skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the problem. It was never meant as what it’s used for now. It’s bad for manuals, it’s bad for data, it’s bad for mobile devices, it’s bad for versioning. It’s only good for printing. But somehow it’s used for all of these.
That doesn’t make sense. If you spend a lot on healthcare, then why would you want to spend it out of pocket from HSA instead of letting insurer pick it up with a non HDHP?
Would you volunteer for it, or would you be conscripted like jury duty?
Fortunately the brain has astounding plasticity. It it's only images, we would get used to them.
Thanks for the link— hadn't heard of Smoothlife. Very cool. Of course the same technique could be adapted in some form.

One advantage of LifeHash using a small world-size is that the pattern inevitably becomes stable (repeats a state) after a reasonable number of iterations. I do have a hard-coded limit for the number of iterations, but it's just a backstop and large enough so I never see it hit in practice. A much larger, more complex simulation could go on for much longer, and since I really want to end up with a static icon, I want to limit the time and complexity of computing it.

Another advantage of using a small world size is that the initial 16x16 cell grid includes exactly 256 cells, which is the same number of bits in a SHA256 hash. Any hash, visual or otherwise, should be extremely sensitive to initial conditions, so a small change in input yields a massive change in output. Having the same number of cells as hash bits means every single bit counts with equal significance to the outcome.
Oh no, I asked to see them.
It's also actively harming medical and scientific progress as I allude to here in this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM61rn9Gxl4&list=PLjzcwcP9P2...
I live in the outermost zone of the commuter rail, and a monthly pass is about $400, or $4,800 per year.

Add to that the fact that you are going to be packed in like cattle, won't have a seat to sit on unless you board at the very first station, and can count on a 30-60 minute delay at least once a week ... the MTBA is probably the single biggest stressor in the Boston area.
Honestly, those users were using the site even when porn and other such content was allowed, and clearly weren't bothered by existence on the platform overall. So if they allow it again, then so long as they don't promote these blogs to users who don't care for them, no one's gonna be bothered.

It's like Reddit; yes it allows adult content, but since you're not forced to view subreddits that allow it, no one cares.
An HSA with no employer contribution, or even administrative assistance, is like throwing money into a trash can, except at least if you throw money into a trash can, you can wheel it down to any hospital and they'll probably accept it.
I run a PDF generation service [1], so this is nice to read. When I first launched the service, I was worried that PDFs and paper forms might become obsolete in the near future, when everyone starts to go paperless and digital. Now that I'm more familiar with the market, this is no longer a concern. (I have banks who are using the software to modernize their operations.)

I also realized that there might be some pressure to turn into the next TurboTax, where the company eventually lobbies against improvements just so we can stay in business. I made a resolution that I'll never do anything like that. But I guess the founders of TurboTax never intended to do that either.

[1] https://formapi.io
PBS's Eons Youtube Channel has great videos on this topic. Really, all their videos are amazing and very binge-able. Four that may be most relevant are:

The Last Time the Globe Warmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldLBoErAhz4

When the Earth Was Purple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIA-k_bBcL0

That Time it Rained for Two Million Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4

From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDQa0okkpf0

The few things that we learn from paleontology is the Earth is Dynamic and that any one creature's life is fragile.
Something that really frustrates me about my current HDHP/HRA plan is that it feels like it only makes sense if somebody in the family has a minor issue(e.g. the flu) that is covered by the few hundred dollars the employer puts in the HRA, or if somebody has a major medical issue that would have destroyed our savings.

Between those two extremes, the value of having insurance is just all the mysterious insurance "adjustments" on every medical bill. As you pointed out, there are probably lots of situations where saying I have no insurance makes more sense from a financial standpoint.
>Right now, most of what the computers in the world do is to execute tasks we basically initiate. But increasingly our world is going to involve computers autonomously interacting with each other, according to computational contracts. Once something happens in the world—some computational fact is established—we’ll quickly see cascades of computational contracts executing. And there’ll be all sorts of complicated intrinsic randomness in the interactions of different computational acts.

I don't think it takes a math genius to see how this is a bad idea. In the same way that trading algorithms can get into a feedback loop that crash markets, these "computational contracts" can cause cascading failures that hurt society as a whole. This is why human intelligence is so critical in running society: it has the ability to question whether its "programming" is correct and having the intended effects, and adjust accordingly. Computational contracts have no such introspection, by definition. They resolve because the rules are satisfied, for better or worse.

And all of that isn't even considering the attack surface area for malicious actors to target.
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are you saying that if your employer offers a high deductible plan without HSA you can open one for yourself? I don’t think many people know that.
That would be an interesting experiment!
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If you go to emptywheel.net and search for 'Haberman', you will see the many examples cited by the excellent Ms. Wheeler. There are 18 results. Perhaps they are not all critical of Ms. Haberman, but the one I chose to read (the 3rd, "NYT's Trump Interview: Money for Nothing and Clicks for Free") most certainly was.

Marcy Wheeler deserves a Pulitzer Prize for her work.
Historically, politically-related events do in fact play a large role in gun sales.

There were lengthy and severe shortage of small arms and ammunition following both Obama's election and the Sandy Hook shooting, especially .22 caliber ammunition. [1]

I don't think .22 ammunition is on the chopping block, but there's a general positive feedback loop, like a bank rush.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9313_United_States_...
But you make one tradeoff for another.

Sure you have "hardware, cooling, power management, ISP and more", but that's all easy, especially compared to managing AWS workflows.
I've been an American consumer all of my life. Everything in here is business as usual for American consumers (and this comment is clearly hyperbole). Thank you for pointing it all out though.

In seriousness though; I sure wish these practices were illegal.
Technically, you are correct, but in a corporate environment of managed software, I can't separate the format from the company. When an update is scheduled I have no choice but install and reboot.
Internal search for enterprises is a big part of what we're working on at Fogbeam Labs. Our search product isn't completely ready yet, but I'd love to talk to you if you're open to a conversation. We might be able to help you, and even if we don't do business together, I might be able to share some thoughts or ideas that will be useful to you. And it would be a chance to learn more about what people like you need in such an offering.

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That's true, I ought to use that less rarely.
We at Scylla tune the kernel, drives, stride, clock source automatically and benchmark the disk to figure out what's its maximum parallelism so it won't queue (we can saturate 8 NVMe) and we'll do the queuing within the DB's userspace so we can prioritize real time queries over background tasks:

https://www.scylladb.com/2018/04/19/scylla-i-o-scheduler-3/
Get some sleep. Do random things for the sake of doing them because it makes you happy. Fuck productivity!
My favorite one was pregnancy being a pre-existing condition so if your husband got fired (noone would ever fire a pregnant woman for no reason), you couldn't get insurance when you needed it the most.
This seems like a reasonable hypothesis.

And easily tested.

Is it true that the other costs of living have gone down in real terms. If it is, then we also need to know if people are buying those cheaper products and services.

We also need to know which groups of people are affected by which price-changes-over-time, in real terms.

This seems like information the statistics bureaus are likely to collect, definitely recall seeing this sort of data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and I vaguely recall the costs of living have gone up but I’ve never attempted to dissect the data.

I think the most important idea from the parent comment here is whether it’s possible to live on rice, lentils, onions, and potatoes, plus heating and cooking energy, at a lower rate now than the recent past, and if so why are we choosing not to.
Just to note however that they only do renewals and transfers, no new registrations
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Put the panel on a hinged lid (you'd have to reduce the size of the "cassettes" greatly) and you'd have something resembling The Original Series Star Trek "Tricorder."
In-memory databases are not economically scalable. To a first approximation, database volume is the integral of database throughput, so databases that require extreme I/O throughput also tend to require extremely high volumes of online data. Many typical sensor data models, which drive much of the need for high-throughput I/O, grow by petabytes per day so the multiple orders of magnitude difference in media cost make DRAM storage infeasible.

If the bottleneck is not storage bandwidth, and it isn't for many recent systems and modern software architectures, then there is no practical performance advantage to keeping your data purely in-memory. This has been demonstrable ever since PCIe HBAs with arrays of cheap SSDs became practical.
Depends. Is 100% of your company's business doing contract development writing CRUD apps in Angular?

If so, then sure. Otherwise, YMMV.

See also:

"Are semi-polished rocks the only implement your ass-wiping needs?"

and:

"Is Medium the only Internet publishing mechanism your writing needs?"
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It is corporate welfare, I remember lots of libertarian arguments to that very point. But to solve health care in the US you would eventually have to start questioning the for-profit underpinnings of the whole enterprise. That was far too much to expect from the generally pro-market Democrats in office at the time.

Even after Bernie Sanders, the "Very Serious Democrats" talk more of protecting the Health Insurance Industry than anything else. Best case, we'll see a timid proposal of a expensive Medicare Buy-In added to the ACA exchange that will never get past the Senate.
Or employers can reduce pay raises. Or cut pay. Or do any number of things to hit whatever net income targets. Ideally, we wouldn’t have employers involved in all this price obfuscation, and it would be easy for employees to compare compensation.
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How can you avoid that they skip you? Get a contract in place.
The end of the Cold War should not be dismissed. The West had a common-enemy. This served to unify things somewhat.
Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216536.
This is the meaning of the phrase, "depression is a choice." Unfortunately, depression robs you of the skills you need to make the choice.

Glad things worked out for you.
So those pensions - representing a large chunk of everyone's lifetime earnings - are in the same order of magnitude as what the "1%" invest? That's pretty much how the "1-percenters" are defined: "this tiny number of people own as much as everyone else combined". If these pensions are used to create harm to the general populace, how does this not aggravate the whole situation?

Do you really think politicians have not focussed on the insane economic and social developments because they somehow failed to obtain those "real numbers"? Oops, we had no idea that people are crushed by student loans and lack of retirement arrangements?
Yes, it is throwing 503s and we're also getting general network failures in other calls to the SQS APIs. As is typical, not a peep from AWS or any indication of what is going on.

[Edit 1] And we're seeing the issue in us-east-1 too FYI

[Edit 2] They are now reporting the issue in us-east-2 with SQS and Lambda

[Edit 3] After looking harder it appears I was wrong about us-east-1. I thought we were seeing failures there but it does seem to be confined to us-east-2 only.

[Edit 4] AWS is reporting it is back up and it appears the errors stopped for us at around 1:10pm Central
Thanks for this explanation. Super interesting!
I find this kind of thinking dangerous, because it falls into the "they're just 2 sides of the same coin" mindset. Not to mention, it is also false. The DoD budget for 2019 is below the budget for 2008, and much lower as a percentage of total expenditures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

Yes, there are things the parties agree on, but that minimizes the huge, material differences between their platforms, e.g.:

- appropriate levels of taxation, and especially types of taxation (e.g. capital gains, inheritance taxes, etc.)

- mix of spending on social programs

- the huge gap on social issues, such as abortion, gay rights, gun control, etc.

"They're just the same, they don't care about the little guy, etc." are tactics the Russian trolls used to convince people not to vote.
The advantage of in-memory it's also its biggest disadvantage - it's costly. NVMe can serve almost as fast as ram and is 100x cheaper. Scylla offers single digit msec (usually 1msec) 99% latency and way more cost effective
I wanted to get it but the EBay listing was sold, and it was a great deal, considering that it was new, and its nearly impossible to find anything vintage in new condition.

Since we can't get analog TV signal anymore, I'd love to have retrofitted this with Raspberry Pi since this TV-radio has a VCR (assuming standard RCA) input and Raspberry Pi has the analog video output.
Heh, I'm familiar with this one too. It implies that, for instance, the Shake-Shake and Shake-Drop papers employ cutout, which they don't report. It's hard to make apples to apples comparisons when they're changing lots of things at the same time.
"The European Union has been in the forefront of efforts to tighten control on how social media companies handle the personal data of consumers"

Yeah, that's why.
Downvoted pretty heavily, though. Guess it's a threatening message :)
Not moreso than .txt
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Can you actually fund a non-employer HSA with tax-deductible funds, or is that a benefit that only applies to payroll HSA contributions? If not, a lot of the benefit of an employer HSA disappears.

(FWIW, I have an HDHP, employer HSA, and an individual HSA that I roll my employer funds to annually for lower-fee investing.)
This is only a problem if preventative care is expensive to begin with...

In India, a visit to the doctor for a general checkup can cost anywhere between Rs. 100-1000 out of pocket, with no insurance whatsoever. For reference, this is basically the price of a movie ticket.

What if preventative care cost $15-30 a pop out of pocket?
> And, yes, there’s only basically one full computational language that exists in the world today—and it’s the one I’ve spent the past three decades building—the Wolfram Language.

:/
I didn't "get" PDF's until I started doing academic research.

But the ability to collect papers, books, documents, etc. all in a single format that I can read on any device, and mark up with highlights and notes, has been a game-changer.

Yes it's a lowest-common-denominator format. And it's designed for human reading and manual office tasks, not computer processing of data. But it works. And it's supported everywhere.

Doesn't matter if I'm on the Apple or Google or Microsoft or Adobe stack. Doesn't matter if the PDF is 20 years old. It just works.
Exactly. I have written software for legal document search. Most of what they get is in PDF and it’s a major PITA to get data out of them. Forget about tables. Just try to extract text without some garbled characters and you will lose your mind.
From what I have heard, what you're missing is Wolfram's ego. That's why he magnifies the importance of what he has done.
Good perspective... and it made me think of a parallel with Democracy. Could the atrocity that is pdf be the "least bad" way to do all of the above in one file format?
Lack of SyncThing is my greatest pain point after having switched from Android to iOS.
Ok, but what does the level below that look like?
Support mostly (to me) means maybe a forum/knowledgebase + on-going updates/patches/fixes. In person/hands-on help would of course be an hourly feature at $100+ per hour. But many use cases won't need that kind of support, for most the docs and updates/upgrades are worth the subscription.
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The phrase you put in quotation marks is not an actual quote from the interview, and I didn't interpret it as suggesting this.

An actual quote is: "So for most of human history, loneliness or boredom were just accepted features of the human condition."

In my view it's different to say that boredom and loneliness were accepted _when they occured_, rather than saying they were the norm, which might mean they were experienced most of the time.
Ironically enough, the last brick-and-mortar bookstore I was in was Amazon's. I didn't know they had those.
Thanks! Interesting to hear about the experience.
Seastar.io is another one, it's an async engine that utilizes all of the cores in a modern system and is the heart of Scylla's DB. However, it's complex to use it correctly
If your referring to SQL Server you get on insert "Operation failed. The index entry of length 901 bytes for the index 'xyz' exceeds the maximum length of 900 bytes."
Alternatively, someone started a business that they wanted to create and build. At the same time, this founder didn’t want to spend their entire career on this one company. So they build it up and sell it off to PE. After a while they have a new idea and start again.
Added an update to post to acknowledge this.
This would've been a lot more convincing before mobile happened a decade ago. Reading PDFs on my phone is a pain, and it hasn't improved at all in the last ten years. Looking at the web on mobile used to be painful too, but it's ok now.
Because selfish behavior is still wrong even if it's incentivized by a system.
Someone here gets the 20/hour for STEM volunteer work with kids then donates the money to a charity which Formidable also doubles as a part of another program. Would that address the issue for you or is the idea of getting paid for fun stuff just ruin the fun no matter what on principle?

(I work at Formidable)
Consider that the system would be rethought accordingly, though.

Representatives picked by lottery would not "manage" the country: they would hire qualified people to do so, and they would supervise their work according to their values. The point of the lottery, at least the way I see it, is to have an unbiased random sample of the population oversee the government, but not to actually run it.
And the same reason I returned it to Barnes & Noble within two days.
> Which, in principle, doesn't prevent a program from crashing or misbehaving when it encounters a corrupted file left over from its last run.

Of course. But saving state to nvram also has this problem, plus the additional problem of saving broken program state. Like I say, I'm not totally pessimistic on this anymore: there are some promising trends that make me think we might get there in the not distant future. But we're not there yet.

Maybe supporting some way for a user to manually reset broken program state would be a good enough compromise -- as long as application developers didn't do something dumb, like store their license information in their program state. Autodesk immediately comes to mind there.

> Why would you need to communicate with any process?

Because some other process wants to communicate with you.

Composability and common interfaces and loose coupling is a huge advantage in Unix-like operating systems or any other software architecture that embraces those principles.

They mean that you can write software with a much longer lifespan, and usually for less effort. In your example, someone may come along wanting to write "Firewall App" long after you've abandoned your software. If your software is extensible and supports standardized IPC, "Firewall App" is possible. If it doesn't, then it gets thrown out and replaced with something else.
Though not TV and the telephone. The interviewee isn't really blaming the Internet, but rather many of the trappings of modernity. The Internet and the smartphone may exacerbate it, but the overall thesis is that we've spent about a century becoming more and more connected, and more and more continually entertained.

I'm not entirely sure I buy the notion: Shakespeare describes characters who troll for entertainment(Don John, Iago), and Jane Austen's characters often grapple with boredom. Our expectations do seem to ratchet up with our technological ability to fulfill them, but I feel like it's more of a hedonic treadmill. Boredom and loneliness may be, on some scale, roughly constant.

I do believe that social media has allowed us to ratchet up the effects of the "angry" and "stupid" part, possibly to unmanageable levels.
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