skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you aware of any health insurance plans in the US which don't have an open enrollment period? I think this is standard across the industry as a check against adverse selection, but most of the information quickly available is ACA-focused, where it's definitely a feature; since open enrollment is extremely beneficial to insurers, I wouldn't imagine them talking up alternatives.

It's true that there is a list of qualifying life events that let you change or acquire insurance outside of open enrollment, but none of them look like "because I don't like my insurer" to me.
They haven't solved it.

I just returned from a 21 day trip and my 12v was dead because I left the Prius off the charger. It's fine as long as it's on the charger (my guess is it trickle charges it), but if you leave it off the charger, the traction battery doesn't maintain the 12v.
Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone
I don't think I've ever been stung in such a convenient position as to allow that.
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/135400
I work for Amazon, but not directly on web crawling.

Based on the internal information I have been able to gather, it is highly unlikely this is actually Amazon. Amazonbot is supposed to respect robots.txt and should always come from an Amazon-owned IP address (You can see verification steps here: https://developer.amazon.com/en/amazonbot).

I've forwarded this internally just in case there is some crazy internal team I'm not aware of pulling this stunt, but I would strongly suggest the author treats this traffic as malicious and lying about its user agent.
I've seen this tarpit recommended for this purpose. it creates endless nests of directories and endless garbage content, as the site is being crawled. The bot can spend hours on it.

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
What if you were? One has to assume most of the "people" with whom one interacts on the internet are bots or AIs now, anyway. That's just the nature of our post-truth reality, it doesn't matter.

The point is that would have no bearing at all on whether or not you would have the right to free speech if you were a person who chose not to reveal your identity.
IA actually has technical and moral reasons to ignore robots.txt. Namely, they want to circumvent this stuff because their goal is to archive EVERYTHING.
Can't agree more, I can't understand why any car person would not be excited about THS II system anymore ever since its executive summary finally clicked, other than because that Prius as a product used to be so badly designed until Tesla started seriously threatening Toyota.

If only Toyota made bunch of toy models for THS and built couple 2-door hybrids so that more people would get it. I suppose it's a case of innovator's dilemma, but it's so unfortunate.
Isn't that kind of a non-sequitur? The claim made was that renewable energy would still be a finite resource to some degree. It's possible that the available energy surplus will be too big for any decisions about usage to matter, but that's a strong claim and you're doing nothing to make it here.

A lot of people believe in a higher power. If trusting in this supposed "market" brings you comfort and clarity in a complicated world, I do not begrudge you it. But invoking it doesn't address the claim it's answering

It's also clear that "the market" does not care enough about environmental impact to even do stuff like remove the current significant fossil fuel subsidies present in most government budgets, nor stop individuals or organizations from consuming or selling said fuels, natural gas, or plastic products at massive scales, so it's unclear why it would allocate energy in a way that didn't deprive crucial priorities.

Like the theodicy on the invisible hand's problem of environmental collapse ain't lookin' good is all I'm saying
Yes, a range extender EV like the BMW i3 REx is technically a series hybrid, but it is designed to operate most of the time on electricity only and be plugged in to charge- with a large EV size battery and a very small lightweight moped engine in the extender.

The range extender basically gives you protection from range anxiety, but isn't used at all in normal use of the vehicle. On the i3, it only starts the engine when the battery is nearly empty, but some people do software mods to be able to use the vehicle as a true series hybrid, and run the engine continuously for doing long distance freeway driving without stopping to charge.
> The author is seeing requests from rotating residential IPs and changing user agent strings

This type of thing is commercially available as a service[1]. Hundreds of Millions of networks backdoored and used as crawlers/scrapers because of an included library somewhere -- and ostensibly legal because somewhere in some ToS they had some generic line that could plausibly be extended to using you as a patsy for quasi-legal activities.

[1] https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies
Joplin on Linux and Mac, synced through WebDAV, works very well. I also keep a (very) small notebook in my pocket and next to my bed for when I need to write down an idea or a reminder, so I can get it out of my system without picking up my phone and entering the rabbit hole.
My site (Pinboard) is also getting hammered by what I presume are AI crawlers. It started out this summer with Chinese and Singapore IPs, but now I can't even block by IP range, and have to resort to captchas. The level of traffic is enough to immediately crash the site, and I don't even have any interesting text for them to train on, just link.

I'm curious how OP figured out it's Amazon's crawler to blame. I would love to point the finger of blame.
A little nervous sharing since last time I posted some personal writing on here I got flamed to the front page, hopefully I don't offend anyone this time :)
My experience with AWS support has been downright freaky.

With other vendors, when I call a support line with an obscure issue that maybe only I hit in the whole world I fully expect to explain it to an overseas call centre drone with a poor voice line and rudimentary English. Then I expect to have to repeatedly escalate over months and be told “We can’t reproduce this glaringly obvious bug, closed.” That’s ignoring the series of very closely related family of issues I dug up in the process of troubleshooting. Which they continue to ignore because it’s “out of scope” for the ticket. “Open a new ticket and go through the pain again, peasant!”

With AWS my experience has always been “I’ve fixed that right up for you, is there anything else you’d like help with?”. Often after mere minutes!

I’m usually left speechless, ready to go on a well-practiced tirade of how “We’re spending millions on this crap and none of it works properly!”, but instead I just sit there gawping like a fish out of water, stammer “No, thank you, that was it.” and hang up in shame.

I just don’t understand why no other enterprise on Earth seems to have support this good. What’s the thing holding them back!? Maybe they assume that good support works only for this tiny upstart org called Amazon that will clearly never amount to anything!
You will most likely be using the same model so just 1 to load into vram.
Looks like a series hybrid with a clutch that bypasses the generator for a high-efficiency overdrive gear. It's simpler than the planetary gear system in a Prius, but they must have made the drive motor (equivalent to MG2 in Prius diagrams) bigger if they never combine power from both MG2 and the ICE. Or, that's not shown in the diagram.
That's interesting, it sounds a bit like those cluster graph visualisation techniques. Unfortunately, my texts seem to fall into clusters that really don't match the ones that I had hoped to get out of these methods. I guess it's just a matter of fine-tuning now.
Americans have held all their presidents accountable in the way they deem best according to their values.
Price discrimination is the practice of charging different amounts to different people, according to what they're willing to pay. It's a more efficient approach than just setting a single price that clears the market. It sounds underhand, but most people like it in practice: it's the basis of most discounts and coupons.
Most of it is not an individual experience or 'event', just bad design with bad results. I'll try to describe some global ones:

One of the most bizarre things is the crazy bad resource hierarchy. There are multiple overlapping and incompatible ones. Resources, networks, storage, IAM, billing and org, none of it in a single universal hierarchy. It seems to mirror the idiosyncrasies of legacy enterprise organisations with their fiefdoms, instead of a cloud.

The next useless thing is how you just cannot use what you need when you need it in whatever way you want it. Almost all services are hyper-segmented requiring various premium tiers instead of them being universally available.

I get it, it's a great way to bundle things people don't want and extract as much money out of them, but that only really works if people have no alternative. And those two form the bad architecture/bad technology trifecta with this third one: a lot of services, maybe most of them, seem like some sort of 2005 model where a resource is backed by nothing more than some random managed VM in the backend, with all the problems (failure modes, inconsistent behaviour etc) that come with that model.

Perhaps the reason for those things is simple: Microsoft wanted a way to extract more money from their customers and lock them in even more. Moving workloads to Azure meant something different for them than it did for the rest of the world: you used to have a lage army of common windows sysadmin jobs where there was a lot of local control and local management loops, but when you move that to a common template in someone else's datacenter (Azure, essentially) you can ditch most of those loops and people. Granted, they created those local controls/loops themselves to get a school-to-work microsoft client pipeline (same as say, Cisco or oracle), but I doubt there is any new markets to cater to in that way. Since people tend to be the most expensive and most risky part of a business, being able to take more of them out of the loop, making more of them optional or making them more expendable/remote is a (short-term) positive thing in the spreadsheets of most MBAs, which is who most large companies cater to after all. This did of course backfire and we now have the same quantity of jobs but instead of sysadmin you get 'azure engineer' which is more of a crossover between operational helpdesk and technical application manager. But everyone wins: during your exodus you can sell it as modernisation, when you remove that on-prem burden you can shift your CAPEX and OPEX around, your quarter looks better when you can reduce headcount, and once your bonus is in, you can put some job postings out for the people you are now missing.

Technology-wise, the only thing that really changed was the ways in which people could cut corners. Some corners are pre-cut, while others are uncuttable. API-wise, it's a crapshoot, a turd attempted to be polished by a webui that hides the maelstrom of questionable residue below the surface.
They banned him from leaving the country, and refused emergency care. That's one country you do not want to enter. Granted, he probably wasn't innocent with his illegal drug use, but he didn't deserve to die over it. Next time, junkies should only go to a country that is more friendly for drug use.
Most US hospitals are required to provide emergency medical care to anyone in the US.

Of course, this means that people with a problem have to wait until it's an emergency to receive the most costly care (and is a reason why some hospitals go bankrupt, and is a reason given why others are so expensive)

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/your-patient-rights/emergency...
Here's Google, complaining of problems with pages they want to index but I blocked with robots.txt.

New reason preventing your pages from being indexed

Search Console has identified that some pages on your site are not being indexed
due to the following new reason:

Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt

If this reason is not intentional, we recommend that you fix it in order to get
affected pages indexed and appearing on Google.
Open indexing report
Message type: [WNC-20237597]
I visited St. Peter's Basilica a few years ago. I highly recommend it.

I had to exit the experience because my laptop (admittedly a few years old) could only give me 1-2 frames per second. I love the idea, but in the current state, viewing hi-res pictures would give you a better experience than this virtual 3d tour, IMO.
It’s because service was the other way around, I’m sure.
No one can stop you to add https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:diet:vegetarian to restaurants that serve vegetarian food and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:diet:vegan for vegan restaurants.
This doesn't work with the kind of highly distributed crawling that is the problem now.
Not... quite. I think you've got the cause-and-effect backwards.

Programmers who happen to write multiple-threaded programs don't need powerful cores, they want more cores. A Blender programmer calculating cloth physics would rather have 4x weaker cores than 1x P-core.

Programmers who happen to write powerful singled-threaded programs need powerful cores. For example, AMD's "X3D" line of CPUs famously have 96MB of L3 cache, and video games that are on these very-powerful cores have much better performance.

Its not "Programmers should change their code to fit the machine". From Intel's perspective, CPU designers should change their core designs to match the different kinds of programmers. Single-threaded (or low-thread) programmers... largely represented by the Video Game programmers... want P-cores. But not very much of them.

Multithreaded programmers... represented by Graphics and a few others... want E-cores. Splitting a P-core into "only" 2 threads is not sufficient, they want 4x or even 8x more cores. Because there's multiple communities of programmers out there, dedicating design teams to creating entirely different cores is a worthwhile endeavor.

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> Does that mean if I can take a single-threaded program and split it into multiple threads, it might use less power? I have been telling myself that the only reason to use threads is to get more CPU power or to call blocking APIs. If they're actually more power-efficient, that would change how I weigh threads vs. async

Power-efficiency is going to be incredibly difficult moving forward.

It should be noted that E-cores are not very power-efficient though. They're area efficient, IE Cheaper for Intel to make. Intel can sell 4x as many E-cores for roughly the same price/area as 1x P-core.

E-cores are cost-efficient cores. I think they happen to use slightly less power, but I'm not convinced that power-efficiency is their particular design goal.

If your code benefits from cache (ie: big cores), its probable that the lowest power-cost would be to run on large caches (like P-cores or Zen5 or Zen5 X3D). Communicating with RAM is always more power than just communicating with caches after all.

If your code does NOT benefit from cache (ie: Blender regularly has 100GB+ scenes for complex movies), then all of those spare resources on P-cores are useless, as nothing fits anyway and the core will be spending almost all of its time waiting on RAM to do anything. So the E-core will be more power efficient in this case.
The queen bee is a formidable final boss with a bad-ass origin story.
NYT isn't the worst of the lot. It is already state propaganda though, they don't need to ban it. I'd keep an eye out for Al Jazeera
what about if I drive a military tank with a biological weapon inside, should I be able to or should government intervene and seize it?
The UI is really bad. That said, it’s not something you really have to use more than a couple times every few months. Only when you install a new server, restart and cancel
Even if open enrollment periods are universal, the statement I reacted to is still false (the "and" should be an "or").

Having to wait between zero to 12 months to change insurance plans is a barrier, but a small one compared to the inability to change plans at all, as in a nationalized health scheme.
We do know - that they demonstrably have abused their powers. I didn't realise it was possible to know about XKEYSCORE with no context or understanding of the Snowden leaks but GP seems to have missed that the "suits" "in charge of XKEYSCORE", the NSA, have repeatedly illegally wiretapped American citizens, to say nothing of the FISA abuses, Five Eyes, etc. Regardless of how you feel about the three-letter agencies' impacts on the rest of the world, the thought that anyone on Hacker News would consider these programs defensible is shocking.
Absurd. To use just one example, if the US Gov has that mandate, why is extreme gerrymandering allowed? Seems like it's common for Americans to just repeat what they've been told without actually thinking about it.
I don’t understand this. Wouldn’t the optimal solution be a constant color over the whole image?
When you talk about there being risks to both short and long lived certificates, that is true, but it's omitting very important detail: Short-lived certificates have practical, real-world risks that are actually happening every day. People die when the Internet breaks. Long-lived certificates have some imaginary and hypothetical security risks that the CAB is very scared of but mostly don't happen.

In any good risk management scenario you have to weigh the cost/benefit of a change in terms of what benefits it offers and what tradeoffs it has. The CAB has repeatedly demonstrated complete inability to consider the risk profile of their behavior. They are unqualified for the job, and unfortunately, accountable to noone.
At some point the FTC and DOJ really need to split up these huge companies to stop this bundling of separate products to block out any competition.
And of course if your children become historical figures, the future people might be amused by your "conceptual sketches" :)
But extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Openai tested the model for months and concluded that simple prompts are best. The author claims that complex prompts are best, but cites no evidence.
When I was writing a crawler for my search engine (now offline), I found almost no crawler library actually compliant with the real world. So I ended up going to a lot of effort to write one that complied with Amazon and Google's rather complicated nested robots files, including respecting the cool off periods as requested.

... And then found their own crawlers can't parse their own manifests.
Google Colab has this setting, too
Where do you put the groceries in a Porsche?
Thanks for reminding me. Now that you mention it, I think that IMEI is probably used most places now (including the US where I am). ESN is probably just an antiquated term that's out-of-date but which is still stuck in my head. Anyway, I just meant the device's hard coded globally unique identifier.
The buggy nature of o1 in ChatGPT is what prevents me from using it the most.

Waiting is one thing, but waiting to return to a prompt that never completes is frustrating. It’s the same frustration you get from a long running ‘make/npm/brew/pip’ command that errors out right as it’s about to finish.

One pattern that’s been effective is

1. Use Claude Developer Prompt Generator to create a prompt for what I want.

2. Run the prompt on o1 pro mode
I want to attribute RSS never taking off in popularity to malice on the part of big tech to catch and kill a threat to their walled garden social media advertising model, because I don't want to face that humanity is just too incompetent to realize how great RSS is.
Wouldn't a simple comparison of the word frequency in my text against a list of usual word frequencies do the trick here without an LLM? Sort of a BM25?
If you move the stick Down, R, Up, L, and hit Y, B you get mega turbo
Press alt+B twice?
I play the drums with my pedal board and the bass with my left hand. It's just a matter of practice.
systemd services are named "foo.service", and you do not need to specify the ".service" in almost any case.
Loved this old-school site. Click around the buttons to find more, like https://www.usdebtclock.org/energy.html and https://www.usdebtclock.org/money-history/money-timeline1100... .

As a geek, I wonder how accurate are the amounts currently.

In case these don't get fixed soon, here are a few glitches found:

- mousing over HEALTHCARE COST NOW shows help for US DOLLAR TO OIL RATIO NOW instead

- at https://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html it seems like the USA's PUBLIC DEBT TO GDP RATIO 101.50% should be more like 123.81%
To be fair, you are contrasting an econobox with one of the all-time great driver’s cars :) I bet I have enough fingers to count cars more fun to drive than a Boxster.

I do agree about the Prius, though. It feels like driving a dishwasher.
I do kinda struggle to understand the geometry here though. Especially in the picture with the black-out fabric, how is the camera rotating to track stars?
Don't forget getting an e-mail about it from HR??
Fixing a uname bug (Apache NuttX RTOS)
Dank smells save lives
Why It Might Be Time to Rethink Using Cosine Similarity
It points to another evolutionary pressure that isn't mentioned as often: if an animal is too aggressive humans will exterminate it.
I’m selfhosting both miniflux (after being a paying customer for a while) and freshrss. Main reason for adding freshrss was to test the flaresolverr plugin. I haven’t been able to get it to work, but I kept using freshrss.

If you’re interested in how well-behaved your client is, you can read Rachel’s posts.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/29/score/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/08/02/fs/
On Amiga, there was a 3D demo with this trick. You can "jump in" your eyes to the proper position if you hold your finger at the place where the 3d image should appear, ca. 10 cm close to your eyes, and focus on it. You'll be cross-eyed without knowing it.

Also, I was using the trick as a "cheat" when I played Tiny Lands on Nintendo Switch, it's a "spot the difference" game, but with 3d landscapes (you can rotate and zoom): https://www.dekudeals.com/items/tiny-lands
No, it's setting a price and seeing how many people will pay that price, varying it and see who will pay that. You can derive a demand curve and work out the best price to maximise your revenue. And you can do even better if you can do some price discrimination, so you can sell some to people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it, which still charging other more. This isn't judging someone's salary before quoting a price, it's things like charging different prices in different markets, or offering student or senior discounts, or coupons etc.
Ok, let me dumb it down for you: you have a cockroach in your bathroom and you want to kill it. You have an RPG and you have a slipper. Are you gonna use the RPG or are you going to use the slipper? Even if your bathroom is fine after getting shot with an RPG somehow, isn't this an overkill? If you can code and binary classifier train a classifier in 2 hours that uses nearly 0 resources and gives you good enough results(in my case way above what my targets were) without having to use a ton of resources, libraries, rags, hardware and hell, even electricity? I mean how hard is this to comprehend really?

https://deviq.com/antipatterns/shiny-toy
I founded and run a SaaS technology company for publishers. I think there's a rich vein here that hasn't really been explored.

[Outpost](https://outpost.pub)

We work with pubs like 404Media and Platformer

Incorporated in California.

Happy to answer questions
Wow this seems cruel and unusual.
98.js - Inspired by Windows 98
easy solution - just don’t use windows
That's adorable, first time I've had my wife engage with what I'm writing. Any way to make them larger? They're so tiny on high resolution screens.