skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think competition is good in one sense.

But of you think logically from first principles, it makes no sense to have both an a320 and 737.

All this competition and “corporate greed” where we literally have two airplanes that are functionally identical rebuilt from the ground up is an huge, massive waste of human capital and enabled by the government through monopoly of copyright and patents.

While I think creators should get paid, I wonder if there is a better way to manage copyright that what we do.

I think the government granting this extreme of a monopoly on copyright is one of the weirdest things we tolerate.

There has to be a way where we can statutorily authorize copying at x% fee or something.

That way we don’t build two copies of the same thing!
In general, there seems to be a trend towards lifestyle jobs, i.e. jobs that fit a certain lifestyle rather than being passions.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was

... not part of the Partition, and occurred decades before in fact.

The Bengal famine

... had nothing to do with the Partition either, last we checked.

But because you want to look back at the imperial project with pride .... This might pass in the UK, but as Indians we can’t indulge you in your delusions

And now you're pretending to "know" what country I'm from, and to "know" also that I therefore hold a certain stereotypical set of views that you believe people from that country typically have.

I wish I could engage you further, but there's simply no logic at all in your response.
I went to the bad art museum in iceland and it was quite something to see in person. As you turn each corner, new dimensions of weird and shock emerge. Some was just kind of silly, and some was accidentally horrifying in an uncanny valley sort of way. Some were mental illness on display. I left with some very mixed feelings.. the ha-ha with the oh-no, and the oh-my! Definitely glad to have seen it. Online photos do not do the awfulness justice.
Eliodomestico – Ceramic Solar Still
It's 100% true where I'm from in Europe. The government opens up only a fixed number of residencies positions every year regardless of how many more students graduate (cartel behavior from the national Doctors' association).

My cousin graduated med-school last year and is still unemployed because no hospital had a place for her. Private practices don't fix that issue since they're not designed to be part of the medical teaching cycle. So a lot of young doctors have to emigrate to other EU countries where they can find spots to practice.
Said dot-com billionaire being a physicist who only went into dot-com to earn money to start a space company.
Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine: a high performance caching library
This is one of these cases where inheriting hacked-together piece of crap (English spelling) makes a lot of additional work higher up.

Another example is poetry. A regex can find rhymes in Polish. Same postfix == it rhymes.

In English it's a feat of engineering.
It is artificial standards for review. You can break it, but do it if u can.
> That wasn't something I was even debating here. People derailed this whole discussion.

If you propose something with blatantly obvious flaws here, you'll usually get called out.

You suggested that people use an interface without bounds checking and jump through a hoop to enable bounds checking with it. Other people disagreed that this is a solution. You kept digging deeper after that while ignoring their responses, but that's on you.
Yes, for the most part. While it's academically possible to attempt to control this through legal means, it is, in practice, unlikely to have much impact because LLM creators are effectively similar in operation to web crawlers for search engines. It's probably ineffective and wasteful use of webops/webadmin time and energy to obsess over attempting to control access or bikeshed about it because deploying well-intentioned "defenses" will likely end up creating false positives blocking ordinary users and costing time and effort to support these headaches that don't contribute any value. Perhaps it might be possible to notice the more honest LLM creators with user agent headers, but it's also entirely possible a nontrivial fraction of them spoof headers, run as batch jobs from AWS, and cache and store content for offline so they don't/wouldn't necessarily check for updates as often as search engines would to create a training corpus.
National Museum of Mathematics to move to new New York City location in 2026
i think there was some time ago a comparison with Commodore 64.
There is no cosmic judge, karma works like Newtonian physics, events propagate endlessly through time and will catch up with you (don't know about effect of black holes on karma)
Thanks for mentioning "Jupyter::Chatbook"!

There is also "RakuMode" for Mathematica:
https://resources.wolframcloud.com/PacletRepository/resource...
Trying to think about it, I think it was the dynamics of the "fast zombies". I think if you plunked me in a crude pixelated FPS with abstract enemies, but with the same sudden accelerating approach dynamics I probably would have a similar stress reaction. I've always preferred FPS gameplay that's more focused on problem-solving without time limits, or where there's more of a strategic dynamic, like Portal (reading about HL2 has actually if anything made me want to play Portal 2 again, although HL2 as well).

I definitely think the atmosphere of Ravenholm contributed to my feelings about it, but I suspect if it was just the slow zombies or was all puzzles or something I would actually really enjoy it. There was something about the atmosphere + claustrophobic spaces + fast zombies in places I didn't like. Or rather, I did like it but not as much as the rest of it.
https://archive.ph/jFwNJ
This is just such a terrible idea. You really don't need to defend it.

You'll get rate limited in two seconds, for no upside.
I still have my Windows 95 installation floppies. It was a phenomenal operating system at the time, but I don't miss it one bit.
The original link rotted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221077
> The issue is that police operate in extremely high pressure novel situations all the time.

In the US, police officer does not even rise to top 10 most dangerous jobs. Groundskeeper is a more dangerous job than being a cop.

The lack of training and toxic culture of policing is far more dangerous to cops than criminals are. The average US citizen simply does not, and should not, trust the average cop.
Can someone explain to me how

> Bcrypt uses the string "OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt" as an initialization string

Given as an example, is actually an example of this?
and https://search.marginalia.nu/
thanks! looks nice
If the government didn't fund any slots then graduate medical education programs would charge the residents themselves instead of paying them a salary. Then physicians would finish their education $1M in debt instead of $500K (or whatever) today. World that be an improvement?

There are a small number of residency slots funded by non-profit foundations but those are a drop in the bucket. None of the other major players in the national healthcare system have an incentive to pay for this stuff.
Woah, that's wild.

It's so out of nowhere that this makes me think something more is going on here.

This doesn't seem like any "hallucination" I've ever seen.
Perhaps there's still value in the documents being transformed by this tool and someone reviewing them manually, but obviously the real value would be in reducing manual review. I don't think there's a world–for now–in which this manual review can be completely eliminated.

However, if you process, say, 1 million documents, you could sample and review a small percentage of them manually (a power calculation would help here). Assuming your random sample models the "distribution" (which may be tough to define/summarize) of the 1 million documents, you could then extrapolate your accuracy onto the larger set of documents without having to review each and every one.
My first thought was wanting to get rid those files that emacs leaves behind.
You can even press the text to speech button and have it read it to you.
https://www.sundhed.dk/borger/guides/find-behandler/ tells you waiting times at specialist doctors
Reservoir: Lean Package Registry
Kubernetes service accounts, and creating kubeconfig for one
Awesome implementation!

> 3. Export to .pdf for distribution

I was certain you were using something like https://pagedjs.org or https://printcss.net for the PDF export, but its just the SydJS or am I missing something?
> Hospitals don't need 600 dermatologists on staff.

But imagine how available and inexpensive dermatologists would be.

(Okay, let's not say 600, but let's say 2x or 4x the current #)
That smells illegal.
What does pony gain by allowing it? Just the ability to continue in the face of an error?
We have similar laws in Australia. There's no point buying AppleCare or any warranty in Australia but they try to sell it anyway. There's no fixed term but it's at least 2-3 years, and often more.
Increasing the time and cost of the training is how the supply is limited.
A wrong Google search can compromise your data and bring law enforcement
Here's my reading: this ran in /home/ for some reason, where all the homedirs had a name pattern like ~stuff.
This has got to be an open-and-shut lawsuit if the author wants to pursue it. T&C doesn't shield you from the ADA.
The MOBA was always fun to visit after seeing a movie at Somerville Theatre. Recently I found myself wishing I were back in Somerville, because they had an anniversary showing of Hackers there in September, with special guest Renoly Santiago ("Phantom Phreak").
On Medicare's time horizon, losing money funding those residencies for 10-20 years actually could be a great deal if it bends the cost curve.
No, it's not a matter of referral.

It's a matter of "current patients have filled the schedule indefinitely."
Computerphile video discussing the mathematics around how such a number could have been used in a practical way.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nybVFJVXbww

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

When people say, “Don’t roll your own crypto,” it’s because the field is littered with footguns and (to stretch an analogy) guns in cryptography launch explosives.
Yup, they moved back when Somerville Theater did the most recent renovations I think. I kind of miss going to the bathroom down there and seeing the strange art while wandering.
I count 12 different "nothing-up-my-sleeve" numbers in the examples section. If this is a list of noteworthy ones, it wouldn't be off to say there's certainly 16 believable choices, which is already 4 bits of entropy. Hardly nothing-up-my-sleeves!

Of course 4 bits is still a lot less than, say, 128 bits.
At least in Switzerland it's like this: if you call directly the dermatologist (or just any medical specialist), they offer you a slot in 6 months. If you go over your house doctor (whatever the term is in your country) you get it in 1-2 weeks. If you are already known patient to said dermatologist, maybe even earlier. Thus: how about you try your house doctor?
The Athlete in the Sports Section [0] is glorious:

> Crayon and pencil on canvas, 40" x 30"

> Rescued from trash in Boston, MA

> The discus thrower's pink mini toga, wing tip shoes, and white socks define athletic sartorial splendor. This is among the largest crayon on canvas pieces one can ever hope to see.

0: https://museumofbadart.org/sports/
Looks like something that doesn't need to have a passcode on it in the first place.
Two more:

https://radio.garden/

https://radiooooo.com/
Thanks for your replies. They help. Before I worked in the internet industry, my ex and I had a bakery. We were a small business and worked every day, but couldn't afford to hire others or do other things. We would love to have an AI employee to do a lot of the work.

There are already automated products, like categorizing supplier lists, automated calculations, and collecting and organizing negative customer reviews.

Some of these dreams have now been realized. I will keep trying to help my former self—to eliminate the AI Gap for small businesses!
On zsh `~` expands to home directory, while `ls ~*` does not do anything:

alex@world RevelCode % echo ~
/Users/Alex
alex@world RevelCode % ls ~*
alex@world RevelCode %

I am also curious how `~*` expanded to an equivalent of `/users/*`.
I understand -- good luck!
The Museum should ask if Ubisoft, Bethesda and EA would like to get involved (Digital "Art").
"There's a reason most of Europe's rail network is decades, sometimes centuries old, and there hasn't been much new construction for a loooong time."

I beg to differ. There is quite a lot of HSR construction in Europe going on right now.

Italy: Brescia-Verona, Verona-Vicenza, Vicenza-Padua, the Brenner Basis Tunnel to Austria, Turin-Lyon, Naples-Bari, Palermo-Catania-Messina

France: Bordeaux-Toulouse, Lyon-Turin to Italy

Spain: Murcia-Almería, the Basque Y, Burgos–Vitoria-Gasteiz, Madrid-Extremadura

Austria: Koralmbahn, Semmering Basis Tunnel

Germany-Denmark: Fehmarn Tunnel

UK: London-Birmingham

The Baltic States: Rail Baltica

All in active construction right now. Some with delays, as usual.
This sounds a lot like the concept of a solar powered distiller... As in, heating a container of water with the sun, evaporating the water and then cooling it down to convert it into fresh water...
It's a bad thing because Google's monopoly gives them enormous power to influence browser standards, while also having conflicts of interest re: their advertising business.

See for example their recent war against ad blocker extensions.
Gleam v1.6.0 Released
I hear the phrase "best practices" not from the best practitioners, but from Dunning-Kruger types.

Recently I was told that Hungarian notation was "best practice" and I must use it.
My wife is a physician and she knows one or two otherwise very intelligent, well-respected, skilled surgeons who just do Botox because it's more lucrative.
Now this is what I call taste.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/227459/why-is-t...

The initials spell out "OBSD", as a nod to the hash being first designed for OpenBSD, and they needed a 24 char / 192 bits value.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_kinematic_positionin...
Exactly. The large gas guzzling, glorified grocery getters are just an easy out for manufacturers to subvert the requirements made for smaller vehicles (which was completely short-sited, or it was planned by lobbyists). It was simply easier for these companies to continue doing what they were doing with what they had. Give a company and alternative that costs them nothing, then they will do nothing. We need a new fuel standard. A truck or SUV purchased after <some date> then you pay an extra $<some dollar amount> per gallon. Yeah, I know the implementation is a problem, but I am simply throwing out an idea. Perhaps they yearly registration is now an extra $2000/year. They already screw EV owners in many states. I pay an extra $220 a year for my car, and that is ridiculous. I have owned my car for 5 1/2 years, and I have 24k miles on it. This tax is completely unfair and has no basis in reality for "road tax".
Note: This is a bit of a "secret menu item" (not really but not well advertised).

It's available to people making less than $2k/yr from projects.

If you make more than $2k/yr, you need to pay standard prices, which start at $2.8k/yr.
let's rename Niger and Nigeria while we're at it. goddamn racists
EVs are really heavy.

The average VW Golf weighs about 1.3 tons while the average VW ID.3 weighs about 1.8 tons. That's 40% heavier.
>with the odd midsize sedan — variety is sorely lacking

Sedans are nothing.
Just barely, finally, after all those years, we have electric kombis - VW ID.7 Tourer and Audi A6 Avant e-tron.
Yup! And before that they were in the basement of the Dedham Community Theater.
As did the low res "Made with Microsoft GitHub Pages" banner at the bottom. What is this 90s aesthetic?
The original author of Lit recently left Google and is working on something very similar to this AFAIK.

https://github.com/elematic/heximal
That's pretty crazy considering Denmark is touted as a socialist utopia where the taxes are high but it's worth it because the government supposedly takes care of everything for you. I'd expect them to have figured out the doctors' shortage but this problem seems endemic in every country.
The American dream would have both.

Unfortunately, while BYD would be the most readily-available option for cheap cars, it would need: homologation, distributors, parts suppliers, repeal of the protectionist tariffs protecting Tesla, and the removal of Musk from an unfair position of power, influence, and regulatory capture, and whatever the heck DOGE will be.

The larger issue is that, in order to afford housing, a car, and a life, regular American workers need to be paid livable wages to keep up with the inflation "pay cut" and reverse decades of sliding standards of living through lower and suppressed real wages.
Ask HN: I can't work in tech anymore. Help?
TL;DR; - in tech for almost two decades. Past jobs I just keep losing motivation after 6-9 months. Mentally exhausted by the end of the day, so barely have time to work on my own stuff. No idea how to move further.

Longer version: I'm in tech for almost two decades now. My first job ended after long tenure by the end of which I was barely doing anything, so I quit. Next job I was fired along with most of the company due to layoffs. Third company again long tenure, loss of motivation somewhere in the middle. Kept grinding until eventually got mentally sick from the place, so I quit.

Next one, same story, but this time shorter. After about a year, got sick of the place again, so I quit. Took a break, found another job, and now reaching the same mark of becoming mentally sick after about 9 months.

I tried to build something of my own, but my mental energy is below zero by the end of the work day, so I barely have time to focus/write code for my own projects.

I realize now that changing jobs won't help. Its a temporary solution for the first 6-9 months, afterwards I will find myself in the same place. Can't take sabbatical as I have responsibilities to my family. Drastic career change is not an option as I'm past my thirties, and coding is the only thing I can do.

I tried all company sizes from super small startups, to mid sized startups, to big corporate. All kinds of work environments: full time from the office, to hybrid, to fully remote; demanding job with on-call schedules and overtime, all the way to permissive schedule with great work/life balance.

I have a good sleep, and eat good. I train every day. But I just can't see myself staying in tech for another two-three decades till retirement. Suggestions?
I hadn’t thought about creating kubeconfigs for service accounts like this before. When would this be a better option and what are the pros and cons?
The Knight Lore rendering algorithm
I drive a 2023 Kida Rio 5 which is small, simple and fuel efficient (combined 40 MPG). Kia is killing it though, because not enough Americans bought them. They (Americans) instead buy the larger Forte. I specifically told them I wanted the Rio 5, and after a few calls they found one (1!) and proceeded to mark it up $2k - still worth it.
No, that would be ~/* or just ~. The article says that the command deleted every user's home directory, which seems to imply that the shell would expand ~* to a list of every user's home directory. But -- sensibly -- neither modern tcsh, bash, zsh, ksh nor the ancient csh in NeXTStep does that.

csh on NeXTStep 1.0:

localhost> echo ~
/me
localhost> echo ~*
echo: No match.
~username expands to the home directory of username. There might have been a shell that likewise expanded ~* to all home directories.
I'm pretty sure they do, though. Lucid owns Atieva, the company supplying the batteries for Formula E. What they've learned through the many seasons directly goes back into the vehicle's battery.

https://lucidmotors.com/media-room/atieva-powers-season-6-fo...
> World that be an improvement?

Unpopular opinion: if the student will be able to pay that loan off in 10-20 years and maintain a good standard of living while doing so, then it is probably fine.

> None of the other major players in the national healthcare system have an incentive to pay for this stuff.

I'm pretty sure the entire system's revenue model breaks without physicians, so there are plenty of businesses (hospitals, labs, practices, etc...) with an incentive to have more billing capacity.
> The Nissan Versa currently starts around $17k

Vehicles at that price are usually crap, esp. the Versa with the CVT engine. And, at least last year, there was a shortage so that you'd be paying a few grand above that price just to get it. I'd bet it's still the same where you're paying closer to 20k for this car.

Now, if you could get a Versa with the simpler engine (I think it was a manual shift), it's apparently a decent car. But finding that model is like a full-time job for a week, then either flying out to whatever dealership has it or getting it shipped which is another grand.
If that's in your threat profile, you should not be traveling with a phone. If this is a real threat for you, no amount of hardware/software security will beat a wrench: https://xkcd.com/538/
I posted in another comment above, but I bought a 2023 Kia RIo 5 - excellent car. Small, simple, efficient and IMHO good looking. The Forte and Soul are larger (I also own a Soul)
Anecdotal, but I'm in the North East US and I called, and I'm not joking, nine primary care offices. Eight of them said they couldn't take anymore patients, and one said I could get an appointment six months later.

I hadn't needed to go to a primary care doctor in my adult life, but it was mind blowing that this was the case. Many friends of mine have had the same experience.
Finland Says Subsea Germany Link Serving Data Centers Is Severed
Even if you could do this you'd have to pump the water back uphill to NV and AZ.
So then why does Microsoft try to push it so hard on users who are trying to use Chrome? It's hard to believe they're just trying to save everyone the minimal time and effort that's being spent installing a different browser by randomly deciding to force a full-screen ad on an OS update. At absolute best, it's benign but worth not using simply to avoid rewarding whatever misguided incentives lead to them to "market" it like this.

https://www.techradar.com/news/sorry-microsoft-not-even-a-fu...
I think it's acceptable if you're trying to show subtle differences - but I would probably put the whole plot and then the zoomed version and clearly label it as "zoomed in for highlighting <.....>"
There is a hidden agenda here: The engine is somewhat up to the gills with feature flags, and I'm planning on adding more. Say, for instance, array indexes being individually definable and the existence of holes? That whole can of worms makes JS Arrays a pain to implement in a performant fashion. Worse yet, it's a feature that is basically never used: No one wants holes in their Array and no one wants getters or setters in them either.

So, say you have a nice flag to turn the feature off: You turn it off and test your code; nothing breaks and the engine thanks you by running faster. Nice! So you leave it off. A few years down the line you start to wonder: Why didn't we do this from the get go? And maybe, just maybe, this will push the ecosystem and the language itself towards sanity. We cannot break the Internet, but we sure as hell can break a bunch of old NPM libraries that no one uses anymore.

Be the change you want to see, and all that. Though, if the change you want to see is for JavaScript to die then... Well, then this definitely isn't the revolution for you :D
And you can gain a few extra bits by combining them or applying innocuous-looking modifications (inverse, powers, basic addition/subtraction, converting to binary in different ways, etc)