skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal healthcare in Sweden has been higher quality (considering both personal cost and state cost) than my healthcare in US. I have heard complaints the other way of course.

Regardless of our personal experiences, the US spends so an enormous amount on healthcare and gets very little in return by basically all international measurements. Americans who think American healthcare seem to me too insecure to accept that their system is just plain bad. But yes Americans with a lot of money have access to better healthcare than average Americans. That said, this is essentially true in all countries so it's not that relevant really.
If my memory does not fail me, that would be Feldschlösschen: https://feldschloesschen.ch/

(2003-2007 period)
I mean I absolutely want tigers to be set loose in the countryside but I feel like that’s going to then end in people shooting tigers out of helicopters with a machine gun.

If people are willing to move on from the idea that we have to try and keep animals exactly where they were and preserve habitats (that we then wipe out) then we could probably save species like that. Tigers would do great in a nice forest full of pigs.
I'd invite you to check out https://www.usedouble.com/, we use a combination of LLMs and traditional methods to scrape data and parse the data to answer your questions.

Sure, it may be more resource intensive, but it's not slow by any means. Our users process hundreds of rows in seconds.
This will be useful accessibility. No more need for website developers to waste time on accessibility when AI can handle any kind of website that sighted people can.
>why the hell should I take an electromagnetism course as a physics undergrad? I want to work in fluid dynamics dammit!

unfortunately there are too many people who think a CS curriculum should be an advanced coding bootcamp instead of a place where you actually explore how your software works
I didn't say it was bad (and yes, I was including an inference, not entirely unfounded).

What IS bad is that the commenter is acting as if (s)he has a somehow superior moral position when a product clearly not designed for the purpose (s)he wants is not actually fit for his/her purpose.

As if (s)he is the final arbiter of what other products should include as capabilities, never mind that these are capabilities that they not only do not advertise, but specifically provide notice that they do NOT do.

If OpenAi advertised these capabilities and it failed, I'd be 100% with him/her. But the situation is the opposite, and the moralistic complaint is annoying political noise.
Yeah. It’s always interesting to see how people fill in the blanks.
> The pursuit of human-like capabilities, Brynjolfsson argued, has led to technologies that simply replace people with machines, driving down wages and exacerbating inequality of wealth and income. It is, he wrote, “the single biggest explanation” for the rising concentration of wealth.

I think, assuming it doesn't kill us - the faster we get to an economy where only 5-10% of the people are employable, the faster we get to post scarcity, and MORE equality/egalitarianism (if accelerationism doesn't lead to the opposite outcome, walled cities for elites, wastelands for everybody else) ... but the transition... it's going to be bumpy/painful.

Part of me is worried, part of me says rip the bandaid off, let's get to UBI, and other programs --as people can't stay rich or get richer if nobody can buy products. What's the point of better productivity at Ford or GM if nobody is buying cars anymore?

The world of the next 20 years, is going to change as much as the change from before electricity to the 1920s when it was mainstream. We can't really stop it, even if we tried - other actors good/bad are going to be using AI, it's part of our lives now for better or worse.
I wonder how many claims a minute GPT4 will be able to achieve?
Right; GPA is a coarse representation of performance on coursework. A 4.0 at Stuy with coursework on real analysis and organic chemistry means something very different than a 4.0 at a struggling inner city public school where the hardest math class is Algebra 2.

My point is more that universities can (and do!) create a different representation of coursework performance that accounts for rigor. But a university that eliminates the SAT is also likely intentionally making that representation less predictive of undergraduate performance to allow weighing of things more than preparedness/quality as indicated by grades.

What makes SATs so important is that you get a very limited preparedness signal from kids with 4.0 at the crappy school; combining test scores with GPA allows for a selective school to get a much more meaningful signal for quality/preparedness.

My motivation here is to push back against the scores alone are enough idea, though it's an understandable reaction to the people who by all appearances think quality/academic preparedness should be a secondary concern in admissions.
Interestingly a few states do offer a Codeine cough syrup without a prescription[0].

From the article: “Codeine regulation varies widely across countries and states. In some states, including North Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, and Iowa,1,2 pharmacists can dispense a small quantity of cough syrup containing codeine OTC. Based on individual state law, this information may not be logged into the prescription drug monitoring program, which may contribute to providers being unaware of their patients’ use of codeine.”

This is an exceedingly rare practice in the US however.

[0]https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/behind-the-counter-codein...
> The average intelligent viewer will be left confused and intimidated

I’m not qualified to know if your post is better or worse than Netflix’s documentary, Bill, but this is an egregious example of a pot calling a kettle black.
> The great way to imply that non-Americans are not "like a human".

Well this takes the cake for the most bad faith reading I’ve ever seen on HN.
> I don't see how texting could put an end to illiteracy. If anything, it promotes it.

Just a guess, people used to be able to get by with a very basic level of literacy, i.e. label recognition. My cousin was this way when he finished school ~20 years ago.

Now you can't get by like that very easily because text based communication is so prevalent. If you have friends they'll be texting you, so you're pretty much forced into a learning situation for sociality, whereas in the past that was only happening at the speech level.

Re the shorthand stuff, (a) you probably just didn't realise how illiterate people were in the past because they couldn't write anything for you to read, so it's a genuine step up. (b) I actually encounter that shorthand less now, and more from adults who grew up with expensive and limited SMS.
The full BNF of CL's `loop` is longer than many languages' entire grammars, and the `format` function is Turing complete.
You need to set the temperature to 0, and provide as many examples when/where possible to get deterministic results.

For https://www.usedouble.com/ we provide a UI that structures your prompt + examples in a way that achieves deterministic results from web scrapped HTML data.
Even with that caveat, using GPT in this way is still useful. The amount of time spent to simply ask GPT-4 is a lot lower than to search StackOverflow, and while this problem is so basic that the first result often works, once one gets into complex problems that massively benefit from input context, I think GPT-4 would save massive amounts of time.
We use gcc/javac/etc almost daily and having some understanding of what your toolchain is likely to be very beneficial. Here are a few things I've done with my compiler knowledge:

1. Wrote a simulator of sorts for a 68xx CPU. User passed in assembly files and I simulated the execution and spat out cycle counts. The real-time application had a fixed time window it could not exceed. I did this in my first year out of college with compilers fresh on my mind.

2. Wrote an automated test tool for a proprietary protocol. The protocol had the usual opcodes but they could only be played in a certain order (cannot send B before C or can send B any number of times and have it be idempotent). The QA engineers were doing this by hand. I asked them if they could automated the test case generation and they looked at me as though I was an idiot. I developed a tool with its own simplified grammar that they could use to build test cases which exercised all combinations/permutations of the opcodes. Saved us a ton of time and made the developers more productive.

3. My hackiest project was an SGML parser that was used to generate hypertext documents. Tech writer wrote docs in FrameMaker. My hacky parser found the places where the TOC and the Index could be linked and inserted hypertext links. Net result is we had a document that could be printed and viewed online. Think 1993/1994.

I've sat with a number of engineers who thought the compiler was wrong and sat down and looked at the assembly with them and mapped it back to C only for them to realize the bug was in their code.

Compilers are fun. You should take a compiler course just for that!
I'm working on something similar https://www.kadoa.com

The main difference is that we're focusing more on scraper generation and maintenance to scrape diverse page structures at scale.
>titles that people romanticize,

Very strange that right after the arts are two titles that are highly romanticized. Back in the days I owned my own business and had a sizeable medical client base, I cannot tell you how many doctors had to buy a BMW because their other doctor friend has a BMW and you're not one of the "doctor club" unless you own one.

I come from a family heavily involved in the criminal justice system, and the lawyers, police, and judges I know have the same problems with falling in common tropes.

And don't even get me started on engineers. Give them 10 minutes and we'll tell everyone how liberal arts are the end of the world ;)
> Company loyalty is a double-edged sword, according to a new study.

I'm not sure what the second edge is? When is loyalty meaningfully rewarded?
They’re not good for hobbyists and there’s better options for business boards.
They said that about chimps but then those chimps figured out you could chase them off a cliff and then eat them at the bottom.

Give them a chance and they’ll adapt. It’s either kill hogs or they starve.
You seem stuck on yourself as a super specific example and I'm speaking in the general - we have an obesity problem in the US. It's in no small part because of sugar and bad advertising. This is a product that is unhealthy being marketed in bad faith.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959843/

By all means if you have special dietary needs and you're aware of your need to consume sugar and carbs before bed, go for it. But in general, no, people are not benefiting from more sugar and especially not before sleep.
Ah gotcha. In Canada, it's basically prohibited to let game meat enter commercial trade. Still happens informally, but nobody is going to be able to walk into a butcher and buy it.
>I can’t imagine a way to do a controlled reproducible experiment

The question isn't "what would happen if", but "what's the behavior as exhibited", so you don't need to do a "controlled experiment". You just need to observe and accurately describe the kind of pack dynamics and behavior seen.

Observation is enough for this, and there are tons of studies done exactly that way on animals, some of them lasting decades, from gorillas to meerkats and from dolphins to mice...
Yes! Here's the first one: https://www.usedouble.com/
China and India are going to consume any excess fossils at decreased costs. Decarbonization is tricky.

We should be thinking more about next gen nuclear and mitigation strategies.
i guess the lazy way to prevent this in a foolproof way is to add an ocr somewhere in the pipeline, and use actual images generated from websites. although maybe then you'll get #010101 text on a #000000 background
I listen to maybe half the podcasts that Lex releases these days. He has some views that I disagree with and some traits that I find annoying, but overall I still enjoy the podcasts. There are some great guests and he allows them to speak at length on all kinds of topics. That’s the thing, the podcast is not really about him, it’s about the guests.

Also I have literally never heard him boast about being a professor, he basically doesn’t say anything about his work on the podcast at all other than that he works in AI.
Manifold: Geometry library for topological robustness
A knew open source CAD geometry kernel, how does it compare to CGAL and OpenCascade?
I don't think it was particularly good or bad, when I was there. I don't drink beer none of my friends ever said "this beer is great" or "this beer sucks".
If I remember correctly this is at high dosages, so it should be much safer in a normal dosage used for hrt.
It adds to everything that which Google Translate brings only to international tourism.
I’m not familiar with class-actions, but I assume they would not work well for a class pool that has an extremely wide ranging list of claim value, and background evidence/ailments.
I thought about Atomic Habits when I read this too. The flip side that I think was also interesting to me was a few chapters later when the author talks about not letting any single identity become too overpowering.

> Avoid making any single aspect of your identity an overall proportion of who you are. Keep your identity small. The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.

(I think a piece of that is a PG quote iirc)
Presumably, scientists (David Mech in case of wolves and Frans de Waal in case of humans) aren't dumb or mischievous, so they wouldn't make up something there was no indication of. There probably was an indication that they based their opinions on.

Maybe there is a myth of "alpha males", but the article doesn't expose it, it doesn't even talk about it beyond a single sentence.
>Seems like sidestepping the issue to say there are other acne remedies.

My opinion is that estrogen hormone therapy is not the best course of action for acne and is prescribed far too much.

I literally do not know what your beef is with my opinion, since you do not state yours, you just write in weird, obtuse statements, which is common on hn in, I would assume, an attempt to look smart on a subject, in which you are not. See also: contrarianism.
I didn't want to nominate him. People here can be nasty.

Anyway, guy is a lunatic from a legal or social perspective and a genius otherwise.

Why can't people and the media respect his privacy?

He doesn't have a signed contract with society to produce math.
I mean, if you’re going to use an AI to invent time travel, do you really think the AI is going to give it to you? More likely to pull a Singularity Sky…

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I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.
I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else
apple users tend to prefer to be told what things they should and should not do. turns out that files is simply too much for that segment of users to handle :) (atleast if you ask apple)
My biggest issue is how he’s often trying to pseudo intellectually (and imo disingenuously) push right wing agenda as if it’s coming from a place of sophistication (like here the first thing he did was bring up of all people Jordan Peterson doing one of the dumbest experiments with ChatGPT, something even my 10 year old niece would say is dumb and cringe inducing, and asked Sam to comment on it).
FWIW, the original name of FreeDOS was "PD-DOS".

https://www.freedos.org/about/

A lot of non-techies, or techies with not much exposure to the Linux/xBSD world, consider "PD" -- public domain -- to be more or less the same as FOSS.

PD, BTW, is a USA concept and doesn't really exist in the rest of the Anglosphere.
Probably nothing with the cutoffs they're using here, but neonatal opioid abstinence syndrome is absolutely a thing. And not all necessarily by "drug addict" mothers, but lots of legitimate long-term opiate use. But one would hope they would be up-front about the latter at least.
TLDR: ”Reuters has detailed that effort [by US Govt to prevent Chinese undersea cable company HMN Tech from winning major Singapore-France cable project] here for the first time. It’s one of at least six private undersea cable deals in the Asia-Pacific region over the past four years where the U.S. government either intervened to keep HMN Tech from winning that business, or forced the rerouting or abandonment of cables that would have directly linked U.S. and Chinese territories. The story of those interventions by Washington hasn’t been previously reported.”
We don't need to create one that doesn't serve humanity, one bad actor - a company or govt could create AI embodied assassin drones to take out competitors. I mean being a Bond villain was never so easy, lol.

This wouldn't wipe out humanity but could lead to fascism at a world-wide level.
> What you describe is the result of different philosophies/priorities

Maybe, it might also be the results of bad design decisions.

> highly dynamic construct with unmatched runtime analysis

As someone who spend quite a bit of time working on custom optimization around hotspot, i failed to see how anyone can describe the current state of the JVM ( J9 is a bit better) as unmatched. V8 and some some extend Julialang have much strong dynamic analysis.

> CLR focuses on static compile-time optimization

Sources ?
Not trying to be a shill, and would happily discuss my entire healthcare experience with Kaiser, but I highly recommend them if you have the option. Obviously, don’t change unless you do research etc. and again happy to discuss my experience with them for anyone interested.
Terrifying that one company would own the world.
Local Calvinus Blanche and Calvinus Ambrée are pretty good for Swiss standards. And the country is starting to produce great biers, e.g. JA-MoM: https://www.brauerei-oerlikon.ch/shop/JA-MoM-p285045816
I agree with all of this. I am not sure if you meant this as a opposition to my comment.
> 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.

I find the American healthcare system pretty atrocious, but I've never had issues getting upfront costs when scheduling non-emergency procedures using cash. Then again it's probably been a good 8+ years since I've done that in the US.
OpenAI Vendor Lock-How OpenAI Went from Open Source to “Open Your Wallet”
> The author is - IMO - a kook¹,

From many long threads on the Hercules/OS380 list, I would have to agree with you.

I suggested many profitable, interesting, relevant lines of research he should read about. Not use, even, just investigate, as they were highly relevant to his plans.

Nope. They were all dismissed as evil possible communist mind-poison.

:shrug:

In the end, I just left the list, which I almost never do.
There are more things missing. I just commented about the quality of the board outline.

pcbway and jlc both way better than oshpark, no panelization rat bites, just magic perfect unbroken outline matching the drawing all the way around.

It particularly matters to me because I have small boards where most of the outline is castellated edges that oshpark buggers up because they have to stick the panel tabs somewhere. But somehow it's no problem for jlc or pcbway. It's like they have some way of holding the pcb from the center, letting them cut the entire outline in one continuous cut.
(Technically, it's a quote from the dream which inspired Nyarlathotep. Or a quote from Samuel Loveman which inspired Nyarlathotep, if you're nasty.)
You try having to be topical and not going blue for your audience of extremely nice middle aged moms. It's funnier than SNL monologues.
What this example show is that you can't manipulate the "things" that are expressed in syntax as data, so you can't have the same way to deal with both types and values:

struct Person{name:String} + struct User{pwd:String} = FAIL!
["Person", ("name", "String")] + ["User", ("pwd", "String")] = possible!

Because types are not even third-class, you need to resort to "hacks" like macros, generics and other stuff like that.

Now, what it solve? almost everything.

(you can see how this could work in static lang with Zig comptime https://kristoff.it/blog/what-is-zig-comptime/)

In short, you get what inheritance promise without the OO, easy reflection, easy code generation, simpler macro implementation, easy way to do generics, easy way to copy to/from different types that are almost similar (ie: structurally)...

The amount of stuff you will simplify is massive.

Some of this feel is what make the "dynamic" languages their power. Now making it work on static lang is more tricky (you wanna keep everything as if you were coding it by hadn't and the types all resolved at compile time) so is likely required to be restricted and only a second-order citizen, but it will make some much easier!
That just shows that the us has good medical treatment for people with essentially infinite money who don't have to worry about cost or insurance coverage so they can bypass the kind of issue the article is talking about entirely.

For normal Americans who actually have to worry about these things, healthcare in the us is a nightmare.

You can't just ignore insurance and judge the us healthcare system based on the best hospitals and doctors when most Americans aren't going to have access to that.
>This is a fictitious legal theory advanced by sovereign citizen movements.

I've seen videos of non-sovereign citizens that follow this legal theory being vindicated and in some cases being awarded damages by courts for rights violations.

I don't believe its validity has sufficiently been proven false to make such a claim.
In the US people with the title of nurse can be someone who is highly skilled and is playing an important hands-on role in major and complicated surgeries.

I think some other places around the world use the title nurse for what may be a medical assistant in the US. (No clue about Germany though)
> Of course there are complaints against tech companies and of course it comes from left, right and center. That's because tech is now woven into our personal and corporate lives.

You seem to be minimizing these 'complaints' with your second sentence. Do you feel that criticisms levelled by people outside of silicon valley are valid, and how do you think these people should best go about seeking redress for these criticisms?
To stop using Bing’s search data in their AI tools.
But do you equate AI to the advent of:

A. The internet?

B. Electricity?

C. The wheel?

Personally, it's somewhere between the wheel and electricity in my opinion, or a combination of the industrial revolution/assembly lines and electricity.

How much did the wheel revolutionize society?
Do you have any evidence to confirm this?