skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article leave me confused. Why would it be beneficial, as the author claims, for UnitedHealthcare to pay for a massively overcharged, in fact fraudulent, procedure? If they are "making incredible, towering sums", how does spending it like this help that? It seems like this is strictly negative for the insurers, and them pushing back on it would be closer to the intended way for them to make money. After all, recently their CEO was assassinated specifically because of the company's alleged greed in not paying for procedures.
Disagree. I think they feel that the new leadership in the US will let them play ball.
iirc they tip over a lot more easier
Has there ever been a scenario where someone gave up on a startup, dumped the code, then someone picked it up and turned it into a successful business?
Show HN: An Open Source Equilizer Plugin
a5eq.lv2 is a versatile LV2 plugin featuring a high-performance 5-band equalizer, equipped with a Low Shelf, three Peaking Filters, and a High Shelf.

The goal of a5eq.lv2 is to deliver optimized performance on both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures. By leveraging SIMD instructions, the plugin ensures efficient and reliable operation.

As the author of a5eq.lv2, I welcome feature requests and ideas for improvement.
I don't think they're mistaking anything. 386-era Windows and OS/2 versions used the CPU's v86 task support, which, while having some severe warts[1], can well and truly be called "virtualization".

[1] Most of them fixed with later CPU extensions: https://www.rcollins.org/articles/vme1/
> It'll hurt in the short term

There are decades of rules in the federal register. How long do you imagine it will take the legislative branch to patch them?

Go skim some of them, and see if you feel the same way afterward:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/search?conditions%...
Guardian has a frequently appearing column called "my secret ingredient" where someone writes about one particular spice that they use and like.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/series/my-secret-ingredient
How Shopify Built Its Live Globe for Black Friday
https://huggingface.co/FastVideo/FastHunyuan#evaluation

Seems like the images are sharper and noisier. The originals seem to have more blur.
> There were MSFU

Before SFU there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

> The thing you call Windows is just the Win32/Win64 "subsystem" running on top of the NT-Kernel.

Sounds like WINE is an open source Win32/64 sub-system for Linux.
There is nothing cool about this. It celebrates the worst of humanity.
And everybody else laughed at the notion that there's a lack of good design for generics, given that all other mainstream languages have had them for literally decades, with many different takes to choose from.

Given that Go eventually ended up with a very mundane take on generics, in retrospect, it is not at all clear what precluded this same design from being adopted from the get go rather than dragging their feet on it.
Perhaps we should hold a referendum: destroy AI?
Probably not very unique, but discovered Radicale to self-host calendars, then integrate with calendar clients (and for android, DAVx to bridge to calendar apps on Android). Selfhosting on a VPS.
It is exactly what I would expect from the man who coined the phrase “Work smart, not hard”
Analogies between physical commerce and what the Cartel is up to are offensively wrong by 19 orders of magnitude or so.

There is no useful analogy from an idyllic high street with people shopping at leisure to what happens when you give sociopaths unbounded compute and legal carte blanche.

I struggle with this as a meme and I have a more and less charitable theory. My more charitable theory is that people never learned finance seriously. My less charitable theory is that people stand to benefit personally and are indifferent what it costs, as long as someone else pays the cost.

None of these concepts are in the bedrock law of the land: shopping mall, home owner’s association? Which amendment protects HOAs?

It is completely possible to change all of this, and while we should deliberate thoughtfully before making sweeping change, I mistrust anyone who just asserts dubious shit as bedrock laws of nature.

Maybe we’ve got a pretty sickening system composed of dubiously legal and strictly unethical status quos and it’s time to make some changes at arbitrary effort and cost.
What a strange way typo Luigi Mangione
I agree with you: frustrated by a Congress that can’t pass any legislation, the one thing it doesn’t seem like anyone is willing to try is to consider compromises. Everyone seems fully convinced that if only the 50% (or more) of the voters who disagree with them would just drop dead, we could fix everything. And as a result, voters punish lawmakers, who horse trade and negotiate. Even though that’s the only way things used to get done until everything broke 10 or 15 years ago.
That seems simple, too.

But some cities have their own sales taxes in addition to (or instead of) county sales taxes, so county alone isn't good enough.

Besides, there's literally 30 different counties in the US named "Hancock".

(If this were an easy problem to solve it'd have been solved a long time ago.)

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I think we're already back to where we started, wherein: In order to display an accurate sales tax, we need to know the address, city, and state of the buyer.
Ah good point. Let's change it back then!
He was out of power until '58 when the Algerian war had already been going on for 4 years and within his first term offered a referendum for independence to Algeria, which at that point had been under French rule for over a century, and then honored that independence.
Interesting how the media incessantly talks about a school shooting when it happens, but this gets negligible airtime.

Also interesting how Trump says this is “a sickness” but turns around and is totally okay with folks like Kyle Rittenhouse.
If you find this interesting, you may also like my blog: https://sbaziotis.com/#blog
Usually ArchiveTeam will do both where we can. For example we do wikis that are shutting down with both ArchiveBot (recursively download the site, saving in WARC format and uploading to web.archive.org) and Wikibot (download MediaWiki/DokuWiki source text exports in a way that can be restored later, upload to archive.org).

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Wikibot
Huh, I didn't know I wanted something like this. Nice.
To paraphrase The Princess Bride[0]:

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most
famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in
Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this:

Sooner or later, wanting to write a program editor has ensnared many a skilled developer, only to find it to be a time vampire when considered anything more than an intellectual exercise.

Good luck on your journey. :-)

0 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes/?ref_=tt_dyk_qu
Maybe some places operate that way, but I worked on payment systems for a few years and since then I figure most convenience fees come from credit card processing rates being passed on to the customer - at least that's how ours worked.

https://www.creditdonkey.com/interchange-rates.html
Why? You know how averages work?
San Francisco Jury Convicts Man in Killing of Tech Founder Bob Lee
That’s just short term thinking. Imagine being a copy, you will know no difference.
Thanks, that makes sense.

The question began, I am working on a game preservation project.
FTR, the admin is now talking to ArchiveTeam and is willing to help reduce barriers to archiving the site to IA. For eg removing rate limits, allow-listing AT user-agents etc.
Force the program to be written in a way to handle them? There ought to be a lint that says, no unwraps. Unfortunately, the stdlib is designed for "common use", not "highly critical infrastructure".
Very interesting article and software, personally has been looking for robust open source software for diagraming but strangely schemio never appeared on my radar.

I've got the feeling that it will be more intuitive to use geometric algebra instead of linear algebra for the transformation and animation [1].

[1] Projective Geometric Algebra:

https://projectivegeometricalgebra.org/
AFAIK once something is dubbed "terrorism" a lot of the rules and procedures get checked out the window.

I know, surprising.
Seems high to me. Similar to another commenter, I'm in my 30s and I think I've only been to 3 - both grandmothers and maybe a cousin. But I only remember one, and I don't remember which of them it was for.

For us it was only normal to go to funerals for family members, and my parents' generation is getting up there but still alive. So only your four grandparents are what you'd usually expect by that age.

I never even heard about deaths in friends' families unless it was a reason they were missing school.
Oh, it looks like we were competitors! I'm the founder of ReadMe.com, and we do API docs (as well as SDKs and more).

I don't really know why, specifically, we ended up being successful. I know I also had a lot of false starts – slightly iterating on the core idea until I hit something people were visibly excited about. I also knew it was a hard market, so I put a lot of my time and effort into non-engineering things. Hacker News was always good to us, especially as I was more vulnerable.

I'd love to hear more! I'm going to reach out privately :)

Overall, though, congrats on all the work you put in. It's incredibly hard to start a company and believe in yourself, and you should be proud!
Why not? I'm thinking I might prefer this to Google calendar which is does way more than I need. Plus I don't like using a mouse if I don't have to.

To be able to grep for meetings would be great. Much faster than clicking around for a while in search of one and not knowing whether it was deleted or just moved and you haven't found it yet.
It seems like there are some good ideas in here but the terminology is utterly alien to me. Not sure if it's me or this is just deeply wrapped in consulting jargon.
Not at all. I'm really not trying to defend anything here.

It is my considered opinion that it is all quite resoundingly fucked.
Height and width of the texture. They're whatever constants you choose.
yes, very much aware of this. you can even block them at carrier level, but it’s a little bit more expensive
Nah, OS/2 was visually better.
Sounds neat but very minimal:

> Node.js-style callback-based programming - everything happens in one efficient thread with no I/O blocking or unnecessary guest-side context switching.

> No race conditions. Delegated IRQ handling makes race conditions in “userspace” “impossible”. …unless you implement threads yourself (you have the access) or we do.
No, because see above.
I think we're looking at a symptom not a cause.

Essays are only ever used in an academic context. No-one outside of academia writes an essay. This use-case has been replaced by Powerpoint presentations.

Essays are obviously not the only method of "demonstrating and improving the student's writing and thinking".

If we were to write an essay, we would use an LLM to do the actual writing, and feed it a set of bullet points for the points we want to make. Same as our parents moved from handwriting to word processing, we're moving to LLMs as a writing tool.

We're also seeing (that the article didn't mention) that LLMs are being used by staff to grade student essays. Getting to that ridiculous point of an LLM writing content that only an LLM will ever read.

So why not just abandon the essay as a teaching tool? I realise that academia is slow to change, but this might force them to.

Replace it with student presentations, or whatever the actual industry the students are heading for uses to communicate.

As for academia moving away from publishing papers (which are also increasingly being written by LLMs) into journals... that will need to happen too. What replaces that is going to be interesting.
And because we are using those engines, which lack sufficient thrust at liftoff, we have to use the Solid Rocket Boosters. Those were supposed to be recoverable but the SLS just drops them into the ocean now too.
one thing you can do to make the speaker list more performant and seamless is to load the next list of speakers when the scroll gets to some value near the end of the list and also pull a few more speakers in each fetch.
SpaceX Starship is closer to the (failed) N1 Soviet Rocket which should have been the Saturn V competitor.

The N1, with its 30 NK-15 engine would have made it more powerful than the Saturn V and its 5 F-1 engine, but less powerful than SpaceX "Super Heavy" with its 33 Raptor engines.

Another similarity is that the NK-15 engine and the Raptor are both staged combustion engines, while the F-1 uses the simpler open cycle design. The F-1 is also much more powerful than both the Raptor and NK-15, that's why the Saturn V has only 5 of them.

The similarities end there, fortunately.
This looks cool! How would this compare to Benthos?
Except I'd be the one left behind, so I'd really know the difference, and if my copy was good, it would also know it's the copy and the original was left behind.
As per the public areas of the web, it is important to bear in mind that not everyone will appreciate the topic at hand the same way you do, nor have any expectations those interested enough to read the topic / subject at hand and your comments in the first place, are capable to truly grasp (with some depth) all the talking points you had hoped to make. It seems these days it's too easy for comments to be misread, and often people who might voice concerns will miss what was implied - any back and forth might be put down to poor communication but there are those who do the things they do [1] for their own reasons being more inclined to be contrary.

In more social media type areas, read places that use a reward or other points system, negative noise might be more along the lines of attempting to be entertaining, recognition or stroking their own narcissism ... but some I'm sure is just people who've had a really bad day and taking it out on the net. Sometimes it helps to imagine what sort of bad day they've had, like apart from awful day at work where they have to BJ the bosses metaphorically, they got home to find their dog or cat has strategically laid too many to count turd mines or a shredded bed or if they are particularly foul, maybe it was a well knackered water bed or if worse maybe they arrived home to find a bunch of sex toys have chew marks in the front yard, with hubby in tears trying to cope with the neighbours laughing about it - she or he weren't aware of the collection of large dildos - they're just doing the net while they're thinking about what to do about it ... again ...

[1] https://www.politicsforum.org/flame-warriors/
For a similar embedded RTOS there is RTEMS https://www.rtems.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTEMS

An interesting example would be GRiSP where Erlang's BEAM was ported to an Arm Cortex M7 microcontroller with 64 MB of external RAM. https://www.grisp.org/
https://lodev.org/cgtutor/examples.html#screen

They're set by screen, exactly!
Well said.

For some reason I was expecting rust code... I guess my internal heuristics seems to associate fancy TUIs with colored output with rust.
it's always easier for people today to look at the work of other people in the past and draw stupid conclusions.. don't mind them..
Instead of dedicating two bits to flags, could the specific task in the video be accomplished by leveraging the sign bit? Define 0xFFFF to be zero, 0x0000 to be one, 0x0001 to be two, etc. Then for decrement, do an atomic `fetch_uint_sub(1)` and for increment, do an atomic `fetch_sint_add(1)`.

This could simplify read by making the sign flag a one-way gate enforced by the CPU semantics instead of the application?
enable same-site??

if you're doing things not from same-site, I'd posit you're doing something I want blocked anyways.
Seems like a reasonable move for the prosecution. To defend against terrorism charges he'd need to admit to a non-political motive. I bet they'll get a plea deal for murder w/o terrorism.

I'm hoping for a big public trial, but I don't expect it because 'the man' doesn't want that. Mangione will negotiate a super lax plea deal that avoids a trial.
Ask HN: Does your MacBook Air/Pro have the screen wake hardware problem?
The screen sometimes doesn't wake when you: (1) press the Escape key on the Lock Screen, and then (2) press a key, such as the spacebar, to wake it.

On my M3 MacBook Pro, a workaround is to adjust the screen brightness using the brightness keys, which somehow wakes the display.

See: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m2-air-display-sometimes-stays-black-after-waking.2389035/

Apparently, fixing this hardware issue requires replacing both the display and the lid angle sensor.
Google is in decline because now the Internet is AI eating itself.
So you'd forgive the deception (there's no "chef" only a button pusher) and revisit the restaurant even though you could easily generate the food yourself.

You don't care about the absence of a lifetime of hard work behind your meal, or the efforts of small business owners inspired by good food and passion in the kitchen. All that matters to you is that your taste buds were satisfied?

Interesting. Perhaps we can divide the world into those who'd happily dine at "Skynet Gourmet", and those who'd seek a real restaurant.
Yes. Here's the Texas AGO's web site, as an example:
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumer-protection/fil...
Probably he wanted to relive in the 90s where software are simple and less convoluted. Another reason at this point the modern GCC would abandon the old quirky .r format and instead use ELF everywhere so it might be a deliberate choice...Unless he is also trying to bootstrap GCC for Tektronix4404 which is sort of:

> Bootstrapping any compiler typically requires using the existing host compiler to build some native arithmetic functions (long multiply, divide etc) on which everything else will be built. You then use your native compiler to build a (non-optimal) compile of the new compiler.
Image quality is extremely important for medical image analysis. A flickering low resolution display is the last thing you'd want a doctor looking at.
Is it just me, or in the latest few (10?) years there have surged more vi-like alternatives like never before?

- Kakoune

- Helix

- Vis

- Ki

- Ad

- ...
Reminds me of the Hamming distance texture: https://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/the-hidden-harmonies-...
Thats true from the point of view of the individual poster claiming free speech infringement. I guess I was thiking of it from the point of the corporation which could claim something like a right to use an algorithm to promote certain videos as speech. I’m not sure if this has been decided by higher courts yet.
> Thats the crux of the whole problem isnt it?

Right. So changing the details of the mechanism won't fix anything. And while I suspect the author would like to return to "let the police do what they like, and trust their judgement", that also has problems.

> Ok but the administrative detections skewed things away from serious crimes. Why detect 1 murder when you can detect 42 drug crimes across 3 people? And then the administrative overhead of recording the 42 drug crimes takes that guy off the beat for the rest of the day.

But it's not the administrative detection that's the issue there. If you make those arrests/charges you have exactly the same problem. The problem is deciding it's more important to solve 42/43 crimes than solve the murder, and that decision is happening outside of the police power structure.

(It's also not entirely clear that it's wrong - reasonable people from all around the political spectrum have argued that preventing small crimes ultimately has a high long-term impact, in the same way that doctors save more lives by telling patients to lose weight than by everything else they do put together)
I was referring to gcc bugs. Doing Linux kernel development 20+ years ago certain complex functions with lots of register spills would occasionally trip up gcc's register allocator on i386. Architectures with more registers and less complex constraints on how they were used would not trigger those bugs as frequently. Eventually, gcc got better and those kinds of bugs went away, but I got to spend many hours looking at the assembly gcc produced and raw Oopsen.
F-1 vs. Raptor question is only for American engines, not the world ones. If by "most powerful" you mean engine thrust.
bravo, really clear
Good God, no.

Pretty much every telescope owner will happily show you the sky - after you've made an effort finding out where they gather, or if you just happen to walk by. The instagrammification of astronomy, with hordes of influencers rolling by without concern for the subject matter, just to insert themselves everywhere, is too horrible to consider.

It's not hard to find. Type "<city> astronomical society" into your search box. They have public websites, horribly outdated. Reach out to them, join the group, and you're more than welcome. But may there never be "an app for that"
One thing a like about getting older is the increasing frequency of reminiscing.

I used to cycle commute to work. This one time I caused a guy to miss a gap in traffic, wasn’t something I was trying to do, just the timing worked out that way.

I saw him starting to curse, I don’t think it was directed at me, but I blew him a kiss anyway.

The cursing transformed immediately to a bust of laughter from both of us, I think made his day.
Have you seen Veo 2 just launched by Google?
Its quality and physics understanding appear far ahead of the competition.

https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/veo-2/

Also, planning might be around the corner with test-time compute applied to video generation.
The entire purpose of the /etc/sudoers file is to configure which users have access to sudo and which commands they can use.

In all of my career I had seen that at one company. Everyone else just leaves is unrestricted. I would be impressed to see sudo used the way it was intended in more places. Some places even use passwordless sudo and ssh multiplexing which together with simple phishing give unfettered and unlogged access to production.
I think the general theme here misses the mark. McWhorter obviously wants to talk about the interestingness of genderless, though seemingly gendered, pronouns in his essay. So much so that his dismissiveness of "y'all" seems too curt, and I think it's a mistake because the regionalness of "y'all" over "you guys" reinforces his narrative.

I also always raise an eyebrow when a linguist is pining for a universal familiar third-person plural, which is noticeably absent from Spanish as well: "vosotros" vs "ustedes." I suspect that the regionalness and third-person familiar pronouns might simply go hand in hand, as they are an in-group signaling mechanism, and it's a bit rare to have large groups who you are close with who aren't part of your region.

I grew up in Austin. I use "y'all" and "howdy" regularly, even more so than when I was young. That said, I feel like Texas Monthly "defending" the use of y'all as a potential universal term is entirely unnecessary. Again, there really isn't a need for a third-person familiar pronoun that isn't a natural one to use, because the point of third person familiar is that everyone in the space is comfortable with each other. The only reason why a formal version of this would ever be necessary is to have some sort of formal version of an informality... which makes little to no sense at all.

Embrace the informality of colloquial third-person familiar pronouns. Embrace "y'all," "yinz," "you guys," "youse guys," and all the rest, because whenever you're on the receiving end of the pronoun, it means you're with someone who is trying to be friendly.