skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you can dig into the details, as Politico did
https://www.politico.eu/article/cancer-europe-america-compar...

and found:
The reason the U.S.’s strong performance on cancer comes as a shock is because access to care in the country is notoriously unequal. But, it turns out, that's far less true of the elderly.

Age 65 is when virtually everyone in the U.S. qualifies for Medicare — America’s national, taxpayer-subsidized, government-run (dare we say socialized), comprehensive health insurance program.

in other words, the data you are arguing with shows that EU style socialized medicine produced better outcomes.
I’m having a hard time finding any source. Would somebody please help me?
for me, appendix / appendixes (organ) / appendices (to a book) too, just like index / indexes (database) / indices
I guess you will just have to read the article then huh?
Thanks for taking the time to point that out. Maybe high exchange rate or highly convertible is more correct to say.
The benchmark doesn't accurately represent the real-world database performance because the dataset is too small (roughly half a gigabyte based on [1]?), meaning it fits into the page cache bypassing disk I/O.

[1]: https://github.com/voidDB/voidDB/blob/master/test/bench_test...
Casio has a few watches with tide functionality in their G-Shock line. Bit more expensive than the F91W, but still great watches. They’re marketed to surfers, often under the G-LIDE name. Here’s a thread about some of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/gshock/comments/18jpgq5/casio_gshoc...
Stablecoins are not a different beast. I'm going to assume they are heavily regulated in the US and Europe now but in the past they were used to amplify speculative bubbles in cypto by operating as unbacked fractional crypto dollars that only received value once a retail investor exchanged their currency for a stablecoin. I will also assume that not every country has enacted regulations that would restrict this kind of behavior and that there are still loopholes that money launderers and scammer can use.
How about this move that we're discussing? Getting rid of openly ideological research grants will help the replication rate quite a bit, as that stuff is riddled with basic replication problems, much worse than the median paper. It's just too easy to take some grant money then publish something pseudo-scientific which sounds good to left wing ears, knowing that nobody will double check because they want it to be true.

As an example, a lot of research into "misinformation" is like that. It's not replicable out of the gate because the papers don't describe their procedure for deciding whether a claim is true or false. They just present random lists of things that conservatives tend to believe, assert that none of them are true / they're conspiracy theories, then do a survey and use the results to conclude that conservatives are dumb / Russian bots. That's it, that's the entire field. There's no methodology, no theories, nothing to be refined or refuted. There are thousands of papers like this, it's astonishing to witness.

I've been writing for years on the topic of bad science, and the fact that universities/granting bodies claim to care about science whilst simultaneously funding and celebrating this stuff is why their reputation has gone down the drain. The consequences were absolutely predictable. Nobody can claim they didn't see it coming.

Right now, there's just a grant freeze combined with a review to find the really nakedly partisan DEI stuff. That's nothing. Much more intense stuff is well within the Overton Window of possibilities by this point, like ramped up prosecutions or large scale defunding.
Seems like it based on GH activity, but I don’t know for sure.

https://github.com/apache/pekko
I was disappointed when I found this isn't a service that delivers Publix Subs.
Trying to understand the point of view of companies switching from 3 days to 5 days. Do they see absolutely zero benefit to working from home part of the time?

I can understand -- even if I disagree with -- the idea that fully remote work hurts collaboration. But the hybrid seemed like an easy way to capture the benefits of remote work (focused time, less commute) while still allowing for frequent in person collaboration.
The one thing that will universally get me in a video game is head bob mixed with weapon sway. My brain will nope the heck out of those games almost instantly. I will happily ride the worst roller coasters, boats, busses, and cars I can find and get zero motion sickness. One minute playing Call of Duty? Done.

FOV helps with some games, but the bob is always what gets me. I would love the option to turn stuff like that off.
From what I gather

- they keep a payment token linking the credit card transaction to the VPN account for x days before deleting it.

- You can mail them cash or send them cryptocurrency to avoid them having any data.

- They may need to mitigate the EMV chargeback policy

Maybe reducing the refund time is a bad thing, though also maybe it reduces the amount of time that you would need to hold an account before doing risky stuff with it if you didn't want to send them cash. (providing you assume they are true to their word and that no one has backdoored them to log the data without their knowledge)
you can, for now at least, still use reasonML with js_of_ocaml to compile to javascript if you like reason syntax but don't want to a more complicated relationship with the ocaml ecosystem (we use this for https://hazel.org)
Ollama is also written for technical/developer users, by accident (it seems), even though they don't want it to be strictly for technical users. I've opened a issue asking them to make it more clear that Ollama is for technical users, but they seem confident people with no terminal experience can and will also use Ollama: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/7116
Again, it is not a failure of him or his project that his development process heavily relied on him reviewing, modifying and merging patches and that he at times did not commit time to do that. He was not obliged to do more than what he did and vim was indeed very successful.

However, it is also very understandable why vim was forked by the neovim devs, in my view it has been a great success. That doesn't diminish Bram Molenaars achievements and contributions to the world.
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Kamala was also unelected for her position as the democratic candidate for the 2024 election.

My opinion is that was a really dumb idea that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory for the democrats.

And the cray crays (“Elon is a Nazi”) have the nerve to accuse the other side of being the threat to democracy. Compared to the non-election anointing of Kamala, other unelected people are just noise. You know I’m right. All of this is just fallout from the unelected candidate being pushed on unwanting voters.
Does NYC have a hell-hole stereotype? Other cities do, and 80's NYC does, and some people throw that shade at all metros, but I wasn't aware of NYC being specifically mis-characterized as being worse than average.

Regardless, this usage of statistics is an excellent example of one of the disconnects between Americans (and I assume other groups of people).

NYC is wonderful, and very safe as far as major cities go. Driving is much less safe, but is safe-ish. We live in a safe world, statistically speaking.

But it's critical to accept that people don't only care about statistics. Humans have emotions. If in town A your chance of being beaten in the street is higher than your chance of being injured in a car accident, and in town B the odds are equal and reversed, people are going to be more angry and critical of town A, especially if the car accidents are not perceived as being of unusually negligent origin (i.e. it's not because everybody there is drunk all the time).

Now if you slide the statistics to counteract the perceived negativity of the two things, at some point they equal out, theoretically, but in practice, it's apples and oranges. In other words, behavior and intention matter. Dignity and civilization matter - a lot. Autonomy and responsibility matter. Crime and deliberate carelessness are not the same as, e.g., a pure accident.

It's the same reason people are more outraged about being hurt by a robot than by a human-driven vehicle.

We have to accept that this side of human nature is intrinsic, and not by itself irrational, even though it is sometimes the source of irrational decision making, when people get too swept up in it.
Google claims there are 1.4 billion iPhone users. If they replace once every 5 years that’s 280 million phones sold a year without growing the market at all. Apple doesn’t really need to grow iPhone base to make their sales numbers at this point. Keeping the App Store 30% cut is their most important job now.
Building a community focused on something isn't hard, you grab a few people you know with shared interest, and they grab and invite their friends. Small game development communities everywhere thrive, I've never been a part of one that wasn't doing well.

Building a large community not focused on anything is much harder.
This looks like it might work on my ordinary Dell Latitude laptop, which certainly doesn't support QMK for its internal keyboard as much as I wish it did!
NASA's 2 stuck astronauts take their first spacewalk together
But it __is__ relevant to the article that iodine cannot be synthesized by the human body ...
TLDR retention is more important than top of funnel
The inverse of “defense in depth” is “flooding the zone”.
In a sense, Harry Potter is the worst when it comes to class divide.

What let the kids go to that boarding school is the innate ability to do magic. A privilege you are born with, and that is dependent on your ancestry. Even if "blood purity" is a recurring theme for the bad guys in the books, it is made clear that the ability to do magic is like a gene, and if you are born a muggle, you will stay a muggle.

The reason it is worse than selection based on wealth or even nobility is that while it may be something you are born with, this is also something you can acquire, not so much with magic.

Not only that but there is essentially no drawback to being a wizard. Wizards tend to dislike muggle tech, but there is effectively nothing preventing their use, it is just that they can do better with magic. In the same way that being born rich comes with a lot of advantages and very few disadvantages.

The idea of innate magic ability that make those who have it strictly superior is extremely common, and honestly, it works, but if you want a story where the idea is that anyone have their chance, which is how I interpret the idea of "not just wealthy kids", then Harry Potter is not that.

That being said, as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't take anything away from the story, not everything has to be a political statement, and in fact, making a political statement often makes the story worse.
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In my experience, it doesn’t get its extremely simple job done.

I’ve tried a half dozen systemd distros. Each one hit some insane bug at some point that took a day to debug. Every single time, it was some undocumented systemd thing that has no reason for existing.

Anyway, it’s all devuan and openbsd at home these days. I’ve had zero non-hardware related issues in over a year.

Actually, that’s not true. Devuan still defaults to pulseaudio (the moral precursor to systemd), which still doesn’t support locking your audio output port in a way that survives reboot. It also crashes randomly when audio ports come and go. The upside is it randomly requires a reboot or moves audio out to an unconnected jack.

I replaced it with pipewire, bringing the number of Poettering services on my machines to zero. Now things work reasonably.
> Congress doesn’t have the ability to pass national rent control, for example

Rent control should be easy to fit within "general welfare".
Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA
Because some are actually superior. Especially folding phones out of China are well ahead.
I’m using openwebui, can this replace ollama in my setup?
The HN audience, you and I.
most of the time folks are fermenting ginger beer, it's just to carbonate it. ginger beer isn't usually fermented to produce alcohol like a normal beer.

since there is so much sugar available in ginger beer, fermenting/carbonating it in sealed glass bottles will result in bottle bombs.

skip the fermentation completely: 2 liter plastic soda bottles are great for force-carbonating with a co2 tank. if you really don't like plastic you could find a 1 gallon stainless steel keg and carbonate (and serve) from that.
It seems to be a warning only from the authors because at least one person (not 2.5B) got hacked. A bit of a desperate attempt to get attention as far as I can see.
It's pretty relevant here considering XMR was pretty much blacklisted from exchanges and majority of it's activity is criminal in nature. Yet here it is with millions of market cap being completely unbothered by any kind of regulatory changes.
I love seeing tiling window managers in unexpected languages as someone who is mostly know for maintaining a twm!

I recently also became aware of a tiling window manager written in Janet which I'm sure will be a hit with Emacs and lisp fans![1]

[1]: https://agentkilo.itch.io/jwno/devlog/871672/scroll-jwno-scr...
I think it's pretty telling that you listed 3 countries you are absolutely not friendly with, and so whose opinion of America's reputation is not really relevant.

What about your allies?
good point. I added more information to the README
I think they moved to Dyalog APL (modern commercial Windows implementation of APL) many years ago. You can find plenty of Volvo presentations on their inventory system on Dyalog's website. That doesn't mean that they don't still have some mainframe thing going on.
'Groundbreaking': scientists develop patch that can repair damaged hearts
I don't understand what you mean? Nobody has control over historical events? I don't control the astronaut policy?
Asteroid samples revealed clues about the possible origins of life
I think the market for anything embedded in Europe is crap.. not enough quality gigs and salaries are meh

You better try freelancing in UK with that, but you won't be comfortable unless u can really minimize your lifestyle costs...

If you are single and willing to live in a shoebox you'll be fine tho

Google and apple are doing embedded stuff in Germany too, but otherwise I would stay out of europe
Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration
Don't worry, they haven't.
Human augmentation is an important step in human evolution, but unfortunately many players in this sphere are not serious people. I think the issue is that perhaps well-meaning and well-funded people are unable to differentiate between real science, potential research topics, and pseudoscience. I don’t think this issue will resolve itself till people who are serious about this research actively invite criticism and peer-review.
Just because something is Science, does not make it above being ideological. There is tonnes of evidence for this collected [0]:

> The trio set out with the intent to expose problems in what they called "grievance studies", referring to academic areas where they claim "a culture has developed in which only certain conclusions are allowed ... and put social grievances ahead of objective truth".

They proved their point. When only papers of a certain conclusion are accepted which further an ideological belief, Science is dead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
Antarctic Ice Sheet May Be Less Vulnerable Than Previously Thought
Dead subreddits, dead forums and abandoned meetups might disagree with that assessment. Building a community is far from easy and there's a lot of effort involved to keep it going as an organizer or moderator. Setting it up initially is easy, keeping it going for many years is hard.

I've set up, moderated forums, irc servers and organized a regular meetup for many years and I've seen that all the time.
Meritocracy.
Right, which was exactly my point. By cherry picking statistics you can make any developed country look better than any other developed country. So what.
> The Athenians and Romans weren’t capitalist.

False premise.

> But they were closer to it than Marxism or neoliberalism. (They both had private property, money in elections, trade, finance, et cetera.)

Just false.
High-Speed Face-Tracking for Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping
n-o-d-e has what he calls a data runner mod which includes simply swapping the stock green light with a brighter white one. I’ve had one for years now, and its still not ideal, but definitely better than the original:

https://n-o-d-e.net/datarunner.html
We had UNIX working fine, all these aux GNU projects came to life purely out of psychological reasons. Can we label them malicious?
Thanks a lot for the explanation.

If I can ask one more question, why don't Ollama use binaries of pre-built llama.cpp with Vulkan support directly?
In hindsight, yes, but I’m not sure it looked like it at the time. Surely, it took Apple years to start making ‘real’ money on selling Macs. They needed their Apple 2 line to pay the bills for years.

Also, it wasn’t as much tech (bitmapped displays and computer mice existed elsewhere) as a vision that Apple took from Xerox, and they improved upon it/changed it quite a bit. Examples:

- Alto’s GUI is verb-object, Mac is object-verb

- Alto doesn’t have overlapping windows.

- did Alto have cross-process copy-paste?

- simplifying the mouse down to a single button may have been necessary to gain acceptance. (For comparison, look at https://youtu.be/2Z43y94Dfzk?feature=shared)
This is interesting and was not on my radar thank you for sharing this.
Ctrl-f tautology in the article, it turns out that is not the case because of madvise free.
> Was it just things we couldn't observe at all without modern scanning electron micrography?

Perhaps also that we couldn't imagine, much less accept, that a dumb semi-random process tweaking bits could, over time, organize those bits into higher level abstract structures. We still mostly talk about evolution mutating genes, where perhaps if you zoom out a little, it's actually working at a higher level of abstraction.

Incidentally, this is the same outlook as some people have today wrt. LLMs - they can't accept the idea that backprop running on a blob of weights representing a simple (if large) graph can start encoding increasingly high-level, abstract organizational structures.
this was the kind of hardware that got me into VFX. However by the time I got there, the last vestiges of non-x86 based hardware were mostly banished.

One of the oddities or interesting parts about paintbox and later systems (including harrys and henrys, they were in use right up until ~2010) is that they didn't have a "framestore" that is, you painted one image, saved it to tape, loaded in a new one etc etc. There was no real "local" storage for keeping frames, as the article pointed out.

I had heard that there were disk based framestores, but I'd never seen one. There are a few people on mastodon that specialise in restoring Quantel kit like this.

Ofcourse David Hockney used a piantbox to produce some bollocks, as he always does, but that doesn't do justice to the epic artistry that paintbox operators had.
I use it to get JSON pretty often. See also: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1885091289554968975
I modded mine with olive oil when I bought it. Pretty indestructible.
Garmin Descent series watches have free diving activity profiles and support tides. It kind of "cheats" by downloading tide data from Garmin servers via a Bluetooth connection to your smartphone so it's not doing any tide calculations on the device.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/766516/pn/010-02604-01#specs
This is such a funny post to see. As if programmers decided to capitulate to shareholder demands and layoff a ton of us (masking it as over-hiring, raising issues, interest rates, etc) or push for RTO.
Whether crypto hurts or helps financial inclusion remains to be seen in places like Africa and Latin America. The majority of coins are pump-and-dumps or rug pulls, but after 15+ years of BTC somehow surviving, I still have hope crypto can provide financial access to those without direct bank access in these areas without being massive scams or abused by crime.
On what basis do you declare Elon Musk "conservative"? (No less, the one man whose actions define conservatism!) Are you perhaps confusing conservatism with "current support of a Republican politician"?

I agree with you regarding Musk's hypocrisy around free speech.

Oh, and if you're looking for someone who believes the law protects him but does not bind him, you might like to read the news on the current (Democratic) mayor of Chicago.
Their net income for the previous quarter results was $15.3 billion, in what way are they known for being unprofitable?
Just a friendly reminder: no entity has destroyed and/or kept hidden more collective human knowledge than the Roman Empire i.e. The Catholic Church. AGI not controlled and/or filtered by the Church or it's globe controlling cronies will be a genuine threat to them all.
They claimed to be a bank (savings account) that would give users free lottery tickets for saving money on their app. After freezing customer assets on the app, they pivoted to gambling. Customer funds are still frozen last I checked.

Their launch HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780062

Coffeezilla has a good video exposing the fraud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUkajbg688
More importantly it’s the last payment day for the 23/24 tax return!
Are you asking about design, running a studio, development practices besides code (art, writing, animation etc), market research?
There are probably lots of weird shapes used in practice, but the nice thing about game design is that you get to build the mesh directly instead of making your best guess at what kind of surface unconnected points ought to represent. Mapping to a sphere is definitely pretty restrictive.
Used this to identify that my 2019 16" MBP with 5300M GPU was drawing 20W at idle from the gpu when connected to a 1440p60 monitor.
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I think you're failing to realize just how few complaints and misconduct are actually looked into in any sort of depth. It's not that "when they look they see things". It's that misconduct happens so frequently that it's trivial to find once you start looking.

https://cpdp.co is a good site to review these sorts of questions for. Disclaimer again, though - I'm a contributor to the project.
Who cares about engagement numbers?

The things this site used to offer was there might be an article about a security breach, a brand new highly anticipated feature in a major product, a historical article about a long forgotten but major technological achievement.

Then a key person from that story would chime in with their take about what the article got right or wrong, offer to answer questions. And that is assuming they didn't directly make the post.

Nobody actually wants to read self promotion blog spam, besides other people pretending to be engaged so they can do the same
Ngmi
Sublime has a place in my heart, it was my first editor as IDE when I started 15 years ago. Such a great piece of software, thanks for all the work!
I think you’d really have to break it down in much more detail to say much at all. I mean, it isn’t even obvious to me at least that “more labor law” is a meaningful measure. We have some onerous and overbearing regulations in the US, for example Right To Work laws, which restrict the types of terms that a company and union can put in their contact. But we don’t think of that as “more labor law” because it works against labor.

Paperwork in the US can be kind of complicated. It is just both complicated and poorly aligned.
Pardons for sale?
Am I the only one that consciously uses that muscle??
I read and didn't get. Perhaps 'has to buy' well, has other meanings.