skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with using them for regular writing? I don't write cursive. At all, at least not since I learned it in school. I quite like my fountain pen. I used other pens my whole life and it just felt right when I tried it. They don't write all that different than a ballpoint.
Thanks for the invite :)
So start a Vet outfit and take their customers away.
This is absolutely right. And to complicate things even more: the hospital might actually bill 3.5x the Medicare rate to BCBS, but they’ll then expect to get paid some totally different number that they’ve negotiated separately with BCBS that’s somewhere between Medicare’s allowable and the ludicrous 3.5x they bill.
I’m hopeful that smaller vehicles like those supposedly coming from Telo and Canoo can change the market. The Ford Maverick has shown that a modern pickup can be smaller and fuel efficient. Telo looks interested in upping the ante.
Do these meetings have an agenda? Make sure there's an agenda published BEFORE the meeting.
That doesn't work. Children will learn whatever language they are exposed to. That is why Chomsky and others talk in terms of a universal grammar.
Deterministic Simulation: A New Era of Distributed System Testing
I think it’s unclear whether state surveillance is always worse. It can be, but it doesn’t need to be. Surveillance that’s used for public safety is a very different animal than that for political ends. The first order effect of such a system would be the fast and accurate resolution of crimes. The second order effect is the absolute disempowerment of criminals: you can leave your bike unlocked because no one will try to steal it. What the US has now is pervasive but not very effective: mostly downside and little upside. Far too many crimes go unpunished in the US.

We haven’t reached the pinnacle of surveillance capitalism yet either. Very soon every customer will be profiled instantly as they enter the store based on facial recognition systems. Treating people differently based on protected characteristics is illegal, but remembering that they were kicked out of a club in LA to deny them services or jobs in NYC a decade later is not. These blacklist systems can be used to deny basic services even if you’re not in prison, have no transparency, and no accountability. And unlike government there is little recourse. You can’t vote on the decisions of Mastercard or Chase.
My code resides entirely on the remote EC2 instance while VS Code UI runs locally. There is no sync as such. You’re working off the remote copy via SSH. (I do back up my code periodically)

VS code takes care of spinning up the remote Jupyter server. All I have to do is create a new .ipynb file and everything happens automatically. Execution and disk are remote, only the UI is local. This is the magic.

It’s exactly like SSH except you have a rich client IDE in VS Code. The only data that moves over the network are your keystrokes and pastes and what is needed to display output in VS Code. You have to try it to see.
Institutional investors care a great deal about metrics like customer retention indirectly because it influences customer lifetime value which then impacts profitability all of which is dependent on customer satisfaction.

Groupon for example has decent consumer metrics, except they couldn’t keep the business partners happy which resulted in their ultimate collapse. Finding weaknesses in companies businesses models like this can both be extraordinarily profitable for institutional investors directly and create an aura of competence to attract more investors.
Some thoughts on how this would playout:

* Reduced staff costs.

* Reduced potential peak. If you're at capacity during peak it might be worth the extra staff costs to capture the revenue.

* Reduced staffing flexibility. Things like vacations, parental leave, etc become tighter.

* Reduced customer satisfaction. I've stopped going to places when they lose my favorite staff member, and places a lot less consequential than a vet. This might translate to loss customers in the mid term, but you might not notice until their next vet visit in ~12 months. This might translate to bad yelp reviews.

* Presumably most of those vets let go are going to continue to be vets. It's a high skill job that pays well and people get into it for passion. That means your competition just gained access to a resource. Or maybe those vets become your new competition.
In the US I’ve had to wait just as long, I had a broken arm and was required to wait like 8+ hours to even get x-rays. The absurd wait times for health care are not any better with private health care. I’d say they are substantially worse because you wait just as long AND have an unknowable bill every time you go to the doctor. I routinely am quoted prices, pay them upfront, and then sent a bill for more after (all but one dentist I’ve seen has done this sometimes doubling the costs).

TLDR; The US system isn’t “free” and it is still shit.
Funny you should mention that there was no hardware available. Digg had a second cage full of servers in VA as part of a failed attempt to go multi-DC. If that project had ever worked out there would have been 50% more capacity. Those servers and network gear just sat there unused until they finally got liquidated for pennies on the dollar.
Ask HN: Feed Template
I want to create a website that has 1) feed, 2) upvoting, 3) ability for users to add, comments, etc, and 4) messaging between users. Similar to Reddit in a way.

What's the best template/open-source tool out there?
>I will just point out that the amount of litigation that has occurred and will occur in the future is actually a better justification for the "clear criteria, unclear boundary" approach (like how we define pornography) rather than a one-size-fits-all boundary, which would be pretty much impossible to draw anyway given the breadth of human knowledge. I believe that you are asking for the latter, correct?

No it's not. It makes litigation much more expensive and leads to the exact problem people here are complaining about "bad software patents shouldn't exist!"

>There is no question that they have to be inventive. The question is how "inventiveness" is defined with respect to software under the (unquestionably true) idea that laws of nature cannot be invented. Since algorithms are arguably like laws of nature, there are very unclear rules right now about what kinds of software innovations reflect "invention" vs "discovery," particularly post-Alice.

I'm well aware. I'm pointing out that saying good and bad hasn't gotten us the solution so until someone proposes something better, software engineers need to realize that we are stuck here. You are once again, not providing a delineation between what is validly inventive and invalidly inventive. If the technologists can't do it, how can a judge.
The easiest way to take business away from nasty, abusive, expensive traffickers is to make immigration cheap, easy and legal, rather than...whatever this is:

https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1668576125809745922
> they’re good at diplomatically navigating a variety of imperfect voices to arrive at a mutual agreed upon point of view.

I think this is reasonably accurate. It's rather necessary in order to be able to function in a nation where you are interacting with a huge variety of people with a huge variety of sensibilities, from all over the world.
Imo the Xbox 360/PS3 are the newest retro consoles currently.
From my understanding Japan didn’t have much child labor, and while I think they had less natural resources, their war production was dwarfed by the US war production. The US pivoted so fast I think at one point in a single month they built more aircraft or boats than the entire war for Japan.
Reminds me of What Football Will Look Like in the Future, relatively recently published in SBNation. https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

A multimedia work about space probes becoming sentient in the distant future to watch immortal humans play football across the continental USA seems about as unimaginable as this piece, to me.
I've done both as well, tagging everything and then assigning the tags into exclusive hierarchical relationships (for discovery purposes and grouping), but it only works to subdivide within an existing noun like "talent" or "wood panels", without a seed noun tags start becoming too abstract and the object with those tags start to lose all semantic cohesion.

I think once you start talking about unbounded universal tagging with hierarchies, they are not compatible, you need search and weighting or intelligent interfaces.

Search and LLMs really are major organizational improvements in our lifetime imo.
I'm all for mutual aid and sharing, and I am definitely not an endless growth capitalist, I want people to have time and resources to make art and tend their gardens.

But I sure couldn't produce the tools I want without making use of the work of profit driven people, simply because advanced tech is a lot of work, takes hundreds of people, is too big for anyone to understand and thus is almost never made if idea-exploring is the main motive, and generally seems pretty tied to profit.

Lots of places in Europe seem to have mostly figured the balance out. I don't think I'd prefer to live in a world without Intel and Microsoft, maybe I'd have free time, but I'm not sure it would be leisure time, I might be hand-washing laundry instead.

We definitely need changes, and there are some amazing side projects out there.... but also, I want to eradicate the last few guinea worms, have every roof covered in solar panels that can last 70 years, and have my Google Keep notes keep working or be replaced with an even more advanced and feature rich version.

To do that, I think we would either need to start doing really big polished side projects, or we'd need to manage and reform, but not eliminate the deadlines and meetings kind of stuff.

I'm not sure we know how to run a chip fab with any other social structure. Maybe a co-op with elected leaders, or unionization, or better inspectors to be sure there's no child labor sourced parts... but we would have a lot of learning to do to make Intel open source, half the people would just say "We should ditch out of order execution, it's a security risk" and the other half would say "This defect tolerance routing that improves yield 20% is really complicated, stuff is getting too hard to understand, we can toss a few wafers if it means the tech stays human-level, and in 5 years we can probably just get rid of the defects".....
Not going to happen, women do not want an unemployed man.
I first used a fountain pen in an art class in high school. That's when I learned they don't really work for lefties since we push the pen across the page instead of pulling it. Unless you're one of those people who curls their hand around crazily to write with a pulling motion.

Either way, the ink is gonna get smudged all to hell.
My dad spent his last 3 years in a nursing home. When he passed, the nurses cried. I was surprised, I thought they were just doing a job and didn't actually care.

I was wrong, and was very grateful to them.
There's no deal. You keep avoiding my questions. It's very simple.

If technologists can't come up with a delineating line between valid and invalid software patents, how do you propose a judge to do so?

You sit here and say good patents are okay, but bad patents must go. So I ask you again and again, define a bad patent... no response. You ignore and you flip the conversation to ask me about already existing patents. They aren't the issue, the issue is coming up with a way to filter them out...
A good chunk of subreddits are going off indefinitely.
I used to love fountain pens, they feel amazing to write with, and the variable line thickness makes everything look awesome.

They are also a massive pain, the higher end ones use gold alloys for the nib, making it delicate, if they aren't used enough the ink dries in the nib, they tend to get ink everywhere, and they can be really inconsistent.
Counterculture doesn't really work post-90s because mainstream culture started embracing all the previously marginalised groups.

You can hold an illegal gay rave under a bridge, and in response mainstream media figures will write articles demanding the permit process be made easier, then McDonald's will retweet photos of your ravers eating a meal the morning after. This is...okay, I guess. Social permissiveness is the circus, and it's still good even though our share of the bread is constantly shrinking.
Even in Australia, AEST has a DST flavour and a non-DST one. Queensland does not observe DST while the other states do. You can drive around a roundabout at the border and switch timezones for fun. Or go down there to celebrate the new year twice.

Or go from rabbits being OK to some 5 figure fine if you're caught with one :)
You can ask it to provide links to primary sources as part of your prompt. This helps quite a bit with this problem.
Then the private equity fires your former employees. They borrow money to create their own clinic. They sell in their 60s to a private equity company.
Luckily laws passed since then in many jurisdictions prevent unauthorized access to places like ag/food processing facilities, so employers can rest easy knowing that would-be photojournalists will be deterred with criminal penalties.

https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attac...
Is this a quote of someone else, or did you go out of your way to make this as convoluted as possible?
I can't even read my own cursive, let alone anyone else's.

I basically didn't learn how to write in school for like 4 years because somehow that's how long it took my teachers to realise I was incapable of writing cursive readable by anyone, including them, and stop forcing me to write in it.

This was around the turn of the millennium, so not that long ago, but all the teachers were old and set in their ways. Terrible school, just terrible.
I saw the spiel and they didn't say it was a quantum processor. They claim that there was a quantum process used in its development, and they are supposedly the first to have used it.

It's hard not to notice they purposely made it look like a quantum processor, though. That was clearly intentional and misleading, and probably why everyone seems to be confusing what their actual claim is.

Either way, the quantum process is pretty unlikely since it would have no bearing whatsoever on the product itself. It's literally a commodity item, and indifferent from the many that have come before. So even though they don't claim it is a quantum processor, their actual claim is still quite unlikely.

I have a feeling that it's a language translation issue, and they really mean "quantum inspired" or "themed."
Yeah, bitterness has a way of sustaining itself.

After a while being bitter becomes your primary coping mechanism, it gets harder to let go of it.

I had a striking conversation with my dad recently, where he said that the thing that helped him get better was being alone, because he had nobody left to blame his problems on except himself. But some people can sustain the bitterness even alone!
Show HN: ciao – HTTP/S checks and tests monitoring
It's been a while since 1.0.0 came out thus you should check the current version 1.9.0 with many new features.
This is a good question! I briefly thought of the same thing after the dentist’s office I’d been using for more than a decade began having utterly terrible service. By accident (an employee sent me an email from their corporate email) I found out they had been taken over by a PE owned dental outsourcing company.

That explained why overnight their office staff became a rotating assortment of people who had no idea how to run insurance or handle any problems and the visits lost all quality.

I would love to have a resource where I could see what entity actually owns a business or company. Not many people realize that even brands like Volvo and Arc'teryx that used to mean something are now owned by companies that if anything are known for the exact opposite qualities.
In addition, I'd argue that most of those really good movies are still more enjoyable to watch without spoilers. They may be good on a re-watch, but not as good.

I think there are only a handful of exceptions. Ironically, the first exception that comes to my mind is Miyazaki's own My Neighbor Totoro.
Speaking of Greeks, they believed that such universal ideas come from the world of ideas, or the world of archetypes; great thinkers merely perceive this world, and that's why different cultures seemingly by accident end up with the same ideas in their "books of wisdom". In this worldview, the achievement of greek or indian philosophers isn't creating the idea of the four ages, but expressing it in the limited thoughts framework they had to deal with. It's a lot like how painters try to express what they see on a small flat rectangle of paper.
"My work helps people, don't listen to the ocean of negative examples about my industry."
This is my favorite kind of personal attacks. Never have I said "they did not control", but here you are.
I don't think that was a part of the collective consciousness 10 years ago.

People said "but how are you going to monetize" and everyone said "we'll figure that out later."

So even if it was true back then (and it was), spez was probably 20-25 when he sold his soul? You don't exactly have the benefit of worldly wisdom when you are that young.
There may be no such thing as a legal American crypto exchange
What is the timezone for the heat maps? I assume UTC but wanted to check.
Wikipedia has a synopsis of the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoes_of_Life
This is true only until insurance decides not to pay arbitrarily. In my case I was stuck with a $112k bill. Hospital offered 50% self pay discount. Now what?
Docker is a good tool for building packages in a "hermetic" sort of environment.

(although dockerfiles themselves are not completely perfect at reproducibility)

I honestly wish docker had a sort of "build my docker images from fundamentals" mode, where you could build everything on your machine in a systematic way instead of including the docker.io cloud.
I also read The Road in a single sitting but over night. It was also a stormy night in late November which just added to the atmosphere of the book. The next day felt pretty bleak and grey, just like the weather and my mood. I love it when a book can do that to you.
Did you scroll all the way to the bottom? The "never fail" version that always sorts the smaller partition first, and allocates 300 "pseudo stack frames" will successfully sort any array on a real computer.

Sure, theoretically, it does what you say, but you know what they say, right? In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, not so much. And, these are real differences, too: theory idealizes real computers as general Turing machines, when, in fact, they're really only linear bounded automata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_bounded_automaton

See also the commentary following the code:

> This might be slightly slower than the first one, but it will never fail because it always performs the smaller partition first. Hence, the only way it could run into the limit is if the to-be-sorted array was at least 2MAX_LEVELS elements in size. Since 2300 is greater than 1090, and there are only about 1080 fundamental particles in this universe from which a human-made computer can be built, no larger limit will ever be needed.

> (Note: Someone reminded me that a typically 64-bit index variable can index only 264 items, not 2300. That’s true, but if you’re using a 64-bit computer, you’re probably not going to have an array of more than 264 elements anyway, even if each element was only one byte.)
I really wish we were at the point in society where we could have an effective discussion on the definition of ownership.
Thank you for this moment of enlightenment. As an American, I totally hear "I would recommend/suggest/consider changing this code to this" as a particular flavor of "fix your shit". That flavor being that the person saying it isn't mad about it, but you really do need to fix your shit. If they're mad, they'll say "fix your shit".

My enlightenment was that this meaning is so instinctive to me that I doubt that it would occur to me that it could be misinterpreted.
I would say they are definitely in the same range that any difference is negligible.

Working in either shatters the soul in record breaking speed. The terrible things you have to witness. Humanity at its rawest and at times lowest. Both groups, no matter how many times you have to deal with the certain situations they do, you never get used to it (which is kind of important, as soon as you do get used to it, you've lost what makes you such a good nurse/vet - empathy).
> so-called child labor laws acts like a deranged preacher barking sermons of protection and virtue

uh yeah? because children are the most vulnerable in our society and need to be protected from people who are trying to exploit them? do you make this same argument for age of consent laws?

> a baptism by fire that carved character out of raw-boned desperation and grueling sweat

i prefer our current standards of living. i suspect that five-year-olds do too.

> The system is a diabolical puppeteer, offering up a sanitized, sterile version of life

yes, this is what progress looks like. instead of toiling in mines, our children can be children.

> bereft of the hardened steel that labor forges

citation needed.
Instead of plain up- and downvotes, you rated a given comment with one of several positives (insightful, interesting, funny, informative) or negatives (troll, flamebait, offtopic)

The best part was you could set your personal filters to exclude “funny” comments, or boost “offtopic” ones if you want. With thresholds! So the funniest stuff could still break through, but you didn’t have to wade through a million pun posts to find the serious comments.

They also have a metamoderation system where others’ moderation choices are shown to you and you agree or disagree.

Never seen another site like it. Kinda hope /. makes a resurgence.
A TWSBI Eco with a medium nib or maybe a Pilot Prera in fine would be a good start for anyone, both under $50. Maybe a Pilot Kakuno since they are under $20. Lamy Safari are often recommended, but have a forced grip pattern due to the shape of the barrel. Pilot Vanishing Point is going to be the best for retractable, but at just under $200-- it isn't super practical, although it will last a lifetime and Pilot will typically warranty them for free/cheap for the life of the pen. A Majohn A1 or A2 is close enough for 10% of the price if you want a retractable fountain pen.
Leaving, what, 10am and 2pm?
When did you read it? I think the US went heavy on post-apocalyptic movies and books since the GFC. Maybe there's a bit of "Seinfeld isn't funny" going on?
> Like I shouldn't be billed extra if my surgeon is hungover and things don't go smoothly.

That’s what you think is the common root cause of complications?

You clearly are not interested in a productive discussion.

As for a fee for unpredictable occurrences - that’s what insurance is.
I recently learned this is actually something that college aged people do for extra cash.
Conflict-Driven Synthesis for Layout Engines
Firefox + the uBlock Origin extension.
IIRC "cup" refers to the plastic cup (160ml) that comes with the instant pot.

EDIT: 1 rice cup is 180ml- meaning it will produce 1 cup of rice when done.

https://toirokitchen.com/products/rice-measuring-cup