skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an even better solution is for our society to just admit that health insurance companies can't exist as for-profit entities that have to answer to Wall Street first and foremost.

Think about it. A health care company collects money under the premise that "these premiums you're paying will cover you if something bad happens". If that something bad does happen (and for most people, it never will), that money should be available to pay for whatever happened. The insurer, now concerned about their margins and profits more than providing you the service that you've already paid them to do, just gets to trot out some poorly paid rep with no medical knowledge to override the medical advice of a trained medical professional. Now, you're not only injured, you're paying out of pocket for a service that won't actually do what you've paid it to do. The only winner here is the insurer's C-Suite and stockholders who get to brag on quarterly earnings calls that they've denied tens of thousands of claims (and they even get fiscally rewarded for it!).

In a more modern and honest society we would call for-profit insurers what they actually are: a racketeering organization operating under the guise of fraud.
What would I regret more? Biz on returning to Twitter
> Much of what insurers do is preventing waste, fraud, and abuse

Medical insurers are the waste, fraud, and abuse.
Gyms yes, pianos - only really big/fancy ones like MV, Zurich, London, etc
I have the 512GB model of the original Steam Deck and have put hundreds of hours in it as well. I'm personally waiting for the true successor to the Steam Deck. This is simply a refresh.
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I shuffled a deck of cards, then spread it on the table. I looked at the cards and though to myself: what are the odds!
It's not so much a law but it's such a well-established custom that it might as well be a law: send your application in without a photo and it's pretty much guaranteed to be discarded.

But given that traditionally you always have a job interview before being hired, I don't think that there's much discrimination going on: your face will be known sooner or later anyway.
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This sounds so old school - people today don’t think NASA is an impressive or prestigious job.
I began learning computer programming with Logo [1], then BASIC, then C, Lisp, etc. However, somewhere along the way, growing dissatisfied with not knowing exactly what's going on under the hood, I began descending down the stack. That journey led me to learning about the CPU, using assemblers, as well as loading instructions in hexadecimal format into a memory by pushing buttons on a 8086 trainer kit. At one point, I also designed my own Mano Machine in VHDL which I then synthesised and tested on a Xilinx CPLD kit [2].

The last one was the most fun. It was very rewarding to see the abstract concepts presented in books come alive in the form of a working machine that could fetch, decode, and execute instructions from a memory. The memory was designed in VHDL too and implemented on the same Xilinx CPLD kit. Loading instructions into the memory required me to push DIP switches (one switch for each bit). A far cry from the comfort of Emacs running atop a modern operating system!

Those two adventures lied on opposite ends of a spectrum. There was the luxury of high level languages and tooling at one end. On the other end, there was the hands-on ritual of loading each bit of instruction, accomplished through the deliberate act of manipulating DIP switches. Such a laborious experience prompts a profound awareness that ultimately all software executes on physical matter.

Nestled in between these two extremes, there was a sweet spot involving assemblers. The first assembler I stumbled upon was the "A" command of DEBUG.EXE [2] of MS-DOS. The features were very minimalist and the tool was a bit more than an assembler. This humble debugger allowed me to peek into interrupt vector tables, inspect the content of ROM, learn how MS-DOS boots from scratch, etc. I later did come across GNU as, TASM, NASM, etc. which made me appreciate the number of bookkeeping problems a proper assembler solves. No more recalculating all the offsets for the jump and call instructions after every refactoring of the program!

These days, I work very high up in the stack where there are numerous layers of technology between what I type and what the physical machine executes. But I do fondly remember the days when armed with an assembler, some knowledge of the CPU and the computer architecture, we could plunge into the depths of the system, unravelling its intricacies to our heart's content.

[1] https://susam.net/blog/fd-100.html

[2] https://github.com/susam/mano-cpu

[3] https://susam.net/blog/programming-with-dos-debugger.html
> because of the storage bottlenecking

Higher end models come with an NVMe SSD. No way that’s slow.
If you are just after making money, these are the best in terms of (hours spent)/(money earned)

1. Job hop into higher salary. For any level, you essentially spend time up front to get the job, then get more money while spending the same time working.

2. Get into real estate. Chances are you make enough money to be able to afford multiple properties, and you can start doing airbnb or straight rentals and earn passive side income without much effort.

Otherwise, if you want to code, the more enjoyable way to make money is to pursue something that you already like doing, so it doesn't feel like work, and monetize it.
Is it really that misleading?

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,”
"It was a striking declaration. An even more notable one followed: “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.” (He elaborated, after some backlash, that he did not literally oppose women’s suffrage, but neither did he affirm his support for it.)

Thiel laid out a plan, for himself and others, “to find an escape from politics in all its forms.” He wanted to create new spaces for personal freedom that governments could not reach—spheres where the choices of one great man could still be paramount. “The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom,” he wrote. His manifesto has since become legendary in Silicon Valley, where his worldview is shared by other powerful men..."
Is Threads winning the war with X?
> ... which is the industry term for hydrogen that naturally occurs in the layers of the Earth’s crust underground in northeastern France.

That is an awfully specific term. What do they call it when it occurs in other countries?
>I just want official word that the drivers and everything still work on Windows.

I thought steam deck doesn't run windows ? You install windows on your steam deck ?
Tested review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfoLRmKwnSI
People who can't afford it have been using sunflower oil for lots of things, mostly for frying. Normal salads, on the other hand, is olive oil or nothing. Not counting things like Caesar's salad, "ensaladilla", ... and other that have special sauces.

The taste isn't the same, just as it's not the same the taste of a good olive oil from a normal one.

Pig fat has been on decline for a long time, but it's still used for some things. Butter is not that cheap, margarine isn't either, and it's not as good (in either taste or "health" reasons).

Olive oil is a staple in our kitchens, and things should change a lot before we stop using it. It's like telling Asian people to change and not use soya when it becomes expensive.
I'm not sure how my "quite a lot of use cases" and your "not all use cases are narrow use cases" are meaningfully different (slightly) to you.

This isn't a snipe, mind, it's me being unsure if we even disagree, especially given the latter part of your comment seems entirely correct (so far as my limited understanding goes ;).
Most compelling argument of the whole thread:

> Would you approve of the IDF bombing occupied Israeli apartments, schools, hospitals, etc if Hamas tunnelled under those?
I don’t think larger hangars than what we have now are that hard to build – not compared to, say, buildings like the Burj Kalifa. We can do tall.

The biggest issue would be to have a wide span without columns. But those are long shapes: if you can make a gate 50 m tall (18 floors) and 50 m wide (the Golden Gate bridge has a 1,280 m span between each tower), you can build 10 gates in a row and have enough room for a dirigible with a 45 m diameter and as long as you need, but 300 m seems doable.

This prototype is 20 m wide and 124.5 m long, so if you scale it to 45 m x 45 m x 300 m, you might get something that can carry about twelve times more than this one.
This sounds approximately like acquisitions I've been through, except working at Google you get paid 3x as much. There are many, many huge enterprises buying startups; few have the pay scales of Google. (The general inability to act annoys me more than comp, though, which is why I left Google to go to a startup in the first place! I really miss the days of "rollout new code on green"; you could have an idea in production in less than 5 minutes. Not so in the enterprise world.)
I'm in the U.S. and am getting the Available on Nov 16 button, but worth noting this note at the bottom of the Deck homepage:

> Steam Deck Limited Edition is an experiment for our team, and we were only able to make a small quantity. That said, we hope this is a successful experiment and customers are excited – if we see there is a large demand for this kind of product, we will definitely continue to explore more colorways in the future.
I guess what you consider "tech" is the tech business sector.

I'm thinking of, y'know, the actual technology.

Woz vs Jobs thing, I guess.
Great post, congrats on the release.
Even some smaller ones too. The Google Montreal office has an excellent music room!
> I think if they'd tried to run the claim as the suppository version, the error would've been more obvious.

Gotta tell the insurance company where to stick it? :)
if i'm not mistaken, the model has to be trained for a specific context window
> What actually makes C a high-level language isn't the language, but the optimizer passes in modern C compilers.

I don't think so because that would imply that a language would be low-level until someone writes an optimizing compiler for it. The "levelness" of a language shouldn't depend on implementation details.
I agree if you stop at “health insurance companies can’t exist.” Being a nonprofit doesn’t stop you from being parasitic or malevolent.
It will burn you in the sun
Direct air capture is not the only way to lower CO2 levels, although you are right that point capture of emissions doesn't lower levels by itself. An example of another technique for CO2 reduction is enhanced olivine weathering, or bioenergy + capture. These are called negative emission technologies in general.
TBH I don't buy that argument, we are talking about PC games that have handled scaling for a very long time. This is standard if you are making PC games.

The Steam Deck really isn't a console in any traditional sense of the word. With there now being multiple devices like this out there, I don't think that argument works.
Brutal: "And, it’s possible all my later work at Twitter has been undone."
We can probably be more helpful if you can give some more details. E.g.:

- Are you currently working as an SWE during your day job?

- Do you just need more money in general, or do you specifically want/need for it to be via an SWE-side-job ?

- Are you located within a short commute of businesses that might need a part-time SWE, or would this need to be hybrid/remote?

- What skills (SWE-related or other) do you have to offer for this side-work?

- What duration(s) are you interested in committing to for a given side-job?

- Are you looking to work as a contractor or as a regular employee?

- Do you have a professional network that you could draw on, or do you need to find opportunities entirely on your own?
This company is making all the "smart" tech companies in the bay area look foolish
help-over-gchat and B2C chat are two different things.

help-over-gchat was a matching system that allowed you to either ask a question about a topic, or declare that you know about a topic, and the system would match question-askers with question-answerers, all through gChat.
Will do, thank you for the advice!
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They killed Flash!
what could go wrong :)
Microsoft steals access data: Beware of the new Outlook
TIL google has an office in Buenos Aires, wonder how that works with the current inflation, do engineers get paid in pesos? do they have to re-adjust their salaries every few weeks?
Thank you for your kind words. I think this app pushed him over the edge.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No Margin, No Mission
Yeah you can dual boot Windows and there are official drivers for it.

It is the primary way I use my steam deck.
It's really hard to find good contracts. You have to know people building stuff that understand the value that you're providing.

With platforms like Upwork it's really hard to compete with lower-cost devs.

I have a client that I'm trying to fire right now, who, rather than hire me for a longer-term contract, has hired an offshore team of interns that are really struggling. What would have been a long weekend project for me has stretched out into 3 months for them.
They likely went with this form factor because it allows for the camera to look forward and use that context in its responses. A watch wouldn't easily be able to do this.
It would be really nice to know IF my claim was denied. Health billing is so messed up.
Let's say there's a disabled person (successfully employed in tech, but also receiving benefits from their own government that don't have an income threshold). Such a person is considering immigration to the US in the future. How much of a concern the "public charge" provisions should be in such a case?
I think the insularity is caused by that, they literally don’t build for normal humans. They think the rest of us that don’t work at Google aren’t smart enough to understand what they do.

This is something I’ve noticed among dozens and dozens of Google engineers. The smug self superiority has leaked into the water supply.
It runs a version of Arch Linux called SteamOS. I don't see a reason for Windows to run on it.
Yeah that looks like the VSCode killer.
what do you guys thing about cleaning up the defunct ones? Like the one in San Diego is just going to be there for the next 10000 years?
Let's keep our older cars on the road as long as possible.
As Borland fanboy, TASM was already quite cool, the only thing I missed was MASM being more high level with its macro capabilities, but by time I got to play with MASM, I was already into Windows 3.x world.
This is why I would not consider connecting my phone to anything other than CarPlay/Android Auto.
Water resistance is a solvable problem even with replaceable batteries. Fairphone is a tiny company though, so your expectations are too high from them.
As a Ally user, still not enough to get me to switch but I love the competition that Steam ignited with the handheld PC gaming market. Ally, Legion Go, Steamdeck, Ayaneo Kun, etc. A lot of great devices on the market.

I've played more PC games now than I have in the last 10 years.
Spend the time it takes for you to hunt and kill meaningful contract work looking for a better paying F/T job, then use your nights for hobbies, cooking, exercise and socialization like (lowercase g)od intended.
i've been searching for an appropriately nostalgic, yet 8-bit, soundtrack to go along with this feeling. suggestions welcome
JetBrains, if you're reading this: LionRover. You're welcome.
Yeah, I feel like there needs to be language to describe new versions like this:

* If you're going to buy one for the first time, the new one is the one to get.

* It's worth replacing your old one.

This is probably not worth replacing your old Steam Deck (unless you have a lot of money to throw around.) But it's really nice for people who haven't bought one until now.
Valve wants the Steam Deck to fit in the Console space and be a easy gateway for less-techy people to play PC games.
If they want to, then yes. Why wouldn't I?
The Astrophysicist Who Loves the Things We Cannot Know
This is cool, it's a nicer abstraction than what the Google Glasses & then Meta Glasses tried to go for...but it's still a pin I have to wear on my shirt which is stopping me from adopting.
I agree. Customer experience is key, if you start with how a product should make you feel and work backwards into creating that feeling, I feel like the market strategy handles itself. This feels like a "we can do this, so let's do it, and figure out why later."

This reminds me a lot of Google Glass. Cool technology, but they forgot the WHY.
mine might have to become a hand-me-down and make this my christmas present...
Biggest issue is that people hate talking to computers in public.

Alexa was the closest to achieve significant usage since you can use it within the privacy of your home.

For voice UIs the non clear boundaries on what you think it can or cannot do is also a huge hurdle. After you get a couple “sorry I cannot do that” you stop using it
It would be great to add airships to the big four of transportation: planes, ships, cars, and trains.

Flying on a plane is faster, but if we cannot have comfortable trains in the US, let's have quiet, comfortable airships.
Yay privacy out of the window...
AI wants to see and hear everything with access the Internet.
Otherwise its hell of an interesting concept!
Reminds me of the Robot Assistant in "flubber"
The best way would be to leverage your existing network and see if there is a way you can help someone near you in an hourly fashion.

An alternative approach might be a marketplace like https://www.moonlightwork.com which I used a handful of years ago but not recently.
Yes, it's misleading; he gave up on democracy long ago. He's not taking a break now. Your cite's from his 2009 essay.

He wasn't funding political campaigns out of a love for democracy.
I miss the web where there were services actively trying to help you find new, interesting and weird things, not just the stuff that makes them the most money from ads. Feels like even the things that are supposed to be about "Discovery" are increasingly only showing you things from an ever shrinking walled garden. Despite there being exponentially more stuff and content on the web than say 20 years ago, it actually feels like a much smaller these days.
I've: bartended, resold crap on ebay, flipped cars, participated in Gartner surveys, plowed snow, returned bottles.
In many cases that issue can be resolved through an appeals process. But this takes extra time for providers, and they don't get paid for that.

Insurers may also require step therapy. Try a cheaper treatment first, then if the patient fails to respond they will authorize a more expensive option.
Valid point. The above is in my experience living in Texas, having lived in some and visited all the other major cities in Texas, plus lots of talking online with texan as well.

Pretty dang obvious I dont know 30m people, but statistics tells you only need to sample 100s to get great information about a population.
Yeah, Telegram's business model has always made me kind of suspicious from the beginning.
you haven't fought a claim yet, have you.

Its beyond infuriating, especially when you are on the hook for a large bill
Not the parent, but my own opinion is that if a C/C++ passion project becomes successful, it burdens other people with yet another source of security vulnerabilities.

This is even more so for small projects that didn't have the decades of security hardening of Firefox/Chrome behind them, and now people go to these projects assuming their security is on par with Firefox/Chrome.
As a conscious mind needing carbohydrates to sustain compute
Take a break from your screen and look at plants
Wow, I'm surprised to hear this about the battery from you guys, as that appears to be one of their top selling points: "Most battery life!"

I see that the article describes it as repairable, but is it really easy to get and put in a new battery? I don't see them for sale on system76.com/components

I almost bought one of these in late 2021 when I was in the market for a new Linux machine. They were one of the few manufacturers that actually had stuff ready to ship. But I wasn't interested in PopOS and Framework seemed to be offering a slightly better deal, so I ended up waiting a month for a Framework DIY edition. I've been happy with it despite Framework not being truly Linux-first.
OpenAI recently updated their limit documentation so there are tiers now. You automatically scale up through the tiers but you may be able to jump the line a bit by paying some extra. But I think you will have to wait 7-14 days since first payment before going to next tier. Try finding the usage and limits docs in your account.

Edit: Oh I see I'm in Tier 3 and the RPD limit on vision preview is still 100/day. Guess that's just it for now. It is labelled preview after all.
I kept waiting for the part where the scammer turned out to be the ghost of a dinosaur.
It was looking very promising until I read "A subscription is required to use Ai Pin." right at the bottom of the page. Oh well.
US government employees would be doing the same things for Medicare and Medicaid and Tricare.

Outsourcing that work to “insurers” helps keep the heat off the politicians.
Agree. If they want this to be practical, they have to make it instantly project the image when I raise my hand with palm open towards the device. A gadget that actively make the user feel inconvenient when they want to use it would not be used at all.

I assume the problem is space. They are basically out of space for more features. I still pitch my idea for a smart bracer though. Like the thing in mass effect or the pipboy.
Kaggle is good. If you learn vulnerability research and development, then you can earn some bounties via HackerOne and Zerodium.
SDXL in 4 steps with Latent Consistency LoRAs
Well, over half of my storage is on microSD anyways. But even with a wired connection over a USB-C dock, the download speeds were not that stellar. If Wi-Fi is 13 MB/s, then wired was maybe like 40? This is on a 1000 Mb/s connection.
Ahh good suggestion, I should clarify this in the article. I tried to compensate with volume -- I used a set of 200 questions for the testing. I was using temperature 0, so I'd get the same answer if I ran a single question multiple times.
What are a couple somewhat-comparable companies with really good product management?
Horrifying. Those "insurers" are absolute scumbags. Poor guy, I feel awful for him.