skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They moved strokes to a 'Category 2' condition that requires an ambulance to arrive in 45 minutes. Having a father who had a stroke early in his life, this sickens me. My trust in the NHS is minimal and seeing how good the healthcare is in California I will be going private when I return. It is night and day, and my private insurance is less than my NI contributions were in the UK. If I message my doctor on my healthcares mobile application I could get an appointment within 2 hours. If I want a blood test I can go to the local office at Stanford and get one within 30 minutes, with my results sent to the healthcare app by the time I get home. It's just so so much better, the NHS really has failed when I look at it from here.
I was basing my speculation purely on the working conditions there, not on any supposition about people's attitudes about their work or Musk.

> even if it's hard for you to believe.

It's not hard for me to believe at all.
The upper segment of the US compares favorably to the average of EU. That doesn’t sound fair. Most EU countries have went through massive immigrant shifts in the last three decades. Like for like comparison would exclude the second and third generation immigrants as well for the EU. (I actually don’t think this is a worthwhile comparison. Just point out a flawed reasoning.)
How significant is Earth cooling speedup due to heat pumps? Is this practice ecological?
(I assume they pump the heat from under ground?)
Yeah, any of FAANG is well-qualified to work at John Deere, from that angle.
I think a more likely scenario is that people will romanticize the concept of intelligence so much that they continuously move the definition so that AI is excluded, excluding many humans in the process, until a fully romantic definition is embraced.

I think another possibility is that someone finds that "intelligence" is closer to a fundamental law of information theory, being some sort of emergent result of organizing/organized information, and that we're incredibly special for being capable, but not alone.
He's saying that instead of a gas or electric hot water heater - you can now buy a heatpump version. It works the same as a normal heat pump, but it takes ambient air in your basement or garage or wherever, and then moves that heat into the water which provides a slight cooling and dehumidifying effect for your indoor climate. They make a lot of sense in the US South.

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/heat-pump-water-heaters
Virgin Orbit shuts down after failing to gain more funds
Interesting:

// we only keep unfollows in the past 90 days due to the huge size of this dataset,
// and to prevent permanent "shadow-banning" in the event of accidental unfollows.
// we treat unfollows as less critical than above 4 negative signals, since it deals more with
// interest than health typically, which might change over time.
val unfollows: SCollection[InteractionGraphRawInput] =
GraphUtil
.getSocialGraphFeatures(
readSnapshot(SocialgraphUnfollowsScalaDataset, sc),
FeatureName.NumUnfollows,
endTs)
.filter(_.age < 90)

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/src/scala...
Yep, having had created a few throwaway accounts I definitely got a sense of how the algorithm compensated for the majority of users who aren't super active. And it makes sense -- most new users aren't going to want to spend account creation picking 50 accounts to follow.

But if someone has hit the follow button 1,000+ times, it's reasonable to have some faith that they've seen a lot of tweets and know what they want. Showing a few out-of-network tweets seems reasonable (I got enough as it is through followings' retweets). But 50% of a feed that already can't fit tweets from thousands of followings just feels like shit.

The worst part is that the share of in-network tweets seems to be highly concentrated to the last 10 or so people I most recently interacted with, e.g. seeing the same user over and over just because I liked one of their tweets the other day. Which makes sense to save on computation costs, but it's pushed me into a much tighter bubble than I ever had when the timeline wasn't so out-of-network focused.
NY Times, WaPo, LA Times and other major accounts too
https://www.thewrap.com/ny-times-la-times-not-pay-for-twitte...
Superpower of ChatGPT and GPT3 on WhatsApp
If you take a look at the instructions for your 1040 there is a pie chart at the very end which shows where your taxes go. Take a look at page 108: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf
Earlier thread with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381036
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer

Use the 15 seconds of your life you spent complaining about a non-existent problem to find out if your priors are correct.

California doesn’t make it easy to learn about the overview of government expenses, but the USA does.
Nobody is saying those humans are incompetent, they're just saying that most of the work out there is parrot work
Thanks for all the info - I would add Prop C to the list and almost added it as an example to the blog, which was meant to solve the homeless problem in San Francisco by essentially doubling the amount of money spent per homeless person from $40k/yr to $80k/yr by adding another tax for companies inside the city.

Not only has the homeless problem gotten worse since they introduced it, its also driven a few companies out of the city like Stripe, and in my opinion its the policies, not the funding which is the issue.

These are all examples of the government raising taxes, expanding, and not being accountable for any results that the increased spend was meant to bring
It's in quotes because it's not actually innovative, in every case (so far) it's an NIH instance.
Probably the same reason some people browse /r/all on Reddit. I think the desire for that sort of thing has waned a lot over the past couple of years, though.
No it wouldn't, because the U.S. isn't a pure democracy. It's a constitutional democracy, where the founders created a system of anti-democratic "rights" mainly to protect the integrity of the political process itself, and to protect wealthy landowners from the masses. The fact that the system has been used to good effect doesn't make it any less "anti-democratic."

I'm not advocating for or against democracy versus philosopher kings. I'm pointing out that OP's assertion is backward--he wants less democracy, not more. If you want to protect racial or religious minorities, etc., you need to take power away from the public and put it in the hands of philosopher kings. Maybe that's a good thing, maybe it's not. But in all events, you're making the system less "democratic." Conversely, Bangladesh or Egypt aren't less "democratic" because the people are free to vote to impose Islamic values upon themselves.
You moved the goalpost. You asked for x. I gave you x.
Zero-Copy In-Memory Sharing of Large Distributed Data: V6d
The angle, on the same day, or close to same day:

- API free tier gutted. The "hobby/student" tier is at $100 a month, next tier is "enterprise" https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080?s=...

- For You page will only contain tweets from paid accounts: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1640502698549075972
There are plenty of supplemental heat heat-pumps that have a gas burner for very cold days or extended power outages.
Need to check that out. My impression was that it wasn't aimed at standalone use. Thanks for the pointer.

For non-interactive things I use synfig https://www.synfig.org/ after learning some of the UI quirks it is okay for pure animation work without interaction.
What systems don't need electricity? Growing up, my oil fired furnace still needed electricity to spark it and pump it. Blowers don't run on oil. If you live in a place that gets cold, you should probably have enough insulation that occasional power loss isn't life threatening.

In fact, we once lost power all of christmas morning, before we had even turned up the heat for the day. We snuggled in a bed for a while. Just keep blankets and jackets around. The human body produces about 100w of heat at rest. Usually food and water become bigger problems first.
The tax table only focuses on income tax, but the UK derives a substantial portion of its national budget from VAT, which the US lacks (yes, I know about sales tax — not the same in rates or effect).

This does not consider costs. Example: US spends more per person on Medicare and Medicaid than the UK spends per person on NHS. Medicare and Medicaid are not exactly known for lavish spending.

Many expensive services are labor intensive and labor costs more. Other costs are driven by political factors — which are not caused by corporate interest but are instead wildly popular with voters (example: NIMBY-ism, Prop 13).

Even the dreaded tax filing business exists because there is a substantial political base that hates taxes — and having an awful and infuriating UI/UX to the tax system makes people hate taxes more. The fact that you have to fill out all those forms is a feature, not a bug.
My guess is that some other law or tort would be a better fit, but I'll note that the "actual malice" and "negligence" are different standards with the latter being a lower bar. The former only applies to public figures.
okay, for example, the pi400 beats out the orangepi4 lts and orangepi 4b in the time it takes to make a sha256sum of a file
Very interesting. Relatedly, I've been refining simple lightweight ways to use a regular SQL database to execute seminaive datalog queries. Path reachability in a graph is the canonical example. One could use stored functions to implement the outer loop also.

There are some other fun related applications like graph rewriting using SQL, etc.

MiniLitelog: Easy Breezy SQLite Datalog - https://www.philipzucker.com/tiny-sqlite-datalog/
Cycles are not a problem: just use `UNION`, not `UNION ALL`.

I myself build transitive closure tables that I update incrementally as needed (sometimes in a deferred way), so that many of the recursive queries I do can be very fast, but I only build transitive closures for the smallest portion I can (basically group nesting).
Care to comment on this? [0] Surely Twitter hasn't open sourced and released the recommendation algorithm as you predicted right?

Or perhaps when a prediction didn't go according to plan, let us complain about another thing...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35213705
So it's basically a homeowners association, just scaled up to a whole country?
Then it begs the question, if SJ is so underfunded and police overworked, how it manages to be a comparatively safer city than other comparable metro areas? It almost begs the question about not needing more Police, but better supporting services adjacent to it to address the things cops aren't trained sufficiently and/or otherwise suited for.

I've known plenty of great LEOs growing up in the area, but I've encountered (especially in the last 20 years) an almost caricatured level of clowns wearing the uniform. It's soured me on LEOs in general, and certainly the police management in SJ as a practical thing. After the utter bungling of the protest handling, including the refusal to fire Jared Yuen and the keystone kops moment with the Sanderlin rubber bullet shooting, it just became impossible to defend this circus.

As far as funding goes, SJPD in recent years got a 41M punch up, so I'm not sure how it's so underfunded.
There's an amazing video on heat pump from Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
GPT4 was released 17 days ago. This isn't some pinnacle of AI. It's just what's being given away for free right now.
Thanks for pushing me to check again, will dig a bit to see if I find something/somebody.
Yes, the question of furnace vs. heat pump should always be deferred until after your insulation is up to snuff.
It is the well-known "split incentive". The only solution is regulatory. A governmental agency needs to step in to either mandate the efficiency investments or require that the landlord pays the energy costs.

http://cbei.psu.edu/split-incentives-and-green-leases/
Aren’t you criticizing GitHub for mentioning Excel? I’d be more sympathetic to that criticism if it wasn’t the most popular tool in the world for data analysis, especially in the target market.
A DEX wouldn't fundamentally exist in any specific regulatory environment... how would one somehow not be available in the US?
See my comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27143833

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32449823

Those are my personal takes, and should really be disregarded since I don't develop in Rust anymore.
"it’s become extremely obvious to me that this propaganda doesn’t address the actual problem, which is how the money is actually spent,"

I think everyone will have a difference opinion on what is worth spend on.

There's a part about $100k student debt. Doesn't CA have some sort of reduced/free public college?
Fiction vs. Reality: My Texts with Michael Shellenberger
Good catch, this got actually much easier for us to do recently as you can now sign in with SSO through Datadog. So if you sign up to Datadog with any SSO provider, you should be able to login to CoScreen with just two clicks. We corrected that on our pricing page as well.
> I program my thermostat with: ...

What thermostat let's you input all these data points?
Step 3 is profit.
The real reason for this is at the end of the article:

"We do believe there are subscription revenue opportunities for us," Kummer said. GM Chief Executive Mary Barra is aiming for $20 billion to $25 billion in annual revenue from subscriptions by 2030.
That BoJack Horseman episode on gun control is becoming more relevant every day
I don't see this ending well. Better than the alternative, of not being able to defend yourself. But I'm sure that sooner or later (and probably sooner) we'll get "I thought they were going to shoot me" "Well, I thought they were going to shoot me".
Bone headed move. People pay top dollar to retrofit CarPlay stereos into older cars.

I did it to my Nissan Sentra 2011, no regrets. Such a value add. GM deserves whatever they get for this move.
I'm not sure about that, but they certainly aren't required to provide information needed to validate a warrant is legitimate.

California recently had a gang round-up where warrants that were provided as the basis for searches for properties in question had almost all information needed to verify the validity of the warrant redacted (even the address for the property in question being presented at, at least according to local news).

No one had any idea what was going on or whether the warrants were even legitimate, seemed like a play out of East Germany's playbook before the wall came down, just short of the gestapo.
> - Lists as tabs

Twitter added this in 2019

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20880372/twitter-lists-al...

> - Can look at Twitter without logging in

All the recent change was show non-logged in users the Explore view which is... better than the previously mostly nothing I guess.

Again, you've always been able to view tweets and browse profiles if linked to directly before Elon.
You mean owner and not owner? I think it's fair.
You might want to ask some minorities about that ...
Or you could try J. Another terse array language that uses ASCII symbols.

https://www.jsoftware.com/#/
From a different perspective, SSO is an offboarding guardrail.

I worked at a company that used Slack before they had SSO working. One person left the company and there was speculation as to reasons etc on various slack channels. Two or three weeks later, they piped up with one more "goodbye" in a public channel... and then actually signed out.
yeah, they, uh seem to have realized that's gonna be a problem.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-business-month...

and of course all this means is that the organizations most likely to be able to afford it won't have to
What incredible arrogance, it makes my blood boil. You're supposed to either know what all their sources are and do all of your own work one at a time, or just give them links to the things you most want hidden, an extreme vulnerability.
An increasingly common complaint I'm hearing about GPT3/4/etc is people who don't want to pass any of their private data to another company.

Running models locally is by far the most promising solution for that concern.
This is so obviously user-unfriendly. All I can guess here is that GM is hoping to slip it past potential purchasers.

There is a lot of information to digest when buying a car, particularly EVs. If the salesperson says "oh yeah, you can just plug your iphone in" I can see a certain % of people assuming it has actual CarPlay support and not bothering to demo that feature. It's the kind of thing you might not notice until after you've actually brought the car home.

People overwhelmingly don't want another device to manage. This is overwhelmingly true for both tech-savvy types and folks who are allergic to tech.

They are comfortable with their phones and don't go anywhere without them and they would just like the info screen on their car to be a relatively dumb display device for their phones.
This is a bit cheating, as CO is significantly more expensive than other roughly equal areas. Something about the altitude magically makes everything more expensive. My mother's car insurance tripled moving to CO, despite the car being paid off and no accidents on record.
How is it a cost saving measure? Or are you being sarcastic? Hard to tell over text!
Well, sounds like this pull request doesn't get merged.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/234
Google CFO Signals More Spending Cuts to Meet Savings Targets
? Considering Elon as its own category is a bias.
> How often do you meet a human being who hasn't gotten most of their ideas from somewhere else

Again (and again, and again), this argument is the mysteriously recurrent "many people fail", implying that failing would be normal, instead of undesirable.

> "parrots" things, as if that's not a pretty remarkable achievement

It is also the mark of unintelligence. As such, it is a warning alarm.

> pretty reliably

From a calculator you do not expect "«pretty»" reliable, but just reliable. From a human you expect faulty computation because of the economization of resources, but you know it can reason.

> Expecting perfect accuracy and knowledge is also not a reasonable expectation of an AI

The expectation is that of a reliable process bringing to the output.
I suspect you'll never be able to compete, is the problem. You might not be a profit maximizer, but everyone you interact with is a cost minimizer, and ethical solutions will inevitably be more expensive.

This is not to rain on your parade (I agree with you!) but I see the only solution as political via vastly higher taxes on higher incomes to support social services. The only place we are remotely close to having any influence is in the political realm, in the economic world, we are completely irrelevant.
Or the reductive reasoning that we're just a meat computer, etc. Or confidently explaining that the mysteries of consciousness is just "emergent" in the various machinery that constructs our meat computer. Just this reduction and complete oversight of what it means to be a human and how there's so much more than completing words - that there's memories, feelings, ambitions, dreams, and that we know so little about ourselves and the universe and just where we fit into it, if at all.
> Car insurance in UK is much cheaper because it only needs to cover damage to the car instead of hospital bills

UK car insurance includes medical cover! It's just not usually called on quite so much and it's cheaper if it is. At one point there was a lot of fraudulent whiplash claims. Maybe the US has a medical expenses insurance fraud problem?

> Council tax (property tax) is significantly cheaper here.

Council tax is a really bizarre system that is only loosely linked to property, and the UK would benefit from introducing proper US style property taxation.

> Fruit, vegetables and meat is definitely cheaper here then anywhere in CO

One of those things that we UKans don't appreciate - food is both cheap and pretty good compared to lots of Europe and especially the much praised Scandinavia. Whereas the US is the land of cheap and plentiful processed food.

> Internet, cable, and phone plans are significantly cheaper here

The UK has a working if slightly artificial market here, where the US basically doesn't have competition.
"One big problem is that over the decades the economy has shifted more to services and less to sales of physical goods, so sales tax revenue has declined disproportionately."

What? Do they really not tax services? I thought that was part of sales tax everywhere.
By shady guy, the commenter is likey referring to peer-to-peer marketplace swapping of fiat and crypto, not DEXes. DEXes cannot offer fiat currencies since it is inherently centralized. AFAIK, the only options to exchange fiat are centralized exchanges and peer-to-peer marketplaces, both of which rely on extensive trust in a very small number of people, and are not open-source or publicly-auditable.
Adam Neumann Considers Taking New Startup Flow to Saudi Arabia
Thankfully, this existential dread is already a subset of the terror that comes from eliminating free will, which makes it not matter in the slightest, which in turn is a subset of superdeterminism! :-)

We'll have to figure out how to go on regardless.
It almost seems to me that the stakes are higher for other people. Microsoft can afford to have a go, fail, and just move on, whereas other people might have more on the line and try harder.
That's not how a transfer works though.

If it was I could manufacture money out of thin air just by never decrementing my ledger.

What actually happens is that banks have accounts at other banks. If you transfer say $230 from your account at SVB to PG&E at First Signature then what really happens is SVB decrements 1k from you and increments 1k to themselves and tells First Signature to decrement 1k from SVB's account and increment 1k to PG&E's account. (Take a look at #4 on how a wire transfer works [1]).

So when you want to transfer large sums it causes a bit issue as SVB might not have an account that size at the given bank. So they'll need forewarning so they can do a bunch of other transfers so that they do.

There's a practically issue with SVB having accounts at literally every other bank so if SVB and First Signature have an account at a common bank that works as well with just an extra step of transfers.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/bank-transfers-as-a-p...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_transfer#Process
Any cop will tell you that they can come up with a "valid" pretext to make a traffic stop, after following a vehicle for a short time. The officer knows that their subjective claims will be treated as factual by the courts.

So, yeah, a bigoted cop can pull over minorities and trivially manufacture some rational reason that will justify their actions. There's always a "reason".
Thanks both - I actually did put a paragraph about this in the blog then took it out as the blog was too long, there are definitely differences between married vs. single in US/UK, but I wanted to look more at the worst case scenario.

Most of my friends/colleagues are not aware that for at least single tax filers, the difference between UK/California is less than 5%, I think its assumed Europe is significantly higher, and that's not the case anymore as the US bureaucracy has grown!
The problem isn’t California. It’s lobbying (which is protected by the 1A).

California foolishly tries to throw money at the problems without first addressing the reason the sieve is so leaky.