skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> shitting on US education is ring-wing garbage you are trying to sell and you should not be selling it cause no sane person will be buying it.

First of all, your right-wing characterization is wrong, insulting and distasteful. You have revealed much about yourself when choosing to take this approach instead of having a conversation, so I do not expect you to apologize. So be it.

It is really interesting to me to see just how common it is for some to attempt to attack ideas or discourse by making such accusations. The parallels to the story from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperors New Clothes" and even Plato's Allegory of the Cave are impossible to ignore.

Once again, the most recent examples of the delusion being the massive lies and deception around Biden's mental health, the southern border and the crime it brought into our nation, to name just a few. These are truths that stand on their won, regardless of where they might be printed, heard or viewed.

> I said FoxNews mostly because you are tauting word-for-word party-line garbage without any thought of your own on the matter.

Again, you make assumptions and deliver insults. It appears one cannot possibly be critical of the Emperor, who actually is naked, without being accused of all sorts of things. He is naked my friend. Can't you see?

> if you believe this and your children are here in the US that would be borderline child abuse to subject your own flesh and blood to the worst educational system…

No, you are wrong, and what you are saying is a ridiculous stretch. You are not thinking.

I want education in the US to improve for all children, because a better-educated people will improve things for everyone. The only way this happens is if we are honest and critical. Thinking that education in the West is, as you put it, the absolute best, is like being chained in Plato's cave confusing shadows for reality.

> If polled random 100 people from developer nations to name 10 non-US universities roughly 99 of them would stop at like 6.

I would suggest you stop here. What is being revealed about you isn't good at all. Either you are young and not ready to understand or confused, and maybe both. There are amazing universities all over the world, in both developed and developing nations. Yes, the US might have some of the most recognizable names in the world. And, in most cases, with good reason. Yet, that does not mean the world is a barren wasteland. In fact, some of the most prominent companies in the US are loaded with people who graduated from schools outside of the US, people who have driven innovation and wonderful things for decades. Don't take that approach. It is wrong and misinformed.

US education has problems that can be fixed with the right approach and incentives. This is not insurmountable, it simply requires recognizing the issues and acting in the best interest of future generations and the nation.
The tragedy at the heart of this "hate health insurance companies" is that they aren't even very profitable businesses. Their margins are actually below average, and pretty poor investments compared to things like tech and finance.
> In 2014 Ukraine overthrew their (democratically elected) pro-Russian president with extensive support from the US

Wrong. The Ukrainian parliament voted 328-vs-0 to hold early elections after the sitting president got over hundred protesters killed and ran away from the country fearing criminal prosecution.

> leading numerous regions that are heavily ethnic Russian, including Crimea, to declare their independence.

Wrong again. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it was an operation by Russian military and security services. They could not find any evidence of an actual separatist movement.

> In 2019 Ukraine added joining NATO as a goal to their constitution

... which is 5 years after Russia invaded Ukraine.

> the US was obviously rapidly moving in that direction with them

Again, obviously wrong. Three years later, by the time Russia launched the full-scale invasion, Ukraine was still nowhere near joining the NATO. We saw rapid timeline with Sweden and Finland. Informal negotiations started early 2022, formal invitation issued June 2022, all ratifications complete by national parliaments by April 2023 (Finland) and March 2024 (Sweden). To this day, Ukraine has not even been invited to start talks. The process hasn't even begun yet.

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What's the point of posting obvious lies and excuses? These are not even valid arguments, but clear factually incorrect statements.
I was frustrated with my local Duane Reade's failures, randomly marking scripts as "call us to fill" when I tried to fill them online, only to then say "oh yeah it'll be ready in XYZ" "can you tell me why you made me call you?" "no it just does that sometimes."

So I tried a bunch of local pharmacies, which were all much worse experiences in various ways (failure to fill scripts because they couldn't source things, their online systems straight up didn't work, the lines to pick things up were very long...)

Then I tried Capsule, which was great...at first. Then one day, they completely failed to deliver a med I was about to run out of, and their "24/7 live chat" took 4+ hours to respond that they couldn't get it to me until after I would have missed a dose, and when I replied to that, got an automated message that it was closed for the day.

So now I just suck it up and deal with the Duane Reade, because there is so much further down to go.
Bond could be bi.
The reason I would rather we'd kept walled gardens (plural is fine, given that monopolies are also bad) is that I expect such apps will quickly become sideloaded soon after it becomes possible.

We shall see — that may simply be a security mindset paranoia on my part.
This is a rather misleading headline. New Fuji Instax square-format analog cameras (and it's hard to say that Fujifilm isn't a major film brand) have been released in the past decade, and smaller companies like Lomography have been releasing new analog cameras. They never really went away.
This blog feels like karma farming. Recycled, old points in listicle format on a popular topic with questionable accuracy.
This is on top of mixing in grievances the author's startup holds against Dr Richard Hipp, like "won't accept (our) outside contributions" and "not actually open source according to OSI".

As far as content goes, this listicle is probably great for view counts/engagement/flamewars. I'd personally prefer deeper thinking which this blog's previous posts-- high in hype and low in technical rigor-- have not yet provided.
Similar projects exist for C# (https://github.com/sleeyax/CronetSharp), Go (https://github.com/sleeyax/cronet-go) and Rust (https://github.com/sleeyax/cronet-rs).

These can work well in some cases but it's always a tradeoff.
For those wondering how it works:

> The language model predicts the probabilities of the next token. An arithmetic coder then encodes the next token according to the probabilities. [1]

It’s also mentioned that the model is configured to be deterministic, which is how I would guess the decompression is able to map a set of token likelihoods to the original token?

[1] https://bellard.org/ts_zip/
USA Today's reporting is wrong. There are not 971 cases of school shootings. There are about that many "school incidents". Some of those incidents, like the one listed below, are where police responded to a report of someone with a gun and never found the person or gun.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3096236

Additionally, some of the 112 that did have a victim didn't even happen on campus. See this linked incident.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3091356
>Then the EU can stop them from selling their products to EU customers

So you want the EU to play whack-a-mole with fly by night IoT vendors, some of which might be shipping directly from China? Or do you want to fix this with even more regulation, like requiring licenses to import IoT products or whatever?
> But a shooting in USA will be displayed everywhere...

No, it won't. Unless it's a very large or very notable one (school w/multiple deaths, lots of deaths, politician, etc.), it'll be a line item on the day's evening news for the local TV station. We have 10k+ a year, not "a couple per week". I don't even hear of most of the ~50/year that happen in my fairly small city.

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

> In 2017, compared to 22 other high-income nations, the U.S. gun-related homicide rate was 25 times higher. Although the US has half the population of the other 22 nations combined, among those 22 nations studied, the U.S. had 82 percent of gun deaths, 90 percent of all women killed with guns, 91 percent of children under 14 and 92 percent of young people between ages 15 and 24 killed with guns, with guns being the leading cause of death for children.
Will all our drugs come from China?
Cool :) I'm a co-author on this. AMA.

This is now a peer-reviewed paper, published last month in Cell [https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01091-2].

Obelisks are part of a larger research program we're developing at the University of Toronto + collaborators, see also: Virus-Viroid Hybrids paper [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38301-2] and the Zeta-Elements [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04332-2].

Computational biology is driving a revolutionary expansion of our understanding of Earth's biodiversity. I believe Zeta-elements, Ambiviruses, and Obelisks are just the beginning. If you're interested, our "Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms" (University of Toronto) is hiring passionate developers/post-docs/graduate students [https://www.rnalab.ca].

Edit: OK going to call it for now. I'll check in later today if there's any outstanding questions.
This is just as true for the European systems in the comment you’re replying to as it is in the American system. The problem is political.
FWIW, there are two ideas of parallelism being conflated here. One is the parallel execution of the different sequential steps of an instruction (e.g. fetch, decode, operate, retire). That's "pipelining", and it's a different idea than decoding multiple instructions in a cycle and sending them to one of many execution units (which is usually just called "dispatch", though "out of order execution" tends to connote the same idea in practice).

The Fog tables try hard show the former, not the latter. You measure dispatch parallelism with benchmarks, not microscopes.

Also IIRC there are still some non-pipelined units in Intel chips, like the division engine, which show latency numbers ~= to their execution time.
I agree with that: sadly, the most pressing security risk to any consumer isn’t on my devices, but online services being breached (or disclosing) private information including passwords! Over the last years I’ve gotten data breach notifications from Equifax, AT&T, Ticketmaster, and United Healthcare (via Change.) I think the average informed tech user will benefit more from training (and reminders!) to keep your online information private than, say, telling them to avoid previewing complex file formats.
Even v3?

edit: Fair enough. I'm fishing for opinions too.
The king says they want a pyramid. The middle managers get you all in for a stand up and tell you they need those blocks ready by the end of the quarter. You make the blocks. The transport team move the blocks to the site. The block laying team complain your blocks aren’t good enough and you have an argument about block standards. 20,000 people are put to death. The pyramid is completed.
they already are...
Once side loading is available, the stupids will do it for “freedom” or whatever.

Regulating the AppStore makes sense. Proliferating lots of them is the most inane policy decision ever.
Why I chose SolidJS to rewrite my app
>The dress code is strictly observed for the
tournament and all the official events and press
conferences.

Meanwhile Arkady Dvorkovich, President of FIDE : https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1hntyjb/arkady_dvork...

Dvorkovich is putins puppet, covering for Medvedev when putin was pretending to take a break.
Both are awkward in that I could reasonably expect to exceed them in the lifetime of a hardware authenticator.

The ideal number would be infinite and is in fact very achievable with a very small API modification, but alas, the WebAuthN working group didn't consider it necessary: https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1822
Not a morning person. I stay in bed for 45min then (prepare myself + eat breakfast) in 10min then leave for work.
When I was out of a job I used to walk in the forest. I made and received calls from it and found a job. By doing (the things that felt bad) outside of my appartment they stopped feeling bad.
A school shooting in Germany would be headline news around the world.

Nobody really cares when it's criminals shooting other criminals.

The latest American one only made the news because a girl did it.
Does this guy (Fabrice Bellard) have a podcast interview anyone would recommend?
Switzerland is a perfect example, thank you. Even without going deep into laws and nuance, the mere fact that we are referring to it by a single name and consider a mostly single entity at least as far as outside is concerned, tells us all. That's what EU needs to become (again, only in my opinion) - a bigger Switzerland.
At very least the French and Italian people would disagree (I’m French and Italian).

Seems like folks across Europe were pretty upset with the number of asylum seekers and the problems that followed their migration into Europe in the last couple of years. Their governments didn’t seem to give much of a shit and that’s led to more right-wing support.
Sorry to report that there is literally only one listed for my city about 45 minutes away on the other side of town.
Thinking in Systems: A Primer is an introduction into systems thinking, about stocks (resources), flows (actions) and feedback loops. The book isn't an argument against growth, but an argument for the sustainability of systems, especially how to think about and model them. The boundaries of a modelled system are purely conceptional and won't exist in the real world like we'd wrongly assume, D. Meadows makes this more than clear. I think @arthurjj is reading something into it that just isn't there.
Health culture in the US and Danemark are complete opposites. I mean how common people think about the system, and their expectations. Americans basically do not want to pay for anyone else than themselves. Europeans expect a strong social safety net, and accept higher taxes. So, you can't apply the danish system in the US. It would be anathema for a large part of the US population.
Is there an Anti-Innovation and an Anti-Tech and an Anti-Business sentiment from EU?

Status quo ante technium :)
I guess I should clarify. I'm not surprised how much writers like it. I'm more surprised by how many non-programmers are enthusiastic about diving into elisp.
IBM / HashiCorp Merger Inquiry
That's fair, but different LLM behave differently, so you would have to redo your testing from scratch if you were to swap the model. I think that would be the primary problem.
> Amazon might be a good analogy here. I'm old enough to remember when Amazon absorbed billions of VC money, making losses year over year.

Apparently old enough to forget the details. I highly recommend refreshing your memory on the topic so you don’t sound so foolish.

1. Amazon had a very minimal amount of VC funding (less than $100M, pretty sure less than $10M)

2. They IPO’d in 1997 and that still brought in less than $100M to them.

3. They intentionally kept the company at near profitability, instead deciding to invest it into growth for the first 4-5yrs as a public company. It’s not that they were literally burning money like Uber.

4. As further proof they could’ve been profitable sooner if they wanted, they intentionally showed a profit in ~2001 following the dotcom crash.

Edit: seems the only VC investment pre-IPO was KP’s $8M. Combine that with the seed round they raised from individual investors and that comes in under $10M like I remembered.
Uniforms in sports have often to do with tradition (on top of the aspects you mentioned). Look at Golf, Tennis or Judo/BJJ dress codes for instance. Most sports have a dress code and if you look into the details, there are often arbitrary elements.

Many other social activities which you may not call sport have dress codes too. On the top of my head, I can think of Bridge or Snooker. Nothing really fundamentally peculiar with Chess. I don't blame Carlsen for asking to review the rules though.
> Promotional material issued by ATSC claimed that the ADE 651 could detect such item as guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, human bodies, contraband ivory and bank notes at distances of up to 1 kilometre (0.62 mi), underground, through walls, underwater or even from aircraft at an altitude of up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi).

Could they have at least tried to make their lies believable?
Well, if my dad had died, I would understand the DM has no clue, until I say something.

If I say something and that scene plays out, things are understandably ugly.

If I don't and find myself uncomfortable, that is on me to manage, nobody else at the table.

How are these things so damn hard for people to understand?

All that was true when I played years ago. People would intro the game, have chat about stuff and then get into it. I recall having tough conversations, and I recall just being a good human to the other humans as a given.

I don't get the discussion today.
Sadly, as the slide from high-trust society to low-trust society continues, doing "the right thing" becomes less and less likely.
Curb your perfectionism and keep things as simple as you can.
This applies not just your business, but life as well.

Also, take care of yourself. Not getting distracted is difficult as it is, but will get impossible once you are exhausted.
Interesting and much needed--I absolutely refuse to go to Twitter links anymore; why bother, they don't usually work unless you're logged in. So, I clicked some of the links and, at this time, they don't load in a reasonable amount of time, I assume due to the Hug of Death or whatever it is we call that here.

This one loaded: https://unlace.app/thread/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381..., but oddly it's duplicating the thread.
More to Meditation
Even if it's possible technically, I don't think it's very practical, as UX is very heavily directed towards a single passkey provider. I can imagine doing this for one or two most important websites, but not for each of dozens (hundreds?) websites users have registeration on.
Because usually leases aren't new custom property sizes, they're of existing spaces, and if only your kind of thing will fit in there, why would they carve up their larger space to have spots that size?
An hour after the parent post, the about page https://www.employer.com/about now redirects to the home page https://www.employer.com/ — must have been an error that the webmaster has corrected.
> People are becoming increasingly neurotic and fragile, and coupled with that we are increasingly unable to fluidly deal with differences this creates as they arise.

Another way to interpret this would be that people are becoming increasingly comfortable with telling people they're not comfortable with something, and leaving when others at the table are refusing to take the feelings of others into consideration.

> We're talking about playing a boardgame with friends, do we really need to have a trigger-warning session?

D&D isn't always played with friends. Not that many of my friends play D&D, or are interested in; most of the people I've played with were strangers to me when we first began playing.

> Every time I hang out with my friends should we update our daily list of no-no words first?

You likely have this list in your head already for your friends; it's not necessary to explicitly rehash it because you've built a relationship with these people, and you know not to brag about your awesome trip with your dad in front of someone who's dad died last week.

But when you're meeting new people, you don't know what they've gone through. That's why it's better to be explicit at the start of this.
It is, and has long been illegal to make false statements of fact in marketing materials.

Puffery, on the other hand is allowed. That usually entails non-falsifiable statements like "Evolv is the best way to detect guns". "Best" doesn't really mean anything because there are a bunch of tradeoffs that go into designing a security screening system.
Given that claim denials most often happen after the services are rendered the shortage issue
is probably not that significant.

But nonetheless health insurance being affordable only because insurance companies can simply choose to
not provide service to their customers and if people stopped forgoing necessary medical care there would be shortages aren't I think the points you think your making.
Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality
I feel you, exact same routine here.
But that second argument of "saving grandma" isn't an issue in Europe either. You think we just abandoned old people with difficult health care needs to the dogs? They get first class care in most European countries - if anything, the issue is the reverse of what you describe. Most young people resent how much they pay in tax for a system they rarely use, while the elderly spend much of their geriatric life bed bound in hospital getting 24/7 care, all for free on the working person's dime despite them being long retired with no private health coverage. I'm typing this right now from a general practice surgery in the UK. The place is full the brim with older people getting local treatment, fast. I booked this morning and they're seeing me the same day. Much of what Americans get fed on the news about waiting lines is exaggerated from the days of Covid. For most services you get seen in a few weeks. My local allergy checks happened within a week. I broke my ankle playing rugby a few months ago and was seen, xrayed, got surgery, and was out the door within 48 hours. Some specialisms are still struggling to get through the backlog of patients, but it's just that - a backlog from when all the surgeries were closed and running on no funding because everything went into Covid-19 treatment.

If you're so concerned about not getting the latest and greatest treatment, in the UK private and public health care have started to work progressively more hand in hand. My family are all covered by my private insurance through work. We get consultations online through an app, and they refer us to either and NHS surgery or a private one, depending on which is fastest and has the best health outcomes. That's a privilege not everyone has, but everyone gets the next best thing which is free universal health care covered by all tax payers - corporate and individual.

This "decision" that you seems to think exists isn't one. We get the best of both worlds - a society where the poor don't fight tooth and nail for health care with the risk of becoming forever indebted and subjected to poverty, and the rich get whatever level of service they're willing to pay for.

Personally, I think you're all fed a lot of propoganda by folks that make a lot of money out of the misery of your healthcare system.
Can anyone explain what ARC actually is? All I see is some colored rows. It has to find the pattern of the colors?
Do you expect that Apple’s bigger security initiatives, like pointer authentication and writing the OS in a memory safe language, will improve the situation?
Ironic that there is a dichotomy between Google and Bing with orders of magnitude less traffic than AI organizations, because only Google really has fresh docs. Bing isn't terrible but their index is usually days old. But something like Claude is years out of date. Why do they need to crawl that much?