skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are lots of kids who don’t know how bad their teeth can get and how that can impact their life in the future (and I mean kids like teens, not like four year olds).

I think there are lots of adults who don’t realize that poor dental health can cause heart failure and worsen basically every chronic condition.

I think there are lots of goobers who don’t realize that there’s no reason that United and Elevance and the rest couldn’t be forced to cover dental care via regulation.

I get your point, but big picture there are a lot of impactful education campaigns that should be possible.
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It doesn't even pretend to.
But I don't want to run a separate machine with 15, 20, 25 year old hardware to keep that OS working.
Right. The state made the decision to stop it from being added, which is what OP proposed.

Did OP mean that municipalities should simply decide to keep adding or not? If so, how do we decide (from our various armchairs in most cases far away from Utah) what the appropriate level of government for making this call is?
If Linux userspace had libraries with stable ABI, you could just tar or zip binaries and they would work. You wouldn't need to bundle system layer. This is how you deploy server apps on Windows Server systems. You just unpack and they work.

It is not a packaging problem. It is a system design problem. Linux ecosystem simply isn't nice for binary distribution except the kernel, mostly.
It's to an extent even acceptable to crash via segmentation fault (more specifically, doing whatever unsafe exploitable things may come of the source of the issue) if it takes the same amount of privileges to cause the crash as the thing crashing has.

And that's the important thing violated here, atop being rather reasonably ran by root to examine root processes, whereas the exploiter just needs the ability to host a thing on a specific port.
Commodore C64 still used in Indiana bakery as cash registers
I still run an unmodified GTK2 app from 2012 that I just grabbed a .deb from an ancient debian version, because I don't like the GTK3 version.
I think one thing you're not considering (especially when you say we should vote with our feet) is poverty. It’s true that fluoride toothpaste is widely available, but for people in poverty, of which there are millions in our country, basic hygiene items like toothpaste and a toothbrush aren’t guaranteed. Neither is it guaranteed that everyone has a perfect daily brushing habit like the dentist tells us; there are people who don't brush every day, or even every week.

You talked about dental care not being covered by public insurance — is it not worth considering that some basic level of dental care is already being applied to the country via fluoridation? It's a minimal, cost-effective way to prevent tooth decay at scale. Fluoridated water is one of the few dental protections available to everyone regardless of their income.
No, but it did seemingly peak a decade or so ago and stay there.
Yea, my first thought was this is a unrelated find because eyeballs since the recent focus.
Smart plug, set a timer
And NSS defines how usernames are matched to uids, how DNS works, how localization works and so on. If you're changing libc you need to ship an entire distro as well since it will not use the system libraries of a glibc distro correctly.
btw, link is marked wrong - it's not pdf, it takes you to arxiv page, with links to pdf or HTML view. The [pdf] marker is only for links to pdf files directly, to avoid surprises.

The interesting part here is table 2, especially Flops(M) and Time(s) columns. Seems that homomorphic calculations achieve about 0.1 to 1.5 MFlops/sec on Xeon Platinum @ 2.3 GHz w/ 512 GB RAM. The same CPU benchmarks about 15,000 MFlops/sec for regular calculations, and would probably less than 1GB of RAM for those tiny modes.

Yeah, maybe they "outperform state-of-the-art by 2.38×", but they are still wildly impractical.
> Everyone else can get enough fluoride from modern toothpastes, or regular dentist treatments.

The advantage of putting it in water is that it ensures all children get it, not just the children whose parents can and do make sure they brush their teeth and go to the dentist.
But its `free`
> Browser APIs are all over the place and things get broken constantly.

Not really. ES5 (2009, but realistically supported in 2012-2013) still works perfectly fine in pretty much all browsers. There's massive churn in JS frameworks absolutely, but that's not a browser thing. There are even languages still being transpiled to ES5. Just because there's a new js package manager twice a year, it doesn't mean you need to use it :)
> pressure on U.S. allies to pay their “fair share”

How much of the pressure is due to the US trying to sell weapons?

There's restrictions on how Japan can invest internally on some weapon categories?

So the US saying "we want you to match us with fighter jets" presumably means buying US fighter jets (and not European ones?)
I don’t know how much longer that will be possible with how cheap 5G is getting. Sooner or later they’ll be able to install a $10 part and make a deal with wireless carriers as backhaul for unconnected TVs. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has already made a deal with Spectrum or XFinity to use those open wifi networks that are open to customers via their account signin.

The best solution is commercial displays but those can be quite a bit more expensive and hard to pick out.
I really don't see Microsoft blocking unsigned exe. There's just too much old Windows/DOS software out there still in use, sometimes running critical infrastructure.
> and only applies to their believers (who happen to concentrate in Utah)

Worth noting here that the church additionally spends north of $1 billion annually on humanitarian aid across the globe [1] (separate from the redistributions to the poor mentioned by OP). Aid is provided independent of religious affiliation.

[1] https://philanthropies.churchofjesuschrist.org/humanitarian-...
I'm super grateful for the webOS Homebrew[1] community for allowing me to wrangle control of my LG TV and giving unfettered root access to the device.

[1] http://webosbrew.org
in short "なん春"
Or just don't give it your Wifi password...
Ask HN: Do you study for your job?
I do root cause analysis for a complex piece of software. For a couple of years I've been doing fine at my job, but last week I decided to read a rather dense book on the software and related topics, and I'm doing flash cards. I feel that my ability to diagnose and troubleshoot issues is limited by having to look things up all the time.

Does anyone else study for their job? If so, has it had an impact? I limit myself to 30-60 minutes a day, because I want to maintain some work-life balance.
It helps to quote who you're replying to when you reply with this much effort; it keeps your reply accurate.

Anyway,

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2646642

I'm not as engaged in this topic as you are, likely because I'm not as ideologically fixated on it. But the idea that the Tariff Act had a significant negative impact is well analyzed (e.g above), hence the consensus.

Wish you the best.
A less cynical framing is that the US is a much different culture from European countries, and is massively larger in scale. Depending on the problem, some of their solutions simply can't or don't apply.
the question is regardless of the stated benefit, dont I still have the right to opt out of this all or nothing additive?
Soon?

Sure, we don't have billboards that scan the biometrics of whoever's walking past in order to deliver customized ads, but instead we have conditioned everyone to glue themselves to their own personal miniaturized billboards.
Some smart TV don't enable all features until you've connected them once and done a firmware update. And I don't even mean smart features, sometimes it's things like HDMI input formats.

Of course you could just do the one update and then unplug it.
Banning its addition is a step beyond — but in Queensland, Australia for example, the state government no longer mandates its inclusion, and thus the local councils are able to set their own policy.

> While more than 90 per cent of Australians have access to fluoridated water, that figure is significantly lagging in the sunshine state, where local councils have ultimate authority over whether it is adopted.

> A decade after the Newman government handed responsibility for fluoridated drinking water to local governments, 51 out of 77 have opted out. That means about 28 per cent of Queenslanders do not have fluoridated drinking water

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-24/fluoride-dental-care-...
They don't all have videos that auto play on your tv about it, though
I second this. Great for movie parties and sporting events. I got a reasonable quality one as surplus from a high-school IT department on fb marketplace.
You're way more patient than me.

If any of my devices turn on in the middle of the night, they get the business end of a 48" crowbar that weighs too damned much. They all saw what happened to the printer when it refused to print a black and white document without yellow ink. I think their fear will keep them in line.
> You can run your own linux HPC, but those get locked to 720p quality.

That is demonstrably not true.

If you run Jellyfin and pirate using thepiratebay and yandex searches, you can get 4k 7.1 audio shows.
Thanks for the link, seems like the loophole is already there since the introduction of the package visibility restriction, and almost everyone and their mother knows how to bypass this restriction.

> Google refuses to patch this

While I don't believe Google engineers are not aware of this widely used loophole, do you have any source that they refused to fix it?
This is truly dystopian.

Also this sad excuse for an FAQ:

Q: Is payment required to receive Scenic Mode?
A: No. Scenic Mode does not require payment and is part of VIZIO’s mission to continually make your Smart TV better than when you bought it.

Smart TVs are really and truly awful.
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You can’t win. Freedom, IQ, precious bodily fluids. There’s no end to the nonsense.

My city started fluoridating a few years ago. The crazy was off the chart, they’re still active. NYC has fluoridated for 60 years, you’d think someone would have figured out that the entire city is dumber.
You could find their ad server and just do a rewrite in your router for that ip address.
It used to be that one time purchase never came with any updates and a new version came out for the same price the next year. I’m all for pushing back on subscriptions, but the expectation that users should get indefinite support without paying for it is silly.
Talk to your dentist.

They are experts in this field, and, unlike “random person on the internet who spent 2 minutes on google”, have informed opinions on this topic.

If you want a serious discussion on why fluoride is good or bad, that’s where you need to go.

Random person on the internet is very easy to disagree with, because we’re all idiots right? It’s a very easy lazy way of self confirmation.

…but if you are serious about critically considering the issue and facing your own biases, talk to an actual topic expert.

My dentist told me he had carefully reviewed the literature and determined to his satisfaction that public fluoridated water was in the best interests of public health, currently. He offered to share some reading that he was convinced by.

You can’t really ask for more that that.

Discussing this here is a bit like protesting by posting on social media; yes, I suppose it’s better than doing nothing and not engaging with the topic at all… but only barely, and not in any meaningful way.
Reminds me of, "You are not using a product, you are the product"
> modern multi-national criminal organizations with the capabilities of nation-states.

Citation needed
I study things that I'm interested in that would be useful for my job all the time.

I sometimes study things specifically for my job.

Yes. It has continually had an impact.
See also: csvkit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.io)
In Canada, these days, even Subway expects a tip. It is insane.
> To be honest, this is part of why TVs can be offered for so cheap these days

I spent $3,000 on a Samsung Smart TV -- and all I got were ads and unwanted content - https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/i-s...

It'll be a cold day in hell when I believe corporate lies that they're doing all of this for my benefit. Especially when they neither clearly disclose all the ads and spying before purchase, nor offer an option without it at any price.
Are SNAP recipients not allowed to enjoy a soda at all? I really don't understand the problem with this. Society acts like signing up for SNAP involves signing a contract to lose 100 pounds and only eat iceberg lettuce or something.
Not every country has anti-immigrant propaganda that auto-plays on your tv. Yet.
> I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has already made a deal with Spectrum or XFinity to use those open wifi networks that are open to customers via their account signin.

I’m skeptical an arrangement like this could work. The authentication mechanism would be interesting enough to attract security researchers and likely open anonymous Internet access that may undermine any potential benefit gained from viewer data. I could be wrong but I hope not.
> I am disappointed that I am getting downvoted and this is somehow being made into something political when people deserve to see the evidence

I didn’t downvote. (I don’t think.) But as a non-expert, I also didn’t see value in a wall of links. (Particularly when you wouldn’t confirm it wasn’t AI generated.)

A better presentation would pull quotes or make an argument, in your voice, with the citations as scaffolding for your arguments.

To illustrate the issue, I believe I could construct a context-free wall of links justifying just about anything.
Let this be a lesson to any foreigners thinking about visiting the United States.
The state’s Department of Health can issue a guidance explaining the states’ experts’ analysis of the available data and tradeoffs of the decision, and let the municipalities sort it out.

I think the bigger complication though is going to be - depending on the state - how water districts are apportioned. I think even many counties (let alone municipalities) will share water infrastructure so it’s not really clear who has the jurisdiction to make that decision other than the state.
Correct. bruckie has never actually worked as a server; otherwise he would know that tipping in the US is hugely beneficial to waiters, bartenders, etc., even with the legally allowed lower minimum wage. This is why tipping has never gone away through legislative means despite no shortage of waiters and bartenders in the populace, and why the occasional restaurant that proudly announces that it is a "no-tipping" establishment, and gets the requisite amount of slavering coverage in the usual virtue-signaling subreddits, never stays open long.
I recall reading a few years back about some crapware that opportunistically would attempt connecting through any available AP (e.g. your neighbor) and smuggle data that way.
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That does not value X at $44B as the poster claimed. It also states “ These floating-rate debts have an interest rate of around 11%, making the borrowing costs several percentage points higher than even the riskiest loans on Wall Street.” which is a spectacular admission the markets put X on incredibly shaky ground.

X being forced to sell off debt at such extraordinarily bad terms means X is likely about to implode.
When the second Youtube preroll ad cuts off the first one...

My favourite development in this regard is the lying timers on those ads. More than one streaming app I've caught resetting the overall timer on every ad. So it will say that there's 90s of ads, play through a 15s ad counting down to 75s, and as soon as the next ad plays, the timer resets to 90s again. Eventually after a few minutes of ads something must realize that it's actually been more than 90s, and just cuts off the current ad in the middle. Or even more fun is when it says you can skip in X seconds, but every ad it plays is Y seconds, where Y < X, and the skip timer resets with every ad. Looking at you Youtube.
Yup. Political problems irrelevant to the tech. Also a lot more attainable/manageable than an expansive permanent UBI.
Tipping isn't the reason I left, but after some years away, it's in the top 10 or so reasons I'm unlikely to move back.

It's pretty nice to go to a cafe, pay a fair price, and not be guilted into 20% extra by a PoS machine.
On iOS it's kinda worse in some ways. If you enroll into a company MDM they can see all your apps.

On Android if they use the work profile (which is the standard method these days) they can only see the apps inside there.
OK, related, so I have to share, because it's driving some valley residents crazy.

It is currently the portable air conditioner season in Arizona. Home Depots now have them stocked in the front of the store.

All Wi-Fi enabled Toshiba models (which are white-label rebranded Midea units,) their overwhelming predominate stock, are susceptible to a bug where your unit can be remotely turned on or off randomly, without your input. Presumably mismatched accounts on their back-end.

Separately, but related, they also have universally paired remote controls, so your next door neighbor who also has a very popular Toshiba portable AC unit model can accidentally turn yours on and off without your input, and adjust your temperature any time, too. And you can accidentally do the same to them.

Oh, and their remote controls work across all unit models, so it doesn't matter if you have a window unit instead, either.

Whoops!

Never buy them.
I have an 6 yo LG OLED and bought a Xbox series x on release. I've had the firmware update disabled too, because I couldn't think of a reason why I would want it to update. I'm not using it as a smart device after all.

Well, when I got the Xbox, it worked. But a few months after, it wouldn't receive any signal on my TV.
After some googling, it turned out that the Xbox had a firmware update which now made them incompatible. Incompatible, yes. HDMI. And incompatible.

So I updated the firmware on the TV for the first time and it worked again. A few months later, the same happened again and I was forced to update another time.

So, just as a cautionary message: if your TV has appliances which need to be updated connected to it they might become unusable/essentially bricked if you decide to do that.
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Hey HN,

I built pg-mcp, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for PostgreSQL that provides structured schema inspection and query execution for LLMs and agents. It's multi-tenant and runs over HTTP/SSE (not stdio)

Features
- Supports multiple database connections from multiple agents

- Schema Introspection: Returns table structures, types, indexes and constraints; enriched with descriptions from pg_catalog. (for well documented databases)

- Read-Only Queries: Controlled execution of queries via MCP.

- EXPLAIN Tool: Helps smart agents optimize queries before execution.

- Extension Plugins: YAML-based plugin system for Postgres extensions (supports pgvector and postgis out of the box).

- Server Mode: Spin up the container and it's ready to accept connections at http://localhost:8000/sse
It can vary much more closely than that. I moved from one town to another 12 miles away, and the tap water in the new town tasted horrible compared to my old town's tap.
they are great little devices. Has its own tailscale app too and can be used as an exit node! useful for me as the TV is pretty close to the fiber box on the wall.
Continuing education is mandatory in many fields. In tech, no one forces you to do it, but if you want to keep your skills current, then you have to study—not only to keep up but to get better. If you don't, then you won't have much of a career. So, yes, many of us continue to study.
Ask HN: whence New Window
UI question for the oldest of the old-timers here:

Why is the New Window function found in the File menu, and not in the Window menu? does this go back to PARC days?

EMACS keybindings are are pretty consistent about buffers, windows, files, and frames, but the menus... eh.
Fluoridation is literally one of the most successful efforts at improving public health in history. Dental health is keystone to general health.

The idea that the conspiracy theorists are winning the public policy debate enrages me. There's rock solid proof of the benefits of fluoridation extending decades, and there is little to no proof of any adverse side effects.

Oh well, good luck Utah. I'm glad I don't live there, but if I were a young dentist, I know where I'd set up my new practice.
Obsidian isn't open source by most reports.

Surely Obsidian do not to see all files on the device, it only really needs to see the files the user needs it to see.
Yeah Apple used to be more loose with registered URL schemes, but tightened up a few years ago ands so now if you submit with a huge list of schemes the app has no good reason to use you’re going to get bounced.
Maybe it is. Maybe it's not.

I prefer to state facts and leave interpretations to others.
It is. It specifically says that the apps must be declared in the manifest like other permissions. So it's a specific permission for each app really. F-Droid could query that if it wants to (not sure if it does)
So like a keylogger. Thanks
explain to me why the HELL should i be limited to only running binaries that my distro vendor has deigned to provide, or jump through endless hoops to obtain and build source code (which by the way might not even be obtainable OR buildable). if i have a binary from 5, 10, 15 years ago i should just be able to fucking run it on my fucking computer.
Smart TVs are slower to do things like turn on
Fluoridated toothpaste says not to swallow because it contains much higher concentrations of fluoride than drinking water. If you ingest too much toothpaste, it can cause your teeth to get blotchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fluorosis
It doesn’t, but they’ve already disappeared a number of Venezuelans because they had tattoos, so if the officers are willing, they can make it happen.
Also when they add these "features" to TVs that were purchased without them.

Like how would it be received if the builder of your house could come in and put up ad murals on your walls without asking? Would we accept "it subsidizes costs" as an answer?
GP basically called himself a schizo so they know, at least subconsciously, they went too far down that rabbit hole. Even though they just called us idiots.

My particular hot take, speaking partially from experience, is that indeed, there are insurmountable amounts of data collected - but it's collected by hundreds of disconnected, inhomogeneous and incompetent organizations with conflicting goals. There's no global all-knowing conspiracy, even governmental organizations in a single country have poor data sharing capabilities. And this should be trivial - it gets much harder when you take into account commercial organizations that store user data but it's not their main focus, commercial organizations that want to sell user data, but not for free, commercial organizations that really want to pretend they care about user privacy, foreign organizations, foreign organizations from hostile countries, and everreaching bureaucracy related to getting data from basically any of those.
This is what happens when a country is ruled by an oligarchy.
My favorite inversion of the narrative is "all cars matter"
For really low powered stuff there's basically this and Adafruit GFX and some monochrome libs