skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just in case you are unaware, there are two million Arab Muslims citizens in Israel. Some of them consider themselves Palestinians (which is really a nationalist movement), some do not - but they are the same people / ethnic group that was there during the 48 war. These are full citizens, full members of Israeli society, not the Palestinian non-citizens in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza.
It's essentially the free rider problem. If we want to make affordable healthcare available to everyone then we have to force everyone to pay into the system to spread the risk around and get the healthy to subsidize the sick. It kind of has to work that way regardless of whether we have a single public payer funded by taxes or multiple private payers funded by insurance premiums; in the end the money has to come from everyone.
You just said above, outsource/combine departments and save money. The model is not hallucinating that you want to let people go.

ClosedAI has to fight the image that this tech is going to make many more middle class people lose jobs than any tech before. Otherwise they are cooked. So they just instruct the model to react "firing people is wrong" whenever some vectors match or whatever.
Interesting how this is not yet flagged while Paul Graham's piece a few days ago was flagged almost instantly and required manual approval to stay up.

Imo, both are heavily opinionated albeit in opposite direction. And both having little to do with HN/tech in general. Graham's article/blog is more informative though, i.e. have more evidences to support his points, compared to this. Also at least PG is much more relevant to HN than whoever wrote this article. Yet the treatments were very different. I guess there is a strong bias to those who like to hit that flag button.
There are two major differences between art generators and human artists:

1) human artists are legal persons and capable of being held liable in civil court for copyright infringement; having a machine with no legal standing do the copyright infringement should be forbidden because it is difficult to detect, impossible to avoid, and a legal nightmare to unravel.

2) human artists are capable of understanding what flowers, Jesus on the cross, waterfalls, etc actually are, whereas DALL-E is much dumber than a lizard and not capable of understanding these things, so using the verb "learning" to describe both is extremely misleading. DALL-E is a statistical process which is barely more sophisticated than linear regression compared to a human brain. It is plain wrong to say stuff like this:

> It seems like they are deeply upset someone has figured out a way for a machine to do what artists have been doing since time immemorial.

when nobody has even come close to figuring that out! If DALL-E worked like a human artist it would know what a bicycle is: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr... But it doesn't. It is a plagiarism machine that knows how to match "bicycle" with millions images having a "bicycle" tag, and uses statistics to smooth things together.
Living in Los Angeles, I've had to explain to a lot of people in other parts of the world some of these details (salting the earth, agility of aircraft). This summarized a lot of that data and even taught me some new things (like the fertilizer in the fire retardant).
This? https://github.com/threefoldfoundation/node-status-bot :-)
Hopefully this is only a temporary setback for the backs of the little fellas lugging dead trees around
Thank you so much for the feedback and taking the time to create a new layout idea. I truly appreciate it. The goal has always been to make the site intuitive and focused on giving launches their moment to shine. So I will take a closer look at your suggestions to see how can I make it more visually clear.
WHAT IF aliens invade and take over TikTok and then use it to convince hard-working Americans to dive into the mouths of the aliens?

It's a possible tool for aliens to make lunch.
huh? how can sun orbit the milky way if it is within the milky way
Medical is a very technical field, and the costs are obfruscated from most people. I'm not surprised laymen can't give a technical breakdown of what exactly is wrong with the health insurance field.
The duopoly of app store and play store makes this kind of ban much more effective. India banned TikTok and nobody uses it over here now. It's simply too hard to download the app. Google won't let me download it even when I'm traveling abroad.

Banning websites has been very hard, but today's closed marketplace ecosystems make banning apps much easier and people are not motivated to find loopholes.
Guessing re-posted to HN because showed up on ars technica.[1]

Could this be considered some of the first 'application ports' to support e-ink[2]?

Wonder how long it'll take to get native webasm (vs. java script) to run under pdf. (and/or os pdfs -- assuming no Sun NeWS[3] windows issues.)

--- edit from HN item id=42678754 : Looks like just as soon as one compiles webasm[11] under jslinux[4].

javascript[5] to binary lambda for 3d printed 'running/working' hard copy[6][7]. aka show/present how arrived at results.

Or translate to spool-able mechanical program[8].

Accurately simulating pong ball for 3d printed game of pong[9] without using flipdots approach might a challenge.

But, [10] might be useful visual higher order logic simulation to build/show/simulate what's going to be 3d printed.

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[1] : http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/this-pdf-contains-a-pl...

[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink

[3] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

[4] : http://bellard.org/jslinux/

[5] : https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html

[6] : https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-team-takes-major-step-toward-f...

[7] : https://iconnect007.com/article/115676/computings-past-to-un...

[8] : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:101105

[9] pong circuits : https://www.falstad.com/pong/

[10] : "Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085273

[11] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42095879
Me too, helps me a lot
> Why does this ramp suck so much? For literally the exact same effort it took to build, it could have been built 10x better. Make the angle 20 degrees instead of 70. Put the ramp just after the sign instead of just before it. Make the far curb face sloped instead of vertical. Put some visual indication the lane ends 50 feet uphill. Why wasn't this done?

> Because the engineer who designed it and the managers at the department of transportation do not give a shit.

No the reasons are likely wholly political.

It's clear from the photo that doing the bike ramp better would require more space. It would require moving that street sign. It could require allocating less space to cars and more to sidewalk, pedestrians and cyclists. These are financial decisions and political decisions. Spending money on cyclists is a political lightning rod that special interest groups will fight at all costs to maintain the automobile oriented status quo. Spending money is aggressively fought at all costs in an effort to keep property taxes as low as possible.

Engineers and policy people are not lazy they are constrained by aggressive political special interest groups.

> These new lights objectively suck to anyone not driving.

hint hint.

It's almost as if the decisions are being made for car drivers and not pedestrians. This is a political choice driven by special interest groups that seek to preserve 1950s era thinking automobile dominated status quo.

The author assumes that everything sucks because everyone is lazy and stupid but the reality is everything sucks because it's massively underfunded.
Iran wasn't on the brink of a nuclear bomb. Gulf states had infinite money to waste, now oil prices have peaked as the world decarbonizes. None of the traditional friends have the time or energy for their noise, if they cause major problems.
Yeah, the client libraries[1] need work. It's been difficult to keep them in good shape when there is so much to do on the core database itself. Any community input very much appreciated for the client libraries!

https://rqlite.io/docs/api/client-libraries/
"Hey Gemini, maintain my friendships"

... back to Fortnite / Minecraft / pr0n / alcohol / drugs ...

"My AI has more friends than your AI!"
> Instituting the limits you proposed would cause the problematic customers to chug soda within the allotted time, for instance.

How much soda do you think they're going to chug? That sounds weird and rare. I don't think it's a limit where you're going to have a problematic amount of riding.

> If I'm meeting with some friends after and need to kill an hour or two, I suddenly have to worry about whether I can stay without getting kicked out, etc.

That's not consistent with the idea that the business is fine with you sitting around for a while. If they're fine with that, they would only limit your refills after a point. That rule should give you no reason to worry about being forced to leave.

Though is buying a new drink after two hours a big deal in the first place...?
No need to bother with a partial vacuum when ethanol boils at around 80 C as well and doesn't destroy electronics. I'm not aware of any active cooling systems utilizing this though.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but seeing what seem to me to be colloquial, recently originating informal phrases linked to from Wikipedia seems a bit silly or giving conceited "get educated" vibes.

It reads as though that's somehow where it came from or is an authoritative source required to use or interpret it. In this case, the phrase vaguely associates toxicity with masculinity, and whether it's intended or not, if a more specific nuanced meaning is intended, then it should be articulated concisely with a different choice of language that probably should have been chosen in the first place; the intuitive interpretation is the one that takes hold.

In different contexts in real life, I've had people be outwardly racist, sexist, or otherwise prejudiced toward me, and when responded to in a very calm manner, they scoffed that "oh here's a book to read on why actually that's impossible" when actually nah we're all just using language, and if there's a progressive, genuine intention to create a space that's as equitable and as conflict-free as possible for all, than shit like that isn't going to fly.
I admit the article is rather whiny but it did resonate a bit with me.

A good example - we are provided free Keurig cups at work. Lots and lots of disposable plastic. At the same time there’s been quite a number of changes put in place to “be more green” and help the environment.

I asked my coworkers one day why we use Keurig machines instead of making a pot of coffee and everyone just shrugged. I asked the administrative staff if there was any plans to switch to grounds to reduce the number of Keurig cups and they basically said “No, that would be too much effort.”

In that moment, it really did just feel like everyone around me did not care, so I dropped the subject.
I tried it and it failed to send me desktop notification. I did receive emails (at the wrong time). I do think it is too early to launch. 5 min test could have found out these bugs.It really hurts their brand.
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What's inconsistent about allowing web pages but not video?

If they had a limit of 50MB average per page navigation, would you call that rule consistent? It would have largely the same effect and I don't think it would affect the ease of dumping.
Remote management is a requirement for SOC other compliance frameworks.
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback! When I chose 'ItsLaunched', I was aiming for something that feels celebratory, like an announcement: "It's here, and it's ready"
I found this review from 2019 of mechanically pumped heat pipe technologies. I skimmed the intro. Looks like it already has a foothold in aerospace.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13594...
Word of advice, if you have unlimited PTO and you've never gotten called into a meeting to tell you you're taking too much you're not taking full advantage. It's probably higher than you think. I've gotten to normal onsie-twosie days off plus 8 full weeks before I got called in.

That was a great year.
Yes, I believe ATProto is a much more mature approach, that is solving much more fundamental issues. The criticism of "it's not federated/distributed" feels unfounded, the argument against VC funding seems unnecessarily zealous (if the protocol works it doesn't matter, so critique on this basis is in bad faith). I think Bluesky also seem to understand that the protocol will at least for a while, live or die on the content that is there, and Mastodon doesn't come out well in this regard.

Activity Pub itself is... a bit boring? And maybe that's a good thing? I tried implementing it though, and it's very unsurprising to me that a) Mastodon is the only game in town, b) why they use custom extensions and semantics, and c) why none of the other interesting content types are being used in any substantial way.

I think Mastodon/ActivityPub is a local maximum based on a 2010-2015 understanding of what social networks are/need, and that ATProto and Bluesky represents a realistic 2025 era understanding of the social web, with plenty of scope for advancement and staying current in a way that I doubt Mastodon can ever do.
For one thing, they are focused on money because they need lots of it to do what they're doing.

For another, the o1-pro (and presumably o3) models are not "underwhelming" except to those who haven't tried them, or those who have an axe to grind. Serious progress is being made at an impressive pace... but again, it isn't coming for free.
> "A friend of mine is a teacher and kids are already delegating their learning to ChatGPT and their learning isn't sticking."

What about this:

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/From-chalkboards-to...
True, but there's more to it. Interest rate is used to slow GDP (and inflation). Using the blood analogy, it's like lowering the blood pressure. Which means people do freeze their investments or put it into things like gold or crypto.

The other end is it gets invested heavily into profit making stuff. Plantations and farms and power plants are great. But not all of this money benefits a society in the long run. There's stuff like garbage and prisons. There's things that require a lot of investment like educating certain minority groups. Tax money is generally more effective for this. Too much is not good though; we need a balance between state and corporations.
The conventional wisdom is to sell your profitable stocks, to "lock in your gains", and sell your losers to "cut your losses."

I call that "minimizing your gains" and "locking in your losses", and just hold instead. If I "locked in the gains" I would have missed out on 10x returns.

Of course, I did ride Enron all the way to zero (!), but it didn't matter. Think of it this way - buy 10 stocks. 3 go to zero. 6 have modest returns. 1 is a 10x winner, that more than makes up for the failures, and becomes the tentpole for your assets.
> I actually prefer ebook for both - including for studying.

Really?? What ereader do you use? How are you taking notes (that you would be able to retrieve later in a reasonable manner), using the index, etc? I've wanted for years to switch to electronic books for nonfiction that I want to learn from, but software for reading feels so bad for this purpose.
Colossal raises $200M to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo
If performance isn't an issue, why not get a Mac mini?
Yes, I was wrong. I found this one as well https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/non-google-search-en...
At 51 (bit overdue for a mid-life crisis), went back to university to do a PhD and teach.
Even Harvard MBAs Are Struggling to Land Jobs
Look I get that you're annoyed by the GP post's simplification but you are currently arguing that the women and children living in a hellscape deserve it. The typos in your post make it clear to me that there's a lot of emotion behind it, so I'd advise you to take it slow and be more measured.
is there anything like firecracker that works on macOS/Linux/Windows? or does anyone know if someone is working on one
> there's no established amount of markup that is the correct amount of markup other than what people end up paying.

Of course it's all subjective, but I cannot think of a single other industry that can get away with a 1000% markup on anything and expect to get away with it. In proper capitalism, that just means any competitor worth a dime can massively cut you with a 300% markup that is insane but a steal in comparison. Then it just stabilizes to some point between where competitors need more saavy to compete and more than some minimum markup to function.

I'd say overcharge is correct given the monopolistic structure of healthcare. You don't have too many choices to begin with and it's very hard to switch.
Would it really cannibalize the enterprise offering? The whole point of that NVIDIA Enterprise license is that the their TOS forbids using anything else in datacenters.
I don't like AI being used in anything remotely creative.

I don't draw, not well, but I write, slightly better. I occasionally ask WordPress to have its AI generate a little blurb for me, and always wind up deleting it. It takes something I can't really describe, my voice I guess, and sucks it out. It homogenizes my writing to try to make it fit some bland ideal. I imagine to those more keen on art than I, AI art is similarly off.

And yes, stories are not the primary use of Gmail. But in business, words matter, and two seemingly synonymous words can be quite different, and two words that seem opposite may not be. I have a friend who teaches law, and they mentioned it was quite easy to tell which students cheated on one particular assignment discussing contracts. If I recall right, material contracts are a type of contract, and AI made up immaterial contracts.

While this mistake would hopefully be obvious, other mixups might not be, with potentially serious consequences.
There is an argument to be made that ChatGPT mildly rewording/misquoting info directly from my blog is copying.
Biden warns 'dangerous' oligarchy taking shape in farewell address
At times it seems as if the other side hasn't figured out how to do much of anything, or alternately, they've forgotten as they steadily get older and older without passing the reins of power off to younger generations.
Google has a culture of small PRs. If your PR is too big (think more than 500 lines changed) you’ll actually not be able to get readability reviews on them - unless someone in your team does the readability review for you.
> ensure everybody sees the same content.

Terrible idea.
> And just as every other hype cycle, this one will crash down hard.

Isn't that an inherent problem with pretty much everything nowadays: crypto, blockchain, AI, even the likes of serverless and Kubernetes, or cloud and microservices in general.

There's always some hype cycle where the people who are early benefit and a lot of people chasing the hype later lose when the reality of the actual limitations and the real non-inflated utility of each technology hits. And then, a while later, it all settles down.

I don't think the current "AI" is special in any way, it's just that everyone tries to get rich (or benefit in other ways, as in the microservices example, where you still very much had a hype cycle) quick without caring about the actual details.
100%, like most opt-outs this exists as a checklist feature that proponents can point to and hopefully convince bystanders. You muddy the waters by allowing someone to with great effort technically possibly achieve the thing they want, maybe, for now, until you close it in 2 years and everyone says "well that makes sense nobody used that feature anyways".
The tech industry’s understanding of consent is terrifying.
And just to add to this, at least in Google generated code is never seen in a code review. That’s all just handled by Bazel behind the scenes.
I really like Orbstack, switched to it and never looked back.
Great question. Right now, it's first come, first served, and makers can schedule their launches up to 30 days in advance. I don't plan to introduce any paid options to skip the line, it's important to me that it stays fair for everyone.

If it ever gets to a point where demand grows too much, I would explore ways to keep things manageable while still giving every product it's moment to shine. Thanks for brining this up!
October 7th doesn't justify razing Gaza to rubble and killing mostly children.
> there is no reason to let a foreign adversary have a deniable propaganda line to millions of Americans.

I don't think this is a useful distinction in a world where a handful of ultra-billionaires control most of the remaining media channels. People like Rupert Murdoch, Musk, and the others have very different interests than the average American, and at least several of them openly push their own (divisive) viewpoints through their media. Why is Rupert Murdoch less of an adversary to the average person than the CCP?

The Western media are already doing everything that TikTok has been accused of being hypothetically able to do: sowing social division, brainrot, encouraging lawbreaking, undermining confidence in the government, promoting dangerous or fake products, etc.

The real difference is that TikTok threatens to boost an alternative to the consensus message of the political elite. A US with TikTok would see actual pushback against something like the early 2000s media shennanigans that got the Iraq War and Patriot Act smoothly approved with little public debate. That is the real reason Congress banned it and why the homegrown brainrot isn't seen as a threat.
Why did Saturn V have fins?
Also odd that it's taking so long to patch. A week is a long time to be without a key part of developer tooling.
I host my site on NearlyFreeSpeech for about 40 cents a month and there’s no bandwidth limit. The FAQ has always said: “Currently we are not tracking (and hence not billing for) extra bandwidth usage. This could change in the future, but currently we have no such plans.” Even though I could host with Cloudflare for $0, I think the tiny savings are not worth imposing the captcha on people.
Sure. But it certainly isn't as simple as "screen readers don't support Javascript or CSS" (or whatever). You can make an inaccessible web site with or without modern web technologies - a site based around HTML image maps or table layouts will baffle a screen reader just as badly.
I've adopted the inbox zero approach. If it's important it gets reclassified onto my task list with start and end dates, if it's useful info it gets filed, and everything else goes into trash.

At this point I am thinking my Thunderbird should probably just unify the Inbox view and the Task view, since it would be a more accurate representation of how I view email.
That's a laughable comparison. Israel has been systematically undermining the economic and political independence of the West Bank and Gaza during that timeframe. Gaza had been under siege since 2006. The Marshall Plan in contrast was a concerted effort to rebuild and integrate Germany into the European economy.
used to have a gig where local dev worked on all machines except mine lol if it is only broken when Docker messes up horrible but not the worst it could be if perspective helps in this situation :)
This is the answer for one of the arguments as to why Sonos needs precise location. It needs to scan for WiFi networks because they connect to your WiFi network and Apple to do that requires precise location.

But it won't matter saying that because some people refuse to believe that some companies genuinely need to use that.