenly looks very crappy when COLORTERM is set to truecolor. Removing the env var makes it look all normal again.
It's wild to me that they still offer the Mega 2560 Rev3 for nearly $50 with a USB-B port.
It is not a useless layer of complexity. Encapsulating paths in an object isn’t purely about slashes.
The legacy of Playstation creator Ken Kutaragi, in 24 stories
PowerShell's ~ can be counterintuitive, as it's relative to the current location's path and defined by a property of the current location's PSProvider:

PS C:\> Get-PSDrive C,S,HKLM | select Name,{$_.Provider.Name},{$_.Provider.Home}

Name $_.Provider.Name $_.Provider.Home
---- ---------------- ----------------
C FileSystem C:\Users\jtm
S FileSystem C:\Users\jtm
HKLM Registry

PS C:\Users\jtm> Get-PSDrive C,S,HKCU,HKLM | select Name,{$_.Provider.Name},{$_.Provider.Home}

Name $_.Provider.Name $_.Provider.Home
---- ---------------- ----------------
C FileSystem C:\Users\jtm
S FileSystem C:\Users\jtm
HKCU Registry
HKLM Registry

PS C:\Users\jtm> cd HKLM:
PS HKLM:\> cd ~
Set-Location: Home location for this provider is not set. To set the home location, call "(get-psprovider 'Registry').Home = 'path'".
PS HKLM:\> (Get-Location).Provider.Home = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office'
PS HKLM:\> cd ~
PS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office> (Get-Location).Provider.Home = 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet'
PS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office> cd S:
PS S:\> cd ~
PS HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet> (Get-Location).Provider.Home = '..'
PS HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet> cd ~
PS HKLM:\SYSTEM> cd ~
PS HKLM:\> Get-PSDrive C,S,HKCU,HKLM | select Name,{$_.Provider.Name},{$_.Provider.Home}

Name $_.Provider.Name $_.Provider.Home
---- ---------------- ----------------
C FileSystem HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet
S FileSystem HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet
HKCU Registry ..
HKLM Registry ..

PS HKLM:\>
This is beyond paranoid. It's para-paranoid.

> Your "anonymized" cell phone GPS data can be used pretty easily to determine when you're not home for purposes of burglary.

Please - PLEASE - find me ONE example of a home burglary occuring under these circumstances.

> Your purchasing habits could cause you to become a prime suspect for a terrorist who used those same items in your area for a recent attack, like if your wife was buying a pressure cooker while you were buying backpacks for your kids doing back to school shopping.

This is just beyond nuts. Stop watching so much television, it's not good for your mental health.
Yeah. There's a small set of prepackaged micro- or teeny- computer programming interfaces. Or the plug-and-play if you will. In fact, that small set of convenience products only serves a market of kids that want to play with toys. They're literally toys. Ten or fifty dollar ARM microprocessors or microcontrollers coming in a box with integrated debugging features and integrated WiFi modules. And their complementary three dollar programming link handhelds. All from off the digital Amazon.com or AliExpress shelf. The "in-band" programming interface at accessible prices and stores.

And that's fine.

It's just that for me, on the other end of the spectrum, I prefer a little bit more adventure. Some less constraints. So, I need an "out-of-band" microchip programming solution for my aims.

Outside the kid world, you're required to be more knowledgeable about the way the world really works. You learn a whole lot more with out-of-band computer modifications than if you were to just plug and play some prepackaged handheld programming device into a little chip. You get more intimate with the microchip and its internals. You get concerned about its voltages and current needs, in order to achieve a proper relationship between your curiosity and the microchip's capabilities.

I want to dig into the raw power contained and hidden in unimposing millimeter (or centimeter) wide circuits. The re-programmability of microcontrollers or teeny-tiny computers, specifically.

There is no current documented solution for that. Beyond going your own way in a very long study and practice of electronics engineering and salvaging.
There's gotta be some farmers, someone needs to be there to accept the Monsanto lawsuits
> SpaceX made satellite communications so ubiquitous and boring it's even used in farming.

The other way around, if anything. John Deere was sending SF1 data to farmers via satellite in the 1990s.
I’d like to know more of the motivations for building your own terminal. Are you using a library or written all from scratch?
You're still incorrect. Those are "assets", the term "agent" isn't formally used anywhere in the IC
We're not all convinced there is life here on earth. Or at least intelligent life.
Examples can go back and forth. Government can unilaterally confiscate your property via civil asset forfeiture and make you prove it was obtained legally.

Government has been evicting people as collective punishment for crimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FMZFwnBCbU

Not to mention the government is the one licensing the banks to create money through fractional reserves/the reserve ratio. That's why you're on an inflation treadmill where assets are constantly inflating in price to the point where you need a loan to make big purchases.
Same pattern for me. Keep getting videos with nearly no views and occassionaly I comment on them and get real feedback from the creator.

Definitely an odd experience.
Or many years after with some custom cut acrylic pieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7wp70Xyxxw
I use my xreal air as my airplane display. I would love the Quest 3's higher resolution but my understanding is that compared to the XA the Q3

- Requires controllers
- Requires wifi instead of plugging in the cable and it just works*
- Has fairly limited battery life

Am I mistaken on these points / do you think it would work on an airplane despite them?

* To be fair, the XA only "just works" in vanilla display mode, the fancy xreal multiple virtual monitors feature called Nebula doesn't work well enough to be worth the hassle.
Link is broken for me (I get a "welcome to nginx" page).

https://archive.is/wRdWf works
They are marketed as investments, not housing. The majority of people buying these "Homes" never intended for themselves or anyone else for that matter, to live in them in the first place.
Body can start to decompose your protein tissues even if fat is there. So, eating your functional cells - muscles for example. It can also turn off less important functions like thermoregulation, impulse/mood control, slows the heartbeat, your activity levels, etc.
There's so many adults that were clearly never taught F.R.I.E.S. and it's both depressing and horrifying.

Freely Given

Reversible

Informed

Enthusiastic

Specific
Even a ton of Americans wouldn't know In-n-Out. They only really recently started expanding a lot. Until a few years ago its was pretty much a Southern California only thing. There are no locations east of Texas, and even then there are only locations in the core triangle of Texas. If you're in El Paso or Corpus Christi or Amarillo or Lubbock or McAllen or Brownsville you're several hundred miles from the closest location despite there being many locations in Texas. There are zero in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, or Washington. All of New England is about a thousand miles from a location.

These people acting like "everone knows it" essentially have the same world view that the entire world that matters is Southern California.
If you're up for AWS then the SNS-SQS combo works great. If you're not into giving short term credentials to clients then a lambda (with HTTP invocation) should work fine.

For bare servers maybe NATS? Think it had HTTP/S support.
> it was clear to anyone even mildly technical that 64-bit apps were the immediate future

But dropping support for 32 bit apps was a conscious decision by Apple. Windows users rather complain until today that Microsoft dropped backward support for 16 bit apps under 64 bit Windows versions.
My dad taught us how to make bows from long bamboo garden canes and gardening string, then notched small garden canes with fire-hardened points to use as arrows.

We used to set up ramps on the road in our estate while it was still being built, using piles of sand and planks left behind by the builders. Then, we'd get some airtime on our BMXs. I still have a scar on my chin today from going over the handlebars.

Back garden fires were a regular occurrence as well. We'd be unsupervised, playing around with flaming sticks, or throwing things into the fire, such as aerosol cans.

None of this seemed to bother my parents.

Then, when my own son was about eleven, I taught him how to breathe fire. It was heavily supervised by me, and we practised with water for an hour until he had the technique down, and I let him have a go with paraffin. He did it perfectly. I recorded it.

I showed the video to my dad, and he was extremely angry that I had taught my son this, seemingly forgetting all the wild things he used to let us get away with when we were children.

I suppose my point is that this is not really a generational thing, but a societal one. Regardless of your generation, in modern society, all adults have a heightened perception of risks, real or imagined.
100% this.

EHRs almost universally suffer from usability problems. people actually love having their medical records available. They hate the UX they have to go through to see them.

The source of the problem is that the people deciding which EHR to use are almost never the people using it. it’s ultimately the CFO or CEO who’s ultimately going to make the call, and they do it based on metrics like price tag or how many accreditation checkboxes it fills, not on user satisfaction scores. Until those user satisfaction numbers make it into CMS guidelines for reimbursement, the situation’s never going to change.
For those downvoting this comment, the body of evidence doesn’t look great that this won’t happen at some point in the future.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/572811/remote-bricking-of-...

https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrain...

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/08/the-latest-john-deere-repair...

And this of course isn’t a John Deere only issue.

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/polish-train-manufacturer-th...
I look forward to tractors bricking randomly from mass OTA updates and always-on internet to disable your tractor if one of its subscriptions lapses.
Frankly, I find most work well enough with xterm or rxvt termcaps to prefer that over having apps just refuse to even try to work until you've changed settings.

But conversely, if distributed like that, I'd also feel that this implicitly means any failure to act like xterm is a bug they've implicitly suggested it is reasonable to report or complain about (and if the version number doesn't imply it's an early stage release, and it still doesn't work well with its defaults, I'd get cranky)
I agree. If you're enjoying your time it has value.
This is a vey well written article - I highly recommend anyone who owns a firm to read this - even if you don't work with Big Tech, it is still very useful.
Not much, deer prion wasting disease is forced shape-fold mimicry and HPV is DNA insertions affecting repressed cancer causing genes having increased expression.
I referenced it, but it does not really fit in.
There's a major (and important) distinction between the two scenarios.

The State Actors doctrine says that the government can't hire someone to do something on their behalf that they're not allowed to do.

Under the Third Party Doctrine, they aren't searching and seizing your property in this case, as your data is no longer your property since you gave it to that third party already.

If the government was paying Neustar (or whomever) to go acquire this data on their behalf, it would be an issue under current law. But buying something that was handed over willingly* is a different issue.

*the article makes a valid point that many people are unaware they have agreed to hand this data over to a service provider, which is something that should be addressed IMO.

You might not agree with it, but it's not an "obvious mistake" and it's not a "weird inconsistency" in caselaw.
His companies keep creating the best of breed service on the market, which nobody else can come close to competing with.
And, hey, this is fine. Who gives a shit about fucking mars - we have to do something about our food production. We have to automate it and make it more sustainable. It’s exactly these sort of infrastructural use cases that are both the most profitable and carry the most significant impact.
Breaking a bone is a serious injury. It doesn’t always heal properly.

People jokingly say that kids bounce, but sometimes they don’t. It blows my mind that people treat broken bones in kids as not a serious injury.
Slashed Zero
Spielman in 2013 also (with Adam Marcus and Nikhil Srivastava) came out of left field and solved the long open Kadison-Singer problem, to the surprise of more mainstream mathematicians.

I find this interplay between "traditional" mathematicians and those in allied fields like CS to be very interesting.
I actually checked local McDonald's meal nutrition information. It had around the dinner amount of calories with reasonable split between sacharids, proteins and fats.

It would not be healthy every day, but it was not even approaching whole day amount of calories.

It was not far off any other restaurant food calories content.
Big kudos to Alex. I hope he continues towards his PhD; these tutorials he's been putting out are fantastic.
Happy to answer any questions that might be left lingering on what happened here.
I know about the Treo, but I never got one. If i remember the first reviews correctly, it was a cell phone bolted onto palmos but totally separate somehow. It didn't 'smell good'.

I've had quite a few non phone PalmOS devices though. I think I'm still keeping a non functional Sony Clie [1] in my nostalgia stash. And maybe a Zire Z22, but I may have thrown that away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_CLI%C3%89_NR_Series
Interesting that gaze-to-focus is panned and not because it doesn't track well. I've worked in VR games for a while and gaze tracking excites designers but I find it a very annoying input mechanism and we usually don't ship it. Maybe it's still the right call for the AVP but being able to interact with things you aren't looking at is important.
Yeah.. FlexSC / Soares is my favorite paper from OSDI 2010. The system call batching with "looped" multi-call they mention there relates to the roughly 30 line (not actually looping) assembly language in my other comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39189135) and in a few ways pre-saged io_uring work.

Anyway, a 20-line example of a program written against said interpreter is https://github.com/c-blake/batch/blob/1201eefc92da9121405b79... but that only needs the wdcpy fake syscall not the conditional jump forward (although that could/should be added if the open can succeed but the mmap can fail and you want the close clean-up also included in the batch, etc., etc.).

I believe Cassyopia (also mentioned in Soares) hoped to be able to analyze code in user-space with compiler techniques to automagically generate such programs, but I don't know that the work ever got beyond a HotOS paper (i.e. the kinda hopes & dreams stage) and it was never clear how fancy the anticipated batches being. The Xen/VMware multi-calls Soares2010 also mentions do not seem to have inline copy/jumps, though I'd be pretty surprised if that little kernel module is the only example of it.
10 years ago I thought Apple would fail if they tried it because they'd have a chauvinistic attitude about having HDMI or any other ports that aren't Ethernet. (You can't plug your phonograph into an iPod) For that matter I'd expect them to have a chauvinistic attitude about connecting to my home theater.

Back then you were just going to have to deal with the rubbish cable box but I think Apple wasn't going to stand for it.

Today Blu Ray seems to be on the way out and so is the cable box (now we have the spectacle of seemingly competitive vMVPDs that are all priced the same within a few dollars), it now is going to be a fight over game consoles.

TVs though have a serious race to the bottom and the TV with an Amazon Fire TV built in is going to be attractive to a lot of people.

(Also already Apple makes a "TV" removes the tuner and replaces the HDMI ports w/ something else and calls it a "monitor" and charges 5x. No way are they going to cannibalize that market to sell something that only costs 1.5x)
You and I both know they're doing this for two reasons. To put a heavy burden that will be almost impossible to enforce on tech companies so they can easily punish them for political reasons and to stop teens from learning early how shitty the GOP is.
my team is about to start working on an epic integration and i can safely say we’ve all thought briefly about staging a revolt…

i just keep telling myself “at least it’s not meditech…”