skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on your theory of communication, I guess. If it’s to get the most tailored message possible, then yeah it is an advancement. But if it’s about communicating authentic feelings/thoughts between two people, then it’s a big step backwards. This might not be super relevant for random website content, but if for example people start using generative AI to communicate with each other, I think it will feel very alienating.
>It’s unclear to me why the American government doesn’t change the laws and create a new system more like a European one.

There have been various attempts and proposals to change the system.

An example of one attempt among many is called "Medicare for All Act":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_for_All_Act

Scroll down that article to see that for the last 21 years of revisiting it by every legislative body, it always ends "Died in Committee". Every 2 years, some new representatives get elected, and yet it still dies. The proposal doesn't even make it out to the House floor to officially vote on.

Why? A lot of vested interests in keeping the current system. (Aka "money".)

The intuition is to think only the greedy health insurance companies are against it. But doctors' associations and many American workers with decent health insurance from their employers are against it too.
I'm not sure if you understand how it works in the US, but it's common for your employer to provide you health insurance as part of your employment.

This is different from (as far as I know) all countries in the EU. Either there is government-provided basic healthcare, like in the UK, or there is a heavily regulated, compulsory, privatized or partially privatized healthcare system (like Germany, afaik).
Honestly, my Sunni relatives from Tartus, Homs and Dimashq are elated. My alawite and druz relatives from Tartus and Latakia are almost distraught.

There is a massive disparity between the treatment of Alawites/Shiites/Druz and Sunnis in Syria (Re: employment opportunities, etc)

I've always heard horror stories about starvation and torture from my father (Sunni) who served over a decade in Hafiz Assads military, as well as constant fear of the "Mukhabaraat" (government informants), leading to huge amounts of self-censorship when speaking on the phone or in public.

My alawite/druz relatives are generally well off and would tell me "eh, it wasn't so bad", despite having the same informant fears and self-censoring
I completely disagree with the slant on this summary. The ad business with The Google shaped American business and then quite a lot of the entire Internet. A company is formed to build something different, in that economic context.

I turned off my ad options in Brave as soon as I learned how. I do not participate in their ad market. Yet I find Brave a great browser for multiple reasons. Am I filled with angst and retaliatory drive because Brave tried to start an ad ecosystem ? Maybe for a minute, but compared to the winners in that space, and their almost uncountable monetary fortunes.. no. There is a business layer to society.

Personal characterizations of "scam artist" pale compared to the bigger scam artists, who wear suits and have expensive attorneys. Perfect is in short supply.

Let Brave Browser compete and make some people annoyed because of ads. Let me turn off my ad options and use their reliable browser.
Civil asset forfeiture, including by the DEA, is still very much a thing. Having a President end it in airports affects some tiny fraction of the broader problem.

And it only ends it until a future admin un-ends it. I could see both democrats and republicans deciding that they will allow this practice again.

I think it's much more correct to call the practice "paused" until we legislate it away. "Ending" implies a finality we cannot possibly be comfortable with.
In the American political system currently the reward for passing a large piece of legislation, even one which eventually becomes popular, is to be voted out at the next midterm elections. So why bother? Don’t worry about legislation, just tweet.
In the case of the X Display Server, it was the successor to the W Window System:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Window_System>

That's in line with a number of sequential naming series, as in BCPL -> B -> C (programming languages), S -> R (statistics languages).

Arguably there are also IBM -> HAL and VMS -> WNT.
This article is just a giant shrug with no ideas, even while it tries to label popular outrage as “misguided.”
I concur, the slow drip feeding is adequately explained by coming from a place of war ineptitude and domestic priorities rather than a conscious strategy.
America's problem are similar to elsewhere: to too much demand, overworked staff, long lines .

The NHS is not a particularly good example. I live in another Western European country. It's easy to get an appointment quickly and an appointment means an appointment (if the appointment is at 11:15, you typically have to wait 10 minutes at most). My experience has been the same in another Western/Northern European country when I had what turned out to be kidney stones when we were on vacation. It used to be different when I was young, but the system was made more efficient.

Both of my parents were/are dealing with a severe illness, but both were quick to get appointments for tests/surgery and they haven't paid a cent.
It’s also illegal to build new hospitals without permission, even if you have the demand and ability to build one across the street from the existing one.

There are MANY firms who would love to open discount clinics across the street from a bunch of existing medical centers and out-compete them on price and service and eat their lunch; anyone who has used the american medical system knows what a low bar that is to clear. The problem is that in most cases the supply of doctors is capped by law and the ability to open new hospitals and clinics is restricted, so prices remain astronomical and service remains terrible, just like your other public utilities.

Somehow this government-mandated lack of competition is blamed on “free market capitalism”.
You're defining it in terms of "wants" and "wishes", which seems disingenuous. People aren't choosing not to get better health care.
He sold it (alongside the company), then bought it back in 2017
Reminds me of this comic: https://preview.redd.it/v1ylid5639ra1.png?width=1024&auto=we...

In a culture where pointless busywork is seen as mandatory to appear proper, people will eventually automate it.
That would be true if the senate were perfectly democratic, but it’s not (for several reasons). How the senate votes is only weakly correlated with what most people want.
They kind of offer this service for free already. Who's going to pay them to do it? :)
> the X display server…

From which he apparently got an idea or two about a certain logo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
Oracle has Java certs. That's something MS could also do with CSharp, AdaCore with Ada,...

How useful that stuff is/would be in practise, I don't know.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's become one of my goto resources for learning about the history of various topics from science to literature. The episode on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is fantastic.
Americans are fine with regulation but struggle with nuanced regulation and long term regulation that has a short term cost. Culturally we’ll also rush to a perceived moral high ground on various issues with a regional bias - for example cities will pass a minimum wage law on moral grounds and small towns will reject the same law on moral grounds (small business).

Like all thinks it’s nuanced and blanket statements don’t really help.
I understand it came about due to wage controls during WW2. Instead, employers competed on fringe benefits.
> the worst thing in my experience is relatives who think they know what i am doing wrong as a parent

Glad someone said it! I’m disinclined to take any parenting advice from a peer group that’s been raising kids on tablets for the last 10 years. But ya, moving around is the concern hah. God forbid they see life outside the suburbs.
I interpret RFC 3339 not to apply exclusively to machine-to-machine communication. Specifically section 5.3 includes the following:

> a balance must be struck between human readability and interoperability.

and

> Internet clients SHOULD be prepared to transform dates into a display format suitable for the locality.

(where SHOULD is used in the RFC 2119 sense equivalent to RECOMMENDED).
Calling Charles Babbage an idiot has to be peak HN.
There is a high societal expectation that fatherhood (or motherhood) should look like the one in this article. Having had 2 babies in the last 5 years and observing most of our friends going through parenthood in the last 5+ years I think this is a very biased view that does not reflect reality.

My sample might be a bit biased as most our friends are PhD educated and in Tech or Academia.

My own observations:

- I was not terribly interested in our kids between ages of 0 - 2. This does not mean I did not fully participate in their life, but this was a muscle I had to exercise. I went to therapy as I thought I was somehow broken because thats not how people should feel. What I learned is that feelings are much more common than it is widely accepted.

- Once they started to speak, ask questions, and being more emotionally regulated it became very different. At this point I spend more time with my kids than my wife and generally love spending time with them, its almost effortless. Explaining things, buildings legos, became one of my favourite activities.

- Having daily help (live in nanny, live in grandparents) is an enormous help both from kids and relationship perspective. Seems like a trivial thing but if you do not have live in help you are likely to never be alone again as a couple for more than 24h (i.e. you can't go on a short trip).

Observations about my friends:

- Trying for a baby and being unsuccessful for years or going through multiple miscarriages can make couples extremely sad. You can reduce this risk by trying early.

- If your mental health is not amazing before kids it is likely get worse. This is about functional people that have mild mental health problems. Two of our friends developed severe mental health problems that in one case ended in a divorce and in second case multiple years of unemployment (father who was not primary care giver).
This were generally reasonable people that sought mental health help from both therapy and medicine perspective.

- The societal expectations that women should be super excited about motherhood is not always true. Within our friends group probably 50% women are less involved in raising their kids than fathers. Some (reluctantly) admitted that they don't really like how motherhood negatively affected their job prospects, bodies and mental health.

- If you do happen to get divorce with young kids it is likely going to be a life changing event. Situation has to be pretty bad to get divorce with young kids so most likely you will be better off but from the two cases we have seen this typically means severe financial burden and inability to sustain long term relationship afterwards. If you are a women and somehow loose custody there is also going to be pretty severe societal judgement against you even in very progressive locations.

It may sound as a little bit depressing view of parenthood but this is more reality check for those reading only the bright side. Overall, I am extremely happy we have kids and our relationship is stronger than it was before but thats not the case for everyone and it required work.
> infinitely better reputation

You’ve clearly not seen it enshittify:

* More UI space devoted to brands (the Updates tab

* Communities UX is, uh, suboptimal

* Brands / business accounts can message you with no opt out, you can block a chat after the fact but won’t stop them from messaging you from another account.

These made the news in WhatsApp’s favourite testbed market[1], but if you think it’s not coming to other markets…

Anyhow, tl;dr — WhatsApp’s no longer in the “put users first” phase, it’s in the “monetize” phase of Facebook Product Management.

As a person who paid for WhatsApp pre-Facebook, that does make me sad.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/10/in-india-businesses-are-in...
When I tried to install the Windows release, I got a message that it contains the Vigram.A virus.
This is dual use technology. They could be heroes crawling though the wreckage and bearing victims into a brand new day, or they could be nefarious agents of the panopticon, surveilling from vantage point few consider.

We, and they, deserve better.
Apparently the cut-the-crab website is content-free, since when run on itself it failed to produce any output.
No no it's not what it looks like, I was...

Doing a modicum of market research.
The Ministry of Time whole concept is surprisingly close to this spanish tv series, down to its name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_ministerio_del_tiempo
Use a splatter screen, in addition to an effective kitchen exhaust fan.
> I’ll happily be leaping over hundreds of lines of text with one or two swipes whilst you are sitting there

I’d be doing search and land exactly where I need to be. For each important operation, there’s always a more efficient operations as shortcuts are composable in a way pointing is not.
"Because not everyone wants to pay for the same class of service."

Countries with socialized healthcare systems usually mandate a basic level of service, but you can then buy additional insurance on top of that. That's what the NHS is, it's the basic mandatory service everybody has to have. But it's not all you have access to. You can get better healthcare if you want to.

In the UK, this type of additional healthcare is also sometimes provided as part of a job benefit.
They're creating an analogy saying that getting stopped by a warship at sea is like getting pulled over on the highway by an Apache. Not literally saying an Apache at sea.
CV Dazzle (2010) attempted this to counter the facial recognition methods in use at that time.

https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle
Shouldn't insurance risk pools be trying to move towards the large and average? This allows insurance to be more resilient to sudden changes in health by accepting that people are going to get sick. I don't know how having tiers of health care with low risk pool and high risk pools would be advantageous to anyone but the young and healthy who inevitably become the old and sick, which is painfully short term thinking for the former and unfairly punishing for the latter.
Agreed. And when did 'disruption' become a good thing? Good for the founders' pockets, bad for everyone else.
Finding relevant text quickly. On the web. The web is where you go to find more information.
As I understand it, a lot of reason was originally to end-run around wage controls and then got enshrined through some combination of collective bargaining and then generalized employee expectations. But to your point, even if you decouple from employment, it doesn't really help if you're paying $7K+ for individual health insurance as a person who is too ill to work. (Yes, larger companies in particular have disability insurance but this is hardly universal.)
Except it's more expensive. Health care is far more expensive per capita in the US than other Western countries, all while having worse outcomes.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
that's an interesting idea, we might get to hear what we want. it's like when you tell a manager "yes it would work that way but it would require more time", they hear "yes that's fine!"
Do you have specific example(s) in mind?
65C816/65C02 Computer
Check left menu for more details.

Looks like a cool project. We get a computer with VGA output, FDD and RS232 ports.
Historically exploitation is the back bone of America. Before we were even a country we were exploiting the British to clear the Ohio river valley for commercial gain. We didn’t want to pay for that so we took the opportunity to revolt which was paid for largely by the French. Then between manifest destiny and sniping half the continent from the French in the Louisiana purchase. Our early economy exploited hundreds of thousands of African slaves. And that’s just the first hundred years.
Thank you for the clarification! It's just something that I encounter a lot when talking to Americans, there is a lot of aversion to regulation, government support, etc.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Is there demand for AI-generated images in general? No, it's just that there is a lot of demand for middling, utilitarian artwork. And as it happens, AI can generate it more quickly and cheaply than human artists.

It will work the same for porn. It's just that mainstream models are sanitized not to generate it, so the cost to enter is higher.
> Does there ever come a point when a person is responsible for their actions?

This is it right here. People have been holding out for an answer to that question and I think they are learning every day the answer is no. People can't watch families like the Sacklers inflict untold harm on the population and then get away with a fine less than what they made inflicting that harm, and come away to believe the system works, and that rich people's "due process" is the same as the rest of ours.

If I murder 1, 10, or 100 people I go to jail for life or get the death penalty. If I make a business that murders half a million people by pushing pills and I make a billion dollars doing that, absolute worst case scenario I get a relatively small fine compare to my earnings, and I continue the rest of my life in luxurious freedom. And that's only IF the issue goes to trial after I exhaust my endless resources to massage the justice system by choosing the venue, the judge, and the jury.

Lifetime jail and death isn't even on the table. I guess until now that is... maybe that changes the cost/benefit analysis in boardrooms. Maybe they need to start estimating the likelihood their decisions are so immoral they will actually radicalize their customers to murder them. Because it seems like that possibility doesn't even cross their minds and they feel they can race to the bottom with no repercussions except a fine.
It's not about older/younger for me, but rather satisfaction that young have his mind blown knowing I'm toying with that piece of hardware.

It's when I start to think about dates, that it makes me feel old.
Apple and Sony Working on VR Gaming Controller Support for Vision Pro
Oh! This takes me back. I used it as my primary browser during the Firefox 57 saga, and continues to use it for over an year. The developer was very responsive to bug reports, and fixed the issues right away. Unfortunately, I moved away from the Linux ecosystem as my primary computing environment, but I would still recommend this if someone wants to try a Vim-based browsing experience and is willing to try out a new browser.
You won't get Vitamin D from eating fruit
> Russia also has a unique ability to turn the entire economy into a sort of "war economy". That hasn't really been done yet.

Would you explain what you mean by this and why you believe it to be true?
I love the look of `just` and have been meaning to try it out, but this feels like one of those examples where Make's dependency management shines—it lets you specify that many of these commands only need to run when particular files change:

node_modules: package.json yarn.lock
yarn install --pure-lockfile

prettier: $(shell find src -type f -iname "\*.ts")
prettier --check src

...

ci: node_modules prettier eslint vitest

And as time goes on, I always end up wanting to parallelize the commands that can be parallelized (citest, lint, eslint), so I'll turn `make ci` (or `just ci`) into its own little script.
Yeah. There's a lot of fear-based marketing aimed at getting people to reject single-payer. It seems effective.

A lot of our voting seems to suffer from the "but it won't happen to me" fallacy, whether that be about health care and medical debt, conditions in jails, climate change, social services, etc. with the irony being that it often happens to most people in the long run.
"Soviet Union" means the Union of (16) Soviet Socialistic Republics. It's an abbreviation. The republics originally were parts of Russian Empire, so their status was raised, at least nominally (because revolutioners, including Lenin, condemned imperializm and conquesting other nations - something that was considered perfectly normal in the West at the time).
Some trivia alluded to in the article:

The UFC fleet had its own maritime flag

The UFC is the only company known to have a CIA code name

Also, this is not related to Hawaii. The US colonization of Hawaii also involved fruit plantations.
Step one is telepresence for toil, allowing long distance labor arbitrage:

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/watney-robots-fold-your-laundr...

Step zero is purpose built robots, since the human form isn't necessary for most repetitive tasks:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-robotics-...

What I was referring to though is that the Boston Dynamics dogs and Sony spaceman efforts of a decade ago have iterated faster than thought when those predictions were made:

https://cybernews.com/science/humanoid-robot-dance/

But here's an example where it's coming together, and this was the specific robot I had in mind when I said "they're here":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3J250fr_V4
Their "production" includes restoring stuff from the soviet equipment bases. When they make stuff from scratch, they are as much drip-feeding as west is, or even less - for example they make 6-8 Su-34s a year, while Lockmart is making 156 F-35s a year.
What I want is a hacker's bookmark manager, but integrated into my existing browser (Firefox).
Few Tips for Better Storing Stuff
This a good video to show some of what they are doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdIG--b58
There’s a presumption that European healthcare systems are better. Can we define what better is?

Is it actually true that European systems are better?
The vast majority of software does not need to be these crazy complex distributed things. Anyways, there's several flavors of Postgres if the need arises.
Anyone with a return address and big cash flows is ultimately a slave to the civil court system, with all of its inherent flaws (such as claims without merit being able to cost you thousands of dollars that you cannot recoup).

It is in the best interest of large hosting companies, datacenters, and UGC sites to shy away from anything that remotely smells of liability because the costs can instantly far exceed the revenues from small customers due to the flaws of the US legal system.

Many other civil systems use a “loser pays” model for funding lawyers, but if you get sued in the US and win, you still have to pay for your own lawyers unless you countersue (and your opponent is collectible). This opens up a very obvious denial of service attack.
Researchers use AI to turn source recordings into plausible street images.
Surveys show that a majority of Americans support a single national government program for healthcare. The reason this does not exist is because it has become increasingly easy to distract people with wedge issues and make them focus on what divides them, rather than what unites them.