skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of the commenters were absolutely convinced that the benches are deliberately designed to be hostile to the homeless, because the seat is curved and can’t be easily used for sleeping

Why can't it be both? Hostile design in public infrastructure is absolutely a thing. I can't prove that the design was "deliberately" hostile but it's clearly hostile for sleeping on.

> never mind that it’s meant to look like an open book

Cool. This bed is also meant to look like an open book: https://bookpatrol.net/ruth-beales-bookbed/book-bed-ruth-bea...

Yet you can sleep on this one and not sleep on the other one. Obviously you can say that one is meant to be a bed and that one is meant to be a bench. But surely you can imagine a bench which is booth looking like an open book and can be slept on?
The problem is not necessarily the individual bureaucrats. They're annoying and add unnecessary complexity/paperwork. It goes a level deeper than that...

The problem is entrepreneurial support organizations (typically organized as a "non-profit") that the government awards economic development grants to, who are then supposed to support the entrepreneurs. These are often incubators, accelerators and/or venture support/investment organizations. Universities sometimes fill this role as well.

These organizations take a MASSIVE cut of the funding to cover their "overhead" before any money goes to the entrepreneurs. The amount of the allotted government funding that goes to entrepreneurs to actually grow their business is tiny after the various "non profit" organizations get their hands on it.

I've seen state funded business plan pitch competitions that cost far in excess of $2M to put on their annual pitch event, with teams of 5+ employees "working" full-time on them. I've seen a party planner get paid $195k to put on a one-time demo day for 300 people. I've seen consultants get hired for $15k to put on a one-day sales workshop for founders. A successful founder paid $170k to give a speech at a demo day. Universities charging 53% overhead rates to run government funded programs. Program directors paid $200k+ to work on an accelerator that runs for 3 months of the year. I could go on and on.

All of this was government funded in the name of "economic development." How many of us on HN could start a brand new business if we got even a fraction of this funding instead of wasting it on pomp and circumstance that masquerades as economic development?

I guess the bureaucrats could/should realize this is a waste and put a stop to it, so perhaps it is back to being their fault. But these "non profit" orgs whose mission is to "support entrepreneurs" have no qualms about pulling up to the trough of government fundings and sucking it dry before it goes to actual entrepreneurs...

(Source: I've seen this spending first-hand since I work at once of these places, which is why I'm posting this under a newly created alt account. Trying to do my tiny part to stop it, but it's systemic and hard to change.)
I would have expected stuff like:

- expertise or at least competency related to the domain

- social currency, ability to influence/convince people

- stamina and fortitude

Most of the points in the very short article are about "don't be an asshole to your employees", which is certainly a good thing and what people should be doing. But I can think of quite a few outrageously successful founders who have been insufferable dickheads.

I think my second point above might be the single most important one. I have no data to back it up, but I feel like if you can just make people do what you want in some way or another (and that includes customers, workers, partners etc.) then you're set up for success. At least short or midterm (a few years).

I think this is a bad thing because it is quite arbitrary and stupid. I say that in a loving way. I wish we (humans) were not that dumb.
I make this comment in a lot of threads, but if democrats wanted to fix this problem, they would write legislation for it and try to get it passed. Instead, all we get (from both parties) are massive 1000+ page bills that include a bunch of completely unrelated stuff. Why haven't democrats produce a 10 page bill with a tl;dr of "medical debt is hereby abolished"?

Stop pretending the clowns pretending to be politicians are doing anything to help us. This is about the rich not wanting to give up their money, and both sides are just protecting them.
This is from March and not the other post going around with a look at the drawings in the book today:

Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31762392
This sounds really interesting from a technical point of view!

What was your motivation in building it?
The commonly accepted definition of innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods and services. So while the ideas may come from research in universities, I struggle to think of examples of practical implementations resulting in new goods and services. Do you have any examples?
No Machine Will Ever Be Sentient
Funnily enough, I just moved to Tennessee and I'm much less worried about it now. Barely exists compared to New England.

California is a tiny bit lower incidence rate than Tennessee, but both are waaaay down the list.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/742936/incidence-rates-o...
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Probably because "view as" isn't anonymous, even if you adjust your privacy settings. (It'll say things like someone from X uni or with Y title viewed... easy to intuit who looked)

On my end, I had issues after I "looked up" someone convicted of a serious crime[1] who lived in my area code.

(I was looking into a different set of bad people. Apparently there's a lot of evil people on the internet. Not just the "dark web". They are everywhere, and abuse their access if they sense you're gunning for them in any sense of the word. The kids call reacting like some of did in real life "telling on yourself")

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/suburban-pittsburgh-man...
I have been in love with this song for decades. There is definitely a feeling of circularity going on. Here are a couple of my favorite versions, if anyone wants to go down the rabbit hole.

SF Jazz Collective (heavy modern jazz arrangement):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-F_1OvPdqA

Cassandra Wilson (earthy, lyrics in English):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIehPcFebHo

Trio Mocoto (melody played on Cuica, which is nuts):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTlFa3Fnlk
I like that the article shows how this affects regular people pretty much randomly.

One thing I missed on the article was a section about "how did we get here" (including things like Hospitals not disclosing prices for their treatments and forcing people to sign papers under duress). And a section about "who benefits from all this suffering" would complete it.
The air interface for 2G is less secure than 5G. This means everything from signaling to actual payload is less secure. In terms of bandwidth, 5G is far more spectrally efficient than 2G. A low bandwidth 5G device can have far better battery life because it's communication duty cycle is much shorter.

A 2G service can't overlap with other services. So if you've got 2G service that's spectrum you can't use for anything else. It's also expensive to run since it essentially doubles the infrastructure needed to provide the service.
I'm curious what it is about the name Cockroach that turns you off. I assume the name is intended to give the impression that the DB is hard to kill.
I can buy stuff much cheaper on Aliexpress. My experience there is no worse than 2022 Amazon, except for lower prices and slower shipping.

Amazon, even as late as 2019, seemed ahead of Aliexpress on service and quality. Something happened with COVID which seems to have permanently broken Amazon. I understand a blip, but after 2 years, Amazon hasn't recovered.

My basic problem is that if I order medicines, I want to know they're not placebo pills. If I order vanilla extract, I want to make sure it's not produced in a chemical factory with random toxins. If I buy something brand-name, I want to make sure it has that level of quality. If I buy an SD card, I want to know it's not a defective product from a manufacturing run with a forged Sandisk label. I can't do that on Amazon anymore.

That leaves fast shipping as the prime selling point, but Amazon seems to miss delivery deadlines a lot since COVID, not to mention broad ranges of products which don't do fast shipping. Fast shipping I can count on is worth a lot. Fast shipping most of the time has negative value. Most of the time I care about fast shipping, it's because I have some deadline.
If you're not incredibly rich, you're just temporarily holding all your savings & retirement accounts for the hospitals and nursing homes that'll eventually take all of it. And then some.
There's one on display at TJ Watson labs. It's kind of cool.
This is 100% the case, the billing side is completely and absolutely disconnected from the care side it's not even funny. As long as the inflows from customers and insurances companies roughly equal the outflows in expenses, they really don't care much how everything is billed.

Which is why you can often do better paying cash at a "expensive" hospital that is overflowing with money than at a "budget" one that is having difficulty making the numbers balance. The latter is more likely to hard-line.
Would you not classify them as riots? What word would you use?

I'm Canadian but was living in Seattle at the time. Businesses were burned, cars were flipped, statues torn down. I'm not trying to downplay the importance of what was being protested, but to pretend it was a peaceful demonstration is laughable. Riot is a perfectly reasonable word to describe it.
What political school of thought is that?
Ask HN: How do you recharge your batteries?
I had a mental breakdown last fall and with that everything in my life spiraled out of control. Now I have to spend another semester to finish my master's, possibly 2.

I may fail my master's because I can't replace a course and I don't believe that I will be able to pass it. It seems that there is a mental barrier preventing things from "clicking".

I am tired. I can't seem to be able to catch a break or rest. Besides my master's I have a job that's 30 hours per week because I don't have any other form of economic support.

I can't seem to be able to recharge my batteries. Nothing seems to work.

I wake up tired. I have trouble with executive dysfunction. My brain feels saturated, as if there is no more space to store new information.

I have reached a point of total burnout. My gears are grinding instead of spinning and I have no strength to keep going.
> Some of the commenters were absolutely convinced that the benches are deliberately designed to be hostile to the homeless, because the seat is curved and can’t be easily used for sleeping - never mind that it’s meant to look like an open book.

This is off-topic, but both things can be true. I would expect any competent organization who wanted to do hostile architecture in an aesthetic way would be able to find a solution like that.
The land (which is the expensive part of expensive housing) is almost certainly not new.
That’s exciting.
To be clear, I'm the tech lead of Cloudflare Workers, and wrote the core runtime implementation. Sorry, I should have stated that more clearly above.

While minor request/response rewrites were an early target use case, the platform is very much intended to support building whole applications running entirely on Workers. We do think this is a major paradigm shift.
I would still consider a missing safety check (like in this case, to check if there’s already a full screen video open) as a bug.
Occupational licensing in the states is utterly absurd, and they have the gall to criticise Brits for the (admittedly poor value) TV license.
Remove the financial motivation.
I have a copy of the American one which was drawn in haste by an artist who hadn't read the book, and that has an emu on the cover.
Sometimes incremental change happens, like the ACA, sometimes people go all accelerationist[0]/Bernie-or-bust on us and then someone vastly worse[1] gets elected. Seems like it's more the latter than the former these days considering how divided we are, politically.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

1: edited to add: imo. And probably in their o as well.
Same here — I taught myself CAD via FreeCAD tutorials and a month of making one-a-day household items, but ultimately I moved on to other tools (Fusion 360, Shapr3D) for better assembly support as I got into real-world uses.
author here, for known dates like date of birth it's still easier and faster to just type it in. Also type=date has accessibility problems and the design varies a lot, so people might get a decent experience on one browser/OS and a really poor one on another
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "without a browser layer"? Would there still be a webview / blink etc. implementation?
Probably not, but there's no legal issue with a W2 employer directing you to work on the campus of another company whose own employees have better benefits.
“All Happy families/founders resemble one another, but each unhappy family/founder is unhappy in its own way.”
I see your point. I'm not sure you're objectively wrong. But it feels wrong. :)

Where there is sufficient demand for things to sell out to people who want the product, but are unable to get it because someone has used a bot to scoop them up at superhuman speeds... that doesn't feel exactly like the moral equivalent of other forms of arbitrage.

_Especially_ when the sellers themselves would prefer that not happen. The bands want the tickets to go to the fans at no higher than the price the venue sets. Sony wants more gamers to have PS5s at the price they set.

It feels like the marketplace would function perfectly fine, and the true seller and the final buyer want it to work one way, but third party interlopers are taking advantage of other aspects of the scale and technological basis of our marketplace.

Market makers provide value; scalpers rent seek. I think that's a valid moral distinction.
Ugh. You are right, and that's sad.
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So are you claiming that Russia should be allowed to veto internal Ukrainian political decisions, or prevent them from voluntarily joining other alliances? Wouldn't it be better to just keep killing Russian soldiers until they run out and retreat?
Feel free not to reply to this, but why the hesitancy to provide specifics?
I agree, just trying to illustrate how seemingly simple things can have very heavy implementations that are not necessarily bureaucratic and complex just for the sake of being bureaucratic and complex.
Some standout stats for me:

- Hospitals recorded their most profitable year on record in 2019, notching an aggregate profit margin of 7.6%

- From 2012 to 2016, prices for medical care surged 16%, almost four times the rate of overall inflation

- Last year the average annual deductible for a single worker with job-based coverage topped $1,400, almost four times what it was in 2006... Family deductibles can top $10,000

Facilities charge exorbitant prices for procedures and insurance companies pass more and more of these costs on to patients via higher deductibles and premiums. It will continue to get worse unless there is colossal change.
we have a blog post on why:
https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des...
I want to say that it's kind of nuts that this is something that is getting live updated on multiple media sites.
* I think our understanding of the dollar system was poor back then because it was the first time we questioned it.*

Depends on who you think of as "we".

If by "we", you mean "economists", then no. This is elementary economics.

If by "we" you mean "tech bros", then yeah, maybe this was a novelty to them, along with everything else in economics past the first couple of weeks of Econ 101. So the economists watched them fast-forward the last three centuries of economic history in a decade.

It doesn't take a war to back Bitcoin. What it takes is convincing a major government to replace its currency with a blockchain version. Which is what various central banks are doing. Except it won't be Bitcoin. It'll be a "proof of stake" system, where your "stake" is your existing currency, and the central bank holding a majority.

It'll never be Bitcoin-brand crypto because the bitcoin owners don't have the guns you mentioned. They missed the very first lesson on why any currency (not just fiat currency) works. They could have asked the economists, but being tech bros, figured they knew better.
We would have to colossally and uniquely fuck up any version of "socialized" medicine for it not to be a substantial net savings.
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm getting at - absolutely 100% of bankruptcies are caused by debt; perhaps 60% of them also have medical debt somewhere in there, but that may be a distraction (after all, once you're on the path to bankruptcy why bother trying to make medical payments, they're not going to repossess your lung but they very well may repossess your house).

The US has a major debt problem and the solution at some point is going to be curtailing just how much debt you can accumulate with just a signature.
Sure, but you didn't say how much you would pay for this app, and how would you market it beyond just yourself.

We have a project going that's doing something similar but with food. You'd think that if someone were interested in where their air comes from, they would be even more interested in where the things they choose to put inside their body come from. However, we're finding that the market is either underdeveloped (low awareness) or very small (wealthy people who can eat anything they want). I'd be curious to hear your perspective.
It's ridiculous in the year 2022 we still have people making a decision to not seek medical treatment of any kind because they are afraid it will bankrupt their family, they won't be able to pay their rent or mortgage on time, they might have to go without food, take out loans or borrow money that puts them in even more debt causing more health issues. I'm not sure what the solution is but I feel like there's got to be a better way.
I've only ever heard one person use the term BIPOC to refer to themself in real life. Do people actually say this? Other than that one guy, I only ever see the term online or hear it on NPR. And it seems to have only popped up in the last couple of years. My initial reaction when I heard it was that it seems kind of racist and weird to single out Indigenous and Black people then lump together the rest of the various groups of not White people in the world.
Maintaining the Integrity of Important Files
> But hey, maybe I'm missing something here.

Most consumers want appliances. Having to debug software and hardware issues that frequently come up on PC gives them zero satisfaction.

For example, most people want a toaster when they want toast, instead of a more versatile fire
The user isn't the one intentionally opening these overlapping videos. The site they're visiting is making that request, and the browser is honoring it.

This is a bug. These are unexpected results! And as the article notes, "sometimes this behavior makes Safari crash."

So a website can make your browser crash by getting it to do something nonsensical (opening 30 overlapping full screen videos), without your forewarning that this could happen.

You can quibble and say it's a "misfeature" or similar, but I'm not sure that means much.
Yeah, I don't get that mentality.

Actual meetups come with a huge advantage of being able to have one-on-one conversations with people who may be able to hire you. I've gotten a few jobs and contract work because people knew me from meetups and conventions. I don't buy it when people say fake "meetups" are just as good. When I hear someone tout fake "meetups", I'm hearing a person who hasn't networked.
Whether it had much use prior to 2020 I'm unsure, the point is that Americans (like the charming one I'm trying my best to be patient with below) will now forever associate their country's own racial backstory with those three words, and for some reason expect others around the world to do the same.
author here, just to note our current design pattern for this is slightly updated:
https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/date-input/
You could change the stack pointer to the top of the area of memory you wanted to fill and then use PUSH to fill at I think 11 clock cycles per two bytes. It was faster than unrolled LDI or LD (HL),A followed by INC HL. It would be filling memory in the wrong direction for a Rainbow processor but you could use it for repeating patterns. I think I did a checkerboard pattern that would shift every frame and it was pretty smooth.
You don't see this every day.....

But you do see it every year for the last number of years

Some previous discussion from 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19429249
I'll accept my ignorance here, but there has to be some time element to light otherwise it would have infinite speed.
This is the point of GitHub. Also Unix was(/is) a masterwork of craftsmanship. Struggling to see a problem here.
Wait a few months and you’ll see 3% again, savings acct interest rates are usually a few bps below the federal funds rate.
My wife and I have good insurance (like $200 out of pocket for surgery good) and I still hate going to the doctor because I know I'm going to get stuck with an involuntary side hustle as a medical billing clerk if I want the benefits we're entitled to to actually be honored. Our insurance paid maybe ~6k in charges one time, then 6 months later retroactively denied the claims and billed us for them. There's just no repose ever at any time, and you have to deal with a system that is always stacked against you.
I’m 39 and single – how do I stop yearning for a relationship and be content?
Turning HN into a support forum for Google, Microsoft, etc does not improve their customer support. It's a fast lane for those "in the know" which only entrenches the problems with their existing channels.
Not my family.

We filed for bankruptcy, so screw the whole medical industry.

Honestly, it wasn't bad and within 18 months bought a new car, new house and started life over again.
Convicted scammer Anna Sorokin says she is now selling NFTs
Just so no one's deterred, it's actually not very difficult to do this. The rustc and ruby patches I submitted as an exercise. I went to the issue tracker, sorted by oldest first, and then picked the first issue that had little/no discussion on it. I purposefully avoided picking an issue with significant architectural impact or political context this way.

So there's also not much designing and reviewing needed. The merge requests were assigned to very senior reviewers each time. The automated test suites made sure I didn't waste much of anyone's time with trivial errors. Of course the requirement is that you're actually at least proficient with the languages (C for Ruby and Rust for rustc) but beyond that I think anyone can do it with a couple of sunday afternoons spent diligently digging through the codebase.
I don't imagine the descending shepard tone feels different to you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkuXfgUoro

Sounds like a jet engine spooling down to me
Unpaywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20220616150415/https://www.irish...

Full title: ‘I’m 39 and single . . . how do I stop yearning for a loving relationship and be content with a pretty great life?’
Non payment is a moderate expense, at least according to hospitals themselves: https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2020-01-06-fact-sheet-uncomp...
Computers were supposed to be used for computing and printing solutions to polynomial equations. Is that really relevant to what computers are needed for anymore?
I read it with NoScript blocking Javascript.
I would 100% dox myself.