skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article presents a very interesting contrast to the article and discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42732728, which basically asserts that insurance companies are not to blame and some places are actually becoming uninsurable.

Maybe, just maybe, it's possible that some places are becoming too expensive to insure and insurance companies are exploiting every loophole they can to maximize their profits?
y’all really need to open source that racking modeling tool, that would save sooooo many people so much time
Glad you enjoyed it! Hearing this means a lot and motivates me to keep improving it.
technology changed our life. especially internet and smart phone impact a lot on social engagement between peoples.
if people spend much time on internet or smart phones daily, if it is not tiktok, it will be something else.
should we go back to non smart phone time? or even roll back to no internet time? maybe no electricity time.

technology is just like a tool. how people use it matters not the technology itself can be evil.
tiktok's algorithm helps speed up information delivery to the people who likes it. eventually it helps to form a community of people online who like similar thing or have similar options.
people needs to be aware of the content on any platform has "survivorship bias". seeing couple of examples is not representing the whole.
In bed with Hari and Aruna (2023)
Really? You were doing offensive security work not for a government (/contractor)? What sorts companies, aside from some enterprise pen testers, employ these roles?
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All their trainings are OSINT on China. Of course this company is full of clickers, using just automated tools.
I think strictly "9 pool" means you build the pool when you have 9 supply. However, before you build a spawning pool, the only thing you can build that consumes supply is workers.
Please give us some examples of MSM propaganda about China.
Banks printing money means the burger is more expensive for everyone who uses the denomination that the bank printed money for surely?

It increases cost and consequently reduces the incentive to produce outputs? So less incentive to produce, but if produced the result is a more expensive burger would be my read on this.

Happy to hear why you think it's different.
It's not that the title is interesting, it's that it's objectively incorrect. People know how cards work. The article does not put forth any unsolved properties of cards. It's bad on purpose to make you click.
In response, Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, 80% civilians, 70% women and children, have destroyed more than half of their buildings residential or otherwise, displaced millions, refuse aid. Disproportionate does not begin to cover it
Yes, but my point is that TikTok is the most downloaded app in the United States, with apparently about 100 million installs. I'm just looking at reports on various sites.

Edit: other sites put YouTube, and others higher with TikTok at 40% of phones.

Nothing else controlled by the CCP looks like it even comes close to that in America.
You can follow accounts, and they offer a Following tab to keep track of accounts you really like, but the default consumption mode is to use it just like TV. When you're done with a video you scroll to the next. The app uses signals like how long you spent on a video, whether you liked it or not, whether you sent it to friends or not, etc to see how much you like a video. You can also reset your "algorithm" if you find yourself consuming content you don't like.
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
Wonderful!

The edge cases are the gold btw, collect the whole set and keep them in a human and machine readable format.

I'd also go through and using a color coded set of cables, insert bad cables (one at a time at first) while the system is doing an aggressive all to all workload and see how quickly you can identify faults.

It is the gray failures that will bring the system down, often multiple as a single failure will go undetected for months and then finally tip over an inflection point at a later time.

Are you workloads ephemeral and/or do they live migrate? Or will physical hosts have long uptimes? It is nice to be able to rebaseline the hardware before and after host kernel upgrades so you can detect any anomalies.

You would be surprised about how larger of a systemic performance degradation that major cloud providers have been able to see over months because "all machines are the same", high precision but low absolute accuracy. It is nice to run the same benchmarks on bare metal and then again under virtualization.

I am sure you know, but you are running a multivariate longitudinal experiment, science the shit out of it.
CFPB Orders Operator of Cash App to Pay $175M and Fix Its Failures on Fraud
Pretty much. A strongly predicted branch is as fast as straight-line code, for most practical purposes (in modern processors). It is the mis-predicted branch that causes a pipeline flush and a re-fetch and so forth. The whole point of instructions like CMOV is to replace "flakey" branches with a CMOV so that you can execute both code paths and the test condition path all in parallel and grab the right answer at the end. This avoids paying the mis-predict penalty, and gives more time to compute the test condition, which for a branch is almost always only available awkwardly late in the pipeline. So as long as the compiler can do a decent job of identifying "flakey" branches up front for replacement with CMOV, it is a win. And many branches are easy for the compiler to classify. For instance -- if(SomeRareExceptionCondition) handle_exception(); -- for bonus points, move the exception handling code way the heck out to a different text page so that it isn't hanging around taking up I-cache space for no good reason.
This is a pretty decent write up. One thing that comes to mind is why would you write your own internal tooling for managing a rack when Netbox exists? Netbox is fantastic and I wish I had this back in the mid 2000s when I was managing 50+ racks.

https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
- harvesting data: sure the CCP could buy some data from data brokers; but that data is very limited compared to the data that TikTok itself has on its users

but data harvesting is not the real problem

the big problem is that you have a social network to which millions of your citizens are connected and used daily, which is under the control of a foreign adversary; it's a bit like if CBS was owned by the CCP
I would also be very curious to see if it's possible to make a decompiler for this type of obfuscated program.
I'd be happy if the number leaving negative reviews was that high.
I have to second this. While it takes mich effort and in-depth knowledge do build up from an “empty” cage it’s still far from dealing with everything from building permits, to plan and realize a data center to code including redundant power lines, AC and fibre.

Still kudos going this path in the cloud-centric time we live in.
x |= x >> 1;
x |= x >> 2;
x |= x >> 4;
x |= x >> 8;
x |= x >> 16;
x |= x >> 32;

Isn't there another way to do this without so many data races?

I feel like this should be

x |= x >> 1 | x >> ??? ...
Haha, thanks for the heads-up about scrolling! Definitely not intentional realism, but hey, I’ll take the happy accident.
So that was there whole platform - “we aren’t Trump”?

Do you think the population got more ignorant in 4 years? This is all on the DNC and Biden. Biden should have either voluntarily not run or stronger Democrats should have had a primary and crucified him.

The DNC lied to the American public for years. They knew that Biden wasn’t all there. They basically tried to do a “Weekend with Bernie” on them.

Not to mention that strategically for the first time in modern history they had the new industry titans in their back pocket - BigTech - and threw them under the bus.

The American population doesn’t care about going after BigTech like HN does.
Shorting almost any two of the communication lines of the flash chip will corrupt the communication enough that the ethernet controller thinks there's no flash installed at all.
What satisfiable criteria would you like in a source?
I doubt they will offer a way, they need free training material since you use their “free” product
That was one (corrupt) option. Another would have been to draw funds by taxing homeowners, specifically, and limiting payouts by fire risk, capping at a mean replacement cost, not per-house. That that's not what happened is an issue with the implementation, not the base concept.
Finetuning is as finnicky as coding it yourself directly. If you already have a toolset why bother with another that is statistically wrong as many times as it is right.
> Either everyone is 3x as likely to comment on it as usual or something else is different. Ijs.

Or maybe this story is hugely relevant to a lot more people than your average story? I find it hard to believe china is waging a huge phsyop on HN
RedNote is a bit different: it has been wildly popular in China for a number of years, and the Chinese community has been using it overseas already.

It may not retain all the new users, but it is not going to become irrelevant.
Lots of games still have issues with ultra wide.

If you ever plan to do any screensharing for fun, support, or any purpose. It's all terrible.
I screenshare with people daily and those with ultrawide are unusable.
Most switched off for this reason alone.

Movies and productive they are just fine. But I'm not a fan but know lots of people who love.
I'm just a regular 3 27" monitor person.

Only time I'd consider ultrawide for gaming is for sim games. Racing or flying but I don't play those games enough to justify.
Email is in my profile -- happy to clarify/share some very rough details if you'd like.
> "Starting off the most affluently" is an awkward and verbose way to say "this is an economic opener/build."

Why would it be awkward and verbose?
I agree; the Tiktok algorithm would be used to subtly shift public opinion rather than something overt that burns their assets

This is a very realistic scenario. It doesn't mean people will suddenly see messages from the CCP on their screens. It could mean that posts that are critical of China are subtly downweighted (not banned, that would be too obvious and problematic) while those favorable towards China would be upweighted.

One thing the CCP is quite good at, from its long experience of always controlling the narrative in China, is this type of social media manipulation.
Thank you for the super detailed feedback—this is incredibly helpful!

Other comments have highlighted similar issues, and I definitely see the need to re-work the lessons to maintain a more consistent positive action pattern.

Balancing guided exploration with clear player expectations has been tricky, but your input gives me a lot to think about.

Thanks again-really appreciate you taking the time to share this.
Thanks you for refreshing my memory, I learn about that in college twenty-something years ago but never used that knowledge!
The US will probably foot the bill for this and Ukraine, of course some big US company will get the contract after a deal has been met with our politicians that can sway things their way
Can insurance companies be forced to expose or open source their models?
Your point makes no sense to me. A cable is often useful when WiFi isn't.

Case (A) is common for laptops. I've had plenty of WiFi modules (M.2?) go intermittent connection on friend's Windows laptops over time (maybe component drift?). For Linux on laptops I usually replace the manufacturers WiFi module so I get something better supported (high reliability - used to be Intel). Some people upgrade their module e.g. to get higher spec WiFi.

For (B), configuring WiFi routers is often easier with an Ethernet cable and sometimes necessary (depending on circumstances), and you need a cable to configure many other devices e.g. point-to-point links or whatever.

The fact you have a WiFi laptop is exactly why an adapter is really useful.
The frame here is misguided. It sees insurance companies as engaging in a war against consumer protections and, fair enough, they explicitly are. However the reason they are engaged in that campaign is any companies that don't feel like fighting have shut down or left the state [0]. Very similar principle to how a starving animal might get a bit aggressive. It isn't normal to have an actively adversarial relationship with your insurers - mine charge a fair market price and I'm happy, they're happy. Everyone a winner.

> California home insurance companies’ return on net worth ... was three percentage points higher than the national average ... [and] the last five years were even better.

This is a fairly classic statistics mistake. If you shrink the insurance market by making it risky and difficult for businesses then the accessible low-margin types shut down and the boutique, highly expensive ones are the last to cling on. High profits in simple businesses like insurance are a sign of unhealthy markets. If anyone could go in and charge what they liked, the rate of profit would be so low that without investing the float insurers would be making a loss.

[0] I admit to making an assumption here. I did at least check for some sort of data although I don't hold myself to any particular standard of interpreting it - https://www.atlas-mag.net/en/article/distribution-of-insuran...
5 bucks say it was written by a LLM
I thought that the idea that they did not understand property rights was a misconception. The different tribes had their own territories, and they clearly had an idea of the territory belonging to one or another. This is also why people negotiating with them for land would use underhanded negotiating tactics such as getting their leaders drunk for the negotiations so that they would agree to absurd deals. If they did not understand property rights, there would have been no point to doing that.
This is nonsense. Of course insurance is going to be expensive when billions of dollars of property burns down every other year.

You can't fix that problem by setting a price cap on insurance; you need to stop the destruction.
Oh, ya, now that I look at it it isn't one seat, but 5. I wonder why I thought it was one, maybe that was just for the speaker vote? Anyways, this is better for Trump, since I think 5 seats gives him something to work with. He still needs basic consensus, but one rogue house member doesn't kill everything.
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make, but the law is whatever congress has passed, whatever the courts have interpreted, and whatever the executive executes.

My point is, the First Amendment tells Congress not to do that.

What exactly does "shall make no law" mean to you? Be specific.
A little searching suggests you may have to contact support to get the toggles: https://support.google.com/mail/thread/318850451?hl=en&msgid...

I don't have a good way to verify that though.
A sibling of mine who gets a significant portion of their income through their Tiktok following confessed to me recently that they completely understand why they are shutting it down.

Apparently influencers get a lot of unsolicited pressure to take stances on things like Palestine even if they're just a crafting influencer.
The anti link policies we see in much of social media aren’t just about building a closed platform - they’re anti competitive. But our anti trust laws are inadequate to easily and quickly enforce against such practices.
I find it easy to believe. If Russia can run a psyop to sway opinion towards supporting their interests why can’t China? HN is hardly some tiny unknown forum.
Thanks for linking and kudos to that high schooler considering how much in the news it has been you would expect it to be a well reasearched area
not in USA
I've heard of that application, but will it detect faint writing, which experts weren't intially sure was writing, on a 4 cm long piece of rock? I don't that's happening any time soon.
No, the original text can largely be recovered from embeddings[0] if you know which embedding model was used.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06816
I have VGA 1280x1024.
It's less about bare privacy and more about the fact that it's a closed loop system.

Meta collects your data and advertisers can indirectly use that data to serve you ads. In addition, government actors can use Meta's advertising tools to spread propaganda.

But TikTok is an all-in-one solution. The government have direct control over the algorithm in addition to having access to all of the data. They don't have to go through a third party intermediary like Meta and aren't only limited by a public advertising API.
The article you linked is correct. Insurance companies can't price risk fairly here in CA because they need state regulator approval to increase rates. This is due to good old prop 103.

We should all be able to agree that the actuarial math backing their rates is good. What they do after when it comes to fighting policy payouts is another story
Congress is explicitly empowered in the Constitution to regulate foreign trade. Free speech is not relevant.
This seems possibly not crazy. If you can have one of these powered by natural gas and scale it to 20 kW then you have a nice home generator that is "whisper quiet" according to TFA and also: simple, easy to maintain, with few moving parts, perhaps even durable. The hydrogen aspect of this is not as interesting as the other fuels, though it'd be nice to know the efficiency numbers for different fuel types. That said, having to supply sodium might be a problem.
Why Banning Red No. 3 in America Took Decades [video]
Appreciate this! It’s clear there’s a lot of room to make things more intuitive. I’ll definitely focus on improving the clarity and flow in the next iteration.
Some people have such bad metabolism that they have to east tiny amounts of food to not gain weight ,way lower than predicted by calculators and controlling for weight. Ozempic makes this easier. Yeah, you're right that overeating is the problem, but this threshold is low for those with crap genetics.
> Your comment is abstract

It's possible I've misunderstood you, and if that's the case I do apologise.

I was talking about the abstract concept of an AI relationship, not this one in particular.
It is not easy to get everything right in terms of accessibility. You make a very good point about certain content, such as your bank account, being too sensitive for the browser to actively interpret. Thanks!
Why can’t you draw a flowchart/diagram of the logic?

Sure it may be so complex that a complete diagram would be dozens of feet across and tall on a real piece of paper.

But with apporpriate software tools that is not a limitation.
we evaluated a lot of commercial and oss offerings before we decided do go build it ourselves - we still have a deploy of netbox somewhere. But our custom tool (Railyard) works so well because it integrates deeply into the our full software, hardware and orchestration stack. The problem with the OSS stuff is that it's almost too generic - you shape the problem to fit its data model vs. solve the problem. We're likely going to fold our tool into Railway itself eventually - want to go on-prem; button click hardware design, commission, deploy and devex. Sorta like what Oxide is doing, but approaching the problem from the opposite side.
As someone who is wading through a bloated Devin PR right now, this article resonates with me. A direct link might be useful to some: [1]

1: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-08-devin.html

I have been surprised by the strength of Devin at the beginning of my team's use of it, but lately it has been a letdown. I don't know that we are ready to cancel yet but Devin faces some growing headwind for me, at least.
Perhaps the privacy and free speech absolutism that prevail among hacker forum commenters are not the values to run a civilization by.
Android no longer has anything as part of standard SDK, everything is done as Androidx libraries.
Aha.

So using some wholly new process, like the continuous innovation involved in casting large parts, how would I separate ops and engr?

Forgive my ignorance. I'm just wondering how Ford's quality circles, or the Toyota Production System would work if ops and engr were treated aa separate silos.

Since we're kibitzing about rockets, I suppose the example above could have been ramping up production of Raptor engines to 1 per day (IIRC), while improving performance and reducing costs. If I wanted to emulate that process, using your methodology, where would I start?
IMO the same argument holds for both Musk/X and the CCP/TikTok: social media networks upon which the US public has become heavily dependent, should not be under the absolute control of some unaccountable person/entity with a strong personal agenda -- this applies to both Musk and the CCP.

If there was a way to force Musk to sell X or ban it, I would support that 100%. But that's unlikely to ever happen especially now with co-President Musk. But in the meantime, either breaking TT free of CCP control, or banning it, would be at least one battle won.
Hoped to see more Code or read more in the blog.
Insurance companies are not doing well in terms of profits: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

I understand people's frustration at expensive premiums, but increasing the regulatory burden, and instituting price ceilings will only further reduce the number of options available. Also, insurance is a highly competitive industry, with institutionalized competition (enforced by brokers), and it's a bit ridiculous to pretend that clients are loyal to providers.
How are you using LLMs? With o1 I've switched to spelling out in lots of details what I want, then asking it it to one shot the full file, so with this approach the wait time has been acceptable.
They already are. Rate filings are all publicly available through the DOI website: https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0800-rate-filings...
> As long as I am not sharing personal data of other people (who haven’t consented to it like I did)

The ruling mentions that users are in fact doing this.

> (Draft National Security Agreement noting that TikTok collects [...] and device and network data (including device contacts and calendars)). If, for example, a user allows TikTok access to the user’s phone contact list to connect with others on the
platform, TikTok can access “any data stored in the user’s contact list,” including names, contact information, contact photos, job titles, and notes. 2 id., at 659.

I also don't believe that most adults using this app really know how much data TikTok collects. It isn't just "what i watch and do within the app". A fuller quote from the above that doesn't just focus on data involving other people is

> The platform collects extensive personal information from and about its users. See
H. R. Rep., at 3 (Public reporting has suggested that TikTok’s “data collection practices extend to age, phone number, precise location, internet address, device used, phone
contacts, social network connections, the content of private
messages sent through the application, and videos
watched.”); 1 App. 241 (Draft National Security Agreement
noting that TikTok collects user data, user content, behavioral data (including “keystroke patterns and rhythms”),
and device and network data (including device contacts and calenders)).

I also don't particularly believe that the US has to allow espionage just because the government spying got the individuals being spied on to agree to it.

And why have we forgotten about kids?

The law in question doesn't forbid you, or any other adult, or even any child for that matter, from knowingly installing the app. It forbids companies from assisting in wide scale espionage. You can still install the app if you want, the US companies just can't help operate the espionage app.