skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Costnip is a peer-driven healthcare transparency platform that allows users to compare services based on price, proximity, and what others were charged. We use data to increase competition in healthcare services, empower value-based options and drive down costs via transparency.
A founder going through cancer treatment was mistakenly charged $30 instead of the $2000 for a drug because the pharmacy mixed up his name with his father. Then wondered why we all don’t know the cost that other’s are paying, like every other industry outside healthcare. He worked on several other tech innovations through the years before bringing that knowledge to this problem.
Because those usually cost about an arm and a leg more than buying separately, and also don't allow for the kind of things you can automate (read "script") in homeassistant
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Do I think threats are acceptable, no - and true threats aren't considered protected free speech. ("true threats first amendment" would be your search term, should you like to learn more)

Do I think offensive, nasty, hateful speech is free speech? Absolutely.

Here's an example of one that I think is an egregious violation of the principle of free speech: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-...
Yes, I built a moderately large system on it that used lots of small shared files. The performance was fairly terrible. There's weird little niggles with it--we had random slowdowns, throughput issues, and things just didn't work quite right.

It was an ok solution for what we were doing, but several times I came really close to just dumping it and standing up an NFS server using EBS volumes.

I also used it a couple of times to store webroots and that was a complete disaster with systems that had lots of small files (Drupal I'm looking at you).
We say now “some sect”, but today’s mainstream Trinitarians were also considered “just some sect” in Early Christianity.

It has turned out to become the mainstream view, but really trinitarianism and antitrinitarianism are both valid views of Christianity and Islam stems from the “back to the basics” antitrinitarian view.

While we’re at it, Judaism was also developed contemporarily with Christianity and not before (as is the mainstream view), because Judaism includes the teachings of the Rabbis.

The root is Middle Eastern monotheism.
Matter runs over IPv6, over either Thread or WiFi.
That is fascinating, thank you.
I had read about this dorm plan, and thought it was very brutal.

Then I found myself in a windowless room for a day (voluntarily) with a PC and no internet. Literally staring at a wall.

The most productive day I've had in a couple of decades.

And I started to have second thoughts about his dorm plan. Maybe he was on to something.
Some platforms let passkeys count as password+2FA which could be an option if you use a password manager that supports it.

I use passkeys in 1Password for GitHub access
For GPT4? Sure..

For small LLMs like Llama2 7B/13B and its derivatives? They can be run quite gracefully on Apple Silicon Macs & similarly capable PC hardware.
I think you are overestimating the cost of inclusion. Surely you have had mandatory IT training about not plugging in unknown usb drives at work right?
The mesh topology here would see these rejected as assets for in basically any professional context. A competent modeler could make much higher quality models, more suited to texturing and deformation, in under five minutes. A speed modeler could make the same in under a minute. And a procedural system in something like Blender geonodes can already spit out an endless variety of such models. But the pace of progress is staggering.
A politician was responsible for that? I thought vaccines (in the US at least) are procured by the pharmacies and paid for by the recipients.
I think most people in the UK are more worried about getting fired than they are worried about going to jail for a tweet, FWIW. (Although of course, in the UK your employer can’t fire you just because they decide that they “don’t like you anymore”.)
How many times a year do you estimate, that poor Charlie Bucket has a birthday?
>It feels like we’ve become incredibly risk averse.

I understand (and agree) with this sentiment, but I think there's an important nuance. What we want is good risk-informed decision-making, not simply a higher risk tolerance. Just increasing risk tolerance doesn't automatically increase good decision-making. I don't give bonus points for just being different, I value being different for good reasons.
With a stroke of luck, I'll be doing something completely different.
Imagine taking on $50k in student loans to live in a windowless room
To illustrate that even good investors miss huge opportunities
Perhaps you should get your information someplace other than lying left wing partisans masquerading as comedians?

Here[1] is the actual data. The USA's firearms homicides are higher than I'd like, but are by no means the world leader.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
> I have other cards (albeit with history) >10x the Apple Card's limit.

I'm not an expert, but might that be the reason you got a lower limit? When a credit decision is made, they look at your existing credit and take into account how much debt you could be in if you went out tomorrow and maxed it all. So if you are holding multiple cards with large limits... you might just be maxed out.
RIP Charlie,
Is the target market really "most people," though? I would say not. The general goal of all of this economic investment is to improve the productivity of labor--that means first and foremost that things need to be useful and practical for those trained to make determinations such as "useful" and "practical."
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That is radically different from a innerspring mattress.

But even outside of futon mattresses, prior to the 19th century, mattresses were essentially just thicker futon mattresses. Heavy, prone to sagging, breeding ground for all sorts of vermin depending on the filling material, mattresses weren't super great.
I've been using heisenbridge[0] to do my Matrix to IRC bridging and I like it. Not a broader solution to the problem since most people don't want to run their own services, but it works well for me and is no different to a bouncer for IRC servers, noone knows it's actually Matrix on the other side.

[0]: https://github.com/hifi/heisenbridge
This seems like the obvious answer to me, but I am one who thinks the gamification of everything has been a bad thing.
GP takes the time to upload his videos to PeerTube, which I'd say makes him less dismissive than pretty much everyone.
Awesome! so where is the API I can try?
To put it simply: the wage calculation is between the company and the employee, not the customer and the employee.

The company socialising their wages out to their customers via tips is fucking absurd.
More over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451278
Legislators who respect the rights of their constituents would vote 'present' and then go fishing. Since the House membership was capped in 1929, I suppose this only gets fixed through a general strike of the people, or a crack-up divorce in a decade or so.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/988865415/stuck-at-435-repres...
May his afterlife be exactly as comfortable as his idea of a dorm room
Shouldn’t they have to pay taxes if they printed it like that?
How about just not having engagement self enforcing algorithm feeding people stuff from people they don't "follow" or don't want BS from? Censurship of "misinformation" will kill any actual discourse worth anything. Not that Twitter, Facebook et al. have it anymore.

But before the algorithm changes discussions were actually sane.
I pretty much only used Matrix as a glorified IRC bouncer that worked across my devices. When the libera.chat bridges went away, I just stopped using Matrix altogether.

Yeah, I am sure it is possible to set up my own appservice, but ERC has been convenient enough for my use case.
Sounds on brand for Google, which was one of the first companies I'd heard of to have an internal meme generator on their intranet.
I don't doubt your expertise, but don't financial people bring predictability to the world by assigning a value to everything? I agree, rich get richer, but 99/100 of cases, rich always get richer. See the pandemic for example - Govt tried to help the poor, but the rich made a killing.

In anycase, I am interested to know why you think so, and would appreciate pointers to any reading.
You're making an argument which while correct runs in precisely the opposite direction to the OP's (i.e banks' choice to lend too much at too low rates is somehow forced upon them by the Fed)

Yes, the base interest rate acts a floor on interest rates (individuals and banks are entitled to choose to lend below the Fed funds rate. It just unprofitable to do so. It would be even more and profitable to do, so if the Fed didn't exist). They don't set a ceiling on it, so market participants do choose their own rates, and are entirely free not to get their risk assessments wrong and lend at too low a rate (which Austrians claim to be the primary driver of business cycles). The herd behaviour to lend money at low markups above the base rate is a problem of market dynamics, not a problem of lack of market freedom.

In the absence of central banks, the banking sector still competed to lend at the lowest rate, was not blessed with any more insight into whether a particular industry had too much capital flowing into it or a particular loan was a bad one, business cycles were still a thing and banks went bust more often.
> In Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke, the word for camel is gamlo (ܓܐܡܠܐ) while the word for rope is gamla (ܓܐܡܠܥ).

The blog author briefly references this Aramaic theory in his post and says that it has been similarly debunked, linking to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0Fm8aVApk

The supposed Aramaic word for rope doesn't appear in any sources until the 10th century CE and is derived at that time from the same Cyril origin.
> Michael was found to be among nine teens, ages 14 to 17, who illegally operated machinery at the company. They also employed seven teens, ages 14 and 15, outside legally permitted hours. Michael was one of those who worked outside legally permitted hours before he turned 16 – when the regulations change – and had also previously illegally operated dangerous equipment.

"These things happen" when employers flout the law in a regulatory environment that enables them to do so. You can have a tradition of summer jobs without getting teenagers up at 4 in the morning to operate heavy machinery. In any case, sawmills are explicitly identified as a hazardous work environment prohibited for minors under federal law.
GitLab (which has better CI too), Codeberg (simpler, only public repos).
> And here lies the rub. I have tried soliciting help in the past . Most ui UX ppl only want to work on successful projects, but successful projects don't need help from ux/UI people.

Firstly, are you saying that your initial statement was solely about your own experience and not intended as a statement about designers in general? Because when you say things like "Most ui UX ppl only want to" preceeded by "I have tried soliciting help in the past" I'm not really sure how you'd expect anyone else to reach that conclusion.

> successful projects don't need help from ux/UI people

Yes, they do. Even most successful independent FOSS projects have dumpster fire UI/UX. I can't think of a single one that isn't funded and professionally managed with paid designers that has an interface or overall flow/experience that doesn't need serious design intervention. If there's an independent, volunteer-only FOSS project with functioning all-around UX that's attracting all of the design talent willing to put up with the hassle, I sure haven't seen it-- hence point b.

Indeed, point C was not a direct response to anything you said. It was a continuation of point B which described how a designer would need to be involved in a project to offer substantial contributions, and that is very clearly not the case even with many successful FOSS projects.
He donated a fair amount throughout his life.
I use it, from emacs, sometimes :D when you connect it actually tells you exactly how many users are on it, which seems to be quite a few:

** There are 73 users and 33193 invisible on 28 servers

** 39 operator(s) online

** 75 unknown connection(s)

** 22136 channels formed

** I have 1884 clients and 1 servers

** Current local users 1884, max 2958

** Current global users 33266, max 34731

** Highest connection count: 2959 (2958 clients) (25302
connections received)
** - platinum.libera.chat Message of the Day -

** - This server provided by NORDUnet/SUNET

** - Welcome to Libera Chat, the IRC network for

** - free & open-source software and peer directed
projects.
Pertinent: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/050614/introdu...
> confidence wayland wont end up in a similar state?

wayland have the issues of today. So they are not the same as the issues of yesterday like x11. guaranteed a different state!

In ten years you will probably be crying that opening a window on wayland requires you to enter a hostname which is long gone into your etc hosts file, pointing to a local server, so it can download the window theme on the fly, as root, or something. You know, today's problems.
What were the "issues" that are not named?
This is also a feature (the defining feature, IMO) of causal narratives.
This will work great with the s3 mount point that AWS recently released. This will outperform EFS if your application does not require full POSIX compatibility.
Thats basically how we were using it. It could have been worse.
I get the impression that large animal species (whales, elephants, humans, other apes) on the whole live longer than smaller animal species (rabbits, dogs, cats, etc.).

I also get the impression that within each species, large individuals seem to live shorter lives than smaller individuals (dogs, in particular). Up to about 6 feet or so, humans might be an exception, perhaps because being taller is associated with better childhood nutrition? But even among humans, above 6.5 feet or so, I think expected lifespan begins to fall?

Am I mistaken, or otherwise: Isn't this inversion kind of curious?

I also found this paper from 2013 that appears to make a similar claim: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3651517/.
Well, if the movie theater has bartenders, then yes—you tip bartenders, and other wait staff.

If it's just someone selling snacks behind a counter, then I'd say no.
I was using it, but I kept getting kicked out of channels for idling too long. It wasn't a good experience, and I went back to just using IRC for IRC and Matrix for Matrix.
Researchers bypass the fingerprint readers in most Windows PCs
Of course, any abuse inflicted on you is not your fault. I wouldn't take that phrase "always your fault" literally. It is about how you react to it afterwards and what you do to get back up. As he also said "you just fix it as best you can". I would focus on that phrase more.
> What constitutes damning?

Something new? Something we didn't know already, like the fact that intelligence agencies have workers stationed in every Fortune 500 company? Facebook, AOL and YouTube were all listed on the original PRISM leaks. If you didn't think Twitter was next, were you even paying attention?

> operates under the legal theory that “public-private partnerships” where the government directs and the companies execute doesn’t count as government censorship

lmao

The US isn't going to surrender warrantless surveillance, ever, so good luck rallying against this. You'll need all the luck you can get, because your hardware and software manufacturers certainly won't be working in your favor. We learned that from Snowden.

I got a cold, hard truth incoming to all the entrepreneurial spirits of the world; if you can be bought at a price, the US government can write an even bigger check.
The problem is that wealthy liberals and conservatives are in on a long-con against the American worker class. They want to pretend Inflation doesnt exist or has been conquered (e.g., https://x.com/paulkrugman/status/1712494317024026761?s=20) but refuse to reconcile that against fundamental numbers -- you cannot make ends meet with the current minimum wages.

ZIRP has been disastrous for everyone except leveraged asset owners (i.e., the wealthy). Assets inflated in price, rents rose commensurately, and we all pretended things were OK because of ZIRP and "fixed" it with further leverage to maintain affordability.
I doubt the approach described in the Twitter thread actually works for various reasons.

However, for a while now, the name of the game in SEO has been authority.

Do the things that help establish your authority and you will rank well. No matter what AI or SEO tricks other sites use.
I’m still scratching my head at that attribution of motive though.

“No, rich guys, what He meant to say is that it’s at least as hard as threading a rope through the eye of a needle. So rich guys like you just have to do that simple thing to get into heaven, easy peasy!”

‘Um, that … also seems really hard?’

“Yeah but not nearly as hard as a camel. Like whoaaa those things are bulky and not even the some domain as tailoring!”

‘Okay but it doesn’t seem all that meaningful to compare one impossibility to another. Like, is dividing 1 by 0 harder than dividing 0 by 0?’

“Look, I’m trying to shill for y’all, can I please just get the invites?”
Ugh...ok so not reliable to drive experimental follow ups it seems.

What would it cost to image a certain protein if I sent you the mutant cell lines roughly? I've got 4 mutants whose structure I'm interested in looking at. I can get into more details but essentially, what I'm trying to figure out is if a truncated version of this protein can be created that would expose all the right binding sites and maybe fold somewhat correctly in order to be delivery via AAV for gene therapy.

The mutants I want to look at aren't the truncated protein but the actual diseased types and if I saw structural problems in them, I might assume that fixing said structure could restore function.
Santa Barbara likely needs no structures at all. UCSB classes should be held on volleyball courts
Buy a $5/month Linode (err, Akamai-node?) and `git init --bare /srv/whatever.git` and git clone yourdomain:/srv/whatever.git

Limitless private git repositories.
> You agree she shot blazing hot fiery incendiary devices at immigrants using a flare gun

Not a flare gun, a flare. She held it in her hand, it couldn't even be fired: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=357&v=yFxAlx6hy2M&feature=yout...
A man who fell to his own hubris?
I partially enabled 2fa in GH (enabled it without setting up an actual second factor). Effectively it turns off password recovery. It lets me be in orgs that enforce a 2fa policy without having to actually have it on github.

As far as other origins, I have been a fan of gitlab and wanna try out sourcehut.
The Israelis have killed more children in two months in Gaza than the US killed in 20 years of war in Afghanistan.
I really like that you can increasingly use many of their things with rechargable aaa batteries instead of having to keep buying CR2032 coin cells. Also they last much longer
In RHEL 10, a year and a half from now.
This seems like an inevitable progression of the de-portaling in July:

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/deportalling-libera-chat/

I wonder whether the July move prompted users to find other ways to connect to Libera.chat besides Matrix, killing usage of the bridge, leading us here.

Thanks to those involved for the efforts while they could be sustained!
"A dollar might go further in a Dolamite account... " - Jingle for the genx Aussies
I agree with the advice up to a point, but I'd like it more if I came from a background where people can prop up entire banks by shuffling investment properties around, rather than the advice coming from there.

It's easier to view tragedy as something you can pick yourself up from when massive tragedy aren't mere punctuation points of the constant tragedy that is your own total immiseration.
So what is the upper limit of how hard someone should work until they can reasonably acknowledge that shit is fucked up and that they're a victim of circumstance? Should I just power through chronic fatigue for 10, 20, 30 years before applying for disability (which forever limits how much wealth I am allowed to accumulate)? Should someone just keep fighting a fatal cancer diagnosis, throwing their family into incalculable medical debt, until they die with a crushed ribcage from a nurse slamming their dead heart through the sternum because they're full code?
The explanation seems a bit vague. What were the concrete issues at hand?
For comparison, in Switzerland Init7 offers 25 Gbit/s for about 80$ a month: https://www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/
Right, but the root of "orange" is apparently Proto-Dravidian, as mentioned in the article
Facing Forward [macOS Audion becomes freeware - 2020]
Home prices hit another record high in September despite higher mortgage rates
You not a coffee enthusiast if you haven't hacked your machine :-). I did the OPV mod to get that 9 bar pressure on my machine. Yes I have steered the conversation to espresso. The downside is it wastes water (pressure is reduced by diverting water to waste). But not having it jam the puck with too much pressure is worth it!
Sure, but the span of machine languages that are in actual use occupy a small cluster of possible design space. MIX, the language invented by Knuth, is not within this cluster. Maybe computer architectures in the 1960's looked like this, idk. I wouldn't know: I'm not that old.

But it's also a weirdly esoteric, crusty machine language. If it was a Turing tape machine, or an idealized stack machine, that I'd understand. Those are invented architectures that are amenable to analysis and in which the analysis (e.g. maximum stack size, maximum tape use) reflects fundamental properties of the algorithm.

But MIX is just this weird thing that neither resembles CPUs you are likely to use, nor is it particularly useful for analysis.
> Will people still write code by hand once the machine is clearly superior at it?

Well, I certainly will because writing code by hand is fun. I'd probably stop developing professionally, though, because using AI to do this stuff is decidedly unfun for me.
apparently some actors used the Matrix bridge to join private chat rooms in Libera without being detected.. AFAIK
If one person on a team consistently does poor quality work, and the others do not, I do not see the utility in blaming the high performing team members for not doing more to prevent the poor performer from making a mess, or in convincing them that the fault is theirs and that they should look inward to better understand what they did wrong. Each person is carrying their own part of the total load. That person has a duty of care, and is not exercising it. It's not about agency or helplessness.