skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in 2023 BCBS had an operating margin of 1% in one of the states i looked at, 0% in another, in california seems to be around 2%. they don’t operate with crazy profits, and insurance is HEAVILY regulated anyway.

i expect better from HN
9-5 is for amateurs, I prefer 9-11
Yea seeing the same thing. Makes code review a lot harder to do because the bugs are often a lot more subtle.
Buno: Personal App Studio on iOS – Build Private, Low-Code Apps
I'm excited to share Buno, a passion project I've been working on this year. Buno is an iOS app that reimagines mobile programming, aiming to make coding on your iPhone not just possible, but enjoyable.

Key features:

- Innovative UI designed specifically for mobile screens
- Visual UI building with minimal code required
- Flexible code integration: Write expressions or snippets across different parts of your app

While Buno isn't the first mobile programming tool, I believe its approach offers a fresh perspective. The goal is to create a seamless experience that bridges the gap between mobile interfaces and coding.

I have many ideas for Buno's future, and I'm eager to hear your thoughts. What features would you like to see? How could Buno fit into your workflow?
Try it out and let me know what you think. Your feedback is invaluable in shaping Buno's development.

I'm looking forward to your insights and suggestions!
>I doubt it's much harder to sell a 600k house than a 300k house

It's not about the price per se, it's about the house. If median income in an area is such that the $600k house is "luxury" then it is going to be a lot harder sell. Or for example, I've got a property right now at $559K that is extremely unique and needs probably $150K+ worth of work - so there it sits. Meanwhile, sometimes those $300K houses are super hard to sell if they need a new roof, new HVAC, etc but no one in the area has the $15K it is going to take to actually do the updates because they have just barely enough cash to make the down payment.

I feel like I need to comment here that just because $600K is the cost of a shoebox in a place like Silicon Valley doesn't mean that it isn't a lot of money in many other markets. There are many places in this country where $10K or so in needed repairs to a home might truly be a breaking point for some people.
It requires deployment either way. The largest ships we have that go to the moon are no larger than those going to orbit.
Pullpu.sh – Revolutionizing Solo Web Development
Hey everyone,

My name is Para, I’m a young fullstack solopreneur from France, and today I want to talk to you about pullpu.sh, a project that means a lot to me.

I’ve been passionate about development from a young age. But the more I dive into this field, the more I realize we’re often limited by the same old tools, the same frameworks, and the same approaches. You know, that mudslide that Next.js has become? Well, it’s time to break out of that monotony.

pullpu.sh is my attempt to bring something fresh to web development. I’ve been exploring cutting-edge technologies like Bun and Elysia, which are still under-documented but packed with potential. I wanted to create a modern, versatile full-stack starter kit that helps developers build any type of application quickly and efficiently. No more conforming to the standards of one big platform!

I designed pullpu.sh to be flexible, modular, and easy to get started with. It includes everything you need to start coding right away: Stripe integration, OAuth2, theme management, translations, everything is ready to go. My goal? To save you time so you can focus on what really matters: your ideas.

I’m convinced the web is evolving fast, and those who adopt these new technologies early will have a real advantage. pullpu.sh is my way of contributing to that, hoping that it will help you accelerate your projects and explore new technical horizons.

If you're tired of following the herd and ready to try something different, I invite you to check out pullpu.sh tomorrow on Product Hunt. Together, we can bring some fresh air into this developer world that's saturated with the same tools.

Thanks to everyone for your support, and I can’t wait to hear what you think!

PH : https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pullpu-sh
I had to switch to go at work recently. I'm having a difficult time with it. I keep listening for what it might teach me, but it has nothing to say, and since it has nothing to say, I can't anticipate its direction. All of its design decisions seem arbitrary because I can't figure out what its goals are.

Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and the light will shine down on me and I'll understand. But from where I'm sitting right now, the lesson go has for us is:

> Look around, the hell you see... that's about as good as it gets. There's no point in trying to find a better way, so here's the best way to not bother trying.

The author seems to think that the aspirations of more interesting languages are vanities of some sort. Like they're saying "look at me I'm <buzzword>!". But if you study the way people from different language communities behave... it would seem that whatever the buzzword is, it's actually having a significant affect on how they think and how much they enjoy coding. I don't know why you'd withdraw from that.
I think GNU iconv also internaly uses Unicode although the interface does not require it (so it would be possible to modify the implementation so that a direct conversion (without going through Unicode, unless you are deliberately converting from or to Unicode) will be used if possible, without changing the interface).

A better way to handle conversion of character encoding is: Each character encoding will be a specific character set, and the encoding and decoding function. And then, there can be conversion between character sets. A direct conversion would normally be better (if it is available), although sometimes an indirect conversion would also be possible. (To convert JIS to TRON, an indirect conversion is unlikely to be useful, but a direct conversion is not too difficult (I have implemented it before) and would be much more useful.)

Furthermore, there may be more than one way to convert between character sets, depending on the application and on other things, including what character properties are intended, etc. There are also sometimes other options desired, e.g. how to handle conversion of invalid encodings, invalid code points, ambiguous conversions, multiple ways to encode a sequence of characters (although there may be one "canonical" way), etc.

(There is also the question of if you need to convert the character sets at all (in some cases only the encoding needs to be converted); for example, if you have fonts with the proper character set already, then a conversion may be unnecessary. Nevertheless, the ability to convert is useful, so it is helpful to have programs that do so, for the cases where it is helpful to do the conversion.)

I will look at them more later (I have not had time to look at them thoroughly by now, but I had partially done), to see if I can contribute support for TRON (and possibly other character sets). Depending on how it is implemented, it might be easy or difficult to change it to do such things.
Same as eggs, butter, meat, etc, etc. The only constant seems to be that refined carbs are basically prepackaged obesity if you’re lucky or diabetes if you aren’t.
I don't have any insight into this other than observing how their storage system works, but here's some scripts I made last year to test:

https://github.com/bdon/cloudflare-r2-latency
This is amazing. Seriously, more things should be custom-coded. Why not?
In a previous interview (several years ago) Linus said "there are at least a dozen people who can take over tomorrow if I get hit by a bus", or something to that effect. I don't think there's a specific concrete plan.

Realistically, what will probably happen is that all the core maintainers will end up in a big room and discuss what to do next. Maybe they will do something with white smoke from a chimney. It's also very possible the nature of the leadership will change, rather than a simple s/Linus/…/.
That’s who came to mind when I wrote the comment.
Modd.io [0] is a great platform that's relatively easy to get into and start making games. I suspect it would be a fairly good entry point for kids and it has the added benefit that your child can share the games they're making with their friends to play together live.

They have fairly good documentation [1] and if videos are more your child's thing, the founder/developer is incredibly active on YouTube and posts videos [2] and live streams fairly regularly.

They also have templates for a good number of different game types/modes that you can start off with, eg. platformer, tower defense, car racing, MMORPG, etc.

[0] https://www.modd.io/

[1] https://learn.modd.io/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@baldgamedev/videos
Yes: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYRDoy8XgAE1CuR?format=jpg&name=...
The Rust team is not "falling apart". The article specifically says it's not. One person left. Many people leave projects for many different reasons.
I do the opposite, it feels like everything I do is not important, and I have to find something more important to do (and I end up doing nothing). This applies to programming, cleaning, visiting with family, scrolling online. It doesn't happen so much when running or walking, I feel content in that situation, and it doesn't happen when I'm working and have set tasks to do (physical, non-tech work). So it appears that choice is the main issue.

I've heard parents say that had similar issues before having a child, but the urgency and the lack of time gave them a purpose and single direction.
> RAII and smart pointers and borrow checker are all signs of "individual element thinking"

I'd call it object-oriented thinking. To me Rust and modern C++ are attempting to "OO-ify" systems programming and I think you get push back from folks who view their resources more holistically.
If public transportation is beneficial to a city, you've already missed the ideal mark by a long shot. The ideal city has no need for movement of people over distances where mechanical movement is the only practical option.
He used his reputation and statistical expertise to mislead the world as to the true prevalence (COVID infection rate) and supported the fantasies of Bhattacharya, Kulldorff and Gupta. It is hard to estimate what effect his misinformation had on COVID control measures, and there was no shortage of attention seeking clowns, but he stepped up to the plate and he can take credit for some of the millions of deaths. It was scientific misconduct but his position shields him from consequences.
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> UBI means you don't have to be productive or take any risks.

And that's a great thing. My comment is about what it allows people to do and what they can do, not about forcing them to do anything.

If some subset of people choose to relax, temporarily or otherwise, rather than go work a low-paying job, so be it. That's not just an "acceptable negative", that's a positive, that people can do that.

UBI shouldn't be set at a level that makes it comfortable to have zero income forever. UBI should be set at a level that makes it reliably survivable to have zero income. There will always be incentives to work, and there will always be people who choose not to, and both of those things are fine.

> properly managed jobs programs

The difference I was highlighting between UBI and a jobs program is precisely that UBI doesn't require defining what qualifies as a job, and supports trying novel things that don't immediately pay out enough to support you. You don't need make-work jobs, you don't have the problem of people being automated out of a job (so automation is much more often a good thing), you have a massive renaissance in startups and ventures of all sorts, you have lower administrative costs because you don't have means testing or ...

All the cases of people suddenly finding themselves with an obsolete skillset? They'd be able to afford to take a year off to reinvent themselves and become more productive again, rather than having to immediately jump on whatever work they can get.

> and is more tractable

I've seen many cases made that UBI is an easier sell across the political spectrum than jobs programs or welfare programs would be. Lower administrative costs, smaller public sector, net win for the economy, higher likelihood of more people becoming more successful and depending on it less...
The app is a repository of artist-submitted and curated wallpapers. The app allows for SD downloads, but you have to watch 2 ads, or HD downloads if you have a subscription ($12/month or $50/year).

The pushback is due to multiple factors:

- Quite a few of the wallpapers are simple gradients, and one is just the color orange. So they don't quite feel "curated".

- The app asks for some unnecessary permissions (cross-app/site tracking, and location tracking).

- The app doesn't look to be something that was actually made by MKBHD and his team. It's had an online presence since 2021. To many, it feels like he just bought it, slapped his name on it, and is using his "brand" to push an inferior product.
ATM Greg KH would probably take over (since he's already done it once before). I doubt he's the last in the line of succession though
Google funding is a positive signal?

https://killedbygoogle.com/
LLMs no good for you?
High-end enterprise NVMe SSDs also commonly come in dual-port versions, where instead of a PCIe x4 link the drive has two PCIe x2 links over the same connector.
like which?
Exercise extreme caution.

Having your security strategy rely on quirky behaviors of an implementation detail which might change is incredibly dangerous.
SUPARCO is Pakistan's space agency, but it lacks independent orbital launch capability. PAKSAT-1R, a communication satellite, was launched by China using a Long March 3B rocket in 2011.
clojure.gdx – DSL for writing games
I think the point is that maybe you shouldn't. (i'm not agreeing or disagreeing with that position).

If you used a distro that provided multiple versions of something and kept them up to date or used nix or guix you wouldn't have this problem at all.
The credits are structured to bring battery and EV manufacturing on-shore, which is pretty crucial to the US for a bunch of reasons. They require a percentage of the battery materials to come from the US or allied nations, and final manufacturing to be done here. Some Tesla vehicles initially didn’t qualify because they were made in China. As of July of this year I believe all Teslas except for one model are now eligible for the full credit.

ETA: As I recall, Tesla had used up its $7500 credits from previous legislation (prior to the IRA) because they had sold so many cars. The new legislation restored the full $7500 and was basically a gift to Tesla in that sense. Turning this into a victim story for Tesla really does not make sense.
Unless if you only have enough available credit for a couple of purchases (e.g. maybe your first credit card or bad credit credit card), this distinction is pointless. Almost no fraud will touch the thousands of dollars of available credit, especially if on different or multiple cards.

Losing some available credit is not even a nuisance for most people who have any semblance of decent credit history.

Regardless, your last paragraph is also wrong. If the price is same when using a debit or credit card, it's better to use the credit card. You can keep the money in your account (and could be used in event of emergencies) and also earn interest until statement due date. There are no fees or interest when you pay your statement balance in full every month, which means you've gained 5% interest for about a month's worth of credit spending in your HYSA for the same price.
Thanks for giving it a try! If you're going to revisit this, we could improve the docs around setting CORS configuration on DigitalOcean: https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cloud-storage#digitalocea...
Just in case anyone wondered Mostek (designers of the MK6010 "calculator on a chip") is a completely different company from MOS Technology (designers of the 6502 processor). I used to find this confusing.
They haven't yet, but given the situation, if other open-source foundations, controlled by corporations like Automattic, start acting this way, it sets a dangerous precedent. Open source is like free speech—you can't support free speech and then suddenly claim it's only for you, not for others. Automattic's main argument seems to be, "But they're private equity baddies."
Same thing will happen as happened when OpenBSD team fell apart.
This link is about consumer products, not about technical projects.

If you believe Android will be killed soon, sure. I do not.
BlackRock: The Conspiracies You Don't Know [video]
I think social media and pop journalists flip flop on those issues, but the converging lines of evidence over the last half century have not.

It just seems like the evidence is back and forth when one tweet summarizes a mendelian randomization study on LDL cholesterol and CVD outcomes, and then the next tweet is a guy with one million followers explaining how butter cures cancer. But it shouldn't be very confusing once you filter out the latter in favor of the former.
You can buy, for example, literally millions of dollars of corporate bonds for “The smaller of $250 or 1% of Trade Value” at IB.

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/pricing/commissions-bo...

The real estate market is still largely price fixed and quite inefficient.
Not OP, but what game changing uses are you finding for LLMs? I mostly find they're good for brainstorming ideas of activities to do, asking "is there a thing like this and what is it called", and writing trite correspondence to acquaintances. It's useful for me but hardly life changing.
Wait, is this blog actually about how to introduce a backdoor into your Postgres install by rolling your own very bad rng?
I got access to the Advanced Voice mode a couple of hours ago and have started testing it. (I had to delete and reinstall the ChatGPT app on my iPhone and iPad to get it to work. I am a ChatGPT Plus subscriber.)

In my tests so far it has worked as promised. It can distinguish and produce different accents and tones of voice. I am able to speak with it in both Japanese and English, going back and forth between the languages, without any problem. When I interrupt it, it stops talking and correctly hears what I said. I played it a recording of a one-minute news report in Japanese and asked it to summarize it in English, and it did so perfectly. When I asked it to summarize a continuous live audio stream, though, it refused.

I played the role of a learner of either English or Japanese and asked it for conversation practice, to explain the meanings of words and sentences, etc. It seemed to work quite well for that, too, though the results might be different for genuine language learners. (I am already fluent in both languages.) Because of tokenization issues, it might have difficulty explaining granular details of language—spellings, conjugations, written characters, etc.—and confuse learners as a result.

Among the many other things I want to know is how well it can be used for interpreting conversations between people who don’t share a common language. Previous interpreting apps I tested failed pretty quickly in real-life situations. This seems to have the potential, at least, to be much more useful.
Why are you posing criticizing MS vs Google as a dichotomy? Both are a piece of shit, MS even to this day. nabla9 is absolutely right, read the history.
A large enough number of them do, which does not fix the problem completely but makes it more manageable through other strategies.
I used to browse this website on my grandparents' dialup in like 2004 and I swear it looks the same as it did back then. It still brings the good feelings.
UUID v6 isn’t going to change. There’s a reason we have seven of them now. And v8, which would warrant your warning.
I'd rather work fast food than Canonical, you dodged a bullet.
The rich people probably already own their home.
The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP
If it were a product or merely a project, you would be correct. But, open source software has too many users who think they are owed free features as it is. What's more, there's a high possibility that people on this particular forum actually have the skills to implement a proper PR. Finally, their comment clearly wasn't meant as a dismissive counter request but rather as an invitation for mutual excitement, and even an admission that the criticism was correct, but would be better served on the Github repository.
This feels like a feature, not a product. Suoabase has this and this is making its way into other editions like Table Plus. Unsure why anyone would pay just for this.
Does Rust support the same range of architectures as C? Or is there some way to compile Rust to C to support weird obscure systems?

Forgive me if this is something commonly known by the people involved. It just strikes me as the most obvious objection to Rust in the kernel and I haven't seen any explanation of what's going to happen.
Your unblocking is rate limited, just as blocking is now. They keep changing the rate limit, but at one point it was 100/day. Unblocking en masse is possible with a chrome extension but you'll have to run it multiple times over days.
Sorta but not really.

For one, which large cities in NA have any of that? They've got buildings that are not new all over.

Also, what is "new"? I've lived in buildings built in the last 10-15 years that were definitely still paper thin.

Heck we have several tens of meters between us and the neighbors house and we can hear them sometimes.

The other thing is for example balconies. There's not a thermal or insulated wall new building thing in the world that is gonna save you from your downstairs neighbor chain smoking on the balcony all hours of the day. You can't sit outside in the afternoon or on the weekend enjoying life. You can't sleep with the window open (fresh cool air required for proper sleep).

At least because you live in a city without cars you can have the window open during the night without noise pollution, right? We'll sorta because the neighborhood youth is out three stories below, gathering and having "fun" while you are trying to get the baby go to sleep before you yourself pass out from exhaustion. All the while annoying the elderly couple three balconies over with baby cries yourself.
Clinical trials in general are extremely, extremely above board. The level of scrutiny is extreme, and the stakes are unbelievably high for pharma companies and the individuals involved. There are better ways for an unscrupulous pharma co to gain an edge.

That said, wonder drugs are few and far between. The GLPs are at least a once-in-a-decade breakthrough, so that’s probably most of the noise you’re hearing (there are a lot of brand names already).