skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that's why Canadian to US medical tourism is skyrocketing and growing at more than 50% a year, because as you say non-US free healthcare systems provide care on demand.

The question is, why is the Canadian system crumbling so badly that patients flee to the US if it's so perfect?
Simple binaries, terrible abstractions.
Bing chat already hooks into a web search tool. It shows "Searching for: ..." when it does that. This is kind of the point of Bing chat.

edit: a paper about how to hook up LLMs to any external tool https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761
> people tend to view a mesh as something like the underlying concrete object, and the textures as a mere skin pasted onto the outside

This is interesting to consider, as it never occurred to me that anyone would think otherwise.

I wonder if it's generational. Those who grew up with games whose triangle (or quad, in the case of a certain Sega system) budgets were constrained to the point of clearly distinct mesh faces probably have a different mental model from those for whom baked normals and LOD meshes have always been a continuum.
IR lasers, too. Your pupils won't contract because they don't see the light, and a lot of damage can be done very quickly. You might not notice it immediately either, because your brain can paper over small bits of retinal damage to maintain a complete image, like it does with your ocular nerve blind spots.

Lasers are super cool, but I wouldn't DIY one unless I could keep it in a goggles-only room with interlocks on the door to cut power.
Drivers are contractors to Uber and Lyft, not the General Public. Uber is their customer.
> 5 week old issue

The link I'm looking at says 2020-02-08.
Many years ago I worked at a candy company.
I tell you more. MOST of "private label" stuff is actually manufactured by the same company as the "name brand", what is more companies routinely manufacture stuff for each other depending on the factory loads, e.g. our plant would manufacture Reese's despite having no relation to the brand and it's a very common practice.
Urban living is more anonymous and alienating than rural living.

There are too many people in a city to form relationships with everyone, you don't know 99.9% of the people you see in daily life because there are so many moving around. On the other hand in a small village, most times you see another person it's a repeated interaction and you have met that person before.

So the rural conservative view and values on social interaction is more based on repeated interactions with people you already know, whereas the urban liberal has values and prefers systems that work well with anonymous people; the government needs to step in to help people in need (because their neighbours won't).
> Maybe take the rest of the day off? Work through the anger?

This is nice by Twitter standards but it's still an ad hominem, I hope this doesn't become common on HN. It never leads to anything interesting and overall makes conversations worse.
Even the article mentions this:
"Experts warn whole or chopped nuts and peanuts are a choking risk and should not be given to children under five."
We take the incomes away from people who are willing to do the job but aren't licensed to drive.

Are you opposed to that regulation also, or is there some rubric we can use to choose what regulation is acceptable?
I don't really care about how others use it. I myself find it enough useful and productive to use it, and what I wrote before is how I "protect" myself. As you say, people who don't check sources won't do so with or without GPT4.
Well the “must” is implied.

“Do you accept this job? If you don’t take this job we won’t give you any jobs in the future” — contractor

“If you don’t take this job you’re fired” - employee

It’s identical. Nobody is forcing you to do it in either case, but the result is exactly the same. Whether you’re an employee or contractor makes no difference in the result, even if the wording is different.
ChatGPT as Code
London Metal Exchange finds 'irregularities' in several nickel bags at warehouse
I am interested in this area too, but I don't know of any single place to follow it all. I have found that there isn't an avalanche of "new" stuff, but a lot of different ideas with different tradeoffs that change in relevance based on usage patterns, languages/runtimes, and hardware characteristics.

Besides the JVM resources linked by others, I found Richard Jones's "Garbage Collection Handbook" to be a decent introduction for background [1]. The Go team has written a bunch about their GC approach [2] - it is really interesting to see how it compares to the various options in the JVM and under which scenario you might prefer one or the other. And occasionally there are interesting articles on arxiv.

1. http://gchandbook.org/

2. https://go.dev/doc/gc-guide
The way I see it, news serves three purposes:

---

1. To let you know about local or world events that could affect you and those close to you.

2. To let you know about world events that affect others far away, in order to judge the effectiveness of political decisions and the necessity of future political decisions.

3. As a form of entertainment derived from the ongoing story of world history (or celebrity gossip, or whatever else).

---

#1 is the reason that news feels important enough that tuning it out completely feels irresponsible, but it's a very small component of most news.

#2 is perhaps necessary for democracy to work, but it's so easy to manipulate, and the incentive to manipulate it is so high, that it's questionable whether this type of news has ever existed without being more manipulation than fact---and this has been true since long before the internet.

#3 is the real reason most people (myself included) read news, even when they convince themselves it's #1 or #2. And it becomes unhealthy because, as long as you're convinced you need to care deeply about what you're reading because it's actually #1 or #2, it will inspire constant anxiety.

I would be interested to see a type of (perhaps government-funded) news service whose sole purpose is to publish only news that fits into category #1: if it is not reasonably likely to affect the average reader in an actionable way in the next 6 months, then it can't be published in this outlet.
That's how early calculators worked, and some fast math libraries today too.
I've been asking GPT-4 to design whole systems for me off of sparse natural language specifications. It gives reasonable designs, I read and critique, it updates and modifies. I regularly run into limitations, sure, but it will likely blow you away with its capability to convert natural language questions to SQL---given adequate specific context about your problem.
> The bigger difference is there was just a lot less news. Maybe the world would be better off with less news.

I think you’re close. There was a lot less repetition of news. Now the need to fill endless hours with content means stories are repeated ad nauseam. Keep in mind that repetition is known and used as a torture technique. “Repetition is an important neural linguistic programming interrogation tactic to influence the target mind” [0].

[0] https://neuralguantanamo.com/no-touch-torture-techniques/
https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp has links
Phenomenal film. Full of interesting ideas and heartache. Pairs well with Annihilation.
This is utterly absurd for an AP. It effectively implements a very poor consensus algorithm by which the nearby APs coordinate to decide what country they’re in. Of course, in the absence of any of the APs having any authoritative idea, it won’t work very well.
Lyft has streak zones where you get $X extra for 3 rides. Say $12 for 3 rides in an hour in a given zone.

The first one might take you slightly out of zone. You’ll get back to the zone and maybe you’ll wait 30m for a ride or maybe your 2nd ride will take you an hour away to the middle of nowhere and pay under $1/mile and $.30/minute. The market at that destination is dead so you’ll travel back without a paying customer. If you decline that ride you ruin the streak and forfeit any bonuses. I’ve had $21 streaks and the 3rd request is a 4hr drive away.

You could take 2 truly awful rides that come out to pennies because of gas costs banking on the bonus and then the 3rd ride never happens. I’ve waited an hour to finish a streak only to give up. Meanwhile Uber is blowing up so it would seem the market isn’t dead at that time.

There’s also anecdotal evidence to suggest new drivers get preferential rates to encourage the jump to full time only for it to dry up after the honeymoon phase and/or they’ve rented a fancier car through the rideshare app because drivers are bombarded with in-app ads to increase their income by renting a Tesla for example.
Colima – container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
I think you have this backwards. mRNA vaccines get your body to produce a strong immune response in reaction to the whatever protein the mRNA got your body to produce. Peanut allergies are caused by your body already having an incorrect and very strong immune reaction to something inert.
500%. Keeping people glued to the tube, sensationalism, is uncomfortably high many places.

But you're dead on right, there is nothing remotely close in equivalency. To the people Vs people hating & lies of one side of the media. There's coverage of issues & actions on one hand, & coverage about how fallen & bad everyone on the other side is from the not so honorable opposition.

Tucker Carlson's rebirth as a dark soul, after being shamed by John Stewart, is one of those dark bitter tales of humanity where someone, faced with crisis, tripled down on every bad aspect. There's a certain White House Correspondence Dinner that begat another shameless fall towards power, also of note.
We had a couple startups in Nigeria. Was never a major hub for us, but we always had a handful of folks in Lagos.
I uploaded the PGN to lichess: https://lichess.org/rzSriO6I#97

After reviewing the chat history I actually have to issue a correction here, because there were two moves where ChatGPT played illegally:

1. ChatGPT tried to play 32. ... Nc5, despite there being a pawn on c5

2. ChatGPT tried to play 42. ... Kxe6, despite my king being on d5

It corrected itself after I questioned whether the previous move was legal.

I was pretty floored that it managed to play a coherent game at all, so evidently I forgot about the few missteps it made. Much like ChatGPT itself, it turns out I'm not an entirely reliable narrator!
> encourage actual thinking

You mean when there is an X chance that the answer it provided is BS but in a subtle non immediately obvious way and you have to spend some amount of time 'actually thinking' before you figure it out?
FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say
5 weeks? It's actually 3 years.
Use one as a file server at home and it works great.
That's an education problem, because they're emphatically not objective; they're subjectivity analyzers. They're consistent in their application of bias but it's still bias.
Black Sea drone incident highlights loose rules around avoiding ‘accidental’ war
And it's clear that the dissuasion is not working— the US has the second largest incarcerated population in the world, second only to China (though the US rate of incarceration is significantly higher).

I would submit that the primary goal of the US prison system is to continue to operate with the most power and highest level of profit possible. To that end it seems to be performing relatively well.
Error Correction Zoo
Facebook, Instagram Users in U.S. Can Pay for a Verified Blue Check Mark
> Starting today, you can choose to use EGS to download the engine and keep it up to date with every release

Curious the level at which they auto-patch and update the engine. Most games that I'm aware of are very sensitive to their engine version, and don't update major or minor versions completely freely.
> Example of "moral policy" in practice: Midjourney appears to be banning making fun of the Chinese dictator for life because it's supposedly racist or something.

> With that kind of moral compass, I’m not sure I'd be missing its absence.

Please note that most forms of media and social media have no problem with politicians making credible threats of violence against entire groups of people.

Politicians are subject to a different set of rules, and enjoy a lot more protection than you and I.
I'm attempting to recall an analogy from a paper about this subject. One of the authors gave the analogy of time being like a river. If we are traveling down this river, and the river is changing speed ahead (maybe due to rocks or a sharp bend), then it is correct to say that the river is changing the past (our present location in the river), since our speed would then start to change as we approach the new point.
It's not just bent, one blade is even broken in half and what remains is bent the way it would be if it had hit the jet.
This seems somewhat isomorphic to me. How is firing a human different from tuning the AI away from its previous biases?
That's not always true. I actually don't know how true it is at all. At least in facilities that I know about, everything was manufactured exactly the same, there was no such thing as "first run after cleaning", as far as I know "first run" premium has more to do with volumes and scheduling (e.g. at a candy factory you'll get priority to get your orders filled before halloween) or if any equipment goes down your orders will always be prioritized
I truly cannot describe the amount of confusion that courses through me each time I open the Epic Launcher. I know that Epic decided to create it using the Unreal Engine UMG technology, but it truly shines as one of the most sluggish applications on my entire PC.

At this point, I would _gladly_ accept an Electron application in it's place. Just wild to me that UX teams at Epic seem happy to deliver this to users.
It mentions running on Wheezy, which from a bit of digging looks like the 2013-2015 version of Raspbian, based on the 3.x kernel. Wheezy is only listed for the 1/1+ and 2. https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Pi_Edition lists it as being slightly stripped down from Alpha 0.6.1 of Pocket Edition.

Also a quote from 2016: "The original team has stopped supporting it and starting with 0.9 MCPE became a lot more ambitious technically, which also means that it became a lot harder to strip down to run on a Raspberry Pi. Actually, we finished removing all Pi related code to reduce complexity in 2015."

If your interest is simply in running MC on a Pi you're probably best off looking into Java Edition, though I have no idea how capable the hardware actually is graphics-wise. If you're more interested in MC on cheap hardware, you're probably better off with a cheap Windows machine and the Microsoft Store/Bedrock edition written in C++ for performance.
Anyone that roasts someone for the way they like to drink are already wrong, but with whiskey it’s just idiotic. Nearly every whiskey is better with some water on it.
Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences 30yrs After German Reunification
I've asked it to design novel architectures. It has vast experience with existing systems, can be steered toward your goals, and writes simple prototype code more quickly than I can. I run into the current context window pretty quickly and have been working on techniques to ask it to "compress" our conversation to work around that context window.

The whole thing about creativity is that it often begins with lying through your teeth to come up with a starting point and then refining.
State sponsored media generally hasn't worked out too well.
The famed medieval map that stretched beyond Earth to heaven, history and myth
Consumes also half of the memory compared to Kitty.
> If, for example, your universe is entropically uniform, is there an "arrow of time"? And, even if there were, could you detect it?

What does that even mean? If your universe is entropically uniform there is no “you”.
So you’re just assuming the neighborhood is unsafe…
What does this empty platitude mean?
Sheesh: News curated and summarized by AI
Double tap the home button and it brings up the app selection screen. Took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out some years back.
'Course, we've known, "Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever" --Lenin
no shit, sherlock. keep shipping a user hostile OS ? and you think people are gonna stay.

in as much the javascript ecosystem is a pita. it freed a lot of software - and made it be accessible on all platforms either via the browser or electron.

now what someone needed a windows machine for can be done on an ipad, linux box, chrome book etc.

the next evolution of course will be the transition of professional software to
run on web-assembly, then people can finally be free of microsoft's tyranny.
Nope. You can get a heap dump which gives you object allocation stats by "object shape" which is incredibly less useful than stats by ClassPath.
Minetest is definitely fun, and I've had good luck using Miney to build in it with Python

https://miney.readthedocs.io/en/dev/index.html
In case we forget the amazing predictive capabilities of HN there’s always https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I wonder if they patch a base installation of some kind (think: a core project selector / launcher) and then individual projects contain a copy of the engine at time of creation?
He was the best part of that Resident Evil: Chronicles show.
Thanks for explaining your perspective. This is a reasonable take to have. This is a good summary of your thoughts (your summary):

> I think most of the advice in this article would be better applied to "how do I choose the right therapist" than "should I just completely rule out therapy."

FWIW, I read this advice as, "How do I choose the right therapy?" which is similar to what you're saying. I can see how someone reads this as the latter, however.
Roger Penrose proposed that as far as I know, when Carroll was probably a high schooler.

No. At least as early as Arthur Eddington when Penrose was a twinkle in his dad's eye.
One thing I never understood is why the option of having drivers as independent businesses wasn't tenable. Is it just because California is so hostile to a small businesses?

It seems like it would solve all of the problems. Rideshare companies aren't responsible for labor obligations of b2b partners. Drivers have the option to itemize and deduct the cost of their cars and maintenance and gas. Drivers would have to pay self-employment taxes to the state.

In my mind, all the stated concerns should be addressed.
Credit Suisse faces crunch weekend as lifeline offers limited reprieve
Why not link to the source?
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
Explaining an idea is not equivalent to taking credit for it.
$200000 ready, with a million more well on the way.

Somebody making the droid armies of the trade federation is probably a technical certainty.
Thousands of Options on Failed Banks in Limbo as Expiration Hits
https://archive.is/AcwBi
If we take the less cynical take, it'll end up in Youtube as audio description for people with visual impairments.
I guess it comes down to caring more about engaging your base than it is appealing to a broader audience. Which is unfortunate.

> Yet I know most people on the other side are actually good people, with good intentions, we just disagree on a few points.

I think this is the attitude most people have if they stop consuming so much news. And I think it dissolves a huge amount of animosity we see between different groups in western society atm.
The worst thing is that we've traded one monopoly (MS via Office and Windows) for a different set of monopolists. How dependent are organizations on Google Drive these days and what would the switching costs look like?
List of All “Journal of Memetics” Papers
> I can't but that doesn't mean there are none.

I think the point here is that now you can. Your "AI" can draw it for you with extreme accuracy and then... is it yours? That's the real question here. Pretty simple.

What if we had a copyright law that did give like a percent of detail that has to be different, so you make a new drawing that has the required amount of difference, and it's yours right? Now your "AI" can be trained to make differences in drawings that specifically meet the requirement of however much difference between the original and yours will negate the ability of the original author to make a copyright claim. Pretty straightforward. It's not the case now, but when we have enough content that has to be judged by humans on whether or not it falls under copyright... Anyhoo... I'm not selling content, so I shouldn't care, right?</snark>
You talking about JDK/JRE deployment mess means you haven't looked at java for 5+ years, as that's no longer an issue. Hence it's hard to trust your advice when you're so off.

And no, the vast majority of use cases for java isn't distributing binaries or interoping with JNI.
Who needs slaves? What use will they be?

Why overproduce?
Found this while doing some research. Old school memeticists were weird.
Spark gaps are an interesting way to switch when you get to a high enough voltage. Marx generators use a similar principle, using the spark to place parallel capacitors in series with one another.

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

I've often wondered if gas discharge tubes could serve a similar function at lower voltages, but I haven't gotten around to trying it out.
I’m also a former TA and with 25 TAs we covered a class of 180 just fine. Sometimes it was more like 1 on 3 but most of the time not, and every student had the opportunity to ask direct questions and get personalized answers any day of the week
I find that Steam can also be quite sluggish, but Steam has the excuse of possessing an enormous number of features.
Geocentrism seemed reasonable until it didn't.

If time is a true dimension rather than just something we model as a dimension, it's not unreasonable to think that outcomes in the present could be influenced by constraints that exist in the future - if the "universe" function must be valid according to some constraints at all points in the time dimension, "past" states that lead to invalid future states will never occur.

The idea of invalid universe states is of course purely fun conjecture, but this same concept also maps to probable vs improbable universe states as well. If a future state is improbable (in the sense of a Bayesian prior according to some underlying distribution of energy in the universe) that might cause the universe to evolve in a way that seems improbable at the moment by moment level, but is actually the most probable sequence of events when integrated over the entire duration of the universe.
Yeah, this is a good resource! One time I needed to printf-sprinkle dyld in order to figure out why our app was dying on a security update... it turned out to be an installer setting a sticky bit and the security update silently ignoring libraries if any containing folder had a sticky bit set.

Anyway, since the source code has been up for a while, and since HN has GPT fever at the moment, the question naturally arises... can ChatGPT get this one?

The "lsof" tool on Mac OS X uses the "kernal control" API to obtain a list of
open ports. This API allows access to various kernel resources, including
network sockets, and provides information about the state of the system. The
"lsof" command uses this API to list all open files, including network sockets,
and displays information about the processes that are using them.

It looks confidently wrong in this case, unless "kernal control" is a real name for the part of the XNU API containing proc_pidinfo.
Why don't they bottle it at the mixed strength?
So you're saying Mr. Gutsy predates Mr. Handy?
Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st
> Isn't it more simple to buy a MB with 16 RAM slots? A

Why do you think it's a good idea to assemble a whole new computer just because you want more storage?