skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious to know what California doctors think of this. Is there broad pushback or is this generally seen as a good thing?

Is there still room for grey areas where multiple theories coexist or does this lead to local minima entrenchment of scientific theory?
How easy would be for you to change employer with similar commute?
Yep! Our product is free for individuals (paid product coming later for businesses), so we didn't add a pricing page quite yet. We've raised money from friends and family and a couple of funds but consider ourselves pre-seed currently.
Here's another good one where some guy gets "arrested, jailed, and prosecuted because he made fun of his local police department on Facebook".

https://ij.org/press-release/new-supreme-court-appeal-asks-c...

Unless in your world jokes on facebook are also "true threats".
No, and saying it's "astonishing" and "it's a threat to liberty" is ridiculous and incredibly overdramatic.

It's just an app. Companies rise and fall, it's how it works. We lived just fine before it, we will be just fine after.

Something will replace Twitter just like something replaced Friendster and MySpace.
Create links to code snippets in repos and share with others
> many are 78s, so I had so search Kijiji ads to get a player that plays that speed. Dual 1009 was what I settled on

Many modern turntables, including cheap ones, support 78 rpm. (Quick search finds 11 new 78 rpm-supporting models at Best Buy in Canada, starting from $80. An $85 Sylvania that supports 78s can also digitize directly to USB storage.[1])

Did you mean 16 2/3 rpm records, which the Dual 1009 supports and most modern turntables don't?

[1]: https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/sylvania-src831-3-speed...
Sure, as long as they are properly shelled. Bean pods are disgusting.
I hate hate hate hate hate my remarkable 1. Discussed why here a while back [1] but the TLDR is that it’s incredibly slow and the software is garbage. Would love to try a remarkable 2 but only for free after wasting money on the last one. Considering trying the impending Amazon thing, scribe or scribble or whatever they call it

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517285
* Works on real hardware and most popular emulators.
Isn't this not editorial but simply that outfits like this are now pay-to-play? I feel like I read somewhere that a couple thousand will get you an "article" in Forbes about your new thing, so you can say "we were in Forbes."
Sorry to be cynical but if I am building a new social media company the first place I look for executives wouldn't be the World Economic Forum.
Sounds like functional domain driven design
So it's not any different than Mastodon then.
Women Behind Eniac
Graphics cards. I’m hoping the 30XX series sees a sharp price drop with the new cards coming out.
Homeschooler, College Dropout, Developer and Master Networker [audio]
I think musk believes the value was there in 2012. Or at least that it stems from Trump et. al. and not whatever new features they've released.

Let's not forget that twitter IPO'd at $45 a share in 2013. The market agrees with musk that the last decade has produced minimal value.
What Carmack had was the ability to read
research papers and translate them into
working code. I can do that too, but it
does seem to be a less common skill in
the software world.

Well, that's the argument for Carmack being merely very very very good and not a "genius."

Here's the argument for him:

There were a lot of exceptionally talented people working in the games industry, and for four+ generations of PC hardware (the Keen, Wolf3D, Doom, and Quake eras) Carmack's engines were years ahead of everybody else's and had an absolutely massive impact on the industry.

Of course, the term "genius" is nebulous and it can mean whatever we want it to mean.

However, describing him as merely a guy who implemented other peoples' algorithms may be true in a literal sense but really misses the big picture IMO.
The tree is built once. The tree can be traversed from any point in the world because each node stores which plane it used to split, and it is easy to compute which side of the plane you are viewing.

Have you tried reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning ? It shows how a BSP is built and traversed for rendering.
Ask HN: Most Efficient Handwriting Font?
I am dissatisfied with the speed, legibility, and aesthetics of my handwriting. I have tried many variations of cursive and italic. (I have always found lowercase b, v, k, and r awkward in typical Zaner-Bloser / D'Nealian type cursive scripts.)

Does anyone know of any rigorous (or amateur) research into optimizing handwriting speed, legibility, and comfort?

Thanks!
I mean, they've created a whole bunch of the tech required to support their scale (React, Jest, PyTorch)
This works perfectly for isometric cubes, and is what I do currently.

If you imagine two long rectangles, one in each of your two hands, and pretend they are two cars passing each other in an isometric world, you will see that pretty soon, one car's screen.y position will be below the other before it's clear of the vehicle which should actually be occluding part of it.
Kalshi is the first federally (CFTC) regulated exchange allowed to do this. We spent 3 years working with regulators to get this regulated and opened up the market for events trading.

Here's more about our regulatory status: https://kalshi.com/learn/how-is-kalshi-regulated?
Both the best and unnecessary gadget purchase: upgrading from an iPhone 13 Pro to a 14 Pro. Oddly, I truly enjoy the design and thinking that went into what is objectively a glorified notch.
But What Is a Convolution? [video]
Do you mean Chemical Ali? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hassan_al-Majid
Your gut literally has a brain in it with as many neurotransmitters as the actual brain. The phrase "gut feeling" is literal, your gut can actually control you.
You could apply to work on the research infrastructure (for instance for AI)
What about sports betting? People would still play those games so the "risk" isn't artificial.
I think the point by kazinator still stands. C11 is still a portability issue (which was the root of my original question above). ANSI C is the de-facto baseline everything has in common, using C11+ narrows which platforms you're able to build for. Even if C11 does provide the primitives for correct implementation of Peterson's Algorithm, what about the other platforms that don't have a C11 compiler - it does them no good. As to the point more directly, a lot of the C code I've seen is for real time and embedded systems that are usually time and memory partitioned, and do not have the same concerns regarding concurrency.

I guess if I could rephrase my original question: People who are going to adopt C23 - who are you and what field/industry/line-of-work are you in?

Asking because in my line-of-work, C is ubiquitous and I personally love coding in C, but anything beyond ANSI C (or C99) is "cool" but undermines the point of C as I've used it, which is its use cross-platform for a huge set of common and uncommon architectures and instruction sets. If something only needs to run on common, conventional platforms, C, however much I love it, would no longer necessarily be a strong contender in light of many alternatives. It seems like these standards target an ever shrinking audience (much smaller than the whole universe of software developers working in C).
People are still getting hired at Facebook/Meta, they're probably just targeting specific people or hiring in cheaper countries now
Good god, was there actually a market for this? Did someone think they were too caring and inclusive? Most banks are usually found in the LawfulEvil square in D&D.
>Seems like a weird thing to hang your hat on

That's identity politics :\
Related:

"A friend of mine who is basically never wrong about financial questions converted 80% of his Bitcoin into Ethereum."

- Paul Graham tweet from Aug 13, 2021

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1426254478278287367
Fair enough. Within certain constraints Core Identity is great, and far better than writing your own auth.

The title was a nod to https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...

(I'm a FusionAuth employee.)
> As I've noted several times here recently,[2] the $9 billion in annual bookstore sales[3] could be met with a $5.25 per month fee for a typical U.S. household, or an 0.1% income tax basis (say, rolled into your broadband access charge).

> This would provide compensation equal to all current book sales

How would this money be distributed?
Nice!.

Is it intentionally slowed down? The reaction (for example when I click the checkbox) seem very slow in the demo page.
You ever talk on 4chan?

Fully anonymous just leads to people building tons of fake accounts. You could be talking to 20x people, but they're all Bob who is just obsessed with proving his point and making it look like his point is popular.

A degree of identify verification, to mitigate bots, spammers, mass posters, and other such issues is at minimum for discussion on today's internet.
In the state I live in, as well as in neighboring states, there are laws that require producers of marijuana to include test results showing the breakdowns of compounds found in the tested samples. I don't know how strict the laws are, but based on the several pages of data that dispensaries are required to adhere to the sold product, I'd imagine that the laws are pretty strict.

That said, there's so much that can impact someone's perception of dosage with edibles. The mix of CBD/THC/CBN, what someone ate prior to consuming the edibles, how much time has passed between eating a meal and consuming the edibles, and things like metabolism and liver function all factor in.

Said another way: the effectiveness or perceived potency of marijuana, even with perfectly consistent and controlled dosages, can depend on so many other factors than consistent and controlled dosages.
Withings is having some decent sales, so I was thinking about one of their low-end scales and their BP monitor, and maybe their thermometer because I need a reliable one and I’d spend about the same on one at the local pharmacy anyway.

That’s about it for me I think. Still waiting for the new Mikrotik hap ax3 to be available somewhere, but don’t expect there to be any sales in that regard.
1. For trans people, it's absolutely a thing. If you need to be verified, your photo and name will often be different than government documents. Having a bank that understand this from the start is a key differentiator. Now, less than 1% of the world publicly identifies as trans or non-binary, but the numbers are increasing in younger generations and may, in an of itself, be a significant market differentiator.

2. LGBT people have a low level fear of having someone in customer service discriminate due to something with our gender presentation or other issue. While it's a smaller issue today than in the past, we all have a story about a friend who had an issue. With all else being equal; that is, if the bank itself is reliable, this is a key feature.

Now, I think there is a banking play for a single corporation to have multiple white labeled experiences, but the only successful one I know about not tied to an existing bank is Nubank.
I sadly agree, I have seen standards of senior developer which make sense to me but even the orgs whom wrote them do not apply them evenly.

In the past year I saw way too many intermediate/senior engineers almost hired as staff.
I'm not familiar with Mastodon, but this is the generic mechanism for linking identity since the earliest web days; as long as names are hard to spoof it's independent of any specific service.
I like having an Echo on the shelf next to the sink to listen to music while doing the dishes so I don't have to touch anything with my wet hands.

On the other hand I can just set an album going and not have to touch anything for 50 minutes.
It's usually the layer above that has issues: PayPal.

Who even some of the "wokest" on here have had the same issues with.
> could potentially scale to 1B users -- and nobody could stop it. Some static assets would need to be tuned in a real App, to be hosted by a CDN like Cloudflare

You've just show at least one way how it would be stopped. Who exactly is going to pay for static assets delivered to 1B users via Cloudflare?

> but the App itself would scale.

Of course it wouldn't. None of the blockchains have the required throughput. Yes, they want you to believe they have it, but they don't.

> that's "blockchain"; what you call "being on chain". They didn't solve the problems

> This is new.

So they didn't solve the problems, but somehow this "app by a newbie" is suddenly solving all these problems and "scales to 1B users" because blockchain?

Oh. And it doesn't scale because you can't even link to a post on it because "someone needs to pay for hosting". So it couldn't scale beyond a single user?
You aren't, but I actually like the idea generally. Capitalism is all about choice, and I'm absolutely fine using that as one of the reasons.

I mean, I think the inverse is weird. I don't see what's wildly different about "I'm just not gonna go there because I don't like how the chicken tastes" which no one ever has a problem with, but suddenly people get up in arms over "I'm not gonna go there because I don't like the CEO's stance on whatever."

Yay choice.

(oooh update. And these may be obvious descendants of things like "green book" businesses, aka those that were safe for black folks not too long ago)
> That would be somewhere you might expect half the passengers (or more) to change, like Berlin or Madrid

(From experience) I would suspect it's more about train crew changes, restocking the restaurant car, and/or allowing extra time to recover from any delays.
> It’s pretty obviously an astronaut looking out at space.

Props to you for seeing it, but I don’t think it’s obvious at all until pointed out.
Check out https://quizgecko.com/
It looks like there is 30% off new licenses but not upgrades after all: VMware Fusion and Workstation Professional on sale for 30% off https://store-us.vmware.com/vmware-workstation-17-pro-570991...

https://store-us.vmware.com/vmware-fusion-13-pro-5708569900....
Digital Artificial Life -- as in evolving program ecosystems, artificial chemistries or cellular automata that can manifest life-like phenomena, etc.

Haven't done much with it in a while but was very into it in college. It's both a minor scientific field (would probably be grouped under both theoretical biology and AI research) and a hobbyist field with some really interesting projects.
Fuzz tests can take a seed corpus of test vectors. If the test framework tries them first, it can guarantee that it will find those bugs in any test run. For anything beyond that, it depends on chance.
Wow, this brings back memories...

I took a 3D computer graphics course in university in the early 2000s, and the final project was to make a game. IIRC we could use as many open source libraries + assets as we wanted, but we had to write the renderer.

Our professor was a big Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, so we made a Buffy game. My team thought we'd have some easy points for that. When we presented our plan, he says "I know you know I'm a Buffy fan, so this better be good"... Ooops. Time to get to work.

We used the Quake map format, which is BSP, and our renderer worked pretty well. We used Quake 2 character models, which worked pretty well on its own. I think it was because someone had made some vampire models for it.

When we integrated the two, the performance was terrible. Like a slideshow. After a brief panic, we realized that the Z axis was inverted between the two modules we'd written, and the guy that put them together was inverting the model every frame. After inverting it once when the model was loaded, they worked pretty well together.

We added a simple hitbox (a rectangular prism at the maximum points of the model), and had a fun little game after that!
My wife and I play a game with dice called 100.

You roll two dice, and you have to decide which permutation to keep, and it gets added to your score. So, if I roll [3,1] then I can add 13 or 31 to my score. The aim is to take turns and get closest to 100 without going over, and you can pass your turn if you think you're close enough.

It can also be played with more dice, ie 1000, 10000, but it gets easier the more dice there are.
And in those more complex interactions there is not enough adjustment capability. I often want Alexa to speak faster or just shorter (reduce filler words and pauses). There's no way (I am aware of) to make it more efficient for the determined user.
Ah, I forgot, it specifically does that when referred from HN.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29449238

Two of the more active communities:

https://tilde.team

https://tilde.club
All space hardware is old since it has to be radiation-proof and proven reliable above all else.
Perhaps.

We don't know if they sold the design and whether it was tested. The design itself is very interesting - in particular the complex heat exchange structures.

On it being optimal, or even more efficient, as long as it's cheaper to build than a conventional engine, it's game.
From the fine print of an even finer press release [0] from September 2022 announcing a 'financial lifestyle app':

> GloriFi™ is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by TransPecos Banks, SSB, Member FDIC.

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pro-america-mission...
Glad you find the economic calendar useful. We're currently thinking of ways to improve/expand it...any events you'd like to see on there?

There are definitely areas where automating market resolutions/creating smart contracts can be useful....the most important thing is having a very well-defined contract upfront, so that outcomes are clear, the validators are authoritative, and unexpected edge cases don't come up. This is something we spend a lot of time thinking about when listing markets.
oh wow, I have no idea why I didn't think of that. thank you!
Absolutely. In a similar place after 20 years of various roles in technology. So I built a lumber mill, a woodshop and I'm going to start making things. Much more fulfilling.
Question: what's the issue with citrus in this regard? Does it make long-acting medications not work as intended? My doctor never mentioned anything about citrus so I'm curious. thanks
Related: I've been using CamelCamelCamel* to track Amazon price drops.

I just used to to grab a new Kindle Fire HD Plus for practically nothing.

*https://camelcamelcamel.com Not affiliated, just happy with the service.
Video games and certain movie composers. Ramin Djawadi, Bear McCreary, and Howard Zimmer are on almost constant repeat for me.
But promoting and adopting cryptocurrency technology actually _will_ improve the financial system. That's the thing that, amazingly, technical people are not picking up on.
> is funded by polluters

If only those polluters would stop pointlessly polluting! Gee I mean why would they even do it? It's almost as if you're paying them to pollute for you so you can have that new laptop and fast shipping!
It was easily one of my favorite podcasts of the last few years and Lex usually drives me a little crazy.
> [input 1] -> [ask for clarification] -> [input 2] -> [propose action, ask for confirmation ] -> [action]

Don’t forget that between all those steps there’s a “store everything you say in order to sell you stuff later” step
Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich?
AVCHD was basically that concept: it uses the Blu-ray file structures, formats, and codecs, but stored on a DVD-R(OM).

It has the problem that it only works in Blu-ray Players, not standard DVD players, so the usefulness of it is drastically diminished.
I have the BP monitor and the scale, and both are really useful / have good UX!
Thanks, looks like that's it:

>The world’s biggest 3d-printed rocket engine was printed by the AMCM M4K customized machine.

I hope some of this tech comes into the consumer price range with little or no post processing involved
A1000 costs $250. F91W costs like $10.
In the last years it shifted mostly to tinkering with radio communication of all sorts. IoT etc. it's amazing what you can find out about factories and your general environment if you have a look at everything that's buzzing around... with mostly default passwords. :) but there are still interesting systems around just last week I found a 170 line isdn system still in use by a printing company... roughly 1mbit :D
Resume building for people to get their next job?

Lots of these companies opened up the ability for internal engineers to write tech blogs for the purposes of recruiting since the FAANGs were all in competition with one another. Presumably, the VPs haven't gotten around to closing the pipeline yet.
If you mean liberalism in the original sense, it certainly does!
Intrade was awesome. Great respect for that platform.

We're doing a fully regulated, full scale version of Intrade. Regulation allows us to take this to the next level: getting market makers onboard, integrating with brokers, etc.
I went deep doing research on prediction markets a few months ago, and no, it's not an unfair conclusion.

Brian Quintenz is a Republican financial manager who was nominated to be a commissioner of the CFTC by Trump in 2017.[1]

During his time at the CFTC, as I recall, there was heavy bipartisan action, which he was praised for.

Well, there's a slightly more cynical take that he was indeed completely crooked.

My memory is foggy, and I don't have time to grab sources just yet as I have a meeting coming up so I'll update this shortly, but he was then turfed out of the CFTC under Biden and promptly hired by Kalshi.

Given his record, it's less of a jump to see what Kalshi is doing as shady, but more of a smoking gun... PredicIt, which had been operating under a no action letter (NAL) from the CFTC since 2014 just happened to have that letter withdrawn a few months after Kalshi raises $30m at a Series A to take their platform live.[2]

From my point of view, this is classic American lobbying mafia style stuff. Prediction markets have been prevented from flourishing for decades, and now that the time has arrived, the crooked CFTC et al have cleaned the house so their chosen startup that they're deeply in bed with can thrive.

The whole thing, quite frankly, stinks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Quintenz

[2] https://www.pymnts.com/news/international/2022/millions-comm...
> It's tough spending all day, every day with someone

You literally do this with coworkers in an office. Except, you didn't get to pick those people and you have to be even physically closer to them. The last office I worked in was an open floor plan and the guy three feet next to me typed so hard I thought he would break his keyboard. And he was on a rubber dome!! It was louder than the loudest mechanical keyboard. Before that I sat next to the sales department. They would talk loudly on the phone for 8 straight hours. One time my desk was next to the break room. You like hearing people talk all day long?

> in order to have private work spaces

With open floor plans the only privacy you get is when you put on your headphones. Anyone walking by still sees your screen and wearing headphones all day is not great for your health.