skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really viable?

I figure there's tyo opportunities to steer design decisions:

* When the schematic is being developed

* When the order picking is being prepped.

The second choice is an easy win for them, but probably limited to near-commodity parts-- I don't care which brand of 330 ohm resistor I use, as long as it fits the footprint. I'm not sure if there's that much margin though-- unless you're swapping out some absurd diamond-plated milspec parts, how much kickback can you fit?

The first choice seems the more lucrative one, but it may be off-limits for a lot of hobbyist and short-run products though. You'd have to tap into the design life cycle very early, and I suspect that's not as widely available as you'd think. A lot of projects still come out of things like datasheet reference implementations, canned designs, or transcribing a prototype breadboard, and these customers would need a lot more than a marginally lower price to resolve the risk factor of swapping parts out.
How do they tell if a user is under eighteen?
Imagine how much more ruthless it would be if it was run by "AI"
I see the appeal of SAT as a standard metric, but rather than SAT why not allow kids to submit AP (or other standardized subject test scores) instead? Studying for the SAT feels like we are wasting hours of kids lives on an ill-defined concept of general aptitude. Whereas for subject tests (like AP or other standardized subject tests) there is a concrete subject that students are demonstrating that they can choose and master (chemistry, English, Spanish, Calculus, etc.)

I think this approach has the benefit of standardization and the benefit of not wasting kids time forcing them to study for a test which people claim won't change their scores much and where the notion of what aptitude even is isn't really clear (the SAT has changed substantially over the years).

I also really doubt the claim that studying for the SAT won't impact a kid's scores much. I can't think of a single other test where this is the case. It sounds like something people tell poor kids so they don't bother studying for it, while rich kids spend hours in test prep. Then we can say "well it wouldn't have mattered if they got the same resources because aptitude is innate". In contrast, no one can claim that if you just waltz into your chemistry test without studying it won't have an impact.

My preference would be to get rid of "aptitude" tests like the SAT, and use standardized subject tests instead.
ChatGPT is impressive if you start from a clean slate but the moment you do anything more complicated it slows down to being as fast as doing things yourself. After all, you have to know what to input into it and that may take longer than actually processing the information.
When we say “destroy the planet”, it usually means making it inhabitable for human (as we are) life, Mother Nature would recover in the long term, but in the long term we would be dead.
This is super helpful to hear, thank you! I'm like you, I like using products that feel like they've been built by people rather than faceless companies, so I felt like this would be good to share.
> Law enforcement and military exist to prevent you from using force on others, and others from using force against you. You're absolutely correct, I'm in favour of forcing you to not use force on others. The only positive right I believe in is the enforcement of negative rights

I specifically also mentioned highways. How does that fit into this narrative?

> Alternatively, I simply state that we both agree on law enforcement and military but not healthcare, so at a baseline you want to force others to pay for more things than I do.

I’m already paying for your care, so I’m paying for more than my fair share.
That I actually don't mind because the government controls the production and distribution of maple syrup in Canada and unfairly harms independent growers in favor of its own cartel.
Are you missing the global context of how much more expensive food is?

Sure they might not be “giving it to hungry people” that you know; but they themselves might also be hungry, or people they know. We have no idea what they’re doing with the food; and that means both of us don’t know.
Yes, under the original logic following the great parent post.
This is brilliant, thank you so much for the help!
I don't need to define an airline. The tax applies to anyone fueling a plane, and I was just saying that airlines are huge and they're not going to hide.

A business with other things has no advantage or disadvantage.

> How do you deal with refueling at international destinations and possible carbon taxes in the destination country?

Pick an option. It won't make much difference.

> Do you actually want to tax carbon emissions or climate impact? A synthetic fuel could plausibly be carbon neutral, but burning it at the cruising altitude would still have an impact on climate change.

We can have that as a possibility. Probably it's worth wording the law so that the tax scales with the remediation cost.
Strangely, ANSI CL says that remove-if-not is deprecated.

That probably wouldn't be the case if it had been named retain-if or keep-if; the issue is likely the double negative.

A function which pares down a sequence to just those elements which match a predicate is very useful; why would you deprecate such a thing.
Trump tried to make fun of the pandemic as a "Democratic Hoax" remember, but even he took the vaccine himself. But then his followers booed when he mentioned it. But he was rational, he tried to keep as many as possible of his voters alive at least till the next election.
Arguing over whether something is painful or merely very uncomfortable seems like splitting hairs.

That said, I had a colonoscopy with alprazolam and fentanyl, and it was, if anything, a moderately enjoyable experience. There was the odd slightly painful moment as they went round corners, but the drugs made me feel great throughout and I walked home afterwards with a mild afterglow.

However, while I personally certainly wouldn't have requested general anaesthesia, I think it should be down to patient choice. I'm from the UK, and we often take a clench your teeth and bear it attitude to patient suffering, which I think can often be borderline inhumane. Ultimately if a patient wants to accept a 0.001% chance of dying to avoid experiencing pain or discomfort, mental or physical, that is up to them. You also have to consider the second order effects of people avoiding treatment due to fear of pain, as well as people who may have been raped or otherwise have very valid reasons to not want to experience having something inserted into their rectum.
> Gaming industry is also like THE first industry to be revolutionized by AI.

That's a great counter point.

> Nvidia will not give up gaming. When every gamer has a Nvidia card, every potential AI developer to spring up from those gamers, will use Nvidia by default. It also helps gaming GPUs are still lucrative.

Another. But Nvidia will have a lot of balancing to do and some very thirsty competitors. Though if competition arises, that too is good for gamers.
the overall point was that the planet has survived things that humans cannot survive. There were 5 or 6 mass extinctions.

When peopme talk about the planet being destroyed, they usually mean for human life.
context limitations are an issue here, but this is definitely a usecase where LLMs can shine while other methods will quickly fail or need to be highly specific to their target.

Structuring and categorising unknown content and it's taxonomies works astonishingly well with minimal configuration and used to be an extremely difficult problem.
Therapy bill?
> this will play out like OpenGL vs Direct3d in reverse

Is that also like OpenCL vs CUDA in reverse?
It is time to lay things bare,

to say the quiet part out loud;

the security nightmare

is your data in the cloud.
Cleveland Clinic and IBM Unveil First Quantum Computer Dedicated to Healthcare
Thanks, that's actually a much better explanation than the one on wikipedia
Yes! And some passengers are more expensive to transport because of their mass. They should pay more.
If you think it is true, try it. You will quickly discover the 'find out' part of 'fuck around and find out'.

In all states, driving is a privilege and not a right. In all states as well as anywhere in the United States you are required by law to pay taxes.

In nearly all states, you are required to carry insurance for any vehicle you drive, even if for non-commercial activity.

Rather than argue otherwise, look up your state and look up driving laws. HINT: Laws are all spelled out in English for every state in the United States.
Which is ridiculous because every Canadian knows what a full cask of Grade A Amber feels like in the hands. If you’re going to pull this heist, don’t get sloppy. Use Clamato.
This made me chuckle because of the analogy to bearer bonds.

“They’re insured by the government! Don’t be a hero, everyone gets to go to their family.” But maple syrup.
Eating Disorders and Social Media Prove Difficult to Untangle
That would be for Utah to solve. At a minimum, Utah should be providing the infrastructure for its people to be able to obtain a digital ID that has an API for websites to use which legally cannot have its history recorded.
> If you're scaling based on a prepared image, then you can prepare the image by unpacking a tarball, rather than copying in one file... as far as i can see, this is completely orthogonal to having a single-file deployment. You haven't made any case at all for why having single-file deployment is valuable here.

If you have a prepared image / immutable infrastructure pattern, that image is the single-file pattern. Container images are tarballs. Go isn't actually all that special here, if you compare apples to apples in containerized deployments: either you bake the standard library into the binary (which Go does), or you bake the standard library into the tarball (which the JDK forces you to do). Either way it's a single file.
> I find a lot of old “public domain software” – especially from the 1970s and (early) 1980s, it seems unclear what exactly the authors mean by “public domain”. A few even assert it is both “public domain” and “copyright” simultaneously,

In the US, works that are subject to copyright are copyrighted by operation of law at the point of creation (there is basically no dispute about this.) There is (and this was more popularly adhered to, whether actually more popular or just more relevant, before F/OSS licensing became popular) a theory that the copyright owner can dedicate a work to the public domain (though, even among those who adhere to it, there has never been a single consensus on the mechanics of doing so, and some US copyright experts disagree that it is possible or claim that if it is, it is difficult [0]), so it is certainly plausible that someone would think it would be useful to assert that they were the copyright owner when also stating that the work had been dedicated to the public domain.

[0] Most, however, who think that public domain dedication as usually done doesn’t actually legally put a work in the public domain in US law do think it makes it harder for the copyright owner to later legally enforce the copyright, because of various other legal principles, like promissory estoppel.
U.S. home prices are the most unaffordable they've been in nearly 100 years
It's funny when it comes to the law including civil disputes, us commoners are always told "oh no the judges look at the intent behind the deal, and consider what a reasonable person would expect" when it comes to explaining why bank errors and such don't work in our favor.

No reasonable person would ever enter into a contract for health insurance with a company that would reject their claim after a doctor looks at it for literally 10 seconds, but apparently when it comes to the big end of town, the exact letters of the law become much more important.
Funnily enough, I just started working on a vector search extension for SQLite today: https://github.com/Ronsor/VecDex
There’s no “lower class” when we’re talking about the people and corporations who own jet aircraft.
It can be. You make it a public service. Much like roads, public health a "loss making" industry, so the options are "a public service that treats everyone" or "a for profit industry that works to avoid treating people while charging as much as possible".
Glad to hear it! And thank you for the feedback. Mobile is a whole can of worms I have no idea how I'm going to tackle yet, but it's certainly part of the plan.

As for the "for free" part, that's funny, because I had it the way you're suggesting originally but changed it to this based on someone else's feedback :P
I think it'd take more than picture quality to make classic films accessible. Acting styles and pacing especially have changed a ton since the b&w era. It's not to say they're not good, but they're a bit of an acquired taste.
> Remember, it's not a lie if you believe it

poes law in full force here

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Is it a bad time to mention that sites like stack overflow, discord, sub stack, medium, Reddit, hacker news, GitHub, YouTube, and so forth have the same traits - the same identifying markers - as what we consider traditional social media sites?

How the bill defines social media:

10) (a) "Social media platform" means an online forum that a social media company
160 makes available for an account holder to:
161 (i) create a profile;
162 (ii) upload posts;
163 (iii) view the posts of other account holders; and
164 (iv) interact with other account holders or users.

There’s exceptions for email, Netflix, Amazon, news, traditional media kinds of sites.

https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0311.html
I’m concerned you might thought I said everyone should be interested in podcasts, or able to listen to them. (I’m also concerned I misunderstood you!)

Besides that, yes, I love to read articles, too. I do a lot of transcription skimming of episodes where the voices and cadence don’t add much but the information is solid.

YouTube auto-transcripts are usually fairly readable or at least skimmable for the interesting time stamps. There are sites and services (like Readwise) that display them side by side with the video.

I don’t think HN benefits from people quickly skimming article text to add comments, unless they are primary sources themselves and can quickly address a misunderstanding, but that’s another discussion…
It's about building something, so I just allow myself to obsessively build things. Starting something may result in what is built being marketable, but it may also be a market "failure" or not stand up to innovation in the market over time. It's a good way to channel obsessively learning how to do new things!
Utahn with two young kids, yes please!!
Thanks! It's on the roadmap!
I've been learning Kicad and have ordered a few batches of PCBs from JLCPCB in the last few months. Some of my thoughts:

Getting PCBs made is shockingly cheap. For a single PCB for an 8hp module to go into a modular synthesizer, it was about $8 for 5, or about $9 for 10. For 100 it would be around $20. (That's for 2 layers, lead-free HASL.) Included in the price is someone does a manual review of the board and will email you with questions and/or manually do small fixes to the file if they spot something wrong.

ENIG (gold) plating adds a lot to the cost in small runs, but for bigger runs it's maybe less of an issue.

The shipping costs can easily exceed production costs for small runs. If a U.S. company wants to compete with JLPCB for U.S. customers, this is the one area where they could gain a huge advantage.

I just ordered a board that uses their pick-and-place service, which should show up in about a week. Parts are surprisingly cheap. I'm not sure, but it seems like their prices are lower than equivalent parts from Digikey or Mouser. Probably some of this is attributable to being located close to where many of those parts are manufactured. The medium and high-value parts, though, aren't necessarily all made in Shenzhen.

BOM costs add up fast. Designing around low cost parts really pays off.

The existence of something like JLCPCB seems like a huge boon for everyone, especially China for whom it's a major economic strategic asset. It leaves me wondering if all that CHIPS act funding might have been better spent on lowly domestic board manufacturing services rather than high-end fabs. It seems like China is good at recognizing that if you make something that's cheap and good enough you end up with most of the customers while the other advanced economies are off chasing shiny things (which is what they've done with solar panels and batteries).

Kicad + JLCPCB is a powerful combination, but the user experience could be smoother for trying to get Kicad to work properly with their assembly service.

I just learned recently that you can get 10uf ceramic capacitors these days in 0603 format. What a time to be alive. https://jlcpcb.com/partdetail/97651-CL10A106MA8NRNC/C96446
While you may not like the current method of communication and congregation, you must understand _why_ we have the first amendment, right? Congregating together and discussing ideas of (nearly) any sort is an absolutely vital part of democracy and a free society
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use GPT4." Now they have two problems.

And Skynet.
It's not a fix, it's a mitigation.

It's perfectly appropriate to provide a workaround before the problem has actually been resolved.
This reminds me of sheepish the iphone game.

Unfortunately the only record I can find of it is a negative review.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/02/10-lessons-of-iphone...
No doctors cannot charge whatever they want. They can charge what insurance companies specify.

Doctors in other countries don't do their own diagnostics: a GP isn't a radiologist, isn't a microbiologist, isn't a lab technician, etc.
If you think today's Microsoft is anything like the Microsoft of 20 years ago, you need to start reading up on tech news other than Slashdot.
Ask HN: Any Things You Wish You Were Told When Learning Programming?
I'm going to be running a class teaching programming from scratch soon, and I want to make sure I don't confuse my students more than I teach them.

If you have any topics or concepts that made programming a lot easier for you to learn that I could make sure to mention in my class would be helpful.
The Tile Encoder – Compressing Vectors in Memory
No one cares about the Legion d’honneur. The real reason she is not famous is given at the beginning of the article: she is actually famous for people who know cuisine history and was extremely famous while alive but as she died fifty years ago in 1977 she is now unknown by the general public. The article attempts to contradict that by bringing up Bocuse - but he died 2018 - Escoffier - famous for his book - and a third person I had never heard of - is extremely unconvincing. Clearly the whole gender thing is only there because it sells.
> because we are a Union of individual, otherwise independent States

That's the original reason, but it doesn't have any real benefit. Everyone knows why this fence was built. You're not specially enlightened among a bunch of fools.

But it causes people's votes for president to have different strengths, which is bad. And nudging the presidential vote up or down by 5% doesn't do jack shit against the tyranny of the masses.

It's a complication with no upsides and mild downsides.
AI (on GPUs) has been ramping up for more than the last 10 years, crypto was a fly by night thing in comparison.
Being able to communicate clearly with high signal-to-noise is essential. When hiring, I’ve learned it’s often better to take a great communicator with less experience over a poor communicator with great experience.

Cover letters can be a helpful filter for this. In my experience a pithy cover letter is better than no cover letter. But no cover letter is better than a bull shit one.

You can bet that if I smell diarrhea of the chatgpt in a cover letter, it’ll get a fast pass to the bottom of the heap if not a direct route to the reject pile.
This is common for medium or larger companies.

Instead of paying monthly insurance premiums, the company directly funds the claim payments as they come in. They outsource the work of adjudicating claims, negotiating with providers/facilities, cutting checks, setting approval criteria and first level appeals to another company, called a Third Party Administrator.

Now, who happens to have all the skills and expertise to do the job of a TPA? The big health insurers. These are giant companies with many lines of business. One of those lines is selling insurance to individuals and small businesses, another is selling administrative services to larger ones.

Note that even with a self-insured plan, there’s often insurance involved too: the company will buy a separate “stop-loss” policy that kicks in and starts paying after the employer has paid out a certain amount in total over a year. This protects them from the risk of covering a plan member with a particularly expensive condition.
Isn't this the opposite though? They're not telling people how to live their lives. They're taking away the power Facebook has over many people's lives so people might enjoy their lives in more social and healthy ways again.
I can empathize. I've been using Copilot inside of neovim, and it's frighteningly good. It feels like it's reading my mind.

In a few years, a lot of us will be just be writing highly specific Jira tickets instead of doing the hard logic of coding.
If the US government had control of an app in China or Russia used by tens of millions of impressionable young people do any of you really think they would not take advantage of that to tip the scales and slowly affect political opinions and other outcomes?
I've interacted with kerravon86 in the past. I even contributed a little bit of the code in PDOS. After a while I lost interest in it though. One reason was that I'm used to developing software under macos/Linux using Make or whatever – even on Windows I tend to use Cygwin/MSYS2/etc – PDOS (at least when I was working on it) had a build system based on DOS/Windows batch files. kerravon might find that a pleasant developer experience, but the majority wouldn't.

I remember when I wanted to add a tiny bit of C99 compatibility to PDOS or PDPCLIB (I think it was just stdint.h and stdbool.h headers, or something like that) and (from memory) got the reply "no, C90 only". I mean it is his project, he can run it how he likes, but a strict insistence on C90-only doesn't really appeal to me (or I imagine most contemporary C programmers). I think part of his reason was wanting to support old pre-C99 compilers; but, while that might be a reason to avoid some of the more advanced C99 features (e.g. _Generic), there's nothing about stdint or stdbool which can't be done under C90. So that's another reason why I lost interest. kerravon, I feel like you've got some unusual views which you don't want to budge on. (To be fair, I do too, but less so on technical topics.) Which is fine, but maybe have a think about how other people will experience that?

I also subscribed to some of the Hercules lists, I think hercules-os380 too. I have read some of kerravon's posts. I remember some tendency to go off-topic, and start talking about religion (the Muʿtazilah branch of Islamic theology) and politics (NATO)–which some people can experience as off-putting. But, I'll be honest, a lot of the technical discussions there went over my head. I'd be interested in any examples of what you are talking about.
I tap my own trees. Don’t tell the government, I guess?

I haven’t actually heard of this before. Are you talking about how they regulate quality and grade in order to prevent low-quality knock-offs from hurting farmers? I’ll have to ask the local syrup farmers in town next time I’m at the market what they think.
> UA sniffing to do so. (I've seen it this done a few times.)

Any examples? Interested
Just more of the unintended consequences we all know will come from this.