skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it you haven't ever interacted with the IRS beyond filing the standard deduction? Or interacted with Medicare/Medicaid?

The only issue raised by OP that would go away if it were managed by a US government bureaucracy instead of a private company would be people running out of coverage, and that only if healthcare were subsidized universally.

And to preempt the comments saying it doesn't have to be this way: it doesn't matter what if US government bureaucracies are incompetent by the design of politicians or by necessity, the point is that they are, and the idea that this case would be the exception is just wishful thinking.
The examples are complete programs.

Can I let-declare an variable in one code block, and refer to it in another code block with static type hint?
Interesting!

Here's an idea for a DSL that might be relevant:

camera
imageOutput
foregroundDetection imageOutput
foregroundOutput
backgroundOutput
blur backgroundOutput
blurredImageOutput
application blurredImageOutput

User test: https://www.loom.com/share/a4c89b04f3e74d178892943cf555ca08?...
No need to do that. My handwriting is plenty terrible without cursive ahah
While author said that C's mmap suffers the same issue, I would argue C's mmap is fine, because C doesn't have async. The issue arises from the mmap crate not having an async read and the confusion around how does async work.
Cloudflares free cache is pretty good as well.

Also have heard things like jscompress to reduce the number of calls on loading a page can go a long way too to boost speed.
China itself has banned TikTok as-is from China, because its deems it as a negative for society. In the mean time it has served for spreading disinformation inside the rest of the world.

Whether the US has sincere reasons for proposing a ban is a station that has by long been passed. If your point is that "social" media is mainly a tool in the hands of tech elites, whose main business model is social upheaval and where foreign influence is up for the highest bidder (troll farms), then yes, I agree that we should have a broader discussion of what we as democratic societies expect from those profiting from information chaos, distrust in societal institutions, outrage, and advertisement clicks.

Parasitic tech elites and their tools of influence in the information sphere have nothing to do with free speech -- in fact they kill a fair debate among equal citizens in a democratic society.
there is rula: https://www.rula.com

you put in your insurance and location, and they find you a provider.

also, some therapists don't take insurance (or recommend you don't use it) because supposedly if you do, then part of that agreement is that they tell the insurance company your treatment plan, which includes the diagnosis, that may be available to your employer. doctor/patient confidentiality seems like there are some exceptions here.
Which school did you go to, and are you aware if it's kept the same high standards? I believe there are interesting challenges for any mind, the hard part is the match-making customized for each person. It'd be cool if there was an equivalent Facebook/Netflix algorithm for learning.

I always thought the alternative to "gifted programs" is not having a program which is even worse. At some point optimizing teaching becomes unaffordable.
I remember being blown away by something similar on the venerable Commodore Amiga in the early 90s. Can't remember the name of the app, but you'd adjust a few parameters and line by line a terrain may would appear.
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I always thought that one of the use cases of memory mapping was to improve multiprocessing workloads, where a group of processes don't have to duplicate the same region of a working set. In that sense, maybe it's not surprising that single-threaded concurrency can't leverage all of the benefits of memory mapping.
Gun manufacturers have repeatedly been charged with crimes (some are currently in court). I'd argue that messaging platforms have, historically, been less likely to be charged with crimes.

The second amendment gives weapon makers some extra protection in the US, but they do have to be very careful about what they do and do not do in order to avoid going to jail.

> They must know a percentage of their products are going to be used to commit crimes. A much larger percentage than those using Telegram to commit one.

Do you have the stats on that? I don't, but I'm curious. While I don't doubt the vast majority of people using Telegram aren't committing a crime, I know that the vast majority of people using guns also aren't committing a crime.
Also, let’s remember the most important thing about replacing humans with AI - a human is accountable for what they do.

That is, ignoring all the other myriad, multidimensional other nuances of human/social interactions that allow you to trust a person (and which are non-existent when you interact with an AI).
Cloudflare and other cdn caches are a pretty standard web technology. Literally storing files closer to the client and serving it from hardware specializing in fast static serving
Why is a Guillotine blade diagonal?
Why are you comparing SoCs to dedicated GPUs?
I feel like author used a lot of words to say "mmaped reads are IO (obvious) but critically, they are usually not awaitable like IO (bad)"
That's definitely the kind of salary you'd be looking at after an undergraduate tech degree in Austria or secondary cities in Germany.
That isn't what "directly subsidized" means, though, that's "directly run". A subsidy is a strictly monetary arrangement, not one where the government actually becomes the employer.
this is also how AWS started. amazon created a setup they needed and found out that they can sell it to others as well.
lol you have that backwards. The LCSWs tend to be evidence based, the PhDs are busy working on their book promulgating their theories.
This link is incorrect, it points to the link of the subsequent visits. It should be https://onlyvisitonce.com/ (private browsing session helps. Haven't tried the whole website, after 5 seconds I saw it's not for me, so can't vouch)
Cool, thanks! I did check but don't see an email there. I just added my own contact to my about box. If you can send there or update profile let me know.
Because the EU is not a national government. It issues no passports. It has no citizens. It levies no taxes. It has no army. It's an organisation that coordinates sovereign states. Often it doesn't even set the law directly but establishes a framework that allows it to specify some requirements that national legislative bodies then have to turn into actual legislation. Frameworks for how to talk about things is very apropos for what the EU is and for how it came about.

I am not defending this state of affairs. Simply pointing out that it's a category error to compare it to national governments. I think it would be good if we had more of an EU state. It seemed to be heading there 25ish years ago. But the nation states do have little appetite to cede authority to the central institutions, so that's probably not on the table. And it's also undeniable that as a coordination mechanism the EU has been spectacularly successful. The fact that people treat it as a national government is proof of that.
Government support should start a few steps before payment and filing taxes. The solutions that would fix this problem are analogous with having free education instead of student loans
I guess they mean number of frontends times number of backends? https://github.com/buffdb/buffdb/issues/19
[raises hand]

It's not so bad. Looooong lunches.
Meta should ban itself from Facebook.

10 years ago, I'd post multiple times a day.

Now, I only go there a few times a month to check for events.
It depends. If we’re talking about e.g. GCP we use “cloud”, but Chmura Krajowa is a Polish product and it has a Polish name, so we use “chmura”.
We basically use the original name in this context.
"reluctantly"????
Here are the dates displayed or mentioned in the video, with timestamps:

1:09: 1925

1:14: 1938

1:28: 1949

2:18 1964

4:15: 1969

5:20: 1971

6:41 1976

12:02: 1984

14:32: 1987

15:17: 1995

17:57: 1999

18:05: 2003

19:36: END OF VIDEO

Maybe he should rename this video "Why WAS Japan So Weak in Software" and make a follow-up that actually deserves the title "Why IS Japan So Weak in Software", with an explanation of why Japan hasn't caught up in the last 20 years not covered by this video.
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Funny story, I had it released in the mid-90s. There are versions of it still on the wayback machine. You younger folks might not realize this but there was a time where there were a lot of fun internet happenings, and there was no spam. People hadn't figured out how to spam yet. There were also no T&C's or laws governing membership accounts. The first version of my site had no membership accounts. People would just create a chapter and assign a password for that chapter so no one else could edit it. And it was on GDBM, which could only handle one simultaneous connection.

Eventually, two things happened: the site got busy enough that people started experiencing errors when trying to submit/edit to the same story at the same time, and, spammers started realizing they could write chapters about certain erectile dysfunction medications. :) They also guessed some chapter passwords and overwrote them.

I didn't have a quick fix for this, plus I had ignored the site for a while, so by the time I realized, the site was overrun with spam and all my authors (who I had no way of contacting, remember: no user accounts) had disappeared.

So I took it offline for twenty years. I had copious backups, and over time I would reconstruct the story history. I had learned php by then from my career, and so I started rewriting the whole thing, which was honestly a huge project, especially because now every chapter has revision history. I had tried relaunching the site a couple of times without attracting any writers.

Then Covid happened and I was able to relaunch it and find writers. It's been fun since then. I have approximately zero commercial intent for this; I can't bear to turn on ads in the middle of an immersive reading/writing experience. Maybe someday paid accounts for extra features or a share of the copyright. My most fun idea for any sort of revenue is printed books for completed stories, or a mobile app "reader" with more features than ebook software. I think a wide release could be counterproductive since all the members currently kind of know each other, chat on Discord, and have writing nights. So it'll probably be a slow invite sort of thing.
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Sure, but on the other hand legs produce a LOT more force/weight per square inch, which can lead to them sinking more easily.

Which is why what the military uses for unstable terrain is treads like you see on tanks. Same for construction equipment that operates on soft soil.
Also, the errors that an LLM makes are not errors that a typical human would make. This makes reviewing their code particularly challenging.
it's not just friends. it's teachers, parents of my children's friends, my landlord. doctors, customers, employers, colleagues, even parents or my partner and other relatives, etc. these people absolutely do have the power to dictate which way i communicate with them (and for some of those people i absolutely don't want them to have my phone number if i can avoid it). same goes for groups, i may be able to ask individuals to switch messengers to stay in touch, but i can't move a whole group if that group matters to me.

the problem is that the choice of messengers is decided at the beginning when you meet someone for the first time. the person is not yet a friend but they may become a friend if you can only find a way to stay in touch. for me, as the more technical person in most cases this means that i must accept their choice of messenger, because i can't babysit them to switch. (though i do have counter examples where switching worked)

i travel a lot. when i come to a new place and i need to build up connections to locals it is totally not possible to come in and dictate which messenger they should use to communicate with me. i need to use theirs. only once i gained their trust and a friendship emerges i may suggest switching to a better way to communicate. but the reality is, that if i refuse use their messenger or worse are blocked from using it then i am unable to stay in touch with people i meet.

when i moved to china i long refused to use wechat. i was unable to stay in touch with most of the people i met during that time because of that. until i gave up resisting.
And they get suspended or disbarred as well as referred to LE.
As far as I know, the companies / service providers would love to be able tell their customers that 100% of their data is only stored and processed in the EU. It makes everything GDPR-related simpler for companies, and could be turned into a good advertisement for consumers.
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A simple golang cli to run complex command lines in a simpler way
If not missiles, you could be one of those people that are under the fire.

Weapons are strong deterrence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory
Back in my early university days I did a short project (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ch33p2xaq7xavgu9uk0qv/index.p...) on how to generate "hard" mazes. While there are many algorithms to create mazes, there is no real literature (maybe for good reason) on how to create mazes that are hard for humans to solve.
I think I agree with you.

The author's concept of "true open source" software will never seriously be provided to end-users in any form besides a closed source binary. That's my interpretation of this statement several sentences in, where they essentially reject FOSS:

>While free software licensing (e.g., GNU General Public License) attempts to force freedom on downstream developers, true open source basically says, "Take this software, use it and improve it (or not), and license the resulting product as you wish."

It seems like the author's definition of successful software is closed source software. See their point of criticism of Fair Source:

>Fair Source says, in essence, "You have all the rights of open source until your derivative work is actually popular. At that point you must pay." In other words, if your software stinks and no one wants to use it, hurray! It's open for usage, redistribution, and modification.

The CentOS and source code access problem in post-acquisition Red Hat makes it a terrible example to cite for the author's conclusion:

>There is no money in (selling) open source, as I've argued many times. There is, however, a mountain of cash waiting for those that monetize open source indirectly through support/software services like Red Hat, and even more for those that don't sell software-related services at all.

The supporting arguments and overall take is low quality.
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> There's literally zero drawback for service provider to provide secret access to the raw data that they hold to law enforcement.

That's not true. For one things, it is expensive. For another, there's a chance people will find out and you'll lose all your criminal customers... they might even seek retribution.

> I bet that if they really asked, they pretty much asked Telegram to build them one click creator that would print them court ready documents about criminals on their platform so that law enforcement can just click a button and yell "we got one!" to the judge.

You seem to believe, without having looked at the publicly available facts of the matter, that the problem is law enforcement didn't say "pretty please". The fact of the matter is that they've refused proper law enforcement requests repeatedly; if anyone has been rude about it, it's been Durov.
The article is from 2016, and quite a bit has changed since then - both in the ecosystem (many previously "open source" companies moving away from that model), and in the new licenses available to be used.

I really like the Functional Source License (FSL) (the main license under the Fair Source brand), and we've adopted it at my company. It's not open source, and shouldn't be compared with that. But you do get a lot of the same advantages as you'd get from an open-source product, such as being able to inspect the source code to get an understanding of how the system works.
Now we've moved on from talking about direct government subsidy to talking about completely government-operated medicine.

And for that, I'd like you to point me to a state with government-operated medicine that doesn't have a therapist shortage. Because I'm hearing from several people in this thread that their countries have the same problems.
But which local time?

Sometimes, the local time at the place the photo was taken can make more sense, but it's not a general rule.
Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act
1. Know what and why you are building. Some would call it business-domain knowledge. I'd prefer calling it "now why your product is being used, and how it is used exactly". This alone gets rid of the vast majority of bugs and other problems.

2. I used to be a QA for about a decade in a previous life. I know where and how classic (technical) bugs happen, it's easier to avoid then that way.
Yes, there is a bug somewhere which I could not find so far… it is making me crazy. Yet, I will find it at some point. Other than that, I am still improving the site!
Believe it or not, taxes are not necessary for running a government.

People thought you had to have a king. Then Thomas Paine wrote *Common Sense* explaining that life goes on fine without somebody ordering you around all day.

Taxes can all be paid voluntary. Right now we think the only way is to use the old vestiges of force from times gone by… but in future years we will be appalled that people went to prison for any reason, let alone taxes.

It’s important when thinking about government to realize that we are still in the toddler phase. Just learning how to not abuse it to hit the people we don’t like.

Adulthood is when all government seeks the best for all citizens.

But as it stands… pay your taxes lol!
Elections are state-run. You shouldn’t need a national ID to vote in a state-run election. You should only need a state-issued ID.

The best thing to come out of Bush v Gore was the reinforcement of elections being state-run.
Something fun I did in 2015ish was zip tying an Intel compute stick, a small usb power brick, and an Alfa usb wifi thing to my drone and ran kismet on it in the air and SSHed in from my laptop on the ground. Could see quite a lot of APs from above without clutter on the ground.
A 20” box fan and 4 20” furnace filters
The same could be said about US financial services, US legacy auto, etc. Incumbents want to stay incumbents with little effort, this isn’t news.

Pay people who do, not people who write white papers and frameworks, and spend material effort on “thought leadership.”
The state and local pay about equal portions. But do you have anything to say about the argument in my comment?
> der8auer posted a video

Does anyone remember 'derBauer', the Flash god?
No, that misses the point. Async doesn't require an async keyword. Evented programming (which as the same issues) has been common in C for decades.
> Not sure why anyone would be against this.

Because of all the edge cases. Some people do not have ID. Some have ID but it doesn't match their current address. Some people have ID but the same name+address as a dead person (not uncommon when people inherit houses from dead parents). Most people would be fine with ID requirements if they could trust that these edge cases will not be leveraged by some local volunteer with an agenda. In the never-ending 50-50 split of US politics, edge cases are too often the decider. See Florida 2000, where those who couldn't properly punch a hole in a piece of paper ended up deciding the presidency.
This is unrelated to main thread but since you brought up UFOs and censorship. Isn't it a disgrace what Wikipedia has done to the trove of "list of UFO sightings"?

Those listings were great and well documented up until about 2019 or so. They've been scrubbed heavily.
That's an improvement over closed-source free trial software.
It does if you consider the part going to your county:

“In 2022, the federal government spent … This is 13.6% of the total spent on elementary and secondary education in 2022. The remaining funding comes from state and local governments, which contribute 43.7% and 42.7%, respectively.”
Offensive capabilities are very successful deterrence
There are (still) actually good transcriptionists who will deliver a meticulous transcript with all your weirdly abbreviated jargon thoroughly researched (which can be a feat of truly impressive "detective" work at times), multiple speakers discerned, expert punctuation choices that fit the tone and meaning, etc. But it costs way more than most people can/will pay. I worked at a "real" (non-sweatshop) transcription outfit ca. 2012. Judging by my pay rate of $75 per audio hour at the time, I would guess that the really good operations these days must be charging close to $200 per audio hour. A quick google found one anecdatum corroborating this guesstimate: http://www.transprof.com/prices-faq
Russia was also using it for “secret” chats and are probably terrified what could be exposed.
Don't Double Book Me isn't some crazy startup idea that needs funding, I am not shooting for the moon with this. Feature development was basically done in a few weekends and I like that it solves a single problem well. There is definitely a market for people who need a tool like this. Look at Reclaim, Calendly, Clockwise, CalendarBridge, OneCal, etc, which have successfully tapped into this market but are focused on selling to teams.

I designed it for individuals balancing personal and professional commitments. I work somewhere with a heavy meeting culture, nothing I can really do about that. I found myself double booked often with personal commitments I had. Consider a scenario where you need to attend your child’s school play, but you forgot to also block off time on your work calendar, now your colleagues think you’re free and invite you to something. You've been double booked.

Events outside your working hours aren’t synced, protecting your personal time and privacy. The default setting is to create events on a destination calendar with the summary explicitly being "Busy" without any other information, but you can change it so it mirrors the event details should you choose.
With intelliSense, I disregard about 98% of the suggestions. Do people do that with generated code? Doubtful. With an LLM, even that last 2% requires more effort because it creates weird and irrational bugs that I have to review.
Metal particles are more reactive and toxic than rubber particles.