skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The notion that Medicaid is so crappy is some terrible insurance is propaganda. Free vs paying tens of thousands of dollars, and still be flooded with medical bills, is all you need to know which one is better.

>There is no way to say this without sounding rude, but you clearly don't understand how insane healthcare costs are when you have kids.

I know how expensive the extremes are. Most kids don't need much healthcare. I'm not interested in arguing that with you. If you know, you know.

>Premiums alone could be close to a 1k a month for a family plan. At best you're paying 500 a month in premiums, and that is guaranteed to have a 5k+10k deductible before anything is covered by insurance. Then you will probably still have a co-insurance.

This is because people have "insurance" that pays for basic routine things. It's more like a price-gouging payment plan or a security blanket. If you got insurance only for severe situations with a high deductible, and paid for routine stuff out of pocket, you'd come out ahead I think. I happen to have a pretty good insurance plan with a low deductible but I didn't have one until I was almost 30. Nor did I qualify for Medicaid or anything else.

The free health care is not actually free. We all pay for it. Even poor people's taxes go toward healthcare that they might not use. Secondly, your choices on this "free" healthcare are somewhat limited. Good luck finding a doctor and getting an appointment in a timely fashion. And some of these doctors specifically maximize services and visits to milk the government for as much as they can.

>I know dozens of people with medicaid and they absolutely refuse to lose it, especially the ones with large families. If you, or someone in your family, have chronic health issues then you are basically guaranteed to be paying 10k in healthcare premiums and deductibles when you lose Medicaid and get private insurance.

Again I say, if you are poor you should not go out and start a large family. People who have expensive chronic conditions they can't help, or have like 1 kid with that, are kind of an exception.

Back to the original point. I think not working more because of Medicaid eligibility is stupid. If we're talking about the difference between working 5% more hours at the same job and not, then I get it. But we aren't gonna see people give up $40k+ jobs just so they can get Medicaid. Even if they were, it's not a problem with means testing in principle. Each person's circumstances are unique, and the system needs to make people pay when they can. Even as shitty as the system is, we can't afford it. It's on track to be in the red by tens of trillions of dollars. By the time all the bills come due, it might be quadrillions of dollars, due to inflation. I'm not even joking...
Huge vendors make this mistake across their entire system. Like data bricks with Workflows and Jobs (same thing). Super irritating, friggin’ pick one.
I like the idea of pitching Ruby on Rails. It’s relatively easy to grasp and contains everything including the kitchen sink.

The thing I’ll share is that I have a day job and kids. I learned JavaScript and then started learning a JS framework.

The problem I had was that by the time I was able to become proficient in a framework, it was on its way out and there was some new thing.

I still do a lot of JS with Node and Express and Fastify but I’ve stopped bothering with further frameworks until I have a firm requirement for one.
OP is probably talking about 3D printed devices. There are devices made of nothing but polymer (and maybe a spring? although I believe elastic can be substituted) that do function. They don't get many shots, but they will still put some projectiles downrange before malfunctioning. Some even have profiles which look nothing like a handgun, you can't rely on a human operator to recognize them when scanning bags.

Even more robust DIY guns like this use metal components for only the breech, and that's a very small component that could easily be confused for any number of other things.
I really got a lot out of the article. I think it will help my write more succinctly and clearly and to be better understood.

One question: after writing the sentence “I really got a lot out of the article.”, I wondered: is this extraneous? Is this clear? Am I saying precisely what I mean? And I think, yes, I meant exactly what I said, and I went into detail in the following sentence. I am just curious what you think.
Why aren’t insurance companies required to operate like market makers in the equities markets, where they’re free to choose the price they’re offering, but must offer a price in the market they’re in?

If the roof needs replacing (in the insurance company’s view) then charge whatever the rate is that covers that and still makes them a profit. Don’t just deny coverage.
Pretraining determines the weights (e.g. the connections), fine-tuning let's you change some subset of the weights (e.g. the final layers) with a smaller chunk of task-specific data.
It's 2024. Everyone is an adversarial actor.
After he chewed out Intel for making such shitty CPUs, he was unceremonsiously removed from his position and sent away for a full month of re-education at an undisclosed location. This was shortly after Spectre and Meltdown became public. Feel free to read more about it!
that’s because the insurance model is not based on individual performance but based on a collection of data points.

Insurance will jack up the renewal rates for everyone because there are increased number of accidents in your zip code or area. Cars are more expensive now. Often adjusters just declare vehicles no longer worth the repair. Some vehicles if they get dented will result in a shit ton of work to get it repaired (ie, Rivian truck).

You are paying for the insurance companies increased risk because the people around you can’t drive worth shit.

Got to love car centric transportation …
I also blame the bad zsh docs. I'm trying to write a zsh completion script for a CLI I wrote and I'm intimidated by the lack of examples in the official docs. I'm forced to turn to 3rd party examples and they have differences between them
I'm not usually a "actually this is the fault of regulation" sort of person, but in this case it really is the fault of regulation. A bunch of states have laws saying premiums can't rise more than X% in a year, or can't rise at all without the approval of the state insurance commissioner. If circumstances have changed (e.g. wildfire or hurricane risk is now worse than we thought, and also labor market tightness and inflation means repairing/rebuilding is much more expensive) such that the insurance company can't insure you profitably without a rate hike they're forbidden to do, then of course they're going to drop your policy.
Hi Der_Einzige, thanks for pointing out these two great datasets! We are currently working on including customized evidence sources internally and will definitely consider these two datasets in the future version of this open-source project.
> Much of nyc rolling stock should be end of life anyway

What makes you think that? The MTA has been ordering new cars pretty consistently for the past several decades. The rolling stock of the subway ranges from 1970s-era to brand new stock. Most of it is 21st century and perfectly good.

> Just order new trains and remodel stations

There's 6500 cars to replace and 400+ stations to remodel. Even if the MTA were capable of doing that on time and in-budget, it would be incredibly expensive, so I ask again: is that really the best way for the MTA to spend its budget? You're basically asking for the entire system to be rebuilt from the ground up, purely to support platform doors.
Thanks for the numbers. It was honestly a lucky guess. I have thought about my own school when estimating it though. I once looked up salaries and tuition numbers and did a rough estimate.
Ugh, disgusting. No more European cured pork products for me!
I didn't think this would get hate rofl
The Rubin telescope, like all larger telescopes, doesn't have a lens. It has a 27ft main mirror. I think the big difference is the size of secondary mirror which is 11ft in diameter.

It can be compared to the neighboring Gemini South telescope which is similar size but has 3ft secondary and f16 focal length.
Plain JavaScript setup for TypeScript developers
tldr; @ts-check and JSDoc are sometimes all you need
I think it's a bit like saying microcode in CPU underpins high-level programming languages - kind of, but good luck understanding what a program does based on its microcode translation. OTOH you can mess with microcode and maybe get better performance, but you won't really know before you try. It's similar with ML - much more like alchemy than science...
In EU subcompacts are now more expensive than compacts few years ago and everything is crossover-ized or SUV-ized.
You know, I kind of feel this way about code too. Sometimes people don’t put in a lot of blank lines to break things up and I find that a little harder to read and a bit more intimidating than reading with a few blank lines between concepts/actions. In fact, I was thinking after I read the article, maybe many of these principles apply to writing maintainable code too.
Interesting. I haven't kept up with 3D printed firearms at all because it seemed like they were simply not useful due to the fact that they were made out of polymer.
Ultraspeaking
"Scientists are happy about "dark energy" being explained away"

Is that why Einstein a nobel for his work on Brownian motion instead of relativity? I asked that sarcastically because it is well known that some of the powerful "Scientists" were very unhappy with relativity...
I’m not seeing you motivate or justify the rate increases.
This kind of makes me wonder who funds the studies, actually. Could be that it’s the sugar lobby. :-)
I could be wrong, but I don't think there are any states where you are required by law to have home insurance. The issue is that banks won't underwrite a mortgage for an uninsured house, because without insurance it's a completely unsecured asset whose value would go to zero at any time. (And if a bank won't write a new mortgage for it, the value drops dramatically even if it's already paid off, because now the potential market is limited to cash-only buyers for a risky asset)

You're free to go without insurance on a house that you own, but so long as the bank owns it, they're going to make insurance mandatory, and that has nothing to do with lobbying.
Independent inspectors almost always say what whoever is paying them wants to hear (see: Florida). 10 years left on a roof usually means the next large wind storm will take it out, they’re not paid to look for that.
https://archive.ph/c63Jj
Facebook Is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid
looks like they have it now

https://optuna.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/generated/...
Not a space station but a chinese tracking and nominally spacecraft telecom antenna farm in Argentina.
Are you saying that a PID controller would not work in a system without time delay? Or in a system without time delay, a PID controller would function identically to a simpler controller (A proportional-only controller perhaps)?

My understanding and experience has been that large time delays force less aggressive tuning of the controller. I've been meaning to experiment with model based controllers to try and improve the responsiveness of the system.
No but the dollar is worth about a third of what it was 20 years ago, at best.

You might not even realize the infrastructure that the school uses. Those big buildings are expensive and use tens of thousands of dollars in electricity every month. If your school has shuttles to take people back and forth to the dorms or parking, that is also a constant expense. The library has to pay tens of thousands of dollars for access to academic databases. Computer labs, printing, internet, security, and so on. It all adds up quick.
Looking at the March jobs report,

-March, full-time jobs dropped by 6,000 as Part-time jobs soared by 691,000

-the unemployment rate for Blacks (6.4 percent) increased in March to the highest level in almost two years

From 12 months ago,

-in February 2023 the US had 133.2 million full-time jobs, or more than it does one year later

-all the job growth since then has been in part-time jobs, which have increased by 870K since February 2023 (from 27.020 million to 27.890 million)

Over the last four years,

-all net job creation in the past 4 years has been for foreign-born workers

-zero net job-creation for native born workers since July 2018

Source: bls.gov
I sure wish I could read this..
Their comment didn’t add anything to the conversation, contrasted with yours I’m sure you can see the difference.

I agree with your commentary, my point was that they’re (insurance companies) unable to use the information they learn or newer predictive elements to help avoid the mismanagement.

Arbitrary decisions by these elected or appointed officials, as I have seen first-hand, ignoring the reality that if they aren’t able to off-set that risk it comes at great cost to the company first and their constituents later as a knock-on effect results in the only way to not have it “blow up in their face” by removing services.

So to your point, the lack of ability of control rates in a more reasonable fashion (I’m not pro no regulations btw) actually results in the same thing you’ve pointed out above - the ones who need the insurance the most can no longer get it or cannot get adequate coverage.
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They will just charge the customer the price of a new roof, there’s no point in what you’re asking for.
I thought risk pooling was the point?
When I saw the title I thought it's about current state of AI. That's what currently AI is missing. Imagination.
The two dark splotches above the tree are the eyes. The nose is to the right of the lower splotch, below the higher splotch. The forehead to the left.
Why would you owe them something if you already provided the code and docs?
The US could always tunnel into those areas later, unless the Chinese are also allowed to develop a mineshaft-gap.
Your implication is that society pays for those profits without getting anything in return. This belief is not true.
wg-easy comes to mind
sounds like you've never done hard manual labor
My favorite button is the "JavaScript Blocker" icon.

The number of popups asking for my email address, posting cookie notices - often without a close button, adblocker hate popups, paywall notices and begs for money has reached the outrageous stage, and I am considering blocking JavaScript by default and making it the option.

The JavaScript event horizon has arrived.
Early on, companies would tend to take version control like SCCS, and layer their own SCM systems atop it, to address some of the most obvious team project pain points.

The bespoke layers I saw were usually kludgey, but sometimes they worked well enough, in a "worse is better" kind of way. Other times, people were greatly relieved to eventually get a better off-the-shelf SCM system.

This building atop SCCS is an example of starting with the minimum and adding what you need. It has different pros&cons, compared to a more typical contemporary approach of starting with the maximum off-the-shelf framework/platform/service, and figuring out how to get it to do the simple thing you actually need.

There's a sweet spot in between the two, of sometimes using some big/medium-complexity off-the-shelf thing, and other times keeping it simpler, while making better decisions than flipping a coin. Though that tends to get lost in the reality of resume-driven-development, when the incentive of a decision-influencer to add a keyword to resume isn't aligned with the goals of the current project or current company. (But companies only have themselves to blame for this, when they hire by the keyword. Of course, selecting for and rewarding pursuit of keywords, that's what they'll get. Similar with hiring for Leetcode.)
I'd say "Re: lcamtuf on the recent xz debacle" probably counts as a misleading title since the current post isn't by that user and the "Re" isn't enough to really make this clear. So the OP was probably ok to rewrite the title but probably editorialized it too much.

("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

If someone can suggest a more accurate and neutral title, preferably using some representative phrase from the article itself, we can change it.
> Also the Netflix show suffers a lot for being only 8 episodes.

And they wasted most of that with cancer drama instead of aliens-are-coming drama.
If it’s a scam then don’t buy it. Pay cash for everything and put up a bond with your state, you don’t even need car insurance at that point.
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You’re free to change insurance companies, aren’t you?
Because when it's a legal system and not a justice system, the motivations and goals are different. It's solving the case vs closing the case.

Like in the IT - how many bugs fixed vs how many bugs closed ;-)
The widths are fixed depending on the line and there isn't usually more than three car variants using any given line. Those that have common door patterns can easily have barriers. Worst case, they'd have to give up the nostalgia rides on the old rolling stock.
Differential equations are mathematically quite simple, yet they are mostly intractable and the systems they describe chaotic and unpredictable. The mathematics in AI works similarly, being deceptively simple yet giving birth to incredible complexity
Did you intend to reply to a different comment?
Good luck helping your grandma over the phone now. Stack overflow or even a video tutorial? Useless.

Seems like predictable should beat customized for something like a gui.
DESI first-year data delivers unprecedented measurements of expanding universe
How could it possibly be anonymous? Would you be ok with your ring camera and external Tesla cameras being posted on a webcam streaming site (likely with no direct compensation to you) with filters for demographics, rough geolocation, etc as long as your name was not attached?
> a good model

Strongly reminds me of "no true scotsman."

If you have an access to a good model, try that simple problem of blocked clause decomposition and please get back to us.
That makes it kinda useless.

What we need is a self-updating mechanism. See for instance yt-dlp, which breaks every now and then but a simple update almost always puts you back in action. We need something similar for tunnels.
> that xbox dev is standardized on the S stopping the X from showing it's capacilities

I find it really hard to take this at face-value. The CPU power difference between the S and the X is negligible; it's the GPU cuts that are the biggest drawback. It makes sense to me that games on Series S get cut-back to enable playable performance, but I don't think the existence of a less-powerful GPU meaningfully limits the scalability of console titles on the bigger console.

> Coupled with the complete lack of worthy first party or dedicated IP beside Forza

That's just like, your opinion man. It's been nice watching Microsoft start publishing smaller titles in an age where the future of gaming is looking more-and-more bleak. Sony's IP library is starting to get milked dry, in comparison. The big exclusives are a Final Fantasy remake, a Demon's Souls remake, an upcoming Metal Gear Solid III remake... I've already played those games. The biggest reason I can muster to buy a PS5 is so I can play Bloodborne at a stable framerate. Sony used to have just as strong of a sell as Nintendo in this regard, but I think we're starting to see them fall from grace.
Nah there’s at least a few hundred gigs available at any given time. Usually the breakage has to do with plugins just ceasing to function or Plex somehow forgetting its library exists, which results in only the free-stream-crap channels showing up in clients.

Also, everything in my library can be direct-played by the clients I use (primarily Apple TV 4k) too, so transcoding pretty much only happens when I’m loading up my iPad for a trip (once or twice a year tops).
The insurance companies are loosing money. Rates have to go up.
Why should any seller have to justify their prices? Just don’t buy their policy, buy someone else’s.
I'm not sure I buy this. I love using AI to help with coding and other questions, but often times I feel like AI is too agreeable to be an effective writing partner.
Rfc 2606 excludes the localhost domain from the possible tlds and systemd-resolved resolves localhost and its subdomains to 127.0.0.1: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/systemd/systemd-resolve...
What I saw was "supply chain got more expensive so $/claim went up and is outpacing premiums".
In CA, a recent batch of wild fires wiped out 20 years of profits.
I'm seeing it: "This was with actual data of losses increasing due to supply chain disruption of auto parts, labor increases and many more things."
It really wouldn't solve the main problem which is that the product itself isn't really needed or that great, code quality aside.
Is there a chart? I didn’t see one in the article
In addition to all the other replies on this topic, monochrome sensors are capable of higher detail and higher sensitivity than color sensors. There's no scientific benefit to using a color sensor. In fact, a color sensor would be detrimental.
Oh man, maybe that’s what the reincarnation check from OMON-Ra was
You should be able to run something via openCL and llama.cpp on it
>Sony's IP library is starting to get milked dry, in comparison.

Didn't they just have huge layoffs at their major studio in London?

It seems like major AAA gaming might be going through a tough time.
It is an interesting test (I tried it once I read your sentence). Turns out I can imagine a ball rolling off a table without detailing the imaginary scene to have a specific material, texture or sound (and if I wasn't specifically asked, I won't likely picture it).

My imaginary scene clearly had some "spatial sense" though — I saw (but more like "felt") the flat surface of the table, the edges of it, how it is positioned relative to myself, the roundness of the ball rolling, and how it falls off.