skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I obviously don’t know the specifics, but US healthcare plans only let you change during specific enrollment periods or qualifying life events. It’s possible he wasn’t able to.

Additionally, it sounds like he picked what appeared to be the best rated plan available to him on the market. Others may have been even worse or prohibitively expensive.
https://www.rust-lang.org/learn
and there is a whole official book with detail explanation and first principles about what you ask.

Learn to use obvious "entrypoints" first which are cmdline help, manpages, and official web documentation instead of searching the web first. Those TONS of tutorials about embedded rust are uninformative at best and actively harmful at worst.

If you plan to use Cortex M based microcontrollers then there is rtic.rs async framework / RTOS. It could teach even 95% C programmers how hopelessly underused/misused NVIC in those core usually are.

Then if you need drivers with bells and whistles there is another async framework / RTOS called embassy-rs but you can combine those drivers and subsystems with rtic.rs async engine.

EDIT: Don't imagine async engine on MCU as some costly abstraction. It's zero cost abstraction for embassy-rs when compared to traditional RTOSes and negative cost for rtic.rs since traditional RTOSes does not use dedicated hardware machinery for scheduling which is present in Cortex M cores.
A possible later Stone Age painting of a dicynodont from the South African Karoo
In Paris, a city that for the past 5 years has greatly reduced car usage (with an "anti-car agenda" as this "article" calls it), has seen emergency response time decreased because ambulances can use cycling lanes:

Source: https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/a-paris-le-delai-dinterve...
This is impressive, especially that it's fully in C.

I'm wondering, can you debug C apps on Android?
Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is essential if you're interested in this stuff.
There are hundreds of standards for the pinout, then there are dozens of standards for the bus, then there are hundreds of standards for the display commands.
"Your health is low. Do you have any potions? Or food?"
Oh yeah I remember 3Mix. It's got some incredibly interesting mechanics and world themes, and it felt like a huge step forward for the Mario 3 hacking scene.

I also interviewed its developer at one point too:

https://gamingreinvented.com/interview/lets-interview-super-...

(also did the same for the creator of the hack mentioned in this post too)
Agree with all of that.

2020 happened though. Why do you physically need to meet your cofounder? Maybe make a million then treat yourself to go see them!
11 houses doesn’t make starlink congestion.
That I agree, finding your cofounder by doing side projects while already in a stable living situation (college or employed) is a super good move.
By "tech people", I mean "people who enjoy tinkering", like playing legos

In opposition with people who enjoy taking a product of the shelf and call it a day

But you are right: this is my opinion, not a fact
I did as well. My cousin passed away in his early 30s from alcoholism - this story hit close to home.
Hi @FL33TW00D, thanks for the CSV and the data compilation and sorting work.

Do you care how the file is used? Personal / Professional? Sales like a printed nerd dictionary with public domain images? Is there a license or something similar?

Reaching out per: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61026720/the-default-lic...

Because apparently Gists do not have default licenses.

Other: Its cool, and while having read a bunch of sci-fi over the years, there's still a huge amount I haven't seen or interacted with. However, it almost begs that "Why would you do that?" image meme from online.

Story about why you compiled a ~4000 line CSV of sci-fi ideas?
Waiting on many things at once with io_uring
You have the choice of a couple of large companies that will deny every claim always for any reason, and a few smaller players who no doctor in your area has heard of or can accept payment from.

So yeah, you have a 'choice'
Yes I know it’s hard to cancel outside of enrollment periods, you can still have multiple

Adding in the last minute flights and commitments throughout this article, I would say for other people that at some point the calculus can be re-evaluated to find that paying the premiums would be worth it. The loved ones can pay for that instead of last minute flights and time off
Sorry for this, glad to see it worked for you in the end!

https://meet.hn/city/3.0991919,101.7374229/Kuala-Lumpur
Hands down the worst and most stressful part of living in America, and the only reason I - a child of immigrants who are grateful to have built a life here - would consider moving somewhere else
Eh, 99.9% of fan projects are left alone. The worries about takedowns are seriously overblown alone, even for the likes of Nintendo properties like Mario, Zelda and Pokemon.

There have been projects and sites for those games online for over a decade without any issue, and ones played by hundreds of YouTubers that didn't have anything happen to them.
> If you wrote it on a PC and tried to read it on a Mac, though, it wouldn't work unless back on the PC you checked a button that said you wanted the file to be readable on a Mac. (Why wouldn't you? Seriously, why wouldn't you?)

As a non-SWE, whenever I see checkboxes to enable options that maximize compatibility, I often assume there’s an implicit trade-off, so if it isn’t checked by default, I don’t enable such things unless strictly necessary. I don’t have any solid reason for this, it’s just my intuition. After all, if there were no good reasons not to enable Mac compatibility, why wouldn’t it be the default?

Edit: spelling error with “implicit”
InstaDeep became Africa's biggest AI startup success,acquired by BioNTech
Steelmanning the OP (which I’m not sure I agree with), it’s possible they are alluding to regulatory capture, implying the laws are crafted to benefit for-profit companies first and patients second.

However, I’m not sure going in the direction of less regulation would help. It’s like saying “The for-profit healthcare companies have too much power, so let’s just give them more power.”
Apple is trying to reduce the number of required connected wires at any given time. Obviously you have to recharge at some point, but another way to minimize it is to refuse to operate when plugged in. That's all Apple did - it was deliberate, not some "horrible design mistake".

You're welcome to disagree with the premise that fewer wires is better. I personally like their opinions but definitely not for everyone.
You can now move to McMurdo Station if you want. Or anywhere else supported by openstreetmap!
Great read Yuval, thanks!
Unlocking the Power of Efficient Vector Search in RAG Application
I can't even get angry at that, because it seems like just another popular business pattern:

* build a nice product

* become popular and gain trust with customers

* sell the company to a scammer

* profit!
Delete Your Backlog
I genuinely did not know that the acronym had another use, apologies. Apparently Wikipedia thinks it can refers to Server Messaging Block, Super Mario Bros 3 or Super Mega Baseball 3:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMB3
My impression from a small project needing a OAuth scope was that the UI of GCP was sluggish, and although the other providers have sometimes sluggish UIs Google's was uniquely so. Anyone else feel this way?

Example is a sidebar that opens for adding an email during OAuth flow, after adding it clicking "Add" once did nothing, there was no feedback. Had to click it at least 5 times for it to go away and save correctly. In fact this is even specified in the documentation for the third-party tool (Google Drive downloader[1] step 18) that you have to click it multiple times. I don't think this is normal.

And also I should mention, depending on hardware specs the GCP portal was nearly unusable. So hopefully one will not need to rely on creating OAuth resources for a CLI program on the same computer. Although to be fair, I wasn't benchmarking against AWS/Azure on that hardware (since I needed to use GCP Google APIs).

[1] https://github.com/glotlabs/gdrive/blob/main/docs/create_goo...
Ask HN: Finding a Paper Quoted at FP101x
Visiting https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72.868&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Gives me an error about a token being required.

That paper was quoted by Erik Meijer in FP101x several years ago.

Do you happen to know the title of such paper or where to find it these days?

In the forum thread in which it was quoted there is only one piece of information about it.

""" It is especially remarkable since, in the Haskell community, monads are still considered as one of the most advanced and difficult features to master """

Please do have a nice day.
I’m still holding out hope that Telo Trucks will ship in a reasonable timeframe.
The man in the article was living in a studio apartment. I doubt he was in a position to be paying the equivalent of a mortgage for many insurance options. Even if he could, I’m not sure that’s the system/solution we’d want.
There's a surprising number of profiles in London on the YC Matching site. Almost as many as in SF or NY. Might be of interest to OP....
> This website doesn't check whether your profile link matches the city you typed in their website

Yes I got this fixed a few hours after the release.

> It's also a big buggy since you show up in both places now.

This was a caching problem. I'm not completely satisfied of how it works now, but hopefully this kind of thing should be fixed.
> Making a header with the city string mapped to an integer would dramatically shrink the file and speed up parsing.

Indeed, Parquet will do this for you if you let it.

I also wonder how good Java is at optimizing closure creation in a loop, as in:

k -> new ResultObserver()

The vast majority of those closures are created and never called. C++ might optimize this well if calling a template but has basically no chance if the parameter is an std::function. Java probably has more ability to optimize it, but I don’t know whether it actually does so.
Any downsides to using Hy (over Python)? Other than my coworkers don't know Lisp?

More concrete: Are there Python language features I can't use in Hy? Or performance penalties in using Hy?
It's not the right one on its own, but it's the closest we have right now to talk about things like "high level equivalence" rigourously. Like, one way to talk about logic is that it's e.g. invariant under double negation - so any compression algorithm that does "semantically lossless compression" can exploit that property. Deep learning then becomes an algorithm to find features in the data which remain invariant under irrelevant transformations, and representations useful for semantic similarity could then be formulated as a very big and complex composite group, potentially conditional... there's probably a new theory of hierarchal similarity and irreducible collisions/errors required, but as of now, group theory, approximate equivariance and category theory are the bleeding edge of thinking about this rigorously while still having sota benchmarks/real world applicability to my knowledge

Happy to discuss more via email as well
>radicalized by things they've read on the internet

That take pretty much throws the shooters' preceding years of anguish under the bus to make a political score. "Ban the wrongspeech!" is a seductively easier proposition than ending youth bullying and ostracism.
A Framework for Documentation as Code
Sorry I’m the one who thought Google Workplace was the best, I’m learning something.

- Does Chrome keep nagging you for login and bookmark sync, when you use O365?

- Google’s way of handling shared inboxes is awful (Want an extra email? Create a …Google Group! Then assign members, tune the perms, etc.) How does it work in O365? Can I just create an email and assign 7 users on it?
Integrated providers, such as Kaiser Permanente, have far fewer issues related to the problems brought up in this article compared to most others.

Nothing like this would ever happen in a Kaiser hospital.
If he had a lot of money he could have just paid out of pocket for care. It sounds like he couldn’t afford it.
Honestly I'm not the heraldry guy or ancestry guy in my family, but I thought it looked cool and helped make an SVG of it for a shirt my uncle made for all the family one year, so I slapped it in the footer of the blog :)
Well, maybe it didn't make a profit, but it still had revenues...
I have tried YC's cofounder matching. Unfortunately, it didn't work well for me.
Cool project!

Wondering how custom immutable data structures fit in with the Python ecosystem.

Particularly, I know that NumPy arrays and Pandas Series/DataFrames are the popular data structures used in research computing in Python (for Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning etc.). These data structures afaik are mutable, however (for performance reasons), so at least the aspect of immutability from Clojure cannot be easily integrated with the Python ecosystem.
> Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works are stuffy rich people posing for the "family album". Artfully done yes but boring subjects in my personal opinion.

That's actully what I like about the Night Watch, and how it's displayed. It's in a room with other paintings from the same period in the same genre (group portraits of guilds or militia units), so you can see what Rembrandt's clients were expecting and how the Night Watch is different.
There's a system for that.

It's called proprietary software
How about you give it a try first? It uses about 1/4 of resources as Nextcloud in my experience, is a lot faster and has a way nicer UI.
Should work now!

Some people also found "Hong Kong Island" worked, at the time: https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island

But now you can registered in Hong Kong state if you prefer. Sorry for this!
The alternative from people who criticize agile is coming up with your own process or no process at all. Just do what you guys want that makes you productive.
Why, what's wrong with 172MB calculator app?
Interactive guide to speculative execution attacks
The Elite: Dangerous studio?
> this compiler is written in Python

Yes, that's right. Hy is not self-hosted.

> The various ways you can embed a Lisp look very different and have very different tradeoffs.

Hy itself provides options. Typically the process is that the Hy source code becomes Python AST objects, which Python then complies and executes, but you can also translate the Python AST objects into Python source text. Or you can use Python from Hy or vice versa: https://hylang.org/hy/doc/v1.0.0/interop
OSS developers chose licenses that allow the world to use their software for free. They can change the license any time they want. What is needed is a license that is free for non-commercial/educational use and pay if revenue exceeds a certain number.
apps don’t have direct access to BLE, NFC, microphone, camera, radio, or even processing power.

even Apple built their own smart speaker because an app was too restrictive, and they own the platform!

but I largely agree with you. if they want me to walk around with it, it’s a tough sell.
A specific license might work requiring government users to pay.
I do wonder, could be that for much of human history if you ever saw a foreigner one of you was about to die. PNG blood feuds being a modern example. Perhaps societies with a strong centralized state would evolve a culture open to integrating foreigners. I also wonder how much of modern multiculturalism has its roots in colonial empires.

AFAIK many of the Scandinavians that came to the US were escaping the really bad ethnic / religious stratification and famines.
> While network latency may overshadow that of a single query, many apps have many such queries to accomplish one action, and it can start to add up.

I don't think this is a good argument. Even though disk latencies can add up, unless you're doing IO-heavy operations that should really be async calls, they are always a few orders of magnitude smaller than the whole response times.

The hypothetical gains you get from getting rid of 100% of your IO latencies tops off at a couple of dozen milliseconds.
In platform-as-a-service offerings such as AWS' DynamoDB or Azure's CosmosDB, which involve a few network calls, an index query normally takes between 10 and 20ms. You barely get above single-digit performance gains if you lower risk latencies down to zero.

In relative terms, if you are operating an app where single-millisecond deltas in latencies are relevant, you get far greater decreases in response times by doing regional and edge deployments than switching to bare metal. Forget about doing regional deployments by running your hardware in-house.

There are many reason why talks about performance needs to start by getting performance numbers and figuring out bottlenecks.
> Frankly I think we need to start breaking laws.

Who's stopping you? I don't pay my medical bills by default, unless it's my dentist or my primary care provider.

Everyone else can go to hell until the system breaks.
It's not a stretch by any means - you are bending over backwards to sanitize the most obvious propaganda to vilify and demonize protesting students at columbia by hyperfocusing on the fringe and leveraging that to delegitimize the whole. It's a pattern of propaganda in which Israel engages in regularly, one of their favorite strategies in fact. Both Israel's official account and Shai applied their smears indiscriminately, so there is no reason why I would need to interpret either tweet charitably since they are both primarily engaged in propaganda.
I found keeping it in docker makes it less of a nightmare, but it's definitely not something I'd trust with anything important.

There's like dozen scenarios where you end up with 0 byte files with no warning, error, etc. Sometimes it's an uploading issue, sometimes it's a syncing issue, etc. And they are still open, mutli-year, issues.

I ran into a version of it where existing uploads were replaced with zero byte versions, so I had to manually run a script to find them and I restore a pervious version. If it tried to do other things, like photos, document editing, collab, etc and did those poorly that would be fine. Failing at the most central task of just storing the data is not. It's still alpha quality, and if one intends to use it, it's critical you setup monitoring infrastructure to ensure file integrity (backups should go without saying).
not a standalone distribution but:

uvx hy@1.0.0

gets you into the Hy REPL

echo '(print "hi hn")' > hi.hy
uvx hy@1.0.0 hi.hy

prints "hi hn"

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/#running-tools

(context: uv can install and manage python versions)
Ask HN: Is running your own servers becoming a lost art due to the cloud?
Why not doing it alone? What’s stopping you from coding the product yourself? Is it an option to instead of finding a cofounder you find willing people who help you improving on your coding skills while you build the first prototype yourself? You could always find a CTO later once you’ve proven that your idea is viable?
Most electricity local distribution undertakings run on a cost plus model. If their costs increase, they are permitted to have higher profits as regulators set rates such that profits are a percentage of costs. There is no incentive for grid operators to become more efficient or to avoid needless waste. This works out great for grid operators, but means the general public can only ever expect higher prices for the same service.
The Path to StyleGan2 – Implementing the StyleGAN
Group theory is just a way to think about what properties a function needs to have under specific actions on the data. If you want to train a speech network that should be peak-amplitude invariant (to make a random example) you can normalise the amplitudes, modify your loss to be invariant to it or modify the network output to be invariant to it. These might have different numerical tradeoffs (e.g. one of the reasons why people use equivariant architectures with a final invariant aggregator is that it allows each layer to use and propagate more information, and one the reasons why graph neural networks are a thing is because we don't always have a canonical labeling).

All the stuff you mentioned is true, but thinking about it in an abstract sense, that means there's a set of universal symmetries and a set of highly context depending symmetries, and group theory is afaik our best method of thinking about them rigorously - as I say in the child comment, not the end point, but our current best starting point (in my opinion)
The EU Horizon grant (€27M or so) to NGI (which was how it went towards OSS) is being stopped from this year: https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240911-01.en.html
Does “building in public” work?
Kaiser had its own very sordid history of denying people mental healthcare which has led to deaths, fines by the state of California, and new legislation.
Because immigration is not as strong.
1) yes

2) I prefer a tool that adds dependencies to a list when I install them instead of having to do it manually.
This is great. How did you create it?
The Olympics are primarily funded by advertising (and, very recently, streaming fees) and national/regional prestige. Neither sounds like a plausible source of open source funding.
> Are there Python language features I can't use in Hy?

At the semantic level, no. I work to cover 100% of Python AST node types with Hy's core macros. It does take me a little bit to implement a new core macro after the CPython guys implement a new feature, but you can always use the `py` or `pys` macros to embed the Python you need, should it come to that.

> Or performance penalties in using Hy?

Compiling Hy (that is, translating it to Python AST) can be slow for large programs (I've seen it top out at about 3 seconds), but at runtime you shouldn't see a difference. Hy always produces bytecode, which can be used to skip the compilation step if the code is unchanged.
This is some serious Twilight Zone stuff.
If you are curious about the answer, you will find mine below:

At that very time there was a sudden break with the times before. With the industrial revolution, man's environment began to change in such a way that poets and writers romanticized nature, as well as the past. Romanticism had begun. Young fields such as Psychology, Archaeology and Biology took off.
New materials such as concrete and steel provided a break with the past in terms of possibilities and forms of expression.

People in that century who were on the cusp of a new age for men; where the cityscapes of Van Eyck disappeared on the horizon.

The restorations in the 19th century were indeed not informed by sufficient knowledge, it shows how people thought what it should have been originally or how it should have been completed.
In Europe, many of the 19th century restorations were undone where they could, when one could find out what it had been like, for example. As an example, many changes to dispositions in church organs have been undone in this way in more recent times, based on historical-scientific insights. Often nineteenth-century changes turned out not to be an improvement but a fad.

Later, with the flight of the scientific method and appreciation for objective knowledge came the realization that if we want to preserve valuable things from the past, we will have to conduct research so that we can restore in a responsible way.

So for the same reason, we will not modify the Night Watch to suit our current tastes, thankfully. The Night Watch is not dead, quite the contrary.