skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PE is terrible, but this isn't a good example as there's plenty of competition for Center Parcs. Plus they raise their prices during school holidays when there's greatest demand, that's not an unfair practice, that's rationing out a limited resource when demand is greatest, economics 101.

Bad PE looks like private equity trying to corner the market in vets[1] and dental practices[2], services that you don't really have a choice over.

[1] https://archive.ph/bTwcD

[2] https://www.lincolninternational.com/perspectives/articles/i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnings_before_interest,_taxe...

Earnings Before Investment Taxes Depreciation & Amortisation
Am I crazy or is there no way to “subscribe” to your site? Interested to follow your learnings in this area.
Batteries aren't cheap enough to use as a the sole storage modality, because they suck for very long term storage. Their cost per unit of energy storage capacity is not amortized over enough charge/discharge cycles.

The answer to that is use a different (typically less efficient) way to store energy in that case. Cost savings can be dramatic at scale.

The strawman argument that storage isn't feasible because batteries by themselves don't cut it is regularly seen from nuclear bros. Even MIT came out with a study doing this, a study that very carefully avoided the word "hydrogen".
No response. Not surprised.
I use a Zigbee plug to toggle the power off and on, and the bios is configured to boot when power is restored.
So building an amazing product (as the author says), and then charging however much you can for it is “price gouging”

(Thanks Kamala. The only reason I imagine this article popping up now is the price gouging wording)

As far as I knew from econ 101 this is generally just supply and demand and efficient pricing.

If the price is too high, don’t buy it!!
I doubt they're going to work on the Affinity suite much more, it was probably more of an acquihire, where they'll get the engineers to work on the main Canva product.
> When you specialize in one thing only, do what you want.

I specialize in one thing only: programming

> But I prefer tools, that I can use wherever I go.

Do you always walk everywhere, or do you use a tool available at the time, like cars, planes, bycicles, public transport?

> rather invest in tech that does not loose its value in the next iteration of the innovation cycle.

Things like "fund symbol", "find usages", "find implementation" have been available in actual tools for close to two decades now.
My threshold was at 176.

I believe that an interval as threshold would be more interesting than a single value threshold. Perhaps if the user is shown N blocks from green to blue and then asked to drag&drop them to three buckets: green, not certain, blue?
the issue is that the c preprocessor is always available and usually used
I said I couldn't write it, not that I suddenly became unable to reason or understand programming.
The question isn't what is relevant, the question is comparative relevance. "Medicare plan" might be another option, though my suggestion to add the year already comes up hard against HN's 80-char limit.

Wordsmithing titles is in fact both hard and a matter of compromises.

HN's guidance is to use the original title, except where that's misleading or clickbait, and as an alternative to shorten that, or to substitute alternate text from either a subhead / alternate headline, or the article itself:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29899854>

If you care to suggest something that is accurate, covers the relevant elements, and fits inside 80 characters, you're welcome to do so. It makes the mods' decision and action far easier, and is why I'd made a specific recommendation myself. I'm not wedded to that, but it is my good faith best-effort attempt. I'm happy to consider better. I've scoured the article a few times with limited success myself.

Though "DoJ alleges United Healthcare cheated Medicare out of more than $2 billion" (from "Justice Department alleges the giant health insurer cheated Medicare out of more than $2 billion") might also work, and makes the titled action current. 74 characters.

(I've submitted that as an alternate to HN's overworked mods as well.)
Meanwhile C lacks any such keyword, so the best you can do is search for the name. That gets you a sea of callers with the declarations and definitions mixed in

That’s why in my personal projects I follow classic “type\nname” and grep with “^name\>”.

looks ugly

Single line definitions with long, irregular type names and unaligned function names look ugly. Col 1 names are not only greppable but skimmable. I can speedscroll through code and still see where I am.
8 is the new 11 I see. (Article dates to 2013 ;)
Nope. It’s an add-on, but you can lose them. I am a bit flabbergasted that corporates are now handing them out like candy, but only one to a user. And if they lose them, they can’t even log in to request another.
Yes.

The horizontal axis is Hue of the HSL color model, as I learned from the About section (the middle button after the test completes).
Yup. I do, too.

I'm mostly ranting against this weird "we will never use great tools because full-text search" obsession
That’s true, but I regard it as fairly minor. Accessor functions don't have any logic in them, so in practice you don’t have to grep for them. But it can be confusing for new players, since they don't know ahead of time which ones are accessors and which are not.
The article predates your paper by 6 years.
> The real tragedy is the proprietary bootcode.bin gpu code that is a blackbox and we don't have the source code for.

The Pi firmware is ThreadX, later bought by Microsoft and renamed Azure RTOS.

It is now FOSS.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/microsoft_opens_sourc...

That does not mean the whole Pi firmware is automatically FOSS -- drivers are not -- but they could if they wanted.
I wish there was a way to not read anything about economics on this forum because the responses are always complete naive bullshit like this.
> so the best you can do is search for the name

This is why in C projects libs go in "lib/" and sources go in "src/". If your header files have the same directory structure as libs, then "include/" is a also a decent way to find definitions.
The origins of the steam engine (2023)
Based on the tone of the article, I think "price-gouged" is how this gentleman would describe any holiday based spending. He doesn't seem to like spending money on his holidays one bit. Every time he actually go into detail the practices seem normal and the prices fair.

It took me a while to realise that this article does not seem to involve any price-gouging of any sort but is actually about pricing a private equity deal. Still an interesting read.
Query for the pile: why didn't the Guardian migrate this content to the updated responsive design like much of recent Notes & Queries entries. How old is this?
I’d love to look into this for a hobbyist project I’m working on. Wish you had self signup!
... Until you drop your phone and it breaks. And now you can't set up a new phone because you need to tap the notification sent to your old (now broken) phone in order to set up your new phone.

I've already had this happen, which is why I use hardware keys now, and a backup phone.
I think that LLM costs, even GPT-4o, are probably lower compared to proxy costs usually required for web scraping at scale. The cost of residential/mobile proxies is a few $ per GB. If I were to process cleaned data obtained using 1GB of residential/mobile proxy transfer, I wouldn't pay more for LLM.
if you think anything works in 99.9999% of cases, you’ve never programmed a computer
>But they trend toward efficiency over time

The trouble is that, even if this is true, there is no theoretical upper bound on how long it can take. If "markets trend to efficiency" means "don't worry, wait a few years and this inefficient market will be efficient again", then that's one thing. If it could take a couple of hundred years, that's quite another. As Keynes famously put it:

> In the long run, we're all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.

There's an interesting analogy with non-Turing-complete programming languages that guarantee program termination. In the real world, a guarantee that a program will terminate eventually is often not particularly useful. What we really want is a guarantee that it will terminate within some reasonable period of time.
Kamal: Reason behind choosing Docker instead micro VMs (like firecracker)
This is the least aggressive mode per the docs http://owntracks.org/features/location/
Universal Notes: Community Notes for every website
Hence the obsession with customer reviews. In the absence of an objective measure of quality, the easiest to implement is a star rating of "what everyone else thinks about this product".
It's not clear SAF needs to be made from electricity alone. The carbon has to come from somewhere, and waste biomass would seem to be a reasonable place (deliberately grown biomass, probably not). There's more than enough waste biomass to provide for the carbon for current aviation fuel consumption.

One could add energy from electricity to boost the yield per unit of biomass, for example ensuring that all the carbon in it ends up in SAF, with none wasted to CO2 instead.
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One way to think about it is to ask yourself, is your personal project actually _playtime_? Playing is not goal oriented and therefore very relaxing. There is nothing wrong with that! I am happy to "play" programming and I learned a lot of techniques that I used years later - and then actually finishing it. Do not deny yourself playtime!
Maybe not in terms of prudeness, but American wokeism, social issues, cultural norms, identity politics and cancel culture are definitely spilling in Europe as well.

Probably due to most large social media platforms and entertainment content being from there, so their rules and social norms get imported here along with the content like the Colorado potato beetle, instead of being adapted to the local market and local culture, the way McDonald's is in France for example.
It sounds like you're in possession of a solution to the hard problem of consciousness, you should alert your nearest philosophy department.
Prosecutors, as with all predator classes, choose their targets carefully so as not to both expend unrewarding effort and avoid self-injury.

Unfortunately, this means often foregoing large and egregious targets, such as the organised criminal syndicate known as United Healthcare, in favour of far smaller, and more tractable, targets. This has always been the case, and is hardly limited to the United States.

Finding ways to remedy this fundamental systemic dysfunction would be greatly appreciated.

(The observation in my first 'graph isn't a sneer or slight at prosecutors, though some of those might also be deserved. It's a recognition of the nature of the activity.)
The only problem with that is that then you have to use Linux.
What exactly did you do that you needed 20 steps to setup a YubiKey??
Notably... This business owns a lot of forest in the UK.

The UK doesn't have much forest.

So, they can make themselves appear more valuable by pushing up the price of forest land.

Forest land used to be priced based on the lumber value - which is almost nil. There was also the pricing element of the possible agricultural value if it were to be cut down (which is also almost nul, because the land is usually unsuitable for agriculture). There is also the very high value if you were somehow able to build houses on it, but the very low probability of being able to secure permits to do so.

However, I have noticed odd real estate transactions in the last ~decade for forest land. Specifically, a few companies have been buying up lots of forest land, dividing it into tiny parcels, often just a few hundred yards in each direction, and selling it for 10x the price.

Most don't sell, but a few do - and thats all you need to make the basis of a new market price.

Now when you value all of center parcs land, it looks way better!!!

And there is a 2nd factor... Center parcs usually get permission to build lodges on their land as temporary forest huts, and since they aren't made for anyone to be resident in, this is normally seen as an okay use of otherwise protected forest. Gradually over many years they can slowly turn it into a brownfield site by trimming out trees. 20 yrs down the line they might get permission to build actual houses on the land. Suddenly it's worth 100x as much.

I would 100% not be surprised if center parcs end up making more money by this conversion of forest land to residential (skirting laws designed to protect forests) than they make from decades of running the parks.
They produced a video each week for six years outlining what was going on in the second world war. Quite an undertaking and quite a historical document in itself.

The full 868 video playlist is here:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4fP7wN99AtQE...
I use my yubikey to lock my keepass database
Yes, the usefulness of macros always has to be balanced against their cost. I know of only one codebase that does this particular thing though, Emacs. It is used to define Lisp functions that are implemented in C.
> I think most teachers would agree that, for pupils without a significant attendance problem, a week away (particularly if it's towards the end of a term) is not going to make a realistic difference when it comes to attainment for most students.

I generally agree with this, but discretion doesn't scale. If you allow teachers to use discretion to approve absences, it will create the opportunity unfair system, where people who the teacher likes more may get preferential treatment. And even if the system isn't actually unfair, it'll create the perception of unfairness (Joe was allowed to go early, why can't my son?).

It's also way easier for a school to say "no early absences, that's the national policy", and not have to get into constant arguments with parents.
I cannot think of a better argument for a DoJ antitrust remedy seeking break-up and/or dissolution of the organised criminal syndicate otherwise known as United Healthcare.

Hopefully that's in the offing given:

The 2014 decision by CMS, and events related to it, are at the center of a multibillion-dollar Justice Department civil fraud case against UnitedHealth Group pending in federal court in Los Angeles.

(From TFA.)

Kudos to the DoJ for the current case. I do hope they prevail and secure meaningful consequence.
This looks like incredibly good advice based on the author's real experience! It's very well commutated+written. Props to the author.

I'm a young man, but I'll definitely be using some of these in the future as I'm very early in my tech career.
NASA provides explanation for 'strange noises' coming from Starliner spacecraft
We took our children out of school for three months about twenty years ago because I had the opportunity to work for that period in the US. We asked the school to provide the targets for the period for each child and my wife ensured that the children did a few hours work every day, not a whole day by any means. When we got back to Norway all three of the children were ahead of their classes.

In Norway there seems to be no requirement to attend school, only a requirement that the children be educated. The headmistress tried to pressure my wife to not take the children out but the only penalty she could apply was a vague threat that there might not be places available when they got back.

One idea that might reduce the problem that the UK has would be to adopt the Polish system of dividing the country into four school regions with staggered holidays.
I've since deleted all the site settings and re-authenticated and now i don't get any errors however the tasks do not break down, it simply inserts what i type below as a single activity. There's no clear output in console nor any thing i can easily send you for diagnostics alas.
Flintlock: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking MicroVMs
No it does not: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41433084>
I do things badly and am self aware enough to know it. Dunning-Kruger would require a lack of that self-awareness and in its place a belief that I had expertise.
What did the PE company build here?
Cool idea! As a podcast summary skeptic I have 2 questions

How are summaries different than the summary that is in the notes of a podcast episode on Apple Podcasts? If I want to read I can just read the notes

Aren’t there copyright infringement implications of basically republishing other peoples work without their permission? Genuinely curious about that.
I'll stick with my space heater, various kinds of fuzz testing.
> which is why it’s spelled in the somewhat Francophile Center Parcs, and not Centre Parks. (I thought this is why we did Brexit?)

Pardon me?

The French for center/centre is centre - the 're' ending of British English spelling is either taken from the French, or sometimes a direct reference to French spelling (i.e. 'prestige' spelling - like how some American publications will use British English spelling because they 'look more posh' or similar).
A blog post explaining these two common approaches would solve the same problem though
Does the function know it’s called foo for tracing/error logging/etc?
Do you mean, you don't print these rescue codes which every 2FA thing keeps nagging you about? You don't have a printout in your wallet, or in your folder with important papers? Not even as a secure not in your password manager?..
I don't know which company you are talking about, but every company I've worked at always had a two Yubikey policy.
True, but IDEs are fragile tools. Sometimes you want to fall back to simpler tools that will always work, and grep is not fragile.
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Sounds silly but the only change I do for the letter keys is inserting / (or whathaveyou) at [h] and shifting the [hjkl;] to the right. That way, right-hand fingers are resting at hjkl which makes vim-movement a lot more ergonomic.

Q W E R T Y U I O P
A S D F G / H J K L
Z X C V B N M , .

What do we call this layout?
I like it, but it may be painful in languages where long variable names are common.
Would be great if the wider industry shared that view
The End of Lotide
It's the same reason I would never go on a cruise ship. You're locked into a floating hotel for a few weeks and they can charge whatever they want while you're aboard. But plenty of people seem to like them, and there is loads of competition (other holidays available), so it's not a problem that cruise ships are like this.
That gives you have the option of making it serially async but not parallel, which can be achieved easily using Promise.all in either scenario.
>A federated forum / link aggregator using ActivityPub.

https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/

https://github.com/lotide-org/lotide
If you haven't considered it, you can also use the direct wikitext markup, from which the HTML is derived.

Depending on how you use it, the wikitext may or may not be more ingestible if you're passing it through to an LLM anyway. You may also be able to pare it down a bit by heading/section so that you can reduce it do only sections that are likely to be relevant (eg. "Life and career") type sections.

You can also download full dumps [0] from Wikipedia and query them via SQL to make your life easier if you're processing them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Wh...?
Yea. It's like falling down the recursion with a stack size of 5. Do the task. Plan doing the task. Start planning doing the task. Plan starting planning doing the task...
Oh that's why forest land has gone up so much! Thanks, I'd seen the same rise, and couldn't figure out why.
Fair, we should add [2013] to the title though.
You could just generate the audio in frequency space, much like how MP3 style codecs encode the raw signal. This converts the purely 1D audio waveform into a 2D grid of values, which is more amenable to this type of diffusion-based generation.
Yes, there was a decline in electricity prices, for the world as a whole. The cost was to Germany. Like I told you above, don't ignore that.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430757
Then don't make it discretionary, make it a right.
I'd wager project is probably dead. No feedback on contact.-
Nope, because I was grandfathered into it when Google switched it on for everyone without saying anything. You can still access gmail and such; you just can't set up any more devices without having some kind of 2fa.

Now I have a hardware key. I wouldn't dare keep rescue key codes (which can't be revoked) in my wallet.
It sounds like your startup is doing great, good luck.
Then stay away from it if you can. GTD is great if you're a manager with a wive and kids and maybe a foundation to run on the side.

If you don't usually forget tasks/events or freeze up because of analysis paralysis, you can get by just fine without it.

GTD definitely brings an overhead that doesn't pay off in a reasonably simple life
These aren't equivalent as function foo will be hoisted but const foo will not be.
I've been mulling over buying up farmland and planting trees and then just sitting on it for 20 yrs to capitalize on it.
I've been twice to Mexico, snd no mstter where I travel I have several personal devices, and I have plenty of places to pick for my travels, Mexico just got hard deleted from my list of upcoming future travels, I don't have any appetite to play these games where we pretend it is OK to charge import tax to tourists on their 2nd hand personal affects. Sounds to me like the person who came up with this regulation has a brain problem.
I agree.

Danish banks, because they use the national MitID authorisation, accept MFA via app, code generator, or a chip device:

https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/get-started-with-mitid/mitid-auth...
There was a sudden, sharp decline in quality about a decade ago, at the time when they started putting provocative and inaccurate headlines on the front cover. I think they actually tried harder than many other magazines to adapt to the Internet era, but they bungled the transition. When my subscription ran out, I did not renew.