skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The design is a call to try and then buy. Did you have any great coffee aficionados try it?
I'm sure his new city will also give generous tax breaks to the biggest employer in the city...
That has to be the worst kept dirty secret in the history of dirty secrets.
When the ratio of bath water to baby reaches a certain point it becomes the best solution.
'Systematic reviews' extracting broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
IIRC, it was a vector display in front of a raster camera. The same arrangement was used throughout the Gemini and Apollo mission control and up to the early shuttle program - images would be rendered in the RTCC (real-time computer complex(?)) and piped to the slow-scan CRTs in the panels. At the panel the operator could select which video stream they wanted to see. One of the streams was a "channel guide".
K. So step 1. murder health insurance CEO (no healthcare involved there), check. Step 2. watch UnitedHealth's refusal rates closely, ongoing.
He memorized the series of valid letters. That's it. He still has no idea what "ongle" is, just that it's a perfectly valid French scrabble word. Certainly just knowing all the legal sequences of letters does not buy you much.

If you study a language more distant from English than French, you'd be surprised at how even knowing all the meanings can still leave you pretty baffled at the meaning of a sentence.

You do have to get farther away from English than French though; I can still half-read French off of a 4-year "not all that great" study in high school, and that's more a testament to how knowing enough English to recall Latin roots we don't use in our main vocabulary and some of the most common French words that are different from English is enough to read an awful lot of French from an English start than any skill of mine. I tried half-a-dozen words in Google Translate to pick my example above before I finally found a word that was either different enough that it wasn't basically the same as it is in English ("ski" -> "ski"), or something with enough Latin roots that English also uses that a strong English speaker would have a pretty decent chance of guessing ("smelly" -> "malodorant").
The point here is that "democratically passed legislature" is not at people's service.
But it is. Most people are not rich to pay for their own care. Society doesn't want tax increases. We don't have enough healthcare workers.

Reality doesn't care about how things should be.
The medical community has gone to great lengths to teach the public that Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are distinct conditions -- and yet the researchers quoted in this article speak of "diabetes" in a generic sense as though there is little difference between them. I'm confused.
Can you share what has changed with Buffer that makes you no longer a fan?
Well, in 1789 France, we killed people

It worked beautifully
Maybe I’m wired differently, but what you’re describing sounds like estimation, so I’d expect that they’ve made some underlying assumptions, foresight being imperfect and all.

I’m unclear what you’re arguing for here, that we should not attempt to estimate because we have to make some assumptions about future events? Or is it that the estimators in this case should have used different assumptions? Or is it that they should also be estimating the potential for famines and political instability (which maybe they don’t feel qualified to do?)
Yeah, likely an outlier for hardware acceleration, just like some people are insanely good at reconizing faces they saw once 20 years ago. That’s not cognitive load, that’s specialized parts of the brain performing far better than most people.
mneumonic devices.
'memory palace' techniques.
Currently learning spanish using this and it is pretty absurdly effective. Definitely couldn't do 40k words in 9 weeks, but obviously im a rank novice and this dude is a pro.
But yeah I've memorized probably 2k words, their meanings, and their idiomatic usages in about 90 days using a program called learncraft spanish that uses mneumonic devices.
I understand what you're saying.

But a murder carried out by a random citizen is still worse than a death sentence after a fair trial and convicted by a jury of your peers.
Why? Apparently something excused murder in the death row case?

So expressing the sentiment that nothiong excuses murder and still having a death row is just I congruent and wrong.
Honest question: why use exceptions at all? They seem like far more hassle than benefit. Why not just use explicit error handling? This also results in much, much, much more readable code.
Show HN: I created an AI Santa for my kids so I don't have to impersonate one
As a developer and a father of two young kids, I’ve faced a uniquely modern parenting problem this holiday season: keeping the magic of Santa Claus alive in an age of tech-savvy children.

When I was a kid, my parents had all sorts of tricks to keep the illusion of Santa intact. They’d rope in distant relatives to call pretending to be Santa or my dad would disguise his voice (poorly) and "Ho ho ho!" over the phone. But let’s face it— those tactics don’t work anymore. I needed something better to preserve the magic of Christmas.

The goal was simple: make a convincing Santa experience that even skeptical kids couldn’t unravel. Here’s the workflow:
1. Parents fill out a simple form (child's name, age etc).
2. The backend crafts a personalized prompt for LLM and initiates a phone call.
3. The TTS model converts LLM outputs into Santa’s voice.
4. After the call parents receive an audio recording via email as a memorable keepsake.

It might not be groundbreaking AI research, but seeing my kids light up made the late nights worth it.
A lot of things work on a small project where everybody knows what they are doing and can keep all the dependencies and data structure in their heads. Logging to the production server and editing PHP file right where apache is looking at it and fixing stuff with sql commands in the production database to address customer complaints.

The big question is what everyone else should be doing that survives the touch with unevenly distributed amounts of technical expertise and amount fucks given about result.
Even if you accept that, it still doesn't excuse it being done by companies or individuals.

The point is also orthogonal to what the insurance industry does.
Duty of care?
And yet, every college and University in the US advertises the job placement rate of graduates.

I myself considered a track that would lead to law school, and one of the things that stopped me was there were a growing number of lawsuits against schools for falsely inflating their numbers.
His Majesty King Charles III Visits Apple's U.K. Headquarters
Unfair and Impolite Tweets Aren't Defamatory–Flynn vs. Wilson
My top desire is that the FCC go back and do what Congress actually asked for in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, to make fiber and hybrid loops part of the require unbundled network elements offerings.

This infrastructure is so heavily subsidized. The FCC in 2002/2003, with some prompting from the courts, allowed fiber to be effectively an monopoly offering. Contrary to the law that Congress had passed!

> Elimination of ILEC unbundling obligation for new fiber-to-the-home loops. In order to encourage ILECs to invest in new broadband-capable facilities—fiber to the home in particular—the FCC ruled that ILECs need not provide such facilities on an unbundled basis to competitors.

https://www.dwt.com/insights/2003/02/splintered-fcc-modifies...
You can't just shoot people and kill them in the street! That's barbaric! You need to do it from behind a desk through a corporate bureaucracy like a civilized person.
America is the land of stand your ground laws in which a citizen may legally take a life if they feel endangered. Let's not forget the 1000 or so police kill every year.
In the 20th century, I think the death sentence was only ever applied for first-degree murder and for treason.

A claim denial that results in denial of life-saving treatment could never be counted as either of those charges.
Or an affordable busy.bar cause the hardware I used in this post is $35 ( https://www.adafruit.com/product/4800 )

I'd love to have a busy bar, but they seem expensive for what they do.
It was not the justification of murder I was talking about. Simply the fact that murder as a solution is absolutely accepted in the US.
Part of the decision feels like the FCC is looking for whatever leverage they have over telcos and just using that as a vehicle. I'd also like to think that telco companies already due risk assessments (maybe not frequently updated or rigorous as people would like), so how much of an impact would this really be?

(I know...when you "assume" you make an ass of 'u' and me and it also depends on what both sides think "minimum" means).
Yes, in my opinion. It's homicide at the very least.
Huh?

I don't know a single person who ENJOYS going to the doctor, or needing medical treatment.

What are you on about?
And which is currently fighting multiple wars around the world, or justifying support of many proxy wars which are killing thousands daily.
I find absolutist stances based on ideology distasteful. History has pretty vividly shown that sometimes killing people is in fact the answer. Something something Nuremburg trials.
I was just denied a colonoscopy as not medically necessary by UHC, coincidentally three days before their CEO was killed, because they don't want me to have anesthesia to do it; they argue I should be awake.

When I called to refute the denial, which was denied, I asked them to find the person, if it was a person, who denied it and shove a tube up their ass without anesthesia and then reassess whether it's medically necessary to have a colonoscopy without it.

I'm 45. Colonoscopies are a thing. I had a friend die at 52 two years ago after he was diagnosed with stage IV during his first colonoscopy. I spent many of his last days watching him struggle to survive; I don't want that to happen to me just because UHC charges me $2000/month in premiums and denies basic service because they need to pay their executives too much money.
tying all social science to economics, what's the worst that could happen
It's the least bad system.
My first thought is "ok well then give the cash to a company that is actually willing to do it". IMO Starlink would be the best option for these rural areas, simply based off the fact that they have a track record of providing broadband to very rural areas + they don't have to run any fiber to connect a new location. Starlink is very expensive though which is where I would expect a govt subsidy to step in and bring the cost down to around the cost of existing DSL for consumers.

EDIT: My comment failed to account for congestion on the Starlink network which other commenters have pointed out. Honestly after reading that I've concluded this is just a shit situation, fiber is expensive as hell to lay and Starlink poses congestion issues both for customers and up in space.
I wonder if this kind of thing could be used to make the Elixir REPL a bit more LISPy. I like iex a good deal, but I often find myself wishing I could just easily eval some code or expression in the editor and have it make its way into the REPL context. (yes, I know you can `r` on a module, but that's pretty clunky compared to something like CIDER).
Gimp 3.0
GIMP 3.0 is set to revolutionize open-source image editing! My article for LWN dives into why this release is such a big deal.

Learn more and check it out here: https://rolandixor.pro/blog/2024/12/inside-gimp-30
&y-&x doesn't require the variables to adjacent, just to exist in the same linear address space. It doesn't even imply any specific ordering .

> Again, just compile the code to perform the operation. If that happens to write 42 somewhere in the stack frame that leads to the program corrupting / a segfault that's fine. If the compiler says 'wait that's not a known memory location' or 'that's going to write onto the protected stack!

As far as the compiler is concerned, source() could return 0 and the line be perfectly defined, so there is no reason to produce an error. In fact as far as the compiler is concerned 0 is the only valid value that source could return, so that line can only be writing to y. As that variable is a local variable that going out of scope, the compiler omits the store. Or you also believe that dead store elimination is wrong?

> possibly with a warning message about undefined operations and the affected lines

There is no definitely undefined operation in my example; there can be UB depending on the behaviour of externally compiled functions, but that's true of almost any C++ statement.

What most people in the "compiler must warn about UB" camp fail to realize, is that 99.99% of the time the complier has no way of realizing some code is likely to cause UB: From the compiler point of view my example is perfectly standard compliant [1], UB comes only from the behaviour of source and sink that are not analysable by the compiler.

[1] technically to be fully conforming the code should cast the pointers to uintptr_t before doing the subtraction.
From the code in the issue

// TODO: Make this actually random
static int _initialSeed() => 0xCAFEBABEDEADBEEF;

Oops.
There is legal precedent establishing healthcare providers' obligations in life-threatening situations. The same moral responsibility should exist when insurers deny lifesaving care, it's just hidden behind bureaucracy.
Everyone wants to change it...until you propose a concrete new system including payment mechanism.

"Give me universal health care...but don't increase my taxes!...and don't take away my current insurance plan!"
Mercedes Dealership Bought a 5k-Foot Runway for High-Speed Test Drives
Worse... how? Shouldn't it depend on context a LOT? Like a mass murderer getting off on a technicality for example.

Considering that a lot of innocent people are murdered by the state via jury and trial in the US the distinction isn't very clear imo.
Amazon, Meta each contribute $1M to Trump inauguration fund
Most people in positions of power realize that it's bad in some ways and good in others. It's bad in cost effectiveness and universal access to affordable primary care. It's (relatively) good at other things like 5-year cancer survival rates, waiting times for elective treatments, trauma care, and drug development. There is little agreement on how to fix the bad while preserving the good.
You might be right, but it doesn't seem correct to extrapolate that Zig's error return type is slow just because C++'s is. If Zig was designed with this kind of error handling from the start, it may well have optimized for it.
Roger that.

I’m against vigilante killings because I don’t want to live in that kind of a society. But a couple days later, Anthem decided to end their insane time limits on anesthesia. I’m hoping the public’s reaction to all these events has put a bug in the ear of politicians who ran partly on the idea of “repeal the ACA”: maybe this isn’t a great time to start slashing coverage. People seem pretty upset about it right now.
In the death row case, the capital punishment isn't murder if you use classic definitions. If you change the definitions then it's only murder if you equate all homicide to murder.

And yes, both the will of the people and tradition can justify capital punishment.
> The theory of finite fields is based on the theory of prime numbers, because the finite fields are sets of residues modulo a prime number or modulo a power of a prime number.

It is note quite correct that the finite field of order p^k is the set of residues modulo p^k when k > 1. Instead this field is obtained as a splitting field of the field of order p (which is the set of residues mod p).
This thing where the government funds R&D for private corporations and then the corporations get to keep all the profits because tHey tAkE AlL tHe RiSk is pretty amazing. I'm a stockholder in several fortune 50 companies except my stock is non-voting, doesn't pay dividends, I don't get to pick which stock I buy and I don't ever get to sell it or borrow against it.
Not saying this article is wrong but it is clearly written in a sensational style and does not belong on HN.
Wow. I disagree with your position on the merits and read through your replies to see if someone had provided an effective counterargument, but you really touched a nerve: it's straight ad hominem snark all the way down. So I guess I'll give honest engagement a shot.

> I'm not sure about the benefits compared to hard science or medical science. ... we're talking about a very small number of researchers here. The average person of whichever race is only affected in the sense that his tax dollars are spent more effectively.

If I'm understanding you, this is your main point: social sciences have a weaker return on investment than medical sciences (and presumably some others?). Here's a counterargument.

There are some fields that study universal facts about biology or physics. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, these will largely yield similar results that can be applied anywhere. There's a small amount of value to replicating research done in one population on a different population, but humans are broadly similar enough that it's not strictly necessary.

On the other hand, there are fields where the location of the research absolutely does matter. This is true of the social sciences. Conclusions drawn about the functioning of one human culture are not broadly translatable to other cultures.

This means that even if the net return on investment for medicine is higher (and it probably is, precisely because it translates to more people), it's actually more valuable for small countries to pay for their own social sciences than their own medical research. They can always take advantage of what others are learning about biology, but if they don't research the way that New Zealand works then no one will.
I built a component to embed X posts in emails
>Life is about choice in Christianity. Freedom.

This depends heavily on the "flavor" of Christianity.
One issue is that if denying medical care is murder then every healthcare system is guilty.

In the US it’s insurance companies (or the government through Medicare or Medicaid) but in the UK it’s NICE, in Canada it’s CADTH and the provincial health authorities.

Since there are finite resources spent on healthcare, trade offs are made all the time. If spending $10M on treatment A saved 10,000 lives and $10M on treatment B saves 1,000 lives, then treatment A gets funded and treatment B doesn’t.

The difference is that patients in the US have an up close and personal experience with denial.

In Canada and the UK they don’t because doctors knows what is covered and what isn’t so never bring up life saving options if they aren’t paid for.

In rare circumstances like cystic fibrosis in the UK, patients become aware that they are being denied a life saving drug and protest, but generally it’s pretty rare because patients just don’t know the option exists.
> A claim denial that results in denial of life-saving treatment could never be counted as either of those charges.

First-degree murder is when you willingly, and with forethought, plans and carries out the killing of a human. Which seems to me to be 100% what you described.
I think we need more thorough analysis. Are the denied claims denied in error? The appeals success rate probably indicates that most of the appealed denied claims were denied in error... but appealed claims are a biased sample of denied claims, so it doesn't tell us much about the overall denied claims.

In my experience, I've seen some denied claims, because the provider submitted a wrong code. Then the provider submits a new claim with the correct code and it goes through.

Given the proliferation of plans, and their sometimes conflicting requirements on medicial coding, I could see that being a big driver of denials increasing over time. As well as a driver of increased administrative costs for providers and insurance companies.
Why? We're just gonna Pokemon Go to the Polls!
Just leaving this here for reference:

In 2022 I was denied full insurance payment of a routine, preventative echocardiogram at Stanford Healthcare to monitor my heart issues. I was balance billed $5000+. The insurance company was HealthNet. The policy clearly indicated full coverage of preventative procedures, without a deductible. They said they did not recognize the procedure as preventative. Fuck them, I know better about what's preventative and what's not than them.

I argued the shit out of it, dozens of e-mails, hours of phone calls, and it was eventually sent to debt collectors. I wrote back to the debt collectors that it wasn't my debt and to stop contacting me. I reported it to a couple of government agencies as well to give them more headaches. I did not pay.

In 2024 it was written off as uncollectible.

(a) Use a virtual mailbox with your health provider so that they don't send debt collectors to your residence. Do not give them your residential address.

(b) Use a virtual phone number with your health provider so that the debt collectors can't call you. Their only option will be mail and that leaves a paper trail which you DO want. NEVER communicate with a debt collector by phone.

(c) Freeze your credit reports with all 3 bureaus so that they cannot use your mailing address to find your residential address.

(d) If they do somehow find your residential address, do NOT answer. Only communicate by mail.

Disclaimer: IANAL, account of personal experience only
The American people need to stop seeing the other party as the enemy. As long as that’s in place, the parasites at the top will remain in power.

Unfortunately, it’s easy for them to create conditions to perpetuate and widen the American political schisms. And they’ve convinced both sides the common historical solutions (nationalism, limited democracy, religion) are for low IQ bigots. Things are likely too far gone.
The act of killing a human being is not inherently murder. It specifically communicates an unlawful killing, which the death penalty inherently is not.
The video of the device in operation with the entire device in frame please. You could still even switch between sexy angles.
What are some of the most significant challenges you've encountered when transitioning an existing system to Libreboot on a T480, particularly regarding hardware compatibility and performance optimization? Additionally, how do you ensure the integrity and security of the system during and after the installation process?
I am a big proponent of claw-back provisions.
Nice!

Do you have a sample/screen grab showing all the possible widgets?

Is there potential for interacting with a canvas? Could one make a drawing program?
I guess we aren't going back in time to kill Hitler any more then?

The media pearl-clutching is extremely heavy this time around, painting Luigi as an unhinged lunatic and all the rest. It feels incongruent and purposefully dismissive to equate this to something like the Oklahoma City Bombing.
There are lots of people who get freaked out and go to the hospital for every little thing. We used to have a term for that: "hypochondriac." Now it's become socially acceptable, so you don't hear the term as much.

Everyone knows Americans pay the most for medical treatment, but the life expectancy is not that high. If you know your behavior isn't good for you, but you can't stop yourself, well, that's an addiction.
In general, if you are benchmarking exceptions, it's a sign that you don't understand exceptions.

Exceptions are not meant to replace error codes, that you use to get a detailed picture of the current environment. They are rather like a kind of assertions, where you don't actually care too much what happens next, because the exception being thrown means someone, somewhere, somehow, has already fuc*ed up.
It's justified when the committee is large enough and regulated enough?
Physicists Propose How to Test Anthropic Principle