skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a new approach might be to ignore the specifics of the old system, implement a new system

It doesn't work like that. When you're revamping large, important, fingers-in-everything-and-everybody's-fingers-in-it systems you can't ignore anything. A (presumably) hypothetical example is sorting names. Simple, right? You just plop an ORDER-BY in the SQL, or call a library function. Except for a few niggling details:

1. This is an old IBM COBOL system. That means EBCDIC, not UTF or even ASCII.

1.A Fine, we'll mass-convert all the old data from EBCDIC to UTF. Done.

1.A.1 Which EBCDIC character set? There are multiple variants. Often based on nationality. Which ones are in use? Can you depend on all records in a dataset using the same one (hint: no.) Can you depend on all fields in a particular record using the same one? (hint: no.) Can you depend on all records using the same one for a particular field? (hint...) Can you depend on any sane method for figuring out what a particular field in a particular record in a particular dataset is using? Nope nope nope.

1.A.2 Looking at program A, you find it reads data from source B and merges it with source C. Source B, once upon a time, was from a region with lots of French names, and used code page 279 ('94 French). Except for those using 274 (old Belgium). And one really ancient set of data with what appears to be a custom code set only used by two parishes. Program A muddles through well enough to match up names with C, at least well enough for programs D, E, and F.

1.A.3 But it's not good enough for program G (when handling the Wednesday set of batches). G has to cross-reference the broken output from A with H to figure out what's what.

1.B You have now changed the output. It works for D and F, but now E is broken, and all the adhoc, painstakingly hand-crafted workarounds in G are completely clueless.

1.C Oh, and there's consumer J that wasn't properly documented, you don't know exists, and handles renewals for 60-70 year old pensioners who will be very vocal when their licenses are bungled.

2. Speaking of birth years, here's a mishmash of 2-, 4-, and even 3-digit years....
Now, please do Hyundai (and others). Their in-built map's knowledge of speed limits and the speed sign recognition is so awful that any "speeding" data is guaranteed to be wildly inaccurate.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Lost Highway - to me it is the perfect film.
"good enough" assumes a lot about the rules of the game here. Imagine, the game is: "heads I win, tails you lose" and then read your comment.
> SpaceX can provide unique interfaces for Payloads with mechanical interfaces other than 8", 15", or 24". The Sales team will contact you with pricing if you select this optional service.
I don't see what EMTALA has to deal with homelessness in this context. It largely comes down to uninsured, even post-ACA. If we can't afford the current system, it's not a matter of if, but when, either hospitals or providers leave medicare. To put it in perspective, the AMA reports (https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/medicare-medica...) that physician medicare compensation has declined 29% since 2001. At a certain point, it will simply be financially unsustainable. Whataboutism to distract from the fact that medicare alone is 3.7% of gdp and is forecast to grow to 5.1% by 2033 (https://www.cato.org/blog/fast-facts-about-medicare-social-s...) doesn't fix anything.

And FWIW, US Medicare spending alone is shaping up to grow to almost as much as some EU nations on a % of GDP basis (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...).). Medicare isn't the solution. It's the problem.
You deter them with risk that is too high for what they gain. For example, if consumers are awarded considerable fines for violations, then they would stop.
I can always understand code I wrote even decades ago, but only because I use descriptive names, and strategic comments to describe why I'm using a particular approach, or to describe an API. If I fail to do that, it takes a lot of effort to remember what's going on.
Some of those changes sound like good ideas but how do "we" pay people more? Relative to peer countries, Italian workers on average are already over paid and not very productive. Also note that due to recent Russian aggression, the "peace dividend" has been cancelled so Italy and other NATO members are going to have to start spending something like 3% of GDP on defense instead of depending on the USA to protect them.
What are we betting that the Americans rebuild in wood again? It seems like they never learn. We had a single city fire like this 500 years ago and since then we haven’t… because we built the city back in brick instead of wood.
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I’m really glad they have a page on that IP. I use it decently often for “is the problem DNS?” troubleshooting.

Because if zero pages load, but that one does, the issue is DNS.

Ping is easy too of course, but I can ask people to type four ones with periods between into their search bar over the phone. No command line required.
At least update "length" for the for loop since it would go into an infinite loop the way it is now in any of those languages.
Banks in Australia were the same, but some are now starting to demand proof of insurance yearly to counter that loophole.
A number of those homes were old enough to qualify for social security. I doubt it's reasonable to believe developers could anticipate the environmental conditions that would befall a home some half-century since breaking ground.
That’s not going to fly.

Firstly, because cloud contracts generally prohibit renting out the cloud services as-is - you can build a product on top of it but not act as a reseller of their platform.

Secondly, and perhaps most importantly because setting up separate LLCs with the goal of avoiding lawful debts is the demonstrates fraudulent intent and will get your LLCs veil-pierced.
>But, when I go to work, things change. Not only people around me don't care, they very much want everyone to not care, because that would show them in a bad light.

In your country this starts way back in middle school, where this phenomenon is worse than I've seen in any other place. It would be incredibly surprising if this suddenly changed in the workplace when it's all people have ever known.

As long as the culture doesn't change at that age, there's no hope for changing it later in life.
I am an apple ecosystem person - Mac and iOS device.

The default Notes app is pretty insane and quite powerful, especially with the latest changes.

My typical tool-stack for notes is typically:
- Notes app: This app is for personal note-taking, etc. Their 'smart folders' help automate cataloging of notes across relevant folders seamlessly.
- Notion: for broader team collaboration
- Granola: non-invasive note-taker; I typically end up pasting the Granola URL either in Notes / Notion for people to simply check out the AI call notes.

I still carry traditional notebook along especially when it might be considered rude to pull out an electronic device but for the past few years, 90% of all of my note-taking has been on devices than traditional note-books.
Earthquakes.

Options are wood again, or steel and concrete.
Survival of our species, for one. Never the mind short-sighted folks like yourselves clawing us back the entire way.
agreement here -

As a normal rule somebody copied code from SO after searching for - unique identifier generator in JavaScript - and the code that was the top answer might not be 100% understandable to them but most of it and it doesn't do anything that is extremely weird. When asked what does that bit of code do they probably say it's the unique id generator.

Somebody might ask AI write a login module in JavaScript, inside of that will be a unique identifier generator - what does that bit of code do when asked they reply hmm, not sure, it's from ChatGPT.
Cool. So the original claim is firm:

> Dieter Rams is the man behind Apple's design philosophy.

(no need for him to work there to impact Ive's stance on design)
And those precautions are… putting out the fire before it spreads, right?
Some elements of beauty are objective. As in, they are hardwired into our brains.

Some cities are more beautiful than others. Prague is more beautiful than Detroit.
Oh mon dieu, since when did Spanish make anything other than vinegar. ah ah ah.
What is the cause of this delay?
Why does State Farm in particular have a moral obligation to insure you against fire if it’s not profitable for them to do so?

To pick random examples of unrelated companies, McDonalds or SpaceX would also refuse to insure you against fire. Why should people hate State Farm for this reason, but not McDonalds or SpaceX?

If State Farm didn’t exist and the state ran insurance instead, and were willing to insure all comers, they’d be subsidizing people who can’t be insured profitably. That’s not crazy on its face (the state subsidizes lots of different things), but it’s at least worth asking why we should be paying for people to live in high-fire-risk areas rather than any number of other things the state could be spending those resources on.
I’m in a slightly different boat. The CEO’s rubbish behavior sucks, but the company shouldn’t be diminished by that. The people behind SpaceX are a modernd day Apollo Program. Absolute marvels of engineering.
Path to LLMs
I clicked the button to turn the forced AI crap off today in Gsuite. It has been on for a day (unasked, forced my google). The engineering team responded with a unanimous thumbs up when I told them. Winner of best response was:

"oh god! now i have to type complete senten..... zzzzzzzz"
If some people see it as incompatible, its not perfectly good then, is it.
And these kinds of defeatist attitudes are what allow the bad guys to win.

You either fight the good fight, or roll over and die. Your choice.
It's not just you, they've been inconsistent about letting you see tweets.
Thank you. This is the direction I needed. Will try out
Wall Street Journal: "Fake Job Postings Are Becoming a Real Problem"

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ghost-jobs-2c0dcd4e?st...
I have been told (at a FAANG) not to fix those kind of code smells in existing code. “Don’t waste time on refactoring.”
> very late

when was your fully reusable full-flow staged combustion rocket engine scheduled flight, again?
The biggest difference is that Y-Sweet is built around object storage (i.e. S3 and friends) rather than a database.

This allows writes to scale horizontally without a central database being the bottleneck. It’s also a much cheaper way to store lots of documents accumulating over time on S3 than in a database. This is because compute scales with how much data you actually access, not how much data you store.

I wrote about why object storage is a good fit for this here: https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-fi....
If live migration is the key to vmotion, I think that this has been working for some time between like-cpu deployments.
This might apply to Pharma, which actually operates in international markets, but not to US health insurers, PBMs, or for-profit Healthcare providers.
> Did you tell your boss you’d finish some task today? If something comes up, as often does at work, and you don’t finish, did you lie?

No. A good-faith failure is different from a lie.

The rule of thumb I use to handle ambiguous situations is "if my incentives were different, would I be saying something else right now?"

> Of course there are fraudsters out there, but I view most founders as rampant optimists instead of liars.

Most founders are both.

They're rampant optimists in the sense that they believe in their thing so much that it overrides all other concerns. But that often makes them liars via an argument of the form "my thing is so important and will change the world so much that I have to lie now to make sure it can be so great".

I'm not saying founders are ogres. The kind of lying they do derives from fairly ordinary human failures. But it's still lying, it's still normalized, and it still has terrible consequences all the time.
It's NOT Open Source.
iPhone drops from first to 3rd place in China, struggles to launch AI features
In all of those examples you have the for profit private insurance leaving the market because it's not profitable enough. When you take away excessive profits and allow the governmental pool to compete with for profit insurance, risk is leveled across the pool and consumers pay less. If the big private insurance companies can't be more efficient or have better risk models than the government, well they should stop trying to sell policies.
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I mean, there's sometimes simply not enough capital available to support the creation of further competition in a sector. And government subsidies in the form of cheap business loans are sort of robbing Peter to pay Paul. You're simply allocating capital from one sector (the one being taxed) to another
Sega actually did what Nintendidn't. The Sega Genesis had a Z80 coprocessor, a video chip that was yet another extension of the TMS9918A design, and a PSG sound chip -- all just more advanced, or supplemented by other hardware, versions of components the Master System had. With an adapter add-on called the Power Base Converter, Master System games could be played on the Genesis.
Alberta government's diplomatic efforts to avert tariffs a high-wire act
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Or, the market lets the gods do their work, rather than the government acting like one.

—esoteric capitalism
I’m building my next house right on an active volcano. Thank you for subsidizing my idiocy. You should see the view!
The paper has ablations
Let me know when the command "Siri, turn on lights, set them to red at 30%" works. Until then I do not care.
Can you not understand the difference between a stated measurement of a runway or drain fuel requirement, and a stated location of a unique explosion that happened just a few minutes ago? Are you prepared to bet 200 lives that no one fat-fingered the number?
And it's not offline.
They shine through my windows at night and are truly horrific.

They’re down the entire alleyway behind my place, and a walk to the grocery store at 7pm during the winter makes your body and mind think it’s sunrise.
Or any research paid for by the sugar or tobacco industry
ActivityPub is a page 1 design flaw with no independent identity. It's just a bunch of separate social networks that let an admin connect to other sites is a really subpar way. You have to juggle a bunch of accounts to see and do what you want on activitypub. Nostr is just a much better protocol for this kind of thing (and in general), but bitcoin bro boners scare people away rightfully so. Nostr as a protocol needs an alternative "scene" with a different set of standard relays that this org could provide. If they had an app they would be pre-set-up with those and they would be separate from the relays the current bitcoin peeps use. sure the bitcoin folks could add those relays too, but 1) they like using their own stuff so they likely would want to keep growing their homegrown relay community, and 2) it would hopefully not matter since the celebrity backed marketing effort that isn't focusing on censorship resistance would have more draw even if a chunk of them posted to those relays. Many nostr devs are onboard for good user driven moderation tools in clients, and any relay admin can moderate whatever as it is. Honestly I'd be fine with a basically a copy of nostr that wasn't nostr. But IMHO, without 1) independent user owned identity that works across everything & 2)community infrastructure than can easily be held up by the non-rich community if need be, then it's not a solution for the future.
First of all there isn’t one “European model”, every country in Europe has its own system.

To answer the substantive point, it’s extremely difficult to pass substantial laws in the US due to the structure of its political system. The mandatory coalition of the president + 60% of the senate + 50% of the House of Representatives is a much higher bar than any other democracy. So laws aren’t written to be optimal policy, they are written to satisfy this extremely high coalition requirement — Obamacare in particular was very fundamentally weakened from some of the more expansive initial proposals to address the concerns of one or two senators and get them on board.
Is it anonymous aggregated data or just anonymized data? Anonymized data can easily be de-anonymized, as you stated.
> then you open LinkedIn years later and turns out somehow they've failed up to manager, architect or executive while you're still struggling along as a code peasant

That's because they come across as result oriented, go getter kind of persons while the others will be seen as uptight individuals. Unfortunately, management for better or worse self selects the first kind.

LLMs are only going to make it worse. If you can write clean code in half a day and an LLM can generate a "working" sphagetti mess in few mins, management will prefer the mess. This will be the case for many organizations where software is just an additional supporting expense and not critical part of the main business.
Also you think with their fancy AI coding they could update their dates to the future or at least disable the page for a past dated session.
This is a great callout, although I suspect the two main things insurers need but can't get today, due to regulations:

1. Ability to raise price based on risk. Regulation example: State won't let insurance company modify their fire risk maps. I believe this has come up in central Oregon for example.
2. Ability to drop people out right. i.e. if they think risk of home insurance is 50/50 next 10 years, they won't insure at all.

1 can accommodate for 2, but then its basically insurer charging the actual price of the home, year one. Maybe they can work out a deal though, like you get the money back if it doesn't burn down. (Mostly parroting things I've heard that seems to make sense).
At exactly 2:14 while listening to the political oriented podcast fsckboy laughed, punched the dashboard of their car, and exclaimed "right on, that's what I've always said!"
I think even though these types of developers are fairly rare, they have a disproportionate negative impact on the quality of the code and the morale of their colleagues, which is perhaps why people remember them and talk about it more often. The p95 developers who are more-or-less okay aren't really notable enough to be worth complaining about on HN, since they are us.
To anyone who wants a comprehensive option starter (there is so much bad financial education content on the web), I'd recommend:

https://zerodha.com/varsity/module/option-theory/

https://zerodha.com/varsity/module/option-strategies/
You can be brilliant and greedy. The point at which you're making statements based on your greed rather than your brilliance, that's the line we stop saying they're brilliant.
In Yugoslavia, in 1969, one of the biggest earthquakes occurred, destroying several cities. After that, the country’s leaders decided to change building codes. Even today, although Yugoslavia no longer exists, the countries that adopted those codes have homes capable of withstanding earthquakes up to 7.5 on the Richter scale.

My main point is that if we face major natural disasters, we need to take action to mitigate their impact in the future. As a foreigner, it seems to me that Americans prioritize building cheap homes over constructing better and more resilient ones.
I'm not saying everyone pays the same, I'm saying you take away the for excessive profit nature of insurance. If you live in a tinderbox you are going to have more risk and more costs. Yeah somebody has to model the risk and set a price, but I'm saying it shouldn't be someone who has an incentive to make as much profit as possible.
Interesting. If only it supported little-endian architectures!
It is pretty stupid to go after one company when all the other social media sites are just as vulnerable, they take anyone's money
Definition of "healthcare provider" really confuses me. Why is my nurse lumped together with people researching drugs? Is the CEO of the hospital a "provider"?
This is spot on. It’s not that I think health insurance companies are making insane profit margins. It’s that their very existence in the system is a pure negative and in fact a moral blight. Inflicting profit into a system that is entirely dedicated to human health is by definition a conflict of interest for basically everyone involved, even if it operated at a hypothetical 100% efficiency.
Ada, SML, F#, and more. Seems like you may not have looked at the list.
He's elaborated on this and is not talking about ants
Is there a way to use it without decorators?
Is there a solution? Obviously those companies are not going to change, so what can everyone else do about it - besides already being very rich, starting a competing ad-tech without funding, managing to get market share, and managing to remain one of the good guys.

The only thing I can think of is to use things like influencer ads on places like Instagram or Youtube which ironically sound like much better value for money as you actually know what you're getting for the money.
I have heard that before and never understood that; I understand code I wrote 40 years ago fine. I have issues understanding code by others, but my own I understand no matter when it was written. Of course others don't understand my code until they dive in and, like me theirs, forget how it works weeks after.

I do find all my old code, even from yesterday, total shite and it should be rewritten, but probably never will be.
The math of insurance suggests that, if it needs to be widely carried (either due to things like mortgage requirements, or the simple realization most people don't have enough resources to absorb a major catastrophe themselves), the most economical way to go is to have a single risk pool that's as broad and diverse as possible, so it can swallow a large clustered crisis more easily. Yes, this is a bit of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

I always found it funny when insurance marketing talks about "personalized rates", when the goal is to DE-PERSONALIZE the risk. If you have 10,000 customers in Los Angeles, and 5 million elsewhere, you can either isolate the LA customers and charge them the "real" price of the risk, which will be unviable as a business and probably politically touchy too, or you can include them in the broad pool, and the people with a full-cinderblock home in a non-flammable state pay $20 more a year so the entire endeavour can work.

The concept probably works better if you have some concept of social cohesion to lean on-- you might not get the best possible outcome personally, but the system itself is more robust for everyone.
No, UnitedHealth Group made $22B in profit in 2023. Only about half of that profit came from the UnitedHealthcare insurance business. The other half came from the Optum side which is a mix of non-insurance stuff. Optum makes huge profits on software: if the software business was spun out it would be one of the top 20 US tech companies.

https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/investors/financial-report...
Burning Teslas Add to Toxic Mix of Pollution Delaying LA Return
Betteridges law of headlines. No. Silly article.
RUD is in fact an old joke in rocketry, I believe invented by engineers to poke fun at marketing "innovation".
Gotta catch up to Florida
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