skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you say that doesn't mean anything? It means that if you have united, your twice as likely to be denied necessary, prescribed care! That's what it literally means. I don't care if occasional doctor over prescribe a thing and make extra money, does that happen in 1/3rd of all prescriptions given by all doctors in the network? This man's company was increasing profits by denying necessary care to people, including dying people who would have been saved. He made the decision to keep the company doing that and his purview built the system that automated denials so they could deny even more, all without letting an actual fucking doctor see any of it. That's monstrous! That's disgusting! He's literally killing people with his policies, while taking home the highest salary in the business! How much human suffering, how many hours of terror and pain, how many dead bodies did that man let happen, did he _make_ happen, all so he could take home millions and millions of dollars. I'd bet he never had to fight for a prescription, he never got taken off a necessary medication, he never spent months of his life fighting on the phone to save his mother's life, or to get the necessary medication so that she could at least die in peace.

I have. We have. So many more people than apparently you think. He deserved a lot worse that a gunshot.

When the systems are so kafkaesque, so labyrinthine, the processes are intentionally gordian knots of unknown requirements, silently attacking your very need to survive as a human being. When the systems can't be fixed by the people most drastically effected, what recourse do we have? Nothing. So I'll cheer his death, at least someone did something for once.
Frustrated people use frustrated language, sometimes we have to be able to see past that. As someone who used to live below minimum wage, but haven't in a long time, I guess it's easier for me to understand why people get frustrated enough to use emotional language, as it's (seemingly or actually) affecting their daily life at every turn, and they see others around them get richer and richer.

Ironically enough, that you cannot see past the emotional language and describe the quote as "alienating me" also demonstrate an lack of empathy for me, but I guess that's beyond the topic.
==Have you ever built a cedar strip canoe, or are you making wooden spoons==

No, I haven't built a cedar strip canoe (nice flex), but I do have the room in my 2.5 car garage if I wanted to. Partly because we only need one car in the city for a 4-person family (which is also part of the "cost" calculation). I could also use my basement, if I was inclined.

==It would cost double what I pay for me to live with 1/4 of the space in a city.==

This is impossible to say without knowing how much you pay and how much space you have.
People are unhappy. The political trend in 2024 is that all voters are voting against the status quo.

When people come to realize that voting doesn't help them, or that certain modern societies are effectively ungovernable (e.g. France), things are going to get even more interesting than they are right now.
You are a member of a household, even if your household size is only 1. So yes, you are a household.

Imagine a household of two parents and one 17-year-old dependent. One parent works in this household and the 17-year-old has a part time job working 15 hours a week at $9/hr.

The parent who works has an income of $90,000. The 17-year-old makes ~$6,480 for working 48 weeks in the year. The other parent's income is $0. The median pre-tax personal income of this household is ~$6,480. Is this the right statistic to understand the wealth of this population?

Let's then add a household of one making $38k. Then another with one person making $22k and another making $110k. $0, $6.4k, $22k, $38k, $90k, $110k. So now our median personal income is $22k, but a median household income of $96.4k. Does the individual income really reflect the actual average purchasing power of the people in this community?

Going by the median personal income, you're including people who choose not to work or choose to only work few hours or a non-high-paying job potentially because they've got access to other forms of wealth. You're also including retirees who essentially just get by with a small pension or using their savings because they already own their home or live with family or whatever. Going by household income gives a much better understanding of wealth and purchasing power of inter-related people (even people not officially related).
Medium takes a lot of heat but its worst feature (a member paywall) is set by authors, not the platform. I have mine turned off.

I do find that Medium brings significant traffic I couldn't get on my own. I also "publish" to a specialty Medium magazine (Level Up Coding) which brings additional eyeballs to my writing[0].

https://medium.com/@mimixco
It’s wild to think about how something so simple - just a way to shield ourselves from the elements - has become this huge cultural phenomenon
All these erudite comments were fun to read. I can't help comparing with guitar enthusiasts who are looking out for really old Fenders and Gibsons to get the authentic old fashioned sounds. To my mind the value of a DX7 is just like that. It has a sound relevant to its time in history. It is what it was and has a soul of its own. Has time and technology produced more sophisticated instruments? Sure, but I don't think that's the point.
As is reducing profits. Of which they're still making quite a lot: $375 million in the last quarter, and rising every single quarter for several years -- much faster than inflation.

They're not doing this because they're squeezed. They're not losing money. They're doing this because they think they can get it. Demand is high; people want the product.

Which is just plain capitalism. That's fine. Go ahead and say that. Don't pretend that it's some external "inflation" forcing you to do it.
A few luxury brands and a well preserved history and culture that is nice for tourism. Lots of high value human capital if only they could truly unlock it and allow it to thrive.

Today's Europe is just milking what it can as it continues its decades long crisis of identity and pessimism. Demographics are destiny and it's extremely problematic for Europe's future. There's no real leadership and it's one large admin state that can only agree to fund people's lives today at the cost of tomorrows lives using whatever assets it has left from its golden age before the wars. It's no wonder no one is having kids as they know the future is bleak. Just let the admin state manage my life and take it easy and not worry too much and fade away into the future until it's all gone...slowly and then all at once.

The jungle produces strong creatures and much of the leading world is much more full of jungle animals than the zoo animals the people of the European continent have become generation over generation.
yeah I don't know how about making one personally, but physical modeling (particularly Pianoteq) is near best-in-class if you want a highly realistic piano sound that you can then tweak to your personal preference over something more traditional like a Sampler lib such as Kontakt's The Gentleman.
> A lot of people get stopped from attempting to make games because their art skills suck

As a developer with no art skills myself, I can sympathize with that. But I think that is already taken care of by the low-res display - making pixel art is (in my experience) a lot easier than higher-resolution art. I don't think having 8, 16 or 32 colors instead of just 4 really makes an impact on the art skills required for a game...
The Leave campaign was significantly duplicitous about post-Brexis access to the Single Market; they've always known it's a real thing or they wouldn't have had to lie about it.
-Wno-foo is turning off those warnings, not turning them on.
I said suburbs in Europe, not downtown. Downtown is unaffordable EVERYWHERE in the world, even in 3rd world countries.
We just applied this framework to the Sequin [1] docs two weeks ago. It has felt so nice to have a framework. I think our docs flow really well now, and it's been easier for us to add and maintain docs because we know where to put things.

The slightly ironic part is that the Diataxis docs themselves are a bit obtuse. It's a little verbose. So it took a couple passes for it all to click.

The analogy I gave my team that was helpful for everyone's understanding:

Imagine you're shopping for a piece of cooking equipment, like a pressure cooker.

The first thing you're going to look at is the "quickstart" (tutorial) – how does this thing work generally? You just want to see it go from A to B.

Then, you're going to wonder how to use it to cook a particular dish you like. That's a how-to.

If you're really curious about anything you've seen so far, then you'll flip to the reference to read more about it. For example, you might check the exact minutes needed for different types of beans.

And finally, when you're really invested in pressure cooking and want to understand the science behind it - why pressure affects cooking times, how the safety mechanisms work, etc. - that's when you'll read the explanatory content.

Comically, our docs were completely backwards: we lead with explanation ("How Sequin Works"). I think that's the natural impulse of an engineer: let me tell you how this thing works and why we built it this way so you can develop a mental model. Then you'll surely get it, right?

While that may be technically accurate, a person doesn't have the time or patience for that. You need to ramp them into your world. The quickstart -> how-to -> reference flow is a great way to do that. Then if you really have their attention, you can galvanize them about your approach with explanatory material.

[1] https://sequinstream.com/docs

PS: If you have any feedback on our docs, lmk :)
Well, to varying amounts. And with varying limitations.

But yeah, it's not a dichotomy.
How does this compare to a previous port? https://olydis.medium.com/roller-coaster-tycoon-in-the-brows... I'm curious if the author ran into the same challenges.
X, as a platform, is absolutely cooked. I'm sure it will remain around the same way Truth social is around. A small group of right wing folks will hang out there and argue to their last breath that it's more free speech or something, but increasingly having an X account will be seen as kind of a weird trait.

It'll make for some interesting stories a decade from now when we'll all reminisce about "remember how Musk fucked Twitter? Oh shit, is it still running?"
I can assure you that using a new language is a substantially greater task than introducing a dependency (or using -std=c++23). So you might as well show off the latest and greatest for all the competitors.
Well, for copyright, I always thought there should be two kinds:

1. Private — untaxed, lasts for 14 years (or until the death of the last author), goes into Public Domain. No need for registration; and,

2. Public — any work (before it's expired) an be transferred to a Public work. At that point some sort of Harberger tax scheme would kick in.

Obviously, picking a number like "14" distorts the market — works that take off after 14 years are going to be undervalued, which sucks. OTOH, the point of copyright is that the opposite distortion — free-for-all — is considered bad.
That's pretty cool that Shell was such an early adopter.

Who led the adoption of GPT-1/2 there - a developer, you, a VP, someone else?
> then it's important to point out that this struct is the string, and the array of UTF-8 characters it points to is not.

So then under this model, what’s the difference between a string and a string_view?
People should touch some grass instead of debating if insulting groups of people online is what the founding fathers meant by freedom of speech, or if it actually brings anything of value to society. Twitter is still censoring a lot of shit, it just changed side and now that it's yours it's "freedom"

btw freedom of speech doesn't exist anywhere to begin with. Even in the self proclaimed "land of the free" you can't swear on public tv lmao, libel, slander, obscenity, fraud, &c. are all illegal. Meanwhile nobody talks about freedom of press even though the US ranks closer to Hungary than western europe, so much for freedom of speech...

Reminder that twitter is a bubble in the internet, which itself also is a bubble, and that real life exists out there.
What's the most serious claim you've had to make with UHC?

I fell prey to their AI that (definitely unintentionally) denied 90% of claims. I required surgery for a repetitive stress injury. I fought it and got the surgery done, but it pushed the surgery into the new plan year which I suppose was the original intention.

If this was a family member with cancer being treated the same way I'd be significantly more sanguine.
> At most you could say that a part of our culture is American

Don't forget that American culture mostly comes from Europe. The influence goes both ways.
Well I was talking about urban rats. I used to live in a neighborhood where people would throw dishes out of their windows on a daily basis. Like clockwork, a rat family would settle nearby. What's best ? Having rats or meat miasmas ?

And no, fining people for this behavior isn't an option in a neighborhood with stolen bikes burnt every other day, drug dealing spots every 400m, squats, empty cash register lying on the ground, etc ...
Dexed is great, and Arturia has another that is just as accurate.

https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/dx7-v/...
My list:

- Goodtape (audio transcription made right)

- Wondershare Dynamics (AI MoCap from single video, using for sports analysis)

- On1 Pro Raw / Davinci Resolve AI features (game changers for my photo/video editing)

- ComfyUI/Comflowy (for image generation pipelines)

- Windsurf Editor (brand new, but gosh this is magic)
Low quality responses aren't a part of a discussion: they're simply to be ignored. This is part and parcel for the internet, everywhere and for everyone. Unless one chooses not to ignore them, but that's their specific choice to participate.

Where exactly is there "quality of discussion", if we include low quality responses in that rating, in any political space that isn't siloed? It doesn't exist today, and if the space is siloed then it also doesn't exist by definition.

It's okay to want to go where people agree with you more, even if it's because others aren't allowed in. But call it what it is, and note what it isn't.
Welcome! Hope that provides a little bit of (opinionated) context. A lot of people here hate Next.js and I don't think that's quite fair. It has its place. It's just not right for EVERY project.

I encourage anyone starting a new web app to compare & contrast different frameworks, building a tiny prototype in each, to see which devex and user experience they like the best. That can include Next, yes, but also all the other ones mentioned (HTMX, Svelte, Vue, Vite, Astro, Remix). Even pure serverside ones can still have their place, for some use cases. I think our industry is differentiated enough these days that there's no one-size-fits-all framework anymore; they each have their strengths & weaknesses.
Interesting that this theme has been in the popular imagination for so long.

I still don't get it though. Why would it matter whether "reality" was a simulation or not? We live in socially constructed worlds of our own making (e.g. money, nation states, language, technology etc). If there is something else above/underneath our experience of reality, what drives us to want to understand it and "escape" there?
Eh? No-one is running. People are leaving a thing which has become shit. Like, if a local restaurant starts giving people food poisoning and people stop going there, you don't say people are running away from the restaurant, you say that they're no longer going there because it is bad.

"You cowards! Come back! We've got multiple drug resistant e coli on special this week!"
I just look at things like this and worry. https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
If you think the average person celebrates CEOs being gunned down in the street, you're the one who's out of touch.
Lol lots of SV freaks in the comments here very close to having their "are we the baddies" moment
Since even Microsoft can't keep perfect bug-for-bug compatibility among its multi-platform Office implementations, this is unlikely to succeed or even reach parity. And people do rely on bugs and quirks in the official implementations.

I salute the effort, but a better path may be to infiltrate schools so the new generation demands non-Microsoft solutions.
> We've already lost control of it. We don't have any control.

I think it's important to be clear on what's being said here:

There's a very big difference between "we, the people, do not have control over what Silicon Valley businesses and billionaires are doing with AI" and "there are AIs out there that no human has any control over".

The former is current reality. The latter is sci-fi, and nothing yet has demonstrated that it is actually possible.

The former is also precisely what I would describe as "the misuse of AI".
Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract
Gitingest is a open-source micro dev-tool that I made over the last week.

It turns any public Github repository into a text
extract that you can give to your favourite LLM easily.

Today I added this url trick to make it even easier to use!

How I use it myself:
- Quickly generate a README.md boilerplate for a project
- Ask LLMs questions about an undocumented codebase

It is still very much work in progress and I plan to add many more options (file size limits, exclude patterns..) and a public API

I hope this tool can help you
Your feedback is very valuable to help me prioritize
And contributions are welcome!
Vodka maker Stoli says August ransomware attack contributed to bankruptcy filing
On the subject of the DAC used, and why it was 'only' 12 bit. I believe the instrument actually runs all of the voices through a single DAC, so it is basically 16x oversampled, and the voices are held by a sample and hold circuit for all 16 voices before they are summed to the analog output.

If the later DX mark II is anything like the TX81z (which is also said to have a 16 bit DAC) it actually uses a 16 bit dynamic range DAC, but with a 10 bit resolution (a YM3012 for the TX - https://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/1179489/YAMAH...)

This is definitely the age of interesting DACs, with all sorts of interesting noise profiles. We're really spoilt these days with the quality from delta/sigma DACs, thinking that this has always been the case!
Great to see that Firefox is just a side note for mozilla.
That makes no sense, in total.
Progressively harder mining means that the price of bitcoin must rise in pararell to cover the expenses of the miners securing the network.

I stopped following Bitcoin closely a decade ago, so I might be wrong, but I think the issue is the following. Mining was supposed to be eventually financed by transaction fees instead of the mining reward but the usage of Bitcoin for payments never really materialized. So there are not enough transactions to pay for the mining costs at reasonably low transaction costs. This also interacts with the low transaction limit of Bitcoin, even if people wanted to use Bitcoins for payments at large scale, there is no capacity for that. And the other way around, without the necessary capacity, transaction fees will be high, which will deter people from using Bitcoin for payments.
Whey you stay on the edge on a cliff you are sometimes becomes afraid that you could accidentally jump. :)

But it doesn't happen (at least it hadn't happen to me, obviously). You cross streets by moving your legs thinking of "W" or maybe about jumping, moon-walking, climbing or flying or anything and it doesn't make your legs jump or to mimic Jackson.

I'd bet that practice will make brain controlled things like this, you will be able to control them while thinking about anything, including alternative approaches to control these things in the current situation.
I think you really underestimate how much people spend on stuff that is a non-necessity. People at every income level fall prey to the “if I’ve got extra money in my account, guess that means I can spend it”. There are, 100%, people living paycheck to paycheck that make 200k because they’ve made some terrible life choices and have outrageous debt to service, essentially.
Suburbs are cheap where? On what salary? Munich suburbs are equally unaffordable to buy something on a Munich wage, unless you're talking about buying in the boonies where you need to drive everywhere but that's no longer the suburbs but a whole different city/village, or you're a high roller at a FAANG, but that excludes 95% of working class people.

My ex originally is from there and I used to work there and my colleagues from the Texas office had more purchasing power at local real-estate than their counterparts from the Munich office.
The Python community appears hostile to thinking ahead; designing stable, durable APIs; and sticking with them. It's gotten to the point where you're lucky if you can solve the dependencies for a single version of a single program.

The response to the resulting chaos has been to normalize setting up a complete custom "environment" for every. Single. Script. And they keep doubling down with more elaborate ways to do that.

Not expecting, or even respecting, discipline is probably one of the reasons the language has gotten so popular.

I don't know what you're supposed to do if you have a security issue. Not using Python for anything important comes to mind.
Read up https://www.eu-inc.org
> They'd have me wearing a space suit just to clean my bird cage

This is about doing that commercially for a living. If all you do for 40 years of your career is cleaning bird cages, roofs and whatnot from bird droppings, wearing the space suit makes sense because otherwise you're pretty much not going to live to retirement. Lung cancer is a horrible and nasty way to go, and I know on this one what I'm talking about. On top of that come the pathogen infection risks with H1N1 being dangerous enough to send a young man of fine health into critical care [1].

And for what it's worth, of course no one can require you to do so - but you absolutely should be wearing at least an FFP2 mask if dealing with bird droppings or mineral based cat litter of your pets. Try it for once, your lungs will thank you - I certainly noticed the effect.

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canadian...
I think you're both correct.

EU Single market is a massive improvement, but it's not yet really single market like in the States (although there can be a bit of legislation/tax barriers between states there as well, depending on your location and line of work).

Also, it's hard to understate just how open the US is. For me, an European living in the EU, it's as easy, or easier (larger wallets, single language) to sell (digital/online products/services) to Americans. For digital goods, might as well skip the EU.
Then it's a good opportunity for you to reflect on why it doesn't make sense, go and educate yourself a little. Congrats, you learned you need to learn a little today!
O, you just convince me to switch to Framework.

I mean, I'm 100% converted if only they have trackpoint :>
What one may call the treatment of an "impersonal machine" is another's assessment of what an appropriate relationship looks like. Some people prefer such associations even in deeper relationships because it prevents one person's encroachment upon another's individual agency and minimizes (or at least clarifies) the incurrence of "social debt" between the two parties rather than assume mutually shared rules of engagement right off the bat.