skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is because those are the lowest prices possible. Insurance companies earn tiny low single digit profit margins. Almost every dollar they collect goes out as an expense for claims.

They literally have to get their prices approved by the state government regulator. To suggest they are colluding to ratchet up the amount of money they spend on healthcare is unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

It’s actually funny, because at the same time, there are complaints of insurance denying coverage and requiring prior authorizations. So which is it? Insurance companies inflating healthcare spend to increase their profit, or denying coverage to reduce healthcare spend to increase profit?

Your premiums are high because the ACA mandates your premiums pay for healthcare that older and sicker people get. A huge portion is effectively a tax, from young and healthy to old and sick.

>Hard to shop around as an individual who doesn't work for a large corporation.

That must be because you are in a low population state, or a state where the regulators make it difficult for companies to compete. For example, New Jersey has many options for an individual to choose from:

https://www.nj.gov/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcrates20...
I have more than 20 years of experience and I manage to find time to do leet code exercises before I interview.

I'm saying that testing people for their skill, in any way, will have imperfections and will wind up excluding people. If it excludes people based on something they can control that's probably not the worst thing. Not everybody can get time to practice, but do I really want to be working alongside people who don't practice? Maybe in some jobs I do maybe in some jobs I don't.

If someone really does have 20 years of experience then a single evening of practicing will do a lot more for them than it will a fresh faced kid from college even if that kid from college does it for two or three hours every day for a week.

I just simply don't accept the notion that leet code interviews favor people based on age.
The issue is more about whether being agnostic is compatible with peace of mind about your children's afterlives.
I'm opposite- it's actually one of my 'judge-a-place' items- I'll get one as a general proxy for the quality of the place.

It's good if done well, easy to screw up, but enough flexibility to make it unique if you want.

And it's not just testing for if someone happens to know some obscure recipe.
Why? No clue - probably gross incompetence and corruption. The fact is that they have been at war for two years against what was one of the smallest militaries in Europe and still have not managed to obtain air superiority, indicating that they have some kind of shortage in the AA department.
> and help fight a bug (like the 2008 crash)

That was not a "bug." That was a parasite. If you take steroids with a parasite you might just make the parasite stronger.
I’ve been working in software for 15 years and have been doing it for fun 5 years before that.

Seeing this does not make me love my job. I miss making little toys and learning random things.

The more I work in this field, the more I realize building products isn’t what I love, it’s just what pays the bills.
Penicillin Cocktail
I agree if you can guarantee your project isn’t going to make more than X a month. But like the author said, it’s painful to change merchants later when you start needing to care about tax.
We used to know what would happen. Now with AI, it might recommend putting glue on pizza or making bioweapons for a potluck.
This is more a personal stance than anything else but digital scarcity shouldn’t exist. We’ve created this digital world that doesn’t have much of the physical constraints on it, why introduce them into it. What’s the point?
We need to legalize so the science is even relevant to the supply chain to increase the quality and protect people from this fuckery.
It depends on the application. If you wanted to debounce, for example, user autocomplete inputs that will be fed as a search term into your service, generally you would not want to start returning results when a user types the first letter “a” and continues typing, but instead wait for the user to stop typing for a fraction of a second.

If you have exceptional resources you may choose to not debounce at all, but for applications with latency behind it, it can make more sense to just wait for the user to signal they are done.
How would you phrase "we have a version that runs on your platform" then?
I would wager that 95%+ of religious and nonreligious households are concerned more about their children's lives than their afterlives. If you want kids, fearing damnation isn't going to stop you (and if it does, lmao).
Not agnostic, but in a given world where there is no afterlife, life is still worth living and bringing into that world. "Play it safe" is for games and sports, life is for living.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, odds are it’s a duck.
What are some of the politics stuff you mention?

I’ve been a senior engineer (definition loose) at a company I work at, and owner of a side business start up.

Politics at the startup are a bit easier, less than 10 people and such. But at the large company I’m trying to make sure I’m not caught off guard and be taken advantage of/other toxic politic stuff.
More constructively, train one to be able to notice them and intervene when they happen.
xorg.conf or xrandr might be along the right lines.
This is a interesting company to watch in the Gen AI space since they don't have all the same restrictions as the bigger companies.

Crazy this took them so long, and also crazy that they got so far through a very confusing Discord experience.
Yep, books3 is what llama was famously trained on before it was taken down.

That’s not even considering AI crawlers or all the copyright text on archive.org
Agnosticism doesn't rule out the possibility of an afterlife though.
That depends on the changes proposed. Many places I have worked at could apply simple bits of internal automation and training that easily allows for trimming, or repurposing, half or more headcount. Keep in mind software is a cost center, so changes to tech teams will never result in greater revenue but they can greatly reduce expenses.
This happened during my morning commute today:

Another cyclist and I stop at a stop sign, him waiting to turn left, I waiting to turn right, onto a main road (which notably does not have a stop sign).

A car traveling straight on the main road comes to a complete stop and waves at us cyclists with a "go ahead" hand gesture. We remain stopped, because the car has right of way.

Meanwhile there's a small traffic jam forming on the main street as some maintenance vehicles are waiting for the car to move so they can turn onto the side street. If us cyclists were to follow the car driver's "instructions" we would have to violate right-of-way for multiple flows of traffic.

Finally the car driver gets fed up at everyone else's insistence on following the law. Makes a rude gesture, shakes their head, and continues straight. The maintenance guys can finally turn, then the bikes.

I guess my point is: car drivers need to do a better job of following the conventions and laws of the road.
Few years ago in Iowa we ran into a sudden weather system with (the radio later said) a big tornado in it. Got off the highway, only to be on a different highway with no shelter except for highway overpasses and a flimsy gas station a couple miles down. Technically we also didn't see the tornado, but the weather around it was like nothing I've ever experienced or want to experience again: continuous multi-colored lightning, torrential rain, big hail. (And nothing even close to an appropriate building to shelter in.)

Afterward my friend looked a little thoughtful and said "oh, I guess I forgot how bad the weather out here gets." Reminded me of the way people allegedly got used to the Blitz.
Looks like I still need a discord or a google account and can't just use regular email?
It’s funny how it doesn’t matter how much resources you have, there’s always a way to fill it.
If you don't want your article to sound useless and generic and way too long for the detail in the content, then don't let an LLM do so much of the heavy lifting. And leave out all the unsubstantiated speculation, it's not helpful.
I will correct my comment, I understand why you drew that conclusion from what I typed!
That was a weird thought I had when the Japanese had problems actively cooling the destroyed Fukushima reactors: :Could one build reactors underground, so that in the case of need you can cool them by gravity alone without futzing around with diesel generators and high volume pumps?

(I'm sure there are 500 reasons why that’s a bad idea)
Too many hurricanes!!

Not enough hurricanes!!

"Acktshually we have less hurricanes but they are more intense than before"
What an utterly ridiculous question, one that could only come from the mind of an indoctrinated theist.

Why do theists have children when there's at least a 50% chance they'll burn in hell for eternity? Wouldn't it be safer just to not have kids and not take the chance?

I don't believe in an afterlife of any kind, so I raise my children to be good people and make the most of the one life they have.
People want a lot of things they can't have. Putin knows what's possible and what isn't, and that isn't.
Nearly 6%, really. Only misreported due to a certain browser not including 'Linux' in its user-agent string.
Didn't we just read that an Atlantic La Niña is forming, cooling the surface down?

https://preview.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/atla...
Show HN: Self-Hosted AI Starter Kit
"Additional research revealed a hardware backdoor that allows authentication with an unknown key. Teuwen then used the new attack to obtain (“crack”) that secret key and found it to be common to all existing FM11RF08S cards."

Static key, decrypts all cards of a given model regardless of user stored keys? Yep, it's a backdoor.
50 kW ebeam?
The commentary about “too big, make smaller!” vs “missing context, make bigger!” rings so true. It’s obviously a complex change either way, just pick one way and stick to it for that change.

Not to be confused with the PR being “too big” because it is not atomic— that’s a different topic, something to teach the more junior teammates.
I agree, but I also think that in most cases people are more likely to be able to transition to an active, healthy lifestyle with moderate eating if they have help taking weight off. Being heavy makes exercise painful, exhausting, and often more dangerous.

I think we need a huge investment in physical therapy. Everyone who is obese and working to reduce their weight and increases their activity needs PT, and we need PT specialists who know how to work with heavy people. I know a lot of fat people (including myself) who get injured and discouraged trying to follow workout advice intended for people in substantially better physical condition, and also a lot who have had trouble finding trainers or physical therapists who know how to work with them.
I think there are three things that concern me and none of them is a lack of "ivy league" experience.

1) If you need a morale boost to complete your application then I don't think you are properly self motivated with your current idea/team to apply

2) If you believe that VC funded startups are a fun time, then I don't think you have the correct framing of the SV startup experience.

3) YC accepts only about 2% of applicants and of those they do accept only about 2% are from Africa. That already puts you potentially in a tough spot and while they accepted a good number of African applicants in 2023, the 2024 winter batch apparently had only 3.

I hope I am wrong and I wish you all the best of luck but my experience is that VC backed startups are very stressful particularly for the founders who now have to answer to disproportionally powerful board members who typically are looking for multiplicative not additive progress.
Even assuming there is a ton of data companies are just now getting access to, the logarithmic curve of LLM improvements is clearly visible (granted that our LLM evaluation frameworks are not very good)
Quality read. Don't want to give anything away but it was not what I expected.
Humans get things wrong, but are less likely to generate novel facts.
The Guardian view on meat: we need to eat less of it
I need to find a pithy way to express "we use a garbage collector to avoid doing manual memory management because that'd require too much effort; but since the GC causes performance problems in production, we have spent more effort and energy working around those issues and creating bespoke tooling to mitigate them than the manual memory management we were trying to avoid in the first place would've required."
> we couldn't figure

Do excuse, were you involved? That would be great to know about ...
A professional such as a doctor, who prescribes a medication that helps address the issue?
Confirmation bias. It could just be a couple hundred yards that tornado tore through and it won’t ever touch that place again, yet the media will only show you the absolute worst of it (and sometimes also fake it when it deems the devastation insufficient, hello Anderson Cooper), so you think it’s like that all over. It’s not. Moreover the same is the case with nearly all news coverage. Death and devastation sells ads.
Yeah, that's what the mafia guys will tell you when they come round to collect their protection money. "We keep you safe". What they don't say: "... from people like us".
I'll suggest that bypassing Gatekeeper for an unknwon app from an unknown developer is a bad idea. I'll wait until they implement official code signing from Apple.
"C-Motive team succeeded in producing an organic liquid dielectric with low viscosity and a relative permittivity in the low 20s." Nice.
Not sure why all the hostility here - you haven't seen the code, know nothing about the domain and yet you're certain that our performance requirements are false and that "code base got sacrificed" (apparently by adding two lines of rather self-explanatory code?)

Feels like you've just read grugbrain.dev and decided to shoot your golden tips at everybody without actually trying to understand the situation.

Anyway, there's one good point here:

> why is your allocator in this path, then?

Because those prices change 24/7/365, million times a day, and so refreshing happens pretty much all the time in the background, eating CPU time. What's more, calculating prices is much more complicated than a hashmap lookup - hotels can have dynamic number of discounts, taxes etc., and they can't all be precomputed (too many combinations).

You know, not all complexity is made up, a little trust in others won't hurt.
Basically there's a master key that allows reading blocks that are supposed to be unreadable.

> put in there on purpose by the manufacturer

Hard to prove "on purpose" either way, my guess it was for debugging.
Should one only fear the known? The known is far less scary as it can at least be anticipated and perhaps accommodated. Unknowns are the death of all my plans. It's like telling me not to worry about the things I can't control; why the hell would I worry about the things I can control?
The article says there's an 80,000 ton press in China.
Having switched back to Linux after many years, even looking at Mac OS feels like poverty now. Not because of the UX or hardware but because of the company behind it.
Can’t you do that with a normal escrow service? People do it every day when they buy houses and other expensive items.

Why bother with blockchain?
If you're going around the email to get the content, how will these marketers be able to market to you or sell your email to a third party?
> I think that's unreasonable to ask for just about anyone.

Notice your parent doesn't say "you must be at 10," but rather "let me know if you can't be at 10." I think that's perfectly reasonable, as long as you're willing to accept almost always getting "no."

> Much easier and safer is to drill into your own head that your own engagement level may be at 10, but the other person's is probably going to be more like 2. And that's fine.

But sometimes that's not fine! For example, if you're giving a list of instructions for some safety-critical procedure, it's not fine to find out later that the nodding "uh-huh, uh-huh" actually meant "I'll do what I remember and what sounds easy," and it's much better to do nothing than to proceed with partial information.
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I will give it a try. Firefox has recently not been the best, especially in private browsing mode. Opening less than 15 tabs there, and it’s already using 25 GiB of RAM!
> “Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?” Musk wrote on X

Would such donation even be legal currently in the US? And AFAIK neither Tesla nor Musk ever donated a car before, for any reason or to anyone else in those 20+ years.

On the other hand, he is the largest private donator to Ukraine, via SpaceX and Starlink.
No u ;)

Just Sqeaky.

I think the relationship between hiring and firing and interviewing is a little more subtle than a strict if/then statement.

It can be impossible to know up front if it will be easy to fire someone. Some people can hide incompetence of certain kinds for months or even years. Maybe the person that needs to be fired is competent but just toxic. Maybe the person rides right up to the line of the rules and makes an otherwise functional organization seem dysfunctional. Interviews might not be able to tell you if someone is excellent but some terrible people will absolutely reveal their cards. Most of the time there is an unlimited pool of applicants so even if an excellent one is passed up there will be another decent one somewhere. Not every job needs excellence some just need a baseline competence and an ability to be a team player.

These and other factors add subtle weight to risk aversion.

Also, difficulty in firing people doesn't automatically mean organizational dysfunction, sometimes it's an attempt at preventing abusive management. With how swiftly you are advocating for firing I would love to be at such an organization that made firing difficult if you were my supervisor.
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Feels like poverty?
I grew up in Ohio and experienced regular tornadoes. Like most natural disasters, people in the area get "trained" on how to be safest in them (go to a storm shelter/basement, etc) and grow accustomed to the relatively low risk to their own person.

I later moved to the SF bay area and was terrified by earthquakes and the potential building collapse, but my colleagues from the area shrugged that off.

In the end, these are all kind of similar risks, and we all just grow accustomed to the risk we're familiar with
> After this second secret key was also cracked it was discovered that the key is common to all FM11RF08 cards, as well as other models from the same vendor (FM11RF32, FM1208-10), and even some old cards from NXP Semiconductors and Infineon Technologies.

Even the ones not made by a Chinese company had the same backdoor. Perhaps, the original design had this backdoor and the manufacturers simply implemented the design. NXP is Dutch. Infineon is German.
No one's perfect; it's OK to make mistakes, so long as you identify that it's a mistake to yourself, and apologize for your mistake to others.

It's only when a reviewer does this (or the various other sins listed here, or a few more besides) without acknowledging it/displaying empathy/working to help unblock that I start giving my resume a refresh.
I'm sure he got some emails like this, "why dont you add trading?" when becoming a brokerage is more like a 100 person project
> The Nitpicker's Gambit: The reviewer fixates on trivial style issues like whitespace, bracket placement, variable naming conventions etc. They make the developer conform perfectly to their preferred style, even if it's not specified in the team's coding guidelines.

Mostly solved by autoformatters. If your team refuses to use one, start collecting metrics on time wasted in those discussions, and present to management.

> The Silent Treatment: The reviewer provides no feedback at all for a long time after the review is requested, but does respond just often enough to keep the review "active". The author has to ping several times to get any response.

Set a policy of auto-approve in N days if no engagement.
I think the list os fine but if those things happen in reviews a lot, I would argue you either have a cultural problem or simply have programmers that either don't pay attention or setup guardrails for eachother, for not submitting things that would get caught up in a review like this.

Every decent IDE has an option for setting up some kind of configuration for how code should be named and structured .

I think code reviews should be somewhat pedantic, it should be done with quality in mind and with the awareness of how the future changes.

The list of patterns here are valid but if they tend to happen more than feels comfortable for the team, look at the culture of how you work.
As for theists, they should worry about having children also as their children's afterlives might be bad.

But if having children is a requirement of the parents' belief system, then the parents would risk eternal torture themselves by not having children.
That could be useful for robotics. Gear trains in robots are a headache.

The ability to hold a position without much power is a big win.
Steppers need almost full power when stationary. But that's probably because these electrostatic motors are run as servomotors, with only as much power applied as is needed at the moment.
I'm not tracking how your question follows. If by garbage collection you mean a system in which resources are cleaned up at or after the moment they are marked as no longer being necessary then, sure, I guess I can see a thread here, although I think it a thin connection. The conversation up-thread is about runtime garbage collectors which are a mechanism with more semantic properties than this expansive definition implies and possessing an internal complexity that is opaque to the user. An allocator does have the more expensive definition I think you might be operating with, as does a filesystem, but it's the opacity and intrinsic binding to a specific runtime GC that makes it a challenging tool for systems programming.

Go for instance bills itself as a systems language and that's true for domains where bounded, predictable memory consumption / CPU trade-offs are not necessary _because_ the runtime GC is bundled and non-negotiable. Its behavior also shifts with releases. A systems program relying on an allocator alone can choose to ignore the allocator until it's a problem and swap the implementation out for one -- perhaps custom made -- that tailors to the domain.
Interesting, didn't know about <!DOCTYPE markdown>. Though as an SGML pedant, I have to say using this doctype declaration in this way just tells an SGML or XML parser about the base ("root") element and is thus simply incorrect since there is no "markdown" element. The proper way would be to use just "html", and adding SGML shortref declarations in the "internal subset" for markdown-to-HTML mapping, like sgmljs is doing.
Comparing a reasonable safety measure to complete self-isolation seems intellectually dishonest...
> I just said papers don't report them prominently.

News, especially bad news (and when it comes to financials, news that falls outside expectations), is what gets reported. These revisions down are all over the news today.
Starship seems way faster to me.
How much of this is due to non-technical users simply using phones and tablets instead of laptops and other devices with "desktop" OSes?