skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can profitably insure against a flood because it is not more likely to rain when everybody has flood insurance--the risk is independent.

Flood insurance is a weird corner case of the market. Insurers would rather not provide flood insurance because of the widespread impact of flooding caused by weather; the claims are enormous. They'd prefer to exclude weather-associated flooding and limit it only to flooding caused by, say, broken plumbing. To the extent you can purchase flood insurance in flood-prone areas, it's because the government has intervened in the market and requires insurers to provide it as a condition of doing business in the state or to get a federally-backed mortgage loan.

For the same reason, earthquake damage is explicitly excluded from homeowner's insurance in quake-prone states like California, Washington, and Hawaii. You have to purchase separate, and very expensive, earthquake insurance. When people see the premiums, they usually decide to forego it.

Some sources:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240311-why-climate-chan...

https://www.nar.realtor/flood-insurance/faq-national-flood-i...

https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/105-type/95-guides...
I am aware, since I was looking forward to it in 115. Unfortunately, I kind of suspect it might not really be on the way, as last time I looked into it it seemed like it was in a bad state. I guess it's not a big deal, though.
Most seniors I know wouldn't balk at learning a new language for a job, because most seniors know what you just stated to be true. It will take much longer to get up to speed on the codebase than it will be to learn the language. Even for "difficult" languages like a lisp or Haskell.

Management and HR seem to assume it will take significantly longer to get up to speed in a new language, but don't seem to care that new hires have to learn all of their weird C++ idioms that have built up over decades like atherosclerosis.
Publishing in much less visible venues than nature, the problem to me is that we do not often have to the actual resources to live by our own standards. Only few publications are altered by direct instructions by a lab lead IMHO. But I think still quite a lot are deeply flawed. Mostly it is the pressure on PhD students to get results which at least in our domain makes research likely not to be reproducible. And everyone else in the lab just wants to believe in the findings. IMHO we need huge bug bounty programs for research to incentivise finding the defects additionally to theoretical reproducibility. In the 20 years I have been in CS research, I haven't seen a reviewer trying to reproduce a result.
I liked this one

https://www.amazon.com/Terraformers-Annalee-Newitz/dp/125022...
It is only because the retailer cares about factory cost that the retailer can afford the staff and rent. Even paying the relatively low factory cost, the retailer can barely eke out a profit, so they must be discerning about the price to quality ratio of the clothing they are buying to retail to the public.
Will be awesome when we can watch old cartoon shows in VR and look all around the world.
It's really sensitive to lifestyle expectations and local costs, but it doesn't need to take that much if its the priority and part of a shared vision.

Many couples even find their way into that dynamic involuntarily when one spouse becomes disabled, often in an even more challenging way, but still find a way to make things work.
Exactly. End of the day, poor governance from product inception to execution to operation.
So double the American national average?
> Bugs were hard to diagnose

What sort of bugs - bugs in code using GRPC, or in the GRPC client/server code itself?

At least in the languages I've used with it you can dump GPRC messages to json if you need to get aggressive with logging detail to find something.
More than 10 000 beehives? How does AFB reach 10 000 beehives before the beekeeper takes action? That's the part I don't get.

It surely takes time for AFB to spread like this. In my country, when AFB is detected, we lockdown (meaning beekeepers cannot move beehives in and out of that radius) and test all the apiaries in a 2km radius. And we destroy the contaminated beehives. But that stays under control. 10 000 beehives sounds like a huge number to me!
… and then he [correctly] continued with “this is research, the generic term [gain-of-function], is research that goes on in many, many labs around the country. It is not regulated. And the reason it’s not regulated is it poses no threat or harm to anybody.”

Anybody, that is, except those infected by bad ideas, rather than biological viruses, which are way less dangerous than willful stupidity.
I assume you are familiar with Insomnia, does that work for you?
That'd pretty much be Portal; the technique he's using to render there is basically the same as the one Portal uses (the Portal engine can do "invisible" portals like this too, but there's only one point across both games where they're used in the finished game).

I suppose something around non-Euclidean levels without user-created portals could be interesting, but I think it'd be hard to flesh that out to a point where there's enough there for a whole game without coming up with some other gimmick.
Maybe can try use opensource project apache hertzbeat to monitoring heartbeat. https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat
>I read a call of OSS maintainers that critical OSS projects should be state-funded as they literally comprise critical infrastructure. Why couldn't we do the same with social networks?

If the goal is to avoid "enshittification" I don't think the solution is to have governments control social media and then have those platforms be subject to bureaucracy, decency and profanity laws, surveillance and propaganda (more so than currently) and the fickle wrath of the taxpaying voter. Realize how little critical infrastructure actually gets funded, and then add the psychotic dog-water paranoia of half the US thinking that infrastructure is a psyop by communists and "groomers" to turn their kids gay, and making that an issue in the polls.

PBS is probably the closest analogue to government run social media I can think of. Half the government and their constituents consider it "liberal propaganda" and want to defund it entirely, and it has constantly has to go begging hat in hand just to stay afloat, and then pursue commercialism to make up for the deficit.

You think social media is bad now? Imagine if you're required by law to sign up with proof of citizenship and your SSN is your password. And every platform is constantly putting Wikipedia style donation popups. And it's a misdemeanor to post swear words or material deemed "inappropriate."
This is an interesting idea .. but then you are left with "how much do you trust the [human] vs how much do you trust the [algorithm]"
Well, to be honest, one does not need to do so. You collect for half a generation, you drive mental models from the collected data- after that you can simulate most stuff with minimal data collected. Human lifes are not that unique after all. And the individual is actually pretty sure behave like a arche-type when simulated and measured.
"the current process of applying toon rendering to 3D geometry"

Is this widespread? My sense is that most mainstream TV animation that isn't obviously CGI is still drawn in 2D, with 3D work if used at all being relegated to backgrounds and the like.
I think "it would be cool if ..." is a better long term motivator than "it sucks that ...".
I belong to a Catholic parish in the downtown area of a HCOL west coast city (median income 79k). Men at the parish earn anywhere from 70 to 200k+ (I know as the head of a men's group... the guys talk to me, come to me for career advice, etc). Most of the families have a stay at home mother (some have stay at home fathers, usually if the wife is a nurse / doctor). Sometimes the stay at home spouse has a 'hobby' job that gets done when dad (or working mom) is at home (light online sales, etc). Either way, all of them make it work on these incomes, and almost all own their home. It truly is do-able I believe. I do think having a strong support network helps.
"If you can read assembly, all programs are open source."

Sure, it's easier and less effort if the program is actually open source, but it's absolutely still possible to verify on bytecode, decompiled or disassembled programs, too.
There is no "original content" - even human-created material is just fancy happenstance, mindwalking, and Markov-chain-like endeavours
Vaccination isn't an alternative to an already infected hive. The vaccine was the first in the world and was only approved for the first time last year. That's not a feasible alternative at this time.

The heat treatment they talk about is performed in the US too. You generally still need to burn your frames. You are allowed to char the inside of your hive body. It's not a meaningful difference as the frames are the more valuable part. It wouldn't surprise me if New Zealand allows charring the inside of the hive bodies and the farm decided against it due to labor concerns with the volume of equipment.
"Niha Long said it aimed to support beekeepers impacted by the disease"

With what? A shoulder to cry on? Nothing in her statement after that included anything about financial support, which is the only type of support that matters in this type of situation.
I did a lot of research on binary serialization at the University of Oxford. One of the papers I published is a comprehensive review of existing JSON-compatible serialization formats (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02089). It touches on Protocol Buffers (and >10 other formats) and I'm analyzing the resulting hexadecimals close to how the OP is doing.

I also published a space-efficiency benchmark of those same formats (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03051) and ended up creating https://jsonbinpack.sourcemeta.com as a proposed technology that does binary serialization of JSON using JSON Schema.
That is simply wrong, they gave the explaination pretty clearly:

> The U.N. says Gaza's Health Ministry has been able to fully identify 24,686 deaths out of more than 35,000 people the ministry says have been killed in the Gaza Strip.

> U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq says Gaza's Health Ministry is still working to fully identify 10,000 or more deaths. Based on the identities confirmed so far, though, the U.N. now says about 52% of those killed have been women and children.

> Haq, who is the deputy spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general, was asked in a briefing Monday about media reports, one of which was shared by Israel's foreign minister, that said the U.N. had halved the number of women and children it had been saying were killed in Gaza.

> "It's not quite the case," Haq said. "The overall number of fatalities that has been tallied by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which is our counterpart on dealing with the death tolls, that number remains unchanged," he said, reiterating the figure stands at more than 35,000.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251265727/un-gaza-death-toll...

To summaries, they lowered the number because now they are only using confirmed dead and fully identified, whereas previously they included confirmed dead and not yet fully identified. So out of all the confirmed deaths, only about 70% (not half, as you claimed) has been fully identified. The UN is now using that 70% figure.

If you want to get to half, you will have to include presumed but not confirmed deaths (missing, under rubble, in undiscovered mass graves, etc.) this number is believed to be another 10,000, bringing the total number of dead or presumed dead to 45,000. About 55% of confirmed or presumed deaths have been fully identified. The UN is now using that 55% figure.
An uncached ChatGPT no-less :D
this web page is not also not looking cool at all -

https://web.archive.org/web/20240517144934/https://gigainfot...

first fix your website.
The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible
define wrong ambitions.

I get from the text that you can have peace of mind and progress towards your goal. That peace of mind allows you to progress easily, less troubled. It doesn't say your ambitions are invariable once you choose them.

The fact you realize your original ambition is not what you want anymore you still got all the learnings from the path.
I agree focusing on the journey is more healthy (many cognitive therapies focus on trying to re-frame your thinking like this), but realistically all of our social/rewards structures are focused on the outcome, hence it's so difficult to detach from it.

If we could detach from the negative connotation of being "non-ambitious", we could reason like this: am I less likely to become a millionaire if I don't obsess over it? Yes. Will I be OK even if I don't become one? Yes. So I'll give it my best shot, but I won't sacrifice the rest of my life for something that might not happen even if I did obsess over it.
You mean March 0 of course, which is leap day.
The one really annoying decision in GRPC's design is tying it to HTTP/2 without an official choice. It optimizes for complicated high-throughput and bidirectional cases, while making it slightly harder to use for simple one-at-a-time "client server unary" RPC calls.
Feels like a cheap shot, even if the author is in their twenties.

They're not saying their experience is universal, just what helped them. This is the type of question that is not solved quickly, it is probably something that takes a decade or more to really crack.
Hyundai-backed Motional's struggles deepen as Tesla eyes August robotaxi debut
Mozilla hasn't been involved in Thunderbird development for years. They just provide legal and financial backing to Thunderbird via a subsidiary named MZLA. Development is all from the community at this point.
Because every server an email passes through will at least add its own Received header, and every antispam, DLP and antivirus crap appliance in the chain adds another one or more.

Usually, you have 1-3 Received header from the sending email organization (record I've seen is five - three ordinary mailservers and two for AV and DLP crap), then you got Proofpoint adding 2-3 layers, and then MS Exchange or whatever adding 4-6...

That's why the sender only signs those headers he himself is aware of and sent out.

Oh, and then you got the even worse cases, email servers actually modifying the body to add "Inspected by <Bullshit Snakeoil>" footers.
That’s probably what it is but there isn’t any reason for the German Red Cross to be embossing with the EU flag.
Yes, its delay line memory
I recall a talk where the speaker (I think Elizabeth Warren?) argued the opposite; when the budget was doable with a single job, then when the primary breadwinner lost their job, both adults could get lesser jobs to make a large fraction of the previous amount and give a longer runway.

However when you are already relying on both adult's salaries just to service debt and pay rent/mortgage, then you are more fragile.

I can see either one being potentially true depending on circumstances.
I think the misstep is trying to articulate these kinds of inherently personal lifestyle decisions on the broader scale of societies. It just falls into the typical tribal traps.

It would be nice if we could live in a society where you as an individual could decide on the lifestyle that you would like to live and have that personal decision not pigeonhole you into sectarian groups and ideologies that have nothing to do with your personal decision.
This feels a bit off. Change/Progress doesn’t tend to happen for most people until the status quo is more painful than the effort it takes to change or make progress. Just human nature. If you’re happy where you are, you’re not likely to change your situation on purpose.
I know it was left as an exercise for the reader, but I never worked out where that was used. (The turret live fire exercise comes to mind, but I thought I'd ruled that out.) Do you happen to know?
If by "information" you mean "text" ... I can agree with you

If by "information" you mean "something that might be real" ... I might agree with you

If by "information" you mean "something real that you should pay attention to" ... I MUST disagree
Big fan of Cap'n Proto here, but to be fair it doesn't support as many languages as Protobuf/gRPC yet.
EU warns Microsoft it could be fined billions over missing GenAI risk info
One problem with mail in ballot discussions is it varies so much by state but much discussion is around particular things certain states do combined in a single scenario. E.g. "to flub a mail in ballot that gets delivered to your door regardless if you want it and doesn’t require any form of proof of person to submit" makes 3 of these assumptions in the discussion:

- It is one of the ~20% of states that sent an automatic ballot.

- But not one of the states that requires voter registration containing a comparison signature on file to receive a mail in ballot with a matching signature (which is actually none of the above states).

- And also not one of the states to use barcodes to uniquely identify the ballots related to the voter or have flagging policies when multiple ballots for the same barcode arrive (including poll site voting). Alternatively: the fraudulent ballots only ever come in for people that don't vote with an extremely high accuracy.

With the final argument that an ID would be the be all end all to the original concern (faked overseas civilian ballots). That's not to say I'm necessarily against IDs for voting and that we have to wait for things to actually be a problem to do something but it does muddy the waters a bit on what to do. I'd honestly like to see something like SSN/state ID/passport/voter id functions all collapsed into one which would make registration more or less mandatory and not a separate step. A lot of things could be done with that to both tighten up things while simultaneously making things less hassle. Realistically we've got this weird political and administrative history of separating national/voting/state/private identities as a fundamental concept against big central government combined with the previous election year issue polarizing things and it's not any simpler to solve by saying it's simply about upholding national security and nothing else.
"File over app" is a good way of putting it!

Something strange is happening on your blog, fwiw: Bookmarking it via command + D flips the color scheme to "night mode" – is that intentional?
My hobby: making LLMs embarrass themselves
Honestly sounds like you're just disconnected from the culture. There are plenty of creative novels coming out these days. For a specific example check out Adrian Tchaikovsky's work.

Also you may want to subscribe to a short story publication like Clarkesworld. You'll have a drip feed of aspiring creative writers and can follow the ones you find especially good for when their forthcoming novels come out.

One that especially blew me away from Clarkesworld recently was Axiom of Dreams by Arula Ratnakar.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ratnakar_09_23/
That'd be a small enough sample size that it would make sense to just have a human agonize over it.

I feel like this type of thing best applies in the kind of domain they're already in— TV shows with hundreds of hours of content that a machine can comb through looking for reference images to synthesize into these models.
I see they didn't even try Peppa Pig.
This it's also not what non-euclidean means. It's just regular 3d world with portals. Games of that era often used portals in the engine, they just didn't use them to implement impossible rooms. I'm not trying to be nitpicky, but it's a common misunderstanding.

For actual non-Euclidean stuff I recommend ZenoRogue stuff. For example a simple game with Nil geometry[1], giantic bossfight in non euclidean world rogue game[2], or some general geometry weirdness [3]. Or just check out any of their stuff.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gejRg_q70EA&pp=ygUJemVub3JvZ3V...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jcnXI8IArRI&pp=ygUJemVub3JvZ3V...

[3] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yqUv2JO2BCs&pp=ygUJemVub3JvZ3V...
I wonder how the error changes if you start a new round just before finishing the stream, compared to if the last word in the stream just fills the buffer and ends a round.
The unexpected acolytes helping to keep ninja heritage alive
Well, the farm had a lot of beehives concentrated, and that likely helped the disease to spread. More smaller farms would be less susceptible.

> "By next year, when we don't have boxes for our honey crop, we're probably going to be losing over $5-6 million,"

I'd say that's a good problem to have.
OpenAI staffers supposed to make sure AI doesn't go rogue are jumping ship
How's the job availability in those cities?
Don't ask for personal data then.
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Author here: Fixed, thanks a lot!
The Life and Death of a Graphics Programmer
All experience is necessarily firsthand. The word experience describes things that come in through the senses. Lived experience means something, but only if you buy into 20th century phenomenology.

re: changes. Yes things have changed. The point of the discussion is some people have asserted without argument that those differences lead to a fundamentally different concept of gods. There is no real reason to believe that that I've seen, and yet people keep pointing out that things are different as if differences in the world necessarily implies different experiences.
There is already [effectively] no "free" true content

And it is not "due to ai consumption" - it is due to fewer people being willing to self-sponsor their efforts, and instead relying on aggregation platforms (all of which are for-pay or ad-supported (or both)) to 'get the message out'
Your example shows the highways connected the Bay Bridge to I-95 and south to 880.

The new highways were clearly connecting existing major roadways?
> Many couples even find their way into that dynamic involuntarily when one spouse becomes disabled, often in an even more challenging way, but still find a way to make things work.

This is one of the big 'unseen' risks with dual income couples. Elizabeth warren talks about it a lot in her book 'The Two Income Trap'. While it seems having two incomes makes you more robust against any job loss.. The opposite is true, and the data bear it out. Essentially if you both earn 100k, then you will adjust your lifestyle to depend on 200k in income. Now if one spouse loses their job, the other spouse has to make up the 100k somehow. Most cannot and go bankrupt. It is actually very hard to increase your earnings when you start hitting the upper income levels. While easy to go from 120 k to 150k for example, it becomes harder when you're earning 200k to go to 250k.

On the other hand, if you have a working spouse and a non-working spouse (realistically, most non-working spouses have some work experience) and are earning 100k, then you create lifestyle expectations around 100k. If the 100k guy loses his job, then, in most cases both historically and today (and again, Warren gives substantial data to support this claim), the non-working spouse is often able to find a job that will pay almost as much. Either way, in the single income case, they new gap between expectations and earnings is much less than the gap in the dual income case. Historically, much fewer single income couples go bankrupt.

Now, obviously, if you both work and depend on only one income, that's fine, but most people (and again, the data bear it out unequivocally) cannot do this.
> if you separate your ambition from your identity and sense of self-worth

If you can do this and stay ambitious, I'd like to buy your course. I don't know if generally people can stay hyper-motivated and hyper-ambitious unless it's tied to their identity and self-worth. If you're content with the way you are or the world is -- why bother?
Found a pretty cool wireframe video of Oliver and Company.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mix9rStOqoI

Now I am curious to watch it