skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for Cigna, and recently went through cancer treatment. They rejected every scan and treatment until my doctor challenged. My first doctor couldn't figure out how to challenge and it set back my initial treatment.

Then last year the CEO did a town hall with a tear jerker clip show about how evicore is helping cancer patients. But evicore is the part of Cigna that kept rejecting my treatment. It was incredibly insulting, and I've been ashamed to work there since.
I'm fully insured and have a kid and have been to the emergency room quite a few times and most of the time its been a few hours.

Contrast this with Europe, where I could get a doctor to make a house call at 3am for a reasonable fee.
The author goes on in the comments to blame culture, but the author says that black culture in some sense had a destiny due to 400 years of oppression.
The person who started this thread was having a conversation with his girlfriend as part of a committed relationship, which seems way more important context than what you think is "contested in the US"
Because it’s likely that you and GP do not understand the risks as well as you think you do. You are likely not a MD, and even if you were, you wouldn’t be the expert on your partner’s body, they are. The lack of humility is the issue.

Now if your partner brings the topic up to you and mentions health issues they’re experiencing then sure, it’s fine to offer your view, but that’s not how it sounds to us reading.
Interestingly, both could apply here.
There's already at least one company with a product: Mythic AMP https://mythic.ai/products/m1076-analog-matrix-processor/

And there's several research papers about other architectures. For example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05853
> Not true in the slightest

Nobody said it was a "perfect" free market. Nothing human is perfect. It was a decent approximation to one, thought.

Check out "The Black Book of Communism".

> Medicare and Social Security alone keep millions of seniors from dying homeless on the street every year

Somehow that didn't seem to have any effect on life expectancy or poverty statistics.

> governmental organizations brought people out of poverty

Do you really think that the enormous movement in the 19th century US of people out of poverty into the middle class came from government wealth transfer programs? Or do you think that the US population consisted of wealthy people who immigrated from Europe?
If you have to check online that ChatGPT is correct, then what exactly does it add but an extra step to just getting the correct info from online in the first place?
It makes much more sense to form a little co-op, pay some pros to look after it (managed hosting) and contribute to the core, imo. Extract an SLA from the managed service that will cover restoring service. It doesn't feel as cool, but it is much less stressful as well as fairer to the nontechnical folk.
Maybe we can redistribute their IQ points as well.
The article says it's a myth that the leader gets there by competing with other wolves, not that it's a myth there is a leader, true. I think it's suggesting that many people have ideas about what an "alpha wolf" is that are mistaken. If someone doesn't have those ideas and "alpha wolf" doens't mean those things to them, then fine. The article doesn't get much into what the role of this dominant wolf is like, I suspect there are other popular but mistaken ideas there too as well.

Usually when I hear people talking about "alpha wolf" or similar, the idea is that the individual gets to this position by competing with other individuals, and then winning by using strength or aggression. It's that part the article is suggesting is a myth.

As you say, words are human inventions and people use them in different ways. If that's not the way you are using "alpha wolf", then the article may not address how you are using it.
Yes. Money is king, especially for high volume production. I found in my time at an embedded computer manufacturer that software, especially in house stuff, takes a back seat to everything else.
I just picked up a WD Blue HDD, fingers crossed :) I am still not comfortable with SSD, but I have one in a newest system.

Hope you can return it for a replacement.
The elephant that is the room?
Situations like this are infuriating to me. Our healthcare system needs to have some kind of provision for "this patient needs to be on treatment X probably for life. They are authorized for this treatment and subsequent claims will be approved unless there is a qualifying event (e.g. a recall, condition changes, patient and their doctor switch treatment, etc)."

I have UC that's well-controlled with mesalamine, and I've had a few scares (my insurance rolls out a new prior auth every year, and I have to call my provider to have them sign it for some reason, or the new insurance only covers the name brand (not generics) because of PBM antics). The thought of having to come off of mesalamine for even a week is terrifying. I really feel for you because your condition seems much more severe/hard to control.

Why do I need a new prior auth every year? My medication hasn't changed, and neither has my condition. It's a bureaucratic hoop, and if I don't jump through it I get to spend my whole day on top of a toilet. That's a terrible way to treat a human being.

Even from a purely amoral capitalist perspective, I know the cost of my medication is a small fraction of the dollar value that doesn't get generated if I can't take it. I don't benefit and society doesn't benefit if I'm sick - the only group who benefits is the insurance company who gets to pocket my premiums and avoid paying out. It makes me furious.
memtest86 absolutely can find rowhammer failures, but beyond that even if you specifically don’t know how to do that, others do and publish their findings and if some ram was really worse than others in a meaningful way here that information will be available as a noisy signal for ram purchase choices.
I was in grad school, 77-83. The first year was part time at NYU, and then I went back full time elsewhere, for a PhD.

In that one year at NYU, I took two compiler courses, from RBK Dewar, of Spitbol and Ada fame. My specialty is not languages or compilers, but those courses were incredibly fascinating, and the exposure to the topics I learned has been useful throughout my career.

- I learned about lexing and parsing. I no longer remember the details of LALR, for example. But I understand the basic ideas well enough to construct lexing/parsing software whenever I need it, often using parser generator tools, but also rolling my own on occasion.

- I learned about code optimization, which is a fascinating topic. At the time, Dewar was working on SETL, a set-oriented language. And I remember the power of having sets as a builtin type, and how powerful that was for expressing flow analysis, for example. Those ideas combined nicely with what I later learned about relational algebra, and query optimization. (Codd's paper on the relational model was only seven years old when I started grad school!)

- Exposure to the ideas of interpreters and code generators, and even more fundamentally, the idea of code as a thing that can be manipulated programatically, has been useful throughout my career.

- Oh, and by the way, Dewar was a great teacher.
Elon himself seems to have kind of gone missing in the last couple years.
Relevance changes by which time scale you're looking at. If you're looking at the last month, the day is most important. If you're looking at last year, month is probably most important. And for anything beyond a year, year is obviously most important.
Surely not 'chatGPT' but AI & AGI?

ChatGPT is ephemeral.
Literacy sufficient to understand the terms of an apartment lease, a car loan, a court order?

Agreed that reading and writing are two different skills.
The article says he was then asked to leave the service about a year later when IRA published the meeting.

So maybe he was plausible deniability. Maybe Major did order him not to.

I guess the point is you can never know a negotiation so you may as well just go with the assessment of two sides incentives.
>Given how cheap steel appears to be, would it cause any significant damage to the rest of the economy if steel prices went up because of this?

Yes but most likely way less than the damage of climate change.
It seems they can read and write, but not the English you’re familiar with.

Of course, the question is whether that language is as expressive as ‘old English’.

I would guess it is simpler, but on the other hand, I know almost nothing of that language, and I know for sure it has features I can’t read, such as most expressions made up of multiple emoticons
What part of public healthcare is incorporated into health insurance conglomerates? And what potential benefits of privatized healthcare are we missing out on?
What if the first part makes the second part impossible?
I like this test case, and the results of the ruling. (about works needing to be considered in full)

Especially the part about the book being more obscene than the justices could imagine.
Libertarianism For Me syndrome.
To be fair “barely read” is not the same as “below grade level.” First, grade level is defined in California as being the median as of 1998 (I think). The figures in here indicate these students are close to but under the median. This is not nearly as dire as “can barely read.” I’m not apologizing for the stark demographic different which is indicative of terrible social ills breaking along racial lines. But to address a problem you need to honest about it, and it’s not the case that black high school students are illiterate or close to it. They’re just generally below the median, which is unsurprising given the related metrics for other larger demographics.
Like democracy is democratic?
Automotive embedded C developer here. Most of the code in this industry is implemented in a subset of ANSI C90. The reason is not header files, libraries or linker scripts. The reason is as the grandparent post points out: compiler availability.

For rare targets, there's just no money in making a compiler work for more than this small subset of C. My favorite example is the compiler for a really strange architecture where everything is 24 bits. Char is short is long is a pointer.

Bigger controllers tend to be ARM-based, so it's getting better.

Also Tricore has a big share, but their compiler support is getting better. There was even a rust compiler being announced recently, though I doubt it's using LLVM backend, so it's likely to be behind in terms of features.
California and especially San Francisco has been under decades of progressive Democratic government. The result is LA and SF are a complete mess. They can't use the Republicans as scapegoats here.

SF teachers have been having a terrible time in the last 5 years because SFUSD has been run by progressive extremists that wanted to spend $2 million changing school names instead of worrying about things like Black literacy. Somehow they think changing school names are better for Black students than actually getting them to read. And meanwhile SF teachers haven't been getting paid on time this year because of complete mess of their payroll system, which is forcing drastic action that puts the SFUSD in deeper financial trouble.

I would hate to see Republicans get into power here, not especially because California Republicans are dumb as rocks, but I don't know what else will wake these California Democrats up. If Newsom has any aspirations to be president, and it certainly seems that way, I can guarantee you that running ads showing what LA and SF look like after decades of Democratic rule will destroy any chances of California Dems getting a modicum of power anywhere else in the country.
Local school district where I am has a part that is predominantly black, other part more diverse.

Teachers don’t want to teach at the predominantly black schools (regardless of their own race). Violence, poverty, little to no parent engagement. When they have school conferences that half of the district teachers don’t have anything to do while the other half has parents lined up in the halls.

And if there is parent engagement it is sometimes not positive.

At one point the schools were accused of not providing enough support. More recently the sentiment is that too many black kids are identified as needing special education/ support… so now they are scared to provide / assign those services.

I don’t know what the solutions are. It’s complex, it’s hard.

There are reasons for all sorts of the individual issues, but as a whole they all feed into each other and the mountain of issues seem insurmountable.
Veering a bit more off-topic:

- La Guillotine

- Madame Defarge and friends

- etc.

from A Tale of Two Cities.

IIRC (may be wrong, read as a kid), those ladies used to signal which aristocrats should be chopped vs. not, by signalling with their knitting needles, or a nod or shake of the head, or some such - while sitting in the front row before the guillotine.

Ghoulish. Of course, as a kid, you (I) lap up and relish that stuff, like breakfast cereal.

Edit: Links:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Defarge

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities

Wow, I did not know before just now seeing the Wikipedia article above, that, to quote it:

[ As Dickens's best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is said to be one of the best-selling novels of all time. ]
Seems like a bit of an overreaction
> They said you do not "need to eat much of anything"

Which is very clever—it sounds significant, and yet very difficult to falsify.
A whole new meaning comes to adversarial attacks in Neural Networks…
So they had real knowledge, but didn't have credentials.
Obama gave the insurers (who are big donors/lobbyists) way too much power.
> because it was super secret

What was super secret? LLMs had been around for a while on July 2022. Also, all of the hype around LLMs since then is due to OpenAI's releases, so why would Hassabis be opposed to discussing it?
I, for one, am not thrilled by the idea of being analogous to an AGI's version of a bonsai tree.
The episodes are really hit or miss. I really enjoyed the interviews with John Carmack and with Guido van Rossum. I started several other episodes that I just bailed on, though, and it's a big time investment just to get to the point where you realize you are wasting your time. So at this point I won't go out of my way to listen to episodes but I will go listen to one when it's getting talked about elsewhere.

The less Lex is talking and the more the person he's interviewing is talking, the better.

BTW if anyone who enjoyed the van Rossum and Carmack interviews has any suggestions on other episodes I might like, I'd love to have them.
Also (this is a very very minor detail) it is best to inly consider numbers without the digit eight. Otherwise you might end up with 0.99999999 which is one.

This is the tiniest of details but important for precision.
> Privatized health care as a person's sole option for care is an absolute dystopian nightmare.

Dont exaggerate. I've lived in 3 European countries and Australia. My American healthcare is easily better than those. Sure I'm lucky to have a good job that pays for it, but you can't say its terrible without looking at how those public systems are really struggling right now.
14:17: "I suspect too much of the processing power is going into using the model as a database instead of using the model as a reasoning engine"

https://youtu.be/L_Guz73e6fw?t=857
1. It's functional literacy at age group - not "unable to read Latin letters"

2. Ime, education in phonics honestly sucks and fails to take into account local and regional dialectic differences. Maybe treating AAVE (and other regional dialects, similar issues exist among White Appalachians in rural WV, TN, and KY for example due to the Scotch-Irish heavy register) as a second language might help bridge the gap.

Clarence Thomas is an example of that kind of issue - his first language was Gullah (a mixed creole between West African languages and English) and it has had an impact on his own education earlier in his career.
I want a step further than upgrading libraries to 1.0. I really want the Rust foundation to package up the essential libraries (bikeshedding to ensue, but something akin to Python or Go), and release those as a single, annual distribution. Even better if they could standardize the API across all of the packages, ensure minimal unsafe, etc. The `rust_stdlib_v2023` could only depend upon itself, and would be a basis for which other projects could then build from there.

It annoys me to no end the huge number of packages I pull in for doing something "simple". It is great that packages can be so small and focused, but now I have a real trust problem. How am I possibly supposed to ensure there are no malicious actors in my dependency tree?
who is doing anything even remotely similar that won fair use claims?
My experience with underclass whites is they access the internet exclusively through phones and seem almost unaware of computers and wired internet access. It’s an example of “the poor pay more and get less.”
That's one of the things that would happen when your school board cares more about renaming schools and hiding murals and getting rid of the one school in San Francisco that can feed into an Ivy League school (Lowell).

The same people that supposedly care about minorities and other "disadvantaged" populations are they ones who are dooming them.
Starlark is basically just a clone of Python is it not? What’s the policy for adding new features?
I am also fully insured and I have never once heard of emergency rooms with an average wait time of 30 minutes in the United States.
The open hunting season in states like California and Texas actually creates a perverse incentive among hunting guides and private land owners to deliberately introduce and maintain feral pig populations, in order to act as supply for their business.

It’s widely accepted among wildlife ecologists that hunting has minimal control effect and might actually be causing more spread.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/reports/Wildlife%...
That's a weak argument. Lots of hardware sits idle in the cloud as well. And on your phone its not expensive. In fact, the $/tflop is cheaper on phone than in the cloud – cloud has to deal with all kinds of complexity that you assume away in your local single-tenant phone context.
Thinking of actions leads you astray. Maps look like actions but they are not.
Oh, well as long as you personally have not yet had a problem.

Everything is fine everyone, no need to worry.
Am I reading it right? 5 million to each Black resident?

This sounds so ridiculous that I don't even know how to comment. Does the Federal government even have that much money (I know the Fed can print) to give that kind of money?
My favorite usecase for ChatGPT right now is generating code in obscure languages like Security Rules in Firebase, bash scripts, ffmpeg and Image Magick manipulations
> If it is true that there is a class of people who don't have your advantages and therefore have worse medical care, is that a situation that you see as acceptable?

The answer is obviously yes, given that they don't want the "general public" to have the same level of access and make them potentially have to endure any longer waits. Their convenience is more important than the health of others.
What is so interesting to me about generative AI is that the jobs that are the most difficult to automate are trades like plumbers and electricians. The group that is the most vulnerable is knowledge workers. It’s a lot easier to replace a person with AI when much of what they do is virtual — on a computer screen. Trade jobs are often looked down on by the privileged class who went to some costly and exclusive college. Will that change? There is a lot of experience and training needed to do a trade job well. In fact (having done both), I think in many cases they need more training that a job in tech requiring a college degree. This is going to be really disruptive and I’m very curious to see how it all plays out.
At some point, one must stop playing perpetually naïve Pollyanna and start making realistic guesses.
This is abysmal.

Outside of voting for local and federal officials who actually want to solve this, how can I help?
I think it is a poor idea for the Department of Energy to being hiring businesses or organizations to be managing the National Laboratories. This means there are three levels of management: the DOE, the managing organization/business (such as the University of Chicago) and the lab itself. Eliminate this middle layer--so that management is either done by the DOE or the laboratory.
Indeed; I've been trying to describe these models as being consummate bullshitters. Or consummate improvisers, if you want to be kinder. Since its core task model is "autocomplete", it's less "trying to answer a question" than it is "trying to predict the most likely next thing to say after a question". Doing its best to sound like the most likely thing that comes after the thing prompting it, which in this case, often looks like an 'answer'. And when you have access to as much context as these models do, that can get as specific and nuanced as "giving you the answer you were expecting".

It has got me wondering if this might be an interesting fundamental model of consciousness. A bullshit generator modulated by other systems that may have more "logical" qualities.
ANY statistic other than race can be gamed by rich families. It seems like it would at least be harder for a rich teenager to game a standardized test, as no matter what study is required.

Compare this to political activism, prestigious internships, club membership, and other “holistic” application line items. Poor teenagers have no realistic way to build up these items for their application, especially if they’re working at Burger King after school.

The suspicious part of me feels that dropping standardized testing from applications is just a way to get MORE rich, advantaged legacy kids in the door.
people hyperfocus on parsing because it's far and away the easiest part of a compiler - type inference, optimization, target codegen are infinitely harder and deeper wells to plumb.
FORTH ;)
> The House requires that, as a rule of the House.

Sure, but that is a self-imposed rule that is as easy for the House to change as it is for the House to pass anything else, so its effectively discretionary.
The whole Reinassence happened without copyright law and they did just fine.

In fact, a lot of masterpieces we have from that period would have been illegal under current IP law because they were the result of a lot of iteration on the same concepts by different artists.
What's going on now is the continuation of a growth trend that started a decade ago.
Scraping using LLMs directly is going to be really quite slow and resource intensive, but obviously quicker to get setup and going. I can see it being useful for quick ad-hock scrapes, but as soon as you need to scrape 10s or 100s thousands of pages it will certainly be better to go the traditional route. Using LLM to write your scrapers though is a perfect use case for them.

To put it somewhat in context, the two types of scrapers currently are traditional http client based or headless browser based. The headless browsers being for more advanced sites, SPAs where there isn't any server side rendering.

However headless browser scraping is in the order of 10-100x more time consuming and resource intensive, even with careful blocking of unneeded resources (images, css). Wherever possible you want to avoid headless scraping. LLMs are going to be even slower than that.

Fortunately most sites that were client side rendering only are moving back towards have a server renderer, and they often even have a JSON blob of template context in the html for hydration. Makes your job much easier!
Use a dictionary, or wikipedia. It’s faster and better than asking a random stranger to make up a definition on the spot.