skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean companies gouging on the prices of every day goods under bullshit "inflation" excuses is a hot topic right now, and deservedly so I feel. It's hard to take their cries of "we can't help it!" as seemingly every major corporation is reporting record profits constantly.

Irrespective of the larger economic forces at play there, if you're simultaneously whining about how you need to raise your prices because everything is expensive, or worse still, doing it because your laborers are demanding better wages, while not paying said wages and charging more and then posting record profits? I think people have every right to call your price rises bullshit.
My girlfriend had the same experience literally this week. The whole thing was Kafkaesque.

She got sent an at home sleep study kit. Set it up, did it. Waited, nothing. Had a run around between the sleep center and her physician. Eventually got a hold of someone. "Well, of course you don't have results, you need to send it back to us. And if you don't they'll charge you $1200 for it". "Uhh, the kit gave me a PIN and specifically said I could dispose of it afterwards" (she hadn't, yet, in case she needed to redo the test). "Oh, well, no-one told us that!" (How is this surprising to you?)

In any case, someone reviews her study, diagnoses her with sleep apnea, writes a script for a CPAP.

She surmises this, because she never spoke to anyone, or got any messages in her portal. She realizes when Apria calls her to verify and confirm details for the CPAP machine (I think she pays $170, then $19/month for 3 months to rent it while they establish compliance, and then if she is using it, Kaiser will pay for it).

She confirms everything and waits. And after a while, sees it's still in "label created" tracking status. Calls them. "Oh, we're waiting for this form from you", that until now she's never been told about. She gets it emailed to her, signs, scans, sends. Asks questions about mask options. "Your provider will discuss that with you."

Uhh, you're about to ship this now. She hasn't spoken to any provider, and the sleep center and the physician are debating over who should talk to her, I suppose?

So she looks over them with me. I'm not a doctor, though I'm a paramedic. I'm experienced with ventilators and occasionally giving acute patients CPAP treatments. So I can talk with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. So we pick out a mask, and finalize.

CPAP arrived on Friday. No-one's spoken to her about it, so she's like "I guess I just start wearing and using it". I had to adjust a few settings for her around pressure and ramp and EPR (expiratory pressure relief) to help someone new to therapy acclimate to how it works.

So, ironically, though not good by any definition, Apria ended up being the best part of the process.
I really underestimated how passionate people are about straws. Do you have a blog per chance where you compare different straws and their manufacturers? Would you rate them on thickness, quality of plastic, how quickly liquid travels from beverage to mouth? Do you prefer straws wrapped in plastic or not? Can you describe the different subtle mouth feels?
The title of this article deserves to be answered with a strong "Yes!" This is something I've noticed too --- the fact that software is "open source" does not mean that it can't be user-hostile, and the impression that one needs source code and an increasingly-complex build system to do anything can itself be used as a form of discouragement against other easier and more empowering approaches.

If they were going to add functionality, or extend it or in some other way modify it, source code access seems like a basic and absolute requirement.

All the crackers and modders of the 80s and 90s would disagree. There was no expectation of access to any source code, yet people modified software in more ways than ever. You only needed a hex editor and debugger. PC magazines would even publish binary patches of the form "change byte in foo.exe from 3F to 9A".

There's another comment here about Chromium, but Firefox is also a great example; it's open-source, yet they've been adding all sorts of unwanted changes. Theoretically, you could revert them all and build it yourself, but getting to the point of building it is itself an ordeal that also requires more computing power than a typical user might have, and you're still faced with the problem that you may change other things you didn't want changed. In that case it's much easier to patch the binary. The source code only acts as a guide to what to patch, so it's not of no value, and that may be the only benefit that open source has.

To use an analogy, other physical devices like appliances, vehicles, and electronics are modified and repaired almost always without access to the original engineering documentation, or even official service instructions. If one does have such material it can be helpful, but it's not a necessity. Why should software be any different?

Educating people to understand that software is not magic and that source code is not a holy grail will do far more for user freedom than opening the source. But knowledge is power, and those in power don't want others to know too much.
ha, I guess the dog must be the tipping point :)
FWIW, in Python, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579378 :

> Hypothesis generates tests from type annotations; and icontract and pycontracts do runtime type checking.

Pynguin also generates tests; but it does not use icontract-style type and value constraints as decorator preconditions in generating tests.

icontract-hypothesis:
https://github.com/mristin/icontract-hypothesis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138319
We’ve been using Hookdeck for 3 years now at umamicart.com and we LOVE it.

We’re using it to solve different challenges, like fire-and-forget scenarios, retry mechanism for unreliable APIs, API adaptation layer, serverless event bus, better observability for HTTP calls…

We can’t live without it!
I know. It was a hypothetical question. I cannot imagine an LLM reasoning well enough to perform security analysis. I made up the function, so no concern over intellectual property.
> despite the Conservative push to dissolve it by stealth

I'd question the "by stealth" part of this.
On "Quitting" YouTube
We watched everything become 20% more expensive in 2021 and we didn't get an extra day off. I'm happy to try it again if I can get a day off every week. This time I'm prepared, I have a nice mortgage that can be made 20% less expensive in terms of real dollars.
It is funny that you bring Ulysses into it. I’ve tried reading both GEB and Ulysses multiple times and had to concede defeat every time somewhere between the 100 and 200 page mark. The same goes for the satanic verses. I suppose my mind just wants a book to get to the point more than it wants to get to the end.
Ehh... I can tell you reasons why that won't always work.....

First off, sensitivity to stimuli. I see someone wearing a wristband/watch in one of the pictures in the article. Some autistic people are super sensitive to wearing things like watches, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, headbands, etc. Oh wait, sensor gear is almost always one of those things...

The other is that as much as people talk about repetitiveness and rituals, I can tell you that sometimes there is no pattern! My brother who is most strongly on the spectrum, is older than I am... so I've known him my entire life. I have a pretty good idea what he likes, doesn't like, and what stresses him. There are still occasional days where he has a meltdown and I sit there and go through my 'notes' and can't figure it out.

One time I was trying to recount this experience to his doctor and she said it sounded like I was looking for signals in a field of noise. She was right. Sometimes it's just too random to really know.

I imagine it's easier if you have a willing subject who can communicate with you why they got upset after the fact. Unfortunately for my brother, "why" is a question he doesn't like answering - and when he (rarely) does, the answers are usually not very credible like "Why were you so angry?" "because you haven't taken me out shopping on Saturday yet!" (and it's Tuesday and we just went Saturday)

(The funnier part is he'll often ask me "why" I do things lol :D)

Anyway, back to the article. I don't like it. Inpatient psychiatric settings are already a scary sorta place. You get locked in a building you might not be familiar with, might have to wear different clothing (not usually but sometimes), be exposed to different noises and scents and temperature... and be around other people, also with other issues.. Being forced to wear sensors sounds like it'd add to the awfulness. It's also not a great environment to observe someone because they might just "shut down" from their normal behavioral patterns. AND IF THEY DON'T "SHUT DOWN" they might be encouraged to do so by getting a strong dosage of medicine.

That's not fun. I get where they're coming from - psychiatrists (that take insurance, especially state medicaid plans which most patients would probably have) are usually overworked, underpaid, and it's a stressful job where everyone's hoping for an easy fix but it's not easy.

Still, I appreciate the sacrifice the patients in those research projects are making, and the work the researchers are putting in. Especially for adults on the spectrum. There are vast vast amounts of resources expended on helping kids with autism but the moment you turn 18 it's basically "good luck lol"
boots up real fast https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TEa-M6_qUII
There are laws against plastic straws and plastic bags.

There are laws against chemicals that are known to cause environmental harm.

There are laws against vehicles that pollute too much. Soon there will be laws against cars vehicles that pollute at all.

All we have to do is make laws, and more and more of them are coming.

Again, it doesn't matter what an individual wants.
All the reasons I can't stand Franzen's novels are found in this essay. Fascinating.
I haven't read the book but I believe many people confuse consciousness with qualia.

I believe Hofstadter does as well and he's become critical of his earlier work.
A great many people believe there is some intrinsic connection between body, mind, consciousness and soul.

They think that when they die, their soul will retain the memories of their life, and will bear culpability for the good and bad actions in life (karma, divine judgment, etc).

For this to make sense, the soul has to in some way influence or be responsible for a person's character. My argument was only that it cannot be directly and completely responsible, given the obvious changes to character as the brain undergoes changes.

Having read the post I was replying to, you'll note that your suggestion has already been made in the context of physicalism. I merely offered a mild critique of the opposing view, metaphysicalism.
shorter workweeks, while perfectly possible according to a classic https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/ are generally used to force people in cities with hybrid works model instead of full remote.

So I claim arrogantly that such proposals and experiments are ultimately AGAINST the declaimed "green goals" IF such goals are green in the sense of spring grass, not in the sense of the dollars dominant color. Private jets since they are a little minority does not count except for PR/emotions (no, I do not have one).

BTW I observe always in "spring grass" green sense that living in dense cities is the most polluting way to live we have. Oh, yes, formally a new high rise building need less energy to heat/cool than an equivalent number of single family homes and being "near" demand less energy for personal daily trips BUT that's not the big picture. Single family homes can be rebuilt "frequently", for instance at a generational change (inheritance, and so on, let's say after 50 years) and the ability to to far shorter personal trips means the need of a much big infra to supply dense zones in food and water. The "TCO" is far higher for high density than for moderate-low density. A classic (well, not ideal but...) study http://www.newgeography.com/content/006840-high-density-and-... as a sample. Oh, and of course a single family home can have p.v. (it it's meaningful where it exists), charge a BEV at home and so on, I do have them now, I couldn't have them in a dense city.
The GEB concept of 'self reference' is not the same as 'recursion'.
I thought the jets emitted were made of anti matter? (Anyone?)
Interesting principle, as I understood it, was that the jet diameter to turbulent transition to laminar flow length held to similar principles as (roughly), gaseous (which would include liquids) in practical day to day physics. (Compare a jet from a propane torch.)
Meaning diameter to length ratios, affected by velocity(pressure) and density.
Of course that is a simplification, but relative to such distance observations, seems to fit accepted models.
Very interesting that now we can study The magnetic fields on such a large scale.
Which then raises another deep hole to climb into (pun intended), how do those ratios (proportions) compare to those we see in our physical world, at the molecular level.
I’ve been looking forward to getting to that part.
We can though. There's a lot of fearmongering but the reality is climate change won't kill us for longer than we'll live.

There's also a lot of gradient in the effect of environmental laws. As an example my family still has tons of plastic bags that get reused over and over again until they become unusable or land as a trash bag. I don't know the math of it all but considering we buy plastic trash bags anyway we might as well get them from shopping instead of buying them separately. I have no idea what the global impact has been on plastic bag production but it could be interesting to see, assuming such a statistic exists.
Banning stuff that you can't do is popular for obvious reasons. It's like when the EU overregulates the software industry.
Out of curiosity, those Russian messages are in Russian because you are Russian or an eastern solicitor simply doesn't give a F?
I have half a dozen of these and have never needed anything else.

Bonus: way easier to get everything inside at home.
A lot of upper midscale hotels in the USA are owned by Indians from India whose last name is Patel.

Pretty much every single hotel gets a call from Mr. Patel at night asking to wire money due to an emergency. A lot of hotel employees fell for it and wire money. These employees even drill open the safe. Some even wire money from their personal account.

This scam is mostly social engineering without any AI/Deepfake. It's going to be a fun time ahead for everyone.
The solution: Make it your boss's problem.
Jun 28, 2023
They specifically said "compiling only proves correctness for the code being compiled, and for the properties covered by the type system".
World Cup 2026 Final Goes to NYC
There is related autism & self-regulation research out of Harvard & Boston Children's[1] that uses video games & biofeedback sensors in a very ingenious way:

The children participate in common games on a tablet where the difficultly (and the stress of playing) slowly increases. Signs of frustration / stress from the bio monitors like a rapid heartbeat make clouds slowly start to cover the screen a bit like a screensaver. That provides the children a visual clue to do some self-soothing. Take deep breaths, your heart rate lowers, the screen becomes clear again so you can keep playing.

The idea is to practice emotional regulation and emotional awareness a few hours a day to build competency.

[1] https://www.mightier.com
Humans constantly living on a discount (labor, climate, energy, etc) and upset when the true cost sets in. Is what it is. Living standards must go down if automation and other non human labor mechanisms can't keep productivity going up as total fertility rate [1] and populations [2] decline.

I believe we agree organizing and unionizing is mostly the path to success here, due to unreasonable consumers and capital investors. Some jurisdictions might update labor law perhaps, lots of emotional and behavioral inertia to overcome though (along with plain ol' extractionist justification and belief systems).

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rates/

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/age-structure
Most americans drive cars. You can easily keep them in your cars. How do europeans do it with higher public transportation utilization?
Handwriting Equals Thinking
Zoom has MFA, including YubiKey.
"The less energy they expend on your prose, the more they’ll have left for your ideas." - https://paulgraham.com/simply.html
I don't find watching chess entertaining in the slightest either, so that example doesn't really help me.

>It's what happens between those periods of movements.

Commercials? Players standing around on the field, or walking to a huddle or walking back to the line?
I really like Rye and have used it a lot. Lately I've been using pixi more and more because of its cross-platform locking support, since I develop on Mac and deploy mostly to Linux. It also supports all cobda packages, which can be a big advantage.
> People work to live, not live to work.

This fails to explain a lot of people, such as most artists.
Really like the explore feature. It lets you put in a url and shows you similar sites. Very promising project. Love to see people actually thinking about what search would be rather than rehashing decades old ideas.
- 7 year software updates for Pixel and Samsung phones instead of the usual 3-4, hopefully more brands join.

- More easier to repair phones with official spare parts instead of hunting down dodgy spares on Chinese sites

Wohoo, yeah baby, that's what we've been waiting for, that's what it's all about!
> Degrowth/anti-capitalism

I think you are merging too much of it here. I was born in communist regime and as far as I can remember degrowth was never popular.
> And the devices aren't $150, because they aren't marketed directly to consumers, they're marketed towards insurance companies

Apropos of anything else, the newest CPAP machines are relatively sophisticated. They may not be worth the $1,100 they sell for, but definitely more than $150. $500, maybe.

> The sleep apnea world is kind of a weird racket; in order to buy $150 worth of electronics, you need to pay a doctor $5000 to interpret the results of a sleep test.

ENT too. I had a deviated septum. Most (all?) of my life. Finally did something about it when I was 40. Went to an ENT, who was great. "Yup, right nostril, 90% occluded". "Makes sense. So when do we schedule the surgery?"

He sighs, and with a roll of his eyes (at the process, not me), "Welllll.... first I'm going to prescribe you these two nasal sprays so that you can come back in 30 days and tell me that, to our mutual shock, they didn't realign the cartilage in your nasal septum. At that point, insurance will approve the surgery and I can have it done within 3 days of getting that approval back."

Thankfully, that went like clockwork. I saw him on day 30, and they had an approval and 34 days after seeing him for the first time, it was taken care of.

But what a fuckshow.
I think the issue with EyeSight is that Apple wanted to create the illusion that your eyes were positioned where your face is (and not where the front glass is), and to do that required a lot of compromises to image quality. Replacing EyeSight with an Animoji or whatever wouldn't fix that fundamental issue; you'd just have a dark and blurry Animoji instead.
Or would it? Perhaps running easier shifts and staffing better to handle things like employees on sick leave, would lead to less attrition, fewer sick employees, and better job satisfaction.

If you can convince the employees that you're on the same team, they might also be more open to communicating inefficiencies like "this process is crap, if you change these steps you'll have fewer defects and the line will run faster". Saving EVEN MORE money and time.
I mean I’m confident we have 100% different views for “who we want to be.”

This site is a marketing campaign for a VC company. If you see it the same way, I’d be shocked.
Sure it helps but does it _have_ to be on a separate chip? In ye olden days when everything else had crashed and was frozen, skype calls still kept working
Honestly, I don't imagine this being a good idea. The problem it solves is pretty clear, and it's easy to see how one attains the desire to solve that, but is it really that kind of problem which should be solved?

It is kinda commonplace that you don't write configuration in the real PL. Maybe it's less obvious, when your working language is Go/Java, since they are compiled, so obviously you have no choice but to keep configuration in an interpreted format. But you also don't do that in Python/PHP/Javascript. You could just write configuration using full power of Python, right? But even when you do keep some configuration as Python code (because it's only developers who are tweaking these constants anyway, etc.), you usually prefer a plain dict for that, not a bunch of dynamically generated classes with multi-level inheritance.

So, ok, maybe it makes sense when you have to deal with a over-engineered fucked up third party tool like k8s, which you have to configure in YAML, and you could just make it less verbose and have some schema? Well, I don't know, maybe. But the point holds. The good thing about YAML/JSON/etc is that they are very declarative (even when they are used a as imperative DSL syntax, as in GitHub Actions or k8s). If you see that port = 6001, it's 6001, that's it. Your entire DB configuration is right there, in front of you.

The biggest selling point of PKL seems to be that "sidecars" example. And, I mean, sure, it's precisely the problem we intended to solve. But it also shows that you (oh, not you, but your co-worker, of course) could write pretty much anything. It doesn't look like a configuration anymore to me. It's exactly keeping your "configuration" in the source-code of your app, in a real PL, using dynamically generated classes in a cycle and whatever. The thing, we don't usually do for some reason.
Slides on financial markets, optimization, ESG and by Amundi's Thierry Roncalli
Hah! Nice cooking analogy :)
Yes, I am paying $85 a month for a paper that publishes six days a week and never on holidays. There is almost zero investigative news. When the Dr. Larry Nassar story broke at Michigan State it took close to a week before it appeared. Grant you the counter culture weekly in Lansing published on it a day after the Indianapolis paper broke the original story.
How about comparing american football, to the football of the rest of the world?
The advantage of Linux (and the BSDs) over Windows there is that if one DE does not let you do something another will. For example I am pretty sure XFCE will let you do configure focused windows, and KDE will provided the theme follows the colours.
I'm the kind of person who is completely disinterested in biographies.
Not a vendor but I am heading in that direction. Drop me a line and I can help with that. My contact info is in my profile.
Also I wonder what some will do with so much free time. I know many men for whom work is a way to escape home with the nagging wife and the kids who don't respect them. I guess they'll spend one more day a week drinking at the pub.

Before someone flags this for being against progressivism, it's just a thought that crosses my mind whenever this comes up. I'm not arguing against it.
> You will need billions of dollars to pay Patrick Mahomes $500M a year to switch sides.

You are off on his salary by an order of magnitude. ;)

He’s also the number one paid NFL player, so extending his salary to the entire roster is just hyperbolic fiction.