skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stories about aliens aren't meant to describe aliens as theoretically correct as possible. Obviously.

Aliens are hardly ever more than a tool to get a perspective. To look at humans, societies, structures etc. They are also stories _about us_.
Moderation and admin bias is is real thing. In the US Wikipedia id say it leans left but is generally factual.

The Portuguese Wikipedia has had huge issues with bias in favor of right wing politicians, and I’ve had to fight users, mods etc to add corruption scandals to the Wikipedia pages of Portuguese politicians. Eventually I couldn’t keep them up and they were almost all deleted.
By contrast, the term "function", as used in mathematical analysis, explicitly excludes functionals. The two definitions of the word "function" are both common, and directly contradict each other.

This is incorrect. In mathematics there is a single definition of function. There is no conflict or contradiction. In all cases a function is a subset of the cross product of two spaces that satisfies a certain condition.

What changes from subject to subject is what the underlying spaces of interest are.
What policies have been put in place that would cause the problems they are experiencing? If there is a politics issues, the policies can be talked about.
Yea but we also write the same software over and over and over and over again. Perhaps slower, more methodical development might enable more software to be written fewer times. (Does not apply to commercially licensed software or services obviously, which is straight waste.)
> Insurance is meant to insure you against massive economic damage caused by unlikely events, like breaking your spine. It is not meant to be used for routine care appointments. It's meant to be risk-pooling, not cost-sharing. The very fact that you have to pull out your insurance card at a yearly doctor checkup should tell us that something is very wrong.

The problem with this model is that often very catastrophic things can be caught during routine care, so it actually makes a lot of sense for insurance to pay for a yearly physical. Otherwise a lot of people are going to wait until their spine is blown out and their knees need replacement to seek any kind of care at all, at which point their care is 100x more expensive than if they did a yearly.

Any other kind of care like going to the doctor because you're sick is entirely the point of insurance. It covers your medical care for unanticipated problems.
Using neural networks IMHO falls outside of the definition of an algorithm, because then it becomes something that not even its authors are able to inspect (understand/explain). (Which in some contexts is a legal requirement.)
Have you ever met the Chrome developers? Why would you trust them more than gorhill?
Hi, it looks pretty interesting!
There's a broken link in the homepage though, Mill vs sbt links to the gradle page

Good luck for your project!
Quoting you:

> Large American SUVs are flying off the shelves in Europe.

If they were truly “flying off the shelves,” I’d expect the frequency to be so obvious that it would be unmistakable. So I’m asking you to support your claim with data or at least more detailed anecdotes. Which city? Which models?
Waiting for Doug Ford to short-circuit this even more and allow MAiD drugs to be dispensed by his friends at Shoppers Drug Mart. He already wants them to start playing doctor so much more...
Great indie series indeed. I'd just contend that the source material is already dark in context? If only to create contrast to heavenly transcendence?

Bloodborne is another one that plays with surreal gothic verticality in 3D.
Much of the regulation you’re saying is to blame was written in blood.

Want to know what food and housing was like before regulation? Read the jungle.

Do you think we have deteriorated since then?

Maybe the prosperity you think has deteriorated was not due to lack of regulation, but due to black swan events like… i dunno conquering and industrializing the entire North American continent, all peer nations blowing each other to bits in two world wars, etc?
I was wondering what to expect until met with a diagram depicting holding a disc normally…
Not this again. No other medium has this problem. There is TV, there are movies, but there are TV movies. The only people who care about the distinction are the Awards Boards. Many great novels were originally released in a serialized format. The term graphic novel is as meaningless as the term comic book. I tend to go for the Eisner/McCloud definition of sequential art, but if you push me, then it's all comics, whether it wants to be or not.
10 years ago I could see my doctor when I was sick. Like, the same day. Now if it can't be done at the Target or CVS, it's the emergency room. I didn't even get an annual checkup last year because my doctor had to cancel, and the earliest I can be seen again is this summer. I'm now at the age where this is probably starting to matter.

And I pay like... $30,000 a year minimum for this?
I had this issue due the consolidation of medical networks.

Luckily I have a BlueCross PPO. So I’ll get fast access to a specialist in NYC in Boston then transfer the records back to the local dude if needed. My wife had an issue with a complication, and I found a doctor who was a contributor to a major study on it and we got treated by him. Epic makes managing this trivial.

It’s the best of both worlds, but only if you have the privilege of legacy insurance and PTO.
I perform the install.
I am working on a visual search & exploration engine: https://digger.lol

The goal is to create beautiful and useful maps of interesting data, empowering the user to explore more intuitively guided by semantic similarity. No user data needs to be tracked for this to work, the data speaks for itself.

This roughly works by translating semantic (visual or textual) similarity into spatial proximity. Diggers major features are: semantic mapping, text search and image search. The text and image search works bidirectionally, allowing to search for images (e.g. product images) using text and for text (e.g. books) using images.
Deng was weary but willing to play ball. The generations after wanted to get rich as quick as possible, and lost some of that weariness. Xi now has to find ways dial that back without provoking a backlash or tanking the economy.

A lot of capital also fled, aggressively, to N America. There is a reason why housing in Vancouver is so insane...
> what countries do you think make the best tradeoffs?

In the western hemisphere? Cuba.
If you are in the US, you probably already know about Mike Patey but I'll share this here anyway. He has a track record of building something custom pretty much every year. I believe he is trying to build a community around a similar idea, but also catering for more mainstream GA too.

He's actually building out an aviation park to promote the community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IenxeMl2nkw
That post links to another, “Surely you can be serious,” that does a good job defining being serious, pitfalls to avoid, and steps you can take: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/surely-you-can-be-ser...
Language difficulty is not absolute. Most Japanese natives have a much easier time learning Korean than they do English.

What makes a 2nd Language easier or not to speak is how closely related it is to your native language.

English is not any easier to speak than Chinese if your native language is far removed from both.

It is definitely harder to write though. Writing systems can be absolute in difficulty.
I'm working on a unique discovery app / recommender for books, tv, movies, video games, songs, youtube channels, newsletters and podcasts - and more categories soon!

Since my last update here, I've added more detailed personalized descriptions of recommendations (hit Describe to request), including a rating out of 10 for how well the item meets your preferences.

I've also added the ability to replace individual recommendations (this was the most requested new feature!). If you update your preferences, your replacements will use your updated preferences - pretty nice for fine tuning your results!

Try it: https://www.yogurrt.com/
Glasstron
The Gemini one has a prop that should have 4 blades but only has 3.

All my attempts with GPT-4o have failed. Always ends up with areas where the black lines become fuzzy.
No, because Fil-C++ isn’t a new language. No new annotations. Just recompile your code and it’s safe.
> I would want to do it with my phone because then I only have to have one thing to carry around with me.

I would prefer this to be a keyring over a phone for aforementioned reasons. Secondly, the app is buggy and often just fails to work. Third, it takes a good deal of time to take out the phone and fumble around with the software.

All in all, it's a pretty miserable experience.
Auto correct did some strange things. “Is part” not “is not part”
As a personal project during my free time I'm currently working on adding more accessibility features, specifically screen reader compatibility, to my Terminal User Interface XMPP/Jabber client, Communiqué. Unfortunately, as far as I can see there's no actual way to make a TUI compatible with screen readers (reach out on the issue tracker, fedi, or xmpp, see link below if you know otherwise or have experience here, please, I'd love to pick your brain!), so my current plan is to re-write the UI with whatever TUI toolkit makes it easiest to also have a CLI/prompt mode that we can specifically design to be reader compatible.

https://codeberg.org/mellium/communique-tui/
Java 11+ :)
and, like, bananas are cheap as hell. pretty common, even in Canada.

imagine if they were as rare as dragonfruit or durian
I had a prescription for 1 20mg pill a day. Pharmacy didn't have 20mg but they had 10mg. They couldn't give me 2 10s instead of 1 20 because regulations didn't allow that. Yeah, we need less regulations.
> However, your broader point seems to imply that you can't "bootstrap" intelligence, which I don't find convincing.

How about this weaker statement: "It is not obviously true that humans (or a human-level AI) can bootstrap to a superhuman AI in a small number of years."
I'm intrigued by this line from the article:

> Before the pandemic, she says, she might have done two disability tax credit forms; last year, she did twenty

Did Covid cause massive disability? Did legislation change to make claiming a disability easier or more lucrative? Are people claiming disability in response to inability to get jobs that meet their expectations?

It's not the point of the article, but a 10x increase in requests for "disability tax credit forms" seems like a very significant sign of something deeply concerning.

I wonder how many people seeking disability are more accurately described as disenfranchised. If people are looking at bleak prospects of low-paid jobs with limited possibilities for advancement, alongside soaring housing and other costs, how many people with previously manageable impairments are throwing in the towel and using a disability designation to escape the rat race.
This right here. The system needs funding to work. The problem is conservative politicians repeatedly trying to make the system worse so they can privatize it.
The Tomb Raiders: How Freeports Enabled International Art Theft
Yeah, I was wondering too. I mean those are meant to look scary.
It really is not a reasonable tradeoff because it effectively freezes the tools the blockers have in the ongoing arms race while the advertisers are able to adopt new tricks. Which is also why advertising companies (which includes all major browser makers) would like to pass it off a reasonable tradeoff.
My take wasn't that they are claiming SOTA, just that they are claiming same/better accuracy than whisper "tiny" and "base" models at higher performance versus original whisper.

The WER scores on the larger whisper models are lower (better) than "tiny"/"base", so none of these small models are close to SOTA either way.
I know insurance can be pricey, but $2500/month? Who's your provider? Do you have a family of 6 or something?
This article doesn’t really implicate socialism, it’s more about staffing rural towns with doctors (the first anecdote is about Elnora, which is a town of 288 people), and about doctors en masse not wanting to be family general practitioners for their careers. The US and other countries all have a hard time keeping doctors in rural places.

You are implicating private for-profit insurance, however. And maybe forgetting about all the top-ranked government socialized medical systems in The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Japan, and others - all ranked higher than the US in quality and efficiency of care. There’s contrary evidence refuting the claim that when government sets prices quality will decline.
Most would get migrated into the void where they belong. A small handful that have real use cases would have their interactive services ported to native app. Solutions already exist for commerce and donations features, remote data entry and retrieval would need a rethink I'm guessing. As with any massive paradigm shift there'd be a cull. I strongly doubt much of value would be lost.
On the other hand it's not as soul crushing as the other two mentioned :)
People say this a lot but it feels unlikely to me. I think the biggest causes of the problem love the idea that insurance is to blame.

Hospital admin, doctors orgs, pharmacy benefit managers are all much more interested in things being overly complex, under-staffed, etc. Insurance companies just want to sell insurance with the % profit that is typical of insurance (eg Cigna's profit margin is the same as Allstate).

Besides, if insurance was to blame, it would work better in Canada and other countries that rely on private insurance less. But Canadians don't seem very pleased with their longer waits.
This is already happening, with more and more primary care responsibilities being pushed to physician assistants and nurse practitioners. At your modern urgent care or "doc in a box" primary care clinic, you may never see the doctor, who mostly exists to lend legitimacy to the practice. Not to say that I don't appreciate the hard work that PAs and NPs do, and I think they are certainly qualified to handle most medical issues in their fields, just that the medical industry is trending towards a less personal experience run by lower paid workers and I can't imagine that leading to better health outcomes for the average person.
This article is way off base, warped by architectural déformation professionnelle. The association of Gothic architecture with eeriness dates back at least to Gothic fiction in the 18th and 19th centuries. 18th and 19th century readers devoured these popular prose depiction of Gothic horror. However, architects are obsessed with visual images, so the article quickly glosses over Gothic fiction and moves on to film depictions in the 20th century, even including a quote that implies the connection started with film, which is wrong by over a century.

The article contains photos, movie posters, and embedded videos, but not a single quote from a single Gothic novel, even though readers first experienced Gothic horror through imagination stoked by words on the page.
True sort-of, but then sprockets are ruined for good and new chain does not fit. That is why had three chains and I rotated them weekly.

And then if you throw the oldest chain away after 10000 km, the sprockets will last 30 years. This is how some had done the world on one cassette.
Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade
First off, the author doesn't appear to be a crank.

Here's the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Oppenheim

Second, we should note that even Einstein himself cautioned against believing spacetime was actually curved. His writings inform us he didn't believe it. I don't want to appeal to authority, that's just to say smart people, including the main developer of general relativity, didn't believe it. But he didn't believe in the non-local nature of quantum theory either, which we have now, since Einstein's death, proven to be true.

Third, the claim that only gravity can be described using geometry is false, which the author himself notes later in this article. The stress-energy-momentum tensor simply makes gravity universal, unlike the other forces. I don't see any reason why that universality confers something special to gravity with regards to interpreting it as geometry. Just because we can model gravity as geometry, doesn't make gravity a result of geometry, and the author notes that modeling gravity that way makes it so we can't unify the forces.

Finally, as the old saying goes, if you think gravity isn't a force, drop a brick on your toe! :)

I'll also point out that singularities are generally considered to be a sign of issues with a model. GR has singularities. Maybe that should tell us something.
It's so frustrating. We signed up for a pediatric practice in Atlanta that has 8 doctors.

We saw a great doctor on our first visit, then our next visit we didn't even get to see a doctor, just a nurse practitioner... Kinda annoying I don't want parenting advice from a nurse... So on our way out when scheduling we asked if we could see the same Dr next time.

"Oh sorry she only works Tuesdays"

"Okay weird but this is 2 months out though so that should be fine"

"Actually Tuesday would put you over a week away from when the appointment was requested I can schedule you with ..."

3 visits later and we still haven't seen a doctor once. Not even a 30 second pop in the room to say hi.

We've gotten like 20 immunizations from nurses and can't ask doctors about any of it..

Like cool cool all for these peopl advancing their careers without med school but like
... Usually you want your doctor's to have gone through medical school
yeah… both systems suck ass.

1. the “socialist” system AKA healthcare for everyone has insane waiting times because everyone needs healthcare & there aren’t enough doctors.

2. the “capitalist” system seems better for the people that can afford it because the people that can’t afford it don’t go so they have no waiting time because a part of the people that need healthcare aren’t getting it due to the price.

It’s silly to say / imply that system 2 is the better way of doing it
Things that scale can have a big multiplier, so to say. The problem is, more often than anticipated, that multiplier, rather than being large, ends up being considerably less than one.

Whereas work that doesn't scale always has a multiplier of 1, so its always useful.
The first is a title any time before the explosion of clickbait, when everyone started prepending “how” or “why” for some reason.
I have an Xperia Ace 2 which is ~the same size as the mini. I have not personally noticed any sites rendering incorrectly due to the size that I can recall.
The original iPhone design was even smaller than today’s iPhone Mini, built for a similar use case—compact functionality. Isn’t it a bit ironic that the market has now shifted towards feature-heavy, oversized phones?

While I understand that larger phones do offer certain advantages, one could argue that the push towards “bigger is better” is just a marketing-driven trend, rather than a necessity. This focus on size and feature count could apply to any brand, not just Apple.

Regarding the battery size. Never felt it as well. Usage completely natural and never experience an issue with it. No need more.
The Social healthcare still have a budget and the govt structure wants resources.

So are we "investing" resources in young and people who will still work and pay taxes?

Or do we invest in people who are already retiring or "incurable".

The older you get the less resources you will be available for you on the social healthcare.

Not saying the US system is sane or one option is better than other.

But the best system is the one that gives you option (and govt hates giving option to you).

1. Want social care? Ok. xx% will be deducted from your paycheck.

2. Want private care? No deductions, you are on your own. And If you don't have money and is charged we will generate a federal debp + 10% for processing fees.

But no... That can't happen. because it would expose the govt or private sector failures.
I hope that you are not among those who intentionally confuse criticism of the government of Israel with true antisemitism.

Moreover, "antisemitism" is used in most cases incorrectly, because both in standard scientific terminology the Israelis and the Arabs are equally Semitic, and in the Book of Genesis they have a common ancestor who descended from Shem, so there they are also equally Semitic (though the Book of Genesis does not partition the populations by their true genetic descendance, but by their political dependence around the time when the text was written).
Yes but it’s also the size of a medium-sized city.

It’s easy to imagine a small, rich region in the US / Canada / UK running its own system and doing well at it.

The scale of caring for an entire country is a challenge onto itself.
I think there are things that could do with less regulation in Canada that would be easy wins.

Like for people with recurring prescription meds, maybe don't require them to make an appointment every month to get their meds? Even if we consider extreme examples like opiates, it's not like cutting off drug abusers or people selling their meds does anything to curb the opiate crisis. Opiates are already available everywhere and the supply is much more dubious and dangerous.
From TCL? Well, Tk always saves up the day.

It might not look pretty, but it's functional.

On Tk running under TCL, here there's a Gopher/Gemini and more client with just TCL, Tk and tcl-tls as dependencies.

https://codeberg.org/luxferre/BFG
Outside of the software world I'm also working on opening a Bike Shop and frame building studio. I'm hoping that one day I can actually make a small living on frame building since I don't do software for my day job anymore, but I'm not quite ready to build for other people yet (so far I've only built frames for myself and I'd like to thoroughly strength test them before I risk putting someone else on one of my creations!)

If you're in the Atlanta, GA area and need bicycle work done, hit me up! No job is too big or too small. I particularly enjoy building wheels if you want a sweet custom wheel set, but I do it all (including Mountain Bike fork and suspension work that many shops won't do).

https://www.atlbikeshed.com/
I think it referred to the classic efficiency vs latency tradeoff. Like when emergency vehicles are always on standby, which is inefficient, but allows them to roll out without delay. Conversely privatised rail lines squeeze out every ounce of capacity from the infrastructure resulting in delays when something, anything goes even slightly wrong.

I use this extensively when planning activities with my children. It's a fun challenge because they're both too young to tell the time, much less read, which are constraints one does not normally encounter in their work life.
> pay a fair price based on usage

I think you're the only one who wants that, though. They've tried that again and again and nobody uses it.

Though I can't quite put my finger on why, psychologically, I'm so less willing to fork over $3.99 to Amazon to watch a movie when I was perfectly happy to fork over that same $3.99 to Blockbuster for a physical block of plastic that I had to bring back in the same state they gave it to me.
I’ve used this to experiment with TMC messages and trying to unscramble TMCPro. Fun times!