skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so, My insurer is United, the Pharmacy is OptumRX, the PBM is OptumRX, and the discount program is from Novartis.

All these parties (ultimately 2?) are doing something to their balance sheets.
I sync Obsidian notes with Git on my Android phone and I don't see any problem. You can do it the tedious way using Termux[1] or easy way through obsidian-git[2].

[1]: https://github.com/termux/termux-app

[2]: https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git
> And yet GP has no issues on Windows...

How well bluetooth works depends largely on the quality of drivers from chipset manufactures. As you can imagine, manufacturers put a priority on making sure their windows systems have well functioning drivers.

You'll also notice that Android (usually) has well functioning bluetooth drivers even though it's ultimately the same linux kernel under the covers.

> Ah, so actually the complexity and instability of the Linux audio stack _could_ be at fault after all. But let's blame the protocol instead, even though it works fine on other operating systems.

The linux audio stack doesn't help things, for sure, however a lot of the complexity between the audio stack and bluetooth revolves around the fact that bluetooth requires a well implemented driver for it to work well with the audio stack.

If you compare it to something like a regular sound card you'd quickly see why that's the case. For a sound card, the driver manufactures just need a driver that can convert PCM into soundwaves. The interface is quite simple which is why you generally don't see issues with the linux audio stack and a hard wired soundcard/chip.

That's why I blame the protocol more than the stack. The protocol is very complex (needlessly so). So instead of something that could just be "send these packets to this device" you have to hope and pray that the driver you are integrating with has properly coded up various codecs needed to talk to your headphones. Instead of just throwing a bitstream at a device you are now stuck with your audio stack negotiating with the driver about which codecs to select before sending in an audio signal. This is part of what adds complexity to the audio stack in the first place.

You end up with 2 routes for the audio stack, all other sound producing and receiving devices then bluetooth.
Outstanding essay, thank you for posting. I highly recommend reading at least the first third, through the discussion of the short story Mozart in Mirrorshades, because it gives an excellent and vivid explanation of an example cyberpunk story with no megacorp, no rain drenched night city, etc. I think that sets up the pivotal distinction that carries the rest of the essay. I strongly recommend the discussion of William Gibson that follows, but if you at least get to the mirror shades part you'll have the basic idea.

I have only barely played Cyberpunk 2077, so I can't say much about the specific predictions about the game itself, I just know what I know from a certain amount of cultural osmosis from reviews and looking at gameplay and watching the trailers. I think the prediction that it it grabs a bunch of tropes and blends them into a meaningless puree, that it stays in one city, that it doesn't give you a Tracer-Tong esque young to fundamentally upend the system, are lately correct. William Gibson famously decried the new cyberpunk game it as little more than a reskinned GTA and I think the diagnosis of cyberpunk as aesthetic, sometimes intended as a compliment, was quite on point.

Others who know more about the game will be able to say more than me, but I do remember how disappointed I was in the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, the complete lobotomized absence of specificity in the news reports, such as the news ticker referring to "anti-corporate protests", without any reference to any corporation or aspect of the economy whatsoever or any kind of detail that would compliment any story in the game. The most familiar feeling I have to that was the similarly lobotomized DX:HR dialogue that couldn't bring its characters to say anything more than "augmentations can really help people."

And while the article is a criticism, it's coming from a place of imploring us to understand what was so fascinating about cyberpunk as an emerging genre, and it speaks to what, for me, is the most precious thing in fiction writing, which are the acts of imagination that give birth to new genres, and I think the reason I will have an enduring fascination with cyberpunk is for its illustration of that process.
Cognitive Distortions (2022)
For me I'm not particularly vocal, but I like Obsidian because the files are just regular markdown files in the filesystem, so can just edit them using vim, port them out etc. I like it way more than other notetaking systems for that reason.

And the authors embrace that idea so it's very happy if you make edits to the underlying files - it doesn't conflict or anything it smoothly reloads to reflect the new state and always feels snappy and easy to use.

I use notion at work and it's ok but for one it's dog slow and secondly they've put too much fancypants autocomplete stuff into it meaning it's actually quite annoying when you're just trying to type a note and it's popping up dropdowns and stuff all the time.

ymmv of course, different people like different things.

I would say notion has leaned more into the collaboration thing whereas obsidian has really tried to make a great note taking tool for individual use.
Complex systems emerge from simple rules
It's a team effort! Thanks to all of these people: https://pldb.io/pages/acknowledgements.html

> How are the rankings arrived at?

https://pldb.io/pages/the-rankings-algorithm.html

Txt version: https://pldb.io/pages/the-rankings-algorithm.txt
They're spending about 14ms on inferencing and 3ms on everything else, which technically is about 60fps, but in any real world application you're probably not going to be able to blow almost your entire GPU compute budget on shading a few pieces of cloth.
RTO for giants is a must because they die without the office. Offices are the last meaningful dense-city economical activity, if you cut them there is no more economical reason for dense cities. With dying dense cities the service industry will collapse because if you live in a single family home it's unlikely you buy from Just Eat or get an Uber car, similarly if you WFH you unlikely buy trendy business dress, shiny mobile bugs/smart-devices and so on, you also do not see physical ads, witch are shop windows, by commuting by feet downtown.

Essentially if we WFH for all eligible jobs we re-create a SMEs economy killing the giants, a thing very positive for the middle class and the society at a whole but certainly not something the big of finance capitalism want.
I suspect it may he a correlation not a causation.

People who don't have access to Healthcare don't have the luxury of things like coffee, I bet that shows in the data.
Capsaicin is also a poison so clearly "poison => always avoid" has deficiencies as a model. Hence, studies.
Sure - but do we regularly eat birch in our diet? And if we did, would we get the dosage we do in processed foods?
Ah, that explains, thanks! I was scratching my head for a while wondering if I am missing the point totally... seems like I did
I think that’s a little far — mainly the point where science itself is often a rejection of things that were previously called “common sense”.

But this can also be expanded. There are no fields of science where a singular paper should be widely accepted before replication and additional studies.

Social sciences have a noticeable issue where they lend themselves to dramatic headlines and over extrapolation I suspect that this is largely an aspect of them being much more understandable and ultimately relatable than some of the more niche fields where papers address nearly unapproachable topics
What about an AQI of ~1500? Yeah, we lived through that here 4 years ago during the fires here in Oregon, while waiting to find out if we’d told to evac.
> If you collect 3 different data points changing each thing one at a time (original design, some number higher, some number lower) whilst keeping everything else constant (usually a good scientific approach) that's 320 possible combinations of changes!

There is an entire field of statistics (Design of Experiments) where one of the first lessons you learn on day one is how one-factor-at-a-time testing is one of the most inefficient ways you can test something. It’s usually only done out of ignorance to better methods by those with little to no formal statistical training.

An experiment designed by someone who is well versed in modern experimental design methods would not take billions of runs to optimize—a sequential design that first screens out factors to those that matter (basic Pareto principle) followed by a response surface design or a GP model surrogate to optimize the response would likely be on the order of hundreds (possibly thousands) of runs. This is basic industrial experimentation—see “Design and Analysis of Experiments” by Douglas C. Montgomery for a nice introductory textbook.
Important to consider that all the debt was created during a time of relative peace. Now, the U.S. is potentially facing three simultaneous wars having already increased the debt to these levels.

There are changes in international settlement that bypass the dollar. China and Russia and others have been advancing ways around needing to use the U.S. which is already having consequences as some of this would have found its way to funding the rising U.S. deficit.

Most likely through buying Government debt and there is a chance we will know when the debt party is over if there is ever a Treasury issuance that cant find a buyer.

Given that part of the problem is the system where there is always a buyer of last resort and so much of the debt is money we owe ourselves. Which reduces but does not eliminate the impact of the move away from the dollar.

It is clearly unsustainable and certain measures like the reverse repo market show a sort of short term liquidity and it is interesting to compare it to future issuance of debt.

The resulting effect then would have to be increased inflation until spending reaches and equilibrium again. Though with all of the potential threats around the world, anything can happen.

It just isn't sustainable and there seems to be a collective delusion that it is.
That the effect is so large should draw a lot of suspicion. Real psychological effects almost never have that magnitude.

The claim that heavily vetted, highly educated judges are reliably just throwing out punishments willy-nilly because they want a snack is also quite suspect, especially as there is no reason to expect this to only work in one direction- why wouldn't they be just as willing to let people off easy when that gets them to lunch just as quickly?
Adding to your anecdotal; went to Netherlands from NYC (passport control to get in), travelled down to Paris through Belgium. Hopped over to Italy and then to Ireland. No issues, and no id checks throughout. (did show passport in Ireland but its not part of Schengen).
Comparing to other countries is irrelevant. Their economies are smaller and maybe their ratio is stable?

Also, the US budget was balanced in 2000. It is possible.

I have no idea why so many people refuse to accept that there is a growing problem.
What size scoop is that? A normal one has like 70g, that would be unbearably sweet.
If there are even more historical details known… The more precise it is, the better.
Mutual TLS dutifully breaks if there is a transparent HTTPS proxy like SSLbump or Squid.
Very nice article, I love posts that go right from the basics and build up to answer the question. And I certainly have a better understanding of DACs as a bonus!
Yes. For example:

https://www.propublica.org/article/when-buying-prescription-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/take-the-generic-drug-pat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/us/health-insurance-medic...
there is also the open source MGit available in FDroid. it can work with arbitrary directories, so it is compatible with termux.
That is true. We have mostly elected politicians that promise to bring as much federal tax dollars home as possible. When you have promised the moon, telling your constituents that the rocket needs to be dismantled and sold off is political suicide.
Source? Apparently such claims are questionable:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16472/do-typica...
> what happens with an incoming packet if there are no firewall rules on the NAT gateway/middlebox?

See perhaps stateless NAT:

* https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Performing...
You want real controversy? Medicare/Medicaid is prolonging the lives of people that don't have money and need others to pay their bills/service their needs.

Do corporations exist for humanity or does humanity exist for corporations? (Funny enough I rewatched The Matrix last night. Seems humans exist for AI/imaginary made up beings aka corporations, well actually those that own them and hide behind their limited liability).
Doodle Nation: Notes on Distracted Drawing
Not ... really ...

It is about intent versus capability set that CFAA does poorly with differentiation in court.
Probably this one or one of its successors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_II
What we would've done differently in the first year of bootstrapping our company
Which we can't really return since that would mean cooperation with the Taliban. And even if we could cooperate, the countries then don't want them back or will demand various favors or bribes in return so then you're basically funding some terrorist regime to return 3 illegal migrants.
The wide range of offers you received may not necessarily reflect a "crapshoot" in tech hiring. Instead, it likely demonstrates the diverse needs, prioritizations, resources, and role definitions across different companies. Especially if the openings varied in company size/location/industry/division/business area/etc.

For example, one hiring team maybe prioritized specific technical skills for a certain role, which affected your outcome in that particular process.
I’ve hired at a tech company, and it’s definitely weird. The problem may be non-tech employees involvement in the process.

For example, we needed a part time dev. A few days later we had a skilled candidate with a decade of experience in our exact tech stack. No brainer hire, right? Nope. HR and finance person thought he was too expensive ($20k/yr too expensive) and scared him away with clumsy negotiating. Months later and several failed offers later, that job wasn’t filled. How much money did that non-hire cost the company? Far more than the little bit extra compensation they should have paid.

Another piece of the puzzle is where and how job listings are posted. LinkedIn, Indeed, and the others are good at generating a massive pile of resumes. The question non-tech employers need to ask is if great candidates are even on those sites looking for work. They aren’t part of the culture, so they wouldn’t even know to post on HN “Who’s Hiring” threads, or sponsoring a local meetup, or one of the more tech-focused job boards. Great technical employees aren’t commodities, and you don’t get them the same place you can hire forklift drivers, dental assistants, and office managers.
Who knows but back 30 years the US consumer price index is up 2.13x. My guess is that in another 30 years the debt will be there but reduced in value by something like that. And the CPI tends to understate inflation a bit.
> But, there are billions of other devices (IoT etc). that barely has any security protections in place that rely completely on not being exposed to the outside world.

Yes. And you can not-expose them via default deny firewall rule.

My home printer had an IPv6 in a prefix assigned from my ISP, but it was not accessible to the Internet (it was actually ping6-able because my Asus allowed ICMPv6 by default, but I could not connect to its web interface, like I can internally). Neither could I SSH into my macOS desktop or laptop from the outside (but could between the two internally).

And even if my globally addressable devices were globally reachable (which they were not), good luck scanning a /64.
> and boy what a terrible experience...

Obviously this is the opposite of what I'm trying to create.

I actually design the site for it to work 100% offline. You can download it to your computer. Some pages, such as this advanced explorer, are designed really with desktop in mind, and mobile is an afterthought. I gave my smart phone up 2 years ago, and that made my life a lot better, and I won't be going back. However, I do test on a low powered burner phone, and try to make sure the site works, but this explorer page is more advanced, and is literally doing clientside search and transforms on the entire database with no server calls. So it's just something better used on a computer.

Unfortunately time and resources are limited (the site has no business model yet, but perhaps if the WWS catches on we'll have funds to bring on more people...or maybe someone has a great idea for grants we could win or other business models?) .

If anyone wants to volunteer time to make this run better on mobile phones, I'd love to help unblock you! Source code is:

https://github.com/breck7/pldb
Yes! Just didn’t want to assume every country in the world operated like the USA
Not only am I vocal about using Obsidian but I also use Arch btw. I'm not vegan tho, but I'm working on it.
> Offices are the last meaningful dense-city economical activity

Yup. there's no other money that gets spent by people living in a city. No cafes or stores of any kind or theaters or nightclubs or anything. we should all just pack it up and go off into the wilderness. there's no reason why people want to live conveniently near other people.

some people aren't city people, and some people are. trying to forecast, thinking that everyone's just like you isn't a winning strategy.
Driving cars and riding in cars tend to have large benefits whereas alcohol does not.
Great site, but dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40739384
That’s largely a quibble over where the line between “sales” and “marketing” is drawn.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
Zero-sum games get more complicated when you care about the other players.

>there can not be shared interest between business owners and Unions.

There absolutely can. The point of a zero-sum game is that one party cannot win more without the other winning less. This is only a problem if all parties care exclusively about winning the most, rather than about winning enough sustainably. If you value your workers and care about them and want them to have happy, good lives, then you can absolutely find an alliance with a union.

It's not like a criminal justice case where one side has to win and the other has to lose, it's like a divorce where if everyone maintains a level head and allows the existence of humanity in the other side, everyone can come out happy. It only becomes adversarial when one side decides to make it that way.
Once the AQI exceeds 300 or so, I would run an air purifier at home (keeping the windows closed) and wear an N95 mask whenever I venture outdoors.

Air filtration works very well for smoke (and other particulates).
I created this app for all the developers with a GitHub account.

You might ask why I created it?

- I wasn't satisfied with my GitHub profile from the day I created it.
- I tried a few tools. Some of them worked decent enough, some didn't.

As I am learning development. Few weeks ago, I thought why not build an app which can solve my problem and if it solves others too then even better.

So, I decided to build my own.
True, though in my mind I put these things into my "lots of interesting novelties" category. Everything in games (including the physics engine!) is typically fine-tuned to provide fun, more than realism. The same is currently true for AI (especially enemy AI), and I believe it'll continue to be that way.

Good point on the procedural aspect, Minecraft and similar games came to mind when I wrote my first post. I'd argue they are still fundamentally a designed, shareable experience, and that's my main point really. In Minecraft, you can't talk about the world much with someone else since it's generated, but the mechanics, materials, recipes etc. are the same, and provide exchange between humans playing the same game.

I believe we'll even see some successful AI heavy games in the near future, but I also believe we'll cycle back to games being, first and foremost, designed upfront. I might be wrong of course and we might see some kind of holodeck 100% custom game experience become dominant. It's just my hunch that we won't, even if it's feasible. Thinking as far back as I can, people always seem to have wanted two things from games: Fun, and connection to other people.
> Almost unusuable!

Almost?! Wow! I'll take that as a compliment. I just assumed it was completely unusable on an untested platform like that ;).

I do have deep affection for Mozilla, and do test on Firefox on MacOSx.

Again, very sorry for the experience, and if you'd like to get involved helping make it work great on Android for Firefox, source code is:

https://github.com/breck7/pldb

Or we'd gladly accept any grants to prioritize that kind of work!
An ordinary day with a Linux mobile device
Oh, yes. As I heard (can't remember where from), Poland, Checkoslovakia and Hungary retained more forms of market economy than the USSR.
One could take a cynical view that the collective delusion is necessary to sustain increasing wealth inequality. Americans are highly unlikely to accept such inequality if it is accompanied by large reductions in the standard of living. On paper, the debt isn’t a big deal if the government could close out the balance with private assets.
> we say "the dose makes the poison" but it doesn't change that regularly drinking a low dose of poison is not good.

I'm not sure that's the right conclusion there. Vitamin A is a poison, because it's toxic in high doses. But that doesn't mean you should avoid vitamin A.

The expression means that a poison cannot be defined independently of its dose. You need to know the chemical and the amount.
> without a successful business there won’t be any employees, not the other way around.

How do you get that successful business? Employees like Product Managers trying to analyze product market fit, leadership setting direction, etc.

This happens a lot in small business - the owner/founder thinks they and they alone have the magic sauce, and it quickly becomes "you should be grateful to have this opportunity to work on my ideas".
> The way most of the writeups make it sound is that it’s some sort of hack, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

All the best/most effective hacks involve convincing someone to download something they shouldn't that lets you sidestep security.
I'd look at the costs in other countries as an example of what things could cost. Even domestically I've been looking at a doctor who runs his own surgical center for an operation I might need, and he claims he is able to keep the costs down and provide better care than going through a large hospital system (though he does that as well for patients who may require it). As an example, his facility charges $600 for an MRI which seems quite good.
> Risks are about trade-offs. If the American Cancer Society wants to be helpful and actually listened to they need to provide practical actionable advice, not this cop-out.

I feel like the medical community is slowly starting to finally realize that they can't force patients to minmax their lives. Why would I live a long life that isn't enjoyable?
To talk about violence is forbidden at the Chaos Computer Club
Last time I saw it, it had DMV stickers on it, so I think yes.