skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately these discussions almost never go well, because it seems that most people have at best a surface level understanding of what insurance is and how it works, and everyone is convinced that it's a full scam and insurance companies are fabricating everything

I have the exact same experience when discussing anything insurance related: People have wild assumptions about how much profit insurance companies are making.

When I ask people how much cheaper they think their insurance (health, home, etc) would be if we forced insurance company profits to zero they usually have some extreme guess like 50%. When you point out that, for example, health insurance profits are low single digit percentage of overall healthcare costs they just don’t believe it. The discourse is so cooked that everyone who just assumes insurers are making unbelievable profits without ever checking.

Like you said, when I try to bring numbers into the discussion I get accused of being a shill (or a “bootlicker” if the other person is young).

The environment this creates has opened the door for some really bad politics to intervene in ways that aren’t helpful. I wouldn’t be surprised if the eventual outcome in a lot of these places is that politicians pass legislation putting the local government on the hook for insurance after they squeeze regular insurers so hard they have to back out to avoid losing money in those markets. The consequences won’t manifest for several years, potentially after the politicians have left office, but could be financially burdensome. Similar to how many local governments were very generous with pension plans because politicians knew the consequences would only be felt by their successors.
This is not too different from the XZ backdoor. Open collaboration is vulnerable to state actors wreaking havoc. With Wikipedia as a common source for LLM training data, this is just another front in international warfare.
Does the thing have to have got into space and then come back for this to apply?
Didn’t the leader of the kernel rust team resign in September?
Given that true leftists genuinely want to create a better world and the GOP wants to do harm, I would not agree. I’m no saying it wasn’t fake bullshit then from Zuck. Just that it was fake but still made things a bit better for people rather than causing harm.
Flights Diverted After SpaceX Debris Falls into Path of Planes
We're going round in circles because you're just responding to points I didn't actually make. Please read my comments carefully before replying.
I ran explain on the original mysql implementation. The basis of the migration project to dynamo was mysql couldn't cope with our scale but that was bullshit
Indeed, a former leader, Gerry Adams, is on the cusp of a substantial payout in recompense for a long imprisonment that wasn't squeaky officially done by the books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Adams

It's not just that former Northern Ireland "terrorists" now hold positions of power, they are also being (potentially) awarded for hits they took during their struggle.
He Built an AI App with 10k Signups in 1 Month
With both T-Mobile and the MVNOs you can get unlimited data and calls for $40-$50.
> make train tickets more adorable

amtrak uwu
Ok so the source, https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series/US says,

"tornado outbreaks, high wind, hailstorms"

So most of this cost is roof damage. Which is an area rife with insurance fraud and getting worse.
Good that there are also non-EU instances of searx.

Here is an extended list:

https://searx.space/
I watched this with my very young daughter and she pointed that out, she will be fascinated if that is the case!
Most Linux kernel contributors are professionals who are paid for their work. They aren't hobbyists.

However, there are quite a few critically important tools and libraries that are essentially maintained by a volunteer as a hobby, and yes, that's a risk.
“Losses rise with inflation, of course, but the losses are rising far above background inflation.”

Losses are very much in line with asset price inflation. If a house rises in value for no good reason other than loose monetary policy, so does the compensation. At the same time, insurers struggle to find safe yields to match these cost increases when that same monetary policy keeps interest rates low.

Looking at the chart pictured, one would expect that extreme weather events have increased dramatically after 2000, but that is not the case:

https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters
Horrible, just horrible. Why would one release this publicly?
Yes absolutely, and as another poster pointed out, earthquake codes exist. Metal framing is probably a bit easier to adapt to the same earthquake codes that timber framing has.
I was on r/flightradar24 and someone was listening on ATC and heard that one of the flights declared emergency due to fuel.

Other planes were also caught up in the chaos but SJU was at capacity apparently
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> Our apps are blazing fast (<500ms screen loads)

I frequently encounter Shopify e-commerce in the wild, and it’s my most disliked experience. From browsing the stores to checkout, it always feels clunky.

I always shrugged it off as iOS bullshit but now I know the real reason. It’s just slow enough to make you doubt yourself - it’s not the website, it’s probably my shitty {phone|poor internet|computer}
I am not sure you understood my comment. I wasn't calling anyone absurd, and I was using the fact that it is regulated to reinforce the idea that it is a known toxin.
lol, believe it or not this was an interview question one of my Director of Engineering used to use to sus out the experience of people. As I read the parent comment I was thinking the same thing.

Be careful listening to this kind of advice. You never know what ballpark the "CTO" is playing in.
I pay $360 a month on T-Mobile. That is for 5 cell phones, 3 iPads, and 2 Watches with unlimited data and 2 phone contracts. Without the 2 phone contracts it would be $300/month
"He" needs to get a better marketing team if this is what "He" is posting to HN.
> I myself was an electrical engineering (EE) major until I switched to computer science in my third (junior) year of college because like a friend of mine at the time told me, "<my name>, if you don't major in computer science, you will not be able to find a job easily after graduation". He was right. All of my former college friends in EE ended up pursuing programming jobs (a few of them now works for FAANG; I used to work for one but left a year ago due to RTO).

Nothing against you looking out for your future, but this is exactly what I describe to people when I say the industry has changed. It used to be nerds who were very passionate. Now it’s full of people who are just doing a job.
1. Sikkim was annexed by India 2. Bangladesh has many floods every year
Nos sure if sarcasm, but it does not. It will never get even close of handling 10% of CO's amount of transactions.
> When you point out that, for example, health insurance profits are low single digit percentage of overall healthcare costs they just don’t believe it.

Meanwhile, the health care providers:

> But if you look at the list of companies with the highest [return on equity], you see health care providers or suppliers like HCA Healthcare (272%), Cencora (234%), Abbvie (84%), Mckesson (84%), Novo Nordisk (72%), Eli Lilly (59%), Amgen (56%), IDEXX Laboratories (53%), Zoetis (46%), Novartis (44%), Edwards Lifesciences (43%), and so on. If you want to know which shareholders are making the real money in the health care industry…well, it’s the shareholders of those providers and suppliers.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
Someone came up to me at CES peddling outsourcing teams. I told him we just use Copilot.
Meteorite Crash Caught by Home Security Camera in Likely World-First Footage
Now that's a bold political move! They are gambling it all!
You don't have to change you process, so you can still explain it rationally.

Just leave off the "then I multiplied by 10" part.

Which I did by accident once ( not by 10, but it was still substantial )... but it turned out the customer was delighted because we were still 50% vs their existing vendor.

Enterprise pricing is a farce.

I very much agree with the poster above about vendors disqualifying themselves.. another red flag for me is the Two Suits and Skirt pre-sales Hydra Monster that big vendors love to send around, to scare you into letting them capture all the value that their purporting to provide you.

And yes, the above shows I've been both sides of the fence. I felt it was going to be good experience, and it was, but I have regrets too.
Yeah, that doesn’t work unless you’re in the C-suite generally. Every time I’ve tried to throw up that sort of firm wall, the sales people just reach out above me - and ultimately usually end up forcing the sale even if the product doesn’t meet our needs, because they’re able to convince the higher-ups that it actually does and that their Engineers (i.e., me and my team) are mistaken.

Right now, unless you’re some sort of 10x rockstar extrovert, you’ve gotta play the game by the existing rules. It’s why I applaud this particular company’s position, since it means I don’t have to worry about being undermined by some outside salesperson with a quota to meet and a gift budget they haven’t emptied.
No, they are making the possible very late.
Perhaps it was this one? https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
You would expect that in a rational market. But go down a reading hole about flood insurance. tl;dr: in many places in the US, the only company that offers flood insurance is the US government because everyone else has pulled out. And people do tend to use the money to rebuild in the same location -- reasons as varied as "I like my beachhouse" to "my entire community was born and lived in this parish and I aint leaving".

Now that the physics of insolvency are starting to overcome political pressure of keeping Daddy Bailout-Bucks around, and 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.
Not sure about the original game but at least since the 3d age, Miyamoto is on record, saying that when making a new Mario game, one of the first steps is that is just fun to goof around with Mario alone in an empty flat void and mess with whatever new abilities they are thinking of giving him.
A unique satellite reaction wheel [video]
Seen from an Airplane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zC0K0YZEzg
Did not include Tampopo (1985)

Does not include Sharu wī dansu (1996)

Doesn't include Hiroshima Mon amour (1959)

Unfathomably, lacks the original eponymous Godzilla (1954)

Very wisely excludes "What's up Tiger Lily" (1966)

But it's honest: it's one person's personal top 10

I would however, watch all of their picks.
Local branches aren't names for anything other humans beings care about. All "branches" discussed in a team are remote. But because branches have "history" and "state", keeping your local names around is just inviting them to get out of sync with identically or similarly-named branches out there in the rest of the world.

> It sounds like an overly complicated process compared to having a branch and rebasing onto the current branch when you finally go to make the change for real.

Not sure I understand the problem here? The rebase is the hard part. It doesn't help you to have a name for the code you're coming "from". If it collides it collides and you have to resolve it.

What I said about tags was just as short term memory "This commit right here worked on this date", stored in a way that (unless I delete or force-update the tag) I can't forget or pollute. Branches don't have that property. And again local branches don't have any advantages.
> flame retardant insulation

Which are almost definitely known to the state of California to cause cancer.
I wonder if there are more examples nationwide, but Union Pacific and BNSF are both still operating passenger service in the Chicago metro area. The locomotives and cars are government owned, but the crews and tracks are UP/BNSF.
My brother and I are nearly 20 years apart in age, we couldn't be more different. Hard to pin
Health insurance does have profit caps, so like the sibling commenter said their margins are small (6%) but also decently under the cap (20%) in the first place.
Didn't anyone learn from "Her"? Don't fall in love with an AI that can leave you (or, in this case, your account access is revoked due to sexting with ChatGPT.)
another banger from the jamsocket team
On the rare occasions I still look at Twitter I use lists instead of follows, and this avoids both the awful algorithmic noise and means I'm not contributing to anyone's bullshit engagement KPIs.

I would still prefer an RSS feed, if there was a logged-out solution.
Congratulations! Take this as an opportunity to stop using Twitter. Sorry you lost some money but not using Twitter is worth it. Maybe you could file a charge back on your card?
I actually cried when I heard the news, not because he was one of my favorite directors exactly, but because you could feel a sense that an archetype for the arts of a generation left the earth. A seismic passing.
I think this was the first test of StarShip v2. I'd be surprised if everything worked after they redesigned the whole StarShip. That would be like refactoring Microsoft Windows by hand-typing new code and expecting it to run without errors on the first try.
So, better if competitor will make you bankrupt?
The original meme about the limitations of diffusion was the text to image prompt, “a horse riding an astronaut.”

It’s in all sorts of papers. This guy Gary Marcus used to be a big crank about AI limitations and was the “being wrong on the Internet” guy who got a lot of mainstream attention to the problem - https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/horse-rides-astronaut. Not sure how much we hear from him nowadays.

The astronaut riding horses thing is from how 10-1,000x more people are doing this stuff now, and kind of process the whole zeitgeist before their arrival with fuzzy glasses. The irony is it is the human, not the generator, that got confused about the purposefully out of sample horse riding an astronaut prompt, and changed it to astronaut riding a horse.
>When you point out that, for example, health insurance profits are low single digit percentage of overall healthcare costs

Do you have any source for this?

I’m assuming (because HN) that you had the USA in mind, and it doesn’t pass the sniff test for me given that US insurance fees are more than single digit percentages higher than other high quality care countries with privatised healthcare systems
Right. And any particular question people think AIs are bad at also has a comments section of people who have run better crafted prompts that do the job just fine. The consensus is heading more towards "well damn, actually LLMs might be all we need" rather than "LLMs are just a stepping stone" - but either way, that's fine, cuz plenty of more advanced architecture uses are on their way (especially error correction / consistency frameworks).

I dont believe there are any significant academic critiques doubting this. There are a lot of armchair hot takes, and perceptions that this stuff isn't improving up to their expectations, but those are pretty divorced from any rigorous analysis of the field, which is still improving at staggeringly fast rates compared to any other field of research. Aint no wall, folks.
Imagine if LinkedIn wanted to use Firebase to launch a new product.

I could easily imagine a 1,000x hour over hour growth as the social media grows.

If I was LinkedIn, I’d be very upset if Firebase pulled the cord when everyone was looking at the new launch.
You're confusing the code with the program it compiles to. The program is fine, okay. But the code is only "fine" or "safe" if you view it as the final snapshot of whatever it's going to be. If you understand that the code also influences how it's going to evolve in the future (and which code doesn't?) then no, it's not fine or safe. It's brittle and making future changes more dangerous.

Really, there's no excuse whatsoever for not having a separate function that takes the pointer by reference & performs the reallocation and potential termination inside itself, and using that instead of calling realloc directly.
Mulholland drives plot isn’t even that hard to follow once you figure out the twist. You can definitely go crazy deep with the symbolism though
> the launch of one or more foundations aimed specifically at providing support for maintainers

Doesn't Red Hat (and other similar companies) already fulfill this role?
The lipstick scene.
There should be an emoji for that.
Could you say more about this I feel like I don't get it
Lynch wrote that line because Nic wanted the jacket in the film. Gives it a little bit of an extra kick when you think about it.
I hope it isn’t dismissive of Stallman’s contributions to OSS to say his idealism has the same glaring issues as communism. That it basically ignores incentive structures altogether and replaces them with the social pressure of “just do the right thing”. It’s kind of exhausting too when people who already make a great living and have basically just traded more money for social clout and moral authority lecture everyone else with “it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to build a business to support your family, what matters is this idealism, and if you disagree you’re a bad person”. I’m as happy as the next guy that open source won, but clearly it was only ever going to happen for business reasons and not social pressure and idealistic reasons (even if those were instrumental early on).
Setting max auto scaling is doable. Even if that doesn’t translate directly to hard billing, it would still help
>If they don't matter at all, there's tons of steep lots you can buy in the hills for like 10-50k with neighboring houses in the mid-to-high millions. People say they're unbuildable but apparently there's no such thing?

Except that it was literally illegal to build anything except SFH's, until the state removed R1 zoning, and even now, you can generally only get two units. They are "unbuildable" because the projects won't pencil, not because we don't have the engineering capabilities.

>It's just weird to bring this energy to such a tragic situation.

I will be completely honest, that the move to exempt wildfire victims from the regulations that anyone without an established home has to deal with is one of the most self-serving, "rules for thee but not for me," results I've seen in my lifetime.

The housing system in CA is broken, and instead of taking this as an opportunity to fix it, we just exempt the very people who benefit from the broken situation most. It's perfectly legal, but it's deeply inequitable.

Is that insensitive of me? I want these people to be able to rebuild as soon as possible, but pretending it's not wildly inequitable to not change the rules for everyone, is just myopia.

To double down on my admittedly unpopular concerns, by allowing people to rebuild without exemption but not fixing the underlying issues, we've opened the door for one of the biggest cases of moral hazard I've ever seen. Call me cynical, but if some disgruntled and unscrupulous homeowner is in a fight with the Coastal Commission, they now know that a wildfire will likely let them do what they want. It's not something 99.9% of folks would do, but the incentives are right there. Moral hazard should be taken seriously.

>Most of the SFH that was destroyed in the Palisades were $3-9m[1] houses on 1/8th acre lots i.e. doing a pretty good job paying their own way on their infrastructure.

As you know the vast majority of them are not paying property taxes at that rate, and never will.
David Foster Wallace on David Lynch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Cvtu2FfGw
Have a look at heptapost.host for paid hosting and foss.heptapod.net for free public hosting for OSS. Is that what you are looking for?
It'd be ironic if someone said "we're better than China because we never censor anything."
china is a tougher one. she has been strongly positive in the past, as well as strongly negative; now she is much closer to negative. net all that i'd say negative overall.
> Why should society pay for these choices?

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.

Do a search for "ACA three legged stool":

> 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.

> So insurance regulation has to be accompanied by the individual mandate, a requirement that people sign up for insurance, even if they’re currently healthy. And the insurance must meet minimum standards: Buying a cheap policy that barely covers anything is functionally the same as not buying insurance at all.

> But what if people can’t afford insurance? The third leg of the stool is subsidies that limit the cost for those with lower incomes. For those with the lowest incomes, the subsidy is 100 percent, and takes the form of an expansion of Medicaid.

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinio...

This 'architecture' was developed by Jonathan Gruber:

* https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gruber_(economist)

It is a form of social safety net.
Durov should change his last name to Durakov ("durak" is "fool" in Russian)! He wanted to show off with his girl-for-hire and got himself imprisoned after so many years of being cautious! Or maybe "Dickoff" would suit him better! Nobody trusts Telegram now because they got him by the balls!
Also Japanese cars
The SNES was, objectively, a huge jump over the previous generation (NES, Master System, etc.). Much better sound, 16-bit color, pseudo-3D with Mode 7, support for much much larger carts, support for coprocessors within the cart... An expansion port for a hypothetical CD-ROM addon (spoiler). I think that the revolution>evolution>revolution is revisionist, or at least something they said much later on. SNES might have started as a luxury option, as all consoles do, but it was obviously intended to compete with whatever Sega put out for that generation (and compared to the Genesis, Sega pulled out a few tricks so in the end the SNES wasn't a huge step above the Genesis either).
I would say it's more that BYD is a battery company that started making cars. They (alongside CATL and arguably Tesla) are the world leaders in battery cells, specifically LFP, so they have strong advantage in the core underlying tech that enables EVs.
at this point it is an old problem set, the solutions are everywhere and easy to find, at the very least for the first 100 problems. for those problems (at the very least) it is the responsibility of the participant to not look at solutions.
>from what we learn

Interesting, are you a part of the team at SpaceX?
I don't want to set up my own email server.

But I definitely live in fear of Google fucking up and disabling my account.
As I recall a village in Australia also billed NASA with their standard municipal littering fine, for skylab debris that landed there, and the bill was paid 20+ years later by a radio station as a publicity stunt.