skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So the net result of taking media away from legacy industries and handing it over to tech is (1) unskippable ads, (2) surveillance, (3) censorship and revocation of media you don't physically own, and now (4) unpausable media.

No. First, legacy industries didn't have media "taken away" from them. They simply refused to adapt to new technology quickly enough, so new media (WWW) became popular, which replaced the old media the legacy industries were working with (newsprint, OTA TV).

1. a. You can skip ads using an ad-blocker. They work extremely well. Lots of people refuse to educate themselves about them, and even when their tech-savvy friend shows it to them or even installs one for them, they don't use it.

1. b. The legacy industries didn't let you skip ads either: if you were reading a newspaper, the ad was right there next to the text. If you were watching TV, you had to sit through commercials (which were generally timed to appear at the same time on all stations, so you couldn't change channels to avoid them). DVRs didn't come about until much later.

3. "censorship": Legacy industries only printed or aired stuff they wanted you to see, and since there were only a small handful of choices, that wasn't much.

revocation: the tech companies haven't taken anything away. You can still buy CDs and Blu-Rays, but people choose to subscribe to streaming services instead. Also, you can download anything you want from YouTube with yt-dlp.

4. This isn't unpausable, they just show ads during pauses (if you refuse to use an ad-blocker).
Which might be why John Carmack threatened to quit if id ever tried to patent software.
To reach something you need to get rid of something. The 3rd Newton's law.
Not only is Apple store working in Russia. Apple, who supposedly has stopped selling hardware there, works closely with russian government to remove apps like VPNs from the store.
Same as everywhere: C/C++, Pascal, Fortran, BASIC. There were some exotics, like translated versions of the languages (similar to Chinese version of Python these days), but they were rare. My dad had a translated C manual printed on a matrix printer, A3-size, album orientation, with hand-made hard cover. I saw a book (made in state press) on IBM 360.

But these were 1980s. A teacher told me they were using punch cards in the '70s.
> can be installed in more locations than gas station pumps (like super market parking lots).

I get a lot of gas in supermarket parking lots, several supermarket chains put gas stations in the parking lot of some stores.
Nintendo's legal department feels it's led by a bunch of extremely spoiled and jealous children. This lawsuit is like the corporate equivalent of a child seeing what another kid made in art class and getting angry because it's better than what they made. Instead of learning from it and trying to create something even better themselves next time, they just trying to destroy what the other kid made so it doesn't make them look bad.

Also, apparently some of the relevant patents were filed by Nintendo after the release of Palworld, which makes it even worse. Unfortunately, since the lawsuit was filed in Japan and both companies are japanese, Nintendo will likely win by default.
> The "loading screen" patent expired in 2015[0]. I cannot think of any games which have incorporated this feature.

FIFA/EAFC, one of the highest grossing console games (possibly #1).
Unfortunately, these businesses didn't get to the top by treating people ethically. Don't think they will start now.
Same here - and I'm always left wondering what manner of trivial/cosmetic cases are taking up these bookings and leaving more urgent medical cases to wait.
> I'd argue that that other local optimum is far preferable

And I'd argue that this might be true for your preferences, but that doesn't mean it's true for everyone's. People have different preferences.
Not necessarily: if you're famous, you might have a hard time going out in public.
One of the reasons we still have family farms and the Old Country does not is that we prohibit absentee ownership of agricultural land.

It probably helps having freedom from the special clause Veblen mentions: "absentee ownership is safe-guarded by a special clause of the American constitution".

EDIT: v-integration is (don't tell the theoretical CS people; it'd ruin their fun) a practical application of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem
(Kadane's is, incidentally, but a few characters of APL)

Riffing on great filters: anytime I see outcomes where tiny is highly likely but the few which are not tiny are huge, I tend to suspect stochastic mechanism. (Körner has a nice chapter somewhere, IIRC "Why are we not all called Smith?")
This sounds really like an urban legend.
> Without some basic exposure to the alternatives that are out there, it's pointless to say that Americans have made an informed choice.

What is your exposure to alternatives other than the one you have said you prefer?
The organizations that take doctors' licenses away when they misbehave are all state-level organizations (in California, it is called the Board of Medical Quality Assurance) and I can easily imagine that some states perform this function much better than other states.
(+$45.4B for Disney princess)
Ask HN: Who is using PowerPC in modern computing?
PowerPC architecture, developed in late 1980s, was known for its performance for non-Intel processors in the 2000s. In real-time aspects, it outperforms Arm in that it provides competitive responsiveness while maintaining good performance.

AFAIK, although x86 and aarch32,64 domininate modern days computing world, it does seems there are still markets using PPC because the mainframe-oriented Power10 was released in late 2021 [1].

So, is there any story regarding why we seldom hear PPC nowadays but there's still PPC based servers releasing?

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Power10
Before we removed lead from petrol it was hard/impossible to find fuel without petrol in.

I dunno, half of my wardrobe is natural and the stuff that isn't is specific outdoor gear that would just be marginally worse at its' job (heavier, a bit less waterproof).

I feel as if people get a bit stuck on things being optimal or whatever. If my boxer shorts and socks are a bit less elastic, ok, cool, whatever, who cares? If this stuff actually is dangerous it doesn't matter how much better it is.
Why is banning even a threat? I can make a new account for 20 cents lol.
>It seems like if I was to make a novel system, seeking a patent should be at the top of my list.

Unless you've got a good chunk of cash or the backing of a decent sized corporation, filing a patent is pretty difficult and burdonsome for an individual. And even then actually enforcing it against infringers takes even more money.
I don’t need 8x the content, it’s a benefit of writing that it forces writers to be more concise, Transcribe is not more expensive for the writer, the device can do it for hem. This message for exemple, has been transcribed by my iPad.
With the results they're getting, what are they supposed to do?
Any new patents regarding the avoidance of implant neural scaring?
> that really seems extremely ignorant

Given the characterization of Americans that you gave elsewhere upthread, and which I responded to, you are in no position to make any such accusation, even if I were in fact talking about Japan, which, as I have posted already, I wasn't.
Because we are paying for the rest of the world. Allow prescription drug imports from abroad. Pharma companies will be forced to charge more in the rest of the world and less in US. Allow insurance plans based on medical tourism for expensive procedures. Some countries will say no, but a lot of countries will say yes for profit. Once you have a choice of a hip replacement in Mexico or India, hospitals in these countries will compete for safety, cost, pleasant aftercare. Let's stop being the suckers.
The EU has no common health system at all. Calculating any kind of averages makes little sense. Within some countries I am personally familiar with there are significant differences in availability of health services between certain areas, rural vs urban, but also regionally. Legally the systems should be rather uniform within a country though. Many countries have a split between publicly financed and privately paid services. It's probably expected that privately paid services are used less in poorer regions.

With the US I am not really familiar. I'd expect commercially and legally it works the same over the whole country. In practice many services won't be offered somewhere in rural areals compared to metropolitan areas. So if you are unable to travel no treatment. And of course if you aren't well off, no expensive treatment.
SM-1800 was Intel based, not PDP-11 based. 1800 was based on Russian variant of 8080, and 1810 had both 8080 and 8086 as I remember. https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%9C_... will give overview of the SM series.
Regarding OS - PDP-based were initially on RSX, later on Soviet variants of unix. Intel based had either custom OS for 8080, or ms-dos like for x86 - Wikipedia article covers it well.
The earth will recover. We may not, but earth will.
I don't see how that's "fucking scary" - the idea that only Arabs can be Muslim is itself racist, is it not?

It is somewhat understandable why some people associate terrorist attacks with Muslims, as unfortunate as that may be. Not that I'm saying that Muslims commit the most terrorist attacks, it just so happens that the most well known ones in the west happen to have been committed by Islamic extremists. E.g, WTC 93, 9/11, London Bombings, Boston Marathon.
Anecdotally, I think a fair chunk of writing CVs (and to a smaller degree, cover letters) is already outsourced. Adding an AI to the mix will only make things worse.

I have seen a number of CVs over the past few months that fall into two eye-rolling categories. First, those that have the same set of skills in the exact same order, and routinely sport identical expressions. Over time I've come to associate them with low-grade content farms. Second, a smaller set of exceptionally polished ones that feel unique and really want me to interview the candidate. These candidates will then utterly bomb in the interview, to the point where I'm often asking myself whose CV it was they had submitted.

Signal-to-noise ratio is tending towards zero.
> Stop trying to monetize your tiny contributions.

If you think they're not worth it then just click away.

And syncing a file isn't exactly hard in 2024.
Similarly you could just stuff around on Bayonetta during load times. Useful on 360/Ps3/Wii U but once it came out of PC, SSD speed made that practically pointless.
Your time is worth more than the $0.34/day saved.
I agree, some individual states have free healthcare, free community college. It’s easy to fall out of these systems or be unaware of them, but they exist

I’m the last person to have an America boner, but there is room for objectivity

I’m a fan of Germany, Austria systems. An educated and healthy populace seems positive. I’m aware of the problems residents have with those systems, they have private options too. Public debt isn’t as high, and maximum tax between state and federal level is lower than maximum of California + Federal. So, seems better.
I like the term "deduplication."
The comment read to me as disrespectfully implying to check with a pediatrician as if OP hadn't already. But ironically... perhaps that was my own disrespectful reading of the comment.
Yesterday I was walking to an interview. There was a starving dog on the road. I stopped to feed him & missed the interview. The next day I got a call asking to come in to do the interview. I was surprised, but I went. Then the interviewer came in. He was the dog.
It could be that the engineer is the one with the idea and the less technical person is needed to sell it. I know I hate sales, I’m betting the same is true for most engineers. Without someone to get out there and sell, it’s just a hobby.

With Apple, Jobs was the salesman. Without him, Woz would have been an engineer at HP and the modern computing landscape would look very different.

In terms of bringing someone’s else’s vision to life. If the other founder is a good salesman, the engineer should end up sharing the same vision and seek to evolve it and add their own signature on it as well.
Sorry to burst you theory:

1. Hezbollah only mourned 10 out of the 26 killed so far, claiming them as members (one of them being a medic). So the 50% seems to still hold, even leaving some room for malice and mistakes.

2. Most of the explosion incidents and injuries are coming from residential areas in Beirut so statistically the percentage of civilians injured as "collateral damage" is likely high considering many of those carrying these devices were going about their life, either with family or in public places at the time.
EVs are often festooned with cameras which is a disincentive to opportunistic crime. At fast charging stations there's usually other people sitting in their cars which is another disincentive.
So in the end it's just a punishment for having been born in a wrong place at a wrong time.

That's what war is, unfortunately. Millions of people in Ukraine are currently being "punished" for exactly the same offense, only in ways infinitely worse, as I don't need to tell you.

There was absolutely no reason the war had to coming into being at all. But now that we're stuck with it, the only effective questions are -- what can be done to hasten its end; provide some level of justice for those affected the worst; and to make it clear to the responsible parties that something like this can never be allowed to happen on European soil ever again?

For their own part -- it's not like the Western governments really have any other choice. Even though the sanctions are having a far more limited effect than they initially hoped -- they simply couldn't keep doing business with Russia as usual after what happened in 2022. That's all there is to it.

Meaning, they've no choice but to apply the strongest possible sanctions as they might reasonably be able to (for some definition of "reasonable"). It's a cold and calculated strategy - but again, they didn't chose this situation, and that's the moral calculus that they are now forced to adopt in response to the situation that Putin created for them.
OpenHCL, Azure's new para-virtualization layer written in Rust
You forgot to mention what country you are talking about. That seems to be American.

Difficulties to get an appointment is also common in at least some areas of the EU countries I am familiar with.
But the more who use it and/or host tor nodes...
So in other words, the colo data center is hosting the server for you, rather than you hosting it yourself?

This isn't hard, but sure, just pretend words are all nebulous and ineffable and "imaginary".
There is no such thing as a Hezbollah pager. They are gold Apollo pagers. It is completely normal for doctors to have pagers.
Hopefully this will get you started in the right direction:

Braille Institute of America:
Understanding vision loss can be challenging — and scary. It doesn’t have to be. Explore resources about symptoms & conditions, and get connected to ways we can help.
https://www.brailleinstitute.org/

American Foundation for The Blind:
Since its inception, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has served as the leading source of information and research encompassing blindness and low vision in the United States.
https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision

Technology Tools for Children with Low Vision:
For children who are visually impaired, technology can play a big role in reaching developmental milestones and closing learning gaps.
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/technology-ap...

I work as an accessibility engineer so I work with and help people with disabilities every day. Let me know if you need any more resources and I'd be happy to send more.
Hire your own public and make them act normal when you’re around.
OpenGL can predict nice images about black holes. Thus, our Universe is just a frame buffer (array [x,y,z;t]), while gravitation is not a force but a shader.

Sorry, our Universe is just a spacetime (array [x,y,z;t]), while gravitation is not a force but a curvature of spacetime.
Okay, this means reducing Innovation to a bare minimum I guess. It is baffling to me, how this giant company manages to suck at everything they touch. They managed to be unrelevant in every trend over the past decade.
As a web developer I really want all devices to have evergreen browsers, and that in turn implies on-going feature updates at the OS level to support those evergreen browsers.

It also doesn’t really matter whether updates are fixes or features. Somebody has to do the work, and they have to get paid, and only so many years of that work can be baked into the original purchase price, before buyers go to a competitor who offers less support. You paid full price for X years of support, but what happens after that?
Hamas was anti-semitic?
Palworld would’ve been nothing without riding off the coattails of Pokémon. I’m fed up with the modern Pokémon output too, but Palworld is just a stolen, AI-generated flash-in-the-pan.
> Crazy how no one else could figure this out.

Tesla obviously didn't figure out how to do it with third parties either. It's about cooperation and politics, not so much about the technical implementation.
Not that I'm trying to make you feel worse about it: In the UK we pay less per capita in taxes toward healthcare than you do in the US (or at least did last I added up the numbers - Medicare and Medicaid alone added up to a higher per capita cost than the NHS), and if we do want private health insurance, which here is basically "queue skip insurance", it costs a fraction of in the US because they only need to provide the "extras" - you'll normally try your NHS GP first, call your insurer if you can't get an appointment, or ask them to refer you privately for things there are queues to get done on the NHS.

For a lot of elective procedures, the price is even low enough that it'd pay you to fly to the UK and stay in a hotel to get things done here if the recovery isn't too long.
> If you really had these attributes you'd be much better off starting your own company.

Isn’t „founding engineer” actually starting the company? If not, what does the „founding” mean here?
It is all relative, if you want the set of normal, italic, bold and bold italic you need the 80$ package.

A lot of people seems to use a coding font, wear off a bit of it or want a new one just to make a small change and have diversity. It an expense you might not be ready to spend for something you may not be 100% sure you will want to use for more than a couple of months.

He has a set of demo fonts but from what I understand this would swap random characters to rectangle so you can't really try it working on an actual code. This is only useful to check quickly how it looks on your IDE or terminal but I usually spend a few hours working on a font before deciding to commit using it for more or swapping back to my previous preferred one.
or you trade industries .. you get our manufacturing but respect our ips. indirect class warfare. white collar vs blue collar.

Then one generation later it all bloes up in your face, destroying your democracy .. but you get to pretend your actions where innocent . its just like the weather , cant do anything about that ..
Here’s a link to a video about loading games on the C64: https://youtu.be/YUigiY53YCs
When Apple was moving away from it, it seemed due to thermals. People wanted thinner and lighter laptops with longer lasting batteries, and the PPC chips were getting too hot to put into laptops.

I would imagine this would extend to the data center in the form of power consumption. More power to run and more power needed to keep it cool. But this is all theory. I haven’t followed the development of PPC. My last knowledge of it is from Apple and Xbox.
Did you read the article? (I recently posted something similar - it's probably posted often.)

It's proving that the US, which spends BY FAR the most on healthcare per capita, is getting a very poor return on our investment.

It's not really "helping" because the GOP is so opposed to healthcare reform - which would cut into their corporate profits, and they've somehow persuaded their supporters that Jesus hated healthcare but loved automatic weapons.
I love the images in that patent. Just imagine lawyers discussing images like this one: https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/gazette_work2/domestic/A/5...
'AI is so expensive, we'd rather have it handled with communism!'

If that means it'll be free/cheaper... sure
BioNTech to Host AI Day as an Edition of Its Innovation Series
LOL so it'll be an AI entirely based on bragging, self-promotion, lies and exaggerations. Nice.
Yeah, hand-soldering as the means of mass production of consumer electronics devices has (mostly) died out, but the people who actually build and test things, or the people who fix consumer electronics devices, still usually do a lot of soldering.

It's also a necessary skill in a lot of technical hobbies. Modular synthesis by means of DIY modules, the whole mechanical keyboard thing, electric guitar maintenance...
I think that's more a problem with being famous: the top of the Wikipedia list* as I write this is "Bernard Arnault & family", who I've never heard of and therefore couldn't spot in a lineup much less a crowd.

But I did double-take when walking past Russell T Davis (or a lookalike) in Sheffield a decade and a half ago, and Richard Osman in Cambridge train station some other time.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
“I think that’s a stupid rule and I don’t care about following it.”
Hi there

Thanks for the feedback on the app! Yes, we made the bot having different mood to make things a bit more interesting.

In terms of currency conversion, we're glad to says that it will be included in the next update! Stay tuned!

For new custom categories, yeah it does, Rolly will always find the most suitable current category that you're having and categorise it
> how do you reconcile this opinion with the origins and current stated goals

They are not set in stone.

> Hamas has the destruction of Israel baked into its founding charter.

Hamas is not Palestine.

I understand what are you talking about, but let me remind you that there were precedents in history of a political reconciliation with terrorist organizations (namely FARC). It requires a lot of goodwill and a lot of work. Israel does practically nothing in that regard, actually moving in the direction that leads to more radicalization.
If Japan has a 20 year patent limit, this is not about the concept of Pokemon. Pokemon was in the post 3rd gen era 20 years ago.
>In all cases treatment is required by law, regardless of payment.

No, it's not. This is a myth. The only thing that's required is to stabilize the patient. If you need surgery to repair your shattered leg bone so you don't get an infection and need an amputation, you're not going to get that surgery without payment. But once you get a bad infection and need the leg amputated so you don't die, they'll do that for free.
If you think Intuit is accounting than you don't really know what accounting is.

Off the top of my head... every major ERP has better functionality, customizability, and usability than this relatively simple take on a financial system. Even Workday... and that's an accounting system grafted on top of a HR platform.

This is basically yet another product created by a programmer that doesn't actually know enough about the field they're disrupting that they don't even realize that their disruption was obsolete a decade ago.

And no, as is this program couldn't be used to run a bodega, let alone an aircraft carrier.
Ironic for a company built on scraping and exploiting data used without permission...
Many people like to decide for themselves I believe; Apple can warn that it will run badly and burn through your battery faster, but if the user still wants it, they should be able to switch it on no?