skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only way to make it cheaper in the US is to make your pay more.

I think this is very unimaginative to claim that the developer/manufacturer costs are fixed in stone and THE ONLY WAY is for customers to zero-sum it amongst themselves.

Most of the cost was in development/trials, the marginal cost of manufacture is probably in the single digits per month. With such an enormous market demand the development costs can be recouped faster and there is a possibility to lower the prices in the states as well.

Also 10x difference points to more systematic differences in the healthcare systems not just altruism of the US citizens.
Show HN: A writing assistant app that works across your apps on macOS
Arrow keys suck on most laptop keyboards.
I have used d3 for a few years now and with ChatGPT I find it at least 50% easier to set it up and troubleshoot issues.
> think it's far less vague than "organise the world's info" or "bring the world closer"

True, but that's a bit of damning with faint praise.

You see a meaning in that statement that I simply don't see, though. To me, it sounds like too vague to be useful. I'm not even entirely sure what they mean by it.

That you have clarity when I do not tells me that the statement was not aimed at me. Fair enough.
And China is a terrible, autocratic nation which abuses people daily and uses slave labor from NK and Uighurs to produce goods for almost 0 cost.

Why do we want to be like that? To prove to everyone that that works?
There's lots of arduino robot kits that you can use to build little toys with, and they are fairly easy to setup.

"Makeblock" is a company that sells even easier kits where all sensorics are already integrated, similar to how the old Lego Mindstorms EV3 (31313) kit was built back in the day when it wasn't overcommercialized.

I'd really recommend the makeblock stuff because it's better for both use cases: also with no programming necessary, just building and using their app to program/script it.

In the workshops I'm doing at schools where the children don't have preliminary experience in coding, they can get motivated really fast. And the older groups (teenagers and up) rediscover the sets because they realize they also can be programmed with the Arduino IDE. In those workshops we were using the "Makeblock Ultimate 2.0" sets (which meanwhile aren't sold anymore in the EU, sadly), but maybe you can get lucky on eBay?
Not me, man. I'm a clueless n00b. I've never done any "computer hacking" or whatever this "phreaking" stuff is y'all are talking about.
If all they did was go after AI companies, I would not think of them as miscreants but rather a force for good.
That's why I set the vim copy-paste buffer to the operating system clipboard. So you can use visual select and y/x.
1000x the Telemetry at 0.01x the Cost
hahaha, I am too much of a noob to make something that would blend in with the rest of the submissions. That is why I try to build something fun at least.
How does Google determine what is high quality? That is in essence what they've changed.
...or they're good enough to know not to use Google for programming questions (and go directly to StackOverflow)?
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240429122132/https://gsaauctio...
I remember my father going away and putting a lock on the rotary dial phone - this meant you could only dial 999 I think - but my brother quickly showed him you could 'tap' out the number in the number in the way that you describe. I'm not sure who my dad was locking out - maybe we had lodgers at the time?

Later we bought a 'fancy' answerphone that you could retrieve, save and delete messages from a remote phone by playing a tone down the line. It came with a special tone generating battery operated touchpad you could hold to a receiver to play a tone down the phone, as plenty of phones were not touch tone yet.

I remember you could also use that to dial numbers some how - later a friend had a Casio watch that could also generate and 'dial' numbers for you. I tried from a payphone but it wouldn't work for me.
I have large hands as well (and proportionally long thumbs as well I think). I think it is just that my thumbs don't really "like" the rotations required to reach all the keys in the cluster. It also doesn't help that pressing with the thumb ends up being a "sideways" press, which is not a natural direction for the thumb to go.
This isn't going to stop any future Tiktoks wanting to do business in the USA
Absolutely, however this project says

> Llamaindex was used to add nodes into the graph store based on documents.

So it sounds like they are generating it based on LLM output rather then user-defined. I also wonder how often you need more than a single hop that graphdbs aim to speed up. In an agent system with self-checking and reranking, you're going to be performing multiple queries anyhow

There is also interesting research around embedding graphs that overlaps with these ideas.
Lots of Apple customers wanted the ability to send and receive rich media messages with their friends and family on Android devices. What they got instead was a monopolist who insisted on being able to monetize both sides of every human interaction.
A better solution would be for the government to seize the domains and arrest the scammers impersonating the post office or the IRS or any other governmental entity.
This article is about synthetic cannabinoids, not phytocannabinoids or other naturally-occuring noids (Delta8/9/10, THCA, THCV, COOH, THC-O, HHC, THC-P, etc).

They are similar in that there's a race to find and synthesize them and get them to market, but synthetics do not occur in nature.
Man she really wants me to put my savings into gold and bitcoin. I have no idea why gold and bitcoin will be worth more when I retire than a % of public corporations, which are machines that turn capital, labor, and money into more money. Basically money printing machines, with some of the world's greatest brain power working their hardest to figure out to make these machines robust and more and more efficient, instead of rocks and a % of a digital currency.

Why should I do this? Why are these rocks and entries into a global digital ledger going to be worth more when I need this money in retirement?
Semantic stuff like refactoring is done through LSP.
No one who actually cares about the quality of the results is in charge. And for search results like the one given in the link (for "aws lightsail xray"), there are no ads, and thus the folks in charge of Google search these days probably prefer the results to be broken.
well, thats the risk the bank takes when they lend my business the money, that I might not be able to pay it all back. they eat the loss, minus whatever they can recover from assets left over. and I get a mark that says you should think twice before lending me money for a restaurant again. but my life isnt ruined. i get to keep my house, i can still participate in financial society. the alternative is, as someone else pointed out, only those with lots of resources can afford to try to create new businesses. the US policy is that its worth it to have a more lenient bankruptcy process, with more bankruptcies that are less ruinous, since it leads to more risk taking (ie new business formation).
This is just the tip of the iceberg. 15 years from now there will be a long list of "banned" apps, and we'll see a resurgence in piracy. It will be like Eastern Europe smuggling in American cassettes all over again but reversed
With algorithmic improvements and new hardware, achieving comparable performance to 10^26 flops may not be so absurd anymore.
Someone commented why this is legislation, not sanctions, but their comment was removed, but I feel my point may still be relevant?

Sanctions hurt the people, legislation hurts the companies. When you actually want something, you use legislation. When you want to virtue signal and torture people, you sanction. Not that it works - I'm pretty sure sanctions lead to extremist views in the opposite direction than what was planned.

For example, country Monkeyland does a bad thing that they believe is good (ofc otherwise they wouldn't do it). You then sanction them, which hurts the poor (no money, less money due to sanctions), ill (no meds), and inconveniences everyone else and shows them that the rest of the world really is "evil", like their own government says.

Legislation gives an illusion of choice, and in these cases usually doesnt lead to pain and hurt.
I just went to https://www.usps.com/ and it looks perfectly fine. Loads quickly, layout is clean. Maybe this is a joke about modern webdev being terrible that has gone over my head?
This was an excellent article describing how they broke down a complex task that an LLM was bad at, into a series of steps that the LLM could excel at. I think that this approach is probably broadly applicable across law (and perhaps medicine).
> Apple has a walled garden approach to managing their ecosystem, and within the confines of their garden they just do what's necessary.

I don't think the walled garden makes much of a difference when it comes to compatibility on, say, macOS. They still have to carefully weigh the ecosystem-wide cost of deprecating old APIs against the ecosystem-wide long-term benefits. Yes the decision remains entirely their own, but a lot of stakeholders indirectly weigh on the decision.

GTK and Qt also make backwards-incompatible new versions as they evolve. The biggest difference here is that in theory someone could keep maintaining the old library code if they decided that updating their application code was always going to be harder. How rarely this actually happens gives weight to the argument that developers can accept occasional API overhauls in exchange for staying on the well-supported low-tech-debt path.

So walled or open made no difference here, even in the open platform, application developers are largely at the mercy of where development effort on libraries and frameworks is going. Nobody can afford to make their own exclusive frameworks to an acceptable standard, and if we want to get away from the technical debt of the 90s then the shared frameworks have to make breaking changes occasionally and strategically.

> AFAIK, Apple doesn't care about the possibilty to run binaries from the '90s on a modern stack.

Definitely, and I don't either. It's kind of a silver lining that Apple wasn't the enterprise heavy-hitter that Microsoft was at the time, because if it had been, its entire culture and landscape would be shaped by it like Microsoft's was. I think we have enough of that in the industry already.

When an old platform is that old, it's really hard to justify making it a seamless subset of the modern platform, and it makes more sense to talk about some form of virtualization. This is where even Windows falls down on both counts. How well modern Windows runs old software is far more variable than people assume until they try it. Anything with 8-bit colors may not work at all.

VirtualBox, qemu, etc. have increasingly poor support for DOS-based Windows (95, 98, ME) because not enough people care about that even in the context of virtualization. After trying every free virtualization option to run some 90s Windows software, I ended up finding that WINE was more compatible with that era than modern Windows is, without any of the jank of running a real Windows in qemu or VirtualBox.

So even with the OS most famous for backwards-compatibility and the enormous technical debt that carries, compatibility has been slowly sliding, even worse than open source projects with no direct lineage to the same platform and no commercial motives.

It's perfectly justifiable to reset technical debt here, whether walled or open. If people have enough need to run old software, there should be a market of solutions to that problem, yet it generally remains niche or hobbyist, and even the big commercial vendors overestimate how well they're doing it.
Doubling your money over 25 years is roughly ~2% returns a year, so it would have been a terrible investment. For comparison, if you parked your money in the S&P 500, you would have made over 5% a year.
Do you have any evidence that the analysis supported the decision "nah let it slide"?

You don't need a bench of NSA analysts to grow a spine.
Honestly, ChatGPT + D3 has been great for me. But YMMV of course.
This is probably the worst case, but I wrote an iPhone game back around then. I recently tried to build it and after a couple of days of not even getting close to something which built (never mind worked when running), I gave up.
I'm using fastmail — have no problems with it
Silver has such an interesting history as a unit of exchange. I remember reading that China started demanding payment in silver around the 1500 for goods leading to the boom in Spanish silver mining in the Americas to pay for imports.

The lack of silver also lead the British to start the opium trades to get around the Chinese state.
it took 14 years for s&p 500 to break even if you bought it in 2000
Oh but of course! If the site shows Google ads then it must be a high-quality, trustworthy site, so you see they'd be irresponsible to not use it! (/s)
"Predators" have been going after big tech, and big tech has responded by hiring actually competent security engineers, which is why you don't see stories of Google Search or Netflix closing its web site until further notice.
But do algebraic effects preserve referential transparency? It’s hard for me to see that they do.
Hacking before it was cool
Some might argue that's the intended purpose.
Specification? The coding system?

I didn't realize that was mandated by law? Surely not down to individual codes?

If that is what you are talking about, it kind of makes sense. Part of how the industry obfuscates is by using a lot of different terminology for the same thing, thus nobody can do price comparison across vendors. But of course, trying to impose order onto something purposefully confusing, is going to be difficult.
How do you deal with kernel security patches?
Show HN: We made a Mac app to fix writing and speed up communication with GPT-4
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The original PageRank algorithm wasn't set in stone. If it was, it would have become completely obsolete because it reflected the design of the 1990s internet. Back then, there weren't a million me-too sites on the same exact topic, all trying to capture the traffic of the #1 site in the segment. If you're looking for the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Whatever In 2024, you have an embarrassment of riches to choose from. /s

PageRank also relied on backlinks as a quality signifier, assuming that more backlinks = more reputable. This has probably been the longest-lasting piece of the algorithm, as gaming this via "link-building" through ugly infographic embeds and blog post syndication on Medium.com, LinkedIn and Substack continues to be popular.
OneDev: Git server with CI/CD, Kanban, and packages
Isn't it true though, at least in terms of the amount of information we have to wade through these days? Haven't hard drives gotten larger, and why? Because technology makes it possible. It's funny that you are laughing, but it would be even better if you made a serious argument against me.

To be honest, I am posing a serious possibility: are we really sure that AI will cause a democratization of knowledge? I mean, our society is valuable and keeps us alive, so shouldn't we be at least asking the question?

It seems like even questioning technology around here is taboo. What's wrong with discussing it openly? I think it's rather naive to believe that technology will make life simpler for the average person. I've lived long enough to know that many inventions, such as the internet and smartphone, have NOT made life easier at all for many, although they bring superficial conveniences.
Yeah, unfortunately "inciting discord" and "inflaming conflicts" is very well protected by the First Amendment. It's the entire negative consequence of truly allowing free speech (not counting movie theater fire exceptions). I guess we're gonna throw that out all on a whim in 2 weeks...
That is called regulatory capture, which could definitely be happening here.
With some discipline, styles as the sole method of formatting text works well in InDesign, fine in Affinity Publisher, and is possible with heavy caveats in Scribus.

I used to use GREP (regex) styles in InDesign to format heavily structured elements in docs down to specific words without ever touching the style bar.

I also used Framemaker for years, and the DITA open toolkit as well. I get why programmers like FM, but XML/XSLT or rigidly structured tools are not the only path or tool for this.
Yes, the Libertarian view is that people should be free to enter into agreements with each other. Which is nothing like anarchy. Libertarians in no way believe people should be free to do whatever they want. Government (or at least something resembling government) is always necessary under Libertarianism. After all, who else is going to ensure that agreements are upheld? Who is going stop those who try to act absent of an agreement?
Vaultwarden is a much simpler self-hosted Bitwarden.
It sounds like an interesting product but not a fit for us:

- We actually don't want no-code. We want configuration based (or something else that can fit into version control).
- We want very nice, very customizable charts, but don't want to bring our own (our team is Python/SQL and data based; no one writes Javascript)
The preferred rate for ISPs is $infinity/month for 0 MB/s. Anything less is just leaving money on the table.
So the ask should be to have .gov be canonical, and usps.com directing to .gov it sounds like?
Which states would you speculate will be best long term for AI startups? I would’ve guessed California but it’s looking more important to pick a state less likely to get over their skis with regulation. Washington doesn’t seem yet to be doing this, and no state tax with lots of AI engineers/researchers in Seattle/redmond which is why I’m here. Texas probably won’t add regulations and has similar pros if you’re in Austin. Anywhere else looking like it will crop up if California regulates away the industry?
I said "open source model" rather than just open source. While open source is only about the licence, I think publishing on GitHub typically implies a further model of accepting contributions, developing in the open, and being a part of that ecosystem.

In my experience this is how open source projects tend to thrive in the last 15 years or so. Projects that are open source but don't accept contributions and just dump a zip on a website somewhere once a year are a very different thing and lose some of the benefits.
The reality is, the Obama administration kept drawing red lines that kept getting stepped over with no consequences. Syria, Iran, ISIS...Russia saw that and that there'd be no real consequences. Same thing happening now with the Biden foreign policy of "don't". Might call it the anti-Roosevelt doctrine: speak timidly, and what stick?

edit: minor grammar fix
I never understood relative numbers. To really grok Vi you have to understand that you should minimize steps and looking at the relative line number and typing it in is not ergonomic, it's better to search most often, absolute line number movements are good when referencing a stack trace etc.
Is there perhaps a training data problem?

Even if the LLM were trained on the entire legal case law corpus, legal cases are not structured in a way that an LLM can follow. They reference distant case law as a reason for a ruling, they likely don't explain specifically how presented evidence meets various bars. There are then cross-cutting legal concepts like spoliation that obviate the need for evidence or deductive reasoning in areas.

I think a similar issue likely exists in highly technical areas like protocol standards. I don't think that an LLM, given 15,000 pages of 5G specifications, can tell you why a particular part of the spec says something, or given an observed misbehavior of a system, which parts of the spec are likely violated.
Usually the answers were "right" in that they worked but also wrong in that they had issues or were otherwise less-than-ideal.

But I haven't used them in over a decade so lolidk
Judging by the fact that apps in iOS that are produced by Apple itself have races with resizing menus when you rotate the device the answer is a resounding "yes".
A good biking distance is about 3-5 miles. Anyone living in a city should live within 3-5 miles of something. Heck even in a lot of suburbs or small towns, biking makes more sense that business owners realize. But the infrastructure discourages people biking.

I live in such a place. The primary reason why I bike to the grocery store, restaurants, and coffee shop while my spouse does not is safety. They're very concerned about the risks. I'm more tolerant of the risks, but their position is perfectly reasonable. If there were more biking infrastructure that made it safe to bike (separarte bikes and cars), more people would bike. But building such biking infrastructure is often seen as taking something away from car-driving customers.

But I also support denser housing. We should be doing both.
There are cultural factors you need to overcome, and it's with every international team. I am not going to simplify this, because it's a multi-faceted thing, but focusing on a single thing, for instance, propagation of bad news, India is an intensely competitive market and I need to make it abundantly clear I want to hear the bad news as soon as possible, and that I don't care about blame, as long as we learn from mistakes. From the US, I often get bad news sandwiched between good ones, so I need to redouble attention.

This is a huge topic.
There are a lot of fantastic libraries out there that can work. Best? How do you define that?
You know what they call someone who graduates with a D average from Harvard? "A Harvard Graduate." The name brand itself opens the doors, I don't think too many care whether or not you skated through.
Do they even have enough pen and paper at shops? And somebody that can use them in the right way to keep track of the transactions and make sense of them again later on.
> Recycling scrap aluminium requires only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminium from the raw ore. In 2022, the United States produced 3.86 metric tons of secondary aluminium for every metric ton of primary aluminium produced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_recycling

> 42% of crude steel produced is recycled material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_by_material#Iron_and...

The only reason it's not industry standard to use 100% recycled metals is that it's pointless greenwashing. Everyone already uses as much recycled metal as they can get their hands on because it's cheaper.
What kind of strawman are you building? She did not mention bitcoin once in the article. And what she's saying is something that serious investment analysts have known for years. Most investments don't pan out, at best a passive investor can count on preserving their capital against inflation. Stocks in the USA overperformed but that is a clear survivorship bias as most other stock markets around the world failed to even preserve the capital for the stock owners.
If you bought gold in 1999 and kept it until today you would have 8x'd your money.
Gold has the invaluable economic quality of indicating when someone is a quack or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_bug