skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the grocery store decides to remove the prices from everything, and require its shoppers to first call its billing department only open until 5pm to receive a set of numbers, then call their third party subscription service only open until 6pm to receive a non-binding estimate, for every item in their grocery list, then wait weeks or months for the grocery store to have its cashiers take time away from checking customers out to petition the third-party subscription service to allow its customers to buy any item deemed to require prior authorization…

You can typically endure hunger for 15 minutes for the time it takes to go to another food store.

On the other hand, if you are bleeding out in the ER, no such luxury exists.

Insurance executives have a fiduciary duty to maximize the profit of the company.

If the company makes a profit off of treating patients, then it has a financial incentive to not approve treatments that would make patients better.

If the company loses money treating patients, then it has a financial incentive to deny treatment as much as possible.

Unless a legal structure is found which scales profit with quality of care, ethical choices will be at odds with the fiduciary duty of the company officers. Having an AI say “no” and putting someone on hold is a lot less expensive than paying out for a cure that cost billions to develop.

In the case of government-run healthcare, the government at least sees the consequence of poor health outcomes in decreased productivity, competitiveness, gdp, and/or tax revenue, as well as increased use of social services.

In other words, if the insurance company refuses to treat you, it costs the government money to pay for welfare indefinitely, not the insurance company.

There are lots of perverse incentives at work, and vanishingly few people even try to understand them, I think because most people simply don’t believe it could possibly be as bad as it is. And by the time they learn otherwise, they care more about getting healthy again than overextending themselves trying to solve a massively complex problem.
Honestly, i have been bitten so many times by LLM hallucinations when I work in parallel with the LLM, I wouldn't trust it autonomously running anything at all. If you have tried to use imaginary APIs, imaginary configuration and imaginary cli arguments, you know what I mean
I'm buying AI tech stocks and studying AI in depth.
Not to rain too much on your harping, but the DC-X program did vertical landing 30 years ago.
I am Herbert "fan". I think Lynch captured better the religious part, the mysticism of Dune. Without this, Dune is just another first person shooter.
At the incredible speeds Starship was moving (>13,000 mph) by the time it was over the Caribbean, debris from a Starship is expected to burn up by the time it reaches the surface. But you said "depending on the size", so let's imagine it's a different spacecraft carrying something that won't entirely burn up, like the Mir space station from several years back.

In that scenario, debris from 100km will survive to pass through 10km. The point is: if the mass becomes debris >143km high traveling at >13,000 mph over the Caribbean - it doesn't pass through 10km anywhere near the Caribbean. Even though the friction causing tempered metal to glow white hot is slowing it, the trajectory is ballistic so by the time it slows enough to get that low (10km) it's hundreds or thousands of miles East from where the explosion happened (and where that airplane was).

It's weird because given these orbital velocities and altitudes, our intuitions about up and down aren't very useful. Starship exploded in orbit over the Caribbean, so planes in the Caribbean were safe from falling debris. If it was Mir instead of Starship, planes hundreds or thousands miles to the East of the Caribbean would be at elevated risk. My high school astronomy teacher once said something like "Rockets don't go up to reach orbit. They go sideways. And they keep going sideways faster and faster until they're going so fast, up and down don't matter anymore." While that's hardly a scientific summary, it does give a sense of the dynamics. You'll recall that Mir was intentionally de-orbited so it would land in a desolate part of the Indian Ocean. So, did they blow it up right over the Indian Ocean? Nope. To crash it in the Indian Ocean, given the altitude and speed, they "blew it up" on the other side of Earth, like maybe over Chicago (I actually don't recall where the de-orbit began, but had to be very far away).
Sorry, I only watched the chopsticks part
You're not alone! The feedback form shows overwhelming relief from developers tired of complexity. Single-page applications will be the true test of the standards-first approach, as that's where the contrast with current practices becomes most stark.
How does offering a deductible ranged well outside what the majority of households in the US can actually pay hurt anyone? If that isn't self-explanatory I'm not sure what to tell you.
I'm working on a feed reader that separates articles into Inbox and Library.

New content shows up in the inbox, where you can bookmark or archive. Bookmarked content shows up in the library.

Going through the Inbox and bookmarking interesting content is fast, and in the Library the high volume feeds don't matter as much (because you curated before and only have interesting content there).

https://lighthouseapp.io
People don't build wood houses in an area that gets wild fires
The page says “I still have no idea how I discovered the clever design which only uses 120x 2x2 bricks and 60x black pins”.

Some of those pins are visible in the photo. He put them on the ‘outside corner’ of the 60 ‘outer’ bricks

I don’t understand how they interlock. Things should get crowded, so maybe that’s ‘just’ a matter of putting everything in the right place.

That surely would warrant the claim “building this thing is an absolute nightmare”
The article does not provide the slightest clue about why the researchers believe that this is an alphabetic script, taking into account that they say that it does not resemble other known scripts.

Usually it is assumed that a script is alphabetic instead of being syllabic when the total number of distinct symbols is small, but this is not foolproof, because there are languages with a relatively small number of distinct syllables, like Japanese, so there is an overlap in the number of distinct symbols between alphabetic scripts for languages with a great number of phonemes and syllabic scripts for languages with a small number of syllables.

However, in this case it appears that the total amount of recovered text is quite small, so it would contain a small number of distinct symbols even if the original writing system had a greater number of distinct symbols, which did not happen to be recorded here.

Because the small total number of distinct symbols may be an accident in this case, it would not be enough to prove that this is an alphabetic script.

One should not forget that already since its origin, millennia before this, the Egyptian writing system had contained as a subset a set of symbols equivalent with the later Semitic alphabets, i.e. where each symbol was used for a single consonant.

However the Egyptian writing system has never used its alphabetic subset alone (except sometimes for transcribing foreign names), but together with many other symbols used for writing multiple consonants.

The invention of the Semitic alphabets did not add anything new, but it greatly simplified the Egyptian writing system by deleting all symbols used for multiple consonants and using exclusively the small number of symbols denoting a single consonant.

Because the alphabetic script has been invented by trying to apply the principles of the Egyptian writing to a non-Egyptian language, it could have been inspired by an already existing practice of using the alphabetic subset of the Egyptian writing for the transcription of foreign words.

All the many writing systems that have been invented independently of the Egyptian writing have used symbols denoting either syllables or words. Only the Egyptian writing had the peculiar characteristic of denoting only the consonants of the speech, independently of the vowels, which is what has enabled the development of alphabetic writing systems from it.
It definitely happened with planes, we have a century of improvements that made them much much safer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Statistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material)#de_Havillan...
The EU is the second largest economy in the world. They are never going to drop it. A bit of hardball, some extended litigation, sure. Leaving the EU to Vimeo, I don't think so.
Venture: Cross-Platform GUI tool for parsing and analyzing Windows event logs
You should clarify that you just updated that doc, based on the discussion here.

It is kinda disingenuous to say "Check out the doc .." which gives the impression that all of the gaps people have identified in this thread was by design all along.
Show HN: HotUpdater – Alternative to React Native CodePush (Self Hostable)
Same experience. Go is my default choice for backend too

It can easily be a full time job

You need to mirror all logic and encoding/decoding part

https://github.com/yjs/yjs/blob/main/src/utils/encoding.js

https://github.com/yjs/yjs/commits/main/src/utils/encoding.j...

I was thinking about spining off nodejs instance just for persistence and syncing with postgres
That’s not the case actually, if you consider that 10k cars are mostly used ones. Those are usually test driven, and haggled over first. And often taken in to a dealership to check the internals.
For me, once a year and I have to use the reflog. But using a GUI is so much faster and safer that I won't change. Mercurial and Jujutsu have good command-lines, why can't git do the same?
I think what you mean is what I wasn't sure about (but found with a quick search), some banks do offer home loan and insurance bundles here in AU. I found one that offered a discount on the insurance if you get the loan with them, for the life of the loan.

But legally, you are allowed to change insurers at any time. They would probably not be allowed to include that as a contract-breaker clause in the loan itself due to free-market-reasons, or force you to take only their insurance to have the loan (we tend to have a few laws about keeping conflicts of interest like this at arms length but I'm not sure about this case). But if insurance is legally required, I suppose they can ask for proof periodically after you leave to terminate the loan.
Apple Silicon CPU cores of the same type aren't the same after all
I started with Svelte but ecosystem that React has is giant.
Plus React Compiler is already being used in Instagram and Facebook so within this year, the virtual dom diffing would be a thing of past.
Thoughts on Error Handling
> I just hope that people choose targets closer to 100ms.

Why? If it's about the phone burning battery for 500ms, it probably isn't doing that - it's just waiting for data to arrive. And even when it's rendering, it's probably not burning battery like say Uber (with which you can feel the battery melt in your hands).

But that's not why I am commenting. I am writing because so many commentors are saying that 500ms is bad. Why is 500ms bad, as long as the UI is not freezing or blanking out?

Why not lower expectations, and wait for half a second? Of course, there are apps for which 500ms is unacceptable - but this doesn't seem to be one of them.
Just be careful that you don't anonymize your production data.
1177 is the best, or not..
The costs in hardware and electricity are incredible. To do the same as the big companies are doing is impossible, there is no funding to achieve it.

The question is if it's needed at all to get good results.

Also the big companies have many lawyers so they feel confident to systematically violate copyright, but a smaller entity could probably not afford the same risk.
Do other companies not have static analysis integrated into the CI/CD pipeline?

We by default block any and all PRs that contain funky code: high cyclomatic complexity, unused variables, bad practise, overt bugs, known vulnerabilities, inconsistent style, insufficient test coverage, etc.

If that code is not pristine, it's not going in. A human dev will not even begin the review process until at least the static analysis light is green. Time is then spent mentoring the greens as to why we do this, why it's important, and how you can get your code to pass.

I do think some devs still use AI tools to write code, but I believe that the static analysis step will at least ensure some level of forced ownership over the code.
Yes, we are tracking to grow to as much as some not all or most. Emphasis on tracking to grow which you should see the source for 2033 forecast.

The fact that one program (Medicare) is growing to be as large as the NHE should be cause for pause.
The Issue with AI
> This sounds like a very US-centric view

> My answer: The selective approach of insurance companies mirrors the profit seeking lack of solidarity, which is ultimately incompatible with the risk pooling purpose

What’s the non-US-centric view? Lloyd's of London is older than the US.
Because that was the central point in the original whitepaper [1]: Hadoop is slow because it’s disk-only where Spark uses memory and caching to speed things up. I understand Spark isn’t 100% in-memory the way say Redis is, but it was still the major selling point vs. Hadoop.

https://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2010/hotcloud_spar...
Can't wait for your launch
OP isn't the author.
+1
This scene was so moving. Seeing it for the first time floored me.
I would argue that Egypt apart from temperature was lot less harsh than Europe. Nile offers water all through the year. And the flooding brought fertilizer each year. Also lot less risk of any type of weather causing famine.

In reality that is lot less harsh than Europe before industrial agriculture. Just looking at list of famines shows that Europe was a harsh place to live for stable society.
Truly, it is impossible to discern when one is actively looking for trouble until one has actually found it. A priori assumptions are clearly a sham and we should all wake up every morning delightfully surprised that the sun has risen yet again.
For sure - but if I'm paying for a tool like Devin then I'd expect the infrastructure around it to do things like stop it if it looks like that has happened.

What you often see with agentic systems is that there's an agent whose role is to "orchestrate", and that's the kind of thing the orchestrator would do: every 10 minutes or so, check the output and elapsed time and decide if the "developer" agent needs a reality check.
Is there anything you know about McDonalds as an entity that would lead you to believe they know about, or would prioritize, building a secure app?

Honestly, it’s amazing it’s not worse!
Glad you like it, thank you
My first job I spent so much time reading Python docs, and the ancient art of Stack Overflow spelunking. But I could intuitively explain a solution in seconds because of my CS background. I used to encounter a certain kind of programmer often, who did not understand algorithms well but had many years of experience with a language like Ruby, and thus was faster in completing tasks because they didn't need to do the reference work that I had to do. Now I think these kinds of programmers will slowly disappear and only the ones with the fast CS intuition will remain.
I would argue that the later Advent of Code challenges (especially from the last 3 or 4 years) are very similar to (early to mid-tier) Project Euler challenges in that you cannot start before giving it a good hour or so of thinking
The said root checks for example?
Higher deductibles generally lead to a lower overall money pool raising overall prices. They allowed that here in a far more regulated market and the effect was about 4pct higher prizes across the board. Effectively the people who cannot afford the higher deductibles are subsidizing the ones who can as the end result.
> most of your codebase becomes CSS

I dont understand how you're making this claim with a straight face. You're either willfully ignorant, or pretending to be too abstract.

If your understanding on web-development is someone tweaking css values, I think you have a hug gap in your understanding.

You've drank the Apple/Linear/Dieter Ram kool-aid a bit too much, and you think throwing "less is more", "strip it down to the bare minimum" is all emblematic of that.

Good design is about making the complex simple. Not making the simple simple.
Fyi, building a collaborative editor right now and it's still hard to do outside of Node
I was a heavy bloglines user back in the day and loved it. It was like a custom newspaper people printed for me and worked great.

I moved to twitter in 2009 and, for the most part, it was a better RSS experience. The udpates were smaller, more frequent. It was text only and had a size limit which automatically filtered for some level of linguistic ability. I used to only see people who I wanted to. It felt like a cross between IRC (which I used heavily at the time) and RSS and I quite loved it.

Over the years, the experience has degraded. Not just because of "the algorithm" but also because of influencers, social media marketing, spam, etc. But I had the frog in hot water experience and never really felt like moving away. I've blocked it on my work machine and use it only my phone via. the browser and a monochrome screen which makes it less compelling.

I've made a few friends and relationships on the platform and I think it peaked in 2015/2016 or so. Especially when you're in a city that's mostly on it. You run into people who you know "via. twitter". It's been a great ride but I do wish for some of the things of the RSS days.
MS raises price of consumer version of Microsoft 365 for first time in 12 years
A remote KVM, i.e TinyPilot will help avoid dealing with lack of trust in local staff. Additionally connection to the KVM can be done over LTE/Cellular if you don't trust the local connection too.
mineral wool insulation aren't regarded as carcinogens

A quick look turned up one mineral wool SDS with a Prop 65 warning for formaldehyde.

https://www.jm.com/content/dam/jm/global/en/MSDS/20000000205...
That was a pretty boring annoucement. Yeah its cool how the elements on the device appear, but it gets boring when this is shown for both sides of the attachebles controllers. They have the opportunity to show e.g. exclusive games which would now look and perform super duper on the new hardware, because of a better resolution opr maybe HDR, but nothing like that? Or a comparison of the old one with the new? I think its a bit thin...
Exactly. Tech people almost always go to the "performance wormhole" arguing about ms and how it could be improved 10x - myself included. But working at a startup the past couple of years, I came to the conclusion that it does not matter to the end users at all. If an app is "nice" and "speedy" as you say, that’s enough. Shopify made a good decision and tradeoffs; it works for them, and I would argue it would work for 90% of other companies as well. You don't really need a native app for most purposes; React Native and Flutter are good enough.
We are going to continuously see cases like these until the vendors implement functionality like:

Hard Spending Limit
If you configure hard spending limits, then upon the sum of money being reached, the service will be stopped until manual user action is taken. This can result in service outages.
Spending limit: ______ $
I have read and agree with the terms: [X]
[Confirm]

Which is likely to happen never. That's why I mostly use traditional VPSes.
And how do you propose filtering them out? There's a reason why college students are using LLMs, they're getting better grades for less effort. I don't assume you're proposing selecting students with worse grades on purpose?
It bothers me too, but I’m French. I always assumed it was some corner of the language I don’t know
I want them to use it, I don't want them opening issues to request new features.
I took the other approach: I ditched the algorithm for newsletters: https://redditletter.com
> half religion half misplaced techno-positivism

It sometimes feels like it: everything blows-up and thread here is like "what a success", Second stage explodes - "beautiful" (while trash is falling into ocean).
If you want to be taken seriously, please do a like-for-like comparison.

Your comparison is between 2 drastically different sites. https://next-blog-starter.vercel.app/ and https://simple-blog.nuejs.org/
San Francisco has steam heating for part of the city.
Moorsches Law v2 (/s) states that while computers get faster, we add more layers so computers actually get slower.
Yes, I think the route was Soviet Union, Japan, USA, Europe.
It’s like comparing the reliability of the Model 3 and the Cybertruck.
That sounds interesting. Does anyone have a GitHub link?
> This is the intrinsic limit of political fixes: we take the risks and losses and transfer them to others lacking the political power to contest the transfer.

This hits hard and close to home. While my heart goes out to everyone that’s shouldering misfortunes, I’m wary of the “private profits, public risks” phenomenon getting even more out of control.

Obviously we can’t afford to disappoint all the people that were forced to jump into an outrageous housing market all at once, they need affordable insurance, and also still expect to 10x their property investment, particularly in coastal areas. If we don’t do this, it will be another huge blow to the shrinking middle class.

Meanwhile, the flyover states with fewer hurricanes and wildfires will subsidize coastal insurance basically due to strength of Californias market clout, and yet flyover states won’t ever see a windfall from their own rising property values. Since remote employees in flyover states often get less salary for the same work, they are already subsidizing rent for higher density areas. Regardless of where you live, everyone should recognize that this is unsustainable and divisive.
One of the reasons Supabase is getting so popular now.
Just wait till AI learns how to pass your automated checks, without getting any better in the semantics. Unused variables bad? Let’s just increment/append whatever every iteration, etc.
There's nothing inherently wrong with getting help from either and LLM, or StackOverflow, it's the "I don't know' part that bothers me.

One the funnier reactions to "I got it from StackOverflow" is the followup question "From the question or the answers?"

If you just adds code, without understanding how it works, regardless of where it came from and potential licensing issues, then I question your view on programming. If I have a paint come in and paint my house and get paint all over the place, floors, windows, electrical socket but still get the walls the color I want, then I wouldn't consider that person a professional painter.
Yes, and I like markdown.

But Nuejs claims to be standards-first. The entire premise of the framework is "All these other frameworks bring their own stuff, and have lost the plot on how beautiful HTML, CSS and JS can be", and then they turn around and use Markdown (not-standard), cli (not standard), bun (not standard).
Yeah i can provide you high quality Med_datasets
Fascinating! The wine discovery reminds me one scene from the book 'The Dark Forest'[0] when the protagonist drinks a wine from some centuries before... spoiler: it wasn't good.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest
Isn't that a bit misleading? Salaries wouldn't be included, but a lot of compensation at the very high end is based on owning stock, and dividends i assume would be part of that profit margin.