skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are super bored. Here is a manual that is VERY detailed explanation on programming traffic signals. I give this to new engineers and technicians to look at when they first start.

Chapters 5 and 6 get into the actual programming of the signal.

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop08024/index.htm
I prefer this over 11am. I want a good 3 - 4 hour block to get focused work done. If I have a meeting at 11, and I need time to prep, it means I have 1.5 hours tops to get stuff done.

As much as I have afternoon meetings, either first thing in the morning, or after lunch is best. Gives enough time to get stuck into things without disruptions.
The ZX80 and ZX81, like a number of 80s personal computers featured a set of graphical characters in addition to standard alphanumeric and punctuation and provided a way to enter then directly from the keyboard. On the Sinclair machines you'd use SHIFT + GRAPH to enter "graphics mode."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Commodor...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Atari-13...
what about user anti-stories? where do those fit in?
I agree with your idea, but I don't see at as a counterpoint. I don't read this post as making an axiological statement about the would-be reader's work (I may have read it wrong though!). To me, the article assumes that "finishing" the thing is something the reader already values, or at least does in many cases. And the author is offering some advice for how to stick to it and power through even when there are painful stages along the route to what the reader already wants. I see this as trivially or obviously true too, namely the idea that not every moment or every ounce of work on the way to something you yourself really deeply desire will feel like elation and fun.
which is legitimate - if only you're down then you're losing business to your competitors and failing those who rely upon you; if everyone's down it's a wash. And frankly it's not like you're going to have significantly better uptime by going against the crowd.
Woah. The Ancient Greeks did the metal thing too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man

Maybe it was an even earlier Proto-Indo-European meme that radiated out to everyone.
the new moderators would also be seen as scabs by the communities they are supposed to be moderating. I can't see that going well.
Do you have any suggestions of where to start reading on this? A seminal paper or cluster of papers? I want to deep dive on this not just to map out where it doesn't work but also to get a map of the restrictive cases where it does work.

edit: never mind, I just put your quote into gpt-4 and it passed me on to Eleanor Rosch, prototype theory and some other interesting works. I feel like this is my own modern lmgtfy moment.
The US may have reformed child labor laws state side but the US still has a problem with child labor. It's just outsourced to countries with none to lax laws on their labor force.

Even today the US is seeing a rise in child labor law violations: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/26/1157368469/child-labor-violat...
>I was there in March and market square and Union square were like something out of a mad max film.

From a May 2023 article on the decline of the city <http://web.archive.org/web/20230510153958/https://www.curbed...>:

>A note to my fellow San Franciscians: I’m sorry. I know. There’s always some story in the East Coast press about how our city is dying. San Franciscians hate—HATE—these pieces. You’re a stooge and a traitor for writing one. When I set out reporting, I wanted to write a debunking-the-doom piece myself. Yet to live in San Francisco right now, to watch its streets, is to realize that no one will catch you if you fall. In the first three months of 2023, 200 San Franciscans OD’d, up 41 percent from last year.“It’s like a wasteland,” the guard said when I asked how San Francisco looked to him. “It’s like the only way to describe it. It’s like a video game — like made-up shit. Have you ever played Fallout?”

>I shook my head.

>“There’s this thing in the game called feral ghouls, and they’re like rotted. They’re like zombies.” There’s only so much pain a person can take before you disintegrate, grow paranoid, or turn numb. “I go home and play with my wife, and we’re like, ‘Ah, hahahaha, this is SF.’”
If they can't predict a complication, shouldn't they be setting an ahead of time fee that will on average cover it? Why does the provider get to push the unpredictable risk onto the patient who has less control than they do?

Like I shouldn't be billed extra if my surgeon is hungover and things don't go smoothly.
It’s more complicated than that.

TL;DR: To a larger degree than most businesses, the physician is the value in a medical practice.

Let’s say you’re a dermatologist in Lincoln, Nebraska. You want to live there because of family reasons or whatever. You build a great thriving practice. You’re clearing $1m in profit annually.

(A high, but doable number for a dermatologist with a good private practice)

Now it’s time to retire.

First of all, you can’t sell a patient. Patients go where they want to. You also can’t sell medical records. Because laws. Nor really would you want to.

All you can do is sell patient habits, and tangible assets.

But of course the biggest asset is the physician themselves. And they don’t come with the practice when they retire.

Now sure. There are ways of driving non-directly-physician-derived lines of revenue in a practice. Maybe you have a nurse that does aesthetics. Maybe you sell skin creams or whatever. But generally, those lines of revenue are still broadly dependent on the physician.

So what you need is a physician who wants to move to Lincoln, Nebraska at the same time you want to retire, and buy your practice.

But even if another dermatologist did want to practice in Lincoln at the right time, why should they pay a bunch of money to you for your practice? They could just start up next door.

Sure, they’d have to buy some equipment and hire and train staff, but there’s a good chance they’d have to do some of that even buying your practice.

And truth be told, they know you’re retiring anyway, so why not just wait it out?

Plus, medical specialists are in short supply. Especially those who want to move to Lincoln at that very moment. (I’m being hard on Lincoln. I went there once and it was nice. I just don’t imagine it’s a destination most highly qualified medical specialists dream of moving to.)

So probably the actual value of your practice is “the number that makes it less of a hassle to buy you out than for another specialist to start up their own practice.” Assuming there is a specialist who wants to move to where you’re selling.

And remember, if such a person already exists, they already own the most valuable asset of your practice: a qualified medical specialist.

So in a traditional medical practice sale scenario, your valuation almost certainly isn’t going to be a multiple of your revenue or profit like a more traditional business.

And the location can be a real challenge too. I know classmates of my spouse who turned down salary offers in the $800k range in the rural Midwest (with the potential to earn much more in the future through partnership/ownership) in order to make less than half that in the cities they wanted to live in.

Even if your practice is in a desirable location, most of these issues still apply. It’s just much more likely you’ll find someone to buy your practice for some value and not have to shut it down and sell it for parts.
This looks very nice - minor question: why are the binaries on sourceforge and not in the Github releases page? Only asking because I generally avoid sourceforge these days since it has a lot of rubbish on it :(
What? I am literally replying to someone who said:

> Drug patents are bad.

Not sure what twist you might be referring to.

Look, I agree. I, mostly don’t like patents. I think most everything being patented are implementations, not inventions.

Implementation, in this context, means that if I ask a group of reasonably-trained engineers to create an LED light with multiple color channels that can be controlled individually, they will instantly reach for any a range of well known techniques —like PWM— and just implement it.

Yet, years ago the USPTO granted lots of patents on this very topic to a scammer under the company name “Color Kinetics”. Complete horseshit, and yet the USPTO thought they actually invented something any engineer could implement in a day or two.

Where patents make sense is in any work that represents real invention and requires non-trivial investment and work to bring to market.

Any patent. Type should not matter so long as the USPTO competently filters for real invention.

It should be hard, very hard, to get past that filter. And, if it was that difficult it deserves recognition and protection for a period sufficiently long to both allow the inventor to justify the risk, effort and investment and motivate them to take the leap.

Without this engineers and companies will choose to create ways for people to click ads and pass on the hard stuff anyone can steal.

It isn’t as simple as “I hate patents”, one has to understand how and why things are created and what it costs.
I learned to write with fountain pens. Fountain pens are a delight to write with, in cursive.

Who is going to (be able to) read my cursive writings? Just as I am, fountain pens and cursive writing are of the past and to be reminisced over for a short period, then forgotten.
Ah I wish I had more than just a screenshot to show! Lurk works in a very similar way to Apricot from an end users point of view. The scraping of websites happens in the background on the users device, with a bunch of scripts that it ships with to grab data from websites like Reddit and Twitter. You've lit a fire under me to finish though, it's been stuck at that 90% done threshold for too long now. It's just been good enough for me to use, but still way too buggy to release.

If you're scraping Youtube and relying on that index I guess it makes sense that I can't find my niche Youtubers (try "TattooedTraveller"). I don't know how much of an outlier I am in preferring smaller channels, but I would have appreciated a way to add a channel manually. I know that's a big ask though, and hell, don't waste your time on me I've got my own thing anyways :P.
Is this similar to Facebook’s move to give internet to India a decade ago (and free-rate FB data)?
De-aged Clancy Brown or Michael Ironside.
They are the backbone of the site. Without them there is no working Reddit.

What's worse than pissing off the workers of your business is to piss off those who do all the work for free.
It might exist soon. There are a few other companies working with the hospital (and much larger payer/insurer) price data, but it's a _very_ small community. It's been said that you need a screw loose to really enjoy digging into the data.

Even beyond just collecting and organizing the disparate files (which Alec has been doing a yeoman's job of with an all-volunteer force), you quickly realize that many of the quoted prices are just flat out wrong, or, at best, misleading. Even people in the business struggle to make sense of them.

An example: you look at a hospital MRF to see the cost for a knee surgery on a BCBS plan and it just happens to be exactly 3.5x the Medicare rate. Then you look at all their other quoted prices in the MRF and realize they're _all_ 3.5x Medicare. Someone in the billing department was really lazy putting together that MRF! Then you look at the BCBS MRF and see a rate which is 1x Medicare. Definitely not right. So you ask the BCBS affiliate what gives and they say the hospital you're looking at is on the ancient APC billing codes which means the HCPCS code you were looking at for the knee surgery would never be billed by this hospital and all the rates you just looked at are complete bunk. Now, take that knowledge and make a simple-to-use, mostly correct user-facing website! Because if you quote the wrong $ amount, the internet will roast you alive.

As I said, it might exist sometime in the next few years, but it will take a lot of behind the scenes effort to make it work.

Some of the folks working on this problem:

https://turquoise.health/

https://www.serifhealth.com/

https://tynbil.com/

https://www.healthcostlabs.com/
How did you notice the removal?
Mayonnaise Style Sauce ingredients: Soybean oil, Water, Liquid egg yolk, Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Mustard seeds, Mustard bran, Xanthan gum, Potassium sorbate, Calcium disodium EDTA.

Miracle Whip ingredients: water, soybean oil, sugar, vinegar, modified cornstarch, egg yolks, salt, mustard, spices, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium EDTA, dried garlic.

Thankfully you don't have to be too concerned. It's for the same reason Miracle Whip doesn't actually call itself mayonnaise, and Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise does. Mustard, garlic, etc., are not mayonnaise ingredients.
As food for thought: relationships are often greater than the sum of their parts.

My tribe/community/circle enriches my life well beyond the experiences I could have by myself.
Exactly! It's so infuriating to search for a song cover and instead of being able to discover indie musician covers or rare live recordings, I get the studio version + 2 results, then I get redirected to 'related' songs.
Just use Mailgun.
You can use provisioned concurrency w/ Lambda. You still may get "cold starts" when you exceed what you've provisioned, so you'll want to over-provision.
>Nearly every night, mentally ill homeless people were screaming at the top of their lungs, making it extremely hard to get to sleep. This lasted until 3 and 4 AM.

From a May 2023 article on the decline of the city <http://web.archive.org/web/20230510153958/https://www.curbed...>:

>A note to my fellow San Franciscians: I’m sorry. I know. There’s always some story in the East Coast press about how our city is dying. San Franciscians hate—HATE—these pieces. You’re a stooge and a traitor for writing one. When I set out reporting, I wanted to write a debunking-the-doom piece myself. Yet to live in San Francisco right now, to watch its streets, is to realize that no one will catch you if you fall. In the first three months of 2023, 200 San Franciscans OD’d, up 41 percent from last year.“It’s like a wasteland,” the guard said when I asked how San Francisco looked to him. “It’s like the only way to describe it. It’s like a video game — like made-up shit. Have you ever played Fallout?”

>I shook my head.

>“There’s this thing in the game called feral ghouls, and they’re like rotted. They’re like zombies.” There’s only so much pain a person can take before you disintegrate, grow paranoid, or turn numb. “I go home and play with my wife, and we’re like, ‘Ah, hahahaha, this is SF.’”
Or when logged times in the past change depending on today’s daylight savings setting.
Infantilism as a norm (2018)
Or you'd have to do an inefficient search in order to find something that matched, which would be slow, but not impossible.

Or you'd have to maintain several redundant hierarchies.

(I agree with you that our subjective experience and speed in thinking of things is evidence that we probably don't mentally represent things this way.)
Soon, you'll have to pay to DM people who don't follow you on Twitter
I'm an anarchist --- wait hold on! --- not like "The Purge" kind, but the "mutual aid and share what you can" kind. I genuinely believe that if we operated more on a "people will produce the tools, food, and art they want to produce, and will improve their working conditions if given the opportunity" mindset, and less on a "hit this deadline so your boss makes a buck" mindset we'd be able to finish more of our 'side projects'.

I think we all naturally have these projects in mind, things we would pursue if we had the time. And I think we could move towards a world where we optimize a little less for maximizing profit, and a little more for maximizing our leisure time. It will take some structural reforms, some trust, and a whole lot of learning by doing, but I'd much rather live in a world when I had less stuff but more freedom to pursue things I enjoyed.
For me, culinarily, it is basically a slow cooker that produces acceptable results, and also isn't necessarily slow either. We do ribs a lot in the instant pot and while I disagree with just about every recipe on the internet and add 10-15 more minutes than they specify, it is still faster than conventional methods because the extra heat does matter. We also use it as a rice cooker a lot; whether or not it is faster it is convenient, and, you know, we have one, which makes it cheaper than buying a dedicated rice cooker.
What timezone is used for the submission heatmap?
Depending on country and exact POS setup, they might not be able to take cash if POS is down.

For example, in Poland, your typical restaurant or shop needs to generate tax receipt (as well as properly calculate the tax), and uses either a separate receipt POS device, or POS with appropriate receipt printer (the devices are certified and for example do simultaneous two prints - one for client one for seller - or use digitally-signed storage for seller copy).

If the POS isn't designed properly to operate in case of network failure... welp, can't take cash either, at least not legally.
Yeah, they certainly buried the lede. She was 32-34 weeks pregnant, apparently. 34 week preemies apparently have a >95% survival rate, and barely meet the threshold for needing NICU time.

I'm very pro-choice but like, at that point delivering the baby early would have saved its life and ended the pregnancy.
Author here: you are reading it as I intended! Not "you have to finish everything" but rather "you want to finish something but it's hard, now what"
Hype Trains Considered Harmful
Yes.

However, it is entirely possible there are more sources than a single Tumblr for old National Geographic magazines.
Right, so, let's do things like abolish the FDA and bring back usury instead?
Really interesting setup. What kind of monthly expense does this run?

And on a separate but related note, does it change the way you think about how you spend your time coding? (Assuming the costs do ramp up with usage such that time literally does equal money?)
Thompson would have been found in the infield. The rest is schmooze and corporate these days.
If they continue to accept the rate that the insurance company reimburses at, it is not reasonable to describe them as charging some other rate. They know what the insurance is gonna pay when they provide you the service.
> If it's permissible for Dr Seuss's widow to inherit editorial control of her husband's work along with the copyright, can she pass that control to Dr Seuss Enterprises; if not, could Dr Seuss have established it before his death?

I guess the widow (or if they are still alive, the editors that worked with the author when he was alive) is the person that probably knows the author best to know if they would've liked their work to be updated or not. Or at least, make decisions on allowing changes that can have impact on how the author is seem (e.g. progressist, non-racist, sexist or not sexist, etc...).

My problem is when someone totally unrelated starts making changes, even in cases where author was explicit that they would never want the gender of their characters changed, and people go ahead and still want to change the gender

Edit: source for what I mentioned on this and my previous comment https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/beckett-waiting-for-god...
I think an easy to grasp version of sunk cost is 'buying is the same as holding' (modulo fees and taxes) from investing. In other words: you can spend today working on the existing project that's going nowhere, or on the newer idea that has potential. You allocate the day either way - it's not somehow less because it was left on the default option of what you were already working on.
You can literally look up their profitability, Spez is full of it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260066/reddit-advertisi...
Respectfully disagree. I absolutely can distinguish between "I'm just parroting stuff I've read" vs. "I have this opinion for a good reason but I would have to spend time reminding myself what that is". I do both things all the time! Sometimes it's efficient to cargo cult from stuff you've read, even if you come back later with more experience and think "that was sure stupid".

> If you don't remember the conditions that made you chose a solution, how can you be sure that they still apply now?

I agree that you're less likely to be right in this situation, but it's still a good starting point in the solution space.

In general, the key is always to be willing to notice when you made the wrong call and update your priors. But that's doesn't require approaching every question with a blank slate.

It's a good thing to lean on experience. Even when you're wrong.

You youngsters should absolutely question things. But you also shouldn't think you're right just because nobody has yet convinced you that you're wrong.

I'm neither young nor old, which means I can remember when I questioned everything and thought I was right about all of it, and the truth is that I was an idiot :)
Probably depends on the sub, but yeah, lots of potential for it to go wrong
Maybe the temperature is meant to be "oven equivalent"? Our air fryer goes up to 200C, but at that range it's closer to 250C on convection ovens.

Your theory is probably right though, of course.
Congrats on the soft launch Jake! Did not realise this was yours, I share some similar feedback on the front page as per others here.

Wish you all the best from Australia!
I disagree.

There are many languages that are hard to parse that are very successful. C and C++ are the obvious examples: there are many dark corners around the preprocessor, type annotations, etc. C++ is an absolute nightmare to parse.

C# is pretty complex too. Python has its weirdness around indentation.

Honestly, most popular languages end up acquiring a decent amount of grammatical complexity over the years and it doesn't seem to significantly hinder adoption. Humans are quite good at reading complex text and syntax.

I think the real tax on Ruby is its pervasive use of runtime metaprogramming. It's Ruby's most exciting strength and enables much of the joy and excitement that Ruby is known for. But it makes static analysis so hard and becomes less and less valuable as team and codebase size increases.
Chasing the top is not rational when considering the very rational fact that the top has options.

I'm taken, but if were single, I'd rationally consider myself average-looking to decent. I would not find it rational at all for me to chase a supermodel (if beauty was the selector), I would in fact not try at all. Because rationally, some things are too good to be true.
It's worth pointing out that child labor is on the rise again in the United States [0]. From the article:

> The number of minors employed in violation of child-labor laws last year was up thirty-seven per cent from the previous year, according to the Department of Labor, and up two hundred and eighty-three per cent from 2015. (These are violations caught by government, so they likely represent a fraction of the real number.)

0. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/child-labor-is...
OnBoard – A New Grants Program to Fund $100 in PCB Costs for Teenagers
It depends on the type of surgery, op room schedule, doctor availability, any kind of needed prep for the patient, etc - but 2 nights is not that unexpected. (Am also not a doctor, but stayed in hospital for 2 months, so seen people undertaking various surgeries in that time).