skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even just insurance companies. My wife and I had a child earlier this year, uncomplicated natural birth, fully covered under insurance. However the hospital initially filed the claim incorrectly, causing the claim to be denied and us to receive a bill in the thousands well in excess of our deductible/coinsurance.

Hours of phone calls to insurance and hospital later, we think we have it resolved but are informed it may take up to 6 weeks to process. Fine, we wait six weeks. Hospital starts threatening to send us to collections for non-payment. Hours of phone calls later it turns out they were waiting on information from insurance that they never received. So six phone calls later we think we've gotten it all sorted out. This time people actually follow through, hospital switches our payment to pending and that's the last we heard of it. Got confirmation that insurance paid out several months later.

Again, the hospital messed up the paperwork, but the burden of solving the problem falls on us, with serious financial consequences if we don't. While we're dealing with a newborn no less. There should really be a law that makes institutions liable for such errors.

Also insurance was a little shady as well. The amount of the outstanding bill should have pushed us over our out-of-pocket-max for the year, but when they finally paid out they marked it as an "adjustment". Which means we're still in the coinsurance part of plan. So we're getting deeply discounted healthcare for the rest of the year, but not free. It's not worth the time for us to run down, and maybe they're doing everything in line with the fine print, but it definitely smells rotten.
If you want to be in the U.S. diplomatic corps you have to pass the foreign service exam. The same requirements should apply to running for national office. That would at least set a literacy baseline. It'll never happen though.
Can't believe that he kept going all these years since selling SoftAid. I have learned a ton from reading his books, articles back in the days of "Embedded Systems Programming" magazine, and the newsletter. I sent him an email earlier this year mentioning that he's the only person I've ever heard of triggering an EPIRB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...) three times when not in an ocean race :-)

A retirement well earned!
Hardware wise it was a fantastic console, I picked an OLED version up a couple of years ago. The problem I always had was the lack of games. There were a handful of good titles but nothing really blew me away. I think I spent more time playing Risk or Rain than anything else.
I never followed the Vita homebrew scene. But, what I've read from following the single board computer emulation scene is that Vita homebrew took a while to pick up speed. But, today the Vita is a respectable portable emulation device on par with many small SBCs currently being manufactured.

https://docs.libretro.com/guides/install-psv/
Claris Home Page 3.0: Still Irreplaceable?
Technical Writeup of ESET Israel Wiper
Devenv – Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments
It actually sounds like some customers thought any Apple purchase would be eligible if they paid with their Apple Card, but that is not how it works – you actually need to choose the interest-free monthly installment option when buying the device.

A case of potentially misleading advertising, but also customers being dumb. I personally found the whole process quite clear with regards to how the interest-free installment plans work.

For example, that is not even an option if you try to buy an Apple device from an Apple Store outside of the US, even if you already have the Apple Card. You just get the max 3% cashback.
I can trust that a higher level language will produce the correct assembly code.

I can trust that a garbage collector will allocate and cleanup memory correctly.

I cannot trust that an AI will generate quality code. I have to review its output. As someone who has been stuck doing nothing but review other people's code for the last few months, I can confidently say it would take me less time to code the solution myself than to read, digest, provide feedback for, and review changes for someone else's code. If I cannot write the code myself, I cannot accurately review its output. If I can write the code myself, it would be faster (and more fulfilling) to do that than review output from an AI.
I pressed "/" (shift-7) on my Macbook (Portuguese) and nothing happens.
This sounds very interesting, any more details you can reveal would be appreciated!
It's absolutely a patent review problem. It's probably not caused by individual clerks, as each one of them can't cause something like this alone, but it shows on their work.
I'm surprised to see anyone bring him up here!
Makes sense why you’d be so angry as to turn to insults. I never said LLMs think. I said it’s controversial so these papers only present controversy as well.

Nuance is key here and people like you in defense of their pride like to get rid of nuance and launch into simplistic false accusations. I never said LLMs think.

Suck it up kiddo. You’re wrong and you’re incapable of facing it.

We are done.
America is as broken as it is because explicit Republican policy for 50 years has been "Don't let the government interfere with company activities" and Americans voted for that with all their might. Millions of registered democrats voted for Reagan, with his loud and clear "I'm going to make the government do less" policy, and his history of narcing on coworkers and friends to the "Commies are bad" witch hunt.

Empirically, people who think the government has a duty to protect it's citizens from corporate raiding have not shown up to vote. The US has had 2 years of total democrat control during my entire life, plus a decade.

For the most part it's people who are politically apathetic, as if letting the choice be made by only the most rabid political fans is a better option than making your mild opinion known. Or they swear that "both sides are the same" despite Congressional votes not being secret and "both sides" being trivially not the same on many very important issues.

Elections have consequences. We got exactly what we voted for.

Nearly all of this happened before the citizens united decision.
At least its not Kroah-Hartman withholding details, its lawyers failing to provide a text block that does not need to resort to ambiguity:

> > > the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US
thing

> > Again -- are you under any sort of NDA not to even refer to a list of these countries?

> No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjw0i-95S_3Wgk+rGu0TUs8r1j...
(kernel.org is down at this time; link did work earlier)
okay - not apple banning the app, but banning the company - well yes they have done that - DDG -> Apple Explains Why It Terminated Epic's Latest Developer Account

and that being about not getting their proper cut of Epic's revenues

Now if the piece was to solely focus on the 'taking the plugin' / their user base..

Many plugins have been kicked out over the years, and it's been publicly understood and discussed that given the GPL licensing, literally anyone can 'steal' a plugin and re-upload it to the wp repo..

They did not steal the user base - as anyone with the premium plugin has their email address (and their site urls) in the ACF system.

In this unusual case, ACF is so embedded in so many WP things that they could not just shut it off like they have with others (still missing / miffed about wp-spamshield getting a similar treatment btw) - it needed to be replaced if removed.

as a semi-tangent - I was really miffed when wp-engine took over ACF, I wish that had been disallowed somehow - it felt like a consolidation of power that could be abused, and today we see that playing out as a difficult thing.

Luckily WP core has been rolling out an ACF like things in base / Gutenberg the past few months - so it's likely that adoption will continue and sadly those of us with old legacy ACF modded themes will be seen as less and less important.

It's probably a good thing in the long term, it is a little messy right now though.

To your point, this would not be the first time apple or google or samsung released their own thing that a developer previously had a super popular version of, and it won't be the last year such things happen.

another tangent - I wish google would make a better 'missed call / text / reminder app' - not that I want the developers of the other ones kicked out, but the community could expect better than what exists.

anyhow, things continue to evolve and no one has an ownership of any platform they don't own, stark reminder.
For Netflix level of complexity. Pornhub has more traffic and serves more customer than Netflix with monolithic PHP and some services.
Gotwifi: WiFi Sharing with Personalized QR Codes
Long rebases are not. That's the whole point.
Oh boy, this reminded me of university days. I wrote a little servlet which would pop out the CD drive on my friends computer in the lab, and I would trigger it at tense moments in Starcraft games. Good times.
What problems does that cause for Android users? I ask because I've never deliberately set up DHCPv6 on any network and haven't missed having it. However, it's clear that others strongly do want it for presumably good reasons. What are those reasons?
Mother's lawsuit says AI chatbot led teen to kill himself
My understanding is that a significant number of them are getting them from Chinese manufacturers (that are also selling them to other Chinese companies, that then sell them to individuals, more resellers, or compounding pharmacies)

I've got a high enough risk tolerance that I've got lyophilized tirzepatide on the way from a Chinese seller. Even if I send one of the vials off to be tested, it will still be cheaper than I can get it from a compounding pharmacy in the US.
One of the things that I am most thankful for as am American is that we're not living in an authoritarian hellhole where the state-offered solution is the only solution.

As a kid my option was to be forcibly medicated by some random tyrant bureaucrat or not be allowed to attend school. I had no disorder or diagnosis that required this. Luckily I was able to escape to private school.

More importantly, children are not one-size-fits-all in terms of learning requirements or ability, but public schools only provide one-size-fits-all opportunity.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917357
No, you do count 5 fingers, with 5 knuckle joints. Assuming she has a thumb, that makes 6 fingers though.

I am really quite shocked that people don't seem to recognize a hand.
The thumb's metacarpal comes out basically from the base of the wrist, and its distal phalanx would end about where the proximal phalanx of the other fingers start. So the only way this hand would be somewhat anatomically correct would be that the thumb is hidden by the perspective.
Here's Shenzhen, before and after tech. Shenzhen really was a fishing village in 1950, and a small town into the 1970s. All the action was in Hong Kong nearby. A local photographer has been taking pictures from the same spots every year since 1985.[1]

Population of Shenzhen:

1950 3,000
1960 8,000
1970 22,000
1980 59,000
1990 875,000
2000 7,193,000
2010 10,223,000
2020 12,357,000

[1] https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414d306b6a4d31457a6333566d54/...
I have a custom bash function named "backup_branch" that does exactly that, along with "restore_backup" and "delete_backups". It's made my life 10x simpler.
You made a claim without evidence, now you say all the links I gave you are bad and all the data is bad. Somehow not only ziprecruiter is wrong, but flexjobs and zippia are wrong.

These are just more claims without evidence. You saying something doesn't make it true.

I almost admire the confidence to blindly make a claim without any data or evidence and then to claim again without evidence that the actual data is somehow a lie. No explanation on anything, just a claim over and over.
Why on earth would that be a "safety rail"?
Eh are CPUs really a wear and tear item or even RAM for that matter?
Wow it just ate the rook huh?
I'll take a look!
No, posting things (for example on YouTube) counts very well as prior art and helps you invalidate (or limit the scope of) patents that appear later.

For a well-known case, consider Hangprinter, by Torbjorn Ludvigsen: a 3D printer without a frame. He had built it and documented the whole thing in YouTube videos. Then someone heard of the idea and went ahead and got a patent on it.

Torbjorn turned on the Internet for help, started a GoFundMe campaign to collect resources, and with the help of an experienced attorney, managed to have the patent limited so much that does not affect almost any other printer. The "experienced attorney" part was the most crucial, in my opinion, and he could not have chosen anyone better than the one he used.

You can read all the details in the entry named "Patent Got Narrowed 5-8-2023" on Torbjorn's blog https://torbjornludvigsen.com/blog/
Most FLOSS libraries are already ported over thanks to GNU/Linux.
Ask HN: What is the current status of RAG-as-a-service tools out there?
I have lately been looking to implement a chatbot, which I first did some 12 months ago on the Llamaindex framework.

I didn't particularly like the experience and it felt like lots of plumbing.

I would've expected tons of companies to provide now a simple interface to author text and have it automatically serve as knowledge for some model yet that doesn't seem the case.

Something akin Notion + prompt + get an API you can use against your knowledge.

The few Raas I've seen all want me to contact sales which to me is an instant no, and they also lacked some way to test the product. Or they didn't provide authoring tools, which feels a bit odd to me, as you're requiring a customer to set up all the plumbing just to upload some text.

At the end of the day it looked like the assistant API from OpenAI was the closest thing that could do it for me, but I don't trust the company much, and enterprise data privacy and GDPR compliances are a must.
Vue? Lol. I've been using Vue full-time in multiple large corporate code bases for the past 3½ years and I'd exchange it for React in a heartbeat. Its type checker and build toolchain are so abysmally bad and bug-riddled that I run into new bugs and limitations on the daily. …which is no surprise really if you introduce a new custom file format and make type checking an afterthought.

Meanwhile, React is basically pure TS and the only bugs I run into are the occasional limitations of TSC.
Thank you for this. If there were bad actors then I fully support Linus being down the hammer because the kernel project is vital infrastructure. On the other hand i find open source projects like the Linux kernel and the work being done at CERN and the even the international space station — all this multinational collaboration I think is good for society and for peace. So I hope and pray they can figure it out.

I’ve known a handful of Russians in my day and have worked with some Eastern European engineers from Ukraine and Russia and Estonia and every one of them has impressed me.

I mean take the Clickhouse database for example that came out of Yandex. It’s awesome! Anyways I’m probably far too gullible and naive but that’s my hope is that while the nations might be at war the collective group of hackers that make things like Linux as awesome as it is keep it about the code. Except it’s always bad actors that screw everyone and everything be they spy agencies or just trolls.
I'm using Raycast AI (paid subscription) to interact with AI models through the use of hotkeys. It can even act upon selected text.
I've got several hotkeys set up:
- translate (selected text) to English/Spanish/Italian (3 hotkeys)
- fix (selected text) English/Spanish/Italian grammar (3 hotkeys)
- add (selected text) to current chat prompt where I can continue typing

There's also a built-in "Summarize webpage" AI action that I assigned a hotkey to and I can get a nice summary of the currently opened webpage without having to read the whole article.

These save me so much time and help me better my language skills. Especially when fixing grammar. When fixing grammar, it shows you the diff so you can see what you wrote incorrectly and how to write it correctly.

It also allows you to paste the text, from the app window into the last used app simply by pressing ENTER. I also use this a lot.

Just some feedback.
Vimeo Releases Vision Pro App with Spatial Video Support
It only being a privilege of the rich is precisely the problem with school vouchers. Vouchers don't let poor students go to good private schools; they let good private schools charge more because the state is subsidizing part of the tuition.
I miss the PSP jailbreaking scene. Back when I was in high school, I made quite the pocket change cutting PCB traces on people's PSP batteries. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that got me interested in electronics in the first place.
I make feature films with 9 figure budgets.

Motion capture is animation. It’s taking the input and deciding what to include, what to ignore, what to emphasize and what to fabricate.

Blindly applying inputs without a creative person in the middle making decisions will result in garbage.

For example. You don’t want background or non speaking characters distracting from the focus of a scene, but you can’t have the static either. How they react creates an emotional impression and therefore needs to be considered.

These tools are just tools. It’s akin to saying LLMs have replaced authors. Total rubbish.
How many mobile games look better than what the Vita was putting out? Even today. CoD Mobile despite releasing 7 years after CoD Black Ops Declassified on Vita and having way better phone SoCs is barely an improvement.

The Switch still happily runs games off microSD cards. The home consoles didn't get SSDs till 2020. For Vita, the cards were fast enough. The problem was the proprietary nature of the cards. They just cost way too much for the size especially as time wore on. I think at the time I imported my 64GB Vita card, a microSD card of the same size was half the price. By the end of the Vita's life the 32GB card was laughably bad value.
No, but when tabbing it's often more usable to have the outline look the same across different types of elements, and having a separate focus style from hover style makes it easier.
Yeah. But they are trying to curb the repair market to their selected vendors (themselves). It is like the dealership that makes half the money from car repair and the other half from car sales. Then you have independent repair garages fighting dealership garages from making warranty rules that break warranty if other people were to repair them.
Works reliably (have never noticed an outage when interactively using or via my tooling that wraps around the API), product UX is stable, dev responds to customer support and feature enhancement requests, reasonably priced and good value (imho).
(as an aside, I appreciate the consideration the site shows to NoScript users.)

>posting nearly contstantly... in only a few days of operation... [the bot] can achieve a Karma rating magnitudes higher then any normal human could hope to achieve. The bot then uses this Karma to post in protected Subreddit’s - meaning subreddits that require a certain amount of account Karma to be allowed to post there. Traditionally, Karma protection prevents the exact kind of bot spam that’s taking place here.... So the bot posts hundreds of thousands of times a day, truly playing a game of numbers - 99% of the time, nothing it does is even read, quickly picked out and deleted by moderators. It’s simply a game of scale...

My recollection is that Reddit implements per-subreddit rate limits for new and distrusted users, but not a global limit. It seems like that would go a long way towards fixing the problem. Especially if the limits became more severe the more often moderators removed the posts. (Stack Overflow has a very heavy-handed system for this, aimed more at low-quality questions than spam. See https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255583 .)

On the other hand, the problem could also be solved by just suspending the user more readily - but Reddit doesn't seem to have the resources for that. (Although they seem to have plenty of resources for suspending intelligent, good-faith human users that they deem to be political troublemakers.)

>the account is three years old, but just recently sprung into action

This is also a heuristic that automated defense systems for online communities should consider. On Stack Overflow, a large number of users posting ChatGPT-generated answers aroused suspicion in part because they had not posted in a while (or had deleted recent answers), or held the account for a long time before posting (or had deleted all previous answers - but the system already separately flagged mass deletions). Of course, many others stood out because the new answers were written like textbook high-school essays, while previous answers were indicative of someone with very poor English skill.

>The impact of this is hard to see. But there is an impact.

While the phrasing of this example does suggest AI, and indeed is known to have been written by AI, the sentiment doesn't seem out of line with what a well-meaning human might say.
Huh? It is not a rationale for avoiding IPv6. Quite the contrary. It is a critique on how IPv6 was designed without being interoperable with IPv4 address space. It is very clear that he was right given there are 22 more years of evidence of IPv4 still being very much with us, and foreseeable future.
It is also hard to talk about the relatively new coastal development without the fact that in the 1600s the Qing forcibly evacuated most coastal areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Clearance

And before that, the Ming banned coastal trade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin
> Why not just exercise?

"Why not do the more difficult thing instead of the very easy and cheap thing that also accomplishes your goal?" will always be a bizarre question to ask in earnest. The answer should be so glaringly obvious that the question just falls out of your head.
it's neat how if you select the name of the species and then click the next button, the new species is already highlighted
It's going to be work to get it set up, but Emacs + org-mode will do those things for you. Example:

** PROG [#C] Meeting with Bob and Alice
SCHEDULED: <2024-10-23 Wed 18:00-18:30>

That's a TODO item in the PROG state (TODO->PROG->DONE, I like 4-letter words to keep the columns aligned) with priority C, and the meeting is scheduled from 1800 to 1830.

Clicking on the date or calling `org-agenda-list` which in my instance is bound to `C-c a a` will show something like this:

Tuesday 22 October 2024
Wednesday 23 October 2024
8:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
10:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
12:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
14:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
16:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
17:13 ┄┄┄┄┄ ◀── now ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
2024-10-21: 18:00-18:30 Scheduled: PROG [#C] WAF Updates
18:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
20:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
2024-10-21: TODO [#D] Issues from deployment
Thursday 24 October 2024

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) this doesn't sync my work office365 calendar. I can sync Jira tickets though :)