skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many other places would like to be an outlier like California. Paying more attention to what makes it that way is probably a good place to start.
> We need doctors who are available to treat simple conditions and refer to a more qualified doctor for the complex ones.

This is most medical systems work in highly industrialised nations. First, you visit a GP. If necessary the send you to a specialist.
Your submission is [dead], dunno why. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39987732
A learning platform that costs the same as a book per month per employee, and doesn’t have the book on it.
Indeed Disney is a great example. It is because of them and their greediness that copyright protection was extended so past reasonable duration in US and other countries...
border-box was the original behaviour in an early draft of the specification, but it was changed to content-box before final publication. Browsers that jumped the gun and released with draft behaviour got it wrong. And it wasn’t default behaviour so much as the only behaviour – the box-sizing property that allowed web developers to control this came a long time afterwards.
* ... should typically be able stop a car length per 10mph.*

This is not correct, stopping distance scales as the square of speed. The distance you'd need to stay from the vehicle in front to be able to stop if it magically came to an instantaneous stop is far, far larger than anyone will reasonably keep.

The stopping distance at 65mph, including reaction time, is at least 300ft. That's ~20 car lengths, not 6.5 that your formula would yield. If conditions are wet, your tires are not in great shape, or you're not paying attention, it's going to be much longer.
I doubt it. They pay is high enough to attract more people than necessary. Most ultra high income jobs are the same.
Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
You could still buy one if they still built 70m2 houses:

9m2 kitchen
15m2 sitting room
39m2 bedrooms
24m2 bathrooms
6m2 mud room
5m2 of various storage

But why buy/build one if mortgages are cheap?
The video doesn't claim that Devin isn't useful. The video is about the claims Devin's company is making:
1) Lying outright about Devin completing and getting paid for Upwork jobs, and
2) Declaring that Devin is an "AI Software Engineer" is, at best, a huge exaggeration.
> Businesses operate like the customers want

Like feeding cows chucked poop, and then selling meat of cows infected with bird flu directly to consumers.
That might have been the worst thing I've read on the internet all year. Would you embrace your "dignified" death at 70 when your pension runs out and you have no food, clothes, home or medical help? Or heating? Is this really something you believe or something you typed drunk after a fight with the pensioner next door? Would you also embrace the reaper and think it's a sad, but not bad thing if you lose your ability to work next year, burn through your savings and die on the pavement because nobody cares?
That's a good point! Python's weird scoping rules can make code very unclear.
Doctors are paid a lot more than schoolteachers in the UK and in my experience are respected because of their profession. I think you're totally incorrect.
I think it's less about does it really matter, and more about do we have a solution for this/is this something that will spread and we need to negotiate a price on.
OR is indeed not bad, but you have to think about when to use it. It can easily make queries slower compared to other operators. That’s exactly why we have the terms "ugly OR" / "bad OR".
Same and it's going to be a huge, uphill slog to get the right people to consider localstack. But if we purchase a corporate license the savings would instantly pay for it so I feel compelled to try even though it is isn't really my day job to do so.
The heat death of the mind. It's possible I guess. But not in our lifetimes.
I'm not a _good_ driver - the rumble strip one will happen to me about once a year - but I haven't had an "ABS prevented a crash" in well over a decade.
You might well have had a terminal on your desk, because that had been an increasingly common thing for over a decade by 1981. But probably nothing fun on it in a government/military setting.
Increased Age-Adjusted Cancer Mortality After Third mRNA-Lipid Vaccine Dose
When I read the HN article title, I knew which domain it'd be from before I saw it.

I have several AirGradient devices and they've been great, no hassle at all with my own software instead of cloud-connected anything. I just wish there were a really good CO monitor that was also no-pain.

Thanks for making a product that sells on its own merits instead of forcing ecosystem lock-in or trying to obscure what the thing is or does.
Share holder value of course.
Pghero is kind of gem
Some of the advice here is great for meetings as well.
He is sharing a quote from a religious book, it makes sense to cite it, no? If they quoted the Qur'an, a Buddhist Sutra, a piece by Kahlil Gibran, or a quote by Adam Smith, I would all expect a citation to be honest.

A few comments around we see a quote by Rick Roderick, and one by the Beatles. I don't see why this is fundamentally different and deserves critique.
Took me a while to read it - seems to be a pretty significant take down of anything that uses a QFT - basically reality won't permit it.
Notes as in "speaker notes"?
Psychiatrist here. What the author of the article describes sounds familiar to doctors in many specialties. Happily, I am not that far from retirement. You can't imagine how many burnt out doctors there are everywhere.
This made me think of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "What is success":
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and
the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure
the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give of one's self;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and
sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived -
This is to have succeeded.
The company said in the description of the demo video that Devin did something in the demo video that Devin clearly did not do in the demo video.

That's a lie, pure and simple, and no statements made elsewhere can make that lie any less a lie.
A breach of contract is not a criminal act and I don't even think (I don't know as IANAL but it doesn't matter for this purpose) it is a tort? Copyright infringement is not enforced by EULAs. And I am certainly not claiming that if you violate an EULA your action is somehow immune from all other laws. Yet, this is still true: violating an EULA is not "illegal". If the EULA says you can only do X or you must not do Y, you absolutely are allowed to do those things, but there might be consequences such as... they ban you from their service, or they refuse to give you warrant service... not "and the law comes after you with a fine or jail time or whatever as what you did was illegal".
Ok, so you compare your sensor to a reference sensor. But...

> If you compare two reference instruments, they should ideally measure exactly the same, namely the true pollutant concentration. But they don’t: A study from the US-EPA co-located two commonly used reference instruments (Met One BAM-1020 and Teledyne API T640) and found that, at certain concentration ranges, they diverged by over 25% from each other.
Current no 2 on HN: “What will humans do if technology solves everything?”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029456

A: finally all live like Ray Harrell
I believe cars with autodrive etc often interpret surroundings by looking at objects moving relative to its surroundings. If an object is first seen by the car when stationary it is much harder for the software to filter it out from the “backdrop”
Okay imagine you’re an employee. You are ranked against your coworkers based on individual productivity, either explicitly or implicitly.

You can choose to either spend $10/month to get a big productivity multiplier, or you can play it by the book, not use it, and be the first one out the door the next time the company decides it needs to find efficiencies in a down market. What do you choose?
Ian M Banks created a pretty fascinating world that tries to answer to this question in his culture series [0]. In the books, AIs let humans do pretty much whatever they want, since it doesn't matter for them. Whether a human wants to pilot a spaceship to explore the galaxies, or genetically modify themselves to live underwater as a sea cucumber for some time, they provide them with the resources needed. Of course, since post-scarcity in this interpretation means no dire conflicts, this would be boring for a book. So most of the story plays out at the edges of the culture and it's interplay with other civilizations, but the books are still full of fascinating insights imho.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
UBI is not inevitable. The capital class may well enjoy a world without the 99%.
To start with, you’re overestimating the role of full fee paying university places, Australia doesn’t have provinces, and the intern year is not equivalent to an American internship - that’s the registrars, and there are fewer of those than internships. (This is the position you need to get in order to begin any specialty training, such as surgery. They are very explicitly managed and funded by the federal government. https://www.anao.gov.au/work/performance-audit/administratio...)

More generally, Australia does have states and territories, but the federation model is far more centralized than the US: for instance, public hospital funding is a shared pool coordinated by federal agreement. https://www.publichospitalfunding.gov.au/victoria-basis-nati...
While the vast majority of internships are at public hospitals, the federal government also pays directly to create a relatively small number of internships at private hospitals.

But of course this is all largely irrelevant because about one third of doctors in Australia completed all of their training in another country, and were then awarded a visa based largely on their profession being listed as a national priority under the system managed by the federal government.
Perhaps this is related to the fact:

Cost of medical treatment and holidays included still cheaper than America?

Fits perfectly for non-emergencies.
> to get your project of the ground

OFF the ground
I think the idea with companies is that management decides. If you don't like that, you can discuss it, go someplace else, or even start your own company. But demanding it, and calling management stupid would be my last resort.
The monkey tape is revealing.
NNs (indeed, all statistical fitting algs) have no relevant properties here: properties derive just from the structure of the dataset. Here (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02177) NNs are trained on a 'complete world' problem, ie., modulo arithmetic where the whole outcome space is trivial in size and abstract with complete information.

Why should NNs eventually find a representation of this tiny, abstract, full-representable outcome space after an arbitrary amount of training time? Well it will do so, eventually, if this outcome space can be fully represented by sequences of conditional probabilities.

There is nothing more to this 'discovery' than some trivial abstract mathematical spaces can be represented as conditional probability structures. Is this even a discovery?

One has to imagine this deception is perpetrated because the peddlers of such systems want to impart the problem structure to properties of NNs in general, and thereby say, "well, if you train NNs on face shapes, phrenology becomes possible!". ie., as a way of whitewashing their broken half-baked generative AI systems where the problem domain isnt arithmetic mod 97
> Yet, you would probably go for the right sensor, true? That’s because this one has a lower relative error.

If the author is about, I have a feeling this should read left?
The general gist I’m getting from this comment section is a general lack of awareness over DLP and security. The thing half these comments are complaining about exist for very good reasons.
Don’t hire idiots and assholes and this policy becomes pretty self policing.
Depends - certain disciplines become tapped out, but if you think about the parameter spaces for something even as simple as music, it’s enormous. Skrillex only seems obvious once it’s part of the distribution of what we’ve experienced.
I just returned from our daily walk around the streets the article mentioned and opened HN.

> Beneath the seductive surface of the present...

Unfortunately, this surface has become less and less seductive, and history is being buried deeper and deeper. Deep below overpriced coffee shops, AirBnBs, and "luxury apartments". There's no continuity whatsoever. Historians of the future will probably split Athenian history into classical, Roman, and touristic eras.
I disagree. There are no actual lies in the video itself, and I don't think that, for example, the engineer who is narrating the video is responsible for writing the description of the video (which is where the actual lie was).

The person (probably in marketing) that made the false claim is at fault, and any manager involved who did not stop the lie is at fault.

The software developers who are working on Devin's code likely had no control of or idea about how the video was going to be marketed.

There have been many times that I've been part of a team that built a product we were proud of, and had some business or sales person at our company, over our objections, make claims about it to a customer (or potential customer) that the sales person had been told were not true.
This style of reporting is so irritating. Surrounding facts and statistics in a heart felt drama of suffering and human angle. Of course I feel for Sonja Bingham, but if I'm trying to get my head around the consequences of Harm Reduction, I want facts, statistics clearly laid out with analysis by (named) experts in the field.
Veblen goods aren't like tech products.
> Looking at it another way, what's the American competition for Microsoft?

Computers: Apple and Google (Chromebooks are big in education). Server operating systems: various flavors of Linux, but I guess basically IBM since they bought Red Hat. Cloud services: Amazon. Office software: Google. Databases: Oracle. Name some slice or segment of all of these companies and there’s usually (though not always) a direct American competitor worth naming in the same breath even though each has their own specialty and none compete in their totality with each other.
I stand corrected, it's been a while since I last looked at rates. I think the ~$0.15/kWh I remembered was from SVP in Santa Clara, not PG&E. https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/residents/rates-and-fees
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You sell to CTO not developer, like you sell to CFO or to head of HR or head of Sales
This is an area where I totally don't understand the research.

In MA they tried to convince the public to allow facilities to use drugs. And they constantly point to research that shows there's no increase in crime or detriment to the local community.

And you know what. They're right. That's overwhelmingly what the research shows. Even research that focuses on Vancouver.

But I've been to Hastings street. The area where the use facilities are is not safe. And it has definitely harmed the local community. You can see that with your own eyeballs. You can say that it's helped people who use drugs, ok, but that it hasn't changed the community seems absurd to say.

So I don't get it. How can people's lived experiences be so far away from what these papers say? How can the experts in the field say things that seem so obviously false? Is there something wrong with what they're measuring? Is there really no harm at all, then what explains the state of Hastings? The only time I've tried to get answers professionally I couldn't get anywhere.

In all of the research that I'm involved with when simple observations disagree with our models and benchmarks we update the models and benchmarks.

If this whole research area wasn't toxic it would be interesting to look into more seriously. But I suspect that many scientists stay away because of the bad blood.
It absolutely raises the “floor” of the housing costs - more materials simply means more costs. And the labor to do extra work means more costs - and quality labor is much more expensive today. Same reason a bigger house means more costs.

I would posit - admittedly without data - that outside of major metros where land is the clear dominant cost, most costs for housing increase is labor.

There are houses and empty lots available within 15min of downtown Cleveland that are selling for <50k. If you go up to $100k, there are dozens of houses. They’re all empty lots or houses that need renovations. If you want a new construction in the same neighborhood, it’s $300k. The cost difference is labor or materials.

Obviously Cleveland is a cherry-picked example but I used to live there so I picked my old neighborhood. San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, etc are obviously mostly driven by land costs due to demand and very high incomes.
Rust must be such a breath of fresh air compared to MISRA C for the devs involved.

For those who don't have time to watch the talk, the backdoor used by Rust to penetrate the ecosystem was protocol parsing on exposed interfaces, then the oxydation spread from here.
Well, we already have generations of ultra wealthy who essentially have lived post scarcity life. They don't seem so eager to share their wealth, quite the opposite even.
I had to perform due diligence on that. The cost was meaningless.
This is BS. It takes a couple seconds to check a blindspot. Same with most other things you look at, navigation, radio, whatever. The rest of traffic doesn’t wait around while you are focused on that one thing.
I replaced a Humanscale with a Monoprice one, way better:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=43448

A heavy duty arm is great even if the monitor is not very heavy. The same arm is also sold under the Worldlift brand even cheaper.
In the comments the guy who invented quirks mode actually explains its history! Someone update Wikipedia, please… I cannot.
The trick is to assume conference WiFi does not exist and work against an all-local setup. Cache all the things :)

The other trick is to make material available to everyone, post-haste. This is especially important for remote talks [1].

Apropos embracing failure. I work hard to set up a smooth path. I don't want things to fail. Yet, I actively chose to be open to it because undoing the failure has a habit of creating a learning moment for someone among the dear listeners (they too try to debug in their head, and arrive at their own insight).

[1] In 2022, I gave a talk as a live demo at a remote conference. Three different networks at three different locations in my area flaked on me. My home network because of digging in my area, another mid-way through my talk because of power failures, and an otherwise-pretty-good wireless network because it lost packets exactly over my presentation and was just fine ten minutes after.

This was after I prayed to the demo gods at the start. See slide #5: https://github.com/adityaathalye/slideware/blob/master/n-way...

And the talk (the zone was deadpan, laconic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTouODWov-A

And the accompanying blog post: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/n-ways-to-fizzbuzz-in-clojur...
>I like plaintext documents. [...] I use TeX and beamer

He probably meant an alternative to Office for companies and average people not tech enthusiasts. Nobody is gonna switch to raw text files and TeX.
Don’t be obtuse. You’re comparing garden gnomes with healthcare.
> McDonalds burgers were 15¢.

Okay, it was the McDonald's hamburger that seems to have been $0.15 in 1963. That is $1.53 in CPI-inflated 2024 dollars.

The cost today is $2.19. That's about a 0.6% difference in the compounding inflation rate over 61 years.
It’s not “harm reduction”, it’s enabling. Drugs are supposed to be harmful. They’re drugs. That’s nature’s way of telling you that you need to stop doing them. Take away the harm and you just have an eternal drug addict.
Trump is nowhere near the level of Putin or Xi in following evil goals or keeping his office organized and loyal.

But in the role of US president he would be able to do equal harm, just by acting like a 5 year old.
Imagine a world with 1% of the current population. There would still be millions of humans, the right amount ? A world given back to the wild.

Each person supported by a near limitless amount fusion energy and robot assistance, 500 years into the future, a long time after the cleansing of the undesirables. Sort of like what happened to the native americans, or the natives after any conquest really.
This is a terrible piece. A woman who is mad about her neighborhood and blames a local program for the neighborhood following lockstep with federal trends. Arguing for a return to the policing style of the crack panic as racial fairness is a thin veneer over “we got screwed: now burn it all down”.
I have never even heard of a company where a single person on the level of an engineer was able to spend 100k without getting approval.
Just ask for example sales persons on engineer level how easy it is to get 50€ for something they think will have a huge impact on closing a deal. They have the exact same problems.
That is a great article on the invention of tradition in Italian cuisine, rightwing politics, the fallibility of popular memory, and the realities of prewar life in Europe.

It does not state that pannetone, parmesan, tiramasu, or 'quite a few "classic" dishes' are Americana.

According to the article pizzerias as a phenomenon are American. The most traditional Parmesan is American. Carbonara was an American innovation or at least arose due to American ingredients.
It really depends on what the code variation is, and it can often be a code smell, but I like just adding a flag to the method for simpler cases of this. No complexity or overhead, easy to reason and debug, and you can retain the current method signature with a default-case call to the new method, so no other refactoring required.

It can be inelegant, clunky, and terrible practice if you're doing two totally different things in the method, but I've had a lot of cases recently where it was a nice simple solution that made sense in the context we used it.

For me, one time I like that we use simple OO is a 'DeletedMyClass' extending 'MyClass'- it does everything the same, just has a DeletedDateTime property. A few pages will do an 'is' check (we use C#) and render certain things differently, but apart from that, they both get passed around interchangeably. You could argue you could add an IsDeleted flag, but the default case is that most things we deal with are not deleted, and they shouldn't have to even know about that concept. So to me this is a very useful minimal case of OO.
Are Russia and China actually worse on legal infrastructure when it comes to building software? Because I seem to use more Chinese software than European ones.
Corona discharge to attempt to reproduce the Turin Shroud Image
Have been using Godot via the excellent Gdext Rust wrapper. It's all smooth sailing except for one issue: if a Rust signal initiated trigger calls into Godot and that in turn (via callbacks/signals whatever) calls back into Rust, it crashes because of Rust ownership rules.

Of course there are workarounds to circumvent this but they are a bit clunky.

Have been following Miguel de Icaza's work on Swift Godot and am really tempted to switch. Swift feels like an ideal language for game dev: type safe to allow frequent refactoring, a simple but effective (enough) memory management mechanism, good performance...

And de Icaza spearheading this makes it more compelling still. The guy takes on rather tricky engineering problems and sees it to completion.