skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I particularly liked this section, which explains an unintended consequence of the Affordable Care Act. It required insurers to pay at least 80% of premiums, and pay a smaller percent on "non-essentials" like marketing and dividends.

> now that they suddenly have to use 80 to 85 percent rather than, say, 75 percent of premiums on patient care, insurers have a new perverse motivation to tolerate such big payouts. In order to make sure their 15 percent take is still sufficient to maintain salaries and investor dividends, insurance executives have to increase the size of the pie. To cover shortfalls, premiums are increased the next year, passing costs on to the consumers. And 15 percent of a big sum is more than 15 percent of a smaller one.
A full answer to your first why is a mystery. But a related question is a lot more tractable because you can ask fat individuals: how can you stand being fat? For a lot of fat people (and I invite you to look at a BMI height/weight chart to see what counts in analysis as fat/obese), they're like "yeah" about it because that's the extent it seems to affect their daily life. That is, in the experience of a typical fat person, getting their BMI under 30 (if obese) or under 25 (if merely "overweight") would not actually be a "huge" benefit to them. Being fat and even obese doesn't actually preclude a lot of fat people from doing the things they want to do.

Even from a pure health perspective, the relative risks of being fat often top out at like 2x for the most fat and specific health issues. The relative risk for dementia from this submission's study is only 1.177x. (Smoking, in contrast, finds relative risks for lung cancers > 20x.) But if the base rate is low, even 2x of that rate is still fairly low, and not necessarily enough to care about making a potentially difficult life change over.

Getting into the "severely obese" category (BMI > 40) I think is where day-to-day issues become more common, though that's "only" about 9% of the US adult population.
Whataboutism is a propaganda tool for creating moral high ground for Russia. People repeating these arguments are just useful idiots. Just because US messed in the Middle East and many other places do not make Russia war in Ukraine justified or even remotely morally acceptable.
This is a management/hiring issue. You (generic you) should stop hiring engineers who don't give a frick about their teammates.
I’d imagine the penalty at least involves returning any stolen money, but a garnishment on future income and additional IRS scrutiny should do it.

I actually think jail time isn’t enough a disincentive without the financial penalty because otherwise it can just be a cost of doing business.

For example there was a chronic thief in SF that stole peoples’ laptops from cafes. She was jailed multiple times but because the police had no way of knowing where she hid the stolen goods they were still never recovered and presumably she kept her earnings even after jail time.
Just bottomless wells of bad faith arguments. It's incredible.
You're giving off big hall monitor energy here.
The demons are gone because they weren't actually Gaiman's; they were DC IP. The show is going out of its way to cut ties with the rest of DC IP; there are things (like Johanna Constantine) done I think solely for the purpose of disentangling Morpheus from the DCU.

Later

Also, can we as adults with the books in far in the rear-view mirror (I mean, for those of us who'd say that) all not agree that the demon "contest" in the original books is cringey and deus ex machina? What the fuck is an "anti-life"?
One thing I found interesting is seeing Asian faces in groups supporting race conscious college admission policies that goes directly against their interest and stereotypes Asians as book nerds lacking personality and leadership qualities. Often they are 3rd or later generation immigrants whose parents and grandparents fought discrimination and worked excessively hard to get them where they are today—comfy middle/middle-upper class via emphasis on education as the stepping stone to prosperity. Now they are working to make it more difficult for less well off Asians to attain better lives.
You are looking at the wrong tables and PDFs. Burry is pointing at cv18 table14 vs cv19 table16 in the photos. Note that this has the race of both the victim and the offender.

Additionally, Burry is citing that victim vs offender race table itself missing in cv20 which btw is an even more grave omission.
This is indeed a big issue with international marriages. The solution I thought of (because I was living in Japan for few years, so may someday get stuck in a similar situation) would be to steal the kid before she does, like using holidays abroad, or even just like taking a fly with the kid after school or something. Basically boils down to firing first. Risky if the spouse find it, and of course that mean leaving a lot of things (possibly financial assets) behind.
Not in my experience, but maybe I'm just lucky to have worked at companies with good on-call cultures.
Here's a 3d visualization of a dial up modem handshake sound apparently made using iZotope Ozone 5 (from 2011):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvr9AMWEU-c
My bullshit is just a public data:

On f16:
Bulgarian Defence Minister: 34 million dollars in Compensation have been agreed due to the Delay of F-16.

https://www.novinite.com/articles/216065/Bulgarian+Defense+M...

America's foundation data reports:
https://us4bg.org/about-abf/annual-report/

If you find "a comfort" in the fact that your home country has sold weapons to all those conflicts, I rest my case.

In the meantime living standards of the regular people are in record low, mortality is in record high, education is broken, agriculture is non-existent, the army is weak, healthcare is rotten and there is not one politician prosecuted for corruption for 30 years.
Thanks! Yes, it should work with any number of arguments. Or at least in theory it does, it seems that around 47 chained functions TypeScript will give up and stops computing the type.
It's written in TypeScript v4.7.2 but I didn't use any recently introduced features, so it should also work a few version back. How far back exactly, I'd need to check.
Branding it as “identity theft” is a strategic move by the industry to attempt to move liability from themselves onto their customers, labelling them as the victim. The reality is in most cases it should be considered fraud against the business/bank/lender not the customer - they are the entity that has seen defrauded.
This is about design tendencies.

Not about character in general, much less about "rubbishing" it.

In light of this, "sounds like you have something personal against Rob Pike", is moot.
> Some sort of push for groves of large trees in urban areas to provide shade, possibly in roundabouts, to reduce the heat-island effect.

It shocks me how slow municipalities are to adopt this. How many sidewalks and paths in hot sunny climates have zero shade. And it is so cheap!

Also, how about how many kids playgrounds, or school yards have zero shade?
Hotspot parks, access cards, and 3G: the internet in Cuba (2019)
I am still wondering why Satoshi used a GMX.com address in the beginning. This address is from a German email service. Addresses with gmx.com domain were only available for paying customers. So at least there might be some trace there.
Remember last Tuesday when you wanted to add something, but your manager said no.

Remember 2 weeks ago, and you really wanted to implement CICD, but the DevOps team told you not to.

When you're developing any solo projects, you don't have anyone else telling you what you can't do.

This is amazing, but you can also easily spend countless hours building something nobody really likes. I've made a small handful of games, a few of them have been released publicly. If I had to guess, at most maybe 20 people have played my games.

But I taught myself everything I know via learning game development, and my career is amazing.

Even now, I'm trying out different engines and having a blast. Odds are. I'll probably never produce anything that becomes all that popular. It'll just be another throwaway game on itch that nobody plays, but I can say without a doubt I had a hell of a time building it.
I just joined a company that does formal but unpaid oncall, coming from a prior co that had implicit oncall. I'm very much in the "if you built it, you run it" camp. This said, I think:

- if oncall is a part of the gig, you compensate _somehow_ (demonstrably above market salaries, explicit extra pay, time in lieu, etc); oncall culture (or the lack thereof) should be explicitly mentioned in any hiring process and employment contracts

- the team should be striving for 8 or more engineers in the steady state; temporary vacancies should be temporary

- primary should be handling 80+% of pages in the steady state; if this is not the case on average across the team, you are not building enough resiliency into your oncall culture, or relevant tech debt should be high priority

- relatedly, kpis/incentives should be structured such that as call gets worse, progressively more immediate investments are made to address technical root causes (a la SRE error budget)

I'm tinkering with that last one my head. It's easy to say, hard to execute
Micro Services - https://m3o.com
That already exists. It's called SREC credits. Large corporations pay SREC credits to homeowners and others to reduce carbon. Those credits can be cashed out, and many just use the money to buy more solar panels and batteries.
You can check out the following project as a reference. It incorporates many of the modern techniques others have mentioned and is well built.

https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android
Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing
Performance Bugs: P50 vs. P99
The music is a definitely weak point.

The guy playing John Dee is David Thewlis, one of the best cinema actors of all time.

Matthew the Raven is not well handled (he's not well-handled in the book either!), and his dialog is unearned and superficial. "Dreams don't die" is the Goonies wishing well speech repurposed. I groaned audibly.

Episodes 2-4 were interesting as a fan of the books (though not of Preludes & Nocturnes, the weak first book), but if I weren't one of those, I'd have been happier skipping them. Episode 5 is good; episode 6 is unimpeachable.
Rising is an amazing game, it is just a spin-off instead of being mainline. And it wasn't even made by Kojima's studio.

Kojima's team was making an initial prototype, didn't like how it came out, and then handed it over to Platinum Games. PG completely reworked the entire thing, and imo it came out great.

For the record, Platinum Games are known for amazing works like Bayonetta series, Nier: Automata, and plenty others. The founders of that studio were also heavy-hitters before forming the studio, with Hideki Kamiya being the director of Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry (the original, not the reboot), Vietiful Joe, and Okami.

P.S. Survive is by far the worst game and isn't even comparable to anything else. It was made after Kojima quit though, so it is difficult to even consider it a legitimate MGS game.
There's definitely an incentives issue here. Product just wants more features. I feel like product managers (bad product managers at least) need a countervailing tendency in the form of a resiliency manager or something.

Actually, a great way of managing this sort of stuff is implementing error budgets and SLOs. If you app isn't performant, the next sprint is dedicated to fixing issues, et cetera.
Financial crimes are not violent and therefore should be punished lightly.
What's the need to make a comment like this?

Though I do appreciate you recognizing my track record ;]
I liked

The Illustrated Network: How TCP/IP Works in a Modern Network
https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Network-How-Works-Modern/...
Someone should build a dead simple extension that adds comments back to every website.
I'm young and unmarried, and I work at a company that I like and on a product that I use, so maybe I'm a bit too passionate about my work to be unbiased here lol.
I believe the CSR chipsets have some programming tools available as well, so you can change things like the voice prompts to your liking (many of the cheap modules seem to come with the infamous "the Bluetooth device is ready to pair" meme sound) and adjust the device name.
The link hasn’t totally been severed. Constantine is still present.

My only two gripes are a bad 2.0 sound mix - too much dynamic range, even with compression turned on - and Lucifer was lackluster. Too much “corporate CEO” and not enough fallen angel. Should have pulled in the TV show actor.

But Death, Desire, Matthew, Lucien, even Morpheus himself all rock.
Here is more "whataboutism" from an American citizen with proven military and professional record, if you have interest in research on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_SGvsjK9sU
Identity theft allows them to shift the responsibility for their own fraudulent debts to us. Now we're the ones who have to seek redress. It's great for them.
The Brains of Aging Dogs
> He had essentially zero chance of being acquitted

I think GP was referring to the fact that Japan has an over 99% conviction rate.

Even if we presume that Japan has unusually high quality prosecutors and judges, that rate is so high that I think it’s reasonable to presume a fair number of innocent people are getting convicted (which happens lots of places, of course, but Japan’s conviction rate is still unusual).
When you view a commit on GitHub, you can attach a comment to any given line of it. It looks basically like a comment left on a line of code in a PR, except tied to a commit instead of a PR.
Yeah, this is sort of hell on earth in many ways. Hence why I specified "you build it, you run it". On-call for a legacy system with no owner and few active devs is hell, and I don't recommend it.
True. Also great for thread safety. And avoiding shared access performance pitfalls
Google's oncall compensation structure is phenomenal.

For tier 1 oncall (5m response time), for each hour oncall outside of working hours, you are compensated for 40 minutes, which you can either take as time off or at your current pay rate (i.e. you are compensated at 2/3 your usual pay).

For tier 2 oncall (30m response time), the compensation is 20 minutes per hour outside of working hours.

For a tier 1 rotation, the team has a staffing requirement of 12 people, split between two sites. There's a max of 80h oncall, outside of working hours, per person per quarter. Because oncall is split between sites, you are never oncall overnight.
Found the PP bot. Get back to posting pigeon jokes on FB, please.
I woke up this morning to an email from Amazon asking me to confirm if I still wanted this book because it's been delayed in shipping. Weird I got this the day it was officially released considering I preordered it beginning of June...
> at which point many too-trusting people have lost their lifes' savings

People should be a little smarter and not fall for Ponzi schemes. Furthermore, many people who invest in such schemes, understand how they work but hope to get profit before it collapses.
No need to do that. Just liquidate the company, and give nothing to the investors. The threat of corporate death penalty and a 0% yield on your investment (not a good track record) will help CEOs think twice before they do something stupid on behalf of their investors.
Setting up a Github profile with sample code would be good start.

If he can provide videos / screenshots of his work it would be even more impressive.
I can't imagine telling an engineer to temporarily take more week on a given week. Every company I've worked at has done it like this:

Not on-call engineers work on 20 story points a sprint (2 week sprints).
On-call engineers (if you're on-call for a week) get 10 points of work + on-call.
> Much better voice interfaces. At some point in the next 10 years, it will be common to have primarily voice-controlled computer applications. There might be a huge role for this to play in hospitals.

Doctor: "Quickly! Give patient 100 milligrams of epinephrine!"

Computer: "Giving patient 400 milligrams of epinephrine. Say 'yes' to confirm"

Doctor: "No. 100."

Computer: "Patient received 400 milligrams"
One of my favorite Scifi books.

The action on the planet of the Tines is a conventional power struggle, nothing to write home about except that the Tines are interesting beings.

However everything happening in space and on other planets is just great.
The kind of people who leave criticism on HN are not worth listening to anyway. Most of the users of this site have no taste and think they're more brilliant / important than they actually are.
What Is in the Inflation Reduction Act?
Boeing should probably be subjected to termination too.
Yes, grad students at Berkeley in the early 1980s. For some reason I associate this technique with Bill Joy (who obviously was a major influence on a lot of what went into the 4bsd releases). However I have no evidence of this, nor whether any or what kinds of substances might have been involved.
They already have, they’ve developed two projects for AI image generation: Imagen and Parti. Sadly both are not open to public yet.
DreamWorks Animation will open source its MoonRay renderer later this year
Such a great book! A Deepness In The Sky is somehow even better, but the third book was sadly pretty mediocre. I hope the fourth will redeem it somehow.
I know the github link is on the main screen, but people are going to click past it to play of course

so here's the github link to click on from HN: https://github.com/brianrisk/SYNTHBLAST
That discount code works and seems to be the ideal way to order this book at a low cost.
Roll back the game. Identify when the crime took place. Every transaction after that point is invalid. All profits made must be paid back. The corporation may resume its operations under new leadership after the rollback is complete.

If that's too hard then just wipe out the company. They're not humans, they don't have rights, they don't feel pain.
Same issue with my preorder on Amazon. Placed on July 2 but now it states that the item has been delayed. I am being asked to approve of it?!
That only helps when the device doesn't have an LED that's inside an open casing and so ends up visibly shining from every hole in the device and/or through the thin plastic itself.
> But in the case where engineers choose not to ever run what they build, how do you reconnect the feedback loop?

Personally, if I get paged at 3am due to a bug, I'm going to fix it regardless of what the 'backlog' and 'prioritisation' and 'sprint goals' and 'feature roadmap' and 'product owner' say I should be doing.

But some would say I should not be bypassing the process in that way, and that the feedback loop of external stakeholders making requests to the product owner is more than sufficient.
BrainEx: When it absolutely, positively has to be BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS
>apartment buildings with permacultured gardens growing their own food

This has been tried (and proved wrong) countless times. The issue is that it needs a huge footprint, and space is something you don't have at large in apartment buildings.
It often feels like there aren't many mysteries left in nature, so it's great to see scientists react with childlike excitement about the prospect of something new and unexplained.
Zero Asians have ever benefited from any affirmative action policies in US college admissions, regardless of their socioeconomic status
I did qualify that this was not including labor and the other hardware and electronics needed for such a system.

The (relatively) high cost is most likely because of labor and (in my opinion) inflated hardware costs of battery and solar panels.

Labor is a massive expense and can't be discounted but one could imagine a solar panel "kit" that just includes the hardware that you can install yourself.

One could also imagine that the costs of labor being subsumed by a larger entity that can take advantage of economies of scale and provide solar energy like a "classic" energy company. I believe something like that is already happening in the region where I live (upstate New York, USA).

For places where labor might be cheaper, then total costs would also come closer to raw hardware costs.
Absolutely none of those things affect the basic, true premise that more homes (i.e. supply) -> lower prices.
Laws, including custom checks, passport checks, etc. are for regular people. There was even a recent program on NPR how different is the life of super-wealthy.

And while super-wealthy is a totally different game, even upper middle class money already distort the reality in a much more comfortable way. I'm watching a case in Santa Clara of an NVIDIA director, a Russian immigrant, who 2 years ago being drunk and speeding on I-80 hit several cars and killed a woman (all that "allegedly" as the moron does evidently have money for lawyers). It happened about the same time as a famous actor in Russia driving drunk killed a man in an accident, and that sparked my curiosity to compare how the cases would go. The Russian actor, a relatively decent human being, chose a path of a regular person and instead of applying all his star power/etc. he is already almost 2 years into his 7 years prison term. The NVIDIA director on the other hand totally lawyered up, and there have since then been uncountable motions/hearings/etc. with no sign of progress. My guess is that he will have that charade going for a long as possible - given the money he makes, the lawyers is just a minor cost of doing business for him - and if/when things start to come to an outcome he doesn't like, he would just leave the country, doesn't even need a box like Ghosn, and go back to Russia or anywhere else where no extradition treaties with US (his bail is just $275K, pretty laughable given the NVIDIA director comp).
It is supposed to be giving stats and trying it gravitate as much as possible to unbias news or show news that are biased.

Any one using it regularly for long who can share their opinions?
My thinking is that if you're giving someone equity in a company, they have a market incentive to ensure that the product and company succeed. This extends to on-call. Handcuffs.
The paper seems to have largely equated "objective scientific knowledge" with liminal consensus. For instance, among their "objective scientific knowledge" questions asked whether, "The novel coronavirus was unleashed in a laboratory in Wuhan and spread from there." Another was "The numbers of people that have died from COVID-19 are artificially inflated."

The latter was at least removed from the results, but emphasizes the point nonetheless that they found it appropriate to include questions that had nothing to do with science. So you end up with results that affirm that people who disagree with consensus disagree with consensus.