skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't speak for all of HN but I simply don't like low effort comments. Jokes like this are cheap and exist everywhere online. I come to HN to learn and discuss. I don't down vote an informative post with a joke tacked on, but one like this just lowers the information density and is a time waster.
Yeah.

In some rare cases there's a direct feedback button in the product itself. Then usually you don't get the response, but at least your remarks are read by someone. Or at least that's the impression I get.

As a positive example - check out the new commit view page in GitHub which they are currently rolling out. There's a Feedback button which goes to a *public* discussion page with voting and comments. One can tell they are really into listening the feedback. And that's something. At least one of the miracles for free.
I wrestled with GCP a month ago. Never again. Hundreds of internal permissions issues, a thing Google invented for no reason. APIS needing to be turned on. A feature I didn’t ask for and don’t want. Service accounts that don’t have permissions to do what those service accounts are for.
I used to think any cloud is as good as another. Not anymore.
It’s not hard to recommend Google cloud. It’s impossible.
Yeah I'm kinda surprised that there are so few good FM synth plugins. They must be out there but just hidden. FM8 is all I can really think of
Aurora Store can at least filter by paid/IAP/has ads
I just had an antibiotic prescription denied because my insurance company thought I had a refill in 5 days, despite the last time I was prescribed it was as a one-off course, 8 years, and 3 insurance companies ago.
The cost of epipens affects someone's ability to not die. Whether WP Engine contributes back to WordPress enough does not.

My example also cited two non-life threatening issues, and discussed legal vs morality.

You have not addressed this point, so I'll be more direct about it. Doing something legal doesn't make it OK. In fact doing something legal does not imply right or wrong.
It started interesting but then I saw this:

> Rowling has turned into a one woman crusade against transgender people and the trans rights movement.

I understand people like oversimplifications but this is a longer piece and the statement above is simply untrue. Yes, her stance on transwomen being able to use private spaces dedicated to ordinary women is controversial, at least by today's standard, but she is not leading any "crusade against transgender people and the trans rights movement". For example of these, see any alt-right posting. Rowling has enormous respect to all trans-people, but she doesn't agree on some very specific points.

So if the author misses the truth an inch or two, I lost the trust in anything else they wrote in this piece.
Startup Metrics 101: What to Track and Why It Matters
There was a discussion on real time Linux this week and I was SHOCKED to see comments from people who work on embedded devices that "real time" is vibes. i.e. a stack that tries to be predictable but isn't necessarily.

I'm curious for your expertise on that: my guess is some people can get away with that, but if you're operating ex. a medical laser, you gotta take it more seriously and actually guarantee ex. "This code will be delayed at most 8 ms, it's thread is guaranteed to get CPU time by then"
if it really was the most powerful force, the button I’m going to press below should say “post”.
Instead it says “add comment”
It's easy to blame the insurance companies, but doing so misses the more important detail: There aren't enough providers. No amount of complaining or regulating the insurance companies is going to change this.
Why Function Keys F1 to F12 Are Useful
It’s a noble goal but as easily gamed as any other license. In this case there would be nothing stopping me from starting up a new entity and then contracting out that single service for $.01 or whatever. No revenue there, no license fee required. Just add another layer on the onion. It’s similar in difficulty as a wealth tax, just add more indirection.
If the big players would stick to the RFC's it wouldn't be a problem.
also gopher. mail and dns are two other exceptions tho
I personally don't care much for abstract art, but if your goal is to produce an art piece, then sure, that's a purpose. I don't know if OP was going for "art" or just having fun with the tech. I wouldn't count it as art because it's very much a copy of an existing piece of software, not an original piece.
Dexed is good but it's primarily a DX7 including all the weird preset algorithm choices and that's not really necessary if you aren't using DX7 presets. It's a DX7 emulator, not really jsut an FM synth for its own sake like Operator is
Greg vs. Jamal: Why Didn't Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004) Replicate?
Have you ever used C#?
And Cloudflare gets to demand you pay $150,000 within 24 hours or they'll delete your domain name. No thank you.
Do you have an external monitor connected to your Mac Pro Laptop?

If so, disable True Tone and disable auto brightness on all screens. That might help.
I think the idea here though is that it’s _weird_ that she’s seemingly let it consume her in such a complete way
It's just becoming more specialized. You can still run bare-metal servers if you want, either colocating them or else running unmanaged VMs (or yes, hosting it on your own infra if your company is big enough). And of course there are entire companies dedicated to hosting global infra for other companies, so if that's the part of the stack you like, working at one of those will get you a lot of exposure to "running your own servers".

But for smaller or medium sizes businesses, that part of it adds no business value and it's easier to just outsource it to the cloud, the same way that wouldn't necessarily want to build & maintain their own cars or laptops or electricity grid.

When you can trivially host a small to medium scale website on managed infra from free to like $20/mo, it doesn't make sense to manage it yourself. Even a regular package or OS update will cost you more than that just in labor.
Damn that free speech. It only causes problems. Better ban it altogether, then everything will be alright!
Not a fan of F 'em by Tracktion?

https://www.tracktion.com/products/f-em
> Fairly simple project for a talented FPGA coder

The open hardware community (e.g. https://fossi-foundation.org/events/archive and http://www.enjoy-digital.fr) works with FPGAs. Contributors can be found on social media and video playlists from past conferences. If your project can be done by modification of existing open hardware, there would be less cost and risk.
I continue to be puzzled by how much smaller apps are on Android, ex. Took me 9 tries, including ads, to find a thermometer app over 7 MB. I've worked on both platforms for years and yet don't really know why. Only guess is Android has a much richer tradition of vector art over bitmaps, and Swift libraries had to be compiled in for years until ABI stability enabled using dynamic linking to OS ones
They ate a lot of fiber at least
Alịa on X: "Make your own Tools" / X
I'm no fan of Google, but it's slightly more complicated than that, there's a lot of security and privacy stuff that can't be enforced if your app was build 6 years ago and still slopping around.
For photos, I highly recommend "Memories" : https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories

They should make it the default, IMO.
.csproj files are easy do edit and use only as much syntax as necessary, they are not too different from cargo.toml. But you probably don’t know that because reading documentation for 45s and adding two lines is too difficult, if you used .net at all which is unlikely

As usual, instead actual valid criticism (of something that is better than the alternatives no less), the strategy seems to be “just make up stuff”, keep at it.
Wow this paper was fascinating.

Multiple Neanderthal groups in Europe geographically fairly close, on the brink of extinction, yet no interbreeding for 50,000 years.

The stories that pop into my mind!
How about compared to alcohol? Various kinds of alcohol? The claim was that vaping and marijuana were both lower risk than smoking and alcohol. I think jury is still out.
It would lower the barrier to switch to Cloudflare for new customers, and once they are inside with a credit card on file it’s arguably easier to explore their product offerings
I'm still new to learning about these things, but is the viewpoint that a particle is a field excitation sort of the thing about starting with a lattice in the ground state with a field defined on the points of the lattice, then some excitations happen which cause the field to enter a particular "mode". This mode is the particle?
> not a smartphone but a wearable. Glasses or some Star Trek/Rabbit-like button?

Form factors that haven't been explored yet: earrings, broaches, lapel pins (that don't look like microwaves) and belt buckles.
Changing an image timestamp -- as in, exif metadata -- is trivially easy for anyone with a computer or phone, a quick search will tell you how to do it on any device with no skill involved. There's a difference between "easy for a small percentage of people" (modify the content of a photo in an undetectable way, find a software vulnerability, etc.) and "only a small percentage know how to do it" (modify exif values, do a simple magic trick, etc.). Just because someone doesn't know anyone can do it if they tried doesn't mean it's not trivial and pervasive.
Or pay cash for therapy. Or have the parent pay cash for therapy. Options existed, but there are none now.
A specific corporate tax would be a great way to do it, IMO. Companies that benefit should pay. How the money gets distributed, and to whom, is also a problem and I don't know how you make any of this cross national borders, especially given national security concerns.
“Things only get messier from here.”
Simple event broker: data serialization is expensive
Obviously.
It is the only recent nationwide (worldwide actually) environmental change.
Might also ask about the plethora of athletes dropping dead or falling extremely ill on the playing field.
Possibly through Termux... Surely for shell commands, I would say; I am not sure about hooking the debugger to a package
First class customers get better seats etc.

The people sitting further back complain and create grief at least as much per passenger. First class passengers are easier to manage because there is more staff to take care of them, more toilets, better food. All that is possible because they are price insensitive.

It's no more effort for an airline to install larger seats. And price insensitive customers are more profitable...they don't use more fuel, engine maintenance, take longer on the taxiway, etc. etc.

clearly is better to make 1000$ x 100 customer than 2000$ from 5 customers

If you are making $1000/customer your customers are not price sensitive. The OP concerned about charging too much. The generic advice is stupid things like freemium and $5/month that make a business unsustainable.

MORE POOR CUSTOMERS VS LESS RICH CUSTOMERS

If you are in business, targeting people with money to spend is a sound generic strategy. There are businesses that target people without money. Typically, they charge predatory rates. "More poor customers" is the 1% of all Chinese fallacy.
Doesn't Mediatek have 5g modems? and Samsung? Do they license Qualcomm tech?
> the book could be written by a human.

I don't understand why so many people in these discussions are so keen to ignore the impact of scale and accessibility when it comes to new technology, and specifically this new technology. Yes, most dangerous things that can be done with AI can also be done by humans.

Is it not meaningful that these dangerous things can now be done far more cost effectively? It would've made no financial sense in the past to spend hours/days creating a fake mushroom identification book. You'd almost certainly never get enough sales to make it worth it, especially once people realized your book was nonsense and potentially dangerous (getting you delisted, as it seems like the seller did with this book). Now you can just ask an AI to "generate 100 book ideas, scripts, and images." Who cares if almost all of them make very little money when the time and $ cost to creating them is near zero (it looks like this book was physical but especially for digital books, videos, etc.).

Is it not meaningful that dangerous things can now be done (or may soon be able to be done) by more people with less skill? The time/money investment required to learn skills with the potential for destructive use is IMO a strong filter against the people who would do those destructive things in the first place.

OpenAI and I think Google have talked about making intelligence "too cheap to meter." I'm not sure that is a good thing. I could be convinced, but every poorly thought out dismissal of AI dangers only makes me increasingly sure that we aren't ready for it.

For those who are less concerned about AI dangers, consider maybe that premature reckless deployment of AI also has serious potential for generating social backlash that might end up slowing or halting the adoption of AI for positive purposes. The average non-tech person I know thinks of AI as a useful improvement over Google, and maybe thinks AI generated images are cool, but they aren't in love with it. It could disappear tomorrow and they'd shrug. In fact, public sentiment against AI (in the US) seems to be rapidly increasing, and is bipartisan [1]. If the promise of AGI is achieved this will go into overdrive should (when?) mass-unemployment happens. Look how far right-wing politicians are able to go by drumming up fears about immigrants stealing jobs.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/21/what-the-...
I don’t think the article is right.

>One of the 25 largest corporations in America, Centene brings in more revenue than Disney, FedEx or PepsiCo, but it is less known because its hundreds of subsidiaries use different names.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-revenue/

By what measure is Centene one of the US’s 25 largest corporations? Its way down at #519 in global market cap rankings, which means it is nowhere near top 25 in the US by market cap. It has $157B in revenue, so maybe that gets it close to top 25, though I still doubt it. It has less than 70k employees, which is not near top 25 either. And there are 5 other managed care organizations (aka health insurers) doing more business than Centene (UNH, Elevance, CVS, Cigna, and Humana).

It has miniscule profit margins (1.56%) because it is paying out almost all of its revenue to healthcare providers (90% medical loss ratio).

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CNC/centene/profit...

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/centene-medicaid-redeter...

If this business approved more claims or paid more for the claims, it would either go out of business or become a charity. Or it would have to increase premiums.
I genuinely find it interesting how these common establishments (theaters, restaurants, pubs, bars) evolve over time as the marketplace and available technology change.

When I was a kid, all the theater’s had small, sticky arcades. Nowadays, they have become bars in the lobby.
Most therapists don’t accept insurance. The problem then is that their services are expensive out-of-pocket.
Drug glands? George Alec Effinger, 'When Gravity Fails', 1986, https://archive.org/details/whengravityfails00effi/page/72/m...

> Bill selected a more subtle, more frightening bodmod: He had one of his lungs removed and replaced with a large, artificial gland that dripped a perpetual, measured quantity of some fourth-generation psychedelic drug into his bloodstream.

At some point you need to wonder what "idea" means, like, what is the idea of a GSV? A giant FTL vessel? The Death Star is one of those. In the Dr. Who episode 'The Pirate Planet' we find the planet they are on is actually a spaceship made of a hollowed-out planet.

Add enough qualifiers and eventually you get something unique.
My first thought was very disturbing, that they were bred by humans as pets.
Couldn't one simply make the boilerplate once, as a library, that takes the pertinent bits as arguments? In which case if your app is C anyways it would make sense to just keep it simple with that.
I wouldn't assume based on your sample. Most people start at the top so more of those would be filled. Businesses that add AAA to their name to appear at the top of the yellow pages are more likely to close.
Since the link above is for the "nice version", here's the link to the more colorful, not-so-nice version: https://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_o...
Is there an agreed part everyone leaves out, or can you just apply one patch to another patch to get a complete ROM?
Google Play Services, which is damn near essential these days, is not open source by any means.

They might have had a harder time applying pressure on carriers early in Android's lifetime, but there is so much momentum in the ecosystem now that they can do it easily IMO.
Canadian healthcare isn’t a monolith. It is managed at the provincial level, so it varies between the provinces, I suspect this comment is more of political jab than a cohesive critique of the dozen or so systems at play. Glad for you to clarify your meaning though.

That said, my experience in BC is that my tax burdens are much, much lower than my tax burden + insurance cost in the states. I’ve never had issues accessing healthcare in a way that impacted my health (which is not true in the states), although I have had to wait, since it is a triage system based on need, rather than ability to pay.
Well, thing is, most people can't.

In a lawyers view, and a judge's view, some skilled expert "hackers" can, and its called hacking. (so i guess we're all hackers)

I once discussed these things with a (knowledgeable) lawyer. He explained you can just present almost anhthing in a court case, and when it isn't refuted, well then it's valid.

In a case my lawyer (same one) presented a printed out email. Other party did not claim it was false, so it's suddenly just as valid as a registered letter. (it was a genuine email).

In another unrelated case, the other party suddenly introduced a forged picture. If I hadn't been there at that moment (I wasn't supposed to actually), then suddenly it would have been proof.

Court cases are not about truth, and not about justice. They are about convincing the judge.
nice sample size of 1
Ah, it appears that curl-minimal became the default curl for Fedora recently. curl-full has to be installed for full functionality. I initially ignored it because I assumed the default was curl-full.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CurlMinimal_as_Defaul...

Curl devs are predictably not too happy about this change.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/16/fedora-and-curl-minim...
You had me a "Ultima-4 inspired game" :)

It's free, it plays like Ultima 4 but modern (nice colors, animations, more than 26 possible actions :) ). I think I'm in love.

Thank you for posting this!
The leaders at ambetter should be in jail. The world would be better off if they didn't exist.
Potosaurus?
> Nothing like this would ever happen in a Kaiser hospital.

Kaiser’s mental health services were so bad that their providers went on strike a couple years ago. They’re paid a fraction of what they could make in private practice.

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/kaiser-strike-mental-hea...
That looks like it!

Thanks.
Please elaborate a bit on real vs. perceived UI!
Oh yes, I remember dictionary servers. Also many other protocols.

What happened to all of those other protocols? Everything got squished onto http(s) for various reasons. As mentioned in this thread, corporate firewalls blocking every other port except 80 and 443. Around the time of the invention of http, protocols were proliferating for all kinds of new ideas. Today "innovation" happens on top of http, which devolves into some new kind of format to push back and forth.
I assume BCBS is Blue Cross Blue Shield; which is one of the largest insurers.

Can I ask how big is the city you live in (or near)? It seems like big cities have options, but small towns starve for medical help.
I think you are talking past each other.

The grandparent’s point was that these things retailed for lots of money when new, so they make the claim that the relatively small $250 LCD repair is reasonable.

I don’t agree that this is a logical conclusion to draw - anchoring on a 30 year old sale price seems self-evidently invalid.

All I was pointing out is these things did in fact retail for $X,000, regardless of the current value.
I don't think you know Kaiser very well. Kaiser's vertical integration is really good at some things, but the other edge of this sword is that if you need treatment in a specialty they're bad at, you're fucked: there's nowhere else to go because getting out-of-network care with Kaiser is nigh-impossible. And mental health is infamously one of the things Kaiser is very bad at. Their mental health coverage is so inadequate that if I was choosing between insurance providers I'd pick a different one for that reason alone.
> offer straight up good care and fuck the web of infinite regulations which support America's for profit health failur

they'd get immediately sued out of existence by the large vested interests
Synology uses it in production. At least for some features
It's common to hit similar road blocks when trying to get a primary care physician around here (and the in-network specialists won't see you without a referral from a primary care physician, rendering your health insurance worthless for non-emergency care).

The US really needs to get rid of the health insurance industry. Single payer would work as would standardized pricing combined with "if the doctor is licensed the insurance company must accept the bill".

Barring that, there should be SLAs regarding for one-shot online searches or one phone call lookup of in-network care providers.

For example, there could be a guarantee that the top three hits of at least 99% of such attempts each contain the phone number of a doctor's office that is accepting new patients and provides relevant care. If the insurance company falls below that bar, then it should have to refund all the premiums they collected that month (since there's no way to know which customers deferred care due to this bullshit), or be hit with some other fine that'd actually be material to their earnings.
When I first moved to the Netherlands, I had to visit a pharmacy to purchase insulin. I was prepared to spend nearly half my paycheck on a months supply and deal with the headache of not having a prescription on file before I’d established insurance.

I walked out the door with a box of Lantus pens having spent 80€. That would have cost me about $600 in the US at the time, if they’d even dispense to me without a prescription.
As far as psychiatric health goes, its highly variable. I have a friend that I talked to last night that is working with Medicaid to revamp how they bill this kind of stuff because a lot of it is rejected by insurance since it doesn't fit within a clearly covered area. Getting small areas or sustainable coverage established like this can sometimes be a path forward to broader adoption. But that's still pretty optimistic thinking
What you're paying for is the engineering effort that figured out how to put a more modern display in an old device. It's not an exact replacement. They tell you that. They even sell a new bezel to adapt this display to the old sampler. It's expensive because the market for this is tiny.

You can duplicate that effort. You can buy one, figure out what display they are using, and order more. You can order the bezel and duplicate it on a laser cutter.
Is it worth it?
I'd say it is close enough to be quite certain that cloning was the intent