skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had both great and terrible email support (great where L1 immediatelly involved L2 support and I got a straight up solution in 15 mins, for instance), but getting something done over a voice call has never been that great!

If L1 can solve things for you, a call sometimes can work, but really, if they can't, it meant multiple calls with L1 and multiple calls with L2 (in one recent example, it took 4 months for an issue to be resolved by internal support at BigCo where I was repeatedly asked for the same screenshot, including them recording me get to it a number of times, until I pinged their manager's manager via email pointing how they have the solution in there if they only read my emails, and got it resolved 2h later).
> everyone promising "unlimited" will still have a point where you are just costing them too much

I mean, in the business world, if you promise someone something, it has legal consequences, you can't just walk in and say "hey, remember I promised you something unlimited with no strings attached? Yeah, no"

That's exactly my problem with CF. It's not like we are a large news network or anything. We are actually very small compared to their other customers, that much I can tell you.
Everyone also thought Russia had a strong military yet look how that worked out
Sure, I totally get that someone may hate it and on balance decides it is not worth it for them, and still recognize it is generally a career promotion. I am simply asserting it is objectively a promotion even though there's propaganda at FAANG explicitly suggesting otherwise.
I understand the point you’re trying to get across. For many kinds of mistakes, I agree it makes good sense to warn and correct the junior. Maybe that’s the case here. I’m willing to concede there’s room for debate.

Can you imagine the fallout from this, though? Each and every line of code this junior has ever touched needs to be scrutinized to determine its provenance. The company now must assume the employee has been uploading confidential material to OpenAI too. This is an uncomfortable legal risk.

How could you trust the dev again after the dust is settled?

Also, it raises further concerns for me that this junior seems to be genuinely, honestly unaware that using ChatGPT to write code wouldn’t at least be frowned upon. That’s a frankly dangerous level of professional incompetence. (At least they didn’t try to hide it.)

Well now I’m wondering what the correct way would be to handle a junior doing this with ChatGPT, and what the correct way would be to handle similar kinds of mistakes such as copy-pasting GPL code into the proprietary code base, copy-pasting code from Stack Overflow, sharing snippets of company code online, and so on.
It's most likely capitalism doing this to us. A lot of people are disenfranchised in society, most are alienated from their labor, don't feel happy about the work they do –if they have any control over it at all. Most of us don't have "third places" we go every day, we don't spend our days hanging out with our loved ones. Most of us are mainly isolated, maybe not intentionally, but work-rest-sleep-work cycle doesn't leave a lot of room for recreation or socializing.

Money doesn't fix any of our problems either, even if you're one of the few lucky to have enough of it, you can't possibly be happy living society perpetually decaying. We'll always be as happy as our neighbor.
Hm. I didn't know me getting older could affect so much time series data. I must be really powerful ;)
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OK it’s not just an alleyway but an entire half of a city block trash heap with dumpsters make one think that they neglected to build anything nice in that fourth corner. Oh and two streets away are tribes of homeless people. Watch the first 5 seconds of my video.

In fact my video literally shows trash on the street as well in SF, as well as homeless.

Seriously, other cities have city hall. There are no dumpsters around it. We have courthouses and government buildings.

Certainly none around Lincoln Center which has the Metropolitan Opera and NYC Ballet and Philharmonic. It doesn’t smell there. There are beautiful fountains etc.

I took some photos of the homeless in SF juxtaposed in front of the skyline in the background. It is very pervasive there. LA and SF seem to be magnets for homeless.

If I was mayor I’d give them all a $50 phone preloaded with gigs including ones from the city, like sweeping the streets and from businesses such as handing out flyers. Have the app unlock mini storage and showers, and help them have digital ID. This ain’t rocket science. Crowdfund the support for each homeless the way we support kids in Haiti. Give them opportunities. But instead the bureaucracy just kicks them around and denies them opportunities without an address.

Anyway…
General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years
Echoing all the comments here calling this bill absolutely ludicrous. If you're determined to make a gun, and determined to 3d print it, then making a diy machine is as easy as ordering a few stepper motors, some linear extrusion and a motor control board. Are they gonna background check before you buy those too? What about a lathe? Or any steel tube? Or a hacksaw FFS. Unabomber made his pistol from broken car parts and a goddamn hand drill:

" [A] few days ago I finished making a twenty two caliber pistol. This took me a long time, for a year and a half, thereby preventing me from working on some other projects I would have liked to carry out. Gun works well and I get as much accuracy out of it as I'd expect for an inexperienced pistol shot like me. It is equipped with improvised silencer which does not work as well as I hoped. At a guess it cuts noise down to maybe one third. It is said that it is easy for machinist to make a gun, but of course I did not have machine tools, but only a few files, hacksaw blades, small vice, a rickety hand drill, etc. I took the barrel from an old pneumatic pistol. I made the other parts out of several metal pieces. Most of them come from the old abandoned cars near here. I needed to make the parts with enough precision but I made them well and I'm very satisfied. I want to use the gun as a homicide weapon"

You know what you can't easily manufacture at home? Bullets.

Draw your own conclusions on why that isn't up for regulation here
How can I use the 'dead man strategy' if I've just started investing and don't own any stocks?

Because if I already need to have some stocks, than this being the #1 strategy feels like those advice that you get on the internet where if you want to be rich just get born into a wealthy family.

Statistically probably true, but not really doable. :/

I feel like you can only do the 'dead man strategy' when your already dead, since before that it's probably better to keep adding money into the portfolio.
I'm not a lawyer but this sure sounds illegal. Piercing the veil?
ah, yes. the "Shady Roofing Contractor" business model.

"don't worry, all the work has warranted by New Quality Roofing Services IV, LLC"

although, there's very little about that structure that's unique to an LLC. it can be done the same with a corporation.

i'm certain this only works when the amount of debt being ripped off (ahem in dispute) is not a lot more than the cost to sic a really good law firm on you.
>they're essentially a way to tax normal people for the faults of governments and major companies

But it's a great way to deliver the signal that '(Climate) RISK IS INCREASING' directly to the voters. If the government socialises the losses, society won't learn the harsh lessons about our changing world quickly enough.
I've been collecting a bunch of links on what things a homeowner can do. Probably the simplest thing is the clear a 5 foot ember resistant zone around the home. So remove greenery and replace wood chips with stone for example. Use fire resistant vents so ember does enter attic or crawlspace. Use Class A fire rated roof (which you can also get for asphalt shingles). If you have wood siding, replace with fiber cement siding...

https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/200-wrr/Safer-from...

https://readyforwildfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Low-...

https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/fire-engineering-and-inv...
LLC liability protections are not absolute. I wouldn’t be surprised if this would fall under gross negligence or callous indifference or some other legal umbrella that voids the liability protection. I also wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some fine print in the account agreement that creates a personal guarantee.
Yes and before they migrate due to climate change, they'll sell their charred lots to some fascist with the willpower to clear the brush, fill the reservoirs, and deploy fire fighting drones. Then everything will go back to normal. God protects only the strong.
Hmm, is there anything you can think of, barring an individual's death or mutation etc.., that we'd consider alive but can't reproduce or evolve? I hadn't thought of it previously, but that does seem like a fundamental difference between being inert and alive.
Kids, sure. University trained professional and paid like one? No.
I actually thought that would be cool for Switch 2 - call it the Switch 25. They could release the Switch 30 in 5 years and so on without too much confusion, assuming compatibility all the way through (by 2035 we'll probably all be on thin clients anyway).
Ugh

I still have a couple of apps running on Firebase. I can't wait to get rid of those.

In 2016 Firebase seemed the holy grail for frontend devs and I deeply regret ever using it.
You overestimate the ability of people to communicate "explicitly and succinctly".

With a mathematical background, I can weigh every word carefully and only include words that add meaning. One short sentence can say a lot.

But people will still assume things, ignore some of those words, and misinterpret so it aligns with their views. When you quickly notice this in a sync communication (which is much easier in a video call compared to an IM chat or even a phone call if you can read facial expressions, body language and tone), that's easily fixed, but email thread can go on for days.

But I agree that you need both (I prefer text, really, but see my point).
there's a wrapper type, AssertUnwindSafe to get around it. The whole concept of unwind safety was a mistake so don't worry about using it
Maybe it's because I'm self-taught, but I have always accounted for every line I push.

It's insulting that companies are paying people to cosplay as programmers.
Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S.
You definitely aren’t banned! Maybe people just tapered off for a bit — I see a bunch of cursors now.

There are two more secret emojis, by the way :)
>people are whispering "managed retreat" without actually being able to say it outloud around polite company, we are starting to see programs like "we'll make you whole in case of a flood, but you aren't allowed to rebuild on the lot if you take our payout". But those buyouts are often met with yells of "government is taking my property!" because again, no one wants to face the stark reality of managed retreat.

I know politics is famous for elites abusing it for their own benefit, but sometimes the population is truly not ready for something that the elites understand is utterly necessary and that's not a bad thing. The risks and benefits of an elite class, I guess.
Seems it shouldn't be impossible for a new type of browser to restructure and present content in a matter that suits the user if the markup is semantic.

A lynx for the modern age?
Cool talk, thanks for sharing!
I agree, but being aware of politics is entirely different than jumping into the deep end of the pool.
Why would you expect anything else? Becoming "a top scientist" doesn't turn you into some non-human intelligent entity without flaws for the rest of your life, it just means you've done some notable scientific work in some areas. And that work doesn't even have to be correct! You could've been a top scientist with later top (or even low) scientists invalidating all your top science work
> Insurance fees are not high because the insurance companies are making huge profits.

United Healthcare alone made $23,000,000,000 in profit in 2023. Health insurance companies have collectively made $371 billion in profits since the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Property & Liability insurance (home, car, etc) have relatively modest profit margins, but health insurance companies absolutely are making huge profits.
One of the things which really brought that into focus for me was when I was old enough to look past the flowery language of Shakespeare and understand the meaning of what the characters were going through. It first hit me when I realized that Hamlet's famous "to be or not to be" speech was really about him wanting to commit suicide, but being afraid that he might go to hell. It's not really an earth shattering insight, but as a young man it blew my mind. I had never really thought about the fact that humans living in the past might have had the same psychological struggles and problems we still have to confront to this day.

Honestly, learning about how little humans have changed throughout history has been both one of the most delightful and sad things I have learned. It's wonderful to think about the real kinship we have with people long since dead, but it's also sobering to realize we still make a lot of the same mistakes despite their example. But regardless of whether it's good or bad, I find the relatable humanity of historical people to be endlessly fascinating.
You cannot write code without bugs.
This is the main reason to use a GUI imho.
Much more practical solution is more aggressive defensible spaces, cracking down on gardens, and proper management of fire reservoirs
You dont have worry about them. Read Pareto's Circulation of the Elite.

As long as they are screwing with each other, the amount of time they have to exploit the plebs reduces.
>Part of the problem is that the existence of the middle man adds a lot of costs: insurance company salaries, their executives, doctor's office billing coding, advertising, etc.

that's not a sophisticated analysis. it would be like saying mcdonalds is unecessarily expensive because executive pay, and cars, and dry cleaning, etc. etc. yet, if you tried to found a competitor, you'd have all those same expenses. even charities have to pay management.

insurance companies make money because their aggregate risk is less than your individual risk, and you really don't want your individual risk so you are willing to pay them extra, a premium, to get them to shore up your downside. After that it's like any other company selling any other thing.
Any extra time spent during a burn is wasted fuel. Intuitively, any time before the rocket is in orbit, some part of the rocket thrust is resisting the force of gravity or else it would fall back down to earth. The longer that time is, the more thrust (and thus fuel) was spent negating that force. It's the main reason why the Falcon 9 boosters do a 'hoverslam' on return and land at close to full throttle - any extra time during that burn is less fuel efficient.

Better fuel efficiency = more payload to orbit = plenty of justification for the extra complexity.

Admittedly gravity losses are more significant at the beginning when the booster/ship are ascending purely vertically than later in second stage flight which is mostly horizontal, but definitely still a factor.
He was the reason for half my username, so long maestro.
> Because it's the only way to get universal coverage, which if you don't have, means a portion of the population gets really sick, jams the ER, can't afford to pay the resulting bill (maybe declaring bankrupcy), and someone then has to eat/cover the cost. Often by hiking prices for those that do have coverage.

The alternative that is always there is to repeal EMTALA.

> It starts by requiring that insurers offer the same plans, at the same prices, to everyone, regardless of medical history. This deals with the problem of pre-existing conditions. On its own, however, this would lead to a “death spiral”: healthy people would wait until they got sick to sign up, so those who did sign up would be relatively unhealthy, driving up premiums, which would in turn drive out more healthy people, and so on.

This misses the problem: [the ACA causes a moral hazard for lower classes likely to use it.](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8567089/)

The issue is a policy designed for a highly uniform, high social class, high status state (Massachusetts) was applied to the USA as a whole.
Literally grow lights and nuclear reactors? (Or plain old gas turbine generators)

Technology is the only thing that can save anyone from that type of situation. Prayer sure wouldn’t help!
So let's ban all artificial food dyes. Natural ones work fine. Artificial dyes lead to a race of food manufacturers adding more dye to make their junk food products more appealing.
> Also, it raises further concerns for me that this junior seems to be genuinely, honestly unaware that using ChatGPT to write code wouldn’t at least be frowned upon.

Austen Allred is selling this as the future of programming. According to him, the days of writing code into an IDE are over.

https://www.gauntletai.com/
Health insurance's issue is probably how it induces pure waste everywhere as everyone has to play this dance of ever escalating paperwork which consumes a lot of labor. It's not profit, it's waste. Same with the ever increasing amount of admin. Why is that admin increasing? I estimate insurance or requirements created by insurance is part of the cause.

There is also a lot of other smells of a lack of a competitive market. Very opaque pricing, limits to how many hospitals can be opened in a region, needing paperwork to push against that limit, limits in residency slots, the entire hazing ritual of residency in the first place, limits in opening medical schools, ever escalating requirements to become a doctor, restrictions against doctor owned hospitals or clinics, the fact something like an epipen is still not out of patent and not having many clones by now, large barriers to make medical devices and medications, while simultaneously having great issues with generic drug quality, a horrible food system compared to Europe, while simultaneously having a much harder regulatory state medically compared to europe, etc.
I want to address Markdown and it's role in standards first development.

While MD itself isn't a web standard, it's a strategic choice that reinforces standards-first development by generating pure, semantic HTML. This creates a natural separation between content structure and visual presentation.

Consider the impact on CSS development.

In React codebases, engineers spend 90% of their time writing JavaScript - managing state, coordinating effects, optimizing builds. Style sheets become an afterthought, buried under framework patterns and utility classes.

Nue flips this ratio: codebases become 90% CSS, focusing engineering effort on systematic design through web standards. By keeping content in Markdown and presentation in stylesheets, we maximize the power of native CSS features - from custom properties and container queries to mathematical relationships for typography and spacing.
Yep, as I mention above
There definitely is precedent - any parallelizably-decodable CABAC-derived neural compression algorithm basically has a flavor of this idea at its heart - intersperse statistical state throughout your token stream so you can decouple novelty in your state space on the fly.

Taken to its extreme where the ‘memory’ is descriptive enough to deterministically control the decoding you get parallelism over the sequence for free as a consequence of the associativity.

Similar techniques are used in making video compression algorithms robust enough for low latency reconnection in online streaming in poor/changing network conditions, or making it possible to decompress JPEGs at >1GBps in parallel by exploiting the presence of ‘RESET’ tokens that indicate independent/novel substreams.

That said, I do agree that this is definitely a great paper and contribution to language models though!
Some Blue Cross Blue Shield Association members are for-profit corporations now.

As for UnitedHealth Group, much of their profit comes from a large software business which is separate from their insurance, care delivery, and PBM businesses. If that software business was spun out it would be one of the 20 largest US tech companies.
Because I don't expect a random thief to go to the lengths of identifying OS level vulnerabilities to bypass the login prompt in order to decrypt the disk contents. The potential gains for them are marginal compared to the time and effort spent there, not to mention technical expertise needed. I expect them to steal it, and if it's encrypted, just sell it for parts, or wipe it and sell it anew.

Entering a password can be a lot of work if you use a strong password (and if you don't, why bother with a password?). Typos can take a toll too because of all the delays included.
Samsung 43" 4K (Width:3840 Height:2160 Depth:24bpp) smart TV fed via HDMI

"Works for Me".
> When Flash did finally come to mobile on Android, it required a 1Ghz processor and 1GB RAM.

It worked on Maemo years before that though, with 600MHz Cortex-A8 CPU and 256 MB RAM. Nokia N900 had out-of-box support for Flash in its Gecko-based browser.

I believe Symbian had some support before that too, but I don't remember and haven't checked the details.
> There has to be a better way.

Probably Clevis and Tang, network disk decryption that can only decrypt if most of your servers are online. https://github.com/latchset/clevis https://github.com/latchset/tang

Or network decryption (SSH into initrd). https://github.com/gsauthof/dracut-sshd
I submit my site into this directory too, love it.
When I was in elementary school back in the 1970s, I read every sci-fi book in the tiny school library. They were all old, even then. Early stuff by Asimov, Heinlein and Bova. Paperbacks on cheap pulp with cover paintings of rockets sitting upright on alien terrain. Tiny people in space suits climbing down ladders to explore a new world.

With the Apollo moon landings in recent memory, I'd read those sci-fi books late at night with a flashlight under the covers of my bed and then fall asleep thinking about how "I'll still be alive 50 years from now. I'll get to actually live in the world of the future. Maybe I'll even work in space." And by the time I graduated from high school it was already becoming clear things were going much to slow for me to even see humans colonizing Mars. And that was reality until about a decade ago.

So, yeah. Watching the live video of the first successful Starship orbital launch with my teenage daughter... I got a little choked up, which surprised me. Felt like discovering a very old dream that's been buried too long. And somehow the damn thing's still alive. Or maybe I just got something in my eye. Anyway, I know it's too late for me to ever work off-planet. But maybe not for my kid... so, the dream lives on. It just had to skip a generation.
Apple's AI launch has been so, so messy. This, like the goggles, is, very clearly not ready for primetime. Worlds apart from their iPad/Watch/AirPods/Mac launches just a few years ago.

I feel like an older version of Apple would have gotten an AI skeptic like me fully locked in instead of deepening my skepticism.
You can go even deeper and ask what the difference between "real" and "model" even is.