skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this list, I couldn’t find a single for profit BCBS licensee
other than Elevance.

Keep in mind Anthem/Elevance absorbed a bunch of licensees. So, for instance, Empire BCBS was for-profit but as of 2024 is part of Elevance.

At a quick glance Highmark and Wellmark are for-profit. And I believe the South Carolina licensee is as well. Mind you a few of the "non-profit" BCBS licensees have been sued over claims that they ought not be considered not-for-profit.
> but I can also see how they will make it flow much better into Part 3 than Dune > Dune Messiah

Lynch could have made a Dune Messiah. Villeneuve is not able to express the mysticism.
Most code correctness is pointless until it isn't, yes
> Gov. Gavin Newsom just released part of his solution to California’s home insurance crisis, and it boils down to a push to allow carriers to move faster to raise rates.

> In most cases, the Department of Insurance would be required to act on an insurance carrier’s rate request within 60 days, unless extensions are necessary.

> The proposed bill expedites the timelines laid out in Proposition 103, which requires insurance companies to have changes approved by the Department of Insurance and dictates how quickly the department must act on change requests.

> Critics fear that shortening approval timelines will allow insurance companies to jack-up premiums without room for public appeals and sufficient review by the Department of Insurance.

https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/30/california-insurance-crisi...
While there was a suspicion of eyesight troubles in my late teens, it really kicked in during a period I was working on pretty crappy screens, that was in my late 20's. It's not much but enough to give me headaches when not wearing them.
Yes a mobile as a government tracking device in your car is mandated in Europe.
That one doesn’t discriminate by location I think?
How is it contradictory?
Oh god not another plug for htmx
> You cannot take a headless structure and apply different designs to it.

Depends on how you build things.

https://primevue.org/theming/unstyled/

https://primevue.org/theming/styled/

In most cases, though, there will inevitably be some blurring between the layers, your back end will be coupled to the data model somewhat and the front end will then be coupled to that, both the design, layout and functionality, unless you attempt to build a library or a framework that's detached from a specific project/domain.

For example, even Vue lets you extract your layout into a separate component and then fill it in with slots https://vuejs.org/guide/components/slots.html but nobody ever does that because that'd take more time and they end up just having BasketComponent instead of BasketLayout and BasketComponent, same for not trying to detach the styles from specific components, nobody wants to do that.
>Interesting. I drew the opposite conclusion. Using (mostly) just NATO's old equipment

Not true since 2023. Plenty of the high end stuff was sent - abrams, leopard 2s, patriots.

There's also a dire shortage of shells to send - the meat and potatoes of a war like this.

Some of the high end stuff (e.g. F-35s) were also arguably not sent because western military planners were afraid of them performing badly (F-16s performed very badly).

>fought basically to a standstill

That's how wars of attrition are. The front line is 1) static for months/year and a half. Then it moves 2) slowly. Then 3) fast. Then collapse.

It's between 2 and 3 now.

Unless a peace deal is secured (unlikely, there is no zone of possible agreement) a Ukrainian military collapse is coming and it will be a humiliation for western hegemony to see Russia sweep forward unchallenged on their front door.

Trump seems to know that it's coming and wants to wash his hands of it while European establishment are freaking out and doing stupid, rash and even Putinesque shit like canceling the Romanian election.
Casting integers to pointers in C is implementation defined, not UB. In practice compilers define these casts as the natural thing for the architecture you are compiling to. Since mainstream CPUs don't do anything fancy with pointer tagging, that means the implementation defined behave does exactly what you expect it to do (unless you forget that you have paging enabled and cannot simply point to a hardware memory address).

If you want to control register layout, then C is not going to help you, but that is not typically what is meant by "memory layout".

And if you want to control cache usage ... Some architectures do expose some black magic which you would need to go to assembly to access. But for the most part controlling cache involves understanding how the cache works, then controlling the memory layout and accesses to work well with the cache.
There are many widely used open source components without a maintainer who is allowed to work on them (enough) during paid working time.
Great, why don't we start with the United States which is the richest most privileged country in the world?

"Mexican Cession (1848): The most significant event was the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). Mexico lost the war, and through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, it was forced to cede a vast amount of territory to the United States. This territory included present-day California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Texas had already declared independence from Mexico in 1836 and was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, a major cause of the war."

"Displacement and Dispossession: While the treaty promised to protect the property rights of Mexicans who stayed, in practice, many lost their land through legal maneuvering, fraud, or outright violence. This forced displacement would have driven some south to Mexico."

Whatever doesn't belong to Mexicans surely belongs to Indians.

Sounds like a good place to start. After that - Australia and Canada. Once that's done let's do Israel.
Cannot recommend RN enough. One code base gives you three apps. Web, Android and iOS. With NativeWind, you have full Tailwind available to you and I had great success to the point where I have been thinking that I should be building customer facing web apps in RN (React Native Web + Tailwind) which at any time can be exported as native apps while already being a great web app.
Only you also take into account your cheap home will likely accelerate the problem. Which never happens.
Repeating my comment from a previous thread:

I still chuckle when I recall this tweet, "OKRs were actually a psyop from Google to slow down potential early stage competitors" [1].

[1] https://x.com/benwbear/status/1543056694330003456
It could also be helped by not building houses out of cardboard.

The amount of walls in Europe that you could punch a wall into is low enough that you shouldnt try.
Insurance (at least the kind we are talking about) is only mandatory if you have loans, and even then it is not 100% mandated. We do need insurance regulations, but price caps limit what things actually make sense to cover. To put it another way, you are free to buy land in a risky area if you want, but nobody has to insure it or loan you money for it. If you find someone who will loan you the money if you can get insurance, then you can't get insurance, that sucks for you but nobody owes it to you to hand over money on a losing investment. These requirements can be abused, but there really isn't much evidence of insurers, lenders, and investors colluding to rip people off.
Microsoft stops using Bing to trick people into thinking they're on Google
In reality, since COVID, the coupons in Polish McD are so bad the app is almost useless. And the current version loads so sluggishly.
I completely agree with you. More precisely, I feel they are useful when you have specific tasks with limited scope.

For instance, just yesterday I was battling with a complex SQL query and I got halfway there. I gave our bot the query and an half assed description of what I wanted/what was missing and it got it right on the first try.
The current frontier models are all neocortex. They have no midbrain or crocodile brain to reconcile any physical, legal or moral feedback. The current state of the art is to preprocess all LLM responses with a physical/legal/moral classifier and respond with a generic "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

We are fooled into thinking these golems have a shred of humanity, but their method of processing information is completely backward. Humans begin with a fight/flight classifier, then a social consensus regression, and only after this do we start generating tokens ... and we do this every moment of every day of our lives, uncountably often, the only prerequisite being the calories in an occasional slice of bread and butter.
What you mean I can't set up an LLC for every large expense I want to avoid paying?
>Teams and Discord

Try flatpaks
> What works in books often doesn't work on screen and vice versa. They are different media.

Not really. The biggest issue is time. As far as i noticed, one needs 2 hours of movie for 100 pages of a book. Anything below this (fitting 400 pages in 2 hours) is art. That's why Lynch's version is better.
anyone that tries to model a multi dimensional search space with a sample + univariate function combo should not be considered great no matter the circumstances the issue is not that stats couldn't be objective there just isn't enough data

imo if you told me the NSA was aggregating data about everyone's daily movements, made corrections for wealth, upbringing, network as well as other factors maybe would be a good start

but even then there will be coefficients the rich kids running the clusters will be like "wealth isn't paying for tuition it's flying to europe for vacation" or "having two cars did not contribute in any shape way or form to my learning how to drive I did it because I'm inherently chosen" or "your family beating you anytime you socialized couldn't form socially crippling neural pathways so if you can't network it's because you aren't chosen" so they set the coefficient to that now some poor schmuck who couldn't afford any of those things and had the worst upbringing gets euthanized in the name of science

eugenics to be even remotely ethical would need so much data we just don't have. maybe in a thousand years but who knows how the rich kids will be like then one thing I've learned the world is not for the poor
Rockstar shuts down ambitious mod that put GTA 4's Liberty City in GTA 5
Thank you for the reminder. I’m currently struggling with which open-source license to use. I don’t really want to use GPL-3 because it’s too strict.
The code in the github repo has some errors to prevent script kiddies from directly copy/pasting it.

Obviously the proof-of-concept shared with OpenAI/BugCrowd didn't have such errors.
I assume the foundations are concrete, and the rest is wood, cardboard and any combination of the two, so I could see that the foundation would survive a fire
I’m glad that you find this small project useful.
Duh, sorry. Got confused.
Frankly, this is just an ignorant take. Put Twitter/Elon Musk down for a bit. The Palisades Fire was not a forest fire. Please dispel your myths and learn what 60-80 mph winds, sometimes 100 mph gusts, can do.
Europe, a lot of cities went though a few large fires and then went "facepalm oh!!! maybe we should try stone!"
Good point. Usually fractional indexing is done with arbitrary-precision numbers to avoid exactly this issue. We landed on using JS floats to teach the technique because it makes it more intuitive to understand what’s going on, but you make a good point and I’ll make sure we add that caveat and link out to an arbitrary-precision fractional index library.
Hopefully they'd have it fixed by now. The magic of HN exposure...
> I have spent a lot of time trying to mentor these sorts of devs and help them to understand why just doing the bare minimum isn't really a good investment in their own career not to mention it's disrespectful of their colleagues who now need to waste time puzzling through their nonsense and eventually (inevitably) fixing their bugs... Seems to get through about 20% of the time. Most of the rest of the time these folks just smile and nod and continue not caring, and companies can't afford the hassle of firing them, 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 who happens to take pride in their work.

For them, this clearly sound like personal success.

There's also a lot of folks who view programming just as a stepping stone in the path to becoming well paid managers and couldn't care any less about all of the stuff the nerds speak about.

Kind of unfortunate, but oh well. I also remember helping out someone with their code back in my university days and none of it was indented, things that probably shouldn't be on the same line were and their answer was that they don't care in the slightest about how it works, they just want it to work. Same reasoning.
Yes, you’re right. Many people have mentioned this to me. I’ve updated the README in the latest version, hoping it will make it easier for everyone to understand.
It's also quite decent, giving a lot of free request so I have switched from Claude.
Somehow, all these nations around the world with earthquakes still have their houses standing.

Why is it always whataboutism with earthquakes when presented with "don't build houses out of matchsticks"?
I use an AI because I don't want to think about how to ask a question or search a website or do man nc.
> Depends on how you build things.

Exactly! The more you put styling decisions into your components, the more you hardcode your visual design.
Swords are usually made a by a single or a handful of people at most.

Nuclear power plants or walls that are supposed to cover an entire border require thousands of workers and engineers. At that point the organizational/management aspects, acquiring of funding etc. become much more important than the direct contribution of any specific engineer or craftsman.
You are right that you can get away with it in NZ.

For total loss then bankruptcy might save you money (assuming you have no other assets or kiwisaver; since you still owe the debt).

But part of the contract with the bank is allowing the bank and insurance company to verify/update.

If you cancel your insurance, the insurance company is incentivised to tell the bank since you will probably sign up for insurance again when told to by the bank. I don't believe the banks or insurance have push updates. I would guess banks batch check if insurance is still live annually?

I live in Christchurch and I believe insurance is valuable risk management - plenty of people gambled and lost with Earthquakes. That said: I own an as-is house because I bought a 3 bedroom on 800m2 for $190000 (cheap because you can't get a mortgage for it because it is uninsurable due to subsidence - I only paid land price).
You seem to be behind on English as spoken. From what I can reconstruct:

Algorithm (n) - a secretive set of systems, procedures and data that Big Tech uses to maliciously manipulate unsuspecting general public. Example usage: "Algorithm-free music discovery app for DJs"

I'm not joking, that example usage is taken from a live example.
Once you get into real reverse engineering topics (such as assembly or shellcode) it's an immediate refusal.
China models are not only competitive, but better, because they do not care about copyright violations and they do not need to litigate with everyone. They can use better training material faster.
I don't know what you mean. Banks loan out money for you to buy a house, but you don't technically own it (that is, you have no title) until it is paid off. The bank wants the house itself as collateral for the loan. It cannot be collateral if something destroys it in the 30 years or whatever during which you are repaying the loan. Therefore, they demand insurance to make sure that they will be repaid. The insurance requirement protects you but also the bank, because what do you think the odds are that someone who just lost their house in a fire or something is going to keep making mortgage payments for a pile of ashes?
Don't know about the us but here we have fire breaks everywhere in the form of low depth waterways (non navigable). They also act as backup water reserves when the mains runs dry. So by design only parts of the neighborhood will burn down.
https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqpnrnguxe8qszsshvgkvhn6q...

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mik...
> They don’t want to lose their lead, and whatever restrictions they’ve been putting on China et al. have let the exact desired outcomes so far.

They absolutely have not. The best open weights LLM is Chinese (and it's competitive with the leading US closed source ones), and around 10x cheaper both to train and to serve than its western competitors. This innovation in efficiency was largely brought about by US sanctions limiting GPU availability.
Devin – First Impressions
You can’t represent others’ opinions. And you’re free to use whatever you want, it’s your choice. I was just pointing out that it seemed like you hadn’t really explored org-supertag but were making comments on it, which felt a bit like trolling.
No, all or the absolute majority of it burns around 50km.
See Oklab colorspace for an attempt at fairer perceptual brightness: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
Not pedantic at all. Markdown is not a web standard, but it enables standards first development by keeping things separate. Nue's Markdown implementation is also very different, much closer to MDX.
That isn’t the actual usage.

The actual usage is doing something to ‘appear virtuous’. Usually in the context of actual actions being non-congruent with the actual underlying virtue. Otherwise the person is just a (perhaps in a small degree) a saint.

Do you think this Lawyer is a saint?

If they do literally nothing, or the opposite of what they are doing then it is purely performative. It doesn’t have to be purely performative though.

For example, if a city spends a lot of time and effort showing how they are doing recycling and end up putting it into a landfill without further processing? That is purely performative virtue signaling.

If they sort it, and sell it to someone (at a loss), but that company ends up producing more waste/emissions while doing the processing, then it’s virtue signaling, it is at least not purely performative virtue signaling. They are putting some money where their mouth is.

Either way, it doesn’t actually solve any real underlying problems though (probably). And frankly, what are the odds the attorney actually just got fired?
> I wouldn't reject it solely because chatgpt made it, but if the checkin causes breakage it normally gets assigned back to the person who checked it in, and if that person has no clue we have a problem.

That's a fair point, but regardless of who wrote the code (or what tools were used) it should also probably be as clear as possible to everyone who reads it, because chances are that at some point that person will be elsewhere and some other person will have to take over.
How should software engineers adapt to AI-driven layoffs?
With major tech companies laying off mid-level engineers due to AI efficiency gains, what strategies are engineers using to stay competitive?

I'm interested in both immediate adaptations from those affected and how upcoming CS graduates are preparing for an AI-augmented industry.

What does the engineering career look like in the future ?
There is no shame, damn.
you can either isolate the LA customers and charge them the "real" price of the risk, which will be unviable as a business

NOT lining up the premium with the actual risk is what's non-viable.
You should have watched the video before you shat on it.

Yes, he references specific Nintendo interviews in the video. Frequently, in fact, and in detail.
In a Supreme Court case the burden of proof is on the petitioner, and it's the duty of the Court to critically question that evidence and proof. See, for instance, comparable coverage on the Roe vs Wade case, where you will see similar grilling. [1] Something quite important is how the judges responded to the claims and the follow ups. For instance in the transcript [2] follow the dialogue from the quotes you gave versus the grilling of Prelogar, representing the government.

She was, at times, being overtly mocked with quotes from judges like, "That's your best argument is that the average American won't be able to figure out that the cat feed he's getting on TikTok could be manipulated, even though there's a disclosure saying it could be manipulated?" Prelogar in general found herself struggling to defend the claim that the attempted ban was based on data access and not content (which would be unconstitutional), why there were no alternatives if the claims were based solely on data access, and the implications for any other foreign company that has access to user data (which is basically all of them). TikTok was met with some tough questioning but generally responded competently.

[1] - https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/12/majority-of-court-appears...

[2] - https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-us-supreme-court-ora...
We live in an ICF house. People don’t realize it is “framed” with concrete instead of wood unless we tell them. Siding on the outside and drywall on the inside.
Japan had literacy rates equal to the west during the age of exploration. [1] And when you go back to historical records, Egypt and Mesopotamia had insane good record keeping and were stabler, longer lasting societies than anything else earth has yet seen. They're also in some notably harsh environments compared to the easy living of Europe.

Latin characters really had nothing to do with it. Western society was built off the lessons learned from those two societies. What separates post-printing press western civilization has been the incredibly rapid expansion (which Mongols also achieved with nothing but horses and bows and arrows). But whether this post-printing press civilization will last as long as Ancient Egypt did (3000 years) is yet to be seen. We've got about 2600 years to go.

[1] https://www.jef.or.jp/journal/pdf/unknown_0003.pdf
I use AI these days and I know how things work, there really is a huge difference. It helps me make AI write me code faster and the way I want it, something I could do, except more slowly.
You can use tpm2_policyauthorize and allow the PCR to change without having to manually unlock. This was not supported in TPM 1.2.

You can use it with Systemd.

https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tools/blob/master/man/...
And FWIW, US Medicare spending alone is shaping up to grow to almost
as much as some EU nations on a % of GDP basis

Your source puts Austria, France, and Germany at the top, or roughly 11–13% of GDP.

https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/gross-domestic-product-fourth-...

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10830

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis puts the 2022 GDP at $25.46 trillion ($25,460 billion). Congress puts 2022 spending on private health insurance at $1,290 billion (5%) and Medicare at $944 billion (3.7% of GDP).