skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
B) applies here because medical intake forms include agreeing to the way prices are decided and agreeing to allow any treatments they deem necessary. It is basically a blank check.

B) shouldn't be legal at all though, and that's the real problem. It is a fact that patients agree to owe whatever the hospital says they owe, and in my opinion that should be part of a credit history. Its also a fact, though, that hospitals charging this way is fraud and the system needs to be fundamentally fixed rather than band-aided by trying to just hide how much debt they are creating.
That was the point of my response. Somewhere in the chain one must trust something without any proof.
Sounds like OpenAI
Not much by way of scantily clad anythings on my feed, but I've experienced a sudden glut of anger-bait posts, both there and in other places. Not sure if it is due to election season, or if the Algorithms On High have noticed me trying not to interact with the eternal14s any more and are trying to drag me back off that wagon. Though the theory I currently think most likely is that a number of worthwhile posters have dropped off so the arseholes-to-decent-people ratio has had yet another boost and me being shown more crap is a consequence of that.
> Since the forward slash was already used for CLI parameters in the CP/M style, it couldn’t be used as the path separator. So Microsoft chose the backslash instead, and it persists in Windows today.

It's a bit more nuanced than that: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-bac...

And see also https://learn.microsoft.com/it-it/archive/blogs/larryosterma... for the SWITCHAR option, which would configure DOS 2.0 to use "-" as a parameter and "/" as a path separator.
ALL interfaces are learned, CLI or UI makes no difference.
What's intuitive is how much previously learned interactions are reusable.

This is a big reason why macos sucks for example - it does everything its own way. The keyboard, the dock, the app structure, the apis, the menu bar. It's all non-transferable.

I agree that "Windows without MS" is generally the desired state of a UI
BUT
which Windows? XP style? 7? 10? 11?
Windows itself isn't consistent with the Windows UI.

How's the goal of using a UI that re-uses learned behaviors going? UI changes far more than CLI. X11 to Wayland, KDE3 to 4 to 6. Gnome 2 to 3 to 40... it's a real struggle to keep your UI the way you like it. You will be forced by external pressures to adopt a new UI at some point. As much as I loved Firefox 3 and Opera 11, they're impossible to use on the modern web and so I must use the new and worse UI of modern firefox or vivaldi.

But through this entire history I just presented, has "cp" changed? "ls"?
Yes, they aren't intuitive. But none of the above is. Yet, they did not change, so they are learned once and reused until the end of time.

Yet, in the CLI world, what did change? init to systemd, alsa to pulse to pipewire, and more.
That stuff is just as annoying, and it's nice that debian does not stagnate but does not advance too quickly here either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Elchasai#:~:text=rejec....

Virgins might also wish to beware of plant-based products, eg https://www.ikea.com/se/en/p/sylt-lingon-lingonberry-jam-org...

Mariatta, child of beauty,
Looked about, intently listened,
Sat awhile, and meditated
In a blue box by the forest,
And soliloquised as follows:
"Call to me, thou golden logo,
Sing, thou sacred bird of Northland,
Tell how long must I unmarried,
As a shepherdess neglected,
Wander o'er these hills and mountains,
Through these flowery fens and fallows.
Tell me, cuckoo of the woodlands,
Sing to me how many summers
I must live without a husband,
As a shepherdess neglected!"

Then the jar of mountain-berry
Calling to the lonely maiden:
"Come, O virgin, come and pluck me,
Come and take me to thy bosom,
Take me, tinsel-breasted virgin,
Take me, maiden, copper-belted,
Take me, o stringly-skirted,
Thousands pass my jar unmindful,
Berry-maidens swarm about me,
None of these has come to sample,
Come to pluck this ruddy berry."
I think for a lot of founders, there is significant financial cost or opportunity cost upfront. Especially if you are bootstrapping.
SQLite let's you decide when and if vacuuming after partial row modifications. Does arrow allows that I don't know but it's most likely the best SQLite feature you can open a massive database and do one value change really really fast without having to write and compact the entire thing all the times.
Had a system where logs were watched to trigger various sound samples (bird chirps for firewall probes, etc). There was a pattern recognition component, when the entropy on that came up there was a "hmmmm?" sound.
Give it time, the Bogeyman for this will be attestation and verified boot/data integrity+safety

Took them a while to sort out BIOS mods/signing firmware. The irons are in the other fires.

Not an endorsement, I got into computing because of the openness. I'm with Torvalds RE: nvidia
Yeah, Watchtower is horrible, also search is sometimes really bad when you have a lot of different logins for the same domain
So because some idiots might want to give themselves ulcers over a competition nobody can buy this now? Hardly seems fair
Same thought I had, though it seems more like a tax-dodge for IKEA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA#Financial_information
Thanks for your comment.

The blog post was written with C++ in mind, but I just learned that C now also has constexpr: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/constexpr.

Time to update those books (:
Exactly. Or just don't do it.

I am sure enough that I would crumble under that specific kind of pressure that I don't put myself in situations where I would experience that specific kind of pressure. Works great!
If you need a simple home server or lab setup, second-hand 1L pc's (tinyminimicro) is a much better value-for-money.

I've a ton of Pi4s and one Pi5, but the ease of use, the simplicity of 1L pc's is - for the stated applications - a no-brainer to me.
I’m happy to buy whatever satisfies my requirements. But I do anticipate the enshittification will begin.
BBC Studios / BBC America
I found what I have been looking for, you might find it really interesting (and trippy!):

https://www.lojban.org/files/why-lojban/whylojb.txt
It's horrible advice yeah – but it deals with the reality of the situation. If you're freaked out by being 50 in a field that for some bizarre reason values youth and inexperience, then be 40. Nobody cares, particularly if you're working remote.
What will StackOverflow content teach the model that millions of pages of programming language documentation, github repos and developer blogs could not? SO is nice but it's hardly the only source of programming knowledge out there.
I dumped them after they fought against competition by selling very limited stocks of the Zero at very low prices, possibly at a loss. They released just enough of them so that someone somewhere could always tell that they were the cheapest board available, but in fact they were pretty much unobtanium everywhere, except of course in "friendly" sites and forums where every post about the shortage was immediately replied with "I could buy one at XYZ...", where xyz inevitably turned out to be a shop with none in stock. This happened much before Covid19 and chips shortage hit the market, in fact competition had cheap alternatives in stock and I could buy some NanoPi and OrangePi, but the RPi had much better press. I'm considering to make an exception for the Pico for being a really interesting product, but my last Linux RPi has been the 4 and I don't plan to go further.
I vaguely recall a company with a rfid like ball and player tracking system that was seeing some adoption by colleges. Maybe someone knows more?
And... this is... good? :-/
The thing is that the labels "cat" and "dog" reflect a choice in most languages to name animals based on species, which manifests in certain physical/behavioral attributes. Children need to learn by observation/teaching and generalization that these are the characteristics they need to use to conform to our chosen labelling/distinction, and that other things such as size/color/speed are irrelevant.

Of course it didn't have to be this way - in a different language animals might be named based on size or abilities/behavior, etc.

So, your daughter wanting to label a cat-sized dog as a cat is just a reflection of her not having aligned her generalization of what you are talking about when you say "cat" vs "dog" with her own.
Angel Investors Index
> If you don't want to be locked up for a hate crime, then don't scare people into thinking you're going to hurt them.

You know it doesn't work that way, and you know it well. Otherwise you wouldn't have used a throwaway account.
While LLMs are better at reading the surrounding context, I am not convinced they are particularly good at taking it on board (compared to an adult human, obviously fantastic compared to any previous NLP).

Biggest failure mode I experience with LLMs is a very human-like pattern, what looks like corresponding with an interlocutor who absolutely does not understand a core point you raised 5 messages earlier and have re-emphasised on each incorrect response:

--

>>> x

>> y

> not y, x

oh, right, I see… y

--

etc.
I do wonder how investors who are supposed to be savvy so easily get scammed by BS that wouldn't survive even the table of contents of the due diligence.

Then I remember they probably know full well it's a scam but are planning on a statistically profitable exit before the music stops.
What is wrong with coding challenges? With a simple challenge you can get a hint of coding style (flashy vs pragmatic), accordance to current best practices, is TDD being used, clean code accordance and so on.
And then you have something you can talk about in your final interview which can be helpful. Does the applicant take criticism well, can he explain his code or specific decisions etc.
Do LoRa Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (Lpwan) Scale [pdf]
No BS Intro to Developing with LLMs
TIL Ikea is technically non-profit.

That’s insane
Performant, conformant JSON parser avoids loss of precision in JavaScript
It's been like this for a long time already.

I still remember a colleague complaining to me in 2001 about a crash they were having in the data entry app (written in Java) that was wreaking havoc in the bank's check clearing department. The stack trace would go to JNI, into a vendor's .so and then SIGSEGV with an address of 0. The trouble was, nobody knew anything below Java.

I tracked down the issue after examining the crash report over lunch for shits and giggles. It failed in memcpy because it was trying to copy a null pointer. I disassembled the vendor's .so and checked the offsets to see where the code was going, and it turned out that the fingerprint reader code would return a null if it failed to scan properly (and the library had no null check). The vendor refused to fix it, so I patched the .so with a few nops, an xor and a je to work around it.

Everyone looked at me like I was some kind of god who commanded the very chips themselves.

Once the old guard is gone, I wonder what they'll do...
Did you RTFA? https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-06/
> Or maybe those like Musk will get his way and platforms like X will require paid verification!

I would like for verification to be mandatory on platforms meant for "real people" to interact, but not "paid" on a proprietary platform, but using new standards for internationally valid identities. I am betting on w3C's Verifiable Credentials for that: https://w3c.github.io/vc-overview/

It's still a bit unclear who would have the authority to issue "real person" credentials, but at least in the EU that's currently being worked on: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

In the USA, they seem to be trying to use Driver's Licenses for this sort of thing, see the ISO/IEC specs at https://www.iso.org/standard/63798.html
I wonder what the impact would be to us (consumers) if there would be pressure from shareholders to increase profits. Will future Raspberry Pies be completely bare-bones unless you pay a hefty premium?
The consequences that using the number used once twice entail differ wildly between cryptosystems though.
they have been... sold... out...
Every animal/insect I can think of has more than 1 eye. Some has lot more than 2 eyes. It has to be that important.
how do i contact them?
> Mastercard has a partnership with Mercedes-Benz that allows the automaker’s customers to use a fingerprint sensor in their car to make digital payments...

Of course it's really all about increasing profits under the guise of security.
It also reminded me about another post I read here, probably a few years ago, that outlined how stuff works. And my takeaway from that one, was yet another way that early employees get shafted, as they get diluted a lot, and other employees being brought on later end up with a better exit in the end. But I can't remember the details or find it.
There's a sucker born every September.

You can find your comment in the HN archives as far back as 2010.
BabbleSim: A Physical Layer Simulator
Thanks.

> Why did we strive for superhuman judgement, reasoning, professionalism, output?

Lots of possible reasons; there's many ways for it to be valuable.

(And it's not like the newspapers are deliberately writing fiction, with notable exceptions like The Onion).

If it's a rhetorical question, I'd be interested to know what you had in mind :)
Why did it work, though? Wouldn't the disks die halfway through the game? Did they end up cutting / optimizing the feature?
I made this to work with Zapatos, which uses Postgres JSON extensively.

Note that there is a proposal to make this possible with native JSON.parse and JSON.stringify, which would be awesome: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-json-parse-with-source
In concept I can totally get behind the idea. I lived in the Netherlands for a couple years and though I never had to go in for any serious treatment, I always heard good things from friends and neighbors there.

In reality, at least in the US today, I don't trust our government to do this right. They're already way top friendly with the medical industry and have absolutely no idea what it means to plan finances. They waste a ton of tax dollars as-is and have no answer as to why we need taxes when they can literally create trillions in new money every year.

On the medical side, my only caveat would be that I'd want a system that offers more than just modern, western medicine. Anyone that believes strongly in alternstive medicines should have their care covered as well, I'm not sure how that works in other countries that have socialized medical care today.
> If Idaho suddenly did this people would freak out, would call it communism, and attack.

Well, of course. People would start taking control of their own lives, and we don't want that. What would come next? The right to control their own body? How ludicrous.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/23/1246611...
Hmmm, I'm not so sure. If bots are perfectly mimicking humans then instead of a dark forest, it's more like a forest with a noisemaker fitted to each tree.
The words “public company” often carry a negative tone but ownership rules are complicated. It doesn’t mean much until you know the specifics. For example a non-tech example of a publicly owned corporation that people might not think of is the Green Bay Packers.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/who-owns-the-green-bay-pa...
But as you point out, apple does have fans and in the m-series laptops they're done in such a way that they're nearly silent, or off. So, they really do not contribute meaningfully to noise, energy, or failure. They help with the burst workloads that a PC may encounter. Designing a PC to require the fan always be on is a sign of inefficient design, but designing a PC to specifically avoid a fan is to just let your competition beat you.
Your experience sounds similar to mine with YouTube, especially if I try to watch videos without logging into an account.

Thus I have more than one account to use these as topical pre-filters. And when you loose your cookies, YouTube wants a phone number to "verify" that it's "me". Luckily, as a European living near enough to French borders, I can purchase temporary SIM cards in France and "verify" things during holiday trips and don't need to use my main phone account.
We maintain a compromise with Alembic migration files in source control. This does mean people need to do Alembic things to make changes, but if they can do that little bit it's very good, and fully diffable of course.
I agree with the core of your point, and would extend it to any post-IPO lock in periods.
I'd tweak this slightly: "It's exceedingly foolish to be an employee at an early startup for the money."

I think there are a lot of us who struggle to fit the larger corporate mold who pretty much only thrive in the startup world. I can't speak for all of them, but I've been very willing to take the balance of lower cash compensation and a fistful of lottery tickets and not having 12 layers of middle management breathing down my neck over more liquidity.

I guess I'm also blessed with inexpensive tastes, which helps, but I'm still able to live somewhere I love and do all the things I care to do, so it works out.
Why not encourage friends and family to use password managers instead?
How do people use it on bigger deployments? Do they manage to make a single "instance" work for enormous volumes? Do they make one database per customer shenanigans?
Show HN: I 'integrated' ChatGPT in iOS-iPadOS-macOS with out official support
As the article points out, the problem is when Governments start using them as basically weapons.... and companies use them all the time for marketing...

Yes, there's a group of people behind those, but it's hard to ignore the difference between a single person controlling a couple of bots to post harmless updates or whatever, and Governments trying to sway the agenda of other countries their way.
“ but alas they did not work out the full dynamics of human nature (seeking short term profit, influence and control) ”

Has anyone worked out this … in terms of governance or anyone organized grouping of humans?
And that's the real problem to fix. The, in my opinion fraudulent, debt shouldn't be created in the first place. Allowing the debt and hiding it from a credit report only serves to further the debt problem and make credit reports nearly useless since you don't know a person's full debt profile and liabilities.
Now we're never going to get better documentation /$.
I recently left a long career in FANG to roll the dice on an early startup. I was pretty surprised by the uneven terms between founders and early employees. From what I could tell the early employees takes more risk than the founders because they don't get that magic token dollar turning into their share of the founding equity event and have to pay the fictional valuation of the seed to convert their options. Depending on how hot your startup is that can be a lot of money.

Anyway that ended in tears, but I got what I was looking for from it. A look under the covers of the hot VC backed startup roller coaster. I may be getting old and cynical, but it looked considerably more exploitative than what I saw at Google. Obviously depends on the character of the founders and leaders, but the structure seems to be setup for toxicity.
This model has been a mixed success for Mozilla and OpenAI.

The TechCrunch article is speaking only of it like any other commercial investment opportunity.

Where's a good writeup of charity/non-profit mission concerns about this commercial subsidiary?

(Example from early on in Raspberry Pi history: There were concerns about pragmatic compromises of open source or libre software principles that the RasPi made, so that they could use the closed-software Broadcom SoC, presumably to deliver an otherwise good education-oriented SBC at a price point that made it accessible and got uptake.)
I've been using ShareX (https://getsharex.com/) for some years, which is also open-source, and very featureful while not feeling too bloated, though Windows only.

I'll have to have a look at this next time I'm on a Linux desktop, as I found the options lacking compared to ShareX last time I looked.
I did https://arcprize.org/play?task=05a7bcf2 correctly, but one of the examples doesn't match the rule I used. Are the examples supposed to contain mistakes/noise? Did I find a bug? Did I get the rule wrong?

Here's how I understand the rule: yellow blobs turn green then spew out yellow strips towards the blue line, and the width of the strips is the number of squares the green blobs take up along the blue line. The yellow strips turn blue when they hit the blue line, then continue until they hit red, then they push the red blocks all the way to the other side, without changing the arrangement of the red blocks that were in the way of the strip.

The first example violates the last bit. The red blocks in the way of the rightmost strip start as

R
R R
R R R

but get turned into

R R
R R
R R R

Every other strip matches my rule.
What you're describing sounds like ordinary supply chain difficulties, with no indication of any nefarious intention.
IANAL, but if you only have options, and not stock, do you still have standing to sue?
The paragraph about "support" is void of any content.

Arm does indeed provide significant technical support to the companies that buy Arm IP, as it is normal for any vendor, but that does not apply to companies like Nuvia.

For companies which buy ISA licences, there is very little need for technical support, at most some clarifications about how to implement the compliance tests. There are only a handful of companies with ISA licenses, which have only very infrequently needs for technical support, so even if a single Arm employee is assigned for this task there is no need for "preferential support" in order to respond immediately to any support request.

"Arm seeking to accelerate research and development in next-generation processors for data center servers to support that sector’s transition to Arm technology" just means that Arm has continued to act as a competitor for Nuvia, in developing their own Neoverse server cores and related infrastructure.

It is true however that only because the Arm CPUs have a minor share of the server market for now, the progress for one of them can still have a synergetic effect on the others, instead of an antagonistic effect, so there is a little truth in the claim of Arm that they have worked "to support that sector’s transition to Arm technology", but in any case that does not mean that Arm has spent any cent with the support of Nuvia.

All the text that is public about the Arm-Qualcomm conflict is useless, because it avoids to quote the relevant paragraphs of the contracts between Arm and both companies, which would have clarified instantly which party is right.
> There were not trenches in WWII.

Not WWI-style, but I think there were a number of trenches. For example, Fortress Europe (Germany's efforts to secure Europe), consisted of a number of Maginot Line-style entrenchments and tunnel complexes.

I think that the Eastern Front also had a lot of that stuff.

I believe that the Ukraine War is now featuring trenches, and I know that the Ethiopia/Eritrea War featured classic WWI-style trench warfare.

WWII was real bad, and was one of the first modern wars to claim more civilian lives, than military. I think that's sort of become a standard feature of most wars, these days; even the small ones.

I'm currently trying to figure out how my father[0] got a Silver Star, in Belgium, in WWII. He never told us, and the St. Louis fire destroyed his main records.

It affected him badly. I think he fought in a similar fashion to this story. He was in mechanized artillery, but saw plenty of bad stuff, and was wounded twice.

[0] https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/MikeMarshall.htm