skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no proven health benefit to periodic medical checkups for healthy adults. At the population level it's a waste of resources. But certain preventive screening services are covered at no cost to the patient because they've been shown to be effective through high quality research studies.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...
Is B remaining the same something that happens often enough for it to matter?
Ah! Ok that makes more sense now… lol I was wondering how they went about that. Even the table about /etc being immutable but you can edit seems a bit weird. But I kind of got the picture now
The hubris in this article is unreal: it's posing that privately owned utilities are a good thing and that bypassing them is some crime that's done by ratepayers. I hope that business model dies in a fire.

Instead the entire paradigm of centralized generation may need to be called into question and we should instead be focusing on a hybrid centralized baseline + local generation and storage. Places like China do fine with promoting residential solar where nearly half the solar was on residential rooftops (2023) [1].

[1] https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-le...
is there any particular reason it couldn't have been done in C? I'm having a little trouble believing these claims
Good idea. If the American voter/taxpayer (by proxy) isn’t willing to pay for it, let’s find ways to find people who are
Also worth being aware of Robert Kagen's adult development model [0] or something similar; that gives people a framework to go from "humans seem" to some actual percentages and capabilities.

Spoiler, but approximately 66% of the adult population make do without being able to maintain their own perspective independently of what their social circle tells them it is. I imagine that would make it extremely challenging to determine what someone else's perspective is. Especially if that perspective is being formed based on empiricism rather than social signalling.

And if we're making book recommendations, Non-Violent Communication is a gem of an idea.

[0] https://medium.com/@NataliMorad/how-to-be-an-adult-kegans-th...
Robert Wright has been making the related observation that chip export controls to China are making the invasion of Taiwan much more likely.

In a world where TSMC supplied China, at least the PRC would suffer economically from the US/ROC bombing the fabs. With the PRC forced to mainland its own fabs, that leverage goes away.
Consultants don’t get absolute power to make changes unilaterally.
Probably easier to use ADB on Android to both flip and screenshot.
Nobody does that. Download and Transfer was used because it would give AZW3 instead of the newer KFX file format. DRM on KFX is much harder to remove, if at all. AZW3 is possible, hence why they are closing this "loophole".

It's still stupid because basically any book can be pirated in about 10 minutes with a knife and a sheetfed document scanner.
That was fun!
One question, is there a way to execute the current hovered/selected query and not the first on in the workspace?
Had a similar situation back in 2018/2019. Electric company offered a flat rate for electric vehicle charging but you needed to install a second meter. Took them forever to install the actual meter (it had been jumped by the electricians and covered by cardboard) and then months of not being billed for it.
isn't it just one of his pals that maybe travels around with them?
The electricity is switched off. If the system is fancy, maybe it's on a lower duty cycle. The panels just sit there, rotting, wasting their embodied energy.
C (and C++) code breaks all the time between toolchain versions (I say "toolchain" to include compiler, assembler, linker, libc, etc.). Some common concerns are: headers that include other headers, internal-but-public-looking names, macros that don't work the way people think they do, unusual function-argument combinations, ...

Decades-old codebases tend to work because the toolchain explicitly hard-codes support for the ways they make assumptions not provided by any standard.
The title really confused me until I realized this has nothing to do with https://millcomputing.com/ :-)
It depends on your career prospects. If you can expect to make $200k out of grad school then it’s definitely not better to spend your time in school, financially. But yeah it’s a math question at that point.
Has anyone audited/read their code. I found it very suspicous that a company as small as them would be able to deliver software as complex as it was on the face of it. But when I last checked, I guess it hadn't been open sourced yet. Being Latvian, I am skeptical of other Latvians, but in this case, I'm skeptical of running potentialy Kremlin aligned source.
I don't know if you can reasonably generalize self hosting.

To a lot of people, self hosting is about getting complete (or effectively complete) control of your data and privacy. That can be compatible with the cloud.
The big change followed the Pendleton Act (passed following the assassination of Garfield by an upset donor). 1880s, with a steadily increasing percentage of professional bureaucrats (vs donors/friends) ever since.
I guess you could say "batteries are not a grid scale solution" as long as you ignore ERCOT and CAISO...
The stock market is open to all. Everyone has the opportunity to participate. It does not discriminate. All you need is $184k to make the same average income off the S&P 500 for life as you would collect on government disability. A frugal median income individual could save that in ten years. If someone is not capable of pulling that off, then maybe they should be on disability. You don't even need investments to live without employment. If you are likable and people want to be around you, then they will let you sleep on their couches. It isn't difficult to follow your dreams.
With kagi you'll get used to them making the correct choice. It's been stunning how they haven't really had any missteps

I wish my kagi t-shit could say the same. Bottom hem unraveled on the second wash, and so it's been consigned to the sleep and yard work shirts. They issued me a coupon for a free shirt as replacement, but it's yet to ship
I am currently fighting a bill for a yearly physical, which should be covered 100%, because my doctor is in network and covered, but "the facility" (aka his office) is billed as a separate entity. Insanity.
This is literally what the paper we're commenting on is challenging. The source for that claim in Wikipedia (Levitin & Rogers) is expressly addressed in the paper.
We are so cooked. I don't see a clear pathway out of this. I fear we've crossed the Rubicon and people will choose willful ignorance or the people who believe they stand to benefit will silently stand by. After decades of Neo-Liberal austerity measures, the rise of fascism is inevitable.
No, it's not okay, and I'm not trying to justify it.

But you (and everyone else in this thread, with perhaps a few exceptions) hated him long before the salute, so to try to blame it on that is pretty disingenuous.

I think trying to justify your hatred of someone based on something the did after you started hating them is pretty "not okay", too, fwiw
What do you mean Credit Suisse no longer exists? It is still there, just as a subsidiary of UBS.
To be fair, if you ignore the war, it's not spending that makes the deficit go up under Republicans; it's the tax cuts. It's like announcing you are going to get your household finances together by quitting your job.

And they are doing it again. The latest budget proposal involves ~4 trillion in tax cuts and ~2 trillion in spending cuts. Wild for a group that a few months ago was panicking at how much debt we have.
Dave Smith restarted making Prophet 5 synthesizers a few ago, and the initial batch of users complained that the high frequencies weren’t like the original but when he tested them he couldn’t see any issue…

Turns out he was testing by ear, and he was a few decades older since stopping the last production run, and his hearing had rolled off on the high end!

Remake users were instructed on how to fix it and newer batches had the fixes built in - maybe by using a younger ear :)
Nice to see GB Studio get a mention, I’m still working away at it after many years! Definitely going to be checking out NESFab to see what I can learn from it.

There’s also been a fork recently called BB Studio adapting it to make NES games:

https://github.com/michel-iwaniec/bb-studio
You could always do what I did, get your employer to pay for the Masters, still work full time.

No debt, no opportunity cost.

Wish one would let me do the same with a PhD.
One interesting thing is that there are comparisons to Maven and Gradle but not sbt. Do people just not use sbt anymore or is it omitted because it's also Scala and/or prone to becoming a mess?
I think most people's definition is roughly "obtaining and consuming media you haven't paid for in violation of copyright." Sometimes it's just about obtaining something in violation of copyright, even if you've already bought it (e.g. "I always buy things and then pirate them anyway because I hate the DRM but still want to support the creators."). Very few would consider stripping DRM on files you already have to be piracy, even if the DMCA forbids it, because the vast majority of people consider transfer of copyrighted material to be foundational to the meaning of the word.
Yes, but a university or other institution will often also require IRB review in additional cases, because maybe they don't want to let researchers accidentally cause brain damage just because a billionaire rather than a government is paying.
I will try it for more technical queries, but the results seem to be worse than Google/DDG. The reverse image search sucks and has never returned a single result for me. I suppose the advantage is that it whitelists/blacklists against spam, but it frequently comes up empty handed. So maybe it needs to crawl/scrape the web deeper or it needs a better search algorithm or trust model.

I could probably get better results by crawling the web myself at home.
You definitely just don't know how checked exceptions work. This is not true at all. The compiler will not let you call a(); without handling the exception or checking it up the stack. The same way results work.
This is a nice first pass at the common sense problems with interpreting FDA regulations. I imagine that those who have been dealing with this for some time aren't as confused as the author suggests we should be. On the first pass, for example, are human subjects involved? Do you interact with humans? No, then probably not. There are many subtleties after that, but it's not so bad as the poster suggests. I remember a comment one investigator told me about animal research, where he illustrated the problem by saying you can go into a grocery store and buy a leg of lamb and do anything you want with it, but don't call it research!
Other than the things others mentioned, with the ultimate plan you can use Claude with Kagi web-search, which is not something that the Claude web app supports, I believe.
The first of many I suspect. The United States has spent the better part of a century now projecting soft power all over the world, in a number of ways, many not even necessarily nefarious. We're a reliable member of the global community. Well, were. Since the first Trump administration we've steadily been losing that global influence (largely to China) because dipshits who don't understand international relations keep getting put in charge of international relations, not the least of which is the Toddler in Chief himself, and think it's a waste of money.

Then they go on to complain how China is stepping into those vacuums and gaining that influence, the irony completely lost on them. Or they're just flagrant con men, take your pick.
GINA prohibits health insurance companies from denying coverage or setting premiums based on member genetics.
Six months for "permanent industrial electric service" sounds pretty reasonable, actually.
A ship, not so bad, it could have been a Canadian lighthouse.
Hey!

Firstly - great work - one of my favourite games is Chronicles of Crime and this immediately made me think back to how I would've gone about investigating some of those stories using SQL.

w.r.t the comments - you can add `--` to comment out lines of queries but when I do it on two or more lines they get mashed into a single line and I can't reliably uncomment them again without the queries getting mangled.

I've found you can use multiline comments /* and */ though which worked for me - just a bit more back and forth on the keyboard.

Anyway - again - awesome work.
You might ask the old-timers whether any of them knows why this bug is unfixed since 2009.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521

Surely there is some rich lore to be mined.
So ... shoot first and ask questions later?
Can't speak to doctors, but I've been a mechanic and yes there's some large overlap in debugging skills between a good mechanic and a programmer, a mindset of wanting to understand how things work, and breaking down the problem into manageable parts.
Starting from the second note the brain switches to reative mode (at least a brain that got some relative recognition trained before) and no AP pitch will be memorized.
yup, if i went to do a PhD interpretability is the only interesting subject for academia IMO right now
Wow! and the author isn't even a boomer. Amazing.

npm and pip have demonstrated the issues discussed here repeatedly...
It's really a tragedy of the commons situation. We're all to blame for the decrepit state of this shared resource.
Once your proof of concept gains traction more time is spent in meetings with other teams responsible for the systems you'll be interacting with - making sure you do it "right" rather than scrappy. Once your initial release starts getting popular you spend more time looking at metrics and talking to operations folks to make scaling easier and not waste resources. Once your product starts having customers who depend on it, you spend a lot of time working with product to figure out features that make sense, advise on time estimates, mentor new team members, and advise teams who use your product/services as a dependency.

These are all engineering tasks, and the longer you spend on a team/in a company, the more likely it is you provide more value by doing this than by slinging code. You become a repository of institutional knowledge to dispense.
Interestingly the original "large cent" is quite valuable for collectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_cent
> whereas I am more concerned with how it has propagated the misery of 96 dpi and sustained inadequate displays for so long we’re still struggling to be rid of said displays and still dealing with the sequelae of said misery.

Well, Apple found a solution that works with web and print - and the font( file)s are the same. What's the secret stopping Microsoft from going the Apple route, other than maybe backwards compatibility?
He's probably on some old hardware with a dead fan that is throttling the shit out of the whole system to keep it from letting all the smoke out.
The margin would have been 15% or more if Sanders ran. What I asked you to consider is that Sanders lost by double digits to Clinton among the left. It would be far worse in a general election.
The Unix pipe paradigm was honestly way ahead of it's time.
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What's wrong with negative electricity pricing? Are utilities meant to let consumers overvolt the grid and use their industrial customers and utility-scale generators to counteract it without any compensation or disincentive?
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There's a trap to be careful of here, because your estimate now is 1.5 months, so it's actually going to take 3 months.

The general rule is 80% of the work takes 80% of the time, and the remaining 20% takes 80% of the time. Try to get 80% of it done in 50% of the time.

So the goal should be to get development 80% done in 3 weeks and begin QA by then.
Warren buffet would like a word.

https://www.fancypantshomes.com/celebrity-homes/warren-buffe...

> For six decades, Buffett has lived in the same residence in the central Dundee neighborhood of Omaha, Neb. The “Oracle of Omaha” purchased the home for $31,500, which would be worth about $250,000 in today’s dollars.

> As it turns out, the house was the “third-best investment” he’s ever made, Buffett wrote in a letter to his shareholders in 2010.
I have trouble understanding your comment. To me, it sounds like saying that, if I have absolute pitch (i.e., being able to start a song in the right key), then I have absolute pitch. Well, sure, the problem is that I don't have absolute pitch!
> The executive should have the power to fire/remove executive associated departments/employees, obviously.

I don't actually see why this is obvious. Firing employees, sure, good amount of leeway there, but I fail to see why an executive should "obviously" be able to remove or hamstring a department that the legislature has passed a law creating. The entire job of the executive is to "execute" on the agenda passed by the legislature. Removing or interfering with departments doing their job is the opposite of that.
You can try commenting out the first query with -- and running it like that. I have not implemented yet the ability to run multiple queries.
Don't forget about regulatory capture too. If Idaho Power (e.g. because they're in a republican state with a bunch of wildfires lately) fails or is culpable for billions caused by fires by their lax equipment, someone will bail them out -- probably the tax payer.

If the tax payer is ultimately on the hook, then the tax payers should own the utility.
Weird how when the rapacious whims of capitalists destroy things people value the economists posit that "those things weren't viable in the market, we have to be realistic" but when business models that capital finds valuable are under threat from technological commodification the line is "disaster, death spiral"

I have to say, my days of not taking economics seriously as a science are certainly coming to a middle
Of course. And that's why there are investigations and also Inspector Generals to watch for this stuff. (Except those guys just got fired.)

Investigating and fixing instances of fraud is one thing -- and a good thing. Axing departments and firing a bunch of people based on ideology (DOE, USAID) or retribution (DOJ), or loyalty tests (OBM, etc.) has nothing to do with "fixing waste and fraud".
Yeah, when I see the equivalent to slang written in Ada/Spark, I'll actually believe them.
You can actually use this to import pdfs generated with Matplotlib as vector graphics into Impress presentations. This allows you to change, e.g., the color of lines or the legend (or any other part of the plot) right within Impress to better fit your presentation. I found this extremely useful in the past. In Powerpoint, I could not even import an svg, let alone a pdf (although maybe the newest version supports this?).
The only downside is that currently you have to first import the pdf into Draw and then copy the shapes/curves over to Impress. I hope they will add direct import into Impress in the future.
One might be tempted to again draw parallels to today's situation in the US, with the US having lost the war in Afghanistan as well as everyone having suffered through years of Covid.

Not disputing your point, but what blows me away is just how unapt your comparison is. We didn't 'lose' the war in Afghanistan. We chose not to fight it aggressively and eventually got bored with it, and then Biden let himself get rope-a-doped into following Trump's plan for unwinding it. Whatever, no biggie, we're over it.

And COVID was nothing like losing a world war. The very notion is ridiculous. Inflation in the US during COVID reached 12%. Inflation in the Weimar Republic reached 12 digits.

And yet we voted like a country with no options left. Like a country that had been destroyed and saddled with the bill by the victors... like a pariah nation full of desperate, starving people with nothing to lose. We fell for the first con man to come along waving a Bible and blaming somebody else.

What would things be like in America now if we actually had faced a genuine crisis like Germany's post-WWI downfall? My guess is, we're about to find out... because that's what we just voted for.
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i really need the ability to zoom in or have it larger. the default size for me (even with my browser default at 130%) is way too small for me to make anything out.
Which is fine, but that's a totally different argument than the idea that they're "bad cars".

Like I said, Elon's viability as leader is absolutely up for question. But that has nothing to do with the quality of the vehicle.
Remember the "caravans" that were "invading" the border?
It's also one of the last currencies to still produce a one dollar and two dollar bill.
At Symbian defects were classified from P1-P4, with the inevitable shit-fights about adding magic runes to the title so everyone knows that your P1 is more important than theirs.

The day came when, after prolonged hand wringing and with stern observations about great power and great responsibility, the priority could be set to P0. But like any bunch of junkies we came off this new high all too quickly and the P-1 classification arrived, the showstopper of showstoppers.

In hindsight what I most regret is that we stuck with an integer field; we were denied the expressive power of fractionally critical issues.
Exactly. This statement quite really does not make sense as this is literally how electricity works with grid too, since you need to have a reserve margin

I do find the rest of the article more or less balanced in the discussion of the issue, even though it tries very hard not to actually squarely put blame where it lies