skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The part I didn't like was how they made me get out a credit card while they we're treating me.

Yes, I recently had to visit urgent care after probably ~8 years of staying out of the hospital. To be allowed in the door of the building I was required to swipe a credit card (literally 5 feet inside the front door, "we need you to authorize a charge on your card for this visit to proceed") and then they had credit card readers inside the patient rooms attached to the EMR computers for "charge as you go" medical care.

The whole thing made me sick to my stomach.
A lot of people are perfectly happy with private healthcare. I happen to be one of them. But I'm also not opposed to my tax money funding the county hospital either. We can have both.
It's not clear how you would include a per-county E911 fee in any advertised price. How do you know where the person viewing it actually lives?
Why couldn't I load up my account with $10 or so every month, and have a centralized solution tally up all my consumption and distribute it to all publishers.
Is this wild speculation the material for creating bubbles?

FTA:

"Walmsley adds that he’s heard venture-capital investors speculate that the market for generative AI applications could be as large as $1 trillion. He notes that the world has over one billion knowledge workers; OpenAI charges $42 a month for the professional version of ChatGPT. If you assume every one of those people gets two accounts—one general, and one specialized—you get close $1 trillion."
>and was sorely disappointed to see Australia cut their funding.

An horrible story, covered in detail in Gernot's blog[0].

Fortunately, seL4 foundation has picked up steam, and is no longer dependent in any way on the leeches that almost killed it.

[0]. https://microkerneldude.org/
So I'm not super familiar with different databases, but do understand the basics and do know how to work wit data with e.g. pandas, and do think I understand what Duckdb is useful for, but what I'm still completely missing is: how do I get data in Duckdb? I.e. how did you get that data into Duckdb? Or: suppose I have a device producing sensor data, normally I'd connect to some MySQL endpoint somehow and tell it to insert data. How does one do that with Duckdb? Or is the idea rather that you construct your Duckdb first by getting data from somewhere else (like the MySQL db in my example)?
Can you detail how this would work?
I'm inclined to agree with you; the thought of just "some dude" mucking about with the genetics of a virus is horrifying.

And yet, computers are extremely powerful tools, arguably the most powerful we have created.

And look what free access to them has accomplished... Sure, it has caused quite a bit of cyber crime, but it's all balanced out by a massive amount of open and freely exchanged innovation.

Now imagine an alternate history where we somehow restricted access to programming to people with computer science degrees working under registered companies... I think that history would be pretty regressive.

So I think your reaction is understandable, I share it, but also hold some significant doubts.
Let’s be fair…

The media chases clicks and attention.

News reading Americans rather read about “Is it China or aliens?”, the war in Ukraine, earthquake in Middle East and the Super Bowl than small-town Ohio.
This, 250 bugs per month for access to the lab. Some machines will have to be shared. It is intended that you get some even cheaper office space too.

Heating, electricity and some services are on top, but overall that is ridiculously cheap.
Exoskeletons help take the strain of heavy lifting
At 20k feet, that's solidly in the middle of everyday commercial air traffic.
I feel like a few companies have tried this over the years..

The concept of a tip jar that you'd fund and then be able to disburse on participating websites.

Then payments could just be aggregated and paid out periodically from the tip jar provider to the publisher..

But you need some kind of critical mass for this (both users and publishers), and I don't think anyone has cracked this yet..
Show HN: Okaaaay – Simple, Affordable and Intuitive AI Copywriter
Hey Hackernews - Quick story; I've been using AI tools since 2019, even when it wasn't poppin' like it is now. Back then, and now still, AI tools can be confusing or complicated to use, not to mention EXPENSIVE. Products like Jasper.ai start their pricing at $49/month for a limited number of words!! - That's really high compared to what it actually costs to generate your content.

And now, you might say "they got employees, and server costs and and-" then I'd say "but 130+ employees for a service that could theoretically run itself?", it's automated AI; they are not writing your responses. (Their hires are for marketing, and ideas, and sales, and whatever fancy things they can hire for - and surprise! the costs fall on you.)

Idk - to me, all this seems a bit excessive: confusing tools + expensive pricing = :(
Why not make a fresh respin on all of this? Well, I think I did. It's called Okaaaay. I've made the interface sleek and EASY TO USE, I have added tons of tools (you can even make your own), and best of all, the pricing is simple and cheap; $19/month for UNLIMITED words and generations. That's it - Try the service if you'd like and see for yourself.

Thanks all, Malte Prüser
Hasn't the new uBlock for manifest v3 been working?
If no software auto updated by default the world would have way worse botnet issues.
As long as you have the developer mode on Iridium, you will. What I'd like it's the same concept but for a standalone micro-proxy, such as 'miniproxy' from tedu@. I mean, I fire up Dillo, Lynx, Links, whatever. It automatically redirects me to an unpaywalled web.
To that end, this weekend I wrote a GPT-Neo-1.3b based Discord bot, and ran it on an Oracle "Always Free" instance. It costs me nothing, and I'm able to play with a surprisingly large/competent AI model.

As the technology progresses and models are optimized/shrunk, I'm not sure if these "AI companies" will ever stand a chance. Even cheap Android smartphones can run the smallest GPT-Neo model, eventually the need for the SAAS wrappers for the technology will be cannibalized.
It’s not surprising at all that the lack of accountability goes right to the top, and it’s tragic that it takes an earthquake to expose the corruption. But Turkey is far from the only country with a corrupt, ticking-time-bomb of construction and infrastructure quality issues. Pretty much every low-to-middle income country has taken the semi-rational approach of cutting corners in order to do more with less. And the high-income countries have arguably swung the pendulum too far in the opposite direction, with very high standards that lead to very high prices for construction of anything (and a few unfortunate places which enjoy the high price of high standards, and enough corruption to bypass these standards).
I follow his work and subscribe to his newsletter. His podcast with Toni is pretty good too. In that work you see him form his overall thesis that culminates in these slides. It would be interesting to hear the talk behind these slides and any audience questions.

The big takeaway I got from this is that tech is still eating the world and there is still a lot of potential. It is not necessarily crypto (that's at least 5 years out) or necessarily the metaverse (probably 5 years out or more). Meta has invested huge amounts of money into VR when compared to the investment Apple made in the original iPhone.

But Internet enabled commerce has a huge margin to capture based on total retail spending. There is an unbundling of products from aggregators and a too many choices problem probably. A big question is how do you find customers which is basically the "ad" market and the first party data problem. These markets have huge margins but you can leverage the gatekeepers to build successful billion dollar businesses.

Another sector is the continued digital transformation of current businesses which has a large cloud workflow component.

Both will benefit from the current trends in AI. This isn't discussed in detail but it is not hard to imagine potential use cases which I imagine a host of startups are identifying.

I see current AI systems as platforms on which to build new applications. Much like AWS is used to build applications today. This will remain true as long as training costs are multiple millions of dollars. I do expect to see unbundling though as we figure out how to get more with less compute.
>Frontend development is simply awesome in ClojureScript

Is that still tied to that google closure abomination ? I've not been in CLJ ecosystem for >5 years now but last time I used CLJS I remember they went all in on google Closure and it was a major PITA to use the rest of JS ecosystem because of it.

Every time I use React I think how it would be great to use Clojure for that, but last time I tried the tooling overhead just killed it for me.
Sadly this probably means no covid vaccine and few advancements. It's easy to spread out what we have; it's hard to run an engine of care and innovation at the same time. Choose hard.
I had been reading Marginal Revolution and following Cowen for probably 5 years but I finally completely gave up on him.

At first I was deeply impressed and considered him someone who was unafraid to confront challenging issues with thoughtful analysis.

Now I see him as a Malcolm Gladwell style entertainer.

Anybody thinking of taking him too seriously should do some meta-research of their own before spending a lot of time on his ideas.
Here's my killer app theory for stuff like GPT, just one example...

MS Teams gets the GPT treatment. It watches all your chats, email, calendars, code, wiki, meetings, spreadsheets, documents. Where is Slack now?

If you want to know absolutely anything from engineering domain knowledge to product strategy through to aiding you in sales, Slack has no answer. Ask Teams to splat you a database table, refine an SQL statement, brief you on a meeting, remind me of who a particular customer is and what sort of sales pitch would appeal to them.

I mean, not seeing the potential in GPT is really being intentionally blind to world changing technology. Just the fact that it can scan your whole codebase, find potential security holes, suggest performance blind-spots and indeed write code, or at least suggest code, this alone is such a big change it's hard to get your head around the opportunity. All of that in a chat window or IDE. It's revolutionary.
Why are you trying to make renting so unaffordable? Dislike renters in your neighborhood?

(To be clear I am not saying this is right or wrong, I’m asking. I have used renting to increase my flexibility and to live places I couldn’t afford to or wouldn’t want to own for fun / access to jobs. I can see not wanting someone that doesn’t intend to stick around long term in your neighborhood I suppose).
The overwhelming majority of hospitals are nonprofit.

The overwhelming majority of prisons are run by the state.

The overwhelming majority of higher education is nonprofit.

The Catcholic church circa 1500 was nominally nonprofit.

PE probably does turn everything to shit but acting like not having shareholders or owners who are looking to wring every cent out so they can get the fattest check will solve the problem seems naive at best.
Russian authorities launch Oculus, automated system for detecting LGBT propagand
You didn't understand the issue and jumped to a conclusion not supported by the numbers. Verbal, philosophical, mathmatical.
Omnia – Share, Create and Discover AR Work
Omnia is going to allow Augmented Reality (AR) creators to share their work (UGC section), and find clients or tools. While Businesses will browse use cases that make sense for them and order custom content.
Edge already refuses to install it through the .CRX file, even in developer mode. I have it installed by loading the unpacked version using these instructions:

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean...
> That model doesn’t seem to be working either

The model works just fine. The reason the NHS isn't working is because the Conservative government has intentionally underfunded it (UK per capita spending on healthcare is significantly lower than other European countries).
> The Debian installs that used `ntpd` used to default to a pool of Debian NTP servers.

I think they are not technically Debian NTP servers, they are from a general public pool of NTP servers. But when such pool is used by vendors, there is a requirement to use separate subdomain: https://www.ntppool.org/en/vendors.html
Kind of not the point. The BBC being unwilling to be intimidated doesn't imply that Youtube should be willing.

And I wonder if that BBC link works in India. Or if this one does: https://btdig.com/search?q=modi+question&order=2
In Clojure ORMs aren't really that popular considering most Clojurists just use the built in datatypes (e.g. maps) to represent data. There are no classes as such (unless you use Java interop). If you need a query builder the honeysql library is really nice.
Study: Complete set of logic gates using silicon-on-silica waveguides at 1.55M
Plain language summary:

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece have designed seven basic logic operations—NOT, XOR, AND, OR, NOR, NAND and XNOR—using silicon-on-silica waveguides operated at 1.55 μm, which can be used for optical processing of information. The operations' performance is evaluated against the contrast ratio (CR), and with the convolutional perfectly matched layer as an absorbing boundary condition, they can achieve a speed of up to 120 Gb/s, with higher CRs than previous designs.
> IMO the only regime change likely in Russia will not make you happy.

Don't be daft!

Any new Russian leader, no matter how hawkish they currently talk, knows full well that Russian forces are depleted and will be incapable of waging a "major" war for many years to come.......
250 per month, I did not notice that the link is in German. Sorry for any confusion.

For comparison, that is about the price of a single room student flat.
Differently from crypto currencies, AI is actually solving real problems.
If you default it to on and most people don’t turn it off is that a strong argument in favor of telemetry?
It really shouldn't be THAT hard to hold press conferences and/or put out media releases that actually contain the text of the legislation and the specific areas of objection.

Section J, paragraph 2 indicates "blah foo bar".

The people seeking to pass this bill are trying to "bar" your "blah foo", and I don't believe "bar" should be "blah foo'd". "Bar" should be "bazzed", and I'm doing everything I can to 'baz' 'bars' whenever possible.

I realize that sometimes legislative language is dense or difficult, but that shouldn't be a reason to gloss over it.

I got hung up on the Clinton Health Care act in the early 90s. Right wing radio folks got me hung up on it - I was convinced it was evil. I bought a copy to review in detail. It was complex, but I found that many of the radio talking points I'd eaten up were, in fact, misrepresentations or distortions. But... I had to read the text myself to get to that point - it took a while to digest.
> dotnet, vscode (Microsoft), golang (Google), Oracle JDK/JRE, Nextjs (Vercel), ...

I wonder if there's some trend where corporate backed, large "open source/source available" projects being more open to telemetry compared to more "open community" projects.

For non-corporate projects, the general thought process might be it's fine to leave efficiency gains and improvements on the table if it means violating some foundational principles. While in a business setting, those efficiency gains could be very tempting since it can translate to more money, market share or promotions and that way of thinking gets applied to the open source projects as well.
This is such a false equivalence. We are talking here about adults who want to build something cool. If we are going to define to scope of everything as "useful for everyone and 100% safe from the beginning" I think we'll get nothing done. If you think the risk here is equivalent, I really don't know what to say to you.
Yes, it's such an obvious thing that it has been used in plots for movies/books for a long long time. Maybe the particular thing that causes the derailment or the specific thing that released is slightly different, but it's not like nobody has ever thought this as idea. In fact, some version of the plot that proves the idea is so believable is that they stage an accident and tell people it is hazardous to get people to evacuate to not see what's really going on.

The fact that someone could say this was unforeseen with a straight face should immediately put them in the nominees for whatever acting award show of your choice.
It would take a rethinking of how the government would run the medical systems though. For example, the Veterans Administration hospital system is now a mix of Govt. and Referrals to for profit because the Govt. run hospitals have failed to meet standards / needs consistently. The health care has always been deemed pretty subpar / inadequate as well.

I'm not opposed to a government system, but it needs to be a redesign and re-haul of everything we've done so far and the reality is that it's just not likely to happen.

There are some exceptions to quality at the VA, notably when the VA is co-located with a school such as Stanford in Palo Alto. There they often have great medical providers and support.
At least the mandatory fees apply across the board which means you can still price shop somewhat accurately. The completely made up corporate fees like “resort fees” are just a way to obscure the actual price. I think that’s probably stating it too nicely. It’s a way to advertise an artificially deflated price that’s impossible for any customer to actual pay. It’s deceptive. Intentionally.
Looks like this submission will not make the front page, but you might phrase the question on the current top topic, where I also commented: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774152
It won't matter.

Things will not change.

Some empty gesture will take place to assuage the outrage but nothing will change.

Bets are open on who will be scapegoated for this.
I always get confused with AGPL and seems to have differing opinions online, so wanted to ask here. If I use Lago in my app, and don't change it all, do I need to opensource my entire application?
Yes, I have the same feeling. It doesn’t seem organic to me at all. There were no larger outrage in comments than under any standard outrage posts. But still, this pops up continuously with such a speed all the time, that the comments under it seems like totally underwhelming. And nothing new happened for the past almost one week.
I don't think Teams even has a sound test. It just places a call with a microsoft bot that repeats the audio back.
The article’s subheading is “The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in.”
Or don't build datacentres in populated areas, it's not like a few km will matter in term of latency.
For you and anyone else with experience, is that the most common/battle-tested cljs stack?

What about servers-side, any equivalent Django or FastAPI?
correct, pretty much every single issue plaguing humans at the moment could be trivially solved with infinite free energy. obviously that isnt coming soon, but as we reach that target things get easier and easier. and we have some significant tools that would get us there (more nuclear in general, potentially a breakthrough in fusion, and of course actually catching a non-trivial amount of energy the sun is giving off).

for example, would we ever have water problems again if we could de-salinate the oceans essentially for free?
For an org that has an enduring billing relationship with the customer (think the large tech companies and platform providers), they already are handling transaction aggregation internally to an extent - just not to the extent of micro-transactions (where they need to handle the edge case of a tiny single transaction in a day or week or month).

If you make a few app store transactions in a day, I believe apple aggregates these into a single transaction that's posted to the card. That model could help here, though obviously it won't help for ultra low usage though. Pre-paid models might work, but those have their own challenges, and all of this points towards a centralised gatekeeper knowing everything a user reads (or at least which top level publishers they read content from).
No, Binance and other similar exchanges give it away for free. Just call their API ever 1000ms. TradFi is a bit behind on this I think.
Phil's Lab on YouTube has great PCB design tutorials that cover how to think about layout and design, how to use Kicad, and even how to turn your design into a real product.

https://youtube.com/@PhilsLab
Yeah. My former employer shut down because of that trend, and it has only gotten worse in the years since then. I recently, reluctantly had to adblock APNews because of malware in the ads, and thats not some two-bit organization. Some other sites I love have dropped off my radar, as I can only juggle so many subs.

Web 3.0 may be bollocks, but I hope someone distills a good publisher micropayment system out of it. Or maybe a bulk "Netflix/Spotify for news" would be a better approach?
Don’t ER docs have to work odd hours and see patients without any prep or background? I get the docs have the same education, but I can see taking half pay for a more predictable schedule and patient load, along with lots of time before hand to figure things out. They are different jobs, supply and demand probably sets one to be higher paid than the other.
This proliferates the same confusion that your company has. The note you quoted is about hosting accounts ("hosting service provider"). We did not host anything with you, we only registered a domain. This notice does not apply. When i get to my laptop i will dig out the original notice from you and the response from our counsel.
Looks to be using the kvvfs which uses local storage key value pairs as the DB VFS. The file load-db.js (https://craft-of-emacs.kebab-ca.se/load-db.js) pre-loads the values into localStorage. I assume the values were determined by loading local storage through another method and then extracting it during development.
720p, 4GB in 2019?
Wow, you really know how to hurt a guy.
> Prices on e.g. hotel websites should be listed with all fees and taxes included.

Should _everything_ being sold have all fees and taxes included? Grocery store, restaurants, department stores, etc?
As of 2022, the average webpage size is around 2.2 MB for desktop sites and 2 MB for mobile sites, according to HTTPArchive.

Provided the WASM binary is cached by the browser (is it?), that would be equal to an additional web page load on the first visit.
> Just because you and your social sphere don't fully appreciate the privacy implications of CSME and ST, which again, aren't the same as AMT, doesn't mean nobody else cares about them. Have you considered that it might be you who is in the bubble?

I worked in a computer store for four years. I probably helped thousands of customers in that period.

None of these concerns ever came up from what I can recall. Not even once. People ask about all sorts of things and I've answered my share of questions about Linux and even FreeBSD, but never this.

Are there some people concerned about this to the point they don't purchase x86 chips? Obviously yes. Is it a broadly held concern? Doesn't seem like it.
You could potentially not apply the punitive taxation so long as only one house is owned, regardless of whether they are actually living in it (so renting one property while renting another one would be fine).
The litigation by a patent troll ("Voice tech corporation") seems to be real.
What a complete waste of resources.
That will only result is in conspiracy theories about why that happened.