skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People use knives a lot more than instant pots. They wear down quite quickly and many just buy new ones instead of sharpening. Vitamix blenders are priced quite high to make up for a lower sales volume.

> Also, I don't think the market for this stuff is ever truly saturated: every day, plenty of people get their first apartment and need to buy appliances. Instant Pot seems similar to other things like microwaves and toasters, which we don't think of as a dead end due to market saturation.

The market for microwaves isn't, because people use them. Outside of that craze, I don't know of anyone who uses their instant pot anymore. It was a fad, PE came in and gutted it. but the fact is, it probably wasn't going to be this huge performer either way.
Eight years ago, it was a "we welcome your business" with a "free heavy usage"

https://web.archive.org/web/20150320234625/https://api.imgur...

In 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20191002234012/https://rapidapi....

I suspect its an older rate that he got and was able to lock in for a while.

The current rate is about $0.07/1000.

If $0.24/1000 is a "fuck off" rate, then Imgur is less than an order of magnitude more friendly to new developers. Imgur's price 4 years ago was $4k for 150M requests.

Reddits pricing is mostly in line with similar social network API pricing (Twitter is still an outlier).
In this instance there are several linked state media sites with the story still up.
Yes, it was. I'm trying to figure out how to do it myself. :)
Blood Meridian is a rendering of the actual history of that period. McCarthy based the main characters on real people. The kid is Samuel Chamberlain who wrote about his time with the Glanton Gang in his memoir My Confessions: Recollections of a Rogue. Here's a fascinating article that discusses Blood Meridian as an important work of American history.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crossing-the-blood-merid...
“Someone”…?
It wasn't called ReadMe originally... I happened to be browsing HN, and came across a post with someone offering readme.io for free, and I was like "oh that's a great name!" (I ultimately paid $3k as a thank you)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6397526

For the first few years, we used readme.io as our domain. When we did our Series A, I finally bought the .com for $170k. By that point I knew we were successful, and I figured the longer I waited the more it'd cost.
Thanks. I forgot about the 5-at-a-time thing! But now I remember the tiny delight when I was entrusted with that little clutch of power. I “spent” them wisely.

And this is another thing I think made that mod system good. Only so many points available.
In Canada dairy farms throw out their over supply. There are quotas and they cannot exceed them.

If that's not price fixing the other way, I don't know what it is.

Like the comment next to mine says, it is likely to ensure stability.
Not directly. High interest rates are actually directly inflationary because they increase the public sector’s deficit and every penny of that deficit is someone in the private sector’s income.

However the larger economy is a complex dynamic system. In order for an interest rate reduce price inflation or induce price deflation, it would have to reduce the ratio of money-looking-to-buy:goods-services-looking-to-sell. While higher interest rates might indeed reduce the number of potential buyers and the amounts they are willing to pay, those higher interest rates will also increase the cost of production for any producer or service provider that employs any sort of debt financing and thus probably reduce that side of the ratio too. My guess is that overall it's a wash, modulo animal spirits or whatever you want to call the human element of the markets.

Incidentally, hysteresis is hugely important, and often confounding for figuring out these kinds of effects.
That's why my guess was going to be: "financialization" ... buy the company, profit like crazy by selling it assets and taking on debt, cut R&D budgets, cut marketing, provide fat compensation for C-suite and board... bankruptcy ~5 years later after someone else is holding the bag. The playbook is practically as American as baseball these days. Even more so when tax payers get to pay for the bail out.

tbh I should probably get with the times and start doing it myself, at some point the music will stop and there won't be any companies left to rob blind...
> Instead of creating a new thread you post directly to the author who responded to an unrelated message. Since the author is obviously responding to criticisms, why did you feel the need to expand a thread with a non-related article quotation you took issue with rather than start your own? It seems to me you wanted to ensure that the author read what you wrote because you felt it was particularly important for him to see it. I don't agree.

I have no idea what you are talking about. My comment is on the same topic as the head of the thread, and provides more details on that original critique.
Hospital beds aren’t inherently that expensive. The physical room + attention from medical professionals + deprecation on equipment doesn’t add up to such an extreme number as to be particularly problematic.

It’s a huge range of negative feedback loops that drive US medical costs into insane territory. For example insurance companies require more documentation which means doctors can treat fewer people and thus need to change each of them more. High costs mean fewer people can afford services which means more time in collections and charging those who can pay more. High medical costs drive up malpractice payouts for medical treatment which drives up malpractice premiums which drive up medical costs. etc etc.
Everything is easier with resources. But if you only have standards when you can easily afford to, you have no standards.
I just want a system that is predictable , objective and that works quickly . Saying that there are flaws in the current system simply offends the gate keepers of the system.
Not looking forward to this in Florida.
Good call! I'll fix that up today.
I mean I agree that's the ideal but not necessarily true in practice. I bet if you took two random players of the same Elo and pit them against each other many times, it would not be 50/50.
It's a "standard" amount for rice cookers- https://www.thespruceeats.com/measuring-rice-for-rice-cooker...

1 rice cup produces 1 cup of rice when cooked
That you think it trivial is a big difference between us.
<conspiracy theory hat on>

And since both Sam Altman (OpenAI's CEO) and Steve Hoffman are from the Y Combinator gang (nervously looks around), I wouldn't even be surprised if there's some form of rivalry here.
Is my writing a hobby or career?
Completely valid. But that's a non-trivial audience of reddit.
And it would show the sum of the +1 and -1 votes, and the most applied label, e.g. (+3, Informative).

I have to say the most enjoyable comments were often those that got to +5 but with a negative label, like (+5, Flamebait).
I’ve never had a credit card linked I just use a Venmo debit card with nothing on it and not attached to a bank account.
our government, for some unspeakable reason

Basically the Republican party (specifically, the House GOP caucus led by Newt Gingrich) created the current system in 1996 with the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), because the right wing of their base was mad about the immigration amnesty that took place during the Reagan administration (a compromise with Congress). They've refused to countenance any sort of compromise since then, insisting on a total border shutdown.

The Democratic party is nominally opposed to this, but its reform proposals have been limited to tinkering around the edges (eg DACA) because when you get down to it, they're terrified of the far right and less aggressive about pursuing their legislative goals. They like to say they're for comprehensive immigration reform, but I'm not aware of any bills they've introduced that spell out specific policies, again because they're terrified of being attacked by the far right.
Are there some usecases where conventional IDE isn't up to the job as the notebooks? I can imagine this to be so for data analysis where pre-loading heavy datasets saves time. Anything else?
> I never quite understood the hype of Instant pot

> It just seemed like an Electric pressure cooker

I think you understand it. That's all it is.

They're good quality. Not wish.com crap.
Most retail stores simply stop if "the system" is down.
agreed, you need to go back
Very, very few employers offer an insurance plan without any employee premium. And I would be shocked if those insurance companies didn't highlight to the employer how much was "saved".

Even those employers that do pay 100% of the insurance premium could have paid more to their workers if the insurance costs were less.
I think a 3D wikipedia browser would be a fun project!
Yeah the Vortex was quite well rated and I got one recently for half price. I'm not sure if it's enabled anything my oven can't do yet, but it is much quicker and more efficient especially for something like reheating. So I'm using it more than I thought I would.
> If you have a subscription to an app that's making a price increase that meets these specific conditions, Apple will always notify you of an increase in advance. You'll be notified in multiple ways that include an email, push notification (if push notifications are enabled), and a message that you must acknowledge which is displayed within the app. Apple will also inform you of how to view your subscription plan details and how to cancel the subscription if you prefer.

If that was done, the subscription would need a new approval for the price increase before it continued or the subscription could be canceled by the user (or automatically with the price increase) by Apple.
> there is no one else right now who would buy it

Their are firms that let you sell to your employees via an ESOP. One I know of (though a friend) is https://www.awcfund.com/
Just to clarify my original comment: part of the reason I want to use reader mode is to make fonts of all pages a standard size, so I can read at night in low light, so I need more than just an ad blocker.
Can someone ELI5 me how selling beer only in California is more profitable than selling beer in California and also other places?
Codepoints themselves could technically all fit into 3 bytes (or 21 bits to be precise), but there is no standard 3-byte encoding. The highest Unicode codepoint is 0x10FFFF.

An idea for a variable width encoding of 1 to 3 bytes: Read the MSB of each byte: If it's 0, don't read any more bytes. If it's 1, read the next byte. Do the same (up to 3 times). The non MSB bits of each byte then make up the codepoint.

0xxxxxxx (ASCII)
1xxxxxxx 0xxxxxxx (0x0080 - 0x3FFF)
1xxxxxxx 1xxxxxxx 0xxxxxxx (0x4000 - 0x1FFFFF)

If the Unicode range grew in future to require further bits you could use the same technique by allowing greater than 3 bytes.

1xxxxxxx 1xxxxxxx 1xxxxxxx 0xxxxxxx (0x200000 - 0x10000000)

The obvious drawback to this approach is that it is inherently serial. You need to read each byte before considering the next, so it would perform worse than UTF-8 in most cases.

Another drawback is that it is not self-synchronizing, which is one of the benefits of UTF-8.

It also has the issue that you can represent some codepoints with more than one encoding: eg, put ASCII characters into 2 or 3 bytes. So you would need rules to use the minimal encoding for each codepoint.

As a space-saving technique, it may offer better density than UTF-8 or UTF-16 on some texts.

You could also use a fixed-width encoding of 24-bits to avoid the problem of reading it serially, but as computers typically work in powers of 2, you would align 24-bit values at 32-bit addresses and load them into 32-bit+ registers, so there's nothing to really gain in terms of performance here over UTF-32, but you could save a bit of space.
D’Onofrio
Alien invasion resistant is spy novel / agents of shield level of multiple, redundant, isolated, off the normal books, safehouses + bases.

Short of alien invasion level are strategic military resistance levels to global/regional wars with differing levels of weapons and devastation.
The syntax shouldn't matter (you may not even being using a plain text syntax - or any syntax - anyway), you could treat an image or whatever as a single "special" character. Or just assign a linearly increasing ID (increasing in the order the text, images, etc flows) to each node.

Though that is basically another way to represent what i wrote above with having a pair of node pointers and a subrange (well, an index actually, the other end of the subrange is implicit if the node pointers are different). This is basically what the old HTML editing control Microsoft had back in the 90s used and that worked with the DOM tree (also what i used in a test editor i wrote some time ago). And yeah it isn't simple.
What happened as a result of finishing those projects?
I think McCarthy believed that telling a story and conventional grammar had no necessary relationship. Whether you like few or none of his novels, recognize that he was brave enough to forfeit fame and fortune to tell the story he wanted to tell, and the way he wanted to tell it. Fiction publishing today would squash CM like a bug. That’s the bad news
When you tell small, selfish lies, you train your brain to tell big lies
Well, you can ask yourself what is "real value". In fact, more likely than not, it's just some imaginary stuff you ascribe value to, just like "prestige".
What, because I say other people are free to express themselves politically?

All I said dude was that I don't believe in it and that I think what they were doing is stupid.

Other people can do what they want, even if its pointless. Because pretty much everyone does shit (like boycott) more because it makes them feel good ("look at me! I'm stickin it to the man!"), not because it is effective.

I suppose if everyone measured their activities on effectiveness it might create a hole in the space-time continuum, so many idiotic jobs and actions would be eliminated.
> malloc(sizeof(Entry) + strlen(key));

Don't forget +1 for the terminator.

I also think a linked list is not a great data structure in practice. Having the buckets be one of those amortized-O(1)-append heap allocations would be kinder on CPU caches. But, if you are making the string part of the entry, that would also require padding the string length to word boundaries so that the struct gets aligned.

Note also if you kept the length of the string somewhere (which you would need to for my above paragraph's suggestion), you could avoid strcmp-ing hash collisions where the string has different length. Strcmp is going to add up to an expensive thing in this code.

This code also never checks the return value of malloc. Color me unimpressed with this code. (Cue people arguing that checking for malloc failure is a bad idea ... Linux oom killer and high level languages have you spoiled, there i said it! /s)
You can check ours out at https://providers.evryhealth.com/ Select the EPO plan, then select the "Cost Estimator" tile below the search box.

We provide this for the most common ICD codes, and will be adding more in the future.
1 hour meetings that start at any time other the top of the hour (x:00) are the absolute worst.

Meetings that are adjacent to lunch are fair game. They just need to start/end on time.
This is precisely how I teach it. I couldn't have phrased it better myself.
It got harder for me to find maintenance parts for my first Instant Pot starting a few years ago.

Now I guess that was a PE-driven move to push replacements instead of maintenance.

The parts they do still sell got de-emphasized on their website and they stopped selling some. See the comments here: https://www.instanthome.com/product/instant-pot/parts/anti-b... "Hello Olga. The Duo Evo Plus, steam release valves, are not sold individually at this time. If you have any concerns about yours, please contact our Customer Care team for assistance" In one of them they even provide a link to a supposed "replacement parts" section that doesn't work at all today: https://www.instanthome.com/marketing/9001/instant-replaceme...
The inflated procedure costs help shape the premiums we all pay for (either directly, or through our employers, or though the overhead costs of business with employees where we shop and do business). It's just a sneaky way to extract as much value from society as they can get away with.
my limited understanding of local pejoratives suggests that it remains traditional to sledge QLD for being one hour and twenty years behind
Engineering students (not software) learning numerical methods, so doing programming themselves, but nothing very sophisticated. Their programming skills are mostly pretty limited so simpler is better. At the moment we use plain Jupyter notebooks, but a variable value explorer and simple debugger would be helpful. I want to avoid the (to them) bewildering complexity of an IDE.
Need it be said a third time? Firefox with uBlock Origin is the only way to go. You can even install them both on your PC or Mac and block all the ads there.

You may also like SponsorBlock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/), though it is not currently available on Android. It lets you skip over advertising inside of videos.
Usually the company is quite aware the feature is half finished, but the data shows that hardly anyone uses it, and hardly anyone is asking for it to be improved. So that time would be better spent improving things that there is lots of usage on.
Cups make sense with historical context. It didn't matter what size your cup was, because they were just a way to express ratios.
All my life I've heard prevarication about climate change of one sort or another, usually from the right wing. One little chestnut I remember is the trope, "isn't it possible that things will turn out better than the scientists are saying?". That would be great, but I always thought to myself, what it's the opposite?
Unpopular truth but if you have a job paying at least $100k in the US with decent employer's insurance, you probably receive the best healthcare in the world in terms of availability, quality, and cost. It just sucks for everyone else, especially the unemployed.
Debugging nested dicts and high-dim arrays is a nightmare using print
There is no reason to give your name nor correct address to Ring.

Used an alias email.

So far, so good.
Sounds like some kind of fraud assuming you are correct.
The opposite side, consider the fact that overpopulation leads to the inability to access the activities and adventures a person may want to enjoy. Imagine a campfire, throughout the night you'll have to move the dwindling coals closer together because the forest has been stripped clear and there's no more wood to add.

In this world, the parasitic nature of individuals on the environment robs it of its bounty.
> I mean, if you never ship you're literally the kind of person who doesn't ship though

This is a bit of an "argument from extremes" fallacy. If you don't ship 90% of what you work on, but do ship the remaining 10%, then that may well not only be fine, but optimal.

My point is that saying to yourself "Every time you don't release a project, you're telling yourself that you’re the kind of person who doesn't ship." is a faulty belief. There's a whole spectrum between releasing everything and releasing nothing. Some people like myself start a lot of things (big and small), and there is no practical way to finish all of them - life is simply not long enough. For such people, not finishing 80-90% of those projects and focusing on a few that seem to have higher value is the way to go. Such a person should not (and hopefully does not) tell themselves that "they're the kind of person that doesn't ship." If they do tell themselves that, the solution isn't to start shipping everything they start, but to change their internal monologue.

I strongly recommend you get to know intricately the lives of successful creators. The majority have more projects unfinished than finished.
I actually just got the book last week after hearing an interview on the radio and the mentioned “the road” and I realized I’d read it in high school.

Now I have a daughter and am also wondering how different it may seem on this reading of the book…
Firefox's reader mode works quite well.
Ask HN: Should Google Buy Reddit?
Prompted by people on twitter saying Google has become useless since the shutdown as you can’t search stuff like “Aeron chair review reddit”

Reddit wants to go public at around $15 billion. Fidelity has marked it down to around $11 billion. Assume fair value somewhere in that range.

More expensive than your average google acquisition but they get:

1. A guarantee that Reddit won’t run Reddit into the ground and/or do away with the text based communities that power google

2. The ability to run google’s ad network on reddit, including reddit video. Google could surely get more profit from the content than reddit does

Is this insane? There’s probably also some leverage for Bard as we enter the AI era

Reddit was even run in a hands off way during the Conde Nast era. Google could emulate that
Optimistically speaking, yes that might be the case, but for a company of Apple's size, it should never replace a broken apple watch with a "marked as stolen" apple watch in the first place. According to author, this apple watch was marked as stolen almost 2 years ago, which shows how broken their IMEI blacklist validation is.
I wonder if they've found fude pens / sign pens... But I enjoy all types for the finer things in life.

Finding jetpens.com has been a blessing and curse
I just think it's weird to say that McDonalds, of all companies, needs or deserves 'support'.

No one needs to "support McDonalds", and no one needs to be encouraged to. It'll do fine.
Bullets Hitting Bullets in Slow Motion – The Impossible Shot – Smarter Every Day
Does anyone know if the entire region suffered the outage, or one/some AZs?
You could use a kindle for that.
The quote from the SEC doesn't say anything about AI. The article says the fiduciary duty rules could be clarified and updated for robo-advisers.
I scrape arxiv once a day and have a small pipeline that tries to identify all AI-related submissions and summarize them. It’s hit-or-miss currently, but a.) the papers it finds are sometimes pretty interesting when I skim them to check the summaries and b.) it’s a great project to focus my AI learning on and I’m improving it all the time. One day I hope to get it good enough that it’s suitable to post to HN!
Read this yesterday, great write up as expected from Lyn.
>Journalists attacked it to make reddit align with their version of hell

I mean yea, you see it that way because you grew up with small reddit. But by the time journalist's were on to it, that small reddit was dead and a much larger city existed with all its dark and danger filled corners. Even by that time reddit was bleeding money fast and was looking for further investor handouts to survive.

Reddit never wanted to be small. This was always set to happen. I think you just have too thick of lenses in your rose colored glasses to see that.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to Copilot chat for matplotlib stuff. Right now I have to wrangle Copilot to do what I want with comments, but with Chat you can just ask it to write the whole cell of code.
No, but that just puts you on a normal supply/demand curve. If suppliers discover that they can raise prices and make more money that way, then they will, with or without inflation.

What normally stops this from happening is that 1) higher prices from supplier X shift business to supplier Y (presuming a functioning competitive market) and 2) higher prices decrease demand. But suppliers have been free to increase prices, as much as they want, forever. That's why I have a hard time blaming profiteering for most of the price increases.
So that they, too, can get treated like crap by reddit? I don’t buy it.
So I finished reading The Road last night and sufficiently spooked by news of his death.