skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't those systems have substantially less capabilities? In particular, swap/paging, virtual memory, multi-processor support, and low-ish latency?

GC is easy if you don't have to worry about those problems.
Does "people of colour" also include immigrants on some types of professional work visa? Was there a change in policy settings for visas or for tax-breaks that might coincidentally have contributed to such an outcome?
It’s both, you need to have developed good taste and you should take an iterative approach to development.
Not the person who posted the comment you're responding to, but I'm trying to make sense of what you're saying

> Regulation isn't the problem, or even part of the problem. Wealth inequality is. Which is counterbalanced by progressive taxation.

> But none of you want the rich to pay taxes, so here we are

Where did the above poster say that wealth inequality wasn't part of the problem. Restrictive regulation is likely a cause of the consolidation of wealth (scarce, essential assets tend to go up in value, and when the supply is restricted and demand unbounded, even more so). If access to drinkable water was privatized and regulatory bottlenecks restricted new entrants from producing and distributing it, you can imagine how that would lead to more dramatic wealth inequality also (and poor people dying of dehydration).

GP said:

> > I think we have a situation where part of the population is literally voting to appropriate wealth from another part of the population.

Housing is one of the tools (and by no means the only one) that the plutocrats are using to widen the wealth gap.

> But none of you want the rich to pay taxes, so here we are

I don't know why you're assuming this, but I agree with GP and, of course, also want the rich to pay more taxes. Based on everything they've said, I can't imagine they feel differently.

> Maybe they can just take this year off instead, by taking this month's income and camping indefinitely, pulling the plug on the rat race and just living. Eventually forming small communal city states that provide for their citizens while the business world consumes itself since it doesn't produce anything like workers do.

> > At the same time, those people who do not own a house are wising up to the scheme and so they increasingly refuse to work or provide value to society. Instead, they resort to their own financial schemes, illegal activity, freeloading government benefits; they've checked out from the system.

Sounds almost like the two of you are saying the same thing here, though GP is using words which lean more negative in connotation
Were you recently unfrozen from cryo? Clinics in pharmacies, like CVS and Walgreens, staffed by NPs or PAs have been a thing for a while now and have done heroic stuff during the pandemic. For the majority of common complaints the care delivered by an NP or PA is on par with that of an MD and much cheaper and more accessible to most people.

For example, I work at a major medical center of some repute, and it takes months to get any kind of appointment there, while I can usually get in same day at the pharmacy clinic. In fact, they are so good, my employer has bought up a bunch and slapped their name on them.
Agree that's wouldn't be right ... but proof of identity should solve for both as long as there was reciprocity between governments.
See Ghostgum

http://www.ghostgum.com.au/
In Yemen just $4. I don’t think it’s worth comparing countries.
The perils of under-regulation, of regulatory capture, and the naivete of individual day-traders. There are no incentives to increase regulation, but there are incentives and inducements to look the other way and to par back the regulatory environment even further. Hell, one of LTCM is even getting airplay these days and saying how they really only made a tiny, correctable mistake but that they were completely right otherwise.
The fact that excluding health insurance actually lowers the price makes me wonder what the point of health insurance is anymore.
Governments, banks, and tech corps say they “protect vulnerable communities”
I wonder, however, whether it could track stars from the ground during the day. Might well only have worked at night.
There is an infinite quantity of both rational and irrational numbers, so isn't it therefore impossible for there to be more of one than of the other? Or is the reasoning that, because there is an infinite quantity of irrational numbers between any two given rational numbers, there are therefore many more irrational numbers than rational numbers? I would have thought that there being an infinite quantity of both, makes it impossible to compare the quantities.
It's difficult to compare because honestly most reviewers just suck at making meaningful comparisons.

You can't compare a chip running at 3ghz with one running at 5ghz. It just doesn'tell you anything useful about the architecture, only what the company configuring the chip thought mattered.

Being "only" 30% faster but using twice the power at 5ghz, for example, is entirely expected. Chances are the M1 couldnt even run that fast, or it would end up using just as much power if it did.
Reasonable hypothesis. What methods do they use?
That's largely what MacOS does.
It is for the six and seven figure heart surgery/NICU baby/cancer treatment.

Edit: My question is, is Sesame paying the doctors less, or are you actually paying $29 for a Nurse Practicioner/Physician's Assistant?
My electronics instructor in the 90s had worked in industry in the 70s/80s at Ball aerospace. One of the jobs he worked on there was building at test fixture for the star navigation systems from IIRC the first space shuttle.
He said it involved going through thousands of LEDs (expensive at the time) and bin them based on brightness so they could arrange them based on the intensity of the stars.

Interesting to see similar stuff here :)
> It might be marginally safer for the driver, but due to reduced visibility, it is less safe for pedestrians and cyclists.

do you have any data or just feelings?
why didnt nature ask for this control?
> then what?

Then it us a "simulation". "Pixels" of reality rendering.
People talking about this supplanting standard health insurance plans: how does this change the calculus at all? We have health insurance primarily for “disastrous” health costs from very large health needs. This thing doesn’t sound like it provides child delivery or cancer care.
Doomers are plentiful, he's really not that special. His points are just plain wrong and the conclusions are doubtful.

> Grimly, McGuire likens the human population to bacteria in a petri dish. When these bacteria multiply, uncontrollably, their number becomes so big that they can no longer sustain themselves in the dish. At this point, they die

> There’s one projection that by 2050, crop yields may be down by up to 30 per cent, at a time when the world will need 50 per cent more food [to account for population growth],”

Oh wow, I take what I said back. He's even more wrong than the usual doomer.

For one, we're not running out of food. The old idea of a planetary "carrying capacity" for humans has long been busted: technology progresses and makes food production more efficient. We might run out of good agricultural land, but that just means we need to clear out more or shift to hydroponics. As the price of food increases, that's a signal to the market to devote more resources to growing food, making more intensive methods of farming possible.

> Now in the countryside, McGuire’s house has walls that are two-thirds of a metre thick, to keep the heat out

Doesn't more insulation keep the heat in? Traditional construction in the tropics where I come from are not giant insulated blocks for good reason, that's how you die from overheating yourself without air conditioning.

> Then there is the water supply. He says it is important to be self-sufficient. “I am doing a lot of rainwater harvesting. The summers in Britain will be seeing consistent temperatures of 40 degrees plus, so water is going to be a huge issue,”

We won't run out of water the same reason we won't run out of food. Once the cheap water is gone, you turn to more expensive methods -- drilling, then desalination. Of course it's more expensive -- that's the whole point -- marginal increases in cost allows for more expensive methods of production. The same way increasing oil prices allows for deep sea drilling, increasing water prices will allow for desalination and other such technologies.

I really don't know why people keep thinking we'll run out of food and water. We won't. It'll get more expensive as cheaper sources run out, sure, but we won't run out.
NaN is only one of the most obvious. Catastrophic precision loss from cancellation can leave you oscillating for no obvious reason.
Every year, HUD establishes the ceilings for rental payments, plus utility allowances. Let's say that the ceiling in Houston is $1,800 for a 1BR apartment. That means that landlords who charge $1,800 or less to rent such a unit, are the only ones eligible to participate in the HCV (Section 8) program.

Therefore, people will colloquially refer to HCV-participant communities as "Affordable Housing" because if a landlord charges $1801.00, they're not eligible to receive HUD payments and HCV holders literally can't afford to live there.

Therefore, the landlords are presented with a bright-line; either they're in this public housing "project" or they're not.

Speaking of Projects, the "old way" was for HUD to build the buildings and HUD more-or-less directly managed the Project Housing, and the way it's gone with commercial landlords is a relatively new development, if you will.
I remember a game developer on a podcast saying that business relations in the field where not just about the money, and commitment and proof of perseverance was the strongest currency.

Basically each game developer is gambling their time and livelyhood, and no one would start a game studio just to make money (that would be crazy given the odds). In this respect, a platform has to also show they're commited and will fight in the trenches with everyone else when winter comes (basically the exact opposite of Stadia...).

Unity playing with developers' trust feels like showing your pregnant wife divorce papers. You can retract it and apologize, but it will never be the same from there after.
Cost is not the only reason to prefer wired over wireless.
110% agreed.

Allowing (and requiring!) insurance companies to negotiate their own discounts over-complicates the system and distorts price transparency and signalling.

And group insurance is an ideal that's outlived its utility. It made sense when there were non-trivial actuarial and administrative costs to pricing an individual, but we've got computers now. No reason the pool shouldn't be everyone.
I was pointing to being a 'techie' because in my experience, with non-techies, it isn't that obvious to just buy a reader/player.

My parents for instance were surprised to learn that the reader didn't need to be built into the laptop and could be a separate usb thing. They just figured that they'd need to pay for a service to get the discs converted to files on a flash drive similar to how they had previously done for taped videos rather than thinking that they can just buy a reader.
Any medical doctors out there? I've read that most doctors are $500K in the hole when they're all finished with school.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use threads,” and then two they hav erpoblesms. – Ned Batchelder
I mean that if you have COVID, the blow valve means you can readily expose other people. N95 masks are safer all around.
When I read the heading then I was of the view that it is about how high the prices of Telehealth is but it was other way. Is it just me or anyone else also feels that the prices are pretty high? Does the article talks about Specialist or General Practitioners?

Disclaimer: I work as a Software Engineer for a Telehealth company
I've already watch, this grammar is pretty good.
And? That doesn't explain anything. What rules is the "simulation" following? If it's not following any, how come reality behaves so consistently in most respects?
Still having issues with swype, im way faster with normal typing.
And that $220K is just for medical school, a 4-year degree before entry could be an extra $100K on top (even assuming many state schools with inter-state students).

For other things Community Collage may suffice, but Medical Schools are extremely competitive with spots being artificially restricted while the population continues to grow, so it is very unlikely that a Community Collage applicants even with good scores would be accepted.

PS - Medical residence also often get paid a low enough salary and their loans kick in, that it can be a financial struggle without family support. There is a reason why many come from wealthy families.
Romero does have some amazing recall.. it’s a little weird but it does cause his apple 2 podcast to get a little strange when he remembers things for his guests.

It’s probably the least steady released podcast (1 per year?) about apple 2 but some of the interviews are pretty fun and the stories of the biz back in the day are interesting. Also one about the apple disk imager “applesauce”

https://appletimewarp.libsyn.com/

Also now on YouTube

https://youtube.com/@appletimewarppodcast1264?si=gXGs6VAFzPo...
Oh, it's a vast field of corruption. Don't look around or into if you want to keep your blood pressure low.

Cause, y'know. It'll cost an arm and a leg to take care of that. With your insurance.
I thought it was odd at first, but then I saw the author was from "Cambridge" and that cleared things up.

For those that don't know: "jab" was a derogatory slang used in the US when people would discuss the COVID vaccine in a negative way. I believe the US uses the word "shot" instead (not that it has any better connotations).
If you're suggesting that OpenAI's morality filters are responsible for a significant part of their voice response latency, then no. I think that's unlikely to be a relevant factor.
Why? Your added context only explains why a police officer might choose not to protect them. It's irrelevant because all it does is explain the observation they were making it doesn't make the observation less true.
Depends, Sometimes build logs and other CI/CD can have credentials to other systems in plaintext form.
It's all tradeoffs. Desktop users are happy for 20% more performance at 2x power draw - and they get the fastest processors in existence (at single thread) as a result.

Data centres want whatever gets them the most compute per dollar spent - if a GPU costs 20k you bet they want it running at max power, but if it's a 1k CPU then suddenly efficiency is more important.

It's all tradeoffs to get what you want.
In particular, taking a leisurely stroll through /etc is quite a treat if you enjoy a well planted and diverse bed of configuration cultures.

Over on one end you have papersize, a file containing a single word with seemingly no relation to any installed software. In httpd.conf we have a sort of SGML that’s mostly line oriented CDATA. aliases and many other mail files are all members of the Berkeley DB lineage of key value stores. default/ feels like it’s also a key value store but one suspects that one could probably put a command in there and something would execute it. rc.d is 99% code but with semantics in the symlinks too (see also Debian’s alternatives.) A very large number of files look like braced C code; named.conf even requires terminal semicolons!

There’s no value in either consistency or diversity of the underlying implementation be it a registry — the registry, or a gconf thing — or a filesystem smorgasbord of config languages. Without the discipline (authoritarianism?) of a social structure — for example a “company” with a hierarchical leadership that can promote/fire you — you will get diversity in any system.

I just reminded myself of the time I used ansible YAML Jinja templates to control EdgeRouter config files that programmatically built config in /etc. Time for a leisurely stroll in a real garden I think, far away from a computer.
It is information that is so incredibly useful, and this is shown by how ubiquitous such labels became elsewhere in the world only after they were pioneered by the FDA first.

People might be surprised by this, but as far as I can tell such Nutritional Facts labelling didn't start being required on packaging in Europe until the late 90's, several years after the full mandate in the US and nearly a decade after the original proposal in the US.
To be fair, the users didn't ask for much by and large. They wanted better graphics and good physics with more game world to explore.

That's not really a huge leap. The issue really is, as it is with many things, scope creep. In KSP2's case, it's scope creep to such an extent where, they have long forgotten what people loved about the original whimsy rocket building game.

Like, better graphics really just needed to be better textures, and to make round things actually round. Good physics just needed to be "stuff doesn't randomly explode or become unstable while at rest". They absolutely could have done this... they just... didn't.
Agreed; Hanlon’s Razor applies here.
And technically, that's what health insurance always should have been for.

Allowing insurers to step in the middle of smaller, everyday health transactions by empowering them to negotiate price fundamentally screwed up the system.

There's no reason insurance should be involved in non-catastrophic or routine pharmaceutical purchasing.
Sean Carroll recently did a podcast with Amy Finkelstein on insurance markets. I think you'd find it interesting. A paradoxical advantage of employer health care is that it prevents people (and insurers) from choosing.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/04/10/232-...
To give people an idea: that's 3x the RAM and about 2x the CPU power of the contemporary Macintosh (512k of ram (not expandable), and a 7.8MHz).

It wasn't until the Macintosh II came out that there was a mac that was strictly more powerful than the LaserWriter, and by then the LaserWriter IINTX was available; similar CPU to the Mac II, but more base memory and could be expanded to more total memory.
The solution is to have universal catastrophic insurance for all citizens automatically, say $100k or some number. Combine that with tax-deductible health savings accounts and a competitive retail healthcare market, you find a sweet spot between universal and for-profit.

Anyone who thinks the universal model standard in Canada and the UK is actually working has a hole in their head. The solution is a combo.
How does the word "real" serve practical purpose, besides for the fun of logic / language game? It's a tool that we use and we found useful.
Try Aoe2 I never played it until last year, and now it’s my favorite game of all time
Just build the damn thing.
No you don't. You just have to demonstrate your competency to do the job. Running the gauntlet is only meant to winnow the massive number of applications the FAANGs get from unqualified people. Inevitably it fails to capture the best talent because they aren't going to waste time studying for leetcode junk and subject themselves to a callous, dehumanizing screen. It isn't a normal part of a proper hiring process and it is a disservice to the industry to normalize such behavior by suggesting otherwise. It's absolutely comical when small companies think it's a good idea to replicate this and force applicants through an excessive number of interviews stretching over months.
It’s not my problem, as I’ve enthusiastically agreed with you in multiple posts in this thread.

I think treating reading as necessarily some kind of “elevated” activity is weird and incorrect. It’s not, necessarily. It’s often in fact not. And yet one can still read, and enjoy it, that being the case. Folks can, should, and do read whatever they please, for a whole bunch of purposes. And I don’t have a problem with that. It’d be strange if I did, being one of those same folks who reads for a whole bunch of purposes.

I’m rebutting the notion that books have to be improving. They often really, really aren’t. And that’s fine, we don’t need to pretend the activity’s always morally superior to binging Stranger Things or something. It’s often not, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The “readers are special” faction is who I’ve got beef with, to the extent I have any.
If society had more of a safety net, had more surplus capacity & safety, I think more people would get involved with government & try to run.

As largely software people, we're intimiately familiar with customer funnels, where X people see a thing, Y people click in and Z people sign up. The funnel winnows. The issue here just seems deeply personal & deeply simple: most people will not have the spare capacity to try to stake in to government. They won't make it to the first step.

It's bad for society that so few people can afford to try. There's a host of other factors about what on-ramps are available, what support there is, figuring out how to find & grow a base of constituents to represent... but before all these other factors, I feel like democracy is too expensive to even start to directly aid, requires such enormous sacrifice of time & energy.

Right now it seems absurd & ridiculous to imagine, but I hope some day we can dream up & experiment with participative online information architectures to such a degree where we feel like maybe democracy could or should start seeing if it can lower the entrance barrier some via online-mediated engagement, see if we can find ways to distribute power out better & more such that we can bring people in.
Perhaps these are backups or archives.
I'm pleasantly surprised -- this makes pixels much more easy to recommend to relatives. Still not the top choice over iphones, as those are just much easier to maintain as the designated family tech support guy, but at least it's not completely out of the picture.
I assume they would have gotten around to testing it if the space shuttle program ever got anywhere near its planned operational capacity.

But with only 4 operational shuttles, ~20 days maximum ndurance and only 5-10 flights per year, it was simply enough to just avoid scheduling any mission in the latter half of December.

(Though, I notice STS-103 departed for an 8 day mission on December 19th 1999. That was cutting it close)
The US government does offer a massive carrot for people to choose high deductible health plans, in the form of the most tax advantaged account you can have, a Health Savings Account.

The root problem is most Americans are too poor to afford healthcare at the current prices of doctors/medicines/medical equipment/liability protection/etc, period.
I mean mediocre. There was nothing special about it. It wasn’t even that good. There have been much better looking pixel art games made. The style of Fez came from Phil redoing the art 3 times, outsourcing the character design, and still managed to release it.

And never seen old games? I grew up on Atari. I’ve been playing games since. Even made a few. Fez was amazing but not for its art. It was flat. I still enjoyed it. I think gamers shouldn’t get so hung up on pushing their systems to the limits and instead should focus on pushing their play to the limit.
Nothing much really. It is just they know a guy personally who can pay their high salary. If you know also someone like that just go get your high earning.
I generally agree though barely stayed with Pixel+GOS after my last Pixel refused to turn on after plugging it in before a nap, leaving me with a totally bricked phone, no way of recovering local data on the device, and a $100 bill to replace it since the screen was cracked - despite it being dead because of manufacturer defects, and a broken screen having no bearing on it's death.

If I wasn't such a fan of GrapheneOS, I would have ditched Pixel so fast.
It wasn't a rootkit. It was just a sloppily made DRM solution.