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> Facebook didn't use mercurial because of big O, they used it because of hubris and a bad disk config.

Half-remembering a blog post I read - the git maintainers also wouldn't give Facebook the time of day on code changes to accommodate FBs requirements. Mercurial was more amenable. This also disproves the "Facebook has a fork of evertyhing, because the attempted to upstream the changes they wanted)
It's always fun how the strawmen appears instantly when you discuss this subject.

We pay marginally more in tax, sure. How that is relevant to healthcare, however, is a mystery, given we spend less tax money per capita on healthcare than the US does. It's not healthcare that is the reason our taxes are higher, but other services.

I'm sure doctors prefer the US system. That's unsurprising - the US system pays doctors vastly large amounts. It also costs patients vastly larger amounts. So speaking of bias...
I don't think anybody said influencers don't put effort in it. The only argument is that the added value by influencers is zero, be it on Instagram or LinkedIn, so if AI can take that kind of job the net loss is also zero. Of course of course there's an audience for influencers, like there was an audience at Tupperware shows, but they'll be happy to move on to the next fad so again zero loss.
Does it? It's also close to last in most categories in the linked study.
this is very hard to defend considering the lack of consideration for collateral damage.

however as already pointed out, even this happened in one instance, it all depends on which side you are on. being from a country that fought for its independence, we remember those who did the deed as "freedom fighters". during the time, from the "opressor's" point of view, however, they would have been seen as insurgents.
If they crossed out both, they are back where they started.
Yes, it was using mnesia as the storage layer, and if I had a few dozen queues with a few hundred messages each, it caused timeouts in some clients (celery/kombu is an example).

I decided to add expiry policies to each queue so that the system cleans itself from stale messages and that fixed all the message dropping issues.

4.0 Changelogs state that they are switching to a new k/v storage (switching from experimental to default)
Pretty much all the old Teslas in Norway have been retrofitted to allow them to connect to CCS only chargers as far as I can tell. Had mine (2015 S 70D) done years ago when it became clear that future Tesla chargers would be CCS only.
As a morbid fan of linkedinfluencer nonsense, I'm eager to see this.
Was this Opera Mini? I remember installing that on my Nokia many years ago.
It used compression as well.
https://www.coderanch.com/t/229735/Opera-Mini-browser
Same. Forced to get insurance through state exchange, premiums over $1,000/mo for two people. Very hard to find a doctor that accepted the insurance. And that was in a major US city. Every test and procedure requires a referral to a specialist, and the game of “do you take this insurance?” repeats. Then you get referred to diagnostic labs with long wait times (sometimes months) and they want payment up front and may not accept your insurance.

That process seems worse in every respect compared to my experience in SE Asia, and the US does not have better outcomes to justify the much higher costs.
On the face of it this is another example of poor behaviour by Mozilla. Is there something about the organisation's set-up that encourages this? An inexperienced CEO out of their depth?

Article should maybe point straight to the Geekwire piece at [1].

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2024/mozillas-product-chief-sues-th...
Well, they are engaged in constant low-level conflict with Russia, so their systems must be pretty hardened against hostile incursions already.

If there is one EU region where digital security must be taken as a life-and-death matter, it is the Baltics. In case of weakening of NATO, they are the foremost candidates for the next Special Military Operation.
Japanese && lawyer && English fluent && knows HN is practically an empty set
> HN is friendly to freedom of speech because the site probably doesn't attract people that are easy to act out when offended or those that like to report people whose content they do not like. Or because of the occasional comment that refocuses a discussion again.

In other words, we're dealing with over-sensitive people on the internet? Children, because those are the only ones that cannot accept the truth. And, since everyone is so easily offended, they have to be protected by content editing?

No one in their right minds would spend a dime for an easily offended person. If this done, there are things at play here.

> Also the amount of taboos seem to correlate with hostility for some reason.

I noticed that too.
Just curious as I'm not into electronics but what is the name of the device where you put the PCB to be heated up? Is it expensive? What are the basic tools to perform full soldering of all components in a PCB? Seems like today you can buy all these tiny resistors, capacitors, chips, etc and pretty much do your own boards at home, right? Any suggestions on all these basic tools to have a relatively decent but not expensive lab setup?
Marvin!!! The depressed LLM.
Hi theroo! This use-case is precisely why I'm building Prompt Studio (https://prompt.studio) :) I'd be happy to chat and demo the platform. Drop me an email at hello@prompt.studio or book a meeting here: https://calendly.com/a-franky-yb4/prompt-studio-demo
I live in Europe and if I take a blood test at 7 am I can usually check the results online by 1 pm.
Reflow oven
Another on this. If you abstract away code that throws or returns an error document that somehow.

The amount of times I've had to dig through 6 levels of abstraction to find what error gets returned in some edge case so I can catch and handle it gave me PTSD and gave me not invented here syndrome.
There are or were two kinds of people using self-signed certificates. The vast majority used to be "I don't know how or can't afford to get a certificate chain cert."

Now, with letsencrypt, what's left of the "can't afford group" is "I can't be arsed to update my config yet".
If that first article is the best you have, then that's a bad pile of articles. Those designs are not very close.

I see no creature design comparisons in links 2-4.

Article 5, wow it's a cartoon sheep. Wow it's a cartoon fox. This list at the end is trying way too hard.

I think what "most people see" is that they're overall similar to pokemon. Not that palworld is copying specific designs in a way that pokemon itself doesn't do.
I was complaining about the state of discourse on HN the other day. Your comment is example number... I don't know what number, I've lost count.
It gets commented often, but:

`Panther Moderns,' he said to the Hosaka, removing the trodes. `Five minute precis.' `Ready,' the computer said.
> what specific actions to gain power over us can be achieved now with LLMs, that could not be achieved before using a few tens of thousands of paid humans?

It's being able to do it without having to employ the tens of thousands of humans that makes it different. With the LLM you are able to react much faster and pay fewer people more money.
No wonder computers are binary.
I wouldn't be so optimistic. The thing you call "way" is actually just time. Yes, anything humanity does (good or bad) will fade with time. But do we have the amount of time to clean up X (and i don't refer to X as in "formally twitter")?
> So I'm not sure if they're saying that isn't what X is doing, or that they're criticising X for not going beyond the law (illegally), or that perhaps they feel that some legal speech is not treated equally?

I'm saying that posts get removed if they contain certain subjects. Nothing offensive is in them but only facts.
"They have spent the last few years doing nothing but suing fans so they won’t be prepared to face lawyers that are completely identical to them but are better because as I said before, they have guns.”

Beautiful. I'm rooting for these guys.
Maybe because the Swiss didn't let the magical hand of privatization solve it? The healthcare providers might be private but the laws and regulations and conditions under which they are run are very strict and very detailed. Perfect? Of course not, I could give examples heaps. But better that many? Very yes.

Now, is there here anybody from Spain to comment on their system? I've heard good stuff about it.
> puzzling and unnecessarily partisan - content on X isn't invariably worthless drivel

Maybe this is because I’m European, but what is partisan about calling X invariably worthless drivel? Seems a lot like facts to me considering what has been going on with the platform moderation since Elon Musk bought it. It’s so bad that the EU consider it a platform for misinformation these days.
Nvm. Turns out it was a bug in littlesnitch.
Okay, and what about all the other people who aren't blessed enough to be SWEs? They should just rot and go into medical debt for the rest of their lives for daring to get sick?
"The Future" in the meantime we will keep doing our stuff, building walled gardens of AI generated spam and slop, and claiming our AI models are open source when they are not.
The faster Meta dies, the better it would be.
which voices are winning?
How is that even possible? Unless you keep to hidden services underneath you do need an exit point to talk to the regular internet.
And I ignore them like the GP. We seem to manage.
Matches my experience. As a self-employed person health insurance in the US costs more under ACA, and then many doctors, hospitals, and labs won’t accept the ACA coverage.

My parents in America have Medicare plus a private “advantage” add-on they can barely afford. Right now they are waiting — for months — to find out if a necessary surgery will get approved or not.

I live in Thailand now, where I can afford insurance and get top quality care with no waiting, referrals, or uncertainty, and costs at the best hospitals still a fraction of US prices.
> "It's not that I don't want to stop smoking, but the cigarette companies put chemicals in that keep me addicted"

> "I live in an environment that pushes me to smoke"

But those two things are true. The nicotine is addictive and being surrounded by other smokers, smoking materials, smoking in films and on television, all compounded to make smoking more attractive. Plenty of smokers offered me cigarettes when i was in my teens.
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Cool. How do blind people navigate while riding bikes?
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She had years to right that ship though, rather than continue the slide. :(
Maybe, it if you’re studying the way humans use language you’re still getting human made data from rubbish. There isn’t any value in AI generated content is what you’re cataloging is human language.
This has to be the most annoying hacker news comment section I've ever seen. It's just the same ~4 viewpoints rehashed again, and again, and again. Why don't folks just upvote other comments that say the same thing instead of repeating the same things?

And now a hopefully new comment: having a word frequency measure of the internet as we're going into AI being more used would be IMMENSELY useful specifically _because_ more of the internet is being AI generated! I could see such a dataset being immensely useful to researchers who are looking for the impacts of AI on language, and to test empirically a lot of claims the author has made in this very post! What a shame that they stopped measuring.

Also: as to the claims that AI will cause stagnation and a reduction of the variance of English vocabulary used, this is a trend in English that's been happening for over 100 years ( https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2019/09/why-is-vocabulary-s... ). I believe the opposite will happen, AI will increase the average persons vocabulary, since chat AIs tends to be more professionally written than a lot of the internet. It's like being able to chat with someone that has an infinite vocabulary. It also makes it possible for people to read complicated documents well out of their domain, since they can ask not just for definitions but more in depth explanations of what words/sections mean.

Here's to a comment that will never be read because of all the noise in this thread :/
XMPP is still a simple and efficient chat protocol. But it makes sure to only allow a sane subset of XML.
> For most if not all "pals" I could instantly name their Pokemon counterpart

That's not surprising, because for ever Pokemon it's also fairly easy to name their real-world counterpart. There's a finite amount of recognizable real world animals, so you quickly get there even if you've never seen a Pokemon before.
The only explanation is that the "report" is obviously detached from reality and using massaged metrics to make political points. The NHS is as bad as it gets.

"More than 120,000 people in England died last year while on the NHS waiting list for hospital treatment, figures obtained by Labour appear to show. That would be a record high number of such deaths, and is double the 60,000 patients who died in 2017/18."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/30/national-tra...
It's quite feasible to do reflow soldering by applying solder paste with a stencil and then using a cheap toaster oven. However, the lack of a precisely controlled temperature profile makes it less repeatable and reliable than the industrial process. I've done it successfully a few times but generally had to touch up one or two components with a hot air station or soldering iron.

Here's a SparkFun blog post: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3319
I've heard of head-in-pillow defects where the solder may touch but fails to wet the pad on the chip or board. BGA probably makes it almost impossible to nudge a leg to check for mechanically solid connections. I don't know if bad joints from the factory are a problem in practice, or they usually only crack in use.
What we know about the Hezbollah device explosions
and some projects have more interfaces than are memorable by the average human
How long has he been interning? Is it long enough for him to have learned how long the timescale big-tech roadmaps operate on? If he wants a feature, he better write it himself (if his PR doesn't conflict with an upcoming rewrite, coming "soon"), or lobby to get it slotted for the second quarter of 2026.
According to this article (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2022/06/03/france-h...), top 1% earner in France in 2021 was 7180€ monthly, so ~8000$.
China, SKorea, Japan.. all aging
If you aren’t rich you wait, or go to a country with affordable health care and pay out of pocket.
To get past the self signed certificate: https://web.archive.org/web/20240918195838/https://blog.torp...
The actual report [1] says it took five domains into account: a) access to care,
b) care process, c) administrative efficiency, d) equity, and e) health outcomes. Read the linked summary.

To summarize the summary: from 10 investigated countries, 9 are in the same ballpark. The US is an extreme outlier, bad in almost anything and expensive to boot.

The NHS being in trouble is apparently orthogonal to these domains. It is just unable to cover its cost with the income it has. But NHS is a gem, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. It does a marvelous job with the money it has. The reports laud it for its smart and efficient administrative process, affordability (for the citizen) and to a lesser degree for availability and access. While by no means bad it can improve on the actual care process and the results (which costs money). The NHS seems to be doing a good job and works as intended. The administration, for once, is apparently not to blame. So, what are the things that make people say the NHS is on the brink of collapse in the first place?

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...
Feels to me like they went after them the moment they became successful? I dunno, that feels kinda uncool to me.
>Once again, the usual ratio of civilian casualties to combatant casualties in a modern war, per UN, is 9:1.

>it has often been claimed that 90 percent of the victims of modern wars are civilians,[1][2][3][4] repeated in academic publications as recently as 2014.[5] These claims, though widely believed and correct regarding some wars, do not hold up as a generalization across the overwhelming majority of wars

>In Gaza war, this ratio is 1-2:1

>The Palestinian Health Ministry has estimated for most of the conflict that around 70% of the dead are women and children; these numbers have been corroborated by the United Nations and the World Health Organization. [74][75][76]. On the other hand, according to the Israel Defense Forces, an estimated less than 1:1 ratio has been reported [3][4].

I guess it depends on who you are listening to.
> But no, immigrants will not save demography

I didn’t say that immigration is a longterm solution. It might delay the collapse of social security, healthcare etc. systems which is the main thing that matters to the people who hold the majority of political power in Europe (those in their late 50s and > 60). Expecting them to willfully sacrifice their personal wellbeing for a more sustainable longterm solution wouldn’t make a lot of sense. So we are pretty stuck…

> as data shows that migrants tend to have less and less children in subsequent generations

Depends. If they don’t assimilate and don’t abandon their religious and cultural practices that might not happen. e.g. the Haredi in Israel (not exactly immigrants in the same way but an example of how very high birth rates can be maintained. Unfortunately this type people are extremely unproductive economically and hold extreme political views..)

> And this was my point - immigration benefits mostly those that own factories, capital etc.

I don’t fully agree. From the economic perspective at least. Having a higher proportion of young/working age, productive adults in the population benefits everyone short to medium term.

US handled this specific problem much better than Europe overall though. First of all they managed to attract the most capable and productive emigrants (Europe is rarely the first option) and have done a much better job at assimilating them.

Consequently US is in a much better position demographically compared to Europe, China and the rest of the developed world.
Sans I/O when the rubber meets the road (2020)
That's assuming a lot given the rest of the statement.
>Some of us even engaged in the uphill battle of lead-free soldering only to be disillusioned.

I've never had any trouble using lead-free solder for through-hole or SMT (and I don't have any expensive or sophisticated equipment).
The reason it is an indictment of their reasoning capability is that—no matter how much energy is spent trying to say they are not—these are really stochastic parrots: they do not understand the symbols they are operating with. They operate below that level.

The fact they can't operate on full symbols reliably but require sub-symbols via tokens is concrete proof of that. They may add heuristics or build more CoT sub-chains to get around some of these trickier issues later, but this is the state of affairs right now.

All efforts so far require exponential increases in training size to receive logarithmic increases (at best) in accuracy. And now with o1, it requires exponential compute at inference to scale with that sub-logarithmic accuracy.

People have a short memory these days, but around GPT-3, the majority of people on HN and tech "luminary" founders were saying that these would actually have exponential output and diverge. They were wrong. These models are quickly converging to a training set because they are and always were a curve fit. And even there, they are notoriously unreliable for use cases without a human in the loop, because of the intrinsic amount of information entropy that can be packed into the size of these models. But there is nothing mysterious about them.
> There have been plenty of "monster catching game"/"pokemon with the serial numbers filed off" games that have been somewhat successful, but no smash hits.

Notably, the Megami Tensei series, which predates Pokemon.
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I've yet to find a programming font better than Ubuntu Mono, but I definitely want to try this as it looks really nice. What's the difference between this and Comic Shanns Mono, though? There is a nerd font[0] available for the latter.

[0] https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
Seriously, fuck off.
Just add YouTube Shorts redirect to your browser. It's still available as regular videos.
Brave is a fake privacy browser.

From what I've heard, despite explicitly opting out of telemetry, it often makes requests to “laptop-updates.brave.com” which is actually also used for affiliates.
I was surprised just how good charger provision is in Europe. On a recent 1600 mile road trip we never had a problem finding 350kW chargers. There were always plenty of spaces free and I saw one broken charger the whole time - it maxed out at ~70kW instead of 230kW - but I just moved to the next charger in the row.
> In case of weakening of NATO, they are the foremost candidates for the next Special Military Operation.

I guess the odds of Trump winning are much lower than a couple of months ago. And even if he wins, if he follows with his stupid plan of giving Ukraine to Putin, he will be criticized by all sides. So losing a Baltic state would be another bitter blow and he probably would want to avoid that as he wants to appear "strong".

Also, NATO is not just the USA. The remaining countries had no choice but to increase their military spending and will continue to support Ukraine until the last dime knowing that the fall of this country will just make Putin more aggressive. We can't just let this happen, with the next American administration or without.
Not true except for immediate emergency care.

Many employers do not provide coverage. They skirt the law by employing people part-time (Walmart, Amazon) or as gig workers.

Even if the law reads as you claim that doesn’t mean you can get care in the US.
nope, US would not give an inch of taiwan in case of invasion

we talking about geo politic here. if china attack taiwan so would be north korea (this is their best chance)

for south korea and japan this is their existensial crisis, having china and north korea close to their home even for a kilometer is basically death sentence

You cant forget also US literally spends billions of dollar to keep balance of power in Europe,Middle-East and Africa

do you think US would ignore Asia where 30+-% world trade and resources happen??? you dnt need expert to figure it out
> The NHS has much bigger problems than funding. Even the new, left-wing government has indicated that they won't increase funding without reforms.

It's always very convenient to starve something of funding for years when you want to insist something needs to be reformed before you can spend as much as it costs to provide service at an adequate quality.

Reform or no reform, outcomes won't improve without increasing the funding, as no other system in a comparable country manages to deliver more at the NHS cost level.
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