skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sure if you wanted to buy 10 boxes of it, they'd be quite suspicious

They definitely are. I was born with major sinus issues, and my doctor had me on an abnormally high dose of pseudoephedrine all throughout my teenage years to treat some of the symptoms.

As a kid, my mom would take me to the pharmacy to fill my prescriptions, and I guess the sight of a mother with her stuffy red-nosed child wasn't very suspicious to the pharmacist. But when I got older and would go to the pharmacy myself, I would often end up going home empty-handed with my prescription unfilled, because the pharmacist would see a scruffy teenager trying to buy a few boxes of something that can be used to make meth, and just refuse to give me any of it despite having a prescription on file for years.

Even when I was allowed to buy it, I could never buy more than a month's worth at a time, and it had to be when I was about to run out, otherwise they'd tell me I needed to come back in a few days. Led to a lot of "sorry, I can't go on that camping trip because I need to renew my prescription during those specific days or I won't be able to breathe for half the trip"

I wish the alternatives worked, because I would have much rather used them.
Time is a funny thing. The "switch" you're talking about was in the mid-1960s, galvanized by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. James Eastland was in elected government from 1928 until 1978. Joe Biden's Senate career started in 1973. So while they did have 5 years of overlap (long enough for the quote to have been heard), it's been 95 years since James Eastland's political career started.
I never heard of buying credit debt, but I had heard of people buying medical debt in this manner. I get and respect the medical debt concept. Credit debt though is a tough one. How can you tell that someone ran up credit debt because they were paying for medical bills or something vs debt financing shopping sprees or vacations? Giving those who fall on hard times help is admirable. Giving people bad at personal finance a free ride is not
And I don't want or need, for my own use, some Accessibility-defined systemwide setting that tells all apps to try not having motion. It sounds nice to have…should I ever need that. But at least from Apple's description it seems invasive and like it might possibly disable untold things that I don't want to mess with.

I want to speed up or eliminate certain decorative things, like this particular animation. Since there's no obvious no-side-effects way, I just grumble and occasionally rediscover UI performance when I use some other system.
The MAX system relied on the pilot remembering the stab trim cutoff switch and what it was for.
Using GPT-4 to refactor a simple HTML page
That's how I would talk if I randomly transported into Einstein's body in 1905
> ... when it comes to node rearranges, which, frankly, I didn't quite get.

I removed the syntax of rearrange, and added a new builtin `@spread`, I hope it is less confusing now :)
One of them was Pascal. This was around 1980 or so.
Exact same experience here. I hate how USB C has the fragile male end on the port and the durable female end on the cable. It’s significantly more complex and less robust compared to lightning. Is this really the only way to get higher charging/data speeds
Joe Biden was one of the longest serving senators in history. He showed up in the wake of watergate and was barely over the age threshold. History and politics are strange and complicated. The parties didn’t switch so much as they evolved, but the Democrats have always been a big party with something for everyone and there is room in the party for all manner of positions.
why, you find it offensive ? maybe other people appreciate the point of view
I just space everything out with &nbsp;
Due to the suppression of black votes, southern political machines were very effective at getting members of congress in office for extended periods; it also let them punch above their weight due to seniority.

They were democrats for historical purposes until Johnson started advancing civil rights. Then they flipped to the new “conservative” branch of the GOP.
you're generating twice the e-waste of the apple product here.

and you don't have to pay 3x the cost if you don't want, buy last year's model refurbished.
Naturally, any comparator would have some slack in it to account for variations. Even CPU internals have such slack, that's why there's a "clock" to synchronize things.
There are some non-profits specializing in buying up medical debt and forgiving it (e.g. RIP Medical Debt [0]). These non-profits usually rely on individual donations, and $100 can relieve as much as $10,000 of medical debt. They also frequently rely on donations from other organizations such as churches [1]. There are examples of churches buying up tens of millions of dollars worth of debt [2]. I'm not aware of this being done for other kinds of debts, although I would assume it happens.

[0] https://ripmedicaldebt.org/
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/us/debt-jubilee-medical-trini...
[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/25/metro/new-england-chu...
A single cow eats many times the calories it is worth before it is ready to be eaten.
I don't know as much about modern avionics.
Beware of step 2 to step 3. I call it "chasing the whale". The problem is the "whale company" knows they are a whale. You'll slowly watch your entire development timeline and features shift to benefit only them. Your company basically becomes a contractor for them to get X feature working (and nobody sees this feature being helpful to any other customer). You can't get rid of them because it looks terrible for funding that you dumped such big potential. Technical debt piles up from priority shift and then the whale is gone. You were only a POC for them, and in the wake of being side lined as a priority other customers leave.

I've seen this happen multiple times.
JBMod 2 might be better, I hope fans of gmod unite and make Godot's Mod.
Interestingly I’ve never found writing helpful. I do better typing out my thoughts and writing samples etc. I’ve really tried because people who find writing useful have such great experiences. I even took copious notes in school because everyone said how useful it was. I never referred to them and eventually stopped and just paid close attention. I don’t whiteboard, I don’t jot down ideas, I am just able to keep things in cache and render them in documents, code, and diagrams. I think different minds work differently.

My challenge with standardized learning models is they work for those they work for, and cut down and ground down those it doesn’t. Then the beneficiaries write the rules for the next generation oblivious to the possibility that their experience isn’t the only one. I really struggled in American public school which is rife with learning style assumptions. I really hope a time comes when neurodiversity is accepted in public education, but until then I’ll keep sending my daughter to a private school that adopts a differentiated teaching style.
The article really makes a huge stretch, the shutdowns didn't start until decades after the introduction of HVAC.

But on that note: It would be ideal to add a simple amendment to the constitution which stipulates that in the event of a federal government shutdown, every member of Congress is ineligible for re-election, along with the president, and they all forfeit all federal pensions and other lifetime benefits.

It wouldn't guarantee that there wouldn't ever be a shutdown again, but it would make it a truly nuclear option that no one would take lightly. These shutdowns affect millions of people and cost billions of dollars, and they're pretty much entirely political theater wrought by people who put partisanship over basic duties.
The USB-C cable supplied with my MacBook does not function as a data cable, charging only.
> And all that said, at it's heart there no justifiable reason the developer should be charged for every device I install something on. The developers are not making more money, why should the engine makers get a larger cut.

There is a reason that's justifiable to the company - it makes more money. The modern-day push to collect recurring payments and offer everything as an ongoing service is driving large companies into this strange form of software rent-seeking, including whatever this is.
The sleeper feature could be Thread [1] networking, a mesh network protocol for home automation devices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490156.

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are the first smartphones with this protocol built-in.

[1]: https://www.evehome.com/en-us/thread
This is the same with tax collection in the US (seen different versions of this done by IRS, California’s BOE and SF treasury)

It goes something like this: they send you a scary looking letter telling you there’s something off about your taxes, you then need to call them (because they don’t do email and mailing anything will go over the time limit to comply), then they tell you more in detail what the problem is and push you to amend your return forms, once you do, you’ve legally accepted liability for whatever extra taxes they convinced you you owed (and will have to pay)

What most people should actually do: they send you a scary letter, you tell them to audit you, usually they’ll stop here, if they audit you and make a final assessment against you, you tell them you want to go to court, they’ll almost definitely drop it at this point, unless you actually owe them taxes and it’s such an easy and big case that they are willing to go through the trouble

Most people will just amend their return forms and pay, because it’s just too scary to even think of going against these agencies
Wasn't there a senator Byrd who Hillary also celebrated[1] The senator also happened to be a member of a notoriously segregationist group. He filibustered the Civil Rights Act. He served as a Dem till his death in 2010. Of course some time in the late 90s he denounced his past actions and Hillary offered some warm remarks upon his passing -he was her mentor, afterall.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryweuBVJMEA
This is honestly the saddest thing I’ve read in years, maybe even decades.

Tech is such an shitty abyss right now, ten years ago people got excited because of truly revolutionary features , like cameras that were better than $1000 digital cameras, 4G that made the internet not just usable but fast biometrics that actually worked, on a phone, in your pocket, like holy fuck that was mind blowing.

We’ve gone so far down the hole that you are like fuck it I’m gonna buy it because of the god damn charging cable, and it’s not even something like the charging cable is crazy awesome and charges your phone instantly, it’s that it’s now just the generic port that everything from moms vibrator to your laptop to every other god damn phone on the planet uses.

And this absurdly mundane and completely valueless “update” has moved you to take a perfectly good $1000 plus phone and junk it to buy a brand new $1000+ phone, just so it can share a charging cord with a used vibrator?!?!

And this, this is the best that one of the most innovative companies in a generation, which generated profits that make the rockefellers and gettys look poor, can do.

No wonder everyone’s so in love with chat GPT, we are awed by our absolutely stunning mediocrity.
Joe Biden has been in politics for more than 20% of the time the US has been a country.
> I imagine the change was mostly brought about by administrators and politicians.

They are a specific type of “influencer”. People who claim the crown of “innovation” simply by jumping on the hype train of whatever the new hot thing is. Many companies are falling into this trap with AI right now. They use FOMO to get leaders with weak wills and a lack of vision to jump on the hype train, forcing everyone else along for the ride.
They need to clarify the pill doesn't work, because it's most certainly effective topically/by spray..
Lol I’m wearing a pulse oximeter and it never drops below 90%
I'm not blaming him for the war
that had been ongoing since the 40s, but rather what he did during his administration. He and Kissinger bombed Cambodia. There's some evidence to suggest that Nixon and Kissinger manipulated the 1968 peace talks to give Nixon an election advantage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/nixon-tried-t...
Medical debt shouldn't be a thing in a civilized society. Credit card debt is a failure of the financial system to properly assess risk, credit cards shouldn't be that easy to get, and predatory credit card offers should be outlawed. Similar to how identity theft is somehow your problem when it's actually the banks and other systems that enable it.
Yeah. They heard all the commotion and rushed in. "We've heard a lot of bad rumors going around about our new pricing. We know you're upset, and we just wanted to confirm that all the bad rumors are true."

They're so tone deaf.
I’ve had one retroactively up a pre-declared price on me, after the service was rendered, even when insurance wasn’t involved at all.
It's mentioned briefly in the article, but I really think the Rebuild Penn Station project has the right idea:

https://www.rebuildpennstation.org/

All these various other proposals ignore the main problem: the original station never should have been demolished in the first place. The only proper solution is rebuilding the original, not designing some new thing that is slightly more acceptable than what's there now.
BP CEO Resigns over undisclosed personal relationships with company colleagues
River is a visual connection engine
Debugging a blackbox is challenging when a developer lacks access to the bug report, which contains sensitive user data. This is not uncommon, most commercial software, such as Windows and Office, generate anonymized bug reports from users' personal desktops, and they promise that user privacy will not be compromised.

However, in the realm of databases, blackbox debugging becomes significantly more difficult. The basic idea of this project is twofold: (i) using operators that transform a database into an encrypted version, enabling developers to examine its running states, and (ii) replacing user data with equivalent data classes (this concept exists in software engineering testing, where two inputs produce the same coverage and trigger the same bug).

An intriguing aspect of this work is its compilation of numerous common actions taken by database administrators (DBAs) and translating them into actionable insights, potentially opening doors for further research. One exciting possibility is to explore automatic local debugging using these insights, which eliminates the need for human involvement and addresses concerns about data breaches.
>So Joe Biden was a Democrat when the Democrats had segregationists?

There were no de jure segregationists, but even into the 90s there was a significant bloc of conservative Southern Democrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition

Remember, the "red state/blue state" thing dates from the year 2000! There are many living politicians who date from before the phase change: Hillary Clinton (in Arkansas, now a solidly Republican state) was giving speeches on how crack turns Black children into "superpredators", Joe Biden himself coauthored the 1996 crime bill, which kicked off the mass incarceration era. Bill Clinton was running campaign ads on cutting off food stamps to welfare queens and overseeing executions of criminals. It was a different era.
all rubbish. read this book to educate yourself: https://www.amazon.ca/Hold-Line-story-Freedom-Convoy/dp/1990...
Every human buys with emotion and then justifies with "logic" after the fact.

I know this, and I still just paid thousands of dollars on a rock for my future wife's finger ;-).
So these pension funds were fine with investing in Fox year after year despite all the other crap Fox News had been spewing, but somehow now they want to sue?
Why is it so bad in OH, USA then? Absolute rubbish, they can’t or won’t come close to good. It’s cheap wine that can’t be paired with anything. Objectively , what are the steps they need to take to blindly pass for good?
Eastland served until 1978.
Oh, I was unaware that editing wouldn't change the date/timestamp. That is pretty common, including here (I just edited this line in on purpose to see). That would be quite misleading.

If that's what happened, it just demonstrates another way Elon has ruined Twitter as a reliable news source. Maybe it should be marked with a * when edited, like Mastodon and Reddit do.

There is history to this on Twitter. At one point, people were making fake prophesy by Tweeting things privately every day and then deleting them as they don't succeed. Then ranting about the big one that suddenly did. People would look at the account, and sure enough, lots of future foretold.
That number is still about 500% off from their final sugar content, and lactofermentation consumes most of the sugars in the jalapenos. Added sugar is the second ingredient by weight in sriracha. It's not even an argument, you can so clearly taste that the product is fermented chilis and garlic powder doped up with spoonfuls of sugar.
No comments on this page about Snowflake IDs.

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

They fit within 64 bits, allow for more than enough processes to handle 10k+ transactions per second, give enough of a timestamp headroom for decades into the future, and where ID generation can be made isolated to each process.

They don't work well for anything related to archival work, but you might as well use a regular ID for that anyway, unless you're also actively scraping terabytes of data off of the Internet every second, in which case UUIDv5's good enough for your extreme edge case.

...But at that point you might as well just roll your own 128-bit version of a Snowflake ID.
They offer a (fairly generous by industry standards) trade in program.
They take thousands and thousands of perfectly working iPhones, then turn them into raw scrap, just so they aren’t floating around on the secondary market.
Apple realises that most iPhone users aren’t going to switch to android, so reducing the supply of secondary market iPhones, really helps them sell more new devices.
You can still get previous Pro/Pro Max versions as refurbs from Apple. Not the same as buying new, but still nice that they have them.
Personally I found soldering taught me fine motor control. But my family has genetically bad hand writing being a bunch of surgeons - who can’t write worth a damn but have super human fine motor control.

I would note of the things you listed: pen, paper, good teacher, almost all the alpha is associated with the teacher. And while the pen and the paper can be bought, a good teacher is only born.
You probably find most literary novels incredibly boring too.
> If you think it's reasonable that a person is going to be strapped into a headset at a child's birthday party, then that is indicative of what you believe would be socially normal or acceptable behaviour. I dare say other family members or guests won't see it that way.

> In my opinion the idea of any person walking around with a headset on in social settings is not realistic.

which is precisely why apple is selling the concept of the curved front display, with high-res internal cameras to pass through an image of your face and eyes. if they can pull it off well, it should look like your normal face, so the appropriate social cues will be there.
Recently I got in to mechanical typewriters for writing. I really like them! It's fascinating to have a machine which has no apps, no screen, no internal memory, and no distractions. You don't even have to "print" your page after writing it as the printing and the typing are the same operation.

The other day I was writing poetry at my computer and I had a Slack message pop up. I immediately clicked on it and responded, and then I went back to my poem and had totally lost my train of thought.

I am not suggesting schools use typewriters, but I wonder if there is value in considering limited functionality devices for specific classes in schools and similar situations.
It would guarantee it. Think about how self interested they are.

Yeah, innovators dilemma, etc.
Thanks, that confirms it. I wonder if they have separate DP and USB PHYs and an external mux chip.

Also TIL iPhone SoCs are used in Apple TVs. Apparently they use a MCDP2920A4 DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.0 converter for that: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+TV+4K+2021+Teardown/14...
That's such a cool thing the way you describe it. I honestly wish I was that way. But for me, my most direct connection to expressing thought is a keyboard connected to a capable text editor. I remember trying to take notes by hand in college, and finding that it was easier for me to type in org-mode (mainly so I could write equations in latex, but not deal with latex outside of that).

I've never been a person who doodles. I may underline or highlight, but that's about it. I keep trying hand journaling and handwritten note taking. I'm not particularly slow or sloppy, but it just doesn't click the same way as the keyboard.

I guess the grass is always greener, isn't it?
That sounds impressive unless you work in Europe where its normal.
the feature I want the most on a new iPhone is a better flashlight. Brighter and a more directional beam.
Big Django user and fan here!

Ask HN: I plan on developing and deploying a bunch of Django apps in the coming months as I’m doing a 3 month stint at https://recurse.com

GitHub Pages is great for purely static content - but what is the preferred/""best""/cheapest option for django/postgres hosting?

I know there’s tons of options - I used to be a Heroku fan until recently. Now am on Render (where things get expensive)

Is Pulumi/Terraform/IaC on AWS the way? I want git-deploys, not have to write .sh scripts to restart nginx and pip dependencies that auto un/install if possible.

I also thought of deploying one mega django project and having everything be a django app under that - it doesn’t feel sustainable/clean but maybe it’s ok for a bunch of small projects?

Thanks!
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-didnt-mention-iph...
This strikes me as the same as saying “but the homeless person might take my $5 to buy whiskey instead of a hot meal.”

Or, possibly more apropos to your example, “how do I know my medical debt relief payment goes to someone who truly Deserves It because of bad luck and not someone whose poor diet and exercise habits lead to their stroke?”

The system is designed to turn bad choices into bad luck - and the opposite - and to pass moral judgements on those who need help. Reject the framing and help people; most are good and deserving.
The previous crap didn't lead to a defamation lawsuit. You can't sue for something ill-defined legally as "a complete lack of morals" but you can for recklessly creating liability in a defamation lawsuit.
I can’t believe they just released the Gen 2 AirPods without updating the charge port to USB-C, especially given the iPhone changeover has been telegraphed for over a year. It’s like they learnt nothing from the MacBook USB-C transition.
So in the same situation where you lambast mobile games for not meeting profitability, you admit you've worked on games that would've fallen into that same situation.

And despite your belief that you were not dependent on any sort of intermediary platform I believe many games on that platform including Gold Miner were made using Adobe Flash, so you were in fact using a platform that could've been nickel and dimed just as much as Unity is now. Except you had the advantage of those games being made at the advent of the internet before rent seeking companies clawed their way into the middle.

The fact that you've been spreading misinformation or being downright disingenuous about many of the points you've been making makes me believe that many of your points are false.
This happened to me. I sent the letter to my CPA, he realized he made an error and in fact the IRS owed me a bunch of money, which they returned.