skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Am I missing a joke?)

He's talking about 5-over-1 or one-plus-five buildings. They're 6 story midrise buildings that have 5 stories made of wood on-top of one made of concrete. They're extremely common in North America, and they aren't firetraps because they have sprinkler systems, redundant emergency staircases, building wide fire alarms.
What is. Agood number? 20 stories? 10?
It's really not malicious.

What you are seeing here is essentially part of the claims adjudication process output.

This takes as input the procedure (ie the ICD/CPT code) and the provider, and runs it against the 'plan design' (which essentially is what includes the provider networks and the associated negotiated rates per procedure) and outputs the resultant cost.

Same can be done on the PBM side, just substitute drug for procedure, and 'formulary' for 'plan design'.

The interesting question when you look at cross plan, cross provider, and cross carrier variances, is why :)

Many companies, careers, and lawsuits, are being born from this data drop. Will be fun times the next decade or so to see how this plays out.
Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwaites_Glacier
Sorted:

I charged my car this afternoon (the amber alert signs have been warning about this all day), while we were (as a state) overproducing electricity, and set the thermostat on the house up 4 degrees 30 minutes ago.

Now, the solar I overbuilt to charge the car is dumping electricity on to the grid.

It'd be completely sorted, except that I can't tell the house battery (which I bought as a backup and to time-shift electricity into the car overnight) to discharge directly onto the grid. Instead, I lowered its reserve, so it will cut our demand all night (instead of peak selling for an hour or two).
Engineered wood is really impressive and I can’t wait for it to be more common.
C -> WebGL -> WASM.
Exactly the setup for my next project. Great to see someone else having success with such a workflow.
I think the new processes for smelting steel are carbon neutral, and steel is highly recyclable. I think it would make sense to have hybrid steel-wood buildings, using a steel superstructure. And also use MgO cement where something mineral is needed or desired, as I think that is also carbon neutral.
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Got pointed to this independent ebook by a friend, has been helpful to figure out tech leadership rituals.
It is a bold title, definitely not "manager's path" level with strong career advice but it has good stuff packed on short guides.
There you go. I don't think some of the respondents here have operated with PayPal at a large scale.

Web2 payments are going just great! /s
It actually doesn't, mass timber is extremely hard to ignite, see https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/15/2105805... (advantages section)
Our path is clear. Pave over all forests and our climate change problems are over.
It looks interesting - thanks. I'll investigate further.
This is not convincing.

Our immune systems were evolving 100 thousand years ago, and they still are now.

If we weren't able to handle new diseases, everyone would have died from covid, not some percent of a percent. Our immune systems are very very capable for handling pathogens
The resizable formula bar was introduced in Excel 2007: http://projectwoman.com/tag/formula-bar-resizing
Hydrogen for fuel.
I’d say five or six for residential - preferably mixed use.
I see a fair number of applicants who are current managers who want to be ICs again. As long as they are OK with the pay drop I don't see anything wrong with it and certainly don't treat them any differently in the interview pipeline (other than to tell them I'm an IC who did the same previously).
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Gee if only there were a way to automagically summarize and classify research articles through an API.

Oh wait, there is...

https://openai.com/api/
Binance will stop supporting USDC, certain other stablecoins by Sept. 29
Nice of you to be able to afford solar panels and be home and have job flexibility to charge when you want. Not everyone is so privileged, so it still needs to be sorted
DRAM hit a scaling wall about a decade ago. Capacity per dollar has not been improving significantly, certainly not at the exponential rate it had been for the prior 50 years or so.

https://thememoryguy.com/dram-prices-hit-historic-low/

As to why, search for words like "dram scaling challenge". I'm no expert but I believe capacitor (lack of) scaling is the biggest problem. While transistors and interconnections continued shrinking, capacitors suitable for use in DRAM circuits ran out of steam around 2xnm.
> It was pushed by the most powerful position in America

And as so had likely had access to information none of us have. It’s also a fact that some US government agencies were at odds with the president. Additionally, political factions were pretty much at odds as well.

So no matter which path you take to be true, someone within government was either telling the truth…or not. And when it’s not…its by definition a conspiracy.
They ARE firetraps when being built of course. But once finished they’re pretty normal.

A concrete building doesn’t protect you from fire as much as people might think.
It also expands. Sometimes pushing walls apart letting floors fall. I asked a neighbor who is a firefighter what his nightmares are made of. He said steel girder floors silently expanding and pancaking him and his best friends.
Not in the long run. I am sure Big Tech's incredible success will inspire many entrepreneurs to start companies that will eventually replace them.
Coal burning is just a forest fire with greater hysteresis.

With the added benefit of providing useful power, unlike a forest fire.
Thanks for posting your thoughts. I'm having a bit of difficulty breaking down "semantic layer" into concrete technological concepts. An attempt:

* Schema definition. PK/FK columns and their relationships. Standard ER fare.

* Dimensions. Partially overlap with PK/FK structure, but may include fields that don't map to an explicit key column, e.g. [trunc] date or zip code or even binned measures. Can see the value of having dimensions documented across a team.

* Measures. Mainly named aggregations, e.g. value = sum(price * quant), which can be aggregated over many dimensional combinations. Definitely useful, though I'd expect PRQL "functions" to be usable in the same role.

* Formatting rules.

Am I missing something crucial?
I think sometimes not being able to get a software system with hundreds of thousands, or even millions of lines of code to compile is fine?

unless you didn't even do any changes, and it's a matter of the codebase requiring a specific environment or option to compile and you not having/knowing it

on getting better at debugging, I would try to isolate possible sources of the problem, form a hypothesis, test it experimentally

you'll need to know what you know

is it the environment you have? networking? OS? etc., whatever applies to your system

I think having a known working state is probably the most useful, though it might be difficult to get

something to consider, I do remember there being a paper on getting wrong results even when doing nothing wrong
I personally like font ligatures, but I'd much rather have true Unicode "synonyms". E.g why shouldn't `!=` and `≠` be synonymous tokens?
Nobody cares about privacy. People use Firefox as a porn browser.
Being able to search for an answer is not the same thing as knowing the answer, and it does not contribute to being able to synthesize ideas from observation combined with knowledge.

Otherwise I don't disagree with you that this is where things are heading.

In a few more years we probably won't even be giving traditional grades in school anymore. What would they mean, other than that the student has enough Google prowess to look up the answers?
GP said “door to door” in 1 hour, which you seem to be overlooking.
Absolutely. From the article: the software detected 0/6 cheating students, while a human detected 1/6 cheating students.

Frankly, with such low numbers, I would not draw any conclusion at all. Within the margin of error, the human could have detected 0, or maybe 2 cheating students. Who knows. It would change this results dramatically, so you can basically ignore them.

Also, the cherry on the cake is that the human also detected one cheating student who wasn't cheating. So human vs. software, no one wins.
5-over-1 buildings have been known to burn pretty well while under construction, when the building is bare timber with no fire suppression. But once the walls and sprinkler system go in, they resist fire well.
Wait, I'm just about to switch my entire family from LastPass to 1Password because of the latest LastPass hack. Should I be wary?
Is CLT/NLT/glulam less weather resistant (eg. against excessive humidity/moisture) than traditional buildings though?
uBlock Origin is not so critical for a browser that comes with a decent ad blocker that is on by default.
But if there are so many individuals or companies with distasteful views surely there would be enough of a demand to warrant someone setting up another company to serve them.
An IP lawyer once explained to me that "fonts" are copyrightable because they are technically computer programs, and computer programs are copyrightable.

I actually find it odd that "typefaces" are not copyrightable, but I think that's more of an historical quirk than some wise feature of the legal system.
It may not be commonly known in the USA. However, I'm a european immigrant of 33 years, and it's well known to me.

However, "private health insurance" is not, in and of itself, really "a thing". Only "private health insurance plus a regulatory structure for it". It is in this department that the US falls over so badly, while, for example, Switzerland gets it (mostly) right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
Solar panels also cannot support apartment buildings, since the ratio of roof to living space is far too low. Batteries would also be impractical to install in apartments, where space is at a premium.

One of the tradeoffs to building dense is that it makes it harder to decentralize the grid.
It’s not just you. The first time I turned them on it was like “whoa, neat!” But they grew tiresome fairly quickly.
Law exams are open book; Engineering exams are not.

I'm not sure exactly what the distinction is - apart from law being "soft" and requiring argument - but it's deeper than inability to reuse past papers.
Recording students does work. The knowledge that a teacher can scrub through and see what you are doing can scared the daylights out of me. Also they required me to show whole room so i couldnt have notes. Cheating would not be worth it!
When I watched the Perry Mason series on HBO a couple years ago, I was a bit surprised when Perry went from being an investigator working for a lawyer to being a lawyer himself without going to law school and was somewhat surprised (although in retrospect, it should have been less surprising) that law school as such is a very recent invention (although it was hard to find the exact date(s) of the transition). I have a vague notion that in some states you don’t need a law degree to sit for the bar exam (or at least that was the case a few years ago).
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I can't fathom deploying anything critical WITHOUT GC.

It's far too easy with malloc/free to make errors such as replacing a pointer with a pointer to another object and forgetting to free the original, freeing something that is still referred to somewhere else and then the other place using it and corrupting any new object allocated in that space, or freeing something that has already been freed, again potentially corrupting a new object reusing that memory.

None of those is possible with GC.

The only problem GC is subject to is allocating more data than you have physical memory for, and that is equally as much a problem with malloc/free so GC is no worse for that error, and better for the others.
If you're pulling heat from the air though, you're just absorbing solar power efficiently. And this wouldn't be a bad way to do it if you could make it work: at any given time, there's always sun shining somewhere on Earth, just not where we need it. A heat pump which could extract enough of a differential to power itself using a turbine, isn't impossible.

The real issue is such a thing at scale would functionally be a storm generator: you'd be pulling warmer air in the upper troposphere down to ground level, chilling it, and then releasing it.
I think investors weren't too slow to realize this was happening, though, and it's part of the reason why microtransaction-funded online games are loads more profitable and prioritized.
Interesting to find a “Stack Over Flow” for non-engineers
Then you’d have to get your hands on a parser. Who wants to write up the business case and spend months going through change control (they’d probably just say no).

JSON and NDJSON can also be much larger than CSV files if the wrong structure is used.
You don't know any 5-sigma outliers.
> The problem with that argument is that browsers don't compete on engines but on features, UX and integration

Not always. Firefox lost much of its userbase not because it had less features or integration or was failing to render pages. In fact it was the preferred browser for most sites, with devs targeting it and testing on it.

It lost because the engine was just inferior, which made it slower than the competition.
They claim they use the phrase "special military operation" because the law requires them to.

https://twitter.com/flipper_zero/status/1503384498402119690
Precisely why I have a diesel generator to deliver 40kW of power to my home. I’ll turn it on if my local utility ever imposes restrictions.
Calculating a basic median for those groups would be a non-trivial (indeed, probably quite difficult) exercise at this scale.
| * It takes a long time to boot past the firmware; generally 3-4 minutes to warm boot and 6-8 cold.

^^ why is that? is it just the firmware being buggy, or is there any legit reasons why they need to self-check _for minutes_?
I'm more concerned about noise isolation

Concrete buildings seem to isolate my neighbors' noise far better than wooden structures
New degree: B.Goo.
Not only was this probably a best effort, but I would bet that at least a few people were busting their asses trying to pull this data together and clean it up.
When I wanted to switch from doing PHP/Perl programming to Java, I found getting the Java certification was a helpful thing for getting that first job. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend the certifications in general as a means of anything, but it does serve to open doors which might be hard to open otherwise. I have to imagine that this sort of path isn’t unique to myself.
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I've never understood why anyone would want someone to learn to code with python. It is a mess, seems to teach all of the wrong habits and is full of all manner of traps. It's like teaching someone to parallel park forntgebfirst time in a giant dump truck.
In some intro classes like accounting textbook access makes exams WAY too easy. Open book could work in a hard physics or math class though.
I believe it is a zoning problem.
We need more mixed use land.
Doesn't the libre office equivalent do python?
I was at a school which used "Lockdown Browser" to try to lock-down the Windows environment to only the exam.

Unfortunately for the school, I had experience with Windows programming, and blew the doors off Lockdown Browser in about 10 minutes, with multiple apps and windows open on top of the befuddled browser. And later, I found a way to do it with no programming skill at all.

I did it to make the point that if I could figure it out, who is to say that some rich student's parents wouldn't pay a nice sum of cash for an exploit like that? Or that they haven't? The school, well... just decided to ignore it and keep it anyway because it was a contract.

https://gabrielsieben.tech/2020/10/28/the-lockdown-browser-i...
AMD definitely has a recent high end desktop/workstation platform with its ThreadRipper Pro WX CPUs (EPYC server CPUs) that have 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes and 8 memory channels. And enough PCIe slots to actually use this throughput with the right kind of hardware, like a bunnch of PCIe4.0 NVMe SSDs [1].

Yep, the platform is 2 years old, but supports both the Zen2 and current Zen3 CPUs (but not PCIe5.0 & DDR5 as Zen 4 requires a different CPU socket and is only announced right now, not available from AMD until the end this month).

However, 8 x DDR4 channels and 128 x PCIe4.0 lanes still give you better total bandwidth than 2 x DDR5 and 24 x PCIe5.0 like the few currently available DDR5/PCIe5 platforms support.

[1] https://tanelpoder.com/posts/11m-iops-with-10-ssds-on-amd-th...
Doesn’t almost every person in a similar position working at any of the Big 5 tech companies (FAANG - Netflix + Microsoft) always have “valuable handcuffs” if you define handcuffs as “unvested RSUs”?
Yes, and we should also think of the blacksmiths and the elevator operators, milkmen and horse carriage drivers, who will unfortunately be out of a job if we make our society more efficient.
I also agree that Zig has more promise for embedded than Rust, in my opinion. I use Nim daily for embedded firmware development for similar reasons that I like Zig, but Nim has some baggage that can get in the way at times around it’s compiler (though fixing those issues is surprisingly accessible I’ve found).

That said, until someone works out how to properly integrate Zig or Nim or etc. into CMake, then there’s always going to be friction. Too much of the IDF world relies on it and it’s quirks.

In Nim land I get around this by --compileOnly to C sources, which works but is a little cumbersome. Rust is rebuilding the embedded world from scratch, which is a non starter for my work. I do have hope Zig will have a better story than both for this, but we will see!
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Unless you're looking at a Zen 1 chip, it should all be pretty equal.
My sister lived in a very new timber apartment building on the 3rd floor.

I'm not sure if there had been a water leak or what but the whole floor of her apartments main living area notably drooped in the middle and was kind of bouncy.

She claimed she couldn't notice it but I found it really unnerving.
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ozone kills bacteria that cause odor
Lots of engineering exams are open book. The only closed book ones are the freshman & some sophomore weeder classes.
As a non-US citizen, what's wrong with recreation.gov?
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Not sure how you are getting this conclusion? The example code is as follows:

effectCount = effectCount.peek() + 1;

That is definitely absolutely clearly 100% for sure sync code. Adding a numerical value +1 to the result of a function (with no wait on it) makes it clear that .peek() here is synchronously returning a value.
This depends very much on the job. Memorization is of course needed when learning a foreign language, and for any job with a real-time performance aspect, you can't be looking stuff up all the time.
A Map of Every Building in America (2018)
Ah, I guess that's probably the Damian he's referring to in his slides then.
Oh there are plenty of other arguments against working in the office - the primary one being not having an office and being forced to work in a distracting, noisy open office.
Not quite what I meant. Basically you fill in some cells, and then expand the region and Excel will autofill. For example if you have

Full Name | Nickname
Smith, John | Johnny
Ayers, Danielle | Dani
McDougle, Jack | Jack
Jason, Charles |
James, Trent |
Myers, Jessica |
David, Katherine |

And if you select the first 4 entries on the right and drag down, it will fill in the last 4.

This is known as flash fill and already implemented: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-flash-fill-.... Except AFAIK it still uses hard-coded pattern recognition. This is exactly the type of thing ML is good for!
Vue also has a one way data flow, but uses some DX to mask that to something that looks like Angular original two way binding.

These days with Vue 3, it’s even more explicitly one way.
Would you recommend a better circuit or specific microcontroller?
"isn't acting"
Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by Covid-19
Splitting CPU lane to x8/x8 is supported at least. Just mobo manufacturers don't want to implement it as a dedicated slot. It seems that Alder Lake no longer support x8/x4/x4 sadly.
Foodpanda slashes jobs in SEA to chase profitability
Today, Usenet is obscure. Late 90's was right around when Usenet was at its peak. ISPs back then advertised newsgroups as a feature: "we have a full newsfeed", that sort of thing. I worked at one that built a server with a whopping 9 gigabyte hard drive just for the NNTP feed! That was pretty cutting edge back in 1995.
> I would like to point out in Rust's favor that Rust finally got label-break-value

Oh, interesting, I was wondering if this (breaking with both a label and a value) existed (in a different context), and I concluded it didn't exist and so probably nobody had wanted it, but turns out it's in the next version and I didn't hear about it.

I don't understand a desire for do-while, I can't imagine what I might write where that looks reasonable and the loop equivalent in Rust is not very good.

If all you wanted was nicer C then yeah, Zig is that and Rust isn't -- I just don't think "nicer C" is a reasonable goal any more.
RISC-V is massively simpler (and smaller silicon and lower energy use) for the same performance. Oh, and significantly smaller code size too, so everything from ROMs to RAM (if code is loaded to RAM) to icache can be sized smaller.

The ISA being open source means that if SiFive goes out of business or changes its product lineup, or starts to make buggy stuff, or charge too much ... no matter what happens, the customer is free to find another vendor to make software-compatible chips.

As we've found out with ARM this week, even if one company with ARM's highest and most expensive form of license, the Architecture License Agreement (ALA), makes a CPU design they are not allowed to transfer or sell that design to another company that also has an ALA without ARM's explicit permission. Or so ARM claims. Let's see what the courts decide about that.
They're going after other archive sites as well, apparently: https://twitter.com/mpetch/status/1567259704652623872
Computers at that time were already pretty okay. Doom is from several years before this.

What you should instead be wondering is why so much stuff today fails to display even this level of interactivity.
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The situation is more complicated than that though. The apparent vagueness is not a sign that there is wiggle room, but rather that there are existing contradictions the author didn’t manage to resolve. The reason the origins of the Orcs changed so often is because Tolkien laid down some pretty hard boundaries in his world as to what it meant to be an Elf/Man/Dwarf, what Melkor was able to do (not capable of independent creation), free will existing, Orcs always being evil, and his desire to maintain consistency with his Catholic faith regarding salvation.
>yea because they have healthy population, its not because of some smart govt policy

yes it is, because the health population itself is supported by strong intervention. Singapore banned the advertisements of sugary drinks years ago, Singapore strictly regulates the number of vehicle licenses in the country encouraging public transport and walking, it forces citizens to allocate money for healthcare to private savings funds which incentives reducing your own healthcare costs, and so on.

The reason American's are obese isn't a miracle or because Americans are stupider, it's because Americans refuse to take collective action when it comes to the health of the nation.