skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With topics like this, i find it easier to use search to find the discussions. Early submits get flagged and the submits that takeoff fall off the front page quickly. If you are lucky, someone has commented links to related discussions with less obvious titles.

Here’s one with 1200 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465250

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39457974
So that's not true.

They had to prohibit overlapping coverage in order to make sure that all private practice physicians accepted the medicare system, which has lower reimbursement rates than private insurance. You can pay for more coverage, because that doesn't compete with the public system, but you cannot pay for private insurance that may lead to lower access for publicly insured persons.
I wonder if that was true when Coke had licensees in every town handling the bottling?

I don’t think people appreciate what a franchising operation Coke is. Because they don’t have names.
Overpromise and underdeliver.

And lots of funding for then vaporware
This is a gotcha question, but all things considered, a pretty good one. "I don't remember/know what SOLID is" is the wrong answer, and an easy way to screen out candidates.

No, this isn't about rote memorization to pass an interview. It's about meeting basic qualifications to be a software developer. I can't imagine any reasonable technical manager wanting to hire an experienced dev who doesn't know SOLID.
Are people deliberately overstating the "wokeness" og Gemini?

As an centrist, I worry as much about the MAGA people as I do the Woke mob. But I'm starting to think that there is an overreaction currently with regards to the degree to which people claim that Gemini is woke and biased. If I don't intentionally try to get it to say racist stuff, I find the answers rather nuanced. Sure, I sense the "left" bias in the model, but I'm starting to think that there is a stronger echo chamber with regards to "Google is a woke mind virus spreader" than I thought.

I thought this answer to my question on individual differences to be rather okay.

Question: Are there fundamental differences between individuals with regards to their ability to be productive that might be a problem with regards to liberal views, and is there any research on this topic that informs our understanding?

Gemini Advanced Answer (Abbreviated, full chat [here](https://g.co/gemini/share/1344739f31b2))

*Fundamental Differences in Productivity*

* *Cognitive Abilities:* Intelligence, problem-solving skills, and learning capacity vary among individuals. These influence a person's ease of acquiring knowledge and skills relevant to productivity.
* *Personality Traits:* Conscientiousness, self-discipline, and motivation are strong predictors of work ethic and success. These traits differ between individuals due to both nature and nurture.
* *Mental and Physical Health:* Mental well-being and physical health significantly impact one's focus, energy, and overall capacity for productive work. These are influenced by genetics, environment, and access to care.
* *Socioeconomic Background:* Access to education, resources, mentorship, and networks greatly influences the opportunities and skills available to individuals, impacting their potential productivity.

Given the pervasive claim that Woke people minimize the role of IQ and abilities, and claim that all differences are a result of oppression - this model isn't very Woke. Are people just gerrymandering the results to get it to look bad? Have I just not found the bad parts yet or is the Woke claims overstated?
Minor nit regarding this thing that will destroy quality:

“We'll fix it if customers complain."

You can’t fix everything, and perfect is the enemy of good. While punting testing to users is a no-no, recognizing that edge case issues can be deprioritized is crucial to getting things out the door. This means shipping stuff with known defects that you can respond to if necessary.
Isn't it about the authors have been overpromising and underdelivering since the beginning? https://mawfig.github.io/2022/06/18/v-lang-in-2022.html is a year older than this article, still interesting and it links to some other articles right at the beginning.
You think getting rid of oil and gasoline cars would kill 6-8 billion people and injure all the rest?
This is well written, adi. I particularly like the book references.
Why should there be different words for different concepts? I don't understand the question. We already use different terms for "lying" and "mistaken". We've invented a new way to be wrong and calling it something different conveys more nuance than just calling it "wrong".
So dramatic
"a summary of my experience with the language over 6 months " -- I was only able to use it for a week around Christmas before hitting compiler bugs. I like the look of it, but I can't currently use it.
The purpose of the waste management company is not to manage waste, it is to gain control of waste management. That's the difference.

If you have a problem, often your solution just means you have the same problem but now lack the agency to control it.

Once the waste management company has control, they can then extract the majority of surplus from the problem being solved so that if your cost if the problem is unsolved is x, your cost if the problem is solved becomes x-ε.

The surplus ε shrinks as the waste management company gains more control of the process. With sufficient control, ε can even go negative.

The net result is that you have not created surplus for yourself. You have just found someone to transfer the surplus to.
Computers are already capable of doing math, and have been for as long as computers have existed. This is not a problem anyone needs AI to solve.
But it's not the TSA's job to prevent murders in the air. (We already had a service specifically for that — the Air Marshals!)

The TSA's only job is to prevent planes from being hijacked or destroyed in a way that results in massive collateral damage.

And as the GP says, if you can't get in the cockpit, there become relatively few ways of doing this. (And the ways that do remain — e.g. binary explosives — are addressed by the more-limited carry-on regulations and security checks that every country does, and which the US already did before the TSA.)
> simplest take is that “white people are not diverse”. So by asking for diverse group means non-white

This redefinition of diversity—to a separate monoculture—has underwritten the failure of the movement. Politically, obviously, and I’d also argue morally.
I generally use i3 for dom0 on my qubes boxes. It works great. There is generally support for a few different options in dom0 but clearly since dom0 is special you need to be mindful of reducing the software footprint as much as possible in my view.
It’s kinda scary. I’m not sure if it will be much better in other countries, given the growing aging population.

If one is unlucky and the process isn’t fast, it could be terrible. I can only hope it will end in less than 6 months, from the loss of independence.
No, when unintentioned outcomes occur in the world, this is not racism. The sun is not racist for burning white skin more severely than dark skin, and when AI are trained on disproportionately white data, their outputs are not racism.

When racist employees of Google intentionally racially cleanse their products, this is racism.

Let me know what is confusing about the concepts of agency and intention., and I will try to clarify
It's so much more than that.

We produce ~77 million tonnes of beef, using (at the 1:25 ratio) 1925 million tonnes of feed.

Africa currently imports most of it's grains, let's take a generous estimate of ~75 million tonnes of grain. Add another 25 million tonnes for their local production.

And we're still off by a factor of 19x.

Food production capacity is a non-issue. Availability to the people who need it is the real problem, and that is primarily about our willingness to aid those who need it and make some personal sacrifices for the greater good.
This really doesn't say anything about the benefits though. Just because people had "weapons" (some of which are basically harmless, like fishing tackle, or drinks), doesn't mean they prevented a threat. Yes, maybe the theater of it has dissuaded some from even attempting. Many, including myself, feel that many of the rules and the penalties for them are extreme.
Surprised to see insurance > banking. But then again I'm not familiar with US markets.
> the current economics is a low ball to get costumers.

vast.ai is basically a clearinghouse. they are not doing some VC subsidy thing

in general, community clouds are not suitable for commercial use.
It could be a consequence of racism. Racism lead to white people dominating the United States, which lead to images of white people dominating the internet, which lead to images of white people dominating the training data for facial recognition algorithms.

But it could also just reflect the composition of the population of the countries that dominate the internet.
> The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization.

It depends a lot on whether you own the organization in entirety or not.

I could have a business that operates for 5 years, own 100% of it, then shut it down because of loss of market interest and not wanting to pivot it to a direction that I personally disagree with just for the sake of keeping the business alive.

I could consider it a 5-year success and just be happy with that.

If investors are involved it's a totally different story.
For fun I just asked BingChat/Copilot this question and it really likes the Single Responsibility Principle - it wrote a couple of paragraphs on it and then offered a code example in PHP. I'm looking forward to the day when we can just sent our AI avatar to interviews, it'll save so much time and stress. ;-)
I use hledger for my solo-company. It is really great, and very easy to understand what is going on. Highly recommend.
Take a look at Uncle Bob’s code some day. You will then realize that all of his writing was synthesized solely to make him consulting money. His actual code is rubbish. This has been true all the way back to the 90’s with his inane questions to the OOP Usenet groups.
As far as I know, nobody is sure how it's pronounced correctly.

I'm German and our teachers always said, Latin is easy to pronounce, just like you would do it in German, but that's just an educated guess.
People were promoted after they were ready, because they had to convince a promo committee that they were ready. The manager was your advocate but did not have a say in if you were promoted beyond being your advocate.

So the incentives were aligned. The manager was incentivized to put you up for promotion as soon as they thought you might be ready, not the other way around. The toxic part was actually that your manager didn't have final say.

Even when they thought you were ready they had to convince others in an overburdensome process.
I didn't say I had objections to it. I said it was unpopular with the general public when you told them the details.

This is an example of a situation where people dislike the system but when you ask them about it they like their part of the system.

For example, people generally have an extremely low opinion of Congress, but on average they like their own Congress person.

You get similar results when you poll people about healthcare and health insurance: People generally hate the health insurance system, but if you start talking about taking away their health insurance or their doctor and replacing it with an unknown system, they get upset.

> Why would you want duplicating coverage anyway? Is it not strictly better for any consumer to only be paying for the extra coverage you want on top of the public coverage?

Duplicating coverage is superfluous if you assume the new plan would be better in every way and you give up nothing in the process, obviously.

However, the fear is that upending the entire system would require people to give things up and replace it with unknowns. There's a good chance that some people would be forced to be reassigned to different doctors under a centrally-planned system, or that access to things would be reset and need to be re-determined under new guidelines.

If this doesn't make sense, consider a situation where someone got special approval for off-label coverage of a drug (happens all the time) but the new government insurance had stricter guidelines about which conditions could be treated with which drugs (to keep cost down). Those people could lose access to medications or treatments that were covered privately.

We tend to think of "Medicare for All" type plans as being without downsides, but when you get into the details of changing the entire health care system out and banning the old ways, it's inevitable that some people would start losing things they liked. And that's where people get upset.
>The Colorado Coalition For The Homeless received 122M in 2023. In 2021, the CEO made $313K. The top 6 people make over $200K a year. All of this from a non-profit.

What's the typical salary for a CEO of a for-profit company that has 122M in revenues? While I can understand why people are outraged at the prospect of people getting money from a non-profit, it's unrealistic to expect everyone to be volunteers. Besides the question of how they'd financially support themselves, you have the problem of "pay peanuts, get monkeys".
Have a scale or a topic carveout. Your pet fish message board doesn't have the same social relevance as the twitters and facebooks of the world that are intended to be generic communications platforms. Despite what people like to claim, these sites are de facto public squares and should be treated as such. It's clear people resist this idea because they like the fact that these companies censor speech in the direction they prefer.
It will happen, and the American people will accept it, for the same reasons they accept tons of things today that are done against their best interests: Ideological divisions and loyalty, propaganda saturation, fear of an outside enemy, (possibly) religion, and the general desire to use the political system to punish "others" rather than help themselves.
No, this is not limited to gemini.
They both seem like goofs to me. I don't see much qualitative distinction. In both cases, engineers have produced racially dubious results by getting sloppy or lazy with their AI models. Personally, I wouldn't call that "racism" but I see how one could make that argument.
Can you make a basic web app without googling? (2021)
> Framing Nix as a solution to complexity seems to be a tenuous claim.

Disagree strongly. Building a large and varied set of software packages in a generalised and reproducible way is a fundamentally complex endeavour, and nixpkgs is the most successful effort I've encountered to simplify it.

In contrast, build & packaging systems that try to present apparent "simplicity" are usually ignoring a lot of the subtle difficulties in building software in a reproducible and robust manner, leading to extended and vague debugging sessions. See for instance almost any non-trivial Dockerfile-based build procedure.
Great content. However, the scroll manipulation on this site is atrocious. You can't hold down-arrow to go down - it only moves the content by a pixel every second. Insanity. End this, Enderman.
If you can't understand it yourself, you will have to find someone whose expertise you trust to answer the questions for you. But you don't have to understand the software down to bits and bytes, just enough for you to make good decisions. Having pragmatic underlings bring up problems and propose solutions is what you want. Watch for idealists for whom everything is broken and needs to be rewritten. Incremental improvement is the way.
It's so ironic to me, this hyper-cognizance of skin color that is advocated for in the modern DEI approach.

What does "no more racism" look like? To me, it looks like everyone having recognized that skin color isn't an intrinsically meaningful part of someone's personhood. The people who believe this should fight against the people who do not.

We're not going to get there by becoming ever more exquisitely concerned with skin color and it's implications in every social interaction.
My partner does at-home one-on-one care for people with dementia. No degree. No qualifications other than she really cares and is amazing at it. $25 an hour cash (no taxes). 24-hour care, that comes out to over $18k per month.
That snipit's a little misleading without the follow-on next sentence:

> The Shoes community (Shoes 3 or Shoes 4) is not growing and there is little enjoyment in working on code that no one else cares about enough to help code the internals. The underlying technology employed is evolving in ways that run counter to what Shoes is and does. It’s just time to quit. We had fun, we learned some things and we’ll leave it at that.

And then a lot of text about wandering off into home automation, Arduino, and 3D printers.
Ah. I had a “was it macaques or baboons” moment and Google failed me.

There’s a theory that dogs domesticated us almost as much as we them. It centers on why the whites of our eyes are so big.

It would be interesting to see an uplift saga with baboons or macaques that relied not on Doctor Moreau style medical interventions but on selection and domesticated animals.

But then I’m also a weirdo who thinks birds use tools. I maintain that structure building counts as a tool. Particularly the ones who weave baskets.
Every information retrieval software needs to grounded in facts not in ideology. Radical liberal ideology is overtaking Google's product design and this are consequences of it.
it's not there yet - and i don't really understand why they don't just try to upstream stuff to pytorch
The most annoying thing that ultimately ended my relation is that frequently there are multiple focused windows: 1 that is displayed as focused, and 1 that actually receives the input from the keyboard (I do set a thick red border around the active window on all my WMs to always). I have no idea what triggers it, but every 20-30 minutes I found myself staring at the screen thinking why my text is not showing up in the active window, just to find it in a window that I have switched away a long time ago.

And my pet-peeve: virtual keyboards don't work with Qt when using wlroots (at least not the activation events). I managed to add the missing protocol in a private fork, but I found it a glaring omission.
Interesting. I checked it out. The providers running your docker container have access to all your data.
and obligatory link for more editors ;) https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... (Emacs, Atom/Pulsar (very good support), Jetbrains, Sublime, VSCode (less good support yet), Jupyter kernel, standalone general-purpose Lem editor…)
Then there is https://cursive-ide.com/ as well.
Ivermectin, 'Wonder drug' from Japan: the human use perspective
I'm not sure what you think the goal should be. Do you imagine a world where racist policies end and never resume? We're a long, long, long ways from that so it seems premature to ask for organizations opposed to racism in government and business to close up shop, eh?

Tbh this comes across as related to the typical conservative argument that racism is over because we elected a black man president. That's not really what you're talking about, is it?
I mostly find this incredibly funny. Google one of the most cash rich companies in the world which spends millions on DEI initiatives, diversity officers, press releases about how diverse they are, and such releases one of the most obviously coded to be racist tools in human history after spending probably very large stacks of cash.

What an amazing self own, laughter and mockery is the best cure here, and possibly a news article about how a bunch of people on the project got fired.

I was unaware that Native Americans were in 1850's China. The only reason I knew they were Native American was the fact that the image used literally the most stereotypical image possible for them, moccasins and feathers and all.

Amazing. Handed nukes to everyone who claim that the "liberal elites" have it out for them.
Don't know about how it is in the US but what I enjoy about banks here is that basically all of them offer FinTS/HBCI/PSD2 or some other API to interact with the account so you can have a nice desktop app that automatically pulls info from all your accounts without ever having to interact with each banks online banking interface.

For Mac for example, this one is very nice:
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/moneymoney/id872698314?l=en
Some highlights:

- autofree doesn't work
- memory arenas (prealloc) isn't thread safe
- compiler produces large binaries
- coroutines invoke blocking calls
- community behavior is, uh, "unwelcoming"
The problem happens when you get more accounts of different types. Currently, I have around 40 accounts in ledger for me and my family. Multiple bank accounts, multiple brokerages, loans, tax optimization accounts, pension, etc.
Some institutions have a good tools and some not regardless of country. I recall using european NyKredit was pain as much as bank of America.
Ledger (or hledger in my case) helps to build structured “meta view” while still keeping my data private (from one vendor).
Noting that the linked post is quite old, we now have things like ECS which (seek to) address one of the listed problems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet
Any source that companies are actually paying a premium on this? Given that gift cards are sold at par or even at a discount, I'm skeptical that companies will pay a premium for what essentially are gift cards.
Nice! But please stop blocking browser Back.
It used to happen because people believed it was simply the right thing to do.
Dimspirations, nihilist inspirations for your daily life
A friend from the US I got to know on a US-based metal cruise (I'm German myself) told me that US metal concerts and European concerts are quite different: there's a lot of clapping, hopping and similar engagement routines in European concerts, while US concerts, at least according to him, apparently are more static, with maybe some fist pumping, but otherwise mostly people with crossed arms looking serious.

If that's true, there might indeed be a cultural difference in the breadth of metal fans from the US and Europe, which might as well lead to the more "happy" metal styles like power metal be more favored in Europe.
"I want a model that recognizes faces, but I didn't train it on enough black faces" => not-racism, according to you.

"I want a model that produces racially diverse images of people, but I didn't test it in racially homogenous historical contexts" => yes-racism, according to you.
> the ability to run a complex environment-destroying civilization disappears well before all the individual humans do

There are self-reinforcing loops of climate change that can cause runaway warming.
I have been wondering about this in context of glass... With concrete and such applications you cannot have too smoot sand, but is it same for glass? As you are going to melt it anyway, it shouldn't matter if it is not usable in concrete...