skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just announced upcoming Azure support today[0]. Right now we are fully invested in AWS and Azure. Launching in additional regions can take quite a bit of work, but that pales in comparison to another cloud. We'd love to launch everywhere that our customers or potential customers are, but it also requires a larger team. We've been hiring[1] for Azure-specific positions recently, and I assume we would do the same for GCP, OCI, or IBM Cloud.

[0]: https://neon.tech/blog/neon-is-coming-to-azure
[1]: https://neon.tech/careers
Until yesterday I thought I was the only person in the world who thought the designed behavior was undesirable, though
What does "better OO" mean here?

Which concepts or feature you have on mind?
Reminds me somewhat of Graham Greene's "Our man in Havana".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Man_in_Havana
>The only people who knew about the Control-click shortcut were ones who probably understood the risks they were taking.

Or users who were told to "control click" by malicious sites peddling trojan horses and other stuff, so that they never see a warning
Now just imagine some future civilization digging up a 300B neuron LLM glas cube, casting the oddest shadow.
As a maintainer of an open source app with 30K downloads per version, this will definitely make inconvenience my macos users
Batou eyes. Badass.
That… is good to know. I knew they were required but figured generic Truvada was the requirement.

Well kinda irrelevant. My previous insurance loved to deny things, it’s why my company changed.

I worked with my doctor, tried multiple times to get them to cover Descovy (I struggled with the larger pills, I finally just forced myself to get used to it) and was never successful. Just gave up.
I'll say it again, this argument is a total straw man. Of course it's ridiculous that someone wants to compel someone else to contract with them and pay them. So ridiculous in fact, that if you believe this is what's going on you should rethink it.

This lawsuit is about a cartel arrangement to hurt a company in retaliation because of it's moderation policy. I don't think it's a strong case, but there is a case to be made, and I'm eager to see how it plays out in court.
Glide was modelled after OpenGL, so I'm guessing the mapping was not that much of a stretch anyway.
So do optical disks.
Why is it so expensive? And is it covered by insurance? If so, then I'm not sure the list price matters all that much from a 'to most people' perspective, even if there is a moral argument to be had here (in which we'd probably agree).

I'm not entirely sure what the argument is, though - is it just the cynical argument of "well, these companies don't care about solving problems, just profit, so they're never going to do anything with it"? If so, then at least I understand your argument, even if I don't necessarily agree.

But I tend to be an optimist.
Handsdown my favorite for this sort of thing is Le Dan. A total subtle maniac…

https://youtube.com/@Le_Dan
I don't think I've really seen a partial class since the webforms/winforms days about 15 years ago. Maybe XAML too but I haven't used XAML in so long.

I think abstraction bloat is one of those things that's a preference. What's bloat to one is organization to someone else. When I hope into a python codebase and it's 900 line file doing computer vision madness, I hope and pray for abstraction bloat. I'm sure there are countless c# bloated codebases but I think that's mostly a function of c# codebases being inside megacorporate or government codebases. The bloat comes from the general inefficiency that those companies run at. I guess the same could be said by the scrappy python startups that put everything in a single file with no types or inversion of control or OOP.

I guess I'm saying that I'd rather deal with the bloat problem than the wild west problem. lol
> These days he talks about "making his own games". I want to wait until a bit before I tell him the bad news about making games

Part of the appeal of Roblox, to my limited understanding, is the ability to create content ("games") for it. This is the platform's two-edged sword, though, since their content moderation seems either insufficient or otherwise lacking for my tastes.

It's kind of the same problem with reddit: there is good content there, but there's also some of the worst things imaginable outside of *chan or *leaks. I pay a lot of attention when I notice any of my teenage kids are looking at any subreddit.
TorrentFreak Enters the Library of Congress
In general yes but in the Flashtor you're going to be hard pressed to do much with that unless you wire up a separately powered external chassis which defeats the point of getting the Flashtor.
While this is true, it's also funny to note that Apple was only founded in South Bay because Jobs and Wozniak wanted to be close to their families. There was already talent in the region, but the origin of that talent started the same way. Shockley (of Shockley Semiconductor and traitorous eight fame) moved the company from LA to South Bay to take care of his mother [1]. Silicon Valley is only Silicon Valley because of "I want to be with my parents" decisions.

[1] https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-by...
On the same path it seems - I’ve stopped all running, football etc and mostly just cycle now. Cycling makes the joint feel “lubricated” lol

Must be something about increasing the blood flow to the joint. Losing weight in progress

Best of luck in your situation, we can do this!
the 100 year flood is basically a mathematical concept - its about the long term average recurrence interval - the probability that the given event will be equaled or exceeded in a given year. The "100 year flood" has a 1% probability to happen in a given year, based on historical data and a normal probability distribution (which is what we see in nature).
The same idea with built in Internet Explorer in Microsoft Edge, where you can switch to Internet Explorer mode and open website that only correctly works in Internet Exlorer
Engineering the First Fitbit: The Inside Story
No, the political appointees who run the EPA do change with a different administration. In the US system, the president (via appointees) runs the agencies.

Yes, the rulebooks are literally rewritten every 4-8 years. EPA examples, Trump renewed the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline (Obama had denied it), 'rewrote key rules curbing U.S. carbon emissions and other environmental regulations' (1), rolled back all of the Obama administration's fuel economy & emission standards, rolled back efficient lighting regulations, etc. He replaced the Clean Power Plan, redefined what species are endangered, weakened the Coal Ash rule, revised the Mercury standards. And so on.

He did all of these directly through the EPA- not by passing new laws. Then, Biden reversed all of these

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_Do...
> Almost all health insurance companies in the USA are required to fully cover PrEP, including Descovy. They aren't even allowed to require that you try (generic) Truvada first before trying Descovy.

They are required to cover PrEP, but that doesn't mean that they are required to cover Descovy specifically. If they cover Truvada and all associated labwork or outpatient visits without any out-of-pocket costs for you, that's sufficient to comply with the law.

> This doesn't stop health insurance companies from trying to deny you, of course. You have to appeal the denial all the way up to your state's department for health insurance, which you will definitely win.

Having helped many people who've been in this exact situation, it's unfortunately not a given that you will win (you have to play your cards exactly right), and most people who need it can't afford to pay over $2000/month for the several months it takes for this to happen[0].

The most likely scenario is that the insurance company wins, because you give up.

[0] The insurance company has something like 30 days to respond for the first appeal, then an additional 45 for the second and third rounds, and that's assuming everything happens on schedule and you respond to everything immediately.
Im in China, fun fact, it is also illegal ! Now is it enforced, probably only a little bit more than in California !
I'm guessing AWS simply did not build reading/writing the current DB state to/from S3 into Aurora Serverless v2. Neon has done a ton of work to make scale to zero happen in terms of treating the actual database disk as nothing more than a cache.
>like their users are all idiots who need to be managed like little children

Most are.

But the OSes could be designed way better for this stuff too.

Give the user security but also total visibility. A central place to grant/revoke app permissions, and to check what all apps ask for, click to see their "privacy policy" or lack thereof, has an easy way to filter to see e.g. "which apps use the camera, when they last used it", etc.

When some app is blocked and you wonder why it doesn't work, it should be easy to see a list of "blocked apps" and sort them by "when they were blocked" and other such things.
PSA: Pipewire has been halving your battery life for a year+
The context offered in their comment was based on a demo they saw at a meetup:

> I saw a demo of this at one of their meetups in June
Definitely no way for Nov 2024 since they're already no longer merging features for that release. Considering the scope of this, I'm doubtful for next year as well. .NET takes their time with features to get them right as well. They don't seem to take as long as Java, but maybe most new features are also not as widely publicized.
Completely unclear how much they're moving into homomorphic encryption. The only resource I'm available to find about it is an announcement from 30 July saying that they can now do caller ID lookup using homomorphic encryption and they've announced an SDK that developers can use to leverage it. But the announcement is so vague that it's entirely unclear how much this can actually be used for practical workloads. And, the idea that they're going to go all in on homomorphic encryption is speculative based on what Apple has revealed so far.

That's notable, as we're discussing a case where Apple said they would do something, and then not only didn't do it, but went out of their way to pretend that they never said they would.
We have former Aurora users come to Neon who tell us they saved money by switching. If someone like yourself were to migrate, they definitely would be an enterprise sale, which has different pricing than what is available in our current tiers.
I feel like a moron, because until now I had no idea you could bypass it by using ctrl+click, so I’ve been using that “System Settings > Privacy & Security” flow the entire time…
Sierra's Dream Chaser Cargo System variant was due to launch on the second Vulcan test flight this year, but it was recently announced that it wouldn't be ready for that. It's now vaguely scheduled for 2025.

The crew version of Dream Chaser is kinda on hold as they try to get the cargo version flying (they say they're still working on it, but I guess the cargo version is first priority): it'll take a bunch of work to get it completed and certified, but it should be less than starting from scratch.

Once flying, they've got a NASA contract to run 6 resupply missions to the ISS (assuming they can get it flying in time before ISS is deorbited), plus a single flight contract with the UN (!)

Both Dream Chaser and Starliner are proposed as crew transports for Blue Origin's Orbital Reef station.
Don't Pivot into AI Research
It's easy money.
It's awfully uncharitable to assume that someone is a bad person just from serving in the military. The military has done some reprehensible things at times, but it has also done a lot of good and the unfortunate reality is that in the world as it currently exists a strong military is a requirement for a free society.

I don't agree with the fetishizing of the service that goes on in some circles, but taking the opposite extreme is not any better. People should be judged on their individual actions.
I actually asked my opthalmologist if he could make my vision better than 20/20. He said no, but maybe with contacts.

For baseball hitting, that would be a colossal advantage.
I've posted about this above a little after you did. Reading the article, I'm unable to determine whether or not this has any practical utility outside of niche applications or if it has the potential to be broadly useful. Has anyone reviewed the SDK that can render an opinion?
Skymont little cores have 4x 128-bit execution.
They could quadruple-pump.

But looks more like they're giving up on people writing code for wide vectors, instead settling on trying to make the existing code faster.
It's reasonable to assume that he knew the Monty Python reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc&t=70s
No one at Google, Google itself, may care exactly who or what I am, but they care a lot about using that data to inundate me with ads, sell me junk, and do who knows what with their AI bots.

Unless of course they decide to lock me out of my Gmail if I try to use my AC during a energy conservation mandate...
or, you just accept that different countries use different names for other countries.

Nobody calls Germany "Deutschland" outside of Germany (okay, outside of German-speaking countries)

Nobody calls Japan "Nihon" except people in Japan

Nobody calls Finland "Suomi" except people living there

...and the same goes for cities.

People probably still call it Turkey because they know how to pronounce it. Both the "ü" and the "iy" are very uncommon (and thus hard to pronounce) sounds for most of the world.
Doesn't the government also fund a lot of pharma R&D?

Here's a 2019 article that came up in a Google search: Taxpayers funded this HIV research. The government patented it. Now a company profits
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gilead-sciences-truva...
If this really is a strategic investment, maybe it means Citus style sharding is on the horizon?
> The medication interrupts viral replication by preventing HIV from reaching the nucleus of an infected cell.

How does it actually do it?
Does it rub off?
Just to ensure both of us get severely downvoted and not just you, I have a parallel way of looking at it. Most people appear to be more... let's say, optimistic than I am. I tend to take a very conservative engineer or economist way of assessing the risks.

About 3% of American astronauts have died in space, and about 4.5% have died during missions (which includes takeoffs).

"Only" 15% of smokers get lung cancer.

These numbers don't work for me. Yet plenty of smart people are willing to take those odds. I can only conclude that if people smarter than I am are good to go with those stats, then it means they have some kind of built-in optimism that I lack.

Your notion of the military being "soul crushing" is not shared by all people in the military. Starting around the sergeant level there are tons of very interesting problems to solve. Some find it super fulfilling, and certainly many dudes who have been in combat felt it was the only time in their experience to feel really alive.

So for different reasons I come to the same conclusion as you. They aren't really heroes, just people doing something they find compelling. And they measure risk and reward very differently from me.

> Killing tons of people isn't really a thing I respect.

Well, context matters, doesn't it? Sometimes violence is required to solve problems. The US had to kill 700,000 of its own to eliminate slavery. And while Europe lost tens of millions, the US sacrificed over 400,000 helping them out in WWII. Once the Germans attacked Poland and the Japanese attacked us, how would you have solve these problems without violence? Ask Neville Chamberlain how that worked out.
Depends on your business. If your customers, possible employees and vendors are there you want to be there. If they aren't, you don't.

I had a time a few years ago when I was pursuing a business idea together with my "non-technical cofounder". At the time I thought LinkedIn was a fantastic tool for sales prospecting. We got hundreds of calls but never sold anything. A better sales team could have sold $3M or more of work that way.

LinkedIn really helped recruiters find me when they had good jobs for me more than once.

I recently created a new account because I've been helping out a friend with business intelligence and LinkedIn is great for that.

My friends have gotten me involved with print-on-demand services like

https://littlecocalico.com/

where it is very possible that I could get designs into a marketplace and get a commission whenever anyone buys fabric with my designs. I'm still working on a prototype, never mind a product, but if I got a product into a marketplace such as that one I wouldn't just count on getting traffic from being in the marketplace but I'd expect to work hard at driving traffic through Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

https://www.pinecone.io/blog/

is one of the best examples of "social" marketing around a blog. Today it looks ordinary but early on Pinecone wrote down a lot about what they learned about the vector search problem back when people didn't know how important it was. I'd been interested in that technology since 2002 or so and they got me excited that somebody was building a product in that space and that communicated that they were experts in a way that paid advertising could never accomplish.
Inheritance Machining is amazing!

Awhile back I suggested to a friend who was dealing with a tragic loss to watch from the first video as an excellent example of what heathy grieving looks like. An absolutely beautiful channel.
Also a very interesting explanation of all the quirks of this sport by someone who has competed in it:

https://youtu.be/zfaK4Hz0Na8

It actually made me appreciate how impressive and serious this discipline is, despite all the funky-looking gear.
> You're free to distribute (and sell) your notarized app however you want.

Provided you’re continuing paying every year.
A US health agency became a shield for polluters
Neural radiance fields: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_radiance_field :

> A neural radiance field (NeRF) is a method based on deep learning for reconstructing a three-dimensional representation of a scene from two-dimensional images. The NeRF model enables downstream applications of novel view synthesis, scene geometry reconstruction, and obtaining the reflectance properties of the scene. Additional scene properties such as camera poses may also be jointly learned. First introduced in 2020,[1] it has since gained significant attention for its potential applications in computer graphics and content creation.[2]

- https://nerf.studio/

- https://smerf-3d.github.io/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38636329

- Business Concept: A b2b business idea from awhile ago expanded: "Adjustable Wire Shelving Emporium"; [business, office supply] client product mix 3D configurator with product placement upsells; from photos of a space to products that would work there. Presumably there's already dimensional calibration with a known-good dimension or two;

- ENH: the tabletop in that photo is n x m, so the rest of the objects are probably about

- ENH: the building was constructed in YYYY in Locality, so the building code there then said that the commercial framing studs should be here and the cables and wiring should be there.
>If you can't distinguish bad from good with LLMs, you might as well be throwing crap at the wall hoping it will stick.

This is why I think LLMs are more of a tool for the expert rather than for the novice.

They give more speedup the more experience one has on the subject in question. An experienced dev can usually spot bad advice with little effort, while a junior dev might believe almost any advice due to the lack of experience to question things. The same goes for asking the right questions.
So you want something out of me, but are not willing to explain why I should do it. Okay, then I'm not compelled to do it. I can simply tell you to piss off. I'm not entitled to receive an education from you and you're not entitled to have me not write stupid things.
See my sibling comment. GP is half-correct. They are not required to cover Descovy specifically. Covering Truvada is sufficient to comply with the law (assuming they are also covering all associated labwork and outpatient visits, and not requiring you to pay anything out-of-pocket for any of those).
>However, the conclusion is debatable. Not everyone has this problem. Not everyone would benefit from the same solution.

Everyone would benefit from developers being more performance minded and not doing uneccesarry work though! Especially Python who has long suffered with performance issues.

Love your work btw!
I agree, and it's nice to have Python bindings for it.
This part of the article confused me, because what does a black pigment do if not "inherently prevent light from escaping"? That's kind of just the definition of absorb.
Health Officials Urge Doctors to Address IUD Insertion Pain
The nuclear power plant is a Russian talking point. Ukraine is not into nuclear terrorism, not even as quid pro quo.

Setting the power plant up as a goal in people's minds just helps Russian propaganda. Ukraine doesn't go there = Ukraine didn't reach its goal = heroic Russian victory. Let's not proactively fall into this trap.
hopefully

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine

will keep working.
Dart 3.5, and an update on the Dart roadmap
The Hackney Mole Man [video]
In 2006, a network of tunnels were discovered beneath a house in Hackney, London. This discovery initiated a wave of public concern and media attention revolving around a lone figure, known locally as 'the Mole Man'.
While willfully ignoring Sotomayor's own checkered past?

"Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor reportedly accepted nearly $2 million from Penguin Random House in a book deal, and then went on to sit in judgment of a copyright case involving that same company the following year."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/4/sonia-sotoma...

Or the way she prodded institutions where she spoke to buy her books?

"Sotomayor's staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children's books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009."

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1187005372/sonia-sotomayor-su...

Pot meet Kettle.
Kettle meet Pot.
The actual answer to derust stuff without fancy equipment is a wire brush and an Evapo-Rust bath (which is mostly nontoxic and environmentally friendly). Alternatively something like rust bluing https://www.turnbullrestoration.com/restoration-services/rus...
Because then you have the warts of the new language, and the pain of migrating code, which could be 100s or millions of lines, to worry about...