skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let this be a warning in what your children get exposed to, they could be making a documentary in their 30s or 40s. /s

These kids had an existential experience triggered by animatronic band. It was sweet to see how honest they were.
That's probably because 65% of people have no real chronic medical conditions and/or are on Medicare.

I'm pretty well-off, so I can just throw money at my problems, and avoid dealing with insurance nonsense (denials and delays). So I'm fine with my health care coverage.

I'm not at all fine with my insurance company. And I'm actually in a very privileged position because I helped select this insurer for my company.
> we have very short attention span

> News will move on

it's not up to the news (the media and their owners) to tell us what is important...
At this scale it should be easy to find and ban miners from your country. They bring nothing of value to the economy.
How would this work for the majority of people? Most people live paycheck-to-paycheck. Even those who make more than enough not to. It's a habit. If health care isn't baked in, will people pay for it? If not, how will they avoid bankruptcy?
All for the highest cost per person, in the world
What logical leap am I missing here? Ending Medicare would do absolutely nothing to change the fact that most Americans receive private insurance through their employer, it would just result in 67 million people losing their insurance.
> That day will come

You act so sure, yet your own post betrays that you know it’s not based on current evidence (“waiting for the day…”).
You know what a U+1F422 is?
Good catch! Yes, that looks like a bug :)
I used to spend a lot of time hanging out in forfeiture court in Chicago. On the first day for a new judge she brought the State's Attorney's to the bench and said (loudly) "You guys win almost every case here because nobody can even figure out the paperwork to dispute your claims. That ends today. I won't allow that in this courtroom."

That same day they had a case where a son had taken the keys to his dad's brand new SUV and got caught driving drunk and the State were trying to sell the car. The judge said "Did this man know his son had the keys? No. Does he have valid insurance and license? Yes. Give this man his car back. Refund him all his costs and fees."

(for info, most of the time if you even file the most basic paperwork to challenge a forfeiture the State will drop it since they have a thousand easier cases to work on)
We don't have a village because no one has kids. The parents I know who are best supported are ones who have tons of siblings.
Are adults not allowed to like colourful cartoon characters? Fruit flavours?
Chinese insiders steal data scooped by President Xi's national surveillance sys
That doesn't mean the good guys lost, just that one set of bad guys lost and another won. As usual.
I've had good results running alt-browsers behind Privoxy.

https://www.privoxy.org/
There is zero indication and a plethora of evidence otherwise that humans are unique in our thought patterns and capability.
Oh it absolutely is !
TIL that Nolan Bushnell, of Atari, started Chuck E. Cheese!
Believe they focus on the eyes/nose shape and spacing.
Part of the problem is that preferring family today is seen as nepotistic.

Witness the widespread shock that Joe Biden pardoned his son.
My goto example is phone numbers; typically you store the whole thing, but what if you want to do analysis on zones? You'd just extract the zone, not redesign your schema and rebuild the database.

You could argue that things like LIKE and SUBSTR etc are not really part of the relational model at all, but merely application code leaking into the SQL for convenience.

Therefore, you shouldn't expect / demand that the results are a formal relation.
do you want to buy one from me?
That feels different to me. Grinding scales helps with muscle memory and technique. There’s certainly aspects of that with math, especially with algebraic manipulations. Doing math problems can yield a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts and how they behave. Thinking you understand doesn’t cut it
No problem. Writing clearly is hard. Haha.
This sounds an awful lot like “don’t have opinions, because other people will have different opinions.”

Ok, someone will take pleasure in the murder of someone I think doesn’t deserve it. So what? Obviously I don’t like that, but people think all kinds of stuff I don’t like. Why should this particular opinion change mine?

Virtually everyone would take pleasure in someone’s murder. Osama bin Laden, say. Hitler, if we were in a different time and he hadn’t done the job himself. There are some people so principled they really wouldn’t feel that way for anyone, but for most of us it’s just a question of who falls into that category. Is has been a little surprising to find out that so many Americans consider this guy to be worthy, but just a little.
Also, there is a small market for people who don't want a laptop. Or a Raspberry Pi. I bet a Pi with display would make a better if slightly larger.

It is also strange to complain about multiple ports when can get a USB-C hub. It used to be they were all USB-C to USB-A but there are starting to USB-C only hubs.
There's a big difference between training, staffing, and funding free health care when we're talking about a doctor's bag and penicillin vs MRIs and monoclonal antibodies.

> every single other country has free healthcare, lower costs, and better outcomes than USA.

Aside from those first two being mutually exclusive, no, they don't all.

There are a large variety of funding methods, ultimate out of pocket costs, and outcomes throughout the world.

You'd probably find this an interesting read: https://ourworldindata.org/financing-healthcare

The US is certainly an outlier based on {total spent of healthcare}:{health outcomes}, but it's generally in the middle of the pack in terms of GDP-adjusted out-of-pocket costs. (Mostly as a consequence of private insurance + Medicare/aid)
Zero Knowledge cryptography overheads are ridiculously too high to use for the thing DRM is usually used for: video.
I started using mise back when it was still called rtx. I was a little annoyed by asdf's quirks and having it replicate that behavior while being faster and less intrusive in my shell configuration was great.

Since then, mise has folded in two capabilities that I needed the most: Task Running and Env Vars.

Overall, it has been a fantastic experience for me. I love how the developer has spent a lot of time ensuring compatibility with existing tools while still building future capabilities.

I will add one thing that I knew I needed but couldn't find anywhere was added through the recent backends feature. I do a lot of trust and R development and there are dev tools that I need installed that I don't use as libraries, just the binaries. It was a problem making sure that those dependencies were installed in a new environment. Now, it's just so easy: I list those in my `mise.toml` file, and that ensures they are installed and installable.
I wouldn't say younger/older is the proper axis.

It's amazing to realize that much of the key insights and abilities of computing can be experienced on an 8 bit CPU with less RAM than the L1 cache of today's processors. A 32bit CPU like the 68030 running System 7 and some applications is 95% of the same stuff we do today.
Wait until you hear about how CFD trading is legal in large parts of the world.
Sending out not-so-subtle "hints" to pharmacies not to fill prescriptions for off-label uses of a particular drug, and encouraging medical boards to discipline doctors who write such prescriptions, is exactly the same thing as "preventing doctors from picking a treatment."

One of the most infuriating things about COVID was seeing this sort of passive-aggressive buck passing raised to an artform. In my kids' school district, no one individual could be assigned responsibility for the fact they had to wear pointless cloth masks across their faces for six hours a day -- the superintendent blamed the state health department, the state health department blamed the governor, the governor blamed the CDC, the CDC blamed state health departments, and round and round it went.
Alternative hypothesis: Given that plants do not have a central nervous system, it is reasonable to expect they have a distributed consciousness.

Recall that most plants avoid building single-purpose organs, as the odds that 70-80% of the plant gets eaten are high. Plants have evolved to survive massive loss of body parts.

I've read some studies on plant consciousness which shows that plant awareness can be turned off with anesthetics
For Youtube often the content is an ad too. Will Google need to stop serving huge swaths of content to the UK at certain times? Hope so!
system updates causing breakages with mise tools would be news to me
you are refering to reassortment.

this can lead to sudden aquisition of character, however, more commonly requires 'fine tuning' of the HA, and NA peptides toward favorable interactive dynamics.
Simply not true. My grandparents moved from India to watch us. They didn't have to. They did live with us for a while but in my parents house

In no way did we live with them. They lived with us.

Ultimately this is cultural. JD Vance talks about this when it comes to his mother in law who did the same thing.

Cultures that value kids will have more. My parents did the same for us
Sure, right after your point at a private insurance plan that has no limits on what they'll pay.
Converting shopping malls into apartments [video]
It's interesting that the UK has banned gambling ads online, but not on TV. Combined with the fact that they regulate cryptocurrencies as gambling, that's why you get no UK crypto ads online. For example, the PayPal UK front page doesn't even mention that you can buy crypto there.
The democratic Japanese government could simply ban Chinese admissions as a matter of policy, but there isn't a diplomatic or security justification for doing so. The fact that U Tokyo resorted to a sneaky and underhanded tactic speaks to a bigoted motivation.
One of the things he demos in the shadow section of the talk is how some of the bricks stick out (“proud” in woodworking, dunno about masonry) and I suspect that would be more difficult to do with volumes. However from some of his diagrams it looks like some of the shadow and reflection work ends up doing some convex hulls.
When I think of infrastructure investments, I always think of long-term stuff, rather than, I don't know, a temporary detour.

And pretty much every functioning state makes infrastructure investments, otherwise it wouldn't be functioning.

So it it surprising to me someone would even question any big country's investing in infrastructure at all...

For example here's an announcement from dep of transportation:

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/biden-harris-ad...

There's roads (including bridges), but also railroads and port expansions.

Also:

- Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Flood Risk Management Project

- Ecosystem Restoration in the Upper Mississippi River

- Reactor Demonstration Program in Kemmerer, Wyoming

The information is there, easily accessible on the Internet, you didn't need to ask me.
Maybe yes, maybe no, but people will need something new to talk about, so media will move on.
Yeah I generally agree that leaving just zstd would simplify things, but I also see advantages in leaving 2. It seems plausible that a better thing will come along in the future. It’s nice to leave the abstraction in place that enables having more than one algo in place.
Great questions—thanks for asking!

The platform allows users to define their own level of experience (e.g., Junior, Mid, Senior), but it’s also designed to provide a broader perspective on their career position. That’s one of the key goals of my site.

For example, if someone identifies as Mid-level, they’ll primarily see jobs targeted at that level. However, the system also analyzes factors like years of experience and skill overlap. If it detects a strong match with Senior-level roles, those opportunities will be included as well.

This way, users can explore roles that align with their current skills while also being exposed to opportunities they might not have considered yet—helping them grow and aim higher in their careers.

For now, my main goal is to create a useful tool for job searching. That's why my service is completely free.

And finally, thanks for pointing out the error on the page. I appreciate it :)

Let me know if you have more thoughts or questions!
I didn't know this. I know this ticket is open
https://github.com/direnv/direnv/issues/443 but it is not clear to me if it is working for bash
I’m not sure about any countries that allow untested drugs or treatments for conditions not covered by the insurance company.

I’m saying that in many countries, like Brazil, an insurance company can’t deny a treatment for a covered condition because it’s too expensive.

So, for example, if the insurance covers prostate cancer, the doctor can prescribe any medically proven prostate cancer treatment and the insurance company can’t say they’ll only pay for a cheaper treatment.
For weeks after my grandmother brought me to a Chuck E. Cheese for the first (only) time, I had recurring nightmares fueled by this band.
Do you think this could be because you have so many children?

Anecdotally the more kids in a family the more neglected the child. I can't imagine having more than one child a decade and raising them well.
Define "smart". And explain how "smart"=="conscious"

I can agree that there is no genetic benefit to being able to move at the speed animals move, because that's not how plants obtain food or avoid being eaten. Thus no need for nerves or a CNS to coordinate movement.
Data structures as jigs for programmers (Go edition)
They are mostly a chip maker though, both directly selling semiconductors and selling products based on them. Sure, they call their processors an AI product, but so do Intel, AMD, and pretty much every other ARM licensee.

The real kicker is that they picked up their ARM license from Intel, when they bought the XScale line (now Armada) in 2006.
Nevermind — there are ways for deleting colliding items to cause other colliding items to be “forgotten”, and one solution would be to implement slot cycling on deletion
Are you saying ignorance is better than knowledge? As for the guilt about eating animals, you have a personal choice to make based on your values at every meal. Aside: I don't see how a stuffed animal is related to the suffering of real animals in factory farms; perhaps you are confusing disparate ideas there.
I wish I had the confidence to say to Richard Dawkins' face that the bible story about melting down bronze into a snake and putting it on a stick for people with snake bites to look at was the same thing as vaccines.

I mean, I'd want to use that confidence for something actually useful, rather than totally stupid, but still you have to admire the lack of self-doubt that enables you turn such nonsense into a lucrative career.
Were thousands of the children for whom the FDA issued emergency use authorizations for COVID vaccines dying from COVID every day?
After a dozen ReCaptcha challenges in a row, I gave up. Thanks anyway.
Show HN: Deepshot – AI lip-sync platform
Parent commenter didn’t write anything to the contrary; obviously the median child gets more excited by those two things than the median adult.

I really loathe these sort of “gotcha” comments.
Delaying having children until ones' 30s also is a problem. After 30, fertility rates decline, and birth defects increase. You can't have a lot of children after 30, either.
Very helpful! If this can be made to work I may switch from direnv
cause and effect may be getting conflated. is the media driving people's attention spans, or are people naturally careless?

i'd prefer to think people care about themselves and others, and are otherwise distracted by trivialities to take their mind off of things, sometimes (hopefully less than 49% of the time) to excess
Is it? This makes no real difference to my entire point, which is companies are learning that they should wait for subsidies, and will either build out much slower or not at all until they do. State governments have now set precedent for it.

It’s not even that I’m against subsidies, to be clear, but they’re becoming pro forma and they aren’t terribly well thought out on setting goals.

So they get subsidized to be built where they were going to build the chargers anyway
which first world countries don't have single payer health care?

usa has by far highest cost and worst outcomes. practically speaking, most americans don't have access to medical care.
> There's massive sympathy for Thompson.

From whom?

Other than LinkedIn posts from his fellow travellers in the health insurance industry, significant public expression of sympathy is hard to find.
Visual Product Search: Combining React Native, Cloud Vision, Algolia, and Remix
As part of my journey learning react native, I was thinking about building something cool that is related to the thing I enjoy talking about which is Shopify.

So, I decided to add a feature to the Shop app. that will allow user search in Shopify stores product catalog using an image instead of the keywords.

The workflow:
A user scrolling through Instagram and the found a product that they like
Take a screenshot of it
Open the mobile app, click on the camera icon.
Select the image and let the magic happen
Get a list back of similar looking products across different Shopify store (in our case, it’ll be one Shopify Store)

Full article: https://iliashaddad.com/blog/how-i-built-a-product-visual-search-using-react-native-google-cloud-vision-api-algolia-and-remixjs/

Github Repo: https://github.com/IliasHad/visual-product-search-app
Medical insurance should be regulated as non-profit only
Pensions sort of already are a lottery. Can’t collect if you’re dead. Live to 95 and they help a lot. Though inflation will still getcha in the end.
> For starters I'm 1 person, so the market is not O. And I know of others, and I know I'm not alone. Clearly you don't work in test and measurement.

I said approximately 0, when compared to smartphone sales… which it is. I don’t need a survey to know that, since the vast vast vast majority of people using phones don’t even know what an oscilloscope, a DAC, or an ADC is. If you think that’s untrue, I’d suggest widening your horizons a bit.

Also, I’d think that you don’t work in test and measurement. I use test equipment in my day job and I wouldn’t trust the output of a phone if I’m doing actual production work. You need calibrated equipment for that. Maybe okay for debugging, but there’s tons of cheap measurement equipment that works just fine for general purpose debugging and has a much better UI than anything you’d get on a touch screen.
Public funding. Plenty of countries do this.

Instead of US-style employer + individual paying insurance premium...

... you increase taxes and fund universal insurance directly from those revenues.

In the end, it should hypothetically balance out ($1 for healthcare == $1 for healthcare), except employment would no longer be a precondition for having access to affordable insurance.
Personally, it makes me feel young because it brings back memories of when I used older machines for the first time. Sometimes it can be a whole memory trip where I remember the first time I used a particular program, figured out a difficult problem, or finished a big job.

Now I'm curious about how others see it. I work with several people who are younger than computers I actively use for testing, and I just pointed out an article on The Register (1) because it talks about the same machine I use for email server load testing, which is a Macintosh LC III+ (2). I wonder what the youngsters think about that, so I think I'll ask :)

1) https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/apples_design_reverse...

2) https://www.klos.com/~john/lciii.jpg
The US military has a preference for whichever manufacturer can specialize in filling out the paperwork. Intel is one of them, but so is Marvell: https://www.marvell.com/products/custom-asic/marvell-governm...
Unfortunately, i must agree with you. To believe the average person will care or mobilize in a month is naive. We have the attention spans of a toddler and worse we are susceptible to tribal groups which makes change impossible.
Can you cite those studies please? Very interested.
I buy a magazine where $3 gets you 114 short articles, each about 1/3rd of a page. So I'm paying 2.6¢ per article, if I read every single one.

Some people dream of 'micropayments' at a similar price point. Being able to buy a single article for about 2.6¢.
https://crusoe.ai/energy#dfm

I don't know a lot about it, but remembered that there was a company in Colorado doing something very similar. Seems they've branched out into data centers and AI
The perfect. Enemy of the good.
Stupid funny-pages trick: "Spot the Differences", you can cross your eyes and the things that "shimmer" are the differences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_the_difference#Solving_te...
I was one of 5. I was not neglected. I am a horrible person, though, so there's that.
>moreover the toys they put in them have been shit as well

That's what pisses me the fuck off. Even Kinder toys have been shit for decades.
Pretty much, yeah. Also, since the system technically works, and produces decent results compared to other countries' results... it's a hard sell to rile up super majority of the population for some change.
For medical devices, they're profitable by being based on reality instead of just bullshit.
There were probably some useful concepts and possibilities in the blockchain space but they became so intermixed with the crypto-scum that the whole area became toxic.
The problem is that the profit making side of the business is becoming dominant. There will always be room for experimental procedures even if the US saw regulation that limited the profit-making abilities of health insurers.

The situation at the moment is that routine, basic medicine is being denied, often algorithmically, along with "pharmabro" types buying up basic medications for the sole purpose of increasing its price. That's starkly different from the development of novel medications demanding high prices to reward R&D efforts.
How do you select for "those without a stable source of above living-cost income?
I used to get what I thought was RSI. I mean it was RSI. I tried all sorts of weird keyboards and mice (don't bother with vertical mice, they suck).

What it turned out to be in the end was a poor desk setup. My desk wasn't deep enough so I wasn't resting my forearms on it very well, and I had a crap chair.

With a deep desk and a fancy mesh chair (HM Mira; expensive but worth it), I haven't had any issues since.

Maybe that's not the case for you but it's just a suggestion. Definitely made me suss of all the ergonomic keyboards and mouse - they made zero difference, and a better chair and desk completely solved the issue.
Right but that's not what happened in this case. In this case it wasn't "medically proven" in the right sense. I'm not an expert on Brazil but from what I just read these specific drugs would not be covered
Oh yeah I'm well aware of the meme haha. I just wanted to show that I'm conscious of these things in my writing. My dedicated entry on monads (https://ryanbrewer.dev/wiki/monad) alludes to the meme in the first sentence :)
The shock is because he said multiple times he wouldn't do it.

You can't do better than the daily show coverage of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5BcIHPMAHw
US Military Aircraft Part 3 – Information Airplanes
Use it as a signal to start an investigation into how many agree with that sentiment, try to measure the resulting adoption dropoff, and use those stats to push for a UX redesign.
Nvidia: 30k employees

AMD: 26k employees

For Intel, the number of employees is a liability, not an asset.