skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scale argument is thrown around a lot as a justification for why the US couldn't possibly implement universal healthcare. The elephant in the room that I'm always surprises at how rarely it's mentioned in these discussions is Brazil, which is a huge country of comparable size (both territory and population wise), and it manages to make UHC work even though it's also a much poorer country.

It's not perfect by any means, but it's definitely much better than nothing. So the US should absolutely be able to at the very least match that, but really most likely it should be able to do much better. That it doesn't is very much a choice.
Yep, having a single supplier of the system layer usually ends up with better backwards compatibility for binary distribution.

That's also why I have the opinion that the world is worse off due to the fact that Linux "won" Unix wars.
Potato: A hybrid CPU/GPU 2D renderer design
Thanks for making this! I got an invite to contribute some time ago but didn't have the time to put something together - it looks amazing though; I'll have to figure out something good next time.
> I wonder how many people really brush their teeth on a regular basis.

Whatever the number is it's not appropriate for the state to medically intervene on their behalf.
How do you feel about the fossil fuel industry, because they're responsible for far more carcinogens entering your body than Big Flouride.
That is true, but the catch is that reputation is very easy to lose and very hard to gain.
I've never set fire to a car so I'm not worried.
It increases fluoride content in the saliva
This genuinely seems like a Black Mirror episode from the core seasons.

It starts slowly playing anodyne ads that get progressively more and more accurate, eventually turning to prescient ads about the future--maybe an ad for a divorce you didn't see coming, an illness etc

The owner throws the TV out but then starts seeing other prescient ads in storefronts, kiosks...
TIL. I'm gonna check this out. It's good to see that people are already working on this, because it's one of those things that, to me, just makes a lot of sense. You'd think that with the all of the layers of abstraction we have nowadays, it should be possible to run software on any underlying system in an ergonomic fashion, even if it's not necessarily efficient.
But it won't be their family members, in most cases. It will be some despicable "cultural Marxists" or even more abstract "terrorists". And the rapes? Fake news.
> he made great things.

Read https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/parentalguide

Anyone who calls that great enjoys the perversion of mankind, and it is nothing less than that.

It's a sickness, and lots of people have it, and they're so sick they think they're just perfectly fine.

But everyone's choices are theirs to make, for good or ill, and we are all running up a tab, and we all must pay our bill. Some lucky few of us have a positive balance, because we embrace compassion with the art of our lives.

There are people whose going is the only time they're going to make the world a better place, for their simply no longer being a persistent negative influence.
The people of Flint, MI were (and some still are!) forced to drink bottled water for years when their water was contaminated with lead.

When you drink from publicly supplied water, you accept risks that can be much worse than fluoride in your water. If you want to avoid that, you need to procure your own drinking water.
When someone writes something that they know is not true, it's called being deceptive.

Vizio wrote this:

>Q: Can I turn Scenic Mode ads off?
A: No, not at this time.
Win 11 must have some sort of contextual HDMI audio switching where it figures out exactly where you want your audio to go and then does the opposite. Because my Win 11 work laptop loves to re-enable HDMI audio and make it the active audio connection despite the fact that neither of my monitors have built in speakers.
> The Straight Story

That indeed was a nice movie. It stands out exactly as it's not like any other Lynch movies.

I always wondered what that meeting with Walt Disney Pictures looked like. "-Ok, David, please, just can you not do your Lynch thing? -What do you mean, a Lynch thing? -Oh you know..."
Show HN: Star Trek database, using SQLite
This isn't exactly a new project, it dates back to 2015 and started in PostgreSQL (the "postgresql" tag represents the last state of that database). As a weekend project, I overhauled it to port over to SQLite, partly as an exercise, but also to increase its usability. Since SQLite requires no server to install or administer, and the database is a single file, it's now real easy to pass around and play with.

While it is biased to Star Trek media that I own and enjoy, it can still be fun to query and get answers to questions you never thought to ask.

Example queries:

Listing episodes of The Next Generation season 1 by star date: SELECT title, airdate, episode_number, stardate FROM tng WHERE season = 1 ORDER BY stardate;

If your birthday is March 15, find the episodes that aired on that day: SELECT series.title AS series, episode.title AS episode, airdate FROM episode JOIN series USING (series_id) WHERE airdate like '%-03-15';

Pick a random episode of Enterprise to watch, and display the Blu-ray disc to find it on: SELECT * FROM ent_bluray ORDER BY random() LIMIT 1;
>Why would they want to make it seem like they are forcing you to watch ads?

Defaults are powerful. They want people to believe that's just how their TV works now, because it's a hassle to buy a new TV.
No, but I think spending 10% of your food budget on soda is unfortunate regardless. Of course they have a right to it.
At least they have an FAQ about it... not that I endorse ads baked into your TV
The other day someone sent me a video where the candidate was lip syncing (very badly) the entire interview while someone spoke the answers outside the camera.

A tool like this would be very handy for him.
Expect any comment using the trigger "downvoted" to be diwnvoted because comments about voting are against guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment about the voting on comments.

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit

There's plenty of readers with showdead set to Norway and that read and interact with downvoted comments. However if comments/articles get flagged then they get memory-holed.

If you need to discuss politics, then the easiest solution is to find another social media about the article - one that desires political comments.

Please downvote this comment.
That depends on the TV. I have 3 smart TVs from different manufacturers that have never been online. They all turn on as fast as my dumb computer monitors.
Well the issue is that stories from “friends of friends” tend to get super unreliable very fast. Unless someone is coming on the record as having been employed themselves, stories from friends are almost always a lot of BS.
2% is definitely many
You're getting this backwards. Claiming most asylum refusals are due to fraud without anyevidence is the opposite of common sense

Also having an economic as well as other reaspns to immigrate does not mean someone isnt a qualified refuge or or not facing persecution or are committing fraud.

Taxes are complicated just like our immigration system. Many people make innocent mistakes every year, most people don't want IRS to come down as hard as they can on every innocent mistake by treating it as fraud without any proof. They expect corrections and if necessary small fines.aw
That's been fixed.
My daily driver has minimal apps, most from F-Droid. An old iPad on my IOT network has any other apps needed.
What do you mean with "refused to patch this"? Google will reject any app publishing attempt that asks for that filter and isn't a launcher on Play store.
Longhorn: Cloud native distributed block storage for Kubernetes
Very awesome. Not sure what'd I'd ever use it for anything but it's cool to know the option exists.
web3 means different things to different people, much like how AI-powered means different things to different people.

All that matters is that the moneyed class is able to choose a slightly related definition of it that generates speculative value.
I was a summer intern at IBM Kinston NY, where the PC hardware was being developed. I remember being told by one of the engineers that IBM had decided to use standard components for the PC, except for the keyboard.

The original keyboard was so bad (he said) it was also replaced, I think in 1981 or 1982. Apparently the group in charge had internal disagreements leading to a compromise design.

(I have no proof of this and my memory is going, so any corroboration or rebuttal would be welcomed.
I would have to strongly recommend nobody enroll a personal device in a company MDM. If the company needs you to have mobile connectivity that badly, they can give you a device.
I mean... isn’t that expected of an MDM? I have always assumed that any company device (i.e. any device enrolled in an MDM) is under 100% control and surveillance of that company. Being able to see my installed apps is the least of my worries.
https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn
Digging through source was also helpful to me (I still do it quite a bit) GitHub code search was for a time quite useful, especially for somewhat arcane configuration (over the years, stuff like Cloudformation properties that aren't frequently used, cmake stuff, webpack and others come to mind)

Often grepping through a codebase where I know another example resides of something similar with a vague idea of what i'm looking for helps.
There is an old documentary called "the Revolution will not be Televised" about the Chavez presidency in Venezuela. If you watch it you will come away feeling that Chavez was treated pretty unfairly by the rightist media and "deep state" who attempted to overthrow his Presidency.

But even if that is true, it is also true that Chavez took many actions to centralize power, erode democratic safeguards in the Constitution, control the media and destroy the opposition parties. Every step was justified by pointing to the horrible rightist conspiracy against Chavez. But the end result was a dictatorship and the absolute ruin of the Venezuelan state.

This is normal for dictators. Many cast themselves as victims. Stalin was pressed on all sides by Capitalists, Kulaks, and Trotskyists. Hitler, of course, by Jews and Communists. Whether the accusations are pure fantasy or rooted in some level of real persecution of the movement, it is very important not to allow them to be used to justify the establishment of tyranny.
It's possible to use docker as a package manager. I worked jobs where did exactly that, because we needed to compile certain dependencies for our application, and it streamlined the whole process.

There's zero reason you couldn't create a small abstraction layer around docker so you can install "executables" that are really just launching within a container. I mean, isn't that the whole idea behind flatpak, snaps, and appimages?

The point is to leverage modern abstraction techniques so that people don't need to learn a new system.
Ah, somewhere you can find all those terrible interviewees in one place!
Payment acts as a filter for those not serious about posting actual products.
This was my perspective for awhile — recommend you look into more recent studies if you haven’t in the past 2y or so. I don’t think it’s the worst thing in our water but do think it’s objectively a bad idea.
Whenever you see them, just hold the door open while you look. The store needs to see the electricity spike and they'll get rid of them.
thanks for trying it! I still need to work on making it more resilient but glad you got to talk with her.

if you restart, she'll typically make it to the end on the second go.
Exactly this. In fact, what's a distro if not basically a well-maintained app directory?
Not really anymore - most need online junk to do anything. Ubisoft is super guilty of shutting down some VM that probably costs $1 a month to host co-op or multiplayer match making for splinter cell games etc
Sounds like the “one of” is doing a lot of work there
You could distribute Wine as a Flatpak platform. Flatpaks are already containers that run the same on all distros. Making a Win32 base that works in this same way using the same tooling would not be difficult.
Whether this is true or not, it's absolutely not why they banned it.

They banned it as part of the culture war. That's 100% of the reason. "The libs" want it, so it must be banned.
Funny, I watched Dr. Strangelove two weeks ago. POE!
I agree so far, but:

>But was is happening in your inbox, really?
>Most spam is not "black hat spam". It is what I call "white-collar spam": perfectly legitimate company, sending you emails from legitimate address. You slept in a hotel during a business trip?

This is pure survivor paradox. This is true for your Gmail account, because all "black hat spam" was already filtered! I own two unfiltered email accounts that were sadly scraped from the internet, and the spam is - by far - almost completely malspam, romance scam, cryptocurrency spam, scam attempts, spoofs, phishings.
India in the age of AI: A perspective from China
Ignoring the sarcasm...

What evidence is there/can you present that Apple is making use of this information in a negative way?

How can Apple not have a list of installed apps on your phone while maintaining basic functionality (automatic updates, reinstalling apps from backup, etc)?
QCAD uses this pricing model. I bought QCAD once over ten years ago. Since then I've bought it a couple more times to get some new feature, but even the original binaries I downloaded over a decade ago work fine on my modern linux/windows installs.

I'm not sure which operating system is obsoleting all your software on a yearly basis, but it doesn't sound like a very stable computing environment.
> Thesis: We should create a distro of Linux that runs Windows binaries by default via Wine.

On Debian you're one package away:

sudo apt install wine-binfmt

Otherwise you're still pretty close:

echo 'none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc defaults 0 0' >> /etc/fstab
mount -a
echo ':DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/bin/wine:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
Except it's not true, it ignores the most important factor - market share. If the new 15th standards becomes the most/only used one (as has happened with many new standards), then the silly idea from the comic "the future is no better with just +1 in the pile" doesn't reflect reality, reality would be that indeed that new universal standard solved the problem and reduced the ridiculous fragmentation.

That's why there is nothing healthy behind this thought-terminating comic cliche, just a generic conservative discouragement of any experiments.
I use a MacBook not because it's the best software for development, but because it's the hardest to virtualize.

Our project supports the three major desktop operating systems. I have Windows and Linux VMs that I can switch to when I need to test something on those OS. No serious corporation is going to risks Hackintosh.
If you are deported without any due process (as has already occurred), what will you do about it from a Salvadorian prison?
> Your teeth aren’t in your digestive tract.

However:

Once ingested, the fluoride has a systemic affect on teeth before they erupt, incorporating into the matrix of developing teeth to increase the mineralization content and decrease the solubility of enamel. [1]

[1] https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/current-fluoride-recomm...
Did Brazil start with a Byzantine kluge of private and public providers and intermediaries? Genuine question, not snark.

I think the US would prefer a UHC if we were starting from a blank slate. The difficulty is mapping a path from what we have now to that.
> If your mouth is full of cavities you’re more likely to build up bacteria that cause downstream effects as serious as heart disease.

I don't know that you have the causality here correct.
That's exactly what we do. Works great.
And yet they still can't stream me a 4k hdr file without noticeable banding all over all of those white hallways. It's funny how this is the highest quality stuff yet has the lowest quality defects at the same time due to fundamental limitations of digital systems.
Fluoride in water wouldn't be necessary is sugary drinks were taxed heavily (or just banned altogether) and dental care was affordable. But obviously that's considered communism if you're a typical american.
Fortunately we also have Android with its many high-quality app store alternatives[1] like the Amazon Appstore, and Google Play's low platform fees[2].

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/best-app-stores-936652/

[2] https://sharpsheets.io/blog/app-store-and-google-play-commis...
Yeah and good on you for using Arch but gaming distros are designed to support dummies, meaning people like me that don't really want to build the OS from the ground up get to coast. We just want to use it.

I know a fair bit about OS internals but especially when I'm gaming I want to play rather than read and follow technical docs.

Sorry, not sorry.
They wrote 2 whole paragraphs about SIMD.
This is the excuse all American use about literally every single issue anytime anybody points out that other do things better. Most often without actually having thought about it beyond 'muhuhu US BIGGG! USA! USA! USA!'.

If you want to make that argument, actually make it, because if you try, 99% of the time its not actually true, its simply ignorance.
"System activity" isn't a valuable user metric because not all CPU %s are equal and CPU % isn't a consumable resource. Fans, battery life, case temperature, some others are.

System activity can certainly cause problems like paging out all the file cache pages you wanted to use when you get back to the machine. It doesn't have to though.
So we should send schoolchildren up in rockets?
Ah, cool, I stand corrected (I also just verified via the KVK number, for anyone else who happens upon this comment and cares).

Did nothing happen until recently? Even as of 2023 everything on the website was in the future tense. "It is the intention of SIA to...", "Funding will be provided..."
> It doesn't mark the app as having "anti-features"

I suppose they must be too busy ticking off "anti-features" like "can communicate with non-Free services" to notice that sort of thing.

(No, really. F-Droid will tag applications like a Mastodon client as having "anti-feature: Non-Free Network Services", presumably because it can be configured to connect to servers running non-free software?)
Last I checked, we’re just a little over 50% with real id. That’s why they’ve kept pushing back the requirement to have one to fly (they might finally do it this time?)

I’ve tried to get one twice since they started doing them, in two different states, and failed to have one thing or another on the bills and paystubs and such that I took in, so don’t have one. My wife’s got it even worse, they need an original of our marriage certificate (due to the name change) and that’s gone missing. She hasn’t bothered to screw with it, because she’s got a passport anyway (which, as you note, will do after all, I was wrong)
This is great! Someone else mentioned binfmt_misc. I didn't know about that.
I regret giving my TV my Wi-Fi password. By default, it has some knock-off Alexa assistant that triggers a couple times a day, even when I'm sitting in silence.

It also warns me it will auto-updates the software 1-2 times a month. My TV was perfect out of the box--it doesn't need an update. When I disable Wi-Fi, I get notifications that my TV is disconnected. Can't win.
It's religion. It's time for a fresh iteration.

We are ready to leave behind the fantasy gods and turn our worship toward the very real molecule that defines us and everything alive around us, and to the unbroken cord of being that links each of us so improbably to the first creature in the primordial ooze.
They're owned by Wal-Mart....so yeah. You get what you pay for.
They were never designed to be archives though, of course they're bad at something that not only was not a goal bit is opposite of a primary design factor.

LLMs are massive, lossy compressed datasets. They were designed to store the gist of effectively all digital language content humans ever created so an inference engine could use that data space to predict what a person might say to a prompt.

They were never designed to regurgitate exact copies of the original sources just use your favorite zip algorithm for that.

The question would be how closely an LLM can regurgitate an answer before running into copyright issues, and how the original training dataset was obtained.
We have had close so I count that as yes. About 10 or so years ago there were demos of a pi and webcam driving a smart ad display that monitors anyone walking by - gives them a unique id, guesses age sex and mood (at least) and if they look at the ad monitors for mood change and duration of attention.
Your dentist is not an expert in this — that’s like saying the guy implementing your frontend is an expert in design. Yes, they’re working in the space, but their job isn’t understanding the whole system.

If you’re this deep on the appeal to authority train, the NIH released a report in the last year linking fluoride exposure to moderate drops in IQ with moderate confidence.

It’s probably not the worst thing in the world, but is definitely not inert.
The ethics of individual employees only lasts until the next firing, unfortunately.
Who do you think conducted those peer-reviewed systematic reviews? I'm sorry if I don't take the word of some random guy's dentist over multiple meta analyses in major medical journals.

I don’t understand what you mean here. Are you just wholly rejecting the concept of expert knowledge, trials, meta analyses, basically the foundations of science, just because in order to participate in it you have to have tainted yourself by rigorously studying it?
Dentists are experts on neurology now? I don't think the debate here has anything to do with the effects of fluoride on teeth.
Just change the launcher. Android TV is the only platform that can block YouTube ads and supports Sponsor block
We've gone full circle! Thin clients are back baby!
While vibe coding you're code blind, but you can still be aware of the architecture.

If all the subsystems are simple and sparesly connected, any bug will likely be isolated and easy to detect.

You can build complex systems using simple subsystems while being code blind.

Context problem is mitigated with sparse architectures.
It’s basically coping responses from people who are starting to realize they have been loudly wrong for years. It’s a fairly human response I suppose. They’ll get over it eventually after they go through the stages of grief or whatever.
> refusing to fix it

Google addressed similar isolation concerns (without breaking a tonne of APIs in incompatible ways) with Private Space and Work Profile: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/private-sp...
Anyone know if GrapheneOS has protection against this?
I was bit by atop a few years back and swore it off. I would get perfectly periodic 10m hangs on MySQL. Apparently they changed the default runtime options such that it used an expensive metric gathering technique with a 10m cron job that would hang any large memory process on the system. It was one of those “no freaking way” revelations after 3 days troubleshooting everything.

Interesting reading through the related submission comments and seeing other hard to troubleshoot bugs. I don’t think atop devs are to blame, my guess is that what you have to do to make a tool like atop work means you are hooking into lots of places that have potential to have unintended consequences.
cause we are the best and when you are the best you simply do not look back :)
What are you talking about??? .NET never got abandoned! If anything its hit a very high bar now. Its one of the top frameworks to build an app across platforms.