skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring any other issues here let's look at the article:

> people who were admitted to the hospital

Ah yes, because there's no other way to get large medical debt. Not like an ambulance and ER stay alone will be high.

> in California

Obviously representative of a wider area: the most expensive state in the country and #5 highest median income.

> adults 25 to 64 years of age

Yes, let's exclude those who tend to have the highest medical bills and lowest incomes.

> were admitted to the hospital (for a non–pregnancy-related stay)

Yes, let's exclude pregnancies, which can be extremely expensive (thank god medicaid covered ours).

> for the first time in at least 3 years.

Yes, let's exclude people who have the highest medical debt by virtue of having had multiple hospitalizations.
I've played this briefly (on a pdp-1). Edinburgh University had moved their CS dept to an out of town campus (Kings Buildings). The university's open day (open house in US English) events however happened in town. As a school kid I'd go attend those events. This would be around 1980. I'm not sure the full story but I got the impression that the pdp-1 had been left in the Appleton Tower building when everyone left for KB years earlier. Perhaps it wasn't up to being moved. Anyway, it, running spacewar, was pretty much the only computer you could see on one of these open day events. Of course a pdp-1 was a deep relic of history even then. The only other one I've seen is in the CHM in Mt View.
Wouldn't a small script that lets you toggle between a QWERTY layout and a custom layout solve this problem?
Home Assistant to transition to a mainstream consumer product
Their reduction in productivity is greater than their reduction in consumption, so you have a large population that only consumes.
Is that really true? Everyone I’ve talked to has suggested they don’t really enjoy high reward food anymore and so they end up eating healthier. In part because nutritious food tastes comparatively better.
Apple's M3 has AV1 hardware decoding, so I imagine that shouldn't be a massive issue in the future.
Also because it’s essential to the older capitalist mindset of continual growth which drives the valuation of most tech companies. The idea of stabilizing on a smaller level has really fallen out of favor over the past few decades, but it’s an existential threat for companies whose shareholders are accustomed to double-digit growth.
In my opinion, that's a very ugly word for such a beautiful smell.
Because the cost of goods out of China will increase as they are required to compete and raise salaries for the shrinking labor pool.

This is happening with the service sector in the United States right now where getting manual labor done on houses has increased nearly 50% in a few years due to the lower population of workers.
Same. Dokku has worked seamlessly for me for 6+ years now!
At first I LOL WTF, but then I remembered how far down the societal ladder goes. Some schools have a constant problem with vandalism. Knowing which kids are in the halls at what time will help narrow down which shithead ripped the sink off the wall.
> Already happening. A control plane only cluster is an excellent replacement for Hashicorp Vault for example.

Vault? Don't you mean Terraform (Enterprise), or platforms based on TF that do that kind of thing (converging platform to its code definition, automatically).

I don't really understand why (and how) one would use K8s API server as a replacement for HC Vault.
Language in which something is written tells a lot.

For example for something written in go you might expect signals to be mishandled, colour escape codes when piping to another command, and non-GNU command line parsing.

It's not inherent to the language, but it's more about the fact that often people who write the libraries don't know about unix and the system calls they should be using.
Imagine how different, and worse, the world would be had explorers not ventured across the sea just to see what was on the other side. We should explore for exploration's sake.
This gets discussed in the Roc community. They are exploring designing a language without higher kinded polymorphism.

Here's a snippet from the Roc FAQ.

> It's impossible for a programming language to be neutral on this. If the language doesn't support HKP, nobody can implement a Monad typeclass (or equivalent) in any way that can be expected to catch on. Advocacy to add HKP to the language will inevitably follow. If the language does support HKP, one or more alternate standard libraries built around monads will inevitably follow, along with corresponding cultural changes. (See Scala for example.) Culturally, to support HKP is to take a side, and to decline to support it is also to take a side.

https://www.roc-lang.org/faq.html#higher-kinded-polymorphism
Seat assignment is mostly independent of age. A child 2 or above must have a seat, but a child under two will have one if you pay. If she has been flying for free by exploiting being treated as under two, that'd have made for a much more entertaining article, though.
well I also get a bunch of non-critical notifications on pushover, so just doing this would mess with my sleep
I concur, when I interview I give a problem we craft based on problems we have already solved at the company, let them use whatever tools they like, and most importantly... watch them do the exercise.

You learn more from the process than the final result
For those who want to go down a small Wikipedia rabbit hole about dictionaries, I found this an interesting article on pre-Johnson dictionaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_English_dictionaries
As a non-lawyer, I skimmed up through section 95 of https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-63/first-r... , and my initial suspicion is that I probably wouldn't want to operate an affected startup in Canada.

AFAICT from quick skim, the burdens on startup are onerous, the investigatory powers are invasive (and rife for abuse), and Commission orders seem to carry weight of the courts without being bound by the usual process of the courts.

Implicitly, I'm imagining complying in good faith, so the above initial impression was formed before I got to the penalties. Which penalties, AFAICT, seem to be an existential threat for startups, yet consciously capped to protect our larger competitors:

> 101 The maximum penalty for a violation is not more than 6% of the gross global revenue of the person that is believed to have committed the violation or $10 million, whichever is greater.
I like chatgpt a little more after reading this.
> "Inflammable" is my go-to example of a word that shouldn't exist in the English language.

What about "inflammation" (from the same root), like what happens when you bruise yourself, or injure a joint? Is that OK?

Or you should you get a "flammation" instead?

Edit: Or when interpersonal tensions are high, and a situation becomes inflamed?
When I was in college, sometimes I foolishly drove between my parents' house and school when I was way too tired to drive.

It's possible that the only reason I never crashed was pure luck.

I only bring this up to say that needing to focus on the road might not be enough to keep a driver alert.
That begs the question, what will you do about it?
This question is from 2011. Does it still do that?

Edit: and reading further it seems like it may have largely been an issue with malicious extensions.
The institutional sickness at Google continues to consume. They are making the kind of shortsighted moves that are already costing them.
While it's a step in the direction and some of the pieces are coming into place, it's still a long way to go for a holistic solution.
The author of the post is saying that the problem is the sponsorship not considering the community. Their own opinion doesn't necessarily matter if they don't choose to be writing an opinion piece.

They are partially writing an opinion piece, but not about their opinion about working with the military. They are writing about Nix leadership vs Nix community.
I would have said the same thing as you, but it now occurs to me that something that is already on fire must be flammable but it is hardly inflammable since you couldn't set it on fire again (without first putting it out at least).
This is not open source, just take a look at the license.

https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/blob/main/LICENSE.MD
To be fair my personal anecdotal experience seems to match that sentiment (as an Apple technician).

It doesn't mean that rich people do also have Apple stuff (especially the iPhone) but at least for computers many of the rich people I know went with a Windows computer and stuck with it (because it made more financial sense).

The cliché is a struggling artist with a nice Apple laptop and it's not without any merit.
There was a time where indeed an Apple computer offered you some stuff that wasn't available elsewhere or at least in a significantly worse way (desktop print, illustration, audio type of stuff).
But then in the 2000s it leveled off. To the point Adobe made some marketing stating that an equivalently priced PC was faster to run their software. It wasn't that successful because at this point Macs were already iconic status symbol but still.

Nowadays I see a lot of creators just switching to Windows PC for convenience and power. I follow some YouTube channels where the person got his start on a Mac but then switched to PC because Premiere Pro is good enough and it is rather useful to have access to all the 3D software with a powerful GPU for rendering.

While Apple was busy creating their island walled garden software support has become way too atrocious because developers got tired both of their business practice and ever-changing APIs/framework that makes it not worthwhile to support a large software for the small userbase.

People can't shut up about Apple Silicon but outside of efficiency it is just about competitive and not so much in other ways (max power, GPU).

We will see how the ARM rollout pans out in the Windows world (I don't have much faith; the importance of efficiency is largely overstated and is a use case already met with Chromebooks for the most part) and if it works out it might be better for cross-compilation for macOS but then again Apple Silicon is not exactly standard ARM and it leaves the biggest problem of an exotic GPU with specific way of handling things.

I fear Apple may have put themselves into a corner just like in the PPC days by trying to be too different and "special" for short term gains.
Maybe the bigger issue is that they admitted to having no IT support on weekends, and consider that the specific problem is just a canary.
It was closer ten years ago. They really started to pull apart in ~2015: https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view?selectedSeriesIds=CUUS0...
What??? No! Driving straight is much safer. A potential collision of two cars at roughly the same speed is much less dangerous than a nearly guaranteed collision of a stopped car and a car at 120 km/h (75 mph). BTW Sweden has a low speed limit - it's 140 km/h (85 mph) where I live, but people regularly drive 160-180 km/h (~110 mph).

It must go behind the highway border line if it's going to stop (and keep going if it's not possible!), but it'd be much better to pull out of the highway at the first opportunity. Definitely never just stop in the middle of a highway.

Not sure if this is some kind of a US thing but here in Europe people don't expect you will stop in the middle of a highway. That's really extremely dangerous.
> Cars last 25+ years, so ~20% of people will be driving at least 20 years after self driving gets perfected and then standardized.

That's a bit of a leap. If and when FSD becomes sufficiently reliable to enable you to legally relinquish control to it, including have it take you anywhere even when you're intoxicated, without any personal liability, I expect adoption to ramp up very quickly.

Also, depending on what technical solution ends up winning this race, it might be possible to convert existing old cars to FSD.
While some interview problems rely on knowing a trick (and I would argue that these are poorly chosen problems that reveal little about candidates except whether they know the trick), most problems can be solved with a good understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals. It requires practice, however, to learn how to break a problem into its components, come up with solutions for the components, and then weave them into an overall solution.

Like you, I'd been in the industry for more than a decade. Solving interview problems is very different from professional work. So, you'll probably need to practice your interview-problem-solving skills. I know I did.

What I did was put a whiteboard on my wall and solved problems on it. I solved the problems blind, drawing them randomly from a book (Elements of Programming Interviews was my primary source). I video recorded myself and reviewed the recordings to help me refine my spoken thought stream and to learn to avoid stumbles and long stretches of silence. I then practiced in this way for a month, on and off, until I became good at it.

Best of luck!
Nobody come for nonchalant!
Roc has algebraic effects instead of Monads for effect tracking. The two systems are exactly as expressive as each other [1]. Algebraic effects compose better than Monads, and are probably more beginner friendly. Imo Monadic code can be a little easier to follow sometimes since there’s less non-local control flow. They are both great things to have in a language and I’m super excited to see how much progress Roc is making in both approachability and performance when it comes to pure functional programming.

[1]: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/slindley/papers/effmondel-jfp...
> "blue above visible blue"

Good name for a rock band. Or some tv series.
It would be nice if there were a packaging system (or maybe just a github action?) that got you a k8s with ingress to some pods that were just updated on merge to a main branch.
People are selective listeners, this could in rare cases cause a panic chain reaction.
> [1]

Yes, Conal Elliots arguments are very relevant here.

> A function with minimal side-effects

Clarification, what I mean with “minimizing the use of side effects” is not about within a function, but in a program.
Exaggerated example: You could write Haskell in a style where everything returns an IO and mutates some global state.
Not doing that, and having most things pure is useful due to the simplified reasoning in the pure parts.

> There's two important steps that you've rolled into one.

Have I?
What I want to say is that I do believe the syntactic distinction between calling side-effecting functions vs pure functions is useful.

Do I need to care about how the compiler enforces that? Does the specific encoding need to be part of the language semantics? Do I need to be able to model it monadically within the language?

> This is where you get your nice functional properties meaning that your compiler won't let you mix them up.

I may have formulated this a bit flippantly, but I think you mean the same here as I did when I said that “marked with an ! so they are easier to spot” I did have in mind that this is checked by the compiler.
And I think we also agree that this separation is a good thing.
And this is surprising to anybody?
On the topic of "outside of their jurisdiction", one method used by overseas scammers is spoofing phone numbers to make calls and SMS messages appear local, providing at least an initial layer of legitimacy.

How (the actual fuck) can telecomms companies not have this under control? (I know it has to be much more complicated than I could fathom, but on the other hand, are they not in control of their own networks? If not, that's pretty scary given the telecomms industry is both highly profitable and powerful).

This problem doesn't need a master key, it needs appropriate regulation to bring said telecomms companies slightly further away from a status of complete dereliction of duty.
> population doomerism

In 1927 world population was 2 billion - now, less than a century later it is 8 billion. In the 1960s world population grew by 2.1%. For most of history until about 1700 or so that rate was about 0.04%.

The world population growth rate right now is much higher than it was in 1900 (and 1900 was higher than 1899, which was higher than 1898 etc.)

There's not really that much to population doomerism if you look at the historical trends. The only thing to it is that the growth rate in the 1960s was probably the highest in recorded history, and we are not still at that peak - but the world population is still growing faster than it has from 4000 BCE to 1940.

The other thing is it varies from place to place. Uganda's population is growing faster than the world rate, whereas Latvia's population is currently shrinking.

(Of course these things are all estimated, no one knows exactly when human population hits exactly 8 billion people etc.)
I have not used this, but I understand benign-key-logger[1] was made for this use case.

[1] https://github.com/Ga68/benign-key-logger
Technologies related to automated theorem proving.
> Researchers in the 1960s and the 1970s were convinced that their methods would eventually succeed in creating a machine with general intelligence and considered this the goal of their field.[269] Herbert Simon predicted, "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do".[270] Marvin Minsky agreed, writing, "within a generation ... the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved".[271] They had, however, underestimated the difficulty of the problem.
Show HN: I made a native iOS app to track precious metals
I developed a native iOS app for tracking and managing precious metals, such as gold, silver, or platinum.

It's a productivity tool designed to log all your purchases and sales and calculate a variety of metrics and analytics, including current valuation, Dollar-Cost Averaging, annual reports...

The app not only calculates the valuation of your portfolio using market spot prices but also considers markup prices from shops.

Feel free to request discount codes – I'm happy to provide them!
I thought this word meant "bothered" in the 1984 sense of plus=good

i dont think ive ever seen the definition prior
I appreciate the thoughtful suggestion. I have not actually tried it, but I've read many accounts from other alcoholics trying to quit who have done so (among a couple dozen other approaches), and came to the conclusion that it's not for me right now. If I did give it a chance I would probably have to go with an implant, which I would only do under extreme circumstances.

What it boils down to is that on some level, I often feel death would be preferable to not being able to experience the 'reward' my brain has been long conditioned to expect from my next drink. If there was a lasting way to shift that to something healthier it would be miraculous. Simply taking it away would just drive me to despair. Having attempted suicide in the past, I do everything I can to avoid that situation again, and unfortunately drinking became a big part of this effort.
That's unlikely to be accepted for other reasons. Putting a limit means most will approach that limit, and those that exceed the limit will be even more unaffordable. Plus no one will agree on what the limit should be. Which makes them extremely unpopular (except for benefits to individuals which of course should have the lowest limit possible nationwide)
> It’s the equivalent of saying people shouldn’t take anti-depressant meds because we can just change systemic factors they cause depression.

Fair point, but the systemic factors that cause depression are much more diverse, harder to identify, and much more difficult to rectify. (Also, I would argue that we have become a highly over-medicated society.)

Edit: Also, we did successfully change social behavior when it comes to smoking (younger people don't realize just how prevalent smoking was in 60s and 70s, perhaps as prevalent as drinking Coke and being overweight is today), though it did take massive class-action law suits. Maybe that's what it will take, though smoking -> lung cancer was perhaps a particularly easy link to prove.
I'm not talking about niche areas. I'm talking about genuine illicit citation rings.
Inflation caused by a retired work force tends to correct itself - those retirees on a fixed income are incentivized to return to work.

Whether those retirees can successfully return to some form of work will often hinge on their country's health care system - not for the retirees, but for the middle-aged generated that will become retirees. That is where the United States is already running into issues.
> Without irony, France keeps building nuclear generators close to the german borders.

Which one? The only one they have under construction which has gone 6x over budget and was supposed to be completed in 2012?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
The clown car eventually drives into a gold mine, given enough gas.
Investigating the Dynamics of Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Co-Offending Networks
The title says a lot. And is true.

Just made the switch to NeoVim using LazyVim. I would have never thought how big the difference is compared to VS Code or other IDEs. It's incredible discoverable thanks to whichkey. The most used commands get into muscle memory fast. Adding Typescript or Rust is easily done via LazyExtras. Telescope all the way. I only need to get better at some Vim core features.

Really great stuff and even better with this book.
Looks pretty sweet, as long as there was a way to integrate it with nginx ingress controller somehow I'd say this is very interesting indeed.
The may be often useless to people under them, but that's irrelevant for company itself. Owners look from very different perspective than bottom employees, and companies have a single purpose - make money to the owners, academic discussions be damned.

Should each owner run around and tell each employee globally how to do their job, what is the goal, budget, restrictions, rules, timelines etc? This is a massive vacuum that needs to be filled, and managers fill it. Some better, some worse, just like any other profession.

Generally weird article to be polite, probably put together in a haste to give benefit of a doubt to the author.
> clocks even better than those using transitions in the spectra of ions or neutral atoms

I'd be interested to know how much more accurate a nuclear-state-transition clock might be than a conventional Caesium or Rubidium clock.

TFA seems to make the point that a nuclear clock would be more resistant to external influences, such as EM radiation, than an atomic clock, and so could be used in experiments where such influences might introduce unwanted uncertainty. But I'd like to know what the claim for greater accuracy is based on, rather than simply greater reliability.
> records your keystrokes and gives you stats

I wrote a little Emacs Lisp for this, never published it. I kinda doubt that a similar script would be as easy to write for an OS less friendly than Emacs.
People use it as a synonym for 'unaffected'. Sometimes it is unclear what is intended, so personally I never write or say 'nonplussed'.

To be honest, at this point I think it's a useless word!
Looks like the word carries its original meaning non plus
Same here: I've been hosting two dozen services on Dokku for a side-project in the past few years and it's been working flawlessly!
Dokku and a Hetzner server makes hosting very easy
Guess I have to add this to my list of "popular words that I have no idea what a given person means by them". It is interesting how they evolve and come and go.
You don't think there is tracking text or geo information that can identify you've had a convo with your friend and are going for a ride? That they can't identify acceleration habits between two people? It doesn't have to be perfect, its not like they're going to tell you how it works.
https://archive.is/V7PGn