skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also came to the US from a country with a good hybrid public/private system and my experience in the US had been different.

So I guess it depends on where (city/state) you live and also what type of insurance you have.

Where I live I have access to a SOTA network of hospitals with great technology and some practices amount the best in the world (people come here from other states and even countries for treatment) and I use their own insurance, so it's been great so far, never dealt with any issues having medical care rejected.

I pay $350/month (self employed) and I have a very reasonable deductible, $60 copay to see specialists and many preventive procedures such as cancer and heart disease screenings (which I use), blood work and some PT sessions completely free.

I even get discounts on fitness centers and health tracking apps which helps offset part of the premium.

My shoulder was actually spared from a very invasive surgery thanks to a doctor top of his field (he sees olympic teams) who was able to treat me with only PT.

I don't think I paid more than $1000 out of pocket for everything including several MRIs and multiple visits to his practice, plus several sessions of PT and medications.

It could have been free back in my country, I guess, but I could have also been screwed for life due to an unnecessary surgery.
No chat bot ever published in the past decades has revolutionized anything. They have all been the subject of intense, temporary hype, and then completely forgotten. I see no reason why this time should be different. It literally lies and makes shit up! The economy isn't built around lies and making shit up, is it?
"Back to alt-tabbing to the browser."

Yes because tutorial info on some rando's webpage is never out of date. /s
Almost as if it were some kind of lovecraftian horror; a reflection of intelligence that lacks biology, like a phantasmic parasite inhabiting a dead body.
Despite the fact that my algorithms course was ostensibly about learning how to come up with efficient solutions to various problems, the two courses I took that have helped me the most with writing performant code in my career were my compilers course and my architecture course. The compilers course gave me a much stronger understanding of what actually happens when running a line of code I wrote and helped me understand better what types of optimizations could potentially be performed based on the way I write an algorithm, and the architecture course taught me about how a modern CPU actually works with regards to caching, out-of-order processing, branch prediction, etc.

On the other hand, the types of things we discussed in my algorithms course felt very hit-or-miss with regards to whether they actually felt useful or not. I'm not just talking about high-level abstractions that can miss important details in the real world like "memory can be accessed in constant time" either, but solving problems that were so contrived to the point of being almost implausible. The example I always remember is that in one of our problems sets, we were asked to write an algorithm that sorted an array of size N with each element within K indices of the correct sorted position in O(n*log(k)) time. I can't think of any situation where I'd have data so large with a small enough strict upper bound on K that such an algorithm would be necessary, but even if I did find myself in that situation, that's the exact type of input that the naive quicksort implementation would perform more efficiently on!

Maybe someday we'll have powerful enough tools that we can generate code that's performant without needing to do it ourselves, but at least for now, writing code that a computer executes efficiently is much easier when you actually understand what's being run on the computer and how it runs it, and a compilers course is a great way to start learning about the first half of that.
> Is it actually wild boar?

There isn't much of a market for farmed boar, because it's still expensive.

We have a strong hunting lobby (many members of parliament are active hunters) so there's actually more bureaucracy with maintaining a farm of them than hunting. Farms probably exist(never heard of any), but it's not a particularly profitable business.

Becoming a hunter is actually one of the two most popular ways of acquiring a firearm permit(the other being sport).

During the ASF epidemic there was controversy regarding the origin of some of the meat on the market because, according to the law, boars culled due to ASF can, ahem, only be eaten by the one who hunted them, so the spike in supply was suspicious.
Official GitHub SSH server key fingerprints
In places like the US where women’s reproductive rights are highly contested, many women don’t take well to men making unsolicited requests about their birth control decisions. Perhaps this isn’t the case everywhere, but this site has a very US-heavy readership so it seems reasonable to have that context be the default.
> is there anyone doing actual research with data that can be repeated, instead of deriving principles from natural observations?

I can’t imagine a way to do a controlled reproducible experiment looking at the social behaviour of wild animals. It’s not like any of this could be observed in a lab environment.

There are a lot of subjects that can only be studied through natural observation.
This implies, I believe, that further progress refining physics will result in similar great societal advances. This can only be based on belief. Maybe. And perhaps a spectacular future awaits us, due to some present-day discovery that now seems insignificant. Yes, one can point to many such instances in the past; but what gives us confidence this will continue into the future?
I think there is 0 chance any of the six conservative justices let stand practices that, again, are either facially discriminatory or have demonstrated disproportionate impact with no plausible explanation other than discriminatory intent.

The interesting question to me is whether there's a consensus position on acceptable means to "diversity" ends that pulls in Kagan or the other liberals.
and chat bots won't ever "forget" to try and upsell you on the things corporate expects. Every cashier will be advertising.
Great use case!

- LLMs excel at converting unstructured => structured data

- Will become less expensive over time

- When GPT-4 image support launches publicly, would be a cool integration / fallback for cases where the code-based extraction fails to produce desired results

- In theory works on any website regardless of format / tech
All I got is this:

```json
{ "url": "https://www.3sonsbrewingco.com/menus", "title": "MENU | 3sons", "content": " \r\n\r\nBrewery & Kitchen\r\n\r\nEAT & DRINK\r\n\r\n " }
```

I was hoping for some menu items...
Osint Analysis: Six Russian Ships Active Near Nord Stream Sabotage Site
Communication is a two way road. When you're talking about a sensitive topic and people don't know the context of you who are, don't be surprised when you are interpreted in a negative light.

Based on your schoolyard dismissiveness here, it looks like they're spot on and you don't actually care much for adult conversations. You can dismiss that all you want but when people view us negatively in situations like this, it only hurts ourselves, so it's usually our responsibility to communicate better
Is there some other solution for the problems it solves?
On a literal level: pretty much any supernatural story involving a werewolf.

On a metaphorical level: pick your favorite male-focused self help pop psychologist. There's a reason the phrase "sigma male grindset" was coined to make fun of these people.
This is a salient point that people overlook, all too often people equate intelligence with sentience.
I take your point, but this feels pretty defeatist to me.

I don’t personally believe that “we have not historically done this well, if at all” is a good reason to stop trying to manage the negative externalities of emerging technology— quite the opposite, in my opinion.
I could see it.

Especially given the big push toward everyone doing layoffs, prices not being allowed to return to something sane, etc...
Did any of you guys run these aquariums? What did your bots end up doing?
I haven't read the paper -- was 13 sides proved to be minimal? Or is the next quest to find a tile with fewer sides that tile the plane aperiodically?
>The economy isn't built around lies and making shit up, is it?
I think a significant portion of it is made up of BS and hype. And there's a lot of that around AI, particularly in the last few weeks. Big players look to be going all in on it.

I think dismissing it as simply a chat bot is missing what's actually happening. There's much more to ChatGPT than merely a chatbot, even with the hallucinations.
Correct. My bad working from memory.
Why can't healthcare be fixed?

I'm self employed, pay a crap ton of money for "good" insurance, and it's horrible. It's very difficult to find good doctors in network. Everything gets rejected from insurance and the Dr has to appeal it multiple times in order to sometimes get them to budge. It's absolutely broken, and even more so for those on individual and family plans (ie not through an employer).

Last year I was with United Healthcare, this year Blue Cross blue shield. Both are horrible. Both are massive companies.
He's just a bad interviewer.

An example I've noticed: A guest will have essentially addressed a question Lex has planned for later in the interview, but Lex still asks it without any sort of modification/acknowledgment of what the guest has already said, leading to a lot of repetitive talk.

He also basically ignores statements that conflict with his view.
>Women take birth control for a number of reasons unrelated to pregnancy

Yes, but don't forget about the elephant in the room: There are a lot of women on birth control who wouldn't be if they weren't trying to avoid pregnancy.

>Ultimately that should be her choice.

Were you under the impression that he was physically preventing his girlfriends from taking birth control?
Yes you do. It trivially does. Search for "Burger King" and see how many results that generates which couldn't possibly be served locally (undownloaded Apps from the App Store, Maps, search recommendations, etc).

They may not be storing these queries or using them for further analytics, training, etc. But they could.
> I'd worry about counterfeits more now.

Counterfeit components or, ahem, Bigger runs of your board being done than you ordered?
>would like to retain the capability to do this work without funding the entirety of the work itself

Oh, then that's easy: just pay them to keep reading work in the field, maybe write a blog, and get into the theoretical side. I'm sure plenty of folks would jump at the opportunity to be on "professional standby" in a field they find fascinating.
So you'd prefer we use dysphemisms that support your view of it instead.
On being bored as a technology enthusiast
>The inflation is largely caused by a physical supply shortage.

Of course that is the case. That is almost always the case. Too much money means people have more money to buy physical stuff, and there is always a shortage of stuff, supply chain or not. Even if all the computer chips and everything was manufactured in the USA for cars, there would still be a shortage of cars.

The physical supply shortage is caused by too much money in the system, not by supply chains or anything else.

If people didn't have as much money, then there would not be as much demand for physical supplies, and everything would adjust. "Sorry, I don't have money to buy a car." That means one less car is needed for total inventory. It adds up when 1 million people don't buy cars that would have if they had the money.

But there is so much money supply that people are bidding up the price of goods. The homeless are not contributing to the physical supply shortage, because they have no money. More money = more demand.

Read about any crash and you will see the same exact situation. Read about the Spanish Price Revolution - the Spanish hauled so much gold and silver in from the New World that it massively increased money supply, and the value of gold and silver went way down. Prices then go up relative to the money. Not only did Spain suffer, but it spread across Western Europe. Too many people with too much money chased too few goods.
I don't think this is correct at all. It's one of the main use cases for GPT-4 – so long as the scraped data or outputs from their LLMs aren't used to train competing LLMs.
The AI equivalent of cold reading - just like with "psychics" where the audience wants to believe in the claimed abilities.
Tell HN: My WD Blue SA510 SSD died after 5 months
Fired up my gaming PC after 2 months hiatus for a game day, surprised that the entire disk where my games were stored was gone.

Went to bios, saw that the drive was attempting to intermittently connect (and fail). Thought it's a connection problem, replaced the SATA cable, same thing. Took the drive out and plug it onto an USB SATA reader, could not get it to read. I only recently (Nov 2022) upgraded to this SSD (from older HDD).

So I searched online and it turns out it was a very common problem with the recent WD Blue SA510s. Will not be posting review links for HN but they are straightforwardly found on Amazon and WD website itself, please check them out (and might need to skip the older, very good ratings).

If you're looking for a cheap SSD drive, or have a recent (2022) version of this drive, be warned! I use steam, store my own mod scripts on github, so didn't really lose anything except a good game day, and need to replace the drive. I can't imagine how painful it is to lose it with a bunch of work on it.
> Meh. It's not particularly controversial so you're being overly dramatic.

you're denying you have any unconscious motivation to "be controlling," as you again display in your response to GP's reasonable personal opinion.
Most people can't change their own oil, replace radiator fluid, or know the difference between a hubcap and a distributor cap. And yet life seemingly goes on...
Why would you get botox at 37? Unless it's medical.
>Theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg had this to say on [the SSC's] cancellation:

>>Spending for the Superconducting Super Collider had become a target for a new class of congressmen elected in 1992. They were eager to show that they could cut what they saw as Texas pork, and they didn’t feel that much was at stake. The cold war was over, and discoveries at the SSC were not going to produce anything of immediate practical importance.

https://redsails.org/concessions/#education-and-research-its...
Proposed dam to protect NL, DE, DK, SE from rising sea levels
https://haaksezeedijk-com.translate.goog/dhz/dijkenbekkens/?...
Okay ChatGPT.
Reminds me of this story:

https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-caltech-glassb...

There are continuous technical workforce challenges in science because the methods keep advancing. If only there were money it. Instead we have engineers, scientists, and physicians driving Uber and we outsource and offshore the entire scientific supply chain.
True or not it does seem to have a correlation. I don't hear many complaining about wealth inequality now. I do hear many complain about inequality between identity groups.

It seems however, that the most extreme inequality is not between identity groups but social classes.
Couldn't find any mention of this, please provide a source.
Their ToS mentions scraping but it pertains to scraping their frontend instead of using their API, which they don't want you to do.

Also - this library requests the HTML by itself [0] and ships it as a prompt but with preset system messages as the instruction [1].

[0] - https://github.com/jamesturk/scrapeghost/blob/main/src/scrap...

[1] - https://github.com/jamesturk/scrapeghost/blob/main/src/scrap...
Thanks for sharing your positive experience - it's great to hear that the procedure was painless and quick, and has given you and your partner a reliable form of contraception. More important, having a close person in your life whom you can trust is truly a life jackpot! In the current "epidemic of loneliness," it's more important than ever to have strong personal connections.
Go to any relationship subreddit and you'll see countless comments where the slightest misstep is treated as some indellible sin. It's terrifying how quickly these people would forsake a loved one. So many unbelievably jaded and cynical people influencing the thoughts of others.
Not going to happen for many, many jobs, if only for tons of private data not available to ChatGPT, e.g. highly sensitive code not on github.
Sure, 05-trivet.turner@icloud.com

And yeah that's a no-go inside this system thanks in large part to the WGA. A lot of my work is defending, justifying, and otherwise 'handling' feedback from people who think they know better. Sometimes they do, too – it's a collaborative effort to be sure.
How can it be true that AAs are less interesting people on average? Isn't the usual answer of why they are so successful on standardized tests that it comes down to their culture? Why shouldn't their charisma also be cultural?
Your scenario is slightly off. It would be more like the cop stopping you and saying "you're breaking the law" and you asking "which law", and them saying "the law", and you asking "can you be more specific? Which law", and them saying "I'm taking you to court for breaking the law", and you're still asking "WHICH LAW?!?!?"

The SEC is saying "you might have securities, and your various businesses might violate our laws", and Coinbase asking "which ones and how?", and SEC basically twiddling their thumbs and saying, "fuck it, you're breaking the law", and Coinbase still asking "BUT WHICH ONES?!?!?"
As far as I know, the C standard reserves words that

- start with two underscores

- start with one underscore (file scope)

- start with is, to, str, mem, atomic_ or a bunch of other prefixes and continue with a lower case letter, consist of E followed by a number, and more.

So the list of reserved words is rather long (infinite), and includes words like `string`.
Car repair is just pretty far down the list of things it's important for most people to be able to do. I have a general notion of how cars work but there's relatively little I could do on my own. (And, of course, it's increasingly difficult for even indie garages to do a lot of things.)

I do wonder if selective schools have over-rotated in the theoretical direction though that's a debate with a very long history. I'm reading a bio of "Doc" Draper, for whom Draper Labs--which designed the Apollo Guidance Computer--is named. And I was just commenting to a friend literally last night that I bet a lot of the very hands-on engineers who tinkered as much as they did theory like Draper and Doc Edgerton (inventor the strobe) and others would probably never have gotten faculty appointments as prestigious universities today.

Personally, the courses where I did hands-on work are some of the ones I remember best.
How exactly will ChatGPT will revolutionize economy. The best it is doing is summarisation of search result. And search engines exist from 2000s. Yes instead of visiting wikipedia now we get the result directly. At max it can decrease the number of links to click. It is going to change the economy as googles answer box has changed economy, On the other hand the way they hallucinate you still need to double check any thing they tell you. So we can not automate the decision making. Best of luck to you if you want to replace a lawyer or doctor by LLM where they have accuracy of 80%
I asked it the same question, but first requested risk factors followed by asking it to generate the scores for those based on SVBs balance sheet. This was the response:

“ To generate a risk score for the risk factors identified for Silicon Valley Bank, we will use a multiplication of likelihood vs impact. We will assign a likelihood score of 1-5 (1 being low likelihood and 5 being high likelihood) and an impact score of 1-5 (1 being low impact and 5 being high impact).

Economic downturn: Likelihood 4, Impact 4. Risk Score = 16

Technology industry disruption: Likelihood 3, Impact 4. Risk Score = 12

Concentration risk: Likelihood 3, Impact 3. Risk Score = 9

Credit risk: Likelihood 3, Impact 5. Risk Score = 15

Regulatory risk: Likelihood 2, Impact 3. Risk Score = 6

Cybersecurity risk: Likelihood 3, Impact 4. Risk Score = 12

Interest rate risk: Likelihood 3, Impact 3. Risk Score = 9

Using the balance sheet provided, we can calculate the impact of these risk factors on SVB's assets:

US Treasuries: 7.5% * Risk Score = 120

Mortgage-backed securities: 47.6% * Risk Score = 571.2

High-risk loans: 31.1% * Risk Score = 484.5

Cash: 3.7% * Risk Score = 44.4

Other asset classes: 10.1% * Risk Score = 161.2

The total risk score for all assets is 1381.3. This score is a rough estimate and is subject to change based on various factors such as changes in SVB's portfolio composition and the overall economic environment.”
https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Cohen

If you want more laughs, check out the books ;)
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Java generics has got to be the least bang for the most buck in the entire history of programming languages.

Turning the once clear API documentation of the entire standard library into an incomprehensible mess, for what? So you can avoid casting when getting something out of a collection?

So no, absolutely not. Enough with generics. It was a mistake in the first place. Don't dig any deeper in that hole.
Eh, my experience with health care in Sweden last couple of years is that almost no matter what your issue is, they'll ask what meds you are on, take your blood pressure, and some token blood samples and send you home. This costs $20.

This process obviously does nothing to alleviate any medical issue, so you come back a few weeks later. You pay your $20. New doctor this time, who asks what meds you are on, takes your blood pressure and orders the same tests.

Obviously testing the same thing a second time didn't further the investigation. So you go back. You pay your $20. Yet another doctor this time, who asks what meds you are on, takes your blood pressure and orders the same goddamn tests.

Rinse and repeat. I've had like five of these contacts the last few years. Starting to look like a heroin junkie from all the blood samples. I've never learned of any test results. Just keep taking the same tests over and over. There is just zero continuity.
Sounds like death panels made up of unqualified bureaucrats
The obvious sometimes needs repeating lest we forget the forest for the trees.
It’s not at all clear the CFTC (lobbied hard by crypto companies and which has correspondingly been quite open to lightly regulated crypto) has jurisdiction over crypto over the SEC.
"This would be a way better argument if modern steelmaking processes didn't quite literally involve blowing oxygen through the molten steel"

But molten steel is not a fire. But you know what will be a fire, at certain oxygen levels? The human body for example, despite that it is made of 80% water.

So sure, the steel makers will be able to handle it. But only because they take this stuff seriously.
How is that so? The health insurance conglomerates are in private hands.
Why not go to the original myths author's explanation directly.

https://davemech.org/wolf-news-and-information/

Wolf.org also has resources related to the topic and they no longer use the term.
> From the article GPT-4 gave the likelihood of a bank run as a 1 out of 5.

.. what probability would you have assigned to a SVB bank run in 2021?