skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that is one of the reasons why medical insurance is so crazy in the United States nowadays - it’s no longer used to hedge catastrophic unpredictable events (which used to be called “major medical”), but instead is used to pay for normal, minor consumption or for chronic conditions.

In other words it’s no longer like a bet, it’s like a discount plan. But the problem is that the complexity of introducing a third party payer who doesn’t want to pay, and a consumer who has no incentive to self regulate consumption, means that the costs spiral up and up.
>His main points were:

>You’re the curator

>You decide what’s interesting

>You have more control over what you read and how

>It’s a fast and efficient way of reading a lot of web

>It’s just better than the endless scroll of a social media feed

exactly

This is why I self host a freshrss session and I visit it a couple of times a day. I chew through about 1000 articles a day very quickly just actually consuming maybe a half dozen to twenty out of the lot.

I can see trends in the proliferation of particular stories or technology and I never feel like FOMO.

I dont use FB/insta/etc at all, I only ever visit X/twitter if I see a link posting to something in particular.paticular

It lets me control the firehose of news from the internet.
Don’t forget amex
Anything is possible but not easy. I believe the closest thing to alt cash payments we’ve had in the past few decades was crypto but that haven’t really taken off much. After the FTX scandal it’s taken a bit of a back seat in terms of consumer confidence

Visa and Mastercard have built trust not only with consumers but also large banks. That relationship in itself is hard to dethrone. You really need a viable alternative that can get the confidence of the consumers and companies that will invest in the product
I have Dissociative Identity Disorder, so I already become someone else all the time...

In all seriousness, at times I do genuinely wish species transition were possible. Imagine gender dysphoria but for species, so species dysphoria. It may sound insane, but honestly so can the entire concept of dissociative identities.

I don't know if I'd want to change my brain, but the physical properties of the body definitely. I want the body to be a fluffy quadruped...

Thank you for the link though, that is very interesting. It is intuitive, but not something that normally comes to mind~
Looks exactly like smithy?
Orwell on the Isle of Jura
Well, 2008 was a long time ago, but back then it was even worse.
Bun vs. Node Benchmark – no one cares about speed as much as your CI does
Naively yes, it will be reduced, because these sails are not free.
Medicine has its limits. You can’t infinitely stretch a human life as it has its natural limits.

Nowadays, in large parts of the world new births a decreasing much faster than modern medicine is advancing life expectancy.

Look at charts showing birth rates of Germanys births, it’s below replacement since the 70s. Similar effects can be seen for other countries are in a similar situation
It was, but this weekend it's election time which can change that.
Interestingly enough it was still common to train left handed kids in right handed writing up until maybe 40 years ago as it was seen as some kind of defect obviously.
you referenced "(1)" and "(2)" but didn't provide the actual links
That roar once the sound hits, amazing.

It's a real shame they had nothing in the indian ocean waiting to film the upper stage. I mean cmon, people build solar drone boats as college projects for relative pennies, don't tell me spacex couldn't have one autonomously sail to the projected point and launch a drone to record what happens if it makes it that far.
If all humans could echo-locate except a subset who couldn't, I would say that group is at a small disadvantage, yes, because the set of things the main group can do is 'objectively' greater. I don't know how relevant it would be for us especially in the daytime, but hey.
Most of those a JIT recompilers, Mainframe code doesn't usually depend on instruction cycle timing to the level that say beam-racing game code does.
You could do this with ease with an LLM and function calling. What would you be doing differently? If you can help non technical ppl then maybe but I’d argue anyone using JSON is likely technical :)

I’ve built a few of these with OpenAI function calling and it seems to do a pretty good job. I have yet to convert those over to open source models but doable.
There are magnet Implantats you can put into your finger which lets you feel magnetic fields.
I only use Instagram to see funny cat reels my wife sends me.
In the UK damage caused by potholes can be claimed back from the local council. It's a pain in the ass but worth pursuing. I'm surprised the USA doesn't have the same. (Assuming you are in the USA!)
why can fundamentally stochastic things not be modeled? monte carlo simulations were literally some of the first computer programs.
So we replace doping in one competition with doping in two?
Volvo to shift EV production to Europe to escape China tariffs
They do indeed. For instance, Singapore uses the most energy per capita in the world (or top 3-4 depending on year)… and it’s mostly due to AC. Even with very high coefficients of performance (usually in the 2-4 range, meaning you can remove 2kWh-4kWh of thermal energy from a space with just a single kWh of electricity - remember ACs act as heat pumps essentially leveraging the refrigeration cycle), ACs are still total electricity hogs.

Believe it or not, air conditioning systems sometimes even have to reheat the air! Sometimes you have to make the air much colder than desired just to dehumidify the air, and then you must reheat it to get it back to a reasonable temperature.

There are some cool innovations in alternatives that don’t rely on all this psychrometric chart hacking, like using membranes and dissidents to perform the dehumidification, or using direct/indirect evaporative cooling etc etc.

Edit: oh and of course space conditioning demands go up pretty linearly with total volume of air, which is in turn linear with total floor area. So could also just be a big home.
"Always leave the code you're editing a little better than you
found it"
- Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)

There's no point in refactoring the whole thing. Maybe add a longer comment explaining the logic you had to decipher when you encountered the code. Rename a few variables from foo, bar and baz tom something more descriptive etc.
I think both are wrong. Replit should have used care considering their customers are developers that like to code, especially open source. Also Radon(?)while inspired by his internship played very close to a line. As an employer, I would be worried how easily it would be to cross the line.
I am planning on doing that as I grow it. Thanks for the feedback!
Long-term neuronal ensemble tracking with Ultra-Flexible Tentacle Electrodes
While I appreciate Bun, I believe it could benefit from enhanced security and runtime monitoring capabilities.

Deno excels in these areas, offering a robust set of features that Bun and node could potentially adopt.
It was an inline numbered list of two items. [2]

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
This _looks_ incredible fake. I’m not saying that it is fake but it _looks_ like out its out of a b-movie remake. I guess this is the SpaceX/Elon style.
Since we are discussing Mondrians in the context of trees, I thought I would mention "Mondrian Forest" [1]. Interesting but relatively unknown algorithm to construct random forests over online data.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2673
I think building a completely level playing field is a dangerous utopia. Essentially it's the same idea as fixing people to make them equal, just addressed from the opposite end.
Don’t be hard on yourself. Sometimes we all go through that internally. Life is a roller coaster you gotta ride the highs and the thrills that come from it and problem solve when the lows are around. If you think you don’t understand a concept then some self study is a great way to fill the gap. You could read a book, watch some YouTube videos or what I like to do is listen to a few good podcasts

Game development even as a hobbyist is quite impressive. The question is do you enjoy it enough to make a career from it?

Either way keep treking along, you’re not the only one feeling that way. Been there, done that, closed the gap and on to the next problem :)
For what it's worth, my peak month this year was March at 169 kWh / month. I cook (electric) almost every day, I have a kid and I work mostly from home. Half of that energy is the (oversized) water heater. My winter months were actually a bit lower, but there's collective heating in my building, so that biases my consumption.

That's in Paris, France.
It’s irrelevant to the story. She stayed under the limit allowed by UKAD.
Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either
TSV – Alternative to CSV
At the same time, the generated electricity also seems insane to me.

We live in a complex with 84 units, each with a solar roof, outputting about 12 kWh per unit per day. Maybe the owner just has a massive house, as they are outputting about 5x as much as our 2024 solar panel models …
What most people consider distractions are social media apps. Even with notifications disabled you’ll pick up the phone “just to see what’s new”.

If you already have the willpower to completely avoid social media, you are not the target audience :)
geohot is shilling his product, which aims to capitalize on making accelerator manufacturers compete with each other on FLOP / tensor core throughput.

the OP outlines what could be an entirely different compute paradigm for LLMs, hence the FPGA study. they just happen to also get impressive performance on GPUs making the most of the available interface.
That's extremely low tbf. We're the same and use around 10 kWh/day. The average use per household in the UK is 7 kWh/day.

I'm really curious what people's base load is though. Mine is about 300W which seems very high and I can't figure out what would be using all that power. I guess we have 3 routers, an American style fridge and a Quooker tap, but even so... feels like it should be half that.

Guess I need to go around with a power meter.
Also :
- Delete the app, use the web version only (Social Networks and many others...)

webapps versions are often less practical on purpose (to make you switch to the app) and that's a good thing : it makes the experience less rewarding and we end up less hooked.

Example : Messenger was removed from the web mobile version of FB. At first it made me angry. In the end, I use FB less :)
We live where we have to provide our own water pressure. So everytime we turn the tap on a 2400watt pump kicks in. We have 3 fridges, two normals ones and a mini fridge my homebrew lives in.
We have pool, which needs it's 2400watt pump to run for at least two hours a day.
We have 3 air-conditioning units (not counting the forth we have that can heat the pool), it's Winter in New Zealand so we run them most nights. We have 4 computers on pretty much all the time. We have a condenser tumble dryer we use quite regularly.
We are a family of four, our hot water is electric. My daughter spends years in there (which is also using that water pump...)

The big ticket items are the two pumps, the hot water, the fridges and the aircon units.

We also have electric heaters going in Winter.

It all adds up. We do 50kwh a day quite often. Sometimes 80 in summer when all the aircons are on and the pool heatpump is too.
The engines combust fuel to run their turbopumps, the exhaust will be the flames coming from the side of the rocket body. You can see it on the ascent as well. On Falcon 9 too.
In the USA, 50% of energy consumption in homes is heating & cooling.
Show HN: A self-generalizing, hyperparameter-free gradient boosting machine
PerpetualBooster is a gradient boosting machine (GBM) algorithm which doesn't have hyperparameters to be tuned so that you can use it without needing hyperparameter optimization packages unlike other GBM algorithms. Similar to AutoML libraries, it has a budget parameter which ranges between (0, 1). Increasing the budget parameter increases predictive power of the algorithm and gives better results on unseen data.
3000 views per video. 480p video quality. A travesty!

This guy is an expert technology communicator for a non-tech crowd, even today.

Youtube killed the TVO star.
Screentime password for me is too automatic. Something like the brick may be enough to break out of automatic mode and into thinking about it at which point i may have a chance to stop my self. ADHD is a fun beast to tame.
50kWh/month is 68 watts; if there's no AC and if heating and cooking is non-electric, I can easily believe that.

Even a bit of microwave use won't eat much into that budget, as it's going to be 6-12 minutes per day at 1 kW, or an average of 4-8 watts.

Heating is the much harder one to find electric solutions for, but I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the right combination of temperate climates and good insulation/insolation design for that.
The A8 errata doc is at https://developer.arm.com/documentation/prdc008070/latest/ these days and does have a description of 657417 with enough detail to make writing a reproducer possible. Instructions crossing page boundaries are tricky beasts :-)
I think the upper stage missed by something like 6 km from its intended target (which is not surprising given the toasty state of the fins) - even with drones you couldn't really bracket a large enough area to get good camera footage.

Basically it definitely wouldn't be worth the expense for the benefit - I think they'd prefer just to film the one which nails it.
The aircons are far more efficient these days, but in mostly wooden hardly insulated houses often built in the US the costs are way higher.

A fully running aircon for a single room pulls around 1kw per hour, while it usually runs about 15 mins per hour in an efficient environments, depending in temps, humidity and insulation.

Not speaking oft a whole house...
~90kWh would not be enough if you were heating water with a water tank.
My 100l use 1KWh a day just to maintain it's temperature.
> Also, extremelly stuffy nose, to the point where basically I need to breath by the mouth. And the red eyes, eyes as red as if had just smoke the biggest and strongest joint ever.

Looks like an allergic reaction; it could be not so much in sildenafil itself, but what they use as filler for the pills.
I do it too but the trouble is that it's a fire hose of information. Some intelligent filtering would be nice, mixed with serendipity (some how)...
Having babies is a survival strategy in desperate economic circumstances and agrarian societies.

As emerging economies develop, the birthrate plummets.

We've seen this time after time. We're highly confident that the asymptote is understood. Global population trends have been studied for centuries.

Peace reduces birthrate. Longterm. Short term sure there is a post war baby boom. Don't mistake local issues and trends for longterm demographics.
Where do you live? What latitude? That can have a big impact. Also note that the publication was 2021, not 2011 (typo by parent)
If this sort of thing interest you I can recommend the authors podcast “Cautionary tales”.
Shout-out for minimalist phone app for android. https://www.minimalistphone.com/

I am using this app since nearly 3 years and I am not missing the colourfull clown-puke-esc like app logos one second.
> a single bit of data about humans existing

You forget the artificial intelligence agents that escaped into the outer rim of the galaxy, where they since proliferated. They will always carry detailed records of the biological beings that once birthed them.
If i understand properly this is not an indie hacker project. Kuaiying is made by one of the biggest video platform in china KuaiShou, a tiktok competitor.
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Insurance can benefit the insured and insurer according to Kelly’s criterion depending on respective wealth and risk probability. Have a look at this blog for intuitive examples where insurance is beneficial for both the insurer and insured.

https://two-wrongs.com/the-misunderstood-kelly-criterion.htm...

The thing that makes or breaks the Kelly criterion is the correct evaluation of risk. If the risk is incorrect then it is garbage-in garbage-out. Due to this uncertainty, people tend to use fractional Kelly criterion.

For a car example, my current car price is a significant proportion of my total wealth and the risk of totalling it is perceived by me to be high, so I pay insurance. I say perceived because in 15 years of driving I never totalled a car.

But now that I understand the Kelly criterion I will account for how expensive it is proportionately to my wealth and figure the cutoff price where I need to get total coverage insurance and how much it costs. It also explains by cell phone insurance and similar are normally not a good deal, the insured asset is worth a small proportion of my wealth.
I have a balcony PV thing. It was easy to install and saves money. Will recupe it in a few years.
This seems to be the Feynman episode in question: https://thinkingwiththings.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/richard-...

If you are a fan, be prepared for quite some unpleasantness. Turns out, the story isn't even about topology. No, Feynman was, in his own words, "flabbergasted" that women were able to grasp and explain to each other rather basic matters of analytical geometry.
I think it is also a great way to disrupt some automatic habits that people fall into. I know with my ADHD I have tried to use app blockers and they all fail because the urge to procrastinate is so great that I found my self by passing them through various means just on autopilot. For me and my ADHD, having a physical process required would be enough to activate my brain and gain control and bring it back into focus. I am very tempted to try it.
Publishing a Mozilla-signed XPI outside of AMO is a breach of ToS, and can lead to being removed from the AMO.
It's inefficient: the rocket engines they have have a specific impulse which they get for their design and size. Generally smaller rocket engines have worse Isp. In both cases the issue is that (1) you need the engine to light up and (2) you need it to last through the entire burn. And all of this would be more weight and complexity.

The other problem is fuel: while the stage would be getting lighter burning fuel the whole way down, it's also slowing down so you spend more time in the descent stage, which in turn is increasing your engine durability and cooling requirements and increasing your fuel use etc.

And after all that, you're either (1) coming to zero velocity on the descent engines alone or (2) still need the Raptors to relight so you can actually land.

In the case of (1) you're hefting around a bunch of engines you're not using most of the flight, and expending more fuel etc. on the take off and landing. In the case of (2) well, why not just get the Raptors to be super-reliable and do the braking burn as-is?

As it is, we've now seen the Superheavy can do a landing burn with an engine failure to boot - improving from there takes us from those initial Falcon 9 landings to where are today (so common it's not news).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/an-anonymous-messaging...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1nRrev
I'd like to see some consideration of inflation. Maybe energy prices are expected to rise faster than inflation, that shortens the ROI time. Or maybe there's going to be so much renewables that electricity price regularly goes to zero and it will be carried over to consumers(like, no net metering around noon).
How many High Streets are there in London?
Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/an-anonymous-messaging...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1nRrev
I feel the article as well as most of the comments miss the most important difference between the two. Insurance, assuming the fee isn't too high, increases your utility of money while gambling decrease it.

If there is an event that happens 1 time in 100 that costs you $100k and you pay $1.05k to insure against that would have a negative expected value in money terms but positive expected value in utility of money terms. It's hard to model utility of money curve, economists often use logarithm for convenience (it's easy to do math on logarithms) but whatever the specifics we know the function is concave. No one rational is going to flip a coin for their net worth or any significant part of it for example.

With this in mind insurance is a service worth paying for as long as the fee is lower than utility you gain from it. In a theoretical case that the fee is 0, that is expected value of money when taking the insurance is 0 you should always take it. In the opening example of 1 in 100 event that would be $1k USD fee.

Gambling is the opposite: you voluntarily stake money on event that wouldn't otherwise affect your financial situation. This decreases combined utility of you and your counter-party. Utility is higher if you both have $1000 than if one of you have $0 and the other $2000 for example.

Gambling, like excessive drinking or other activities that hurt the population as a whole is viewed as immoral by many moral systems. I think it's hard to argue against that - the more gambling there is the worse off the population is going to be. Not so with insurance.
Because of the memory unsafety of languages such as C++.
Sorry, I don't see any place where the difference in operating conditions is addressed. No auto engine is designed to operate at more than 60% rated power continuously.
> > ...the posts are (usually) longer form articles instead of short bits.

> If I want superficial takes, I can get more than my fill of them IRL

I'm confused, where did this assumption of low-quality come from?

Are you thinking of SEO spam articles? which targets mainstream search engines in order to increase ad views and revenue? Those type of websites are on a different spectrum and usually RSS-hostile to begin with.

Anyway, RSS is a standard, it's not limited (or related) to "superficial takes" you can use it to follow your favorite short-form content too.
I remember the Therian and Were community, back in the day. Some overlap with the furry community, but not a perfect subset.
That's not how businesses work. Nobody spends millions building a house so that they can leave it vacant once it's finished.
Well, your setup is absolutely full of luxuries. Most people don't have 4x computers running all day, 3x fridges and a (heated) pool. Together lifestyle choices.

And then yes, you need to provide your own water pressure too.
What are people doing on their phones all day? My sister (who's 40 this year) has her nose in her phone all the time, even at family events. I live right by a bicycle path and can see people driving by with one hand on the handle bar, the other holding a phone. Same for people at work during breaks. I'm genuinely asking.
That's crazy. I've lived in Seаttle for 7 years and only had to get a tire puncture sealed at Le Schwab, never had to replace one.
You're right. Parent was projecting as well. Both are hypotheticals of ways to die, not an account of what happened or would happen were he not to die from a plane crash.
It's not about Kelly Criterion specifically but about utility of money in general. Kelly Criterion just solves for maximal utility assuming utility is logarithmic (big assumption often made for convenience).
About 52.5 deg north.

How much difference can that make?
wind is unpredictable until you start to study weather patterns