skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only there were some way to give everyone in a country necessary and preventive health care regardless of whether they could pay for it or not. Like imagine a developed nation with health care for everyone? Where even the poor can have necessary medical procedures, medicine, etc without having to be buried under medical debt? Lol what a pipe dream
I worked at a bank that moved us on average twice per year, and in some years more. You kind of get over it.

I think hotdesking/hoteling is worse than any desk move because you get to have the feeling of uneasiness and disruption daily.
Is it so extraordinary?

Humans bred with Neanderthals. And it wasn't just a few over-curious, it happened frequently enough there are noticeable traces of their DNA in modern humans despite their Millenia long extinction.

This means that were having sex with Neanderthals regularly enough that it's unlikely this was an inherently dangerous activity (i.e try boning a chimpanzee for example).

Not just that, they gave birth to their children and then raised them fairly regularly. This resulting offspring didn't just die off either, they mated successfully enough with humans.

I just don't see that happening with a species that wasn't in our intelligence band.
What about shows set in USA with heroes who are vulnerable to gunfire? There’s a good half hour in Buffy the Vampire Slayer where a vampire lays in wait for Buffy, with a rifle loaded and ready. The show didn’t end on that episode. At least one of Buffy’s friends knew what could be done with computers, and researched floor plans and “ancient lore” online.

Can writers plot a story in any given milieu? Yes. Sometimes they do seem lazy.
A 13yo built a 'death ray' using a 2k-year-old concept from Archimedes
I started following this person called Doctor Glaucomflecken who makes funny short skits on TikTok and YouTube, and that was how I first learned about United Healthcare. The wild thing is that he makes these funny videos so you think it's a joke, but then you look it up and realize it's real. Healthcare in the US is not in a good place, so this definitely sounds like a good action.
Ouch yeah, that’s rough. I’m not as sensitive to FPS as some but I think I’d be bothered by 15-25 as well.
The moment they find a BIOS source they'll be taken out too. But the internet is a game of cat and mouse.
Just last week I spent a few hours using an AM radio to better understand what a locked-up i.MX7 processor was doing. (Unsuccessfully, but it was fun trying.)
Arizona approves "discriminatory" charge on rooftop solar customers
> This is exactly the definition of a "bubble".

There is no such thing as bubble definition. Everyone has one depending on their point of view. You have one.

> the market might have an overly optimistic view on the success of AI

What is overly optimistic? How much overly is overly? Nuance matters, as with everything. Also timing. Most if not all of the outrageous ideas during the dotcom era have been realized in the 20 years since.
Ignorantly: is this how MacOS kind of works? It always felt incredibly good how applications were always just this one “file” you’d drag and drop and manage.

Nothing makes me feel dumber than trying to figure out where the heck anything is or gets placed in my Ubuntu machine.
Clouds can also form during the start of an eclipse, especially near a coastline or ridgeline where humidity is near dewpoint before temperatures fall.

This describes how thermally driven cumulus clouds disappear.

However, I'd also say that another big effect is that the sun simply isn't there to illuminate the light cloud layer.

See Mauna Kea 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RIMjx8feew
Perhaps it matters how you treat the teams competing internally against each other...
Elon Musk wants to make 'Starbase, Texas' official
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT
This. Ebike with non disableable airtag built into the frame as the killer feature.
Writing software to control a dynamic light plane compared to writing springboot rest apis.
Canadian Bill C-63 proposes life sentences for hate crimes
Requiring an email address to read their content is not going to stop people from AI-cloning it. If all you need to do is provide an email address, then a cloner can do so and then take all their articles and clone them. How will they know which “reader” is the cloner?

Content is dead. The cost to produce it has collapsed to zero. Only novel insights and reporting are worth anything, but as soon as those are released as content they will be reproduced endlessly at near-zero cost.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish.
https://www.srenity.online/
I ran Gobo for a while and really enjoyed some of their ideas. It was started by Hisham Muhammad, the author of htop.

It’s a shame that it didn’t get more traction. We probably wouldn’t have needed Docker or any of the gazillion package managers that are proliferating today if it had.
I'm not sure what converting tabs to spaces had to do with Python. I convert tabs to spaces and python runs just fine. Yes there enforcing of whitespace is one thing I don't like.
Django is not Python. Django is a nice framework, but not a requirement.
What other syntax don't you like.
There have been breaking changes, especially going from 2.x to 3.x. you also can't go backwards. Not aware of issues going forward from 3.x.
On the other hand it is fairly easy to migrate from 2.x to 3.x.
Honestly, that is amazing. Trains are ludicrously efficient. If I was within a factor of 10 of them but I could offer end to end transport anywhere I would shout it from the rooftops.
Correct, that was the point I was making
Consistently unreadable would train you to pick out syntax cues to read the code if actually forced to fix these issues.
That second part of only storing reference ids sounds like db normalizing but for logs. Seems reasonable though!
Yes!

The one time I had a Real job I had to suffer through a desk shuffle. I happened to go into the office early one day the next week to get some actual work done. Around 6:30–7am some guy walks up to me while I am programming and asks me a question. It took me 30 or 40 seconds to finish my thoughts and start to think about the question. By that time, he had walked off. His question turned out to be something like “How much has moving the desks around improved the working conditions around here?” Even after he was gone, I couldn’t figure out how to answer that question; to me moving desks around was mostly irrelevant, and I wasn’t even sure if it was possible for a shuffle to make any difference at all. At least not for engineering, where all of our communications can be done through email, bug trackers, version control, etc, etc. Later I learned that he was the CEO (oops!).

On the other hand, they at least had a good reason for the shuffle. They had been subleasing half of the floor to another company. As we were growing, they ended that lease and let every one expand into their place. This left plenty of open space for the new people who were hired that year.
Apple couldn't commit to self driving car development. They never really figured out if they were developing a Robotaxi or just an EV with automated features. (L5 is still science fiction.)

Google/Waymo has been working on level 4 for 15 years. They never strayed from their original goal. If they ever really get it to work profitably and at scale they will have no competition.

All potential competitors have fallen by the wayside or are faltering. The self driving car race is an ultramarathon.
Can't be that bad for PR because it happens constantly.
The concept of tolerance is most often used in the context of drugs, but it applies here too.
I don't think Nintendo cares about bringing short term awareness. They want to choke out the emulator team and more or less freeze development.
As a owner of previous modded Nintendo consoles - they certainly don’t share your view
> We probably wouldn’t have needed Docker or any of the gazillion package managers that are proliferating today if it had.

100% feel this way too. So much of the reason why we use containers is just not spreading crap all over the filesystem. It's why single binary distributables made popular by Golang are such a winner, ex: Caddy.
I've had United for a little over a decade, and overall I have to say it's been pretty good. My wife was hospitalized for about a month with our first born, racking up hospital bills over half a million USD. I think I paid about $3500 out of pocket. Then, a number of years later, the same child had her appendix removed. Again, terrifying bills, and about $3500 out of pocket.

That being said, after the second event, we had discharge orders from the surgeon that included very specific conditions for when we should bring her in. When some of those conditions presented, we brought her to her (in network) primary care physician, whose office is (incidentally) in our in-network hospital. The physician agreed with our having brought her in, and recommended a CT scan. My daughter was sent down the hall from her in-network pediatrician to the in-network emergency room where the CT machine was located. CT scan proceeded, findings were good, and my daughter recovered just fine.

So imagine my surprise when I get a bill for the CT scan. After many phone calls, emails, registered letters, etc. the final determination was that the ER was, at the time of the events in question, had been staffed by an out-of-network third party and thus would not be covered.

Now in the scheme of things, the CT scan was a drop in the bucket compared to everything that was covered, and I'm very thankful for how things worked out. But the principal of that situation really left a bad taste in my mouth. We had no reason to suspect that the CT scan wouldn't be covered, and were in no way advised as such. Doesn't seem right.
I agree, being a dev myself hosting few website, and a data enthusiast, it is very hard to balance both, except if all data was open source and released for all it's owners. All online platforms, especially social media relay on users input (reddit, HN, Twitter, etc ...) yet the trend seems to be heading the other way (closing down apis, etc ...), imo this is quite unfair. Not to mention awful practices by shopping giants like Amazon and Aliexpress, Airlines, Booking.com (et al.) to profile people and "scam them". The data ethic question is lost on both sides, only the few decent ones that remain are the true victims, you mom'n'pop website.
Its been succeeded by nix and guix, theres reason you are increasingly seeing flake.nix in open source projects
> Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing a variety of enhanced features on these digital menuboards like dynamic pricing, different offerings in certain parts of the day, AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling based on factors such as weather

Beginning as early as 2025, I will begin testing a variety of enhanced features during my moments of culinary weakness like Arby's, McDonald's, Taco Bell, and suggest pizza and restaurants based on factors such as time of day and present company.
Mmmmm-Hmmmmm.
Worry not, the Amazon situation is just as crappy here in Europe, across all product categories (that I use).

They sneakily removed the "Sold by Amazon" filter a while ago too and I'm not sure why. It's the only indicator that gives me any amount of confidence in the product quality these days.
>>> There is just no shortcut without putting in the time

What do you think is 10+ years of experience as NP in a busy office setting, exactly ?

>>> thousands and thousands of hours of study and patient facing experience under the supervision of an experienced MD.

You mean, the hours that you were cognitively impaired and mostly a blur due to sleep deprivation ? Or the hours of time you will not get any feedback whatsoever because the patient went home and you will never ever see him/her again? (as opposed to a NP, who's always 1 one call away and has a direct feedback loop to the consequences to her/his actions?)
If only they spent money on making their food not gross...
You unit test your own code, not its underlying dependencies. If the dependencies cannot be easily mocked then the code is in need of a refactor.
> inverted index based solutions algorithmically can’t scale to arbitrary sizes

curious why do you think so? Inverted index can be sharded and built/updated/queried in parallel, so scale linearly.
I think any scifi talking about LLM is just doing it wrong. Nobody watching a scifi cares about AI other than it's doing things--good or bad depends on the script. Imagine if Ripley and Dallas having a scene discussing if Mother can be trusted or if it's hallucinating. What if HAL told Dave that LLM isn't fine tuned well enough so he's sorry he can't do that at this time? I'll tell you what, that scene would be on the cutting room floor, and if left in, the audience would be snoring.
They only have like 2% of the PC/laptop market, so not many people think they're that attractive. I like my M1 MacBook itself, but hate the aluminum chassis. I find it brutally garish, sharp and uncomfortable (hurts to type on, hurts my wrists where they rest on a sharp edge, so it's basically a desktop with an attached keyboard and mouse)
Props to Brenden for the cool project but why is this a Business Insider article? How does that happen?
> Surely Apples massive vault of cash doesn’t decrease their chances on ideas that fall outside their specialty.

That cash ironically is an obstacle to Apple being able to innovate. Instead of creative problem solving it solves problems with cash. Instead of collaborating and recruiting people to come work for a common vision, they join to pursue cash and status. Apple is nothing but a “phone company” with a bank attached, which is fine, it will continue to operate, but it won’t continue to grow and innovate.
What makes it better than the current existing solutions though? For someone who is just interested in rapid prototyping?
Isn't this basically how an HMO works? I've heard those have lower costs and patients seem to like them.

What's different with United?
This one doesn't seem to support system prompts, which are absolutely essential for getting useful output from LLMs.
When this occurs does the company count that as revenue and record the discount or do you adjust the accounting to reconcile?

I've seen in the thread that bobfunk (netlify CEO) and raiyu (cofounder at digital ocean) say the bill forgiveness is the right strategy. It got me curious on the above question though.
> The carrier thing was true, but they could have launched outside the US. Instead they found a carrier desperate enough.

The carrier the iPhone launched with in the US was AT&T. While they were neck in neck with Verizon at the time, AT&T had the technical majority of the market. How were they desperate?
I actually could barely taste at all as a child due to a very severely deviated septum. When I got it fixed in my early twenties, my tastes changed dramatically
sub-orbital military applications would be risky as they'd look like an ICBM launch to other nuclear powers. Commercial rockets depend on advance public disclosure of launch dates to stave off WW3 from itchy trigger fingers.
What you’re describing is lower end “Car SE” that’d be available in a few years.
Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US
Question for HNers who have bought clothes on Shein: do the clothes have tags saying where they're made, and what they're made from? If so, what are both?

(Commodified clothes are a pet fascination of mine. The fact that we've gone from spending 15% of our annual income on apparel to 2-3% in just over a century is astounding[1]).

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/may/wk5/art02.htm
Memoji are, what, 6 years old now?
Ebike market is very fragmented in terms of use cases. They’d have to release like 10 models.
More doctors, less work per day per doctor, more attention to each patient?
So the secret to BICEP is to gaslight your employees into agreeing to be pushed around.

On a serious note though, the closing paragraphs mention looking for the root cause of what’s causing someone to come to you asking for a raise or unhappy etc.

This is a powerful strategy, whenever someone comes to me in a 1-1 with an issue, I take some time to ask myself “what are they really saying?” It’s a simple yet strong technique for driving the conversation toward them opening up. Don’t just assume and not verify however.
Is the brain applying LoRa on our memory model?
This. There was a post in HN last week, iirc, referring to just such a solution called ZenFetch (?). I would have adopted it in a heartbeat but they don’t currently have a means of exporting the source data you feed to it (should you elect it as your sole means of bookmarking, etc)
For a strictly vibes-based technology bubble, it can be valuable to invest a little in vibes, if not necessarily technology. Claiming you're assigning employees to a buzzword is very affordable.
the link makes it someone easy to report. Try it out!
Most of the value in space resources would seem to be that their mass is already up Earth's gravity well, and less so preciousness.

If you need 1 kg of something in space, the cost is {extraction} + {getting it there}.

For anything raw or low tech, it'd seem way easier not to have to bulk lift it off Earth.
Show HN: Olly – A Personal Assistant in Apple iMessage
I've been building a personal AI assistant for my self that's accessible over iMessage. It's accessible on every Apple device and even CarPlay, which has been super useful and seamless to switch between devices and keep the conversation going.

Anyways, I've found it useful and I've been slowly adding features. And now happy to release it more widely. It has no signups and collects no identifying info (except a hash of your iMessage phone/email of course). It remembers your preferences and instructions, so it can give better assistance over time.

Under the hood, Olly uses SERP-powered answers, supports voice with Whisper, and image inputs via Llava4, and it has text reminders scheduled via BullMQ. It can also read and summarize documents, embedded on the fly via an in-memory HNSW DB. It uses some dumb routing to a variety of specialized image generation models hosted on Replicate (ftw).

I'm interested in getting feedback from the HN community, especially on the technical aspects and how it could be improved.

Check it out and let me know what you think!
as i understand jan.ai is more focused on enterprise / platform, while I'd see where recursechat would go is more like "obsidian.md" but as your personal AI.
Thanks! Corrected my comment.

I would actually love to know if someone on the hook design team questioned the model. I guess we won't know but I also it doesn't hurt to ask.

Like did someone go: odd, why would that cable go up and not tighten when waves are sent through it towards the outward attachments? But was inevitably shut down and didn't have "access to the customer" to ask/verify.

Like one of the first things to ask for when having to design this that comes to my mind is: I want high speed camera footage of current arrestor in action at the customer site!
Have you seen user agent strings?

Every browser pretends to be all the browsers before it to get around restrictions on who can see/render content.
A lot of vampire fiction includes themes about technology vs the supernatural, Anne Rice especially has the vampires being overwhelmed by the new world. The focus (not so much in Ann Rice books) can be more on more action oriented technology (trains and gadgets) rather than the modern weapons of a detective though. Weird steam-punk gun gadgets (even in a modern setting like Dusk to Dawn) are a common and lazy example of these. I think a wacky invention is a shorthand to the audience for "technology".

A modern Dracula with detective themes could use a "hacker" to put together the kind of digital trail that a modern police officer would follow, so we understand that checking a person's Facebook page is modern and high tech.
Republication of

Tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39436252 - Feb 2024 (93 comments)
>different colors for different persons speaking

BBC iPlayer does this for some content, I don't know if it's ever on movies though.
Bright and stable monomeric green fluorescent protein derived from StayGold
> I feel like it would be a lot more straightforward if people just came out and said that they think piracy should be legal.

I don't think Yuzu advocates are actually advocating piracy.

I think they think an illegal use of a tool should not mean the tool is banned.

"Emulators don't pirate games, pirates do."

I think our echo chamber will surface views amenable to this viewpoint. Emulation news is quite literally hacker news.

But we deceive ourselves with such a bubble, when the outside world doesn't lean our way. Downplaying piracy usage doesn't do us any favours when trying to build an accurate model.
I thought it was already well established that neanderthals were cognitively on par with modern humans, and may even have been more intelligent? While it's not uninteresting that we now have evidence for them making complex adhesives, I am less surprised by the find than by other peoples' apparent surprise about their high functioning.
My own engineering war stories are just that, stories. Any technical information I gave was taken from released sources only. I am extremely conscious of this
Why Books Don't Work
Books are easy to take for granted.
Open Collective Foundation dissolving at end of 2024
I couldn't find a blog post or article for this, but I just got an email from Open Collective stating:

> It is with a heavy heart that I’m writing today to inform you that the Board of Directors of the Open Collective Foundation (OCF) has made the difficult decision to dissolve OCF, effective December 31, 2024.
>StayGold variants for molecular fusion and membrane-targeting applications

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-02085-6
Sony Music also sued Cox (and won) on willful contributory infringement because they were aware specific users were repeatedly sharing copyrighted material and still continued offering service to those users.
You didn't even mention Optum Bank, which they use to also sponge up that sweet HSA cash lest any drop of healthcare spend somehow escape UHG's toll.
Well said!

Ahhh working together to get cool stuff - fond memories of that!
Just think what kind of big telescopes we can send to space once Starships are launched regularly in a few years!
I will be experimenting with not eating at Wendy's in 2025.
Is honeycomb failed?
and the implied assumption is that all those who did use the emulator without buying would've bought them.
Whoa. I knew we made a lot of it, but didn't realize it was our top export there. I'm surprised (thought it'd be services or some such). Thanks for sharing!
There's no expiry yet. The key eviction feature is next up in the pipeline right after Redis client compatibility.
Chinese business men carry fancy handbags?
> I'm trying to get my kids to use their Ubuntu Linux machines instead of the fucking iPads.

Why? Like seriously. Why? What benefit does this give to your kid?

From your kid’s perspective, the laptop is going to be less useful, more hostile, it’s going to limit how they’re able to talk and relate to their friends.

Outside of your desires as a technologist and personal feelings about Linux, why should your kid want to use it? It feels like you’re projecting the ideals and values of your career onto your kids and then you’re surprised when they don’t share those ideals.
Bought modern Sears a few decades...