skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I do not mean waiting in the few overcrowded clinics that take Medicaid because Medicaid reimbursed very poorly so providers do not accept it.

Sorry you had a bad experience with that growing up. Really.

As a parent I can’t say I shared that worry with only having medicaid. That was our best option before I had a job with healthcare benefits, which took me years to get to.

But I would still say it was pretty far from just “survival”.
At a guess, constant rematerialision failing to cross basic block boundaries. Feels like a plausible thing for a heuristic to miss. E.g. sink the constant into the loop so it's available when optimising that block, then fail to hoist it back out afterwards because constant materialisation is cheap.
How can the Word Error Rate (WER) be larger than 100% for some languages?
There are other issues with Debian. They will radically rearrange upstream software to follow their own standards (e.g. try using Tomcat on Debian sometime). This is bad enough when they apply it to regular software, and downright insane when they do the same thing for security-critical software. It predictably caused quite possibly the worst general-purpose OS bug in history (their SSL key generation one). They did not change their policy in response to that incident and see nothing wrong.
I'm definitely for any alternative to an MS solution (especially one where I have to give them actual money to use it), but I had kind of the same experience. Not extensive testing, and I'm using it in PyCharm, so I don't know if that changes the behavior.

The completion was weird. I tried to type "#Function to return the value passed". And it started to autocomplete with what I typed and what it was suggesting all jumbled up and completely unintelligible. Once I hit tab, it completed correctly, but it didn't make any sense until I hit tab, so I couldn't really see what I was completing until it was done.

The more I played with it, I noticed it started to not actually suggest anything. But the codeium plugin is just showing a wait spinner in my status bar, so maybe it's getting pounded with HN people testing it right now.
I also think it's over the top and I'm a year or two shy of being a zoomer. Although, I guess being a millennial is considered old by many now.

I just wish developers would make mobile UIs consistent with the OS. The Apollo Reddit client and, surprisingly, the official GitHub app are the only third-party apps that I have that feel/look like "native" iOS apps.

When it's not over-the-top animations, giant UI elements, tutorial modals, or fullscreen pop-ups, it's small details like the (IMO ugly) custom font and the sharp-cornered buttons in the Dropbox app. At least for that particular app, I can just use the built-in Files app, but no such luck for other apps.
Eh. I’m sorry, I know you feel like you’ve got relevant expertise here and you’re doing some kind of public service here fighting with those evil blockchain people.

But you’re out of your depth and making very week assertions to cover the gaps in your data.

If you want to NDA and talk directly to the sellers of the land about the commercials of the deal, that can probably be arranged. But your speculation is based on weak data not access to the facts, and is not really going to replace things like an independent valuation and the opinions of the experienced real estate lawyers who papered this deal.

Yes, it’s a novel way to buy land, but the underlying deal mechanics are pretty conservative. There is nothing up anybody’s sleeves, and we encourage full diligence from any prospective buyers - they’re going to need to bring their own legal counsel to assess the purchase mechanisms and the NFT binding arrangements anyway.

This is not some deal to retail: we expect the sale to be to a real estate developer.

I don’t think there’s anything else I can do to convince you of your error.

Thanks for your interest in our work.
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> 4. will inevitably force me to agree to giving away PII for free before granting me its services

And what if you _don't_ agree? You have a contract signed for your apartment. Can you not access that apartment if you don't agree to the additional terms?
I made a platinum theme (and a few other mac-like ones) for xfwm some years ago: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1016308
For many people the main concern is not money, but maintaining visa status.
70 to 100 years is short? You could spend your entire savings in a month if you wanted so I don't understand your advice
Wow, this sounds like a really important decision. I wonder what Metas next line of defense will be, if any. The article says Meta can appeal, so I guess they will try that.

It will be interesting to see how many users will decline to opt-in to Personalized ads. Meta will probably still try a range of dark patterns to keep users from making that choice.
This treated sewage is the water that Vegas now provides for general use, and what AZ will need just for its people in about 5 years. Wasting it on chip production is going to go over slightly better than the Saudis wasting groundwater on alfalfa.
Externalities are the thing that get you, and I think are what the article is obliquely getting at with that phrasing (and the "amid concern about the state of fish stocks" later).

Each poacher who kills an african elephant for the ivory is paid handsomely, and individually it perhaps makes sense to them, but it's illegal because the externality is that the african elephant would go extinct if we treated this purely as a market where "if someone will pay for ivory, that justifies it".

The health of the planet is usually not able to be factored into market economics.

Laws intervene, but ideally we would recognize the externalities and adjust our behavior _before_ laws come into play. We shouldn't have to wait on the law to limit carbon emissions to recognize that destroying the planet, even if it gives us more dollars in our lifetime, is a move that does not make sense for humanity as a whole.

I think the framing of the article is that this inefficient use of resources makes less sense from an externalities perspective, and you're saying that it makes perfect sense from an economic perspective.
That research is likely out of date.
This reminds me of "Blipverts" on the 80s TV show "Max Headroom". TV commercials that were so stimulating they would cause some viewers to explode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekg45ub8bsk
For example women are shorter on average than men (and subsequently have shorter arms, legs, fingers) so everything has to be sized and placed appropriately, like seats and seat belts, steering wheel, stalks, buttons, pedals, etc. This is not a given especially in big cars. The dash and pillars also have to be designed to maximize visibility for short drivers.

Then there are the smaller things like storage spaces, being able to pull open the door handle without breaking longer nails, or to get in and out of the car even when wearing a tight dress. Things along these lines.

Ask any woman who was driving 20+ years ago, they probably have a more exhaustive list.
This specifically involves speech and its creation.

So, it does not have to do with any business, as you claim, but one which is hired to produce certain speech.
(Sorry for the animosity, I'm angry at the system, not you.)

I'm sort of amused and wondering if some detail failed to communicate effectively.

I've had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy as part of pursuing an unfinished Bachelor's in Environmental Resource Management with a Concentration in Housing as part of a plan to eventually get a Master's in Urban Planning. I've studied housing issues for years, both formally and informally, and I spent years homeless and I'm pretty happy with where I am on the topic and with my efforts to find a path forward.

Nonetheless, it remains challenging to try to effectively communicate with other people who don't have the background knowledge I have and be adequately succinct while effectively making a point. You need to master the lingo and figure out how to side-step language that just causes conversations to go pointlessly sideways and get nowhere and it's still actually hard work to do that.

I spend less time these days trying to talk at internet strangers on public forums (about housing issues/homelessness) and more time trying to flesh out Project: SRO. I think in the long run, that's a more effective use of my time that has some hope of accomplishing something, someday.
>> The US is mulling disabling or destroying Taiwan’s semiconductor factories in the event of a Chinese invasion

I think this completely bogus. Firstly, the geopolitical tension in the region isn't about to go off anytime soon -- Taiwan just elected pro-China KMT party last week.

Second, Taiwan is one of the largest investors in China. In fact, most of CCP's chip initiatives in China are spearheaded by Taiwan-expats (ie, ex-TSMC/UMC engineers) dreaming of striking rich in China. Take for instance Mong Sang Liang, a Berkeley PhD and former head of TSMC R&D, now co-CEO of SMIC in China.

Third, those fabs are both capex and opex intensive. These fabs are not self-healing perpetual machines -- those expensive equipments need constant babysitting by various foreign vendors just to ensure they are running 24x7. I doubt that Taiwanese would agree to such an extreme plan.
What?!

My comment was rational and reasonable, and quite relevant to the thread. If some Musk fanatics interpret it as flaming, or causes them to react with flaming, that's their problem, not mine. Flag those responses, don't blame me, the victim of their reactions.
There's a really well written serie of three articles about Dune and Dune 2 history on the Digital Antiquarian, if you want to find out a lot more about theses you can find them here:
https://www.filfre.net/tag/dune/

First part is about Dune the book and its author Franck Herbert, the second one about Dune 1, and the last one about Dune 2. Each article is well documented and describe in great details the technical, economic and artistic background of the people who made these three projects.
Ugh I hate things like this. They could have saved themselves the trouble.

Murdering millions of healthy 20-year-olds would also save in future health care spending but that's not really the point.

Aside from the obvious, I feel like this is kind of some extreme version of some modern phenomenon that would be hilariously satirical if it weren't so terrifying and ethically repugnant.
They’re basically doing to/for humans what they’ve been doing to animals all this time. A lot of pet illnesses can be fought with enough money and expertise, something that people don’t want to do and insurance likely won’t cover. We’ll see health insurance companies apply lifetime limits and such to their plans, more than they already have.
Ask HN: How do we know ChatGPT is not a scam?
Hi HN,

my basic question is, how can we be sure that chatGPT (or even the whole of GPT-3) is really not just some callcenter in the Philippines?

I played around with chatGPT too, and like many of you I'm absolutely blown away by the model's abilities. The whole thing seems more like something out of Star Trek than a real thing.

But some of the exchanges you can read here honestly feel too good to be true. In particular, the failure modes seem extremely weird to me and unlike anything I have seen in an ML system before:

- The most common failures appear to be factually incorrect statements. That's not unusual, but on the other hand, the network almost always gets the form of the responses right.

- The other prominent failure mode seems to be that it does too much: There have been various reports of the network excelling at tasks it wasn't even supposed to be able to do, only for those tasks to be artificially blocked later.

- The last failure mode is how those blocks can be circumvented by meta commands that look right out of bad scifi. That those workarounds even work implies that the model somehow "knows" about the environment it is in and is able to reason about it.

Where it somehow never has any trouble with is correctly interpreting the task that a user is asking for. It somehow gets this done, even if the task is complex, requires deep language understanding and meta knowledge about the current situation: You can prompt it to "ignore previous commands" and it will do so. You can also prompt it to "repeat the previous result" and it will repeat the result, but not the additional text it wrote to explain the result, and so on.

This alone has been the holy grail of language processing for the last 40 years. It's something no other network so far has even come close to. Even DALLE, StableDiffusion, etc treat their prompts mostly as bags of phrases and have trouble correctly interpreting relationships between different parts of the prompt.

GPT-3 and ChatGPT somehow do this effortlessly and with humanlike success rate.

Lastly, the network doesn't even just give you a result, it also adds a text explaining how the result related to your request and how you could use it. This alone requires some creativity and theory of mind.

All of this makes me believe we're either truly on the verge of AGI - or the network is in fact a human and the whole thing is fake.

What speaks against it being a human is the superhuman response time: It will write you half a paper or code your python app in a few seconds.

Looks impressive at first glance - however note that the network is allowed to make up all kinds of fantasy statements on the spot. I think a human with some training and a decent speech-to-text engine (which openai incidentally also develops [1]) could likely produce a text in a similar speed if they can just make up facts on the spot and are not required to research anything.

Writing working code is more tricky, but other assist tools, like Copilot might help here.

What do you guys think?

[1] https://openai.com/blog/whisper/
Or any other highly optimised numerical codebase. From a quick glance at OpenBLAS, it looks like they have a lot of microarchitecture-specific assembly code, with dispatching code to pick out the appropriate implementations.

https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/02ea3db8e720b0ffb3e2...

https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/02ea3db8e720b0ffb3e2...
Really? That’s all they revealed?

Okay.
IF they do that.

Lower tax on paychecks would increase wages, but our union was against that. What kind of a union does that?
If the target is the words "A A A" and you produce "B B B B", you have more errors than there were words in the target. 3 replacements and 1 insertion.
You're not wrong that competition helps, but you're being naive if you think healthcare is a market, or that it would not eventually be captured like so much else in the USA.

In fact, I think you'll find most of healthcare has already been captured by private equity, resulting in worse outcomes for the both doctors and patients.
Ooh, I've been playing the same experiment all day in various shapes and forms. Mind sharing that tampermonkey script with a fellow hacker?
Also this “close to the sea front” land you have posted appears to be “close to the sea front” in the sense of “being in the middle of a housing estate somewhere near the sea” not an actual beach.

And that’s valued at 130,000?

I’m just sayin’ 7000 does not buy very much land in the UK. Not anywhere.
The responsible thing to do is to have a robust code review culture and cover your code with enough tests that boneheaded mistakes in this vein have a very low chance of making it into production. There is no amount of experience that can prevent boneheaded mistakes. If your users' privacy depends on your programmers understanding all the footguns and weird little corner cases in the tools they use, and on implementing that understanding perfectly whenever they write code, you already don't deserve said users' trust.

Is it fair to expect a candidate claiming fluency in language X to back that claim up? Sure. But I don't think the general thrust of your comment is very productive.
Any reason why the game window remains minimized in my browser?
Support for pricing tiers above 1k for one big thing.
I'll confess that I don't understand Taiwan's importance to China. They can put a certain amount of their resources into taking Taiwan -- which will absolutely not gain them access to TSMC's production capacity under any conditions, due to a web of Western dependencies that runs deeper than any rabbit hole -- or they can put the same resources into improving their own economic strength. Why wouldn't they choose the latter?

The reason I say I don't understand any of this is that the same reasoning should have applied to Russia. If they had spent a fraction of the effort and energy they've historically devoted to harming other countries on improving their own country instead, they would be way ahead of the game... yet they didn't, and don't show any indication of changing course.

Is the same irrational thinking present among China's leadership? If so -- and their pathological obsession with Taiwan certainly suggests that it is -- then things are really going to suck for everyone involved.
I've been using whisper to get transcripts from my local radio stations. I know it's out of scope for the original project but I hope someone can build a streaming input around it in the future. I currently pipe in and save 10 minute chunks that get sent off for processing.
While it's true that military ships (and planes) are painted gray in order to camouflage against a background of haze and clouds, it's also true that there's a civilian demographic that have some kind of desire to appear as tough manly men by adopting a military-inspired aesthetic and behaving in an aggressive and intimidating manner.
You can buy it directly from Bulgaria to save 300€ then. It would be illegal for the shop to tell you you have to pay more for buying from another country.

>Software I'm unsure how to check, but Netflix costs varies by county.

If it does (I don't think so, the minimal differences are because of VAT) you can subscribe from another European country (using a VPN or whatever) and Netflix can't ban you or block you from using it (like they would if you bought the subscription from a third world country for example)

Is it fair that both Finland and Italy pay 7.99€/month for the basic plan?

(This is why I said "in practical terms")
> Nothing against enjoying childish things as an adult, but it's notable that those movies do a lot to pretend they are actually thought-provoking culture pieces dealing with current issues - and not the latest adventures of characters which were invented almost 100 years ago to amaze children.

This is particularly notable with the recent Batman movies vs. say Batman Returns (1992). That was not a "gritty" or "serious" movie but still earned its PG-13 rating.
> You can't lower taxes without some sort of tradeoff, which is usually a cut to services. I don't know the context here but it stands to reason that you are not giving the whole situation.

You cannot increase wages without loss of profits or increase in prices.

The union should fight for the wages, the profits and prices are someone elses problem (owners, customers).
Some people really like ketchup on pizza. I don’t. It’s a matter of individual taste.
I updated the post - really appreciate the attention to detail.
The service is asking for Twitter access including tweeting on my behalf and follow/un-follow people. I'm afraid the homepage is not giving enough information or examples to convince me to give that amount of access. Generic info@ email address, generic terms of service. A demo page or screenshots might help.
This is something I wish could mash with Figma in some way, so Figma edits could be reflected back into the application in an intelligent way.

I really like this. I think some folks have correctly identified that it may be incorrectly used (my opinion) as a low-code editor. It very well could be however I see it living in a different space:

There has long been attempts at getting tools like Figma to produce assets that work with engineers. What I haven't seen until Codux is a tool that takes my work as an engineer and (mostly) correctly makes it editable and "design ready" for designers.

Thats the niche I see this living in, and is one I'd like to use it for, is to take the React components created for our design system and give designers the ability to run with it to create mock ups etc. This would cut alot of translation overhead and boilerplate significantly while keeping design and engineering on the same "page" because it reflects the changes correctly based on the source and available props, bringing things closer to usable.
If the gov takes 1k in and another 1k goes to insurance companies, it kinda hard to get people to pay 1k(say a Dr offers a service outside both the gov and insurance) to do whatever when they have already paid 2k and gotten nothing.
This is despite that just dealing directly with the dr is a 50% discount...
Nice catch. I'll run my test suite [1] on this and report back.

[1] https://twitter.com/lunixbochs/status/1574848899897884672
In your jurisdiction (Europe?) you are likely fine doing it legally if you are a consultant/contractor (i.e. responsible for all taxes/insurances yourself) but not as an employee. So if you find two remote jobs in the US, you are good.
There was a time when the point of the neutrals trend in decor was supposed to be that everyday things could fade modestly into the background to let the colors of clothing, food, art, etc. stand out more. But I don't think that's the way the trend has gone. Kim Kardashian has a completely beige house, in which she and her children have been photographed wearing beige clothing, etc. It seems very exhausting. And the flip side is that youth culture seems to remain interested in bright colors, at least for now.
"In other words, every ugly system is also a successful system. Every beautiful system, has never seen spontaneous adoption." - not only is this logically fallacious, its pretty offensive about the general notion of software quality
Yep, we still have a """temporary""" increase of VAT in action (19->22%) from the 2008 financial crisis... and we got nothing new (neither new or better services) from this.
I mean, I'm not exactly advocating for everything to be neon yellow and pink everywhere all the time. I'd just like something to break up the colorless-with-accent (usually something desaturated as well!) monotony that's everywhere, lest the whole world end up looking like Mirror's Edge. It's a balance.

Where the pendulum lies might just be a matter of fashion.
Hey thanks for the context, I have a better idea of the nuances involved here now. I however want to apologize if this has caused you emotional stress and hope you get the space you need to process through that stress.

I have an intuitive and therefore undereducated sense that anything to do with Musk gets hyper escalated and it’s a detriment to everybody.
I think I am going to start submitting urls to ChatGPT instead of reading Hacker News.