skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't know anything about it, why would you call it a tax?
Somehow i always paid an invisible amount for my insurance (even after having one accident where i was at fault, and drunk). And yet local insurance companies seems to be making ends meet easily. I don't know what is the problem there. Maybe because it's not the USA? Why is this only a problem in Anglosphere (yes i heard in UK it is about as bad - and their healthcare is socialised, so it's not because of healthcare)?
I mean chatGPT I don’t pay for the better version if it exists
It is storage if you have a constant baseline like nuclear or coal that needs to be used in any case, and isn’t used as much at tonight. Yes, you could use pumped storage instead to capture unused baseline, but EV batteries charging at night work as well.
It certainly does but only for very flat designs. I was in jQuery camp for a solid 15 years (2000~2015) but once you get a taste of reactive design, it physically hurts to go back to jQuery. For me, that is.
I am often surprised by how much foundational knowledge is unknown, even when extensively used at work. I can't really speak for game programming, though I imagine the prevalence of game engines has a lot to do with that. In regular SaaS back end work, knowing how your SQL database works is pretty key. Ruby/Rails devs are now familiar with N+1 queries and how to fix them. It's common for the same devs to not know how indexes work and why adding/removing a WHERE condition or changing an ORDER BY can have such drastic effects.

Since the video didn't get into details of examples of what constitutes 'deep knowledge' (or I missed it), I'll describe it as lacking an accurate mental model. That's what I struggled with first learning git, once I had a mental model that was close to how it actually worked, every new command I learned fit into that seamlessly. The part the video does talk about is cargo-cult behavior, which is very much how the building and adjusting of a mental model is avoided--it's just building a memory bank of problem X, incantation Y. These folk will be the first to be replaced by LLMs. Build your mental models and adjust them!
Honestly. Rust is not all that “difficult”. There’s just SO MUCH that you MUST know to be effective.

You need to know all of the rustisms. Plus you need to have a general knowledge of memory. You need to understand how memory is being abstracted and how to work within those constraints so as not to be slow. You need to know all of the monads, what they mean, why each exists, what the nuance is, and why you might use one over another in a specific situation.

It’s not difficult so much as it just takes so much time and challenging-yourself practice to try to memorize everything.

A “being effective at rust” book would probably dwarf a “being effective at C++” book in pages assuming similar prose. And we all know how much of a beast C++ is.
Why not just learn rust? It really is not that exotic to learn. I doubt it is faster to rewrite it.
> The coupon sites are usually of doubtful quality because .... Basically all affiliate networks forbid it.

I wasn’t aware of this, and I’m not sure I understand why this would be the case. Do you have any more information about this?
One other way of saying “drives away people who give a fuck” could be saying those people are self-aggrandizing, self important, always yelling at the top of their lungs about their zealotry telling everyone at first opportunity about how they turn off JavaScript and don’t contribute the much to the discussion

I liken people like this to the Amish. They balk at modernity as being incompatible with their beliefs. So they withdraw from the world and live life as they see fit.

What they don’t do is go around all the time yelling at people telling them how their lifestyle is wrong or constantly telling other people how they don’t use certain technologies.
Yep. As a UI/UX specialist, it’s nothing short of a nightmare. I can’t decide if it’s purposeful (they’re trying to kill the site), negligent (they can’t hire or retain talent, or who they have is making bad decisions), or just full of corporate/organizational bloat (basically all decisions made by non-engineers such as stakeholders or investors designed to maximize profit and ad space).I am leaning towards bloat.
If it's a good fit then it's a good fit. Of course you'll need to ensure the CI is set up properly, just like everything else.

If it's not a good fit, then you're just forcing it, and yeah...
We don't have to have this unproductive debate, because you can just switch the scenario to an accident causing death and be right back where we started in terms of demonstrating that $100k coverage lines are not enough to cover the externalities of driving.
Are these fridges compressor-based like the larger fridges or Peltier (thermoelectric) like a lot of food "hot/cold boxes"? The latter are hugely inefficient, though on such a small scale maybe it doesn't matter as much...
Banks all over the world make healthy margins on cross-border transactions involving a currency cross. It is not unique to American banks at all.
How have you established that there is a “huge rewrite cost”?

Despite other comments here, I see nothing in the post that says “we are moving away from C# and rewriting everything in Rust!”

Microsoft is using Rust in Windows as well. They have given examples of how. In that case, they are not “rewriting Windows” but rather targeting specific components that benefit from the characteristics of Rust. Those components are just part of the larger application that is still primarily written in C.

C# easily with C and therefore with Rust. They interoperate well. So it seems likely that MS is following the same plan and rewriting specific components of the larger system that would benefit from Rust.
I don't know how things are being done by global consumer ISPs... Whether they are handing out /56 or /60 commonly. Even then, you're talking about dealing with a few hundred /64 sized nets to potentially block, rather than the quadrillions initially feared.
> Nations including India, Japan, France and Canada are talking about the importance of investing in “sovereign AI capabilities,” Huang said in an interview Thursday with Bloomberg Television. “Their natural resource – data – should be refined and produced for their country. The recognition of sovereign AI capabilities is global.”

Data as a natural resource is an interesting analogy. Especially if you frame it in the category of nuclear fissile material.
Maybe just come up with a better/different label for planets who share a similar ratio of planet-to-star characteristics with Earth, which is a sample size of known_to_support_life=1.

"Orbital Cousins to Earth" OCEs. Find the # of OCEs, and maybe we have finer granulation, Second Cousins have an atmosphere, Step-sisters have water and an OnlyPlanets account... (which seems to be making the rounds at Nasa)
It wouldn’t go away. It would just mean we could go see it.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the settings "accidentally" get reversed after the browser updates, since it's been known to happen with Windows settings...
yeah surprisingly that was ideal for me when I was single. i enjoy the actual physical act of cooking but hate the constant planning/prep/shopping. guaranteeing a few healthy dinners a week that I don't have to plan was pretty nice. unfortunately the meal quality dropped a good bit and the recipes get redundant after a while

i'd still recommend it to anyone who's never cooked before at all and wants to start
I agree and that's one reason I've stuck with MobX. Works with React, Vue, Solid, and even mixed solutions. Heck, I've bridged it with backbone codebases..
this isn't individual devs fault

this is bad practice by service integrators
> McClintock concluded that the name probably derived from a native place name that sounded like Aleh-zon or Ali-Shonak, which meant “small spring” or “place of the small spring.”

https://azlibrary.gov/collections/dazl/arizona-almanac/meani...

Humans have documented remains close to this village going back 4000 years, and likely were here much longer than that. The creek has (so far, even in the worst drought in 1200 years) never stopped flowing.
I have a Whirldpool that quits cooling about every three years. I've fixed it each time. The problem is a inverter/frequency shifter keeps burning out. The compressor, an Embraco, is a 230 vac, 3 phase requires a inverter to convert 120VAC single phase to three phase 230VAC. The inverter does double duty as a frequency shifter to control the speed of the compressor while keeping the voltage constant. After the third time it burned out I plugged the refrigerator into a large surge protector. It has since died again. The other refrigerator from the early 90s is still working without any problems. The amount of energy the three phase compressor saved was more than canceled out by the cost of the parts to repair it
> Hertz is for periodic phenomena

> The applicable SI unit therefore is just the reciprocal second, s^(-1).

That's the hertz.
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Yes, this and vertical integration. The insurance company may have limited profit, but if the hospital doesn't, and they're both owned by the same parent company, then the prices "inside the control volume" can be whatever fiction is most convenient to report to the government.
Site seems dead.

edit 1h later: loaded now, dont know what im looking at
It’s a red flag because you’re going to get people bring in random languages just because, then they fuck off to another job and you’re left supporting code that nobody knows.
My school (where I work) seems to be blocking certain SSL certificates or blocking at the DNS level but changing the DNS server to 1.1.1.1 is futile. Using Mullvad’s free DoH or DoT is futile as well. The website is unable to load

The VPN is one of the few reasons why I pay $5 for proton unlimited and I could make do without it.

My only alternative is to set up my own wireguard exit node at home with a raspberry
I use Yattee on tvOS but lots of invidious and piped servers seem to all be very slow to load. Any server you recommend?
You know that "bubble" thing mainstream media talked about a lot until the dire existential threat of Trump meant we couldn't acknowledge certain bubbles? It's the bubble thing.

Before there was mass media, we also had huge differences from region to region. And when people travelled less, those regions were more numerous and more distinct. Mass media allowed us to be in one big bubble, all speaking with the same accent, more or less.

Bubbles are natural and normal. Don't sweat it. Be friendly. Embrace your awkwardness. Once Trump has passed, we can openly talk about it again.
Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday
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OT: Just decided a new reading rule for myself: when a popup interrupts my reading I'll ask myself "Does finding out what this says based on what little I know so far matter to me?" If the answer is not a resounding "yes!", I close the tab.
I am totally for off-grid generation. As long as people buy their panels without any tax reliefs and incentives. Also, free market is good, if generation is 100% carbon offset which is not now. And yea, you are free to make any economical decisions as long as it is legal. Excessive usage of energy could make it easy to ban though in the near future. Which would not be missed by personally me much.
ai is a national defense industry and every major country would like their own if they can afford it. just like energy, defense, space, telecom, etc. ai might have a cheaper barrier to entry (for now) than the others
Not a natural disaster, but there's something similar happening for about 10 days in Central America.

The largest Telco was hit by ransomware and this has affected most of their systems. They are unable to receive electronic and card payments, or sell digital packages, it seems their billing, CRM and Helpdesk systems are down.

So all prepaid users are able to use the inrernet and call for free.
Quora merging “all related” answers onto the same page is one of the most annoying things about it. I switch it to “Answers” 100% of the time.
It looks like Vector Networks is based on Boris Dalstein's work (https://www.borisdalstein.com/research/phd). He even has a startup (VGC) for Vector Graphic Editing tool based on these concepts. It is pretty cool!

P.S. I have no affiliation with his work, although I did contribute 10$ to his Kickstarter Campaign back in the day.
> Always buy the underinsured/uninsured motorist coverage.

Agreed. I'm a personal finance nerd, and it felt like an epiphany when I discovered this a few years ago, because it's rarely discussed but seems so important. I max out our UM/UIM coverage now.

Side note: My wife is a stay-at-home mom and I've long wished for a disability insurance product that would cover the economic value that she provides, i.e. cover the cost of daycare / after-school care if she couldn't care for the kids. As far as I can tell, there's no such product for people who aren't wage earners. The closest thing I've found is UM/UIM coverage, since the most likely cause of disability is a car crash. Presumably it would pay for at least some of the other things beyond medical bills.

> Buy liability insurance when you rent a car.

Why do you say this instead of just relying on the liability coverage under your regular auto insurance?
So does this mean Nvidia will become a 2T or 3T company soon?
Time to buy stocks I guess.
Hello fellow car free Washingtonian! Selling my car was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Having written crt0 and for that matter hardware bring up for a couple of chips, that made me laugh.

But I haven’t tried to design a (extremely primitive) chip since I was in college, so there’s plenty for others to laugh at me for too.
One thing I noticed back when I browsed Quora a lot is that most the answers were in direct opposition to the question being asked. It’s like clockwork.

Q: why is running so good for you

A: it actually isn’t good for you. <insert justification>

Q: why do so many people run when it’s so bad for you

A: it actually is really good for you. <insert justification>

Every single question seemed to be this way. It probably reveals a lot about human nature, but it really turned me off to know I was just reading knee jerk reactions to questions rather than anything accurate.

All this to say, yes, ragebait is the lifeblood of Quora.
Yeah C++ have steep learning curve compared to Rust.
I would expect an API is a set of things one could call, and a protocol is the sequence of things that one must, should, or can do in order to be in compliance with what the other party in the protocol is expecting to happen

HTTP is a protocol because one cannot just socket.write whatever bytes they want and have any good outcome, whereas socket.write is an API that is available in a hypothetical library
It's astonishing (and sad) how few opportunities exist for basic research.
I almost had an Atari, but ended up with the Amiga back in '88, which I am forever grateful for. I'm not sure that I would say the Atari wasn't ground-breaking, though. Think back to the '90s and you can see how much of an impact the Atari had on the music industry in the UK. It was huge, but specific to one particular area - music.
Is it really? The Xbox One has been around for years and yet online cheating is non-existent. The only way that's possible is if no one has extracted the enclave private keys to sign modified data. And game hackers are notorious for going the extra mile (development Xboxes have been physically stolen from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond) so it must be very difficult.
Can people not really understand this? Some of those related questions are dupes, other times they are paths to rabbit holes. ycombinator does the same thing. When you guys see posts that come up that have been here before, you post links to previous discussions. I saw this recently specifically with the links to articles on Martin Couney (I had a hard time finding that because the article is so poorly worded).

Even Reddit has linkability to detect the URL and show you an 'other discussions' lens (for Old Reddit).

Granted, this is a slight taxonomy difference of 'other discussions' of the same exact topic, vs other discussions related to your topic. But I think it's a useful and helpful feature.
Profit caps disincentivize companies to be efficient, meaning they'll just waste resources that could be used better elsewhere in the economy. Capping price or profit does nothing to address the root cause of the problem - lack of competition. Lack of competition could be addressed by finding ways to reduce regulatory hurdles to enter the market, or by breaking up monopolies with anti-trust action.
Long time XFCE user here. Steam will absolutely steal focus. I usually start Steam and then move over to something else like the terminal or web browser and multiple times during Steam's startup it will steal focus. I just want it to start up in the background. Aside from that, I agree focus stealing isn't a huge deal in XFCE. (XFCE 4.18, Debian trixie/testing)
We're only 5 weeks into this new rule.
I was a 'Top Writer' for a couple of years (pre-monetization). I loved it as a motivation to research topics I was interested in and practice writing. Eventually I lost interest, but I still get occasional search results from Quora with information that is otherwise difficult or impossible to find online.

Perhaps in an alternative timeline we might be regularly typing "[some query] quora" into search engines, but Reddit seems to have filled that much-needed gap more successfully.
I'd never even heard of cold boot attacks. Is there any prevention of this?
But why would we do that? Nuclear fissile material is noted for its ability to be formed into weapons that generate dangerous explosions and substances both acutely and chronically hazardous to human life, increasing cancer risk.

This is not a particularly obvious analogy to “data”.
I'm really enjoying reading through the docs and the tutorial. We've created Lowdefy, a config web-stack which makes it really simple to build quite advanced web apps. We're writing everything in YAML, but it has it's limitations, specifically when doing config type checking and IDE extensions that go beyond just YAML.

I've been looking for a way to have typed objects in the config to do config suggestions and type checking.. PKL looks like it can do this for us. And with the JSON output we might even be able to get there with minimal effort.

Is there anyone here with some PKL experience that would be willing to answer some technical questions re the use of PKL for more advanced, nested config?

See Lowdefy:

https://lowdefy.com/

https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy
Insurance rates were actually the deciding factor for me not buying a Tesla 3 a few years ago (before the carriers seemed to figure out coverage and risk for them a bit better). The insurance was going to be stupidly high, making the TCO with a decent loan (around 2% at the time) to be like $1k/month. I was like, I do not need to spent $1k/month on a car, so I bought a used Porsche for cash instead and pay almost nothing for insurance in comparison.
Doesn‘t really matter if the discounted price still makes you a profit.
While I do believe nuclear has to be part of the solution, it simply isn’t the entire solution. Full electrification in the US would require the construction of 1200 new nuclear power plants. This isn’t possible.

A combination of technologies will have to be the answer. Nuclear offers over 92% capacity factor, which is invaluable. Wind is about 35% and solar 25%.

Wind and solar, without storage, are unreliable. If that’s all you had to power a city it would be dark —without power— 50% of the time (even more during certain times of the year).

This is where other technologies, like nuclear, can come in. The optimal mix depends on regional realities. For example, if you have hydro, other technologies might be less desirable or necessary.
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I agree it’s accurate, but you said “these social justice warriors,” which made me figure you were doing more than referring to the author. It seems like the goal of invoking the term was to aid in your dismissal of the author’s positions by linking them to a derided stereotype of activists. If I’m wrong then I apologize.
That really flipped your wig didn't it?

I'm intellectually curious, what you're so deeply invested in that was
just threatened?
Yeah that kind of make sense. The Chinese writing didn't fit very well to Vietnamese in the first place.

Vietnamese is a language with an highly complex pronunciation so some kind of writing which maps as close to possible to this complex pronunciation fits better.

Pronuncing and recognizing the pronounciation properly is the hardest task in Vietnamese and you really want the writing to help you with that.

And since more complex words are usually 2 syllable components of simpler ones, the Latin script actually helps you to guess the meaning of the new word as well, similarly as a Chinese character I guess.
I just moved to Nevada from California.

My Nevada insurance costs half of what I paid in California.
I believe both recent Intel and AMD processors enable you to encrypt memory, such as Intel Total Memory Encryption.
Getting the umbrella is good, because during the process they review the rest of your insurance (at least they did for me).

>stay at home mom

I'm in the same situation, it sure would be nice. We do both have life insurance at least.

>Why do you say this instead of just relying on the liability coverage under your regular auto insurance?

To be careful. If you don't buy it, make absolutely sure that your own auto insurance covers it. [also people who don't own a car won't have auto insurance..]
I'm amazed at this point, given the "subscriptions are a nightmare to cancel" meme, that nobody's turned that into a marketing message. Some of the gym ads say "cancel anytime", but "sure, just bring in this blood-endorsed document countersigned by at least five Supreme Court justices" is still implied.

Services that say "prepay up-front and we'll never bill you" is a viable selling premise. Gift subscriptions are an obvious viable business that comes out of that model.

I wanted to get my father a gift subscription to the local newspaper, and they basically had no idea how to handle a fixed-term subscription-- all they could point to were recurring auto-pay setups.
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Early hominins did not have physical adaptations like large canines or claws like carnivorous animals do. So how far back do we need to go? Gorillas have giant canines. They don't eat meat.
How do you train a robot in GOFAI?
They most likely also prefer titles that get clicked.

But the best results are those where the user uses the back button and clicks something else. They must not click back within n seconds of course. The user has to spend a minimum amount of time on the almost useless page.

I got this feeling looking for many things. I know there are pages but get many results very very close to what I was looking for.

Dubious reversal of key words where "how to turn a car into an airplane" becomes "how to turn an airplane into a car"

Then people start making perfect SEO pages like "how to style css with html"
I don't really understand. Geico gives you a quote instantly and let's you buy it instantly.

I'm in California and have been buying insurance like this for 20 years. Last time was 18 months ago. Basically instant.
> You don't, because JSX is not required for react.

And what does this have to do with the fact that the absolute vast majority of react code is written with JSX and that you need special tools in IDEs to deal with React code (because regular JS tools would break)?
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