skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a myopic view. The average smartphone user may not immediately understand why increasingly locked down and user hostile devices are bad, but it does not negate the fact they are.
Higher education in Norway is free so a dentist starts with much less debt to pay off. Also the income range in general is much narrower here. Mean income for dentists is about 900 kNOK/yr, about 90 kUSD.

I suspect that it's also a question of market forces. A dentist that charged much more for an annual check would simply lose that business as there are plenty of dentists here. And quite likely they would lose any follow up work as well.

The profit margin on treatment is much higher but even that seems cheaper than what some of my US friends say they pay (or their insurance pays). Here's the price list for my dentist. In Norwegian but Google Translate does a good job:

http://www.drammen-tannlegesenter.no/om-oss-priser/priser

They do some cosmetic work as well, I imagine that the profit margins are higher for that.

I have two crowns, both created by an automated process of 3D photography and CNC machine in the clinic (Cerec). The most recent one went like this: I made an appointment to see my dentist at about 8:30 one morning complaining of toothache, she discovered that an old amalgam filling had cracked and taken part of the tooth with it and that the only practical repair was a crown. She then apologised profusely that she didn't have time to do it there and then but could I come back at 13:00 that afternoon? I said yes and by 13:30 the crown had been manufactured, fitted, ground down to an exact fit and I was leaving. The crown was a bit over 5 kNOK altogether, about 500 USD, for half an hour's work. The price has gone up a little since.

None of the work I have done, including the annual check-up, is done by a dental assistant, poorly paid or otherwise. I think that this might be because of the high cost of employing anyone in Norway.
There's a Munro Live video from the event on YouTube where the host is talking enthusiastically about how the Optimus robots are going to take over all dirty and dangerous jobs and the whole time he's talking the video is showing a robot at the event failing miserably at picking up a small bag of chocolates.

The bag has clearly been designed to be easy to pick up, it's positioned on a custom made table top to perfectly space them out and make it easy and still the robot manages to lift two of them by mistake and topple a whole line of them with one ending up on the floor.
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I love the design, really want to try this one.
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welp, looks like a conker’s having a bad fur day over this
These things in the UK are generally simultaneously massively serious in terms of arbitrary rules and also massively not.

I suspect there are handful of entrants each year, a few obsessives and 'people around at the time it happens to be on. Hence this guy who has been around long enough he gets asked to help out.

UK law generally is based on previous screw-ups.

Doubtless next year they will add a rule, but in general abusing such power would fall under the general "good sportsmanship" rule and be dealt with far more seriously than just 'banned from a tiny competition with a grand sounding name'.
Wayland is simple because it shoves all the responsibilities to somewhere else.
At first I thought this was a coderbytez or hacker rank replacement, but now I understand it's meant to replace first or second round live-coding interviews?

Does it do both? is it expensive?
Build BI Dashboard using natural language
I feel like the article is not accurate and understandable to me, can somebody please explain me the background?
The field of entrants is probably like 50.
Fluoride salts by themselves are very radiation resistant, chemically more so than water. The biggest concern would be liberation of elemental fluorine, but if the salt is kept slightly reducing (which one can do in a sterile salt without dissolved uranium) the fluorine instantly reacts back to fluoride. The slightly reduced salt is also preferred to limit corrosion, allowing the vessel and pipes to be made of stainless steel (FLiBe with dissolved uranium needs special more expensive alloys because chromium would dissolve.)

Activation is also low. The two concerns would be traces of tritium from the two-step activation of beryllium (formation of 6He by (n,alpha) reaction, decay of 6He to 6Li, then (n,t) on 6Li), and also formation of 10Be (half life, 1.4 million years, but the thermal neutron capture cross section of 9Be is only 8.5 mb). The chemical toxicity of beryllium would considerably exceed its radiotoxicity, I imagine.
Do you have a deeper writeup of this anywhere?
Aerleum plans to turn CO2 directly into fuel for cargo ships and airplanes
But it’s a function you can choose not to use. My Model Y doesn’t even have FSD, I didn’t buy it. I could buy and use it, but I don’t. It doesn’t concern me that it exists, the Model Y has been an awesome car. If I did buy and use it, its limitations are widely known and I’d expect to supervise it if I used it.
I listened to Endurance by Alfred Lansing while winter hiking the southern 1000 miles of the AT. Several days and nights below freezing didn't seem so bad any more!

They had unimaginable grit and determination. Truly a remarkable tale.

I felt their vigor warm my bones, add strength to my legs. These are true stories of what is possible on the ragged edge of human survival. What can be overcome by sheer will. Our species has depths beyond our current understanding.

We can endure.
In Watching the English, Kate Fox gives a thorough explanation of how much she can pin down someone's social class by what they buy at Marks and Spencers (which is a department store that's branched out into groceries). I forget the exact details, but I think it was that doing a full food shop there made you upper-middle class, buying some food items there made you middle-middle class, and buying food items for special occasions there made you lower-middle class. Buying clothes from M&S makes you middle-middle class, and buying homewares makes you lower-middle class. The upper class don't shop at M&S at all, and the working class only buy clothes or homewares from there if they want something special. (I think - it was a while ago that I read it.) And that's just one shop.

Everywhere does social stratification, but nowhere does it like Britain.
how to introduce progress into civilisation? Just make some devoted engineer angry
"In total, the world needs to do ~1 teraton of carbon removal over the next ~100 years to effectively stabilize global temperatures around 1.5C."
> Well, yeah but also at this time Linux had not even been around half a decade.

Ah, yes, good point!

> My thought was more that maybe a lot of the issues people are having with Linux to push them to BSD is what we, developers collectively, have done to Linux over the last 2-3 decades.

Indeed so. Especially in the last decade or so: snap, Flatpak, Wayland, systemd, etc.

It's being made gratuitously more and more complex to meet the demands of the main commercial users -- running cloud servers -- even if this makes like much more complicated for individual users.

Which is why I advocate the BSDs as an alternative, but man, they are all forbidding and offputting to beginners/novices, and some of them don't even realise why and how.
Can you please guide me where this heresy is being spread?
I doubt it's banned in all schools. It'll be banned in a few which made headlines.

The HSE is pretty clear it doesn't justify it:

> The HSE said the safety risk from playing conkers was "incredibly low and not worth bothering about"
I quite often wonder about those stats... I mean - most of Firefox users are quire conscious about privacy/tracking so most likely they have it blocked which... would "disappear" them from the stats? Chrome/Safari users mostly don't give a darn (and blocking is getting more difficult) so they would usually balloon the stats? Not to mention sites usually working just fine in Firefox but doing dumb detection hence users often hiding UserAgent?
The hubub around the Gettier paper is surely among philosophy's most shameful moments.
Also which percentage of people taking part in meetings with screen sharing are even allowed to "just install" OBS? More for developers, much less for other office workers.
Anyone experienced in interviewing can tell a good candidate from a bad one 5 minutes into the interview. there's too much human judgement and relationship building.

not sure how AI can replace that.
Another important correction for the title - "in U.S.". Americans are infamous for drug abuse, according to National Center for Drug Abuse statistics 50% of people 12 and older have used illicit drugs[1], which definitely affects their ability to focus.

[1] https://drugabusestatistics.org/
I remember my Atari behaving awfully slow (whole atari basic environment, even after the program finished) because I did many GOSUBs without the amount of RETURNs necessary, and didn't understand why because I was only 9yo at that time...
But they could fold up a supercomputer into a proton?

I’m not buying it. Seems like a rationalization for imperialism.
We should see some increase in electricity consumption due to displacement of direct uses of fossil fuels. For example, use of heat pumps in place of natural gas furnaces, electric cars in place of IC engine vehicles. Add to that the ever popular AI and general data center consumption motivating this announcement (but I wonder how much of that is going to move to places with cheaper electricity.)
And they are generally banned in 1 school from one incident by one head trying to quell anger from parents.

The ban is generally lifted or just not enforced at all after a year or two.

For starters the playground monitors have more important stuff to do than remember the list of banned activities and try to enforce them.
That wouldn't change the mindset of the kind of person we're talking about. They would just assume you're worshiping the devil and lying about it.
> but this doesn't feel like a big deal to me.

Just normal enshitification. Nothing to see here. /s

(maybe Google shall try to run Play Protect on the Play Store, i've heard that there is a lot of malware there)
> No advertising, no enshittification

It is starting to change, for me, Discord has being going downhill for a couple of years.

Client updates are becoming more common and more buggy, as if we were on a beta channel. Marketing for Nitro is becoming more agressive, and now, there are "Quests", which are essentially ad banners for games.
Humm. Does it matter?

Just settle on a standard arm position for the measurement and set the standards for that position.

I mean, you could even set the standard to be measured at the neck while the patient is hanging upside down and still the average would be average and the outliers would be outliers.
I got a new one and it doesn't even have a timer for the door light, so it's on until the door is closed.
The government can't do anything right when you elect people who believe the government can't do anything right.

Or, in other words, stop listening to Rupert Murdoch.
Re-creating early generative art: Schotter, by Georg Nees
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Show the certs who is boss, revoke them on issuance
Having a proportion of the team act as triage for issues / alerts / questions / requests is a generally good pattern that I think is pretty common - especially when aligned with an on-call rotation. I've done it a few times by having a single person in a team of 6 or 7 do it. If you're having to devote 50% of your 4-person team to this sort of work, that suggests your ratios are a bit off imo.

The thing I found most surprising about this article was this phrasing:

> We instruct half the team (2 engineers) at a given point to work on long-running tasks in 2-4 week blocks. This could be refactors, big features, etc. During this time, they don’t have to deal with any support tickets or bugs. Their only job is to focus on getting their big PR out.

This suggests that this pair of people only release 1 big PR for that whole cycle - if that's the case this is an extremely late integration and I think you'd benefit from adopting a much more continuous integration and deployment process.
I strongly suspect my dentist is making shit up, too. I had to refuse a couple of expensive treatments. The main goal seems to be to “use up” my dental insurance more than anything.
Container Hardening Process
You do need all that if you want to perform maintenance on a bike. I assure you that the average person won't be able to replace a cassette, which is a wear item, with an Allen wrench and a socket wrench. Or replace disk brakes, or a chain ring, which are also wear items. I imagine you can use an Allen bit as a lever when you need to access tubes or replace tires (wear items both), but it does have high probability of damaging your rims, which, again will need lockring bits and a chain whip to replace, at least on the rear wheel. Chain is another wear item, I figure you can just hammer out pins with a thin Allen key to cut a new chain and use the same technique to remove the old one but your hammering technique should be very precise to retain the pin, you cannot put them back in once you hammered them out too far, not even with a socket wrench.
OK, that's perfectly fair. Enjoy! Seriously!

My take is just that, in the 21st century, I do not expect a Linux distro in normal routine use to crash and corrupt its disk. Not _ever._ That was acceptable in the '90s when it was new, but not now.

For the SUSE folks to complain that "U R doin it wrong" doesn't wash.

E.g. for an OS that takes a single-digit number of gigabytes of disk space, a 32GB disk partition should be plenty and it should never fill that up.

I note that recent releases of openSUSE disable Snapper if given a root volume of <= 20GB. Maybe that was due to me and my bug reports. I don't know. It's a rotten answer, though: "OK, this dude's weird usage breaks our snapshot system, so what we'll do is turn it off."

The correct answer is to fix the snapshot system. A better one is to fix the filesystem.
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Puberty was considered the adulthood age for mellinia, that is suitable for marriage (and is still considered so in several places).

Why is this a very controversial topic?
Your are right, now i know that the whole time i was the extremist by birth.

>Apocryphal quotes aside there's a well documented long history of intolerance of core cannon heresy.

Like with every single religion right?
Some loads simply don't fit on trucks, or rather on the roads that the trucks have to use. Heavy lift airship would operate in a market segment that does not even exist without them.
Exactly, yes.

And then they wonder why it's hard to attract new users to the community, and the maintainers are getting old and occasionally dying.

See also: Emacs.
Don’t rope this persons antics in with all Americans. Just sounds like a negative person in general. They exist all over the world.
CAES stores much less energy than hydrogen per unit of storage volume. So, for sufficiently long storage times, hydrogen is far better than CAES. For those long storage times, there are proportionally fewer charge/discharge cycles, so the cost of the hydrogen itself becomes proportionally less important.

CAES is likely going to be squeezed out by batteries, but hydrogen addresses the extreme storage use case (just a few cycles/year) where both batteries and CAES are unsuitable.

The pacing technology for green hydrogen is low capex electrolysers. China, as usual, is leading the charge on this. I understand 4% of hydrogen production in China is now from electrolysis.
"This makes it all the more important that we have legislation to force them to make proprietary parts available for riders to buy themselves"

Of course this should be the case, but even then I'm not sure it would help, as they will simply make the spare parts so costly that it's uneconomical.

Maybe there should be a 'standardization' score, somewhat like energy efficiency scores, that could then be mandated.

Or mandate that parts interfaces must be documented and published as standards, and be free and open for competitors.

The basic problem is that almost the whole of business has discovered or decided that their reason for existence is to get money out of people, and that providing the best products and services they can is merely incidental and not actually necessary, especially if they all play the same game.
Me too.

I contacted the company. Turns out their address was within half an hour's walk from my old apartment in Prague. I thought I could at least try one.

Nope. It's just a mailing address. Actually they are in a remote part of the country, at least 3-4 hours' travel away.
Yeah, that'll teach you not to contribute to the community.
this is it right here - 'use up your dental insurance'.
Agreed on the whole inferiority complex thing. Though in addition, honestly, this is why I've always liked computing and electronics - exactly as you said, everything is intelligible in principle, everything is intentionally designed and runs on simple rules, it's just a matter of how much you dig into it.

It's interesting how you'll often, in culture and media, see computers described as cold and inhuman. Like, I get it, of course. But in a way, there's also something very human about working with them, because every part of the stack was designed, meticulously and painstakingly (or maybe haphazardly) by other humans. The analog EE might worry mainly about the laws of physics, sure, and as you said, the CS theorist might fiddle with pure mathematics. But it seems the majority of working software engineers, and even a good chunk of electronics designers, will spend their time dealing mainly with things designed by other people.

I get the impression it's not the same as like you said, the biologist that deals with the squishy, incomprehensible products of evolution, or the chemist and physicist that have to try to understand stuff like quantum mechanics. Those are the "cold" fields to me; ours is positively warm and cozy.
We still have a queen, just not the one we want ;)
Pretty sure there's a modicum of diversity there .. Father Bob McGuire's no Christian Brother or Cardinal George Pell. You might be one of the good ones ... :)

> Like with every single religion right?

Eh, dunno about that, there's a lot of variation - off hand I don't think the Baháʼí engaged in many pograms or inquisitions .. other religions have notably dabbled in many such things.
No, this is not fine. The is again another barrier to ensure that things are more difficult and scary when you don't use the official play store. It's an anticompetitive behavior again.

You are already logged on your phone interface when you try to install so this additional check is excessive. I could have understood to have it just in the case that you don't protect your phone access with a pin.

Also, to not be anticompetitive, the behavior should be the same when using the play store or not. Like asking your pin to use the playstore like what is done in iOS. Even if it sucks if you want my opinion.
And you are? The one who deals out the stereotypes?
> All swans

Not all, just mute swans; so not Bewick’s or whoopers (if I remember correctly)

Edit:

“His Majesty specifically owns any unclaimed mute swan in open water in both England and Wales in a ceremonial fashion. This has been a law since medieval times. His ownership is shared with the Worshipful Company of Dyers, granted to them by the Crown in the 1400s.”

https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/king/does-the-king-really-own-...
> changing the colors would have only attenuating effects (the music is still
playing but a trained ear of some can discern some distortion)

What is this referring to? For most pieces inside the radio, the colors would be just superficial and not have any effect. There are some components (capacitors, resistors) where the colors have meaning, and changing them could lead to overcurrent and fires/damage or insufficient conduction and things not really working.

I'm finding it hard to imagine what parts the author is thinking of where changing the colors would have only attenuating effects, where it would take a trained ear to hear the distortion. In the set of all outcomes from changing just colors, most would be either "nothing happened" or "radio's operation is clearly messed up". The author's scenario seems like one of the less likely ones.
It's not that easy https://power.mhi.com/special/hydrogen as you make it sound
Most n-body systems are fairly stable just because of selection bias. The unstable systems didn’t last.