skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels cool to me that my nontraditional degree for software (ChemE) drilled this into us and now it comes up in my current job:
Rate of input - rate of output = rate of accumulation

It’d be fine to just up the queue capacity if the input is just inconsistent/spikey but averages to the input, but under steady state (or steadily increasing growth) higher input, you must increase the output rate or you will outgrow whatever capacity the system has
My reading of a definition for "goodwill impairment" is that it means the company acquired other companies, and determined later that it overpaid for them. Non-cash probably means that it paid for those acquisitions with stock rather than money.

All of which seems to me like a good argument for penalties being based on revenue rather than profits.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/goodwill-impairment.asp
Thanks! :) Been working on it a LONG time. Getting ready to launch...
Semantics...unless you are suggesting that all natural viruses brought into the lab were inert before they passed through the doors to the lab.
Sure. But the level of description that you're giving in an interview can be pretty generic/non-proprietary. If that wasn't the case, then you really can't reuse any knowledge from job to job and that's just not so.

Sure, every company is going to have their 'special sauce' components, that ARE proprietary, but nobody's going to expect you to unpack those.
There has been a trend of using PCB to make rulers for a long time. It's cheap, you can customize the message/graphics, it looks techy, and people love to collect them.

I have a Digirule and a Digirule 2a. They scratch many itches...neat gadget goblin, vintage computing goblin, buttons and flashy lights goblin, fidget goblin.
“as an AI language model, I am not capable of infringing copyright”
Playing with ChatGTP, I just had this answer:

"...as an AI language model, I am not capable of infringing copyright"

Can that possibly be true? The context is I asked for a poem in the style of Philip Larkin -- and got an actual Philip Larkin poem.
Arm Co-Founder Slams UK Tech Strategy Ahead of Firm’s US IPO
Back in the 90s we had a surprising customer who paid tens of thousands of dollars a year for a subscription. They never reported any bugs but seemed happy -- our salesperson would check in on them ever few months and got an annual renewal without fail.

Eventually she left (to get an MBA) and the guy who took over her territory had trouble reaching the customer on the phone. Eventually he did get a meeting and when he visited discovered that all our packages (software and printed docs) were on a shelf in a cubicle, and that they were uninterested in renewing. It seems someone had the budget to spend and everybody liked having the saleswoman come visit. But they didn't care about a visit from Norm.

A rather extraordinary waste of money, but helped our bootstrapped company!
Check out A360, it's a firm we worked with for accessibility testing our sites and they hire people who are partially sighted or blind
Which features are you looking for? Just curious because they have added a lot to the free tier too.
Noticing isn't curiosity.

And the opportunity for curiosity for purely seeing a thing is only the first few times you see it. You were in that window, but how do you know they were in that window?
IMO the danger with those sections isn't how disingenuous it might be to some, it's the fact that you have to be very careful what brands you are highlighting here to not send the wrong message.

What are you actually trying to convey here to potential clients? Having a bunch of consumer tech brands when your potential base is actually more about universities, sends the message that you're not a serious company in the field and won't have their best interests at heart. Worse, it can make you seem very generic, as most sites flaunt Google/Microsoft all over the place.

This also applies to success stories. Highlighting irrelevant success stories also sends the wrong message. If a potential client in finance is looking at your tool, ready to drop substantial funds, but all they can find are success stories relevant to gamer brands, they're gone they aren't going to do the work for you to find out if you're good enough.

You have to be selective even if that feels counter intuitive at first. So I don't mind the row(s) of brands related, just make sure it's sending the message you want to send.
Ask HN: AI Language Learner
If you could build your ultimate AI chat buddy you could write and speak to with user-specific personalization, what would it look like? How would you build a "Duolingo Killer" that actually helps you learn a language to fluency and not just gamified entertainment?
The appeal to nature definitely doesn't hold up, but I'm pretty sure that the historical consensus in 200 years will be that early 21st century social media was psychologically predatory.
> Not sure why the AI community has a weird obsession…

Can you elaborate on this “obsession”? Aren’t a lot of AI things made/implemented by for-profit companies? Google, Meta, Midjourney, etc?
The catacombs were extensively mined limestone for literally a thousand years.

They are creepy and spooky and interesting AF. What I do not understand is the origins of them and how they were so important such that they held prominence for such a long time - what was their primary resource/service they were providing?
OpenAI is a nonprofit that ownes a for-profit. Same as Mozilla. OpenAI was never a charity.

A privately owned for-profit company can do whatever it wants, good or evil. OpenAI is not publicly-owned.

Did you donate money to OpenAI?

A nonprofit is an organization that uses its income and profits for the organization's main goal that supports the mission. On the other hand, a charity is a type of nonprofit that engages in activities aimed at improving lives in the communities.

NFL was a non-profit trade association until ignorant whiners made it bad PR and they changed it to shut up the whiners.

Did
https://openai.com/about
> It's the same every time. When Apple gets called out for monopolistic anti-consumer behaviour, an army shows up to defend Apple with a bunch of FUD.

It is mostly a response to the army that shows up to attack Apple with a bunch of FUD.
I think it’s a reasonable request for workers to come to work in clean clothes. Especially with regards to food service. Even if you have a company supplied apron fresh every day, the moldy hoodie (extreme example) is still a nonstarter. Where I would absolutely support the company being on the line for laundry service is if they have some cleanliness requirement that goes above and beyond what is reasonable. If you’re expecting your auto mechanics or industrial maintenance workers to start their day in spotless attire, that’s far more onerous due to the nature of their jobs and I would be much more supportive of company provided laundry services in those cases. I think there could be an argument made for food service staff when it comes to hygiene regulations as well so I’m certainly not against it the proposed Starbucks changes. I just don’t know if or what regulations would come into play here.

Another variable for me would be how many company provided outfits there are. If they just give them one apron and expect it to be washed daily, that would fall under an onerous requirement in my opinion and would justify a laundry service.

When comparing it to the company provided footwear, their example was a woman who went through three sets of shoes and being told three different times the shoes weren’t suitable for arbitrary reasons. If they are going to be that picky, they should absolutely foot the bill to ensure the uniform fits their standards.
I totally relate to that. In the university setting, I see many students more interested in learning keywords instead of “key concepts” behind such keywords. Think of preferring to learn “k8s” instead of “resource manager”. Today, very few of them knows that etcd is one of the key components in “k8s”.

I guess this behavior is similar to the transformation that happened in other non-CS fields.
In the ads of theirs that I've heard, they include a disclaimer saying (paraphrasing) that their services are not intended to treat mental health conditions, but are meant to provide "counselling" -- basically a sympathetic ear.
> If you want a bit more, but not the frameworks with thousands of unused classes,

I can't speak for other frameworks but tailwind only compiles the classes you actually use at build.
Huh, this seems to be the same linguistic phenomenon observed in British English with the word "lieutenant" but perhaps independently evolved.
> being productive for someone else.

Marxist alienation is in da house.
The problem with the tip minimum compensation is it's usually calculated over the whole pay period, not each shift. So you could have one shift where you're making an equivalent of $25/hr, and then another where you're only making $5/hr, and if it all averages out, you don't get bumped up on the "slow" shift.
When I interviewed with apple they said pretty much everything they do is proprietary and considered secret. I imagine for some of these people working there for years it would be hard to avoid breaking nda
There is no proof to the origin of the term. Your claim that it was invented by Latin Americans is as solid as mine that it was a white construct.

Either way I have never seen it used by anyone besides DEI types and academic white people
Are you denying that slavery was a factor that led to the civil war? Because that's incontrovertible. At the very least I can't see how you can credibly disagree that the issue of the spread of slavery was one driving factor. Pointing to Kentucky and Delaware misses the point. It's not like the thirteenth amendment -- ratified in the same year the war ended, which is not coincidental -- didn't apply to them.
> Either the Spanish community itself decided that it needed non-gendered words, or a bunch of white Americans decided the Spanish community needed non-gendered words.

Pretty sure that whatever identifier is right for the community of interest here, its not “the Spanish community”, and, irrespective of any debate about the origin of the terms, a subset of the community of interests has decided they need gender neutral terms and expressed preference for one or more of them. The question then is how to refer to the community as a whole, given the existence of a diversity of preferences.
I'm still waiting for someone to implement my idea for the "US Legislative Evil Fund." Basically, it just tracks the stock picks of the 25% of the richest US Senators and Congresspeople and their families. For some strange reason, their portfolios seem to do much better than the S&P 500.
As a teenager, my socializing was done by pressing 1 three times to get the letter C, on a Nokia 3310.

Today, I swipe on my touchscreen keyboard to get a bunch of letters out, but it's still slower than a proper keyboard with keys. Instead of typing ":p", I long press the emoji button.

I think in the future, we'll just be selecting sentences that some bot has picked for us and then swiping around to change their content.
>One series of ads that promoted getting some free medical equipment that ran for years and I thought looked scammy turned out to really be a scam.

Do you mean Hoveround¹, or was it something else?

¹https://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region5/51200057.asp
Yep. The phones.

Not the erosion of rights. Not the Supreme Court ignoring precedent and making partisan decisions. Not books being taken away from schools. Not a pandemic. Not seeing an attempt at overthrowing the government. Not the planet boiling and no one doing anything anything about it.

It can’t be that they can’t find jobs that treat them decently. Or even like the job wanted them to live. Or that they can’t afford school. Or a car. Or to move out. Or to have kids. Or healthcare. Or that they likely know someone crippled by medical debt. Or the opioid crisis. Or that they’ve seen police abuse of power (in person and/or the media). That no one seems accountable for anything.

Couldn’t be the fact the can’t find a counselor/psychiatrist even if they could afford it because there aren’t enough. Or there’s a war on threatening global tensions. No one is “in it together”, the pandemic proved that, so you’re on your own. Extracurriculars cost too much, so you may not even get to try. Your teachers are burnt out and leaving. Even if they aren’t and are good there is a good chance you can’t learn well thanks to disruptive students. Good luck if you’re bored because you need more challenge.

Also? School bathrooms didn’t work for months because other kids kept tearing stuff off the walls as a “prank”.

That’s all off the top of my head.

Yeah. It’s the phones. If we took the phones away everything would be peachy and kids would be happy again.

EDIT: all that and I forgot school/mass shootings and active shooter drills!
Yeah, I don't think I want a job that asks such questions. I've done the webscale BS. I've done actual architecture that exists in reality. At this stage in my career there's nothing an interviewer can do but insult me.

You might say that this is hubris about my own skill but it has nothing to do with how good I am. My resume has a LOOONG track record of consistent work in the industry. Call my references, do some actual DD on me, then ask me real questions related to actual things.

If leetcode and all these other service went straight to hell tomorrow the world would be a better place. This entire "interview" industry is propped up by a bunch of leeches capitalizing on a recently extremely popular field. Then, injecting their BS to make the process harder thereby earning them dollars. The linked article is a perfect example. It's actually an advertisement if you look close enough designed by these exact leeches. This is just a reimagining of the bloodsuckers who run SAT/GRE/GMAT prep services and "ex-ivy-league recruiter consultant" bullshit. They are the same people and the only place they belong is all the way at the back of the breadline. That may be too generous for them anyway. There are better people that deserve the bread.

There's a good chance at my career phase I have more experience than the interviewer. They "level the playing field" by asking me these stupid things. That is why it is insulting. I almost want to leave the industry entirely than have to do the process one more time. I don't need a 7 phase 360 interview with everyone including the CEO's cousin to insure I am a "culture fit". It was never like this before. It needs to stop.
Eh... I don't really think this is a killer feature.

If you don't want to maintain a build step, use a framework that's configured it for you and avoid customizing it.

Lots of frameworks already do that, this is just Deno's implementation of the same thing.

There's STILL a build step, they're running esbuild in the background for you. You've just lost visibility and control, exactly the same as if you picked a framework that gives you a default webpack config.

If anything, I see esbuild as the real "killer feature" here, since it's just really fast. Fast enough to bundle at request time.
You're right, and every situation has nuance we can only intuit. Ultimately, I believe active play is important for his well-being, just like it's important that I take him places even if that involves a potentially lethal bicycle ride next to car traffic.

Of course, if anything terrible were ever to happen, I'll probably beat myself up over it and be certain I took too many unnecessary risks. Those are the odds we play for ourselves and our loved ones every day.
> If you're in regular medicare, don't you have a government agency filling the same role at the table with you and your doctor?

There are no death panels.

If Medicare covers the procedure (you can look the procedure up in the What's Covered app) and the doctor deems it medically necessary, Medicare pays and then your Medigap plan pays. So cosmetic surgery isn't covered but removing skin cancers is.

In the Medicare Advantage case, you are an account and when your account gets expensive, Allison Janey's company gets very passive aggressive.

Traditional Medicare sets a policy. Medicare Advantage sets a policy AND manages a cost (you're the cost).

> Not all doctors take Medicare either

The vast majority of doctors take Medicare and accept Medicare Assignment, the standard amount that Medicare pays for a procedure. Cedars Sinai takes Medicare.

> I've also heard something that if a doctor accepts Medicare and Medicare won't pay for a procedure, you can't pay for it out of pocket; is that accurate, or something misleading I picked up?

Yeah, that's nonsense.

> And doesn't the patient have to pay some portion of some procedures etc?

Medicare pays 80% (except for preventatives where it pays 100%). You get a Medigap plan for the 20%. Mine is UHC Plan G which costs $134/mo and includes some extra benefits.

There is no logical way that Blue Cross or Kaiser can sit between you and Medicare (they get paid by Medicare to take your risk) make billions and still provide the standard of coverage that Traditional Medicare offers. That's a shell game.
The programs only exist because health insurance became unaffordable for seniors. Healthcare is expensive for the old! I’m not arguing against the idea that the program has fraud issues (Rick Scott made a fortune off of it), but its not going to be cheaper or better for the elderly if we let private companies exploit them individually instead of forcing them to defraud the government.
I know flesh and blood humans who are confident in their knowledge but still manage to make shit up and get facts wrong. I make up my own mind about what's true and what's useful by considering an ensemble of sources.

In my experience with ChatGPT, it gets less wrong and more right than most humans, and it's able to find relationships among facts and concepts that are impossible with Wikipedia and Google.

It's extremely useful and powerful in its current form, in spite of its many limitations.

With other tools, we don't demand perfection to find them useful.

Just because a hammer sometimes misses the nail and puts a hole in the wall, just because Wikipedia sometimes gets vandalized with lies, doesn't mean hammers and Wikipedia aren't essential tools.
Why would I want google controlling how I interact with my software?

Maybe it doesn't seem like it, but it's an honest question. I don't find the browser first approach attractive at all.
> All I see is knee-jerk reactions giving supposed racist motives to the term, when it's been established that this term originated with native Spanish speakers!

Do you have a credible source for this claim? All I’ve ever seen are vague assertions it originated “organically” in the early 2000s.
Given FBs optimization of the feed for dopamine hits, I don't think search across posts is a high priority (yes, it is table stakes, but whatever they currently use seems to be commoditized enough for their purposes). Group and page recommendations and discovery is another matter, perhaps an LLM may help make that more engaging. It might also be useful for helping users (and brands) moderate their groups and so on. These are also complements, but they aren't external ones.
You are off here a bit.

ALL decimal, base 12 and base 60 expansions of rational numbers end in a repeating sequence. Just like base 11 and 59.

The only difference between 1/7 and 1/5 in decimal is that for the 1/7, the repeating sequence is 7 digits long (142857) and for 1/5 the repeating sequence is 1 digit long (0). In base 12, 1/5 has a 4 digit repeating sequence (2497).
This is the wet dream of "bropreneurs" who already write such descriptions on the various freelance portals...
Easy to become a non-profit if you've never made any money...
“Written in rust” but it’s just a raw call to ChatGPT.
It seems like a lot of these therapy services are dealing with the fact that a time-based therapy session is simply not fungible or optimizable in any capacity. DoorDash can stack meals, but you can't stack therapy sessions. On top of that, there's a lot of poor therapists (or at least poor therapy-patient pairings) across the industry.
Except monospace fonts shouldn't be used for prose, so the author is actively making the reading experience worse for... aesthetics and vanity reasons?

It's hard to respect the advice of a designer whose deviations from their own rules make the design worse.

Almost any web-safe font[1] would have been a better choice.

[1]https://www.awayback.com/index.php/2010/02/03/revised-font-s...
Probably the same reason the Democrats never legislated abortion rights into law: never let a good crisis go to waste. The priorities of both major parties are:

1. Keep the donors happy

2. Keep getting elected

3. Line up a cushy position as a lobbyist or other government orbiter after retirement

Pretty sure actually serving their constituents is at the bottom of the list for most politicians.
Atlanta was actually the third example I was thinking of.
For blog sites I tend to use a hand written site generator that converts markdown to html, typescript to js and scss to css at compile time.

This allows me to ship a static html site (S3 website) where the javascript functionality is limited to basic things, like toggling dark mode.

To build an "API", I crawl the files at compile time and generate json files in an /api folder, allowing me to fetch blog post metadata for searches that are processed on the client.

As icing on the cake, once the user has settled in, I use a service worker to pre-download/cache the all the posts in the blog site and allow for offline viewing. I have some tricks to avoid the annoyances of stuck sw caches.

Leads to a great user experience and maintainers don't need to have a backend portal - just write markdown and commit it straight to GitHub. Easy enough to teach people to use Typora and SourceTree
After the limestone, the primary role was not to be a cost centre. Repurposing them as charnel houses was a marginal use at best.

I believe some mushroom farming and wine cellaring happened but they became economic wasteland, more than productive after the limestone mining.
But, if you’re a web developer you should be able to diagram what happens when a browser makes a request
Very big LLM. Was almost as good as GTP-3. And it was open source.
what do you plan to grow on those 1000 acres? Moon cheese?
Put simply, HIPAA only applies to insurance based transactions.
The schema migrations are a delight. And I appreciate the shoutout to Dabble! Thanks for working on this + congrats on the release.

An optimized hosted version with permalinks to Explorer views would open access to even more users.
It's interesting, this is where we're at:

1. english -> 2. programming language -> 3. machine language

We need step 2 right now because a human has to manually push text around to actually make it to step 3.

But programming langagues are for humans only; computers don't need them. So why should step 2 even exist in the future? Especially if a computer becomes capable of verifying it's ouput better than a human could.
This country’s obsession with NIH can be maddening.
It doesn’t, though. It doesn’t matter if they’re genetically intermixed with Indians at some point in the last few thousand years. They were still here before White Australia was. And where I live, we still fought wars to eradicate the local mobs. We still stole children from them, not that long ago.
> they proactively sent a doctor out a few times for housecalls

The article talks about these housecalls:

"The home health visits are designed to look for illnesses or codings that can increase risk scores. They very much are not looking for conditions that require medical intervention. This “free home health visit” scam is so profitable that an entire industry has sprung up of companies that send nurses out on behalf of the insurance companies."