skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make a tool that is widely used to help people with reading issues, including those that are caused by traumatic brain injuries/strokes. We have been contacted by government-run hospitals and other government-run entities that want to avail themselves of our self-serve pricing ($1.99/mo), which we keep very low in order to ensure that most people who can afford a computer can afford our software.

However, these entities wish to have us comb through dozens of pages of legal agreements and review even more laws/regulations that they are subject to. When we tell them that they have to pay institutional pricing if they want require contract review, they balk and say that they cannot pay any more than the price on the website, which is for self-service. I understand that they want to pay the lowest price possible, but they need to respect that different customer types (with different contractual review needs) are fundamentally buying different products/services.
It would be interesting to see DAO's take on the mantle of websites and other projects that have similar trajectories as Local Ocean Seafoods.

The code would be able to facilitate payments for things like hosting and basic web maintenance in perpetuity, where otherwise the site would be dead forever.
Yes wax has its downsides, too. You have to constantly reapply it because it will just wear off. Leather boots won't soak up the wax, it is just on the surface and the more you go and use it, the more you have to reapply it.
This is why I prefer leather grease for shoes. It will keep the leather smooth and water repellant, and this will be as good as Goretex. The only downside: When they are wet, they will stay wet for days. Goretex shoes dry within a night. So if I would hike for days and I expect constant rain or muddy terrain I would prefer membrane shoes, too.
Would adding XML make it worse?
Thinkpads have allowed swapping the behavior of those two keys in UEFI for more than a decade now, so this shouldn't be an issue.
For example, Subaru has 1.9% APY on Outbacks right now, and Ford has 0% on Mach-Es. Whether the car itself is a good deal will vary, but if you already have plans to get a specific model or would come out ahead of your other preferences after counting the interest savings, it would be silly not to take the deal.
Is this open? Is there a way to read more about it? Issues/pull requests?
I didn't assume any motive on your part, actually. But people routinely take "general observation" very personally on the internet and this is a common source of conflict that is enormously hard to resolve.

I'm not too keen to continue this discussion. I didn't start by making it about me but let me make a single comment mentioning these issues and there is a huge pile of mostly openly hostile replies and if I engage, no matter how carefully and good faith, I am assumed to be the problem.

I'm not really responsible for other people here having very big feels about some comment or other of mine. If you -- the general "you," not FireBeyond in specific -- feel very strongly about my observations, maybe wonder why that is and leave me alone about it.
You keep saying LLMs just produce tokens as if it was trivial, whereas it’s the key result that those models produce tokens at all (on that we seem to agree, at least) and how they do that is more or less unknown. You have a hidden assumption somewhere that the mechanism doesn’t matter, but in fact the opposite is true: it’s the only thing that matters. Yes the model is static and doesn’t update weights all the time, so what? I’m not saying it’s a sentient being, I’m saying it has world models discovered and embedded in the parameters and a working (as in, writeable, short term) memory.
Cinnamon: Using century old tech to build a mean load shedder (2023)
Generic name for Xolair is omalizumab.
Incredible series, Destin is such a joy to watch.
Charging for the right to run a natural monopoly is the ideal way to do it in my opinion, but only so with markets where there is a strict natural barrier to market entry for parties other than the monopolist, which doesn't apply to utilities.

It works with land, where if one person owns a plot of land, another person can't own it, which is why a land value tax is so efficient.

With utilities, you could only charge for the right to run the monopoly if the government artificially prevents market entry, which is a bad idea IMHO, for all sorts of reasons. Better to have a public option, and a right by anyone to provide their own private option.
You might try selling the Beeminder app to Beeminder.
The Role of CAP theorem in Modern Day Distributed Systems
Thanks GPT
To the point. Couldn't agree more.

Top 3 issues with Deno:

- VC backed. Bubbles burst and priorities change, profit over "consumers"!

- 2 runtimes: Deno deploy is NOT the same as open source Deno.

- Self-hosting (freedom) is in odds with the company's business model. Also joins point 2
You are building skyscrapers with Lego in the name of efficiency.
Abandon them and move on.

I tried both. Selling small apps is an uphill battle against Apple updates forcing you to buy and recompile. And even if people only paid $1, they will expect professional support. Nowadays, niche apps on iOS don't work financially.

And my experience with releasing useful tools as open source was that companies started linking to them in tutorials, and then their customers sent me unfriendly email and demanded that I provide support for the tool and solve their problems (for free). Most useful open source tools have companies paying the core crew.

For your CV, a video of the app working is probably just as valuable as actually releasing it. And then you can always link to a private copy of the source code in your CV.

EDIT: I focused too much on the negatives at first. What did work well for me was $10/month SaaS and $100+ professional desktop apps. But going there requires lots of polishing, marketing, and I hired support employees.
Home Screen Advantage
How is "South Korea no longer rules them an enemy" disagreeing? Surely that's a sign of them getting along.
> done through inequity

What's an example of that?

Am trying to picture what you're meaning, and it's not clear (to me).
It's a fun post. I'm still -- after all these years -- a wannabe coder and I love it when a post about coding is something I can actually get through. Maybe someday I shall still grow up to be a real programmer and not just someone with a largely unused certificate in GIS who knows a little HTML and CSS.
They are wasting their vote and actively vote against their interests by voting third-party.

This is a well established fact and the main reason why the voting system needs an overhaul to allow for ranked choice or something similar.

Chances of Duopoly parties doing that by their own are 0% - so it has to be the people.
> There's an EU law demanding such documents to be delivered on a "durable medium". Some banks and financial institutions may have a strange approach to those, even though email attachments seem to be enough for others.

Even the (*-grand)parent never said the law actually says it can't be an email attachment, they said companies seem to interpret it that way. Which would not be surprising in the least. Then someone said they've never heard of any such law, and I pointed out that it exists.

I'm not sure who you're arguing with but it isn't me or in fact any of the people in this thread.
I’d assume that it’s targeted mainly at the US’ population, not any foreign adversary. It’s also relevant that this is the author explaining what they think is the rationale, not the military explaining their reasoning.
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An appropriate analogy for this would be where wholesale beef markets were "deregulated", but the state government put in a program that allowed approximately half the state's population to get vouchers for a 35% discount on beef, driving up the price for everyone else (the CARE program). And the state government mandated grocers and restaurants buy certified organic regenerative beef for at least 50% of the beef they sell (the renewable requirement).
Interesting that 100 years later I think

> has resisted the combined attacks of these enemies wonderfully well

applies to the 'dumb pleasure seeking' he warns about in this article too. Society has not collapsed and in spite of pleasure-at-the-push-of-a-button being more than Huxley could ever have imagined and

> the democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom

still being an ever-present topic

I think the 'bark worse than bite' still holds, for now..
Putting aside what? Go back and read what the GP actually said, and what the parent comment (yours) actually said as well. All I was pointing out is that there is in fact such a law (requiring a durable medium), because you said you had never heard of such a law.

Sheesh, reading comprehension, please. That or stop moving the goalposts
unfortunately this one expands past my viewport on mobile in all directions and then doesn’t let me scroll horizontally or vertically. i think it’s a pity, considering that even an extremely barebones HTML layout is responsive by default (Motherfucking Website et al.)
Intel Announces New Edge Platform for Scaling AI Applications
>Beeminder API

Hey, I recognize that name. https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/anki-zero

Put yourself in the shoes of a person looking to recruit someone for a job. What is more important to you: Getting the best possible talent you can, or getting talent that won't fuck things up? Most of us need to hire for the latter.

>I would be a little upset with myself if I give them away and get nothing when there is a chance to make some income.

Putting well-developed projects on Github creates a hard to fake signal that you at least kind of know what you're doing. You are aware not only of how to program, but of several of the other things around how people build modern software nowadays. If you get some stars or whatnot, even better - that shows you know how to create software other people are actually interested in using.

In other words, if your projects end up being even 10% of the reason you manage to land a job in the industry, then they will have been worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your life. That's how I have always seen it, at least.
> nearly new car used and save 1/3 to 1/2 of the cost

This is pretty old advice, inaccurate for any car worth it's salt that you're buying.

Good luck buying a slightly used Toyota for 1/2 cost, it's more like 6% off each year.
You can solve that with careful licensing agreements.
That is interesting to know because that is used as an argument in other countries too.
I guess the more money you're making from tulips the easier it is to convince yourself that tulips are worth the price.
A Retrospective on [Python-]Requests
I think Store.app, an app store just for installable web apps, can be a place like that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782513
The numbers vary between elections and polling organizations (why I dont know) but it seems like ~40-50% of people do not vote so that means that people following your line of thinking are more numerous than you may think. ;)

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...

The reason I say numbers vary is because the chart at the top of this article paints a different story (that more than 50% do not vote)
Maybe Zeiss too?
Granted, they said it silly, so it must be so.
You said "..least pain..".

Thats not an absense of pain.
Our daughter is allergic to a few things,nuts being one of them.
When we ask for food information at restaurants, often staff have no clue. We had cases where they couldn't confirm for sure even after checking with the kitchen( we walked away).
For me it comes down to trust. I'm already trusting Bitwarden with the desktop/mobile apps and the browser extension. Using rbw would require me to trust someone else with arguably my most important digital data.

As for the cost, it's both reasonable at the yearly rate and I want to support them so they can continue improving the software (still waiting for Passkeys on mobile for example).

I can't really speak to the node part, but it seems to perform well enough in my experience.
No thanks, I’d rather walk.
Thank you! I ducking hate iPad autocorrect. Lately it feels like you fight it more than it gets it right. LLMs can’t come too soon to crash this party.
There's a picture in there titled something like "Missile keys on lanyards".

Is it just me, or are they all key blanks? I.e there's no pin bitting?
> The reason Google shows you search results is to serve you ads

You could also say that the reason Google serves you ads is so it can show you search results.
These scientists could use a bit of coaching from HN's resident LLM experts. Don't they know that if you write a detailed enough prompt, and ask the LLM to explain itself each step along the way, that you can eliminate hallucination?
Meh, I've been using Deno for a while its nice. Lume is especially nice.

The comments about the VC backed nature of the run time don't really matter to me theres always money stuff happening if a project is successful nothing wrong with being up front about it. Open Source doesn't have a great way to monetize so at the end of the day its not really about the fact that they're trying to pull some money out of their hard work... its whether or not they go full sleaze.

My biggest gripe is that they allowed NPM packages into the ecosystem. I get why, but now everything is trash again.
Sounds horrible. Have you tried to ask what makes people think you are not doing enough? Also, have you started looking for other jobs so you can run from this place as fast as you can?

In any case your priority should be to find a way to fix this before you burn out for good. Losing energy for your spare time is already a big deal. You are mentioning brain draining. 7 months is a long time. Your job should be supporting your life and what you want to spend your time on, not the other way around.

If you can maybe take holidays. A good break.

Good luck, you can do this.
it’s equally interesting to look at this guy’s homepage: https://www.andrews.edu/~rickyr/
We need another summer of love but one which is wiser. Something to defuse the incels which have invaded political life. I’m tired of our congress doing nothing because people don’t know how to fuck. Seems unrelated on the surface, but it’s not. So much of people’s acting out is based in sexual repression and lack of satisfaction sexually. Am I projecting? Sure as hell, but I’m not alone! (Hi asexuals, I am only talking about the sexually interested people, not erasing you <3)
Ah...reminds me of an old saying. It goes like:

There are only two types of controllers: PID control, PhD control
It is 100% white if you ask for something that is a negative stereotype, like "a family eating fried chicken".
Aren't they just lying to you? No law prevents you from setting terms and prices for different sets of features and services nor forbids them from paying market price.

They aren't paying above market they are simply being billed for the actual terms and features they are demanding.
You can fix this with licensing, as many products do inversely: they have a free educational / nonprofit / noncommercial version (e.g. many CAD programs in the past) and if you don't fall in the carveouts, you must pay $$$$$.

Also some forms of libraries and game engines ask that you pay $X per year if you earn more than $Y per year, including the reviled changes to the Unity license, as does Apple given the app store have a lower tier theoretically for smaller businesses.

I've done this in the past for people - same product, but "Certified HIPAA Compliant" or what have you, even when the base level is already HIPAA compliant. But we won't sign a BAA for you unless you cough up or demonstrate need.

You can do this with this kind of tool by offering a tier for private citizens, and a tier for governmental agencies. Or even rebrand with a separate tool: GovCloud, for example.
utterly insufferable indeed. I'm glad you were amused by it :)
I believe in human ingenuity. We got this far, I'm confident we can find suitable substitutes for a safer future.
I am not surprised, really.

Only those that haven't been around to see how forks and attempts to competing implementations have turned out to be in the FOSS world, would have expected any other kind of outcome.

Even clang, which is by far one of the most sucessful on this area, is nowadays in third place in ISO C and C++ support, as most contributors only care about the LLVM infrastructure, and key contributors to clang's frontends (Apple and Google) moved away into their own languages instead.
If it's a data-labeling platform, then Scale AI's days may be numbered, and micro-taskers abroad might see themselves out of a job.
We technically do, but its behind a Substack/Youtube premium paywall. Its individual reporters going out and reporting on stories but needing people to cover their costs. Only people who can afford to support them do so and in a way they are paying for that journalism so they can have it.

I suspect this is coming for many thing that AI will automate. In the future rich people will have human performers performing for them only while everyone else has to make do with AI generated slop.
Discussion from 2022:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459103
Assuming your assertions are correct (they're not, but let's assume they are) - what's the problem with the bridge being opt-out if everyone will block it anyway?
This comment gives the impression that users should consider other methods instead of PID, but this is not the case. For 99% of applications, PID is more than enough. Many robots are just PID control and trajectory planning. If you are so new to control theory that you’d need the linked article, I want to assure you that PID control is 100% the right starting point for you. If you can’t get it to work, bring in a friend/consultant/professor with controls experience, and they’ll tell you if you need another method.

Source: I have a masters in control theory, a publication, and ~5 years industry experience
The risk of dying from anaphylaxis is almost universally exaggerated. There is a lot of fearmongering about it, especially for parents.

The truth is, even for food allergic people, the risk of death is low compared to other causes. EpiPens are very effective. Also, anaphylaxis is a very temporary condition. If you do get anaphylaxis then after a very short recovery period there are zero long term effects to worry about.

It's questionable whether intensive and risky treatments are warranted in most cases (remember Xolair carries its own risk of anaphylaxis).
> I see all sorts of problems with the "western" (as if the Americas much less Europe and the US and/or Africa could be painted with that broad a brush) consumer economics led growth.

Then, surely you agree with the OP, who wrote for reference “We could also choose to reform political and economic systems that make western-style societies so un-ecological”.

There was no comparison with anything other than what western society could be, no need to get the Chinese bogeyman.

I am European. I have no clue about how to fix India, for example, because I don’t know the country enough. I don’t really want to live there, or in China, because I think that for all their flaws, life in European democracies is rather good. I am still advocating for “reform[ing] political and economic systems that make western-style societies so un-ecological”. What is the problem in that?

Why assume nastiness when reading other people’s posts?
> That evidence all supports the argument that the PRC and Chinese companies are complicit in violating sanctions.

And this should surprise absolutely no-one. It's like it's 1980's Wall Street over there, and whatever makes a buck is what they do.
In this case I cheated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29362079. Couldn't think of a new joke either.

The other way of doing this is CPS style: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Otherwise we end up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970518 or worse.
Given that GP explicitly said “if you don't have attention”, and we're in a thread about a language model whose main characteristics is not to use attention, I don't understand why you insist in talking about attention …
Sadly nothing to do with Top Of The Pops
The idea I believe is to do so, but corruption makes these pre-warned anyway.
Even then wealth mostly lasts 3 generations or so, either by dilution or squandering by the descendants. Trickle down economy of sorts. Exceptions like Rockefellers are rare and far between, and some might argue even they are net positive through their philanthropic efforts.
Ha, I certainly agree about the price gouging! I've stayed at jobs I hated just to keep my health insurance (and therefore my meds) :P
It's a representative subhead. Those are a legit alt when the article's main title is baity. (Lots of past examples: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

People often think that HN insists on using the original title but that's only half of the rule: ""Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - note that word 'unless'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html