skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to second the person who said to reach out to your 0 to 3 program. It's extremely important because your child's blindness might be fixable. I was born blind. But it was because of nerve damage. I don't really understand what all the doctors did, but they managed to restore some sight in one eye by the time I was in 3rd grade or so. Enough to read if the book was close and the text large. By the time I was in late high school, I was able to get vision that was functionally enough that I didn't need any kind of accommodation. By late 20s, I had 20/20 vision (I mean in one eye, but that's all you need!)

It can be a long road, but the body is very use it or lose it, so starting early is so important. I still have some visual processing issues, but I need no support and I can even drive during the day. Technically at night too, but it's too iffy for me, so I avoid it at all costs. Not saying this is your boy, but I am saying that consulting with a professional is a good idea in case there's something that can be done even if it takes years to see the results.
> And Why can't you just walk in to a clinic to get x-rays and tests done like it is in done elsewhere. Have clinics compete for price.

I hope you are aware that these also exist in many EU countries, private clinics aren't banned because of public healthcare, you can purchase private health insurance in many countries, I can't say all because I don't know the intricacies of every country's system since this is a national policy and each member-state is free to run their own systems.

Here in Sweden I have private health insurance through my employer, I cannot go directly to a clinic for imaging, etc. since it needs a referral from a doctor but it's quite simple and when I needed I had many choices of private clinics to do a MRI. If you don't have insurance you can definitely pay out of your own pocket, both for a private doctor as for exams.
And people acting in good faith don't keep beating a dead horse and don't beat around the bush to distract from the main argument I made which was that the UK & US powers meddled to overthrow Iran's democratic government to get access to Iran's oil reserves at rates favorable to the US & UK oil companies but unfavorable to Iran's government and Iran's people.

Would you be okay if other countries messed with your government to cheat you out of your tax revenue?
Fellow blind person here, adding my own anecdote. I click and echolocate. I have two different kinds of clicks. A soft click for very immediate surrounding which I can do rapidly if I need to, and a loud click for figuring out large spaces which I don't use very often for relatively obvious reasons. They're quite helpful for me and especially in new unfamiliar spaces it's almost a reflex that happens on its own unless I consciously try to stop it for social reasons. Just to add another datapoint. What works for one might not work for another, so there's a lot of trial and error involved in figuring out what works and what doesn't. This can be very frustrating sometimes but sympathy will go a long way.

Something I wanted to add, maybe this thread in particular isn't the best place for this but in general, I'm very lucky that my parents did not prevent me from doing things that others may have. For example, I climbed trees, rode a bike, and generally tried to do all of the things my sighted peers were doing. Naturally there were accidents, but not preventing me from doing those things, not preventing me from learning my limits, learning my balance and physical control, getting hurt and getting back up, I believe were absolutely vital to making me the person I am today. I imagine as a parent this can be very stressful or worrying, but I honestly do not believe I would be as independent now if I wasn't allowed to do those things back then. So unless it is absolutely certain that this is something that they will not be able to do at all, maybe consider letting them try it. It will absolutely help confidence, self worth and skills for later independence that are very, very, very badly needed and very easily missed.
I'm not a parent however, so of course take this with a grain of salt. My experience may be slightly biased here.
Dungeonette the New Adventure – New Game That's Coming to the Amiga AGA / CD32
Ironically, the same country in which corporations just won't shut up about "stifling regulations".
You're overlooking facts in a way that serves the Israeli narrative and calling opposition to crimes against humanity as "moralizing about being mean". I don't wish to engage with that nonsense (I wonder if you were similarly unimpressed when John Kirby moralized about the Russians "being mean" to Ukrainian children), but lest someone be inclined to believe it:

- After invading their territory and forcibly displacing them from their homes in 1948, the Israeli government would eventually imprison 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza, severely undermining or outright depriving them of their right to food, movement and labor. Rather, the question is why would the Palestinians welcome an militarized immigrant movement whose stated objectives included the total demographic overwhelm of Palestine, changing the "facts on the ground", supported by an interloping British Mandate. This is as true now as it was then.

- So, while the IDF may be engaged in urban warfare with the armed wing of Hamas, their practical goal is the cleansing of the Gaza Strip, including the genocide of Gazans, evidenced by this past year's perfidy-ridden bombing campaign against civilians. (And the March of Return, and Operation Cast Lead, and Operation Protective Edge, and the bombing of the AP office, then the largest number of journalist assassinations ever witnessed... etc etc)

- Aware of the legal liability of this, the American and Israeli governments have been lying about these aims and attempting to generate plausible deniability by claiming the IDF is measured and surgical in their use of long range heavy bombs, and pretending the infinitesimal ratio of enemy combatants killed is Hamas-engineered. They redefine "human shield" and "Hamas combatant" to suit the moment.

- Of course we know that the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does, so nobody who is informed and in their right mind believes these soul sucking, sugar-coated "upper establishment" statements about due diligence or accountability or whatever and pearl clutching about hostages never mind the overwhelmingly higher number of Palestinian hostages taken and tortured by Israel. Despite their toothlessness, the UN, the ICC and the ICJ have allowed the world to show, one inconvenient determination after another, that the truth is plainly visible.

Ultimately, it's just whether they see war crimes when they see children and families being killed systematically, and whether they're cool with it.
I remember when Ps2 chips were considered too advanced the US government banned shipment of PlayStations to China lest the PLA gets hold of them
When we are talking about a $.50 a day message queue, no need to be in control.

If its a mission critical queue for the NYSE that has huge costs for downtime? Sure makes sense to be more in control as long as your control has a measured impact of less downtime.
Not if you live in Europe, thanks to strong privacy legislation.
Hey, my friend used to play that in elementary school (in the very late 1980s). I never remembered what the game was called.

He was very interested in history and would also play games that simulated the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
LinkedIn has turned into Facebook before it became irrelevant - people sharing their irrelevant life episodes and baby pictures.
There are several flaws in your reasoning.

Firstly, you conflate your personal feelings with the rule of law. You may personally agree or disagree with preventing people from committing suicide, or violating religious norms, but that should be completely separate from whether you think the government should enforce your personal belief on people who believe otherwise. In a democracy, the government is not there to enforce your beliefs, it is there to prevent other people's beliefs from overriding your right to have your own.

[edit: This is also an aspect of democracy that is not well understood in countries with a history of authoritarian or majoritarian rule. Democracies are an engine of creating higher efficiency and flourishing because they tend to protect minority views and are thus open to constant change and debate, which in turn are the drivers of economic growth. In authoritarian minds, change and debate are viewed as hindrances or dangers to the status quo; thus such societies stagnate. I'm practically explaining how Lebanon can't generate a home-made pager whilst a similarly sized country next door and carved up from the Ottoman empire at the same time... which prizes individuality and debate... can, well... nevermind]

Secondly, you make a false assumption that just because a society agrees with you on one thing, you must agree with it on everything else. It would be perfectly rational to be against both the death penalty and against abortion, yet many people are for one and against the other. You make a case that if you lived in a society where the morality pointed a certain way, it would be natural for yourself just to go along without questioning its hypocrisy. That is, quite literally, you are making a case for not thinking for yourself as an individual or seeing anything wrong with the contradictions of whatever society you live in.

It is our duty as human beings to point out the contradictions and hypocrisy in ourselves and our societies, to improve them. You are making the most retrograde, anti-liberal case possible by saying you would not question the values you were surrounded by.
Perses is an excellent step towards vendor neutrality. We at Dash0 are basing our dashboarding data model entirely on Perses to allow you to bring/take away as much of your configuration as possible.

The team around Perses did a solid job coming up with the data model and making it look very Kubernetes manifest-like. This makes for good consistency, especially when configuring via Kubernetes CRs.
Future Bystander Effect (2013)
Building RAG with Postgres
Open research Europe: Towards a collective open access publishing service
As is obvious in the case of a company, it is illegal to disclose a trade secret, even if it is true,
If it is judged by a court to have a positive impact on society, such as by leaking information about illegal activities, it becomes legal.
I don't think this is particularly strange in Japan, but is it different in the U.S. or the West?

However, in recent years, it has become routine in Japan to identify and punish employees who have leaked wrongdoings.
In the evening news this evening, a government employee leaked information about a fraud, and the elected governor identified and pressured the employee, and the employee committed suicide.
Public opinion is overwhelmingly blaming the governor, but the police and other authorities show no signs of acting.
Despite this current situation, anyway, it is legally true that “even the truth can be sued,” and is this different in the US or in the West?
I wonder whether future generations will be ingrained with a Truman Show fear that maybe only the few thousand people they meet are real and everything else is generated background noise.
The cotton in my clothes doesn't come from the US, and neither does that of the vast majority of world's people. Besides that, surely you're aware that the American South is going to increasingly suffer from droughts as well? It's pretty disingenuous to assume that just because historically rainwater has been sufficient, it's going to be so in the future as well.

Also, agriculture isn't necessarily sustainable just because it doesn't require artificial irrigation. As an extreme example, just look at the Amazon. The land used to grow a water-intensive species might be better used for other purposes.
Well some relatively common things are easy to get in Croatia (bloodwork and meds - GPs like to prescribe those to get rid of you), more serious like exams, treatments, surgeries are absolutely terrible with waiting lists which are years long. People are dying, and/or their condition worsens before they even see a specialist. This is common knowledge for many years now.

Private clinics are opening left and right with the same(!) doctors working in both public and private clinics. Also corruption is rampant allowing doctor's friends to jump lines and that also happens for money/favors. So if you're not rich enough to go to a private clinic your second best option is bribes/corruption/nepotism. And if you don't have the latter, you're frankly fucked.
The planet is dying and the way you think is part of it.
IT security is important, but none of that is more important the planet's ressources
> Look at the fashion industry - there are no patents in clothing design. And they haven't collapsed; in fact, i think fashion florished more because of the lack of patents!

Ah that depends on your viewpoint. Shein and similar outlets are making bank on stealing stuff from designers and rapid-manufacturing absolute dog quality shit [1].

Had fashion something like design protections, designers would at least have some recourse against these exploiters.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/02/details-i-m...
Note that both of those features use generics, which weren't present in the language before, so IMO Go just prefers to wait a bit before implementing useful features instead of having too many of them (ahem, Swift?)
I mean what else is Europe going to do? Develop its own successful products?
Well, it depends. Certainly nylon and polyester can be vastly stronger than cotton, that's why they're used in many garments requiring mechanical durability. (Heck, ballistic nylon is a thing; you don't hear about ballistic cotton!)

But sure, it's also true that you can make extremely low-durability clothing from synthetic polymers that aren't even intended to last (ultra fast fashion is incredibly destructive, yes).
I tried it and it's pretty cool, I might introduce it in our company project. I did notice one problem/caveat: It doesn't play nice with dynamic imports. Our project has a few files being lazily imported and the tool seems to think that those files are unused, which is not true, they're just imported with the `import('./file')` syntax.

But other than that it's pretty nice, I might look into the code to see if I can help with that small bug.
Criticism of Israel here on HN will only earn you down votes and flagging. It's not worth it.
What do you use premium for? Apart from linkedin learning, I found no valid use. I was getting fake messages which are literally just ads even when I had premium.
EU starts first proceedings to specify Apple's DMA interoperability obligations
yup, I think this isn't activated within Europe.
I'm EU based, I don't see this option under my settings. Maybe it is currently tested only on US entities or hopefully our legal framework about privacy prevents such disgraceful practices
It's off in Europe. So this is about missing regulation in the US.
Rolls-Royce wins pioneering deal to build mini nuclear plants in Czech Republic
DEI is also used by FAANG in India to hire mostly women graduates. There has been reports of campus hiring drives of these companies hiring 80% girls.

A popular conspiracy is that since these companies have to fulfil some amount of diversity quota, they hire mostly graduate girls in India, since that's cheaper than hiring "diverse" candidates in USA or EU. Don't know how true it is.

Interestingly there's no other "diversity" other than gender diversity talked by Indian hiring managers.

This industry is a joke.
Everybody here seem to have strong opinions on the employer without having heard anything about their side on this.
Beyond the pickle: the true output of a machine learning team
It still does! Ancient versions still work absolutely fine on old phones.
Same and I'm American.

Although as an American, I always struggle with blanket statements because we have wildly different standards for literally everything depending on where you are. I live in a major city that isn't LA or NYC or something like that. all of my medical records are digitized too. All my doctors can look at everything an urgent care, hospital, regular doctor did. But also my sister who lives in nowhere, USA has to deal with paper everything and long delays. The US is both 1st and 3rd world depending on what area you're talking about.
However if one doesn't speak the language natively, text is far preferable because I can quickly translate. Can’t translate some long voice message.

I am in multiple group chats: Spanish, Catalan, English. And with quick translators, we can all communicate with each other. With voice, it would be impossible.
> But full pokémon models that wouldn't need a ton of rework? Nope.

Well, that is the core benefit of using AI - you can save a lot of the groundwork, especially in concept art. Making 20, 30 versions of "fat rat in yellow with lightning bolt symbols in their fur" is cheap with AI, but prohibitively expensive if you're using humans. You're starting running already.
Font creators once again treating TempleOS users like they don't exist? Color me shocked.

Jokes aside, this is the only font I've ever paid for, and I use it for all my text editing across Linux/MacOS/Windows with no issues.
Salesforce Is a Dark Horse in the AI Race
Non-Tesla charging locations can be hit or miss. As others have mentioned, many spots only have 2-4 stations, with at least one often out of order and others occupied by cars that have been sitting there for a while. If you manage to find a working charger, actually paying for it can be a hassle. I’ve had situations where I skipped the wait at Tesla chargers and tried another network, maybe EA. Despite having the app and using it before, it wouldn’t work. My credit card didn’t go through either, so I used my bank card, which worked for half the charge, but then stopped working for the rest.
Meta to European Union: Your Tech Rules Threaten to Squelch the AI Boom
Brilliant article. I read a brilliant book written by Jessica Livingston (Paul Graham's wife) called Founders at Work. In the book Steve Wozniak talked about how he got designs done fast by keeping it all in his head. Ever since I read that I have tried to do the same. I would recommend this to anyone working on their own project.

Of course in a corporate setting it is much harder to do as you have code written in multiple languages using multiple patterns stored in different places, so often there is not underlying architectural thread to hold it all together.
What does that have to do with the CIA coup installing the Shah though?
With not really big numbers, like this one, I think of having n workers each having to do a thing. Every time you save on the memory footprint, you can grow the number of workers. Sometimes that is really really good. Usually it is probably meh
Clearly not true as markets exist outside the government (black markets).

But that’s beside the point. Even if most markets rely on government intervention, it tells you nothing about how much intervention is optimal.

It’s like saying “no human survives without food”, which is true but tells you nothing as to how much food is good.
If this is your first kid, keep in mind that the negative emotions you may be feeling are amplified a lot by all the exhaustion - physical and mental - a new baby brings.

FWIW, in one of my previous jobs, in a company with 1.5K employees, there was this engineering architect with great insights, deep understanding of the overall architecture, and true impact across the board. I would always follow the slack threads he was contributing to as there was always something to learn in there. It took me by extreme surprise when I learned he was completely blind.

I wish the best to you, your kid, and your family.
Not usually but just today I made a foray into surface mount soldering to mount a 2mm^2 8-pin package onto a breakout board. I'd planned to manually cut a breakout board but underestimated just how damn small it would be. Luckily a friend with a laser engraver volunteered to help and we managed to zap some breakout boards. I manually added paste (after a few false starts I used a needle like a fountain pen to dip into a blob of paste and dab it onto the traces) and reflowed it in a toaster oven. :D

Solder paste under the microscope: https://i.imgur.com/IiTKmrS.jpeg

Closeup of reflowed solder, maybe a bit janky but it went better than expected: https://i.imgur.com/9wbV8nc.png

Finished test board hooked up and working: https://i.imgur.com/xZduEUt.png
In the UK with have a concept called a micro entity in the tax code. Micro entities have some fairly strict constraints on them (10 employees or less, turnover under £350,000, no foreign currency transactions and so on). Within those constraints the rules are fairly simple and most importantly HMRC provides online forms for filing your books.

I always wondered about starting from those constraints and working back to a basic accounting solution for your typical business person. It would probably cover 90% of the companies in the UK as most of them have really simple requirements.

Luckily I retired before I got around to it.
It's the polar opposite of RabbitMQ. It's a single binary written in C, you start it, you send text messages via TCP so writing a client or tooling is dead simple.
> Having access to the source

Yes, thats great.

> being able to land a diff to fix the issue is awesome imo.

yes, if its a one off. but for my last project that would involve spinning up many "XFNs" (multi-team chat fests) to argue that actually they don't want to have that change because of reason x,y and z.

At which point you just give up and make a stupid fucking hack.

So much is not about engineering excellence, its about trying to get people to accept change.
Cause it’s not reddit here.
you need some way to decrypt the app store app so you know what you are modifying and so you can resign which usually involves a jailbreak. maybe there are these apps that only have the first page encrypted so potentially you don't need to decrypt these apps because you can guess what the first page is.
Space travel isn't currently possible. It ever becoming possible is pure speculation on your part. No man has ever left the Earth and set up shop elsewhere and lived. None. Zilch. It's science fiction.
PEs are still quite new remember....
I don't know they are that aligned to be sharing bulk data like that. I don't think the are considered formal allies.
Which part of the Geneva Convention specifically?
Hezbollah is a militia, I think the goal of terrorism is to scare a civil population. Of course one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. But I would have problems to call Hezbollah anything of that sort.

Hezbollahs goal is to destroy Israel, so I wouldn't call any military action against them terrorism. They have a right to defend themselves and that right does include these tactics.
The problem when building it yourself is that this is usually done by "generic" developers who discover edge cases (often together with the requester) that threaten the whole model.

A company doing payroll for us ("us" being a multinational company) asked for a "typical payroll" to start with. Fortunately we had experienced people on the pay side who discarded the company because of this question (for one they should know, and for two they should know that "typical" will cover maybe 60% of the cases -- I thought that this was an exaggeration until I discovered the reality of calculating pay in France)

A good company specializing in "pay" or "vacation" (which are very regulated over here) will know the "typical" case and the edge cases.
INdeed, I remember seeing a video of a guy that did exactly this. Impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAtVOK04XvA