skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole argument also assumes there is something called "Americas National Wealth" and that its a zero sum game where there is x dollars to be distributed around to everybody.

Capitalism is not a zero sum game, and people can choose to turn effort into wealth or they can choose to sit around and do nothing.
This is hilarious, I love the "it sounds absurdly overkill, but thats the point" post. Can't wait for this to be back online, I need to ask it about the comprehensive history of cheeseburgers.
Interesting, but I wonder about the causation implied by your first sentence.

The article you link to seems to show a correlation, but surely a more likely explanation is that the same factors cause both early reading ability and autism.
Up next: Learn how to make your own circuit boards instead of relying on individual microcontroller and motor controller boards :)
A really good documentary (in German, but you'll get the drift) with lots of casual, non-sensational footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rj8m7Ssow
I think a lot of people just got burned out on "if err != nil"
r/speedreading on reddit is where you'll find people at that level.

It's a skill that can be learned, but likely you self-taught and simply don't remember learning it.
also, many will signup to attend and bail last minute
Which makes it a clear business decision. Is a company derelict in its fiduciary duties if it doesn't buy them?
Is it really? How many home users are really spending that much on an espresso machine? As someone who owns a ~$1000 machine (Profitec Go), I definitely feel like the $500-$1000 range is "end game" for the vast majority of people, not "very inexpensive".
Considering not needing a garbage collector is a goal of Rust, if programming in an ML style without a garbage collector is bad then it sounds like Rust picked the wrong style.
The "replication crisis" reaches way beyond social sciences, and not all scientific epistemologies are founded in so called replication.
That's more or less the idea, the actual mechanism is an implementation detail. You could host the messages yourself, or instruct people to update their hn_bio or RSS feed which will sometimes have messages like this :

hnmeet@present_time@location@duration.
Yeah honestly I'm in the same boat here. Something seems very off about this. There's not a single video on the site or YT of the device working. The video on the site is intentionally cropped so we only see the portafilter. Why was that conscious decision made? The price also seems WAY out of line, as handmade machines like this go for many thousands of dollars. The builder also is completely anonymous, which seems odd for a passion project like this.

I spun up a little project a few years ago and designed a product based around analog synthesizers. It was something I really loved doing, and I dropped videos of the R&D process all the time. How could you not!? It's the best part of the process and it's great marketing too. Again, things just seem strange here. I hope I'm wrong. Someone in this thread seems to have bought one, so I suppose we'll see.
wrote this 100 years ago. Violentmonkey still runs it.

https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/130277

> Metric intervention Script Summary: Converting that old French system the Brits are still using to the metric standard of science. ~ foot, inch (00',00",00'00,00'00"), yard, mile, stone, Pound-mass/Lbs., Gallon ~ It will totally convert something heretical like: 1'23 1/4" x 2'12 5/8" into something ellegant and civilized like 89.535 cm x 93.0275 cm
New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs
This feels unlikely. Rust is trying very, very hard to not have a runtime [1], by opposition to Go (which ships the runtime in every executable) or Java, .Net, JS, Python... (which require the runtime to be installed separately). That's why you need tokio (or some other executor) to execute async code, for instance.

The benefit is that it makes Rust much easier to maintain and port to new architectures, and much more polyvalent, e.g. you can use Rust on true embedded, by opposition to most other modern languages, and presumably more future-proof. The drawback is that you, as a developer, need to pick a runtime.

[1] In truth, there's still a runtime, but it's really tiny.
Some procedures are considered never medically necessary or only approved with prior authorization.

Acupuncture has a CPT code and can be billed; do you think a patients file is required to deny it?

Removing a skin tag is considered cosmetic unless it's causing significant issues or is suspected to be cancerous.
Come on -- It's not more presumptive and rude than to take another person's feelings of their own dead loved ones and mortality and call it disgusting and perverse. Please take a moment and reflect on "The Other" and the fact that we're all humans made of the same parts.

I sought to ask questions and learn why your experience differed from mine. I would ask what your goals were entering into this conversation and if that's a quality you want to cultivate within yourself.

Have a great weekend :)
Thanks for the perspective!

I think I have a communication problem with meet.hn.

People seem to assume it has been created to setup these kinds of large meetups.

In fact, I created it for small or even 1-1 meetups in the first place.
Meeting a single person or a small group of people seems much more interesting, easy and valuable to me.

Of course I'm not assuming everyone thinks the same way, but don't you think there is an audience for that in the HN community?
The magic and mighty asdfasdf..., it is like foo/bar in naming, Alice/Bob in security, deadbeef in bit ops.
Speaking of reading, if we simulate a theoretical person (who hasn't read a book in their life and has poor reading comprehension and speed) and that person has the goal of reaching a 700 score on the SAT verbal, how many hundreds of hours of passive reading (opinion pieces, fiction, nonfiction) would the person need to develop the necessary reading speed and comprehension base before progressing to the next stage which is actively practicing SAT verbal questions?
And the rest of it... All of his companies are basically wanting government handouts.
Long duration energy storage must scale 50x faster to reach net zero
I see you're not the OP that said that so I am sorry.
Do you find that your comprehension is as high at this rate as at a lower rate?
Yeah that was the interesting part to me, at least. Plus, it's Microsoft so hopefully it will work for their files.
Yup, $50 is definitely a lot when the whole computer was $150! Whatever it came with from the person I got the machine from on Craigslist, that's what it's generally staying with until I have to replace something - especially as I try to acquire multiples of my machines so I can continue to use them for a very long time. An entire functioning machine is more important to me than a RAM upgrade. (That said, it's really nice to be able to pop in new RAM if I happen to have some on hand, so having RAM slots is pretty important regardless!)
Analysis: https://www.iea.org/reports/the-future-of-geothermal-energy
"Types lasting for the lifetime of the program" is accounted for by 'static lifetime. I am referring to the use of _static_ and _static mut_ declarations in the code, which is not quite the same thing. The interesting question is whether it might be possible to have multiple "collection" threads within a single instance of the program, each working on independent graphs.
Many LLMs are ok with json and html tables. Not perfect, but not terrible.
> But in some cases, flashy quant skills are used to distract from more fundamental issues.

I agree, I sometimes thing economists like quantitive approaches because it makes them feel like "real scientists" and numbers have an air of credibility.

It look a lot of arguing to let my MSc dissertation supervisor let me do one on financial theory (which I am good at) rather than econometrics (which i struggled with).
I think you're mixing up terminology here. When a claim is submitted the care (lifesaving or otherwise) was already delivered. You might be thinking of prior authorization, where a provider asks an insurer for advance approval before delivering care. If a payer denies a prior authorization request then some providers will refuse to deliver care unless the patient has another form of payment.

Fraud is only a small part of the systemic problems. There is an enormous amount of waste and abuse by providers who deliver treatments that are ineffective or unnecessary or excessively expensive. The dominant fee-for-service financial model incentivizes over treatment. We can argue about where to draw the line but payers (whether commercial or government) have to push back on this to keep the system from collapsing. Healthcare is already ~20% of the US economy. It can't continue expanding, we simply don't have the resources to pay any more. Every other country rations care in some way; no country delivers unlimited lifesaving care to everyone.

https://peterattiamd.com/saumsutaria/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/22/7673763...
You say I am wrong but none of what you said actually contradicts what I claimed.

You mentioned there were 3 advanced schools at the typical medieval university. While this is true, what I said was what the first ones were founded as which was the divinity school.

Then your claims about what a founder said in his speech about what he hoped the school would one day become is pretty irrelevant to what I said and no way makes me wrong. Overall a pretty bizarre response.
What is the difference between "writing past the end of an array is UB" and "dereferencing a null pointer is UB" and "passing null as the destination argument to memcpy is UB"? The two programs I listed above are only observationally equivalent if writing past the end of valid allocations is UB.

A core problem with this discussion in almost all circumstances is that people have a vibe for which of these things it feels okay for a compiler to make logical deductions from and which it feels not okay but if you actually sit down and try to formalize this in a way that would be meaningful to compiler vendors, you can't.
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Why do you want a cofounder instead of an employee?

How much equity are you planing to give?
Sure: your web server doesn't need to care about the "S" part in the slightest in order for the web site to work over HTTPS.

Reverse proxies have existed for a very, very long time, you simply run a local HTTP server and you let the reverse proxy take care of https-to-and-from-the-WAN-side part. Even in dev context, that takes at most a few minutes to set up these days thanks to letsencrypt's certbot.
Just wanted to say thanks for your contribution to making this stuff possible :) fist bump
Yeah, I don't think one has much of a claim to be Roman emperor if they aren't, you know, in possession of Rome. The Taiwanese government considers themselves to be the legitimate Chinese government, but as they aren't in possession of China nobody really agrees with that claim. IDK why people treat Byzantium's claim of being Roman any differently.
Sorry, I misread your question. I’m sure it’s possible but this seemed like a good enough implementation for what I needed.
It's petroleum based but it's not a thermoplastic. It's a really wonderful material though more expensive than you'd think.
How to hack an electronic road sign (2009)
Must be willing to relocate. No wfh, remote.
Have you ever heard of anyone admitting they’re not fulfilling family obligations? It’s something that those who do, aren’t aware of. People who work 12 hours a day or spend their time off work doing side projects often are filling a role in their families life but they likely do not know their family - their spouse maybe.

Absentee parents don’t see themselves as absentee - they see themselves as being in a provider of material resources role and eschew genuinely knowing or nurturing their children. Source: people with parents like this have been in my dating pool for the last decade, enough that I’m fairly confident this is extremely common.

I have seen people who are genuinely good at balancing everything - they operate on very little relaxation time, they’re on a pretty tight schedule and they have flexibility at work and in other projects. This is the minority - most people require direct support from a spouse or other family to maintain this level. Most actually wealthy people who work hire help.

In StarCraft there’s a way to think about the game - if someone is rushing you early with a large force, that gives you information about what they can’t be doing at the time as well - you can’t build a stargate while proxying a barracks. The same applies to productivity influencers. Maybe with a lot of other people working for them, and a strict singlular focused mindset, and a sprinkling of neglecting the rest of life, it’s possible.
It’s a Musk company, who believes a word of what they say?
You should travel a bit around the world, you would then understand how high NZ stands globally, I have trouble having sympathies with rich folks complaining that they can't buy central houses in main capital city right out of pocket from first 2 years salary. Same situation all over the world.

But that's the issue - people want paradise and absolute success on all fronts of existence, now, I mean right fucking now or they are losers. Its immature approach to life that will bring you tons of unhappiness and 0 of opposite, and it definitely won't help you move forward.

Or - good luck with return to Europe. What you write is valid here too if you haven't noticed. Maybe not sewage but some other problem XYZ which is completely absent or non-issue in NZ.

Be prepared half of folks will be either very welcoming of russian attack on Europe, subtle support of far far right all the way to xenophobia and racism. EU green deal is killing European (not only) automotive industry right now and they just double down on rules, who cares how many coal plants China or India fire up. That's up to 15 million jobs going slowly (or fast) away. That's economical future being taken away from financial core of EU by at best some idealistic bureaucrats. Tens of millions of immigrants and refugees, you see them everywhere, mostly without work, barely surviving. What's the plan for them? Nothing that makes long term sense.

EU is in decline and things are not that great for most folks. We don't have the illusion of 'American dream' to keep poor people in line and chasing some illusion of potential to massive success. And that decline ain't gonna magically stop just because it will be annoying.
Perhaps the most famous...ABOOT.
This is... interesting. From my understanding - and people can correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Microsoft spend an extremely large amount of effort essentially trying to screw people who made things like this in the 2000s? Interoperability and the Open Office movement were prety hard fought. It's kind of crazy to see MSFT do this today. Did I just misunderstand and the underlying formats (docx etc) were actually pretty friendly, or have the formats evolved a lot since then? Or is it more a case of "It doesn't matter if it looks terrible because we're feeding it to the AI beast anyway"

A cynic might say it became suddenly easy when MSFT had a reason to allow you to genereate markdown to feed into it's AI?
Tangentially related, previous releases of the game were also hit by a DirectInput device enumeration regression that Microsoft (behind the scenes) refused to fix. (I haven't checked the latest re-release.)

https://github.com/riverar/IndirectInput
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Controversial != malicious. It sounds like they never intended for the filter to trigger for the former and they already said they'll look into why it did for the prompt.

Filtering malicious (not controversial) usage is ideal as allowing users to flood all of the AI services with jailbreak/against-ToS query attempts can be bad news for your API keys (as well as a likely waste of money given the failure rate of such queries).
Having this in a Google Maps-esque interface with the ability for users to annotate and comment on any point would be interesting.

Another creative idea would be to have a story mode, i.e. snapshots of this cross-section at the next hour/day/evening/etc.. It'd be like a comic strip but on each panel there'll be 5000 stories to follow up from the previous one.

Hah, now I'm thinking about the world as such a comic strip.
I get what you're saying but art doesn't exist in a vacuum. Newer works can add context and alter our perceptions of older works. Especially when people's first exposure to a work is an adaptation. Someone who has never read the lord of the rings, but has seen the movies several times will never be able to read the book without picturing Elijah Wood.

Strong feelings for an adaptation or a sequel can taint or enhance how someone feels about the source material even if the original was experienced first. For example, it's understandable if someone who really loved star wars before the prequels and disney acquisition found that they can't help but experience a sense of loss and disappointment while revisiting those original films knowing about midi-chlorians and how the franchise ended up.

The original works are unchanged, but in many cases the way we view and experience them isn't.
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Ask HN: Are there any open source social serice sites built by a Goverment?
I'm from Oregon, we have spent almost $500M over the last 10 years for a handful of extremely unsatisfactory websites that serve our general public from Healthcare to Foodstamps to Unemployment.

It makes me wonder if a collective of people could build a system for any varying level of social services for our government if it could be successful compared to the many failed corporate sponsorships we have tried.

So I guess my first thought that comes to mind is, has anyone or government already tried? What are some examples of this?
>you should just be able to get an IQ IO stream over USB because it's available on the uC most of the time.

Sure, but demand isn't there :(. It requires a bunch of programming/work, and for maybe couple thousand users?
No, that's not how you could frame it. At no point in the article does the author suggest that more affordable housing with modern amenities is bad. He, and the people he quoted, clearly are critiquing the sameness of the styling and for housing especially the outside. Not just across cheaply built timber frame lowrises, but also across office buildings.
Show HN: I Made an App That Eliminates Doom Scrolling
I realized I was spending way too much time on short-form content like Shorts, Reels, and TikToks, which severely impacted my attention span and felt like brain rot. To tackle this, I built BlockScroll, an app now available on the Play Store. It blocks shorts, reels, TikToks, and similar distractions without affecting other app features, helping enhance focus and reclaim your time.

After building a Chrome extension to fight distractions (30K+ users), I realized mobile is where short content fuels the most brain rot. So, after months of work, I built BlockScroll for mobile using Android (Java/Kotlin) and Accessibility APIs.

I’d love your feedback on functionality, UX, and ideas for improvement!
They state that condition when they introduce the p^2 + 4q^2 condition, but at the point that GP quoted ("one must be odd"), they had only referred to them as "numbers" and "whole numbers". So it's not clear whether the article considers p and q being prime as a condition on p^2 + q^2 or not. GP's point is valid.
I accept your suffering if you choose so. If I knew you personally, I would even do all I could to help and comfort you. However, I cannot condone you imposing suffering on others in the name of YOUR religion.
JST-EH is great but let's try to avoid JST-SM. It's worse than DuPont! There's no surface mount connector for JS-SM yet for some f'ing reason every LED strip ever uses JST-SM connectors. This makes it impossible to design something like an RGB LED strip controller board without having to solder some wires to the board (with the connector on the other end).

Drives me bonkers.
It's actually 86 letters, making it TESLA
Most photos are terrible. Colors can start fading in at little as 10 years if they were hanging on your wall that long. B&W can last longer, but still will fade. Of course there are different process, if you use the best process photos will last longer, but still they are not very stable.

Digital makes it cheap and easy to have multiple in many locations. While any one media may fail, you still have a copy - I have on this computer all the data from whatever computer I was using 15 years ago. (most of it I have not looked at in 20 years and I could safely delete, but it is still here, and on other backup systems I have)
> I found this spec a bit strange. Maximum dose is a function of the basket AND the coffee, both of which are up to the user, so I don't understand why this is in the machine's specs.

I assume this is just referring to the basket that comes with the machine. It's common for aftermarket baskets to be sized/sold by dosage weight.
Infinitely preferable to “woke Redditor” vibes, if one has the choice.
Another faster-than-average reader here, I don't remember what my result was when I calculated reading speed.

Anyways, I do slow down dramatically when it's technical. I'm learning then, and limited by my learning speed.

When I'm reading fiction, I forget that I'm reading, and don't even know what speed I'm reading. I'm completely in the flow and the story is playing out in my head.
> The cost, of course, is that you, as a developer, need to pay attention to what needs a GC and what doesn't.

But even there, lifetimes make your life easier. If lifetimes work out on their own you know the object will be dropped at some point (at the end of the lifetime). Only when you opt out of unique_ptr-like behavior you have to consider whether Rc/Arc will work (90% of the cases), will work with some special care by using some weak references, or whether you will require a GC
Branded lifetimes are painful in practice as they infect _everything_ and often make it impossible to interop with other things.

I don't think you'd find a GC library to be useful to most developers if it required that. For those who might need it, it can be useful but for everyone else you're just paying for unnecessary pain.
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> do not know how things look in New Zealand, but I would argue that, on average, very little critical thinking is thought in university or college. In neither the humanities or STEM.

I am in New Zealand

I have been through the university system here, my family still closely involved

A great deal of critical thinking happens in New Zealand universities
For one thing, there has been nothing that can reasonably be described as a coup. Coups involve serious violence (generally from the military), and we haven't had that. For another, we aren't at the point of civil war.

Honestly, by far the biggest threat to the stability of the country is the meme that the country is unstable. That sort of idea pushes people into taking drastic actions because they have to "save" things. But things are working ok (not perfectly), and if people start taking drastic action it will certainly hurt rather than help.