skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on launching a product. Unfortunately, I think you've misread the market here. This is a space with immense competition, high prices, and even higher expectations around quality. While you're concept is neat, it's falling short.

The grinder looks sweet, but the espresso machine looks completely janky with the "wires" running out of it. A power cord is expected, but having a power brick on my counter ABSOLUTELY is not expected. Not to mention, the wire looks flimsy. The second wire was a head-scratcher. Turns out that's the water line. That's a bit of a shock since you never mention this is a hard-wired system or show a reservoir.

Finish on the espresso machine components looks poor. Almost all of the metal pieces have millwork marks, inconsistent finish, and knicks in them. The photos clearly show poor tolerances on the wood structure. The video of a person rotating a knob shows absolutely terrible workmanship in the stand.

Oh, the wires. It's almost like they were a complete after thought and they ruin an otherwise amazing aesthetic.

I personally don't believe that wood is the proper material for the stand. While it looks nice, it's durability is going to be crap for a tool that handles water. Water collects on the counter. Water splashes from the cup. Steam everywhere. Those are all recipes for wood going bad. No sense having this amazing, durable espresso machine when you can't use it because the stand went bad.

Oh, the wires.

One of demo photo of this in action shows something that doesn't even look like espresso. Some sort of dirty water (not even coffer water) being pulled into a steamed up wine glass. The other demo video shows rather poor shower distribution. Neither of these scream a machine that competes in this space.

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Generally, I see a focus on technical discussion of the machine's engineering. I don't see any discussion on how well either machine actually does it's job, including possible technical details.

For the espresso machine:

* Water pressure consistency

* Water pressure level and adjustment (though the specs do suggest this is adjustable)

* Water temperature

* Water temp consistency through the brew cycle

* Where's my steam? Do I need a separate machine for steaming milk?

* The power block. Ewe.

For the grinder:

Honestly, it looks polished. I don't "believe" the marketing materials as your claiming a novel grinder design that outperform the rest of the market. This is just going to come down to this grinder building a reputation as good. Get it in the hands of reviewers and community members.
The rural broadband subsidies would work much better if they were not available to large ISPs. The scaling effects of last mile internet installations are basically negligible.

For instance, a neighborhood of a few hundred houses in the mountains outside of Silicon Valley started their own fiber to the home ISP. It cost something like $10K per house to wire it up and monthly payments are much lower than starlink.

We need more of that. If some small rural ISPs decide they are better off expanding than getting subsidies, that’s fine. Stop paying future subsidies.
Regardless, it’s important that people document and collect such anecdotal evidences (assuming it’s done somewhat properly and not cherry picked)

In my book, pure numbers can’t capture the complex realities that people face in their lives.
I thought it was because of Joe Lieberman, a Democrat turned independent, from a state that tries to bill itself as the "Insurance Capital of the World" [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberman-...

[2] https://connecticutifs.com/home/
Beyond multi-core parallelism in Rust: faster Mandelbrot with SIMD
also - damn near every psychologist I have ever met has been similarly fucked up in the head.
It's comforting to know the demo gods have been cursing us since the 60s.

https://youtu.be/UhpTiWyVa6k?si=lDjot4Ie6EiQ_IOW&t=573
That's just code gaming. It's not necessarily an error. Also, numerous legitimate legitimate claims are denied no matter their code.
A usable Internet connection is important. I certainly wouldn't move because I "only" had a reliable 50mbps connection. That's about what I have (not in Bay Area) and don't really have a complaint.
Looks like the screen is divided into a 26x26 H-V grid represented by |[A-Z] [A-Z]|, and typing e.g. `[hotkey], d, e` will click (4, 5) from top left? The cursor seem to click the center of the grid. Presumably that happens to be precise enough on macOS.
And they got their incoming president who will run the country like a business and let them carry on doing nothing.
Consider what happened with the public option in Obamacare. Both parties played a part in defeating it. The Democrats’ part was that they had 59 Senators in support, and one single dude opposed. The Republicans’ part was that they had 40 opposed and none in favor. Because a 60% majority was required, it failed.

That does not look to me like both sides are at fault and we need to think of it differently. That looks to me like Democrats are imperfect but largely aligned with what I want, whereas Republicans are resolutely in opposition.
Because moving out of the bay area, even with shit internet, is extraordinarily stupid if you work in tech.
Water isn't like drugs and surgery at all.
Verizon pretty much did the same thing with $5B in money from just New York City. They completely got away with it too.
>Which mathematically makes it far more likely for the insurer to incur enormous colon cancer treatment expenses, erasing their profiteering.

Just find an excuse to deny those claims, too!
It's estimated by CRUK there are 44,000 bowel cancer cases each year in the UK. Assuming only people over 40 get it, and that's about half the population, the incidence is something like 1 in 800 annually. The rate of "serious complications" for a colonoscopy is about 1 in 300.

Given those numbers, how often should everyone get a colonoscopy?

That's before we get on to the potential harm from a false diagnosis (which is much higher without additional priors).

Yes, absolutely people should pay attention to their bowels and get a colonoscopy when it's indicated. Let's not all rush to get one though unless there's some reason for it.
> Otoh some medical providers like to over bill and over treat.

This is true to some extent, but the share of medical providers that over-bill and over-treat really doesn't justify the way the insurance industry does business. It's a false equivalence.
Not sure what's behind the nomination of the most extreme of the extreme. Perhaps it's anchoring, but that presumes some logic.

I read yesterday that the orange one actually objects to a complete anti-vax position and spoke to RFKJ. Hopes for intramaga war are probably unrealistic.

The future's not yet written, but could be wrotten.

Might be time for that hyperspace bypass. Grab a towel.
Did they give you an option to poop in a box? I went with that.
Old school status statement right there.
Yeah that's the vibe I got. More accurate headline: "ATT has been beneficiary of government action. ATT says it won't build new fiber to some dsl customers."
The assertion is that a 25% reduction in farming capacity should have a nonzero negative effect on non-farming gdp, due to people not being fed
All three of those seem like very useful areas of research to me. New Zealand benefits from better understanding physical and mental health of large communities.
It's not an issue of what companies to trust. The issue is trusting them at all.

Ideally this sort of thing should be a public work. Operators can be private but shared infrastructure should be publicly owned seeing as we're paying for it.

But if markets have to be involved...If we're willing to pay $X per customer we should give the tax subsidy to them. The market can sort out who is actually willing to get the work done and service customers to get the subsidy.
All large health insurers employ many physicians. You're not wrong that they may not have all of the evidence but there is a lot of licensed medical knowledge available to all Payors.
Maybe. But do you have an example of a society that do both death sentence and provide fair trial plus peers conviction?

Making prevailing the idea that some humans can reach a level of certainty that is high enough to put a death sentence on some people they didn’t even knew before that is telling a lot. Like, we humans never make errors, we don’t have any kind of cultural and idiosyncratic biases, we never have conflict of interest and we can’t be manipulated by miscellaneous social forces.

Murder is bad, and murder en masse committed through institutionalized legitimating mechanisms is thus extremely bad, as as many times as bad as how many people it kills.

Legal murder through institutions never prevented a society to have "random" citizen going awry and kill other people, but it never missed to add supplementary threats to all their citizen.
The part where it’s ran by SpaceX
This is very good news, as designing a physical product like this is 20x more difficult than designing a website!
They had issues before this NZ thing.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-a...
>They have a huge impact on astronomy

I'm of the opinion that commercial satellites should be required to be painted as dark as possible. If that requires extra engineering to dissipate heat, so be it.
Have you considered a lucrative career in healthcare management!
2009, so 15 years ago?
Yep, exceptions are to be exceptional, i.e. rare.
Wasn't Bell Labs a result of ATT's natural, sanctioned monopoly?
My father's mother had it. My mother's father died of it early. I am predisposed.
It does seem like the parent is confused.

I haven't heard of any jurisdiction where putting someone under for colonoscopies, outside of extreme cases, is the standard expectation.

Not even for fancy private hospitals, way too high of a risk-reward ratio.
Have you not heard of Distributed Denial of Secrets?

Large entities are hacked and leaked constantly, it's just not reported on much in the mainstream press:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets#...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-hacker-who-archived-parl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueLeaks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Content_scraping

We live in an age where public outcry gets a site booted off the net, and just prior, some hacker siphons up every bit of data about it's users.

Sounds like hacktivism to me.
They know. They don’t care because they think it doesn’t affect them. They’ve largely been right so far. But this should be their sign to fix it before discontent boils over.
PRNG = pseudo-random number generator. I think it would have made sense to spell it out in the first sentence and go with the acronym from then on. Like the author does it with multiply-with-carry (MWC). Makes it more readable and consistent throughout the article.
You can just use the default bridge, but still have to add a static route in the router.
I've tried that, and there are two problems. One is that water has a tendency to superheat and then boil all over the place when you put the tea in, or it suddenly produces a big bubble and water goes everywhere. The other is that it is hard to get a consistent temperature. Even if you measure it with a thermometer it seems problematic (although perhaps the grocery store thermometers go out of calibration easily). If you're doing herbal tea it might not matter as much, but for something like Chinese green tea, it was always hit or miss. I bought the Bonavita kettle as soon as I found out about it, and now I always have consistent tea with no fuss or mess.
I can second this. This problem happens on Firefox as well.
Surely that image is a computer rendering and not an actual photo though! I want to see an _actual_ photo. Like on a counter. How big is it? Wires? Power brick? Cool concept, but hard to make a decision with so little information.
This may have been the tipping point for me. I got two from Amazon. One was obviously used and had lots of hard water deposits. The other had a very strong VOC odor to it. Around this time I'd started looking more closely at items purchased from Amazon and they'd often appear to be lower quality (if not blatantly counterfeit). Even if I didn't despise Bezos this would've put me off Amazon.

ThermoWorks refused to sell their products on Amazon for quite a while. Apparently they've changed their stance but I wouldn't risk it.

Anyways the kettle is nice to have that I use daily for coffee even though I now have an induction stove with burners that are far more powerful than the kettle. Stateside, circuits for electric ranges are 240V, 50A (occasionally 40A on older buildings).
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Of course you can have only immutable data, you just need suitable monads.
http://mrob.com/

Concisely:

http://mrob.com/pub/math/numbers.html

The rest of the site it's amazing too.
Invariant Benchmark Registry: Understanding Agentic Intelligence
What do you mean REPL?
have teams plan, execute, and report on what they've done weekly, writing up their progress in an update that is shared widely in a place that anyone can see

Isn’t that what a work ticket system does? Jira board or Kanban etc
That’s a charitable take. There’s a picture at the end of the page that shows coffee dripping with much lower flow rate in the „filter mode”. The upper one however looks like low pressure attempt at an espresso, which makes me question whether the machine can actually do the advertised 10 bar.
Fair enough. I'm making a broader argument than just your situation (which obviously I don't know). The insurance companies are not crazy for trying to control costs on this kind of stuff...however ham-handed their methods.
Light-induced gene therapy disables cancer cells' energy center
FSD 13.2 driving from Los Angeles to San Diego with zero interventions
But that's just one example of scientists warning about something and being wrong; it's just an anecdote that you can't draw much from.
> How does a research ban even work? It seems to me that at some point someone is going to research it;

This is a function of how easy it is to do the banned thing, how easy it is to detect when it is being researched and what are the benefits of researching it.

Imagine as an example that we live in a world where there are no firearms, and we decide to ban their research and development. All three factors would be against the ban. It is relatively easy to make primitive firearms (all you need is metal working tools). It is hard to detect when someone is doing it (they can keep their firearms secret, and the tools and activity disguised as something else) and the firearm once developed will be of great benefit to whoever developed it.

So a blanket ban against firearms would be unstable. It wouldn't work.

Let's look at an other example. Nuclear weapons. They are much harder to create (you need a whole industrial project to develop the tech, lot of engineers, and lot of energy consuming processes), there are pre-cursor technologies you can monitor to have an early warning (uranium enrichment, centrifuges, etc), it doesn't have immediate benefits unless you also develop a reliable delivery mechanism for it.

And these are the factors while nuclear weapons don't proliferate everywhere. You can't buy them in the mall, smaller countries don't have them etc.

I don't know what the answer to these questions are for "mirror life" but the framework is the same.

How hard is to develop it? If a single dude in a shed can do it, there is probably no point banning it. It will happen sooner than later. If it requires coordinated effort from multiple research groups and industrial partners, then a ban might work.

How hard is detect when someone is developing it? Can they hide it? Is the process using common materials and equipment? Do they need to get stuff only people who develop mirror life would need?

But the final question is the most important: What do they win? If there is some military benefit to developing "mirror life" then we are lost, and it will be developed. If there is some big economic benefit a ban might work, but it will be an uphill battle. If there is no benefit to it, and it is just cool and interesting to do, it will be a lot simpler for a ban to hold.
When I was trying out my friends' boiling water tap, I had to much around with putting in some cold water into the Aeropress first, before then adding the boiling water. If I had to use one for longer than a weekend, I'd probably use a small jug for mixing the water to the right temperature first.
That's a gross underestimation. At current world population levels that comes out to be 8000 people. The QMK github repo alone has over 18k stars and almost 40k forks. So yeah very popular!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...
It becomes pedantry of the law is not right. Eg. If the law is based on an oligarchy over a democracy.
It is really common to be out on full anesthesia for a colonoscopy. I’m confused by your comment. At least in the USA, I think it is standard and they don’t really talk about any other options.
That's certainly how Xerox PARC is described in some of the tales of their classic discoveries/inventions/Demos.

Certain decades of Bell Labs, too, have that glimmer of a bunch of the smartest people allowed to explore stuff they cared about with only the oversight from fellow technical people.

I've even heard Microsoft Research can still sometimes feel a bit like that, though with all the pressures of academia like grant finding and patent applications and other such hustles.
My objection is to the idea that everything true and important can be captured in metrics and quantitatively modeled. Then there is the fact that even to the extent that things like macroeconomics can be modeled (which is never at a level of accuracy that would be accepted in any scientific discipline), it still often fails to capture the social/political dynamics of the moment such that the theory matches felt experience. I believe that economics has largely captured power in social science by essentially stealing scientific authority and falsely claiming it as their own. Then they dismiss other fields of social inquiry as soft and unworthy of equal status even though their own insights are often of lesser value than the supposedly soft social sciences.
Do you have children? I ask this because no matter what personal preferences people have, many sacrifices are made for the kiddos.

Move for good schools and extra curricular activities. Move for good sports programs. Move for after school care.

Move for better fiber though? Doubt momma is gonna be happy about that idea. If momma ain’t happy. Ain’t nobody movin nowhere.
“So many” should be heavily qualified. It’s nowhere near true in my experience (in the US) and I suspect this may only be true in specific places, or economic classes, or maybe it’s just you and two friends.
Niche hunting dog sport expansion plan killed, then resurrected
Show HN: Rain hashes – well designed, simple and fast variable sized hashes
The doctor / hospital that refuses to treat when insurance declines is also involved in the “omission of expected care”. Would they also be guilty of premeditated murder?
So 40 Republicans and 1 Democrat.
I wonder why apps and sites, both through the means of an OS, don’t use a contrast slider from -1=darkest..+1=lightest range, and also brightness and saturation, so that everyone could set a mode that is subjectively best for them. Because there’s no mode that is best for everyone due to how eyes work for different people and ages.

Even CRT TVs had these settings, but not modern smart-phones, which know not only every pixel’s value, but even semantics.

Also per-app per-site adjustments would be nice, in case some designer decides to force his preference through your color settings.
How does that tweet indicate that it's a company town of old?
I hate the way the press and seemingly most people are approaching this but am completely unsurprised: "You are either a heathen who supports murder or you are a virtuous supporter of the people and this man deserved to die." Two things can be correct at the same time. 1) Murder is not OK. 2) The insurance industry is completely broken as it incentivizes terrible behavior and this CEO was a scumbag who perpetuated this behavior while possibly insider trading.
Fwiw, I took psych101, sociology101 , and minored in philosophy.

I learned very little, certainly learned more just reading the books than going to class. Class was largely useless.
that’s only a tiny aspect of it, which is why i used the word “reductive” specifically

there’s so much more internal plumbing that happened, mostly in the hardware compatibility and device driver layer of the stack.

i’ve been double clicking .exes using wine since 2008. i haven’t been able to use every gamepad under the sun on linux until valve funded device compatibility— not just “steam” or “steamos” or “steamdeck”— the upstream.
I've tought myself a lot of things over the course of my life and am a huge proponent of self-education, but a lot of the 'learning how to learn' had to happen in graduate school. There are few environments that provide the right combination of time, close involvement of experts and peers, the latitude to direct your research in a way that you find interesting and useful within the larger constraints of a project, the positive and negative feedback systems, the financial resources from grant funding, etc.

The negative feedback loops are particularly hard to set up by yourself. At some point if you're going to be at the researcher level (construed broadly), you need help from others in developing sufficient dept, rigor and self-criticality. Others can poke holes in your thoughts with an ease that you probably can't muster on your own initially; after you've been through this a number of times you learn your weaknesses and can go through the process more easily. Similarly, the process of preparing for comprehensive exams in a PhD (or medical boards or whatever) is extremely helpful, but not something most people would do by themselves--the motivation to know a field very broadly and deeply, so you can explain all of this on the spot in front of 5 inquisitors, is given a big boost by the consequences of failure, which are not present in the local library.

The time is also a hard part. There are relatively few people with the resources to devote most of their time for learning outside of the classroom. I spent approximately 12,000 hours on my PhD (yes some fraction of that was looking at failblog while hungover etc. but not much). You could string that along at 10 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, which is a 'serious hobby', but it would take you 24 years. How much of the first year are you going to remember 24 years later? How will the field have changed?
Have you tried https://markwhen.com/

I have not personally used it yet, but I would consider it if I wanted to work with timelines
The point of the Boltzmann brain is that it's spontaneous (which is also what makes it impossible). If a billion years of slowly ratcheting up complexity counts as a "random fluctuation", then every brain is a Boltzmann brain.