skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They only hit the 80/20 because of the account-keeping shenanigans allowed by the PBM/manufacturer/plan negotiations. It would not surprise me if the rebate system were completely done away with and health plans had to spend the real amount compared to what they "spend" now, that premiums would go down and/or coverage would go up. I don't believe for a second that there are any such backroom negotiations involving a mostly-invisible 3rd party (the PBMs) that benefit patients in any way.
The fun of discovering size_t is defined differently on Apple Silicon.
In the US, Chicago is also like this. I've been to a "shopping mall" that had ten stores but was spread among four floors.

Makes it hard to believe Americans when they claim their city is "very dense" when it is mostly single story buildings surrounded by parking lots.
Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Emails Service?
I am looking for a balance between security, and easy of set up & maintenance.

Should I just go with proton mail? How secure is it?
> It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!)

"a few thousand days" is such a funny and fascinating way to say "about a decade"

Superficially, reframing it as "days" not "years" is a classic marketing psychology trick, i.e. 99 cents versus a dollar, but I think the more interesting thing is just the way it defamiliarizes the span. A decade means something, but "a few thousand days" feels like it means something very different.
It's about both, the toolchain and language is used by users, so there's no need for a toolchain (or indeed, any piece of software) that has no users. Or rather, I should amend my earlier point to be, of the languages that are generally used by people, ie are not niche, Rust has the best toolchain of them. I consider most MLs these days to be niche, for lack of multiple high profile projects in those languages.
> sitemap.xml spec already has fields for indicating the last time a page was changed

I did not know that bit! I'm considering adding this to my site now, because it sounds like it would save a lot of resources for everyone. Do (m)any crawlers use this information in your experience?
My condolences, I no longer live in an area controlled by the comcast empire, but I am familiar with your pain
> The Fury UGV you link to is a gun on wheels, which I see as infinitely more usable and viable than this Palletrone contraption.

Palletrone is by all means a demonstrator that the idea is possible, an utter MVP.

> And in cases where you would want flight capability, why wouldn't you just use a standard aerial drone (obviously used already to great effect in the Ukraine war)?

The key thing IMHO is the fusion of aerial and ground movement. A gun on wheels is nice but it's immediately stopped in its tracks by anything from swampy terrain ("rasputiza") over a random trench to hedgehogs [1], not to mention mines. Give it aerial capability, even if it's just enough to hop over a hedgehog or a smaller river, and the ability to defend itself while airborne, and the game becomes much more serious.

All you need to be is the first one to actually pull it off and hope it's enough of a surprise effect that the enemy gets hindered long enough that you can make some military gain out of it.

Side thought: I wonder how much downforce a drone can actually exert on the ground. Could a heavy enough drone with serious bottom armor be powerful enough to detonate anti-personnel mines without being endangered in the process?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_hedgehog
Same; my iPod Touch has a swolen internal battery, and local repair shop wants $150 to attempt replacement ("50% failure rate").
Would any development of it be impeded by Boeing, or Elon and SpaceX?
Friends don't let friends self host email
I bought the Prusa Mini+ kit. It was educational, but a few months later I upgraded to a Bambu Lab X1C. It’s a much more expensive machine, but the print quality and consistency are worth it.

With the Mini, I was hesitant to try things because I was afraid the prints would fail and I’d spend forever calibrating things. With the X1C, I can crank out prototype iterations as fast as I can design them.
High quality products result from the accumulation of fixes and polish. They also add new desirable features in response to user feedback.

Whether AI is used to write code is irrelevant to a product getting “better”. AI copilots can be used to bootstrap early stage concepts which might be unpolished, or can be used to add polish by writing bug fixes.

I neither subscribe to the mania around AI, nor do I think it will enshittify products. I believe it is just another tool that we can use.
I worked in the pricing team at the time. There was essentially no personalization. The biggest factors were your current location, where you're going, the time of the day, current demand level around you, and current supply of drivers around you. Promotions were slightly more personalized but battery level was not used.
I think Manuka Honey's claims to do anything that normal honey wouldn't do is bunk, but it seems to be relatively skin safe and tolerated so it's not harmful.

However, it seems to have a lower PH than regular honey and exhibits antibiotic properties (which most honey does as honey doesn't typically go bad), so maybe there are some topical applications that make sense for it.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/manuka-honey-benefits
There are raytracing tutorials going back to the early 1990's at least (because there is one in Graham's Ansi Common Lisp).

Here is one in Lisp I googled: http://www.ulisp.com/show?2NWA
As I said - I’m not using icloud.
In the U.S., civil cases are litigated by opposing attorneys in front of a judge, often without a jury, which differs from criminal cases led by prosecutors. Prosecutors (e.g., local DAs, AGs, DOJ) handle criminal trials, not civil ones like (usually) IP infringement.

If people are exploiting your work unfairly, it's on you to take legal action in civil court. Just be aware the statute of limitations is short (often 1-4 years depending on the state), so consult a real attorney quickly. (I'm not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advice!)
Magic keyboard:

2-finger trackpad swipe = browser back/forward
3-finger swipe = app previous/next
For a good levity injection attack, there is no known defense.
The model's arent there yet. I am confused how people cannot extrapolate into the future and understand that the models will improve
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

Google ignores the priority and change-frequency fields, but they do use the last-modified field to skip pulling pages which haven't changed since their crawler last visited. Not sure exactly which signals Bing uses but they definitely use last-modified as well.
> Permissive licenses give mega-corps (AWS,GCP,Azure) the ability to use software projects without contributing to it.

Use a copyleft license like (A)GPL then?

Look, if you want to license your software as "fair source" or whatever other non-free license that's your right, I just won't use your software. But don't pretend about the reasons for doing so - companies licensing their software this way are doing so to prevent competition, not because they want contributions.
Maybe the author is looking for Tinypod? It's got all the modern convenience and you can stream your music as well.

[0] https://thetinypod.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987402
Sorry I don't understand this
"the audio players available on the market today reflect that. They’re geared towards the audiophile niche and are often prohibitively expensive—even “affordable” picks from Sony or FIIO can run into the many hundreds of pounds."

That's not true. There are tons of "mp4" players on amazon that are under $50. They may n ot be as nice as an old ipod but cheap ones aren't exactly rare.
Nuclear is only 10 cents / kWh after the OEB has off-loaded all the costs for building and decommissioning to the federal and provincial governments.
Something I never considered, I wonder how clicking to be a human works for people with disabilities. There’s gotta be accessibility features there, and I bet bots are abusing them.
JellyFin is also inaccessible to the normal user.
Well that’s because Hugo is very simple to set up, there are lots of tutorials online about it, it hasn’t changed drastically in the past year and it’s mostly the same for different static site generators.

You won’t find that kind of ease of use with say webgpu+winit for building a small renderer in rust.
Self hosted - I went for mailu and it's very good:

https://mailu.io/

I didn't enable its Webmail feature though, so I have no idea if it's good or not. I just use Mail on iOS and macOS.
SeaORM is not typesafe, by design (and also uses sqlx itself as a dependency). Diesel can do dynamic queries too but it still remains completely typesafe.
It's not a pathetic reason. I'm 100% on Mullenweg's side here. The DNA of WordPress is to keep revisions of everything.

You may not care about the history of your website, many people do.
> This feels like a step down the path to a world where the majority of websites use sophisticated security products that gatekeep access to those who pay and those who don't

... and that future has been a long time coming. People who want an alternative to advertising-supported online content? This is what that alternative looks like. Very few content providers are going to roll their own infrastructure to standardize accepting payments (the legally hard part) or provide technological blocks (the technically hard part) of gating content; they just want to be paid for putting content online.
I think there might be a little different.

New developers with higher level tools don't seem to go low level enough.

And as a result some very talented developers are caught up in the crosswinds of complexity to make things like React deliver html/css, or get people to click on ads, and that same intellect and talent could definitely go towards the meaningful open-source that contributed to them getting access to a lot of opportunities.
I just had a brief stab at this using OpenSCAD. The bottom curves are tricky (and of course OpenSCAD's lack of bevels and fillets is a pain), but it seems doable--given time.
I've given a ton of thought to buying an old iPod and setting it up for modern usage, largely inspired by this blog post: https://ellie.wtf/ipod/

The author is a bit wrong about one thing, in that you can add Bluetooth capability, though it does require a headphone jack to Bluetooth adapter.

In the end I didn't go the iPod route, but instead repurposed an old Samsung S9 with the sim removed. It's got an SD card slot so it can go about as big as I want it, and I can use apps that are better tailored to what's at end, such as podcasts, audiobooks, or music.

The only problem is that the battery isn't as good as an iPod would be. But with no data connection, I can still get a few days when I'm using it on a long trip, and I just use the same charger as my phone.
Glue in an iPhone impacts (for sure indirectly) more people than a cathedral ever would.
From a technical perspective, the iPod made more sense twenty years ago. Mobile data was measured in the kilobytes per second and priced in the dollars per kilobyte. You can download your songs on a wired connection, load 'em up, and take it with you. Today? Wireless data is pretty cheap and abundant. Less trouble managing your music library, more picking stuff from an always-available convenient menu.
A complete tangent, but I think a big reason why I'm kind of dismissive of AI is because people who speculate on what it would enable make it honestly sound kind of unimaginative.

> AI models will soon serve as autonomous personal assistants who carry out specific tasks on our behalf like coordinating medical care on your behalf.

I get it, coordinating medical care is exhausting, but it's kind of amusing that rather than envisioning changing a broken system people instead envision AIs that are so advanced that they can deal with the complexity of our broken systems, and in doing so potentially preserve them.

Related btw to using AI for code.
It's the common (mis)conception that self hosting email is impossible. That's not true though. Better be careful with your IP reputation but aside from that, it's definitely possible. I've been self hosting e-mail since 2000.
He didn't choose to keep it open source. He has no choice unless he tracks down all the contributors back to B2 and gets them to assign copyright. This would be the most controversial thing he's done so far and likely lead to a fork. That's the point of a license like GPL.
The growth in renewables can not meet their demands, fusion is a moonshot that probably will not happen, nuclear takes too long to build. Where will the energy come from if not fossil fuels?
Idiomatic maybe in alt right circles. I've never seen anyone else use it as a figure of speech like this
Who exactly is he pitching here?
> debugger is not intentionally made unavailable

> rather the "properietary" one

The fact that it is proprietary intentionally makes it unavailable for use outside of Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio - this actually caused debugging to be unavailable in Rider for a while a few years ago before they built their own.
And why can't I play the audio in the background? These decisions make zero sense.
Welcome to Hardware Design! The open-source toolchains come from hell. The closed-source options are supremely expensive and not much better

They don't call it EasyWare
There are three goals from this strategy.
1) Protect domestic electric car companies. (100% tariffs is an example of same)
2) Protect us consumers privacy from a country that believes privacy is for the wicked.
3) Protect national security by preventing deployment of technology controlled by an adversarial state.

I acknowledge that the move hinders a transition to electric vehicles and a greening of the grid. It’s a violation of free market principles in that a better product is available for cheaper and this prevents the best and cheapest electric cars from making it to the US market.

However, the other two goals are also legitimate. China does have a terrible track record for privacy. And running millions of computers on wheels fully controlled by an adversarial state (as is required under Chinese law) is bad strategy.
Your right - our current grid can't support this.

That means a ton of new power generation will need to come online. Last year > 85% of new utility scale power facilities was renewable in the US, solar is finally cheaper than natural gas.

The most likely outcome is that the new power demand will drive this cost down even further.
Wow this looks so good, do you insert the phone with the case still on it?
It's acceptable, but suspicious. Two standard deviations away from the median browser (and a lot more like the configuration of a scraper, which would get reloaded in some Docker instance frequently with a fresh empty cookie jar because storing data costs infrastructure).
My mom would buy me these because she loved hearing me laughing hysterically.
Have your cake and eat it too

https://github.com/m0ngr31/jellypod
A solution, funny enough, is to get a cheap android phone and don't connect it to a network. It's inexpensive, the storage is expandable, you can still get Spotify et.al. installed and running on it, it provides USB-C and bluetooth, and some models even offer balanced headset outputs (Moondrop MIAD01).

The downside is that you're carrying an extra device with very little real utility outside of playing music... which almost every phone can do. And since I already have a phone as part of my EDC, I sold the MIAD01, which did made me sad because I loved the idea but I never really found a usecase for it. Even the balanced headset outputs were done as well by a FIIO bluetooth headset adapter.
I agree it's not as arduous. But I feel the concept is still similar.

In the case of leetcode, it's not limited to people out of university either. Mid career professionals are just as exposed to them as fresh grads.

I know many senior and staff level SWEs who grinded leetcode for years to land their FAANG level job (or gave up trying midway).
Tiny Glade Now Available on Steam: Built in Rust and Bevy ECS
Ask HN: If you went to a conference and got one of these woould you like it?
Conferences give out things to commemorate you going to them and to remind you that you had a good time there (hopefully!) and to consider going again next year. I've been to a lot of conferences over the years and some have given out bags, Microprocessor forum use to give out notebooks with dies embedded in the cover. But I've never seen a conference give out an anti-static jacket. Given that the conference I'm thinking about has a very hands on maker type feel to it (although not strictly electronics) I'm wondering how someone would feel getting such a jacket as the thank you gift, especially if they didn't think of themselves as a an electronics person.

https://www.techni-tool.com/category/Apparel/Smocks-Coats-And-Jackets?page=1&brandIds=78585e21-b1ea-4ab8-9cbd-add40052818c
Probably because we all know "a decade" means maybe never. They've said the same thing about fusion for 5 decades.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_order
China I’m sure would much prefer to have access to the US car market.
Thanks! I understand better now.

And that cheat sheet PDF is cool, exactly what I was looking for. Any chance you are aware of something similar for x64? Thanks.
Harrison Bergeron but for AI
I think it overwhelmingly feeds into FOMO, but otherwise most people would be much better off with personal music collections.

I pretty much grew up streaming music on YouTube, Pandora, and Spotify. About 4 years ago I decided to drop Spotify cold turkey, and have been building a music collection since. I have already spent less on music than I would have in the same period on a Spotify subscription on a collection of music I love enough to have specifically purchased. I will also never have this music taken away from me, unlike music on Spotify which may be removed against my will.
> I don't know how he's conned so many people into believing he is a genuinely good person that makes good content.

A lot of people seem to genuinely believe that he is really doing good for the world and purely out of good will — these people literally believe what they see on camera and they don’t think twice about why someone would ensure that every act of philanthropy _must_ be on camera (MrBeast has said that on many occasions and even wrote it down).
When working on GPU code there’s really two parts to it, I feel. One is “how do I even write code for the GPU” which this tutorial seems to cover but there’s a second part which is “how do I write good code for the GPU” which seems like it would need another resource or expansion to this one.
What you propose is making the web worse for everyone, instead of a minority of users (AI agents)
We also personify synapses and axons in human brain tissue, though. My point is, while I agree with your first sentence to a degree, we shouldn’t judge the whole solely by its elementary parts. Clearly an LLM exhibits very different behavior from a conventional database.
More easily clickable link: https://www.techni-tool.com/category/Apparel/Smocks-Coats-An...
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Telegram's Privacy Mirage: Why You Should Stop Using It Now
What was the EPA source/supplement, if you don’t mind?
I think it’s fair for the creator of the product (WP) to criticize competition that undermines a feature he considers important to him. He also makes a very important point about WPEngine not contributing back to the AGPLv2 codebase you are talking about.
by, not from.
https://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Online/100-F...

https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf

Welcome to the anxiety party, it sucks in here. As someone who's been working on AI theory full time for ~1 year, I desperately wish we could go back to the days of my faraway youth (5 years ago) before intuition was cracked on accident by spellcheck algorithms. I agree with him that it holds the key to massive prosperity, but selfishly, it's gonna upend my life and the lives of everyone I love. Already has for me, as I grapple with how to (ethically) pay rent while spending all day lighting the Warning Beacons of Gondor...

The only real answer, IMHO, is to vote for political systems that put control of society (and AI) in the hands of the public. Call it socialism, call it Georgism, call it anarcho-free-market-space-communism, call it whatever you want; there's no way that "a tiny number of people have immense inherited power" (capitalism) and "people fundamentally understand themselves as members of a tribe put in opposition to all other tribes by default" (nationalism) mesh well with an intelligence explosion.

Here's to hoping the haters are right, and we all turn out to be wrong! I'll be thrilled if Sam Altman is just a rich company leader in 10 years, and intuitive algorithms are still confined to direct usage (chatbots).
Is there a modern replacement for the Sansa Clip Zip?

Tiny screen, micro SD slot, and great battery life. Rockbox flashable would be a big plus.
For somebody who likes building things and has many side projects Claude and ChatGPT have been huge productivity multipliers.

For example, I’m designing and 3D printing custom LED diffuser channels from TPU filament. My first attempt was terrible, because I didn’t have an intuition for how light propagates through a material.

After a bit of chatting with ChatGPT, I had an understanding and some direction of where to go.

To actually approach the problem properly I decided to run some Monte Carlo light transport simulations against an .obj of my diffuser exported from Fusion 360.

The problem was, the software I’m using only supports directional lights with uniform intensity, while the LEDs I’m using have a graph in their datasheet showing light intensity per degree away from orthogonal to the LED SMD component.

I copy pasted the directional light implementation from the light transport library as well as the light-intensity-by-degree chat from the LED datasheet and asked Claude to write code to write a light source that samples photons from a disc of size x with the probability of emission by angle governed by the chat from the datasheet.

A few iterations later and I had a working simulation which I then verified back against the datasheet chart.

Without AI this would have been a long long process of brushing up on probability, vector math, manually transcribing the chart.

Instead in like 10 minutes I had working code and the light intensity of the simulation against my mesh matched what I was seeing in real life with a 3D printed part.
This is a "both things are true" situation.

There is a group working to smear Nix, Eelco, and everyone related to the project who are now playing the innocent victims and pretending they didn't sign a letter that started with the words "Eelco Dolstra’s leadership is corrosive to the Nix project." This is where people citing GH issue templates that contain "blabla" reinforces the narrative that the people who were working with Puck to solve the issue before she dropped a zero-day in public are somehow irresponsible. It is just that - a narrative. Everyone cannot stop staring at the sheer amount of narcissism on display in support of this narrative.

The grain of truth is that it's probably not Puck's fault, and the security disclosure process could also be improved since it's evident a ball was accidentally dropped somewhere. More points of constant contact involved in solving these problems are good for everyone.