skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shift from roaming to restriction took place over generations and occurred unevenly.

A few generations ago, the trend was that US kids had a broad range of appealing places to roam and were generally free to do so.

Presently the US trend is that kids have few if any appealing places to go. And should they roam anyway, they and their parents risk legal (and increasingly permanent) consequences.
> I struggle to recall the last time an app jerked and juddered into life.

I get jerks and judders all the time, but it's 100% the fault of the software.
Are there any true Chinese dissidents? I know in the west there is this fantastical view of Chinese struggling against oppression. But in reality I don’t really believe that. Yes, Chinese will look to emigrate outside for better quality of life. It’s not because they’re feeling oppressed at home.

Most Chinese are quite content with the CCP for improving their quality of life in China. Lifting that many people out of poverty in 4 decades is not a simple feat. I’m someone who doesn’t like the CCP. But we have to give credit where credit is due.

Another point - a lot of Chinese students and workers abroad are fair targets by their government to willingly or unwillingly engage in IP theft and industrial espionage.
Any idea why it only happens to iPhones? I don't think I've noticed this on Androids, where the only impact of longevity is the lack of updates from the manufacturers and then Google Play Services starts to fill up the storage with updates.
National security angle is also often overlooked. China is not self sufficient in airplane manufacturing. Not now and back then it was only a plan.

What would they do in case of airplane export ban? They could keep existing ones airworthy, but transport capacity would be capped.

High speed trains are a viable alternative to airplanes.
Having a kid may have dinged my raw intelligence but the forced ruthless prioritization of what I do and what I value doing has actually made me more competent at home and work
Bongos.

From the music store.
Agreed that sometimes it is appropriate for insurance to say no.

After one round of physical therapy for tennis elbow, which made some progress but didn't completely clear up the issue, I got denied my insurer (not UHC) for the additional physical therapy that the PT recommended. The problem resolved itself on its own in a month without additional therapy. Seems like they may have been right that it wasn't medically necessary.
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> they should be raked over the coals for doing so

Human rights are not granted for free, they are won and they protected collectively. If malicious actor is deliberately and intentionally undermines human rights they should not not be granted them themselves automatically. If some community works to devolve and degrade education, free speech and other rights for themselves, and then claims they are owed those same rights by the outside groups, they should not be granted them automatically, they should earn them. This should be a collective norm in the developed countries - treat outsiders just like those outsiders want to treat themselves. Instead of appeasing and losing those appeasements time after times. "When will we learn?"(c) Churchill about appeasing dictators
Exactly. A task runner for Node.js is already complex enough. And it's not just a task runner itself, but rather an ecosystem of things working together. Now you tell me this can somehow handle Node.js, Python and others. I'll need to see how it actually works in the real world to believe the claim.
I’ll check it out.

I’ve just been asking chatgpt for recipes lately and it’s doing a great job. The other night I made béchamel sauce for the first time (cooking for 6 dinner guests!). ChatGPT nailed it.

I’m 2% sad for all the recipe websites it’s ripping content from. But then I remember what utter Adsense cancer they all are. “My mum made this recipe! You’ll never guess step 6!” While being plastered with 8 auto playing videos on the edges of the screen. I hope those websites suffer a firey death.
Yes, it is dangerous, and to be clear a very very bad direction, but here we are - the us political system is visibly collapsing in real time and this will continue.
It seems the insurance company was happy to pay for treatment that wouldn't work though (the approved treatment had already been tried), they denied a treatment that was working.
Tens of millions of people are buying insurance through the ACA directly from companies like United.
How does this blocking work with TLS? Does the Chinese firewall MITM HTTPS somehow?
We don't have an infinite supply of health care and there is a strong demand so there is always going to be some form of rationing going on. There are always going to be people with chronic life ruining conditions that are going to get a raw deal under whatever system you propose to distribute the limited supply of healthcare. It seems like someone is always going to have a justification to kill someone whether its a CEO or some faceless bureaucrat.
To be accurate it’s not the pharmaceutical companies, but the pharmacies and pharmacy benefit middlemen that influence pharmaceutical prices that are increasingly owned by the insurers.
FWIW I had to install some extra dependencies on macos before the build instructions worked.

$ brew install libxmp fluid-synth wavpack
> There’s an incredibly strong argument this particular person likely killed tens of thousand of people by his decisions to deny and delay care.

Anyone got a cite for that? I want to know how that number was measured or calculated.
The Taiwanese tourists seem to have a significantly more favorable reputation in Japan (in comparison to the Chinese tourists).
Ok, we've made the title less 'accurate' (and more accurate?) above. Thanks!
It's not even activism, just a common snakeoil DDoS-away. Not to say it's okay but not rare.
Agreed. Medicine is one area where desperate people will understandably reach for any measure that offers some hope, but insurers can't be on the hook for everything.
> What a poorly designed system. If the insurer truly prioritizes client care as they claim, why on earth would the doctors contracted to review the treatments of the insured, have access to the insurance policies? Shouldn't the output of their review simply be whether or not the treatment seems appropriate, period? Why are the doctors weighing their review against the insurers policies?

All healthcare systems ultimately have to make cost-benefit tradeoffs, and in the US system those tradeoffs are generally represented as insurer coverage policies. I don't mean to suggest that this justifies the story in the article, where it really sounds like the treatment did fit the policy and UHC worked hard to avoid seeing that. But there's no system where a doctor dreams up an arbitrarily expensive treatment protocol and a patient gets it with low out-of-pocket costs and no questions asked.
It does happen to androids (at least my old Xperia xz2)
Similar to how Daniel Stenberg (`curl` author) gets complain e-mails unrelated to `curl`, because his address end up being in the license or credits screen of plenty of software.

> Apparently, people often have problems finding an appropriate address to contact when they have issues with this app.

> This leads a disproportionate amount of them to send emails to me asking for solutions and fixes to their situations.

— https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/03/no-need-to-email-me-a...
Even defender is dumb. When you control the OS, which (in the default setup) has exclusive control of all disk reads and writes, you can be sure that if you wrote a virus-free file to disk, then it will be virus-free when you go to read the disk again.

So, why are we doing scan-on-read (with substantial performance overhead) when we should instead be doing scan-on-write (when scanning can, in most cases, be done in idle CPU cycles)?
Sounds annoying. Maybe if he'd asked one person to explain instead of the whole team? How big is the team if I can ask?

> AND a hefty handful of other people where EM regurgitated what we had explained to him.

Is that him trying to show he's doing something useful?

How many people does he manage btw?
This could help with the discussion: "Human face identification after plastic surgery using SURF, Multi-KNN and BPNN techniques" <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40747-024-01358-7>
Every time I've tried to use Qutebrowser, or similar -- I end up bouncing from it because I want proper extension support.
The hardware they were built on didn’t have those capabilities. The operating system is not capable of imposing these types of restrictions, only the cpu is. The OS just programs the CPU so that it enforces the exact restrictions that the OS is designed to have.
> Jury nullification exists, but evidence whose only purpose (given the facts in dispute) is to promote it is, ipso facto, legally irrelevant and will be excluded for that reason.

What's interesting about this is it places jurors into a position where they need to decide whether to make an adverse inference against the state. If they have reason to believe that the defense may have wanted to present such facts but the state disallowed it, then it makes sense to refuse to convict (even if they wouldn't otherwise be in favor of nullification) so as not to participate in a show trial. But they can't actually know whether this happened because explaining why you committed a crime is usually a terrible idea, so you'd usually expect it to not happen.
In a sense, it's like machine filtering out machine-generated text to get to the stuff that the human needs. Like grepping logs, but less deterministic.
It’s the standard right-wing playbook — cut services then claim the system doesn’t work.
I wrote a detailed comment yesterday about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353634

tl;dr: mise has more functionality like parallel tasks, watching for changes, and comprehensive argument parsing support (including custom autocomplete)

the biggest difference is the syntax. just is more concise and you really need to learn the syntax in order to use it. In mise things are more verbose but I feel easier to read for someone unfamiliar with it.
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CBP. We are citizens, and were returning from a trip.
I think that's only true if you use a definition (the technical one, to be sure) that is counterintuitive to most people.
Holy shit

The SHAKTI Electromagnetic Stabilizer (aka “the Stone”) has three internal trap circuits (Microwave, RF and Electric Field) to absorb the broadest spectrum of EMI. Placement on automotive CPUs has measurably increased engine horsepower.

It also improves resolution for virtually all-major components in high definition audio/video systems. Music reproduction is clearer, with more liquidity, dynamics and focus. The improved inter-transient silence allows the listener to hear ambient cue information essential for accurate perception of stage depth, width and unwavering imaging. High quality video systems will benefit from SHAKTI devices near power supplies, projection guns and laser disc/DVD players. Reduced color noise and improved convergence alignment are some of the improvements that can occur. In automotive applications, where space allows, the unit should be securely taped and/or cable tied to the top of the CPU.
I'm sorry, but I can't help with "remove the AI bullshit from websites". Perhaps I can instead write you some convincing blogspam to maximize ad clicks?
Need emp charges like in metal gear. A bunch of metallic confetti fills the air while you dash past the security cameras big and small
The point of a CoC is not even to deprecate argumenta ad hominem, but in the first instance just to be able to distinguish between them and objective discourse. That distinction remains essential. You may say that, if a CoC is the only way to get to the distinction, then the game has already been lost; but that is giving up very easily.

On the other hand, the subtext of opposition to CoCs is always evasion of accountability.
I'm confused how this works. I tried the demo and Bitwarden asked me if I wanted to save the passkey. From a UX experience, this felt weird.. Why do I need to create an account, and save that account? Why is passkey storage prevent bots? Just that bots haven't added that automation yet?
Partly answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42356687
Ok, another metric to look at is population access. If you combine population of China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Myanmar, etc it’s more than 2 billion people without access to American social media platforms.
This smacks of "we need to commit war crimes because otherwise somebody else will commit war crimes". Theoretical atrocities are never justification for actual atrocities.

The "voluntary alliances" you speak of are basically the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Africa, the Middle East and Asia didn't sign up for the absolute devastation we've inflicted on them, first with "normal" colonialism, now with economic colonialism.

I once heard it described that US foreign policy is to loot the Global South and US domestic policy is to divide up the spoils. We aren't the only perpetrators (eg [1]) but we certainly use sanctions and the IMF and World Bank to bully countries to our way of thinking. And that's before we even get started on all the coups the US has instigated, supported, backed and/or planned.

[1]: https://tehrantimes.com/news/489452/How-West-Africa-s-econom...
The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online
The price hikes are enabled by our insurance structure
That’s true, but UHC alone has $6 BILLION in profit each _quarter_. A whole lot of that could be going towards health care. In my opinion health insurance providers should not be for-profit.
People choose this all the time, if it saves them money. It's like some people will choose a risky job, or a job that comes with predictable negative health implications, if they can make sufficiently more money.
Even an index fund has some human-curated criteria for what to include, though, right? The S&P 500 isn't open to just anyone. So it seems totally legitimate to have it be not completely algorithmic.

If there were an "Open 500" that was trying to be like the open equivalent to the S&P 500, I would happily donate to it. Right now I do GitHub sponsors but it feels kind of random.

You just don't want to include projects like React or TypeScript that are operated by a for-profit company - they don't need our donations. You want it to be, this money is actually going to an organization that will invest it in software quality.
VIa cursor editor. Makes the LLM interaction transparent and gets out of the way.

Mostly for autocompletion - the suggestions recognize patterns as they emerge and propose the same pattern for the rest of the method , similar variables etc.

Crude but easy to verify and manage.
None of these people have to deal with other people.
Every time I’ve used a declarative system at work I either eventually become one of the experts and we all have lines outside our door of people who just don’t get it, or I replace it with something imperative so we can all get some fucking peace.

Ant was by far the most stressful. I had to cyberstalk James Duncan Davidson to understand what he was thinking. The mental model for the tool wasn’t in the docs. It was in forum posts spread across three+ different websites. And it was slightly insane. First writer wins broke everyone’s brains across three jobs before someone helped me kill it and replace it with something else.

It’s also a cornerstone of my thesis: never trust software someone says they wrote on an airplane. That’s not enough time to create a good solution, and any decision you make while experiencing altitude sickness is sketchy. (Prior to 2010, airline passengers were experiencing 8000 ft atmosphere on every flight. One of the selling points of the 787 was 5000 ft equivalent pressure)
Assuming it was sold profitably wouldn't this just cause more to be built?
Well, they have a different environment with a greater need for extremely close social groups, so sensitivity to emotion may, indeed, be greater than ours in some ways.

That said, we have a conscience aka moral compass, a mind capapble of abstract thought and comprehension of morality, as well as a free will to choose whether or not to consider someone else's happiness in our ideals, attitudes, and behaviors.

Look at all the wonderful structures we design and build, and then how awfully we treat out-groups. We are capable of so much better, but why don't people give a sh_t?

I know why, and I've explained it in my comment history.
Maybe computer manufacturers could have tested third-party apps and certified only those that did not access the hardware directly during their testing?

To accomplish this, they could have run the software on a simulator or with additional hardware to check for direct hardware access.
> even though it would've been more privacy-preserving than the in-cloud scanning that virtually all image hosts do today

You can opt out of in-cloud scanning by not using the cloud, or selecting a different service.
"don't worry, we were going to screw over a different innocent victim, not you, so we're cool right?"
Quite a few ex-soviet states, who were independent countries before being occupied by USSR, will not agree with this.
Yes, I could use those. But I gotta ask myself:

- will my client have problems finding someone that speaks Czech/Slovak and also knows DaisyUI/HyperUI/HTMX/Django?
- are those techs gonna be maintained in 5 years?
- what's the bus factor on the techs? Is it several people's project or a one (wo)man show?

All while there's React+<one of the big component libraries> right at your disposal...
No argument from me other than to say: you've just described every public-private partnership, ever.

The seemingly inevitable part-privatization we're now facing for Social Security and Medicare is nothing more than the wealthy looting the public purse.
AV Comparatives does testing every few months of performance impact of various AV software and Defender has never scored great there. Third party AV options have always done better while having the same or better scores in protection tests.
We might be entering an era where what's legal and what's right is diverging more and more - with these things happening as a result.
Lately I was thinking "what's the best way to integrate/use a task runner like mise in a github actions workflow".

Looking at the workflow files in the mise repository it seems like they gave up and just put in a few run: mise steps (having to rewrite / unable to use dependencies etc).

I think it would be better if you could generate the workflow files but I haven't found such a project yet.
There is a plugin that works well to automatically configure some of the SDKs https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/24904-mise
OP here, running an i5-4250U. A 10-11 year old low-power CPU and a SATA SSD, definitely quite slow by current standards.
I wish whoever invented Achievements had done something else instead.
> You are simply wrong for anything other than human rated flight. They didn't have the kind of PR that NASA and Space X have, and they were never human rated, but private satellites never stopped flying on Atlas, Delta, and Titan programs that variously went from the 1960s all the way up until the 2020s.

Those are moribund programs that were being kept alive solely by the government because it wanted to ensure the US had launch capabilities for NRO and other classified missions. There was absolutely no innovation coming out of them to drive down costs or increase payloads.

The sector was dead from an innovation perspective and a failure from a competitive perspective.

Your screed about businesses taking credit for stuff is mostly unfounded. The internet’s foundation in DARPA is very well understood and acknowledged. However, all of the advancements to scale up to the scale of the internet today were pushed by Silicon Valley and academia.

DARPA and the military never cared about scale and still doesn’t because it’s not a goal.
>If malicious actor is deliberately and intentionally undermines human rights they should not not be granted them themselves automatically.

I don't get it. Who's the "malicious actor" here? The chinese? Is your point that because the chinese government doesn't respect human rights, that it's fine to discriminate against chinese students?
First hand experience. Try it yourself?
Don’t confuse the salty midwits in your bubble with reality.
> To friends and neighbours, his family seemed respectably bourgeois. The reality was quite different, though. ‘Almost as soon as I could speak’, he later recalled, ‘I knew that everything people told me was a lie.’

This seems especially relevant now. I’ve heard it said that all the flipped expectations, all the “Dada stuff” has been done before.

But maybe we need more Dada now. Why is it relevant? what is there still to say?
I don't really understand why people use direnv, but you could easily replace it with a shell script that could load anything you want when entering a directory.

You basically just write a script that hooks into your shell (using your shell's existing hooks, like PROMPT_COMMAND for bash) and have it load a shell script in any directory you enter.

Obviously this is a security risk, as you could enter a directory controlled by a hacker. This is why (presumably) they only deal with exported variables, though even that's dangerous.
Writing can be objectively wrong if it contains any references to reality.
have you tried Rosetta Code?

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

Not a guide, per se, but it has many implementations of a wide variety of math and programming concepts, implemented in a large number of different programming languages.
I tried my best to get the discussion back on topic and off-topic low-effort replies like yours don't help.

Oh and I did not downvote him.
It speaks to the deep and broad frustration among Americans towards our healthcare system. This isn't just executives or politicians "screwing people over" like we see in so many other realms. There's a significant number of Americans who love someone who has actually died or suffered severer/permanent physical distress for the sake of insurance company profits.

When someone's family gets blown up from the sky and that someone becomes a terrorist willing to use violence against the party they blame for their family members death, we may not like it but we don't pretend to not understand it. Similarly we can't pretend to not understand this phenomenon.
There’s a huge difference between the inevitable random crazies driven to madness because they can’t handle their unfortunate but unavoidable circumstances, and abusing the entire population on such a scale that when someone murders an executive in broad daylight, the prevailing public mood is “serves him right.”