skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's light-years better than the Symantec garbage my employer force installs on every machine. It literally takes over thirty seconds to open vscode, compared to less than five without it. Every single operation, from reading an email to opening a file takes a factor of 5-10x longer than it should. It makes me want to scream. I tried to tamper with it once in a fit of rage and got permanently booted off the network. That was an awkward visit to the IT office.
> riding electric scooters after a few pints is about as much thrill as I get these days

You're literally advocating drunk driving. Whether or not you're driving a car or a scooter, this is dangerous, illegal, and you should never do it. You're endangering yourself and others.
It was bad for Bobby Bonilla.
I'm not sure that on its face that this makes much sense. It reminds me of the kids song "I don't know why she swallowed the fly." Fundamentally the problem is that prices are set by a market, but the market has some inherently unusual characteristics, and has become controlled by a series of government sanctioned cartels.

With private insurance, your insurance contracts with some hospitals. If you go to a hospital that's not contracted, your insurance will pay what it deems "reasonable", and you have to pay the balance of whatever the hospital decides to charge you. With a law like this, the hospital would have to just take whatever the insurance company deemed to be the correct price. This would seem to incentivize insurance companies to have very low "reasonable" prices for out of network visits.
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Microsoft's hard-on for shoving ads down its users' throats is exactly why the only versions of Windows I'll touch nowadays (and probably ever again) are the following:

- Windows 2000 and prior releases
- Windows 10 LTSC (formerly LTSB)
- Windows Server

And this would be only in cases where Windows is absolutely necessary; otherwise, why take that risk when Linux (and more recently OpenBSD) has been nice and good to me as a daily driver for 10 years now?
Wait, really? I've been working in a thoroughly MS ecosystem for the first time this year, and I can't seem to find any evidence that they've tried to kill VBA based on how often I run into situations where VBA (or worse, VBscript) is the ONLY option, especially when working with excel's developer functions or writing expressions in SSRS utilities. Did the users push back because the options they were presented with were use VBA or have no scripting capabilities?
Does the new driver architecture support controlling fan speed yet? I've been on both team green and team red, and not being a purist I have just used their proprietary drivers. It wasn't until AMD shifted to their new driver architecture (with most people suggesting to use the "high quality" open source one that required baking firmware into my kernel (I run Gentoo)) and I had so many issues with both the new open source one and proprietary one that I accelerated my time-to-update-card timeline and went back to NVidia, emerged nvidia-drivers, and have never had a problem since. Nvidia has been rock-solid for me on Linux (even when I first had an old card in 2009-2012 or so) using their proprietary drivers. There's also the continuing fact that while you can get 2 AMDs to match the performance (and cost) of one Nvidia, I'd rather just have the one card every time.
The developer says "Unfortunately the browser APIs don’t allow for this.":

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/autofill-shortcut-should-o...
I'm surprised he found it so hard to get funding. They definitely need to get their story out to more people.
I don't think so. If self driving cars are not close in price they can't compete with price with a human driven taxi which are too expensive for daily getting around. Remember car makers sell millions of cars every year, that of cars to spread the cost of re-engineering for a cheaper senor across, so prices will come down if they can.

Ultimately I think most people will still own their own cars: it is nice to know your golf clubs are in the car just in case you can take the afternoon off. It is nice to have a change of clothes in case your kids "has an accident". It is nice to have all your reusable bags in the trunk just in case you decide to stop for groceries after work. I've started taking the bus, even though I never actually need to do those things I miss them.
In california the democratic party has occupied the space left by the disappearance of the GOP by having a lot of very conservative members.

California politics are not particularly progressive, and they look that way only if you compare us to Alabama, otherwise we're a solidly center-right state. We just don't do extreme right (GOP).
The Chinese Billionaire Who’s Taking on Elon Musk and Tesla
If you look up "garbage collection" on Wikipedia, you get this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_collection

and it says:

>"Garbage collection" redirects here. For the automatic memory management technique, see Garbage collection (computer science). For other uses, see Garbage collection (disambiguation).

You can almost hear the eyeroll directed at programmers :-p
I can understand that when the only 2 things you know about someone are that they were a child predator and they have gobs of money with no apparent source, there is a strong temptation to think that the 2 things are linked. However, it seems more likely to me that the source of his money was a more pedestrian scam, like money laundering, tax evasion, ponzi, etc.
Even at price parity, still a tough sell for people without a garage to charge their car in.
That sounds as much like "hey the qa/code review kicked out back and said you have to use memcpy_s not just memcpy. We're on a deadline, fix this so we can get it back to them by [short deadline]."

Kind of like melamine letting something pass protein content testing.
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As someone who is a self taught front-end dev, this comment has peaked my curiosity. I'll now have to give these lectures a listen over the weekend.
Nobody says car buyers of the future have to buy an EV.

This transition is not unlike the shift from film cameras to digital imaging. Film is far from dead, but the economies of scale, particularly in film-camera manufacturing have disappeared. The romance of the photographic darkroom is still alive and well.

If self-driving cars live up to the hype, in the distant future, insurance companies may charge more to insure human drivers, and carbon taxes may make ICEs slightly more expensive to operate, but otherwise, it is an open road.

From a technical perspective, nothing about EV design forbids tight suspension, responsive steering, and quick acceleration/braking. Indeed, stripping all the comfort from a car will tend to make it lighter, and electronic control is likely to permit quicker response times all around.

The only thing that an EV cannot deliver is the noise of an open pipe (without the silliness of a retrofitted speaker). I backcountry ski a lot, in areas shared with snowmobilers who love the 'BRAAP' of a barely-muffled two-stroke. I keep hoping for a competent electric snowmobile, not just for the quiet, but also so snowmobilers might glimpse the life-changing experience of being immersed in both deep powder and silence at thirty miles an hour.

Run silent, run deep. (and, well, when an F/A-18's afterburner rips the sky in half, elate, 'cause that's rad, too.)
A 3 month period of the police targeting this property crime would be awesome.
You need the existing terrain to provide a significant elevation change, and building that artificially is probably not worthwhile in most cases.
https://dirkgorissen.com/2011/10/19/pycel-compiling-excel-sp...
Given that he had ample access to professional advisers and voluntarily entered into the agreement, I think he would have disagreed with that assessment at the time. (I think it was a fairly balanced contract, not outlandishly good nor bad for either side, with an interest rate lower than the Mets' likely marginal cost of capital and higher than Bonilla could have secured on a deferred annuity.)
I have coworkers who are lucky in this regard. Their particular situation affords them the opportunity to live in Magnolia and takes the commuter buses which are always packed with people in the morning and evenings; these are typically commuter buses which don't run during the rest of the regular bus active times. Plenty of lunch walks and 1-on-1 walks around the city and nothing unfortunate has every happened to them, though they have seen the occasional needle and poop trail. Most of downtown is fine, the gradation of sadness increases as you walk towards Pioneer Square. The often under walked areas are the real areas of concern.

When working by the viaduct and Ferry Terminal our build slept a large number of people in the evenings on the sidewalk. One instance in particular stands out- someone had taken a shit into a 7/11 tall plastic cup, and I can only assume mixed it with some liquid adhesive, then flung the shit into a huge splatter against the sidewalk under the metal stairs down from the walking bridge. It stayed for quite a while, as the incentive to clean it up had passed- the building was being emptied to be demolished and security and other services had been stopped. But don't think this was a lone incident, as the back of the building would resemble the trope of the underside of a desk with boogers, except someone (or some group of people) were throwing shit (literally) against the back of the building.
My European insurance policy specifies

>Global except north america

i.e. You go to war torn Sudan we've got your back but if you dare going anywhere near that bastion of freedom known as the US...you're on your own.

The fact that medical insurance companies are down with Sudan, North Korea and China...but not the US...that would suggest the need for some introspection frankly.

(Bit puzzled by the Canada inclusion though - any ideas?)
Having rich experiences and exploring different ideas is admirable, in some respects, but I'm not convinced that's a good basis for sustainable, tight-knit communities. Your choice of phraseology is interesting--parents "infecting" kids with their ideologies. Most people would consider it a key function of parenting (and society) to socialize children in the community's values, rules, and orthodoxies.

One of the things I find ironic about "experience seeking" is how often people go to places like India or China to have "rich experiences." But people from those places generally would relate much more easily to people like your parents. Circling back to the topic at hand--people in my home country of Bangladesh, where there is a rigid social order and strict indoctrination of children, may suffer from many things, but loneliness is not one of them.
Codecs with built-in blurring always totally crush in "Tiny" demos. However, these are only good for demos where viewers care about not seeing artifacts, rather than appreciating the content.

For realistic scenarios, you can't use compression that makes faces look airbrushed, makes wood and hair look like a plastic imitation, etc. If your designers/marketers/photographers care about "grain" in photos, they'll hate you for applying benchmark-winning aggressive smoothing and deringing.

Note that when you switch the benchmark file size to "Medium", the difference is not that big. On "Large" all codecs, except some pathological cases, are nearly identical.

And that makes JPEG stay, despite all newer codecs being "unbelievably" better. Everything newer than JPEG can smooth out blocking artifacts, but quality levels useful for still images don't exhibit blocking in the first place.
"According to an old story, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of them was the most skilled in the art.

The physician, whose reputation was such that his name became synonymous with medical science in China, replied,
"My eldest brother sees the the spirit of sickness and removes it before it takes shape, so his name does not get out of the house.

My elder brother cures illness when it is still extremely minute, so his name does not get out of the neighborhood.

As for me, I puncture veins, prescribe potions, and massage skin, so from time to time my name gets out and is heard among the lords."

Sun Tzu - Art of War translator's intro
In a sane world health insurance wouldn't have a reason to exist. This is one aspect of life where market forces don't work and never will, and where a single payer system makes a whole lot more sense.
It is choice in constructible mathematics: something “totally different” from “zf” choice. Existence means “can construct”, essentially. There are “less” things in constructible mathematics than in zf.
This is a rough explanation.
I have two windows 10 behind pihole with over 1.051.698 domains blocked and I am rarely over 10%
Why do people have to email support to know how to buy the standalone license? This has been intentionally made complex by Agilebits (I know that the official line is “not to confuse users” or something, treating all users like they can’t understand stuff).
They are comparing it with building a new power plant costs for which are calculated similarly for 20-30 year life cycle. Same is for Solar and wind power plants. Many people assume that prices of grid scale solar and wind power are coming down because of technology improvements that is partly true but another reason for the price decreases is that the investors are finding out the calculated life of these is actually 50-100% more than their previous assumptions.
Take the reverse what if coffee was suddenly made illegal? What players would rise and how would they behave given a bag $12 bag of coffee would be $1000?
Curiously, the 1980's liability insurance crisis also arose out of dramatic swings in investment returns, not massive changes to the liability risk side (instances or awards). Which itself precipitated from the Volker Fed's exceedingly ill-considered moves to reign-in inflation (ironically because the financial / FIRE sector dislikes high inflation).

Insurers (and the Cleveland Clinic) achieve income through both premiums charged and investment return on those premiums. Because premiums are a competitive market, more subscribers can be acquired by lowering premiums, possible by pursuing higher investment income. Which works until it doesn't.

Premiums and payouts are locked-in contractually, whilst currency valuation and investments float on the market. Stay on the right side of that and you're Life's Golden Child. Get on the wrong side and nothing can go right.

Curiously, the insurance (that is: risk-management industry) seems blind to the investment-side risk and keeps getting bit by that bug every decade or two.

Wikipedia's (very brief, incomplete) treatment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liability_insurance_crisis
Seems like this problem could be solved by forcing an insurance provider to cover every emergency room in a state (note, not Urgent Care).

And in all honesty, it seems that 60% of the problem with modern insurance lies with these totally arbitrary delineations of what is in-network and what is not. The insurance company gains implicit power over where you get treated by making up these "networks". Why should an insurance company be the one certifying hospitals? Shouldn't that be done by, yknow, a government agency and not a profit-seeking insurance firm?
I love how the post basically concludes with: "This problem has been known since 1968, which is detailed in this paper written by Ken Thompson".

Incredible write up. Really appreciate the detail, and am really impressed by how mature their response coordination seems to be.
This assumes everyone wants to get better. As demonstrated here, not everyone does: https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw?t=913

What do you do in cases like that if prison is off the table?
Cat owners and their cats may share personality traits
I was wondering about this the other day. In NL, insulation has been part of the building code for ages. With stronger requirements every decade or so. Insulated windows have been required since the 80ies for new houses. Now it’s triple pane krypton glass. Is this not the case for the USA.
I was agreeing with Someone1234 about people not wanting to lose their employer based healthcare.

US voters haven’t had the option for single payer, but they did have options for removing employer sponsored healthcare.
It’s the big reason people don’t want to be dumped on healthcare.gov. Employers can get cheaper premiums due to having healthier pools of employees and the rest of society, and they get to pay with pre tax dollars to boot, which has never made sense.
The key to making smart financial decisions for MLB players is having an excellent agent.

Bonilla's agent was Dennis Gilbert, who was previously involved in the life insurance industry.
More importantly, ICE vehicles are generally scrapped not because the engine is wore out, but because the body is. Miles of driving on rough roads shakes all kinds of parts to fatigue. UV degrade the paint and plastic. Ozone degrades the door seals. Road salt eats anything iron. It all adds up to cars being wore out despite having a good engine.
It's not (very) disruptive if you build an artificial closed-cycle lake on an existing elevation difference. But such sites are not very commonly available where storage is needed. You have to refresh the water to compensate for evaporation, and that's about the extent of the impact.

Dammed streams of course are a completely different story.
Can you link the policy? I highly doubt they cover Sudan.
Amazon and Microsoft. Google showed themselves the door a while ago and Oracle just lost their opportunity.
I actually had the reverse.

The first time I saw the article in the list I interpreted it correctly. And then this time I decided to click on the comments and found myself wondering whether it was some clever wordplay about the graphics library.
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AMD Releases BIOS Fix for Booting Newer Linux Distributions
I'm a car guy myself I've got a '75 F-100 its big its loud and sucks down gas like its going out of style (which it totally is) but we are definitely a minority. I drive an old truck because of the exact reason you listed modern cars feel like cheap use up and throw away appliances, you cant service them yourself because they all require proprietary dealer scan tools.

But for everyone of us there are dozens of Karen in HR who just wants to go to work and the store and have comfortable, easy unoffensive driving experience and that's who car companies target. Car companies don't care about enthusiasts except for maybe a few specialty models because they don't make them their money. Hell Ford makes more profit from extending credit to people than actually selling the cars.

Word of advice I've been giving to my car buddies is grab whatever car/bike you want at this point and hold on to it like grim death cause the used car markets going to go nowhere but up especially for pre OBD cars as more get junked and the cars made with planned obsolescence cant be really resold because they need $5k of sensors replaced, gas might be going away in the future but we can embrace things like Ethanol (objectively a better fuel than gas anyways and carbon neutral) and keep them driving well into the future.
If I'm "Joe Small Market Team" and I'm running my team with a self imposed cap of X, having 1.2 million dollars off my payroll means I have the ability to call up rookies I might not have been able to if I did have that 1.2 million on my books.

Are there infinitely more factors in play (namely playing time BS in order to maintain team control prior to free agency) in these types of decisions? Of course. Do I believe that this hypothetical scenario would ever come up: No.

But, 1.2 million dollars = 2 Rookie Contracts with beer money left over. Them's facts.
Why is a healthy plan better for employers than paying cash

Wage-price controls prohibited that.

and letting employees buy their own health care / insurance?

Risk-pooling, information asymmetries, "shoe-leather" frictions (having to shop around, individually, for everyone), bargaining power.

Healthcare markets poorly.
How to apply continual learning to your machine learning models
At least it wasn't a trash collector in Jakarta. That would have been really confusing.
> In my experience customers deeply detest the idea of waiting around for a failure case to re-occur so that you can understand it better.

Bryan Cantrill has a great talk[0] about dealing with fires where he says something to the effect of:

> Now you will find out if you are more operations or development - developers will want to leave things be to gather data and understand, while operations will want to rollback and fix things as quickly as possible

[0] Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind - Bryan Cantrill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE
I wonder if you are able to talk a bit about the development of the Lua-based WAF. I imagine the possible unbounded performance of feeding requests into PCRE must have occurred to you or others at the time - or at least, long before this outage.

I don't mean this as some sort of lame 'lol shoulda known better' dunk - stories about technical organizations' decision-making and tradeoff-handling are just more interesting than the details of how regexes typed in a control panel grow up to become Jira tickets.
Sometimes I wish Cloudflare failed more often so I could read more of these postmortems...
> The US needs to heavily encourage these sorts of improvements to buildings, it's good for everyone.

Is it though? I imagine your landlord doesn't think it's good for them. It's not bad for them, but why would they spend hundreds or thousands of dollars improving your apartments insulation when it costs them nothing to keep the poor thermal in place.

I too lived in rentals that had terrible thermal protection. It was awful to heat and cool. Yet, my landlords wouldn't have spent a dime to improve that.

Not sure what can be done here, but with seemingly more and more homes becoming rentals this perhaps needs a solution.
I'm a Denver local and like them a lot. So much that I bought my own premium model for $2500. Cars, even if they are in designated parking spaces, are even worse litter to me. They are everywhere and get a free pass.

As for the waste, it's not like Bird is funded by people's personal retirement accounts. Nobody invested is getting a fast one pulled on them. The money didn't vanish. The VC goal is to take a massively scalable idea and see if it is possible to find profit in it. This is clearly scalable, so they're testing it out and seeing if they can find a formula. For better or worse, VCs are members of society.
> It could be a feature that can only be enabled from the browser UI, with appropriate warnings

That's not the issue. The problem is: where do you record the fact that the user has seen and acknowledged these warnings? Wherever it is, malware can go there and write "yes, the user has already seen the warnings, no need to ask them, you can run the extension".