skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People die because of the decisions made by insurance companies.

And if we had single pay, wouldn't people still die but now there is someone else to blame? Meaning there is still a budget for care, it is not infinite. There will still be a group to decide what to accept and what not.
I had a conversation today about that topic sorta. I find the abstract tradeoffs of writing software (ie. efficiency vs flexibility) to be inherent to company social structures as well. I suspect the intuition that engineers build up of knowing when to favor either side is applicable, just with different error signals.
Everybody wants the models to be able to execute code and access the Web. That's enough to cause harm.
So you are telling me that if magically 10 million new housing units popped up in any of these cities that it wouldn't have an effect on the price of housing at all? Boy do I have a bridge to sell you..
Ever since CockroachDB changed their license, I'm searching for alternatives. PostgreSQL is an obvious choice but is there a good HA solution? What people usually do for HA with PostgreSQL or do they just not care about it? I tested Patroni, which is the most popular one in my knowledge, but found some HA issues that makes me hesitate to use: https://www.binwang.me/2024-12-02-PostgreSQL-High-Availabili...
It's framework exhaustion: when you want to nail something to the wall, you don't want to have to spend hours figuring out what's the latest magic formula needed to get Hammer to work, especially when you had to do it so so so many times already and the new way isn't fundamentally improving things and concerns are dismissed.
The UK has private health insurance available for purchase too, right? I'd be curious to see what that per capita amount is. Does UK private insurance mean you opt out of the public system, or does it provide coverage for more things on top of the public system?
extremely cool
The US's embrace of a extremely greedy and uncaring for-profit health insurance industry is what is actually nihilistic. Every dollar of profit a health insurance company makes should have paid for healthcare for someone.
Sorry, Bob, but your damaged Apple iEye was cryptographically tied to your iBrain account so a transplant of a generic SeeWorld eye is not possible. We still don’t have wetware right-to-repair laws on the books in 2124.
Many private health insurance companies are not-for-profit, including such large organizations as many of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association licensees, HighMark, EmblemHealth, etc. Their coverage and claim processing policies are pretty similar to the for-profit companies.

And private health insurers generally don't make more profit by denying claims. Due to the ACA minimum medical loss ratio rule it's rather the opposite. When claims are denied it's usually due to decisions made by self-funded employers that sponsor health plans for their employees. The insurers are mostly just acting as administrators for those plans rather than providing any real insurance.
> It was a preprocessor that converted logging macros into string table references so there was no runtime formatting. You decoded the binary logs with another tool after the fact.

Is be curious how that stacks up against something like zstd with a predefined dictionary.
I'm pretty sure GP is referring to moving between GitHub and GitLab as repository hosts, not as employers.
Surprise-billing legislation associated with lower pay to anesthesiologists
California plans to appeal Huntington Beach voter ID ruling
I staunchly disagree with this kind of utilitarianism. The ends do not justify the means.
Serious question: did either city increase housing density significantly?
Besides Singapore with its targeted housing policy. There's not exactly surplus but sufficient numbers.

Really though, housing exists but is not available. Mostly due to expense and being redirected to short term rentals.
Surgeons aren't going to do surgery if they aren't paid for it.
> this is a really good resource: https://github.com/XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inferen...

Yes, it is.

But it has not been updated for seven months. Do things change so slowly?
The system works! /s
It's wild the tales [certain] media outlets tell. When I moved to Chicago, I got no end of suggestions to buy a gun, get bulletproof glass for my car, increase my life insurance policy...

Sure, the deep south and west sides might be not be too nice (particularly at night), but that's mostly gangs shooting at each other. My neighborhood is actually quite nice, but even if you take the city as a whole, the violent crime rate is 639.7 per 100,000 people [0] or 5.38 per 1,000 [1], depending on what source you go by (but I'll just use the 639.7 figure since that actually makes the city look worse). Compare this to Houston, TX: 11.35 per 1,000 people [2], Dallas, TX: 7.71 per 1,000 [3], or Nashville, TN: 10.95 per 1,000 [4].

So, 0.006397 (Chicago) vs 0.01135 (Houston) vs 0.00771 (Dallas) vs 0.01095 (Nashville). Hmmm...seems like Chicago is slightly more peaceful than Dallas, I'm 1.77x more likely to be the victim of a violent crime in Houston, and 1.71x more likely in Nashville. One has to wonder, if Chicago is apparently a warzone, why [certain] media outlets aren't equating Houston and Nashville to Fallujah.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago

[1]: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/il/chicago/crime

[2]: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/houston/crime

[3]: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/dallas/crime

[4]: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tn/nashville/crime
As a client I'd prefer you round up to a full hour instead of wasting my time.
The point is clear. Amazon is far more performant and does tracking so that’s not to blame.
This is probably easier said than done, for at least a couple reasons:

a) How do you determine which subreddits need to disclose that information?

b) How do you put something as abstract as what warrants moderation in a community into a simple description? Codes of Conduct can help with this, but as I'm sure others will inevitably point out, those can be abused by poor moderators as well.
Billionaires have always influenced elections. Surreptitiously. Elon Musk is different not just because of the enormous sum, but also because it is in-your-face. Post victory he is not hiding the fact that he expects enormous influence.
Study: Expanding public health insurance has minimal impact on health outcomes
There's a lot more than just "Insurer costs" and "Doctors' BMW payments" in the pie chart. Again, relatively little of it has to do with actually treating injuries and illnesses. And that's not even getting into the massive market distortions associated with forcing the concept of "insurance" into a market where virtually every single customer will eventually need to file multiple claims.

You usually come up with better arguments than this. We all have off days, I guess.
It's a mix of steel and wood. Curved Glulam beams sits on top of massive steel trusses, which are mostly hidden from view. The steel trusses in turn sit on top of big Y columns. The roof is seismically isolated too.
I hesitate to admit this, but for me it's simply because I still don't know the right pattern to use. I'm a longtime backend developer that knows several useful and usable patterns on how to organize layers of code into files and functions and conventions, that work very well. I've spent quite an amount of time on the frontend, to the point where I feel like I should have been able to identify a decent pattern by now, and I just haven't. And it's to the point that I started doubting whether the problem was really me, or if it's a problem with the framework. I've read the revised React 18 docs backwards and forwards, and all the stuff about how you might not need useEffect, and I've read countless articles about outer components and inner components and view components and higher order components, and when to use context and when not to, and there's a point at which all the patterns start to collide and feel self-contradictory. Meanwhile my team has a massive snarl of very large react components with all kinds of awful practices like nested contexts and useEffect for state management, stuff I tried to counsel against for a while until I got promoted away from the team... I just couldn't find the best practice that the community actually agrees upon regarding how to refactor and design a complex website with many components with deep functionality.
Grandparent said:

> it simply cannot bring itself to make a product that people want

To which you responded:

> You do realize that it takes at least 5 years

Intel could lower the price on their HEDT chips tomorrow.

Intel could enable AVX-512 tomorrow.

Intel could more fully open up their fabs to other companies tomorrow.

Intel could publicly commit to producing silicon with no Management Engine tomorrow.

What would you do, if you were Intel CEO?
he spent $44bn to help elect trump
This is Phase 1. Phase 2 will replace the rest of the terminal structure (the part that was open during Phase 1 construction) and directly connect foot traffic to the gates. The long outer walkways are temporary and their walls will be removed.
why? The benefits of 3-phase power are really only used by factories with lots of large electric motors. 3 phase has no benefit for resistance heating.
Might be a local peak, those in there 20s/30s today will soon be middle aged. If you're suicidal in your prime, and you don't manage to build a family, good fucking luck in your autumn years.

A strong driver of suicide (in all cultures, across time) is rejection by your community. Nowadays, it's easy for neurotic people to feel that way because they don't have a community telling them otherwise.
Cost of doing business for that company
Nothing says 'a country is on a steady slope down' more than this.
Our developers want GitLab because it means replacing Bamboo which is an OK product but we have hundreds of build agents that don’t scale for on prem. Each agent is a VM running on VMWare. The pipeline’s are so much better.

But GitLab price annually for the same amount of users that we have for Bamboo and BitBucket is higher in licensing fees. We have to do things self hosted because of regulatory and compliance reasons.

There is probably a business case to be made for the inefficiency that we see with Bamboo.

BitBucket DC is pretty solid and never goes down. It integrates well with all the other Atlassian products like Jira or Confluence. Our instance is also highly available and fault tolerant.
A rebrand? Cool… I guess.
This is a rather 1-dimensional view on community moderation.

The purpose of a community is (generally speaking) to provide a place for people to engage and interact with each other, not to 'benefit' any one particular group of people. Users should have the freedom to discuss what they want, yes - within reason, as long as it doesn't jeopardize the core goal of the community. Moderators need to use their best judgement and knowledge of the community to determine what meets that criteria.
Your feelings are spot on.

In most modern distributed tracing, "observability", or similar systems the write amplification is typically 100:1 because of these overheads.

For example, in Azure, every log entry includes a bunch of highly repetitive fields in full, such as the resource ID, "Azure" as the source system, the log entry Type, the source system, tenant, etc...

A single "line" is typically over a kilobyte, but often the interesting part is maybe 4 to 20 bytes of actual payload data. Sending this involves HTTP overheads as well such as the headers, authentication, etc...

Most vendors in this space charge by the gigabyte, so as you can imagine they have zero incentive to improve on this.

Even for efficient binary logs such as the Windows performance counters, I noticed that second-to-second they're very highly redundant.

I once experimented with a metric monitor that could collect 10,000-15,000 metrics per server per second and use only about 100MB of storage per host... per year.

The trick was to simply binary-diff the collected metrics with some light "alignment" so that groups of related metrics would be at the same offsets. Almost all numbers become zero, and compress very well.
It probably isn’t cheaper for Kagi per token but I assume most people don’t use up as much as they can, like with most other subscriptions.

I.e. I’ve been an Ultimate subscriber since they launched the plan and I rarely use the assistant feature because I’ve got a subscription to ChatGPT and Claude. I only use it when I want to query Llama, Gemini, or Mistral models which I don’t want to subscribe to or create API keys for.
Technically but not in terms people would describe a block chain. It's a chain of blocks yes, but its not the same.
If routine and preventive care isn't covered by some form of insurance than low-income people won't be able to afford it at all. Some of those costs are inevitably going to be pooled.

Generic drug manufacturers have very low profit margins. Switching manufacturing of generics to non-profit organizations would have very little impact on total healthcare system costs.

If you're suggesting handing over ownership of patent protected drugs to non-profit organizations, well that would lower costs in the short term. It would also ensure the pipeline of new drug development is slowed to a trickle.
That's kind of a straw man argument there, because that's not at all what they are telling you. I don't necessarily agree with what they're saying, but

- I would assume it's literally impossible to drop 10 million new housing units in any city

- What is the maximum amount of resources it's possible to get to build houses (assume one or more billionaires contribute it, just for the sake of argument)

- So, how many housing units _can_ you drop into a given city, given those resources

- Once those housing units are up and running, how many new people will move to the city

- End game, did the maximum number of houses that were added to the city actually decrease the amount of homelessness in the city
I think this might come down to… Oracle.

Obviously there are alternatives like MariaDB but Postgres is a quality long standing open source solution.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab

The team that runs this Hacker News comment site also invests in startups from time to time. GitLab did pretty well.

:-)
Wait I remember those ads and I’m now confused.

If vision-restoring eye transplants are the novel domain of futuristic moonshot research, how did Jerry Orbach’s eye donation give the “gift of sight for two New Yorkers” twenty years ago?

EDIT: Ah I follow now: he donated his corneas, which is a more routine procedure than an aspirational, vision-restoring full eye transplant
As Nvidia's CEO likes to say, the price is set by the second best.

From an API standpoint, it seems like enterprises are currently split between anthropic and ChatGPT and most are willing to use substitutes. For the consumer, ChatGPT is the clear favorite (better branding, better iPhone app)
I didn’t say there’s no toooling, it’s just that these tools work great and are mostly transparent. There’s no part where you setup or manage the tool. Even the deployment is just a few clicks.

The overhead is so low compared to the web tech, it’s no comparison.

If you want to do something weird you can complicate things if you like but the defaults are great so most of the time you don’t have to.

You know how on web tech there's many tools like packers, linters etc? Those are all tools you need only because you want to pretend that JS is not JS and you end up putting a distance between yourself and the actual thing that runs so you loose your ability to understand what's actually going on because it's actually not your code that's running in the browser and you had to do the chores to achieve it.

On native development these things also exists(the CPU doesn't understand human readable code, right? However the abstraction layers are straightforward), the packer equivalent would be linker I guess(not exactly but...) but you don't have to even know about that unless you are doing something that explicitly requires you to control how modules need to be connected. These tools are mature and simple, they daisy chain, you don't go through huge configuration files and its usually just a flag you add when you want to do something non-default(which you wouldn't if you are doing something like building UI). For huge projects things can get quite complex but the complexity isn't the default, unlike React & similar.
What are you referring to?

Gitlab is open core, (not great but better than nothing) while github is zero open source.
You really need to learn that the beef that India exports is largely Carabeef.

Buffalo meat.

If you had googled for it, you will find the following AI generated summary:

Carabeef is a meat that comes from the Asian water buffalo and is the primary agricultural export of India:
Production
India is the world's largest producer of carabeef. In 2023, India's carabeef production was estimated at 4.4 million metric tons (MMT).
Exports
In 2022, India exported 1.44 MMT of carabeef, which was 33% of its production. India is the fourth largest exporter of red meat in the world.
> All the other part makers are all in with ARM. Intel is on an island.

Intel also has an ARM architecture license… they sold Marvell the Xscale assets, but retained rights to produce ARM chips should they desire to do so in the future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale
> It’s too late. It was too late 18 months ago. Nvidia is over 30x bigger. Qualcomm is 2x, AMD is 2x.

AMD came back from odds much longer than this. At its nadir, AMD's market cap was about a billion. A billion! Jensen's jacket collection is worth more than that.

Anyway, it's not looking good for Intel but it's certainly not "too late".
> I am now very happy with my full spice rack.

There are so many ways to interpret that.

Being an adult is all about ambiguity!
Yeah it's unfortunate that we're in this place culturally but seems like just using the phrase suggests a lack of engagement with it so I guess it makes sense in some wacky way.
If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?
"The point's already been made, but plenty of monsters are husbands and fathers."

For example, the ones establishing and profiting from so-called "social media" at the expense of organisations that employ journalists.

Advertisers choose between supporting organizations that employ journalists versus supporting ones that do not, the ones profiting instead from the "torrent of hate". NYT has plenty of paying subscribers; it is not 100% dependant on ads, unlike "social media", generally.

Indeed "the people running social media have active and unceasing contempt for us". They prefer computers over people. Surveillance over sympathy.
Nice opinion. I started with Vue2/3 and now I’m learning react. Vue is designed better but react is further in development and more widely supported. Native mobile performance was the deal breaker. Ultimately you’ll find it easier to get a job using react vs vue.
Intel does have GPUs on the market which are good on the silicon side, but simply do not have the same level of software support that companies like Nvidia have built up (Nvidia has drivers that are backwards compatible for 20 years, Intel has issues with games released more than 4 years ago, as an example)

What they don't have is GPU manufacturing setup. All the Intel GPUs are fabbed by TSMC. But guess what, Nvidia has no manufacturing at all!
Why is the vouch option missing on this article, anyway?
Romneycare and the ACA were a pretty big step in the single payer direction. Popular enough to overcome vetos and attempts to roll them back.
If cuts to Medicare are made it will hasten this. It will also be ironic that Medicare "needed" to be cut in the face of lackluster life expectancy.
I independently "invented" this 2 months ago, also for parsing 100 page long PDFs. Give each page a title and summary, but prepend as context the title+summary of previous 3 pages. In the end combine all titles+summaries to get a master index using the LLM. At runtime you first use the index to zoom into the desired sections to give the answer. I think this makes the RAG "smarter", not based on simple similarity.
Fiat means faith and that's all you have with bitcoin, faith in the algorithms that make the ledger very hard to mutate without spending the required "effort" to "mint" the entries on the ledger. You can believe whatever you want but as I said previously you're better off convincing people to sell you services for your bitcoins instead of arguing with random strangers on the internet about cryptographic hashing functions.
Nope. Its not "inneficiency" . ITs regulation. Literal dollars extracted from all US classes (including the poor on medicare and medicaid) and shifted to healthcare R&D due to the healthcare market regulations that permit monstrosities such as coverage mandates, payment for new drugs with marginal benefit, or Medicare non-negotiation with manufacturers.

So, France may offer Pfizer $1 for drugs that take $100M to research. And Pzifer may calculate its advantageous to sell for that price if they plan to recover R&D cost from selling it in the US for $1000. That's not efficiency, that's a subsidized opportunity.

The US can (and hopefully will) break that game by quitting to subsidize it. If France wants cutting edge devices for $1, France can make their own. Spend their own taxpayer R&D millions. Pfizer will need to make price decisions affecting all buyers, not just US taxpayers.
At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, I'd probably say China.
Pray tell precisely what am I wrong and what in this situation is the "actual real thing"
Are you aware that wealthy people sometimes employ the act of a “modest” salary and live off collateral loans from their 100s of millions to billions in stock, so as to not pay taxes?
Those are exactly the technologies that get massively adopted by newbies who don’t know better.

That’s why the LAMP golden age was full of SQL injection and a lot of those systems remain load bearing in surprising unexpected ways.
Removing the security mechanism in my comment is akin to opening the safe to enable the search or entering your PIN number on a phone to unlock it. I can't really see how otherwise removing a roadblock to enable law enforcement to perform their court approved mandate would lead to further charges for the act of helping them do so. Of course if you're referring to poison-pill mechanisms that upon removal destroy the data they wanted to search for then sure, more charges are coming.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to use API and 3rd party UI if usage limit is your concern?
To my knowledge, both Postgres and MySQL has their own strengths and weaknesses. Example: mvcc implementation, data replication, connection pooling and difficulty of upgrades were the major weaknesses of Postgres which are much improved over time. Similarly mysql query optimizer is consider lesser developed than that of Postgres's.

Overall I think Postgres adoption and integrations and thus community is much more wider than MySQL which gives it major advantage over MySQL. Also looking at the number of database-as-a-service companies of Postgres vs those of MySQL we can immediately acknowledges that Postgres is much widely adopted.