skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s insane to trust an insurance company to make healthcare decisions. I was denied an MRI when I tore my hamstring off the bone, and so my doctor had zero info on what my treatment options should be. I went to physical therapy when I possibly should have had surgery.

I’d so much rather 10% of people overpay for unnecessary tests than the other 10% of people be denied potentially necessary care.
TikTok Is a Problem–But Not Our Biggest Social Media Problem
That's too many questions in a completely made up scenario.

If you see a problem with the person, name it. But being a separatist is at most stupidity depending on circumstances. Can't jail for that.
I mean, this isn’t new information for doctors. It’s a pretty well known fact that estrogen agonists can increase risks for breast cancer - that’s why decisions made about birth control are patient centric and consider the patients risk factors.

For reference, risks of breast and cervical cancers are increased in women who use oral contraceptives, whereas the risks of endometrial, ovarian, and colorectal cancers are actually reduced.

Also IANAD
It will be interesting to see if Gorsuch breaks with the conservative side here. He seems like a "good old boy" from the Harvard social club (he is one of 4 SCOTUS judges who went to Harvard law). Roberts is also a Harvard graduate, but he doesn't seem to be the kind of person to break with his principles on this.

I would agree with you on Kagan, but her alma mater is... Harvard Law. The last Harvard SCOTUS judge is Jackson, who has a 0% chance to rule against them here.
Maybe this is somehow underlyingly correlated with Spammers writting purposefully in wrong English
Yeah, I hadn't thought about this at all. I think it really reinforces my point well. The funnel of success is narrow and the risks are wide and varied. Meanwhile, even if you do succeed, who knows what the side effects will be along the way? I'd hate to debug anything on that box. Let alone that network.
How old are you and what are your insurance premiums and deductibles? Generally the US healthcare system works better the more money you have and the less risk you have.
The answer that you see is just totally wrong and ignorant. Instead of making a fool of yourself here perhaps go talk to an actual commercial baker. Ask them how much they spend on licensing and regulatory compliance versus other costs like rent, labor, insurance, utilities, machinery, etc.

Sure if you bake a few loaves of bread at home then that probably seems cheap in terms of ingredients. Now add in your labor, allocate costs for utilities and kitchen appliances, and figure out what it would cost to drive around all day delivering that bread to retailers. Suddenly it's not so cheap.
wait, whenever the economy has been revolutionized in the past was there like a big decision making just prior to the revolution that made sure everything worked out nice and dandy? I guess I just don't feel the two things line up.
I have done my share of compilers work a long time ago, my masters thesis was on this topic.

The article mentioned a very important but not well known aspect right at the end which is compilers is not a homogeneous topic but has a fairly independent parts. Front end, optimizers, and target code generation. I dabbled little bit in optimizers and a lot in target code generation. It was quite fun to figure out how to produce optimal machine instructions, or use as few registers as possible etc. Along the way I also got to learn a bit about the OS because one has to know an executable file’s layout, how to utilize heap, make sure not to over run stack etc.

And some fun algorithms too, such as a smart way to traverse tree by pointer reversal to avoid recursion as one can’t use recursion (extra space) while garbage collection.
There a few points to be made here:

1. The doctors who signed of on those batches should be sued for medical malpractice and negligence. Where is the AMA on this issue?

2. Why are the tests so expensive? All it requires is to add some chemicals to the blood sample or whatever and see if it changes color or something? $1000 of dollars?

3. Isn't there a trust relationship between Cigna and the doctors who authorize the tests? Does Cigna believe that some of its doctors have a relationship with the testing companies where they receive kickbacks for authorizing the tests?

4. The patients whose tests were signed of in batches must file a class action lawsuits against each doctor separately and Sigma. The doctors and Cigna are colluding in medical fraud. Even if subsequent indepth evaluations indicate that declining a tests was justified they should still be sued as they signed off the tests without actually doing the tests for real.

5. I think American doctors, their healthcare institutions and their medical schools have a serious problem with the medical ethics if so many doctors are that criminally minded.
I wonder if as more and more online content is AI generated, it will be harder to find human generated content to train the AI's on? Like a cumulative echo effect.
The future is bright for people working in cybersecurity.
Do you really need GPT for this? - see https://nghota.com (a work in progress) for an api that provides something similar but for articles (I am the developer there!).
Wow. Have you got a link? I hadn't heard about that. That's kind of a mind blowing list.
Running Microsoft Teams. Barely.
Yet still Swift can't even get move semantics. :/
Exactly.

It's always really odd to watch an episode of eg NOVA about climate change only to see the underwriting by the Koch foundation.

It seems like they aren't selling influence or pulling punches for their benefactors... but would I actually be able to tell if they were?
Yes, this is what it is. I'm also not surprised that L.A. is at the top, as it is both:

1) Vast, with large roads, and lots of vendors competing to sell building materials.

2) Expensive to rent. Hurry the hell up and finish. Gotta rent it out now.
You have what is believed for instance to be hundreds of thousands of wild pigs in Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba. Sows are capable of producing up to 12 piglets per year. Meanwhile those 3 have a combined population of 7.3M around 18% living in rural areas or about 1.3M.

You can already legally own some rifles in Canada and hunt pigs in accordance with the law however you need to kill around 70% of the population each year just to keep the population the same size due to fast breeding and the survivors being about as smart as dogs do learn and become harder to kill.

It's not obvious that either gun control nor well earned disdain for the rural population are a meaningful contributor to the problem whatsoever. Nor is it obvious why any sane person who isn't already inclined to join the reserves would do so for the purpose of obtaining essentially a hunting license nor why tossing in rural open carry would improve the bargain. Instead such a license ought to be free since you are in effect doing the government a favor.

It seems more likely that people just aren't sufficiently inclined to kill enough of them because its a lot of work that wouldn't be sufficiently rewarded. Establishing a demand for harvesting and marketing them is something you would have to do the ground work on BEFORE people are inclined to put in the effort and furthermore it seems incredibly unlikely that the market should demand enough at a price that would support the amount of harvesting at a high unit cost required to even stabilize the population.

I would suggest government pay employees directly to shoot a shit ton of pigs. It is far cheaper than trying to store and process them and avoid incentivizing breeding them by not paying independent agents per kill.
That's not blowing up. What's happening right now is blowing up.
Apparently it looks like DietPi — the primary lightweight distribution I use on my Pi Cluster — looks to be regularly creating images for the Orange Pi now, as well as tons of other Radxa boards, and RockChip SBC boards in general.

Definitely looks like there’s efforts to long-term support a lot of popular SBCs out there: https://dietpi.com/#download
We shouldn’t be counting Haskell’s language extensions imo. They’re extensions because they were not accepted in the language (and might never be).
> About 13% of women develop breast cancer during their lifetime. 25% increase is then very significant, this is about additional 4% chance of getting cancer.

The study didn’t measure lifetime risk, so your assertion is not correct. It measured risk of acquiring breast cancer before age 49. This is not the age when most women get breast cancer. Average age of onset for breast cancer in the US is 62.
You're right. However they did say they "ask" not "tell"; it was not necessarily a demand. It's hard to know exactly how the conversations went
Would this shape be covered by copyright? Or is it an uncopyrightable mathematical idea?

For example, would it be possible for various floor tile suppliers to cut their material in this shape?
I think it will revolutionize the service economy by replacing front line workers with chat bots masquerading as human customer service.
I assumed their server experience is still working in the iCloud division.
Most definitely. The interview-style podcast I listen to the most is Odd Lots [1]. I'll listen to any Odd Lots episode regardless of the guest because of the personalities of Tracy and Joe. I also listen to re-runs of Car Talk [2] (which, I guess maybe isn't a podcast?) because of the hosts.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots

2. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510208/car-talk
I don't believe that would be quite right.

If Facebook were to have a collection of posts and then, and then had humans go through and tag them and filter them for... lets say... "from 'bros'" (just as a slightly silly example but one that implies some curation of the data).

That collection of posts (the Bro Data Set) would be something that could be copyrighted as a collection (setting aside the "is this a derivative work of the posts" question).

Going from the collection of posts to a model, however, is a purely mechanical process. There is no human creative element in creating the model from the collection of posts. Thus the model wouldn't be sufficiently creative to have a copyright of its own.

The question of "is the model infringing on the copyrights" is one that is open and interesting. I (not a lawyer) would side on that it is sufficiently transformative that the model, while not being able to be copyrighted itself isn't infringing on the copyrights of the material that was used to train it - HOWEVER it may produce infringing works when prompted to do so either intentionally or unintentionally.

Going back to the cookbook. If you create a cookbook of seafood recipes (recipes are not copyrightable, but the cookbook is because it is curated data) and I take that cookbook and apply the mechanical change of "double the recipes - 4 oz of salmon becomes 8 oz and serves 2 becomes serves 4" my collection of recipes isn't copyrightable because all I did was apply math to it. Likewise, taking a collection of posts (or pictures) and applying math to it isn't able to be copyrighted.
Find friends through hobbies. Go practice a martial art, join an adult league of whatever sport you like. The best part is anyone you meet already enjoys doing the thing you want to do in your spare time, no need to convince them.
To be clear, I strongly oppose removal of SATs as a metric used to evaluate candidates.

That said, there's a confounder here: schools which remove SATs as an admissions metric are schools that are looking for different things than academic preparedness/quality. It's likely that they're using methods and rubrics to deemphasize the predictive quality of GPAs as well.

GPA is fairly objective (though less so than the SAT) and predictive (more so than the SAT) as a standard. Accounting for the courses taken and the high schools the courses are taught at, you could select a class purely based on grades that is highly qualified and prepared (and incidentally would also have high SAT scores; GPA and SAT are correlated). But a university removing the SAT from admissions is also likely to be trying deemphasize the component of GPA that's predictive of quality as well.
Oh, you can have that. Just pay 10x for insurance to cover your 10x more expensive tests.
One could argue then that a student in another group that had similar or slightly lower GPA, EC, and test scores to those in the AA group achieved their scores by virtue of having a higher raw intelligence or personal drive since they weren't from a culture where parents set high expectations for their children.
Who knows! Maybe? The email that's written by ChatGTP, but no human actually reads it because at the other end it's summarised by ChatGTP too: maybe that'll be it. LLMs almost but not quite cancelling out the meaningless guff they add to the world.

It can both be true that a) LLMS and their successors will be the sort of huge multiplier for intellectual pursuits that _machinery_ is for physical work; and also b) they are AWFUL for education, and will result in the general population losing skills.
That was in full effect at the time. They would like for this to be the case, but reality is very different.
I noticed you said "was" and not "am". I think that's the point others here are making. You put in the work and did what it took to become a runner. However, the author of the article is advocating calling yourself a runner once you've gone on one or two runs. That's not the same. The point of my first sentence being that you don't call yourself a runner when you're not running regularly and perhaps others shouldn't either.
You can always "take an element from each set" over and over, but for this mapping to be shown to be a 1:1, you need to be more specific.

Example: the set of all natural numbers (0, 1, ...) is the same "size" as the set of all even numbers, because you can map any number N to the number 2N. It's obvious that any natural number N is uniquely accounted for by this mapping, since you can double any natural number (with a unique even result), and it's obvious that any even number is uniquely accounted for, because any even number divided by 2 is a (unique) natural number.

But if your mapping is defined as "take an arbitrary rational number and arbitrary irrational number, over and over forever", then there's no guarantee that, given an arbitrary irrational number, your mapping has defined a unique associated rational number.
Microcorruption Writeup
Bank runs are incredibly rare, rating it 1 out of 5 on likelihood it’s really overstating it by a LOT. I’m with the AI on this one.
Counterpoint.

I have an Aetna PPO and experienced a stroke last year. $100,000+ hospital stay and insurance just… covered it. I paid $1,100 out of pocket.

I had a $100,000+ surgery a few weeks ago to repair a heart issue that may have led to it. They just covered it. No fuss, no hassle. I paid $3,300, which was the remainder of my total annual out-of-pocket, and now I will pay $0 for healthcare for the rest of the year.

For the surgery, I called in advance to double check that it was covered and after five minutes on the phone with a concierge they confirmed that it would be covered.

Obviously I am only a single data point and I can’t speak towards other conditions or procedures. But Aetna has done right by me, at least from within the perspective of our insane for-profit healthcare system.
While I'm equally skeptical of certain modern majors, I'm not convinced that just because the "educated Western man" (and, yes, we're mostly talking men) of the 19th century were expected to be well-versed in certain subjects doesn't mean there aren't better options for many today.
I think we all know quite well in terms of how and why real estate was left out of this.

Willing to bet that the ratio of politicians in Seattle that realize capital gains in excess of $250k/year vs. those that own real estate (especially multiple properties) is heavily favoring the latter group.
Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz (2019)
Animals in non-contrived normal environments don't actually do that. Furthermore poison of any variety is unlikely to be sufficiently targeted to just kill pigs and most isn't very humane.
Good grief. I'm sorry you had to go through that, the bureaucratic trauma involved in health billing/insurance increasingly seems as bad as or worse than the medical issue itself.
Poorly written is an opinion, not a problem that needs solving, so your team will not act on it. Carefully evaluate your definition of “poorly written”, enumerate the impacts as specifically as possible, and address each of them individually in priority order. Start with Does it work?
Customer service chatbots are a revolution? Sounds like the most underwhelming thing ever.
It'll be interesting to see if AI will be able to crack the systems designed with AI.
I think it would be more elucidating to consider the myriad common incorrect answers you expect to get when asking that question--which is what I expect they are dealing with, given the more about how rare even having "a good guess is"--as opposed to whether they are expecting a single particularly-correct answer.
And then we will need another set of frontline workers when LLMs starts to hallucinate.
And if they don't, there's a good chance that they will downsample/compress or otherwise transform with a minimum of notice or means of bulk exporting.
> I read the spec on enums over and over, and still don't understand it.

That's from someone who has written C++ compilers.

Some of the insane complexity being added to C++ comes from trying to emulate Rust move semantics without a borrow checker. An xvalue is what's left behind after you do a move. In Rust, the compiler guarantees that you can never access the remnants after a move. But in C++, someone will somehow manage to leak a raw pointer to something, then move it. So users have to know about xvalues.

(Could be worse. Trying to emulate Javascript async semantics in everything else has resulted in some real horrors. Only Go has a sane solution.)
Interesting, the though had crossed my mind, and had briefly tested gpt3 years ago for this. H

Have you bench marked it? I might add it too my benchmarking tool for content extraction, https://github.com/Nootka-io/wee-benchmarking-tool.

I want to try sending scrapped screenshots to gpt4 multimodal and see what it can do for IR.
The feedforward nature of transformers means that it can only do a limited number of computational steps. Having it explain an algorithm is a good way to have it use its output as a tape during inference/decoding, but even then it just fudges things and makes mistakes for largish numbers.
Exactly, I really don’t think they should have been considered in the analysis. A mention would have been appropriate.
>it still doesn't have the ability to do real reasoning.

It technically does. Humans solve problems in a recursive way, much like the generative transformer networks generate the next piece of text. The big difference of course is the depth of reasoning.

My bet is that the next big effort is going to be reduce the size of the models while retaining performance (perhaps using ML tasked to do so). Then once you have that, from the other side there will be more and more specialized hardware with ASIC to run the transformers. Eventually we will be able to run these things at scale and do on the fly transfer learning, which will be about the same as a human growing reasoning skills as they mature.
> I assume anything Apple is cooking is using Nvidia in the server room already

For training, sure. For inference, Apple has been in a solid competitive position since M1. LLaMa, Stable Diffusion, etc, can all run on consumer devices that my tech-illiterate parents might own.
Weirdly, I don’t think society and the role of gender in it are worthless topics of study, and I don’t think intellectual rigor should be measured primarily by knowledge of the languages that form the roots of the non-Germanic portion of English.
Neat related video if interested: Meet the White Wolf Pack of Ellesmere Island | White Falcon, White Wolf (Part 2) | BBC Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDlGSIYvZs
It does not matter. That procedure is a solution for a totally different type of problem. Keeping a sample of an animal in a jar in a museum for 20 years so you can do scientific research on it. The more toxic, the less attacked by bacteria or animals

Ethanol has one and only one purpose, and is critical. To avoid the body contracting while dying. This aspect is totally useless in the kitchen.
If you fed all of the Sherlock Holmes stories from archive.org into this, how many new stories at a comparable level would be spat out from it?
> Cohen the Barbarian

this example of autocorrect made me laugh out loud for the first time in days.

please do not correct it.
AIs are wrong at least some of the time... That means they will approve some claims. Not deny all of them.
Will ChatGPT make the already troubling income and
wealth inequality in the US and many other countries
even worse?

It is an interesting question if the concept of "wealth" will survive in a world where all productivity is done by artificial intelligence.

As soon as computers surpass humans in every aspect, there is nothing left for humans to do. So the only reason for wealth inequality would be inheritance. But why should the poor accept this inequality? Will AI protect the wealth of the rich who inherited it? Why should it?
This parent post with its EDIT is a perfect example of what I wrote in another comment: Beliefs are changing so fast right now. The term "AGI skeptic" will soon (if not already) mean "I don't trust AGIs in positions of authority or power" rather than "I don't think the technology is capable of matching our level of cognition."
While you are partly correct, the study just "didn't measure". It means the study does not say anything about getting cancer after 49. What it does not say is that there isn't any increase after the age women typically stop using contraceptives.

In particular, since we don't know the mechanism in which contraceptives cause cancer, we can't say whether trend ends when women stop taking them or will increase their chance of getting cancer for the rest of their lives.
It's almost like Gate's law is slowing down so we've decided to try to find novel ways to speed it back up.
It very much depends on context where request end and coersion starts. I'd be uncomfortable handing control over contraception use over to someone I've known for not so long. Just like a lot of guys use condoms because they don't trust the word of a women when she's saying she's on contraceptives.
Nvidia is part of the reason why it happened and why it happened now, they didn't get lucky by any stretch of the imagination wrt to AI.