skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The model you present here is semi-quantitative, in that it has an example value of $1000 for insurance premiums, another of $X for liability, but "small chance" is not introduced as a variable, and neither are "lot larger" and the change in premiums as a function of change in safety spending.

All of the numbers are obviously made up examples because in practice they depend on what the risky behavior is and the value of the dollar etc. But we can make up more of the numbers, if you like example numbers.

A 1% chance of a million dollar liability has an expected value of -$10,000. A 1% chance of a premium increase with a net present cost of $1000 has an expected value of -$10. Therefore, the resources the party would rationally expend to prevent the harm is $10,000 in the first case and $10 in the second case. That difference is a lot.

> I suspect that if this model were completed in accordance with your premise of equality, it would imply there is no rational case for insurance.

Insurance is a net loss to the average insured, even before the moral hazard, because the sum of the premiums is necessarily more than the sum of the claims since premiums also have to cover the insurance company's overhead (or the insurance company becomes insolvent).

Its only purpose is to pool risk. Many people prefer a 100% chance of a $1050 loss to a 1% chance of a $100,000 loss. But pooling risk introduces moral hazard -- that's one of the reasons people like to be insured. "Peace of mind" = don't have to worry because the insurance will cover it.

> For your argument to be pertinent, it would have to be likely that, in the alternative reality where Rolf's ruling remained the law and liability insurance did not come about, they would be safer than they are now.

The market wants cars that are safer for their occupants because insurance can't bring you back from the dead.

The market doesn't care if cars are less safe for pedestrians or other motorists, because that cost is on the other party or the insurance company. And so we see cars getting heavier over time, as expected from that set of incentives.
Yes that one.

Glad it reverberated a little across this corner of the internet.

It's a great term - conveys what we mean. Maybe "Civic DataSets"
> Part of growing up in most modern North American and European cultures

Not really sure which cultures you’re assuming aren’t that way - Asian and African culture don’t tend to have a lot of childishness either..
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Perhaps public safety shouldn't be entirely beholden to Motorola rebranding old garbage (ancient TDMA networks being sold as new P25 compliant hardware for tens of millions of dollars) that is then sold as new.

Modern protocols like 5G New Radio that have better propogation at the fringes of connectivity would serve life critical applications with improved coverage and significantly more intelligible voice quality than what the current public safety networks are capable of doing.

If you look at the telephone/power poles in your neighborhood you will see a device with two antennas hooked into power every few blocks. This is a recieve only amplifier that has to be used to amplify these weak signals from handheld public safety radios that use protocols like TDMA with poor interference resistance and no error correction.
I just disabled JS in my browser and most stuff still works, although there's a few things that don't, like loading commit data and dropdown menus. I would guess they're doing server side rendering and progressive enhancement so that at least the core functionality still works okay.
I thought green name means some kinds of VIP account.
No, in Java a data race is a well-defined behavior - the observable values of the field are only those that were actually set by any Java thread, also called no out-of-thin-air values.

This is not generally true of other languages, where it is allowed for the compiler to do whatever it wants in these cases, meaning that once you go down the happy path, nothing can be guaranteed. Also, safe rust preventing data races is again not that big of a thing because if you want to use the same memory region (not read-only) from multiple threads you will have to use unsafe either way.
It works, the following words made me rich:

- Great idea

- Makes total sense

- That's how I would do it

- I agree

And this is not a joke.
To the latter question, it's to prevent droplets of spittle from landing on exposed tissue.

There are pathogens which spread by droplets, rather than aerosols, the Sars2 virus doesn't happen to be one of them. Yes, if you spit directly onto an open wound or mucous tissue, but it doesn't live long on surfaces, and the droplet-fomite route is how that vector of infection works.
Reminds me of a bit from an article I enjoy.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2014/08/13/ask-andrew-w-k-whats...

It seems to me that people often equate intelligence with seriousness, and stupidity with playfulness. These people also tend to overvalue a sort of stoic distance and lack of excitement and enthusiasm as somehow being a sign of wisdom and advanced thinking. An austere and somber attitude doesn’t make someone smarter or more intellectual. Sometimes people are overly serious because they’re afraid of looking unkempt, unimportant, uneducated — they fear they’ll “make a fool out of themselves” if they don’t remain dour and stiff. In my opinion, if more people aspired to the level of life-mastery and self-actualization that a true fool has attained, there’d be much less conflict in the world.
This is all a roundabout way of saying that, yes, they do lend out the deposits.

Let's imagine a simple bank where my company is the sole depositor - it deposits 100k dollars. Let's assume the bank has no other assets or liabilities - its only asset is the 100k dollars I deposited, and its only liability is the 100,000 dollars it has to pay back to me.

Alice comes in and asks for a 50k dollar loan. The bank accepts the loan, and now has another asset - the 50k dollars that Alice owes them, and a new 50k dollars liability - the deposit with Alice's money. Alice than buys an antique one of a kind Russian doll with her 50k dollars from Bob, and the bank transfers this liability to Bob's bank. Alice fails to pay back her loan, and the bank becomes the owner of the antique one of a kind Russian doll worth 50k dollars.

However, someone finds a new trove of similar dolls, and this ones becomes essentially worthless. So, now the bank's assets are in total only 50k dollars, but its liabilities are still the 100k it owes me. If I try to buy another of Bob's dolls for 80k dollars, the bank must find someone willing to lend it 30k dollars, or it can't honor the transaction, even though I had deposited 100k dollars with them: they lent out my deposit.

Of course, in practice, when Alice asked to transfer her funds to Bob's bank, the bank would have not immediately used my deposit, it would have sought to obtain credit from someone else, using some of the 150k dollars in assets it had at the time as collateral. But, if it couldn't obtain such a loan fast enough, it would have indeed used money from the deposit it had.
That was indeed where many of my teenage hours went - hacking out game experiments in DJGPP and Allegro on our family’s 486. It was also my intro to Emacs which stayed with me for decades afterwards.
Thanks for this comment. I had never even considered that the myopia produced by market forces on academia was the cause of this. I have written off natural remedies my entire life, mostly because my mother was into them, and she administered a lot of them as I grew up with what seemed like limited effectiveness.

That said, I'll definitely keep more of an open mind now.
No, there is not. There's no desktop environment for Linux that supports the runtime extensibility and inspection abilities of a symbolics lisp machine.
I've noticed this phenomenon a lot, and I'm not exactly sure what causes it. If you correct someone's understanding of the software, half the time they'll try to pick a fight with you over being a supporter of it. I haven't experienced that while discussing any other type of software project.

Perhaps it results from the human tendency to try to separate "good guys" from "bad guys". Whatever it is, I find it really gets in the way of productive discussion.
I'm working on a tool to help automate and enforce this bounce often and library curation workflow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwpPNCwI5Ic

Should work with any DAW on Windows or macOS. Anyone want try it out with their DAW email me: andrew@dabounce.app
You were reported for saying something about open source and github banned you for it? This still doesn't seem to add up at all. How many comments are we talking about? Did they contain, oh, I dunno, slurs? And again, you can paraphrase the comment(s) which you seem to remain very reluctant to do.
Honestly github always felt snappy and intuitive to me, more so than many "cool" react fronts I've seen.

It would be great if they wrote an article about this switch to understand some of the challenges they were facing.

I would also be curious if they considered other approaches and stacks.
More relatable perhaps is the idea of charisma. If I’m interviewing a technically skilled person who is a bull in a China shop when it comes to personality, it doesn’t matter what they create - they’re breaking the team with their oblivious nature.

If people will actively seeking other teams because of a new member’s personality, it’s something you can bet will be looked for look for in an interview.
Is efficiency that important? It's not like were delivering the photons to the solar panels like we use trains to deliver coal to power stations.
I have to say, the notion you can only build webpages with Rails and not webapps did make me chuckle.

If Rails can take a company such as GitHub this far then it, along with other traditional server side rendered frameworks like Django and Laravel, should more seriously be considered when starting new projects and apps.
Funny to read this because since couple of days I've noticed github is loading noticably slower for me. I thought something may be off with my internet connection (I'm on 400 Mbps in Switzerland, M1 16GB, FF).
Most of FAANG uses Java, so I'm not sure where you think there are more higher paying JS/Python jobs...
Another maintainer: very aware of it, Foresight Mining Software Company is a major force in the ecosystem and makes CAD tools! We try to be responsive to the needs of those communities (robotics, CAD, GIS, scientific simulation...), but focus on tackling the needs of game development first.

Definitely naturally synergy here though, and the flexible model makes it very easy for different groups of users to pick and choose what they care about.
Do you have any examples? I know these CAES are sometimes used on an industrial scale but I haven't heard of small scale solutions for individual homes.
Yeah, from a back-of-the-envelope calculation less that 10 million people lived in Ur over those 3300 years, possibly less than 1 million. More people than that live in a single city like New York today, and they arguably have access to a wider variety of experiences than the citizens of Ur had over all of the 3300 years taken together.
Seconded. I worked with a professional MMA team while they appeared on The Ultimate Fighter and met a lot of fighters who came to their gym to train, even spent some time living in a communal house with some of them. All but one of them would be in the running for the “nicest person I ever met” award.
According to some quick duckduckgoogling for “aranet4 tear down” it could be this: https://senseair.com/products/power-counts/sunrise-hvac/
At the time it was above the fold and was only 2 hours old, and a refresh <5m later it was off. Is the algorithm documented somewhere?

I understand your point and generally agree, but this is repeated pattern I have largely been quiet about for those reasons, but over time it seems... like there might be something there. Not saying there is, just that after enough coincidences it makes one start to consider the possibility.
That's the issue with these federated systems.

I'm the original author of a [much more humble] independent, federated system, and understand this.

It basically takes patience. Having an "upgrade carrot," to encourage folks to go through the upgrade (and making the upgrade seamless) is helpful.
I agree that the supply chain security is a problem for Americans like those in the lawsuit. From the perspective of China however, Apple is a foreign company. The US has concerns with tiktok being Chinese owned. China has equally valid concerns with Apple being US based and wants control over its Chinese operations. I dont agree with how the Chinese run their country, but its also not my business. My business is the NSA spying on my family through iCloud backups.
I'm from the midwest. The cat weighs like half a percent of what I do.
Not a consultancy.

It was peculiar. I had to fill internal CV on their system too, with more details than the original.

First they decided to hire me for a customer instead of internally saying the customer needs 2 weeks to answer, then getting rejected because "something changed" and customer is looking for Senior+ (wtf??).

Same thing with other customers until finally nothing left, and we love you please let us know if we should contact you next year for further offer, as it takes too long.
A different angle that helped me understand your description better (graphic warning: scared children voices in the background audio)

https://twitter.com/jasonwhitely/status/1591541681798668291?...
Null pointers are not a memory safety issue in most managed languages. It is completely well-defined behavior in Java for example, you can safely catch any NPE and go on as if nothing happened. This is not true of C, where dereferencing a nullptr is incredibly unsafe.
One piece of advice: Use the last 5 minutes of each interview to ask questions yourself. About the company, the job, the people, etc. Also ask for feedback on your interview.
That sounds great for verification. It would be great if users could automatically follow that pubkey across other nodes in case the pubkey owner decides or is forced to migrate.
Don't need to overthink this. It's easy to just have scores for devices of different categories. A 10/10 laptop doesn't have to match the repairability of a 10/10 desktop, but it sure better be more repairable than a 3/10 laptop.
Entity is essentially a u64, which is composed of a 32 bit index and a 32 bit generation. Despawned entities free their index, and which ever new Entity takes its place gets a new generation.
That’s fascinating. How do you know? (Research? Personal experience?)
About the ‘nature’ of the comments, see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33577471

They were not offensive, they were not disrespectful, they were actually valid complaints, and I also used to participate a lot, and since people echoed the comments, they were considered ‘disruptive’.
What are you supposed to do if the person you're getting the info from didn't put it in their tweet? Clearly my opinion of journalism has fallen quite low.
Should backend devs invest more on soft skills instead ? I've seen bunch of folks succeed at soft skills rather than technical skills and can pass the interview easily.
Careful. Dreams give birth to hopes and hope to obsession and obsession to disappointment,restlessness and despair and those give birth to many more terrible things.

Nothing against plans and visions but the hollywod-esque "dream" is not good.

Tonight we will feast and be merry! Tomorrow we die!

Less pain is always good to have but that aside I want to do what I want now. I may slip on banana or something and die tomorrow, it isn't guaranteed so why spend time dreaming of it when I am living now and today? The me in the future might want different things than me now as well.

Day dreaming is for children. Life, now, is for adults.
The strange thing is that many backwater towns have more inhabitants than Ur and the sibling cities. And yet, nobody expects significant cultural innovation to be made in those places.
Java is paying preeetty good I dare add.
My guess is that this has nothing to do with Lisps school located somewhere in Germany or having German authors/roots as you quoted.

No, I was associating the listed properties (focus, spartan, controversial) of the "Fluchtpunkt" Lisps at the end with typical peculiarities or prejudices or stereotypes of the Germans themselves. The question then remains, how does "fun" fit into the picture here?
Struggling for almost 6 months to find work for which I have 15+ years experience, with all sorts of shenanigans occurring at every stage, despite finding hundreds of "open" and actually appropriate positions.

Hiring is broken; very many reasons for it; I suspect many of these companies aren't actually hiring but haven't yet figured out that it's uncool to waste everyone's time pretending.
I bought Qingping and it’s best and worst purchase at the same time. On one hand it proved you need to open windows frequently and it’s cool to monitor co2 in public places. On other hand it’s depressing good ventilation won’t happen for decades if not centuries and it’s unfeasible to open windows in super cold, hot or humid climates.

Also, my measurements were different from author. On a plane co2 was pretty bad until AC was turned on (usually around midway boarding), then it hovered around 1000ppm. On a train it also stayed around 1000ppm.
Linux users are constantly using drivers outside of the mainline kernel. Whether it’s graphics cards, radio drivers (things have gotten better in that regard but Bluetooth is support is still terrible) or FUSE file systems.

The difference with ZFS is that the code is kernel-ready but there’s just some licensing worries (understandable ones) that stop it from being mainlined.

I’ve been running ZFS on Ubuntu Server for several years now and frankly ZFS is the only part of that entire system that doesn’t suck (in my opinion). I’d switch back to FreeBSD in a heartbeat if I didn’t need Docker support but credit where credit is due, Ubuntu’s ZFS support has been really good.

Edit: just to add, I’ve got nothing against anyone who does enjoy Ubuntu Server. It’s just not a Linux distro I personally have much fondness for.
Get ready for Google Summer of Code 2023
> It's like recruiters have to make some dumb quota to make and just spam everyone.

Pretty close if not the truth.
I can recommend the official Prince podcast where this story is also covered.
It's unfortunate that this is a lesson that is re-taught pretty regularly. I vividly remember this coming up when the Mt. Gox hack happened in 2014. Since many people are using crypto to speculate and day trade, exchanges will be the most convenient place for most people to keep their coins unless something changes this in a major way.
Not the op, but it looked like the case that comes with Chinese iems (fancy earbuds)
My argument is not that the financial system as a whole needed no saving, but rather that it was done in a way which encourages massive and perverse systemic risks.

A failed bank like Citi should have been handled like smaller banks at the same situation were handled - taken over by the government, shareholders wiped out, new honest management installed, and criminal referrals made as appropriate. In addition, they should've broken up the bank to smaller units that will not be too big to fail.

The way it was done, most of the management layer remained and had a vested interest in covering up problems and their own complicity. Worse, it made it clear to other institutions that the bigger they become, the less likely they are to be allowed to fail. The incentives are perverse.

Edit: fairness is also important. A large, politically connected, bank benefited from bailouts that smaller, less well-connected banks and regular people did not get.
I never said that it was all subsidies. I said that his other successful businesses have been propped up by government cash, which is objectively true. If it hadn't been for government contracts or tax exemptions there wouldn't be a SpaceX or a Tesla, or they would have struggled way more and been a fraction of the size. It's not necessarily a bad thing that his businesses were enabled by big government help, as there is a clear national interest in having more space travel and electric car options.

The problem is if Elon has become too overconfident in entering difficult business areas because his companies have been saved multiple times by government contracts and deals. Does he start to think he can save any business in any difficult space because he pulled off SpaceX and Tesla? Is the government going to bail out Twitter for national security interests if he messes up?
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