skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Raoult alone has published more than 3000 papers

Hum...

There's something very wrong with a figure like that.
You can extremely close if not imperceptibly there for a lot of interactions. The bigger issue is actually mobile browser “chrome” getting in the way (i.e. baked in gestures in mobile browsers)
This sounds like a failing of the system to not dip the high beams in the presence of sufficiently bright street lighting. I'm not sure how mandating matrix headlights be not used is the solution here.

My auto high beams don't come on at all during city driving that is reasonably well lit, since its detecting something to cause them to dip.
> Monads aren't weird. Basically it's …

Says everyone after having spent months getting the hang of it and more months writing blogs about how everyone is wrong to think it’s difficult because when you think about it “ A Monad is just a Monoid in the Category of Endofunctors”

It’s incredible just how blind most programmers are to the time they spend on learning things to come to the point where they think a subject is simple and how they all assume that any junior should just listen to their magical recital of a boiled down explanation and immediately understand it at a fundamental level.
AMD 3D V-Cache teardown shows majority of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is dummy silicon
Even with the WRTs, the firmware is probably built by the manufacturer. Try finding the provenance of who wrote the source code and where they live. AFAIK, that's not possible.

So you have a router built with Chinese components (all of the ones anyone here can afford) with closed and "open" firmware built by them. I bought one of those GL.inet "open" routers and the WRT packages bricked it, so I have a choice of reverting or flashing from the factory (which appears to be a link to HK).

That's probably 99.99% of use cases. They're in your base and they always have been.
I stopped taking amphetamine stimulants for similar reasons and with a similar outcome.

I ended up getting a prescription for Provigil (modafinil), a non-amphetamine stimulant.

It’s not nearly as dopaminergic as amphetamine, decidedly non-euphoric, but more motivationally stimulating than caffeine.

I found that the dose response lends itself well to former addicts, where taking the recommended dosage (100mg for me) does not result in a “high” nor does taking 3-4x that dosage, and is quite unpleasant to do so.

As well as being long lived, a single dose lasting 10-12 hours, not a time release formulation mind you, reduces the moreish hunger of short duration stimulants.
> Because the first $6000 of medical spending in a year is "your money".

Shouldn’t the your money figure be $2000, since the employer will only reimburse $4000 out of $6000?
"Pig butchering" is an awful phrase. I can't believe that anyone with a shred of decency used it. The people who were harmed are not pigs.

You below complaining about language sensitivity would probably be fine with calling rape, "slut reaming". Because, why not?

What we achieve by focusing on words as well as the substance of the problem is avoiding hideous insults and insensitivity toward people harmed by crime and abuse.

This isn't even hard people.
The accounting in this post is breathtakingly dishonest. I'd say I expect better of Krugman but I actually don't.

Consider this argument: "I think taxes should be 10% higher, therefore, the taxpayer subsidizes 10% of all your purchases".

It is structurally identical to "Employer healthcare comes out of untaxed income, therefore, the taxpayer subsidizes your healthcare to the amount of tax which would counterfactually get collected".

Or this one:

"State sales tax is not paid on food, therefore, the taxpayer subsidizes your groceries to the amount of sales tax which is not collected".

This behavior greatly detracts from an otherwise fairly thoughtful point. I don't understand why people think it's ok to conduct themselves this way, Krugman definitely knows what he's doing here.
Best Form Arguments - A Firm Foundation for Policy
"I think the issue is that bringing the application down might mean cutting short concurrent ongoing requests, especially requests that will result in data mutation of some sort."

Yes but what is worse is silently corrupting the data or the state because of running in buggy state.
I think this gets into what you consider to be “information.” Random noise is high entropy and thus high information in one sense, and zero information in another.
> I usually installboot and disklabel manually, download and extract sets manually,

Why do things a harder way when there is no discernible benefit?
This arises from a confusion of multiplication 1x1x1 with addition 1+1+1 in the abstraction of facets of truth.
Research Reveals How Fructose in Diet Enhances Tumor Growth
I agree with you on content but unfortunately you're communicating it very poorly. 1 notch down on the bile?
i'm sorry but

> All companies care about safety

is naive at best.

yes, all companies care about safety...after profits

we've structured corporations that this is the main driver, full stop.

as an example, earlier in my career i worked in aviation test equipment. for commercial and govt't agencies. let's just say i avoid flying anywhere at all costs now if i can. why? because, as always, safety is secondary to profits (and most of the time, you hope it is secondary and not ternary or worse). and this was in a 'highly regulated' industry.
You're right in that the "centralized single source of truth" actually rarely is a thing at scale.

It's common to adopt a mixed approach: some design tokens make sense to centralize (like global brand colors), and others are local, such as tokens for a specific product or sub-brand.

For example, a web app can build its own token architecture based on an existing foundation shared with iOS and Android apps. They share _some_ concerns, but technical implementations differ they may offer different theming features, too.
> Ask me anything (...)

Can you explain what problem you are trying to solve, and how do you think is the best way to solve it?

The main take from this discussion is that this talk about "design tokens" is that this is a non-problem fabricated by self-promotion types that is trying to find something for which it can be conceived as a solution. So far it seems it's very hard to even put into words.
Most people I know who were once called 'handicapped' did not like being called 'disabled'
I’m not very confident this is going to survive our next “populist” administration. Whatever faults you can attribute to the current administration, the FTC has taken many actions that have been pro consumer over the past 4 years.
Insurance "Discounts" in themselves are a huge problem; and one rarely discussed.

Imagine what would happen if you forced healthcare providers to offer flat pricing? Meaning the "cash price" is always THE price, and either insurance companies pay that cash price or you pay it with literal cash. No biased pricing.

Suddenly in-network/out-of-network cannot exist, insurance companies and cash-paying patients are on the same side; both fighting overcharging TOGETHER. You've massively reduced admin overheads and made the market more efficient.

If we want to continue this "for profit" model we have today, we could make two changes, and it would hugely reform the market. Make it almost competitive and healthy.

1) Ban healthcare discounts across the board. Everyone pays a sane cash price. Meaning no more fake price + fake "discount" games. No more $100 bandaids with 90% discount.

2) Ban employer provided healthcare. Instead, increase the HSA cap, have employers pay pre-tax into that, and then consumers get to pick their insurance from the market. Therefore, they can "punish" insurance companies for misbehavior since they're now the actual customer (rather than their employer).

You've now created actual price competition for healthcare services and actual competition for insurance. That is how this is MEANT to work, but currently doesn't because you cannot pick either your healthcare providers OR insurance options, someone else is doing that for you.
Probably because the things that make cities attractive were literally outlawed during COVID?
Security is not an AI problem
No, we just had the capital class sell us out for money, and now that the world is beating the war drums again we realize how much of a fuckup it was.
If people write for their employer, you cannot simply copy the documents over. They are the legal property of the employer in almost all cases
The parallax background effect has actually been broken for a few years now

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/home-screen-parallax-ef...
The Necropolis Railway also features in the Basil Copper novel Necropolis (1980).
Are there manufacturers that are consumer focused that are good about security and updates? Some of the ASUS models are not particularly cheap, raising the question of why not go with business oriented models.
Goto is all you need.
>(1) Negotiate price of services with hospitals and doctors, and drug companies.

Sorry, but my understanding is that because of Health Insurance companies, the price of many treatments skyrocketed.

Btw, your comment feels kind of GPT-ey but my apologies if you are a real human.
If I remember it right, it was the first study on HCQ, that removed patients from the tracking if they became too ill.
If you say something like, "$fact $slur $ad_hominem $insult" and then you complain about being censored for $fact, you're being dishonest. We can all see the other shit you said. You're not fooling anybody.
It is possible to retrofit many old engines that didn't have an ECU with a modern fuel injection system.

My son drives a 1996 Buck Park Avenue which dates from the beginning of the ODB II era. We got it for about $4k but it has been through a few difficult repairs that took my son or auto techs a while to figure out. For instance the immobilizer system failed with the result that we couldn't start the car, it took a tech a lot of investigation to realize this, but once he did it wasn't hard to disable.
Virtually every profession is also more forgiving to failures.
It's absolutely true, I have a graveyard of fairly high-end consumer routers that were thrown in the pile as soon as they stopped getting updates, they range from Asus, TP-Link to Belkin.

I switched to Ubiquiti EdgeRouters for a while but they went the way of the dodo too, so now I use a Protectcli box running Coreboot and OPNSense; it's essentially just a PC with nice Intel NICs that play nice for networking in a small fanless form-factor that you can install a routerOS on (pfSense, OPNSense etc) and always be up to date.
Non-twitter source for those who do not use that site?
yes, see david reich
> Being an employer (small medical business, 10ppl)

This may not be an edge case in terms of # of employers that fit your description, but is very likely an edge case in terms of # of employees with an employer that fits your description.

You’re the exception that proves the rule.

—————

Edit: Looking into it more, the margin is closer than I assumed; ~half of employees work for a “small business”, that term meaning <500 employees (1). Of those, ~80% are for a “small business” with <10 employees (2).

1: https://advocacy.sba.gov/2023/03/07/frequently-asked-questio....

2: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/22/a-look-at....

So you’re representing the majority of half the employment marketplace. That said I’d still argue that conversations about labor relations are focused on the subset of companies with many hundreds, thousands, and/or hundreds of thousands of employees.

—————

Interestingly, the majority of small business revenue is generated by the extreme minority of small businesses—per (2), the “small businesses” with >50 employees (so, 50<employees<500) represent just 3.3% of “small businesses”, but generate 53% of the revenue among all “small businesses”
Really? This is your criticism? It doesn't cover the cases where the person isn't trying to extract maximum profit.

But, somehow, in your view, calling a victim a pig is accurate enough for the term to be valid?
This gives the consumer a strong incentive to reduce costs, question charges, avoid unnecessary services, and so on. When physicians and hospitals know that patients are scrutinizing care plans it will force a cultural change. That cultural change will subsume older practices.

This sounds great, until you are in a stressful or life-threatening health situation. Not only that, you are in a worse negotiation position if say, your leg is broken.

Also it might encourage people to postpone needed medical attention (e.g. dentist visits, don’t know if they are covered by insurance in the US) because they are worried that they blow through 4000 that year and don’t have the means to cover the additional 2000.
Fast-pack: stupidly fast compression
> This is a totally ridiculous claim and not supported by any evidence.

This is not really a new claim at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism

Unsurprisingly it's been subjected to heavy criticism for many reasons.
2024 Toyota Camry - 3595lbs

So is the mustang heavy? Compared to what?
> But the consumer is the best person to keep prices in check.

Monopsony means that single-payer health care systems enjoy significantly lower prices than market systems.
Got any references to share?
> Unhoused may be because homeless covers people living in homes.

My understanding of the word homeless depends on the fact that someone has no home. Can you expand on what you mean?

adjective
plural noun: the homeless; adjective: homeless
(of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets.
I don’t think that says anything about the bill of rights. If anything it strengthens ops point that piling on this language is seemingly done to generate confusion and maybe even to enable selective enforcement of certain prosecution, as we’ve seen with the Hunter Biden fiasco.
I have had luck accessing tweets by using the domain xcancel in lieu of x or twitter.

https://xcancel.com/FedericoNoemie/status/186938182263713384...
I'm actually 'stuck' in this situation right now. Make about 350-400k/year with no prospect to clear (much) more or exit. I mean, why should I exit ? To risk doing something else and 0.1% chance of making millions, or go along this way a few more years while building my investment portfolio.
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Politicians in Germany now sue citizens if they call them an idiot.
No joke weekly some average joe gets his house raided and searched by police because he posted online that politician X is an idiot and has to pay a hefty fine.

Ice on the cake are the 13 year olds which use the “wrong” party political hashtag and get their house raided.
Apologies, Jingoistic nonsense that parrots talking points about actual problems that need solutions, in this case, reigning in user data collection in service of protectionism for precious American companies to continue their unethical behavior makes me puke.
Tell me when you find that planet. Nationstates have nation state interest and politics has not changed in thousands of years.
I think that was "versus replacing a chip."

The ECU has fairly standardized interfaces, mostly CAN or just simple switching circuits on or off. You can just get a replacement ECU. These replacement ECUs generally don't do things like using the O2 sensor to adjust the fueling, so they can burn dirtier than the original ECU.
> Their risk is practically zero.

In fact, no. We're finding out that children are having long-term speech and educational issues related to masks [1,2]. And that's without looking very hard, because people continue to make bald assertions about risk that deter actual, high-quality research into the question.

> masks were a net benefit that Americans needed to learn about

In science, claims must be proven. We don't just get to make things up.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evidence-summary-...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/03/how-masks...
They translated it and used it. That's bad enough.

I bet they wouldn't have done so if it translated to the n-word. Translators have agency and should take responsibility.
Thanks for the comment @beardyw

Agreed that being nimble and able to adapt to the situation is the best. One thing we found was just speaking out loud helped us figure out how we wanted to articulate ideas or questions. So Prep Coach is meant, in a way, to just help you get out of your head.
I’m very happy for everybody on H1-B whose live this improves! Does this include renewal in USA?

But as an American the “bonafide job requirement” makes me nervous. We have a massive ghost job problem that really needs to be a federal crime. Will this make that worse?
Many people complain about the lack of space to store their things
How can I solve this with an app? I'm thinking of solving a problem that has plagued me for many years in the United States, but I don't know how to go about it, what technologies I could use and how an application could solve it. Could someone here help me develop this?
Thats a bit weird take given that safety standards are increasing year on year.

Crash tests from 2000 are way stricter today.

So they all force the manufactures to fight for 5 stars
this was also the case with the defective takata airbags, particularly in warm humid climates.
U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over TikTok divestment law
Meanwhile I pay 1800 euros for insurance plus the first -400 euros you have to pay yourself: 2200. I also pay 4000 euros to the government (as a contractor) so around 6200 Euros and never ever face the risk of medical bankruptcy.

Universal healthcare is so much better.
Who judges what appears to happen in practice?
Right in the External Links section of TFA.

- Bank of North Dakota Documentary, produced by Prairie Public Television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L75oinBuY1g

- The BND Story: 100 Years, 1919–2019 https://thebndstory.nd.gov/
Semantically it makes sense. It's not Rails' fault the English language is a terrible serialisation format.
That's super helpful thanks. We had a similar piece of feedback re:transcript. Hope to add that one soon.
That linked discussion doesn't say it is broken all the time (which your comment strongly implies to anyone who doesn't read the link)... and I had verified the parallax effect was working fine earlier today when I made my comment.

I hadn't rebooted my phone in quite awhile, so I'm not sure what the conditions are for that bug, but I think that discussion is wrong that rebooting is the only way to get it working again. I had surely accessed the App Library since the last reboot at some point, and yet parallax was working fine. But I can confirm that it does break (at least temporarily) after accessing the App Library.
> processes focused on product release

+10000

As I mentioned in a couple of my other messages, beware of people over-systematizing and over-centralizing, as it can come at the cost of delivery efficiency and defeats the point of operationalizing design. Plus, it creates a growing maintenance burden on the team maintaining that single source of truth.
What's everyone's recommended replacement brand for home users? Mikrotik?
Because the consumer is not in the loop when determining price. And that's what needs to change.
> Even with the WRTs, the firmware is probably built by the manufacturer.

Say you know nothing about router firmware without saying you know nothing about router firmware.

OpenWRT and DD-WRT and other open-source third-party firmwares are THIRD PARTY firmwares. They have no connection with the manufacturer whatsoever.
You seem quite upset. Can you explain exactly which quantities don't make sense?
my friend, people just recently died for eating mcdonalds.
Neither case is easy. Making something "simple" like a new control arm or connecting rod is way beyond a typical garage shop. The electronics are not a home shop item either but replacing parts with work-alike modules is already something people do with aftermarket ECUs etc. As long as there is enough demand people will find a way to make the parts (to supply aftermarket), for example I expect the first gen NSX to be repairable for decades.
Show HN: Using OpenAI Realtime API to Build an AI Phone Agent: Video
> There's that nagging feeling that they're not concerned about security but banning anything that works well, is inexpensive and isn't made by an US company...

The FTC went after (Taiwan-based) Asus for security reasons:

> After a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order resolving the Commission’s complaint against ASUSTeK Computer, Inc., charging that critical security flaws in its routers put the home networks of hundreds of thousands of consumers at risk.

* https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2016/07/...

So 'legitimate' security concerns have been a thing in the past.
> if there were some way besides random chance and networking for skilled developers looking to start something to discover people

The main problem here is that non-programmers are often so entrenched in their workflow(s) that they fail to see what can be automated and wind up proposing nice-to-haves instead of tasks critical to their mission.

Moreover, they're more likely to dismiss 80% solutions because the introduction of new unknowns/things-to-check adds enough uncertainty to make them uncomfortable. "The new thing always puts things here instead of there and it doesn't handle these cases. I miss the way we used to do things."
I’m just curious. Did the writers of the Bill of Rights expect this sort of constant reinterpretation of the laws to suit modern cases that we see today? Or did they actually believe that the ink was dry so to speak?
AI Copilot for Digital wallets – how to implement it
The end date isn't when you stop manufacturing the product, it's when you stop supporting it, e.g. when it has a known security vulnerability and you've gone an unreasonable length of time without releasing a patch.
Guy with no experience maintaining classic cars. Good luck making carburetor diaphragms on your lathe.
there were also a lot of sociocultural changes coming out of the 60s/70s that changed the scientific conclusions we drew.

it used to be that we saw changes in ancient pottery and language and assumed that previous people had been replaced by new people with different techniques. then, in the 60s/70s it became popular that these changes didn’t mark population replacement but were more cultural spread and shift.

then genetics came around in the 90s and obliterated the cultural hypothesis and showed that in most of these cases it was largely population replacement.

there are lots of theories from the mid-20th that haven’t yet had their ‘genetics in the 90s’ moment.
"...reportedly warned his colleagues months ago that the industry had a public relations problem."

Yes --- just like Bernie Madoff had a "public relations" problem.

His problem was keeping his profit making scheme hidden from the public.
How is BND's success influenced by the very small size of its assets held relative to other banks? The BNY would have assets comparable to those of a major commercial bank.
Not OP, but also not US.

The Dacia Spring is available around here (Berlin), and while it's a bit more than that mass, it's close enough to be "about" a ton lighter.
Universalism and Nationalism: Thesis and Hypothesis
Even better then.
Yeah, there really needs to be some worker protection legislation makes ghost jobs a crime.
>So not every idea can be expressed with language

for example?
I’m sure this is no consolation, but as a born-and-raised citizen who has paid into social security for 15 years now, I have serious doubts about seeing a positive return on those taxes myself.
Tell HN: Phishing emails are being sent to emails listed on profiles
A few hours ago I received an email to my Duck.com alias (only used on my HN profile), it was a phishing email titled "Action Required: Review and Sign Your Document on DocuSign"

Sent from: nacaovox(.)com(.)br via Sendgrid.

I just wanted to make everyone aware in case someone else received it.