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For a current project, I've been using a physical book as a reference manual for the API I'm working with rather than using the more typical internet search for the function name. And it's actually somewhat surprising how efficient a physical book is!

Sure, there's a lot of efficiency to Ctrl-F a text string and just find all the places in a document. I won't deny that it takes me longer to pull up the index, search for the function name in the index, then flip to the page. But then I can just leave the book open at that page on the desk (or my lap). I never have to Alt-Tab, or fiddle with the location of windows to switch between looking at documentation and looking at the code I'm working on.

This difference was more stark when I was trying to close-read a different specification to ensure that I understood it well enough to make sure a PR implemented it correctly. I needed to have three different parts of the specification open simultaneously to bounce between all of them. With physical paper, that's just a swish of a hand away. With a PDF reader, well, goto that other section, scroll down to the piece I wanted, now goto the first section again and scroll down again and wait what was that back thing again goto and scroll and scroll and goto and descent into insanity. Trying to use multiple windows ameliorates the problem somewhat, but it also takes an inordinate amount of time to set the view up correctly, and I often end up running into the "focus doesn't follow the eye gaze" problem of typing in the wrong window and ruining the view.
Yes this is not a "Google" problem so much as a "Your SaaS application is literally doing it wrong"

Having worked on a lot of SSO integrations I can say that everyone does it wrong.

I will also say that there is a super scary aspect to the sub claim (in general). It should be pairwise tied to the SP's integration, so if you only use google for auth, and for some reason you lost your google dev account and had to set up a new one you would drop credentials from 100% of your users.

for google I don't know if you can scope for the account ID (the opaque unique identifier) since that could expose privacy issues via cross integration tracking. But that's basically the fix. if you had the unique, immutable, opaque account identifier and matched on that this wouldn't work since buying a domain and setting up that email should result in a new account with google.
A limiter limits the maximum power. Some are hard and will clip. Some are soft and will produce a milder distortion.

A compressor compresses the dynamic range. They reduce the sounds about a selectable threshold with variable ratios and envelopes. Usually they have various other features.

This compressor/limiter/gate/expander/de-esser has more features than you are likely to use soon (side chaining) and will almost certainly sound good enough (despite what people may comment in response) [1].

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MDX2600--behringer-c...

Good luck.

[1] If it doesn't you can spend more later if it solves your problem. The nice thing about these compressors is: they have transparent bypass, a dedicated power button, robust construction, mature design, and are cheap.
The article is about UnitedHealth's PBM, which negotiates rates and then earns revenue from drug manufacturers through rebates. Remember that insurance is part of Big Finance and involves a lot of clever instruments to shuffle around money, risk, and accountability. PBM's are one of those instruments. Our intuitive Econ 101 models of the industry don't always go far enough into the weeds when we're just reacting to headlines. This is one of those occasions.

https://content.naic.org/insurance-topics/pharmacy-benefit-m...
It requires billions of dollars and a decade+ to translate academic research into a clinical outcome. Most academic research is not reproducible or robust enough to even be replicated outside of the lab that performed it - and this will only be discovered after spending millions of dollars of private funding.
The weak force is weak not because it has "short range" but because its range "dies off at distances ten million times smaller than an atom".
Yeah, I'll still just say "large, possibly unreasonable request". :)

(And I've never inferred that distinction anyway -- in all the cases I've heard it, I could've replaced "ask" with "request"/"question", and it would've meant the same thing, especially with any additional context.)
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> it's about banning dissent

On the contrary, I think it is about banning a propaganda and social engineering vector that is under the thumb of an adversarial foreign government. That, for me, is enough of a reason to ban it and justify it under our constitution.

The fact that I am in favor of banning all social media should tell you that it is not ideological, but rather that I think social media is extremely addictive, and has huge negative externalities.
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Oh stop, it has nothing to do with xenophobia, the CCP has a terrible spying and human rights track record (organ harvesting, concentration camps, child labor, etc.).

Nothing to do with the Chinese people as a whole, and everything to do about their overlords.

Before you do some whataboutism, yes the US spies, even on it's own citizens. That is a separate issue we should make sure doesn't happen.

Two things can be bad and is not an excuse for more spying or letting foreign adversaries broadcast psyops.
> I would literally write my social security number on a sticky note and stick it to Xi Jinping's forehead

Somewhat paradoxically, I am actually more comfortable giving out private data to foreign countries than my own. I mean, what is Xi Jinping going to do with a US social security number? If I am in the US, it will be hard for bad people in China to reach me, because there is a border between the two countries, in every sense of the word. There is no such protection if me and my data are both in the same country.

Xi Jinping can have my social security number, in fact, he can have my whole life, it is not like he is going to do anything to an random guy who lives in a foreign country. I will definitely won't give these data to a neighbor I barely know because my neighbor can do something I don't want him to do with it and may find some motivation to do so.
Not all problems are tricky, there are plenty of easy-to-fix bugs that go unfixed.

For example, there is an internal product that I use daily that has broken http links in error/status messages.
That's a fair criticism, although I've worked in both industry and research -- a lot more directed practical research to reach commercial viability happens in industry, whereas a lot of the fundamental research happens in academia. And as a sibling commented, a lot of unreproducible research comes out of academia. Also, there are spinoffs from academia regularly that allow the original researchers to profit directly from their efforts.

Still, that doesn't justify insurance companies siphoning off money for their shareholders. Especially in these cases where they own/control both the insurance company and the pharmaceutical distribution.
What would stop a kid from doing the same with physical books rather than PDFs?
Many of your high school aged friends had a secondary backup phone with a separate cellphone plan they pay for? That’s wild!

I don’t think the average American high school student has two smart phones one of which is a secret from their major source of income (their parents).
That seems more unlikely to me -- training is not free and takes a long time, so it would not result in "[enhancing] the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app" and it being "particularly helpful to our users looking for up-to-date information."

Fine-tuning, which is cheaper and faster, has been proven to not be a good solution to "teach" models new facts.

I think what's most likely here is that Gemini will have access to a form of RAG based on a database of AP articles that gets updated in real-time as new articles are published.
The real question is why did you feel the need to be so extreme? Why couldn't you just do a little digital rather than fully? I don't understand this all or nothing stuff. Live moderately
If only we had more than one datacenter.
First edition may be collectible regardless of condition. And as well as newer editions it is resalable. Can you sell an used ebook you bought? How about can you buy an used ebook?
Just look at the per-capita spending on healthcare by OECD countries, basically all of which have universal healthcare except for the US [1]. So the US pays almost twice as much as #2 (Switzerland) for significantly worse outcomes and less coverage.

The US healthcare system is an unmitigated disaster that is a cautionary tale in how capitalism only promotes rent-seeking and regulatory capture. It's done with a service with inelastic demand, meaning the threat of violence since we are quite intentionally withholding lifesaving healthcare for the sake of the profits of completely unnecessary intermediaries.

[1]: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/health-spending.html
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It is already established fact that Medicare is more efficient than private insurance. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20110920....
> that also means the OP thinks anyone who doesn’t contribute to sustainable model (>=3 children) is an awful person.

The OP did not say that, for one thing. You're the only one who's used the "awful people" phrase (which is what makes that a strawman, as I pointed out several comments ago).

OP would prefer to raise his kids to see reproduction as a positive aspect of life, as opposed to the current secular "wellll, you can do whatever you waaaant, but it's a whole lot easier and more fun if you just go ahead and kill your bloodline" that's a logical extension of your pseudo-enlightened "no one choice is better than the others" non-answer (only a logical extension, of course, when ignoring self-preservation and societal preservation as legitimate concerns).

I don't know what country you're in, and I don't know if things are actually different there or if you've just convinced yourself that as long as you don't see a problem with your blinders on, there isn't one. But with regards to "let people make their own choices," someone already threw that argument out (in a different context) elsewhere in the thread, and received lots of good answers explaining how we live in a society and you (and your kids) are affected by everyone else's choices, one way or another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42705948

Although again, OP didn't even say those people shouldn't exist. He said his family's able to get by without them, and correctly identified that they are not reproducing, expressing optimism that future generations won't have to co-exist with their ideals anyway (I can't say that I share that optimism; there are too many do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do folks around, as well as people like you who may facilitate the spread of bad ideas beyond the bloodlines they kill off out of some sense of respect).
Medicare administrative costs are around 2% of total program spending [1] compared to typically >10%. While what you're saying on the surface may be true from the numbers you are comparing, the fact of the matter is that healthcare costs are becoming more and more expensive during a time when many are experiencing a cost of living crisis.

The US gets a bum deal on costs and outcomes and while we can argue on which specific changes will move which specific needle I think it's clear that one of the major differences compared to the rest of the world is that running healthcare as a for profit enterprise has failed to deliver on the promise of good outcomes for as affordable a price as possible both on an individual and country wide level.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/sep/20/bernie-san...
That excuse doesn't even hold up because in places like the UK which have universal healthcare, private health insurance still exists alongside it as a "premium" option. That's more choice!
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What's the error rate for human journalists? Based on my experience, I'd guess it's much higher than 1.3%.
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IMHO office jargon is just as useful but because it's not technical its harder to adjust.

>Office jargon is sort of impersonal by design

That's one of it's functions. Instead of going over each time that the thing happening isn't personal and shouldn't be taken as such, you can utilize the jargon to keep it clean. After all, it's just a job where everyone tries to play their role to produce something. It hurts much more badly if you confuse the office work for a social interaction and things don't pan out at some point.
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> Politicians in particular say things like "preserving customer choice"

But that’s not shocking. Lobbyists and campaign donations make such behavior expected.
It is already established fact that Medicare is more efficient than private insurance: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20110920....

6.1% profit margins is a lot when it should not be for-profit in the first place. Why is anyone making a profit off of administering necessary services?

What is the operating profit of your local firefighter brigade?

What is the operating profit of the interstate highway system?

What is the operating profit of your local water/sewer department?

Not a single person in this country doesn't need healthcare at some point. It's not an optional for-profit good.
Big time 'yikes' that the official app's video demo is scrolling past a #KillMoreCEOs hashtag.
No it isn’t. The vast majority of progressive people don’t buy into any of the gender/trans discussion. It’s definitely not a core tenet of being a progressive, but a very vocal minority is definitely trying to make it so.
Upgrades have to be possible. What you want probably is attestation that you're running a generally available version that other users run too as opposed to one specially made for you, but since a version could be made for all those subject to surveillance this wouldn't be enough either.

I'm not sure there's a way out of this that doesn't involve open source and repeatable builds (and watch out for Reflections on Trusting Trust).
I just checked.

There's nothing important. There are a few legal commercial emails (which I marked as not-spam and then unsubscribed). Other than that, it's all junk.

It's clear that GMail is dropping vast amounts of obvious spam on the floor without even putting it in the spam folder. My last-30-days spam used to be in the thousands. Now it was less than two dozen.
> Flakes are still unstable because everyone wants something

Yeah, that is definitely true (as evidenced my complaints). I firmly believe the original sin of flakes was how many things it bundled together.
B0rken. . Gives me the following error:
Access to rr2---sn-vgqsrnek.googlevideo.com was
denied.

You don't have authorisation to view this page.

HTTP Error 403
> Now I have my whole library in Calibre and on my Kindle.

Funnily enough I’m contemplating buying a MiniDisc player since my music listening has gone way down since Spotify came along.

Its like the abdunance of selection is overwhelming.
Why is my insurer (Aetna) allowed to own the only pharmacy (CVS) it covers? That seems like it should be some kind of violation of antitrust law, no?
> If i say there was an ask, you know I think it's something a bit bigger, possibly a bit unreasonable.

That’s the point - it isn’t any of those things. It’s made up by you (nothing personal, waving in general direction) on the spot and is not in any way a part of some imagined shared lingo. It’s all complete and utter meaningless bs that some people like to imagine to be loaded with contextual depth. It’s not.
Why do we have to choose one? I'm not going to trust US-owned media on the topic of Israel and Palestine, I'm not going to trust Russian media on Ukraine, or Chinese media on Taiwan.

By stifling freedom of expression under the guise of "national security" you're creating blind spots that allow atrocities to go unchallenged. I thought we learned from history but maybe I was wrong.
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How can they make you default on your mortgage? Your payment is made of 3 things, the home loan, property tax, and home insurance. The Fed influences mortgage interest rates by adjusting the Federal Funds Rate. Even if it does impact mortgage rates, it would only affect the extremely small subset of people with variable rate loans.This still only impacts the home loan, not insurance/tax.

One of the hallmarks of countries suffering hyperinflation/other monetary disasters is lack of a central bank because the legislatures fail to wield the power responsibly. It is another check and balance, and virtually ever economically stable country has one.
same.

and actually A LOT less serious in my mind than a request. If you used request I would think you are really in need of my assistance and I am paying attention. I hear “ask” and I think totally not important and ignorable
The federal system already runs a much more efficient enterprise as evidenced in medicare and medicade since their establishment in the 60s.
An M3 is a BMW. If you are talking about Teslas the car is called a Model 3. You can’t shorten it to M3 because that’s already a car. This is why a Musk didn’t get to call it Model E like he wanted to. It sounds too much like a Ford.
How many people do the security code review with this process? How do they avoid piling dozens of well hidden holes when you not use a library that is publicly available and seen by thousands of eyes?

Isn’t the best argument for open source code that it has so many people, most companies can not afford such a global quality assurance.
We came across this at one point and thought it was a very innovative and interesting package!

The important design point we're differing on is that Pyper implements 'pipelines' as functions, whereas pypeln seems to implement 'pipelines' as iterable objects.
Oh, the site is definitely cherry picking and I wouldn't take any one chart or data point as meaningful.

It's just that there are a lot things that point to a turning point since 1970. It's like looking at something like obesity. It's tied to heart disease, cancer, ED, million other things. Any one of those things could maybe be explained away but if you look at the aggregate and how many things there are I think its okay to say "obesity likely has health effects".
I use Blink but they changed their pricing model from one-time purchase (what I got it with) to an annual subscription, so up to you on that one.

I recommend using mosh instead of ssh proper, and Blink supports it as do several others but I haven't used other apps so can't suggest alternatives. When the app goes to the background it will lose its network connection and you have to reconnect. With ssh, reconnecting is manual (and if you use tmux or screen, like I do, this is an annoyance since you don't lose any work). With mosh, it'll automatically reconnect and whether you use tmux (like me) or not is irrelevant, things are still as you left them. This is also useful if you're actually mobile (moving between networks), which I was doing back when I first tried using an iPad for development like this.
I'm logged in.

I let YouTube remember my history indefinitely. I've never been recommended MrBeast (and only recently-ish heard of him, the last year or so). Maybe years ago, I watched some clips of Joe Rogan if they popped up, but I've never been a regular listener.

My earlier comment shouldn't have been so down on YouTube - overall, my recommendations are good. But it does concern me that the algorithm consistently tries to push Peterson on me.

I do watch a lot of sports commentary and breakdowns, maybe that leads down the path to Peterson?
> If you previously purchased Gemini for Google Workspace, you won't be charged for it after January 31, 2025.

See https://support.google.com/a/answer/15400543#zippy=%2Cwhats-...
> “like turning on the dishwasher"

More like a movie theater ? By the end of the day your shoes stick to the floor and there's a crunch under every step and ideally you'd just hit it all with a firehose.
> failed experiments

Wasn't that what Milla Jovovich was called in to deal with?
I have a whole drawer full of barely used cdrom drives from decommissioned office PCs to play my audio discs, in case my Philips Player from 1995 is worn down -- didn't even need a repair yet, so no real worries...
Additionally the CDs get backuped as FLACs.

I don't see what's "hard" with that approach. Most new releases still get presses as CDs.
I write about my experience here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682305#42688501

My best friend in college was transsexual, knew who she was in childhood, couldn't be talked in or out of it. She was kicked out of the Air Force Academy which was my gain but our nation's loss. I was proud of my country when I heard this policy changed, not just for the individuals but because the US struggles to attract officers to match the quality of our enlisted warfighters.

I've cross-dressed at times (high heels, fishnets, all that) such as for Halloween and I also know the undercurrents of violence you can feel from ignorant people. Sometimes I bum around the house wearing a long skirt.

I was inclined to be supportive of the modern transgender movement when I first heard about it and when my exposure was through the media. It is their own speech that has alienated me from them.

Once I met people affected and after I joined Mastodon where I've had to add rules to completely block out their continuous hateful spew which frequently gets reposted by people who should know better. I'd be glad to hear "I'm so happy I found a new way to put on makeup that makes me feel like myself" or "I'm really inspired by electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos" or "Thank Lynn Conway for that phone in your pocket".

I can't deal with large volumes of negativity from strangers and on leftie corners on the web people from that community are the worst. [1] Whether or not they should exist is beyond my pay grade but I don't want them in my feed at all.

For that matter I feel less safe and not more safe expressing non-conformant gender characteristics because: (1) so many people have gotten inflamed, and (2) I don't buy into the politics.

[1] I just plain couldn't stand the MAGA nuts on Twitter, never mind all the equally hateful people who spew hate against transgender people (who I suspect want people to spew hate at them to justify their world view as much as Benjamin Netanyahu likes Palestinian attacks that justify his world view.)
The author should really move to Japan if they’re so impressed. Then they’ll get to find out what things in Japan no-one gives a shit about, and the shine will wear off.