skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They very much did, for a long time. Think of how easily enumerable phone numbers are, it's insane that you don't receive hundreds of ads per day.
lol. all the orders are mostly public. the former president is about to be jailed. this post is mostly dog whistle.

musk is associated with former president. this is all part of their crazy defense strategy https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
Short answer: no.

Question everything.
Vala is a lovely yet criminally underused language. It does a lot of things right IMHO, and it massively simplifies writing GLib/GObject and GTK applications. It's nice to see more awareness around it, honestly.
The most common alternative system is one in which you simply can't get medical care unless you can pay up front.
Of course, the issue is fitting rectangular panels into a circle.
Since, apparently, solar panels are cheap now - perhaps they could overlap panels to cover all of the circle.
I made an HTTP tunneling service based on WireGuard that doesn't require any custom software on the clients: https://tunnel.pyjam.as/.
Pretty sure UVA ( University of Virginia Health System ) stands out as a contrasting point to that. I've read they are extremely aggressive at going after people.
Physician experience is important for patient experience. Doctors are by and large overworked, and respondih to too many patient messages are a major contributor to burnout.
https://archive.is/WOhu8
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Paying off your mortgage virtually eliminates your chances of ending up homeless, and absolutely drastically reduces those odds in the near term. This is at the foundational layer of Maslov's hierarchy of needs. I'd expect the impact on one's daily sense of well being to be massive.

Paying off your medical debt might improve your credit score over a long period of time, assuming you have other things going for you in that area. People who are worried about becoming homeless generally do not give a single shit about their credit scores. Having good credit one day is an aspirational thing for probably the majority of humans, closer to the 'optional' upper layer of Maslov's model.
Xfce always felt like Linux to me. Like sure, there are other interfaces, but this is the Linux one.

I want an ARM laptop with expandable memory, user-replaceable battery, second SSD bay, and a well-supported GNU/Linux OS that has xfce as the UI - from the factory. That's the dream machine.
Nextcloud is great

I run an instance

But you're still paying for the space (and, if you're like me, also the server infrastructure to run it (and spending time keeping it up-to-date, etc))
I prefer to think that Aristotle wasn't wrong, just operating at an insufficiently-complex level of abstraction. Life did / does spontaneously generate, but it involves amino acids and cosmic rays (or something like that), not rotting meat and sunshine. (Wasn't that the experiment Pasteur used? Proving that flies had to lay invisible eggs before maggots could appear.)
Hey nicbou, a fantastic website thanks for your efforts.
While reading your Bank article I noticed a potentially outdated information concerning ING as I am also an expat and was able open a bank account there.

"ING: You need German permanent residence or citizenship to open an account. Some students could open an account with a residence permit. Their customer support speaks English."
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Yet as a lover of Cherry Reds and Blues, in my opinion that time should most definitely be included. I am not a gamer, but I do notice the difference when I'm on a Red keyboard and when I'm on a Blue keyboard.
A service I never imagined I'd need, delighting me with quick photo-real results that defy imagination! Now where can I buy that couch in the picture...?
Our family filed for bankruptcy due to medical debt. Within two years, our lives were back to normal. I financed a car at a cheap interest rate, and bought a house (and my current interest rate is 2.5%). Anytime a financial institution asked why we filed for bankruptcy, we told them it was due to medical bills and they would laugh and say that they see it all the time. It really wasn't a big deal.

And businesses get to do this all the time for bad business ventures. Why can't people do it because of no fault of their own? Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
This is important for people who care about color. If you're more of a "sRGB ought to be enough for anybody" person, it will always be there for you.
Not to be confused with Vale[0].

[0] https://vale.dev/
It's been a number of years since I re-entered the US from abroad, last time was before facial recognition. In my passport photo I think I look quite different from my current appearance (I have a heavy, fairly long beard now, which I started during the pandemic). But I sailed right through, didn't even have to show my passport at all.
"_Betteridge's law of headlines_ is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older."
What’s the form? Never heard of it before
Darren Rovell on $500B collectibles market: It's a legitimate alternative asset [video]
> But it's expected to have a "community" for all such projects, and not exclude non-direct contributors.

By whom? You don't have to accept such expecteations - plenty of projects that just throw code over the wall and do fine.
Prediction: soon we will want to label things written by actually useful AI, because it will be more helpful than things written by humans and parrot tier AI
Yeah, good point. This would probably be better received overall if it were a per-artist minimum rather than a per-track.

On the other hand, that would make it pretty trivial for garbage/AI content distributors to circumvent.
But what value is credit score, really? Like, the most mundane thing credit score might affect is that you have to put a deposit down to get a fancy phone, or an internet service.

No one's buying houses, no one needs to buy a car on credit, etc. Credit score is highly overrated, no?
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My old house has a roof with complex geometry which does not lend itself to rectangular solar panels. I wonder why triangles are not the standard shape for solar panels as triangular panels would be more efficient in tiling surfaces available.

I bet those antennas can be tiled more efficiently with triangles.
Weird, a parabolic dish makes no sense if you point it directly at the sun. Most panels will be pointed at suboptimal angles. A flat plate mounted on the existing az/el tracking of the original dish would be optimal. Stuff that plate full of panels and track the whole contraption to the sun and all panels will be perfectly aligned.

If you replace the panels with mirrors and have an ultra efficient high power panel in the middle the dish form factor would work (and this is how they built them in the 80s though I think they were heating water for steam back then) but that's not what they're doing here.
>The best way to preserve pictures is printing them out and putting the prints in a box. It has a track record.

Now you move to image degradation, risk of loss to fire, water, etc
I don't think in words unless I'm reading or writing and "thinking "WTF are these people talking about?!"" is just a metaphor for incredulity (how else am I supposed to that feeling across the internet, through text?). I especially don't have an independent, always-on commentator talking to me in my head all the time, which is what I gather "inner monologue" is.
No worries, probably important to point out considering the topic
Because there's a significant a transaction fee if you're paying by credit card, with cash or debit card there's no transaction fee.

The bigger mystery is why stores in some other countries are happy to have a payment method chosen by the customer eat into their profit.
"Why choose Vala" would be helpful.
A lot of people in here think that you don't have to pay your medical bills with no consequences. That's absolutely false! Medical debt can destroy your credit and keep you from being able to purchase a car, renting and purchasing a home. It can also increase your car and home insurance rates.
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not - but in case you're not - seeing "10 cigarette butts" - instead of, say, piles of trash, dung, old broken down cars, and/or drug paraphernalia - seems pretty clean to me, as cities come.
FWIW to confused others, trying to extract something from that video, it looks like this game [1] is using this stuff. Based solely on the reviews and the game play videos (while definitely acknowledging its technically in development status), it kinda looks like long term profitability is the least of their concerns here...

EDIT: Watching the videos, I am more and more confused by why this is even desirable. The complexity of dialogue in a game, it seems, needs to match the complexity of the more general possibilities and actions you can undertake in the game itself. Without that, it all just feels like you are in a little chatbot sandbox within the game, even if the dialogue is perfectly "in character." It all seems to feel less immersive with the LLMs.

1. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2240920/Vaudeville/
> Since 2014, R.I.P. Medical Debt estimates that it has eliminated more than $11 billion of debt …

Is this before or after it has been sold to collection agencies?

If it’s before, that’s kind of amazing. But if it’s after then the hospital billing departments often sell this debt to collection agencies for cents on the dollar.

Paying off $11B in the past 10 years is more of a transfer of wealth to the collection agencies.

I’m honestly not surprised paying off the medical debt doesn’t help.
>> US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen pressed China to stop flooding the market with cheap green technology exports.

What a joke! Wouldn't everyone benefit from cheap green technology?
Blessed are the colorblind, for whom 4 bits/channel is plenty, and color accuracy is a punchline. I’m sorry, normal-visioned person, is this display calibrated so poorly that orange and green are the same color? Welcome to my world.
Where do you live that no one is buying houses or taking out a car loan?
Exploring batch caching of trees
I really enjoyed her book:

https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antar...

Her book of The Bounty is excellent too:

https://www.amazon.com/Bounty-True-Story-Mutiny/dp/014200469...
Google loves situations like this. They want you to spend advertising dollars to make sure your brand is up top. They do this to all major brands. It’s extortion. Article on HN before.
Is the series available inside China, or do you need a VPN to watch it?

I would imagine anything made in the US which is even remotely critical of China would get banned immediately. Is that not the case?
UPI is real time. Most banking applications do offer a feature to categorize card spends in a time period but not UPI as they are typically peer-to-peer transactions.

If you mean envelope budgeting type feature, I'm not aware of any.
What problem/niche is this language a solution/fit for? I've been clicking around for 30 minutes now and have yet to find a defining feature that makes it (significantly) more productive and/or robust than Java or C#.
The appointment scheduling system also sends out texts.

(Passport document acceptance is by appointment, not sure what other services might be)
Yes. I reflect on this from time to time. While there are some benefits, and hence the existence of the paradox, I am somewhat uncomfortable with this.

On one hand, it seems ludicrous that (assuming some minimum threshold of personal expectations), "everyone" has to learn "everything" in order to even be competitive. This seems odd for a number of reasons IMO:
1) This is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the specialization efficiency gains in economies of scale, etc. From the story about about automotive production, or making just about anything.
2) This has, for many, only recently been possible.
3) Even if "possible", it is still a WHOLE LOT to learn. Far beyond the (current, believed, practical, or desired) capabilities of many.

I think (1) is a reason why a lot of things can seen subjectively "worse" for those who have been around a while. A lot of things are "better", too, of course.

I conjecture a root cause might doing the cheapest thing for short term profit maximization instead of doing the thing most harmonious with the endeavor in the long run (which could be hard to impossible to stomach in a world of quarterly bonuses).

Personally, so far I have consciously chosen to not participate in being a full stack anything person. I have a niche, it is my sweet spot. I can report that this approach can be difficult. It is mildly successful but not greatly so. And given these trends, I think I'm going to figure something else. I frankly don't wish to know and manage everything about all systems (and I also don't think that's necessarily a great idea in many/most scenarios). That some people do is fine with me.

Another sad thought is that these "do anything" people are completely replaceable in the interchangeability sense, even if it costs a pretty penny. And market forces are pushing everyone (conceivably capable) to become "everything people", hence driving cost down and theoretical corporate (though not necessarily human) resilience high.

What are we to do about it? Just adopt this as beautiful, that one can do so much, and how limitless the mind is?
The Call to Action has a ton of grip.
no but we have #freelance
How it felt to be targeted in Westminster honeytrap
That's true, Laplace corresponds to a basis of complex exponentials that can grow or decay in time instead purely imaginary exponentials. We restrict the Ae^[(a+jb)t] domain just to Ae^(jbt) for Fourier.

From an circuit analysis standpoint (your problem may be different), but exponentials that decay over time ("a" is negative) corresponds to loss in a circuit, whereas exponentials that grow over time ("a" positive) correspond to something blowing up (this is really a nonphysical result but generally means a circuit is going to oscillate on its own, without a source driving that response). I mostly do electromagnetics/passive RF types of problems, in which you generally want everything to be low-loss. In that case Fourier is perfect, especially since I typically care most about steady-state behavior.
Hey there, maintainer of Material for MkDocs here! MkDocs has quite a history, which is why we theme, plugin and extension authors are working very hard to put MkDocs on a solid foundation, and to build an inclusive and welcoming team that takes the project to a whole new level

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As somebody who has a broken wrist right now: yes, it’s A LOT easier and frictionless to use phone than having to pull out/put back in a card.
I can't speak to whether that would qualify in Germany, but it seems like it'd be pretty easy to establish residency in some state for the explicit purposes of getting one of these if you were committed to this for some sort of scam or something.
I learned the week before the project that the Raspberry Pi 1 I had initially found useless and kept in a drawer for years had a new streamlined OS called DietPi and a thriving community. I had also recently discovered Tail scale. In one weekend I installed DietPi, tail scale, and AdGuard and then had ad blocking on all my devices, including my phone when I was away from home.

The Pi 1 is now an integral part of my network and sent me down the rabbit hole of personal home servers. I have an Odroid running home assistant, a Pi4 now running services where the data doesn't matter, and a Synology running services where the data does matter.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/ValaForCSharpProgrammer...

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/ValaForJavaProgrammers

Imagine going to a link called docs and finding the first 2 links are about what you ask for :D
No. There are no “hidden local variables” (color in your example), and it really is “spooky action from a distance”.

See Bell’s Theorem, this has been mathematically and experimentally proved: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem

This thing that might be confusing you is the action you are taking is collapsing the wave function of a pair of entangled particles (by measuring one of them), so they go from a superposition of up|down to each having one definite value. You can’t repeatedly twiddle the bit here.
I was homeless, then working below minimum wage for about that long. I now make 750k a year.

Don't write off the poor as broken, help them achieve to their ability. Most poor folks aren't poor because of bad choices, they are poor because of systemic issues that make life harder and more expensive. If we lift these people out of that hell scape, they'd be able to do so much more.

my bank, for instance, would reorganize my deposits and debits to maximize overdraft fees. I would put cash in, then go use my debit card later in the day, but the debit would process first. Then I would overdraft, then the cash would be applied, then the next purchase would overdraft. Despite the first operation being putting cash in the bank that would cover. My bank also had a 0% interest rate on my savings account because "we made a mistake".
US destination SMS is very cheap; less than 1 cent in bulk, same with phone calls to US numbers. English gets you access to most if the population. The population is large, and most of them have ready access to payment methods that works globally.

That makes the US a good target, regardless of success rates, as long as they're not extremely low.
Intel's 13th and 14th Gen CPU "Gaming Stability" Is Being Investigated
> Why not just have a single payer rather than saddle people with debts that they cannot (and will not) pay off? It's got to cause a lot of stress.

Because a job "with benefits" is a badge of honor. Because the "gubment" is wasteful. Because people believe people will scam any system like that (although most people who think this assume it's "certain" people who do the scamming and can't be bothered to realize it's people like Rick Scott who do the scamming.).
Researchgate might have a gmbh but technically is incorporated in the US. Maybe thats how they got their "special name".
Heard the language a few years ago, but haven't seen any apps built with it yet.

How popular is it within the GNOME community?

What are its advantages over more popular garbage-collected programming languages like GoLang?
This looks great! You might be interested in surya - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (I'm the author). It does OCR (much more accurate than tesseract), layout analysis, and text detection.

The OCR is slow on CPU (working on it), but faster than tesseract (CPU-only) on GPU.

You could probably replace pymupdf, tesseract, and some layout heuristics with this.

Happy to discuss more, feel free to email me (in profile).
"You furnish the picture and I'll furnish the war" - Randolph Hearst
I own LispWorks, I have Symbolics Genera. I've used MCL. I almost never found a stepper to be particular useful to my problems. The other debugging tools were more useful.
Which countries have that? The most common system I know of is where the government heavily subsidizes medical costs and controls prices to prevent price gouging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers...
Nice tests, but could you please use 0-based Y-axes in the charts? You're visually exaggerating the improvements.
In the game "the Riftbreaker" (Tower defense game with resource gathering / research tree) you can use plants to mine rare materials. How cool that it isn't far from reality.
> "Why are MY tax dollars paying for someone else's knee surgery? They should have planned properly!"

This is a very bad faith take on what groups opposed are saying and I don't even agree with them. You don't need to do this to effectively argue against this stance.
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1) My remark is not specific to this particular test but more general. The fact he used a relatively high end machine which is not representative of what most people are using. If we are talking about optimization, this is important.

2) yup in this case usability, see comment above.

3) I am not demanding, I am giving my opinion on what should be done to make better software. If some developers prefer to gatekeep, wallow in mediocrity, they are free to do so as much as I am free to use other pieces of software, write my own at my own level of quality and as much as you are free to wipe your ass with my comments in a piece of paper.
This isn't the question why need to ask.

The question we need to ask is what would have been their mental and physical health if we never had saddled them with it to begin with.
What if you have a chronic medical issue?
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This looks really interesting and I use DMX lighting.
> The leading thought is "Why are MY tax dollars paying for someone else's knee surgery? They should have planned properly!"

This one kills me. This is almost literally the definition of insurance.
I've never come across such a system so I'm very surprised to hear that that is the most common.
It's an attractive nuisance. And the SMS request that's actually part of the problem can be misunderstood by users (whose model is understandably less technical) as a validation that this is authentic.

"Ooh I'm not sure about these texts from Big Bank, maybe I should call them instead... Oh it did the 2FA code text, I guess it's legitimate"
I always got a kick out of those "e gates" the lines were always way longer and slower to move than going through the old fashioned boarder agent.
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> What problem/niche is this language a solution/fit for?

Writing software for GNOME.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GObject

KDE is based on Qt GUI library, and Qt is C++.

GNOME is based on GTK GUI library, and they wrote their own object system (GObject) on top of C. Then they wrote Vala, which updates plain C to be more like C# or Java, so it's easier to work with GObject than by using plain C.
Show HN: Upload bunch of videos, get TikTok stories, in your AI cloned voice
I started this to solve my own problem -> Not enough time to put into TikTok content creation

So I created an App that takes all my videos and gives me a ton of TikToks narrated in my own voice :D

Love to hear your thoughts!
I'm not suggesting that you should build a tool that deals with all the exceptions and variations in the tool - that would be madness.

I'm suggesting the process overall needs to be able to deal with these exceptions and variations - and it's people who are best at dealing with these fairly ( say in a Workday HR context ).

What you often see is the implementation of an idealised process in the tool, with no way to deal with exceptions - which leads to 'computer says no' scenarios. Everybody knows what the right thing to do is - conceptually it's simple - but nobody seems to know how to make it happen.
The deepfake nude picture generators aren't going to go away.

There needs to be some sort of discussion happening with kids about consent, and how terrible people feel after their consent has been violated. I don't know what age that needs to happen, but I do feel that parents are poorly equipped to have that conversation.

Back when I was in school, we had lessons where we'd watch videos about various scenarios around dating and teenage life, we'd discuss them, and write what we thought was going on and why.

I don't think there's a technical solution to this problem.