skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where's this AI accusation coming from?
> Soldering by hand is a dying art...

Let me tell you that I'm holding up the flag. Very poorly and with shaky hands, but I'm trying to hold it up... :-D
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A huge portion of our healthcare goes to paying health insurance providers, high rates for pharmaceuticals, and hospitals.

There's a reason these industries in the US are some of the most profitable. They act as middle men and make massive profits.
I have, I think, no real expert advice to offer you. Except this small anecdote.

One of the kids in my 4-year old son's class is blind. I went along for a day to help out on a school trip to some massive playground, which involved loading 60 kids into a bus (they usually walk/bike to school, so not everyone was used to the idea of large buses); keeping track of them in the playground, feeding them, etc etc. Lots of potential for disaster, haha.

Throughout the day, it struck me that for the most part this blind kid was just another kid amongst peers. It was very wholesome to see the kids understand his limits instinctively, help him out whenever needed but mostly just bantering and playing alongside him.

I never gave these things much thought before, but observing this I saw the importance of having quality, supportive peers to interact with. I hope you can find a supportive, nurturing environment for your boy: one that highlights and reinforces his strengths, not his weaknesses.
> having two doors on the side means it requires a greater distance to pull the food out and clear the appliance, versus a bottom-hinged door.

I don’t get this at all. Can someone explain it? It would be so much easier to pull food out with the French doors than the bottom-hinge door. At least, that is my thought based on my experience using bottom-hinge doors.
I absolutely agree, I'm not for protecting big IP when fanmade alternatives are created.

But Palword feels such a rip off of Zelda BOTW (the intro and the items are 1:1 the same of Zelda, even the tablet!) and Pokemon.

For most if not all "pals" I could instantly name their Pokemon counterpart, that is textbook copyright infringement done in the weakest form.
>Once you have a choice of a hip replacement in Mexico or India

This is already being done actually.
Both the parent and grandparent were talking primarily about the Russian government, not regular people.

(The parent also went on an annoying stupid tangent about Russian tourists, but their main point was about Russian government's repeated threats to basically start an all-out nuclear war if its latest colonial project is not allowed to succeed, including Medvedev's not so subtle threat from just the other day).
There's 0 problem with doing:

def outer(a):
def inner(b):
return a * b
return inner

Though slightly longer, for most developers, it's still more grokkable (and related stack traces better) than:

def outer(a):
return lambda b: a * b

A very large part of Python's design is to emphasize readability for the majority. I still remember how long it took me to wrap my head around this "lambda thing" that I'd see pop up ever so often, even after a couple years of using Python. I eventually got fed up and took some time to really get to understand it. This shouldn't have to be the case for everyone reading random code.

Python is a primarily OOP-based language with functional aspects. And the design decisions that went into it are what makes it so popular today. It's not Haskell or Lisp or any of the other many that the majority avoid due to language complexity. Don't try to make it into one.
before we can accurately mock, we'll need to know your exact time zone...

(I'm guessing North America?)
> I am not sure why you are being downvoted, this is not a good plan but definitely happens in practice.

I guess this is more okay when the dated versions are not exposed publicly but are backing services, but in general it might be a question of time until some CVE puts you at risk or there's a bug that will never be fixed.

I like the idea of having "feature complete" software that you can use from now until the end of time (or at least the end of whatever product you're working on), I just don't think this is always feasible with the way we develop software.
Well, Bavaria is famously the Texas of Germany…
are there technical details on exactly what x.com did?

cloudflare offers a lot of self-service tools, which can and do allow customers that cloudflare doesn't want to service to use it until someone finds out (my favorite example is that, briefly, the foreign ministry of Iran briefly managed to register and activate properties on the service)

registering while only directing brazilian clients to cloudflare would be difficult using the standard method (setting your domain's nameservers to the cloudflare servers), but cloudflare's CNAME setup option only requires a TXT record. it's possible x.com did that by just paying for a business plan and never interacting with cloudflare staff

doing so for the _root_ record is a bit dicier, but as x.com operates its own nameservers they're probably able to handle the not-quite compliant fuckery necessary to CNAME the root: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/partial-se...
Have you considered that surrounding yourself with weird conspiracy theorists and then blindly projecting their behaviors onto the population at large isn't a great idea?
Human me just thought it was a good word for this. It implies some irreversible process of mixing, I think that characterizes this process really well.
That's why I said "if". Some billionaires are not well-known publicly, and then there's Elon Musk or Bill Gates.
There's "precise", "balanced" and "creative"

If you're asking it to write a story about a camel in a hat you probably shouldn't choose "precise" mode
Taking a step back, my point was simply that there's a large number of common ailments that we don't understand. We don't know what causes them and we don't know how to cure them. Our understanding of human biology is grossly incomplete. We are nowhere close to first principles here.

We also have a long history of introducing new compounds into the environment and then many decades later saying oops, turns out those are toxic. BPA and PFAs recently, to name a few.

Where does that leave us? Who knows. I'm not saying microplastics are responsible for any of those diseases. I'm saying we don't really know what the hell is going on, so some alarm and caution seems appropriate. And, call me crazy, I'd say accidentally coating the planet with a new substance isn't a good thing. There is nothing reassuring about this situation.
Math4Devs
>If YouTube actually rots your brain then it would be stupid to watch it yourself. So the kid would be making a solid point.

Yet here in reality, people gamble, smoke, drink alcohol, smoke week, etc.

There are many things adults do that are bad for them, but might either be fine in moderation or just be a willing choice the adult has made to take the risk.

The problem with kids is that they cannot be left to choose to take that kind of long term risk because their brains aren’t developed enough to do so. It’s why they can’t consent to legal agreements, etc.

So it ultimately comes down to a list of things that they can’t do because they have downsides they can’t consent to and you would be a bad parent for consenting on their behalf. A.k.a “because I said so”.
As someone in the UK with income in the top 1%, I have never bothered with private insurance because I genuinely don't feel I need it. I occasionally pay for private GP services, and I've paid for some private services for my son, but for the most part the NHS works. It has waiting times for non-essential things, and if you don't want that, you can pay for insurance that gets you seen faster and it costs a pittance. But if you need treatment, you get it. Overall, paying cash for healthcare here is also so much cheaper that for Americans, for elective procedures with short-ish recovery, flying to London can be a cost-effective option compared to US hospitals.

I'm sure that if you're rich enough, you have fantastic care available in the US, but from what I've seen of prices for pretty basic stuff, I'm not so convinced most of the top 20% in the US have healthcare I'd consider tolerable.
Particularly in 2014, when the git thing happened.
To be fair, maybe yes, these models shouldn’t have been created.
Well they have been created so now we need a new novel way to make sure they don’t damage other people’s work.
Something like this did not exist before, and therefore needs a new set of rules that the model creators, with all their might and power, are trying to strongly lobby against.
This has nothing to do with that.

The gameplay is Zelda BOTW glued together to Pokemon (even the initial items and the intro scene is obscenely identical).

Most "pals" are lifted from Pokemon, as I was able to say things like "Pokemon X but green", "Pokemon Y", etc.

Ignorance is not a justification for misconduct.

The game seems like a collage of stolen bits rather than a nice blend of games (which is in what the gaming industry excels).
There is something strangely compelling, to crib from another commenter, about this site, its throwback UI, and general “this seems like a good idea even if no one really uses it”actually potentially useful art-piece-ness.

I tried both recording something on the site and uploading a file (all from an iPhone), but neither worked.

Regardless, kudos on this project. Hope Bob gets his milk.
You can still get PPC desktops but they are pricey. Thinking the Talos 2. Even now they are several generation behind. https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

Unfortunately back in the mid-late 2000's every major company dropped PPC. WiiU woudl have been the last major machine to use it and that seems to be to merely keep backward compatibility - I mean it was the absolute limits of the original PPC750 design. Unfortunately, it just lost out to the might of Intel/AMD and the soaring pace of ARM's development.

I have said it before that if we had technology based on the best designs available, we would all be using some from of PowerPC with so mix of Mac OS/Linux/beOS and Amiga Workbench. Turns out doing elegant design but mediocre cannot out do mediocre done well (X86).
Indeed, though I think he likes it that way, and that it's a choice.
Working around it is somehow is. A huge part of my work has been plumbing and hacking around limitations in mediocre-at-best OSS tools.

Lots of nonserious companies that take those issues as enough of a reason to move slowly.

Many fewer serious ones where bad tooling is expected to be fixed, smoothed over, or replaced entirely in the interest of future dev time.
The police used self-powered GPS devices[1] to track criminals. These devices are used in various situations, such as when someone violates parole. The police don’t need to report the violation immediately. Instead, they wait for the person to re-enter their jurisdiction, then catch and arrest them.

Parallel construction wasn't tested, but the means of them catching criminals this way was tested in court.

[0] - https://www.gps.gov/news/2012/01/supremecourt/

[1] - if the device got power from the vehicle, it would be considered "break and entering" and thus would require a warrant.
Couldn't Nintendo's lawyers be suing on behalf of the Pokemon stakeholder?
Except sometimes campers.

There are still people doing world trips. We might collectively decide they need to keep using diesel forever or stop doing world trips with vehicles altogether but that is still currently a thing, even though it is very very marginal.

Also, the USA has borders with 2 countries with I imagine people crossing the border daily on both side to simply go to work. It seems weird to me that these 3 countries would not talk to each others about standards.
it'll also be part of a botnet within seconds if you visit a wrong website.

though i also miss the ui-latency of the civilized age ...
That is a completely unfair take. While our experiences online might be predominantly text based, it's not like we don't go outside and talk to people offline. I'm in online video call meetings several times a day at work and have taken part in many conference talks, workshops, etc. In no way are my verbal skills "the level of a 10yr old".

What is true though is that I avoid audio chats where possible. Not because I'm scared of them, but because it's way too intrusive. I might be listening to music, or I might be in public without my headphones. How do I record something discretely if I'm out of the house. Sure I might publish it publicly, but I don't want a random stranger next to me hearing in case it's something only a niche community might understand.
One thing that's surprised me about the US is the general slowness of most things. In India, you can get MRIs and CT Scans same day. Or you could the last time I was there. And it didn't cost very much in comparison.

My doctors have all been good (attested to by my parents who are surgeons themselves) but the healthcare system is wonky.

One thing I didn't expect is that the Indian system where you just drag your health records around paper copy yourself is superior to US EMR systems - which doctors seem to always have trouble with.

But now I have some friends in medicine and I always have them pull my records and keep a copy myself. It's usually a fax but it's better that way. Clearly electronic interop isn't working most of the time.
I have tried to do the same, but i have opposite experience. I just can't grok the syntax, it always seems like a magician pulling out another "Haha! I bet you haven't seen this one coming !"

Like, i can't even construct the abstract model of how it's supposed to work
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Discworld RPG is a "wordplay based pun-stravaganza" with bendy rules
J2ME is an unprecise term. I'd guess they mean J2ME/MIDP. The other profiles did even fly less probably.

I remember from the early 2000s you could get railway time tables from the German railways for your selected pair of stations as a midlet. That was truly useful.

I also used a mobile browser frontend. The data was rendered by the backend and transferred in compressed form. That was very usable at 2G speeds. Of course JavaScript was rare at the time. But I don't think the product was any commercial success.

Of cause their were (mostly toy) games. But in general the technology was probably 10+ years too early for the market.
> I don't see how "they don't work" and "they are inconvenient" are contradictory statements. They would've been if there were feedback mechanisms that we could use to communicate our point of view the government, but there aren't any, so in the end it's just a punishment for having been born in a wrong place at a wrong time.

The feedback mechanism you're complaining about is a problem on the side of those being inconvenienced. If they want to complain, they need to direct their complains to their own regime, and address the problems they are causing everyone around them.

It's also very telling that the reaction is to complain about mild inconveniences while turning a blind eye to the whole war of aggression, terrorism, and pervasive threats of global Armageddon from their very own government. That, strangely enough, is not an inconvenience nor an issue requiring attention.

Tourism seems to be a right to them, but others don't even have a right to exist?

Does that warrant any accountability at all, or does the blame lie always elsewhere?
Graviton 4 was just GAed 3 months ago.

You need to run actual workloads that fully utilize all cores and not benchmarks to understand the value of Graviton. People don’t run benchmarks in production; they run real business applications. Graviton is optimized for horizontal scale, not straight line single core performance.
I too realised this parallel and frequently tell people about it.

Edit: just the first one
Funnily enough I mentioned this on here a few days ago. Steve Jobs when announcing the G5 said they would have a 3Ghz model available in 12 months, and a G5 laptop. It never happened. Was a big reason in why they moved to Intel. I had a dual 2Ghz G5 Powermac, I used to call it 'Steve's folly' because when you had it going at full speed, you knew it by the excessive fan noise. They just ran too hot. When the Intel Mac mini release and it ran faster than the G5 using only about 1/10th the power, we knew it was done.

PA Semi developed their PWRffcient PPC chips to be pitched to Apple. They solved all the issues of thermals and performance ceilings but by that time it was too late as the Intel transition was in action. Apple purchased PA Semi and they now do all the Apple silicon stuff. Thus I say PWRffcient was the best job application you have ever seen.
By this logic the war can be stopped only by victory. As we know from history diplomacy can work. Israel has an advantage in this war, so they could have started exploring diplomatic solution instead of continuing escalation. Hezbollah has made it clear that their recent strikes are related to operation in Gaza (and it often happens that they use Palestinian cause for strikes). This could be the direction in which Israel should have start looking long ago.
> 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.

But please don’t do this. Our system is better than the US but private is now starting to struggle along with the NHS wait times as more people use their private coverage where they wouldn’t have done before.
It's a patchwork, with a lot of holes for people to fall through:

* Hospitals must treat or stabilize regardless of payment, but only for emergencies - they just have to try to keep you from dying on the spot

* The ACA (or Medicaid) subsidizes insurance for the unemployed, if your household income for the calendar year is low enough

* Employers are required to offer coverage to their employees, provided they work more than 30 hours a week at that company and it has at least 50 full time employees (this extends to dependent children but not spouses or other dependents)

This is better than nothing, don't get me wrong, but it could be a lot better still. We have the technology.
I had that problem for an embarrassing number of years because I didn't know what flux was.

Today, I won't even plug in the iron if I can't find my flux first.
30$ for the 12 most common variants.
Japanese laws pertaining to copyright/corporate rights in general can make the US look like a paradise of freedom.

Another game company, Konami, is suing Cygames for--in short--having a system where characters compete and can be leveled up.

Plus the concept of "fair use" technically kind of exists legally but not in practice. You sample something and the owner doesn't approve, you're screwed. You don't sample something but simply say something that lowers their reputation, you're screwed (the bar for "libel" is incredibly low--even facts can be successfully tried so long as it can be proven that the intention was to in some way lower a person or particularly a company's reputation). The last one is particularly funny since you'll see the media giving endless praise to a CEO/businessperson and treating them as Jesus 2.0, but the very day they die, the floodgates open and you find out they've committed every crime known to mankind and everyone around them knew it.

Basically, Pocketpair is quite likely heavily screwed. Nintendo can attack them on several fronts and likely will. People saying they made a better Pokemon than Nintendo themselves probably angered a few people within the company and it's easier to take them out legally than to actually compete.
I was discounting the possibility that Mossad was in control of global supplychains with sufficient intensity and recklessness to hide semtex and a detonator in an entire brand of consumer electronics, in its urgency to provide retroactive justification for every antisemitic conspiracy theory out there and ignite war with the entire Middle East.

The only thing in a pager that SHOULD BE THERE with enough energy to 'explode' on demand, is a lithium ion battery. Which is evidently, given further reports, not what happened here.
Buggier than WinNT?! I remember WinNT4 having 7 service packs, and after the latest SP, something like 50 more patches only for the RPC, and in the end they recommended switching to Win2K because it couldn't be fixed without breaking compatibility. I'm sorry I can't give any links - they deleted everything.

You probably remember the BSODs due to buggy drivers.

One could argue that an OS for PC (Win9x) doesn't need any isolation. There's only one user (personal in "PC").
which ui framework do you use? it's very nice
probably not, and you know, because aaa-shooters are typically made for push the boundaries.

the point was that most things are playable and the list is only getting longer
> but the ordered dicts are faster, no?

They may be in the current implementations, but removing an implementation constraint can only increase the solution space, so it cannot make the best implementation slower.

As a trivial example, the current implementation that guarantees iteration happens in insertion order also is a valid implementation for a spec that does not require that guarantee.
Hello I'd like to help you with recording - would you mind please emailing developers@crowdwave.com describing what went wrong when you tried to use the microphone, and what device you are using Thanks!
People that landed here may be interested in Mojo [0] as well.

[0] https://www.modular.com/mojo
Bob has gone missing.
I don't think it will matter.
This is cool, as a place which uses Typescript for a lot of things, including back-end services we handle it differently. Basically we have a rather strict linting process setup which will warn developers of unused code in development environments and outright refuse it for staging deployment and forward. I’m not sure we would “dare” to automatically remove it, because for the most part there is a reason it is there. Maybe it’s something that needs to be deleted, but it’s almost always something which needs to be handled in some way.

Unused imports is perhaps the one area where I would be comfortable removing unused imports. I would never personally allow a third party package into our environment for something like this. I really don’t want to be rude about it, but it’s too “trivial” to rely on an external import for. Not because your code couldn’t be better than ours, it probably will be, but because it’s an unnecessary risk.

For smaller or personal projects I think many people will rely on something like prettier to do the same.
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