skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The out of pocket maximum also applies to non-grandfathered group insurance plans. There were some plans allowed to be grandfathered, so the plans wouldn't terminate as non-compliant, but in practice the vast majority of plans terminate every year, and essentially everyone with health insurance now has an $8,500 per individual annual out of pocket maximum. I'm sure if you look at your own insurance, you'll find $8,500 or less.

It's true this cap only applies to in-network, approved care. But that's the same under any health plan, whether universal, or not. For instance, Sovaldi and Harvoni are curative for hepatitis C, but it costs $50,000 for a 12-week course of treatment in the UK. There are 210,000 people with hepatitis in the UK, but the NHS only furnishes 10,000 courses of treatment per year. If you're not approved, you can't get it from the NHS, but you're free to buy it yourself, of course.
Holy shit the mental gymnastics with this.

> It's okay for a business to knowingly fuck people over because they need money.
It's generally not appreciated to add tracking parameters to your submission links.

Looks like you've done this 3 times in the last 24 hours with different values
I would have gone with "I'm such a dope!"
sounds like it :-)
Political Winds Visualization by Washington Post
While I agree that we should strive for accuracy, you're really splitting hairs there. Plus the author puts a disclaimer in there "NOTE: This is a gross simplification and is NOT technically accurate should you be looking to get involved with the underlying cgroup code. The above explanation is meant for clarity of understanding."
Great advice.

I would complement saying that you should look for charities in or around your neighbourhood instead of giving to charities that doesn't affect the place you live directly (but if you super rich, do both).
Most startups can expect to either A) have a lower cost of capital in the future, or B) to fail.

This means opportunity cost is ridiculous, and expedience often can be worth a whole lot of future wasted resources and decreased velocity. Survive to tomorrow, where you have more resources and can pivot to doing things in a cleaner way.

So it's not completely stupid to pretend A & B are true. You can pick up velocity now, in exchange for future problems. And as long as the interest payments aren't too high it's well worth it.
Yes, this is Charlie's house style and has been for ages. He's always hyperbolic and his tone always favors some companies over others. Everything's either the best or the worst (usually the worst), and so on. It's pretty much exactly like reading a tabloid.

The counterbalance is that he's got one of the absolute best networks of moles in Silicon Valley and always seems to know things, often big things, before anyone else. Sometimes even before it's on anyone else's radar.

So if you're familiar enough with him to back out his style to see the underlying (likely) facts, which isn't too hard, you can learn a lot about the big chip industry. And that's not just interesting to people like us, but very very valuable to a lot of people.

(Disclaimer: I haven't read SemiAccurate much since he paywalled it ~10 years ago, a move that I don't like at all but completely understand from the perspective of his business.)
Same problem comes up with open offices. Some ass from another department constantly talking on the phone 9 to 5. I developed a Pavlovian twitch every time his phone rang.
Gimme a break. You're delusional if you think that someone on the right holding a severed head of Biden or Kamala Harris wouldn't IMMEDIATELY get censored and likely their account suspended. The left gets a charitable interpretation of their actions, from rioting/looting to the legitimacy of stories posted about the opposition.
> I like this definition

That's a quote from Ward Cunningham, who coined the term "technical debt," so I'm glad the author enjoyed Ward's version.
I worked at HP in the early 2000s and it was such a miserable experience I can't even describe it. I honestly felt like my spirit was being snuffed out every time I walked through the door. I didn't even make it a month.
There are multiple options to create a German limited company available to you. You can find a local notary who speaks English via notar.de. They will be able to prep everything for the company formation. If you need help with opening a bank account, trade and tax office setup you can use different service providers. If you have severe time pressure buy an off the shelf company. You can do this via most notaries or directly with vendors like foris or blitzstart. If you go that route you will pay roughly 1.5k more. Also make sure you pick your location. Do not buy an off the shelf company in Munich and try to transfer to Berlin. This will severely slow you down.

I am running one platform in that space (www.firma.de/en/). Feel free to reach out via ck AT firma DOT de and I am happy to jump on a zoom call. There are surely more things to cover.
I think that question requires an in-depth analysis of what it means to be "seen as human". I argue that humans have only seen all other humans as humans for a very short time. In times of slavery, I think the concept of humans must have been different than today.
I realize this is a political topic and also behind a paywall, but there's also a significant amount of "cool tech" in this visualization.

The "political winds" blow left (Democrats) or right (Republicans), as well as up (more voters) or down (fewer voters). By plotting the political winds across the country, the visualization of this election is summarized.

Its a very concise summary of the 2020 election. Even as the vote isn't fully counted yet, we've got a historic turnout (north-blowing winds across the country). And we can see the key left / right winds for how this election was decided.
foo/bar/ and foo/bar are not the same if bar is a symbolic link. You can see the difference using 'ls -l'
> If exceptionalism is a fiction, freedom of speech doesn’t make sense: there are no special thoughts which, if extinguished, are unlikely to recur for a long, long time.

This comment makes no sense at all. The threat which freedom of speech is designed to protect us from is not attacks on exceptionalism, but oppression and control by the hands of a dictatorship. It matters nothing if you feel you're exceptional or you just happen to disagree with anyone in power over any subject, be it critical or irrelevant. What matters is that no one should have the right to deny you the ability to freely express your ideas, because that would represent control over all aspects of your life and existence.
There are many dimensions to technical debt, but one of the biggest is the sociopolitical one: developers hate fixing each other's bad code, but the people who wrote it are often in a position where they can transfer the ownership of this code to someone else, either by being their managers or by quitting their job.
> The word "stoic" has since come to mean "unemotional"

Only in colloqial use, and mostly among people who don't bother to look up words they don't know.

The (Oxford) Dictionary still says: "enduring pain and hardship without showing one's feelings or complaining."

When people infer meaning only by context(i.e. learning words only by how other people use it) it is easy to miss part of the original meaning. "Hardship" in this case.

It is a common occurance in language, and at some point the dictionary has to change accordingly. But if it's a word that only exists to convey a more specific meaning than another word ("unemotional"), it does not suddenly lose that meaning just because people are uninformed about its proper definition.

Which is to say, the terms the ancient stoics used do not pertain to different concepts today. If so, we would lack the necessary word to describe that philosophy and would need to invent a new one.
IMO part of the quality here is these docs are generated from comments in the code. All you have to do is document your functions and modules properly, run a command, and you have an entire set of docs.

It reminds me a lot of JavaDocs, although I never used them extensively. I'm also not very aware of how documentation looks in the Python world.

Another interesting thing is the code examples. You write them in the comments as "Doc tests", and they are run and tested like normal tests. This means that all the code snippets are up to date with the latest version of the project (as long as you do test!).

The best part, also imo of course, is that it all works out of the box.
Technical debt is best understood exactly as the term suggests, like a loan. When you keep incurring more and more loans, you have to pay interest. At some point, the interest payments will get so high that it makes sense to restructure the debt somehow. Loans and debt are good because it helps you grow when you need it, as long as the interest payments make sense.

The same goes with code. When you let bad code enter a project, you do it with the understanding that you will need to pay some interest payments on that for the duration that the code is in the repo. Some technical debt is a good trade off between agility and code quality. Saying you should never have technical debt is the mark of an immature engineer.

But if you keep piling in bad code into a repo, you will have to keep paying interest payments on more and more bad code. At some point, there is so much bad code that the interest payments are too high even for a senior manager to deny.

I disagree that you should refactoring code "so that the entire team can understand the code". Teams turnover much more frequently than a code base should. If you need to keep rewriting every 3-5 years, your senior engineers are probably very inexperienced and architected the code poorly.
Yeah, that happens to me on anything that gets used, put back up on the shelf, and then pulled back down again after some period of not being used. However, rsync has become the go to tool for getting local content to/from a server.
> The TL;DR is that Intel has always been a vertically integrated shop (meaning that they usually fab and design their own chips), and that is starting to bite them because pure-play foundries are improving their tech at a faster rate.

Are you saying that vertically integrated companies are inherently disadvantaged because pure-play companies have a bigger list of orders and can spend more on evolving technology?

There is advantage to be vertically integrated, namely a better global optimization across domains, like between design and manufacturing. Would be interesting to know why it's not enough - if it's always not enough. If not always, then this particular case needs more reasons.
In what content type? Json? Xml? Html?
The cartridges printers come with often have ~half the capacity of retail cartridges.
S|A is known for these ranty opinion articles - and dislike of Intel. On the other hand they do seem to have access to a lot of industry insiders and break important stories all the time.
Businesses own this country so it all boils down to if you have enough financial resources to battle these things out in court. Most people don't care enough or have enough resources to legally fight, effectively nullifying their rights.

There is a direct correlation to wealth and rights in this country. Language really has no meaning anymore.
Just skimming the first article, the TL;DR that I took away is that TSMC can get revenue from their old foundry nodes for much longer than Intel can. So the issue is not how fast TSMC improves, but more that Intel has to invest proportionally much more to keep up.
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> One factor that comes to mind: lack of automated tests

These tests have to be at the right level. Unit tests are the easiest to write, but unit tests can be pretty brittle. Reorganizing the codebase can result in many unit tests breaking (or being made redundant), which might lead to stagnation from fear of breaking tests (and the extra work of fixing them). System tests are much harder to write, but are invaluable during a major refactoring. You want to be sure that you're not changing the behaviour of the system while changing its structure.

The V-model is (IMO) an underappreciated tool in the development lifecycle.
Rlogin(1): the untold story (1998) [pdf]
Lorman[1] is a local company in my city. I've visited and talked with their technical team. I brought up working in education, and they looked at me completely dumbfounded. I soon realized it's pretty much completely a marketing company that exists solely to satisfy bureaucratic regulations. Any educating that occurs is a side effect.

1. https://www.lorman.com/
The pinebook pro has a pretty dim, mediocre screen, only 4GB of RAM, and opengl ES.
I disagree. I think that Trump, freed of McConnell would have been for using a ton of debt to build things. Would he have insisted that a ton of that spending take place in states that votes for him? Absolutely. But he is not a deficit hawk.
Decouple Zoom's back end and take it offgrid on a Raspberry Pi+antenna
What happens when you decouple Zoom's/Google Meet's (webrtc) backend infrastructure from the front-end and bring Video Calling to 3.5 Billion people who are not connected? Raspberry Pi + Radio + Router + Omni Antenna = 1KM WIFI Hotspot for Calling and File Sharing.

What you get is a portable server + radio + antenna= hotspot which can enable your phone and laptop to operate like a powerful walkie/talkie, allowing you to make HD quality audio/video calls and share files with anyone who is connected to that hotspot. This hardware converts a whole open area into a long range wireless local area network.

Trango Station’s WiFi hotspot enables HD video/audio calling and file sharing in the remotest and highest of places. Its minimalistic hardware (an antenna, a router and a small pi computer) is easy to purchase off the shelf. No fiber optics, no tower, no sophisticated infrastructure required. Trango Station is set to connect the whole village.

Next Challenge If Trango Station can connect one village, why not two nearby villages by connecting two wireless hotspots created by trango station. So if two villages can be connected with each other, why not three four or five. We are trying to make it possible on the hardware and software level.

Take it for a spin at web.trango.io . (You can also make online Video, Audio Calls. They are P2P, E2E encrypted and serverless.) We are testing group calls of upto 25 people with realtime screen sharing and chat (will be releasing soon).

Visit the link above for more details on the project.
When manufacturers talk about lifetime guarantee etc I’ve only ever seen lifetime refer to the lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of the user. So the title and the contents of this page seems sensationalist to me. Not saying I agree with what HP are doing either but I don’t think this post is going about fighting it in quite the right way.
Are you forgetting about state funding?
I've become a big fan of military-style Bottom Line Up Front writing[0]. In this case, the article could have started with "we're deprecating the scp protocol and updating the scp command line utility to use the sftp protocol instead."

[0] https://www.animalz.co/blog/bottom-line-up-front/
We're just trying hard to iterate on our messaging and HN helps us a lot with that, and we're not spamming either. The upvotes mechanism serves that purpose, the post quickly goes down if the link does not resonate with the community.

I'll try to add different interesting content next time however.
Not sure about that. Move away from Let's Encrypt to what? More likely, most smaller to medium sized sites will say forget those old Android guys.
That's good insight, thanks :)
When the Prius came out I looked at the drive train and it seemed obvious that the transmission on those things should and appears to be very reliable. It's a planetary gear set and two electric motors.

Fixed gears and electric motors life spans are between 25,000 and 50,000 hours. Vs less than 10,000 hours for a piston engine.

Everything about cars is designed around that fact that the engine is shot after 200-250,000 miles. Would not surprise me if eventually the expected life of an EV will end up being 2 to 3 times longer.
So... have you heard of wayland? If X11 can be deprecated without a drop-in replacement, then scp is pretty much doomed.
Just to add, the most extreme version of this was probably the thousands of miles worth of defenses Germany built along the coast which diverted a great deal of men and resources without meaningful associated deaths.

The French resistance was again almost completely useless in terms of killing German soldiers. However, they had a more meaningful impact on German military effectiveness as demonstrated by deployment of forces.

To be clear, I am in no way debating the casualty figures, but winning a war isn’t just about running out of people. Militaries trade off between different types of resources.
I want to emphasize how important this point is.

With work—stuff that you're paid to do—everyone on the team has some shared incentives that can help foster alignment and consensus. Everyone wants stuff to get done because you and your team are in 100% agreement about wanting those paychecks to keep coming. Even with that, there is often drama and office politics.

With community organization, hobbies, etc. everyone is in it for the instrinsic rewards, and those vary widely among people. Some will be in it to meet new friends, others like seeing a neighborhood visibly look better. Some like the sense of power, others the sense of belonging.

It is really easy to end up in a group whose personalities and goals are too different to work together effectively, through no real fault of any individual. Like any relationship, you may have to try a few before something gels.
Fusionauth-JWT 3.6.0 Released
> The mistake was that email-user identity is not a true invariant.

That's true. I also wonder if there's an issue with lack of modeling experience or strategy. Natural key vs surrogate key is a really important distinction to make when modeling first party data. I've observed a common preference towards the latter (with uniqueness constraints) as a default. I think that's because generally it's more useful (and common) than not to be want to insert new things into your collection with monotonically increasing unique primary key values autogenerated without you having to do any of the accounting. I think natural keys are still useful, just in a RO/projection/ETL based use case.

> you have a huge brittle process for migrating a user between emails, or your entire codebase starts getting littered with statements looking for previous email addresses and copying data on the fly.

It's so unfortunate how easy of an error this is to make and how much it makes any future work on the codebase shittier. Eventually, it all needs to be refactored to regain any measure of sanity. I see so many companies that are bitten by this. Once it gets going, it becomes really awful for the engineers that have to maintain it. Morale takes a hit and attrition amps up. So much net human suffering that could have been avoided by hiring competent people to do the upfront work in the first place when the code was being written.
North Denmark in lockdown over mutated coronavirus in mink farms
Worth noting that it really isn't special. CA has only 68% of the vote in and TX has only 85%. PA has like 99%, but the reason it feels so slow is because the race is so tight that it hasn't been called yet.
For a startup product to be "safe", the startup has to not go under (and many do) and also either not get acquired, or get acquired and have the product not change too drastically.

There's an awful lot higher chance of a startup product not being a "safe" buy compared to an established company to kill a somewhat popular product and you can always look at their track record before making a decision (something a startup, by definition, typically doesn't have).
Yeah they likely got a stash of money for it while the other CAs got nothing. First mover advantage I guess. It's not that they'd have been able to prevent it anyways, as the root stores are not under their control, especially when Let's encrypt is being supported, even started, by the entities which run the root stores (Mozilla, through Firefox, and Google, through Android). Ultimately it's the entities which run and deploy the root stores who have ultimate say on which CA gets to issue certs and which doesn't.
A slight twist would be to argue that a customer will get food poisoning. This avoids the metaphor needing an external force (health inspector) and instead correlates well with production breaking from poorly tested/rushed code.
One of my pet theories is that Neanderthals were the "Nephilim" [1] referred to in Genesis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim
They have this nice line in their TOS:

> LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND REMEDIES. IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY DISSATISFIED WITH THE INSTANT INK SERVICE OR ANY PART THEREOF INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AN INSTANT INK PROGRAM OR THE SITE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE INSTANT INK SERVICE AND/OR THE APPLICABLE INSTANT INK PROGRAM.

I had no idea you could have a contract that says, "if you don't like how we fulfilled the contract all you are allowed to do is go away, even if we burn your house down."

https://instantink.hpconnected.com/us/en/terms
What if the "people" is a Russian based content farm injecting political bits into their kid friendly fun hack clickbaity videos? What if that content farm is THE biggest Youtube content creator, beating even pewdiepie? Let me introduce you to TheSoul Publishing. Just one of their channels, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Minute_Crafts, is 5th most subscribed on the platform, and they run hundreds of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqa8dsBtno
I think this is definitely the western assumption from events like this, that the regulators want a cut, etc. The real risk here is that once you grow big enough to pose a real risk to economic stability, AND you are clearly not publicly pledging your fealty to the state, then you get 'out of control' and Chinese culture would support reining you in. While this may seem corrupt to the US lens, I personally have to admit that this kind of action strikes me as politically savvy. Regulate before Jack makes the statement, and it seems like stifling innovation; don't regulate at all, and the capitalists gain power.
On a continuing project with a company where everyone speaks Matlab as a second language, I succeeded in switching the guy writing Matlab code for the Matlab REST API to Python/numpy/scipy for the industrial analytics we need, saving us $25k a year in licence fees and VM costs.
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