skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Changing race to species has not been a concern for myself, my players, or those I know.

Largely the same, I acknowledge it's not being done for me and definitely doesn't impact me. Shrug (or eyeroll if so inclined) and move on.

> “People really wanted to be able to mix and match their species choice with their character-class choice. They didn’t want choosing a dwarf to make them a lesser wizard.”

Ok, but IMO nobody has more fun by doing 13 damage a round instead of 10. The consequence of chasing optimality is it simply leads a DM to tune encounters appropriately.

> We want more variety at the table, not just everyone choosing the same optimized builds from RPGBOT.

So instead everyone is using the same optimised builds but with more species variety? Does that really improve the state of games in your experience?

I sort of want disparate builds, playing to aptitudes. Balancing spell lists and feats etc to make lots of viable builds is a hard problem to solve though (I've not played the 2024 rules so have no idea how well they've done?).
HN loves sqlite, I don't know why
It’s part of the API:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnauthori...

The documentation for ContactAccessButton suggests only presenting it if you have limited access:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contactsui/contact...

edit: but that’s intended to be used specifically to respond to a contact search. I don’t use WhatsApp, but a “persistent notification” sounds unrelated to ContactAccessButton.
Wake up. High protein breakfast. Strength training for an hour. More protein. Shower. Walk the dog. Meditate. Work.
And it has only gotten worse with time.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184968/us-health-expendi...

That's 20% of the country that will be less well off if you "fix" healthcare in any meaningful way and the overwhelming majority of them will fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening.

That is a hell of a minority to overcome when the issue is one of personal economics (i.e one everyone will experience directly, not some abstract social policy thing that people will ignore as long as their lives are good), dare I say basically impossible in a democracy.

(yes I know I'm assuming that the healthcare industry is a cross section of the country, no I don't care if that isn't 100% accurate)
The Murmur of Engines
Nope.

1957 in a transistorized computer is far too late for the origin of pipelining.

Pipelining had already been used in computers with vacuum tubes a few years before and it had also been used already a decade earlier in computers with electromechanical relays, i.e. IBM SSEC, which had a 3-stage pipeline for the execution of its instructions (IBM SSEC had a Harvard architecture, with distinct kinds of memories for program and for data).

Before 1959, pipelining was named "overlapped execution".

The first use of the word "pipeline" was as a metaphor in the description of the IBM Stretch computer, in 1959. The word "pipeline" began to be used as a verb, with forms like "pipelining" and "pipelined" around 1965. The first paper where I have seen such a verbal use was from the US Army.

Outside computing, pipelining as a method of accelerating iterative processes had been used for centuries in the progressive assembly lines, e.g. for cars, and before that for ships or engines.

Pipelined execution and parallel execution are dual methods for accelerating an iterative process that transforms a stream of data. In the former the process is divided into subprocesses through which the stream of data passes in series, while in the latter the stream of data is divided into substreams that go in parallel through multiple instances of the process.
To follow on, I think OpenAI should split into 2:

1) B2B: Reliable, enterprise level AI-AAS

2) B2C: New social network where people and AIs can have fun together

OpenAI has a good brand name RN. Maybe pursuing further breakthroughs isn't in the cards, but they could still be huge with the start that they have.
Indeed, they do. The ACA set a 80% requirement.

Unfortunately unintended consequences have resulted in that meaning it benefits health insurance companies to increase the cost of care so their 20% share is more.
>But, unlike most databases, SQLite has a single writer model.

As opposed to Redis (mentioned one line above the quote) which also is single-threaded?
Er, no, Sean Connery was born and raised in Scotland. He literally had a tattoo that reads "Scotland Forever". Entirely different culture and history and relationship with the British military/imperial apparatus than Bond represents.
From the FDA page [1]:

> To meet the updated criteria for the claim, a food product needs to:

> 1. contain a certain amount of food from at least one of the food groups or subgroups (such as fruit, vegetables, grains, fat-free and low-fat dairy and protein foods) recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and

> 2. meet specific limits for added sugars, saturated fat and sodium.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-food-labeling-and-critica...
This is one of the drivers of cost disease[1] in healthcare, which is a huge problem that won't completely go away even if insurance is radically reworked.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...?
Throwing plastic bottles on the sidewalk is plain littering. Throwing glass bottles is not just littering. Someone throwing glass bottles around definitely knows what he's doing and should be dealt with accordingly
I think that we should consider passing a law that a vendor may non disable “log in with” and supporting functionality like password recovery, for a user account for some lengthy period of time after involuntary termination of the user.

But I think that the bigger issue is that I don’t think that large corporations should be allowed to disassociate with their users except in the case where criminal activity against that company is involved. This is especially important now that all the vendors want ecosystem lock-in AND have ToS that allow them to cancel pretty much arbitrarily.
That's why you either use authenticators as a second factor only (i.e. you require a password entry first), or you require user verification (which is usually a PIN entry verified by the authenticator). Both solve this problem.
I use a passkey on every site that supports it (say two dozen at this point). I have never encountered this.
Great! As it is though the design has large areas of whitespace that could be put to work. Instead of the rigid column design you should try masonry:

https://dev.to/okonkwomandy/the-easiest-way-to-build-the-pin...
A bird strike doesn't. From the external video, none of this makes sense. The hydraulics are triple redundant and independent of each other. Even without both engines to run pumps or generators, you can drop the gear via gravity and use either leftover hydraulic pressure to drop flaps or the use electrical backup, which should work on battery or APU.

You can hear at least one engine running before it touches the ground AND you can see that the plane is at least in somewhat in control, considering it lines up with the runway properly and does a flare AND a thrust reverser is active before it hits the ground.

The control surfaces work without power (with great effort) since they are mechanically linked in the case of emergency on the 737 NG. If the gears were down, it should have triggered automatic flaps to slow the plane down on touchdown.

None of this makes sense, unless we assume the pilots royally fucked up basically everything. They missed the optimal landing point and only used about 40% of the runway traveling at what appears to be at least 80 knots above the normal max landing speed.
The only hope for reform in the US is to position it as furthering the transfer of wealth to the ultra-rich. Then, you might get some traction. But it’s hard to frame a legitimately good policy in these terms.
I mean, call a spade a spade. Single Payor can have programs set up to specifically address specific issues, like turnaround time to see a GP when sick (e.g virtual visits to clear up demand that can be routed that way).

Whereas the disjointed system the US currently "enjoys" STILL has GP rationing -- and worse, whole specialties disappearing or otherwise rejecting a payor because it sucks.

It's bogus that "single payor won't cover people in 60s/70s with chronic needs." That is 100% a policy decision. Versus the entrenched broken system we have now, where often needs are covered despite urgency.
Nvidia completes acquisition of AI infrastructure startup Run:AI
Since classic computer platforms are very different to each other (e.g. an Amiga has nothing to do with a 68k Mac), they absolutely need platform-specific instructions, like these embedded systems.

But there do not seem to be instructions for either.

I have no clue where to even start in order to use this on my 030@50 w/FPU A1200.
> For your example about single payer, with that scheme costs will likely be much lower but on the flip side, we also would not get immediate access to care (that is you can't attend a doctors appt within 72 hrs of scheduling)

I am curious, why is this accepted as a "given" of single payer health care? I know it's a a problem in Canada and Britain, but those systems seem to be victims of something between neglect and outright political sabotage.

As a side note, my partner is currently about half way through a two month wait to see her GP in the good old US of A (on United Health Care). I would love to only have to wait a few days.
> So instead Evolv preys on nervous leaders who want some protection in large public gatherings but aren’t knowledgeable about security.

That's certainly consistent with their email list. I have no idea how I got on it, but I was on it for a while about church security, and it was constant "webinar" reminders (I assume, sales pitch without having to actually interact with people one-on-one) about how you might have people "bringing guns into" your church without knowing it, etc.

It would have been interesting tech to play with. I figure that a quarter of the church on any given Sunday was carrying in some definition of "concealed" or another (ranging from "Dude, I can read the serial number on your gun through your shirt..." to "I'm certain there are people carrying that I would never expect to be carrying and will never know unless there's a reason it needs to come out").
Swiss also… everywhere. And the laws are not so different in the USA as the rest of the world as often portrayed. Also the violence all around the world is more uniform than many think or want to admit (if counted relative to people count) But a shooting in USA will be displayed everywhere while a shooting, say in Germany, will not be covered as much. Just in south germany (BW) there are a couple of people killed per week, but that is covered only occasionally, when at all, by very local newspapers.
One interesting fact is that for one release of SQLite the team worked on lots of micro-optimisations that resulted in speed up of even 50% https://sqlite-users.sqlite.narkive.com/CVRvSKBs/50-faster-t...
Try not to eat before the training. You will be suprised about the positive effect. Just water. Breakfast after training.
AI and machine learning aren't necessary at all. You 'just' have to empirically measure a few constants that describe and bound the various nonlinearities of different real pigments, and then plug them into a relatively straightforward paint mixing equation.

Paints have predictable mathematical properties in terms of what color they produce when mixed; they just mix nonlinearly, which is counterintuitive for people who have not practiced mixing paint a lot.

Photoshop and the other comparison programs on the page illustrate the linear mixing that most people intuitively expect.
Would be great to have something like this for Zeppelin notebooks or similar.
up 30 min before train leaves, phone in bed for 10-15 min, change clothes (staged on top of dresser to save time), brush teeth, [optional if time, pack snacks], [optional if needed, start dishwasher and/or washing machine], rush to train station (takes 6-12 min depending on fast I go, which in turn depends on how much time I wasted on my phone in bed)

certainly works for me. perhaps someday I'll have a more productive one, but I like how this one maximizes sleep and phone usage.
US Graphics' Disrespectful Response to Vietnamese Designers over Berkeley Mono
I wanted to share my disappointing experience with US Graphics regarding their font Berkeley Mono. Over a year ago, they promised to add Vietnamese language support, stating it was “almost complete.” After waiting patiently, I followed up, only to be blocked on Twitter for asking about the update.

When I contacted them directly, their response was dismissive and unprofessional:

“Vietnamese is not a priority because we only have 1 customer that needs it, haha.”

This attitude shows a lack of respect for customers and the global design community. If you’re considering Berkeley Mono, I recommend looking at alternatives like MonoLisa, PragmataPro Mono, or JetBrains Mono, which provide full Vietnamese support.

Have others experienced similar dismissiveness from design companies? Let’s discuss.

x.com/handinh157/status/1873767000536969566
That is because soda is used as a medium to convert the balance to cash.
Oh man I would not call this constructive, keep in mind I have ADHD.

I wake up. I make some coffee. I then make a smoothie with spinach, banana, and whatever other fruits for breakfast.

During this time I hopefully remember to take my medication.

If it's a workday I'll then go and do some work. If not, I'll probably start organizing. I'm bad at relaxing.
Waking up when the dog wanna eat. Going back to sleep, waking up when I had enough sleep, making a coffee and reading Hackernews, Guardian and Reddit until noon. Having a brunch outside. Enjoying life and not worrying at all. ;)
Ask a philippino sailor what they think about your 3rd statement, maybe?
Cue non-US news source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/11/whats-behind-escal...
In the world of crazy valuation ~$450k for that domain seems pretty good deal.
I went to Belgrade a few years back over Christmas by myself and had quite a good time.

In particular, the Nikola Tesla Museum, free walking city tour, massages, and some cool bars.

Everything was really inexpensive compared to say Germany, and the women over there... they are stunning!

Of course it'd be different to live over there, but it really wouldn't be the worst place to end up if you were earning a decent salary.

Only obvious downside for me was smoking in restaurants (I can't remember but probably bars as well). Not sure if it's still the same now.
I cannot find any summaries for the cost of these detection devices. What did this cost, anyone know?
how often would you fly to Nepal? How long was the flight?
Show HN: Jido – Run 10k agents at 25KB each (Elixir)
Hi HN!

I'm Mike Hostetler and I built Jido, an Agent SDK in Elixir that lets you run thousands of agents without heavy infrastructure.

Repo: https://github.com/agentjido/jido
Getting Started: https://hexdocs.pm/jido/getting-started.html

Why another framework?

After using several popular Agent frameworks and platforms, I had two key challenges:

- Running multiple agents required process-heavy infrastructure like Docker or K8s. Running 50,000 agents in parallel was costly and diminished the benefits of agentic programming.

- Today's agents require too much human intervention when building workflows. Why couldn't agents manage their own WDLC (Workflow Design Life Cycle)? This felt like a major missing piece.

Agentic frameworks were written for humans. LLMs working with this code were constantly working around human work-style assumptions. So, I wrote a framework specifically for LLMs to code and operate their own agentic flows.

Elixir was a natural choice because of it's functional nature, rock-solid concurrency primitives and "let-it-crash" philosophy with dynamic error compensation. Hot code reloading was a bonus.

Agents in Jido use 25Kb of memory at rest and can easily serialize then hibernate for long-lived access. Agents possess the APIs to dynamically start and manage their own sub-agents or any other Elixir process utilizing Elixir's OTP architecture.

Jido Actions are functional primitives that Agents can dynamically orchestrate into workflows. Generated code can either run in a separate process in the current VM or in another BEAM VM that's linked and hardened before introduction into the Agent VM.

I'm excited to help enable a world where thousands of agents work seamlessly on behalf of their human operators.

Thanks!
Maybe someone can explain it better to me.

It seems that the primary goal for passkeys is to eliminate password fishing.

You still need a password for the site. Even with passkeys, you can still login with a password, either from a different machine, or, if nothing else, to recreate your passkey.

But passkeys offer a bit more security to enforce that you're actually sharing the credential with the proper site, correct?

Am I missing something?

I mean, there's the whole syncing passkeys across stuff, but that's all optional. There's no requirement for that. You should be able to configure multiple passkeys to the same site across your various machines (for whatever reason), right?

And I assume the sites won't "auto login"? Even with a passkey you would need to (potentially) hit a login button or something.

I just want to make sure I understand it clearly.
I don't want to overthink but how can one finance this lifestyle?
Different people, different preferences.

I don't like having to fetch my keys when I'm at home at all, which is where I do most of my authentications. I'd have to get up, walk to where I usually keep them, walk to my computer with them to authenticate, and then either walk back or forget the keys somewhere in the house and have to search for them when leaving (or detach the authenticator from the keychain and then not have it on me when I'm leaving).

That's why I don't like using USB authenticators on a regular basis.
>US's high crime problems boil down to poor socioeconomic factors. Poverty, desperation, lack of economic mobility and opportunity, draconian law enforcement, poor social services and safety net.

Source? This doesn't pass the sniff test. First, US's poverty rate isn't the lowest, but is below many lower income countries that also have lower homicide rates. The figures for poverty rates take into account PPP, so it's not a matter of "Americans are richer in absolute dollars but poorer in relative dollars". Second, looking at the data, the correlation between income inequality is all over the place. For instance Malaysia is only marginally lower than the US in terms of income inequality, but is almost an order of magnitude lower in homicide rate. Trinidad and Tobago has even lower income inequality, but has almost an order of magnitude more.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_in...
Totally agree there’s something unnerving about these utopic systems pushers.

However, there’s a strong argument to be made to to the question, what does our socio-politico-economic system look like if we leave it “un-designed” and let it grow in its natural direction? To which the answer is royal-subject-feudalism.

We’re seeing the decline of constitutional democracies before our eyes. Was it a grand experiment that will give way to the lazier solution to human order?

Feudalism is the multi-polar trap we snap back to when the serfs don’t actively put energy into a better system.

Maybe some would say fine to that. Because nowadays the serfs could have laptops and nice houses. And the freedoms that you would have limited by your rulers would be minimal.

But even so, the idea that sliding back into feudalism would defer a path to more decentralized sovereignty seems obvious.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

> The implicit question is – if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it? And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch”. It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything – but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent.
Treasury again delays the beneficial ownership reporting deadline for small biz
Yep. It is a huge and corrupt bureaucracy. This should have taken literally a day’s worth of work. Even the time from when they proposed the rule change to now is over 2 years!
Please don't go off into political flamewar tangents on articles on less political topics. We can talk about whether or not a technology is effective and how much manufacturers should be allowed to overstate claims without getting into unnecessary political strife that degrades HN.
Go down to Dunkin'. Grab a cruller, have an extra large, three Parliaments, take a big dump, that’s kind of the routine.
Then the EU can stop them from selling their products to EU customers, since as soon as you’re providing services to EU customers you’re obliged to play by EU rules
Not everything is better about Europe than the US, I agree (and the extent to which this is true depends on where in Europe you’re talking about - Bulgaria is not much like Switzerland).

But one of the things that I think is unambiguously better (at least in highly developed Northern and Western Europe) is the quality of democratic institutions and their responsiveness to the people’s will. In the US, it is structurally almost impossible for Congress to legislate meaningfully, so effectively no one is in charge.
> it's a brazen display of power.

It's a brazen display of what they themselves consider power and the rest of the world consider stupidity.
Yup, Rolled my own BLE Peripheral stack on NRF52 relying on nothing but Nordic's docs and the BLE specification. It's not fully feature complete but works well enough for me to communicate with the mcu from my MacBook using l2cap connections.
Show HN: Dreamsmeanings.net – AI Dream Interpretation with Ancient Wisdom
Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share a project We've been working on: DreamsMeanings.net. It's a website that uses AI to provide dream interpretations based on various traditions, including Islamic, Judaic, Freudian, and Jungian.

Here's what makes it unique:

AI-powered interpretations: Our AI analyzes your dream and provides insightful interpretations drawing from different cultural and psychological perspectives.

Vector similarity search: We use advanced techniques to find the closest matches to your dream in our vast database of dream symbols and interpretations.

Multiple traditions: Choose from a variety of dream interpretation traditions to get a well-rounded understanding of your dream.

Free tier available: Explore the core features and get a taste of what DreamsMeanings.net offers.

Why we built this:

We've always been fascinated by dreams and their meanings. We wanted to create a tool that made dream interpretation accessible and insightful, combining the power of AI with the wisdom of ancient traditions.

Project is live at: https://dreamsmeanings.net

Tech stack: [Python, Node.js, Express, TailwindCSS, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, PGVector]

Feedback and thoughts are most welcome! Happy to discuss the project and answer any questions.
That doesn't apply to health insurance. Due to HIPAA / ERISA / EMTALA / ACA and an alphabet soup of other federal and state laws and regulations a startup health insurance company would have very little freedom of action on creating new types of contracts. And this is an area where the laws are actually enforced.
What? Really? OMG, Fennel is so nice. I'd use it for anything that needs Lua these days - neovim, hammerspoon, awesomewm, mpv, wezterm, etc. It's very mature and it even has an lsp-server implementation and a dedicated conference. It's incredible how you can reduce some big, nasty, unavoidable boilerplate in Lua just into a few lines of Fennel.