skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you understand the word "deny" differently.

Accepted but didn't happen in time doesn't equal denial.
First quote from Google-Search: "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) generated US$902 million in revenue for the 2023 financial year."
I've never heard any solar physicist refer to "Sun". I have heard "the Sun" and "Our Sun".

"The Boss said please take the day off"

"Our Boss is nice"

"Jill is the boss"

"The Sun is bigger than any planet in our solar system"

"Our Sun is 8 light minutes away"

"Sol is the name of our sun"

I've not once heard a solar physicist use "sun" as a name

"Sun is bright" - bad grammar
Can you? There’s no “first real larger than 2”, for example, so if I define the definable reals as {0, 1, 2}, what is that first real?

In general, you also can’t use Cantor’s diagonal argument on the list of definable reals because there are numbers in there that aren’t computable.
What you posted is a completely separate topic though. That's an analysis of vertical integration.

But it has nothing to do with the claim that "denying claims increases profits", which is simply not true.
You know what the actual biggest difference between countries with large amounts of mass killings and those that don't is? Gun control.

Luigi Mangione's comments on stack overflow don't even register in terms of violence caused.

These kinds of removals are simply attempts at information control by the elite, and -- assuming you're not part of the 1% -- you're playing straight into their hand.

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." - Karl Marx
I like the stuff, but interestingly, I found it easiest to buy in Indonesia, Australia and the USA. Outside of that, it's hard to get or very expensive.
When citing YouGov, it's worth keeping in mind that they were founded by two conservative politicians. Not exactly the most neutral of sources.
aka : rave does not scale. It's personal experience, not commercial activity and usually fuelled by youth enthusiasm.
Give me a break. The polls weren't based on who will get the popular vote. They were based on electoral votes, with swing states polls being that exact toss-up (you can check them again).

He ended up winning every single swing state, muuuch farther than the projections of ANY polls that was getting time-of-day.

Even if you want to die on that purposely misinterpreting hill, it still shows they were inaccurate and unreliable.
If you think this paper is pro-C++, read it again:

> many languages like C++ or Java are now old enough that if they would have
> offered significant advantage over C, they should have supplanted C by now,
> this clearly hasn’t happened.

I don't agree with all the points though and the rhetoric is pretty weak IMO, like the point about cars being safe for pedestrians.

But I agree with the points about C being simple and having great tooling (thanks to being simple).
Please don't post in the flamewar style, and please edit out swipes like "what are you talking about" from your posts here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Having been on the IT side of student registration, it's a major undertaking for the teams involved with thousands of students to be processed in a fairly short window. Downtime of any type during the registration period has a major impact so I'm not surprised that a university is being cautious with a 3rd party system connecting and potentially causing performance or downtime issues.
Agreed.

To add to that: it is understandable to expect and hope for the other party to behave rationally. But there is a power imbalance that the other party is exploiting and for all we know intends to continue.
I don't think the UN is the ultimate arbiter of what is or is not a right. Not that something being a "right" really means anything unless you have a way to enforce it.
I show myself to subtly remind the team that I'm a real person. Most of them see each other in-person each day, while I'm remote. But it'd be nice if they didn't see such a zoomed-in view of my face.
Expenses are irrelevant to the law, which looks at money in -> healthcare costs paid externally.

Those expenses are internal and increasing them doesn't change the above at all, those expenses affect profit and that it.

Insurance companies profits come from reducing expenses. Reducing claims doesn't change the profits in any way.

Reducing claims means lower premiums, and that's it.
JLink: Jabra Direct for Linux
AI's Chip Designs Are Faster, Smarter, and Game-Changing
Like HB1 workers broke the social contract by being not born in the us?
Finally. I was seriously looking at competitor's boards for more RAM. Now despite some of the competition being faster, the convenience and ecosystem factor is in favor of the RPi, and I'm in. Now, if I can actually get one...
I grew up doing a lot of diving, I'd put myself into the ocean, there were sharks and other dangers, but I caught my own fish and I never ever felt bad about it. I could selective take what I needed, I'd never take a mother / pregnant fish if I could help it. I could tell most of the time.

You also get to see how the wild world works, and most fish would prefer to be taken by a skilled spear fisherman than have their face mauled off by a squid, at least as far as I could tell.

Unfortunately we live in a world with 9 billion people on it, which means we don't have the room to grow and harvest all our own food. In my opinion, that's the issue. Sourcing all our food "ethically" is basically not possible.

I'd much prefer to be producing and hunting my own food.
I suspect the actual reason USB-C does so well is the redundancy.

With so many connectors, it seems like you could do 3 or 4x redundant connectors for something simple like I2C and power or maybe even USB2.0.

Seems like pogo pins are pretty top notch reliable by themselves though.
Meta tests eBay listings in Facebook Marketplace
I know, I know. You forgot C99. C is bigger than it seems. In my case it was gcc C99 / gnuc99 and onwards on the usual POSIX-likes.

But in all honesty, starting with ANSI C and onwards the language itself didn't change all that much, at least not in the same way C++ did. C99 was a serious cleanup but that's about it.

Go the language evolves at a similar pace, most things happen outside of the core.

Now what's interesting is that C++ is (almost) all C's quirks multiplied by the latest things WG21 decides to pull into the language. And WG21 does indeed add a lot.

At some point I just lost the point of it all.
Speaking of relative: since the term "landslide" has been thrown around in the direct aftermath of the election quite a bit, it's interesting to note that nationwide, Trump only received 1.5% more votes than Harris.

This is especially telling in the light of the numbers you just gave on voter turnout.
A little OT but are people running playwright in docker on CI? Curious if it needs to be dockerised for consistent screenshots on local vs CI.
Let’s take PA since it’s the tipping point state. Polling average had Harris at a 0.2% lead. Actual result was Trump with 1.7% lead. That’s a 1.9% error.

AtlasIntel released a poll which predicted the actual lead: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/20241102_SwingSta...

So, “muuuch farther than the projections of ANY polls” is wrong.

Correlated error between states is expected, and not relevant (ie. if you think Mangione poll is affected by this few % correlated error, again it doesn’t change the interpretation).

Overall, election results tend to come pretty close to the polls. They are often wrong by a little bit, occasionally by a lot, which is what you’d expect based on the theory of polling and statistics. The conclusion is asking a large random sample of people what they think, using the best methodologies the polling industry has developed, is a pretty good way of finding out what most people think (within a few % margin of error), certainly more objective than a vibe check of your personal echo chamber. If your argument depends on completely dismissing polling results, you’re probably wrong.
The majority is convinced. Nearly 70% support Medicare for All across multiple polls and that’s with the leadership of both major parties, corporate interests, and news media aligned against.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/494602-pol...
Why do you think a group called itself "black lives matter"?
True, but accusing him of a violation privately, to him, is not defamation. Accusing him publicly is still probably not defamation. Whether he violated certain terms of service is something that would ultimately need to be decided by a court, so them believing he did so isn't defamation even if they're wrong.
>in this survey, 70% of people polled are negative toward trump. The 2024 election results gave almost 50% of the popular vote to trump

This isn't surprising, as you don't have to like someone to vote for them. Especially in a two-party system. Trump is uniquely disliked by many Republicans, but those voters still prefer to have a Republican in office rather than a Democrat. It's "hold your nose and vote". The (center-)left even developed a slogan for it: "vote blue no matter who".
> what appropriate policy should be where serious crime gathers attention.

Not making it public in the first place. Why do i (in EU) need to know that a child killed its schoolmates in US ?
Flamewar comments will get you banned here, as will attacks on other users. Please don't do this, regardless of how right you are or you feel you are.

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They were also easy souvenirs to hoard.
what link are you trying to enter?

My suspicion is that you are a cat walking across a keyboard.
Bodes well for AI then /s
Can we apply Ising models used to explain ferromagnetism to how opinions get formed in crowds?
Who needs 16GB ram on a PI! Like what are the actual use cases?
Does your device have the correct time (and zone) set?
> When I try to contribute to the conversation, people just don't seem interested, and typically the conversation moves on as if I hadn't said anything.

There is lot unsaid here, so its really difficult to know exactly what your issue is.

This might be low brow, but could you potentially record yourself and play it back? Maybe looking over your own shoulder, you can see things you missed in the moment.
Same here. I've been into electronic music since I was 16, and I did never take drugs until I was about 30. It's amazing how long you can stay up just with caffeine. Especially if you are young. I remember driving back from a big rave at eight in the morning. The police were stopping and searching everyone’s cars. They stopped ours too, but it took them about 30 seconds to figure out that everyone in there was sober.

I think sober partying and daytime partying are a good trend in general. I love taking drugs occasionally, but I like to party every weekend.
Besides the obvious "Vegans and Vegetarians", you'll find that an awful lot of folks from India and surrounding regions will not be down with any consumption of cattle what-so-ever.
I remember both LightTable and Eve. At the time I thought they were both really interesting ideas but wasn't sure where they were going.

Re-reading the eve website now, with 10+ years more experience and understanding of languages I'm really astounded at how brilliant Eve was, and how far ahead of it's time it was (and still is). Also at how rare it is to have any revolutionary ideas in modern programming language design make it out of theory in contemporary times. There were many radical ideas in the 60 and 70s, but so much now is incremental.

It's a shame Eve couldn't continue, just to see what it would've become and the influence it would have had on language expectations. Really cool stuff in there. While not likely, I hope someone picks up those ideas and continues them.

Did the effort just run out of funding? Or did it hit a stumbling block?
Marc Lépine's manifesto (he walked into Montréal's Polytechnique and killed 14 women and shot several more, he was blaming them studying and feminism for his not getting accepted) is treated as gospel on incel forums. Many acts of incel/misogynist terrorism have been committed by people who frequented such forums. Ideology is not videogames and does have an impact on people's actions. You can look at the whole history of the 20th centuries' wars for another very obvious example.
Elon Musk agrees that we've exhausted AI training data
Post the email address I dare you :-)
All variations of advance fee fraud?
90% of users have silly questions, which is why all customer support conversations start with "have you tried restarting your router" and "is electricity working in your area". AI chatbots are completely fine for those 90% users who have such simple requests, but they're indeed a nightmare for the 10% who can do basic troubleshooting steps on their own and need support with more advanced questions. Nobody cares though, because we're 10%
This is simply not true. Denying claims does NOT increase insurance company profits, it actually DECREASES it. Read this thread I posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42642405
Ah, modern video streaming services and every restaurant's special snowflake app.
In my opinion, this is why hunting is ethically superior. Almost nothing dies peacefully in the wild, it's either massive long term suffering, or being mauled by dogs, bears or big cats, strangled by pythons etc.

A skilled hunter can choose an adult animal without kids and take it fairly humanely.

Sadly, we all have to die somehow.

Hunters and fisherman generally have great respect for nature and the environment, which is important.
This is a noble and worthy goal in itself. Too much software development nowadays is just copying or gluing existing code. Clean-room implementations ensure we (collectively) still have the wits to rebuild and maintain the difficult parts.
Just plug AI into Jira, Scrum, Kanban, or whatever bloated abstraction layer of bullshit is being used, and ditch all the useless non-technical project managers.
Thank You, Airbnb
> All in all, the open nature of Firefox causes it to be fundamentally built on trust, to a larger extent than seems possible in most proprietary software companies.

Nice! We're still small so we somehow can keep that level of trust, but I always worry about how things may change for the worse as we grow. Mimicking the open source model as much as we can, even within a small private company, has worked well for us so far.

> > ... clang-format and clang-tidy to automate some of the simpler things, also goes a long way.

> 100% agree. It's totally worth it even if you disagree with the specific formatting decisions made.

So true! 5-6 years ago we had to make open source contributions to both clang-format and clang-tidy for several months to get them to support closer to our preferred style before we could get the "ok, close enough" buy-in across the company to implement automated formatting. (Mostly bug fixes for evidently rare flag combinations, but also a few small new features.)

In retrospect it was completely unnecessary - simply relying on automated formatting is sooo much better than any specifics of the formatting. I'm still glad we did though, as it made both tools better. We earned the maintainers' trust with a few early PRs, and remained active contributors for a while, but haven't contributed much lately.

(Posted on Firefox mobile... Thanks!)
My Z13 most definitely was defective, although after seeing a few similar cases, I wonder if they had a bad batch or if that was just an unstable platform. Even after getting it serviced (which was a joke, because they don't diagnose Linux machines at the service center even though Lenovo sells them) nothing improved.

Strangely fortunate: it got stolen in Dublin and was covered by insurance.
Agree. The worst part of integration tests are how brittle they often are. I don't want to introduce yet another thing that could give false test errors.

But of course, the way it works now could also help reduce the brittleness. With an xpath or selector, it quickly breaks when the design changes or things are moved around. With this, it might overcome this.

So tradeoffs, I guess.
Next question: why are there two calls to `malloc()`, one for the Pool structure and one for the Chunks?

It is trivial to co-allocate them which removes the risk of memory fragmentation and is just generally a good idea if you're chasing performance.

The answer might be "for clarity/simplicity" which I guess is fine in an informative article, but it could at least be highlighted in the text which I didn't see.
The new model is basically: get staff into donating. I mean, they’re using it too, right? Saving the planet one bullshit app at a time, aren’t they? So why shouldn’t they pony up and help foot the bill?
> Perhaps Luigi is also pursuing policy change through other means.

Luigi, a person with zero history of political activism, with no record of organizing for anything, decides his only open political alternative is to kill the CEO of an insurance company, not registering new voters or organizing his workplace for better health coverage or driving old folks to the polls.

I don't know? That sounds less like rational political activism than a mentally disturbed lone gunman to me.
I'd personally describe it as an attempt for two reasons, although reasonable minds can differ:

1. They made substantial progress towards a working tool with available code, before requesting permission from the school. That request was to enable parts of the site, not requesting permission to develop/release it publicly.

2. It is pretty clear to students that you aren't allowed to mess with any of the registration systems/process (e.g. trading/holding classes). Your analogy has a very reasonable question (are notesheets allowed) vs a policy which is made very clear.

A different analogy is creating a hidden device to cheat on exams, then asking the professor for the exam room's wifi password as to enable it it in the future. While the situation is not as clear-cut as the analogy, I hope it helps show my perspective.
Presidential polls were "inaccurate" by only a few %, which is to be expected. But to be so inaccurate that >50% support for Luigi is reported instead as only 17% would be staggering and unprecedented, requiring nothing short of fraud.
That must be Internet Brands, of WebMD fame, then?
> As it happens, there will always exist a health insurance company with highest denial rate among all companies. That's a simple mathematical fact: a finite set of numbers has a maximum number. You need to do more legwork to show any actual wrongdoing on anyone's part here.

This isn't correct. Mathematically (as you say), you can have all health companies have a denial rate of 0%.

Realistically it's impossible, but you did say mathematically.
That’s true for AES-256. But brute force attacks are not the most efficient way to attack RSA, so it’s not true in that case. (Eg quantum computers would break RSA-4096 but not AES-256).
Well, if you insist...

I've already mentioned things that are universally praised.

I don't like having 2 macro systems, async, convoluted syntax and also am not sure that the (unsafe) consequences of using a borrow checker are worth it.

To me Rust sounds like the story of C++ (or Common Lisp) all over again: what if we add all the cools stuff? Like, ALL THE THINGS. And Rust is a single implementation language. Nothing limits the speed of thought!
I don't need others to decide what ideology I need to be protected from for me. I'm much more concerned about the ideology of the people who think information control is justifiable.

Others are responsible for their own actions. Don't impose information control on me because others do stupid shit.
> lavish lifestyle funded by his company's industry-leading rate of coverage denials

It's really astonishing how many people believe this. But actually in the US the higher the coverage denials the LOWER the company profits. What actually happens is more denials reduces premiums, making the insurance cheaper to buy.

See this full thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42642405 if you want to try to understand more.
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You may not owe schizo psychos better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

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That's why I can't wait for lab grown meat becoming a thing. I love meat and my understanding is that its healthy and necessary product but i also have nothing but respect to vegetarians.
That’s fine if it’s in some dingy basement venue but if it’s broad daylight inside the actual event I’m going home.
I double checked and it does. And the timestamps of all the other submissions seem to be correct. Only that particular one is wrong.

Plus I don't think the local time setting should affect the HN's ranking algorithm.
People are generally uncomfortable with being watched.
There's no reason an allocator should ever trip over strict aliasing rules.

malloc() returns an address. The user code writes a value, and then reads a value of the same type. No problem.

Later, malloc() returns the same address. The user code writes a value of another type then reads a value of that same type. Again, no problem. There's no aliasing going on here.

The act of writing a value of a different type tells the compiler that the lifetime of the previous object has ended. There's no special magic required.

Strict aliasing is about situations where we write a value of one type, and then attempt to read a value of a different type from the same location. If you want to do that, then you have to be extremely cautious. But memory allocators don't do that, so it's not an issue.

(Obviously just talking about C here, or POD in C++ terms. If you are dealing with C++ objects with destructors, then you have an extra layer of complexity to deal with, but again that's nothing to do with aliasing.)
Italy's plan to buy Starlink data deals a serious blow to European space network
People can care and think the two candidates with a chance to win are too bad to endorse with a vote, leading them to stay home and spend their time more wisely than in what they might consider to be a farce of democracy.

They may also live in an area where their preferred candidate has no chance of winning, making their vote a waste of time.
The only ideology that should be unquestioned is human rights.

The one that really pulls my nerve are the hardcore libertarians, because they often pretend to be backed by data when there is no data or contrary data around. Although I mostly lean on libertarianism, hardcore libertarians are usually impossible to argue with.
Did the PII consist of IP only? IP address should not count as personally identifiable information. The threshold is way too low here.
> This wasted effort is particularly frustrating considering that vital open-source projects, crucial for real-world applications, are struggling to survive due to critical lack of contributors.

If they are so vital, they should be paid. Those projects are struggling because big tech monopolists and the foundations they control want them to struggle.

The Linux foundation is cutting the budget that they spent on Linux every year both in relative and absolute numbers, currently being at just 2%. Mozilla refuses to allow people to donate money towards browser development and continues to waste money on side-projects.
But this time he _did_ win the popular vote, in contrast to the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton.
Platonism is about the reality of math behind the notation and beyond the human mind —

Like that spheres are real even though there is no perfect sphere in the material world.

This is a common opinion among mathematicians and physicists even though it seems unscientific (as it poses reality beyond matter)