skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhere in the hospital conference rooms, a model employee was giving a presentation about "average customers lifetime value (LTV) had increased by 25% YoY" thanks for his hard work. His promotion was finally approved that year. An accountant in an adjacent department was given a bonus for spotting a billing mistake that significantly underbilled a customer with stage 4 cancer. He was made employee of the month.
From this recent HN thread it looks like we still have a ways to go there: New health insurance "transparency data" looks suspiciously wrong

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35347647
Luddites were conducting industrial action. Their activity correlated strongly with union busting activity by the English elite. It has nothing to do with 'stopping progress' or trying to reverse automation.
There is no incentive except to commit highway robbery.

Pay, or pay and die.

It's the weakness and disorganization of the consumers who emboldens them.
I don’t disagree in any way. But in the short term, an algorithmic feed will be the only way to make the service “sticky”. But yes, any algorithm can and will be gamed and it’s a cat and mouse game from that point on.
or OpenAI
The gigantic key factor in all this that you're leaving out is that Ukraine is defending itself against a full-on invasion by a hostile neighbor.
I've been looking into buy a mac for llm experimentation - 64, 96 or 128gb of ram? I'm trying to decide if 64gb is enough, or should I go to 96gb or even 128gb. But it's really expensive - even for an overpaid software engineer. Then there's the 1 or 2 tb storage question. Apple list price is another $400 for that second tb of storage.

For 64gb of ram, you can get an m2 pro, or get 96gb which requires the upgraded cpu on the pro. The studio does 64gb or 128gb. But the 128 requires you to spend 5k.

I can't decide between 64 or 96 on m2 pro, and 128 on the studio. Probably go for 96gb. Also what's the impact of the extra gpu cores on the various options? And there are still some "m1" 64gb pros & studios out there. What's the perf difference for m1 vs m2? This area needs serious perf benchmarking. If anyone wants to work with me, maybe I would try my hand. But I'm not spending 15k just to get 3 pieces of hardware.

List prices:

64gb/2tb m2 12cpu/30gpu 14" pro $3900

96gb/2tb m2 max 12/38 14" pro $4500

128gb/2tb m2 max 28/48 studio $5200
> A big part of my role is speaking to people to understand what users need to learn, then designing an organization for documentation around that.

If two consultants named Bob show up in your office place, run.
> showcasing case studies of real world applications of implementing message brokers over RDBMS

You mean "industrial scale RDBMS" that you can license for thousands of dollars? No, you can't really implement message brokers on those.

You will never see those showcase articles. Nobody paying wants them.
What next?

How about a couple of months with CP/M?

Get your hands really dirty!
If you’re looking for an even less-featured one, feel free to check out my stream of consciousness writing tool: https://enso.sonnet.io

- Not terminal but browser based though.

- Prioritises writing over editing, thinking over second guessing, censoring yourself.
In a normal competitive market a series of new entrants would come in and undercut the incumbents by charging 10% less than the competition, one after the other until a sensible price is reached. Why doesn't this happen? Also where does all that money even go? It's so insane.
(GPT4)

In this script from a Doctor Who episode, Clara and the Doctor are having a conversation about the internet. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series that follows the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, a time-traveling spaceship.

Clara, the Doctor's companion, is trying to access the internet but is unable to find it. She asks the Doctor about its whereabouts, and the Doctor seems to be confused by the question, as the internet is not something that can be physically found.

The Doctor then mentions the time as "twelve oh seven," while Clara's clock shows "half past three." This discrepancy in time indicates that they are likely in different time zones, as the Doctor implies. In the context of Doctor Who, this could also mean they are in different points in time, since the Doctor can travel through time.

Clara is concerned about whether the time difference will affect her phone bill, to which the Doctor replies that he dreads to think about the potential cost. This adds a bit of humor to the scene, as the Doctor often has a nonchalant attitude towards everyday human concerns.

Overall, this script showcases the humorous and whimsical nature of Doctor Who, with the characters engaging in a lighthearted conversation that intertwines elements of science fiction and everyday life.
We have experienced different realities. There is no point in trying to discuss
this.
There is neither a highway nor a Safeway nearby. Also, the apartment complex where the WFM is located (the Trinity Place) seems to have ample parking for retail.
Is the MDM for MacOs only? Or is it cross platform? If not currently cross platform, are there any plans to support Linux desktops in the future?
> The US medical system is simply dysfunctional.

That's an epic understatement. I'm of the opinion that the root cause is the insurance companies.
The article does not say it's a billing mistake, but it notes that NorthBay Healthcare lists a price online of $547.65 for a rabies vaccine. Surely human rabies immunoglobulin would be another $1,000, maybe more, but there is no chance on Earth that it is $100,000 each.

NorthBay Healthcare is a non-profit hospital.

This is a very, very obvious billing mistake. And while I have zero evidence for what I am about to say, I would be willing to bet that ABC7News did not even share the case they were preparing to discuss with the hospital. They just wanted to run the story, and so they asked the hospital for generic comment about a patient's large bill.

I've looked for follow-up to this two-month old story, and I can't find any. But I am sure it's a billing mistake.
I would say, if you go back 2,000 years, most people probably never considered the question or cared. The ones who did were a small number of intellectuals. At some point, there probably was a debate among those. The peasants out in the field? Didn't know and probably didn't care and didn't matter.
It's meaningless unless you can get a price before you get services.

The trouble is even if the price list says $500 for something, they'll charge you $8000 for "general classification" and $2000 for a Tylenol.

I have a remote heart monitor at my bedside that, upon pressing a button, wirelessly retrieves data about arrythmia incidents from my implanted defibrillator and sends any incidents to the hospital. Every time I hit the button, even if there are ZERO incidents for them to review, I get hit with a $300 bill for some "general classification". So I hit the button less often than I'm supposed to.
If Google invests money into this and then this company uses Google cloud to compute, then does the money really outflow of Google much? Everything stays in the family, but in theory they can have an investment that works.

Also listing Sam Bankman-Fried does not help much, especially for a company hyping itself to be 10x better than a working competitor.
I mean, since they built the competitor, probably their second project can be better, but it is a pie in the sky in many ways.
I had a similar toy, but plastic, which came in an orange ammo can, w/ molded brandingo on the side --- Carboloy --- which I wish I could find information on.
Where do you get the idea beauty has terrible ROI?

Look at almost any premium product and the premium that is being paid for is in the beauty. Rarely is it in the actual quality of the product.
Absolutely insane that they would have been better off heading to SFO, walking up to the Air Canada or Aeroméxico counters, and leaving the country for care.
Probably a DFT^P03 message caused an issue somewhere...
Or this was to be...
"CDPH does not have a role in setting charge limits or ranges for services."
$20,000? I could code up a basic newsletter app in half a day's work, with payments handled by Stripe.

If it's really possible to charge $20,000 for this service then please tell me where to find clients.
Again, you are under the spell of the assumption that if you give someone a gun, it somehow magically changes them into willing to kill. Thats a very long reach.

Look at places like college towns where there are a lot of drunk people, and fights break out. How often do you see people being killed in these regards? These are people of all sorts of mental temperaments, under the influence, managing to just punch/kick/wrestle each other without resulting to stabbing each other, despite knives being readily available.

Even more so, for the people that could be prone to violence but of sane mind, knowing that someone may be armed can be a deterrent for them actually engaging in violence, because most of those people still have a sense of self preservation, not willing to die over someone disrespecting them in some way.

And when that one outlier person who is not of sane mind and violent enough to actually use deadly force decides to go at it, its much better that if everyone else has the means to stop him.
They should add a paid add-on where writers can have an LLM generate snippets from their articles and then post them as notes automatically in order to generate a bite sized feed from existing content. Gives Substack a foot in the AI door and paves the way for timelines and algorithmic feeds, etc.
>In what way is atheism a danger or harm to society except that it violates your proposed monoculture?

Violating said monoculture is a problem in itself because it leads to a population that cannot collaborate or agree even broadly on morals that concern day to day life. We're seeing this right now in America, where each side of the aisle (which broadly speaking is cut across religious lines) is becoming progressively angrier as they realise the others beliefs necessarily requires capitulation from their side on some issues, in ways that cannot be accepted, such as abortion or the integration of homosexuals and transgenders. This is gradually destabilizing the country.
I won't attempt to defend the hospital but even outside of healthcare, price gouging is almost always legal. There are only a few limited circumstances where it is banned in a subset of US states.
Ah yes, legitimizing people rioting in the US capitol because Twitter censors, when they aren't busy drinking bleach!
It's kind of more than just the 'flat structure' making it a challenge. The article goes on to stat that Valve is a small company with some very important products that take dedicated focus. Basically, there are other priorities at Valve. I am not sure if there wasn't a flat structure that getting Portal 3 off the ground would be any less difficult?
Cow city. It's a shithole halfway to Sacramento.

A woman crashed her car into my vehicle there. She didn't stop. A cop was right there and did nothing. I called 911. The county or city didn't have E911 properly configured with Verizon and couldn't get my location. This is how America works. Broken, lawless, and dysfunctional.
Tell it to Apple.
Ask ChatGPT: Create ASCII Art of Mona Lisa
Not sure how or where it's getting these from but definitely strange.

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It's fueled by raw gpus and servers and pretty much nothing else. GPT is pretty much perceptron with some places hardcoded. Resources bound to run out at some point.
I was curious about Mozilla's stance on the API. They have a GH issue for it:
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/677

but it's not finalized yet. View the very interesting dashboard here:
https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
People working in the Bay Area generally, but especially tech workers ( a 'we' I feel comfortable using since we're on a website focused on tech)
I am so happy that I don't have to put up with crazy shit like $200k for a few shots which is NOT just a billing failure, just by not living on the other side of the Atlantic...

Because here where I live, if you walk into an emergency room and walk out a few hours later with two shots and a $200k bill, ... well it's unthinkable, but if it happened anyway and the hospital tried to defend it, the judge would just laugh their lawyers out of the door.
> there are early-stage VCs these days, which don’t pressure founders for quick growth

That's really interesting. Do you know how they make that work, exactly?

I feel like that's naturally opposed to the standard incentive structures that VCs have with their LPs. They need to show results in O(years) so they can raise their next fund and keep the overall VC firm going over O(decades). That maps down straightforwardly to the day-to-day pressure VCs put on all their portfolio companies to grow as fast as possible.

Unless early-stage VCs are doing something new with the terms they give their LPs, how could they prioritize anything other than growth?
Looks like it's pretty much just a way to use stitches' typed variant system with CSS modules instead of CSS in JSX. So variants are typed without you manually adding `variant`, `color` etc. boilerplate props any time you want a variation. If it's typed you don't have to dig through CSS files or deal with poor IDE support for CSS module classname resolution, and can instead use the excellent TS support.

As for it maybe being "deprecated" someday... I don't that's a fair criticism, since any library with a small user base is at risk. This one doesn't have much that can rot, it's not like they are doing transpilations, it's just a thin wrapper over React and CSS modules.
What would MDM enable on Linux that isn't already covered by FreeIPA/IdM combined with ansible?
My mother got cancer (she survived it, fortunately). She had a fantastic insurance policy, made good money (well above the average income), and had money in the bank.

Her medical costs ended up bankrupting her. That was where the scales fell from my eyes and I learned that what we're taught about the purpose of insurance (to protect us in the case of a catastrophic expense) is just pure BS.
Good! A massive win for moving away from a throwaway society.
Starship Flight Test (SpaceX Official)
> Seems pretty remote chance to get rabies without being bit

Just FYI, it's possible to get bit by a bat while sleeping and not realize it. Most bats are small and a bite mark may not be painful or immediately noticeable. There was a case in 2021 in Illinois of a man being bitten by a bat in his sleep; in his case, he realized he'd been bitten, but declined treatment (cost, probably...) and died of rabies a month later. Not a fun way to go.

I've heard the advice before to get a prophylactic rabies shot if you find a bat trapped in your house while you were sleeping. ...in civilized countries, anyway.

edit: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/02/4804145...
No, it depends on your age, health, and coverage. For limited disastrous healthcare coverage, that might get you $1m in lifetime coverage with a $8k deductible if you were 28 and in perfect health.
Yeah never patch unless it’s broken
These would boot faster since you don’t have to boot a whole OS, just a V8 VM. Downside is compatibility, your lambdas would have to be largely rewritten (especially if they rely on any other AWS services). It’s also probably more expensive since you’d have to keep a EC2 or something up running this.

Kinda wish Amazon would have an alternative runtime that was more like this. They kinda do with lambda@edge, but that’s only for CloudFront stuff, mostly.
While it makes sense to use postgres for a queue where latency isn't a big issue, I've always thought that the latency needs of many kinds of caches are such that postgres wouldn't suffice, and that's why people use (say) redis or memcached.

But do you think postgres latency is actually going to be fine for many things people use redis or memcached for?
> Couldn't Whole Foods hire armed security to dissuade theft?

I don't know.

But I have directly seen security from the Target on 4th tackle someone in the middle of the crosswalk, and hit them repeatedly as they took back whatever that person had stolen.

Random people on the street then started yelling at security to stop hitting the person who was caught shoplifting.
Brazil here. A few years ago, my wife was bitten by a dog. We simply went to the neighborhood free healthcare clinic, the standard entry point to our free universal healthcare system. After a very short wait they cleaned the wound and administered the first rabies vaccine. We went back there for the next doses. All free of charge, and the only "paperwork" she needed to do was to present her national ID card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_%C3%9Anico_de_Sa%C3%BA...
The "CIA and the British" clandestine funding of "right-wing paramilitary Ukrainian rebel organizations" with diplomatic support from "Merkel and Macron via Minsk" is "all very easy stuff" for me to verify?

"many Americans are unaware" of this story because it's nonsense that puts together various tidbits to spin a yarn long enough to envelop the world.
Does the governor not need to sign it? Or has it been signed already? Because I wouldn't be celebrating yet until it's signed into law (if even then). NY's right to repair law was destroyed at the governor's desk at the 11th hour. [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/29/23530733/right-to-repair...
Religious people generally necessarily believe that religiosity is good and atheism is bad. So suppressing atheism is clearly in our interest.
Databases run as clusters in replication...
The book has to start somehow. Would it be better if it featured cartoon foxes? Chunky bacon?
This reminds me of expert systems where use is so intense that discoverability is trumped by speed of input. Old DOS/ASCII based retail systems were often optimized for speed.
I could never accomplish what he has. He is so many standard deviations away from a regular person that it’s ridiculous to to feel anything but admiration. He’s human and imperfect like everyone and that’s ok. He was born with certain abilities and drive and he has made the world a better place by using those gifts. He is not beyond criticism either and some of his fans are too eager to dismiss them.
Having run my own little design/dev agency, this sounds like a clear case of firing the client ASAP.
> That was your insult, not mine. You have repeatedly attacked anyone who uses any aggregated statistic by insulting them.

That’s a lie!

Provide a link and a quote from a comment where I do that.

And you did say “repeatedly”, this should be easy.

You cannot, because I don’t do that.
There are 360 million square kilometers of ocean. Of course sea level rise increases the surface area a bit but if you assume 1 mm (1 millionth of a kilometer) goes straight up then each mm of sealevel is 360 cubic kilometers of water.

We are depleting our aquifers at a rate of about 280 km^3 per year. US is down over 1000 km^3 since ~1900. I'm not sure how much of that ends up in the ocean, but reducing that number and taking it negative would go a long way toward slowing sea level rise.
No, but the reconstructed examples have "im_start" and "im_end", which strongly implies that it is, if not verbatim, then a close enough restatement of the real deal. Take a look:

https://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/Prompts_Conve...
Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI
The two ideas aren’t necessarily in conflict with one another. In fact, they make sense to go hand-in-hand. Take for instance affirmative action or reparations. They’re instances of trying to correct for something that’s the opposite of how the group desires it, by doing the opposite of what supporters claim is being done to the marginalized group.
United state prison is inhumane I don't care who you are or what you did, it's not an ethical form of punishment or rehabilitation.
That doesn't work in the real world. Their army of lawyers can and will outspend you at every turn.

They will force you into bankruptcy when you should've declared bankruptcy to begin with.
I am sympathetic that pressing issues need solutions sooner rather than later,
and that a lot of public good will was indeed spent on projects that have
vanished into thin air with zero accountability. Is it not worth perhaps
investing time and energy into fixing the stagnant, shitty processes that have
lead to what I will agree (for the sake of good faith argument) are
ineffective-at-best shitty decisions and policies? My $0.02: looking to simply
abandon civic involvement and completely privatize the solutions?
In B2C aesthetics are important. In B2B it's usually ease and speed of operation that's more important
Top-down programming works great when using GPT-4 as a coding assistant, as long as it is told to not stub functions, use placeholder or TODO comments, but use as many undefined functions as it wants. But when it starts calling the same function recursively, it's time to tell it to stop the top-down approach and write the functions that does the actual work.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing! I like how you put everything together with open source libraries and cloud tools, showing how one can build a robust search app fairly quickly. Well done.
Hard to prove empirically either way, I think. Even if they do, it's then arguable if this is worth the noise pollution etc. Probably depends on the circumstances in any case, so any empirical result would be too specific to be of any use. Science!
We've gone from:

- Uncertainty exceeding signal in satellite data is "simply not the case"

to

- OK maybe it was the case but it doesn't matter and nobody relies on one satellite anyway

to

- OK maybe some groups relied on one satellite but this is flogging a dead horse everyone already knows about

That's a big distance in a short thread! Also, note that you said "nobody relies" and now you're arguing "not everyone relies", which is different.

I won't be alive in 2100 but if you've got some nice seafront property you'd like to sell me below market price I'd definitely consider it. Maybe in Tuvalu? (see other post).