skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Put yourself in the shoes of the insurer,” Howrigon said. “Why not just deny them all and see which ones come back on appeal? From a cost perspective, it makes sense.”

This is more or less how the UK government handles benefits (welfare) applications.

It’s cruel and demeaning and damaging to health in many many cases.
I am meant to assume they are wrong because they are anti-vaccine? I am not comfortable doing that and instead it rationally increases my scepticism of the vaccine industry
After my experience with AT&T front-line support where I tried several times to get my old AT&T iPhone unlocked (which is fully paid for), dealing with confusion and false promises of follow-up which never came, I welcome the relative competence of ChatGPT. My phone is still locked BTW.
If you go the yogurt route give Nancy's a try. They put probiotics in it after the pasteurization process.
There's a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" next to each generated response.

While this model may not be getting updated in real time, I would be surprised if that feedback isn't used when looking at updating the model with good feedback being used for retraining the model.
> So both are not very good examples, because they build up experience over long periods.

They are examples of something they could similarly do for the Apple Neural Engine but in a bigger scale in the future. They have experience deploying it in a smaller scale/different versions, they would just have to apply it in bigger scale in order to be able to compete with NVIDIA.
That already happened.

https://youtu.be/akceKOLtytw

Or even older:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jH-6-ZIgmKY
> The fact that you must trust programs to do the right thing is the root cause of the problem.

Well, yeah, that's the issue. That's why relying on simple DAC is so inadequate. Really, some kind of MAC is needed. Things like pledge and unveil are nice but clearly inadequate (I actually had a pretty braindead discussion on that recently, with someone not understanding the differences and trying to equate them out of ignorance, sigh).
He's kind of a useful idiot in the sense that he's garnered a large audience/influence, but lets the guests own that audience for the interview's duration.

It's why you see guest execs interested in controlling a narrative like Bourla, Zuckerberg, Altman...
> I once read that a candidate was rejected because, having an enormous amount of extracurricular activities in his CV, was deemed "too intense".

While “too intense” is poor wording (and perhaps shorthand), I’m guessing that the activities had the following traits:

1. Limited to unspecified “participation”, the substance of which was not verified or confirmed in other parts of the application. Typically elite schools are looking for leadership roles as well as moving the needle in some way.

2. Looked like resume/application boosting since no one can reasonably participate in a quality manner in this many activities.

In certain communities, especially in the NE corridor, racking up mostly low-engagement ECs is a hobby.
I am a billionaire.
why wouldn't they build a relatively small cluster for training tasks using Nvidia hardware? It's simply the industry standard, every researcher is familiar with it and writing a custom back-end for pytorch that scales to hundreds of nodes is no small task.

I doubt Apple cares about spending a few hundred million dollars on A100s as long as they make sure the resulting models run on billions of apple silicone chips.
I have implemented a scaled down version of this that just identifies the selectors needed for a scraper suite to use. for my single use case, I was able to optimize it to nearly 100% accuracy.

Currently, I am only triggering the GPT portion when the scraper fails, which I
assume means the page has changed.
> For example, I wish Rust allow:

What kind of problems would this solve? Not trying to be snarky, just to understand the feature.
The only way to stop a bad guy with an AI is a good guy with an AI.
Maybe I'm missing the point, but... well, why would anyone think that feet grow into discrete sizes like that or that the shoe sizes would be precise while still being comfortable?
One major criticism of invasion biology is that the definition of "invasive" is most often an assessment of impact on commercial interests rather than ecological impacts. There are many situations where these are actually diametrically opposed definitions. Dandelions for example are extremely "invasive" but actually benefit local ecosystems by loosening soils and reducing topsoil loss. Because our agricultural practices are dependent on sterilized, lifeless soils these soil protectors are then seen as pests. This is actually the case with many "weeds".

The most damaging thing you could ever do to soil is expose it to direct sunlight. The whole point of annuals is that they come up to protect the soil from the harmful radiation that kills the soil ecosystems. That's why annuals seeds can survive in soils for sometimes even decades. They're not meant to displace anything. They're meant to be there when there's some sort of "disturbance" (in nature this could be a fire or a mudslide or a windstorm that knocks over some important shade-providing trees, but in Western agriculture this is basically all of our farming) and kickstart the process of ecological succession

If you let your lawn get overgrown by weeds it might look terrible the first year (tho I personally think it looks much more beautiful than the green deserts we spend so much money trying to maintain). But the second year you'll start to get some perennials and a lot less of the weedy annuals. Maybe some grasses will start. Eventually the soils will have developed so that they transformed from bacteria-dominated to fungal dominated and mycorrhizal networks will allow much more hardy plants to grow including shrubs and eventually even trees. These advanced soils hold up to 50x as much water and plants who've made mycorrhizal associations are much more resistant to pests, droughts, freezes, etc and have access to a much larger network of nutrients. So that means you'll have to spend much less time maintaining, watering, fertilizing, etc. In fact fertilization with nitrogen impedes the formation of mycorrhizal associations so, if your goal is a long term garden, "leave it the fuck alone" is actually a very effective strategy.

Those weedy annuals depend on nitrogen that comes in easy to access forms but fungal dominated soils tend to have nitrogen in harder to access forms like ammonium (mainly due to the advancement of the soil food web into more complex organisms) so that means that the "weeds" will eventually work themselves out of a job (or at least until the next major "disturbance").

It's really a problem that solves itself and the more you fight that harder you need to fight.

I might've strayed from the original point but I think there's a similar lesson with wolves. Wolves drastically decrease the number of disease vectors (e.g. rats or deer with ticks) in an ecosystem and also balance out other predators that take their place like birds of prey. The more we fight them the more we have to come up with solutions for all the side effects of their absence (e.g. large deer populations leading to reduced vegetation that stabilizes river banks or the increase in diseases)
“Every single girlfriend I had, I asked her to get off contraceptives” is the tone of someone who is not interested in conversation and wants control. Bottom line.
Language is fluid and constantly evolving. Literacy[0] shouldn't mean whether you follow some set of punctuation rules at all times, but whether you can infer the meaning and intent of messages, and whether you can compose messages that allow recipients to do the same, both without much effort or discomfort on all sides. Acronyms and punctuation are just tools to this end. If others 'get' what you're trying to say and consider it appropriate language in different contexts relevant to your life (you want the ability to use different language in professional vs personal settings, to actually use established grammatical rules in formal settings,...), then I'd say you're literate. Using emojis, acronyms or writing things like 'Hey u coming?' in appropriate settings doesn't negate that imho. Acronyms are in fact extremely common in professional settings too, and emojis increasingly so, at least in my experience.

Slightly provocative question, given what you've said ("without abbreviating anything"), would you actually spell out the acronym RSVP in a formal invitation? It's very common eg in Britain, it's definitely considered good form, and spelling it out would just cause confusion since it's actually a French term that most people probably wouldn't recognize (répondez, s'il vous plaît). What about i.e. (ita est)? E.g. (exemplum gratum, although some might argue it can also stand for example given)? You might say you just avoid those terms, which is possible, but I have a suspicion that you're just fooling yourself. Since you're on this site, I might also ask whether you always spell out the Domain Name System (DNS) and similar terms? If you did, you'd actually make your messages less understandable to most audiences, detracting from your literacy I'd argue.

[0] My opinion here, I'm not a linguist, so if this clashes with established definitions of literacy, my apologies.

Edit: I actually had a look, and of course you are fooling yourself. According to your comment history, you actually use abbreviations all the time, including ones that are unknown to me (ITAD company, SEE), making whatever point you were trying to make lost on me without research effort: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273712#35276691
>99% of people will look like a child next to most of the people he interviews.
My family has received multiple radiology procedures including x-ray, MRI, and ultrasound from private radiology businesses (I.e. not the hospital). They are typically 10x give or take less expensive. Last MRI was $600.

Doesn't help if you are stuck in the hospital. But, it's an option otherwise.
_le sigh_ ... still talking about infinities in semantic of quantity and size. For me, a better mental model is "relative density"
Yeah.. the hungarians are F-ed as usual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Hung...
An ironic use of the phrase survivorship bias springs to mind
I think I agree with most of what you wrote, especially race based administration.

But I have a hard time thinking that grades alone is the best determinant of who should get into university, but the moment you use anything other than straight up grades, you are back to a holistic process, which the OP claims is worse.
You don't know that it would be better. Keep in mind that the same company whose support didn't help you with your phone will be in charge of what the chatbot is allowed to say and do. If AT&T sucks, I don't know if you're gaining much when AT&T replace a person with ChatGPT. The person doing the support was never the problem, the problem was the company who has a crappy process. And even after they deploy a version of ChatGPT that company will be the same.
I recently went shopping for boots that I can get work done on a step clay hillside. I went through the entire store (whose primary merchandise is boots) to end up with exactly one pair that didn’t squeeze my feet the wrong way.

Running shoes in the past was a similar struggle.

Some people hate looking at toe-shoes (aka VFFs) but they consistently fit like a glove for me. Too bad they don’t support at all!
Any specific examples?

I looked at Kotlin and Swift at the same time some years back and they seemed extremely similar. I didn't enjoy ios development and am currently an Android developer. I've been using Kotlin for a while now and it's easily my favorite language.

Did Swift take a wrong turn somewhere that set it on such a different path from Kotlin?
Yeah, #1 just makes this seem pointless for the time being. The whole point of needing something like this is horizontal scaling.

Also not clear from my phone down the pub if inference is needed at each step. That would be slow, no? Even (especially?) if you owned the model.
Good on you for being more academically-minded than your university, and shame on them for not encouraging more cross-disciplinary credits!

I went to a relatively small school in Canada, but they were very good about staying out of the way if you tried to take extra courses (with credit).
Product work is a fractal and you don't want "product people" designing things past the 2nd or 3rd fractal step, in my experience.
I got a chance to see Dr. Megavolt perform at Burning Man 20 some years ago. There was an earth mover machine with flamethrower, a band in electric cage, and gogo dancers in various skimpy outfits, all engaging in a battle with the good doctor. It was incredibly epic. What I recall was the most immediately noticeable was the strong smell of ozone, all that lightning mad it feel like a thunderstorm. They did have to run the generators all day long to charge up the batteries for 15 show....
I suspect that people familiar with buying womens' wear are much less prone to this mistake, seeing as how one person might fit two or three size increments depending on brand.
That sounds really useful, can you provide a link if it's publicly hosted?
The first part says the comparison of Asian to Black is invalid because most Asians are recent immigrants. Do we have any numbers controlling for immigration timeframe?
The title is missing "of Dollars". Right now one might mistakenly think it implies "of People".
If it's better at taking care of my health than the American Healthcare System, sign me up!
All of the beauty from Bell Labs and CERN imparted into Unix and the Web has become a grotesque playground. All the corporate cruft... Honestly I feel very said for what could have been and what it is. And another friend I hear is getting hired by some blockchain outfit. sight
Nothing to do with patriotism, I just question why supporters of collectivism constantly flee to capitalist countries.
Prepare to have the entire star trek wiki page on dilithium crystals read back to you.
yep. wide toes, normal heels. i ended up in toe shoes too.
The economy serves humans as the end users of goods and services. Even if an AI can learn to design a house that is more earthquake-proof than any human design of the same cost, the AI can't decorate the interior without understanding human psychology both at the general level of the average human and the specific level of the human who will be using the house.

I didn't realize how much happier I was when I worked next to windows (as opposed to working in the interior of a room) until I was in my mid twenties. How would an AI know to tell me to design my home office with a big window when I didn't even know that was necessary myself?

The AI couldn't have learned from me (since I didn't consciously know that), and the AI couldn't have learned that sitting next to windows generated happiness for itself either. That means some other human being would be necessary to input that as a design constraint into the AI's architecture program.

The inability of AI to experience human feelings for itself means it will have to rely on humans to help it provide economic goods and services that are maximally useful. That means there will be a role for humans in the economy for quite a long time (possibly forever).
This may finally be a solution for scraping wikipedia and turning it into structured data. (Or do we even need structured data in the post-AI age?)

Mediawiki is notorious for being hard to parse:

* https://github.com/spencermountain/wtf_wikipedia#ok-first- - why it's hard

* https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/04/26/what-it-takes-to-p... - an entire article about parsing page TITLES

* https://osr.cs.fau.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/wikitext-pa... - a paper published about a wikitext parser
A key component of the free market is the ability to say "no thanks" to an offer to do business.

Can you explain to me how the government telling you "you must do business with one of these insurers or else" is in any way a free market?
I'm studying Chinese. If I run across a sentence whose grammar I can't parse, I paste it in and say, "Can you explain this sentence?" It will usually break it down, phrase by phrase, explaining what each thing means and how it fits within the whole. If it doesn't, you can ask "Can you break it down in more detail?" If there's a specific word you don't understand, you can say "What is the word X doing in this sentence?"

You have to watch it, because it does hallucinate (at least, GPT-3.5; I'm using the API and haven't been given access to GPT-4 yet). In one instance, it said that a series of characters meant X in Chinese, when in fact I happened to know it was just a transliteration of a different language, and not in Chinese at all. But it's still helpful enough to be worth using.

You can also ask it to give you example sentences with a specific word; and I've had some success asking it to generate sentences in which then word is used in the same way, or with the same grammar structure.
Substantial numbers of YNH devs are French, I'm wondering if they're just more likely to think in terms of associations etc.

It is a good idea, to be fair: non-techy people don't get anything but big companies if people won't host them.
I'm usually more measured in my comments here, but oh well.

This is horse shit. Do NOT interact with wolves. They're beautiful and majestic. They also absolutely don't deserve the damage that can come from food from humans or habituation, and you don't deserve the risk (from attack, from disease, from a park ranger who's pissed that yet ANOTHER tourist is ignoring all of the postings to leave wild animals alone.)

Bison near you? Get the fuck away. Wolf? Get the fuck away. Chipmunk? Seriously, stop interacting with wildlife. If you feed wildlife, you're an asshole. If wildlife is put down because a TikTok video got you attacked, you're an asshole. If yet another bear is relocated because you helped habituate it, you're an asshole. (And if you're wondering, there are usually a lot of laws around how people shouldn't interact with wildlife. For good reason.)

Leave no trace. Let wildlife be wild. Leave it the fuck alone.
Your comment is not helping the conspiracy angle I was debunking up top so I assume we agree overall? There is no conspiracy, just random nature doing it thing and people trying to nudge it in their direction but frequently overshooting or undershooting.
Having lived the opposite, I have to strongly disagree. I lived the nightmare of US healthcare, where my provider decided to stop working in my state, which meant that I no longer had access to any doctors under health insurance despite it being paid for by my company.

The UK was amazing - no questions asked care for my health was a massive improvement over what I had in the US. Free access to a doctor at any time is more life changing that you can think - every health issue I had I could talk to a medical professional and get guidance. Even free mental health care.

Moved to Ireland last year, with a mixed public/private system, and my health is now slipping a bit. Going to a GP, trying to file for reimbursements, and knowing that every time I have a health concern, it will cost me money, is a powerful suppressing force. I miss the NHS.
Why GPT-based then? There are libraries that do this: You give examples, they generate the rules for you and give you a scraper object that takes any html and returns the scraped data.

Mine: https://github.com/lorey/mlscraper
Another: https://github.com/alirezamika/autoscraper
That was mostly a concern with the CMs. We had the advantage of owning the Main ASIC FW and the Driver so a serial# challenge response could detect fakes. Difficulty was doing that without implementing public key on a tiny micro and keeping reverse engineering difficult.
OMG, same here!
I don't know if that is true. Stuff just changes. To solve similar problems to this, my lab developed sapphire metal bonding techniques that could be run with CNC machined parts. Everything became nice and reliable and repeatable.

We lose techniques all the time but gain new ones. I designed a scientific instrument once that had a long precision bore through it. I designed it with the belief that I needed clearances for a large stiff boring bar to make the feature.

I showed the prints to my machinist, and he told me they were just gonna put it on the five axis and hit the bore on both sides with an end mill. That it was as accurate as how the old guys did it.

It was.
Setting temperature to 0 does not make it completely deterministic, from their documentation:

> OpenAI models are non-deterministic, meaning that identical inputs can yield different outputs. Setting temperature to 0 will make the outputs mostly deterministic, but a small amount of variability may remain.
I thought the status was that BTC was considered a commodity, and basically all the rest were considered securities?
That is exactly the point - don't use ChatGPT to get facts. Use it to generate content that will be revised by a human. If you are trying to use it to ask the answer to a question and expecting accuracy... you are using the wrong tool.
I’m not defending the current system at all.

I was simply trying to say that, within the confines of the current system, this particular actor has not gone out of their way to fuck me over in the same way that I hear about so many other actors.

I have no idea if my experience with Aetna is common or an outlier. My hope was that by posting this, it would provide a data point for people forced to choose a private health insurance provider in the future. I also hoped to hear from others who had experiences either mirroring or opposite my own.

If I could, I would dismantle our current system in a heartbeat and replace it with some form of single-payer. I can’t, so I tried to provide information about one player within the incredibly fucked up system Americans are forced to operate within.
A big issue at these labs is that there's this idea that people with PhDs think only others with technical PhDs can manage things. Management takes a certain set of skills, and quite a lot of PhDs have zero experience outside of academic environments with managing things.

> “We did not write a very good contract for the excavation,” ... “There were all kinds of loopholes in it, and the excavation company made an awful lot of money off of us.”

Another thing that strikes me is, why is construction in the U.S. so corrupt and such a money pit? I don't think I have ever heard of a large construction project being delivered on time and on budget. I understand construction is very difficult, but it just seems out of control.
Thank you for this clarification. :)
That MRI would probably bill out at >US$ 1000 in most urban areas in the US. I've been billed $300 for a simple shoulder X-ray.

The real kicker is that you generally can't even find out this price until you have the procedure and receive the bill. It's become almost akin to a legal mafia cartel. In my area, a majority of the urologists have become part of a medical group that now dictates pricing for related procedures. Most of the major insurance carriers don't want to pay this pricing so this group is not a covered provider, so finding a urologist that is covered entails sometimes waits of months for an appointment.

It's the worst parts of socialized and for-profit health care assembled into one system.