skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Plenty of places have had catastrophic droughts, famines, and plagues. Nearly half of Europe died a few times from plagues. Most natives in America were absolutely wiped out from disease and other issues. Tens of millions died of famine in China last century. Tsunamis washed away and killed hundreds of thousands in Indonesia and Japan this current century.

Conveniently you selected pre-technology examples. How curious.

Meanwhile the impending global famine(s) - (plural) of the 20th century never came to be because captitalism kept pumping out agriscience improvements to improve crop yields to 10 times what they were in 1900.
> cause outages

That's fine. The major LLM providers work like this. If you're out of credit, or hit your monthly recharge limit, it stops working, bringing down prod with it if your product relies on it. Not heard anyone complain about the concept.

If it's really a problem for you, you can be all enterprisey and contact sales, then they'll be very excited to offer you extremely high limits and post billing.

This way everyone gets what they wants.
I just don’t hear the word orthogonal used in this context enough. Refreshing
> Entering a password on boot isn't even that much work

It is on fedora. I wabt the latest packages and I want to install them with dnf offline upgrade but now I need to put in password twice once for the updates d again for next boot. If it is a server, I don't want to keep a monitor attached to it just to enter the password. I want the computer to just boot.

There has to be a better way.
Flutter fundamentally misunderstands web standards and separation of concerns. It imposes a custom rendering engine and widget system on top of the web platform, creating another layer of abstraction rather than leveraging native browser capabilities.

The web already has a powerful "canvas for any screen" - it's called HTML and CSS. Modern features like container queries, CSS grid, and view transitions provide sophisticated responsive capabilities without fighting against web standards.

Flutter's approach is precisely what we need to move away from - trying to solve web development challenges by building on top of the platform rather than understanding its inherent strengths. True standards-first development means embracing HTML's semantic structure, CSS's systematic design capabilities, and JavaScript's proper role in progressive enhancement.

Creating better interfaces doesn't require new abstractions. It requires deeper understanding of web standards and systematic design principles.
Tab is up next to the Q on the left side, same place in qwerty. I tried using backspace in the thumb cluster for a bit, and it was convenient, but I found because I don't have good "home row" discipline, I was accidentally deleting too often.
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Yea, and after all that they still only eked out a 4% net profit after tax for 2024.
Seems pretty similar to distributed rate limiting. But it's much simpler to solve the common case of overspending on a single API: give each API the same daily limit with no communication between APIs.
Again there are obvious and mostly endless counter-examples to this. A couple of examples from both sides of the aisle - when Fox News fired Tucker Carslon, their ratings plummeted and he ended up getting [far] more viewers on X than FoxNews gets during prime time broadcasts! When the NYTimes published an editorial from Senator Tom Cotton suggesting that the George Floyd riots and violence should be brought to an end by deploying of the military, their readers freaked out to the point that the director of editorials was "retired", and they publicly announced they would be rethinking about what they publish.

People pick their worldview and biases, and media (in current times) sees it as their role to deliver on those biases. When they don't - the audience leaves and moves on to somebody who will.

The only real superpower media has is to overtly lie to people. And on issues that people know nothing about it is generally effective. But as they learn more about the topic, the views shift more towards what people again choose to individually think about an issue. And as a longer term side effect of this, this superpower is completely self defeating because people begin to completely distrust the media. I could show polls on that but I'm sure you already know trust in media is basically nonexistent. The funnier one is this. [1] The perceived ethics of journalists lies literally right between lawyers and advertisers.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/467804/nurses-retain-top-ethics...
Doesn't seem too different from the lootboxes example.
> moral hazard

Even SBF wouldn’t take that risk. Billions of dollars of personal liability against … the coastal commission lets you build 110% of the house you already had? Gotta do it a few times to get enough additional square footage to make it worthwhile…

The expedited permissions aren’t carte blanche, they’re pretty limited to rebuilding in place. Which I think you know since you’re agitating for looser regulations to allow the kind of development you’d prefer instead. Does the moral hazard work the other way? Should we worry about Strongtowns readers torching neighborhoods they want to rebuild?

> vast majority

Assessments are public record. Go poke around on the assessors map. There’s a fair share of low bases like my footnote said, but plenty of houses traded over the last 5-10 years, and plenty of people are paying 20-50k a year.

> take this opportunity

Again why does this disaster demand we also solve the housing crisis at the same time? We lost <1% of housing stock, it’s not like we’re rebuilding a leveled city. Work toward policies that that will incentivize the development you’d prefer in places it makes sense across the city, don’t be gross and seize on a crisis to try to impose the change you want.
Slides & conspiracies..

For an vulpine organ they speak very confidently of the f-o-w

https://xcancel.com/benln/status/1873459290562056566
I worked for an aircraft parts manufacturer, they closed an entire factory / production site rather than try and upgrade the manufacturing system or move the part production onto the new one they had implemented.

500 people out of work. Tell me again how simple everything is to fix.
> it's impossible to bill at scale and exactly cut off service usage globally when a target is hit,

How much does the problem change if you remove the word 'exactly' from here, though?

Like, I don't mind if I end up paying a couple of extra bucks. Or even tens of bucks! Some people might not mind hundreds or thousands, or even more depending on their scale.

But blowing out several orders of magnitude past my usual monthly spend is the problem I'd like to avoid.
The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference
"AI is the payday loan* of tech debt".
I used to use Google Reader a lot. I used to love reading through the feed but once Google killed it, I did not continue the RSS collections. Perhaps its time I get back to finding a new reader.

Heuristics for picking the most valued content is not always good. I see some posts on niche subs without much engagement, but align with my interests. Perhaps I can let a local LLM prioritize the feed based on my history or preference which I can tune as per my requirements rather than some black-box algorithm
Ever heard the old joke story about an American buyer told the Japanese manufacture how many incorrectly made bolts were acceptable per lot of a thousand bolts? Maybe 2 or 3 in 1,000?

So the Japanese didn't have any incorrectly made bolts in their manufacturing process so they just added two or three bad ones to every batch to please the Americans.
> At the same time a significant chunk of the population works to defund and defang all government, preventing the existing rules and codes - labor protections, fire protections, food safety protections, etc. - from being adequately monitored and enforced.

This isn't helped by actual bad rules and regulations on the books. Some minor examples are the prop 95 warnings on every damn thing or the way CAFE standards work to encourage the sale of more pickup trucks. I don't blame some people for wanting to scrap the whole regulatory system after encountering enough of these.
Thanks the icons work!

I was originally looking at the docs to see if there was any information on multi-instance (horizontally scaled) apps. Is this supported? If so, how does that work?
Not uninsurable, but buildings are going to have to become tougher.

It's happened before. Chicago's reaction to the Great Fire was simple - no more building wooden houses. Chicago went all brick. Still is, mostly.

The trouble is, brick isn't earthquake resistant. Not without steel reinforcement.

I live in a house built of cinder block filled with concrete reinforced with steel. A commercial builder built this as his personal residence in 1950. The walls look like a commercial building. The outside is just painted cinder block. Works fine, survived the 1989 earthquake without damage, low maintenance. It's not what most people want today in the US.
Thanks for clarifying, and no need to apologize—I appreciate the feedback!

Do you think a more straightforward headline, like "Built an AI App with 10k Signups in 1 Month: Lessons Learned," would work better for this audience? Open to suggestions on how to make it more fitting for HN!
Well that's amazing. And now I can (accidentally of course) install on my M2 work machine.
But isn't the issue that I may have been living in an area for decades and because the government didn't correctly price/deter externalities, now I can't afford to live somewhere? The companies lobbying for the abilities to pollute and otherwise add risk to the world can afford to pay the higher insurance rates. The folks who live in the areas they put at risk often can't.

Insurance costs rising are a good signal, but they're essentially a way to tax normal people for the faults of governments and major companies. It does reflect the real risk, but it's not like the fact of people living in most of these areas is the reason the area is risky.
sched-ext sounds interesting. Anyone doing any work with it? Wondering if it's one of those things that sounds cool but probably is only suitable in some very specific use cases.
These are all the publicly listed health insurers in the US, with public financials, so the numbers come from the 10-Q and 10-K reports filed with the SEC.

Note that the first one, United Health, has slightly higher profit margins than the rest because UNH has an enormous business selling healthcare itself, not just insurance (they own a lot of doctor groups and outpatient clinics and employ a lot of doctors and nurses).

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ELV/elevance-healt...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CI/cigna-group/pro...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CVS/cvs-health/pro...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HUM/humana/profit-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CNC/centene/profit...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MOH/molina-healthc...

The other big insurers will be Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and various plans franchised with Blue Cross Blue Shield, but they are all non profit.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/941...
Given over half of all households in the country have less than $20k in savings I'd say concerns over equality of access may be well founded. Edit: No? The poors can go fuck themselves? Alright then I guess.
What I see in this thread is tons of people saying "the ideal of perfect billing cutoffs with no over-runs is impossible, which is why there are no billing cutoffs" even though I've also seen lots of people point out that - to simplify - something is better than nothing, here.

A $1k overrun past your billing cap is still way better than a $50k overrun - the cloud vendor is more likely to get paid in the end, and the customer is more likely to come away from the experience looking at it as an 'oops' instead of a catastrophic, potentially-finances-ruining 'i'm never touching this service again' incident.

There are plenty of really challenging problems in computer science and we solve them with compromises every day while hitting demanding targets. If a SSL certificate expires we expect it to stop working, and if it's revoked we expect the revocation to take effect eventually. But it becomes a situation where these guarantees benefit small companies and independent developers but we suddenly can't solve similar problems?

Fundamentally speaking if you can't afford to check against the billing cap every request, check every 10 requests. If 10 is too often, every 100. If 100 is too often, every 1000. Or check once per minute, or once per hour. Or compute a random number and check if it exceeds a threshold. The check can even be asynchronous to avoid adding intermittent latency to requests.

Any of these are better than nothing and would stop the bleeding of a runaway service incident. It's unrealistic to expect small companies and independent developers to have someone on-call 24/7 and it's also unrealistic to expect that if you sell them $100k worth of stuff they can't pay for that they'll actually pay you somehow.
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.

The shareholders take home only a fraction. But a lot of money gets spent that simply doesn't need to be. Other countries avoid the deadweight loss of the middle man.
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The 6.0% margin (for UnitedHealthGroup as a whole) already includes that. UnitedHealthcare (the subsidiary health insurer) had a slightly lower operating margin of 5.6% in Q3. https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/content/dam/UHG/PDF/invest...
The policies needed are the policies you refer to in the region showing the outlier.
If the market is allowed to price insurance correctly then we can motivate building designs to be more disaster resist. If the McMansion can't get insurance but disaster resistant, modest homes do, then people will adapt.
Ah thanks, I missed that somehow.
There are 351 available rpm/deb postgres extensions which can do really a lot of things: https://ext.pigsty.io/#/
That’s insurance?

Change the euphemism from government to private insurance to satisfy capitalism gods and keep their giant foot from squishing us… still “on the books” as a co-mingled pool of funds to shift around to solve problems.

Aw …sad… other people exist and need resources too. Not just about your first world skin suit playing temp host to a run of the mill electromagnetic field effect.
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???

Technology has been around for hundreds of thousands of years. What are you defining as "technology"? Software as a service chatbots? Because those aren't saving anyone.

And 227000 people died 20 years ago in a tsunami in Indonesia. They had cell phones and the internet. Is that pre-technology? 50 million died in famines in China in the 1950s. They had TV, radio, and computers. Is that pre-technology?

Technology is just tools that humans make to solve a problem.[1] It's not magic. And in the case of the Japanese tsunami, the most basic technology that humans have had for tens of thousands of years saved countless lives: just building a wall, and making it tall enough to block rising water. [2] But wrapping an entire country in walls is kind of unfeasible. And you can't protect the entire world. We never know what kind of disaster will strike next, and technology to protect us only develops after we suffer the consequences at least once.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology#Prehistoric

[2] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/photo-essay-the-seawalls-of-toh...
Source? Many companies seem to be stopping offering insurance in the state just fine!

The most recent moves seem to be relaxing the pricing rules to allow major disaster pricing and recharging reinsurance rates in exchange for insurers offering more policies in high risk areas.
Stupid bill. They need to require that all 3D printers in the state run government provided monitoring software to prevent unauthorized gun parts from being printed, with a year in prison being the penalty for unmonitored prints.
When nerds like me were freaking out about climate change in 2003, what did people think we we’re talking about?!?

This is the exact scenario every single scientist I studied under openly discussed: probably not an extinction level event, but very, very expensive… Expensive to the point of it being cheaper in the long run to switch to renewables asap and hope for the best.

It’s like a 150M conservatives are all at once are saying “Wait a minute! We should do something about this!”

Uh… yea, no shit.
Oddly, they have no problem shutting things off when the limits of their free plan are exceeded:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/billing/firebase-p...

I am not sure how they can do that, but cannot let people set their own limits on their paid plans.
As long as you don't literally sell dollar bills, it can actually be quite hard.
Ordinarily, one stockpiles materials that have a long lead time to procure, for whatever reason, so that in an emergency, the stockpile buffers any shortages. What properties of Bitcoin fit the need to stockpile?

This is a scam, pure and simple.
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Does anyone know where the debris landed? In the ocean? Or just burnt out in the atmosphere?
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The worst part is that the sales person has to go back and pitch their team on whether it’s worth their time to get back to you.
Of course you can't have cows wandering through your corn or soybeans, they'll eat and/or crush it. But if you had fields that you could rotate between pasture and planted that could work.
Theres no valid TOS provided to a human to read when I am scraping the entire internet. I dont think wget can sign a contract?

Has anyone managed to hit Google or Yahoo with a TOS violation?
AWS has a "hobby mode": they call it Lightsail.
The app uses a LLM to parse input. Try pasting the blog content into the “Add Cards” text box and write a prompt at the bottom such as “Create short sentences based on the blog article above. Avoid long sentences.”

The only pitfall I could see is that some sentences are too long for spaced repetition in this manner.
>What a strangely beautiful sight.

"My god, Bones, what have I done?"
But i dont care about any of those things; they dont make the game more fun for me. It was a great port. Buy a different machine if you want to be inside the matrix.
Screenshot and ask ChatGPT. Works pretty well.
I've been busy with a personal coding project. Working through problems with a LLM, which I haven't used professionally yet, has been great. Countless times in the past I've spent hours pouring over Stack Overflow and Github repository code looking for solutions. Quite often I would have to solve them myself and would always post the answer a day or two later below my question on Stack Overflow. A big milestone for a software engineer is getting to the point where any difficult problem can't be solved with internet search, asking colleagues, or asking the question no matter how well written and detailed on Stack Overflow because the problems are esoteric -- the edge of innovation is solitude. Today I give the input to the LLM, tell it what the output should be, and magically a minute later it is solved. I was thinking today about how long it has been since I was stuck and stressed on a problem. With this personal project, I'm prototyping and doing a lot of experimentation so having a LLM saves a ton of time keeping the momentum at a fast pace. The iteration process is a little different with frequent stop, refactor, cleanup, make the code consistent, and log the input and output to console to verify.

Perhaps take intern's LLM code and have the LLM do the code review. Keep reviewing the code with the LLM until the intern gets it correct.
Imho insurance is one of the most underrated problems in economic "science".

Punks feelin lucky are advised to Google (or ask any GPT about) "insurance paradox".

Haha
There are plenty of very rich people living there who can afford the house burning down every single year. So false.
If a disk is encrypted, you don't have to worry about the contents if you eventually have to RMA or dispose of the disk. For this use case, it makes no difference how the encryption key is input.
If you owe Google $70k, you have a problem. If you owe Google $70T, Google has a problem.
Correct. Caps are fine as a short-term measure.

In the long term, they’re putting a patient running a fever on immunosuppressants. The fever will go. But the patient will die.
Thanks for checking its fixed now. Thank YOU :)
>I don't blame some people

You should. Just because something is imperfect doesn't make it bad. Should the truck loophole be closed? Yes. Has CAFE improved every other class of vehicle? Yes.
What does "pulled the cord" mean?

I pay for storage. Does this mean they delete my production database? They delete my s3 buckets? They delete my server logs? My message queue?

Then yes! I would be extremely upset. How do you expect the cloud provider to magically know what is safe to "pull the plug" and what is not safe?
Didn't people already do that before, copy and pasting code off stack overflow? I don't like it either but this issue has always existed, but perhaps it is more common now
Seeing a rocket land vertically goes against almost 70 years of what we "know" about rockets. Falcon 9 rockets landing on legs seem unnatural enough; now we have a rocket, the size of a 20-story building, landing on chopsticks.

There are lots of vertical-landing rockets ... in science fiction, and only before Sputnik in 1957. Once actual space programs came about and lots of engineers understood just how difficult landing a rocket is compared to launching it, they all went away. Fictional vehicles became more and more complex to make them "realistic" (that is, consistent with real spacecraft on the news), or just didn't bother with the details at all and went to quasi-magic technologies like in Star Wars and Star Trek.

SpaceX is taking us to the future by going with something from the past.
Note that brick is much worse than wood for wind-stoked wildfires; think ‘explosive fiery-hot shrapnel’ rather than just catching on fire like wood.

(This is not a contradiction of your point, just a useful related factoid for the modern era.)
> I'm going to pull it out of a bag, move it across a table, etc. and having microbezels gets in the way of that by reducing the useful grabbing space.

I think this is a weird you thing. You're allowed to touch the screen. It's not made of lava.
Insurance fees are not high because the insurance companies are making huge profits.

They're high because providers are making huge profits.

Now granted, they may ultimately be the same thing, but that's a different discussion [1]

In the context of housing (fires, hurricanes etc) insurance is expensive because housing is expensive to build.

[1] insurance companies have to invest their income somewhere. It makes sense to choose companies will high returns. Which includes some health care providers. Which can basically change whatever they like because of structural reasons that have been well discussed.
Without accounting for population growth in high risk areas this is meaningless. If the population and housing units in a floodplain doubles, a $500M 1980s disaster becomes a $1B 2024 disaster. That's not to mention the above-inflation increase in the cost of housing which probably bumps these numbers up as well.
Reasonable affordance is fine, that's not what I was arguing against (nor you), but the obvious downside of flipping pages: it's not "very quick, easy" (especially in those huge dictionaries!)