skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something neat about the insurance industry is that it seems to be immune to irrationality. Whether or not someone believes in climate change, premiums are a function of actual measured risk. If risk goes up, premiums go up.

And because being accurate at assessing risk is directly connected to company performance, they’re likely one of the best places to go to get your finger on the pulse of what’s actually happening.

The one time this falls apart is when the government puts their finger on the scale and creates insurance that runs at a loss so that people can keep rebuilding in practically uninsurable locales.

I guess another nice thing about this is that the insurance company and you both have aligned incentives. Neither of you want to see claims being made. So they really care that you’re doing whatever you can to reduce risk.

I bet some of this is wrong, based on an incomplete read of the system, so please educate me. :)
Brute-forcing symmetric encryption is a somewhat silly concept anyways, because each decryption is equally valid.
If there's one thing I hate about sales pitches it's claiming one thing and then using weedle words like 'discovery' to essentially lie.
The FAQ [1] doesn't mention compatibility. How am I supposed to ship a site with this when APIs it depends on, like popover [2], are only supported by the very latest browser versions?

[1]: https://nuejs.org/docs/faq.html

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
You can build a shack in a year. Take the pay and learn masonry, build a 10x20 block shack. At the end of the year you have a house and no mortgage. Its what I did.
I think you're proving my point though.

While it's true that people follow their affirming media (e.g. Tucker Carlson), they also accept a lot of what he says, without critical thought.

The "facts" he presents are the basis for their beliefs, and since he is very selective and slanted about the information he presents, they believe it to be further affirmation of their preexisting beliefs or biases.

This is the essence of propaganda and manipulation. Fill in the gaps of people's knowledge/belief with something that's plausible and favorable to you, even if it's only part of the story.

Content generation is Propaganda 101. Editorial control of a trusted entity is a higher level. Algorithm manipulation of a (perceived) neutral/noninvolved source is a higher level yet. And personalized algorithm manipulation is basically spear phishing. Which works extremely well!
> In my opinion, Lua would kill for many use cases... If it had a bigger standard library, and batteries-included module/packaging system. I know LuaRocks exists, but it doesn't seem terribly common.

This is because of the design choice of Lua. Authors do not ensure retro compatibility and this is why there were so much outdated external libraries when Lua 5.2 came in. Even the most popular LuaSocket wasn't updated in years.

In fact, Lua is definitely not intended to be used as a drop-in replacement to Python, Ruby or Perl because of that. It's entirely designed to be embedded as-in in your host-program and that you must provide your own extensions.

However, keep in mind that:

a. you will need to carry the documentation of Lua you've included
b. if you plan to upgrade the bundled Lua you will have to polyfill all changes to avoid breaking your userbase code (and this is a real PITA)
c. you'll end up with lots of `#ifdef` in your code

I think that are few reasons why Lua stalled that much (without even mentioning all uncommon features `~=`, `goto`/`break` but no `continue`, array start at 1, too minimalist unicode support, ...). I've been including Lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 in one of my projects before I eventually stopped to backport compatibility layers. I also gave up on my LuaSDL repository because it was too much of headaches. It's a shame because I loved this language a lot.
Also true for any large JS/TS application, in my experience. It's an emergent property of a developer culture that places no value on backwards compatibility.
We're up +1.5C already and it's a polynomial growth. This current figure was also on the "upper end" of projections from 25 years ago.
According to this [0] article from Business Insider, from 2006 to 2019, per seat costs for NASA from Russia rose from less than $25M ($38M inflation adjusted) to around $81M ($101M inflation adjusted). The cost per seat in 2012, the year after the USA lost crewed space launch capability entirely, was ~$55M ($75M inflation adjusted). According to this [1] article from Reuters, NASA is currently paying Boeing $90M, and SpaceX $55M per seat.

So, NASA today is paying Boeing more than the monopoly prices Russia charged (up to 2016 or so), and paying both of them more than Russia was charging back when they were competing with the Space Shuttle. And it's paying SpaceX about half of the top price it payed Russia per seat, still nowhere close to an order of magnitude in cost savings.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-cost-per-soyuz-sea...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/science/boeing-sending-first-astrona...
I'm using TMP with a Librem Key on my Librem 14 with a disabled ME just fine.
In RDS, if you cannot use this, you can create masked view and use query rewrite to make it work.

In my experience PG anonymizer has performance issues when it comes to large queries.
Q&as With: Michael Haire – Former Art Director at Microprose
Michael Haire worked on classics such as Sid Meier’s Pirates!, Civilization and Alpha Centauri.

Michael Haire got into the games industry as early as 1981, doing cover artwork for a number of games for the 8-bit computer TRS-80. He quickly started making ingame art as well, and started working for legendary games publisher/developer MicroProse in the mid eighties. Here, he worked on a number of games that are now considered classics, including Sid Meier’s Pirates! and Sid Meier’s Civilization. We had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Haire about his experience as an artist in the games industry.
They have had up to ~9.0Mw earthquakes in their history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Peru

You can also look at some states like Chiapas in Mexico. There are daily earthquakes in Tuxla. Last 8.2 was in 2017 in Tapachula. They typically live in small building made of mud bricks and stones.
https://earthquakelist.org/mexico/chiapas/#all-latest-earthq...
I agree if only because Tesla seems so vertically integrated and dedicated to their vision. Nowhere in their vision is "establish a side hustle of selling user data for extra cash".
I'm not convinced an LLM is really "recalling" any CS concepts when they try to solve a problem. IMHO, we're lucky if it matches the pattern of the request against the pattern of a solution and the two are actually related. I'm no expert but I don't think there's any reason to think that an LLM is taking a CS concept and applying it to something novel in order to get a solution. If they were, I believe their success rate would be much higher.

In many places where someone might reach for something they remember from their CS coursework, there's often an open-source library or tool doing much the same thing. Understanding how these libraries and tools function is certainly valuable but, much of the time, people can get by with only a vague hunch; indeed, this is why they exist! IMHO, I would be happier with the LLM assistant if it picked reliable library code rather than writing up a sketchy solution of its own.

I'm also familiar with this idea people who have managed to be successful in the field without a CS degree are more capable. In my opinion, this is hogwash. I think if we take a step back, we'll see that people graduating from established, top-tier CS programs are looking for higher pay than those who have come from a less expensive and (very often) business focused program. To be fair, people from each of these backgrounds has their strengths; in many organizations a developer who has done two semesters of accounting is a real benefit, in others the ability to turn a research paper into the prototype of a new product is going to be important.

Years of experience often washes out much of these differences. People who have started from business oriented education programs may end up taking a handful of CS courses as they navigate their career, likewise many people with a CS background end up accruing business centered skills.

In my opinion, people start out their education at a place that they can afford, a place that is familiar to them, often a place that they feel comfortable. Someone's economic background (and of their family) plays a big role on what kind of educational program they choose when they are on the cusp of adulthood. Smart and talented people can always learn what they need to learn, regardless of their starting point.
Basically a level of build artifact reuse: a code change in one place doesn't necessarily require recompiling the entire project.
Tesla exec sues Elon Musk over remote work promise gone wrong
I think it's the combination of trying very hard to usurp the user's control over their device, the lack of obvious reasons to do so, and the size of the brand. It doesn't surprise anybody when a bank does this, and nobody cares when some crappy pay to win game does, but McDonalds?!

I haven't eaten food from McDonalds in years and have never even considered installing their app, but if inspecting and reverse-engineering Android apps was my thing, theirs would have almost certainly caught my interest.
Even if you provide that data that divorces spike due to shutdown of plants or unemployment that won't directly prove your case.

Looking around the internet, I see sources ranging from 20-60% of divorces being caused at least partly by financial issues, and that makes sense, to be poor is to be stressed, and to be unemployed is to be stressed, and to be stressed is to fight, but that doesn't provide strong evidence for a "they are locking them down to force them to work so I can live in luxury" narrative.

I really struggle with believing it as being a widespread phenomena.
Yunno, I wouldn't. Even for 100k on the table. I wouldn't suggest it. I have bills to pay, student loan debt, etc. but for one, I wouldn't want to suggest something that would have long term negative brand impact, and two, but more importantly, I wouldn't want to suggest developing something that if I were to use would piss me off. Make the world you want to see. Engineers share in the responsibility for things like this existing.
One of the lesser known parts of Lua is that it has its own pattern matching language!

https://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html

It is not as powerful as regexp, but it's a huge step up for string munging over raw find/substr.
Is 5000 a lot? I'm out of the loop but I thought c10k was solved decades ago? Or is it about the "burstiness" of it?

(That all the requests come in simultaneously -- probably SSL code would be the bottleneck.)
Intel Shares Jump on Report It's an Acquisition Target
https://archive.ph/p5K3S
The Series S may as well be an older gen, it is hobbled in ways that prevent it from actually running optimally. It has notably limited releases on xbox.
She did not prevent the Microsoft-Blizzard merger. The FTC lost that case.
Those high COPs are probably for relatively small temperature deltas. Heat pumps get _less_ efficient when the temperature deltas are larger. See page 18 of the manual linked below for an example. As the temperature gets lower, the heating COP gets lower. The same should be the case with cooling (higher outdoor temperatures lead to lower COPs), but the data is not presented in the same way.

https://backend.daikincomfort.com/docs/default-source/produc...
This is very well built. And beautiful to look at too. Congrats..
> The newly developed technology achieved an impressive nonradiative power transfer of up to 50 watts and a PTE of 46% over a distance of 2 meters, while maintaining consistent efficiency regardless of variations in receiver arrangement.

Very nice, but I find it so difficult to trust articles suggesting such massive breakthroughs these days. I'll be more enthusiastic when it's in my phone. As for cars and industry, I'm not so sure; even a 5% loss in efficiency in these areas seems like far too much to tolerate in aggregate.
In every other western countries that's called a bribe just to put things in perspective
mozilla analyzed what data cars collect and send and wow, nobody or almost nobody is spared. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categor...

some companies collect data on your sex life. i'm not sure i wanna know why
Hedge Fund Created an Excel on Steroids
Sometimes, yes. Sometimes not. This was on MySQL 5.7, and I wound up needing to trace the optimizer path to figure out why it was slower than expected.

While I do very much appreciate things like WHERE foo IN —> WHERE EXISTS being automatically done, I also would love it if devs would just write the latter form. Planners are fickle, and if statistics get borked, query plans can flip. It’s much harder to diagnose when all along, the planner has been silently rewriting your query, and only now is actually running it as written.
Maybe next time focus on disputing the reporting rather than attacking the reporters -- might make your comment seem a bit more credible.
That would be pretty great if that's the only limitation.

Would be cool if you could still pair old gen controllers to the new switch for things like ring fit.
The shutters are actually pretty common , even not motorized ones. Not sure what the availability is in the US, but purchase and installation in NL is under €1000.
If you accept that it's good to keep up with dependency versions, you only have a few options: update infrequently, update frequently, somewhere in-between. If you update infrequently, misbehaviour will be harder to track down to which dependency change causes it or if it's a combination. This is why frequent/regular dependency updates are good.

It's similar logic to why continuous deployment is better than releases a few times a year.
Surely you don’t want your taxes to go into rebuilding other people’s beachfront houses as many times as needed. Show a little empathy!

https://reason.com/2024/01/10/the-feds-shouldnt-subsidize-fa...
One thing I think about is concrete is a major consumer of energy and contributes a large amount of CO2, something like 8% of the global emission. Whereas wood literally grows on trees while sequestrating said carbon. I realize that there re efforts to make concrete carbon neutral but until that happens building with concrete is not environmentally friendly.
It's mostly that there is virtually no one in America who knows how to build with concrete/bricks.
But also no external competition causes no pressure to improve.
except for the license plate readers on every corner :)
The ones who own the firm do. They are the managers.

Also I think you mistook my comment for something about financial success. I am questioning how much power a lawyer has to invoke moral authority (unless they own the firm).
And the example is a blog. I think a lot of us would agree that React is a bad choice for a blog. But React is also used in a million other applications that need a lot more dynamism than a blog does. The idea that 90% of an app like that would be CSS makes no sense.
I made things in Haskell for 10 years before switching to Rust.

Rust and Haskell are excellent for prototyping and enterprise development.

But it comes with a big "if" that the author downplays:

If you like type tetris.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42734260
Yeah, I don't really grok the focus on MF2 given the wide adoption of RSS/Atom, but the social reader concept isn't one I've seen anyone else advocating for. It also suffers from the same spam problem of anything else that allows public submission of content. I've been exploring it more in the context of _private_ blogging were you already have a layer of access control.
That's only true for information theoretically secure algorithms like one-time pad. It's not true for algorithms that are more practical to use like AES.
lol has any OEM ever indicated they would sell data? Or was the truth pulled out of them after an extended legal fight where lawyers quibbled over whether weasel-words like "maintenance and quality assurance purposes" covered "selling technically anonymous information to a data broker but everyone knows there's enough metadata in there that the data broker attaches an identity when they resell it to the insurance companies"?

Gut check, sure, but I wouldn't trust the company that argued technically autopilot wasn't turned on in car crashes because they turned it off milliseconds before the sensed impact and blamed it on driver inattention as being a good, well-intentioned data steward.
One notable thing about Zig (and Andrew) is their willingness to rethink everything, and a lack of fear of digging all the way down and building their own versions of underpinning things. They believe incremental compilation should be an option, so they have to write their own compiler, linker, etc. They're already pushing the boundaries of what new languages can do, and—eventually—will be expected to do.

[Edit: expanding]

For instance, completely platform-independent cross compilation is something Go popularized, but Zig really nailed. (In fact, if you use cgo, the generally accepted method for Go cross-compilation is to use Zig as the C compiler!)

Another interesting thing about Zig is that it happily compiles C code, but brings more modern package management. Loris Cro has described how it would be quite reasonable (and pleasant) to maintain C code using Zig: https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/
> Then they cry when they lose everything

Yes, that's a normal human response. It's ok to have emotions.
This was the whole issue. California made it illegal for insurance companies to raise rates, so the insurance companies stop renewals. Leaving everybody uninsured. Homeowners couldn't buy insurance at any price.
An operational achievement means excellence in building the same vehicle over and over, to the right tolerances, and operating it the same way every time, without fing anything up.

An engineering achievement means excellence in designing a new vehicle, or updating an existing one, or inventing a new procedure, and finding the right tolerances that allow that to be replicated over and over without excess cost.
Out of curiosity: is LuaJIT supporting only 5.1 because of technical difficulties imposed by newer versions, or is it simply that the design of newer Lua versions did not appeal to the LuaJIT maintainers?
>Why is everything a subscription these days?

Software showed the world the incredible value of everyone being a renter instead of an owner.

Ironically HN (as an ad for Ycombinator) exists largely to enforce that new paradigm
TikTok vs. Garland Opinion [pdf]
> - In a world where "memory unsafe" languages are under attack... yeah, we don't care about that.

FWIW Zig does offer spatial memory safety, but does not provide temporal memory safety in the language (e.g. "dangling references"). It also fixes most of the 'sloppyness', UB and general footguns in C and C++ (and most memory corruption issues are a side effect of those).

Temporal memory safety can for instance be achieved via generation-counted handles (e.g. see: https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html and https://github.com/zig-gamedev/zpool/)
SpaceX Starship Explosion Debris Falling – Caribbean Airspace Closed [video]
You’re looking for a compressor.

Lots of pro audio boxes out there.

A MiniDSP box where you can implement a compressor is fun, you can also tune just about everything else with it.

https://docs.minidsp.com/product-manuals/flex/dsp-reference/...
> The fact the initramfs is not signed/verified on any desktop Linux distro means secure boot is completely pointless right now on Linux, and is very dissapointing.

It is not. There are other, very real and very important problems with that fact and reasons why it should be fixed, but this is not it. The point of SecureBoot is to protect the firmware from userspace. It works very well for that purpose, as evidenced by the facts that exploits to bypass it have to continuosly be found.
Vitest 3.0 is out
Project Mini Rack – compact and portable homelabs
The River: A Critique and Alternative to 'Best Practices'
I have written an essay on what I consider to be a better way to build software. I am very interested in your thoughts and ideas. There are some quite bold claims made, but I am interested in seeing how it stands up to scrutiny.

I suspect a lot of people will not agree, and if that is you, I hope you at least find it thought-provoking
Faunal evidence for clothing use differences between Neanderthals, early humans
The taxpayer money is for r&d. We should be very tolerant of failure. Aggressively testing with real hardware is a key part of how we learn to make a more robust systems. Fear of failure and waste will slow down progress.
Black slaves weren't funded, radicalized, and armed with military weapons and missiles with a stated goal of its leadership to kill all white people.

There are Palestinians that will get along with Israel. Newsflash, there are a ton of Palestinians living in Israel peacefully. 20% of Israeli citizens are Arab.

The Palestinians need to lay down arms for a looooong time before kumbaya peace is on the table. Stop with the bullshit that West bank and Gaza just want peace. Gaza continued to politically elect Hamas.

Likewise Israeli right wingers are in charge of Israel, like if the southern states had a lock on the US government.

Peace was closest when Yassir Arafat walked away from an agreement that included a Palestinian state. He was probably paid to do by the Iranians, Arafat died worth hundreds of millions.

Finally,the Palestinians dug their own mass graves by increasing population by a factor of ten when they had no economy and lived off of world relief and Arab oil money.

That's why they will never make peace. They only way they get money to live is to fight Israel. If they don't fight Israel, the aid dries up and they starve. If they fight Israel, Israel unleashes military force and blockaded and they starve.

Geopolitically the Israeli right wing have won. The world doesn't care about mortality. The UN will probably even stop passing their paper resolutions, because the world has way bigger issues like Russia NATO Ukraine, China Taiwan, and Trump vs everyone, brewing trade wars, and the fact that Israel is allied with Sunni Arabs, and Iran lost all its proxies.

The Palestinians are losing their funders, losing practical military access, lost Egypt a long time ago.

Global warming will be kicking into gear, so that means widespread population movements and other issues that will take all aid from the Palestinians.

That's why it's so critical for the Palestinians to find a way to some sort of peaceful state with an economic basis. That is the very narrow historic window for their survival. There is no Israeli kumbaya moment. There is no UN intervention force.

The fact you say "they don't have to accept defeat" is utterly nuts. And it's why that brief path to some survival by the Palestinians in Gaza is virtually impossible.

The West bank has a slightly better chance.
i feel like i'd want operator overloading when dealing with quaternions, which zig eschews for no good reason
Humans talk to people. It's about building a relationship.
AWS Data Transfer Costs in 2 Minutes
This might be true for you. I have lived with free wood for heating and it was more expensive for me than using a heat pump. What is expensive depends on a lot of factors, political, social, location, time and knowledge. It is not a clear dollar per delta T.
Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections