skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this was a pretty stupid article. I mean I go to the gym regularly and see some amazingly good looking people, some of whom are no doubt fitness influencers, and guess what... none of them look like fitness influencers on Instagram.

Because it's all fake. It's all doctored. It's lighting, airbrushing, filters, and whatever other increasingly advanced AI-augmented techniques are being used to make digital images look hyper-real and impossibly good.

If anything amazes me it's how many people fail to understand this. I guess the millions doomscrolling on the couch in their underwear have not seen what an actual great body looks like, so they believe the fitness "photos" on IG are real. Thus the scrolls continue and the money flows...
By the time people have accrued medical debt, the thing that was going to change their lives in relation to that debt - the procedure itself - has already occurred. And like others in here are saying, many are just willing to tell hospitals "You can't squeeze blood from a stone" in relation to paying off the debt, so paying it just removes some debt they didn't intend on paying anyways.

Where the problem comes from is that people put off procedures that are necessary because they are afraid of the debt. Those people never get the debt that has to be paid off to begin with, so they wouldn't be a focus of the study. That being said, they're at the very least more miserable because they're not going to the doctor to get treated. They could also be less productive, develop more expensive conditions, or die.
I think it's because China is in deflation, so they simply want to spend more. Unlike the US and Europe with inflation and tipping culture, even though they pay with smartphones they still don't want to spend a lot of money.
Non-American here: What is the incentive for anyone in the US to pay off medical debt then? Also, I’ve read that medical debt is the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the US; how does that work?
>Are governments willing to keep technologists happy to run sovereign clouds with comp and working arrangements?

Signs point to "no". You really have to be in it for the mission to want to work in .gov
I've had a long urge to start mixing music, so I scratched that itch over the weekend and now I'm waist deep into a new obsession.
I can't remember exactly why but I was frustrated with an inability to text my brother using iMessage on my computer. We were watching movies together and I had to use my phone which required looking at it, or something.

One weekend, I wrote a messaging app that used telnet and Twilio to make multi-user, terminal based, communication system with user management and other nice features. It was extremely cool.

He, being kind of a dick, would never use it so I lost it.
https://github.com/purescript/documentation/blob/master/lang...
> Blocking of ... response IP addresses (against IP lists)

So blocky can block IP addresses? If so it's more powerful than traditional DNS blockers like Pi-Hole and AdGuard Home.

> Logging of DNS queries per day / per client in CSV format or MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL database

May want to include a time series database, like InfluxDB

For those needing layer 7 control, https://github.com/andybalholm/redwood is a nice Go option.
I understand there are games using LLMs for NPC dialog, yes [1]

> If there is a future with this idea, its gotta be just shipping the LLM with game right?

Depends how high you can let your GPU requirements get :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw51fkRiKZU
Maybe add a filter for “no video” or “as is” since it usually means it’s got issues. But love the project.
Yes, we would love to add a Python PDK - and as you discovered have one that is very close.

Python is pretty tricky given most users want libraries with native/C dependencies. With those and the Python runtime, the wasm tends to bloat up to tens of MB, rather unideal for a plug-in.

If you have time, please comment on that issue though and share some thoughts or use cases so we can better prioritize support!
> Von Neumann was still deeply involved in hydrogen bomb development beyond simply developing the prerequisite plutonium implosion bomb

This. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

> In 1955, von Neumann became a commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

> He used this position to further the production of compact hydrogen bombs suitable for intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) delivery

> He was adamant that H-bombs delivered deep into enemy territory by an ICBM would be the most effective weapon possible

It seems much of his life was dedicated to applying Game Theory.
> In the end I was able to reduce our OTA update sizes to a typical 20-50KB

What was the original size before you started this process?
I would pull everything except 4 tracks off the platform then.

Spotify gets paid for that long tail, but you do not.
> I write "return to sender" on the envelope and drop it into a post box. It doesn't cost anything

This technically only works for first-class mail. Bulk mail doesn’t have return services.
Transaction fees prevent this sort of behavior. Better to learn than to bash...
Ah, I did not know that. I only knew that you could arrange to pay a tiny amount and thus prevent yourself from ever becoming "overdue".
These analogies always fall apart for me because you'll be burnt to nothing long before you reach the surface of the sun.
It’s a ton of fun. What software or hardware did you choose?
One might ask, which ideas about creation Non-western, non-european cultures had?
There's a difference between "below average and rising" versus "below average and falling". The US, over this period, happens to be the latter: below average and falling.

Merely focusing on "below average" without acknowledging the trend -- declining -- seems to be disingenuous.
The US had real hardship in the Great Depression. There were a lot of social programs, regulations, and other progressive achievements made during that time.

Then we were on the winning side in WWII, and happened to be the only place where most of the factories weren't in ruins. We also had a bunch of men trained in the art of war coming back and didn't want them pissed off, so companies were in a place to offer good pay and benefits. This caused a rollback of progressive policies over the next 75 years.
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This brings me back to my uni days, where in a Programming Languages class we had to develop a project that used any topic covered in the semester, and I chose lexical tokenization thinking to myself "it can't be that hard, right?" and oh boy.

15 years later I still have nightmares about coding in that project, running late and failing class, and dropping out of uni.
which might draw anti-trust attention (ala microsoft giving away IE for free).
Ask HN: IRC startup chat room in Libera
I used to frequent the ycombinator startup channel in FreeNode but when that went tits up I abandoned it. I hear Libera has taken over.

Is there a ycombinator channel in Libera?
I'd be curious how Foot holds up. In my subjective experience, it feels the least laggy when I use neovim.
I often worry about repeating something when I'm working on the same exact thing for days but at some point realized that while I am actually listening to what other people are saying, I'm not internalizing it or taking notes or anything, and it'd probably take 3-4 days in a row of exactly the same update from someone for me to actually notice. And even then it'd probably be more just nonspecific deja vu rather than "oh they repeated that point about that one project."
I don't really disagree with anything said in the article, but service providers being able to access data about service users is baked-in to the protocols that the internet is based on. Without major technical changes that will probably never happen, this situation will just keep happening over and over and over again.
> What is the incentive for anyone in the US to pay off medical debt then?

The non-reportability is a recent change. Also, if the provider sues, whether it’s on your credit report is irrelevant.
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That sounds like your machine broke after 1 week of intensive use.
Exactly. Having your current "medical debt" (US only term, I think) paid - if it's all paid, other posts indicate it is not - doesn't exempt you from accumulating more of it in the future. On the contrary, it may make you more likely to get more.
Steam does something similar for indie publishers. Unless you reach $100 in sales, you will not receive a check.
You can do the saving part automatically by setting a different history file automatically for each instance of the shell, for example using a timestamp on your rc file and force them to append after every command.

Then if you open a new shell and want history from a particular older shell you can do `history -r <filename>`

So it is an hybrid automatically saved, manually recovered mode.
I can confirm this, when dealing with a Hungarian court I was asked repeatedly whether I understood what was going on and what exactly I was agreeing to. I did, but it was good of them to check.
Ask HN: Something like CS50 but more advanced?
I enjoyed working through the problem sets for CS50. Is there something like this (anything's fine) but more advanced?
The problem at that point is that you have the government (if that's what you meant by organization) competing with the private market for the talent required to do so. It's hard for the government to win that battle, and bad for the market if they do. And they wouldn't get the benefit of all the higher-level services these cloud providers have developed. It's not just about the infrastructure.

And, ignoring the money for a moment - it's hard to see how it benefits society to have so many different organizations (including businesses) essentially duplicating the effort to build the same thing. Much more efficient to let a few larger companies do it who can spread out the development and maintenance effort more. There's room for lots of smaller companies to compete in the gaps that aren't well served by the large cloud providers at that moment.
There should be no such thing as "medical debt" - the social contract is entirely broken in any country where there is. I simply don't understand why people aren't marching in the streets with pitchforks over the issue.
You don't need to carry around a U2F hardware key, and it's less likely to break. I've lost count of the number of yubikeys that have broken off in the USB port of my laptop(s).
> Why not just

The US can't "just" do anything because the political system is completely deadlocked. It's not really like well-functioning democracies where a coalition can win an election with a particular set of proposals for reform and then get those implemented.
Because America is hyper-individualistic and distrusting of government.

We don't trust the government to manage it appropriately and will instead use that money for vanity projects or to line the pockets of whoever is running that program.

Then for the people, we consider "failures" such as debt, homelessness, etc as moral failures, rather than failures of the system. The leading thought is "Why are MY tax dollars paying for someone else's knee surgery? They should have planned properly!"

Any change to this system will require a societal shift within America which isn't going to be happening anytime soon, if ever.
I’m more like a glass 60% full kind of person.
Ask HN: How to ensure that AI and automated decision tools are traceable?
My company want to introduce AI for automated decision making on insurance claims. They are asking me to make sure that any tool that we use is traceable and algorithms can be explained in case of a review/audit and to have strong governance practices in place. I am leaning towards using Natural Language Processing and intend to stay away from LLM due to their limitations with auditing etc. Any suggestions from HN?
Maybe I'm the minority but I like the daily check-in, everyone talking about what they actually accomplished yesterday compared to what they want to accomplish today, having just 2-3 weeks of narrowly scoped work to think about, etc.

I think it can be a very good environment in which to train juniors and mid-level folks provided they are shielded from all the PM/lead/manager type meetings that tend to go along with it.
Wayland is also not X11.

Just curious, but is it really so hard for people here to think outside the box?
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Thomas, thank you and everyone contributing to Colour Science for the work you have done. You have truly pushed color management and understanding of the pipeline to the next level. It's great to see your efforts merged into the upstream project (the CS ACES configs were a lifesaver at the time), and I'm definitely going to have to take a look at Colour in the near future!

If you rely on or have benefitted from this work, considering sharing some coin with them over on OpenCollective!

https://opencollective.com/colour-science
Typing fixes this, and anonymous records make it even better.

JavaScript lacks typing, and then they decided on a weird signature for the callback...
"What's the minimum a modern citizen should know about ..."

No much

In fact, I would say the list of "today" is pretty similar to the list of a decade ago, a quarter century ago, half a century ago, and a century ago

Most people do not need to know much if anything about most things

Basic financial literacy

Where food comes from

How to make a handful of meals more-or-less 'from scratch' (or...at least without too many pre-kitted items)

The roles of the branches and levels of government in your country

How to spot statistically-likely (and -unlikely) data both online and in print

And the basics of keeping your devices up-to-date

Anything else you can look up if/when you have the interest
I wouldn't call P3 very rare. Thinkpads are available with 100% DCI-P3 OLED displays in addition to 100% sRGB IPS displays. Your company is just cheaping on the configuration. Same goes for Dell XPS line and HP Zbooks, latter which also have P3 IPS display configuration available.

Sure, lots of random corporate office workers might have some crappy bottom of the barrel displays, but then you don't need P3 to see five colors in Excel.
I don’t think this is true - it says in the article that debts of less than $500 will not show up on credit reports. It sounds like it would only show up if it went to collections though as most hospitals don’t report directly.
If Spotify's search page wasn't so broken and useless, I'd probably have gone to _more_ indie concerts.
The Bicycle Parking Project
The US doesn't do VAT, sales tax is applied at checkout, and isn't part of the sticker price. Part of the reason is that attempts to do VAT or some other system that would incorporate the tax into the sticker price are accused of trying to hide taxes and "trick" people into not being mad about having to pay taxes. And it probably works, too- every time you check out you get a little reminder about your state's sales tax rates.

(VAT is a bit different from the way the US-style sales tax for other reasons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax )
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Ask HN: Overcoming burnout without being able to step away?
My wife and I very burnt out, but we lack resources and support.

Both of our families live 3+ hours away and are not interested/able to help care for our three children for longer than a weekend once or twice per year. Even if we lived closer I'm fairly confident our families would come up with an endless number of creative excuses to avoid being around despite being retired.

Our eldest has special needs and our children are collectively too difficult for hiring someone to care for them— for longer than a date night here or there —to be on the table.

We're not really in a position to change jobs and/or downsize, so it feels like we're stuck having to deal with this burnout in motion, so-to-speak.

Has anyone here managed to work through a similar situation?
The GroqCard (RS-GQ-GC1-0109) was in stock at mouser a few weeks ago and they are still taking orders.
> Advocate for apps and hardware keys all you want, don't dump on an extemely valuable technology, please. The worst possible situation would be for someone to "take your advice" and refuse to use any 2FA at all.

It was your interpretation that I advise people to not use any 2FA at all. I won't honor the request to not dump on SMS, as I am perfectly happy to dump on an "extremely valuable technology" on technical demerits, on the grounds of security while simultaneously acknowledging highly debatable, highly questionable positive merits on grounds of user-experience, which more often than not oppose each other. Why do you construct a single-faceted single-shot ability for us to evaluate SMS? It sucks and it also doesn't, and saying it sucks isn't going to entirely destroy its already-terrible reputation amongst technicals. I would much rather have a message sent to my email address since that is harder to lose than a text message or phone number, and it costs me far less per month.
That seems wrong to me. I personally use visualization frequently during development and not having that ability seems to me a massive hinderance.

I don't even understand how you can begin to plan a user interface without the power of visualisation. I suppose you just have to produce drafts? I can just lie there in bed and iterate for hours, imaging how the user will move through processes, etc. It seems a huge disadvantage to only be able to develop such an idea while actually having the interface in front of you. Maybe this is the real reason some developers never want to leave the back end :)

I feel like even planning architectural code is somewhat visual for me, like I have a mental model of the folder structures and how different components of the system relate to each other.
That explains the mental health aspect, but how can removing a huge debt from someone have no impact on their credit score?
I was about 10 years old when films like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park came out. Although I had games consoles I never had a proper computer. I had friends who owned an Amiga or Amstrad but they always wanted to come to mine and play Sega or Nintendo.

Being into art at the time, was facinated with Silicon Graphics computers. If I could "wish" a xmas present, it would have been (something like) an SGI Indigo2 system.

It wasn't long before a 486-PC entered our home. It was certainly a learning experience trying to get Windows 3.1 to work but it was DooM that completely changed my views on video games. I never expected graphics to make such a huge leap when I considered Mortal Kombat 2 to be peak graphics! How game graphics changed for the rest of the 90s is insane!!!

When the Nintendo 64 came about (originally Ultra 64 and Project Reality) I honestly had a childish attitude that NOTHING would touch it for a long time because it was SGI under the hood! In defence of my childish attitude, I was still a child.

The harsh reality is... by the time the Nintendo 64 was on the shelves I knew it was already "old tech" after watching (and playing) a demo of Tomb Raider 2 in a computer shop. It was likely a Pentium 90 mhz computer with Windows 95, maybe 500GB Hard drive space and running on VooDoo graphics. Once you get over the awesome graphics you realise that these machines can be anywhere from £600-£1500.

My defensive side kicks in... but.. but.. SGI is still better, right? They cost so much more they are not about games, they are for Hollywood movies! A year or two after, seeing what 3D animation software can do... wouldn't be surprised if rendering speed was competitive on Windows 98 machines to SGI ones.

Move on to today. Our phones are more powerful than those really expensive SGI systems from 1992. It is crazy when you think about it.
A "Vala vs Java" and/or "Vala vs C#" would be helpful
Hard to really give a definitive answer to how long it “should” take. It really depends on your ability.

I will say the eastern Washington section was perhaps the hardest section, mostly due to the little resources that are available, the heat, the wind and exposure. (Palouse to Cascades Trail, formally the John Wayne Pioneer trail, and Iron Horse Trail)

But! the West section, on The Olympic Discovery Trail, is perhaps one of my favorite sections.
> During Covid Germany was the
> only country of its neighbors
> that did not do remote attestations.

Same in the Netherlands.
What Chinese Outrage over '3 Body Problem' Says About China
> people will leave

sure, why not? People leave for various reasons. People are free to go.

> Anyway none of this is about respecting German law.

Law and traditions. Marriage is a serious decision with lots of implications. It's not the bureaucracy (alone), which slows the process down.
Hacked 28 year old C++ compiler to support exceptions
Aren’t a bunch of these claims just factually false? Chrome on macOS doesn’t use iCloud keychains passkeys like this article says they’re forced to do.
It will become "free" when some combination of the following happen:

a) it becomes [practically] free to run

b) advertising and/or subscriptions provide enough overhead to run the rest of it "for free" (see point (a))
Love the Shark Tank one!
First off, it's not strictly true that medical debt won't show up on a consumer credit report. Medical debts that are in collections will eventually show up, if they are large enough.

Secondly, it's still a legal debt. That means the billing department will employ escalating collection tactics for large debts where they believe the debtor has sufficient assets.