skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi all

This is my first project to improve access to government funded services. I started with aged care as where I'm from (Australia) aged care, specifically nursing homes is one of the few government services that is not supply constrained.

After speaking to over 300 families who were looking for an aged care home for a loved one, I learned that many had to take leave from work to spend a week full time calling aged care homes, researching and completing tours. After this most were still uneasy about their decision. And some had to settle for a home an hours drive away meaning they'd seen even less of their family member.

Unlike ridesharing or even subletting there's no realtime marketplace for aged care homes.Because of this families literally have to call every single home and speak to a sales manager to determine if the home might be suitable and have a vacant bed that can support their care needs. Because the level of care and price vary so greatly at homes, it's like finding a needle in the haystack.

The part of the problem i'm focused on solving is the discovery problem - everything from assessed as needing a home to moving into a home. To start I created a database of service information, pricing, images, resident reviews, health data ie. fall rates, pressure injuries etc. and made it searchable. You can search by parameters like: care required ie. dementia, palliative; Homes features ie. can i bring my dog, is there a garden?; Languages and culture; Government start ratings; Length of stay

Thousands of families each month now use this to find which homes meet their care requirements and then make an enquiry or book a tour via the platform.

This is a really big problem to solve for, that i'm super excited about :)
>>Rainbow vacuum cleaner

Why is that one a scam? We've had one now for over 20 years, my mum still uses it almost daily, as far as I can tell it's built like a tank and will outlast all of us lol.
Bing AI does not seem to complain about this prompt.
Both certifications require a review including sending in prototypes. That presumably includes some sort of testing from Apple/Microsoft.
Are you suggesting that the US no longer does fucked up things? Because I'm sure very little has changed on that front
Can I ask what mobo vendor? Do you know what power limits the BIOS was targeting that caused the error?

On my Asus/14900k, it was uncapping PL1/2 and I saw absurd temps and power every time anything even touched the CPU. I programmed PL1/2 to 125/253w per Intel ARK and everything normalized.

I did not do Prime95 at the insane default power limits but I suspect similar.
OpenBSD Is Slow
Most people are otherwise able to navigate their life just fine, but they struggle with systems that are ridiculously complex and opaque. Industrial society reduces your direct agency and forces you to rely on more sophisticated forms of influence.
In this context, I'd argue it's more likely a logo program.
I don’t have to contribute to it, as much as I can help it.
This has been one of the biggest motivators for why I decided to get better at cooking. Nowadays I feel that I can make a better burger than just about any burger joint I can find in my city.
picocss is underrated. Combine it with basscss and shoelace components, and you're overpowered without even realizing it.
JRuby is very cool.
For CRuby I can recommend glimmer libui which works on Windows, Linux and OSX
For windows packaging, check out ocran.
Recently watched it. There are about 2 instances of incredible sexism throughout the whole series but the rest of the time it’s extremely egalitarian. The first episode in particular was so badly sexist that I nearly didn’t watch the rest of the series but was glad I did because the awful misogynist character in the first episode seems to have a complete change of personality and never behaves like that again - the actor playing him seemed visibly uncomfortable at times so I don’t know if he influenced that or whether they got feedback from others to change things.

Get past the first episode and it’s great, like a sci-fi version of The Prisoner. Very much of its time but in a good way - filmed in 1970 but set in the eighties it’s like a vision of the future (past now) that never happened but could have - something very bad clearly happened in our timeline during the seventies to result in everything being so grim when just ten years earlier we were full of optimism.
This is so unbelievably awesome! Projects like these are why I browse HN
One additional comment, regarding the "fac1" functional above:

>>> fac1 = lambda f: lambda n: ((n > 1) and n * f(n-1) or 1)

If you happened to have a function "my_fac" that calculates the factorial function, and you applied "fac1" above to that function, you would get a new implementation of the factorial function, that calls your my_fac function internally. In other words, "my_fac" is a fixed point of fac1:

>>> fac1(my_fac)

is the same function as my_fac.
I seem to know this factoid too, but it looks like it's just an echo from an old story about baboons living on a Saudi garbage dump among dogs.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/20150...
Ask HN: Would you be down to speak about your product?
I'm planning to start a indie interview style to help understand more about their product/service.

Been wondering if you guys have a product/service that you offer and would be down for it.

Thanks for your time
It was never meant to. It was founded by a guy who lived on his boat and wanted something for his friends. It became a hotbed for experimenting with P2P social networks, for a time.
And it has shaders. Can't get any cooler
Lol. You have no idea how Google functions. They can not make this decision in days. The shutdown was planned at least 6 months ago (I have no internal knowledge now but very likely).
Thank you. Validating to hear others feel spreadsheets are a natural and accessible way to explain LLMs. Someone asks “what’s do they mean by a parameter in a model” or “what is the attention matrix” and you can just pull it up graphically laid out. Then they can fiddle with it and get a visceral feel for things. It also becomes easier for non coders do things like logit lens which is just a few extra simple spreadsheet functions.

I actually plan to do what you describe after I do the embeddings video (but only for a “toy” neural net as a proof-of-concept introduction to gradient descent).
There are, but SV and ABC (now called eCash/XEC) also made departures from Bitcoin that I feel are pretty significant:

BSV: completely removed any concept of a tx spam cap and encouraged use of its blockchain for random data storage. Neither of these are things Satoshi supported. Its spiritual leader is also a charlatan.

XEC: changed both the mining algorithm and added in a "dev tax" on block rewards. The dev tax in particular is something I don't imagine Satoshi would have supported, or he would have added it himself from the start.

But to each their own.
I'm guessing that by the point that you consider using the word, you are annoyed enough at the situation that an expletive feels appropriate ?
I'm dealing with this right now (Asus ROG Z790, 14900k, Noctua NH-D15). The stock fan curves seem to be ineffective and also annoying as they are hunting constantly. Single P core temps bounce around constantly causing the fans to be spastic.

I have read increasing the ramp up time would smooth out the fan behavior but your experience says this can cause processor fails.
No. For posts you can only configure whether .html is added.

No way to configure something like https://www.example.com/2024/02/post or anything. Posts always live at the very top of the URL hierarchy, and they always have exactly their title as the last part.
The elevator dings (1 for elevators going up and 2 for going down) isn't as widely used as it should be... you have to hunt for the light up arrows on a double corridor of elevators (for example 3 on one side and 3 on the other) when the dings will convey the same information without looking up from your phone.
actual link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/linux-transport-protocol-port-se...
Just a reminder of Bending Spoons' acquisition of Evernote[0]. When they acquired apps from IAC recently, their business practices were described as scammy[1].

[0] = https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/11299822091539-E...

[1] = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38966306
Gone for USA but continues for India where it is widely successful despite being a super low and less performant app.
Spreadsheets are all you need: Understanding GPT2 and Transformers
Indeed. Though, Rust does have a way to mark a function such that any caller that implicitly discards its return value gets a compiler warning. This feature largely solves the problem you’re talking about. But it’s orthogonal to Rust’s borrowing system or mutable versus immutable distinction.

That said, I’d also point out that, while you can more or less replicate the Go example with Rust slices, in Rust it would be more idiomatic to pass around a Vec (or a mutable reference to a Vec) if a callee needs to do something like change the length. And you can’t resize a Vec if there are other references to its contents.
Non-partner dancing is comparatively trivial: the system is both observable and controllable.

In partner dancing, fully half your system not only has less observation bandwidth but even suffers from much less control bandwidth.
Or it’s just a more relaxed atmosphere? Not everything needs to be corporate no-fun serious business 24/7.

We’re on an enterprise Slack instance with >1000 members and SSO/SAML. Changing names and photos allows us to be fun and everyone trusts everyone else to not spoil the party.
You probably know this already, but for the general audience: you don't actually owe a debt to a collector if they can't prove to you that you owe it, and they're typically very bad at that. (See https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-waste-stream-of-c...)
What are these better solutions? The bureaus exist because companies can only quote you loan products if they have a good [enough] understanding of how responsible you are with debt and paying existing creditors. You could make arguments about some pitfalls with the score, but any other creditworthiness system will need a lot of data if lenders want to be able to trust it to provide insight to your monthly debts and payment history.
The Ethereum community still is.
It's a silly coinage to describe a concept that has little to no roots other than 'shittification' which isn't really a word (other than the laced vulgarity), so I don't accept this either, so this is rounded to 0.

I do not see it as a serious 'word' to be written, taught or spoken, in fact using this 'word' gives the article less credibility as it makes the article trite and childish.
It looks like llm hallucinated the query that doesn't group by country to get the median. Here's version generated after asking to fix it:

SELECT p.country, SUM(p.amount - p.discount) AS total
FROM purchases p
JOIN (
SELECT country, MEDIAN(amount) * 10 AS median_amount
FROM purchases
GROUP BY country
) m ON p.country = m.country
WHERE p.amount <= m.median_amount
GROUP BY p.country;
This is a thing actually, but as far as I know, it recently got discontinued. At least the drives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Disc_Archive
No. The VP, Director of Engineering, Product Manager everyone quit. These people have been working 10+ years with Google.
It's not a tribalism thing. My work is how I directly make the world a much richer place than it would be without me - otherwise I wouldn't be able to skim off some percentage of that value as a salary/income. That's something to be tremendously and persistently proud of, no matter who you are or what you're doing.

Besides: If your one and only goal with work really is "do as little as possible to not die", this is easily accomplished in the modern world by working for a year or two in the US and then moving to, e.g. rural Nepal to live off $1-2000 a year for about 3 or 4 decades, zero work required. Indeed the "4% rule" in FIRE circles says this should be permanently sustainable with savings of only about $20-40,000. (Arguments like "but what happens when you get older" willfully ignore the fact thathaving a year of prime healthy adulthood totally free is almost certainly worth quite a bit more than having a year of elderly, ill adulthood "free" in a nursing home.) Yet we almost never see people do that.
This was posted as a comment in another HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39488668), but I found it amazing and thought it should have its own post.
Why would the hetzner vm fail the uptime tests randomly ? Did you investigate it ? Could it be some kind of DDOS prevention on Hetzner ?
The proof is in the pudding, show me the code!

In my experience LLM are smart but sometimes inconsistent and over a long chat it might say things that are logically self contradictions… when you tell it that it confirms it.

It just seems like it lacks a consistent world view.

I don’t trust them yet. Maybe with even more scale they become better.

They act a little bit like young children, with a lot of domain knowledge.
Ask HN: I firmly believe that AI is the next big wave of tech, where do I start?
I timed the native app wave perfectly and have made a great living and career from doing iOS development and eng management at lots of big-name companies.

Now that the true next wave is here in AI (I never believed it was blockchain and crypto ), I’m left wondering what I should be doing to get involved and be a part of it. I want to be on the forefront of tech and mobile apps just ain’t that anymore.

It seems like AI requires such a new and different way of thinking that I don’t even know how much of my skillset could translate. I guess devs need managers but I want to get into the weeds of this new wave. Where should I start?
I remember that time. The prices were often set in “UE” (uslovniye edinitsi) translated as “conventional units”, which were of course understood by everyone to be USD. Because using any non-ruble currency for official purposes was illegal.
Writing non-trivial programs in sed is a good exercise in (1) using largely unary representations, and (2) casting nearly all problems as an exercise in determining a suitable lookup table for state transitions until fixed point.
I have had greyhounds and lurchers, and every one of them does it. It's not a full sneeze, I call it a "snit" because that's what it sounds like. They're large dogs, so when they're being playful, jumping around and play fighting, we sometimes tell them "no!" is they're about to knock something over. This always gets us a "snit".

The yawn thing that someone else mentioned is also common. If they are displeased with you, you get a yawn. Like if you ask them to do something (sit, paw etc) too many times and they're bored of you, you'll get an exaggerated vocal yawn.

And the last one I'll mention, because it's so common in all dogs I've seen, is the shake. Directly after a tense situation, they shake, like they do when they're drying themselves. For example, if you're walking your dog and they encounter another dog that is larger, or a breed that they don't know or don't trust, they'll sometimes do a quick shake a few seconds after the encounter. I always reward the shake with a treat, to tell them "good dog, you kept your shit together in a stressful situation". A trainer told me to do that when I had a grey who had very bad social anxiety, and it really worked.
if it's a small bug, I think it's not a good metric to trace.

But if it's an "incident", IMHO, it is worth to track. So that you can see how much revenue loss due to those incidents, Is there customers affected, and which team/service are responsible for. And if it happens too often, the question goes to team manager, is the timeline too tight, do they sacrifice quality for shipping fast? any internal issues in team. or maybe it's a department issues, maybe not a team-level issues.

The more incidents we have, the more revenue we lose, and the more we damage customer trust.
Forget About Remote Work If You Want More Than $200k a Year
https://archive.ph/g9FVf
Thanks! Each one takes a surprisingly long time to make. Even figuring out how make the explanation accessible and compelling yet still accurate takes awhile and then there’s still the actual video to do.
"Florida is another step closer to paving its roads with phosphogypsum — a radioactive waste material from the fertilizer industry — after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill into law Thursday. ...The [Environmental Protection Agency] regulates phosphogypsum, and any plan to use it in roads would require a review."

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185280180/florida-roads-radi...
Because the entire nation has been brainwashed into believing that it's your responsibility as a customer to make sure someone else's employees are well compensated. It's literally the biggest scam going on currently in US, and you will get people(including here on HN) passionately defending it.
Is that that database game where you have to think of an animal, and the computer asks you yes/no questions to guess it? I played around with such a thing on 8 bit micros.
People have bred dogs for all kinds of attributes. Why not breed dogs for language skill?
From what I can find online, is it true that “Fichiers Banque de France”, owned by the French Government, has a de facto credit system to log credit defaults (so that lenders can deny you if you’ve missed payments for too long in the past)?
How though? A direct bank transfer in Europe is nearly completely impossible to reverse, once you have money in your account it's staying there.
Have you looked at SwiftUI?
Adam Back, who when asked how to scale Bitcoin while waiting for LN answered that we should let a "local technology expert" setup a tab.

Just, no.
It's good to have product and project managers with technical skills but the problem is when they make technical decisions and disguise them as requirements.
Restaurants work as part of a larger money-laundering operation, though. Cash washes through the till in the restaurant, and you sign the receipts for all the non-existent food your buddy's supplier sends you. There are probably some other dodges I'm not aware of.

Source: worked for a mob-adjacent restaurant in London. (Excellent food, though, and in a nice location; it had celebrity guests in on the regular.) I got curious watching the owner ringing in ticket after ticket and stuffing the register with £50 notes, then once I saw a couple of inflated invoices it all made sense. A while later the Met took down the owner's cousin, and the restaurant closed shortly thereafter. It was an awful place to work (top tip: don't work for, or with, coke fiends; functional heroin addicts are fine), but goodness was that an education. I was an illegal immigrant at the time, so I didn't have many options.
I trained a cat to ignore all my commands.
Luke’s entire characterization in the original movies was that he’d do anything for her friends and that he believed in his father.

In the sequels he plans on doing nothing for anyone (especially his friends) and doesn’t believe in his nephew.
Drum machines are rarely used by drummers. A more fitting analogy would be technology drummers use to improve or broaden their drumming, without giving up their sticks, pedals and timing. The reasoning here is human coders still need to be present, thoroughly checking what AI generates.

Regarding AI image generation. If an artist decides to stop making their own art, replacing their craft with AI prompts, they have effectively retired as an artist. No different to pre-AI times if they swapped their image making for a stock art library. AI image generation is just "advanced stock art" to any self-respecting artist or viewer of art. Things get blurry when the end result uses mixed sources, but even then, "congrats, your artwork contains stock art imagery". Not a great look for an artist.
Assassin's Creed thing is more like ancestral memory. DNA determinism is more of a Dune thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_in_the_Dune...
Satoshi's Genius: Unexpected Ways in Which BTC Dodged Some Cryptographic Bullets
And people, I am certain.
How is this different from arguing that 9 has no prime factors because you don't like 3?
It feels like you are arguing with the UN rather than with me. But as I understand it—and my understanding is very limited—I have already answered that question and the answer is no.

The strongest form of self determination is that of the nation state. Judea and Samaria are historic territories which precised the UN by around 2000 years, the Jews that live in the historic territories of Judea and Samaria are certainly a group, but certainly not one which equates a nation state. The strongest degree of self determination among this single ethno-religious group inside this historic territory is carried by the state of Israel, which is an internationally recognized state composed of many different peoples (not just Jews).

I have a feeling you are trying to direct this discussion towards the prospects of a Jewish ethno-state in some vague historic territories. But such country does not exist. The Khmer Rouge tried to create something similar in the historic territories of the Khmer empire, and committed a horrible genocide while trying so. Israel is not the Jewish Khmer Cambodia. It is composed of more peoples than just Jews. The Khmer rouge had no rights, nor authority to create such a state, and neither do the ethno-fascists in Israel, no matter high up in government they are. The right of self determination does not extend towards the rights to deny others the right to live.
I remember getting a prompt some months back or perhaps even a year or so back that default mail app is being deprecated and new outlook will replace it. So it’s possible its development has already stopped and they’re now focusing on only one client. I also doubt it’s a full fledged outlook app bundled with Office and could be more like outlook express of yore.
The technology behind Tornado Cash could also be used for instituting something like truly fully anonymous group surveys (such as those employee surveys big companies always ask you to take that they claim are "anonymous")

It doesn't have to be used for money laundering, and even if using it to move funds anonymously, that doesn't mean you're money laundering. There are good reasons to not want individuals and state actors whose jurisdiction you're not under to track your financial movements, even if you are reporting your income accurately with your own government.
why paid ?
“Three” seems to be a good number, that shows up a lot. Arithmetic is functions with “3” cardinality (operator, data, data).

Three levels seems good: a solid foundation of high-quality library code; working application code on top of that; dirty workarounds on top of that.

As you say, the problem comes when you stack workarounds on top of workarounds.
My biggest grief with the APC UPS are that they initiate the shutdown process immediately in case of power loss. I live in a location where we frequent has 10 - 60 seconds power cuts. The optimal solution would be if the UPS waited like 5 minutes before starting to shutdown the connected PC. For this reason alone I stopped connecting my desktop pc to UPS and stopped installing the UPS powershute software. I wrote their support and asked if i could daisy chain a battery with the UPS so the battery would be used first and when that battery was depleted the UPS would take over and start the shutdown process. They advices me against this and pointed me to this FAQ. It doesn't directly adressing daisy chaining a UPS with a battery. Anyone here that has experience with doing that?

https://www.apc.com/us/en/faqs/FA157424/