skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The modernity of the nonsense seems to matter more to the HN front page these days more than the degree to which something is nonsense.

According to Bennett, hoarders are highly attuned to these truths, which many of us ignore.

And here is where she completely loses the plot. Up until that point it's kind of a bass-ackward way of acknowledging that human beings are not special and not fundamentally different from the world around us. Her "everything is magic" conclusion is 180 degrees off correct, which is that nothing is magic, including human agency.
For auditing the generated instructions, as auditing machine language itself is unrealistic.
Postcodes are designed to facilitate sorting and last mile delivery so no surprise if large buildings have multiple codes. DVLA in Swansea has several, probably because they get a lot of post in a few distinct categories.
But you can know something but not perform it. The specific case I'm thinking of is coaching. You can know how to "bend it like Becks", but not actually be able to do it. I know that if I strike the ball with the outside of my boot on the outside of the ball, it will bend a certain way. But me doing that as a demonstration to the kids on my team is an entirely different thing.

yes, personal experience story.
I can speak about an apparently non-scam Medicare Advantage plan that my wife and I are on.

It is effectively a PPO (similar to the Kaiser plan someone else mentioned), so we have access to exactly the same physicians that we had already where we were paying for private insurance. Our annual premiums went from about $85k a year (on the private insurance) to around $10k out of pocket.

We are fairly healthy, though my wife is going to have some major joint surgery. What was interesting is that it was our PRIVATE insurance that stalled and stalled over approving the surgery. When she switched to the MA plan, it was approved immediately. (That stalling finally motivated my wife to make the switch out of the private insurance.)

The downside of our MA plan is that we are not going to be able to move out of the area easily. But you always have that issue regardless -- finding a whole new set of doctors and dentists when you move...

I do get these phone calls asking to schedule a "wellness" check that the article writer mentions. Oddly enough, my wife didn't get any (so far.)
I don’t understand. Passing one interview doesn’t guarantee a job offer?
This also applies to all screens in a work environment. They hypnotize, they distract, they give an easy way out, all of it.

Some of the best and most influential work I have ever done in my brief career as a PM was that one time we had a power outage.
I think it's a combination of a lot of interviewers priding themselves when they "stump the chump" and a possibly subconscious optimization to find folks who won't upset the status quo.
Any idea that shows passion about the project will do… when you are looking into this, what is that you like, what is that you do not like and want to change? maybe better website design, maybe a new API, maybe an integration with another project…
It's worse than you think. Quoth Wikipedia:

> Among the practices prohibited by the Taft–Hartley act are jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns. The amendments also allowed states to enact right-to-work laws banning union shops. Enacted during the early stages of the Cold War, the law required union officers to sign non-communist affidavits with the government.

Seems like it should be at least partly unconstitutional on first amendment grounds, but I don't know if it's ever been challenged.
Much "journalism" isn't journalism at all, it's just content aggregation and maybe a paraphrasing. In the case of anything remotely technical, this will probably also include dumbing down to the point of uselessness, if not outright incorrectness.
The generated room in the example is fairly hideous.
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Super good content. Now for a guide on getting a response back at all for any job application in any industry
This doesn't qualify as a scam in my book.
Pinecone just wiped every free user account (by accident)
Just a reminder to not store all your expensive eggs (embeddings) in one basket! Bad mistake on my part.

Something to be said for Pinecone on this... if your core business is to be the "production-grade hosted vector DB", probably best to reallocate some of your R&D budget to implementing basic controls that prevent someone running a script that can wipe the entire production DB. Undermines a lot of investment they've made into their reputation and brand.

https://community.pinecone.io/t/did-anyone-else-just-have-their-index-deleted-due-to-inactivity/704

https://community.pinecone.io/t/march-1st-incident-that-affected-indexes-on-the-starter-free-plan/724/2
The “Russia must not win” of big tech messaging is still going strong.
It's still worth it to a apply for a job that pays double or take a job that pays double. It is only a personal failing if you misunderstand the risk and cost going in.

Similarly, if you gamble on a coin flip and lose, that doesn't mean it was a bad bet. It is only a bad bet if you calculate the odds and expected returns incorrectly. People seem to really struggle with this concept
> If you’re in regular medicare, don’t you have a government agency filling the same role at the table with you and your doctor?

Well, no, you have…a private insurance company, who has a contract with the government.

Just with a different contract with the government than the Medicare Advantage ones have.

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Contracting/Medicare-A...
You could snapshot the internal state of an Atari 2600 25x a day! Such a wealth of bytes.
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I recently switched jobs from being an engineering manager back to being a software engineer due to burnout, switching to fully remote, and just wanting to try something new in a different domain. During the first few months of the new job I was pretty quiet; sat back and took in the new environment. Switching from internal tools in enterprise to a team that focused on external features for a startup is a big shift and I had a lot of questions.. Probably dumb questions, but asking the dumb questions was my role as a manager :)

Because of the laid-back start at this new role, I've been seen as both the "new guy" and someone more junior on the team (I'm in a senior role) that consistently gets talked down to. This is after already shipping complex architecture changes in a short amount of time, taking on mentorship/leadership roles on the team, and coming into the role with a highly technical background.

Due to fumbling the first couple of months at a new company, I feel like I've painted myself into a certain persona that's impossible to break. I'm curious if anyone has been in a similar boat, and how they went about fixing the issue.
Very true. Anyone urging caution, or any government department with “standards” is universally the bad guy in film.

There’s a huge gap between what is entertaining and what is good outside of fiction. “reality tv” makes this particularly dangerous as horrible (though entertaining) people become more and more famous, again and again. This spills over into some really dire consequences globally. For example — and you wouldn’t believe this unless you’d seen it happen — the most powerful nation on Earth actually went so far as to elect a reality tv star to their highest office!
That’s a bit too simplified, though, bordering on the shareholder value fallacy. Efficiency isn’t an objective fact in most cases and reasonable people can disagree about whether something has benefits on a different timeframe (e.g. R&D) or which are hard to quantify (cutting support & customer relations often seems like a pure win at first). Some shareholders thought Apple wasted too much money developing personal music players and should stick to computers, and listening to them would have cancelled the iPod and never reached the iPhone.

Given that they are reporting solid profits on very large revenue volumes, I don’t think you can make the case that this was a financial necessity and the scale is too large to have had much detailed thought going into it. (And “excess bureaucracy” is cut by sacking the C/VP-level managers who built it, not the rank and file implementing those policies.)
I would think that high end construction paint also has more pigment. Not sure how it would compare, but I know painting a large area with artist grade paint could get exorbitantly expensive.
I don't think much of the "takedown" so far. Interested to discuss specifics if I'm not getting something.

Cadhla (who works for EcoHealth alliance BTW) points out that it was Wuhan University who registered the rice sequence bioproject PRJNA601977 - which is not hugely relevant since the source of the contamination could be from anywhere (that happened to have a HKU4 reverse genetics system...).

Andreas points to incomplete sequence coverage (not unusual in a contamination scenario) and claims it might be "not dangerous work" because the sequence gap leaves open the possibility that the missing bit was non-functional. True but weak. It's 33 NTs of highly conserved sequence, what does he really think was in that gap? I know what Fat Tony would say.

Flo's comments seem to be claiming that https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.12.528210v2 is plagiarizing https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr353109 (the team's earlier paper which included a similar finding).

Her claim that a reverse genetics systems for HKU4-like COVs was previously disclosed seems weird since AFAIK it was this team that had previously disclosed it. It's possible I am not understanding what she is saying as it makes no sense to me.
Why would there be an assumption I have implemented all the emulation completely and correctly enough for it to run?

If it doesn't, there's a bug in my emulator, end of story. I have had to implement all kinds of things to make various software work correctly, and there's probably still more to do.
USB is a data connection, you're telling me to just stick my thing in there? Who knows where that hole's been or what it is.
No one does. LICSW is the common license for therapists (the SW stands for Social Worker). They aren't psychologists or psychiatrists, but they are therapists.
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Someone knows how to get voted to the front page
Dealing with disputes usually requires a lot of human manual intervention and had a high rate of bad publicity.
nice setup. I'm going to have to look into the service worker approach. typora and github are my version of what you're talking about - which I love
As someone who will be medicare age in a few years, I was following the article until it hit the [drat those darn republicans] comment and my attention quickly waned, and not because of age.
I will die on this hill. I ran a HealthTech company and we spent extensive time and legal counsel understanding our HIPAA obligations.

For example, if a provider is cash-only, they are not bound by HIPAA.

----

It's really important to see the nuance in the definition of a covered entity: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...

> This includes providers such as:

> Doctors

> Clinics

> Psychologists

> Dentists

> Chiropractors

> Nursing Homes

> Pharmacies

> *...but only if they transmit any information in an electronic form in connection with a transaction for which HHS has adopted a standard.*

Emphasis mine. That last sentence is the big "gotcha" on who HIPAA applies to.
They could use a to have ChatGPT generate a function for that.
Yeah, but this article is about keeping backups, and Heroku deletes data from paying customers without notifying them first.
I would look at https://kubedb.com/ - operators are a mixed bag - but a bad operator can be a painful intro to K8s, that's for sure.
A good hammer is designed with an optimal weight distribution that makes it easy to hit the nail. ChatGPT may be better than using your own head at times, people will still sue sooner rather than later over lost digits.

However, it provides an excellent opportunity for us mere humans to reflect upon the way we organize our society in regard to vital information processing.
We are awfully bad at it. So bad actually, we can't even tell how it should be in the first place and are disturbed already by some piece of software telling nonsense.
Works for me on a random old android browser (that wraps around standard webview afaik), using Android 10 or 11 not sure
https://ncea.education.govt.nz/change-2-equal-status-mataura...

https://ncea.education.govt.nz/mana-orite-mo-te-matauranga-m...

https://ncea.education.govt.nz/explaining-new-ncea-materials

NCEA is New Zealands main secondary school qualification.

First link talks about 'equal status' of Māori knowledge, but it talks about that in context of pathways to passing the NCEA, i.e. my reading of it is, its like a different curriculum for getting the qualification. That isn't the same as saying 'Māori knowledge has equal status with western science full stop'. It seems to be more like 'theres a path to this qualification that is based more on Māori knowledge'. Also a lot of it is about values rather than knowledge. But I've only skimmed it, thats just the impression I got.
Well, then you missed the story. It's more like a life insurance policy that kills you when you turn 67, and pays out when you turn ninety.
The problem is that the Thunderbolt ports don't support that bandwidth, and there isn't any other way to connect PCIe peripherals.
With a valid key I still get errors.

read the returning message it says I exceeded my daily quota, checked my account, my free API trial period ended a few months back.

Paying for ChatGPI does not mean you can get API access, in short, you need pay for API access separately after a short trial period to use this tool:

"No, the ChatGPT API and ChatGPT Plus subscription are billed separately. The API has its own pricing, which can be found at https://openai.com/pricing. The ChatGPT Plus subscription covers usage on chat.openai.com only and costs $20/month."
If you buy a counterfeit MFi cable, it has a good chance of being intercepted by customs (similar to how they intercept counterfeit goods - https://abc7.com/counterfeit-goods-us-customs-border-protect... and https://www.nwonewswatch.com/local-news/us-customs-seize-cou... ).
kuberDBs seems like an unnecessary complication
Halloween for Cowards (2020)
Sounds about the right size for a lunar theme park.
Shouldn’t Facebook be banned from receiving targeting data from ANY healthcare company? They ought to be fined, or preferably shut down.
I was lucky enough to be able to get a job at 16 (only one among my peers) around 2008. At the time, my boss there said "you're going to be the last generation of teenagers in the US to have jobs". Boy was he wrong!

> Federal laws prohibit children under 14 from working in most non-agriculture jobs.

One of the weirdest things of these laws is that agricultural jobs... don't seem any less dangerous than any others?
Houses in the suburbs end up costing more than they contribute in property taxes. I'd guess though that it's a possible inequity that the suburbs pay directly into local school in those suburbs, and more efficient housing developments subsidize their infrastructure for them instead of funding schools.

The U.S in it's infinite wisdom is great at siphoning money away from people who have the least of it.
Totally agree. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon is viewing the premade runtimes as a legacy option, with containers being the default (and eventually only) method in the future.
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Counter-point, they make it easy to try different therapists until you find one you feel comfortable with and you feel is helpful to you (not an easy task) with no additional costs, all from the comfort of your home. I think I was paying ~$60/45 minute session with a great provider, who was always able to get me in schedule-wise, provided great benefit, and saved me from an hour+ drive each way.

I know several people, myself included, who have found their service very valuable.
and how would we get the lawmakers in this country to actually propose regulation that would fix non-competes?
Mind you, corporations have an absolute amount of influence in politics compared to the average worker.
A union is also a political force which looks after political interest of workers.
My father in law had Medicare advantage. They denied his claims for skilled nursing that was getting him back on his feet. The facility just downgraded him from skilled nursing and left him in an hallway. He had a cardiac arrest due to low electrolytes ended up back in the ER and never recovered. (Pop quiz, how does someone on an IV end up with low electrolytes? Only way I can think is if they don’t fill the bag)

Why did they deny him? No reason. It’s just standard procedure. They deny, get good justification and approve. They do that every 7 days. They prettied up the language but confirmed that this is exactly what they do.

They literally killed him as part of standard operating procedure.

This country is fucked. Y’all better hope you have enough money to go be old somewhere else.
What about your neighbors? Can you socialize with them? I've gotten to know my neighbors so much more now and that's been a big positive. Also getting outside daily is a must.
> he ran a successful hedge fund

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r07Gg92YjOI
My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of understanding what's useful or possible.
One measure of likelihood for success is how well the name rolls off the tongue.
The problem is that we have no ability to conclusively determine whether or not an asteroid is on a near-collision course, or on an actually-collision course.

And if it's the former, giving it a small bump is just as likely to put it on an actually-collision course as not doing anything at all.
for all the responses going into practical implications... I think @tolmasky is joking
Given your comment, may I so boldly suggest you probably would be happier without your phone.
Disagreed. Social proof is a HUGE signal, even if it's "fake".

> It comes off as disingenuous.

And if the product is valuable to you AND it has logos, I can guarantee you will still use it. This feels like the typical developer trope here of "ads don't work on me".

The reality is that even if products (like Posthog) have developers as users, there is usually someone paying for it that's not the developer. So while you might not like logos, the person opening the wallet usually does.

> A better way is to tell a specific success story. If some unknown brand has a story to tell about how your tool 10x'd their productivity, I'm all ears.

Totally agreed (albeit this isn't mutually exclusive)
Sounds very nice. Is this available for others to use?
It's not fully accurate, but it's accurate enough for lay people. I founded a HealthTech company. I'm very familiar with the rules.

The key here is in the definition of a covered entity: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...

> [list of providers] ...but only if they transmit any information in an electronic form in connection with a transaction for which HHS has adopted a standard.

In grossly simple terms, that means if insurance/medicare/medicaid is not involved, it's not a "transaction for which HHS has adopted a standard"
Re: "the worst". Fedex often leaves my packages next to the road, UPS has delivered a smashed up box with paint flowing out (and has no way to call them), and Walmart parks in my driveway for 20 minutes while they try to figure out what is mine and where they're going next. I've had multiple companies mark things as delivered, and then bring them the next day (presumably to meet a quota). Last mile delivery sucks in general, depending on the specific drivers and how much they're being squeezed. But I'm happy multiple options exist, which includes USPS. For example, USPS's options for sending small packages at reasonable prices, without a negotiated account, is clutch for individuals and small businesses.
"Work through it myself" is almost a contradiction in this case. Definitely look into getting some form of counseling you can afford.

Another thing you can do in parallel is reaching out to other friends/acquaintances you might have lost touch with. Tell them honestly what you appreciate about them and that you'd like to revive the friendship.

In both cases you'll feel awkward and uncertain. It's normal. Also, don't expect any single relationship to fulfill your unmet needs. But making yourself vulnerable to others is the beginning of "working through it yourself".
I think you may be confusing the hardwiring effects of a particular embodiment (birds have a syrinx, humans have a larynx) with a neural predisposition to particular patterns of vocalization.

In any case, you're wrong on the underlying facts as well: various "raised by wolves" cases generally report highly skilled animal mimicry, including birdsong, but a marked difficulty in acquiring human language.
I told them it was a difficult question to answer and that they shouldn't be wholly basing their decisions on what they see today. Job markets shift and so will their interests as they go into university. Be flexible and
build up skills and they'll find something which works well for them. As an example I told them I studied biology and chemistry before moving into CS, and then after being a developer for years I went into teaching.
A/B definitely have some lifetime limits.

https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-insurance/info-02-2009/...

> Medicare Part A covers a stay in the hospital for any single spell of illness or injury within a time frame of 90 days. This is known as a benefit period, and there’s no limit to the number of benefit periods you can have. But if you need to stay in the hospital for more than 90 days with the same illness or injury, you have the option of using some of your 60 lifetime reserve days. These allow you to extend your hospital stay for a higher copayment ($608 a day in 2014). You can use these days—one or more at a time, or as you need them—over the rest of your life. Once the 60 reserve days are exhausted, you would pay the hospital’s full daily charge (except for services covered under Medicare Part B, such as physician visits) if you need to stay in the hospital for more than 90 days in a benefit period.

> Medicare covers only 190 days of inpatient care in a psychiatric hospital in your lifetime.

> Medicare limits the amount of coverage you can get as an outpatient for physical or occupational therapy and speech-language pathology in any given year. In 2014 the limits are $1,920 for occupational therapy and $1,920 for physical therapy and speech-language pathology combined.