skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still need some licensing to ensure people understand the basics, like hygiene, since everyone has an interest in making sure hairdressers won't spread lice or accidentally cut their customers with dirty tools.

Most of the money in hairdressing is in the complicated stuff. People do this because they want to make a career of it. Maybe you're imagining some kind of two week training program which outputs someone who does nothing but run a clipper over people's heads all day for $5 each. The economics and incentives for that don't make sense to me. People who want ultra cheap cuts will probably just buy their own clippers anyway.
How would you feel if your commits become publicly available for everyone to see forever?
I won't get super into the details, but... A friend and I co-founded a small startup / lifestyle business in a niche hardware / hobby market. Built a platform around it. It's now inching close to 6 figures in 6 years. Not earth shattering, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's more than paid for itself and our time investment. Especially considering that my time investment as the primary developer is somewhere around 10 hours a year for maintenance purposes.

We grow the user base slowly, organically, deliberately. Our quite reasonable cost can be a barrier to entry for some users but our particular solution to this particular problem can save people many thousands of dollars over the course of a few years.

edit/ Typos...
I read it and didn't particularly enjoy it, and this is a perfectly legitimate opinion to have about any book.
I think that's how it should work - but unfortunately not how it does. Both Trump and Obama complained about what people would refer to as the "deep state". Here's a quote from Putin of all People describing the phenomenon:

I have already talked with one US President, and with another, and with the third - Presidents come and go, but the policy does not change. Do you know why? Because the power of the bureaucracy is very strong. The person gets elected, he comes with some ideas, and then people come to him with briefcases, well dressed and in dark suits, like mine, but not with a red tie, but with black or dark blue, and they begin to explain what he should do - and everything changes at once. This happens from one administration to the next.
People live in tents because 100% of their income goes to opiates.

They can’t make more money and save it, because their needs will always exceed their income short of massive windfalls
I've done a live on-site and a virtual on-site during COVID.

I was mostly stationary during the live on-site. I was taken to a room and the interviewers came to me. Some chit-chat, then given the problem, then working on the problem. A break for lunch, then I was taken to a room near where the first was for the rest of my interviews. Much the same deal. I stayed in the room while the interviewers cycled through. I was told that the lunch portion wasn't part of the interview and the person escorting me around didn't have any influence on the hiring decision. That may or may not be true, but it is what they told me.

About a week after, I was informed of my rejection. I'm fairly sure I know one interview I particularly bombed. The question involved something I had done before, but a while ago and I floundered a bit trying to recall all the bits and bobs of the syntax and structure. The other four I felt could go either way.

During the virtual on-site, it was just being passed off to various Google Meet rooms. I think I wrote code in a shared Google Doc. I felt ok in most of them. None particularly stuck out. A few days after the interview, I was informed I was being passed to the hiring committee. And then a few days after that, I was informed the hiring committee passed on me.

All the questions I got were vaguely LeetCode-ish. They were all of the template: Here's a vague problem with loose requirements. I'd ask some questions about particulars, "Can I assume this?", "Is this true for all?", "Is this sorted?", "Can I go to the bathroom?" "No, now I really have to go, last time was to avoid answering a question" etc. Then I'd write up a solution in my language of choice, trying to explain why I was doing what I was going while doing it. Just stream of conscious style stuff. Occasionally, I'd get comments or questions as I talked. Stuff about assumptions I was making or why I was trying this method. Then if there was time and they were satisfied with my solution, they'd ask me to essentially scale it up. "Ok, that works when you can hold the dataset in memory, but what if the dataset was three bazillion petabytes?"

I personally enjoy puzzles and challenges, so I found the process fun even though the fact that it is an interview makes it a little more. But since I have also had a job both times I interviewed, the stakes are a bit lower for me, which also helps.
Were you not able to make an inference from the post count of that thread?
OpenGOAL: Jak and Daxter decompiled, 98% of it being Lisp
I like FreeCAD a lot, but it's too hard to create assemblies and reference other bodies in an assembly. I gave up and moved to Fusion360 where all these things Just Work.

However, I miss the KiCAD plugin with really good integration for the updating board outline and component placements from CAD.
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That doesn't speak for every meetup. I've been to plenty of tech meetup where people talked and had fun. Even when people are being introverted, at least there's the opportunity for people to have their own conversations. With virtual "meetups", you can't have one-on-one conversations, and that sucks. And good luck networking at a virtual "meetup" if the crowd is big enough that you can't get a word in.
Heroku Dashboard Down
After reading the transcript, these languages models _are_, however, becoming super impressive!

I feel like sentience/a self awareness will eventually happen, but I don't think it'll be a natural language model that does it, it'll probably be achieved by a combination of several complex systems that have integrated with each other over time.
90% there - buy ya - I don't trust the recommendation engine to fly solo yet. Maybe if I can stop my day job and work on it 100% - but I am not there yet.
Cults like this generally target and recruit damaged or otherwise vulnerable people. Also, they generally keep the crazy dialed down to a minimum in the beginning, then slow boil people over the course of several years. It often starts with "love bombing"; the cult heaps positive attention and praise on somebody who is unaccustomed to receiving anything like that.
except that you redistribute according to means, seeing as tax is correlated to income. so instead of having a random dice roll ("ah, you're working multiple low-hour jobs and you just got cancer? game over!"), you pay a bit more of your income as tax
Weird metric but the overall point stands.

Normally you'd make this comparison to Shareholder equity (Assets - liabilities). That is, you add up all cash, investments, payable accounts, real estate, etc. etc. in one pile (assets), and subtract out all debts, payables to users, outflows etc. etc. in another (liabilities).

Cash alone is meaningless. Fortunately, cash-on-hand happens to be close to the shareholder equity value, so the overall arguments made in this discussion remain valid.

The most recent 10K from Robinhood suggests they had ~$7 Billion shareholder equity back in May 2022. So the overall "weirdness" is still worth thinking about. Almost all companies are worth "more" than their equity on hand, because we all expect them to be "profit machines", with some kind of weird ability to turn those assets into a sustainable form of making money.

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This kind of valuation means that shareholders expect Robinhood to be losing money in the short term (maybe long term?) to the point that those assets will be lost over time.
14 per week might be the difference between eating ok and not eating.
Oh boy, think you might be living in a bubble.
It contains some useful debug launch configs that would take time to work out otherwise, and also some settings that appear to make the Node part and Go part work it bit more nicely together.

I don't think there are any red flags there IMHO.
Because the point of meetups isn't to just hear lectures.
I have done some typographic work for those who would like to make their own print version:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y7ar4mtbapk9qd4/AABEe53IbANo3N_45...
Having read Asimov's autobiographical inserts in anthologies such as Before the Golden Age and The Early Asimov, I get the idea that young (as in prior to the age of 30) Asimov suffered from a problem similar to many male mangakas: their exposure to girls/women is so minimal as to be almost non-existent (in the case of mangakas, of course, this comes primarily from the work schedule), and with such a paucity of experience, they flounder to construct such characters except within the bounds of extreme stereotype.
No.

Monopolies don't deserve credit.
you could put it in the pre-commit githook
Accounts Receivable at your local hospital.
I imagine the coal and natural gas industry don't really like nuclear as well.
> I doubt anyone is saying that this is bad if you're using a web app for financial transactions like buying tickets.

I for one am certainly saying that this is bad if it means that you need approval from one of Apple, Google, or Microsoft to participate in financial transactions. That would be a giant step backward compared to the status quo.
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You're taking one person's experience, who has mild medical expenses and applying their situation to loads of poor people as if their experience exemplifies the experiences of millions. Frankly, that's disgusting and while I don't wish you awful medical debt, it sounds like you could stand to be humbled by some.

Think of bigger medical expenses over the same period -- 10k. That's 20/day. 100k -- 200/day. Now add ACA monthly costs (300-400/mo). Then rent, then food. Etc etc.
It's down again, for at least the past half hour. I submitted a support ticket at 15:56 UTC, haven't gotten a response, and as usual, they only updated the status page to indicate that there's an issue ~20 minutes into the outage.

Is it just me, or has Heroku gone from five nines to nine fives over the past year or so?
Soviet regime has caused famine in present day Ukraine, southern Russia, Volga region and Kazakhstan.
Most of those who starved (arithmetically) were in what is present day Russian Federation.

Are you sure you can tell propaganda from history?

"Russia caused the pogroms" (sic) is another gem of same quality.

I wonder if you could point to a country which does not have "sordid history". But if you ever want to have a dialogue with Russian as opposed to war, you can start by not pretending that you don't have your own "sordid history" and is allowed to judge others.
I don't know why people see this as a good thing. Healthcare is expensive for precisely the reason that people skip out on paying their debt. Now it's harder to collect so what's the result? Costs are going to go up to subsidize the increased cost of collection.
Musk, Tesla, SpaceX Are Sued for Alleged Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme
> they eventually sold all the way up to the peak

Edit: Bought all the way up.
"open" can mean lots of different things, and refer to different aspects.

I think the OP is talking about "open" in large part in terms of open source licenses, and intellectual property. They complain about "subvert[ing] an active open source project by ramming in a proprietary extension to continue to lockdown .NET" and "Over time, the .NET platform is becoming closed, to ensure it is only useful if you are a customer."

You are talking about "open" in terms of access to developers at Microsoft, who you can commicate with, and who then respond by getting fixes to your problems in.

These are actually pretty different things. You and OP can both be entirely right. .Net can be a platform where Microsoft is working to make sure that the platform is only useful if you are paying customer, and where you have access to communicate with developers who take your concerns seriously.

> Are we upset that we have to pay money for the privilege of using other peoples' intellectual property

Well, I mean... you know what open source is, right? Yes, it means you don't have to pay money for the privilege of using other people's intellectual property. That's literally what open source is.

That's fine if you don't care whether or not .Net is open source. That's fine if you think it's silly to be upset that something isn't open source when you think it should be.

But... .Net claims to be open source, right? So, yes, it is reasonable to expect you can use it without "paying for the privilege of using other peoples' intellectual property". That's literally what open source is?
When writing your OS from scratch, what order did you develop your components in?

Did you start with an assumption of UEFI, long mode only?
She wouldn't of had any coverage at all. Obamacare puts the out of pocket max well below 80k. At that income level and field, that's a choice. Is the idea that I'm supposed to pick up the tab or feel sorry for her? I make less than she does and I pay for my health insurance.
Love to hear more. I've had an e-comm idea for that industry for a while now.
Did you consider VFS For Git and Scalar from Microsoft? What was the result?
https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit

https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
2/3 childbirths we missed one (tiny, in both cases) medical bill and it ended up in collections.

We were getting like 3-5 letters per provider per visit, and many visits resulted in bills from multiple providers.

"NOT A BILL" (so why the fuck are you sending it to me?) same thing again from insurance for some reason, incorrect bills we had to fight, insurance refusing to pay on things they should so that drags out for months and you're getting "FINAL BILL" in the meantime but the hospital billing people are telling you not to pay them until insurance is sorted out.

Many providers sending a bill exactly once and it goes to collections if you don't pay in 30 days, no calls or follow-ups (that's how both of ours ended up there—again, they were tiny, we'd have paid them instantly if we'd known about them).

Bills showing up two months after a visit and you've had 30 medical appointments in the last year so you can't remember WTF it was for. I think in one case we were still sorting crap out from the birth and prenatal care when the kid was 6 months old.

Hospital requiring full payment months in advance for the births. And getting it very wrong in one case (on the high side, of course—every billing error is in the hospital's favor, super weird how that works, bet it's just an accident and not them being actual no-bullshit criminals, though eyeroll) because they refused to use our version of what insurance would pay (which was correct) and basically just made up a number.

Total fucking mess. Horrible experience every time. Can't wait to get to deal with this horseshit when one of us is actually, seriously sick. I've added hospital billing departments to the list of medical-related folks I truly, sincerely wish the worst on, and I mean the worst—show me the headline, I'll open the champagne. They're either shockingly incompetent in ways that mess up people's lives, or they're malicious. Maybe both.
Wow.

https://itigic.com/minix-the-hidden-operating-system-in-inte...
Let's gut both the Second and Fourth Amendments, because terrorists!
It's been a hedge against inflation for me for nine years thanks. I'm not pulling a cent out. Those people are selling a scarce asset to me, and thousands like me, and they can only sell to us once. Most miners are running on stranded, excess renewable energy that can't be used for anything else. A ponzi scheme implies an exit. We're never swapping back to dollars that can be printed out of thin air.
Plenty of other discussion about this and the official post when this was news last week:

Forbes: Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings (313 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31693830

Official release:

Microsoft announces four new employee workforce initiatives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676709
Surfaces So Different Even a Fourth Dimension Can’t Make Them the Same
Hmm, I was thinking about writing a nodejs native module with rust to access some system library in an electron app for one of my side project, but using this might be easier instead. I guess I should check it out.
I literally closed the tab after about 8 seconds of it. It's unbearable.
I agree. Google shouldn’t staff their positions based on who has the most PhDs.
"Not worrying about it" is not "not paying attention", maybe that is the point that you assumed more than I intended to convey with my comment.

It's less about matter of eliminating abuse, and more about damage reduction. We can have systems that even if someone screws up, the consequences are not catastrophic.
I think you're looking for https://www.areweguiyet.com/ click "webrenderer"
Yes, Crypto Is Crashing Again. Blockchain Will Survive
How is that any better than telling git to ignore them? Esp when they're tightly coupled translations
> The survey was designed to reach adults who currently have health care debt or have had health care debt in the last five years. In order to do this, the probability panel sample included an oversample of panel members with annual household incomes less than $30,000, individuals with current or past health care debt (n=641) were included in the sample. In addition, 52 adults with past or current health care debt were reached by calling back respondents that had previously completed an interview on the SSRS Omnibus poll (and other RDD polls) and reported an annual household income of less than $25,000.

> The combined online and telephone samples, excluding oversamples, were weighted to match the sample’s demographics to the U.S. population using data from the Census Bureau’s 2021 Current Population Survey (CPS). On the basis of this weighted sample, parameters for the debt and no-debt populations were extracted. Weighting parameters for each group included sex, age, education, race/ethnicity, region, education, and income, as well as patterns of civic engagement from the September 2017 Volunteering and Civic Life Supplement data from the CPS. The sample was also weighted to match population density parameters from the Census Planning Database 2020. The weights take into account differences in the probability of selection for each sample type. This includes adjustment for the sample design and geographic stratification of the cell phone sample, within household probability of selection, and the design of the panel-recruitment procedure.

So they intentionally targeted people with debt, so the "63% percent of respondents" is not able to be read as "63% percent of Americans".

The 100M in the title is extrapolated, and is likely correct, but people are not reading the percentages as they should be read.

The key takeaway from the study is that not all medical debt is reported as such, and poor people have difficulty paying bills, one type of which is medical bills.
And that's a huge problem. All our doctors (Eastern EU here) are leaving for UK, US, or richer western EU countries. To resolve that, we have a law that requires newly graduate doctors to stay and work here for a long time (10 years here IIRC), which is rightly seen as a serious issue wrt. their personal freedom. That pushes people away from pursuing medical degrees.

It's cheaper, but that has its price too.
A bug is an error in source code that causes a program to produce unexpected results or crash altogether, i.e. something that doesn't work, something broken; the user initiates an action, the action fails or program crashes. That isn't what this is. This is the user intentionally opening multiple overlapping fullscreen videos. You can make a computer saturate its processor indefinitely with a while-loop, but doesn't make it a bug.
The post itself covers in the intro that they made the conscious decision to go with a monorepo, accepting the downsides of it. Much more than this article though, I'd like to read one discussing that decision and why they went that direction.
I went to a college with a well stocked "Many choices" model of dining hall, and it didn't use trays.

It was not an issue. You just got up and went to get more food if you were still hungry, in the same manner as you would go refill your glass if you were still thirsty. Getting up and walking fifty feet to go get food is not some herculean task.
Assuming you are in the US, and depending on your state laws, you can go to your County Clerks office and file an Assumed Name for Unincorporated Business (DBA). That is enough to open a business bank account and use that name for the Apple Developer program. It also won't have all your information plastered all over the place like LLCs/Corps (from personal experience with both)
Incorrect. CA population grew 2010-2020, but other states grew faster.
So does everybody else.
IMO a better title for this blog post would have been:

"VCs and startup CEOs disagree about what the investors bring to the table"

There's no "actually" here, it is two parties who both stereotypically have an over-inflated view of their worth.
On the other hand, this isn't some web page you distribute everywhere an hope it's compatible. Those engines are self-contained, so if your application works, it works.
The aging demographics of developed countries inevitably mean that economic growth will slow while healthcare demand increases. Thus regardless of whether the healthcare system is private or socialized, there will be more and more care rationing. In some cases that rationing will take the form of long queues.
> Making money completely anonymously, without reporting this to the IRS and state tax authorities, at least in the US as a US citizen, is and should be illegal. But still seems pretty straightforward to stay anonymous on the front end.

All for-profit companies doing business in the United States have always been required to report to the IRS and state tax authorities. There's never been a way to make money anonymously short of simply not filing with IRS (definitely illegal). This new law doesn't change or improve upon that in any way.

Prior to the bill being passed, one could set up a shell company in Nevada without giving away one's name. With the passage of this bill, one's ownership in an LLC is kept in a registry by a government agency for the sole purpose of surveillance. There's only as much "privacy" from the general public as there is the likelihood that the Treasury's servers are secure. And there's absolutely none from the members of the US government.

There are purposefully installed concessions that were requested by certain entrenched interest groups. For example, a company employing at least 12 people won't have to report anything. And the fact that the bill was a rider on a veto-proof legislation shows the substance of it wasn't quite popular enough to devote a legislative session towards the issue. It's little more than a privacy buster under the guise of an anti-corruption bill.
They’re _somewhat_ working on it: https://www.lego.com/en-us/sustainability/environment/sustai...

That page doesn’t mention degradable blocks, though.

I can see the challenges for that. You want a brick to connect strongly with other bricks for decades, even when it’s left alone for years, yet decompose in years when left alone and lost, if not faster.
I want to figure out how to specify a Shepard tone in `sox`. (Open invitation to draft with me on thread.)
I hope not. HTML/CSS were supposed to be used for "hyper text" and "magazine-like" content