skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is nice.

But important, useful things will still be burning and flooding, at huge cost to the economy. Which is less nice.

At this point I think we've tipped into a world of complete delusion, where imaginary "markets" are more important than keeping the planet comfortable, stable, and inhabitable.

Also. this, from that most volatile, irrational, and least sensible of all professions - the actuaries:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/economic...
Pretty funny how they want to support the most distributed/remote way to create successful software but demand their employees come sit in their weird glass box with them.
Agreed. The government should ensure fair prices by ensuring healthy competition. Maybe have a (non-subsidized) public option. The government should also compensate for the power disparity by requiring policies to have reasonable coverage and making sure insurance companies actually honor them when the times comes. But directly dictating a maximum price isn’t going to go well.
Well it wouldn't be hard at all to make a POC for yourself. You could make an open source project to automate it all. I suggest using hetzner (cloud) because of the price.

You just need to use the hetzner API's to put all your video on a shared drive, write a simple job runner in whatever language you like or even simpler you could write your commands in a text file on the shared drive. Write a simple script to mount the shared drive, look for the job file on machine startup; then have your machine delete itself via hetzner API. Email yourself before that. There, you have your weekend project.
The 500ms number is p75 - not worst case at all.

200ms round trip is like 10x more than what's reasonably possible.

Same with your other numbers.
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How about profit caps? I feel like government stepping in and being the insurer with a sufficiently large pool of risk to spread around lets them set a fair rate without the need to make a return or answer to shareholders.

To some extent this has helped with health insurance. Each year I get a check back from my insurer saying they didn't spend enough on my care vs my premiums.
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The first Falcon 9 landing happened after 8 attempts at controlled splashdown or landing. Time from the first attempt to the first successful landing was a little over 2 years. In the year after their first successful landing, they succeeded in 5 out of 8 attempts. This wikipedia article has details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_first-stage_landing_t...

Starship has had 7 tests in the past 20 months. The first test barely got off the pad due to engine failures. The stages failed to separate, so it was blown up shortly after liftoff. The second test did separate, but the booster blew up shortly after stage separation and the ship blew up shortly before engine shutdown, raining debris across the Atlantic similar to today. The third test got to space, but the booster landing burn failed and the booster impacted the ocean at close to the speed of sound. The ship couldn't maintain orientation and burned up on reentry. The fourth test succeeded at all goals (soft booster splashdown and successful reentry, though the flap did burn through). The fifth test was a success (booster catch and soft ship splashdown, though again with some flap burnthrough). The sixth test aborted the booster landing due to antennas on the tower being damaged by the rocket exhaust at launch, but did splash down softly offshore. The ship also reentered and splashed down on target.

Today's ship failure is a setback, as it will likely take a few months for the FAA investigation to be completed. That said, SpaceX still seems likely to recover a ship intact this year, and at that point it will only be a matter of time before they can launch an order of magnitude more stuff into orbit than they can with the Falcon 9 fleet (and at much lower cost).
A lot of people made the same mistake. They didn't understand -- simply couldn't understand for some reason -- that the imperfect iPhone that was launched in 2007 was the worst one that would ever exist.

You see this attitude a lot today. ("AI? LOL, it can't even count the letters in 'Strawberry.'") People have a mental block when it comes to understanding that the value of something new doesn't matter as much as its time derivative.
All right, off topic but I've seen this a bunch lately and the term just really irritates my brain for some reason. What's its origin? "[adverb] based" just feels so wrong to me. Shouldn't that be a noun: "Evidence-based medicine", "values-based", "faith-based", etc. Does "physically based" bother anyone else?
There should be a way to build fire resistant buildings to reduce the cost of insuring them, likely this would be the solution in California without price caps.

You can build out of concrete and use fire resistant materials like metal or tile for the roof and your house is nearly fireproof. These buildings would be realistically insurable in both California or Florida. They would cost more to build, not THAT much more though especially if land costs many millions, an extra 50k - 100k to build out of concrete is a very reasonable expense.
> But the issue is that Lit still approaches web development through the lens of components

Why is this a problem? Reuse is incredibly important for building almost anything on the web, and it's been with us since long before the web platform supported it natively, e.g. with CGI scripts that used Perl functions, to output repeated HTML "components", or PHP, web frameworks, etc.

If you don't have some method of reuse in the platform or framework, developers either have to copy-and-paste (and deal with so many difficulties of updating and maintaining consistency that it's not a realistic option), or push reuse to a non-standard layer of the system like server templating.

Server templating is fine, but it doesn't actually get rid of the implicit concept of components that'll be in the page or app, it just disaggregates it among to non-colocated parts of the system.
They mention later in the article that the 500ms is p75.

Realistically 50ms p75 should be achievable for the level of complexity in the shopify app.
This is Republic, an indian news channel, formed because Arnab Goswami (a high decibel tv debate anchor) parted ways with his previous channel for "editorial censorship" (read pressure from political parties).
Yes, they will automatically exercise if your dead, the same way they auto execute when you are alive. I have sold many options over the years, with many of them exercising. If they expire ITM, you don't have a choice (whether dead or alive) past expiration.
Insurance companies have pretty thing profit margins regardless, even in areas where profits are not capped. It's a competitive marketplace!
Do you ever need to start coding? I thought it was a requirement of the project that problems be solvable with pencil and paper.
To do this you would need to check in with a central billing service every time you want to charge, and that central billing service must keep a consistent view per customer to ensure it can't spend over the cap.

This is not too hard if the billable event is, say, creating a VM. Creating the VM takes a few seconds, it's easy to add a quick API call to check billing. But what about the next hour, when you charge for the VM again? You now have the number of VMs checking in every hour (worst case, at the same time), and you need to handle all those hourly checkins consistently per customer.

That's still probably easy enough, but what if it's not a VM hour, but an API gateway request? Now on every single request you have to check in with the billing service. API gateways need to be very low latency, but you've just added a request to that process that possibly needs to go across the world to check in with the billing service running on another continent.

What if the billable resource is "database query seconds", and now you need to know how many seconds a query is going to take before you start it? Oh, and add the check in time to every database query. What if the billable resource is streaming video, do you check in on every packet you send out? What if it's CDN downloads, do you have every one of thousands of points of presence around the world all check in, even though the point of the product is to be faster than having a single far away delivery node?

There are bad workarounds for each of these, but they all mean either the cloud provider losing money (which, assuming a certain scale of customer, is too expensive), the customer over-spending (which assuming a certain scale, could still be waaay over their budget), or slowing down most services to the point that they functionally don't work anymore.
He should be stepping away and handing over the domains to people with that will make an elected council and figure out who will host *.org and host the plugins. He can have wordpress.com but at this point there's too many websites on the internet running wordpress for somebody to be pulling dictator shit like this.

Just my opinion.
Migrate TikTok posts to RedNote AI agent
An hour in and nobody in these comments is addressing climate change? The risks of drought and the resulting fire or hurricanes and floods is much higher than it has been in recorded history in these areas because of climate change. Should people be forced to abandon their homes because the fossil fuel companies lied and misled the public and bought out our governments for the last 50 years?

IMHO we should be seizing the fossil fuel companies' assets and using them for disaster relief around the world due to the catastrophe they have deliberately caused.

The talk about insurance rates is a deliberate distraction.
I've owned a switch for 5 years and never had any problems with joycons
The switch was basically the first hybrid
It is if they cannot afford them. Most people would love far more than they can afford, but reality wins.
Maybe it did, or is it public that it didn't? A possible sequence (very typical in rocket failures) is: fire, engine failure(s), loss of control, rupture due to aero forces or FTS activation, explosion due to propellant mixture. Not all of these have to happen, but it's a typical progression. Before the days of AFTS the FTS activation would be pretty delayed.
I'm not sure I believe your factoid. Can you cite? UHC is one of the wealthiest companies in the world.
And in that same vein it makes sense not to sell because if they ever see another great idea 5-10 years down the line I'd assume they might want to get back together under the same name and publish again. Selling would preclude them from doing that under the same name.
I think what I worry about is large-scale migrations of people to 'better' areas and the problems that's going to cause.
This is more of an early career engineer thing than a ChatGPT thing. 'I don't know, I found it on stackoverflow' could have easily been the answer for the last ten years.
But you also pay for data at rest in S3. Should S3 stop storing that data while you figure things out? Should they bill the customer for the deletion of that data as they normally would?

I don't disagree on wanting this feature, but it's just not something that's possible to implement in totality when you dig into the details.
Every year, humanity grows richer, more resilient to natural disasters, and more capable of predicting natural disasters and their negative outcomes. The point of insurance is to spread the expected burden of calamities that will affect a minority of a population to the entire population, so that those affected will have a financial safety net. This principle works regardless of how disastrous or prone to calamity a population is. If there will be more fires, more hurricanes, etc, the market will favor homes built in different locations, different architectural styles, etc in response to changing premiums and probabilities of disaster. We don't live in a world like in 1905 where an earthquake would lead to a fire that burns down an entire city. Prosperity simply requires changing to circumstances where valid.
I remember being woken up by the thunder from Columbia.

Lost it over the years but I used to have a photo of about 20 vans of people parked on our property doing the search for debris. Don't think they found any on our land but there was a 3 ft chunk about 5 miles down the road.
Then don’t do calls, tell them “this is my problem”, describe it well, and insist on email communication.
Tell them X$ is the price that you are willing to pay and stay firm on it.
I think this will work for most companies - if not then you probably don’t want to do business with them.
Who is forcing you to do social dances?
State the problem, state what you want as solution and sign the contract, done.
If we measure it in /64s, yeah, it's definitely more than you could ever use.

However, IPv6 space has to be measured in /48s, and IPv4 in /24s, as those are the smallest possible BGP announcable blocks.

With IPv6 there's also an unwritten rule that RIRs will only assign blocks ending on a nibble boundary (with the exception of RIPE and their /29s that they expand by one bit every time you run out).

So a /44 is on the second smallest nibble boundary, making it the second smallest allocation possible.
Well you probably _could_ whiteboard it but some of them are about extending a pattern to the millionth term. If you're really smart you might be able to find a closed form to get there quick, but you can also just program the basic rule and iterate
Or use free SearXNG: https://searx.be
“The time has come for you to seek the Path. Your soul has set you face to face before the clear light ... and now you are about to experience it in its Reality, wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum, without circumference or center... At this moment, know yourself and abide in that state.”
As the 173 million strong population of Bangladesh can attest, they can and do live in such places.

"Each year, on average, 31,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi) (around 21% of the country) is flooded. During severe floods the affected area may exceed two-thirds of the country, as was seen in 1998."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_Bangladesh

Most of the world does not want to aspire to be Bangladesh, but humans have been living in extremely disaster-prone areas for millennia because the short-term benefits (rich soil etc) outweigh the occasional catastrophic losses.
Clearly it’s not true that “no one” could afford to live there. And if demand was low then the housing would become more affordable
What people to have. Those who think outside, see different, appreciate else.
Yes, the two income trap is likely a factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two-Income_Trap

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...

> An increasing share of adults under 50 say they're unlikely to have kids — and the major reason is, well, they just don't want them, according to a report from Pew Research Center out Thursday morning.

> 64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-exp...

> Majorities in both groups say not having kids has made it easier for them to afford the things they want, have time for hobbies and interests, and save for the future. In the younger group, about six-in-ten also say not having kids has made it easier for them to be successful in their job or career and to have an active social life.

(US specific context)
500ms p75 is not good for the (low) complexity of the shopify app.

Also reporting p75 latency instead of p99+ just screams to me that their p99 is embarrassing and they chose p75 to make it seem reasonable.
Steel frame, flame retardant insulation and cladding, rammed earth, .. these are all options.

Flammable trees well away from a leaf free clean guttered (or no gutter) house are also no compromise requirements.

See: https://research.csiro.au/bushfire/ and https://www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/services/testing-and-ce...

for the rabbit hole of Australian Bushfire housing certification and testing.

Burning Down the House: Trial by Fire CSIRO- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtawn7IAnI
This is an insane take, there are many options here. The idea that the reason to structure billing this way is anything OTHER than that it's the most profitable way to do things is ludicrous. It doesn't matter if you can construct some other plausible reason, as long as it's the most profitable way to operate why would I believe the cause to be something other than profit maximization.
The issue is the coupling of HTML and CSS into your JavaScript code, which is a step away from the standards first development model.
Why did I expect 10,000 files?
That doesn't negate FTS.
So is living on the sea bed. It's irrationally expensive and inconvenient, which is why we don't do it.

Living in areas in constant danger of flooding and/or burning and/or storm wind damage and/or drought seems like quite an eccentrically inconvenient lifestyle flex.

Unless you like disaster movies.
> To some extent this has helped with health insurance. Each year I get a check back from my insurer saying they didn't spend enough on my care vs my premiums.

This has baffled me ever since Obamacare was first passed - it seems that each year the insurance companies have an incentive to drive up the cost of healthcare, since that’s how they earn more money in absolute terms. Is it not so?
Congratulations to the 14,000 SpaceX employees for their accomplishments.
By the way, is it Shopify’s open source policy to ignore outside PRs, or are they simply understaffed? My PR which addresses a major issue in one of Shopify’s big React Native libraries has received zero acknowledgement from Shopify for almost a year.
From one of blog posts [0]:

Nim

Nim is the language that impressed me the most in this batch. Everything I thought would be a problem (significant whitespace, choose-your-own-function syntax, intermediate C compliation step) didn't bother me at all. The small sample of the standard library I played with was a little quirky, but Nim seems like excellent bang for your buck.

Notes:

- Release binary was only 120 KB (linked against libc)!
- Thought I'd dislike the syntax, but it was fine
- Really easy to get started, many things "just worked" (e.g. grabbing a slice of an array)
- Didn't have to specify too many types, but still ran fast
- Fast compilation
- Didn't like the "hints" it spews out during compilation, even for nim r (build and run)
- Why did all take an anonymous function, but foldl took just an expression (with a and b seemingly picked out of thin air) -- is foldl a macro?
- Nim might be a good language for hobby projects because it's easy, fast, and produces small binaries
- I wonder what the debugging experience is like -- if it's decent, I might be writing a lot more Nim in the future!

This exactly my thoughts on Nim and why I use it almost exclusively for all my hobby projects.

0-https://log.schemescape.com/posts/programming-languages/100-...
> first two words

> "We the people"

I don't know if that's a typo or intentional, but that's such a typical LLM thing to do.

AI: where you make computers bad at the very basics of computing.
> After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-“B” dollar payout, the FOSS community shouldered the burden – both with our labor and our wallets – of a massive exodus onto our volunteer-operated servers

I don't understand this sentiment at all. "We hate billionaires, but we need them to operate our servers because we don't want to"?
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They seem to be able to terminate your account for any legal reason or no reason.
Flash as an animation tool and applet platform was already on the downswing when the iPhone happened, though.

The consumer demand for Flash on mobile seemed to be mostly about video streaming, because at the time Flash was experiencing sort of a second life as the least-bad way to do streaming video on the web. In that context Apple's point of view of "as an industry let's finally fix browser-native video streaming, rather than being stuck with Flash forever" seems pretty reasonable.
That’s not exactly true. What Apple did in every market was make deals with the #2 or #3 carrier that was desperate to steal market share from the leader.

Then when the leader started seeing customers lead. Apple could have the same terms with them.
Demand is a strong word. I do think it's entirely reasonable to ask, especially around the time the problems were first published. Things have changed on the internet
IHTW: The Fastest Data Serializer
I Hope This Works, the world's fastest data serialization library. Faster than a millisecond in most use cases.

Better than Cap 'n Proto, MessagePack, Avro, and Protobufs. This is like MessagePack with names and endianess handling. Plus zero-copy (at least in C) This also supports Brainfloat, The Unum format (Posits and Quires).
People who buy health care in the US already get de facto shortages (from denied coverage) and inflated market rates.

Other kinds of insurance are no different.
their september 2024 earnings put them at 6% margin. that’s not very good. for reference apple is 15%, mcdonalds is 32% and costco is about 3%. that being said compared to a competitor, elevance at 2.5%, they’re doing well. a little worse than allstate (car and home insurance), which is about 7%.
By the time that the iPhone was introduced, Apple was riding high on the iPod.