skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why aren't there multiple USB ports? By now why don't all phones use USB-3? Why isn't there general purpose D/A and A/D ports/outputs for instrumentation? Why don't they include a GPIB-like bus to connect to things? Why can't we use the screen as an oscilloscope with a bandwidth of say 100MHz?

Because the population of people that would actually use that functionality rounds to approximately 0. There do exist phones with multiple USB ports, and there do exist plenty of USB3 capable phones. Instrumentation and measurement is an extremely specialized field, and the number of people that would maybe find use out of it would quickly switch to a more useful interface for something like an oscilloscope.

For your general purpose adc and dac, they already make one: it’s called a usb-c audio adapter.
“Why do black students underperform compared to white students?”

“Whitey bad”

“Why do white students underperform compared to asian students?”

“Whitey bad”
Florian Bruhin (AKA the-compiler, the author of qutebrowser) is one of the kindest and most dedicated open-source maintainers I've ever had the pleasure to interact with.

I've used qutebrowser extensively in the past, and reported a few bugs, each of which has been met with interest and engagement. Some of them even uncovered bugs in the upstream software (e.g. QtWebEngine) which were reported there.

I eventually stopped using it when YouTube ads became too invasive, and went back to Firefox + Vimium + uBlockOrigin. I sometimes miss the programmibility of qutebrowser, but Vimium at least gives me the basic Vim-like browsing features.
> How does this work for FTTH? I know nothing about fibre optic networks. I had the impression that each subscriber has their own wavelength, or rather a range of wavelengths that captures their bandwidth, and that does not overlap with other subscribers.

The keyword to search for is GPON. It's multiplexed, each subscriber receives a few time slots in a shared wavelength. The transmissions from the subscribers don't collide because their time slots don't overlap.
Well I didn't understand how -besides the cereals maybe- are unhealthy

> Breakfast cereals including ready-to-eat cereals, granola, muesli, porridge oats and other oat-based cereals.

until I re-read and saw this:

> But the new restrictions will not apply to healthier options such as natural porridge oats and unsweetened yoghurt.

So I think it's not clear in the first sentence but "ready-to-eat" is meant to apply to all the items in the list and not just the cereals.
Must be the cutting-edge-pun-not-intended browser compeition day...
I use Mise as a drop-in replacement for asdf. It's fully backwards compatible with .tool-versions and other config files, and unlike asdf it uses a PATH-based approach instead of shims.
A piece of paper and any kind of pencil will do just fine for writing papers. There is no need for a laptop.
“Asking our governments to create laws to protect us is much easier than…”

A bit naive that, it’s too late since data is already mostly available and it just takes a different government to make this protection obsolete.

That’s why we Germans/Europeans have tried to fight data collections and for protections for so long and quite hard (and probably have one of the most sophisticated policies and regulations in place) but over time it just becomes an impossibility to keep data collections as low as possible (first small exceptions for in itself very valid reasons, then more and more participants and normalization until there is no protection left…)
Because entry is handled by CBP - Customs and Border Protection.

Immigration - which is the process of becoming a US permanent resident and/or citizen - is handled (mostly) by USCIS.

Other visas are handled by the State Department (foreign ministry).

Not an expert, but this is my understanding.
I like the general idea of this, but this feels like it is trying to do too much. Removing ads, trackers, and unnecessary widgets is mostly a solved problem using unlock origin (+ possibly privacy badger).

I think it is a step too far to try and completely remove the step of actually visiting the website you get content from. This is the same thing Google is trying to do with their AI summarizer in search. Is the expected endgame of this that all useful websites just shut down because no one but bots visits them anymore? Even if those sites are user-funded and not reliant on ads, I find it hard to believe that many people would use AI summaries from the site then subsequently donate to financially support it.

I'm much more in favor of an approach that involves still visiting the actual website, but removes the content that the user does not want to see (ublock origin style).

I would suggest that once the browser extension exists, that it should transform the site "in-place" after visiting the site then pressing a button on the extension. And I could see that potentially having value (but I suspect this would take a lot of work to get right).
Man Charged for Illegal Scheme to Export Controlled Data and Defraud the DoD
> So far, Russia is still making gains on the battlefield though, not Ukraine.

This is again first derivative. Russia annexed Crimea, sent unofficial troops to Donbas, in 2022 moved rapidly and captured a lot of territory... But later was pushed back severely. And after that, it was gaining terrain in a truly snail pace.

BTW India and China are in an ongoing border conflict, the hostilities don't end there, with India banning many Chinese apps for example. They're nowhere near as united as EU or NATO, it's more like the Visegrád Group.
Hi,

This is real! We started our startup based on this principle. Do note that these emissions do not occur often, think about up to 10-100 per hours in stress states.
For a small background read, read this (not our research): https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3

If you are interested I recommend using a MEMS microphone, sampling at 384 or 500 kHz and triggering at frequencies between 20-200 kHz.

There is several people who have made these solutions for detecting bats using pico's:
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/raspberry-pi-bat-detector-17-0...

If you want something off the shelf look into something like this:
https://batsound.com/
In a typical passive optical network, one PON port is connected to 128 clients through the use of PLC splitters - unlike a WDM splitter which will insert or remove a specific wavelength, these simply split the whole signal. Where I work, that is a 4-4-8 configuration using 3 layers of splitters.

The OLT (optical line terminal, head-end) will tell each ONU/ONT (optical network unit/terminal) how much airtime they can use to transmit - each ONT will take their turn in transmitting so as not to interrupt others. Part of this calculation is the distance the ONT is from the OLT - each ONT will be a different distance depending on the geographic location, which means each ONT will have a different latency. The ONU can request additional airtime if it has a large amound of data to transmit. The amount of airtime the OLT will allocate depends upon the CIR (committed information rate i.e. what will the ISP guarantee at a minimum) and the PIR (peak information rate - the maximum rate based on the subscribers service).
We have one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world. "What comes next" doesn't matter when most alternatives would be better.
1. It's QtWebEngine + Python tying the chrome together.

2. I wonder... how good is its Right-to-Left support?
After working for Alibaba and being in China for several months, I can assure you it goes all ways.

Racism is so casual it was literally talked about outloud during meetings. Was quite the culture shock.
For me, this competes with asdf.

Otherwise, it would compete with eg nvm, rvm.

I haven't managed versions "by hand" for over a decade.
In the 80s, when these ads ran, no one had a phone in their pocket.
some airports laid back. others like sfo must have an ongoing bust quota contest.
...or you could use a tool somebody already wrote, which even includes a security mechanism.
> can make the case that doctors make less mistakes when they don't rush through surgery

Healthcare PR is in overdrive right now because people want this story. In truth, the anaesthesia debate started a few days before the shooting.
a sign that the providers are overcharging

Or a sign that private insurance companies are too burdensome. UHC is well known both for constantly changing the claims process and for preemptively denying valid claims. Arguably private insurance companies need to pay more because they are a significantly bigger hassle to deal with than Medicare and require a legion of support staff.
Krampusnacht
Google photos only has pictures of my mom from her 60s onwards, but when I put a sepia toned scan of my mom as a 9 year old, google photos asked me "is this [your mom]?"
You might enjoy https://poethepoet.natn.io/ it makes tasks easier, and you don't even need poetry to benefit from it (I use it with UV these days)
It has nothing to do with copyright law. It's not an act of law, it's an act of YouTube.
In most states (I think all?) insurance companies are required by law to get review from a consulting doctor if they're going to challenge a claim. I don't really think we could expect a doctor to know offhand the relative costs of every treatment for every potential condition in their specialty.
Good thing they made this move once daytime tv was basically irrelevant to anyone under 40 or it might've had some impact.
What gave you the idea that it needs Node?
Dolby Atmos for music streaming is a waste of time
The "job-centric" American economy feels...harrowing now

"While Grove supported helping technology startups, he also felt that America was wrong in thinking that those new companies would increase employment. "Startups are a wonderful thing," he wrote in a 2010 article for Bloomberg, "but they cannot by themselves increase tech employment."[40] Although many of those startups and entrepreneurs would achieve tremendous success and wealth, said Grove, he was more concerned with the overall negative effect on America: "What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work and masses of unemployed?"
They started with BTC. Their token only came after they got the feedback that people were not interested in parting ways with their own crypto.
This is fascinating, thank you for your very detailed and effort-ful response, and for correcting my misconception!
> press a single hotkey (default 'f'), and just type the two letters that appear directly where you're looking

This has a mental speed bump that I really don't like, that tends to make these features annoying to use: you have to pause after hitting "f" to wait for those letters to appear, read them, then type them.

Vimperator (the one that died with Firefox Quantum) handled links where you'd hit "f" then type the text in the link itself, with numbers to disambiguate if the filtering didn't reduce it to one match. With no pause and the link text already in your mind by the time you hit "f" it was very fast and fluid to use, and I was very happy after learning Tridactyl could be configured the same way.

Does this have the same thing?
> there's no reason for our medical care to be inaccessible for most people in the US.

A limited number of physicians, especially general practices? High cost therapies and treatments? Capital-intensive diagnostic devices? Lack of access outside of cities?

There are certainly a lot of things that could be done better, but this isn't 1950 -- some available medical technology is incredibly expensive.

Simply unshackling Medicare/aid and allowing it more freedom to negotiate costs would go a long way towards reducing US health care expenditures.

I.e. doing for more payments what the Inflation Reduction Act allowed Medicare to do for (a limited number of) drugs: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/fact-sheet-medicare-selec...
Huh — I must have written djb1 in error
Google/travel-impact-model: Emission estimation model for flights
Did you read the article? The drugs did work, but only at the high doses prescribed.

In fact I am certain you did not read it, as no decent person could read it and say "but it's crazy to me that people can read this and come away thinking the insurance companies are the bad guys."
i don't understand why you would reply to me with a definition of MA. it's laid out plainly in thousands of words in the article.
All the features are opt-in. I started using mise because I wanted something like asdf only without the bad UX, and mise can use asdf plugins.

For env vars, you don't need to load them into your shell if you don't want to. When you run a task, mise will make sure the env vars in your config are set, so thats not something you need to worry about.

I still use shell scripts like you describe, mise just supercharges them a bit. When I need to make sure my teammates have the tools in that script (like jq) installed, mise just ensure they are installed before running the command, as long as you declare them in your tools list.

If your setup works for you thats great.
Hi, I'm glad my idea was useful for you.
>Can we do gambling ads next?

As long as we ban ads for stock trading platforms (i.e. gambling for the professional classes) at the same time.
Difference in Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Mortality by Dietary Patterns
Cool! What was your strategy?
Brave does not take 30% of creators that receive BAT in the rewards program.
The fact that you can eliminate an entire country from the conversation due to their politics, just by including a place name on a website, is *hilarious*. This is something that would be amusing to just do, no matter the target.

To be clear, if you could remove someone's internet connection by emailing them a picture of Winnie the Pooh, that's all every junior would be doing with their free time. It's too stupid of a situation to leave alone.

I'm not about to be burdened by the ramifications of other people living under that much control. Part of being inside a shitty system is that it's going to suck for you.
I made a relevant comment a bit ago, linking here to avoid spamming the same stuff :-)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294690
The vast majority of germans use statutory health care insurance, with only 10% using private insurance.

Many other aspects of healthcare follow a similar model, where parts are fully private, parts are non-government-but-quite-close-in-function (Ärztekammern and other things) and many to most are public in some sense.
Says who? For instance this source says that healthcare is near the middle of the pack when it comes to NPS (which is basically how many people are satisified minus people who aren't), and are ahead of "internet software and services".

https://www.retently.com/blog/good-net-promoter-score/
> “Since the most recent high in 2007, the number of births has declined 17%, and the general fertility rate has declined 21%,” the August 2024 data shows.

Last night, after a comedy show, my buddy and I observed very young kids behaving in a drunken manner outside a bar (pretty sure there were high school aged kids in the group). Our conversation turned to their lack of future and how we’re about the last generation with the possibility to have financial independence. Sorta lines up with the financial crisis 2008-era.

We also discussed the effects of stress on mental health issues, which I now wonder how that affects fertility. It certainly doesn’t seem like it would help. Living precariously can’t be good for your reproductive parts.
Juggalo makeup is supposedly extremely effective.

Just make sure you don't how how magnets work for plausible deniability.
Reading nixpkgs is pretty amazing info, better then any docs. But I actually think the docs are pretty fantastic. The manual is solid, the CLI help text is pretty excellent. I don’t get when people say the docs are bad.
As an Australian, I have no idea, but can't then a patient sue their employer if they don't receive the care they were promised? Doesn't that make the employer responsible for an employees health?

I can guess the answer.
Another X factor (heh) is that it's a lot harder to convince existing highly-paid, usually left-leaning individuals to go work for Elon Musk's AI lab. Of course it's more complicated than that, but the sheer number of workers in our industry who despise his politics and how he uses his money to advance them makes it a tall order for xAI to become a serious AI lab.
It's very strange they say porridge oats are banned, then go on saying "natural porridge oats" are not.

In my mind porridge oats are natural and you don't have to say that. If you have something else you need to say so.
I read it, the drugs may have worked but it's possible that one or both were not necessary, or that some other change caused it. The relevant question is bigger than "did it work", it's "was the likely causal improvement enough to justify the cost"

These drug combinations are mostly not approved outside the US because of a lack of data
Most people won't agree on what that next system is so there isn't enough momentum to change it.
Do you have a source for that — what makes our healthcare systems "one of the worst"?
Do not agree with the premise that we do not need CoC. The first point that bad actors are booted from organizations is false. The face is that harassers and predators exist for years in all sorts of organizations, and this is why we need anti-harassment policies put into place.
Wow, what's wrong with burgers?

I mean, certainly you can get bad meat, and maybe it's easier to conceal in a burger than in a steak, but ... how about literally all other processed meat that is invariably processed more than burgers? Salami, sausages, hot dogs, ...

I personally love burger, and consider it one of the finest foods.

Fortunately, there's a very easy way to know the quality of a burger - if they ask you, how well you want it done, it's high quality! Shitty burger places like McDonalds and Burger King don't want to risk selling you a medium-done burger... Funny enough, UK is one of the better places for high-quality burger, much better than e.g. Switzerland or Slovenia! My favourite in London is (was? 2019) Honest Burger...
Because Medicare and Medicare Advantage are two different systems, only one of which is hybrid-private?

So you might want to be more specific in what you're talking about in your original comment, re: Medicare.
I could see supporting with this, but it does seem like an abuse of the 'for the children' argument for this.

Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job.

Also some chicken nuggets are bad, but some average a gram of protein per 10 calories, which is a pretty good ratio, and especially for frozen food. Can't help but think this is too broad.
This goes both ways. See: south africa where every rich dude has a private security detail.
I think this is cool but it’s a more of a statistical correlation than an AI-related paper.

What I’m saying is that if you were to replace ‘AI’ with “ask humans to draw an image based on these sounds,” you’ll probably get somewhat similar results.

Which is still interesting either way.
The important ones - from a security and privacy standpoint - are the baseband (cellular stack), WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, camera, mic, bootloader and the Trusted Execution Environment. Then there's also minor firmware bits for the sensor hub (accelerometer, ambient light sensor etc), touch controller, audio etc.

You can imagine the consequence if there was a vulnerability in say the WiFi firmware or the microphone. The Bluetooth stack is especially vulnerable, with it being an attack vector many times in the past.

On Android devices, only Android has been able to deliver updates to those firmware blobs. This is mainly because these are closed source binary blobs, and are provided by the OEM (often in conjunction with the respective chipset manufacturer, covered by a license agreement).

AOSP and unofficial Linux based OSes like PostmarketOS do not have a license to obtain and distribute these firmware. But even if they did, it means nothing if the support agreement from the chipset maker has ended. Being closed source bits, you can't do anything about it if the respective manufacturer refuses to provide updated firmware.

Ocassionally, some Android custom ROM makers may extract these blobs from more recent devices having the same chipset but running newer firmware, and of course, it doesn't always work (well), not to mention, it's technically illegal. And of course, an official project like PostmarketOS or LineageOS would never do something like redistribute proprietary firmware bits. Projects like these conveniently ignore the firmware issue, and leave it as an exercise for the end user.
umm... what? do you think there was free healthcare in the 50s in the US?

every single other country has free healthcare, lower costs, and better outcomes than USA.
You imply that you have access to some unvarnished truth, unlike the other commenters who are trapped in their bubbles. What is your justification for this belief? Is it possible for other people to have access to this higher truth, or is it something innate to you?
The most valuable company in Europe is Louis Vitton. Forgive me, I don't think Putin's quaking in his boots about when they'll weigh in.

GDP was a good war metric for an industrial economy, and fucking terrible for a services based one. There's never one metric that describes all. You know it, Goodhart knew it, anyone was worked with metrics ever knows it. This is rather important and frankly I don't get the glibness. Russia's not an unstoppable force but it's not a joke either.
I used "Now create a theater scenario in 1 act where Santa disclose his secret without realizing it. 2 persons (Santa and a reinder), humorous tone."

It was fun :p
It doesn't necessarily have to mutate that 226L by itself. Now that it has jumped to pigs, it could just mix with one of the human-adapted viruses that pigs sometimes catch.
I like the exercise of trying to find the simplest reasonable solution to some problem.

Many of my toy and hobby projects are exactly that. Some make allowances for the sake of performance and generality.

The hash map, though, is up there with sorting algorithms in the breadth of wild implementations. Salmagundi is unlikely to be the fastest, or the smartest. But it’s cute and portable.
You’re right; I can’t predict the future.

But I have experience having gone through extremely difficult things with my wife; both of our dads were diagnosed with cancer this year, months apart. Our relationship started only a year before a pandemic. I went through a serious depressive phase. She was diagnosed with and has been (successfully) working through dealing with her C(omplex)-PTSD. I discovered I had ADHD, and have had it since I was a kid, and have gone through that self-discovery process.

Basically, you’re completely correct, but we’ve also discussed the fact that most partners do forget about one another when kids enter the picture, and we have promised not to; and to check in with each other constantly, as the risk of postpartum runs in her family (if that’s even a thing, and it isn’t just people in general).

It may help that she has been through many, many years of therapy on her own, and is also studying to get her masters in psychology to become an LPCC/LMFT.

She’s the strongest and most impressive person I’ve ever met. And I’ve met a lot of strong and impressive people.

So while the chance we end up hating each other isn’t zero, I’m pretty sure it’s as damn low as it can be, and I’m pretty fine with that as life decisions go. :)