skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This deserves a separate response.

>> Was my family being scammed when we were paying $600 per month for excellent insurance?
> Thinking that $600 a month for health care is OK is your mistake.

What? That is what we were paying. If it cost more, we would have paid more. Not sure how you magically reach this conclusion at all. Explain?

And then Obamacare tripled it?

Even worse, our healthcare costs, adjusted for income, was roughly at the same ratio for DECADES before Obamacare. When our cost was tripled, our income did not double or triple.

Also, our $600 per month also meant that others were paying a lot less. Smaller families or individuals.

> The average American was already paying through the nose back in 2010, compared to other developed nations.

First of all, stop comparing nations. It's nonsensical. Even worse if we are talking about averages.

You cannot apply the average to the population.

You learn this in a first year course on statistics.

What matters is the probability distribution. The average is so flawed that nobody who understands statistics would dare use it for serious comparisons or decision making. Politicians and those who don't understand elementary statistics love it though.

Probability distribution is a far better metric, even if the distribution is divided into a (sufficient) number of bands.

Here's real data from 2022:

https://i.imgur.com/18ea7xB.png

This chart represents ten insurance premium bands and shows the probability distribution. The average (which is an average of averages) is somewhere around $22K per year. This is meaningless. It is easy to see that approximately 75% of insured pays over $20K per year. In a prior comment you called my situation an "anecdote". Sorry, 75% isn't even close to an anecdote.

It also shows that somewhere around 50% pay between $14K and the average of $22K. And only 6% pay less than $14K (and we don't know what that distribution looks like).

With approximately 300 million people covered by various forms of insurance, the above means:

225 million pay over $20K per year
150 million pay between $14K and $22K per year
18 million pay less than $14K (no info on distribution)

If you look at wage growth in the US, adjusted for inflation, the easy conclusion is that the cost of health coverage as a percentage of real income has increased year over year. This is not a good outcome at all.

I have to go back to Obama's promises. He said --on video, multiple times-- that the average family (yeah, I know) would save $2,500 a year. He lied.

This problem isn't a simple one. It is made far more complex by government players who are too busy fighting each other rather than doing good things for the nation. We have been promised better healthcare and education for decades. What we have to day is worse on almost all fronts. This needs to change.
Yes, using Bitcoin/other cryptocurrencies is always a good move if you are a person with Libertarian views.
I'm perpetually surprised to see this. Windows has flaws, but every time I've tried Linux, it's been a bad experience. Ie, starts smooth from a clean install, but breaks once you install things outside the distro's package management. Turns into a cycle of internet searches, then C+Ping text into the terminal, hoping it will fix things, and the GUI will still boot afterwards.
Quantum light sees quantum sound: phonon/photon correlations
I had both friends and family working in Microsoft when Windows 10 was released, and it definitely was sold as the last OS that would just get free updates forever. And that they would run it as a loss-leader.
If you got hit by one of these then you wouldn't feel anything. The energy is about 50 joules, or about 1/2 of the heat that a human body produces in a second.
My point is that it's not what matters to me. Our rules shouldn't be vacuous, they should be founded in real goals that advance science. In science we want people to communicate ideas clearly, we want the ideas to be accurate, and we want to allocate credit properly to authors. Adding a rule that says "you must say you used ChatGPT or you get punished" is unlikely to advance any real goal -- it will just lead to most authors adding that footnote, and a few people getting arbitrarily punished for forgetting it.
I sympathize with the underlying thought, but I think that it is worth using this as a model of when we should use the tool of socialism and when we should use the tool of capitalism... what should be the balance?

In this case the fundamental problem seems to be that not enough people want to work in childcare, for the money that those businesses are currently offering. Part of that problem is for some of the potential workers the barrier is that paying for childcare for their own children would cost enough to make working in the industry not worth the money for them.

So the two solutions proposed here are: make childcare free for those who provide childcare, and making childcare free for everyone. Both of these solutions solve the problem for potential workers whose main problem is the affordability of their own childcare.

Notably the "free for everyone" does not actually improve solving the one problem we are talking about: it does not unblock anyone else to enable more workers in this one industry. But conversely it would unblock those people from working in other industries, ones that already seem to pay more. So it would probably wind up with less people working in childcare than the more focused "childcare free for childcare workers".

The counter-point to this of course is that we are creating a huge market distortion, essentially "forcing" people into childcare work (not really, but...).

The pure capitalistic solution would be to leave it like it is: let the market decide how much childcare is worth, and that will sort itself out. The problem with this approach is that it winds up producing a less-than-optimal solution: people who would be more productive for society wind up at home doing individual child care, and there are vastly different outcomes for children of well-off families than those of the poor (so societal imbalance based on the birth lottery).

To me the only right solution is for some sort of wage stipend from the government (from tax monies) that goes directly to childcare workers. This would absolutely be the government putting its thumb on the scale to increase the supply of childcare workers, but form the government's perspective it is probably a good investment both to get more workers available in all categories, and to improve outcomes for the children of low-wage families (good both in a floats-all-boats perspective, and a social justice one).

The problem is, of course, that it is absolutely a socialist means of improving things, and those who have made capitalism a religion are going to go nuts about that.
> equivalent to a 142-gram (5 oz) baseball travelling at about 28 m/s (100 km/h; 63 mph).

The kinetic impact alone would get your attention.
32 bit and high core count is definitely a nasty combo. Many applications spawn 2-4 threads per core which is a great way to eat up that address space.
I'll just add that there are use cases where the extra layer actually adds a nice element of control and visibility. Adjusting a prompt to a black box LLM can sometimes lead to unpredictable results, though that can be mitigated with a good test set to some extent.
Breakthrough in Energy Storage–MIT Creates Supercapacitor from Ancient Materials
They chose an ARM CPU by SiPearl. The European Processor Initiative (EPI) lists them as French/German. Interestingly Forschungszentrum Jülich (which this supercomputer is for) is also listed as member of EPI.
> If you look at the title and think of a different company, that's not the headline's fault. It doesn't even try to reference Unity.

Being aware of current events and how they may shape how people come to conclusions is a skill that not everybody possesses I suppose.

The headline is most definitely misleading and poorly worded. A better headline would be "Unreal licensing change targets tv production use cases" or something like that.

As the other user pointed out, Unreal Engine was never free for all. So wording it like this misleads the reader into thinking about the most commonly talked about use-case, video game development. And when they read "no longer be free for all" it leads them to believe that people that currently don't pay for Unreal Engine may now have to. Hence the title being "misleading." But hey, journalism is a skill that you work on over time. The editor should have caught this.
You're right that you often can't modify your current environment by invoking a shell script. That's because it's executed in a sub-shell.

For cases where you need to modify your current environment (setting environment variables, changing directories, etc), you need to run the script using the "source" built-in. That will execute the script in the current shell rather than a sub-shell.

So instead of

./some-script.sh

you'd run

source some-script.sh

or use the dot (".") shorthand

. some-script.sh

In cases where I need to source a script, I generally create an alias or a shell function for it. Otherwise I may forget to source it.
Are people assuming? Or are they just not speculating about cardinality and sticking to the identifier they have? Would you expect people in the DC universe who don't know about Bruce Wayne refer to sightings as batmen? They can't know!

One thing that suggests a single author (but certainly no proof) is the continued secrecy: bigger group means higher probability of a leak (accidental as much as deliberate). In a way, the probability of an author group is sinking over time, because "unexposed for n years" and "unexposed for n+1 years" aren't the same observation.
Seems like it would be a pretty fun little hustle to create a tiny law firm specializing in racking up some legal fees while suing companies being stupid enough to include such illegal noncompete clauses.

The actual damages payouts probably wouldn't be great (as, at best, you've got the employee's salary over the period of their unemployment due to thinking the noncompete was binding), but for a trivial amount of work ("Your honor, here's the employer's signature, here's the illegal noncompete clause, No further arguments"), it could be a half decent cash flow for the lawyers. Not sure if it's legal to kick back legal fees to your client, but if so, that might work.
> some people who would rather take care of their own children are pushed to take a job and have someone else watch their child

You could say the same about the taxes used to pay for public schools.

> fail to see why that's superior to a universal childcare subsidy

For one, it doesn't free up labor. Two, most systems I'm aware of let one take a childcare subsidy and use it at home. Paying providers by default makes administration easier by reducing the number of payees. (There is also an oversight cost with private payments.)
… what is Apple sabotaging? Google intentionally holds back features on iOS…

Source: former Xoogler PM
The demand compute time within the existing users far outstrips the supply, by orders of magnitude, hence why more is being installed.
I'm with you. Half the time that I dismiss someone's statement as just hyperbole or a figure of speech, I later find out they were serious and seriously misinformed.

I'd say it's probably 50/50 odds someone saying "Google doesn't pay taxes" literally believes that the sum of Google's corporate income, employment, real estate, etc. tax payments around the world last year was less than their personal income, social security, and property tax payments.

It's also astounding how many people think a tax write-off of $1 million reduces corporate taxes by $1 million rather than reducing the taxable profits by $1 million. Granted, there are some really astounding tax loopholes out there, but a scary percentage of people think mega-corporations literally pay less than they do in total taxes.

It reminds me of the time I was joking around with a girl I was dating at the time about stress headache "brain muscle cramps". 5 minutes into joking around, I realized she thought "Your brain is a muscle, you need to exercise it" was literal, and concentrating hard would sometimes cause the "brain muscle" to cramp up. She was a grad student in Environmental Engineering at MIT at the time. That triggered a brief argument over whether the brain was primarily muscle tissue or primarily nerve tissue.

There are also a ton of people who think they aren't among those who don't pay any federal income tax because they see the Social Security tax line on their W-2 forms.
I’ve come to the belief that virtually all of the culture war is a battle over fertility and parenting.

One of the hardest things about being human is that human children are ludicrously high maintenance. We have some of the highest maintenance offspring in nature. High parental investment requirements may be a factor in our evolution of complex social systems and longevity (“the grandmother effect”) but it also creates massive pressure and strife in the areas of gender and social dynamics.

I feel like non parents don’t get this. I have kids and listen when I say that nothing can prepare you for how high maintenance human children are. There are no words. Even the process of pregnancy and delivery are a life threatening medical condition that used to kill a large number of women. Our species really is uniquely burdened this way.

Many cultures have what amounts to a system of soft socially enforced slavery in which 50% of the population, namely women, are pressured or compelled to dedicate their lives to reproduction and raising children. Cultures that don’t do this either face declining birth rates or have to subsidize it financially instead because someone has to do it. Humans do not emerge from eggs and raise themselves.

I think this means if we want gender equality and don’t also want demographic collapse we must subsidize high quality child care.
Support HDR images in your app [video]
I'm sure you're making a clever joke and I'm just not getting it.

All Windows branded as NT as well as 2000 (the first NT not branded as such) predate Windows 8 by over a decade, so I don't understand why you'd think one of them would be number 9.
Brian Goetz just gave a talk about all the stuff that's been delivered up to Java 21 that announced they'd be rolling out a fully supported VS Code plugin for Java that should be better than the current language support. It should be out within the next week or two.

Timestamp for the announcement:
https://youtu.be/eXCx2hW_xNI?t=1955
From TA:

> Ben Humphries, Ph.D. student in theoretical chemistry, at UEA said, "Our research shows that when a molecule exchanges phonons—quantum-mechanical particles of sound—with its environment, this produces a recognizable signal in the photon correlations."

> While photons are routinely created and measured in laboratories all over the world, individual quanta of vibrations, which are the corresponding particles of sound, phonons, cannot in general be similarly measured.

This is also the goal with phononic quantum computation iiuc

> The new findings provide a toolbox for investigating the world of quantum sound in molecules."

> Lead researcher Dr. Garth Jones, from UEA's School of Chemistry, said, "We have also computed correlations between photon and phonons.

> "It would be very exciting if our paper could inspire the development of new experimental techniques to detect individual phonons directly," he added.

Phonon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon
Oh true, I'd forgotten that. Of course the issue with it being in a different place is that many people use multiple OSs and muscle memory is a thing. I'd rather have a reprogrammable key where meta should be.
Maybe they will do it like Hulu where you can pay an additional monthly fee to get ad-free access and then you’ll get ads anyway because [reasons]
The entire point is to incentivize people to have children.
They used to do nuclear physics research (and still do to some extend) there and had an experimental fast breeder reactor (capable of producing weapons grade plutonium) on campus. They also prepared for rapid development of nuclear weapons capabilities in the 60s. It was a site for a potential German nuclear weapons program, I think they would have been able to produce enough material in ~6 weeks. They frame it as "nuclear disarmament" now of course https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2022..., but effectively if there is any place where scientists in Germany have active knowledge how to develop nuclear weapons it would be there. There are several former military installations close by, including barracks for a guards and supply company.

You don't want something like that in a city centre.
The kernel team doesn't use either version, they use release monikers internally (ie. Threshold, RS1-RS5, 19h1-22h2, Sun Valley 1, SV2 etc.)

But also, internal interfaces and external interfaces are rev'd so teams tend to talk about the different interfaces they work with (ie. dxgi 1.2, dx12_3, wddm 3.2, UMDF 2.1) or the different internal versions of apisets.
You can trivially create that with a portfolio split between T-bills and the S&P.
5150 I occasionally heard (though something like “original PC” was more common) to disambiguate reference to the specific model from the general class once the XT, AT, PCjr, etc., made the term ambiguous even when prefixed with “IBM”; don't recall the other model numbers for system units being used.
Similar to managed welfare vs UBI.

One is creating defined resources and using bureaucracy to divvy them out and force people into buckets they might not be happy with. e.g. here's your government cheese.

The other empowers individuals to make their own decisions with cash and lets the free market figure out how best to mine those dollars from the individuals receiving them.

I suspect which option a person thinks is right largely depends on how they view humanity. Either you want to trust people to make their own decisions as adults, suffering the consequences of their decisions, or you want to extend childhood deep into "adulthood" making sure they can't make the wrong choice, because the nanny state makes the choice for them.

I supposed in the case of managed welfare, only those who manage become independently wealthy get the privilege of making their own decisions.
slideshows aren't interesting
The only conference I think is worth going to is either (1) free or (2) one where I can submit a talk and get a free ticket.

I can't imagine anybody getting a talk slot based on merit (as opposed to privileged position or advanced hucksterism) at that kind of event. (e.g. "I did something interesting")

I'm reminded of a talk series in the CS department which had three women in it that had a poster that listed the names and affiliations of the speakers but didn't give the titles of the talks which really was a first for me. (e.g. I am not in a hurry to hear a talk from "a woman from Harvard" if that is all I know but if someone is coming around to tell me how they got a net energy yield from their laser fusion or how they solved a tough machine learning problem, sign me up!)

I mostly blame the CS department for that because they struggle to get good speakers for any kind of event (I was glad to see Geoff Hinton before he got famous but I also saw a lot of job talks by people who really shouldn't have been there, the CS folks were polite but me and the meanest physicist in the world, who were not even on speaking terms at that time, would tag team and demolish some of those people like those crabs who team up to cut a starfish to pieces.)

I'd contrast that to the physics department which could bring in three women to give three great talks and make it look easy.
I don't think so, no. Kinetic energy grows with the square of velocity, and linearly with mass. So a 14g bullet travelling at 316km/h or a 1.4g bullet travelling at 1000km/h. But for what it's worth, I think most people have more experience catching baseballs than bullets (and I don't know how much bullets typically weigh or how fast they travel).
The idea that it pays for itself is really dubious. If it really did, there would be no need for a government subsidy.

Second, there's actually a massive shortage of daycare spaces and workers[0]. It was a major election issue.

[0] https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/daycare-bill-gives-quebec-5-year...
yeah i understand that, hence the first point.
I also started getting that yesterday, but curiously I was still able to watch videos after closing the popup (without turning off my ad blocker).
I got this last night too. Somehow I got past it by refreshing, or going back/forward, I can’t remember exactly. I’m sure it’s coming permanently soon though. Sad days.
yep, without knowing about `nl` I used `...| grep -n column_header`
or `...|grep -n .` to replicate the 'nl' behavior.

edit: I like your 'nl' better as it is using white space instead of colon as a separator.
yeah that's my interpretation too - government ensures defaults are best interests of (almost all) individuals and yet allows deviation by choice.

It's like, you can choose to sign up for adverts on facebook and youtube but they should be off by default (ok maybe that's my paternalism).
That is not one the required inputs for SHA-256. It is vulnerable to length extension attacks.
> I despise Google and what they became and so should you

It's a bit laughable to talk about despising a company over this stuff. We're not talking about an evil regime, or even Nestle for what they did with breast milk in Africa. It's so over the top.
you can switch between windows of a single app with cmd+`...
should link to the original source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023...
Complex Function Viewer
Hover over the upper-left part of the window to see an explanation of the page.
The larger the workload per connection the better thread-per-connection performs relative to the alternatives. So it'd do the exact opposite of break down under the workload you've outlined.
In the tradition of SlashDot, could you rework this into a car analogy?
Theres definitely going to be a lot of startups in and around this space.

I've been building a basic RAG system DIY and just built a basic admin panel that displays these traces by dumping a lot of data into a postgres table. But this type of observability, configurability, and ability to score results and get feedback loops, version, etc etc will be really key.
Ah, that's why the videos stopped working for me at home over PiHole.
They're not actually ad blockers. They are javascript exploit protection. It just so happens a good fraction if not the majority of exploits come in through ad systems in general. It's a rare thing a website itself is going to attack you. It's always some code/media imported from a third party domain/ip. ie, ads.
its already happened to my twitter account. maybe im part of a group of users that are chosen for this feature?
Congrats on 7 figures! That is a pretty sweet income.
Well, it is a multibillion dollar industry. And it is my understanding that he did not only invent crypto currencies but also the blockchain. While extremely inefficient from a database viewpoint, many many companies are throwing cash on it because they see potential in industry, finance, legal etc.
At least for some users, they eventually start completely disabling the video.
You'd give access, but charge heavily for the privilege. That's why hedge fund managers get so rich.