skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has nothing at all to do with treatment being unequal.

I only form my opinion from the current Wikipedia article, and this is how it looks to me.

- Mary Mallon, herself, was just as innocent, yet she was treated as a criminal, which is unfair.

- Her treatment was "hectic" as per Wikipedia. I'd say it was unreasonable and dangerous, with a big pile of negligence.

- Communication and information given to her was inconsistent at best.

- She had all the rights and reasons to disbelieve and dispute all conjectures made about her. Contemporary state-of-the-art knowledge and practices in medicine and "public health" was nowhere near conclusive and confident. She had a good shot at collecting evidence to prove her case, but to my understanding she was denied a fair judgement - case was dismissed before hearing. However, I believe that her continuous isolation could not be justified "beyond reasonable doubt" even by our modern knowledge and standard of proof!

- The demands put on her were unreasonable and excessive.

- He name was dragged through media, forever tainted in the process.

- She was never given appropriate consideration/compensation for all the conditions of her treatment and limitations of release. They could have offered her a lifetime pension which would have removed the need for her to work as a cook. They could have recruited her for research program, compensated accordingly. Instead, she was expected to bear full cost of all conditions put on her. The best shot at compensation was a promise of royalties for yet-unwritten book dragging her name through more mud. Which only added insult to injury, understandably, as it would absolutely do for so many of us.

- My understanding is that other similar cases were not "refused requests to isolate", but such requests were not even made, making Mary's case unfairly singled out.

- Last but not least, I absolutely disagree with your chosen turn of phrase that others were "unfairly given freedom". Freedom is not given, it is a default state of being. To take it away requires extraordinary justification, which in Mary's case was awfully deficient and remains so to this day.
> Providing toilets to employees does not tie to profit. Toilets in all offices are now closed. We are saving over $10k per day

Right. How do those companies tend to wind up?

I didn't say short-term profits. I said ultimately, the value of a non-monetary assets are tied to profitability. Particularly financial assets, e.g. C corporations. That doesn't mean that's the only measure of value. But for a company it's damn close.

Put another way: when a for-profit company starts arguing that profits don't matter, it's a little bit curious.
Im assuming the life extension treatments, like all medical treatment, will be optional.

I doubt the state will want to fund those extra years in any case, it costs a lot of money to keep people in prison.
I might just be unusually sensitive to this, but there is a downside to awnings that hardly ever gets mentioned. Yes, an awning keeps your house cooler by blocking sunlight, but it also blocks sunlight, reducing the natural light inside your house. This means you either sit in the dark or use more artificial light, which is fine except natural sunlight is (for me at least) very beneficial for mood and for maintaining the circadian rhythm.

I know lots of people who don't mind living in darkness or seem to have a personal vendetta against the sun, and maybe those people would be genuinely better off with awnings, but I don't think they're for me.
Thanks for writing the book! I’m glad I came across it while learning how to make a website.
I’m thinking if someone decides to change browsers, or changes ecosystems. Say they have all their passkeys in Apple Passwords, then they move to Android. Or they have everything in Chrome, then move away from Android and don’t bother downloading chrome and logging into their existing account. If the user doesn’t understand what this stuff is, why would they think to account for it during a migration?

I have a friend who just last year was talking about getting a new phone number with his new phone. My first thought was, “won’t that break all your 2FA and lock you out of your bank and a bunch of other stuff?” He had no idea and didn’t think he had any of it, but most of that was stuff I didn’t opt into, but simply exists now. I’m not sure how he couldn’t have any of it. He ended up not doing it, but I think someone could very easily screw themselves.
AFAIK Australian healthcare system is mixed public private with a heavy lean on private. The healthcare market is open to market forces as the government works through subsidies. Plus I think many of the hospitals are religiously run institutions which helps protect from private equity influence.

The US has massive government regulation and dysfunctional state intervention in healthcare if not directly then vicariously with rules around Medicare. The US government helps make the dysfunction that private equity later exploits.

So I’m not sure that it would be correct to use Aus and the US as examples of the either end of the private / public continuum.

I would use UK or France as an example of a public system and Singapore as a light touch private, and perhaps India or Turkey as a laissez-faire system.

The UK and France systems appear to be degrading and do not appear long term affordable and I think they will soon be adopting Canadian style Maid systems to cut cost.

Germany is a weird one because it seems like half the doctors there are homeopaths and the Germans love their insurance but I’m not sure if they get value for it.

Personally I’d prefer the Australian or Singaporean style systems but I’d classify those as mostly private.
C99 is still new! Microsoft tried to kill C by refusing to implement anything that wasn't also in C++. MSVC was 16 years late implementing C99, and implemented only the bare minimum. Their C11 implementation is only 11 years late.

I suspect that decades of C being effectively frozen have caused the userbase to self-select to people who like C exactly the way it is (was), and don't mind supporting ancient junk compilers.

Everyone who lost patience, or wanted a 21st century language, has left for C++/Rust/Zig or something else.
only gotta wait 2.4 hours though, it's missing a zero :)
A good deal of software development is clarifying the required specification. This alone takes a lot of work and a lot of coding! If you don't know the nitty-gritty of what you really need, you can't get it at 100x or even at 10x speed.
I love how the all-caps disgust is reserved for the greatest sin, the overengineering.
Microsoft was anti open source until the world changed. Windows was never open source or source available. It's ironic they own github. It is more shocking macOS is source available.
“ The comparatively small difference in screen real estate between an iPhone Pro Max and the iPad mini makes the latter rather pointless.”

While the linear diagonal size of the screens are not so much different, the area of the iPad Mini is significantly larger. I ran the numbers a month or so on it when someone was making the same claim of equivalence. I don’t recall the specifics now but I think the iPad screen had at least 60% more area. That is significant.

“ Not sure why this necessitates AI hardware”

It would be hard for Apple to put in a chipset now that didn’t support AI. All of their SOCs for the past 10 years have had neural processors. This A17 Pro has 8GB of RAM. All of their recent SOCs have the 8GB of RAM needed to run AI. Why not?
Sometimes, we do such things because it’s hard. We enjoy the challenge. Those that succeed are glad to make it, too.
I think that’s a fine approach, but they are claiming Claude is a 100x coder which is patently absurd.
This is an interesting approach. These days I have completely switched to just[0] tool for similar use case.

[0]: https://github.com/casey/just
Rogue Legacy code is now source available
Also, if you're serious about the problem of "our nuclear power plants are producing more power than we need and we can't turn them off because then we'll have a power shortage", there are applications to dump "bonus" energy into. You'd run into the same problem with renewables too; the difference is that with nuclear, you can avoid the "not enough energy" problem.
For most people, preference likely plays a bigger role, but for me, it’s all about the size of my hands and fingers. I find smaller devices uncomfortable for anything beyond basic phone use. As a computing device where touch is the primary interaction, I prefer something larger, which is why I stuck with Android when Apple wasn’t making bigger phones. It’s also about being able to have it further from my face.

At the time, many Apple users claimed no one wanted larger phones and that Apple’s size was perfect. I disagreed and voted with my wallet. For me, there are no downsides to a larger device—I can still use it one-handed, it fits in my pockets, and going smaller wouldn’t make it any more portable or usable.

For others, it’s the opposite. A smaller phone may be easier to handle or fit better in pockets or everyday carry. So I agree there should be different sizes to meet different needs, including smaller options if the market supports them. Among my circle, smaller phones tend to be the preference for those who primarily use their device for calls and texts. Anything beyond that, like browsing, moves to a tablet. These people are generally in their mid-30s to mid-40s.

Interestingly, the ‘non-techy’ people I know with larger phones say it’s because they use a popsocket or view their phone more as a computer than a phone. They’re willing to trade off size for a bigger screen. Many of them don’t own another personal computing device, aside from maybe a tablet. They’re typically in their 20s to 30s.

I feel like I’m part of a shrinking group that still uses both a laptop and a desktop as my primary computing environments.
Your FreeBSD on AWS work is appreciated, @cperciva.
I've seen and understood that in hardware. I'm less convinced it's reasonable in this context. If there wasn't an _independent_ implementation it might barely make sense, but given that sqlite exists separately and can be installed separately, this is more of a "package management" or "system library access" problem than it is one of actual standardization by an independent body.

Which if you standardized this generic interface you could have multiple independent database engines available not just ones that are SQL based, although, SQL in particular was readily available through SQLite, and would clearly be exceptionally popular.

Huge miss when organizations stick the the routine rather then take an opportunity to explore and examine new ways forward. Meanwhile everyone is being held hostage by V2 to V3 manifest changes by _one_ vendor.
> other types of value exist

Sure. But they intermediate to profit. I'm not suggesting leadership should be justifying everything in those terms. But if an entire product line doesn't have a solid long-term net revenue generating or cost saving consequence, it's a flag for governance.

> potential employees don't think kindly of you, it is harder to recruit

And you get higher churn. Cost imperative. Not the sole reason--you have to work with the people, after all. But that's an agent benefit. Companies treat high-value employees well because it makes sense to, and they'd probably cease to exist if they stopped doing it.
Yeah don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "don't care about anything and do a shitty job" but sometimes the extra effort just isn't worth it. I'm a perfectionist at heart but I have to weigh the cost of meeting my manager's goals or getting behind because I want it to be perfect. Then 6 months later my perfect thing gets hacked apart by a new request/change. Knowing when and where to go deeper and when to polish things is a learned skill and has more to do with politics and the internal workings of your company more than some ideal. Everything is in constant flux and having insight into smart deep dives isn't some black and white general issue. It's completely context dependant.
For the more budget concious - you can get ESP32 modules with USB C, Wifi/BT and a few IO pins from AliExpress for $4. These things are amazingly cheap.
I've been using data-only SIMs (and now eSIMS) since 2015. Bria voip client with voip.ms providing DIDs. Works wonderfully well and I can highly recommend going voip-only if you can.

The thing holding me back from going iPad Mini instead of iPhone was Apple Watch needs the iPhone (for some reason you can't use an iPad or Mac). Not an issue anymore. But now I rely on the amazing 16 Pro camera (with Halide shooting RAW) to mostly replace my mirrorless RX1, so yet another reason to stay iPhone.
Really like the simplicity of the project (this is a compliment, the root is not overwhelming with files). Nice that this tool uses only system libraries. Way easier to distribute a single file with leverages already installed languages.

Thanks for sharing!
I spent some time blocking a ton of them a couple weeks ago and it seems to have dropped off. There should be an app to automate that. There probably is.
[dupe]

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512341
Well start it at 0.00001 then. There's no need for a log axis, as all the values are within 2 orders of magnitude of each other - between 1 and 100. They will fit better, and will no longer be distorted, on a linear Y axis starting from zero.
Good to see some competition, the FlipperZero is very pricey for what it is. Then again, I guess you're paying for the software.
End of an era. They've been around since the old flash days. Damn, I feel old :(
My spouse accidentally set up a passkey with amazon. She really had no idea what she did or agreed to when I asked her about it. I think there are some dark patterns here.
Spending $100 million one time on a GPT4-level model that is open-source would help with a lot of that research. Especially after all the 3rd party groups fine-tuned it or layered their tools on it.

I think the Copilot-equivalent tools alone would make it quickly pay itself off in productivity gains. Research summaries, PDF extraction, and OCR would add more to that.
Show HN: 1-Click YouTube Summaries (Made for Students)
We made an extension to help students understand content faster. Any summary for any content (youtube, news, pdf, etc) literally just 1-click away
This is unfortunate, and perhaps more pernicious than obvious deep fakes, is a video filter that lies to the recipients.

Several years ago during the pandemic, I enlisted a job coach to get me hired. One of her paramount concerns was my eye-contact with the camera. She said it's so important. Am I paying attention? Am I an honorable man who maintains eye contact when I'm in a conversation? If I look away, am I collecting my thoughts, or prevaricating?

Many supervisors, managers, and teachers will judge their employees by whether they can pay attention during meetings, or if they're distracted, in their phone's screen, looking at keyboard, glancing off at children or spouse. Even more important, if you're meeting your wife and she can't even maintain your attention, what kind of husband are you?

If you employ a gadget to lie about this, then I hope they fire you and find someone who'll be honest. I hope your wife sends you to sleep on the sofa.
> the people for whom life expectancy and healthcare quality have the highest correlation.

What do you mean by this? Fatalities among the young will have a much larger impact on lowering nationwide life expectancy than fatalities among the elderly.
As someone from the Middle East, I honestly wonder, when Americans say things like that, have they ever read a book, attended a lecture, or even done online research about the history of American intervention in the Middle East? It’s baffling to me that someone would believe that, given America’s track record. I’m not asking sarcastically, I’m genuinely wondering.
Iain M Banks: (spoilers) the narrator is secretly an AI
Most services I’ve seen do not make passkeys an all or nothing proposition so they’d likely still be able to use a password reset + SMS challenge, but I think the concern is real about switching between platforms. They’ve promised portability but implementations are still AWOL.
Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836677
I’ll have to look into regional historical societies. The county wide historical group has not been keen on allowing access to properties without a justified end goal other then “3D model”.

Which to be fair is a step I’ve still yet to figure out other then having models hosted on sketchfab.

I’m starting to visit in person farmer markets that exist on land with over 80+ year old histories and structures.

The personal educational avenue is another great option I haven’t considered. I’ll keep this in mind.

Here is a 3D model of a carriage house built in the late 1800s that I processed from drone photography. https://skfb.ly/oW8v7

This was from a public park so no permission was needed.
1-3 people to do customer support do not cost $500k.

you don't have to retain qualified engineers b/c you hire a contracting company that manages employee growth within their own organization.
This title reminds me of the old rude boy song "Judge 400 Years", in which a judge hands out multi-century prison terms. It's a great track: https://youtu.be/bX8USu78E7E
By borrowing against their holdings. The framing is deceptive. You can do this too: there is no requirement to have billions in collateral. If you own stocks, your brokerage will lend you money at a very low rate, secured by the equity - typically up to about half of your stocks' worth.

The gotcha is market risk. If there's another crash akin to the housing crisis - and there will be - the bank will liquidate your holdings and possibly leave you on the hook for more. The difference is that Elon may be diversified enough to survive, while less savvy margin-surfers might not.
Let's widen the scope to adtech.
> but communities on open ones like matrix are just as much part of the web as any forum. [...] Would you’ve considered IRC chat rooms on freenode part of the web?

For IRC, absolutely not. IRC (1988) even predates the web (1989). Freenode offered a web-based gateway that ran on their servers, that doesn't make IRC a web protocol.

As for the rest it's slightly fuzzier since in practice they rely on HTTP, but you can't just use a normal web browser to interface with them. You have to run a specialized client that understands the protocol to interact with them. The practicality of the firstparty clients for these platforms/protocols (or in Discord's case the only one you're officially allowed to use) being shipped in a web browser doesn't make the systems "part of the web". The server doesn't give you HTML that you can see in any browser, you make API requests for JSON in a non-W3C-standardized format and interpret it with specialized software. You can't send someone a URL to a message and have them be able to open it in any web browser without additional software.
So true. It's how we got rms and the GNU project.

> In 1980, Stallman and some other hackers at the AI Lab were refused access to the source code for the software of a newly installed laser printer, the Xerox 9700. ..This experience convinced Stallman of people's need to be able to freely modify the software they use.

And Linux.

> Frustrated by the licensing of Minix, which at the time limited it to educational use only, he began to work on his operating system kernel, which eventually became the Linux kernel.
Hey how's the mmap-based shared memory WAL approach working out? It's been about half a year since you finished the implementation and I only see one issue about it on the tracker, a good sign?
Bet on whether we'll fix our betting site
One just wonders if the cooperative-multitasking BASIC implemented in this machine really was necessary for an MVP. Other than if that just happened to be the sort of programming that the developer at the time was familiar with.

Also, this really is the 'engineering' discipline with the lowest level of craftsmanship and regard for rigor, isn't it? Because the failures are usually intangible, not directly life-threatening.
Severely overestimating it.

Death knell is not solving a problem in the first place. Almost everything is negotiable if you solve a valuable problem that people are willing to pay you to solve.
A pro of foldables is that you mostly use the outer screen, but the battery is big enough to handle the inner screen. So you get excellent battery life for daily use. If you only use the inner screen for reading in dark mode the battery life is also excellent.

Also at least for the Galaxy Fold, when folded the phone is narrow enough to use one-handed and hold securely.
Yea - that’s gonna be an issue. It was a hotly debated name but we figured the SEO will adapt with GenAI and the way we know SEO today might not be problematic. Let’s see - tricky for sure
Where does Foone keep finding this stuff?

Earlier, Foone finds a NUC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294585
I don't believe being able to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival. I don't believe being willing to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival.

The government can work to provide the medication that its citizens require to stay alive. Under such a system, those who are able and willing to work can, via taxes or other contributions, provide medications that some citizens require to stay alive. Many such systems seem to cost less overall than the system currently existing in the United States, so the average man who will work will have to work fewer hours to pay for an average dose of average quality anything required to stay alive.

Alternatively or in tandem, the pharmaceutical companies can sell such medications at cost, with rebates and coupons for no/low-income patients, while still making plenty of profit on reasonably priced pharmaceuticals that patients do not technically require to survive.

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(19)...

https://www.house.mn.gov/Caucus/View/DFL/31433
Disclaimer; my personal approach to building a new system defaults to "just use Postgres".

That said, this post is good to read if you want to understand why some people feel that Postgres culture is /deeply/ flawed.
Maybe it’s time for an ACME extension or some other mechanism to make this sort of certificate renewal less absurdly complex and baroque.

Right now, for a device to get a certificate via ACME, it needs to do one of:

(a) Be reachable, from the public Internet, in accordance with its A and/or AAAA records. This is a nonstarter for, say, a printer or switch.

(b) Be able to change a DNS record. This is doable if the device has outgoing Internet access and appropriate keys, but safely issuing those keys is not cleanly and uniformly possible across authoritative DNS servers. And there is nothing resembling a standard protocol to actually ask for the DNS-01 magic record to be installed. Do you really want every appliance to implement every plugin in this list:

https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/using.html#dns-...

(c) Get some other agent to do (a) or (b) and issue the certificate to the device. Again, there is no standard here.

This could be SO much better if there was, for example:

(d) A complete, standard three-way protocol between the device that needs a certificate, the DNS provider, and the CA that would result, cleanly, in a certificate, and

(e) A fully standard way to do this with the help of a proxy that an communicate with the device, the DNS provider, and the CA, but without the device having any Internet access at all.

Then an administrator could set up a certificate proxy, enroll all their devices with the proxy, and get them certificates, with automatic renewal.