skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don‘t speak for Noah’s family but can share from my experience.

I lost my wife suddenly and unexpectedly. The event was intensely traumatic for me and devastating for our extended family. One day, she and I were planning for the future. The next, I was left to raise our child by myself. In many ways, now several years later, I am still picking up the pieces.

In the days and weeks following her death, I did the work of making public announcements about her passing, funeral arrangements, collecting stories and photos to share with our son. I received many questions asking how she died.

While I appreciated the concern and believe it fair to be curious, I chose not to share details outside of our closest friends and family. The last thing I wanted to do was relive the experience. For me it was too painful.

Honestly, I could care less about the public perception. It has had no bearing on my grief and responsibility to our son and extended family. I have not spent one ounce of energy thinking about how my choice has affected others outside our closest friends and relatives—they are the only ones to whom I have ever felt any sense of obligation. I have no regrets about this.

As for Noah’s family, I respect their decision, whatever it may be, whether conscious or not. My heart goes out to them.
Just so you know, I am impressed by the depth you've delved into with JSON parsing and dumping. It looks like a lot of time and effort went into the analysis.
> Insurers most often turn to two sets: MCG (formerly known as Milliman Care Guidelines), developed by a division of the multibillion-dollar media and information company Hearst, and InterQual, produced by a unit of UnitedHealth’s mental health division, Optum. Insurers have also used guidelines they have developed themselves.

Presumably, the guidelines were written by medical professionals.

> In interviews, several current and former insurance employees from multiple companies said that they were required to prioritize the proprietary guidelines their company used, even if their own clinical judgment pointed in the opposite direction.

In medical care, the attending doctor should be the one taking final call. Otherwise, we'd all be receiving medical treatments based on a bunch of flowcharts.
> There was a time 10 or 15 years ago where Google seemed to be leading the industry in everything

They used to write interesting books and articles about software engineering. It felt that they were maintaining high quality standards and were an industry reference. Nowadays, I wouldn't go as far as saying it's a red flag to have Google on one's resume, but definitely not the same appeal as before.
What does timescape do to estimates of the age of the universe?
> It was a horrible, slow ordeal.

So is editing text. When you manage stacks of text (e.g. a VCS) text becomes even more of a nightmare.
These days most Python devs I know use types
You're right, I'm working on it.
It's just the truth

Even if you didn't notice that back then, all the no-vax groups (that I'm aware of) ultimately became overt supporters of Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.

There was no opposition to the first, much more drastic, measures; that began when governments finally came to do something right (masks and vaccines), and towards things insignificant compared to the previous restrictions.
Pretty much always fake. While the “risk” of using my real name is probably small, there’s also very little benefit to me personally if people knew who I really was, so why bother.

Exceptions: Github, maybe Stackoverflow, but it’s been a while since I’ve posted there.

I grew up on the internet in the 90s and early 2000s and the general rule then was not to give out your name and info. So I just keep following that.
Although, even if it doesn't directly work in humans, it might be a stepping stone to something similar that might.
ChatGPT is rarely available??
Suppose insurance company doctors could lose their medical license if too many of their decisions are reversed in court. I imagine these doctors would command higher pay for their increased level of personal risk, but would end up making better choices for the insured. What does HN think?
Probably a combination of heavily regulated, the lack of choice for employer provided plans, and the difficulty in building out a network of doctors and other facilities. Would you sign up for an upstart health insurance with a tiny network?
It's not good when you have an SRE on hand to act as a babysitter of sorts. That is how some companies use SREs these days. They do the toil and sysadmin work so the product engineers can focus on features. Exactly what we hoped to avoid, but here we are.
Would be interesting if they took out enterprise and/or computers were forced to use rather than chose to purchase.
least cynical HN commenter
Yeah I feel like often it's the complete opposite. For example at the start of the industrial revolution engines were invented to pump water out of deep coal mines because even with the first engines horrendous inefficiency at the bottom of the mine coal was basically free at the manual labor to pump water had gotten to expensive.

So similarly, spaceflight needs some initial process, say mining or a zero g industrial process, that would drive the further building of infrastructure and productivity.
The intractable challenges of technical writing
Thanks for this detail, I worked at Google, with SREs, and didn't know it. It seems like the type of 'design' detail that might be more important than this entire article
The funny thing is that even for devs who don't want to declare their types will still have think about them to some extent. Even if it's correcting run-time errors indicating that some function or property doesn't exist for type 'X'. Plus, they get to guess at the types that are expected for various function calls in their own projects. Oh sure, you can add comments that document it right above/below the function, but do you remember to keep those up to date while you're in the middle of refactoring?
Samsung Electronics to Become Largest Shareholder in Rainbow Robotics
Players are a lot better than they were two decades ago.
Using my real name severely limits what I can post online. This is helpful with my desire to limit my use of social media.
What defines a good product? Something that many customers use? Something that makes shareholders happy?
There are a variety of reasons that space manufacturing could be a good idea from a physics standpoint. These typically range from availability of energy, limited need for environmental regulation provided byproducts don’t fall to earth, or do so at velocities which would destroy the compounds of concern, or availability of materials.

If an asteroid is captured, or large scale mining of the moon takes place - it would not make sense to ship raw materials to earth vs. final products.

Which gives us a rough roadmap for where this industry would go if it goes anywhere, we’d expect that manufacturing of gravity sensitive or highly toxic products would move to space first, followed by energy or resource intensive industries.
There is no toll involved here, this is a limited 100gbps interconnect.

If an ISP over-provisions these too far, they are wasting money and will not be competitive.

>There is no excuse for inadequately provisioning the backend.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. When this happened was when Netflix exploded in popularity. If I’m running an ISP in Kansas and a service explodes in popularity that is hosted exclusively out of England and my transit provider has saturated peering with the undersea route, it’s not obvious who is responsible for picking up the bill there.

Transit isn’t full line rate to anywhere on earth and suggesting otherwise will get you laughed out of any room with network engineers.
Gerald Weinberg. American computer scientist (1933-2018)
What about if we instead of building more levels on top of this already falling building we build a new one a few blocks over. With blackjack, hookers, and free* and humane health care.

* not really free of course, but you pay less on average than you do today and you do it on your taxes instead of to some profit chasing private company -- and most importantly those who don't pay today will have equal access to it as well.
How will it be a brutal lesson in youthful ignorance and stupidity when the youth have nearly no political power? We have a full-on gerontocracy and the problem is youthful naivete?
Just around the same time I was working at a place that used Oracle's web app extension, with CGI endpoints written completely in PL/SQL. I did end up writing an XML parser/serializer for it.
If you think this looks kind of nice but want to type in the code yourself, here's a couple of alternatives that might fit.

https://pharo.org/

https://factorcode.org/
Doing a single modulo 9 operation is much faster than summing a d-digit number, which requires d modulo 10s, d divide 10s, and d sums.
Varda Space is working on this. The term "factories in space" in their case doesn't match the images it brings to mind. They use relatively small devices that run chemical processes for medication production that work much better in zero gravity. I understood it in essence to work that way that you shoot the device into space, the reactions take place and the thing crashes back to earth for collection. Supposedly it has a huge cost advantage and should fit what the author wants.

More info: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kmdbUZYWIJ5wujPDRfBvD
Always fake, and a different one for each site. There's no need for me to link my identity between multiple platforms, so I don't.
Didn't I already say that the mechanics are no mystery?

Are you suggesting that it's reasonable to maintain a seperate debit card for every business one interacts with? Otherwise, that option for "opting out" is invalid and disingenuous.
> claim credit for sales that they did not facilitate

They will argue that by providing a coupon that lowered the price for the customer they did in fact facilitate the sale. IANAL but this sounds reasonable to me. Less so for the sales they did not find a coupon for (even if they argue they've tried).

The rest of your comment folds under this.

I guess we'll see how this plays out, but for what it's worth, the attached filing does not argue "cookie stuffing". (It argues other things.)

This may also go to a completely different direction of e.g. "securities fraud" -- the SEC may argue that PayPal, as a public company, has advertised their Honey service as "finding the best deals for their customers", and on the basis of that claim some of the investors chose to buy its shares. If this was a lie, the shares sale was made under false premises, and that seems like "securities fraud".
It's an SPA framework so that's pretty expected
Or freaky biohazard stuff.
If they aren't a violation of copyright, then I want to see what happens when people are trading around models and "prompts" that describe recently released movies and music sufficiently that it competes with the original.

Not necessarily because I like either "we monetize public work" or "copyright robber-barons", but I'd like at least one of them to clearly lose so that the rest of us have clear and fair rules to work with.
In Hell's Canyon Oregon, there were mining camps up and down it and you still see a ton of fruit trees dotting the canyon because of it. Many are intentional, by homes, rows etc, but sometimes you see the odd copse of fruit trees off by itself and well, that's probably where the outhouse as ;)

Only about 100-150 years old, but given how well they've done over that time and how popular they are with the wildlife, I'd bet they stick around.
I'm interested in what stopped you from finishing diffs and diff based editing. I built an AI software engineering assistant at my last company and we got decent results with Aider's method (and prompts, and hidden conversation starter etc). I did have to have a fallback to raw output, and a way to ask it to try again. But for the most part it worked well and unlocked editing large files (and quickly).
Lambda-CDM is a model, yes, but DE sure is a theory, or hypothesis if you prefer. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy#Nature and reference [23] and note that there's a proposed mechanism for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe.

[23] http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/398/
Google search with less steps? Still a huge advancement, of course.

Wonder how much benefit a meta lang for describing these problems correctly for the LLMs to process into code, an even-higher level language perhaps we could call it English?
Who told you that it wouldn't? And philosophically speaking where do you draw the line between 'you' and the rest of the world? Do you think the neurons in your head are 'you' and the neurons in your arm are just inanimate in some way? That seems a rather arbitrary distinction to me.
I'm the polar opposite.

I don't waste anytime and never felt like I stumbled on a product idea that warrants me building something.

Therefore, I haven't built anything but the projects at work.
This culture was, imo, directly responsible for google's failure to launch a facebook competitor early enough for it to matter.

The Orkut project was basically banned from being launched or marketed as an official google product because it was deemed "not production ready" by SRE. Despite that it gained huge market share in Brazil and a few other countries before eventually losing to FB. By the time their "production ready" product (G+) launched it was hilariously late.

Facebook probably would have won anyway, but who knows what might have happened if Google had actually leaned into this very successful project instead of treating it like an unwanted step-child.
Terrific, thank you. I will look into this.

Great, just what I need, to get further into the keyboard hobby... ))
> This whole AI learns like a human is trajectory of thought pushed by AI companies.

My retort towards the " it would be legal if a human did it" argument is that if the model gets personhood then those companies are guilty of enslaving children.

> Compare that to pepople prompting directly with name of artist they want to replicate.

In that case, I would emphasize that the infringement is being done by the model, It's not illegal or infringing to ask for an unlicensed copyright infringing work. (Although it might become that way, if big corporations start lobbying for it.)
I was playing back then in 2006, you absolutely could. I don't remember any 10-man groups at that time, but people were absolutely doing this with mage-heavy comps with 20 people. And then after Stormcraft Sandbox when all the private servers began to explode in popularity, you had the ability to run back every encounter as much as you wished to speed up the learning curve, test/learn new strats, etc.
Yeah, I’ll admit there’s some paranoia about losing access after a botched upgrade.

I’m considering investing in a https://tinypilotkvm.com/, but that can wait till I’ve lost ssh at least once. I’m not hosting aws on the thing so I can afford to play it fast and loose :)
> or want to gentrify communities to their liking.

I think you've bent this word beyond breaking.

> I'd say we've lost around 25 trees 75 years or older in just my immediate neighborhood.

What kind of trees? Red Alder which are native to the area for example don't live much more than 70 years.

> while wages haven't even doubled,

Median household income in current dollars has more than doubled in Portland since 2000[1].

> It's not a supply and demand problem

Yes it is. Housing prices increase when demand increases. Portland has an arbitrary growth boundary around the city and a lot of restrictions on height.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/205988/median-household-...
The idea here (timescapes) is specifically about dark energy, not dark matter.

EDIT: But, yes, if there's lots of dark matter not uniformly distributed in the universe, then that dark matter would have differing effects on time dilation in different parts of the universe. Questions: Do the great voids contain much dark matter? What about non-void areas that also have very little DM somehow?
> And what sort of "call center representative for an auto business" earns $120K to $200K, anyway?

"Hello, we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty..."
To answer your questions, I think it's more of a virtuous cycle thing. The comment from the page is basically saying IMHO "We need the other side of the virtuous cycle that will push the tech side to catch up". A motivating goal.

I imagine trade was a big driver for a ton of maritime / transport technological achievements prior to space, and is a good example of "Lots of people can get rich and get things they want for cheap at the same time", which benefited from reliable transport from afar.

As for factories directly, demand of any kind spurs innovation of production, innovation spurs learning and cost reduction, reduces prices, increases demand ... so there's somewhat of a virtuous cycle there.

All I think they are saying is "let's do that for space - find me a nail for our current hammer'
At this stage it's mostly been a toy learning project, but I can definitely do that if there's interest.
It sort of demonstrates the article's point. We're quite determined to not talk about it.
For the vast majority of people, becoming rich is a means to an end. More time to make art, freedom from stress, ability to travel more, or just the fun of buying lots of toys.

He keeps talking about wanting to do something "important." But I think he is conflating the "prestigious / expected" meaning of important with another interpretation: "meaningful."

Plenty of next steps for a founder are prestigious. But few are meaningful. Most new companies make money by finding efficiencies and disintermediating people from processes in various ways. This usually means pushing an entire sector (like travel agents) out of gainful employment. For whatever reason, Silicon Valley startups rarely punch up - they don't find efficiencies in health insurance or healthcare billing, they don't do "Moneyball" for CEO's and figure out how to run a company for less, they don't find efficiencies that cause us to pay less money to the rich (except Cost Plus Drugs).

No, they punch down, and make increasing numbers of the middle class into the new precariat. For that, the founders are praised and told that they are important. But the work, being morally questionable, is not meaningful.

By contrast, many meaningful endeavors are about charity - giving access, opportunity, dignity, and money to those on the bottom rungs of society.

The emptiness he feels is a lack of meaning, but he's trying to fill it with more prestige, and that's why it's not working.
They have major, long-lasting incidents at least once a week. https://status.openai.com/
All the big tech CEOs have met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago over the last two weeks and suddenly he/Elon/Vivek want to expand the H1B program after it was completely absent from the campaign. Weird coincidence?
As long as you don't have to send it up in a rocket that could explode in the atmosphere.
Arguing about the Plaza Accord is really a moot point. The real argument is that in the 80s, Japan-bashing was a real thing, just like the China-bashing today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment_in_the...

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/06/us/resentment-of-japanese...
So the web app actually loads LO components? How about MS Office? Other esoteric formats?

You mention elsewhere that all this can be done offline once the web app has loaded, all these components are pulled in?
I think that's just a tiny cog in a massively fucked up system.
I recommend reading Built to Last

https://www.amazon.com/Built-to-Last-Jim-Collins-audiobook/d...

It'll do a much better job than I can in showing why your thinking is so wrong-headed
Depends where.

Surrey, sure, applications and planning will set you back a decade and half a billion before you break ground.

Lam Dong on the other hand....
> Friends don't let friends GTA RP.

just one letter correction:

Friends don't let friends GTA eRP
Typing speed seems like a rather junior concern. In practice most time tends to be spent thinking or cycling through edits and inspecting test results. I think putting your tests in a watch -n 2 on the second screen would be a much better improvement than fiddling with some reinvention of stenography.
Ah, so that’s what’s been happening!
No, they just ship their org chart. Which has grown incredibly, to the point where even internally nobody knows what's being shipped three branches over on the tree.
To be fair, you can choose still by declining employer provided/subsidized coverage. The cost of doing so, of course, makes it very much not worth it.
> This + keeping the old stuff around is what makes Windows more fitting than macOS in a professional environment

Of course, particularly in professional industries like engineering that rely on expensive and complex Windows-only software, running old games etc.. I don't claim it's not worthwhile, but it's also a lot of baggage weighing it down. I'd be fine with running it for that purpose, since my job would not be to have opinions on my operating system necessarily. Having been in a supporting role for general office Windows pcs recently, I did find its stack of even first-party quirks very frustrating to deal with, even though I use it regularly for gaming. IIRC I even had to dip into the registry editor to fix some value that was left unset by the imperfect configuration of the bizarre Outlook profile system.

Most of the time I just install the game I want, run the game, shut it down, leave it at that, and rarely run updates. Relying on it for anything more complex would drive me crazy.

Macos could be better in some ways, the Settings app lately is miserable and the mouse tracking controls suck, SwiftUI has performance/documentation issues and should be open source, but it's reliable and the UI is pretty consistent, and while I'm sure there are some deeper quirks once you dig deeper, I'd really have to be looking for them.

Haven't tried Gnome in a while, it's always seemed fine enough, don't have much to say about it atm
Add this string to your prompts: "what could go wrong?"
Satellite-to-satellite communication is harder than satellite-to-ground.
You can't imagine that someone working on something like this would slow down as the work neared completion? Why must a piece of software / code constantly be changing? What's your specific concern? You're making a very strong claim that the "project has stalled" without any real evidence. Furthermore, the project "stalling" makes it less... what, exactly?
Why Canada should join the EU
I use it for:

* Reminders

* Checklists

* Idea collation

* Fleshing out and prioritizing personal tasks

* Reference notes - e.g. passport number, tax numbers,
frequent flier numbers, anything else I might want to input into a form one day.

* Calendar

* As a place to draft emails/letters/documents.

There's so much crossover between all of these things that it helps to keep them all together.
Remote coding interview "trap street"
Is Cathay Pacific 872 exceeding mach?