skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe health insurance (really, access to healthcare) is a human right. Life insurance can discriminate against you based on your health current state, and some people cannot get life insurance (or the cost is exceptionally exorbitant, because it is properly pricing the risk of loss). I don't believe someone is entitled to live where ever they want, or drive whatever they want, from an insurability perspective. We might just disagree on this philosophically, my apologies in advance.

> but insurance is about individual level risk

Insurance is about pooled risk, avoiding adverse selection, and balancing the risk of loss with whatever the pool criteria and objectives are. We can insure what should be insurance, and we can cut checks to what should just be aid, support, etc. Knowing which is which is important though if we operate under the assumption that resources are finite.

https://www.actuary.org/sites/default/files/pdf/health/pool_...
Yes, first boosts, then a few gets then a few events that cascade. It's nice.
A modular monolith is distinct from a "plain" monolith. It's a good middle ground for most web services.
I've been curious about this. They all are reporting it, nowadays. I'm assuming they have reason to think they are getting better at it?
It is a bit light on JIT news, anything happening for this release?
A degoogled phone with off-switches for wifi and GPS go a long way.
Haveno-Reto: The Replacement to Localmonero
Thirty Years After the Genocide in Rwanda, Is Forgiveness Possible?
Yes, edited!
I keep hearing this "microservices to allow scale", in which "scale" implies performance, as some counterargument against microservices.

Honest question, who ever seriously proposed microservices to improve performance? It doesn't take a lot of thought to figure out that microservices have overhead that will always put it in a disadvantage over a monolith in this regard.

The only "scale" that makes sense wrt microservices is that of the scale of teams, and manage-ability of the scale of features and codebase. They are primarily a solution to "too many people working in too many poorly bounded domains". But as a solution to performance problems? Is it really proposed as that?
As a teenager I read 'Catch 22' over and over.

I read Feynman's 'Surely You're Joking', and that led to me becoming a physicist.

For software engineering, all the essays in Fred Brooks' 'Mythical Man Month' were formative.

Rand's 'Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged' were also thought-provoking.

For investing, reading Warren Buffet's 'Letters to Investors' shaped what I believe works.

The best business book I've read is 'Invent and Wander' and 'Working Backwards' about Amazon culture.
Not really new... https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/ptxdist/refs/
You can get a nice used car for $4k if you look at the right cars.
EDIT: quick note, this is a tangent; Gleam does support partial application with `_` and it works with pipelines as well.

> This is not how it works in curried languages, however. In curried languages with a |> operator, the first expression still returns "Hello, World!" but the second one returns "World!Hello, " instead. This can be an unpleasant surprise for beginners, but even experienced users commonly find that this behavior is less useful than having both of these expressions evaluate to the same thing.

The upside (on the curried side) is that you can define `|>` as a normal function (even without lazy semantics, as in OCaml.) How much of an "upside" this is will vary, but note that this generalizes to many other operators that can be added. The rest is a matter of API design, i.e., the order of arguments and the use of named arguments (and/or other syntax sugar.) For example, in the case of the post's example:

"Hello, "
|> Str.concat "World!"

You can get the "beginner friendly" semantics with just a little change to the `Str.concat` (assuming named args support, using OCaml syntax):

"Hello, "
|> Str.concat ~rest:["World!"]

In non-curried languages, this has to be a macro (or it needs to be built-in). If you already have macros in your language - that's good: you can easily make `|>` do things like `x |> func(arg1, _, arg2)` and more. However, if you make this a special case in the language, it will be hard to extend and impossible to generalize. So personally, I'd grade the options in order of power and convenience:

- infix macros
- infix functions in curried languages
- special, hardcoded |> operator
- beating your language black and blue until you get a work-alike (like with implicits in Scala)

There's also a special category of languages where pipelines are primitives (shells, jq), but that is outside the scope of this comment, since they are more than syntactic sugar for function application :)
We did the exact same thing early 80's except that we used the clicker found in disposal lighters.

We did it for a couple of years until they figured it out and started to conver the arcade cabinets with transparent plastic.

At the same time they also drilled holes at the back of the machine for ventilation as the rest of the case now was sealed in plastic.

We found out that using a bamboo stick you could press the lever that register when a coin has been paid into the slot.

That made them relocate the holes for the ventilation to the top of the case instead of the back so we couldn't get the lever anymore. Or so they thought. haha

We discovered that by pressing a coin up the return slot — the one where you get your coin back if it isn’t accepted — you could also trigger the lever for coin registration and the free gaming continued.

Eventually they put in sharp screws into that coin return box so you would cut your finges.

After that we got a SEGA. Was great fun :)
We’ve discovered with experience that every app which looks like a table and allows free text fields will be repurposed as a job applicant tracking tool, with uncontrolled discrimination comments.

And this is bad because it’s not GDPR-compliant (but fortunately, it’s not the fault of the software vendor, but of the data controller).
It is somewhat odd to ask someone about their favorite book and instead get a lie that's intended to test whether or not you'll be a good friend. It's also completely offtopic for a discussion about folks' favorite books.
> which is compulsory in probably all Europe countries?

Nope, here in Italy at least it's not compulsory.
One very direct consequence of CO2 pollution is increased ocean acidification, which interferes with the chemistry for building shells and other calciferous structures that many marine animals depend on. A warm ocean can dissolve more CO2, which makes it acidic, like a carbonated drink.

The Great Barrier Reef is now thought to be doomed to coral bleaching in the next few decades. Half has been lost already.

Another example is that biomes are moving at rates ten times faster than we'd expect from natural climate change. That is it say, plants and animals and fungi need to move ten times faster uphill or toward the poles to keep up. This is being documented in mountainous rainforests, but the sheer number of species in those areas is so high, and their natural ranges so small, that some are no doubt being lost before they can be discovered.

Even if all those species could keep up with the pace of change (and they can't), the unlucky ones will find themselves with nowhere to go. Some climates won't move, they'll disappear. Even if a suitable climate opens up somewhere else on earth, species are not known for teleporting.

It's not recommendable to wait for the warnings "to materialize" because the game will already be lost.
Do you think? He does show some mercy towards some people that have wronged him.
> I think it would lose some "wow" factor in the process, but probably be a much more pragmatic device for everyday usage.

Yeah, exactly. I'm really hoping Apple tries that instead after the failure of the Vision Pro. It's the opposite paradigm: Not "complete computing device in a headset", but rather "just an eye-worn display and nothing else". It doesn't even need any fancy tracking, just basic gyro stabilization so the windows don't shake, like the VR mode on phones already have (e.g. for Google Cardboard). They don't even need to be aligned to anything in the real world.

Other companies are making glasses like that, but the displays aren't very good – IMO that's the limiting factor.

I've tried many AR/VR devices over the past decades and it's just not a use case I can see most people ever wanting, myself included. But "portable private monitor with a giant canvas" is an itch that still hasn't been scratched :( It's less sexy in some ways, but it's also something I'd probably use every day.
This is the truth. We shouldn't act surprised when an emerging economy "blatantly ignores" IP norms for established nations.
So you're paying them between €15,000 (€124 * 120 servers, hetzners cheapest sx server) and over €30,000 per month, and you really believe they sit in their little office trying to find servers of already paying customers, just to snatch them and host their own S3 service?
This doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory to me; it sounds more like a serious case of megalomania.

That they don't communicate well with you really sucks, and I will read your blog post. But please stay on the sane side of reasoning.
FWIW, as a hobbyist developer who never had a chance to learn React, I found HTMX really helpful to make my Flask projects more reactive without adding much complexity.
I'm surprised to see some difference in the result for "Plant based" and "vegan"
I just searched online and homeowners insurance policies typically don't cover termite damage.

I assume this isn't actually a huge financial risk since mortgage companies don't care if you have it? In other words you'd self insure for it.
VMS also supported Pascal and BASIC dialects for systems programming, in equal footing to BLISS.

People choose free beer, it always goes even if warm.
whisper + pyannote + custom LLM pipeline to reduce errors, extract and attach speaker labels
Given apple was part of PRISM and, you only pay premium for the pr.
As far as enjoying it at the time I was reading it?

The Once and Future King.

I was on summer vacation while camping and fishing and I read the entire book in a couple of days in the evenings. Maybe it was the lack of distraction, but the Arthurian legend of that book has influenced a ton of modern fiction.
Thinking one step ahead instead of two
Orders had to be typed. In 1943 or 1944 a Liberty ship carrying only typewriters went down in the English channel.
What are these putative externalities of wind and solar?

These is a constant whataboutist argument from nuclear apologists, but it falls apart when examined closely, as all pro-nuclear power arguments do.
IIRC, it is also precipitation hardened stainless, so a weld repair would anneal it, cutting the affected area's strength in half.
And the first result is from Adobe Stock, who you might assume would have higher standards than Pinterest and TikTok, but here we are.
Python version from 3.10 have had a very annoying bug with the SSLContext (something related only to glibc) where there are memory leaks when opening new connections to new hosts and eventually causes any service (dockerized in my case) to crash due to OOM. Can still see that the issues have not been resolved in this release which basically makes it very difficult to deploy any production grade service difficult.
It is political, but it is also not a good book. Like, it has a gigantic monologue in the middle where one of the main characters just stands there and expounds on the theme of the book, for many pages. It is not well written.

If somebody said they liked… some books by Heinlein or whatever, there’s a guy with some Political Opinions. But he can write. It is believable, picking a Heinlein book isn’t an obvious political test.
Probably the collapse of the doomsday glacier.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/climate/doomsday-glacier-thwa...
This is a reasonable sounding hypothesis that has been shown to be completely false.
Yes, it is not generally available but as an anecdote I mentioned crystal radios because I don't know that from my technical school or university degrees but thanks to my grandfather who didn't go to an university.
On the other hand, the existence of coal power proves that releasing small amounts of radiation is fine, really. So we should be able to build a lot more nuclear power plants; it would take a lot of accidents like these to match the releases from coal.
How did you get your first 500 users?
Rotating cylinder amplifies electromagnetic fields
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I wrote about it. It’s an article that I regularly update. It needs an update: I stopped using Reddit entirely.

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence

To answer your question more specifically, I also keep an eye on my vitals. It’s hard to do good work while tired, hungry or worried. A good nap is sometimes the most productive use of your time.

I also make sure to take real breaks. Finishing the day hungry and behind on your chores is not a good idea. Work needs to blend in with your other obligations. Deep work also requires breaks.

Reducing overhead is another big one. You need to get rid of all the obligations that are holding you back: pointless meetings, pointless commuting, excessive maintenance overhead, etc.

The environment itself also needs a bit of attention. Good monitor, good chair, sunlight, whatever makes you happy to sit at your post.
How big is the market for that?

I’d probably get one as well, but who else would?
It's ok, he won't pay. Elon has a history of not paying his creditors.

https://www.google.com/search?q=elon+musk+not+paying+credito...
You misunderstood "American security" to mean "security of Americans" instead of the intended meaning "security of the American regime"
SV is doing both of those things. Palantir is to the palestinian genocide what IBM was to the holocaust.
> If that's what you've picked for your threshold of "intelligence", you've reduced the majority of the bell curve's left side to soulless automatons

I disagree with this statement, which is the crux of their argument against my definition of intelligence.

I don’t think any credible survey of the intelligence or lack of a large enough population exists (due to there not being a common binary measure of intelligence), so it’s an issue you kind of need to take on faith.
These probably this joke is about, Every Scientific Field:

https://xkcd.com/2986/
Anna Karenina. Nothing mind-blowing. I didn't see a light in the sky.

I read a lot, fiction and non-fiction. When I read Tolstoy, I remember thinking "What sort of dark magic is this?" He drew characters in a way I haven't seen since. I _knew_ these people.

I remember this book, decades later. I remember a lot of what I've read, but Tolstoy was the man. I have no idea how or why his magic worked.
This was my favorite one in the trilogy. I also liked the first one. Third was weakest for me (but still enjoyable).
I have reason to believe product management wants not to be left behind by the competitors, independent of the quality of their implementation.
You know that, but what about some kid looking on google images?
Yup, you can notice some issues even in their picked example. e.g. the prompt for the video of the painting woman says "there is a bear cub at her feet" and it quite clearly is not "at her feet" in the video.
After USA Ban: Google Kicks Kaspersky Out of Play Store
Nice. I hadn't heard of iHerb before. Would be great to include myprotein (tricky with "discount" codes) or one of the expired protein powder sources (e.g. supplementhunt).
There's nothing anachronistic about hashish in 19th-century France; it was a widely-known narcotic long before that. If you read Wikipedia's "history" entry, Dumas and Paris are explicitly name-checked (among a lengthy list of writers),

- "In the 19th century, hashish was embraced in some European literary circles. Most famously, the Club des Hashischins was a Parisian club dedicated to the consumption of hashish and other drugs; its members included writers Théophile Gautier, Dr. Moreau de Tours, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Baudelaire and Honoré de Balzac.[19]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashish#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_des_Hashischins
What is supposed to happen and what actually happen are two different things. Example: Liberalism was supposed to make everyone prosperous, but it actually made everyone more prosperous according to metrics that don't matter (CPU cores per pocket) while taking away all the prosperity that does matter (stability of living space, nutritional quality of food, etc).
search "baby peacock before:2023" => doesn't have AI generated images
Formally verifying tiny bits of QEMU using Frama-C, Richard W.M. Jones, 2020 [video]
"The years of rice and salt' by Kim Stanley Robinson
metrics sell, even when they're not that accurate, and even when people know that.
I totally disagree with the idea of making raw text-to-image output from closed source models like Midjourney, but I wonder how much level of control would change most people's minds on if an AI image can become copyrightable.

Would an artist who creates a private AI model on their own art be allowed to copyright everything that comes out? What about if it is a small model, based on top of a much larger model with other people's art but copies their personal artstyle very closely (a low rank adapter, or LoRA, in stable diffusion terms)? What if the artist sketches the outline then uses a model that matches the image to that (known as a controlnet), along with the above?

The answer might just be "never", if Chancellor Masters and Scholars of The University of Oxford v. Narendra Publishing house's ruling is upheld, since mathematical formulas can't be copyrighted, and if AI art is reduced to an output of a mathematical formula, then it makes sense to always treat it as copyright-free.
There’s a real feeling of the blind leading the blind in webdev.

htmx, Rails, and Laravel all point to better ways, and people are starting to be receptive.
How do people eval these very long outputs?

I've never figured that out (and no I can't just... read all of them)
This is in no way to defend smoking. I've never smoked, and good riddance to it.

However:

Amidst all the talk about the causes of obesity, surely "not smoking anymore" is in there somewhere?
Python 3.13.0
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson
"Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg.

Has shaped my outlook on artificial intelligence more than anything else, and this was written in 1984, long before GPT-3 was a thing. Absolutely "mind-blowing" in that it deconstructs and then reassembles your understanding of what a mind is.

Best short story: "The Egg" (by Andy Weir); just read it, is very short, no spoilers.

Best entertainment/fiction: "Murderbot Diaries"

Is highly entertaining, very unique protagonist, raises some very interesting ethical/philosophical questions and does far-future sci-fi worldbuilding insanely well.
What's the difference between the new `script` directory/generator and using rake? I thought rake was meant for basically those things?

Also, is there a good reason to use thruster instead of caddy?
Semi on-topic: Why should the federal government even entertain a "strongly" pro-cryptocurrency agenda, when the real goal of cryptocurrencies is to displace/reduce the power of the U.S. dollar, from which the federal government (and the American people) derive many, many benefits?
If the car model has CoC number, it has been type approved. EU keeps approval register. The CoC is not limited to EU It works in every European country.

Tesla has announced that they are in process of making Cybertruck version that complies with EU regulation, but Cybertruck is hard to adjust. Lack of crumple zones is a big issue.

Getting it approved as commercial vehicle should not be a problem, but nobody wants that. Not Tesla, and not the consumers.
Thanks for sharing your experience! It's impressive to hear about your success with Actix/SQLx and Rust's scalability and efficiency. Knowing Rust can handle such scale is encouraging and gives us confidence for future growth!

While we currently have fewer users, I've also found Rust's type safety and robust system invaluable for building reliable software. In my experience, if it compiles, it just works—quite a contrast to dealing with runtime error minefields in Python, Java, or TypeScript.
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We use it extensively in our codebase. We started without any types, and added Sorbet later. It's similar to Typescript as that you can gradually sparkle your code with types, building up the typing coverage over time.

I just completed a big refactoring. We have a good suite of tests. But Sorbet has provided an added layer of confidence. Especially when it comes to the treatment of null values. Sorbet will raise an error if you try to call a method on an object that may be null. So it forces you to think through: what should happen if the object is null?

So the tests combined with Sorbet typechecking made that we could just almost blindly deploy refactoring after refactoring, with only a handful of bugs for several 1000s of lines of code changed.
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So many people talk about this one and they never give spoiler alerts.
Scientists discover a single-electron bond in a carbon-based compound