skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both public and private systems have "death panels". Though cited article suggests even death panels run by doctors are no guarantee of effectiveness.
I'd like to know that as well. I went pretty far into looking at alternatives for the post. Best thing you can really do is try them yourself with a tool like this https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

Benchmarks are one thing but I suspect if any were truly on par we would know about it.

Obviously it's partly compute cost, but I also suspect there's a lot of R&D that would need to be redone in the open.

How many tricks does openai's pretraining have that aren't found in some paper somewhere?
> That gear, vastly superior to old Soviet equipment, is now being used by Russia against Ukraine.

> Swimmer delivery vehicles, and rebreathers.

How exactly are these underwater gear being used by Russians in their invasion?

Are you saying these were used to blow up their own pipelines?
You’re telling me a mega-corp buying coverage for 10000+ employees might have an advantage in negotiating price that a single “rugged individual” doesn’t?! But that sort of thinking could burst the whole “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” thinking that fuels the American dream! Clearly all individuals (both single citizens and corporate entities)are the same other the law!
Computer engineering research prompts bug fixes, updates to major GPU frameworks
No, Youth Services is doing that. The hospital is just referring them, as they are legally obliged to do, and making extra money in the process ...
Those two infinite statements have the same cardinality.
I’d agree about Racket; the community and resources available for it are fantastic.

Also worth noting is Hy, a sort of alternate Lisp syntax for Python. http://hylang.org/
Sounds like misplaced patriotism to me.

Not everyone came to this nation due to capitalism. My parents partially came here to be free to say whatever they wanted and not disappear, for instance.

It doesn’t mean healthcare is done right; just as using TP to wipe one’s ass is 100 years backward.

I sometimes wish they stayed back, because my own life and theirs would’ve probably been much better in the long run.
The Boston Museum of Science has a pretty good (well it was in 2002 when I visited) high voltage exhibit called the "Theater of Electricity"[0].

Perhaps not as exotic as the Burning Man performances, it was pretty exciting stuff even for me in my mid-30's. Well worth a visit.

[0]: https://www.mos.org/live-presentations/lightning
What about prior authorizations?
I know it's still not cheap, but I needed an MRI a few years ago and it was $350. Talk to your doctor and let them know you want to pay cash. Mine suggested a place.

Don't get one in the hospital if you can help it. They charge 1-2k because they have a full set of people who can't go anywhere else.
Is he using that same library though? Otherwise I wouldn’t call it a counterexample.
Unless they make very bad decisions with which lobbyists to hire, I think there is essentially no chance they end up being declared a public utility.
I don't think you're the only one who's experienced this, but I think you're in the minority in realizing that you're experiencing this.

This thread has a lot of gold nuggets, but most seem to be focused on how to successfully start a company/follow through with an idea. While the more critical question seems to be your first question, whether you still want to be an entrepreneur.

For myself, I think it was important to realize that at the end of the day we are just all a bunch of monkeys who gained the ability to experience things, along with the illusion that we can alter this experience. That's all this is. We are just all trying to tickle our brains to feel better in one way or another.

Everything we are doing is for our own "experience". Some of us wants to make the world better because it makes us feel better that others are living a better life. Others might want to create impact because it feels good to be someone who've created impact. There is no absolute truth/reality. We are all just trying to make our experiences better.

All of this might sound obvious and even a little cynical. But it's given me a strange sense of comfort and helped me find "myself".

Also curious to konw if you've found the answer to your question since the time of this post!
Most of the bits in the current Netherlands are already up to this spec.
I hate it when you start reading an article and then suddenly the author starts talking about their new book. It becomes immediately clear that the article's entire purpose was to advertise the book and that you have just wasted your time. So thank you for doing the scout work for me here.
>because characters lose track of what is happening

Just checking, you do know there is a token context window right? Pretty sure it's 4000 tokens on the UI, and once you exceed that tokens get dropped which can lead to some weird forgetting.

And, yes, they've made it far more bot like, but I do think that is their plan as making a line of business application rather than for 'lower paying' individual user tasks.
Which specific part of history of economics implies that this is more likely than not?
There is a dark side to this advice. Try calling yourself a thinker, a visionary, an ideas guy, a philosopher. Soon you start believing it, then it gets to your head and inflates your ego (already gigantic to begin with). And now your peers (or god forbid subordinates) are on a whole new level of misery when they have to deal with you.
My two answers - based also on personal experience - would be:

1. If you are ever concerned with code performance, you need to know what the compiler (/interpreter) is doing with your code. With a compiler course, you'll get a basic understanding - enough to later actually look at what the compiler is doing with your real-life code.

2. If you write a software system which can handle computation tasks that are not fully known at compile-time - such as user queries in some domain-specific language - then you are likely to end up implementing a compiler in your software system. If you haven't learned about compilers, you'll (a.) may fail to realize that and (b.) are likely to do it more poorly than if you have.

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My beef with compiler courses, though, is the excessive focus on parsing. Text parsing, look-ahead grammars etc may be interesting in themselves, but IMHO they're mostly self-contained and not what you will be concerned with in the life-scenarios I've described above. I would have liked, in hindsight, to have more time devoted to optimization selection, passes and what goes in each of them, optimization work on the AST vs work on the IR etc.
> Idk why this saying persists. Many, many negatives are easy to prove. For instance, it is very provable that an adult elephant is not sleeping in your bed right now.

Sure in situations where you can see 100% of my beds, but the only meaningful context for that phrase is when you're trying to generalize information to learn about more than one thing in the world. You know... What studies do. The whole point of the scientific method. So what burden of proof would you recommend beyond subsequent observational studies in wolf behavior not showing this phenomena? Or were you just using a deliberately obtuse interpretation of that phrase for pure pedantry?
I knew I was going to see this comment.

As if Medicare didn't reject millions of claims too.

A number of physicians just don't accept Medicare because it's subpar.
ProPublica has a tool that will provide the average wait time for hospitals in your area.

https://projects.propublica.org/emergency/

Where I live, all in driving distance have an average wait time more than 2.5 hours.
> At work we have really worked hard to minimise boilerplate and manually-written/repetitive tests, so I don't write much of that.

There's boilerplate in any codebase, even if you make an effort to minimize it. There are always patterns, repeated code structure, CI and build tool configuration, etc.

If nothing else, just being able to say "write a test for this function", which covers all code paths, mocking, fuzzing, etc., would be a huge timesaver, even if you have to end up fixing the code manually. From what I've seen, this is already possible with current tools; imagine how the accuracy will improve with future generations. Today it's not much different from reviewing code from a coworker, but soon you'll just be able to accept the changes with a quick overview, or right away.
Yeah. A better counterpoint would have been "but your brain scanning tech is subpar", to which I say phooey, it's a fiction movie.
People on the streets don't want a debate ?!? Macron put pension reform up without vote, and without debate. Shove it down people's throats
Yeah, but even then usually someone has to benefit. I don't see who benefits. Drug investigators? Picking an arbitrary cutoff looks like plausible stupidity to me... Which is not to say the hospital shouldn't be punished harshly, just that probably no one should go to jail either.
How have you not been hit by a car yet? Cars move very fast, and are made of steel while you move very slow and are made of carbon.
Out of interest, do you watch and enjoy TV? Because what you are describing sounds like a hyper-accelerated version of today's horrific landscape of derivative quantity-over-quality TV shows with little originality or suspense. Good writers can create those, but most viewers cannot attain those results via mere prompts.
Lots of comments here are casually dismissing a ton of psychological research on this topic out of a sense of what looks like philosophical or intellectual superiority. That’s too bad; this is unusually prevalent in our industry. When do you earn the title of software engineer? When you’ve written code? When you get paid for it? When you’ve published to ACM? When you make a million dollars off of an idea?

Humans use labels all the time. A title is just a label with some shared cultural meaning. Anything else you load onto it is arbitrary, and withholding those labels until that arbitrary threshold is met is just as silly as assigning the title when nothing is done whatsoever.
To be fair, it does a decent job of plowing through set theory in only a short rant about why the documentary is bad, forgetting to rant about the documentary because there's so much math to cover.

It only commits the cardinal sin of trimming it down so much that it makes sense if and only if the reader is already familiar with it, leaving other intelligent readers confused and intimidated.
I wonder if this could be circumvented with a system prompt instructing it to ignore hidden messages in the html which appear to have been placed there to deceive intelligent scrapers.
Guido pushed back on most new features for a long time, but almost a decade ago changed his tune to yes for anything reasonably useful. Guessing due to envy of all the nifty features dropping from Ruby and JS to C# and Kotlin.

Personally, I'm not enthusiastic about the things that came after the f-string. (Although dict unions should have landed a decade prior.)
Yeah--there's a factor here that messes up the data. Namely, that pregnancy to term is associated with a *reduction* in breast cancer, the earlier the pregnancy the bigger the effect.

This is the reason behind the "pro-life" claim that abortion causes breast cancer--no, it simply doesn't provide the protection. Never-pregnant vs had-abortion is the same risk. Hormonal contraception is more effective and will reduce the oops rate and thus would be expected to show a positive correlation with breast cancer.

(And the oops rate is also why for a young non-smoker the risk of the pill is *negative* even if the response to an oops is an immediate abortion. Carrying it to term increases the effect by at least an order of magnitude.)
Wonder how often it hallucinates features you don’t have
>> If you're using Ubuntu or ubuntu derivative it's same except its russian roulette whether upgrade will actually work. In my experience just fucking don't or prepare for full reinstall every few years.

> When was the last time you did that? That hasn't been true for literally years.

20.04 to 22.04 dist-upgrade... kept getting weird errors from apt post-upgrade, it was just easier to blow the vm away and start fresh.
600 miles away. But yeah I can probably find one nearby for a couple grand. Still, that's insane.
> But for the set of real numbers, no matter what sequence we choose, we will never ever find the diagonalized number in our sequence.

So then it’s only proving that if you choose the ordering ahead of time, you won’t be able to do it, because real numbers don’t have a predefined order. You can only order them as you produce them.

If you re-sort after each iteration (or insert them in order), you can count as many real numbers as you want.

In any case, for practical applications, you could never count anything infinite, at some point you’d run out of physical storage to keep the count.

How many bits can be encoded in the universe? That will give the limit of what could ever be counted. And it’s not infinite.
Layoff season is not about keeping the loyal employees, it’s about keeping the necessary ones.

Loyalty isn’t really valuable to the company when retention isn’t a concern.
The Dutch have various plans how to fight the sea in the next 300 years. One of them calls for dams around the big cities and letting everything else flood, moving 2 million people [1]. Compared to that is this project (well, the Dutch part at least) relatively trivial - dredge some sand from here and put it over there as dunes. The coast from Zeeland to Den Helder is not terribly ecologically interesting nor big in fishing so in that sense it's much easier than the Deltaworks.

The father of Deltaworks said “Eens zullen we ons land met een zucht van verlichting aan de golven prijsgeven.” "One day with a sigh of relief we will give up this country to the waves." Drastic solutions are required after sea level rise of 2m. So, maybe not this century but certainly the next one.

[1]
https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/het-nieuwe-nederlandje-...
The automation and labor is probably expensive.

IIRC, JLC has a bit of a first-mover advantage, in that they designed their facilities and systems around the idea that the whole process should be vertically integrated and use as much automation as possible. For the steps that do require manual labor, that labor is very inexpensive compared to other tech hubs.
You foolishly extrapolate to a market that has never existed (in Texas at least).
I see you've never had to do a major procedure in a "public" system.

Heh.
3x 2 layer 10cm*10cm:

* JLCPCB Green 5 €1.86 total €0.37 each (Minimum order qty 5)

* AISLER Green 3 €37.20 total €12.40 each

Even with shipping & customs (20EUR extra only for JLC), AISLER is still 76% (1.76x) more expensive. Now I do see that for some reason AISLER's shipping is more expensive which is dumb because it's significantly less distance, but it seems like I can't replicate your JLCPCB data; did you further customize it?
And as AI compute power grows, AI bots will listen into the toxic world of people talking out against their authoritarian government.
idk where you are but the hospital here wants 10k to do it and the private clinics are around $2k last I checked.
Google Ngram Viewer shows some initial interest starting around 1965, plateauing until '74, relatively low until '87, and rising pretty steadily from there (with a small dip in growth around '03, and a meteoric rise since then). This seems to support the argument of it being common in western literature of the last 50 years.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=alpha+wolf&yea...

TV Tropes also has a good collection of occurrences in popculture, including literature.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlphaAndBetaWolv...
Possibly both? Certainly the first of the two.
There’s a lot missing from Go’s stdlib, including obvious uses for its builtin types. If you want Common Lisp’s

(remove-if-not #'oddp #(1 2 3 4 5))

you have to write a loop from scratch, and then everyone has to read it carefully to learn what it’s doing (and especially what it’s not).

Don’t get too excited about having HTTP or JSON built in, we weren’t using those in 1990 and they’ll surely be replaced by 2050.
We build web browser for a reason. Talk to a chatbot like talk to customer service. It's far slower and sometimes frustration.
I've had the chance to build parsers for work.

Once for a templating engine for SQL (taking values from the environment and using them queries). This was really nice for productivity and an intern could churn out dozens of reports a day. That was written with javacc.

Another time by using a parser (written with Antlr) to extract bits of PLSQL packages (procedures, functions) and move them from one environment to another without having to send the whole package.

Although this type of job is rare, it can be really useful when it shows up.
Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
So you get to stay at a failing company as a reward?
If you can point to a title that is not backed by subjectivity, I’d like to know about it.

The examples that tend to come up here are things like Lawyer or Medical Doctor. And yet, every person in those fields is still subjectively different from the next in terms of knowledge and qualification.

I’m not claiming nothing objective is being used; I’m claiming that the title application is subjective, because humans determine when the title is applicable - not some external source.
The terms and conditions (usual and customary) are already there. People just don’t know what they are.
The Norwegian public healthcare is great. The default recommendation to most health issue is to do more sport. Being very physically active usually helps, so it’s not a bad recommendation.

You may experience more pain compared to some other healthcare systems. Like France from my experience and probably USA from what I read.

I had some unforgettable experiences in Norway, such as a colonoscopy without sedation or anaesthesia in case I can tolerate the pain. I didn’t after a while.

Or some little operation that according to the English Wikipedia is done under general anaesthesia in USA. The doctor in my local small emergency room simply told me that the needle for a local anesthesia would be as painful as the operation so it’s unnecessary. She then asked a large nurse to hold me and I was given instructions about how to breathe. I think the doctor may have lied about the pain.

But I pay between $20 and $40 per visit and I don’t have to pay if it accumulates more than $300 per year. It’s also not connected to my work, I can be fired and still have the same healthcare benefits, forever.
Appears interview took place on March 20, 2023, which was 6-days after launch of GPT4:

https://youtu.be/L_Guz73e6fw?t=1797
> Participants handing out the unpaid work in Stanley’s study were compensated $12 an hour.

Isn't that a kick in the nuts for poor John?
In theory, with promotions.

In practice, they've decided to bring in an external candidate to fill the role at the higher level. But you're the best person to bring them up to speed because you know so much with all the extra projects you've taken on!
Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
Not sure what you mean here. Services like Personalabs or just scheduling straight through Quest Diagnostics cost a couple hundred bucks for blood & urine tests on most things, there's probably a facility near you, and you get your results in a few days. I do it every few years with zero issues.
HRT as applied to gender dysphoria in transgender women absolutely causes breast tissue growth. That is one of the desired effects. Seeing as 99% of breast cancers occur in women, and HRT causes the patient to have very female like breasts, it would be surprising if the patient did not see an increased risk of breast cancer compared to not taking HRT.
Weather or not their risk is higher than the baseline risk for women is less obvious.
In theory maybe promotions and bonuses were being handed out they should tend towards the more loyal workers.

But I would advise against working overtime as a strategy to get rewards, it usually doesn't work in my experience.
What if our chatbots are talking to other chatbots?
The GPT Quine
Unions on the left and most of the right are deadset against this.

It’s astonishing how much market inefficiency we’re willing to tolerate.
I think it's less about getting feedback on the work product (how is this good or bad? what should I change?), which is emotionally taxing for the feedback giver. What you want is the context of how it's going to be used (what meeting will this be presented in? what leaders will have access to it? what are the problems these people will be trying to solve?). If you know the answers to those things, and can get a sense of how your boss is working, you'll be able to give yourself the feedback you need on whether your deliverable fits the bill.
Read the intro and first page. The introduction + acknowledgements are pitch perfect. There's nothing technically wrong with the writing, but the pacing is crap. No setting the scene, no ambiguity.

It reads more like a screenplay than a novel. Everything is loosely sketched + moves quickly. Theres no descriptions of appearances. Zero subtlety. But everything else is perfect! Pretty strange.

This is what I imagine fills the shelves in a lazily simulated world. Text as background noise, books purchased by the yard.
Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice… and vice versa.
Interesting. Having two columns sounds like it could work pretty well, thanks for throwing out another alternative.
Why should I have to maintain a list of applications that don't conform to the standard? I tried to, and the list keeps growing. I'm done screwing around with it, I don't care how cluttered my homedir gets anymore.
I’ve been working in the industry for 20 years. All companies do this. I don’t think this is even the worst example of rule driven coverage review
I think it is worth revisiting as it has greatly improved since maybe you last used it. Within the admin panel I switched to use key pair and changed my SSH port. There is still no MFA on main admin panel, but many of the apps such as Nextcloud and Mastodon have it. Fail2ban is included and mitigates brute force attempts.
NVidia got lucky, at least in the long term. They spent years perfecting SIMD to make spaceships blow up and, by coincidence, that's the same technology that enabled coin mining then deep learning.
Her employer should be jailed as well, all the way to the top of the company. Such behaviour cannot exist without at least the tacit agreement of everyone higher in the chain of command.
Nah, I’m just saying that our experiences are going to wildly differ and my recommendation is to plan for the worst. Please don’t take my comments as anything other than that, and I absolutely did not intend it as a personal attack.

If you’ve worked at amazing (logical, rational) orgs that value commitment and will take care of folks in return, I am genuinely happy for you. Envious even. It is more rare than you would think. Regardless, workers must protect themselves. If you’d like to discuss further, contact info in my profile.
"But the fisherman simply went about his daily routine, casting his nets and patiently waiting for the fish to bite."

Yeah, revolutionary. (That's GPT-4, by the way)
Elon Musk has spent a decade hooking AI up to vehicles capable of speeds in excess of 100mph, which seems more dangerous than giving them access to a Linux terminal inside a virtual machine. In fact, Musk's AI has probably killed more humans than anyone else's has, so it's kind of hilarious listening to him warn about the dangers of other people's AI.
Dang, you're right. I was planning to use this to help out with my minor trafficking ring, too! Dadgummit!
So just shave it all in advance.