skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<bitter>We need to change the name of this site to “Sleep – is there anything it can’t do?”</bitter>

(My sleep is absolute garbage despite years of attempts to fix it, and all of these articles both scare and dismay me)
I don’t think anyone disagrees that money is an exchange medium for work. The question is whether the practice of mining Bitcoin is work worth valuing for its own sake. Nobody is getting fed, housed, or clothed when mining cryptocurrencies, nor is it improving business productivity in some way.

In other words, it’s a question of “useful work,” not just “work.” And this is an especially important question in light of the fact that a lot of energy used to mine cryptocurrency is produced in environmentally harmful ways.
That’s a comment from 2013, now 9 years ago. Since then, healthcare technology has really changed. Compliance and auditing are pretty standard with easy to follow playbooks, and there are plenty of off the shelf tools HIPAA-compliant as soon as you sign a BAA with them. If you’re in health tech, this is the floor, not a high bar.

That said, there can be a few times when your comment accurately describes what’s going on:

- a non health tech vendor needs to comply with a healthcare client’s needs and they are navigating HIPAA and HITECH for the first time.

- this is often paired with a situation where the company never refactored their SaaS software past mvp prototype phase and so they have no logging or controls and effectively need to rebuild their entire system to be security first, and healthcare regulations are just one of the factors they need to consider as they expand markets they service.

- a company is concurrently trying to get SOC and/or other certifications. Those get pretty intense.

For situations 1 and 2, that’s when a lot of vendors will explicitly say they aren’t HIPAA compliant and choose not to serve healthcare partners (vendor evaluation in healthtech is a pain in the butt because of that). For situation 3, yes, that’s a pain. My own team went through that and it was a year-long process.

That said, there is an initial upfront cost with regards to documentation. However what most people complain about are the requirements to retrain all employees semi-annually on data privacy and protection best practices, which kills a full day or two of company productivity.
Toml is not much more than a standardization of how to represent trees with INI. INI has been in use since at least the 90's and it persists because it is easy to read and edit, and supports comments.

I actually find traefik quite nice to configure vs. the old conf disaster of apache. I've configured it by hand and also generated config by scripts with ease.

If you want to complain about a design on HN the better way is to suggest a design you think is superior.
Usually they change the packaging when they cheapen the ingredients of stuff and ruin it. It is a good indication that you should stop buying it (Ortega taco shells is a good recent example). But who cares what the Tropicana package looks like? Their OJ is sour so I don't buy it unless I am really craving OJ and I can't find Minute Maid. I will drive to 2-3 quickie marts first to look though. All juice is just sugar water anyway. I mostly avoid it altogether.
The problem with Canada is their housing market is open to foreign buyers and probably used for money laundering.
Person in question doesn't actually know that they were banned for uploading Python code.
While the lack of due process absolutely does suck and I hate to defend google, but reason for this ban is speculation.
It could be something else, something much more banworthy.
I wonder how much this is to do with the re-design and how much is due to the fact that it changed.
Americans are a great bunch. Contrary to popular (outsider) view, I think american family bond is very strong.
Well for PowerPoint, Mac users were already using MORE 3.0 (sigh)
There totally could be, but for the most part the only product in this space for the most part is the tv-manufacturer-branded sound bar kits.
I think that it’s a very complicated answer to this question, .
Ha ha, I have better news: I cannot see it at all. So no alarm setting or FOMO needed!
> and pretty much in the same way

This is the dismissive part. It doesn’t even affect those of us with ADHD the same way, or even affect us each individually the same way every day.

At my best, I’ve been pretty consistently praised for being good at keeping track of how everything fits together and all of the details that should be considered for a given effort. At my worst, I know there’s a short list of things which will pass as functioning if I can bring myself to follow through with it.

Neither of those extremes are normal everyday experiences for most people. And that’s good, and it’s understandable you recognize the wide gamut in between.

I don’t want to dismiss your much broader more general experience either. I just want to push back on the thing that feels invisible for those of us who aren’t actually experiencing that broader more general thing.
How do you mean, "support Java"? You should be able to deploy JVM apps here no problem.
So does Caddy (and more!) https://caddyserver.com/docs/config-adapters
We’re not “froze”. The last week has been exhausting fud.
True, but many people oppose eating even very simple animals (think clams) for ethical reasons, but have no qualms with plants. I don’t think it’s totally absurd to use the authors point to argue that maybe plants reach the level of agency of some simple animals.
This explains a lot. I was driving in LA on vacation with my family and we were surprised to see the full moon covered by a “dark cloud” that kept covering more and more until I couldn’t see it for a while. The evening sky just made it seem like it must be cloud or smog in the distance.
I shudder to think how low, I imagine all the H1Bs starting companies in their home countries making the US look like an also-ran in the tech scene.
I literally acknowledge its addictiveness in my comment. Spending 30 minutes watching TV or doomscrolling on Twitter or 30 minutes watching TikTok, it's all the same to me. I think if you acknowledge the time that you "waste" and keep it in check, it's fine.
There is a parser and producer for yaml in all the major languages. I mean, even

perl -MYAML -E 'say YAML::LoadFile("filename.yaml")->{foo}{bar}'

what level of tooling do you mean?
.cx has ...interesting... internet historical considerations though.

But, for example, .gl and .fo also exist despite being part of Denmark (yes, it's complicated). Presumably those Australian territories have some level of jurisdiction over their telecommunications.
> Please consider why you are choosing to be that guy.

I am trying to be helpful?

I've gone down to ~9% body fat, so I have experience with the "hard last steps." For me, the "first steps" were not easy and much harder than the last steps.
Do you use Netflix? YouTube? Twitter? Facebook? You're training all of these just by using them. I've seen way worse stuff on Twitter than I ever have on TikTok.
Right. Scrum was designed by consultants to optimize billing time, and reduce the consultant risk to minimum, not as an efficient way to build software.
One of my favorite graphics is this one detailing the evolution of the Pepsi logo vs. the Coca-Cola logo: https://flowingdata.com/2009/08/13/pepsi-and-coca-cola-logo-...

Of course it was over-dramatized for effect, and the truth emerges further down the page. But it's close enough to true that it stops and makes you think.
I recall when this happened as I was actively redesigning the entire branding for a nationwide packaged food company at the time (15 different products for about $200k - a deal for them and a deal for me and my crew of two). The Tropicana blunder was a great object lesson in why too many cooks in the kitchen will ruin the soup. It's a textbook case of a corporation's marketing department's tendency to shy away from any type of bold graphic for fear of being the person blamed if it fails.

The lesson is that failure is guaranteed if you approach a brand design with fear of failure, or fear people won't "get it". If there's one thing meme culture has shown, it's that people are desperate to be talked to like adults who are in on the message. Assuming your customers can't appreciate a metaphor because they're consumer robots is a guaranteed way to lose customers. Assuming they'll get your sense of humor or aesthetics is, of course, a big risk, but that's the job.

As far as my role at that time, it worked out well, but the brand really did need a redesign. They were the second largest prepackaged sushi and salad company in the US and their packaging looked like airplane food before. I went in the complete opposite direction, filling each label with layered visual cues and references to what was inside. Sure, I was terrified it wouldn't work. But if Tropicana had approached me at that time and asked me for a redesign, I think I might have told them they didn't need one. Or I would've advocated for keeping their core "joke" because it worked. No one had the guts to tell them to stick with the brand.
I had a high-end Onkyo and it travelled to 3 countries with me.

Until one time it was in storage and some water dripped in it and ruined the circuit board.

But MAN! I bought it with matched 7.1 speakers and remember setting it up, tuning it with the included microphone and plugging in the Avatar Blu-Ray. Jesus!

Now I'm with crap-shit Samsung soundbar in my house here in Asia, which I can't even turn up too much because I respect my neighbor. Too much bass. Not enough mids or highs. Sigh.

I miss that Onkyo and the speakers.
This is pretty common in corporates too. Shiny new project gets all the attention, funding and management focus. The poor guys left to deal with the day to day crap get screwed over then leave. If they leave too soon its an emergency, if they stay too long they get laid off.
This used to be super common when events were more widely used
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_effect
The two strategies don't seem that different, one lowers quality the other massively hikes prices. Customers are getting ripped off either way.
I think this might be the survivorship bias talking.

The vast majority, like 99%+, of all crypto projects fail.

Anyway, so far there's: Foodcoin (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/food/), TE-Food (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/te-food/), and probably a dozen other scams.

Let me give you an analogy to what you said "After seeing that Google and Apple have market caps of a trillion dollars, it dawns on me that we can stimulate massive investment and efficiency just by making a publicly traded company focused on that thing. If we make a food-based public company, poof, world hunger solved".

Just because bitcoin has a huge amount of money in it does not mean all cryptos will succeed. Just because google has a trillion dollar market cap does not mean every publicly listed company will.
I honestly didn't mean to come across as dismissive. Taking the OPs words exactly as they were written, I only meant to say that generally speaking, those responses are all quite expected, independent of any diagnosis. Having ADHD could of course make each of those bullet points much worse! But as the post was written, it seemed like textbook dissatisfaction that all of us experience when placed in a role that isn't quite right, and when that happens it's often easier to check out or become distracted. I don't see how ADHD stratagems could alleviate this without increasing unhappiness lower down. In the end, if you're not doing whats right for you then figuring out how to focus better is the real distraction.
A country can simply change its name without major conflict. The people still exist. Law and order never breaks down. But it becomes a "new" country.

That could result in existing TLDs going away.

One possible example would be Scotland voting to peacefully leave the UK. It's very possible the UK would change its name after that, since it's not really the union of those two kingdoms anymore.
Gradual typing sounds like the worst of all worlds. You end up having to type things so you lose the supposed implementation speed of dynamic typing. But then you also can't rely on all the types being checked.
How to Deal with Strong Emotions, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Render's free DB tier isn't really usable when the data gets nuked after 90 days. Really strange decision IMO.
I don't understand your comment about the apples, why wouldn't apples be in the produce department?
The best advice I can give you is what I wish I could have told myself over the last decade: your expectations of yourself are higher than anyone can reasonably expect of you, be very cautious of burnout, counter any self doubt with the knowledge that your talent is already seen and proven, and rest.

You're already qualified to do the work or you wouldn’t be recognized for it. You don’t need to do more. Getting a promotion is a formal acknowledgment of work you already do! This is your chance to be rewarded for it and relax.

Congratulations, also, are in order. It’s really tough for us to thrive with this kind of anxiety and pressure. Reward yourself. Take a vacation if it helps. And keep doing the things you’ve found rewarding and successful.
Paypal is basically a poor man's Stripe
This topic has been discussed many times. There's no easy solution to what happens after the cap is exceeded - should the vendor delete everything? - which is why so many of them don't bother.

And for customers, it's far easier to negotiate billing disputes then to try and recover from an account deletion because of spending caps (and there have been plenty of examples of companies shutting down because of such a mistake here).
> Needing to do it at all, at the beginning, means there is no mathematically pure way to validate the consensus state and nobody can affect the concensus unless it's rooted in this initial distribution.

You also need to validate the software binary or source code out of bound at the beginning, so having to additionally validate out of bound the state makes little difference.

> Yes, this is exactly the censorship that is available in PoS and not PoW. I help minority PoW protocols integrate PoS features for this reason, and it's also the reason there will always be PoW chains. Because some social networks demand uncensorable participation that can't be selectively hard forked away.

As I said, a PoW chain isn't any more resistant to censorship via hardforks. You can literally hardfork a PoW chain into a PoS chain. It is impossible to make anything secure or whatever if you consider hardforks as something an attacker can execute at will and force people to move to the new fork.
Kangaroo meat is great and way more sustainable than beef. I'd eat a kangaroo burger any day.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/PlainHTMLAppeal
FWIW I just look up 6 parts for the Thinkpad (battery, keyboard, webcam, speakers, audio board), and all the prices were within $5 of the framework equivalent. Granted, that doesn't necessarily mean the prices will still be comparable a decade from now.
I think there is a major difference between consensus-breaking bug which unites the community in adopting a new change and a BIP which proposes a change to the network and modifies the consensus rules. But I fully agree with you that it is possible to reach a consensus about some change to the protocol but as the network grows it becomes harder and harder.

Secondly, this is 9 years ago and the Bitcoin network has grown quite a bit since then, meaning back then it was quite a bit smaller undertaking in getting the majority of the network to adapt the bug fix than it would be today. The core developers are also very paranoid about introducing these bugs which you can see for yourself by browsing the open PRs and verifying that anything that even remotely touches the consensus code is very heavily scrutinized.
Author here. I am not being paid to say this. If you don't trust me, I'm sure one of the fly.io people will chime in to confirm this. I haven't accepted paid sponsorship and everything I write on my website is my own opinion and not the opinion of my employer.

Of course, believe what you want. I am only words on a screen. I can't tell you want to think about things.
If you use Docker, any language should work.
Agreed, though it could be one of those things where Fourier weirdness and neural network weirdness interact in counterintuitive ways. It'd be easy enough to perform the same experiment with some benchmark image classification dataset, do it with a few and you'd have good context for evaluating whether Figure 1 is an indication of leakage or not.
I don't believe it's smart to have people on the payroll just because. If they're not producing value for a business, then a business should remove them. Yes, it does suck for the person getting fired, but that's life, they'll find a different job.
On the other hand, for testing, mocking, polyfilling, etc call/bind/apply are invaluable.

For writing libraries to do those things call/bind/apply are useful, but most developers aren't doing that very often.
Indeed, I remember looking for executable files in a game’s directory to find something other than the game itself, a “config.eve” or something, and running it to get some kind of text-based menu with unfamiliar conventions.

I have a feeling I had to set the IRQ to 5 on my machine, I also remember something being 220 but maybe I’m imagining that one. I remember doing it so many times it no longer made sense.

I remember seeing a friend (or a friend’s parent) set IRQ to 7 on their computer, that was a real event for me, first time I realized the other values were legitimate options too.
I've asked about this on the pretotyping forums, so was wondering - what If they launched their change in limited markets, see whether it makes sense, then roll forward - kind of like how we are supposed to do software updates with new features... (kind of)
Austin is not Texas
Fun little reminder of why curated webrings only have nostalgic value and were never all that great - the first cooking website that I checked out from here (fitmencook.com) immediately had a fullscreen phishing ad that led to a virus download.
Because energy (at least currently) can not be easily transported, to where it can be used. Factories can not easily move to power plants due perhaps increased supply chain cost or labor cost. Whereas Bitcoin mining can be moved anywhere with a shed and an internet connection.
I'm from NY so I consider myself a bagel snob. The bagels at Tim Hortons in Ontario are worse quality than anything I've ever had in the states.

They are similar to packaged bagels from the supermarket
I think you nailed it. I think GPT has a poker tell. The tell is beginning the second sentence or paragraph with "on the other hand", followed by a statement which doesn't directly relate to or contradict the opener. When real people say "on the other hand", it usually precedes something that's in direct opposition to whatever logical point they began with.

[edit] FWIW, this behavior is startlingly similar to the way storefront psychics conduct a "cold read". They present two views which are both agreeable but could be considered contradictory, and wait to see which one their mark gravitates to.

It's likely we've only programmed AIs that are modeled to trip people's emotional wires. Basically Eliza 3.0.
On the one hand, yeah it sucks. On the other hand, my local ice-cream shop was closed for 30 minutes last week because the owner was doing something and the staff member who was rostered on was out sick. If your online business is at the same level of profit and necessity as an ice-cream shop, it can probably close for 30 minutes once or twice a year.
I hope my response helps you understand why those things which seem universal aren’t necessarily universal for us. A lot of times we’re just disappointed with ourselves because we’re not experiencing the thing the way “everyone” does, and can’t find a way to that feeling everyone else expects.
Yes!! I mentioned this meme in another comment because it is also one of my favorites!

Coca-Cola has some of the best branding work of all time. It’s also interesting to see how iconic the branding is even in non-English countries. You can see a Coke logo in any country and know what the product is. It’s just superb.
Did anybody else have an issue with "She wants to see a 10% growth?", and then Excel autofills the following quarters linearly (+$100 / $200 / $300) not exponentially (+10%)?

Never extrapolate your cells from just 2 fields folks!
> Yeah. Although, as you mention modifying the source might take a long time, similarly implementing multiple browsers would take a long time. I don't know what the solution is.

That is why I think that separating out the components might make it easier for other people to independently build multiple browsers.
ESP Web Tools uses WebSerial to allow users to install, update and manage firmware running on ESP microcontrollers: https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/
From the article:

> One of the main reasons for rebranding/redesigning is for brands to reconnect with existing consumers and reach out to new ones.

Which is horse shit. The reason companies do a rebranding is because the people that get paid to design things convinced the people that pay for the design that it was a good idea.

The problem is that the people that pay started being convinced by justifications like "reconnect with existing consumers" rather than "it will make you more money".

See also: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Figma is written in C++ and compiled to web assembly. All the UX designers I know are using it because it's pretty powerful for a webapp.
Yeah, if I'm going to be signing up with my credit card I'll just log back into my AWS account since I have already pricing monitoring setup for that stuff. I definitely don't want to worry about it (surprise costs) for scratch / hobby stuff, let alone monitor bills for it.

With Heroku it is stupidly simple to get things going, no credit cards, "fire and forget". Works great for hobby projects, and examples you want to show.
Our general policy on data retention is retaining only as much as needed and only for long as is required to provide a user with our services - and anyone can have their data fully deleted anytime by emailing us! We currently don't have a function yet to allow people to download their data, but it's a great idea and we're happy to prioritize it if there's demand!
The number you quoted was 2 FLOPs per synapse, not per neuron. A neuron is complicated and hierarchical, but it is unreasonable to say it's much more complex than an operation per synapse.
Art by firelight? Magdalenian engraved plaquette use at Montastruc
Oh I misunderstood `type T Thing` to be an alias and not a haskell-style newtype.

$ ghci
GHCi, version 8.8.4: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
Prelude> class HasField a where { field1 :: a -> Int }
Prelude> data Foo = Foo
Prelude> instance HasField Foo where { field1 f = 2 }
Prelude> field1 Foo
2
Prelude> newtype Bar = Bar Foo
Prelude> :t Bar
Bar :: Foo -> Bar
Prelude> field1 (Bar Foo)
<interactive>:7:1: error:
• No instance for (HasField Bar) arising from a use of
‘field1’
• In the expression: field1 (Bar Foo)
In an equation for ‘it’: it = field1 (Bar Foo)
Prelude> type Baz = Foo
Prelude> field1 (Foo :: Baz)
2
"We" might not be, but I certainly am. Though I'm well entrenched in Camp Yamaha.
>People say stuff like: “puts a strain on society” without explaining how, or by showing evidence.

I did explain how though. Do you disagree that there is a lack of affordable housing? If not, then adding more people makes it worse. Do you disagree that workers aren't being compensated fairly? If not, then adding more people makes it worse. Do you disagree that your average person doesn't have access to inexpensive medical care? If not, then adding more people makes it worse.

Tell me which of those points you disagree with, and I can point to evidence.