skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good, your insurance company should get no say on this matter. If your doctor prescribes it, insurance pays. If you think the doctor is committing fraud then you can take that up with the doctor, not the patient.

The mistreatment by insurance companies is so normal now that people are just defeated. My MIL has been trying different treatments for over a decade and finally found a drug that can manage her chronic spinal pain. She's finally mobile enough to play with my nephews. And because her work switched insurance she now going through years of needless bullshit to prove to this insurance company that no really, this is the only thing that works. And now she has to pay for it out of pocket and it's over $1000/mo. I know, I know, you would really rather pay for the cheaper thing that doesn't.
Degenerate amateurish quantitative analysis modeling copy-trading on the Solana network.
I'm a fan of weed but for me it's more something that I use when I have something I want to be introspective about or open my mind to new ideas. E.g. I find it makes it easier for me to "get" genres of music or art that I previously struggled to connect with.

Unfortunately though, I find that it's a bit too much for me to use regularly. In particular, the day after I find that I often have a bit of a "hangover" where it feels like I used up too much of my emotional/creative juice. Not sure if that makes sense?
Lftr! Breeds burns almost all the fuel.i think the waste products it does make are shorter term.
Fashion is an MLM scheme in the sense that it only works if those most invested in fashion can convince those less invested that it has value
There are ketone drinks, basically what you’re describing

https://patient.info/news-and-features/ketone-drinks-a-buzzy...
«I have seen people without a pot to piss in, treat others -even complete strangers- with respect, love, caring, and patience, and folks with a lot of money, treat others most barbarously; especially when they consider those "others," to be folks that don't have the capability to hit back or stand up for themselves.»

It's easy to assign what you just described to character traits that the given people happen to have regardless of their economical stance. Yet, thinking about it a bit, being nice when poor is just a life strategy that makes sense. Not only that one's precarious situation (of any kind) attracts a lot of vulnerability, it also attracts a lot of dependency on pretty much everyone's good grace. Being anything but nice by default means undermining one's success. There is not much to gain by being hostile when poor. When one gets to be rich (in relation to others) however, the game changes. People want things and it makes sense to direct their attention and energy on other people that (ideally) do have what they want or (at least) may assist them with getting what they want. And, many people would like to cut corners and resort to dirty tricks in doing so. It's not that hard to imagine what that rich folk has to face in relation with other ambitious and not so scrupulous individuals, what a winning strategy in this case would look like, and why it makes sense to become the default behavior.
FTA

> The tattoo on Suárez’s neck is of a colibrí, a hummingbird. His wife said it is meant to symbolize “harmony and good energy.” She said his other tattoos, like a palm tree on his hand—an homage to Suárez’s late mother’s use of a Venezuelan expression about God being greater than a coconut tree—were similarly innocuous. Nevertheless, they may be why Suárez has been effectively disappeared by the US government into a Salvadoran mega-prison.
Sorry to inform you but you're off by about 6 years, nodejs was released about 16 years ago, and express has had middleware for 14 of those years.
Not trusting the government is how you get Russia.

There's obviously a nuanced position to build a government that is trustworthy, but we've ignored that for the sake of greed, racism and other human vices.
> The glass is too hard.

Being too hard should make it easier to shatter but harder to scratch, shouldn't it?
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
Unless I'm missing something, rvnx was the one who submitted this post. Not garciasn.

garciasn was just mentioning how they've struggled with the guideline themselves, since it does get subjective.
Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300
It is extremely bad form to leave your students stranded and move to another university with no communication. It also wouldn't warrant FBI action; plenty of people have moved back to their home countries from academic positions in the US.
Glad it was helpful feedback. Seems like a noise tool for somebody who wants a quick noise effect, maybe without the ability to afford the full cost for something like Photoshop.

If you're looking for stuff to add that might cool or add distinctiveness:

- Noise Types: Looks like you're using White Noise, or possibly a 2D slice through 3D Perlin Noise. Adding the possibility for other noise types. 2D, 3D (2D slice), 4D (?, 2D slice) of Gradient/Perlin Noise [1][2][3][4], Simplex Noise [5], or Wavelet Noise [6][7] you can select between for the underlying noise function.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise

[2] Inigo Quilez Article on Perlin Noise: https://iquilezles.org/articles/gradientnoise/

[3] 2D Implementation of Gradient Noise (Shadertoy): https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XdXBRH

[4] 3D Implementation of Gradient Noise (Shadertoy): https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dffRH

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_noise

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet_noise

[7] Pixar Wavelet Noise Paper with Comparisons: https://graphics.pixar.com/library/WaveletNoise/paper.pdf

- Fractal Brownian Motion Noise (basically, layered factor of 2 noise functions of another type at 1/2 intensities) [8][9][10][11] (Inigo Quilez's article is dramatically easier to read and comprehend than most articles, the WP article is super math heavy and nearly pointless unless you're a math major.)

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Brownian_motion

[9] Book of Shaders, fBM: https://thebookofshaders.com/13/

[10] Inigo Quilez Article on fBM: https://iquilezles.org/articles/fbm/

[11] fBM Impelementation (Shadertoy): https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WsV3zz

- Domain warping noise (noise that performs a distortion on the location where the noise is applied). [12][13] This time, the Inigo Quilez article is rather intimidating. However, it can also be used to make much simpler variations like glass ripple distortions, water droplets, waves, ect...

[12] https://iquilezles.org/articles/warp/

[13] Animated Domain Warping Implementation (Shadertoy): https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4s23zz

- Noise Colors (White noise, Pink noise, Brownian noise, Blue noise, Violet noise, Grey noise, Velvet noise, Green noise, Thermal Blackbody noise)[14][15][16][17]

[14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise

[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise

[16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise

[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_noise
*cides aren't the only thing to worry about. There are things to make it heavier, like lead dust, to make it feel more tacky(best case just sugar), to make it smell better, and whatnot else. None of which are good to inhale.

Vapes aren't that much better, containing different groups of chemicals you wouldn't want to inhale directly, or not in the concentrations used in vaping.
Not too short or it's too easy to guess.

The app might be stateless right now (I haven't checked); if it is, adding a URL shortener will break that.
https://archive.ph/HK3bh
My comment wasn't an implicature. I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion other than a desire to make this discussion more inflammatory.
Interesting how carefully carefully she omits any mention of health, like right now we sell an addictive carcinogen, and we welcome the opportunity to grow revenue with less negative global impact to human health
I don't think this is a good take: Even if your code is not secret, the attack could add anything to your code or release artifacts.

Luckily it was quickly remedied at least.
Source survey from mid February:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/19/how-ameri...

Some discussion then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119573

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43126485
I'm building and running a Bluesky analytics and post scheduler site, with a couple of tools on top. The network is showing good growth and promise at 33M users at the moment so I'm optimistic about it.

https://theblue.social
You would have had to have this thought prior to the release of the movie “The Net” in 1995
Show HN: A difficult match-3 game with cats
A new match-3 game with cats where you need to put the elements that appear in a matrix and hold out for 69 steps. Suitable for both adults and children to while away 15 minutes. Written in regular JavaScript and jQuery.

There are similar games already, but I decided to create a new one that will be a bit more interesting (with cats) and will have simpler logic/design.
I just finished building a Night Routine manager for me and my wife that help us keep alternating who does the toddler night routine. I needed this because we both have evening activities and trying to figure how to block day for it while keeping the routine fair was hard.

https://github.com/Belphemur/night-routine

I wanted to build everything from the ground up in Go and have it fully integrated with Google Calendar where we have our family calendar.

It setup full day event with the name of the parent in charge of the night routine. To override a routine, any of us can just rename the event with the the other parent name and the software recalculate the following routines.

I also wanted to give a try to Roo Code in VS Code it only took me 2 days (evenings) to code the whole thing with a proper sqlite db.
Maybe the USA is finally cracking down on China's "thousand talents" program.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-chin...
That's a surprising difference in durability between the 15 Pro and your 16 Pros! Interesting about the edges scratching so easily
Yes that's how airplanes work
The burden of proof generally lies with the one making the claim. As Hitchens's razor states: "what may be asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence."

Anyway, only because something feels intuitive, it doesn’t make it true. In this instance the original claim seems to contradict the article which states imaginary friends are not the result of loneliness but the process by which children explore the complexities of real relationships… i.e. a form of subconscious thought experiment.
Just a guess, but I think it's because that's how web sites were in the '90s. People had pretty low res screens back then.
"But yes, point taken: the extrajudicial actions of ICE recently are absolutely not helping people stay calm in the face of something like this."

I find this kind of offensive and dismissive.

1, I don't see why stay calm is so appropriate. It's always more effective to persue any aim thoughtfully rather than thoughtlessly of course, but that's just "all else being equal" and not all else is equal. Another truth is the the greater the injury the greater the reaction is still valid, defensible, appropriate, etc.

2, calmness is pretty orthogonal to assessment. You can be perfectly calm while judging extrajudicial actions of ICE and others as utterly outlandish and intolerable.

3, How calm are the ICE agents when they show up and you try to decline their offer? Why aren't they required to "let's just calm down and talk this out and see if we can resolve this with civility..."?
And when you self-host, worst case scenario is running a disaster recovery exercise on a different cloud provider. (Except for DNS, where you're at the mercy of the registrar; you might need to communicate a new domain name to your users.)

It's just time to leave Microsoft. Don't make excuses for rich corporations.
People will make themselves believe whatever the man that keeps them in power tells them to believe. We've seen multiple 180s in opinions, including his right-hand lunatics.
Unfortunately I hit a paywall.
This was true when I was in college (+10 years ago). I remember being in a programming language theory class where the students and the professor had a falling out. He remains one of my favorite professors to this day because he was a very new professor and you could tell the spark hadn't left him yet. He was so full of energy and excitement talking about the subject of programming languages and you could really feel yourself absorbing it through mitosis, or at least I could.

Anyways halfway through the course the professor gave us a survey on "how the course was going" (bless him) and he got absolutely reamed. One person complained that they had to learn OCaml, that OCaml was too hard, that the professor didn't do enough to teach them OCaml, and that he would rather the course be taught in Java. The professor, legitimate confusion on his face, said that he had published the course syllabus with multiple resources for learning OCaml and that he had held office hours specifically for people to ask him questions or bring up problems, why hadn't the student come then? Response: "I am too busy, I don't have time to go to office hours." Another girl piped in saying it was "difficult to remember to check the course syllabus every week" and therefore she had "forgotten" to do the reading and therefore she didn't know any OCaml.

I was actually furious. I emailed him after the class and said that all these people were fucking dribbling morons and that he was doing fine and I liked the course and learned a lot. Looking back I'm sure the strong language probably made him feel more awkward than vindicated, but eh.
While I agree with this particular point, it's weird not to share the slides, everything else rings true for me. I graduated college about a year ago, and so much of this I just took for granted. The class would just get smaller as the semester went on and more people 'disappeared'. In a lecture hall of 200 people, do you really think that my classmates weren't on their phones constantly?

Empirically, literacy rates are dropping. The anecdotes match the data. Why are you trying to negate this article?
*A significant minority of...
> Perhaps it's most accurate to say we have will or volition but not free of constraints imposed by our biology and physical/social environments.

You might be talking about compatiblism.

> Humans imagine they have free will because they're aware of their decisions or actions while unaware of the range of factors contributing to a decision or action.

Or more likely there’s no evolutionary fitness benefit to being able to understand this, and perhaps it’s even detrimental if it leads to nihilistic or egocentric impulses.
I wish I had this tool back when I was learning python. BTW, awesome work!
I applaud your commitment to this bit. Thank you for making the world a nicer place.
Two signs might be: are people of otherwise good character with reputations to lose doing these actions, and does society find their action to clarify a need to redress at the expense of the victim’s class. I’m just speculating about a line and not opining on a specific crime.
I'm not sure how much time I'll have what with other projects, but I'd be up for doing a few PRs for some of these features too.

Nerdamer looks pretty interesting, the API seems like it would lend itself very well to auto-generating calculators.

A lot of web calculators have a "Enter any two values to solve for the third" UI, and with symbolic algebra, you could take any arbitrary equation and generate a UI like that, so it would be easy to manage a library of potentially hundreds of equations in a declarative way.

But there are a few other JS math libs that are similar.

https://nerdamer.com/functions/solve.html
Much Ado About 'Decolonizing' Shakespeare
They did it atop Cassandra.
What reasoning do you have to back this vs. the researchers conclusion that they're doing it mostly "for fun?"

Like, it sounds plausible, but you'd need to show something like an increase in imaginary friend development in places where children are isolated or lonely.
> the release dropped. While the version increment (v0.12.4 to v0.12.5) implies a minor update, it’s a huge leap. We’re totalling more than 450 commits, including the requirement of a new version of PHP

yeah this is not a great way of doing things (even for solo devs)
This maybe a little reductionist. To bring the jet engine and/or microprocessor to a point where it could uplift all boats took probably millions of people. You can choose to be one of those people and you'd be working on something amazing. You don't have to be the originator, the follow-on supporters are just as important.
Also, turns out preventing kids from getting sick improves educational outcomes.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/theater/much-ado-about-deco...
this is it exactly. See west virginia recently banning artificial coloring. Because MAGA said so, is basically the reason, they were completely unworried about it before it became important to MAGA world by way of RFK
The problem is that people have been characterizing the offsetting loss for decades while people blinded by political biases refuse to admit the evidence, however clear it is.

To a degree, it becomes impossible for them on a subconscious level because of the social costs involved.

This is a mass psychology problem, not a scientific evidence problem.
Speech MCP Server - uses Kokoro TTS under the hood to give your LLM the ability to speak. I use it to have Cursor agents notify me when long running tasks are complete.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/speech-mcp-server
Well that sounds like an improvement over the Nothing At All they seem to show at the moment.
They jumped the shark to become cryptobros in 2022 and are Open Core now, why would you still want to use Gitea? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339421
Do you mind sharing link?
Alright, calm down there PKD Jr.

Cogito, ergo sum?
I have been using simpleinvoices.io for a few years too. It's great. (Just checked, 10 this year).
What's a primary source in this context? The Chinese government?
Yeah, that's probably true, the same happened after the dot-com bubble burst. From about 2005-15 if you had a vaguely promising idea and a few engineers you could get acqui-hired by a tech giant easily. The few profitable ones that refused are now middle-sized businesses doing OK (nowhere near billions).

I don't know if the survivors are going to be in consulting - there is some kind of LLM-base product capability, you could conceivably see a set of LLM-based products building companies emerge. But it'll probably be a bit different, like the mobile app boom was a bit different from the web boom.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43525860
Personal anecdote getting an airthings that reminds me to open the window (along with a pushover api setup) has probably been the biggest productivity improvement in 10 years.
Which of my four uses of choose/choosing made you think I was pretending there was no choice? My point is that the choice is to try and do something as best you can, but you can't choose whether it'll be received as a "good thing", that's out of your hands.
agentic rag
Someone writes whether the data actually shows what it purports to show: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/01/09/filters-be...

> The whole thing is driven by one data point and a linear trend which makes no theoretical sense in the context of the paper (from the abstract: “Air testing conducted inside schools during the leak (but before air filters were installed) showed no presence of natural gas pollutants, implying that the effectiveness of air filters came from removing common air pollutants”) but does serve to create a background trend to allow a big discontinuity with some statistical significance.

I’m reminded of the walkback of scientific studies showing massive benefits from giving kids in third world countries deworming medications: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/23/research-glo....

My beef with Matt Y.’s worldview of “scientifically driven public policy” is that the costs and benefits of public policy interventions are so devilishly difficult to study that you can’t meaningfully use them on realistic time scales to drive policy. This is an exceedingly simple hypothesis—filtering air improves test scores—that can easily be tested while controlling for confounding factors. But even then it’s hard!
I did, but I don't understand what you're objecting to with mine.
also on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social
Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now.

Looks like it just got blocked :(
Open source presenter software. If you ever need to show something on screen, this will handle it for you. Useful for any events like concert, conference, camps, etc. You can also use it for things like digital signage.

Still a lot of features to be added, but it's already useful for simple use-cases.

https://github.com/Vija02/TheOpenPresenter
A mac mini is cheap if it's worth in investing in a platform to buy an app ala buying an Apple II to run Visicalc.
Their interpretation of the statutes is secret thus we have secret law enforced by this court. The charges related to these warrants are secret if not adjudicated by the court. To be more direct, the existence of this court is an abomination in the context of a democracy.
The first part of this sounds like a psychological problem to be honest, not a lack of electronics.

I had access to all of them as a teen, yet it didn't help me make friends.
You're right—this tool is designed for people who may not have a background in design and just want a quick, accessible way to add noise effects without expensive software. Adding too many features (as you suggested earlier) could make it more complex for casual users to use.

I appreciate the breakdown of different noise types! Adding options like Perlin, Simplex, fBM, and domain warping could definitely enhance versatility. Noise color variations are also an interesting idea. I'll explore ways to integrate these while keeping the tool simple and user-friendly.

Thanks again for the great resources!
Mystery man leaves wallet full of questions in Saskatoon
Yeah, the overblown hype is a feature of the hype cycle. The same was true for the web - it was going to replace retail, change the way we work and live, etc. And yes, all of that has happened, but it took 30 years and COVID to make it happen.

LLMs might lead to AGI. Eventually.

Meanwhile every company that is spruiking that, and betting their business that that's going to happen before they run out of VC funding, is going to fail.
It's much easier to learn if you can ask questions and try (and fail) to make your own connections, and this has nothing to do with whether or not your own ideas and suggestions have any merit of their own.

I don't engage in class to show off or try to contribute, but because it's an incredibly valuable part of the learning process for me.
I grew up with six siblings on a cul-de-sac filled with other families with 3+ children (enough kids for two complete baseball teams) and had imaginary friends.
No you're not.

You are going to see health insurance companies leave the state, just like the property insurance carriers did.
There is no both
Not that it matters even if you did ... on my phone the page is overtaken by ads that open more ads and it's unusable.
https://archive.is/xJIpc
Not fooled! The site is too fast and didn't require 16 factor auth to get started. It also didn't ask me for 5 different government identifiers. Nice try tho.
One might assume the cryptographic code was somewhat audited by Thomas Ptacek.
Do Toddlers Have Kneecaps? Everything Parents Should Know
+ working notifications
- adblocker is more of a minus for publishers though

But mainly don't expect any good web app integration on mobile, because it would hit the store 30% tax.