skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That exists in Microsoft SQL Server. It can create new indexes, drop unused indexes, change query plans when it detect degradation and so on.
Proving Heron’s formula by complex number (2013)
I love it when imaginary numbers help simplify a complex explanation.
But the article is about burnout. Surely that can't be great for existing doctors, either?
“…doctor roles (e.g. anesthesia)…” Anesthesia has primarily been a nursing role, and it’s been this way since the American civil war. Physicians didn’t really want any part of it early on as it wasn’t very prestigious or lucrative. Nurse anesthetists have historically provided and continue to provide the vast majority of anesthetics, in the US at least.
I spoke with the ceo of a top ten AI company on Friday. They are definitely playing the PMF lottery and there is no alternative to this. They have lots of very smart people and tons of conversations with customers. But nobody has any idea what will end up working.
How do you generate positive cashflow if your product doesn't fit a need that the market has?
Huh, ISPs are far from a natural monopoly. What makes you think they are? Especially if you take mobile broadband, paid 'public' wifi and satellite internet into account.

(Regulations that make market entry harder push things into the monopoly direction, but that's far from 'natural'. See some of the recent troubles SpaceX has been having.)

See also https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/net-neu... or https://www.cato.org/regulation/winter-2011-2012/economics-n...

> Network neutrality makes competition and consumer welfare dependent on law and lobbying, not natural competition. So you’ve chosen the area in which the telcos are strongest on which to fight!
I’m pretty sure we’ll still be using ASCII in 1000 years.
Another worst thing is that developed world sucks necessary doctors out of undeveloped world. No human right concerns whatsoever. UN as always useless
Part of this is down to the explosion of material sciences in the mid 20th century.

Up until then things were mostly "made to last". Then plastics arrived and "modern" became fashionable (and never left.)

Handed-down furniture, appliances et al became "old". New meant plastic, or electric. Neither of which are suitable for longevity.

The post-ww2 population boom (literally, the boomers) also placed strain on supply chains. Volume became the most important attribute of production, from houses to pencils. Again, longevity need not apply.

The wheel will turn. But it may take some time. And precious little post 1950 will ultimately survive.
> big bucks

You get that feature in Azure SQL Database for $5/month.
I am like you. I grew up without screens, and grew up spending a lot of time in car trips. I remember distinctly being keenly aware of my surroundings out the window, and playing games with my parents on how many exits I had left before we got off the highway. In amusement parks, I was charged with the map and navigating to the next ride (a six year old!).

Now, whenever I travel to a new place, I at the very least make sure to track the journey there so I can, by memory, journey back the same way. I make note of any distinct landmarks along my route, and pay attention to the logic of the local connecting roads, in case I must detour. I then compare that against any heuristics I have about city planning and my initial preview of the area on a map.

The trick is that this is all rather effortless and intuitive, if not instinctual. I wonder if my habits as a child, and my parents’ reinforcements of said habits, made it so.
Considering you’ve got the name of the Principal Investigator you can already do that search: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=HBjU-38AAAAJ...

They’ve published a lot on basic overview study of zoonotic infectious virus prevalence and transmission mechanisms.

Of course if you’re at all like that X/Twitter user you seem to be looking for a smoking gun to confirm your, very likely unfounded, pre-existing beliefs. The grant funded exactly and precisely what it described, observational investigation into bat coronaviruses and the risks and mechanism of transmission to humans.

SARS-CoV2 is and was exactly such a zoonotic transmission event… the only real question is why did humanity react so badly to an inevitable event?
> Oh, and everyone wrote HTML tags in all caps. I don’t remember why we all thought that was a good idea. Maybe this was before syntax highlighting in text editors was very common (read: I was 12 and using Notepad), and uppercase tags were easier to distinguish from body text.

The use of uppercase HTML tags in the early days wasn't primarily due to memory concerns. It was more about readability and consistency. As HTML evolved, lowercase tags became the standard for better readability and compatibility with XML.

Another point that in the early days of computing, memory was a precious resource, and every byte mattered. Some developers believed that using uppercase characters could save memory because uppercase letters have simpler representations in ASCII, occupying fewer bits. However, this difference was extremely marginal and hardly made a noticeable impact on memory usage.
No, 16-bit PCM is the default audio codec. If no `-c` is specified for a stream, ffmpeg will encode using the default codec. But if `-c X` is declared where X=`copy` or something else, then that is honored.
I've always been taught that pedestrians have the right of way, even when they don't. But I don't think that applies to invisible pedestrians.

Of course, Seattle is home to lots of terrible traffic designs and practices. I have relatives in Ravenna; in their neighborhood people park on either side of the street and residential intersections signal a 4-way stop by absence of any stop signs.
They're two independent things. You can still require network neutrality in a competitive market with multiple providers.

Whether a market would converge on providers violating network neutrality depends on the characteristics of the market and its customers etc. But if nobody would have violated it anyway, what's the benefit of not having the law? Whereas if you don't have the law and do have violations, that's bad.
I have often been described as oblivious (I prefer "focused") and I have yet to encounter someone with a worse sense of direction/orientation than mine. I could tell endless funny stories about how bad it is.

OP mentions a study involving navigating within a game, and I have the same problem in games. I simply cannot learn my way around a "map", as far back as Doom and still today. I can eventually learn specific routes, and eventually enough of these that I can perform reasonably well, but I don't form a mental model of the map even if I've played it hundreds of times and even if it's relatively small.

But I can follow directions, and I did passably well at military "land navigation" using a map, a compass and a protractor.

I would love to better understand why this is. My best guess currently is that "oblivious" is quite important - I've tried, many times, to start noticing landmarks so that I could use them later to get to a place without GPS or directions, but I always find myself having missed everything, or having "forgotten to notice" anything. My mind wanders, I guess.
This doesn't seem to consider or give insight on any tradeoffs involved.

Also, the underlying extension, HypoPG, doesn't seem to collect any statistics on data to influence query planner.
> Utilities are granted monopolies.

You can say that as many times as you want, but you don't have any evidence or even an explanation.

If there were ten power lines and ten water pipes to your house would say each of those twenty companies had a monopoly?

Repeating something isn't evidence of anything.
Exactly this. The announcements in advance "we will attack", "it's going to be huuuge" - if they were serious, it would have been idiotic to give their opponent warning.

Then the supermassive attack...is about what Ukraine deals with every week, only Israel has allies helping it defend.

Honestly, Iran looks pretty stupid here. But I'm sure their internal propaganda frames it differently.
They choose more money over avoiding burnout.
I have eyes, ears, and a brain. Share your email address and we’ll chat on or before June 30 to see whether or not I was right.
I think it comes down to, if you read the history of the American Medical Association, that some doctors simply didn’t like a free market pushing down prices for their services.
We should sanction China, and the US is considering it: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/08/yellen-us-ready-to-sanction-...

It will be painful though, people in the US enjoy the low prices of goods from China.
This is sane advice. Lots more sane advice out there in the world.

Yet, there is an element of YMMV. Like, I only ever do live demos, including lots of live coding. My "slides" are my org-mode file, with org-babel, and org-tree-slide. My premise is that, in-conference, peoples' eyes will glaze over sooner or later because of information overload from other talks and/or intense social engagement. So I need to land one maybe two engaging moments. Interested parties will engage in the "hallway track", post-talk. At-home viewers will scrub through the recording. All people have access to slides and/or a detailed blog post. Disinterested parties are free to use "the law of two feet" and leave if it's not working for them.

My talks have never been polished diamonds --- all elements of serendipity and demofail are embraced. So far, nobody has booed me off-stage, and I've always had fun after-talk conversations.

Also, in terms of actually doing the thing, this is what my, ah, "process" ends up looking like [1]. I discovered many people relate to it.

[1] https://www.evalapply.org/posts/how-to-give-a-conference-tal...
How would ending Medicare change the conditions in your quote?
I'm sure the database could, but it doesn't mean the database should. Indexes come at the cost of extra disk space, slower inserts, and slower updates. In some cases, some slower queries might be an acceptable tradeoff. In other cases, maybe not. It depends.
How about just one parameter! https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/8/9/095118/22887/One-pa...
If you're on a work visa and need a employer to sponsor you to stay in the country, it's pretty hard to quit if you're being taken advantage of. Being ineligible for unemployment payments or other support doesn't exactly help. Immigrants are often making the best decisions they can given the constraints of the situation, but it's not good for them or for local workers if immigrant workers are an exploitable underclass.
In the UK, many highly rated Universities would love to be allowed to take more medical students, and expand their facilities.
Rotate 90 degrees, omit the acrylic, easy access to all cans. Maybe not practical for earthquake prone regions, but hard to beat the space you gain from solutions like this in small apartments.
oh wow, a nazi on HN
Sounds like you just “created some jobs”
Thank you for introducing me to this.
Python was always much more dynamically typed than JS, and it also became the prevailing approach in the ecosystem.
This seems like a very bad practice, unless you want your inevitable gravestone to say "Here lies gmokki. It was his right as a pedestrian."
I'm not an expert in product development, but I imagine it goes like this:

1) Identify a problem

2) Brainstorm and sketch out solutions

3) Look at the currently available technology to see if a solution can be constructed

4a) If the previous step did not yield any promising path to a product, then give up

4b) Else: Prototype, test and demo a lot until you have a working product
Ads, mail, search, Android, Chrome, and Docs are about the only things I trust them not to kill.
mathematicians?
> It was not supposed to happen to middle class workers though.
Don't think Marx wrote or said that. Any source?
Removing easy access to all cans was a design goal:

> the problem was keeping only one kind of can in each row - if one person went rouge on you, it's was all over
Having worked in software before must have made it easier to change profession?
I have not so I think I need formal training, I am a programming hobbyist writing in python and did some SQL for databases for research.
I guess I need to have really tough problems to solve, when I succeed, there is almost nothing like it, the feeling of accomplishment.
> It [Firefox] was quick, it was simple, it was much more standard-compliant, and absolutely none of that mattered.

>

> No, Firefox really got a foothold because it had tabs.

The article doesn't mention it but at this time, equally attractive along with tabs, was the pop-up blocker! Truly the first ad-blocker like thing. And it was awesome too :).
That primal scream fitted perfectly into the final scene of Zabriskie Point...

https://youtu.be/dcSMv44jgls?t=4m08s
Would you consider rolling your own? Python’s goose3 has worked well for me in article extraction. It seemed to be successful more often than trafilatura and newspaper3k.
Is there a list of these great books to use as a reference?
Even if the length of the cars end-to-end is often greater than the length of craggy narrow street between tightly packed but unevenly placed intersections with anywhere from 3 to 8 entry points? Even when all of the 5 highways people are trying to enter and exit– all within the same mile– are all completely backed up? I'd have to see that to believe it.
How Shazam Works (2003) [pdf]
Hospital accounting is always messy. There's no simple way to determine whether a particular program is profitable or not; it comes down to how the accountants allocate overhead costs. But the fact that publicly owned and non-profit teaching hospitals aren't voluntarily expanding their residency training programs is strong evidence that they operate at a loss.

Very few other career paths have such an extensive body of knowledge, licensing requirements, and low tolerance for errors. Law is maybe a bit similar in that new associates in most firms are worse than useless, and training them sucks up a lot of time from senior associates and partners. But law firms aren't subject to price fixing, so they have more freedom to raise their rates in order to cover those costs.
Seems an unlikely solution to the present problem to me, unless they can get a cross signed CA as well, they’d need a lot of years to distribute that.
Woah, you sound like Adam Smith (the real one, not the one worshipped by alleged acolytes who clearly never read a word he wrote).
The category for "non-music section" for music videos is great. Would probably make the extension worth it, if that was all it did.
If one is content with remote-controlling Google's proprietary implementation, it can unofficially be done by leveraging the Web UI: https://github.com/mautrix/gmessages

That however does come with all the drawbacks of adversarial interoperability.
> Automatic testing revealed this unexpected accuracy to the rest of the team, and they soon realized that the network had found clever ways of arranging the numbers a and b. Internally, the network represents the numbers in some high-dimensional space, but when the researchers projected these numbers down to 2D space and mapped them, the numbers formed a circle.
Time to retreat from the net until the dust settled... there will be dragons
my euro sedans from the 80s already had night vision options.

would be a much better use of the infotainment screens today and cost much less than FSD snakeoil. while covering this single praise for it.
How to Be a Natural Conference Speaker? (2022)
Summary: Spurred by a conversation with a whip-smart friend and fellow gentlenerd, who unreasonably believed (believes?) they have nothing worth speaking about at the software conferences we like (IN/Clojure, FunctionalConf, local meetups etc).
Doesn't the plastic from the can liner leaches out into the food. Presumably the longer you keep it the more it would leach out. I usually go for glass containers for this reason. On the other hand if the nukes go flying, having a can organizer of luxury campbell soups could be a life saver.
I preferred not to do a survey because I think there are too many IDEs and choices to put between 4 answers and then it leaves people the opportunity to argue and talk about their answer. The goal was not to keep score for each IDE/text-editor but just to see what people personally use and for which language.

Otherwise I also like JetBrains but it is very heavy and slow sometimes (on my computer), and then I also like using vim or micro.
yeah but there's no test that asks if you know the difference between a watt and an amp.

If you're coming from the paint department, how are you to know that the color is material? I just like orange, it's my favorite color.
Government makes its money from a share every transaction between members of its society and others. Salaries, income, capital gains, and property taxes add on top of that. Inflation happens when supply can’t keep up with demand or when supply is restricted to increase the costs on demand by retailers / manufacturers / suppliers of energy, etc.

Putin’s war on Ukraine triggered an energy shortage which jumped prices on everything worldwide. When that happens retailers have an excuse to raise prices and the excess cash in the system meant consumers didn’t really resist for a while (didn’t reduce spending, and won’t until credit tightened and people start filing for bankruptcy en masse). Instead of resisting higher prices with less consumption, the excess cash in the system is still so superfluous that it’s going back into crypto and stock market excess.

Now the expanding war in the middle east is going to raise energy prices even more and re-boost the inflation on everyday goods. The accumulating high interest consumer and commercial real estate debt is a ticking time-bomb and when that puts tension on the banks, the ever increasing liquidity ratios allowed by Trump will come back with a vengeance.

One way to fight back is to move massively to EVs and Solar - which is already happening. The decreases impact of oil prices and foreign conflicts on the economy would reduce inflation.

Another way is to increase supply of goods that are inflating. Lower tariffs or provide subsidies for new supply in each area with an increase in prices and see how incumbents would be incentivized to keep their prices at bay. Housing is kind of a big chunk of the wallet share. Increase supply - provide a massive incentive for families who built their first home or buy a new home. Provide incentive for empty homes or unused investment properties to be put back to use - many fear squatting or rent control laws, eliminate or reduce those and see how quickly the rentable supply increases, lowering costs of rent. Interest rates are a blunt tool. Increase supply and lower prices organically.

If interest rates and the costs of capital are added into the equation that determines interest rates by proxi of inflation, you’d get a recurrent function (an infinite loop). You want signal in the data, not noise. The problem is the current signal is employment, not supply. Incentivize supply.
I also went this route and came to the very same conclusions. Cap'n proto for fast reading, SHM for shared data, simple short messaging, just everything in C.

My only problem is MacOS with its too small default SHM buffers, you need to enhance them. Most solutions need a reboot, but a simple setter is enough. Like sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=16777216
I'm pretty sure ASCII fell below 50% web usage around 2003.
> If you use very little on the residential schedule I think it can drop pretty low, probably around $0.15/kWh.

The lowest price on the PG&E tiered rate plan E1 (implied by the words "If you use very little ...") is $0.42/kWh. Even the most variable rate EV2A plan has an off-peak price of $0.35/kWh. I don't see any way to get a price of $0.15 kWh.
This looks like it will come in handy. Thanks.
The people who organise scarcity find it beneficial to themselves, but obviously it doesn't mean all doctors, or even most them, like this situation.
Great to read this. Censorship in schools needs more light shining on
it. And school censorship happens in higher education too [0]!

Surely universities block less than schools? After all the students
are _adults_. No, they block as much if not more, and the effects are
devastating because university students are researching adult topics
in things like criminology, warfare, medicine, security.

Big part of the problem is outsourced IT. In education we've lost all
the smart IT admins, and everything is now done by Google and
Microsoft. These "lazy" block lists are just automatically included.
We now have serious issues around self-determination and autonomy in
education if BigTech is deciding what students may or may not learn.

At one provincial university where I taught cybersecurity, every
single necessary resource was blocked by ICT on the keyword "hacking".
Meanwhile the published prospectus advertised a course in "Ethical
Hacking" with pictures of smiling students gathered around a screen
showing software we would not actually have be allowed to use.

[0] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/your-teaching-an...
So you say the best thing about France is that we can hire someone else than French people. And you are kind of right: We have a thing against companies with large high-low salary difference (something like a rest of revenge against the rich), and make them simply not possible, hindering the ability to build megacorporations. Apple wouldn’t have been possible here. We simply halt growth at median size and earn a good second spot on the market. That was true at the time of Dailymotion (second of Youtube), that is true in the times of AI.
> In a world without free will nobody opts for excuses, they just do what they were predetermined to do mechanically.

This is not true, since you can be predetermined to make an excuse, whether or not that excuse is valid.

> They will also be predetermined to punish or not punish criminals - they can only do what they end up doing.

Yes, although they still follow certain patterns; they are not completely unknown.

> Thus, if we assume no free will, there's also no meaningful sense to say that "people hide some true intention".

I disagree; determinism does not imply omniscience. Even if the universe is fully deterministic, then if you would know the full initial state (which I will assume is not knowable; if it was then it would contradict compatibilism) and laws of physics, and you are able to calculate all of it (which you can't), then still you might not know, since you will not necessarily know which part corresponds to your local context. So, things can remain hidden.

Nevertheless, I think that free will can be compatible with determinism, e.g. in case the initial state depends on transcendental numbers.

I am not sure that I believe determinism, but I am discussing if free will is compatible with determinism, not about whether or not determinism or free will exists.
Thank you so much for posting everything that you did. Long-form details are hard to find. In my truest contribution, I suggest you're a pleasure to work with. Rarely have I seen anyone willing to give the deep-digest of their determination and problems with a function. Consider writing more!

EDIT

I didn't see the other posts about brevity. Fuck that. Details matter and so does the human experience. Who hasn't on this site been the unfortunate recipient of trying to get some brilliant but shitty function to work?
Foogolf.com, golf simulation on the web.
This guys on drugs.
Huge ship and the author lost 2 pounds in 7 nights which is surprising. 5x the size of titanic. 248,663 gross tonnage (GT), Icon of the Seas is the largest cruise ship in the world for $1.983 billion.

The $100,000 golden chalice for lifetime unlimited drinks and $17k for an $8k used Rolex was funny.
It would be rosy cheeks everywhere!
General rule of people. If you have seen it at work it is happening in government. Being a public servant doesn't change human nature.