skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Out of pocket" means what you pay versus what your insurance company pays. By law, the most that can be per year is $18,200 per family in 2023 [1], though it is much lower for almost any employer health plan. My family is very healthy and so I get the crappiest coverage my employer offers for nearly free for my family (because the employer gets a tax break) and mine is $10,000. The limit resets on January 1 and insurance companies can try to weasel on what's covered, though they rarely win those appeals, but on the flip side, most medical expenses are negotiable in that kind of case.

The bottom line is that our healthcare system serves several percent of the population (but not the very bottom tier, who have medicaid and public hospitals) incredibly badly and for everyone else is normally just annoying. It's possible for an American software developer with reasonable spending habits to have a medical emergency turn into a financial catastrophe, but it would be really hard.

A lot of Europeans seem to believe that their healthcare costs make up for the salary differential. This is not a reasonable belief even before factoring in taxes and cost of living in most cities.

[1] https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...
People who post unsubstantiated bullshit like this don't care about sources or even reality.
Welcome! It's a discussion site. The overview is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Of course they can. They've proven themselves very capable. The question is: where does this sit on their list of literally thousands of tasks to do?
> https://buttplug.io

LMAO.

If that's what interests you ha!
This is rather an absurd argument and speaks more to the scarcity of natural resources.

I can only speak for myself, but in a world of universal basic income, I'm perfectly happy to pluck the strings of my guitar, play my piano, go for runs with my dog, play tennis etc. I don't believe there is any greater purpose to existence then what you can create for yourself.

Since my contentment comes from performing the actions themselves, whether or not a artificial intelligence can perform them better than me is simply a meaningless question.
The FTX Meltdown Calls for Higher Standards in Crypto Journalism
Of possible interest to some:

> Please consider joining @mastodon.acm.org, a community for #computing researchers & practitioners to connect & exchange ideas with each other, whether you are an ACM member or not.

https://mastodon.acm.org/invite/FbXaxAHg
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"I've grown unfond of this attitude. I most certainly don't own it. I have no IP rights to it at all. We're both being paid to solve different facets of the same problem."

If you are a dev on the team that owns that service then it's you and your team's responsibility to answer all of these questions... Even Org's SOP would end up reaching back to the team who owns the service if problem's arises...
Absolute power absolutely corrupts. - Lord Acton
Pick a better name.
Why don't you go start a business and become one of these rich employers you speak of? If taking such risks wasn't rewarded accordingly, then I don't think people would be nearly as eager to start a business.
> If vaccination prevents you from catching covid, then it has prevented you from spreading covid to those you would have otherwise.

Depends on what you mean by "covid" here. If you're referring to the virus, then no - this is a misconception. The vaccines at best only reduce symptoms, they don't stop infection or transmission.

> versus several asymptomatic days while unknowingly contagious

This was also an early guess that turned out to be wrong. We've known this wasn't a thing for years, at least before these vaccines.

> My reply was intentionally simple in order to drive home a point about selfish versus societal viewpoints.

Right now, getting vaccinated is the selfish action because it's likely to turn you into an asymptomatic spreader. At least when unvaccinated you'll know to stay home.
> https://htmx.org

I love htmlx. That you so much for this. I'm currently using https://alpinejs.dev/ because it allows me to work directly with HTML so I can have meta-programming capabilities that React.js/Vue.js simply could not handle.

That you for htmlx!
For a while in the early 00s one of those SPARCstations, I forget if it was the 1 or the 2, was doing NAT and firewalling for my home network. I ran OpenBSD on it. I remember it taking multiple days to do a 'build world' and in those days I ran -current and upgraded from source.

But yeah, it's mostly museum stuff now.
Agree 100%. When I was young and idealistic I believed in the "learn new skills" mantra, but learning completely new skills would look a lot different at 50 than it did at 20. When career choices were being made 30 years ago it would have been hard to predict the current & upcoming AI-driven destruction of lower-end "thinking" jobs. Attempting to retrain after ~30 years puts you at a massive disadvantage vs a new graduate (I mentor some of our companies graduates & trainees & I've been assigned a guy in his mid-40s, after a few months I just don't see how he'll get to a point where he's adding value).
Not really a personal whinge, as my skillset isn't under immediate threat from any AI I've heard about, though the rate of change in the field is something to behold.
> those with the deepest pockets

But you merely beg the question. Which pocket is the deeper? The left
pocket of a network of industries that stand to dominate the world via
AI? Or the right pocket of the same interests who will be destroyed by
it?
This has such a huge potential to slay the dragon. Kudos!
Apparently GPT-3 trained on code gained the ability for reasoning, but plain language, or even multi-task fine tuning, were not enough. Maybe the quality of the data makes a difference in the robustness of the model.

This interesting discovery, when applied to brains, means the same brain trained with different data would be able to display emerging abilities. Maybe these abilities are more in the data than the architecture.

If we want better AI we need to come up with better data.
Hilarious attempt at misdirection. The conceit is that the 'need' for batteries to run renewables is environmentally destructive and makes renewables a bad option. Putting that in context reveals it's still a better option than nuclear, even though there are other options that are even better on the renewable side where they're appropriate.

You don't mine U235. You mine 99.3% U238 and then leave a third of your U235 in enrichment tailings (or burn it straight in a CANDU).

And storage of a given time duration is indexed by power. 1kW of diurnal storage is enough storage to provide 1kW over daily variation.

Extracting 1kg of Uranium nets you 1kW for a few years.

Extracting 1kg of Lithium nets you enough storage to run 1kW of solar + wind for several times as long.

The solar panel is made of about the same amount of sand as goes into the nuclear power plant. It is less limited by Silver than the control rods are limited by indium, silver and cadmium.
that's a great question. I had reviewed the Wikipedia page prior to my comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

it seems there is no universal definition of clickbait. So I based my comment on this:

1. the article was posted on Thibault's own website that doesn't generate revenue per click. Isn't clickbait associated with the possibility of additional ad revenue?

2. Thibault recently called for help on the issue. This post recaps what he went through. He clearly expressed that the code upgrade process didn't go as planned for him. the post and sub-title feels genuine.

3. Clickbait (to me at least) indicates that there's either intent on generating revenue or self-promotion. I fail to see those conditions here

So that's my logic. So why would this be considered clickbait?
There are people who actively harm others who espouse Nazi ideals in the US and other countries
i'm currently running https://hourly.fyi and aggregating some jobs here: https://hourly.fyi/jobs
That is why you have senior/staff engineers to enforce good practices.
I'm sure there's somewhere in the Pleroma parts you'll fit in better.
I feel like the headline glosses over some details. The article is about one extremely small [1], highly selective masters program, not the much larger undergrad population at the school.

> Baruch’s financial engineering course is ... also extremely hard to get into. The acceptance rate for the ’23 crop of 25 students is roughly 8% — similar to the one for a traditional two-year MBA at Wharton. These days, more and more Baruch MFEs are coming from overseas. Ten years ago, most Baruch students studying to be financial engineers were American, many from New York. Now, the majority are from China, with some coming in from countries including Switzerland and Russia, Stefanica says.

> Virtu [a big high-frequency trading firm] interviews a lot of people, Drake says, but Baruch stands out. “We turn down people with high GPAs from Stanford, Harvard, MIT,” he says. “Baruch’s program is so selective, they do a lot of the filtering for us.”

[1] Looking at the 5 most recent years of data, the largest class is 40 students. https://mfe.baruch.cuny.edu/admission-data/
It's not just an opinion; I'm a musician myself and had many production contracts in the past; I also studied law and am well familiar with the business and the legal issues.

There are indeed some people who were able to make a good living from the money they received from the copyright collecting society, though they are a small minority; all musicians I know who are members of a copyright collecting society get a few hundered Swiss francs a year and don't live from their music.

Some years ago I analyzed the yearly business report of SUISA, the Swiss copyright collecting society responsible for musicians, and found that of the 120'000'000 CHF payed by the society only one sixth was given to Swiss composers ("Urheber"), and that the probability of any of those composers would get enough money from SUISA to make a decent living is less than 0.1%; for comparison, the probability of being seriously injured or killed in a traffic accident in Switzerland is > 0.2%; the vast majority (> 97%) gets nothing to less than 1900 CHF.

In comparison the administrative cost to run SUISA in the same year was 26 mio CHF (compared to the 20 mio CHF payed to musicians), and the publishers received 54 mio CHF. SUISA payed ~19 mio CHF to their 166 employees; in 2006
357'000 CHF was payed to the director alone.
What are the overlapping curves here? Different age groups, different countries, something else?
I haven't!

I found this [1] which basically has everything I want, but apparently it's been deprecated, which makes me sad.

Searching, I found [2], is that what you're referring to? It looks like it'll do what I'm after, if a bit less gracefully. Exciting though!

[1] https://css-tricks.com/saving-the-day-with-scoped-css/

[2] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-cascade-6/#scope-atrule
I play the piano (badly). There are many other people who can play much better than I. There are simple computer programs which can play better. It doesn't stop me from enjoying it or playing it. Computers have been beating people at Chess for years yet you still see people everywhere enjoying the game. At some point computers will be better than humans at absolutely everything but it shouldn't stop you as a human from enjoying anything.
> As participants recalled the images, the receptive fields in the highest level of visual processing were the same size they had been during perception — but the receptive fields stayed that size down through all the other levels painting the mental image. The remembered image was a large, blurry blob at every stage.

> [...]

> So depending on whether information is coming from the retina or from wherever memories are stored, the brain handles and processes it very differently. Some of the precision of the original perception gets lost on its way into memory, and “you can’t magically get it back,” Favila said.

This is probably more a comment on imprecise or confusing journalism than anything about the paper, but just because a larger number of early neurons were activated when recalling a memory doesn't mean the memory itself is blurry or low resolution. Perhaps the memory is just compressed (embedded) in such a way that decompressing it requires activation of a large number of early-stage neurons. This is basically how a UNet works, although UNet decoders don't (typically?) share neurons (weights) with the the encoder.
A few questions:

- Can you import from Pocket?

- Can you import from various bookmarks?

- How much do I own my data? If you go under, what's my backup plan? Open source, data exports, APIs...?
Requiring restaurants/gyms/etc. to require customers to be vaccinated.
I'd happily trade 2x capacity for 0.5x life in my cell phone battery, provided that the cell phone manufacturer just makes it easy to swap batteries.

Something that baffles me is how hard it's become to replace the battery. I had the original generation Galaxy S -- I loved that thing, because there was a little latch mechanism on the back-side. With a firm tug, the rear cover popped right off, allowing you to pop the battery out. It took less than 10 seconds to do a battery swap, which I used to great advantage while traveling (carried a second battery with me). Of course, back in those days, the typical battery capacity was not nearly as good.

In any event, I wish I could still do that with my current phone. It would be super slick if there was a tiny auxillary battery or 60-second hold-up capacitor too, so you wouldn't even have to shut the phone off.
I think this is a case of small help coming across as worse than no help, even though rationally that's not true. Like if I ask you to write a quick script that'll take a half hour... offering you $5 may be worse than just asking it as a favor.

I'm sure their heart is in the right place and offering mental health coverage is a good thing, it's just the number causes a double-take.
> Very easy to enter an echo chamber and go down rabbit-holes you shouldn't really be going down.

Waiting for Google to sue them for infringing on their YouTube recommendations IP here.
> I used to be a complete introvert and would become overwhelmed easily. Now I truly enjoy meeting new people and being put in new situations

I see this a somewhat of an identity problem. If you pick "shy" identities for yourself, then they all correlate on being shy( e.g: Autistic, Programmer, Nerd etc). So the more strongly you feel about being X, the shy-er you'll become. That's why I don't like to call myself too many things because I sub-consciously attach the sub-traits of the personality unto myself.
> efficacy of the vaccines over the last 3 years

It's only been 2 years, they were announced at the end of 2020.
> A huge spike in CPU usage would be treated as a regression in other language runtimes and would likely be addressed.

A spike that applied to all programs certainly would. A spike that applied to only one program? Good luck, IME.
That is showing the raw numbers - they aren't adjusted for vaccinated/unvaccinated population sizes. ~53 million people have had at least one shot, and there are around 6 million children under 10 (so not counted in the figures you linked). With a population of about 68 million total, the unvaccinated all causes figures should be about 16% of the ever vaccinated.

The ratio should skew further in older age ranges, as a higher proportion of those were vaccinated.
I don't have links handy, but I remember seeing studies that show brain aging on the order of ~10 years in long covid patients reporting brain fog. That could also be a result of sedentary living as a result of the lockdown, it seems unlikely that it'd be that severe given the length of time involved.

As far as I know the leading theory is that damage to the circulation systems of some covid patients is causing a reduction in the quality of bloodflow in the brain which has obvious negative impacts on neurons.
Who is being “abused” by you not having access to other people’s content in the way you want?
> will dissolve into a sort of 'Lorem ipsum' state

I don't think so. It will explode into a kaleidoscope of diverse styles and ideas, some amazing, some meh, and some horrible. We'll be able to rank by preference and aesthetic scores to get to the ones we like.
Because Elon is about to drop his next banger, New York Times Best Seller:

"Twitter 2.0 or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Mythical Man Month"
* was accused by an ex wife of lying about it. The same ex wife that notoriously does anything for media attention, writes online incessantly about her divorce with Elon, who's made multiple easily disproven lies, has publicly smeared him for financial gain during divorce proceedings, and had her own divorce judge not agree with the validity of any of her claims.
Well, right now they would need to unlock it and I can sign out of the app somewhere else.
And initiating of war is murder conspiracy?
Show HN: A command palette with contextual search and actions for a browser IDE
Commands are a massive unlock for productivity. Here's how we thought about designing a command palette unique to Retool's browser-based IDE to help users shortcut navigation and actions in one surface.
"lot of replies mentioning that they will do their hobbies despite how good AI is at them, are missing the point. Right now you are living in a scarce world where the ability to pursue hobbies has required you to overcome other challenges. And that is why things like playing a musical instrument, rock climbing, etc. is a catharsis"

Spoken very confidently and purely anecdotally. Most of my hobbies I pursued in my formative years as a child, I was neither cajoled into them by my parents and they certainly weren't a means of an escape from school.

If anything I had more time as a child - summers were completely free and lackadaisical, and I performed those hobbies just the same.

If your underlying reason to pursue something is because it's difficult, then I would argue your motivations are flawed. I chose to play the piano as a child because I love the sound that I could produce, being able to glide up and down in sweeping arpeggios made me happy. It's a simple as that.
That's more or less what _happens_; people join mastodon.social and then move.
I had the same thought. I’m in energy infra design so I care mainly about tech that helps me implement renewables easier.

For consumers, simple tools to help them make green decisions would be useful (LCA as you mentioned). Im interested, what kind of behavioural research applications do you mean?
I don't get what this is. Is this a postgres fork? An extension? The documentation says it's Version 2 but the docs are rather lacking. Having something providing an "Oracle API" on Postgres would be awesome but not sure if this works like that?
I use GraphQL because my clients are not all TypeScript based. Also I don't necessarily want to write my backend in TypeScript either. My stack is therefore Rust with GraphQL with clients in React for web and Flutter for mobile.
Do you not think that perhaps climate scientists may have thought about that?
As long as any party is still alive associated with the event, there could be security concerns.
Although cloud native is a technology trend, it also brings some complexities and challenges. This is covered a bit in this post.
Unless there's strong reason to believe Alice cannot be reasoned with, it'd be better to try and work things out with her rather then immediately trying to go over her head. If I imagine bringing this to any manager I've had, I think they would hand it back to me and tell me to at least try talking to her.

So what you probably want here instead of a manger is a buddy who can help you workshop and roleplay this difficult conversation so that you can be prepared to talk to Alice without coming out swinging and making her defensive, and who won't blab about your conversation. Ideally things just stay between you and Alice and you both become better coworkers for it.
I may be wrong, but I think it's a matter of complexity and speed. An efficient parser knows exactly what it is reading just by checking the next following word (token) and can act before it even reads the whole thing. Sass uses an "infinite lookahead" algorithm that makes it way slower (maybe doesn't matter for 1 file, it does for hundreds). With sass the parsing is made only when compiling the app, so it can afford the extra processing. On browsers, specially mobile, it can become a problem if you need to do it on all css of all pages.

An example that I think it's easy to understand: suppose you are reading a csv string of numbers that can be in base 10 or base 2.

Option a is something like "32, 101b, 101" (aka binary numbers have a "b" suffix, decimal numbers don't)

Option b is the same but the "b" is a prefix "32, b101, 101"

Now think that you can only "see" one character at a time, so you see "3", then "2", then "," and so on. Which of the two options is more efficient to parse?

The answer is option b. With option a you could read a sequence of millions of 1/0 digits but you don't know if it's binary or decimal until you read the final "b" or a "," (or end of file) so you can't do anything but remember all the digits until the end, when you can finally do something with the number. With option b you know in advance if it's going to be decimal or integer (whether you receive a "b" or directly a digit) so you can do all the optimizations right away before even start reading the number!

It's not a matter of whether it can be done or not (of course it can) but the complexity and slowness it can become.
Apollo is literally build on top of REST. It adds types and clarify the dependencies between the types. It enhances an existing protocol by adding features.

It is not a silver bullets but it has advantages like self-documenting (Playground), ease of discovery on big API (generated documentation with types) and can have TypeScript type generated for your (reduce the number of interfaces/types to maintain).

Federation is also a good concept if you have many teams that need to converge into a cohesive API gateway.

Overall, if you use it properly it can be a great tool.
I mean, I never said what Sweeney was doing is considered doxxing, or whether his behavior could lead to reasonable fear for safety. I'd rather let the lawyers untangle this annoying mess

really didn't expect my initial comment to lead to a shitstorm...
Google announces its favorite Chrome extensions of the year
Their algorithm isn't very bright in my experience. I literally, for weeks, immediately selected "not interested" in every. single. video. that had any mention of crypto, and they still just poured in constantly.

It wasn't until a pretty recent update where you can create blocklists for keywords that I was finally free of them.
> ways to abstract "discoverability"

Combine "search" with "learning". Or content generation with content validation, and retrain on the clean outputs. Or, run many simulations such as AlphaGo, and learn from the outcomes.

In general the idea is to use lots of compute to generate interesting and hard to come by training data for the next iteration. This approach is necessary because we have exhausted most of the good training data and need a path forward. You can't copy money, but you can copy the model and data.
I believe it's all the free model data alongside processing power