skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally you get insurance but it's way less than in the U.S.

As an example, when we were in Portugal 8 years ago we needed to get my wife's prescriptions refilled and the person we were staying with said to go to the ER. We confirmed repeatedly and then did as they suggested.

The doctor at the ER questioned us and said "we could have been busy and you would have had to wait."

But long story short, we spent about half an hour all up to get the prescriptions, and it cost us $27. That was with zero insurance, paying full freight. Filling the prescriptions with no insurance cost less than the co-pay in the U.S.

As far as I've researched:

Portugal will let retirees in and after five years you can get citizenship -- you might still want insurance, but it's affordable.

Spain is similar I think, and we're also looking at Italy, Greece, and Croatia.

In Uruguay you need insurance, but if you start a business it's straightforward.

In Thailand healthcare in general is excellent and mostly affordable.

We're looking at 30-40 countries all up, but those are the main ones we're looking at.

"Wealthy" is relative -- for example the minimum monthly income to get a visa for Portugal is something like $1,000 for one person, $1,700 for two. And we don't plan to live the high life, we just want someplace with nice weather, nice history/scenery, and that won't require us to do GoFundMe's to fund our future.
I definitely support the author's "make an image of the hard drive as soon as you buy vintage hardware".

There have been some amazing finds that way, especially game prototypes. Often, the data has been marked deleted and every time the system is used, it's more likely to be overwritten.

It's also a good idea because old drives could stop working at any time, and unless someone else has shared an image from the same device, there may not be a good way to use it again without copying that drive image to a newer replacement.
He was also into cryptography: https://www.cs.trincoll.edu/~crypto/historical/poe.html
Sorry, my comment was not clear. The database of La Suite is Grist. Notes is part of La Suite, a broader project. https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr
I never understood the excitement over "free food" or "ping pong tables." as perks.

I'd rather have better compensation and sensible vacation / work-life balance policies, be treated as a professional, and make my own sandwich..
So if they have a 2% profit margin on 1.5 million that’s $300K in profit…
I'm learning German and I've been enjoying browsing and reading with Nuenki. It's a lot of fun to see a sentence in context and find out you are simply able to understand it, though sometimes I have to fight the urge to instinctively hover to reveal the original text. Thank you for this plugin!
Tonari Portals: be together in-person, anywhere
That article says the exact opposite of what you are claiming. This is the lede paragraph:

"In December 2018, a leaked letter from the Kenyan auditor-general’s office sparked a rumour that Kenya had staked its bustling Mombasa Port as collateral for the Chinese-financed Standard Gauge Railway. Our new research shows why the collateral rumour is wrong."

LLM much?
I regularly pushback against casual uses of the word “intelligence”.

First, there is no objective dividing line. It is a matter of degree relative to something else. Any language that suggests otherwise should be refined or ejected from our culture and language. Language’s evolution doesn’t have to be a nosedive.

Second, there are many definitions of intelligence; some are more useful than others. Along with many, I like Stuart Russell’s definition: the degree to which an agent can accomplish a task. This definition requires being clear about the agent and the task. I mention this so often I feel like a permalink is needed. It isn’t “my” idea at all; it is simply the result of smart people decomplecting the idea so we’re not mired in needless confusion.

I rant about word meanings often because deep thinking people need to lay claim to words and shape culture accordingly. I say this often: don’t cede the battle of meaning to the least common denominators of apathy, ignorance, confusion, or marketing.

Some might call this kind of thinking elitist. No. This is what taking responsibility looks like. We could never have built modern science (or most rigorous fields of knowledge) with imprecise thinking.

I’m so done with sloppy mainstream phrasing of “intelligence”. Shit is getting real (so to speak), companies are changing the world, governments are racing to stay in the game, jobs will be created and lost, and humanity might transcend, improve, stagnate, or die.

If humans, meanwhile, can’t be bothered to talk about intelligence in a meaningful way, then, frankly, I think we’re … abdicating responsibility, tempting fate, or asking to be in the next Mike Judge movie.
> Despite my niece and nephew doing reasonably well in school (...) they just cannot sit down and focus on any one game for longer than 15 mins. There seems to be a lack of "perseverance" which worries me.

Have you considered that they might just not find games interesting? Even if they like playing some games, they might not enjoy the game the particular game that captivated you for so long.

Even in your own generation, there were many kids who would have got bored of sitting in front of any computer game for 10 minutes. There's absolutely no reason to extrapolate your experience with your nephews out to an entire generation.
If one wants to read flowery story arcs like some sort of renfaire fourth-wall instant karma narrator on a sitcom, then perhaps try Trump 2.0 as punishment Biden and the DNC deserves.
Funny enough I don't work in tech, but rather manufacturing.
Damn, I was in middle school when Y2K happened so did I join the tech industry in free fall in 2012?
In a similar vein: I had a new coworker named "Jason" join a team once, and for the life of me I couldn't help but type "JSON" first when writing emails/messages with his name. It took weeks before I could reliably get it right first try. Some habits (muscle memory? sub-vocalizations?) die hard.
Show HN: AIEasyShot – Generate AI Headshots. Simple and Easy
Hey HN,

After nearly a year of nights and weekends, I’m throwing my side project AIEasyShot into the wild. It turns selfies into pro headshots and’s sitting at ~$1k/month. Started out with another saas aieasypic.com, which is sitting at 5k/mo but wanted to split this off into its own product since business headshots seems to be a big niche and messaging is too generic when having it on a generic "AI image generator" site.

Started with my basement GPUs (RIP 3090s), then exploded into a messy mix of Runpod, serverless junk, and duct-taped code to make the AI not suck at human faces. Early versions with SDXL were pretty bad but flux dev is 99% there in terms of facial similarity.

Ask me anything, SEO, reddit or tell me why GPUs in basements are a terrible idea.
The code has func like:

initialize_browser
click_element
input_text
scroll_down
send_keys

If this code were used to automate interactions with Claude.ai (such as automatically sending prompts, clicking buttons, or extracting responses), it would be accessing the service "through automated or non-human means" which is explicitly prohibited by the Terms of Service.
There's actually a fair amount of research on burnout. (Disclaimer: while I have read a bunch of this in the past, I do not have any links handy.)

From what I've read—and my first- and second-hand experience bears this out—some of the most important factors in whether someone burns out on their work (besides straight-up overwork, which should be painfully obvious) are

1. Feeling like their work is meaningful (as opposed to just shuffling numbers from one spreadsheet to another or something)

2. A sense of autonomy and ownership over their work (as opposed to being micromanaged and ordered to do a bunch of work that they don't understand the purpose of—see #1—or actively disagree with)

3. Feeling like they themselves are valued, in the ways that actually matter to them (as opposed to being given "participation prizes", told thank you for your 4-week 100-hour crunch sessions, here's a $10 gift certificate, etc).

(Note that #3 can be the trickiest, because what feels validating for one person might not for another. In particular, from my own experience, one of the things the division someone I know was in liked to do as a "reward" at the end of a particular period of work was to host a social gathering or party...but the person I know working there was introverted and shy, and this felt more like a chore than a reward. For others, though, it was meaningful and fulfilling.)

From everything I've seen, it's true that it's often easier to build these things with an in-person team, but a lot of that is just because that's what most of us are used to and have experience working with. I firmly believe that as we move forward with more remote work, we will, as a society, get much, much better at building the kind of camaraderie and bonding over the Internet that we have well-understood methods of doing in person now.
To paraphrase Warren Buffet: if the tariffs don’t spontaneously generate copper, then what?
Hello jwr!

I just came across your db48x comments, and since I couldn't reply there (old post), thought I'd catch you here :)

I saw that you're a fan of the hp48, and enjoy loading the different libraries. I recently got into the world of HP calculators, and have been really enjoying the learning experience on HP48GX (via Emu48 on my android).

I've been tinkering with some of the libraries, and would love some opinions on a couple of questions.

- I currently have on my list the following libraries: speedui, erable, alg48, qpi, solvesys, stat48pro. Do you suggest any other libraries to dabble with? Anything that'd improve tthe calculator capabilities in math statistics or finance, or general useful utilities (like SpeedUI). I also came across mathtools but not sure if it adds value.
When trying to answer this question I also came across https://mrityunjay.tripod.com/OS/HPUX/hp48/part4/faq.html , but not sure if all said apps (mainly Application and Math ones) are decent and compatible or not.

- Is EQSTAK necessary if SpeedUI is installed, or not really? I ask because Erable suggests installing it, but I think speedui does the same thing?

Thanks :)
Does anyone know of literature describing why compilers can't do these optimizations on top of vanilla code, without requiring an extra DSL? Is there just no ergonomic way to express the extra information about what operation orderings are optimal or allowed for specific platforms to the compiler?
I've sat in more than one board meeting watching them take 20 minutes to land on t-shirt sizes. The greatest enterprise sales minds of our generation...
Show HN: Open-Source Streamlit Platform for Dynamic Agents with Tools Hub
Outstanding! I’m consistently impressed by PlanetScale knowing WTF they’re doing, and fighting against the constant propaganda from the hyperscalers about what their offerings are capable of.

High IOPS with high latency is useless. It’s a sad state of affairs that people view 1 msec as good.
That's a typical tech answer. Do you really want to spin up 10 images for note taking for yourself? From a product standpoint that's not sensible and wastes way to much resources.
Grove: A Bidirectionally typed collaborative structure editor calculus
SLM is a widespread term already.
> "It followed a set of five rules to benefit the end user: no installers, no archives, no registry keys, no additional runtimes and a single executable file."

Reading this sentence made me feel warm and happy. I get why the registry exists and things work the way they do today around the Windows software ecosystem but... damn, I really miss the days when most desktop software was more like this. These days I try to use portable installs whenever they're available, I just wish it was more common. The time, inconvenience and uncertainty I'll be able to fully restore all my preferences makes me actively avoid reinstalling Windows.
Fly.io for Elixir is very popular
It's just an extension of copyright, which already regulates the entire internet. You should have the copyright over your mouse clicks, plus 100 years after the death of the author.
I produced CC0 ebook compilations of Poe’s short fiction and poetry for Standard Ebooks if anyone is interested in diving deeper into his writing: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe

(I’d also recommend Leonid Andreyev’s short fiction; he’s often referred to as Russia’s Poe: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leonid-andreyev/short-fict... )
How a Quack TV Doctor Made It to Washington
You've got fame-- and then in an MMMbob it's gone.
If you read Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Schumpeter, published at the end of the depression and during WW2, most of his predictions were spot on economically besides solving the housing problem.

There was a housing problem then too that he thought would be solved in time by the market. He thought we would see something like assembly line, prefabricated housing at some point that would drive down prices.

What I suspect is that once people own real estate, the last thing they want is something that drives prices down and everyone making the decisions needed to solve this problem owns real estate. That plus the margins won't be that high so you have to do large volume and the red tape is too much to be able to do that at scale. So instead of we do nothing and we will keep doing nothing for another 100 years.
The problem with any tool like this is that people are often _terrible_ at knowing how to clearly explain what it is they want/what their actual issue is.

Key example: "login is broken!" Could be the captcha didn't load, captcha was blocked by their ad blocker, they are rate limited, they used the wrong email, they used the wrong password, they don't have an account, they aren't on the right website, etc.
https://archive.ph/yk2VA
like peter level's https://photoai.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg
Can't wait to feel the impact of garbage collection in my fast cache!
I've been aware of the ZIRP phenomenon and potential things that might happen when it ends since 2017. I prepared myself to slowly add more skills (finance, writing, management, etc). All this was while I continued to be a full-time dev.

The problem for me has been that nobody outside of myself is OK with me taking any other role, either within the company I work for, or as someone looking for a fresh new role. When I ask why, it's always been a variant of "oh, you're more valuable to us as an engineer".

Now with the advent of LLMs and bullshit experts talking about AI taking over everyone's roles, neither do people want me to remain an engineer (I quit in frustration a few months ago), nor do they want me to be anything else (even when I have skills directly relevant for other types of jobs). It's frustrating to keep on trying to switch when nobody's taking the bait.
No. Smartphone only spin animated gif while talk to big building next to nuclear reactor. New radio inside make more efficient.
You're joking but with the layoffs and all, there must be pressure to clean up the (self-inflicted) problems created by previous teams of architecture astronauts and get the complexity down to a level that the new, reduced headcount can wrangle.
The plural of octopus is octopuses.

But if you want to sound more latin, octopus is a third declension noun, and those have nominative plurals that tend to end in -es, rather than the second declension which ends in -us for singular or -i for plural. Third declension nouns whose nominative form ends in -s also tend to change their root's final consonant when you change the suffix. (Eg. opus -> opera. That one doesn't end in -es because it's neuter.)

All this to say, the latin plural of octopus is octopodes.
Potentially dumb question: if YouTube.js works in browser - can/has someone made a YouTube player that’s just a static page? Is there a need for a backend?
About Juicy UI
Arpit here.

DiceDB is an in-memory database that is also reactive. So, instead of polling the database for changes, the database pushes the resultset if you subscribe to it.

We have a similar set of commands as Redis, but are not Redis-compliant.
Don't let batch processing get in the way of building momentum
How does it compare to nextcloud?
it's too bad vLLM and VLM are taken because it would have been nice to recycle the VLSI solution to describing sizes - get to very large language models and leave it at that.
Nope. it started as Redis clone. We are on a different trajectory now. Chasing different goals.
https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_a1sec8-html/

> The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes,
Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the
common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties,
Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United
States;

What is the point of drafting enumerated powers that have a catch-all phrase as the first enumeration? Literally anything can be argued to be for the "General Welfare" of the United States, because why would Congress pass something that wasn't? Why later state the gov can establish a Navy when you've already stated that Congress can provide defense? Why would you need that explicit authorization? The preamble sets the precedence for the actual powers. One cannot enumerate a catch-all, as it no longer requires enumeration.

But I do agree: the Supreme Court, being the only such construct with the capacity, declared it Constitutional, just like they blew the Wickard v. Filburn decision. But I still consider them unconstitutional because these landmark decisions were only judged to be Constitutional by traitorous corwards that abandoned the Constitution in and of itself!
I like this! One note: I think the README would also benefit from having a (crowdsourced?) list of providers that offer (or will soon offer) Docs as a hosted offering. Many users of collaborative editing tools aren't sophisticated enough to actually host an instance.
This doesn't make much sense to me. Unattributed heresay has limited historical value, perhaps zero given that the view of the web most of the weights-available models have is Common Crawl which is itself available for preservation.
The docs do, the site is useless.

> DiceDB is an open-source, fast, reactive, in-memory database optimized for modern hardware.

A Redis-like database with a Redis-like interface. No info about drop-in compatibility, I assume no.
Terrible names, to be honest. My proposal: Hyper LLMs, Ultra LLMs, Large LLMs, Micro LLMs, Mobile LLMs.
>(Energy minimization is a very old idea. LeCun has been on about it for a while and it's less controversial these days. Back when everyone tried to have a probabilistic interpretation of neural models, it was expensive to compute the normalization term / partition function. Energy minimization basically said: Set up a sensible loss and minimize it.)

Ehhhh, energy-based models are trained via contrastive divergence, not just minimizing a simple loss averaged over the training data.
Isn't that how Reddit gained momentum? Posting fake posts/comments?

Now we can mass-produce it!
nope. We do not support Redis protocol :)
Does 4-day work week feel more productive?
Contract work is tricky because individuals who own a particular project may be full time employed already and not capable of taking on contract work. Not every project is capable of generating enough contract work to make it sustainable to do it full time and not everyone wants that level of instability on their income.

Hiring an outside company to do contract work leads to longer term maintenance issues where they disappear after the contract completes. It would be better to have individuals from a distributed set of organizations all collectively pitch in to do maintenance. This is how the Linux project is organized and it's very successful. While this is understandably unlikely to happen for smaller projects I think that just means it's important for projects to be created and maintained by larger collectives. Again, this is a common trend you see occur.
WinRing0 is associated with CVE-2020-14979 where any local program can take complete control (NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) over your system: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2020-14979

It is possible, although not confirmed, that the block was motivated by an ongoing malware threat that involves this particular threat, but take this with a grain of salt.
I prefer that over X icon.
Why are you trying to test and compose notebooks? Notebooks don't really fit into that lifecycle of work, they're implicitly script-like code.

Any time a notebook needed to be tested, refactoring it into a module and testing that was the better choice.

Notebooks in my opinion are by far the best tool for interactive and exploratory data work. I've been using Jupyter/IPython for 10 years and it takes very little discipline to keep them clean and clear. I've never bothered trying to deploy them in any meaningful way.

The quirks with version control are annoying, that's one reason I've switchex to marimo in the last few months.
Classic. If doing good makes someone feel good, then they must be selfish! And their doing good is in fact not good!
/s
This is a lot clearer than any information I found anywhere else. There wasn't any room on your website, README, or docs for this summary?
I know it's the correct spelling for UK English, but US uses license. I just wanted to make sure that I copied it verbatim, that's all.
What part of this project would stop you or someone else from "innovating" and making it "state of the art"?

After all, it's licensed under the MIT License, and the readme explicitly states that it can be contributed to, and that in fact they encourage it.
Due to zoom's resource-intensity and my non-work laptop's dire lack of resources, I find myself using Lynx with some regularity today. I absolutely love it. Thanks, Lynx devs!
Yes. With DiceDB clients can "WATCH" the output of the commands and upon the change in data, the resultset are streamed to the subscribers.
do you plan to have a mobile app?

would you implement database function like in Notion?

Is it a full feature todo app or just noting down tasks?

would be a killer app if it has 3 Yes
Can you elaborate on the connection you see here?
Nope. We are not redis compliant.
> Chasing different goals.

What are those goals? I was struggling to interpret a meaningful roadmap from the issue & commit history.
Yes, hence my "bads". Luther did an excellent job of correcting that at the expense of a schism.
The article posits that the beatles and the nineties were BAD for artists, ruining careers and making them one-hit-wonders (where presumably they would have had more than one hit?).

I would argue that it was GREAT for artists and the reason there are so many one hit wonders is that those times opened up and created public appetite for new music. Those artists (who he argues would have had more than one hit) I argue would not have had ANY hits as they never would have gotten airplay to begin with.

How many artists did the Beatles kill? Maybe a better question is – How many artists did the Beatles help produce?
Mozilla's llamafile project is designed to enable LLMs to be preserved for historical purposes. They ship the weights and all the necessary software in a deterministic dependency-free single-file executable. If you save your llamafiles, you should be able to run them in fifty years and have the outputs be exactly the same as what you'd get today. Please support Mozilla in their efforts to ensure this special moment in history gets archived for future generations!

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/