skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree but the problem is that business owners don't like how much money comes from that system and prefer competing for people's lines of credit, because an economy where everyone has $40k in debt literally has more money sloshing around it than one where everyone buys their car outright

It's even simpler than that, and "greed" doesn't come into the equation anywhere: any market where goods/services are subdized will lead to more expensive goods and services, by simple economics.

Even industries where companies are "good", and try to provide quality goods to customers at an affordable price point (while still turning a small profit) will see this happen, because the excess capital will push the apparent "affordable" point up - its effective, unwitting collusion for entire markets.

This is happening in healthcare (insurance that has transformed from being actual insurance in case of catastrophic injury, into cost-sharing), home prices (cheap mortgages), cars (cheap financing), and education (cheap student loans).

Debt needs to be more expensive. Insurance needs to only be for catastrophic events.
“The people” are also the ones doing the buying.

If The People are qualified to regulate matters pertaining to 4WD vs AWD, then they are capable of figuring out which one to buy.

For what it’s worth, I believe some regulations are low effort and high return, and those ones are worth it. But to believe that regulation can solve everything is a simple mistake in logic, as shown above.
I guess my 4 month wait for my annual physical (booked in June; first availability was October) in a city center didn't actually happen? Or is that normal for this paid healthcare system?
Lol trivially… unless you want to distribute your software that is.
As someone who recently purchased a 4x4 vehicle after getting stuck in an “all-wheel drive” vehicle…

I can’t fault the NPS for these actions.

Every manufacturer seems to have a different definition of 4WD, with the line between AWD getting blurrier and blurrier.

Sure, some AWD systems are pretty capable with automatic electronic braking to drive power to different wheels (mine wasn’t).

Even my new 4x4 vehicle also has this (A-trac) and I rarely need to lock my diffs, it’s great!

But when push comes to shove, road conditions are unpredictable and having a high-clearance vehicle that you can manually override which wheels are getting power is a lifesaver (literally).
The US rewrote Japan's constitution and made massive changes in their society...

https://www.cfr.org/japan-constitution/japans-postwar-consti...
It’s not as bad as Europe but in the USA it’s now 3-6 months to see a specialist with premium insurance
Razor-thin solar panels could be 'ink-jetted' onto your backpack or phone
AI generated lo-fi radio
People that think the government is correct here need to watch the video of a Subaru Forster casually summiting a huge sand dune while many “proper off road vehicles” fail to do so.
For sure there's an element of magic to zx. The use of tagged template literals doesn't look like plain JavaScript even though it's standard.

You need to understand async/wait, promises and tag functions to make sense of this basic zx example:

await $`ls -la`
I build File Manager in Golang replace all Linux tools (less than 100 line code)
I've been in your shoes for quite a long time. By now I've accepted that a lot of folks on HN and other similar forums simply don't know / care about the issue that Kubernetes resolves, or that someone else in their company takes care of those for them
I don't because some scammers will find ways to frame their enemies. If you attack the person/organizations doing the scam fine - but don't attack an innocent organization. Most of vigilantes are not careful to tell the difference.
In my experience it helps if you straight up tell them that the easy solution is fine or that a quick solution is needed. This is a problem of sensible requirement management which prioritizes certain tasks.

Sometimes the problem is that their task queue only has work they don't like. We all have something like that. Maybe it helps to set these tasks to a higher priority.
When a lawyer posts on a forum topic related to the law they usually tell you they’re a lawyer, but not your lawyer and it’s not legal advice.

Safe to assume everyone else is not a lawyer.
I think with the official deprecation of IE this is mostly a thing of the past since all major browsers are “evergreen” and support a pretty recent standard. This certainly was the case only a couple of years ago, and it’s almost always wise to have a bundler (e.g webpack) that can target a fixed standard as output via transpilation/polyfill just in case you are itching to use the experimental features.
(Replying to this comment rather than your latest, as that's been downvoted out of existence.)

> In that case sorry for the accusation.

No worries.

> With this you haven't given me epistemic justification, you're just telling a story. How do you know that the past happened at all on your criteria of what constitutes reasonable evidence? It isn't material. You can't touch the past, you can't pick the past up and move it. You can't actually observe it at all. If the only evidences we are allowed to use are physical evidences, it's impossible to know that the past wasn't just an illusion. The point is that in your criteria for what constitutes reasonable evidence, knowledge of anything becomes impossible - all things could simply be illusory.

While that's great for stoned conversations at 3am, it's not very useful.

If I'm going to come to any reasoned conclusion about the world at all, I have to make certain working assumptions, most fundamentally that my perceptions, memories, and my powers of reason are all more or less generally reliable (e.g., I'm currently in my kitchen, and not on top of Mount Kilimanjaro; I was born and brought up in 20th-century Britain, not 14th-century Vietnam; if X implies Y and Y implies Z, then X does in fact transitively imply Z). Obviously, these are all subject to the proviso that I may be (and often will be) mistaken in any specific instance.

If I don't make such assumptions -- if I just conclude that I can never know anything about the world, not even provisionally -- then what's the point in doing anything? I may as well just sit here and rot. After all, my life (and my growing hunger and thirst pains) are all just illusions, for all I know.

Finally, if you're going to insist that something as basic as the existence of change needs to be demonstrated with "epistemic certitude" for any debate, then such debate is going to be needlessly prolonged and tiresome -- and arguably in bad faith, as the very existence of a debate is predicated on the existence of change.
Here in New York it's about as bad too. Except a big chunk of people can't even get Healthcare.

The rich always get what they want.
That's funny. Writing Ruby with Sorbet works fairly well if you just pretend it's Java most of the time. Have to keep in mind that the static typechecking is broken, so can't go refactoring wildly and get it on the first go. Limiting use of metaprogramming to what amounts to being annotations is also friendly to coworkers.

Of course what's being picked upon is a specific kind of Java code. It's better to be specific than technically incorrect, as all written Java is Java regardless of how you write it. The article goes a good job (comments here less so), except for this bit:

> While not entirely accurate, there’s some truth to the trope that Java developers need everything to be an interface (I am one such developer).

That's not just Java, that's Dogma.

What does work for me is writing in most languages (Java included) as if they're functional ones without lots of variable reassignment or data mutation.
Companies make their offers and people are free to choose.

I’m saying the people should have more power to choose, more options to choose from, more disposable resources to choose with. This will lead to better outcomes than if the regulators try to create a situation with more limited but better-in-their-eyes options.
Looks like they are up to 34.6% with tandem cells.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/06/17/longi-claims-34-6-eff...
When I needed to learn JS above the 'hack it out' level, Eloquent JavaScript was really great. It really focuses on fundamental constructs and is not tied to any 'framework of the day'.

I see there's a 2024 edition that I should probably order.

Update: Looks like the 2024 version is going to be released in Nov.
Not sure why they are bothering. The US can't touch some scammers operating out of China.
GRDB on iOS and macOS

It’s easy and works well

It is slower than Realm in some benchmarking (I forget if it’s reads or writes) and might be less memory friendly (Realm does lazy evaluation). You need to use some third party open source to make sqlite faster by precompiling model definitions, which I didn’t bother with. I currently only use it for fts5 and Realm for other needs, but would like to try using it for more.

I also recommend looking at https://skip.tools which has cross platform SQLite for iOS and Android (you write your app in swift and SwiftUI and it generates the Android project and kotlin code)

Btw I use GRDB in my iOS/macOS app here: https://reader.manabi.io Manabi Reader, a Japanese learning app. I use SQLite for dictionary searches which works ok for Japanese only because I’m only searching dictionary expressions and not sentences
Robert Cornelius' Self-Portrait: The First Ever "Selfie" (1839)
It sounds well-intended...but I kinda sense a burning need to to conclude that autistic people are creative, and [vaguely somehow thus] can be in the modern meritocracy's Sacred 1%.
> I think your observation can be generalised - all of physics is human narrative description of events in the universe, coupled with some principles for choosing one narrative over another.

At least in regards to scientific study, this is not correct. The purpose of science is to discover the properties of the physically existent universe. The properties, themselves, cannot be "narrative". For example, we would not describe magnetic force as "narrative". We may use "words" to communicate what a magnetic for is, but this does not mean the magnetic force, itself, is narrative, and the magnetic force is what science is discovering.

> I think when a scientist says "free will does not exist", they mean that in a very particular sense - a theory of physics (or narrative) that includes free will has as much predictive power as one that doesn't. So from a scientific point of view it's parsimonious to exclude it.

This is an opinion on what this individual is claiming. However, I can also have an opinion on what this person is claiming, and based on my personal experience with both the body language and tone of the statement, my opinion is she is likely a Humanist or heavily influenced by Humanists (even without realizing this), as a critical part of Humanism is that free will does not exist.

> By the way, this is not directly related, but who are these scientists you speak of who claim to be unable to measure time?

It is easier for me to find them than to post a comment on HN. I am confident you experience will be similar.
Cow and calf die after cyberattack on milking robot
> If The People are qualified to regulate matters pertaining to 4WD vs AWD, then they are capable of figuring out which one to buy.

Buddy, if every American agreed with that sentiment then crystal meth would be legal nationwide. Sometimes the long arm of the law does have to supersede your freedom of choice to disable harmful options from being availible. This is actually pretty common in the automotive and agricultural sectors of not just the United States but most of the free world.

The average American knows the value of a seatbelt, but that's no excuse to give customers an option to buy a car without safety measures. It borders on homicidal insanity to suggest otherwise.
Java got picked up by the enterprise software crowd. (Maybe blame Sun for that - the enterprise people were going to buy a lot of servers.) The enterprise software culture is where you had "software analysts", which was a different job description from "programmer". That culture took over Java and made it what we now think of as "Java culture", but it wasn't really Java. It was really the enterprise software culture.

That's my opinion, anyway.
Huh? The article was actually really well researched. You find there what you bring to it, I guess.
I’ve built custom logistics, warehouse picking, and inventory software before, interacting with Amazon, EBay, and others before. Send me an email: rob@bottled.codes
As often, Grug has a great line about microservices:

grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

seem very confusing to grug

https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-microservices
It’s not the coffee that costs 7$ it’s mostly the building that coffee shop is in. Rent it’s the largest cost component.
> There was a time when I tried to educate people on the negative effects of browser monoculture. Okay, my mum didn't get it, but I was more disappointed by my fellow devs.

Two points.

One: dev tools. Chrome's are just so much better than anything I tried in any other browser.

Two: uneven speed with which web standards land in different browsers. True, Chrome lagged behind on CSS subgrid; but generally, it's pretty quick to bring in new standards.

That's it for me.
No one is comparing UK private insurance to Turkey or Vietnam. They're comparing US to UK, and yes, even private care to skip the lines in the UK is way cheaper than similar care in the US.
The title of the article is somewhat click-baity, though the "No, not like that" gives a hint. It's not arguing for visual programming like your response is about, more like "We need more visualization in programming".
Depends a lot on where you are in the USA, what specialty you need, and how far you are willing to travel. There are definitely some areas without enough providers. We need to reform the way we train doctors.
After creating an account there are 3 episodes

Episode 1: Koopman-Assisted Reinforcement Learning

Episode 2: Never Train from Scratch

Episode 3: Generalization in Diffusion Models Arises from Geometry-Adaptive Harmonic Representations

Each is locked and requires $10 USD/month subscription. All links, privacy policy, about the author, even the welcome page, are hidden in the top-right hamburger menu.

I don't understand why the author doesn't add social proof front and center: A link to their twitter profile https://x.com/sean_a_mcclure/ or announcement https://x.com/sean_a_mcclure/status/1818363934837293095
Every single company I've seen was reporting all green trends right until the moment they shut down. Maybe a half-hearted "it is slower than quarter x, but we do very well". No-one will give you this C-level info on HN. You have to network really well to know these in advance
Thanks for mentioning FusionAuth, Theo.

For anyone curious about his experience or other folks experience, we have a series of interviews on our blog here:

https://fusionauth.io/blog/tag/community-story/

Here's the Switchboard post: https://fusionauth.io/blog/switchboard-reduced-migration-tim...
As a long time FF user (from v1) I just migrated to Brave for 2 reasons:

- I'm tired of FF sneakily pushing some telemetry / studies / "anonymous ads" whatever even though they already get bilions from Google

- Brave is better at dealing with gdpr popups and ads than FF + ublock

On the other hand, Brave is a joke at managing bookmarks.

I tried Librewolf last year but I had some problems with it (not sure what it was).
July ends 13-month streak of global heat records, experts warn against relief
Have they made it easy to install and run your own Zotero server?

If I remember correctly, Zotero server has good API the client don't have. But you get the impression that they don't want anyone to have their own Zotero server.
I prompt injected Apple intelligence [video]
I went public and private routes for a surgery last year, ended up with the NHS as the process was faster, additionally ended up getting a payment from my private insurance for going the public route.
It's crazy how often people overlook this fact.

Not only are there lines in the US (terminating with an obscene and totally opaque bill), but the lines in most of the UK/EU-like systems can be avoided if you're willing to pay yourself.
Okay, you are clearly missing the context of what we’re discussing in this thread.

Here’s a primer:

- The UK has experienced racial riots over the past few weeks.

- There was a mass murder in the last weeks.

- During these racial riots, someone "identified" an immigrant as the attacker, which turned out to be misinformation and incited a manhunt.

- This individual was apprehended.

- 4chan went full "fr33d0m" and launched a DDoS attack against the police website.

- In response, the UK police blocked international IPs to mitigate this attack.

The law is clear-cut: it defines illegal hate speech as public incitement to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group, defined by reference to race, color, religion, descent, or national or ethnic origin.

This is the situation we’re discussing. Your stance may be that you believe the woman had the right to lie and incite violence, but that still violates the specific law we're addressing, and my initial comment was directed at this particular issue, this law. You might not agree with the law and may argue that saying "Kill all illegal immigrants." or "Kill this specific immigrant." is acceptable online or even offline. While Elon might be on board with that perspective, I’m glad the governing bodies of the UK and EU are not. It's the libertè thing again...
Japanese support looks good. But it looks like I can’t deploy this inside an iOS app :(
The benefit of heapalloc and heapcreate is that it makes serialization of data simpler because you can define the bounds of the heap so you can easily save pointer offsets. There are other flags available as well. It's a win32 feature so you would only use it if windows is your target platform (and then write other bindings for other platforms)
regardless who, whom, and how, right ?
Ha for important meetings I look into the camera for this reason
Population growth was about 3.45m, 3.15m of that was hispanic, 1.18m was asian, 0.6m was black, 0.6m was 2+ races, and white were -2.1m (yes negative). Numbers according to the article, as well as categories.
This was written a really long time ago by a former WSJ Graphics reporter (Elliot Bentley) who is now at Datawrapper.

It is now operated by Muckrock and hasn't seen changes made to it in a while.

That's why it doesn't have any of these integrations, the technology just didn't exist.
People with every moral and ethical right to enact justice are the types that can acquire clearance and join various authorities in the pursuit.

Vigilante’s don’t abide by the laws so aren’t well positioned to dispense justice in a non hypocritical way.

Maybe carve out a low level clearance that gives grey hat types a little room for counter red team activity.
They don't care because it's not something they think about. If they knew where their data lived, they'd think differently
Isn't it?

Like if I fly from China to US and offer you a bridge in exchange for $20 and take the $20 and don't give you a bridge, it's a scam.

What's the difference between that and doing it online? The offer is still posed on US soil; if anything it should expose you to the legality of both countries.
Probably safe, yes, though it's still polite to leave the marker for other people to follow later.

And, to the topic at hand: if lawyers consistently do that, that again speaks to the legal value of at least some disclaimers.
Aren't current solar panels using perovskites as well?
I love k8s, but bringing back up a single app that crashed is a very different problem from "our k8s is down" - because if you think your k8s won't go down, you're in for a surprise.

You can view a single k8s also as a single host, which will go down at some point (e.g. a botched upgrade, cloud network partition, or something similar). While much less frequent, also much more difficult to get out of.

Of course, if you have a multi-cloud setup with automatic (and periodically tested!) app migration across clouds, well then... Perhaps that's the answer nowadays.. :)
In addition to the bots others mentioned, there are web front-ends to provide scrollback. Convos [1a], TheLounge [2a], KiwiIRC+KiwiBNC [3]

I prefer to instead run irssi+otr in a GNU screen session from a random VM/VPS provider. Most others prefer tmux. I'm just stuck in the past I suppose for using GNU screen.

[1a] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/

[1b] - https://convos.chat/

[2a] - https://github.com/thelounge

[2b] - Demo: https://demo.thelounge.chat/#/connect

[3] - https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc
Disclaimers can be shown in court if it comes that far. If you seem to be an expert on something but make a mistake you can get into trouble for practicing [law/medicine/...] without a license. By putting in a disclaimer you make it clear that while you seem to know something you are not claiming to be an expert which can protect you. If you actually are an expert it is even more important because someone might take your generic advice as specific even though there is some complex detail about their situation that makes it not apply.

Most of the time this won't matter. People and courts generally know advice isn't to be trusted, if this goes to court it will probably be laughed out before they even see your disclaimer. However since there is trusted advice on the internet and courts/the law hasn't figured out where there is always risk and a disclaimer helps protect you against the court deciding you were playing an expert.

Of course I'm not a lawyer, I'm only guessing as to what will happen. I'm reasonably sure no lawyer will comment on this for reasons above.
What, how do you know all this?
At first, I couldn't believe anyone had actually asked about sorting inputs and outputs independently of each other, such that each sample input is no longer paired with its corresponding output.

WTF?

Then I read the second paragraph, in which the person asking admits the question is silly, but decided it should be asked anyway because

"my manager says he gets 'better regressions most of the time' when he does this."

Sigh.
iBuyers are changing racial disparities and homeownership rates in one city
They could probably pump them out for 200-300 a piece. I’m just not sure there is that much unmet demand for a basic desktop. Everyone already has a good enough computer at home there really isn’t much need to replace it. What I’m still hoping for is just to be able to plug in my phone and use it as a desktop. Seems like it’s easily possible not.
Teach you kids the difference between socialism and communism, and other economic concepts.
Okay we may be getting to the cote of where we disagree, regardless of free speech issues.

Do you not see it as a problem for the average person to be unable to understand the laws they are meant to follow?

For me, that's a real problem. In the example of traffic laws, either the laws are important to keep us safe on the road and the fact that people can't understand the laws as written puts us all at risk. Alternatively, if we're happy enough with road safety despite the fact that people can't understand traffic laws then the laws aren't serving a purpose and aren't needed. On top of that, people will be at risk of being fined or imprisoned for breaking laws that they didn't realize they broke, even when they took the time to read and try to understand the laws.