skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most people would say that Switzerland is a "healthy society", yet:

>Switzerland has universal health care,[3] regulated by the Swiss Federal Law on Health Insurance. There are no free state-provided health services, but private health insurance is compulsory for all persons residing in Switzerland (within three months of taking up residence or being born in the country)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
For context, Technology Connections did an entire video on the brown color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
Make sure you get a lot of beans. They are pretty good on protein.

How do you notice that you need more protein? I hear that quite a bit but I have no idea how it manifests.
Believe it or not, there is significantly more to the world than the EU.
How does FZROX make money? Loss leader for Fidelity? Improved economies of scale?
Am I right to assume one could also sample from a Gaussian distribution for the method to work? Of course, the probability e of sampling between the two real numbers would be very small, but it would be nonzero.
Fintech needs a lot more regulation if people are having to worrying about this kind of nuance to engage with the business.
Perhaps this isn't entirely accurate, but there was a time before "zero" as a concept was invented. You don't need it to count. You don't need it to do arithmetic on an abacus. Saying "there are 0 apples" I guess didn't compute. Instead it was "I have no apples". So zero really incorporated the absence of something into the number system and that wasn't always the case.

I wonder if blue was like that for ancient people. It's not that they couldn't see the blue things but that blue, given that it was the color of the sky and arguably the sea, wasn't really a colour at all. It was the absence of colour.

Essentially blue was a baseline and wasn't thought of as a colour at all. Or at least that's the way I've always thought about it.
I covered this in the blog post: no big money involved, I asked to rejoin and without a big paycheck on purpose because to be free to act you should not get too much money, otherwise it's all fake.
Just bought a set for my kids who are currently obsessed with escape games and puzzles in general. Looks like a huge win for long car rides/airplane trips!
I'm not going to disagree that its expensive but I'm not going to say that it is low quantity or low quality.

If the US does worse on population health statistics than other countries do it is not the fault of our healthcare system but rather the fault of social determinants of health such as social disconnection, inequality, etc.
Services like this can be very, very difficult to leave.

Be aware that if you are doing direct tax indexing with tax loss harvesting, you are increasing your tax liability in the future.

If you invest in direct indexing here, you have three choices if they tack on fees or you are unhappy with their service:
1. Take a random assortment of 300+ stocks and watch your portfolio become unbalanced over time
2. Liquidate your portfolio and up worse off than you would have with an ETF
3. Stick with it and pay

If they go out of business, you are stuck with the random assortment.
Investigation: Visas have become an Indian foreign interference tool
I understand how those elements would lead to a decrease of wealth inequality past 1920/30, but it doesn't directly explain why the decrease seems to start before World War I.

If the unionizing and minimum wage movement was the cause of the big drop, wouldn't the drop have started before 1910?
Thank you very much, I am glad you like it.

I don't understand what is missing in 2024-08? You can link month by slug, I see nothing unusual here:

https://hackernews-new-jobs.arm1.nemanjamitic.com/2024-08

But as a side note, yes, this is not meant as an exact analytic tool, rather just a best effort website that gives some interesting insights.

To clarify, only the "Who's hiring" thread is parsed, you can see it clearly in this constants file:

https://github.com/nemanjam/hn-new-jobs/blob/main/constants/...

Also, in there you can see how simple the parsing regex is, it just looks for "|" separator in the comment title.

Another thing I noticed, some companies used different letter casing for their name in some comments, and the company name is part of the primary key, so same company is perceived as different, I should probably handle this better.

https://github.com/nemanjam/hn-new-jobs/blob/main/modules/da...

For example you can search for "ConsenSys" on the Search page:

https://hackernews-new-jobs.arm1.nemanjamitic.com/search?com...
> Sure there can also be interesting discussions about actual bank account closures, but I think it's a lot more of a minority, there's better recourses, and most decent countries will be willing to guarantee citizens can get some form of banking whatever their situation.

I think you're just speaking form your personal point of view as an entrepreneur. Losing access to the payment system would be the end of your career, yes. But losing the ability to hold a basic checking account would be a death sentence for most normal citizens, including you.

Think of everything that is primarily paid in checks or bank transfers. Think of all your income that you receive primarily in checks or bank transfers form.

Now think of using cash for those use cases. You'll quickly find that it's untenable and sometimes plain impossible. Cashing a personal check your grandma sent you? Forget about it. Cashing a pay check? Go to one of those cash-for-check places that keep 20% of it!
Avian flu cases are on the upswing at big dairy farms
I don't think it changes the negative business actions that the company Redis has been doing. But it likely means that Redis may actually evolve now, rather than being a static target.
The consumer finance protection bureau is your best bet. Banking regulators will also get involved for patterns of conduct, but this can take years.
Why I'm ditching my desktop Mac for something better
Well, the VSIM example I got inside of 10 seconds, so at least for now you're on track :)
Leaders are always fighting the last war.
I don't understand what he's using it for. I'm using it maybe a few times on a busy day, and half of those fail to achieve anything useful.
Very far.

I'm not sure how to put it quantitatively, but my impression from listening to experts give technical presentations is that the breaking-rsa-type algorithms are a decade or two away.

This is very soon from a security perspective, as all you need is to store current data and break it in the future. But it is not soon enough to use for benchmarking current systems.
Is that really a concern for anything in the S&P 500? The underlying concern is valid, but for this specific example it seems like a best case scenario for avoiding that problem.
The part that only the Union members are paying the price of mistakes made, management gets a bonus?
If you mean “not what we want” for safety reasons, I think I agree.

If you don’t mean for safety reasons, I’m not sure why.
Maybe something like Confuse-a-Cat but for writers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzi3k7K0lFA
How do you expect to make enough money to have a venture-scale business? Wealthfront has struggled even with a 0.25% fee and Robinhood is successful because they have massive flow (not buy and hold), options, and other casino-like products.
FinCEN Says CTA Reports Are Voluntary (For Now) Following Court Decision
But if you wanted to have influence without a big pay check, why not join Valkey? Redis, the company, in your absence has gotten a reputation as a predatory company that has attacked open source projects in other to further those goals.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/redis...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858144

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42239607
Nice. Good luck. It sounds like we are up to similar things. Its nice to see that. I wish there were more forums for this specific type of discussion.

> We have a list of "things we can't live without if the rest of you monkeys shit the bed and and can't sell it to us anymore".

Not trying to be obtuse about this because I get it... but if we end up in this situation, I think olives and pineapples will be one of our least concerns. Both are great plants to grow and experiment with. I also grow olives, fruits, all kinds of berries, etc. But due to the rather interconnected nature of both the global economy and the global climate system, it may be that if we ever begin to see items like that in widespread failure we could simultaneously be overwhelmed w/ larger problems. Lets say massive food price inflation, isolated famines/shortages, and ultimately total base calories for our diet.

So while I don't disagree with your sentiment at all I would just say that I hope you have things like grains and staples on that list. Sweet potatoes are a relatively nutrient-rich and calorie dense food that are technically perennial and can be grown in similar format to how you describe your olives and pineapples (take them indoors in winter, use some greenhouses to extend season, etc). Bananas are similarly useful if you are in the right climate. In the biosphere 2 experiment, sweet potatoes constituted the bulk of their diet (source: https://ecotechnics.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Advances-...). In a worst case scenario we might even end up in victory garden type situation and need to plant corn, beans, etc wherever we have space to do so.

> anybody at Foundation Plant Services at UCB

As for this, I'm not in your region so I have no connections there but I highly recommend just finding a few names and emailing them about your project. I've done similar with people all over the and I normally do get a reply. Most recently an Israeli horticulturalist I had read about on HN responded and gave me germination tips for some trees I am growing after I emailed her.

Happy gardening mate. :)
Good luck!

I like Redis, it was my first queue system and it worked great. I used it for this project https://edwarddeaver.me/portfolio/control-my-lights to pass messages from multiple inputs into a central funnel.

Looking forward to reading more of your posts.
Good for you, but there's an entire branch of the law profession dedicated to cases where that's not true and insurance companies have to be held to the letter of the contracts that they came up with.
How Much Does U.S. Fiscal System Redistribute?
> it's to maximize economic benefits for shareholders

Except health insurance is regulated, and you can only maximize profits to a small degree (which is the only reason UHC's profit margin is 6% instead of 40%).

This incentivizes health insurance companies to provide a good enough service that people want their insurance. Capturing a lot of the market is their ONLY way to make money.

They literally don't have the option to ask, "how do we just take more of our customers money and stuff it in our pockets?"

That's not really that terrible if the company is Apple and selling products that nobody NEEDS. It is terrible if you've only got a few choices and their selling something everyone needs - hence the regulation of profits.

It's almost as if our country isn't run by complete idiots.

Is it a perfect system? No.

Is there an obvious, far superior system? Also, no.
Or he realized that he'd become a folk hero and wanted to try his chances in the court of public opinion, try to inspire others, etc.
You’re getting a price as good or better than if you had routed it through the backing exchange directly. National Bid or Best Offer continues to be the rule.
La Ciudad Lineal
That’s confusing, having them all on the dial at the same angle makes look like they share the same time.

(I thought that toggle would show me a more boxy view, like a calendar.)
And contains more information, figures, and lots of supplementary material.
And Valkey with backing from AWS, GCP, and Oracle don't make any money at all ... wait aren't those trillion dollar monopolies?

The pot calling the kettle black
To start: https://www.aatbio.com/resources/toxicity-lethality-median-d...

To finish: there are already numerous studies documenting that fructose is not that good for you; it is, after all part of high fructose corn syrup…
I'm currently in the process of understanding how all that works. Modern terminals should all support ReGIS and Tektronix graphics.
Show HN: Dash0 – Dev-Friendly OpenTelemetry Observability with Open Standards
Hey HN!

After building an observability software (Instana) and selling it to IBM, I wanted to approach observability differently this time—simpler, more open, and built with developers like me in mind. That’s why I started Dash0.

Dash0 is natively built on OpenTelemetry, so logs, metrics, and traces are handled without extra hoops. You can send data via OTLP directly, through an OpenTelemetry Collector, or use our open-source Kubernetes operator to get started quickly.

I didn’t want a tool that forces people into proprietary systems, so Dash0 supports PromQL for querying and alerting and Perses for dashboards. If you’ve already got queries or alerts from Prometheus, you can reuse them with Dash0 without any friction. We went the extra mile, exposing logging and tracing data to PromQL, too, in a way that feels native.

One thing I always found frustrating about other tools was the need for more context. Dash0 leverages OpenTelemetry’s semantic conventions to tie all signals together. It correlates logs, metrics, and traces around the resource concept, which makes it easier to filter, search, and navigate between dependencies.

On the user experience side, I focused on making it developer- and SRE-friendly. Everything has full keyboard support, quick filtering with previews and guidance, and APIs that help you get answers fast, not just clicks and dashboards. I wanted something that feels snappy and productive, not clunky and unwieldy.

Dash0 is still in its early days, but it’s a tool I would have wanted myself—an open platform that rejects lock-in and works with the tools and open standards we already use in the cloud-native community.

I’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or thoughts on observability in general.
No serious definition of justice includes shooting people in the street because they committed a supposed crime. This is literally the basis of civilization.
That’s literally the point
If we have a functioning democracy, you know, where we vote for what we want, how do we end up with the healthcare situation in this country? (For god's sake I'm NOT inviting a right-vs-left debate here!) Nobody wants this, and yet we haven't solved it by any legislative actions. That tells you clearly there is an invisible 4th arm of government (not "shadow government", corporate government) going on here that we are just beginning to shed light on.
Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
I am surely not the only one calling it a "war". I mean there is very popular and influential book out there called "Chip War" for starters ...
The article title implies an opinion the direct opposite of his feelings and the blog content
Europe's Absent-Minded Revolution
He's using it for text entry (hence all the mentions of dictation).
So I have zero enthusiasm for direct indexing, and there's effectively no chance I'm gonna use this product (or any other direct indexing company)[1], but

The tax filing thing should be a non-issue. Yes you'll probably get a 1099-B with like a gazillion entries. But, assuming this is done normally, all your holdings will be covered stocks, and all the trades will show up as reported to the IRS in box 12. Then you'll be able to just summary entry with IRS 8949 box A/D, entering like literally two lines, and you're set.

It sounds bad but it won't (I'M GUESSING!) be bad for tax filing headaches - two lines, same as any other broker.

Yea I don't like Apex and they've fucked up a couple things for me before, but they should get this part right.

And even if they don't...

Say they don't report basis to the IRS, you can still enter summary, and just physically mail the IRS your 1099-B (even if you efile), and it'll still be okay without too much work.

[1] my complaints stem mostly from portability. With a ~0.03% fee ETF, I can go to any broker in the future and still deal with it. If for whatever reason I want to stop working with <direct indexer X>, now I'm stuck dealing with thousands of individual holdings. If I was operating with large enough amounts that I could literally transfer to a different broker (IBKR) and hoist the remains into a creation unit of VTI or whatever, sure. But that's increments of $30M each, so ... lol not for people like me.

Or maybe in the future there's enough direct indexer services that they solve portability at increments smaller than <huge ETF creation unit>. Then maybe yea, idk.
Yeah, it seems this free-rotating design would keep one side down if the center of gravity is not exatly on the intersection of all rotation axes. This might be worse than a common single-axis cooking.
O1 Turns Pro
If this can be improved to accept multiple photos from different angles, it could make a great method for "pseudo-photogrammetry".
> If you know you're smart, the smart people you talk to validate your smartness (in one domain), society validates it some more by paying you massive amounts, and you're not experienced enough to know better, you're bound to overestimate your abilities and knowledge.

And then you become the richest man in the world and buy Twitter and show everyone that you're kind of just clueless outside of your area of expertise, but putting up with you is profitable enough that people just go with it.
Show HN: Buflux – Lightweight Buffer Library for Node.js and Browsers
Introducing Buflux, a lightweight and high-performance buffer library for managing fixed-capacity data. Designed for Node.js and modern browsers, Buflux is perfect for high-throughput systems like task queues, rate limiting and in-memory caching.

Key features:
- Fixed-Capacity Buffers: Manage data efficiently with defined limits.
- Overflow Strategies: Choose between REJECT (block when full) and EVICT (auto-remove oldest items).
- Event-Driven Design: React to enqueue, dequeue, overflow, and reject events.
- Zero Dependencies: Fast, simple, and lightweight (~15kB unpacked).

Ideal for task queues, rate limiting, caching and data streams.

Learn more:
- GitHub: https://github.com/faizanu94/buflux
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/buflux
Even the smallest understanding of utility of money will prove your assertion wildly inaccurate.
Talking about predatory behavior
https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2024/04/11/opentof...
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/...
https://apnews.com/article/google-antitrust-ad-tech-virginia...
Again, the default state of the world is "no insurance or free healthcare at all". You absolutely have a choice – to not buy health insurance and always pay for your own healthcare costs.

The result of health insurance is that people who could otherwise not afford to pay their own healthcare costs frequently can (but not always, when claims are denied). In turn, people who are healthy (and lucky) subsidize those less fortunate than themselves. This is not evil, this is good. This is something humans have invented to make us stronger as a collective.

You can argue that a society should do more to proactively provide healthcare so that you don't need a private health insurance system, but that doesn't then make the private system bad.
Ask HN: What is the scam here (random email from dating site)?
Over the last week, I've received random emails from two dating sites.

On 12/09, I received one from CoffeeMeetBagel addressed to "Michael" (but using my email). I've never heard of this site and certainly I am far removed from the dating scene.

It was curious, but I checked my Gmail activity log and there was nothing suspicious; all IPs match my location.

Then today, I received another one from Match addressed to "John".

Again, there's no odd activity for my Gmail account and no confirmation email from either of these platforms.

I'm wondering if this is happening in anyone else's inbox and what the motive is? Why use a random person's email to register accounts on dating sites? Are there other signs I should look for for signals of compromise? What's the scam here?

The origin emails look legit as do the target URLs in the email.
> The lambda calculus is only more useful because it's become the basis for a lot of existing programming languages.

But there's a reason for that. Functions make a good basis for programming languages. It's not the only good basis! Concatenative combinators make a good basis too: see Factor and Joy.

If you take the lambda calculus and add numbers and a few operations on them, it's easy to program in it. Likewise for the concatenative calculus. But not so for NAND gates or SK combinators. You certainly can do anything you want with them, but doing so feels more like solving a logic puzzle than programming. I am likewise skeptical about the tree calculus.
TLDR API:

VADD key [VALUES <float float ...> | FP32 <binary blob>] element

VSIM key [VALUES ... | FP32 ... | ELE ...] [COUNT <count>] [EPSION <max distance>]

VCARD key (number of elements)

VDIM key (dimension of the vectors)

VDEL key <ele>

And so forth. However there are nice things you can enable, if you want. For instance VADD has the [REDUCE] option that implements random projection in order to reduce the dimensionality of your embeddings. Less memory, and it is faster. And so forth.

Will work on it during xmas, it's quite fun.

It implements on-insertion normalization and int8 quantization. The algorithm to insert nodes inside the HNSW attempts to never leave isolated nodes and to get good quality links and so forth. More hacking needed.
But the thing you learn is not the word 'purple'. You just use the word as the mental scaffolding to build a concept of purple. The word forms a linkage to a deeper embedding, which is further proven by the fact that it's actually slightly different in each mind that has understanding of the concept.

This embedded concept is what is doing the work, the word was just the seed of the understanding and a method by which to convey that understanding to others.
> hint: (Claude AI is in its own league)

Is there a good way to use the Anthropic models as a private person? It's my understanding you can only pay for them as a business.
This is just a first iteration of a quick prototype to gauge public interest in the idea. It just looks for the "|" separator in the comment title, which is something that majority of posters enforce.

https://github.com/nemanjam/hn-new-jobs/blob/main/constants/...

If people show constant interest I can iterate it further, enhance it, ad features, etc.
Vanguard doesn't make money off of short term lending.

They do it, but the proceeds go back to the individual funds (helps boost index tracking performance).

Fidelity and Schwab both take a cut. I forget beyond that, I guess IBKR does stuff.
This does partially answer the biggest question I had about DSQL: how much of the incompatibility is “for now”, and how much will be eventually solved. It sounds like foreign keys and pl/pgsql will be implemented. Other things like auto-increments are probably not possible. Things like postgis is possible, but it’s not easy because of the storage.
Valkey also has the backing of The Linux Foundation. So maybe it just has a lot of backing in general.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc...

BTW are you an employee of Redis? You seem to have created this account just to reply to me.
I'm wondering that as well but I also wonder if it's a bit like CGI where it's somewhat hit a limit on realness. I'm not saying CGI doesn't get better but is a 2024 Gollum that much more realistic than 2004 Gollum? Maybe I'm wrong but I wonder if that plastic feel to AI lessens but still sticks around.
Wealthfront has struggled to grow with a 0.25% fee - so $25 annually for every $10,000 deposited.

Marketing and operations account for a lot!