skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss being able to do free-running sleep.

I remember so many people in my life being skeptical about my claim that I naturally have longer days than 24h. Then ~6 years ago I actually tested it; my watch recorded my sleep, and it became obvious:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/rTh2vkEMPEiJXx5Y7 [time-asleep graphed on a daily 24h chart]

And only then did I learn what a non-24 was.
Football could be described in similarly demeaning terms, it isn't a useful point.
New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
That's a mafia with extra steps
Nullification means acquittal with no retrial, not a mistrial.
Maybe this is also why introverts and similar people have difficult times in person. If able to function that way it's more taxing / draining.
Again very well put - do you have a Bluesky or anything to follow?
> the incompleteness theorems would be taken as evidence against Platonism

I wonder if this is a map/territory thing. Incompleteness theorems apply to models (axiomatisations) of mathematics, e.g. ZFC set theory. Platonism applies to the actual act of doing mathematics, i.e. persuading other mathematicians that certain statements about abstract entities are true or false.
I'm from Europe, I suspect the credentials would still stand.
Only if you see source code as the only valuable thing, which it isn't. The knowledge of the team, industry connections, experience etc etc are a big part of what make it so you can effectively use the source code.

We're making an industrial sorting machine. Our management is feared to death to lose the source code. But realistically, who's going to put in the time to fully understand a codebase we can barely grasp ourselves? Then get rid of all custom sensor mappings, paths and other stuff specific for us. And then develop on it further, assuming they even believe we have the "right" way of doing things?

Right, no one. 90% of companies could open source their stuff and, apart from legal nonsense, nothing practical will happen, no one will read the code.
It's the item in the third column: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/compare-al...
How much does 1 liter of almond or oat milk substitute cost in Singapore? How much does one liter of milk cost?
Life finds a way, I suppose:-)
This has to be one of the goofiest nitpicks because remove the "horseshoe theory" language from above the point and the above point is the still the same.

"Sure -- the two ends of the political spectrum do seem to admire political violence..."
Because no one is actually seriously proposing to pay prisoners the same rate as real firefighters; we just shouldn't be using prisoners. Would you allow prisoners to volunteer as teachers, nurses, engineers? Why is the market for firefighters the only one that gets free volunteers from this pool?

But it's not just hurting the firefighter market, lots of people just have issues with using prisoners as slaves.
You can use bricks but you still need to tear everything down if the fire comes close to the building because pipes and wires can’t be made from bricks - nowadays, it’s all plastic except the copper.

But… if you build a brick wall and keep your yard fire proof, you have a shot.
Every talking head believes the system doesn’t work. Trump just got elected largely on a platform of claiming the current system isn’t working.

What are we supposed to do, switch from democracy to vigilante murder as a system of government?
Fight the sunlight? What the hell do you even mean?! I don't have a 24-hour sleeping schedule naturally. I can force myself into it, but I'll feel miserable because I have to fight my own body to not "fight the sunlight". Some people start naturally getting drowsy in the evening every day, yes, sure. Good for them. I'm not one of those people.

So I'm very much with the author here and I might actually try 28-hour days because what I have for the last 10 years is a mess.
It's funny how a perfectly organized crime is not crime at all
>If you think your mom is at risk maybe that’s the issue that needs to be solved separately.

This is a good point. The rise of chat gpt means that only the most savvy should use tech
> taboo the way sex was

Was it? the puritanical views in some western social groups is hardly how the whole world saw sex, even in those western societies sex was seen differently as long as it was within the same class.
Running critical services is a whole different thing than developing technology to sell to fire departments (which is already what happens, albeit with less innovation than I'd like to see).
There are other factors which you keep ignoring.

I am ignoring that? This thread is literally full of people who take any insurance denial as automatically wrong. It is me who's asking people to think carefully about this!

If you say so. No one else is.

Did you miss the "gas chambers" part in the comment I replied to?
It's not free software. What did you expect? There's a reason the Free Software Foundation added freedom 0:

> The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
I think your anger is deeply misplaced.

Profiteering on the lives of other people is morally repugnant so it's very natural for human beings to be angry at people who are directly involved and thus bear some responsibility.

The anger is natural but fundamentally it misses the mark.

Given the mechanism of american healthcare there will be millions of denied claims even if all the profit of the insurance would be reinvested and all employees including the CEO would be volunteering.

While that would absolve the CEO from the moral responsibility of profiteering it wouldn't improve the lives of the many people whose claims must be denied because of the mechanics of the heath insurance system.

Given the current system, the insurances must stay afloat and if the bankrupt that will affect even more lives.

Furthermore, hospitals have a different set of incentives which are not aligned with reducing the pressure on the healthcare insurer.

You could say "but the government should not allow that and it should just bail out the heath care insurers that go bankrupt in order to save lives". Yes you could say that.

Would they? Should somebody try that? Should some CEO of a major healthcare insurer be brave enough and bankrupt the company they're supposed to manage just to force the hand of the government to fundamentally prove that healthcare is a public good?

Should a CEO be shot for not risking everything to force the government hand?

Or should a politician get shot because they didn't improve health care when they could have? Which politician? Every politician? Only the top level ones? How time we would give them to make the change? One term? Two terms? Punish them when they retire after not having fixed the healthcare?

Despite all the power that the people have on paper, democracies are only as good as the public discourse that unfolds in such democracies.

Do we really think that we can solve problems as complex as healthcare by shorting at whoever our ape brain thinks is the most proximal responsible person?

It's not like the world isn't full of examples of countries where healthcare is approached as a public good from the ground up. There are plenty of places where you also have private healthcare on top of that.

Why don't you just take the opportunity to push for actual reform. Siding with a murderer is not going to help your cause.
Regardless of whether or not you think it's valid, it's clearly very effective. No major social change for the better has EVER happened in history without such actions.

It seems to go like this:

1. One group calmly demands some sensible thing. They might do some protests.

2. The powers that be say no, because they like the status quo. They might arrest some people for peaceful protesting.

3. A different group does some violence.

4. The powers that be acquiesce to the first group because the alternative is continued violence. The second group has no basis to continue the violence once the first group is acquiesced to.

5. History paints the first group as the ones who caused change and the second group as bad people who shouldn't have done what they did.

It's got to be one of those psychological sales tricks. Door in the face technique?

Anyway, this is the ONLY way that regular people have EVER caused things to change for the better, so take that into consideration. (Whatever counter-example you're thinking of is probably not actually a counter-example)
I have a theory for a long time that "democracy" as a concept is pushed so strongly in the West not because it really favors people nor for its effectiveness but because it nulls political assassinations and delegitimates them. Thus it is an extremely good system for the rulers.
The UN isn't going to build you a house or grow you any food or really do anything. It doesn't matter what they say. I can write lots of pretty words about how everyone should have a pony and never be sad when I'm not responsible for making it happen.
> All the polls are filled with massive numbers of "don't know" people

Not the case. The "neutrals" were only a few %, while 68% said "somewhat unacceptable" or "unacceptable".
And it includes Outlook.
The “growing the pie” metaphor has never been about growing all the pieces proportionately. It’s an illustration of how economic growth and Pareto optimization works: you can have a bigger slice (be richer) AND less of the pie (economy grew faster).
Hey come now. I read all your sentences.

Be fair. You may be getting downvoted but I think that you are arguing in good faith.

If it helps. I’m not a troll.

There IS a norm where the person making the claim is expected to provide evidence the evidence.

If you asked me, I would have to get something to show you. (Do ask, if only it creates effort on my side to make it fair)

And I don’t think the issue here is whether cancel culture exists.

If you go through your comment chain, your original claim was that it was countless example, ie one of magnitude.

Based on that, you dismissed fact checking entirely.

Which is what people are basically responding to.

Not that cancel culture didn’t exist- but that it was mostly wrong.

And therefore - that fact checking is mostly wrong.

I also have seen fact checking in other countries other than America - it’s absolutely correct in many situations, but is still problematic because it’s unpopular.
Tools to help devs and others improve both client and server ends of feeds are to be welcomed, considering just how badly some implementations are... https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html
Sports Illustrated has always been considered as a soft core porn magazine.
Resorting to violence over other non-violent means to resolve disputes is often a symptom of weak institutional capacity, and one could argue that this instance of violence is such a symptom.
This makes me wonder about the point he briefly touches at, but otherwise leaves out: his partner. Are there no children planned at all? Have they already raised kids and are done with this? Is he planning to break up with her?

You can't do this and raise a child¹ without being, well, an asshole. He would force the mother to do all the fixed daily things, and the child to navigate your availability using your private clock.

1: After they've settled into a stable daily sleeping rhythm of course. For a baby this system might even be useful some nights (but not others).
> I am ignoring that?

Yes.

> It is me who's asking people to think carefully about this!

You should take your own advice, and actually think carefully about this.

> Did you miss the "gas chambers" part in the comment I replied to?

Hitler never switched on a gas chamber.
Wtf is that :D
A system with fewer assassinations is a better system, if all else is equal. Unfortunately, all else is not equal.

Democracy should be an alternative to violence: Instead of murdering the next Hitler, you can just vote him out. Unfortunately, this only applies as long as it works. American democracy has not worked for a very long time.
See if you can critique your own reasoning first, before asking me to do it more.
> This thread is literally full of people who take any insurance denial as automatically wrong.

Then go and reply to those people (if they are really in the room with us). In _this_ subthread nobody has said or implied that ANY insurance denials is automatically wrong.

"Literally hitler" wasn't directed at you personally, obviously, but you couldn't help but pick it up that way.
I don’t think anyone thought the laptop wasn’t real though.

It was definitely real, it was mostly seen as a politicized fight.
UBI would have an expense comparable to the entire current welfare state, which is a large part of the federal budget even in America--much larger than defense spending, for example.

However, GDP keeps going up, and many people would argue that "real" labor force participation keeps going down (e.g., bullshit service sector jobs, which mostly provide value to customers who want to feel superior to someone). At some point, UBI is going to be affordable; especially if it replaces most of the current welfare state.

Is there any other part of the math that simply doesn't work?
If you have all the credits done within 2 years you can spend the other 2 years learning whatever you want :)
This is the toolbox fallacy. The idea is that you waste precious time assembling the perfect toolbox instead of just getting to work and gearing up as you go along.

This is a really pleasant video essay about it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sz4YqwH_6D0

You're not a painter because you have the best paintbrushes, but because you paint a lot. The best way to become a painter is to start painting earlier.
> adobe costs $30/mo. to edit PDFs with SSO

They now have a $10/mo plan where you pick any one application.
> More proactive and competent wildfire mitigation would reduce the risk and therefore make insurance premiums more reasonable.

Or... not building mansions next to forestry? In Germany we have pretty strict requirements on distances, so it's rare for damages to occur. Also, most of our power grid infrastructure is buried below ground, so videos like the ones circulating on Twitter from arcing lines setting bushes and trees alight can't really happen here either.

Prevention is orders of magnitude cheaper in the long run.
Is there any documentation on this? @dang?
Not just vote him out, that solves all his future murders. Depending on when he was votes out, he still needs to be punished for all his past murders.
This whole story was started by the fact that countless people have begun to revere Luigi Mangione as a Robin Hood-like folk hero. Whatever taboo put in place against violence seems to have failed in this case.
This must have been a helluva company to work for.
I killed a botnet with a LLM Honeypot
>I think you are missing something. Clubs have always been the „mothers“ of raves

This is rewriting history. Raves was a british thing, and it was in the open, not in clubs.

Chicago warehouse parties preceded raves and are important for electronic dance music history, but are not raves.
> so by saying that denying insurance claims is not violence, because all insurance systems must deny some claims, I'm basically Hitler

No. They're saying you're the person justifying the guy who opened the gas valve.

Or perhaps that you're justifying Hitler because he didn't open the gas valve so he himself didn't commit any physical violence.

(Not saying that's right or wrong, just that you're strawmanning hard on this one.)
Upwards of 75M people assuming ww2 was not inevitable.
It is insane because it brings literally nothing security-wise (an attacker can easily detect that the link is being opened from something else than an end-user's browser, and not deliver the payload) while actualy compromising the security of their users (by allowing an attacker to know which addresses exist and which do not, which is very useful if you want to attack companies).
> To me it's the part where prison is apparently even worse than risking your life fighting fires for free.

Makes perfect sense to me, even if the prison was a five-star hotel. The human mind is hard-wired to want to explore and get out. Universally, one of the most difficult parts of being in prison is being forced to stay within the prison walls. The fact that these walls exist is a necessary compromise between keeping society safe and the natural rights of those imprisoned. Any opportunity to get outside the walls will of course be desirable.
> We added an input handler to queue inputs so that sequences of shortcuts and keypresses could be used.

You must be one of the few (or any) companies that did this.

This definitely doesn't work in the general case of SPA web apps.
I think it’s a seriously good idea. I believe they could create problems during the content scraping phase but considering that Internet Archive has most of the content already, I don’t see how they could legally prevent such a move if you’re careful with their trademarks and other intellectual properties like logos and look-and-feel.
Nelson Mandela didn’t kill anyone! “Murder is ok” is a really weird message to take home from the knowledge that Nelson Mandela was slandered.
Lying to preserve an institution is like playing Jenga: eroding the foundation in order to scale up the tower.
Yep, our company uses Google Docs/Sheets. If someone wants an MS Office application, they have to prove that Google Docs/Sheets can't do what they need. So most of use Google and it's fine. I even like somethings in Sheets better than Excel (and vice versa).
If we're swapping biomes I think that the naked human would starve in the open ocean in three days. If he didn't drown in three hours.
> 7×8 < 6×9

Not usually, no. Typo?
"How we X'd a Y" is a linkbait trope. We edited that in accordance with the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
me: "The rich steal from the poor and use politics to divide and distract them"

this guy: "You're literally a 9/11 level conspiracy theorist!!!!!"
What does Titan CLI offer?
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Perfect for rapid application development and testing.

All in one command!
Warning on this link: visitors from HN will get served a nasty image instead of the article for some reason. Copy paste if you wanna view the article.
> The average American citizen has less influence on politics in their "republic" than a citizen of a dictatorship.

You can't be serious.
>I’m struggling to see the advantage of having them on drones versus satellites

An IR camera on drone can be fine-grain controlled from the ground when needed - say zoom-in from a 100km on something detected in the sweep like even a camp-fire so you can confirm whether it is a starting wildfire or just a camp-fire - that of course requires hardware like on those pricey military drones, yet it is still a pocket change in this context. You can also much easily reroute the drone. Again, if you watch the drone war footage there is a lot of scenarios where satellite wouldn't work.
I'd like to keep that option open yea, not sure if I want to. I just want to learn it, but I also want to prove to people that I can do it. This is one of the things I'm playing with.

Not why I'm going to study it though, but yea, I might want to switch.
They burn down the same as cheap ones.
It is if you only count the cases it gets wrong.
> I'm glad that you weren't there as the self-proclaimed arbiter of real impact™ when I started writing it. :)

So? I achieved things of my own as well, some of which I'm very proud of, but I don't go online belittling others acting as "holier than thou" to bring my point across, which you apparently do, I doubt you are as important as you claim to be.
So designers, artist, musicians we are done, right? Who's next, I wonder?
As a conversation starter:

>HealthPartners, a major health care provider (...), has announced its decision to leave UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage network (...), HealthPartners says the decision stems from the insurer’ high rates of coverage denials and payment delays, which adversely affect patient care. (...) The health system highlights that
>UnitedHealthcare's denial rate is up to ten times higher than other insurers in the market. [0]

Different source:

> in 2023 UHC claim denial rate was flat out highest in the industry, 1.2x more than the second highest rate, and twice as high as industry average. [1]

[0] https://www.wha.org/vv-08-01-2024/4
[1] https://www.valuepenguin.com/health-insurance-claim-denials-...
Right! It was an accident, not murder! Even if they were drunk. And high. And on Valium. And doing 70 in a residential neighborhood. And on a restricted license from a previous DUI...

...Doesn't mean they meant to kill someone! Completely different crimes.
Distorting the meaning of words is how these people justify their actions. Not giving them what they want? That’s violence now! Thus justifying retaliatory - or even pre-emptive - violence.
https://bluesky.cosmo.lol

Thank you for the kind words. Adding them to the pile of inspiration to finally start blogging. I'll be on the lookout for your account. Currently my bluesky feed is garbage and I need to train the algorithm.
That's unrelated to the staff trim.
Did you feel like this before having kids as well?

I am vehemently against the concept of getting kids (that is, when it comes to myself; you do you) and sometimes hear people say that they reasoned the same way until they actually had kids. My only question then is how they ended up having kids? Sure, mistakes can happen, but for someone like me to have kids would be like someone who said they really, really never wanted to go to India to somehow end up there.

What I’m trying to say is that there probably is a self-selection bias going on here: People who says that getting children gives you purpose are probably people who were quite positive towards the idea of getting them in the first place. But does that mean it is good advice for people in general, including people who are very skeptical? What other activity/life goal works this way? Lifting weights at the gym? Going on a trip around the world? Trying BDSM?
As long as we use these awfully inefficient models, the probability is closer to zero than it is to one.
A sharp knife. I already had a sharp knife relative to most people, but this is a lightsaber by comparison. I am almost excited to chop stuff with it, and it also looks really nice. It's probably the best souvenir I could get from Japan because I use it every day.
> Come on now. It's just as flawed now, just in different ways

I'm not from the US so I try to avoid having strong opinions on US issues... But is it really just as flawed now? I mean, there's no slavery anymore, there's women's rights, and all races are legally equal (even if in reality it doesn't work out that way). This seems like an improvement, despite massive flaws still existing.
When I was a small child in a rural environment, my uncle slaughtered a lamb for eating. It was a bloody messy hell. It was an eye opener but it didn't have the impact you think it had, if anything it desensitizes you. My uncle also showed respect and gratefulness to the animals and I also understood why we don't waste animal products.
> One person stops eating meat, it just reduces the demand and there’s one less cow that suffers, but not in a sense that it becomes happy now. It just stops existing (best case). Is that a win?

I've heard this phrased as "meat is murder, but vegetarianism is genocide".

If humans were to stop eating meat, certain species of animal would go extinct.