skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that private medicare advantage plans are coming to be worse than gov't medicare plans and the private healthcare fights many improvements in medicare administration. Including wierd lobbied divisions between what the private plans are allowed to cover in areas that the public plans are not.

And on a system wide scale, US private healthcare is broken in both cost and performance when compared to comparably advanced nations.

I'll rephrase what I said in a different comment, and that the public/private division and arguing about which is "better" on an exclusionary basis is a big distraction on the failing of systems which include elements of both. "Free market or not" is mostly an immaterial distinction imho.
It is hard for me to quantify why the openbsd install is so good. But as an anecdote. when I need a linux I keep going back to void linux, mainly because the installer is modeled directly off the openbsd installer.
Not only is this a terrible place to ask, the reality is even if you reach them they will likely extort you and your production, and put your family at risk.

My coworkers friend ended up in a barrel of acid.

If you've got a killer idea, go to the BBC or other large outlet that has an idea how to interact with gangs
I was recently reading about Roaring https://roaringbitmap.org/ which is a highly optimized compressed bitset implementation. I reccomend reading about it if you are interested in this sort of thing. The talk at https://roaringbitmap.org/talks/ is especially good.
Isn't this the same rice we're eating here in the US?
Yes.

Besides “N”, another indicator you alluded to is the degree to which the aggrieved person is willing to take any responsibility for the outcome.

Sometimes gifted people can negotiate problems with a nervous college dean or engineering manager, so that their solution gets adopted. These problems exist in the world, and successful engineers will hopefully learn to cope with them.
Scitools is amazing for looking through massive legacy codebases. I wish it was free or there was an open source alternative that was as good.
I have to admit I don't immediately see how that would work, since the proof uses properties of Penrose tilings other than aperiodicity, but if you flesh out the details I think it would be a great paper.
Most rice has unhealthy levels of arsenic.
Scenes from a Dying Web
Feedly is free depending on how many feeds you need.

But that is likely part of why reader shut down. Depending on how often it's pulling and how often you are reading, that isn't free to run.

Especially if you don't even use their app to read your feeds, you may never be able to see an ad.

Would rather pay for it personally so I know it's there.
I've never heard of SOLID before today. I'm a senior engineer at a FAANG company - about as senior as you get, actually. I've designed operating systems for novel hardware, implemented kernel extensions, written device-drivers for hardware that doesn't even exist at the time, and debugged the same. I've changed shipping applications to run literally orders of magnitude faster by adopting new technologies, and I've written code in daily active use on hundreds of millions of devices today. I tend to be given exactly the multi-functional cross-team "difficult" system-design problems that you're talking about.

I know of the KISS and DRY principles - I think they're widespread, I've just gone and looked up SOLID and it seems like "sensible object-oriented design", but it's not an acronym I've ever come across in the last 30-odd years of professional software development. I don't think it's in the same category as the first two.
Yes.

The title probably should have used "formerly unidentified."

Although most people would be capable of inferring that from the context clues.
blobs are closed source drivers, executable software that runs on the host CPU.

openbsd has no blobs, only firmware, executable software that runs on the device chip. It still sucks, but there is a difference.
Elegant, complex and expressive languages
aren't easy to read/debug/rewrite.
Having a set of special symbols, arcane syntax
and complex abstractions isn't a selling point:
the purpose of the language to have maintainable
and performant software - not to extend the language
itself or showcase its strengths.
Nobody would "switch to X"/"Rewrite in X", just
because X is better, it has to be substantially better
for the specific use-case: like a user would not
start learning Lojban just because its much better
than English, a specific use-case and pragmatic reasons
would need to appear where Lojban-as-tool,
not Lojban-as-elegant-expression, will clearly
outperform English in its domain(e.g. translating
concept to some precise neutral representation),
and since these use-cases are quite rare, Lojban
would not get as much audience despite its rich
constructive capabilities in describing concepts.
This feels like a PR submarine for a company which I'm guessing makes the conductors or does the replacement operation. Utilities are not stupid so I doubt doubling capacity is as easy or cost free as the article makes out.
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should - and in fact is a security hole if you do. We don’t allow security holes where I work so all attributes are copied over and nothing can be changed. No hidden employees. No unknown guests.
No one needs that at all. You don't need AI to do everything. It's already possible to import math libraries and use them.
exl2 is Nvidia/AMD only.

But GGUF Mixtral should fit in 32GB... just not with the full 32K context. Long context is very memory intense in llama.cpp, at least until they fully implement flash attention and a quantized cache.
If you would like to put Kubernetes on top of this kind of setup this repo is helpful https://github.com/robrohan/skoupidia

The main benefit is you can shut off nodes entirely when not using them, and then when you turn them back on they just rejoin the cluster.

It also helps managing different types of devices and workloads (tpu vs gpu vs cpu)
Amateur radio high-altitude ballooning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon#Amateur_...

https://arhab.org/
People trying to protect their cushy feeder? No shit Sherlock. It starts with a single individual and goes up to highest level of Government / Corporations
My first job was on working on drivers for a proprietary OS. Every time a new board came out, the protocol was to copy the code for the most similar board and start making modifications. It works, but there's a whole lot of repeated logic for common init sequences and logical mapping of memory addresses to what they control. The "simulator" that was widely praised for cutting down on spin-up time for a new board was nothing more than stub code. It all worked and was maintainable, but everything was harder than it needed to be.
The downvoted comments on that post are because they're complaining about the submission and are therefore nonconstructive. In your case, bringing up the Gemini controversy in that post is extremely off-topic.

If you don't like a HN submission, don't read it. If it breaks the rules, flag it.
You contact the FAA…

Anytime you do weather balloons, rockets, anything that goes above 500ft AGL, you need to notify FAA ahead of time. Get permits. Approval. And on launch day, have them on the phone.

If it will show up on radar, you better believe they will scramble the fighters.
Somewhat tangential question, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a solution (or Google search terms for this):

I have a 3U supermicro server chassis that I put an AM4 motherboard into, but I'm looking at upgrading the Mobo so that I can run ~6 3090s in it. I don't have enough physical PCIE slots/brackets in the chassis (7 expansion slots), so I either need to try to do some complicated liquid cooling setup to make the cards single slot (I don't want to do this), or I need to get a bunch of riser cables and mount the GPU above the chassis. Is there like a JBOD equivalent enclosure for PCIE cards? I don't really think I can run the risers out the back of the case, so I'll likely need to take off/modify the top panel somehow. What I'm picturing in my head is basically a 3U to 6U case conversion, but I'm trying to minimize cost (let's say $200 for the chassis/mount component) as well as not have to cut metal.
I’d rather see someone code, refactor, write tests, and debug than regurgitate acronyms like SOLID. In other crafts we accept that there is a difference between knowledge and experience. Software is no different.
Agreed on all accounts, though it is difficult to argue that YouTube is an indispensable service for many goals (education included).
Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed
>There are other ways to go about helping.

The best ways to help countries and communities out of poverty is through quality education and eradicating the endemic corruption.

Throwing aid and free money at that corrupt and broken system, won't fix anything.

It just perpetuates a cycle of systemic addiction where the people/society depend on your aid to function and are therefore under your control.
I never looked at clients other than the Reeder app (not google reader), but that is iOS and Mac only.

Even supports local pulling (not sure if it always did though, never thought to check until now).

I imagine that didn't help Google's situation either. Here I was using their servers and never going to the website except to do the occasional subscription modification.
In comparison to what? The pristine environmental record of the soviet union, north korea, cuba, venezuela, communist east europe, cambodia, vietnam, china etc...
Amateur balloonists have been running these sorts of things for a really really long time without issue. Unfortunately due to China (Spying? Meteorology? we'll never know), now every time there is a balloon spotted there will be an issue.

While I'm not a fan of regulation, we should have some sort of optional transponder/beacon system that can be voluntarily registered. ADSB-like, which I know balloons can do...but true ADSB is expensive.

That way hobbits can continue doing their thing, the cost per balloon goes up by some minor amount, and we don't scramble jets and make national news constantly.
> There's no "easy way to find quality sources", that's mutually exclusive nowadays. Whatever is mainstream and easy to find gets automatically gamed through SEO junk, advertising and astroturfing, and becomes poor quality again in no time.

So true, a what unsolvable problem. SEO in particular, and greed in general, kills the ability of knowledge networks to organically grow, at least past the niche state.

Putting time in building your own network of trusted sources pays off handsomely. But it takes time.
Do the swapped people maintain their experiences, education and general attitude towards each other?
It is not economically violent for the poor people who buy the rice.
Except they would have you on camera vandalizing the machine.
> My working theory is one of culture...

my theory is that because most of the bands are writing lyrics in english and it's not their native language, they don't quite grasp just HOW ridiculous their lyrics tend to be.

please don't take this as a negative, because to me it's a positive. they sing those ridiculous lyrics with full passion without a hint of irony-- and that's why i love them. american power metal is a bit too wink-wink-nudge-nudge-amirite-guys?
> You’d have to prove intent to call it violence.

Are we supposed to believe no one involved in selling this massive amount of rice knows what we learned in 2007 [0] ?!

> At one point during the reign of King Cotton, farmers in the south central United States controlled boll weevils with arsenic-based pesticides, and residual arsenic still contaminates the soil. Today, rice paddies cover fields where cotton once grew, and a large market basket survey published in the 1 April 2007 issue of Environmental Science & Technology now shows that rice grown in this area contains, on average, 1.76 times more arsenic than rice grown in California.

'Negligence' is not the word for this. It's violence, and it's inexcusable.

0 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892142/
Your eye's axial elongation is caused by the eye growing longer, which means *more cells in the eye.* Your eye grows in response to visual stimulus, without the brain's involvement. Your eye shape physically changes by *extra cell production* to cause axial elongation. This process is called emmetropization. It's extremely well understood. Peripheral defocus lenses and low dose atropine are proven to work in reducing speed of myopia progression because they reduce the stimulus causing the eye to elongate. Let me say that again: The way axial elongation happens is well understood, and we have known interventions to interfere with the growth stimulus. We know how to control myopia.

There is no known way to reverse this growth process. The only scientifically proven intervention for reducing myopia is surgery. There is no concrete evidence of for any other intervention, nor is there any other known mechanism for causing the eye to reshape itself to reduce axial elongation. For the eye to become truly less elongated, your body has to break down the extra cells in the eye and cause reshaping. An example of this is wound healing: your body breaks down the ECM with TMP activation. We know how the *opposite* works, the eye grows in response to overfocus to find focus. When too much is in focus in your peripheral vision (near work, holding things close to your face), the eye thinks it's over-focusing, and physically grows to find focus. Near work is the issue. Outdoor light probably isn't the issue, it's probably because when you're outside, you're not doing near work.

For those who do experience improvements, it's not from changes to the cellular structure of the eye. There are multiple temporary known mechanisms for your eye changing focus. One of them is the thickness of the choroid, a tissue layer in the back of the eye. Another is possibly muscular, your axial elongation is known to show variable diopters during the day (maybe +-0.25 but I don't know the actual variance). Studies do show fast-acting axial elongation reduction (minutes to hours) in response to defocus, but this is obviously not from the eye reshaping itself, so this is obviously not reversing myopia, this is just changing temporary variables in the eye. For the majority of people who report "reversing" myopia, it is usually a negligible change (2 diopters) which is easily explainable with these mechanisms, rather than the false belief it's actually changing the elongated eye shape. Ortho-K is another known temporary / superficial intervention.

The burden of proof of truly changing the axial elongation and fundamental structure of the eye cells is on you, and on the EndMyopia quacks. There are no studies that demonstrate significant diopter changes that would demonstrate the eye is reshaping itself to actually reverse myopia. You are welcome to find the studies on the Bates method and wearing undercorrected lenses yourself, they don't work and possibly make things worse.
> But nobody used it.

Stats are addictive. They are also the first step towards justifying spending time on it.

Have some stats.
You? The poster most certainly did not invade Haiti.
The weapon producers are the most obvious group.
You can easily argue it would change significantly and not because of the reasons you think. Its because “rich” people will help “rich” people become rich again and not “poor” people. Value goes where its likely to increase in worth
You missed a key thing: before the 70s there was a limit on the amount of cash in the system, but after the US jettisoned all ties to gold there was no limit on how much money the financial system can create. That's why the US dollar has seen more inflation in the past 50 years than in the 150 years before that.
> Fuzzing instead of traditional types. In Candy, functions have to specify their needs exactly. As you type, the tooling automatically tests your code with many inputs to see if one breaks the code

This is a neat idea and the screenshots make it look fun. There are a few features that once you've gotten used to, become hard to live without (syntax highlighting, autocomplete, unit tests, etc). I could see how this real-time fuzzing approach might be one of those. Would be fun to try.
> I have literally never found any of the SOLID principles that useful

Single responsibility is a rock solid principle, and it's a shame it's included on a jargon that is almost completely about OOP ideology instead of good quality software.
Sounds like an interesting piece of software, but the real bonus (for me) is the site design: a model of simplicity and clarity!
I for one appreciate this article. It sheds light on the history of V and its undelivered promises; and save me wasted time trying it or reading their site.
The Kish tablet (3500 BC) is the earliest known protowriting, before cuneiform.
Definitely - in addition to higher bit rates and depths I’m sure some people are tempted to use denoising or more advanced filtering, too.
one feature I really liked about talk is that you can see other people typing as they type, I miss that in nowadays chat apps, it provided for some very cool interactions with friends
Ambiguous is perhaps the wrong word here
Imagine Google removes RSS for YouTube channels
David Hahn, the 'radioactive boy scout' who tried to build a nuclear reactor (2022)
Oh sweet local rocketry club Jesus. It’s only 500ft?
It’s like the old consulting adage: “If you’re not part of the solution, there’s money to be made by prolonging the problem.”
My understanding is that rice you buy in China, which is presumably Chinese, is generally good for arsenic since the authorities are really hot on it, given the amount they eat. I can't remember where I read this but it seems plausible.
> medium leetcode-like challenges

People here like to hate on it, but if you can't solve a problem where a good enough solution uses standard data structures in a halfway obvious way, you're gonna have a hard time in the job.
You know what I mean. The USA, which the poster is defending. It doesn't really matter what his nationality is.
That would be a very positive interpretation of the intention behind the strategy. Who would really buy a product where the manufacturer tries to provoke them?

For a historical example have a look at Gillette's failed marketing campaign from a few years ago:

https://time.com/5503156/gillette-razors-toxic-masculinity/
Plasticity through patterned ultrasound-induced brainwave entrainment in mice
> You don't need to memorize the acronym, but saying you've "never used SOLID" isn't the brag you think it is.

You said that if "they don't know what SOLID, KISS, and DRY are, are the same candidates who are poor problem solvers."

I've written plenty of maintainable software, but there are whole realms of software outside enterprise OOP. I have 0 interest in memorizing specific jargon.
There's no amount of informed argument that will sway the extremists, so when it comes to politics, people are even bigger idiots. For the rest, it's more that they feel one candidate or the other is a necessary evil to avoid letting the worse candidate be elected. I don't think that's an issue on their part, at least as pertains directly to who they should vote for.
We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own
That’s exactly my answer every time.
You fool! You should have defined `method_missing’ on NilClass for extra-spicy good times!
You haven't established that populism isn't a good description of it. All you've said is that there's a definable elite that occupies a policy position in India. That's orthogonal.

Occupy Wall Street was certainly a populist movement! Its slogan was a capsule summary of the whole concept of populism. They were the 99%! That they didn't in reality speak for all or even a majority of the 99% was just a detail.
> My family eats rice with almost every meal.

I wouldn't say that's typical of most American households though. Ever heard of the Standard American Diet?
Companies can be very efficient at keeping themselves in the market rather than providing real value. Rent seekers, mono/oligopolies, etc. examples are abundant.
lol sorry to bug you but couldn't reply to your post from PFA thread 71 days ago. ordered a vintage woolrich crewneck that was supposed to be 100% wool but instead was the 85-15 wool-nylon blend. seems like what you were talking about, with nylon as scaffolding rather than hydrophobic outer shell. safe to assume PFA-free?
Yeah, when the article skipped over the first two memory management strategies to point out issues with manual memory management and an "automatic" strategy that is unfinished or broken, it really struck me that it's quite impressive for a single author to have a functional, fast language with a working garbage collector and arena allocator (with some issues) in only a few years.

The criticisms in the article, which I just read beginning to end, are largely about features it claims to provide (or claims are in development) that either no other language has, are an improvement on other languages, or are state of the art features in world class languages with hundreds to thousands of times more developer hours.

On the one hand, it's not wrong to criticize the overly ambitious nature of V's plans nor criticize the poor attitude and self-advertising strategies of its lead author. On the other hand, I'm not sure that the article is doing that, it seems much more interested in taking one of these features, showing that it doesn't work, and saying "so there!". But the fact that these are the features being complained about, not the core of the language, says something in itself.

Likewise, the fact that a hobbyist language with a single primary developer has terrible documentation is at the very least par for the course. Heck, I've found the Zig documentation horrific (in the past), and that has way more developer time and mindshare. Compare it to, say, the Oil shell (at least, where it was a few years ago), if you want to be fair.

I'm not convinced that the blog author isn't a troll, in some sense of the word. Clearly, many of their criticisms are well founded. Clearly, Alex does not react well to criticism. Clearly, V kinda sucks for practical use right now in a lot of ways that do matter. But the post (especially the end) feels like an excuse to stir the pot, not well-intentioned criticism. The author seems to want to use this post to counteract people they feel have mistreated them (with some justification).

Note: I say all this as a complete outsider. I've never written a line of V code and probably never will. My only prior experience is that I'm familiar with the controversy around V, especially on this site.
I can see that reasoning but also have no idea how much testing/fuzzing/etc. i3 gets compared to Xfce?
Dude, poisoning people is violent. Fucking up their economy for profit is violent.

What is complicated about that?
Indeed, however at least TurboTax has competition so that the experience, while unnecessarily complicated, is not as unpleasant as it could be. I have recently been thinking about this as I have just filed my taxes, which, in the country I am living in, can be done only using the government's website. This website is dreadful. It hasn't changed since the early 2000s at the latest, provides no help or guidance, contains typos, and even requires that you manually copy a number from one page to the next. I also don't think the tax system is noticeably easier than the one in the USA (where I used to live) even though there is no direct analogue of TurboTax lobbying for complexity (although there probably are still accountant lobby groups).
Would you be willing to speak more about your disability, evaluations, and your day-to-day? I’d also be curious as to your evaluations, and whether or not you’ve appealed via the ADA?