skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! I moved from the US east coast (first three decades of life) to the west cost and it took about 6 months to reorient, as the ocean was now on the wrong side, which messed everything up...
Maybe for some people. But I had a very interesting conversation with a friend of mine - I'd seen him talk multiple times, extremely polished and confident.

I asked him how he managed to do it so well and he said "I don't do talks anymore.". Despite being very good at it he decided that putting himself through the wringer was just not worth it.
> Congress shall make no law __respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof__; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I'm not sure if I quite understand your point. I suppose profiting off of religion could be potentially considered a form of support, I believe that if anything, a tax exemption is a more meaningful form thereof.

Granted, that does not change the fact of the matter, no such law could be instituted today because institutions/entities/people profiting from it are too big to fail. Remember what Scientology did to the IRS?
The tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel
The tool is interesting, but doesn't account for the fact that some shared libraries opened via dlopen are done so lazily. So it might miss those if you haven't executed a code path that triggers them to load.

The other side of not accidentally loading more into your process than you thought is breaking down shared libraries into increasingly smaller sizes. In its limit I imagine it would be akin to a function per shared library, which probably defeats the point a bit.
Thanks for the reply! Really appreciate the advice.
For one definition of "don't break". If you are UB, in my books (including the Rust book), you've broken.

As per your comparison to C, you are mistaken, this would do whatever C does when it has incorrect `restrict` qualifiers.

See how the book phrases it for yourself: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-05-interior-mutability.h... The way RefCell works is not described as a similar but different set of rules or invariants, but as enforcing the same rules.

Please do not ignore the compiler's assumptions in your own programs...
Just from looking at the massive amount research on the effects of sleep deprivation and burnout on humans, and assuming that medical professionals are humans, we can infer that performance would decline. But ok, I’ll play along.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/1/e024778

https://www.healthecareers.com/nurse-resources/nursing-patie...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comments?id=10.137...

It’s a mixed bag, but strongly leaning against longer shifts, in my opinion.
We are middle of the pack or worse on doctors[0]. We are near the bottom when it comes to how many times we get to visit the doctors we do have[1]. I can't find a high score on anything besides "Potential years of life lost"[2], sad for us that isn't a good thing.

[0]https://data.oecd.org/healthres/doctors.htm

[1]https://data.oecd.org/healthcare/doctors-consultations.htm

[2]https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/potential-years-of-life-los...
Until the first time your subscription fails to renew because the hr person was on vacation and nobody picked up their tasks for the duration.
If I interpret TFA coorectly, the 72k difference would probably be counted as "charity care". Which is different than a loss, but still tax deductible.

In the grand scheme of things, this causes multi-level market "malfunctions". First, hospitals are incentivized to bloat bills, making healthcare virtually unaffordable if you don't have the bargaining power of an insurance company. Worse, this ties employees to their employer who subsidizes their healthcare plan (for another tax deduction I presume), thus twisting the dynamics of the labour market in favour of the employers.
I just asked “What was the last question that you were asked?”

Co-pilot: The last question I was asked was about the height of Mount Everest in terms of bananas.

Looks like a canned response.
LLMs cannot lie insofar as they cannot tell the truth. They're remarkably good at predicting what token comes next given a bunch of tokens, but nothing else.
The 1.4s is _after_ having the file loaded into RAM by the kernel. Because this is mostly I/O bound, it's not a fair comparison to skip the read time. If you were running on a M3 mac you'd might get less than 100ms if the dataset was stored in RAM.

If you account for time loading from disk, the C implementation would be more like ~5s as reported in the blog post [1]. Speculating that their laptop's SSD may be in the 3GB/s range, perhaps there is another second or so of optimization left there (which would roughly work out to the 1.4s in-memory time).

Because you have a lot of variable width row reads this will be more difficult on a GPU than CPU.

[1] https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2024/1brc/
White House, Senate Democrats unveil bill to battle pandemic aid fraud
That would create an incentive to accept less patients, or to reject some patients at the end of the year just to fix the tax totals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

Similar video. I've seen their channel described as "the best workplace videos I can never show my coworkers."
Biden's new student loan forgiveness erase up to $20k in interest for millions
Exactly this - they needs months to respond to "small" changes because nobody knows who at the day is responsible for a given service. They probably need to time to filter the request through the product office, find out which service(s) are affected, find the dev team(s) responsible for those service(s), and beg/harass/bribe the EM(s) for those teams to get the work scheduled.

If they had documented service contracts with ownership information attached they could probably have the GP's team communicate directly with the service devs and it would likely go a lot smoother.
There are plenty of industries in which purely being greedy is much easier than it is in healthcare. Greed alone does not explain the depth of complexity involved in the US healthcare pricing system.

To be clear, I’m not defending the system either. It’s fundamentally broken by design. But it’s certainly not solely the greed of hospitals that got us here.
TLDR: People get better at it with experience, i.e. people learn.
I use both Docker and non-containerized apps.

In my opinion, setting up LAMP is easier than Docker.

Setting up LAMP is just copy-pasting a few install commands:

apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php mariadb-server php-mysql
mysql_secure_installation
ufw allow http
ufw allow https
ufw enable
I was debugging a crash in vlc today - actually in the Intel VDPAU driver - and debuginfod (which dynamically downloads the debuginfo for everything in a coredump) took a good 15 minutes to run. If you look at the 'ldd /usr/bin/vlc' output it's only about 10 libraries, but it loads dozens and dozens more dynamically using dlopen, and I think probably those libraries dlopen even more. This tool could be pretty useful to visualise that.
Yes, GDS will accelerate the IO to the GPU. I’d love to see the above C code compared to hyperoptimized GPU code on the right hardware, but I don’t want to accidentally nerd snipe myself :-) The unfortunate part of this particular benchmark is that once you have the data in the right place in your hardware there is very little compute left. The GPU code would probably have constant performance with an additional couple thousand operations on each row whereas CPU would slow down.

https://docs.nvidia.com/gpudirect-storage/overview-guide/ind...
I think you misunderstood my point. I actually had a conversation about it with my friend who was a manager of a private health clinic. She had a moment of massive burnout and was looking to switch profession to something else. She was particularly tired of abuse she was getting from employees she had to manage and patients, unrealistic targets, overtime and relatively poor pay. The prospect of sitting in a cubicle, with noise cancelling headphones, minding own work and having similar pay while being surrounded by like-minded professionals was really enticing. Her understanding of programming was very much that you type in commands so the computer does things you want, easy. When she was this motivated, I asked her to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjov-2OZ0E
She managed to watch about 20 minutes and from there she couldn't focus. Then she asked to stop and asked me: "Do you know all of this? Do you have to know this?" I said that this is just the basics. That was very much the end of it.
She changed her career later and she is managing construction projects.
Something I wouldn't like to do. It would be a hard job, because that's not something I am interested in.
A couple -

1. The obvious one is “just” extending stuff internally working via Unix domain sockets to TCP sockets. Various internal code is written with an eye to that, including anticipating that certain operations (such as connect) that are instant locally can would-block in a network.

If people enjoy the API, this would be a no-brainer value-add, even if lots of people would scoff and use actual dedicated networking techniques (HTTP, whatever) directly instead.

2. The much more fun and unique idea is using RDMA, “sort of” a networked-SHM type of setup (internally). Hope to get a go-ahead (or contribution, of course) on this.

I mention these in the intro page of the Manual, I think.
Ask HN: Features for GPU price-per-hour tracker for A100/H100s
prototype is at: https://computeindex.michaelgiba.com/

Out of curiosity, I put together a simple website which tracks the prices for a few variations of A100/H100 GPUs by hour broken out between spot/ondemand, form factor and provider.
Specifically I was tailoring the tool towards the smaller, emerging providers like runpod, gpulist.ai, lambda labs etc.

Anyone have any ideas to expand/refine it?
Why is this company still in business…? Is everyone else worse?
I get why traveling a lot would make a NAS difficult, but I don’t understand why being a renter matters. I was a renter for about 20 years. I would sign a rental agreement for 1 year at a time. I ended up moving every 1-3 years. Moving a NAS was not a problem. I had a Drobo for several years when I was renting. It was fine. I have a Synology NAS now and bought it when I was still renting. I moved it several times. It’s offline for a few days during the move, but has never been a big deal. No different than a computer.

I use iCloud Photos as well, mainly so I don’t have to manage photos and storage on my device and it can just take care of itself. However, I’ve been worried about lockout or other data loss. I’ve been thinking I need to create a backup on my NAS (which then gets backed up to the cloud).

Apple alone won’t really solve your backup issues anymore than Google. So if you were uncomfortable with Google, I’d expect you to have a similar feeling about Apple.
IDK why language evolves.

It's more succient I suppose
Artificial labor scarcity is a good thing, to keep wealth in the hands of labor instead of capitalists. But it needs to be equitably distributed (more households working fewer hours each).
I hope it's okay to ask this question. For you that have these sensors, what actions do you take based on what they tell you? Open more windows when you're cooking? Put on a mask when you vacuum?

Just curious.

I've dreamed of some future perfect portable sensor like a star trek tricorder or something that would tell me if the air in my office, or shopping center has bad stuff in the air (chemicals, viruses, mildew, etc...) to some point that I can print out a reading and tell my office the building is legally unsafe. I haven't seen anything like that.

I have sensor at home but all it tells me is PPM and I rarely pay attention.
We should not. It should be provided unconditionally to anyone needing it. Homo sapiens can do better than letting its pairs who can't pay die (slowly).

And care givers should be very well paid because they have hard jobs and critically important ones.

Making illness profitable creates bad incentives.
> how does a non-technical guy hire someone for a technical role?

if you dont know then you must hire someone technical first that shares your values and then get him to hire and manage all roles.

otherwise you are just going to get milked
It's a buyer's market for RVs as pandemic-era sales fizzle
What are they demanding that you are not? Everyone wants to be healthy and they want a medical system which helps them get there. If partying is a problem, they should be able to talk to a doctor about it, and it should be paid for as a part of the services provided by society.
margin is mission
Ah yes those people wanting real healthcare. What entitled idiots. Anyways let's finance another 200 mio yacht for the pharma ceos, they worked hard after all. You might be one of the one day since you work hard...
I have noticed an increasing trend of companies FORCING users into accepting aggressive terms of service by denying them the usage or ownership they're already entitled to. Roku did this famously, but so did Activision Blizzard AKA Microsoft (you can't access your games via Battle.net unless you accept terms), and so did TP Link (you can't access the admin interface for your router unless you accept terms). It's also getting worse in terms of ownership - Ubisoft recently shut down servers for a game called The Crew and then silently started deleting the game from players' libraries (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-crew-has-started-disapp...). People think they did this deletion to prevent some kind of workaround to use the game files and play the game locally, but either way, it is a huge violation of the notion of ownership.

This will keep continuing until there are consequences for executives and companies - meaning fines, including retroactive ones, and jail time. For now, we need to keep spreading awareness and then pressure lawmakers to do something about it. But techies can just stop paying these companies any more money too.
Except for those weird "software companies" that don't seem to do anything real yet have absolutely all the money.
AGPL and MIT licenses are very (extremely?) different. What's the thinking there?
Everyone who lives there benefits from that. Otherwise they wouldn't want to live there.
He didn't say he was terrified of it. Just that it was a lot of work. This remains true regardless.
How do you get around tricks like "Hollywood accounting"? Wouldn't we see hospitals start to mess with their numbers in the same way to avoid the threshold for regulation?
React/Next only
We're in this situation because we're using a model of dynamic linking that's decades out of date. Why aren't we using process-isolated sandboxed components talking over io_uring-based low-latency IPC to express most software dependencies? The vast majority of these dependencies absolutely do not need to be co-located with their users.

Consider liblzma: would liblzma-as-a-service really be that bad, especially if the service client and service could share memory pages for zero-copy data transfer, just as we already do for, e.g. video decode?

Or consider React Native: RN works by having an application thread send a GUI scene to a renderer thread, which then adjusts a native widget tree to match what the GUI thread wants. Why do these threads have to be in the same process? You're doing a thread switch anyway to jump from the GUI thread to the renderer thread: is switching address spaces at the same time going to kill you? Especially if the two threads live on different cores and nothing has to "switch"?

Both dynamic linking and static linking should be rare in modern software ecosystems. We need to instead reinvigorate the idea of agent-based component systems with strongly isolated components.
you don't need to. you should only hire for marketing once you've discovered a pathway to paying customers.

The work has to be done by the founders but both of you are unwilling to deal with the pain and grit required, you don't need advice, you need perspective.
I agree with you, hidden is worse.

But we do know what it can not static link to, any GPL library, which many indirect dependencies are.
In the US it is not a necessity. There are private insurance plans with entry restrictions (e.
g. you are ineligible if you smoke)
> The concern is with non-profit hospitals. They don't distribute profits to shareholders. But some do pay high salaries to employees or have large and growing endowment funds.

The non-profit healthcare organizations in my metro area spend tons of money expanding by building new clinics, surgery centers, specialty clinics, hospital wings, etc.
There are certainly examples of outrageous and abusive billing practices; policy makers should do more to reign those in. But a single MRI machine can cost $3M. Weeks in an ICU can burn up hundreds of hours of staff time. It's easy to see how the bill for a complex episode of care can exceed $90K even when the provider organization isn't making a profit.
And yet there has never been a single nuclear device used or tested by non state actors. Why?

The answer is that anyone with the ability and resources has no incentive. If you are smart and driven enough to build a device you can certainly go out and get pretty good programming gig.
compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861369
Israeli Hetz 3 or US Navy SM-3 caught Iranian exoatmospheric threat
As a chronic optimizer, I ironically get anxious about time wasted optimizing. Thinking of it as a hobby helps.
I think this still happens today, except that people are so denatured that they can't even articulate: "I want to go home" because they don't know where home is or what it is, and it would seem ridiculous even to them to say "I want to go home but I don't even know what that means!". Don't wanna be thought mental.

It's probably not simply "home" either, it could involve periodicity, repeated activities, etc. Rosaries, doodling, shoveling shit.
The Planck length (and other units) are scale factors, not necessarily canonical quantizations of physics. Planck units represent a transition into a scale where the Standard Model, QFT, and other models no longer accurately predict behavior of the system.
Well that comparision is what we were doing here.

There are market niches for many things that target things that are impractical for various reasons. There is nothing wrong with that.
Well, sure. I’m talking mostly about the US coasts where most of the YC audience is. HN is a very SV focused website.
As a consequence of the two intersecting facts that this is in fact a for-profit company and the United States is organised such that this, as with many things, is regulated by the fifty States rather than federally, there's not even a training requirement.

That is, the people driving a police car, fire truck or ambulance might have no training in how to do so properly, despite the (not unreasonable) expectation from the public that they'll perform better and the legal difference in how they are treated when doing so. Some employers might do better, but there's no universal standard.

The results are predictable, excess death and injuries as a result of giving inadequately trained individuals a relatively heavier, more powerful vehicle.
Oooh, so close. We’ve got the advertisement/discovery and messaging for sure.

Concretely what it would take to port it to those OS: https://github.com/Flow-IPC/ipc/issues/101

Given a couple weeks to work on it, this thing would be on macOS no problem. With Windows I personally need to understand its FD-passing and native handle concepts first, but I’m guessing it’d be a similar amount of effort in the end.
From the article it seems like that might be the point, to visualise what the binary actually uses, eg. if you use different preferences.
I like to work on old legacy systems from the 00s. They are all relatively simple without too many dependancies. Code is often spaghetti, but its often also not having 20 layers of abstraction. Nowadays code is so damn abstract with layers of enheritance, delegates, messaging etc. Very difficult to understand apart from the makers.
Give me old code. I like it.
Paramedic here. Patients who are stable, we generally transport to the hospital "routine" (no lights/sirens). Similar for inter-facility transport (taking someone from a nursing facility to chemo or imaging).

The only reasons we generally transport "priority" (lights/sirens) is for unstable patients or time critical: acute cardiac or respiratory issues, stroke, hemorrhagic or multi-system trauma, or shock.

But even patients presenting stable can deteriote en route.

As an aside, generally, in most areas, what makes the biggest difference to getting a patient to definitive care in a timely manner is not lights/sirens, nor speed, it's "Opticom" (also known as traffic light pre-empting). Visual (strobe), or occasionally radio that communicates with traffic lights to give us a steady flow of green lights. That coupled with people moving over is the big difference. Speed is just an increased liability (fun fact, most state laws grant emergency vehicle drivers the ability to 'disregard' any road law while operating in any emergency mode, but that comes with a "presumptively at-fault" for any incident that occurs in that mode, i.e. you will be considered at fault unless there's evidence to the contrary).
The trick of the current plans, which wasn't the same back in the day, is that hospital and ER costs after the fact are nor covered 100% after deductible: Most plans say 90%. So yes, we might be better off with the plan that covers less, but ultimately the problem is that we are risking far more than the deductible, as a truly catastrophic problem will go way, way past the deductible... and out of pocket maximums can be far higher than deductibles.

Most of us now have very few employer-based options, which happen to be almost always better because the employer subsidizes some. So it's not unlikely to see that the options you'd prefer are not available. High deductible, but OOP maximum very close to the deductible? Sorry, not available, go look at the secondary market for more insurance. It's a very difficult environment to make decisions on, and most people are just not all that well equipped financially to deal with it. The products have gotten way too complicated for the vast majority of people.
> It should be provided unconditionally to anyone needing it.

Correct me if I'm wrong but in many/most countries including the US, hospitals legally will treat emergency patients regardless of whether they can pay or are homeless-levels of broke.
It lives! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028118