skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Health "insurance" is mostly not insurance: it's a healthcare plan for periodic maintenance and minor incidents combined with an insurance plan for large and catastrophic incidences.

Precisely.

You/your employer pay a premium.

Then you have a deductible.

Then your "insurance" company has the unmitigated gall to also include "co-pays" (which are on top of your deductible, as well as after meeting it), AND "co-insurance" (even if you've already met your deductible)...

AND then they'll refer to it as "your contribution to your healthcare costs". I suppose that is somewhat accurate but still...

Imagine your car gets totaled. Your insurer says "Hey, we're going to pay out $25K for your vehicle. So you have a $1,000 deductible, so that's $24,000, and then your copay for a total loss is $2,000, that brings us down to $22,000, and for total losses, your coinsurance as your contribution for your vehicle coverage is 20% which is $5,000 so here's a check for $17,000."

I know it exists in certain very limited contexts, but if it weren't for all the regulatory capture, I could easily see companies that say "We'll negotiate bulk discounts with these providers. Everything else is on you. Pay for what you use."
Try explaining to a non-technical user that sudo is in fact registering their password as they type
That's kind of how society works and why we have democracy.
> inclusion of closed source DRM
Do you think if DRM is not included, will Firefox still retain 3% usage across the world?

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

Let's put it bluntly, but libre principle does not live well with consumerism of the modern world.
This person never made any claims about reduction of labor. No till farming and no till gardening are about regenerating soil, not reducing labor.
Quick Tour for Nushell
The point is to build, over years, the kind of soil that fosters germination. You can mix in additives every year and till, or you can build a small ecosystem over time.

Maximizing the ecosystem health of what's underneath the surface is the point.
firefox could have some of the wackiest politics in the world but that fact remains that Google/Chrome is one of the key linchpins for the global corporate surveillance capitalism panopticon that we have today.

I still feel like it's an easy recommendation compared to the rest of the browser market.
I don't think it will be cringe, it might even be back on-trend in 25 years, after everyone has had AR contacts with neural implants for a decade and yearns for the simpler times where the internet was only on an external device.
Misinformation is a label for information that poses a not so small threat for societies posing as democracies. However, writing about the phenomenon is safe.
Insurance is primarily for major events. The things at the extreme upper end of the bell curve.

For example, you've hit another car (possibly an expensive one) and caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage. Or you've inured a passenger and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of hospital bills.

The kinds of events that would financially ruin you, or at least seriously set you back on your life goals. Or, in the case of state-mandated insurance, where there's a high likelihood you wouldn't be able to make the other party whole.

You can use it on smaller things if you insist (and your rates will go up), but that's not really what it's for.

Personally, both the events you described fall under my definition of one-off maintenance ("things that are an unpredictable yet unavoidable cost of owning a vehicle") and that I'd expect to pay for out of pocket.
Why? Because Unix was written in the 1970s when privacy and computer security where not a topic yet. Hardenings have been added later, but the one you mention is still not the default.
> Tilling, in gardening, usually refers to lifting spadefuls of soil up and out of the ground, turning them over and breaking up the clumps.

I expect you mean that lifting spadefuls of soil up and out of the ground is usually referred to as tiling, rather than the other way around. Which stands to reason as that is perfectly consistent with the dictionary defection.

> Aeration with a broad fork doesn't lift the soil out of the ground and definitely doesn't break it up

Aeration does not lift the soil, but it absolutely breaks it. That is why one would consider practicing aeration – to break up soil compaction that may be present. Cultivation, and therefore tiling, says nothing about lifting or redistribution, only breaking. Aeration is also tiling if done for the sake of ground preparation.
My username is my legal first and last name lmao
It's considered taboo/forbidden for genetic corrections to target the germline. I think that's an unfortunate misapplication of ethics, presumably due to fears about eugenics.
> they are at this stage the exact same problem- requiring not competing but identical research

I'd go one step further in arguing they're complementary. The personalities that will work on e.g. wings or longevity are not the types drawn to curing diseases, much less the boring ones.

Broadening the field from solving mundane problems to solving daring ones is net positive. You gain personalities that would have otherwise stayed away. (You see something similar in space programmes.)
Untrue. Employees are asked to focus on sec. The org tells you that the company runs on trust. This is not lip service - it's not that internally they state otherwise, and it's certainly naive to think so.

What happens is that, meanwhile, business is happening. People are making (small) decisions that adds up to big things, and leadership tends to trust those below to make the right calls and implement technology correctly. Which, time and time again, doesn't happen.

Yes, maybe it need to be more of a priority, but, it also isn't a conscious decision.
Hell, cancer treatment for pets has advanced human oncology [1]. Scientific discovery is rarely zero sum.

[1] https://www.upstate.edu/whatsup/2019/0220-treatment-for-cani...
Not trying to be crass here, but does that mean you are just walking around with boners all day?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebrahim_Raisi#Judicial_career
> if you don’t have more than 230 bits of entropy

Should this be 226 instead of 230, since 2**225 < 52! < 2**226 ?
> it would have to completely transform you into a completely different creature, simply due to the physics of flight

In OP's defence, they never mentioned flight. Maybe they just want a peacock train.
Iron fertilization of ocean technique already had been proven to work to solve CO2 problem. It qas so successful Canadian government had to arrest the lead researchers at their office to discredit it. The whole idea of taxing CO2 is what gets us to today where CO2 continue to spike. The taxong only brings in money for the rich and governments to spend. It doesnt do anything to reduce CO2. Go check it out CO2 taxing started dwcades ago. And what is current worldwide government position on iron fertilization. You be shocked.
> The ships in service show a reduction in fuel consumption, and thus a similar drop in emissions, of between 5% and 25%, says Tuomas Riski, the firm’s outgoing ceo. Each rotor costs around €1m, which he says can be repaid in fuel savings over three to ten years.

> After six months at sea the WindWings have cut fuel consumption by about 15%, although the company reckons three sails could cut average fuel use by 30% or more.

> Oceanbird reckons the sails could deliver 50-60% lower emissions compared with conventional vehicle-carriers.

> Airseas tested a Seawing last year on a k Line cargo ship. They are expected to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by some 20%, says k Line.

These are consistently good results across a range of carriers. If the industry moved to these sails, the aggregate emissions drop would be significant.
I think ads are mostly on cheap but better hardware phones. On premium phone if they start showing ads it will be disaster.
I find it funny, but excellent, that this post is flagged.
One of the things I love the most of HN is the ability to stay on topic.
I too hope HN stays like this forever.
I wish I remembered more. I worked for 6 months as Charter tech support for the southeast in the early years of home PCs and the internet, and used to keep my family howling with stories.

Sadly I don't remember much, other than how much I hate the entire state of West Virginia based on that experience. Such nasty people. Sorry for anyone who lives there, but I formed a hard stereotype at that place.

On the other end of the spectrum, the people in Louisiana were so easy going. There was some hurricane that destroyed the office in Slidell. People would call about internet being out, I'd tell them the hurricane killed everything and it may be months, and they were just fine with that and would tell me all the other stuff they'd do in the meantime.
The alternative is called Windows Job Objects, and it allows for limiting CPU and memory usage, among others.

There are numerous libraries and launchers on github; my favorite is [1].

CPU limits are only for Windows 8 or greater though, so for people still on Windows 7 or earlier, then okay, this post is relevant for them.

[1] : https://github.com/lowleveldesign/process-governor
So it's like Hurricane Electric but more expensive?
A typical dose of Viagra is 25,50 or 100 mg, so your 3-5 doses of 20 mg isn't even atypical. Also, there are plenty of warnings that come with Viagra usage. You may have not taken the time to read them.
Anyway, for someone trying to minimise distractions and already with no social media…

Is a dumb phone a good idea?

I’m mainly just worried about passwords
This reminds me of gömböc
One way to solve this problem is to be part of mutual insurance instead of a private company. Not sure if that is an available option for you.
An ipv6 device can use its MAC address, but these days is more likely to generate one in a way that's more privacy preserving.
And you cannot install dev extension in mozilla like chrome without uploading in addons hub. Mozilla is becoming to bad these days.
That is such an interesting idea! I wonder if someone has systematically studied hand shuffling biases and what consequences it has (or should have) for brick and mortar casinos
Your mileage may vary, but I have repeatedly used a particular strategy in difficult work conversations: Explain the problem to the person in direct, plain language, then ask them what they would like to be done about it and/or what they would do in your shoes. You're not committing to actually doing what they suggest, but you're making them aware of the problem and giving them some agency, and some insight into your perspective.

For example: I was hired by a company as a developer, and they loved me, I was very productive there. But just a few months into the employment, a competing company offered me a much higher salary with a much shorter commute. I went to my manager and told him all about the offer, and asked him what he would do in my shoes. He said he'd take the other offer (since he knew that a competitive counter-offer was impossible). I took the offer, and we parted on very good terms.

So you may be able to say something like this to this employee: "There seems to have been a misunderstanding about our expectations and your experience. We thought you had more experience relevant for this role. We don't want to leave you high and dry, but the current arrangement isn't tenable. Would you prefer to restart as a junior developer and work your way back up as you gain experience, or do you feel it would be better to part ways?"

Though now that I've typed it out, I'm not sure the strategy works as well when the one instigating the conversation has more power than the person being asked. Hmm. I'll post this in spite of my self doubt, just in case someone replies with interesting insights. I'm happy to be wrong if I learn something.
I still generate random passwords for the questions. I don’t like that someone who knows me well could use them to gain access to an account.

… but yes we definitely need extra fields for storing that and lots of other related data.

I’m a 1Password user and one of the features I really like is that it saves ALL of the fields from a signup form along with the password. That has saved me a couple of times where I needed to know some value I had entered at the time I created an account.
Nice for learning.

For practical use I would prefer https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html
If not, I suspect the OP's point stands.

The point that I'm replying to and that I quoted is 'Romans didn't write about women'. I don't see how it stands when you can open a Roman chronicler and right away he's writing about women.

The only woman I could think of

I mean, you have 'suspect' and 'think of', I've got a link to a big pile of Roman writing. It's not hard to check if women are in fact represented in Roman writing.
I've seen a couple of monitors fried because someone tried to power them with a DC power supply that had the right barrel jack but wrong voltage.
VisualBoyAdvance was (and is) absolute garbage in terms of accuracy and is loaded with delicious code execution exploits from boobytrapped roms

Use mGBA instead if you want to play Gameboy games in 2024
I wish it were possible to achieve an entirely non-human body, but I don't think that's going to happen within any of our lifetimes.
> improved soil health, improved ecosystem health, better water retention, less erosion, more carbon sequestered in the soil.

Regarding carbon sequestration, I think it is worth pointing out that Freeman Dyson, in one of his conferences, mentioned no-till farming as one land management methods that could be used to absorb the carbon emitted in the atmosphere by human activities.

"The point of this calculation is the very favorable rate of exchange between carbon in the atmosphere and carbon in the soil. To stop the carbon in the atmosphere from increasing, we only need to grow the biomass in the soil by a hundredth of an inch per year. Good topsoil contains about ten percent biomass, [Schlesinger, 1977], so a hundredth of an inch of biomass growth means about a tenth of an inch of topsoil. Changes in farming practices such as no-till farming, avoiding the use of the plow, cause biomass to grow at least as fast as this. If we plant crops without plowing the soil, more of the biomass goes into roots which stay in the soil, and less returns to the atmosphere. If we use genetic engineering to put more biomass into roots, we can probably achieve much more rapid growth of topsoil. I conclude from this calculation that the problem of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a problem of land management, not a problem of meteorology. No computer model of atmosphere and ocean can hope to predict the way we shall manage our land."

https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-heretical-th...
Why help them? Tell your boss you're pointing them to the other ones you helped previously.
While I welcome your enthusiasm I would urge anyone not to contaminate your soil with toxin laden printed paper (or its even toxin denser derivative of recycled packaging). At least if you're going to grow food on it you have a responsibility for the mouths fed with it.

With regards to the article: It's inconsistencies like these shown in the article, where there's a detailed list of sciency arguements about why no tilling makes sense but then the same Harvard PhD continues to cover her whole garden with toxic old newspapers which loses me.

Could be that I'm biased since I inherited a garden from similar lassez-fair style "gardeners" and had 20 year old trees collapsing without any storm due to their pest-infestation...
What do you mean? Who defines the "right" political ideas in a democracy?

My understanding is that a democracy would exist to allow the majority of a society to define what they want, and that in the US we have a democratic republic because our founders still didn't trust the public enough to leave decisions entirely to a majority vote of the public.
In general, you are not able to buy insurance for more than the value of something. If you could, that would be a form of gambling. But up until that line it's anti-gambling.

Buying a position out of nowhere is gambling. Buying a position to directly counteract the position you already have is not gambling.

If you short 50 shares of a stock when you already owned 80 shares, you are doing the opposite of gambling. You are reducing your position.
User hostile: restricting browser customization
Not OP, but their statement read as if that effect wears off after the body develops tolerance to the medication. So, yes they did for a while (it was annoying) but no they don't now (for a few months)
Once the data is leaked it is leaked
> breathless proposals for ways to design shinier hubcaps whenever some promising new technology appears

I wouldn't underestimate the emotional toil of dealing with illness and death [1].

Tackling these problems head on requires (a) exposing researchers to that toil and (b) removing from the pool anyone who doesn't want to do that. Given how much of Silicon Valley culture is built on borderline-ludicrous optimism (once it's over the border it no longer qualifies as building), it makes sense that the indirect approach finds resonance here in a way the direct one does not.

Where your argument finds ample purchase is in the asymmetry of idiot luxury spending in our society to basic and applied research of any kinds, wings or Wilm's tumour.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/19/mental-health-doctor-res...
https://enhanced.org/

> Backed by the world’s top venture capitalists, the Enhanced Games are the Olympics of the future.

> When 44% of athletes already use performance enhancements, it is time to safely celebrate science.

> It’s time to pay athletes instead of bureaucrats, and demonstrate what the human body is truly capable of.

> Sport is safer without drug testing.
So, from my 30+years building software products, I have a couple of problems with this:

- we don't choose iterative development as an alternative to waterfall because "waterfall is bad mmkay". When developing a new product, we don't know all the requirements. Part of the process of iterative development is discovering the requirements. Every waterfall project is secretly an iterative project because there's always a Phase 2 where the requirements get updated (even <especially> when every stakeholder pinky-swore that the requirements were final before Phase 1 started).

- The optimum amount of tech debt is not zero. Tech debt is a product of changing the product plan/vision/design in reaction to learning from customers. If you're not accruing tech debt then you're not learning from your users.

- Changing the design to accommodate the new feature is great in theory, but in a lot of cases the new feature is an experiment itself. We're optimising for customer learning: get the new feature in quickly with the minimum of effort, see if the users actually use it, and if not then roll back. If the users do like it, then refactor to tidy up any tech debt. Doing all the refactoring first is a complete waste of time if the feature ends up getting rolled back.

- Tech debt slows down development but only as a result of delivering early features quicker. It's the sharpening the axe analogy - sooner or later you have to stop chopping the tree to sharpen the axe. Changing the way you chop the tree so you don't have to sharpen the axe is not optimising for getting the most timber quickest. The trick here is communicating with stakeholders about what tech debt is and how it accumulates. They're usually OK with feature pauses if they understand the situation correctly. In other words, like a lot of problems in this industry, this is a communication problem not actually a tech problem.
Just as important as chunking strategy, imo, is recombination. After you've picked the highest-scoring chunks from the search matter, how do you glue them back together?

Simple concatenation is the obvious way, but I've had better results from using the chunks as anchors for expansion. Use something like Wilson score interval to decide how many high-scoring chunks to pick, then grab the surrounding text for each chunk up to some semantic boundary like period or newline (or arbitrary limit if no boundary is detected).
That's generally been my experience as well.

However I've seen some frameworks where you can do collision imperatively. For example

if (sprite.collide(tilemap)) {do something}

These are generally on smaller less taxing frameworks (in this case I'm referring to haxeflixel) but they do exist!
My guess is that people run on autopilot most of the time. They rely on feedback to orient themselves down the decision tree. But a computer only have a screen (and maybe a speaker) which is already very busy. That’s why people like their phone and the ipad. Because everything else require lots of training to understand and use properly.
How can I get involved in this work as a software engineer?
For me it is just searching and searching with Google Scholar. Maybe someone in the AI space has figured out how to connect papers to replications based on abstracts and references, but I haven't seen any such tool.
A8 erratum. This was ages ago, but if I recall you could place a thumb2 instruction straddling two pages, only one of which was loaded in the TLBs. If you got everything right, the A8 would hang without trapping.

Edit: it was errata #657417, long since scrubbed from arm.com
This is a nice, practical algorithm. Beware though that in theory it can take an unbounded amount of time, since in order for it to make progress it must generate at least one heads and one tails on the input, and although runs of all-heads or all-tails become exponentially unlikely as input size increases (or as the number of passes performed on a fixed-size input increases), there's still no guarantee that a mixed run will happen before any fixed amount of computation has been done.

If it's implemented to run in the typical "depth-first sequential" manner of a recursive algorithm, in which each problem generates its own subproblems, solves them all, and then immediately continues execution until it is itself solved, then it is guaranteed to eventually terminate, since the only way to stall progress forever in this situation would be an infinite, uninterrupted sequence of one outcome (e.g., heads), and that would contradict the assumption that P(heads) = 0.5. OTOH, if a "breadth-first" computation was used, in which all subproblems at a given recursion depth are solved in sequence before any higher-level subproblems, the algorithm could run forever: The top-level problem could produce a mixed run, resulting in two equal-sized subproblems, each of which never makes any progress due to one subproblem always getting all-heads, the other always all-tails.
Reminds me of ghotz's interview: https://youtu.be/wE1ZoMGIZHM
Maker recreates classic Winamp MP3 player in real life with the Linamp
How would you recommend implementing a feature that might get rolled back or fundamentally changed depending on user reaction to it?

Doing it the "right" way incur a lot of up-front expense that will be wasted if the feature is rolled back.
If it's all happening above the table, I think you'd actually get better management of the drugs and far fewer adverse side effects.
sure. and in the next breath, they'll tell you the the western countries need millions of immigrants to make up for your nonexistent birth rates. anti-natalism and pro-immigration always go hand in hand.
> you cannot insure that which you have not gambled on

That doesn't follow at all. People don't buy houses to "gamble it doesn't burn down".

Not in the sense of the word "gamble" is being used.
I've had (admittedly cheap) connectors flat-out refuse to unlock, leaving me sweating because I don't want to damage the much-more-valuable equipment they connect to. No more AmazonBasics cables for me.
This should be expanded to other states and worldwide!