skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question!

I have my own essay that tries to summarize it[1], but the entire idea of insurance is to work with pure risk:

- Speculative risk is when you might gain from big events (e.g., VC)
- Pure risk is when you will only lose from big events.

The entire job of an insurance company is straightforward: take a little bit of premium calculated by actuarial data (historically represented as a table), then pay out large checks to the people who have an unlikely event.

I have a prevailing axiom that 3-10% of the population makes it difficult for the rest of us, and insurance gets complicated for that reason:

- people lie about claim damages
- claims adjusters sometimes find legal ways to not pay claims
- actuarial/legal framing can allow non-coverage of something that ought to be covered in good faith (e.g., driving your car out-of-state)

Now, that's the POV of the insurance company, which sets some context I wish I had had.

The POV of the party seeking insurance is that they're transferring pure risk, then paying rent to the insurer for it. It's possible to recurse this, and an insurer can become the insured by packaging up a bunch of risks and hand it off to other insurers for a price. I'm not THAT knowledgeable, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's what insurance orgs that took on too much risk actually do relatively often when they got a bit ambitious.

The tech world could actually learn a thing or two additionally from insurance. The secret to a functional insurance company with a liquidity issue is to, effectively, do nothing and wait for customers' insurance premiums to replenish the money supply. "Do nothing" is the exact opposite mantra of "Move fast and break things", and there's a time/place for both!

[1] https://notageni.us/insurance/
Not if it's a dent in someone else's car that your customer caused.
Using a MacBook Pro to check email (or any other non-intensive task) does not endanger the lives of other's checking their email on "lesser" devices, nor school kids.
> If you intentionally restrict its use on whatever platform i see fit then you are getting a negative review.

The flip side of this coin is that when they don't restrict it, it's viewed as supported, and they get bad reviews when it doesn't work perfectly on those platforms they don't test on.
Too much dependency on a soft enemy?
Cool project! I worked on a hybrid airship project.

H vs He. H for the win. H gives 10% more lift than He, and you can manufacture more H. Long-term this efficiency will allow you to haul more sensor payload, or to make a more useful aircraft. H has been used as a lifting gas on other projects in the U.S., and besides, your aircraft is unmanned.

Wind concerns. Addressable, but there will be some days you'll simply be grounded due to high winds. So are helicopters, though. Long-term you may want to look at hybrid lift designs for your aircraft (add some wings for aerodynamic lift, and make it net heavier than air).

Business concerns. The HN community has given some great feedback. The sales cycle will be long, so plan accordingly.
So apart from being a bit higher up - what is the benefit of the SUV?

Edit: It's a question I keep asking myself, my wife still has a SUV...
that wouldn't be so bad if the paywalls were itty-bitty, like fractions of a cent. and we had a more seamless way to pay them, like some kind of in-browser wallet that responded to "requires-payment" http headers

in fact, i think that'd be great
> Mastercard and Visa are always accepted either one is accepted

Not the case.

Visa credit cards ($V) can be used at 44 million merchant locations in more than 200 countries and territories.

Mastercard credit cards ($MA) are accepted at 37 million merchant locations in more than 210 countries and territories.

So they're different, which doesn't matter at all except if you're stuck somewhere!

Odds are both are accepted, but it's worth checking a destination country or area within a country before traveling with just one or the other.

It might surprise that even in popular countries, V/MA might not be the most widely accepted. It's only recently that CB didn't beat both in France, though for a while CB+V was more common on a door than CB+MA, but now a CB logo usually includes both V and MA.

https://histoire.bnpparibas/en/the-carte-bleue-a-french-succ...

Also, this is a good synthesis of the duopoly* problem, perhaps less of an issue (aka lower rates) in EU likely thanks to the nationals like CB:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4536466-visa-and-mastercard...

* About duopoly: Visa has less than a 50 percent share, MasterCard has less than 40 percent, Discover has 18 percent, and American Express has 15 percent. V and MA acting as if 90% share is most likely "conscious parallelism".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion#Conscious_para...

See the duopoly example at the end of the article suggesting a multi-round (long term) Nash equilibrium for parallelism.
Chicken presence anyway.

I tell you the bugs you see when deploying something in the real world...
All I know is Lutris is meant to handle every windows game client: GOG, Steam, Origin, and so on.
Energy density is energy / volume. You're talking about energy / mass; the more correct term for that is "specific energy".
I have a similar setup, but used an actuator for the door, so it can't be pried open by a racoon. I use Home Assistant rules to open and close the door according to readings from a light sensor in the coop.
For some background - I'm a T1D working on a search engine and conversational interface for integrating a bunch of new data sources and models into metabolic decision making: https://replica.health. I've also been a user of and worked on various open source artificial pancreas systems through the years, and am currently on Loop.

>I would have thought by now they'd have hacked 2 patch-pump AIDs to work simultaneously.

As you pointed out, the problem is not really hardware. It could technically be done in a straightforward way using two independently controlled insulin pumps, but the complexity and risk of the whole operation goes way up if you are taking way more insulin. Taking a bunch of insulin and glucagon at the same time is not necessarily a great idea either - they don't just annihilate each other without consequence and you could end up with secondary effects like gaining a bunch of weight.

>Because this feels like a holy grail / functional cure

Unfortunately it is not; even dual hormone systems have problems keeping up w/ the kinetics of glucose absorption and to address this there is also research into tri-hormonal systems, w/ amylin as the third hormone. In any case you will still need some a-priori info about meals and planned activities, though less so than with a single hormone system. Integration of exogenous data sources to provide this info to the APS is what we are working on at Replica.

Also, hate to be the bearer of bad news but beta bionics has shelved their dual hormone ambitions for now; their prototype device soon to be released is insulin-only. On the bright side there is a small Dutch company whose tech predates beta-bionics. They sell a dual hormone device and will give it to you for a ton of $ (and probably have you sign a bunch of waivers): https://www.inredadiabetic.nl/en/discover-the-ap/
Van Rossum, Gosling, Goldberg, Hejlsberg panel and live discussion at PyData '23
Haven't they switched to coulomb counting? No need to infer state of charge from voltage alone.
Two years unmasking a well-funded Silicon Valley 'apocalypse cult'
> Google v Oracle decided in the US Supreme court that APIs are not copyrightable.

This is not true. The appeals court ruled that the API was copyrightable, and the Supreme Court opted not to rule on whether or not APIs are copyrightable.

What the Supreme Court actually ruled on is that in this specific instance, Google's use of the API would qualify as fair use - and thus it didn't matter if the API is copyrightable or not.
> It's also, of course, more to add to the patient's maintenance

I agree with all that you've said, and this point in particular is extremely important. It's also the reason I moved from a DIY system like the one mentioned here, to a commercial system, once the latter was available. There is simply less hardware and software to juggle with the commercial system. There are fewer knobs, bells, and whistles, meaning I might not be able to tweak things to be in as tight control as might be possible with a DIY system (though with risks!), but overall it's been "good enough" for me, and greatly reduces the cognitive burden of having T1D. My experience clearly doesn't match everyone's, but considering I'm typically someone who loves to tinker, and has plenty of T1D experience (engineer, 34 years with T1D), I'm sure I'm far from the only one that feels this way. My glycemic control isn't significantly better than it was when I did it via constant monitoring and mental math, but the cognitive and emotional burden is much lower.
Their fall from grace, at least when it comes to the tech community, has been quite a sight. Has any other big tech company seen such a change in opinion? I’m not sure Microsoft was ever beloved and even though Apple might have lost some of its sheen, there are definitely a lot of fans left.
A relative of mine got scammed for tens of thousands of dollars exactly this way. They are college educated, COO of the company they founded in the US, and thought they were just making a new friend over several months after receiving a message that was addressed to them by error.
Reducing weight sure is the most effective way to improve efficiency.

The best Tesla model 3 uses 25 kWh / 100 miles and weighs two tons.
A top of the line cargo bike like the Tern GSD is capable of carrying passengers and luggage using only ~1 kWh / 100 miles, because it weighs only 75 pounds.

Slightly reducing the weight of the battery pack in a full sized car is missing the forest for the trees when it comes to lowering transportation emissions. As long as we're supply constrained for lithium battery cells, those 50 kWh of batteries going into the Tesla would be better going into 50-100 e-cargo bikes that each take a car off the road.
‘Full Metal Jacket’ Seduced My Generation and Sent Us to War
I thought it was because apes fight by grabbing and tearing, so with that evolutionary pressure applied you basically end up with the minimum effective protrusion.

Also, this is why I plan to avoid fighting apes or at least try to wear some good pants if I do.
> to fortnight, of all things

What would be an acceptable thing to be addicted to, in your opinion?
I appreciate the thinking behind the piece then!

The fact they mentioned ITAR leads me to believe this was spearheaded by corporate counsel to limit liability.

Also the main difference between this and other open source is they’re still hosting the language models so have a much larger liability in usage.
There was an article on HN a couple of weeks ago that conjectured it might apply to GPT-3.5 Turbo as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006224
I highly recommend you read Kavanugh's opinion; he rather elegantly lays out how it was in fact the majority that was warping the definitions laid out in the statute and departing from the text. Someone else already posted a small excerpt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324065
People comparing this to Google are missing the point. Google doesn't put popup on Microsoft websites in Chrome to switch to Google equivalent, not even on Office online or other places where Microsoft may be dominant. Chrome acts as a platform and doesn't add shady stuff or popups to any websites you view, which is what is expected of a platform. Microsoft also put things into MSOffice which work better on Windows (and trust me Office on Mac is missing so so many features compared to Windows), and that too is a problem, but much smaller than an OS doing shady things like this.
This has been what I’ve been hoping for. Can be make forming a union a SaaS product? Build a unionize social network that helps people assemble.
I don’t believe there is something a dev is coding right now that will affect current quarter results.

I just don’t see it.

But I see bunch of middle managers who think it will affect their bonus if they push little guys to deliver sooner.
> Lawsuits are like nuclear war in this instance.

Are they? Because big companies seem to sue each other all the time, even while actively collaborating in other areas. Is Linus suing NVIDIA for blatantly working around technical measures to prevent copyright infringement really worse than Apple suing Samsung for selling phones that look like theirs, or than Oracle suing Google because they made Java-compatible APIs?

> If someone starts the ball rolling, it's a long and expensive legal battle with tons of parties involved. Consider the Oracle v Google lawsuit which started in 2010 and was resolved in 2021.

Sounds more like normal "war". Yeah, you'd have to figure out who would finance Linus' side, but it doesn't seem like it should be that difficult.

> With the number of companies involved in the kernel you are looking at a much longer and more expensive trial all around.

Why would other companies be involved? Linus doesn't have to sue everyone, he can just sue NVIDIA. Other companies might submit briefs, but that would be voluntary.
A lot of the actual creators do it for free. Like your comment and mine right here.

But often, the one providing the infrastructure on which they do it is making money via some mechanism. That's also part of the "grand bargain". You make your YouTube video or your TikTok or your Facebook comment or your Wordpress page. The company provides the hosting, in exchange for ads shown to the people who see your content.

(That's not exactly true of our comments here on HN, and I admit I don't entirely understand that. It seems to be a combination of an inexpensive-to-provide service and a general goodwill-generator, along with a medium for some content they want distributed.)

I think that comprises a very significant majority of creators: somebody somewhere is subsidizing it, even if there's an extra step involved. Though yeah, the creators themselves are probably getting demoralized, too. They want to feel their creative juices flowing and to experience some kind of connection with other people in sharing it. AI dilutes the former and sucks up the latter.
in case you were not already aware, the new Twitter does nothing for threaded views if one is not logged in. Linking to Nitter is one option, but I believe doing so eats their api key quota so thankfully someone has already unrolled this "I couldn't be bothered to even make a github gist for my blog post" tire fire: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1696521808143683812.html

or, if you prefer: https://nitter.net/iamvlaaaaaaad/status/1696521808143683812
I wonder how many significant dimensions a principal components analysis would identify for that data set, and if one of them would correspond to male/female.
Got it. Yeh, not great. Reported as a bug
I've always driven a small car and it's what I prefer to drive. They're easy to handle, I like being able to not worry as much about navigating tight curbs, and fit into smaller or "small car only" parking spaces, etc.

But man, sometimes I pull up beside one of these absurdly huge modern trucks and I'm basically just staring at their wheels. It's terrifying to think if I collided head-on with one of these, they'd probably just run me over. Or the entire truck body would shave off the top of my car, along with my head.

It makes me want to upgrade to a stupid big vehicle too, just for my own safety.
> Just admit it was because you needed to keep people from panicking.

That’s a generous assumption.
Well, 27 years and nearly unlimited money—I feel like the presence or absence of that would affect my answer quite a bit :-)
> And this inevitably means you get an overrepresentation of

Why do you assume this very consistent pattern of 'new forum overrun by [the material you've mentioned]' is anything other than a transparent attack on free discourse?

I mean, it's very consistent, isn't it? Everyone knows it happens, and it's a good way to scare people off even thinking about visiting those forums if they think that any day they could go there and have their browser history full of ick.
> Not a fan of the bare words instead of strings either

It is consistent with HTML however, especially the fact that both collapse whitespace.
> You realize that the origin of their changing stance is because they got someone killed, right?

The ACLU didn't get anyone killed, violent right-wing individuals did. The right to have a political protest rally is enshrined in the Constitution.

Consider the looting and rioting that took place following the George Floyd protests. It would be absurd to suggest that because violence and crime was happening at some of these events, the political speech they represented might not be worth protecting.
>Waterfall is a pacifier for people who would rather have lies than uncertainty.

This is the truth. It's painful to see, but some people would prefer to light millions of dollars on fire than admit they don't know.
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230830160508/https://www.nytim...
Well we all know what happens when countries stop trading. Here's hoping cooler heads prevail on both sides.
They forgot to mention Google Code. It was a nice place for a while, made Google seem like a really nice company.
DRM refers to code which enforces (or attempts to enforce) license restrictions. So, by definition, writing code which attempts to enforce GPL compliance from kernel modules is DRM.

The GPL itself is just an idea. I can download GNU emacs, strip out any reference to freedom, and distribute that to others under my own proprietary license. I would be violating the license, obviously, and a court could prevent me from doing so, but nothing in Emacs itself would.
Retainers are the most timely of client payments.

Retainers that are applied against final invoice insure all payments are timely.

Retainers filter clients who intend to not pay.

Retainers are better than contracts.

Good luck.
There is no consensus among the BRICS or other countries. All of them would like to have alternatives to the US Dollar for international trade settlement. None of them can agree on what that alternative should be. For example, there's no way that India will agree to widespread use of the Chinese Yuan.
Field work always finds the "what the heck" bugs that lab work never could.
If it's Chromium, it's a web browser. Steam? Web browser. Literally any Electron app? Web browser.
Food is provided by for profit companies, and buying food is mandatory for the sheer majority of people. Yet on the whole it's mostly a functioning market with mostly stable prices, apart from the recent spikes of trumpflation.

The problem is lack of competition, both in pure number of companies due to consolidation, and also widespread collusion between what should be independent companies in the form of adopting the same business policies, software, and even surveillance databases (aka customer records).
No, there isn't a hardware problem and such systems exist. Several trials[1-3] dating back several years have looked at "bionic pancreas" or a closed loop bihormonal system.

Inreda (a Dutch company) has a CE-marked device[4] that can be clinically used but one limitation has been glucagon stability (has to be replenished daily). Tandem in the US was working on this as well but I haven't heard anything about them in a while, not sure how far along they are.

The Inreda product is still in the early stages of testing but fully functional. Small crossover trials seem promising (defined by more time in euglycemic state).

There is a competing approach with "intelligent insulin" or a self-regulating glucose sensitive insulin formulation that has different bioavailability depending on circulating glucose levels rather than relying on a monitor, this is farther out from clinical use.

One of the reasons bihormonal pumps haven't entered mainstream use yet is that it's more expensive/complicated and the current techniques of algorithmic predictions of hypoglycemic episodes and insulin delivery suspension are already very good that hypo isn't much of a problem with modern devices like Tandem's offering.

Medtronic has added a meal detection algorithm[5] that's really good too (the best on the market I'm told by my endo colleagues) and they say we're getting close to not needing meal announcement anymore, this practically eliminates carb counting. It's the first such algorithm to be in clinical use so we're not there yet but the expectation is that this approach will get us there.

The question (for glucagon) then becomes how clinically useful more time in euglycemia is as the hypo episode problem is essentially solved, we'll need more data to draw any conclusions and it will take a while for this particular question as many of the outcome measures are long-term (i.e. what are the long-term sequela of mild intermittent hyperglycemia, it's somewhere between nothing and uncontrolled diabetes but how far along on that line is the billion dollar question).

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28007348/

[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstrac...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24931572/

[4] https://www.inredadiabetic.nl/en/discover-the-ap/

[5] https://www.medtronicdiabetes.com/products/minimed-780g-insu...
Tuition at Midland is listed at $73,000 for the 23-24 school year
Objectively slower than large/small strings. I don't think it requires that much nuance to understand the point.
"Some are fit, and thus ought, to rule others"

That sounds a lot like Wilhoit's formulation: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Okay, but it's posted here, so the GP's reaction is not unwarranted. If it was not meant to be seen by anyone other than those people then it shouldn't have been posted.
I'm sure that they never expected their disruption to actually change anyone's mind. Of course, they're never going to admit this, and will always claim to be "peacefully raising awareness" or somesuch. They won't say: "we're gonna go irritate hundreds of people, then get arrested on camera for publicity".

People will think about this story-they'll be thinking about how to donate to the Paiute Tribal Police auxiliary fund so the guys in the truck can have a cookout after work.
Same, I don't buy their metrics because sure, the average person might search 3/4 times per day, but the average person isn't gonna pay for Kagi. A quick glance at the most popular search queries[1] shows a very likely scenario where people type what website they want to go to and then just stay there.

I'm a heavy Google user, to the point that I can't switch to DuckDuckGo because the quality just isn't there, and by exporting and analyzing a month worth of web history I counted 4507 searches (not counting going after the first page, which Kagi counts as a separate search). I don't really see who the standard plan is aimed at.

Sadly the ultimate plan is way too expensive for me, 25$/mo is what an internet plan costs here!

1. Using Google Trends (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US) gives me: "google" "youtube" "weather" "facebook" "translate" "whatsapp" "amazon" "instagram" ...
> And this inevitably means you get an overrepresentation of open white supremacists, CSAM enjoyers, teenage edgelords and trolls.

This is not a problem for free speech organizations, though, since they have the ability to choose which cases they represent.

They can (and do, I'm sure) often weigh the perception of bias in which cases they take on next.