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We can't even choose our insurance - it comes from your employer with no choice (or no real choice - I have two slightly different choices from United Health Care). All the negotiation on how it works is done by HR not me, and HR likes the current rules as it makes it hard for me to leave.

In theory I can bypass my employer insurance - but if I do I throw away thousands of dollars that my employer is paying directly and so anything I find elsewhere either cannot be as good, or is has to cost a lot more money.
If they're brain-dead, there's no "they" there to become a member of anything. They'd be as much of a functioning member of society as a car.
I've had my eye on it for sure!
PyPy was a successor to Psyco, by the same author. JIT was always a core part of the project.
The problem with XML is precisely that it is so much more than simple hierarchical, nested trees of data. The fact that in a casual conversation XML is reduced to hierarchical trees of data pretending the rest of XML does not exist more than proves OP's point.
> They will get all the data collected by the service, which is none.

(disclaimer: not rooted in knowledge, but in pessimism)

If the web service / whatever cannot provide the requested data, it would be in violation of the order.

So all you really need are harsh fines for not complying with the order and the problem morphs from a technical one to a business decision.
> It's really opinionated about it though.

That's its value really. It has the defaults you usually want with minimal boilerplate. If you need/want something more complex it's not necessarily the right tool any more.

I say this not as any kind of dig against Caddy but I feel like the entire value proposition is that its default configuration covers the 90% case so well. Sometimes being easy to use with good defaults goes a really long way.
The Maillard Overreaction
Socialism isn’t authoritarian communism- it could be as simple as pulling the tax regime away from the neoliberal doctrine.

At the moment we encourage rentseeking and punish labour/productive work.

Cheap healthcare housing and education at the expense of less billionaires

PS - the last time we tried a world war it didn’t end well either, i think the stakes are that high
How would it complicate the prologue/epilogue? It would still be

push RBP
mov RBP, RDSP ; DSP stands for "data-stack pointer"
sub RDSP, <frame-size>
... ; locals are [RBP-n], args are [RBP+n]
add RDSP, <frame-size>
pop RBP
ret ; pops address from [RCSP], where CSP stands for "call-stack pointer"

or even, if you don't want a specific base pointer, like this:

sub RDSP, <frame-size>
... ; locals are [RBP+n], args are [RBP+frame_size+n]
add RDSP, <frame-size>
ret

In fact, you can do this even now on x86-64: make a second stack segment, point RBP there, and use RBP as if it were that hypothetical RDSP register. The return addresses naturally go into the RSP-pointed area, as they always did. The only tricky part is when you need to call the code that uses SysV x64 ABI, you'll need to conditionally re-align that RSP-pointed area to be 16-bytes aligned which is a bit annoying (in your own code, having RBP always aligned at 16 bytes is trivial since function calls don't break that alignment).

There are two main benefits of this layout, as I see it: first, smashing the return address is now way harder that it normally is; second, "the act of traversing all call frames on the stack and collecting the return addresses that are stored inside of them" is now trivial, since the call stack at RSP is now just a dense array of just the return addresses, no pointer chasing needed.
Yep. Don't put in anything "smart", don't make assumptions about what the future homeowners will want or have access to - give them the tools and flexibility to decide for themselves.
Not affiliated with the site at all, but just confirmed in Vivaldi that https://httpstat.us/108 returns a 500 "This page isn't working" error, while Firefox just shows a blank page (and a 500 error in the Network inspection tab). Even get a 500 error with wget ("GNU Wget 1.16 built on linux-gnueabihf.")

Looked through the source briefly but couldn't understand exactly how it's working, so I'm not sure yet if it's more likely an issue on the server or "browser"...
They just go to Mexico after we've renewed the USMCA for 16 and Mexico stops being afraid of Washington D.C.

In Mexico they assemble cars from Chinese parts and ship duty free to the US and Candada.

Or build more factories in the US. Geely owns Volvo and they're building in the US. All the EU makers, the Korean and Japanese makers too have factories in the US.

Tariffs are on real imports, not on US or USMCA made products.
Lol, and then they get grounded. They can't hack if they are taught to expect swift consequences for messing around
Right but this is him being fired
https://archive.ph/CKoAl
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> But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

Because you do not have to go to those places.

Years ago, when I was a kid, I heard my parents, uncles and aunts have a big discussion while I was in bed.

They were talking about the trend of For Profit Health Care, the outcome they came up with was prices will eventually raise up to extortion levels, why, because that is what everyone needs.

So here we are, being extorted by insurance and equity firms. And many Doctors are in the same boat with us, they are being squeezed with insurance costs and bureaucracy. My Dr has to have 3 people working in the office just to deal with health Insurance.

As a kid, it use to be 1 nurse and the nurse would deal wit paper work and help the Dr when needed. Plus their insurance costs were low compared to now.
Yep. Thanks for explaining it far better than I could. I recall Chuck referring to applications like "intelligent dust" or something like that. He's clearly thinking very long-term (almost scifi) kinds of applications.
> I've done some long, long runs, and the ~300th performance is more interesting than the first.

Your description really meshes with my experience playing classical guitar. It takes a few months of work to memorize the piece, but then the fun begins. I've played the same piece hundreds of times. Instead of it getting boring, I keep noticing some new thing in the piece every week, it constantly feels "new." Bring out the bass for these two beats on this measure; hold this melody note just a tad longer; the harmony in these two measures makes for a great descending line, make sure the notes connect. Stuff you don't notice on your first couple dozen plays, that endless repetition starts to bring out. It doesn't work for every piece, but for my favorites, it's really a bottomless hole, like you said.
In the early nineties, I would print out usenet threads at work so I could read them while riding the train home.
I don't know what happened either and I wouldn't even be surprised if the parties have internalized it in ways that aren't 100% consistent. I do know that situations arise where it becomes mutually apparent that a parting of the ways is best for everyone concerned even if not explicitly stated. And, in those circumstances, there's a public story that is often not untrue but isn't the whole backstory either because it's simpler for everyone involved that way.
> on the approach pursued by the Belgian Council Presidency

To be noted

The more noisy and outrageous this gets at this stage I can see more people making noise about it
Well, it's a post war reminiscence that thankfully is decreasing and has less presence in the market every day.

It made sense back in the day, in that postwar economy, as the sugar roasting process reduced its price and lengthened its shelf life. Mixing or even substituting in completely with chicory (depending on your wealth, or lack of it) was very common, and some old people still do it nowadays.

But still tastes burnt, so of course people do lots of sugar and milk on their coffee :p.

BTW, it's OK if any of you don't like coffee, or like it sugary, with milk, powdered, or in any coffee based drink that you like. I might be snobby with my coffee, but you can drink wathever do like. And in summer I always fancy a cold coffee with tigernut horchata (popular around Valencia, different from the Mexican one that's made with rice).
The US and California have given Tesla about three times what China has given BYD. And the US doesn't have restrictions on Chinese companies?

Do some research before spewing this kind of nonsense.
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I recently needed to generate thumbnails for videos on iOS Safari. However, unlike other platforms, it often didn't work well. I tried GPT and googling... but they weren't much help. So, I had to figure out a "working version" myself. It was quite challenging, but I finally found a solution that worked!
Make an AI device to tell you bedtime stories
I can see why, Paul Grahams Twitter is good enough reason to find him insufferable
Chatcontrol is mostly about data in transit. Anything that is sent to the internet can be scanned.
> Would it be fair to say that GraphQL is extremely useful for internal-only clients?

Compared to what? If you're feeling really safe about the "internal-only" parts, just expose an endpoint to allow SQL (read) queries and you'll get essentially the same thing, especially if your data store already is SQL-like.
I suppose you also think all these executives really quit to be with their family?
it would help if you could in some way document or justify the "evil" in that comment
Yeah, I think there are a lot of complex factors that’s causing the housing problems.

Private equity, sure, but also the inflated cost of construction materials, realtor and land lord collusion, automated rent fixing, incentives for landlords to keep empty units rather than budge on rent.

It’s a big mess
Maybe we don't think of it as "tech", but what I would want - having bought a rather old house - is things that are passive, and will pay off future dividends. I want the place well insulated, I want windows placed in ways that will maximize pleasant and cooling breezes during good weather, ones that let in natural light but not let heat pass through during bad weather. I want good drainage, and plumbing that's easy to access and repair in case of damage or leaks.
He was still one of the two main founders and married to the other main founder. He wasn't totally uninvolved with the company.

He still did Office Hours, at least for a time. He described that as "ten percent of what he did" and hired at least two people to divide up the other 90 percent.

I imagine he and Livingston discussed the company over breakfast/dinner and a lot of decisions were likely joint decisions privately hashed out. It's a company founded by a dating couple who later married. There is probably no clear, bright dividing line between "her" decisions and "his."
If you want your code to run faster, you should probably just use PyPy.

Guido Van Rossum (once CPython's BDFL) said that.
I get it - but I am not paranoid lol

This is coming from companies such as Lockheed Martin where working on tangentially related defense projects at home would be bad.
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> GraphQL is very good for places where frontend and backend developers are isolated from each other (separate teams)

What do you mean by "backend developer" ? The one who creates the GraphQL endpoints for UI to consume ?
"naive example where private equity buys everything and jacks up the prices"

Naïve, but not wrong.

There are a lot of factors, but jacking up prices on an inelastic goods is pretty common.

And if you are suffering a heart attack, getting help is inelastic.

Nobody needing health care is like "Wait, don't save me, let me shop around a little, do you take coupons".
Yep!

The American Primary Care model doesn't work, but the Canadian and British Single Payer model doesn't work either.

You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't
It's a two-fold problem. Think of health insurance like "the mob" it gives you leverage if your employer has a lot of employees vs if you work for a small company. They can say "oh we're taking you out of our network since your pricing is insane" and actually holds a lot more weight than a small fish company trying the same.

Then you have the fact that not everyone pays, so they subsidize the cost. Think of all the homeless people who got treated.

Never take a loan unless you're literally battling something life threatening and that's your only option available. Otherwise, always haggle the billing department down.

It's all a messy cost because its all subsidized.

I got this information from a former hospital billing manager who I used to report to at a former software job. I don't know what can fix all of this, but it feels like the college issue of throwing more money at it just gives them free reign to raise prices at ridiculous rates.
Obviously depends on the API but a REST API that maps relatively cleanly to database queries is going to make it very clear on both the client and the server when it’s not scaling well.

If, at page load, I’m making 100 HTTP requests to fetch 100 assets then as a client side developer I’m going to know that’s bad practise and that we really ought to have some kind of multi-get endpoint. With GraphQL that gets muddy, from the client side I’m not really sure if what I’m writing is going to be a massive performance drag or not.
Raivo OTP just deleted all tokens after update and is now asking for money
There are a lot of strange assumptions on that first page:

- "for example, if you are using PHP to access a database, unless that database has built-in access control" - well, of course I will use a database with access control like MySQL

- "It's entirely possible that a web spider could stumble across a database administrator's web page, and drop all of your databases". Of course I won't run PHPMySQLAdmin or Adminer on a production server, nor will I expose it to the public.

- also none of the above has anything to do with the PHP execution model

The second page might raise some valid issues but for instance the bullet point "mod_php is loaded into every httpd process all the time. Even when httpd is serving static/non php content, that memory is in use" - doesn't matter to me when I am running everything through index.php routing anyway.

"mod_php is not thread safe and forces you to stick with the prefork mpm (multi process, no threads), which is the slowest possible configuration" might be true but also a premature optimization.

Maybe mod_php is really bad but the arguments presented here are not very convincing to me.
Guido actually said

If you want your code to run faster, you should probably just use PyPy.
What always amazes me is that they can get away with constant mistakes, overcharging and unjustified denials without any real consequences. The worst that can happen is that they have to correct the mistake and do what they should have done anyways. And this only after the patient has spent enormous amounts of time, energy and money. I don’t think any other business would get away with this.
I was around there! In caterings is even worse, they're using that burnt coffee in huge unmaintained drippers making something very similar to airplane coffee. It's weird to have that burn-but-wattery coffee. You can for sure find better coffee in Valencia with no effort.
> Probably because the "Sam Altman is an amoral, power hungry mastermind who was run out of all his previous gigs" is a more interesting narrative than whatever is actually happening.

It's not either or. The above can be true and also the reason pg wanted him to run YC.
> But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

Not sure, but the counterpoint is the housing crisis. So painting it as something exclusive to healthcare suggests that there's no possibility of it being a systemic problem with Private Equity.

https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becom...

One of the other comments raised said "because you don't have to go to those places," and it intuitively feels correct that basic needs are ripe for price gouging when supply is limited. But I'm out of my depth. Happy to hear other comments.
No you’re twisting meanings here. If it was just “stay if you want” that wouldn’t be firing but saying “if you want to remain here you have to stop doing X” is firing someone full stop
Correct. The industries with shortages (housing, healthcare, education) are ALSO the ones with Soviet-tier central planning. Honestly, we shouldn’t be surprised!
I think the choices are between care options, and are absolutely meaningful. Few would choose to spend 250k on end of life care if that was coming from their grandkids college fund. Few would try a 50k implant or surgery before physical therapy if they had to pay.
In some places, the mask of this being a child-pornography problem is falling down already, see [^1]. The Swedish Social Democrats, which is the biggest political party in Sweden, wants for everybody to use their IDs to comment in social media just so that the party can wage their electoral war.

[^1]: https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/swedens-socia...
But what you eat and what you do are massively influenced by your environment. Rare person who can resist the bombardment of ads from the junk food industry.
I mean that initially the 15% commission was only for subscription sales. Then more recently, Apple added the small business program which gave 15% commission for any sales (not only subscriptions), at least for smaller companies
Long-time Debian user here. For me, Klode made the right call. Someone who wants the bells-and-whistles edition can install it from flatpak.
In the US private insurance from your employer is the only way to go. My company puts in a lot of money towards my health insurance that I lose if try to find someone else. I can in theory find a different private insurance but there is no competition as no private can afford to compete with deal my company has - either they have to provide substantially worse service or they have to charge substantially more than my employer.

Since I don't have a real choice nobody tries to serve me. Complex billing and codes I don't understand - the people paying the bills like that.
Yes, +1 to sharing links! I'll also add:

* Enable the use of personal OpenAI API keys.

* Include system prompts, such as "If the topic is about X, highlight new topics by Y" and "Reply to all as if explaining the topic to a 6-year-old."

* Backlink to the original thread when the same topics are found.

* It would be great if this could be a desktop app with all answers saved locally, creating "my own personal" infinite wiki.
I know several bird women. The problem is that instead of becoming extroverted because of an infection, they develop lung problems. It's much less romantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_fancier%27s_lung
It’s actually not fine to do this regardless of if some people do so and pretend everyone’s fine with it
You are on a tech forum. People are going to talk about the technologies that make possible color grading.

Without LUTs, Look Up Tables, a computer would not be able to do color grading.
That’s the infuriating thing about it. I suspect the fear of these unexpected parasitic charges in US healthcare is a contributing reason to men’s life expectancy only being 73.5 years.
So if the police insist increasingly upon being treated like dangerous wild animals (seriously, look at every 'how to deal with police' guide), how long until we can legally shoot them? Wishful thinking I suppose, just like thinking that highway robbers would be shot or hanged.
If new fields show up in a json response just ignore them. Why would you need to change the client if new fields show up in the response?
Oh good. I was worried our future AGI tyrants, that are software engineer overlords are mindlessly racing to create, wouldn't be able to exploit us like in the Matrix. Now I can rest easy.
My parents are dentists and most of the memories from when I was a kid (pre 2013) of my dad working was him dialing up and arguing with insurance providers.

They’d send checks 6months late and often miss them.
They also forced certain prices for him to stay “in-network”

Insurances don’t seem to help anyone.
That's a perfect article of what happened in reality.

They belong to a similar high social class and protect each other. If it were just a random employee with no power, money, or status that was moonlighting or trying to run their side business, they would be scrutinized and possibly sued. If their generated IP were any good, the company would claim it was theirs.

But yeah, if you are a CEO, you can run a few companies and participate in a couple of boards, even while not disclosing this to the many boards you partake in and having many businesses with conflicting interests. As you are part of the elite, you are safe.
SpaceX also benefits from vertical integration. They discovered huge costs from trying to use aerospace subcontractors (and had one launch failure because of a subcontractor.)

Both traditional US aerospace and European launch curry political favor by spreading work around to subcontractors. This can't help but slow things way down and make it more expensive.
My family has a couple cars but we still ride with our kids in taxis all the time, for example to the airport or into/out of the city. Even hauling bikes isn't insurmountable -- we've taken weeklong bike camping trips with friends and because biking in a big circle isn't as much fun we hire a bigger vehicle that can haul a dozen bikes to the starting point.

> Just because they're driven by computers now isn't going to magically change all the reasons that people didn't use them before (hint: it wasn't because they were driven by humans).

Sort of. The primary reason I don't hire vehicles more often is cost, which is related to the human driver. The wealthiest families I know are much more likely to use a car service to ferry family members around.

If there was a car service that could whisk us to school, work, grocery shopping, etc with no more than 15 minutes advanced notice for less than the cumulative cost of a similarly-sized private vehicle I'd sell one of our cars in a heartbeat. I have no idea whether that future is years or decades away, but when it occurs many families I know would go from 2 or 3 cars down to 1.

I'll admit that going from 1 car to 0 cars would be a tougher sell. For that I'd have to be confident in five nines of availability and vehicles that can haul equipment like bikes and kayaks. But that doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem, just a logistical one that'll take a bit longer.
One of the many reasons I refuse to use Debian. You just don't get this kind of BS on Arch Linux, you get to chose what you think is right not what some maintainer decided is correct.
Am not familiar with Japan but the US exempts commuting reimbursements.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2024_publink1000...
Not really. The current administration has been going after healthcare on several fronts: lots of FTC enforcement against PE in healthcare; increased number of funded medical residency slots; allowed Medicare to negotiate prices directly with drug companies; attempted to stop excessive consolidation in healthcare businesses.

All of these are reasonable attempts to solve big, important problems and I don't think it's helpful to throw your hands in the air and say no one is trying to do anything.
I'm confused by the apparent contradiction being suggested between "old" and "can do ecology with plants."

GP didn't say it was a bad school.
You and your time and your life are worth far more than you're receiving for your efforts.
Asking someone to choose one or the other is not the same as firing them. It’s clearly written that if Sam Altman had chosen YC he would have stayed there.