skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> had the foresight to prepare its systems for a once-in-ever event in advance

As I already said, which you ignored:

"California received $15.3 billion in federal Coronavirus Relief Funds, but allocated none of it to repaying its outstanding loans."

> I will respect this criticism somewhat if you can point me to the people making it advocating the necessary changes in advance of the need

Here is a WSJ article criticizing CA's choice to not use reliefs funds to pay the loans:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/democratic-led-states-let-their...

But it really does not matter, since your mind is already made up and you are being disingenuous.
Any system predicated on the assumption that all humans are good-willed and eager to sacrifice for others is doomed.

ie. there must be some other incentive for a system, operated by humans, to succeed.
If your doctor tells you to see another doctor, ask for a "stat referral". That seems to be the magic word to make the process go fast. I don't really know what this means, or if it's an official real thing, but a doctor used these magic words and I got an appointment with a rare specialist within a day.
I’ll have to find that, rather I used IA to find the back issue of the magazine it was published in.
Ask HN: How do you make $100K+/year outside of the US?
Most US companies when they go to developing nations aren't ready to pay a decent amount. Are you someone who makes more than $100K per year, Please share your strategy. Would be very helpful!
> These vilification are propaganda, likely covert operations from places like china or russia.

Source?

> The IMF is no saint, but they at least is looking to improve things, despite not acting altruistically.

Should I consider you likely covert operation from China or Russia because of the accusation that IMF is no saint and does not act altruistically?
What was the last time that you tried to get an appointment at a decent specialist at your home country?
If you do the 8 things the CDC says to do, you're already in the top 1% of the US population for cardiovascular health. Just doing those things is going to be a lot more effective than taking any supplements.
America Is in Its Insecure-Attachment Era
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open_Transport_Interface describes the (slight successor to) the TLI api mentioned and has a shallow comparison table to tcp.
I highly recommend Bubbletea. I used it for an internal tool, and it combined with Viper makes an easy-to-use TUI application development easy.
Though it uses an approach more similar to Elm than to React.
> There’s a reason postman is a billion dollar product

I guess so, but is it a good reason? It's a fancy ui for curl...!?
There are a number of ways, with increasing methods and capabilities. It's going to depend on what you are trying to do and the constraints you have

Google put out a paper last week that talks about some of this and proposed a new method that outperforms previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35810663
It depends a lot on your usage pattern, but we are switching to Granfana cloud from Datadog and are looking at about 1/3 the cost per year. This is using logs, metrics, and traces with OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

The Grafana pricing is more cleanly volume based that is disconnected from number of “hosts” which is where datadog really squeezes you in a kubernetes setup with many pods.
Can you buffer requests to Twilio dynamically based on feedback?

ie. Can the system be fed back number of undelivered messages and adjust throttle accordingly?
I’ve got a good GP now, but honestly if I’m going to an urgent care with a sinus infection or an asthma flairup, I’d actually rather see a nurse practitioner than an MD. The NP deals with the common stuff all day long, and often the actual doctors at those sorts of places are often not great in terms of communication skills, bedside manner, that sort of thing.
Businesses prioritize cutting costs and boosting profits. The more pressing a problem, the more cash it brings in. So if you wait 6 months and your minor issue becomes urgent, its seen as more profitable and a good thing.

This narrative is echoed throughout our economy, with total disregard for the social damage caused by chasing profits. Take housing, for example: Real estate investors benefit from scarcity. The lack of new construction to meet population growth has always been intentional.
Related:

Show HN: SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521395 - Aug 2022 (49 comments)
I feel like we're missing the forest for the trees here. I'm not really asking it to add two numbers. I'm asking it to apply a simple set of logical rules on two symbols with an operation '+'.

Of course it can generate code to add two numbers, because the code to add two numbers exists in its training data. What transformers seem to be good at is generalizing over the training data. Where they seem to perform poorly is data outside of the training set. Binary numbers are interesting because you can add a bit of entropy just by increasing the size of your binary number, so it's very easy to generate examples outside of the training data. You also see this, albeit less directly, when trying to ask it to generate code that wasn't part of its training data. E.g. https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981
How do you do, fellow python compilers?
I was being made fun of in a tongue in cheek way…
If it does not apply I let it fly but it was just a little too much.
I've heard of the Grenfell Tower Fire, that was a great fire in London.
> so that other programs don't suffer

Other programs wouldn't suffer. CA had a large surplus. No cuts would be made...
That was the fun thing about Usenet back then - lots of open exchange between key people and anyone could join in (which eventually was its undoing).
I was taking reasonable amounts of Magnesium (SlowMag) daily, however it seemed to trigger muscle twitches and fasculations after a while. YMMV
> What do you hypothesize that fits the evidence?

That the tools were moved to Crete way later than when they were made. Obviously, there are no proof of that either. I am not saying it is impossible Neaderthals got there by boat-ish means. But recycling seems like a possibility not moving back seatravel too far into the past.
If the proposed intervention is giving a pill, it seems fair to test that instead of a proxy. The study had hundreds of people; if the effect were big enough to be clinically significant they hopefully would have detected it, even with some patients failing to take the pills.
Really depends on the details. If the extractable works align with songs that are over-represent in the training data, they may largely consist of performances of public domain compositions. And if their extraction also requires prompting which explicitly requests an infringing result, then the actual liability might be something you could mount a defense for.

Or hell, the extracted potentially infringing and over-represented material might all be pop music set to variations of Pachelbel's Canon, and I'd pay to see that lawsuit.
thanks for the post!
Hokusai (1760 - 1849) also did tentacle porn

NSFW art -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%2...

Book -https://pulverer.si.edu/node/277/title
Not really been my experience in a midsized US town. Don’t think I’ve ever waited more than a month or so… and generally same week if it’s something urgent. I do have Blue Cross though, which is I guess pretty good as us insurance goes.
Weird. I have Kaiser. Routine things, like eye exams, can be months out, but a significant, non-emergency, health issue? I'd expect to be next day, usually.
Capitalism is predicated on profit. I don't know what system you're talking about.
How to Quickly Improve Focus – Andrew Huberman [video]
I don't know what you mean by reasonable amounts daily.
> by adding a "safety fee"

Hell, a lot of these companies (even ISPs) tried to avoid the bad blood around things like this by actually listing them as taxes, until they were told they could not call anything a 'tax' that wasn't actually required by and paid to a government entity.
One medical charged me 560 for a general check up. Absolutely disgusting, and zero help from their support team. And this was after insurance.

American healthcare is a laughing stock
It was only technically python-like, but enough like it that you could conceivably call them the same thing.
> But Diederichsen said most foods contain insufficient levels of vitamin K2 to make an impact on heart health – with one exception. Natto, a traditional Japanese food made from fermented soybeans, is high in vitamin K2.
了 as le or liǎo, too.
Because if you change the tiles, you need to redo all the tile number tables throughout the program. Much easier to only change it for new graphics added to the game than to rework a bunch of old stuff that works.
This is a side note / random observation, but it seems like "An astronaut riding a horse" has become the Lorem ipsum / Lenna / Utah teapot of AI text-to-image generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
Stat, used as a directive to medical personnel during in an emergency situation, is from the Latin word statim, which means “instantly” or “immediately.”
A similar idea is been developed in: https://github.com/pieroit/cheshire-cat
It started out with “your watch is so old it probably had a Wikipedia page” and the person jokingly looked it up scrolled down and it was an “oh shit” reaction…
I love the watch and I still have it..
We live in a medical tyranny in which doctors are treated as demigods by government and every BigCo. In that environment it should come as no surprise that our medical overlords treat us with open contempt.
Not true at all, in countries with dual systems(public healthcare and private one) the private care usually acts as a shortcut to get things done quickly.

Often it's useful to get things going in private care and if you are not rich you can continue on the public system. The idea is that once you know which specialist you need to see, the waiting lists are shorter and you will be triaged depending on you situation. If that specialist happens to have long waitlist, you can choose to get private care and maybe get the actually expensive surgery in a public hospital. Also, the governments can run special programs where they purchase services from the private sector and offer those as public services where capacity is needed.

Most often patients don't need that advanced care or diagnostics and in some cultures people are just doctor-happy, so different lines with a premium tier can work to do good triage and optimize the workforce.
Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention "Urgent Care," which appears to serve the exact role implied by the title: seeing a doctor without waiting a long time.
I’ve mentioned this before, but my wife insists on traveling to South Korea for medical care. This, despite us having great insurance in the US.

As a Korean American who’s been in the US for nearly all my life, I didn’t understand it at first. Then I went with her and saw the Korean medical system in action and I’m now a believer.

You can visit one clinic and get a comprehensive full body diagnostic exam. Results come out within a week.

You can make an appointment with a doctor and get all associated procedures done (blood work, X-ray, MRI) often on the same day, same building, same staff.

What takes weeks if not months to complete in the US takes days or a week or two there.

It’s like a less personal, but sometimes faster and more efficient, version of the “concierge medicine” services popping up in the US.
You're still missing the point. Even when the supply chains are fully operational there is no slack.

There is no oversupply anywhere in the system because that would be "inefficient". If I need an extra 25% of supply, I'm out of luck because there isn't any upstream.

Consequently, you can't lower prices and pick off a competitor's customers since you can't supply any of the customers you just gained.
It means immediately/as-quick-as-possible, but the referring physician needs to user their best judgement before placing such order. For example, if the doctor is suspecting you have renal colic (kidney stone), the lab orders can be marked as stat.
It's exactly the other way around. Now I'm afraid this is some kind of common misconception, like "not only are LEDs great when it comes to efficiency, they don't pollute the light either!"
Only 2-3 months would be heaven sent. And don't forget we're paying twice as much for the care that we do receive.
Do you drive a car you built from scratch? How can you drive from A to B without first understanding how a car works by building one? And since you already built one, why not just keep using that one?

Or maybe you have built a car. But did you type your message on a computer you built yourself using some silicon and a home-baked x-ray lithography machine?

I definitely think there can be value in reimplementing something for educational purposes, but often knowing how to use something without necessarily being able to build it yourself is just fine. And those things you do build for educational purposes should almost always be abandoned after serving their educational purpose.
The US equivalent would be concierge medicine, which performs as well as you're saying private medicine does in your country.
No PowerShell support?
I’m going deaf in one ear for an unknown reason which is causing major tinnitus, I have been waiting a year already to actually see an ENT. I managed to get a hearing test so they can tell me what I already knew but that took 6 months to schedule, and the follow up with an actual doctor is still pending.
Just because you're a bad person doesn't mean everyone else is
You still have to pick the right one of the older APIs, though. In the 90s there were plenty of other networking protocols and APIs to choose from but TCP/IP and sockets won out.
It's pretty much just scale, either via Dataset size or parameter size. Before GPT-4, the general SOTA model was not in fact from Open AI (Flan-PaLM from Google).

The attention from GPT-4 is a little different (probably some kind of flash attention) so that memory requirements for longer contexts are no longer quadratic. But there's nothing to suggest the intellectual gains from 4 isn't just bigger scale.

Google could have made a 4 equivalent I'm sure. It's not like there wasn't a road to take. We already knew 3 was severely undertrained even from a computer optimal perspective. And then of course, you can just train on even more tokens to get them even better.
Sure; I agree that Google is actually pretty good in this regard; I was just commenting on the fact that your previous comment didn't really connect with what the previous person was talking about.

That said, I think the big issue here is not so much about data and exports, but rather that Google occupies a fairly central space in the internet. If you want to make money developing mobile applications then Android – and thus a Google account – is kind of required; there's been plenty of "I have a business selling Android apps and it was taken away from one day to the next with no explanation". The same applies to YouTube: you can make money posting videos on the internet with out it, but it's a lot harder.
Deregulate medicine. The AMA restricts the supply of Doctors way too much to achieve $500,000 salaries . .

I am currently suffering from a torn Achilles tendon and the medical system in Palo Alto responded instantly (2hr walk-in care wait) on Saturday and with a 7am MRI and 10:45 a.m. follow-up appointment on Monday
Imagine thinking the US health care system is anywhere near a "free market"
Dead moths prefer sodium lamps too, or something. Currently, LEDs are kind of stupid, too. The parking lot outside my home has fixtures with builtin LEDs which will last, like forever. So there's no need to make the LEDs replaceable like a bulb had to be.

Except they do break (they dim into a faint glow, and the brown out completely) and they have to replace the whole fixture.
How do you know?

(I genuinely want to hear this story)
The man who invented the modern cop novel
Non-engagement with the thesis was the point, not the particulars of how he fell from polite society.
NYC is great. You can usually see a doc same-day or 1-2 weeks for a specialist.

With family back in the Midwest it takes 3 months to see a primary doc and six months to a year for some specialists.

August 3rd: "I have an ear infection."

Office: "Are you available November 4th at 4:30 PM?"

If it weren't for Teladoc and a whole host of at-home digital scopes they'd never get medical attention.

edit

Not sure how this comment lead to the train-wreck of a thread below.
> Why not just encourage people to put their email address in plain text in a DNS record?

My reading is that it's because the purpose of the effort is to compel Google, Facebook, etc. license this proprietary protocol from the creator. I don't personally understand what the moat is since DNS- or file-based verification is a basic feature of all services that need to validate domain control.
In California I've heard that DMV can not, or will not, question a signature. I bought and sold cars to pay my way through college, during prime craiglist years, and had to 'recreate' countless signatures when forms were missing or required or even when I was lied to by sellers. Sounds reasonable I assume, unless we think there's a database of signatures somewhere in a government office DMV has access to, how in the world would they even be able to question a signature?
My understanding was that the thinking at the time was that the IP family protocols (ie tcp, udp, etc) would soon be replaced by OSI protocols and the sockets api was too tightly coupled with IP protocols and so your applications would need more difficult upgrades in the future if you wrote them against sockets. But your quotation disagrees with that claim. I think part of the implied benefit of the epic library is that it would seamlessly transition when the new OSI protocols were used.

Obviously, we now know that the OSI protocols didn’t get used (unless you count ldap or x509 or everyone talking about layers all the time) and so the more flexible api was not required.
Right now I live in Cambridge, MA. The wait time to see a dermatologist was 3 months when I needed one. My health plan is also Blue Cross, hired through MIT Medical.
Ancient Greek terms worth reviving
I checked it insofar as I understand APL and what the algorithm was attempting to do: that the algorithm was attempting to detect and return the index of the first element of every consecutive "[0 1]" pair.

[Edit: OK, I see the mistake is that it should return the index of the `1`, not the `0`. Yes, that's the kind of mistake I'd catch during unit testing, or after more carefully reviewing the code.]

In what way is its explanation wrong? Its summary of the algorithm is:

> So, this code is finding the indices in the array ⍵ where a 0 is immediately followed by a 1, and replaces these 0s with the first element of ⍵. It then returns the indices of the non-zero elements in the result.

That summary seemed to correctly describe the algorithm, and seemed consistent with the article, so I assumed that its breakdown was correct. I don't understand the individual symbols or operators of APL and can't quickly fact-check the answer, but given that the summary was consistent with the article, it seemed to indicate that GPT had deduced (with no context from the article) what the algorithm was doing in human terms – in other words, whether it was able to "read" the APL code.

Whether it's actually mutating the input or not, I don't know. Its description of the transformation seemed to check out, though.

Regardless of whether its breakdown is right or wrong, my true intended commentary is about the opacity of the syntax and the difficulty in reading it (which I elaborated on via an edit, after your comment was posted but before seeing it).
Since the output of unicorn drawing is objective, at least when comparing to known photo-realistic unicorn drawings, aren't these arguments incorrect if such a degradation in fact happened?
Lux != lumen. Lux is lumen per unit area.
The Bronze Age has never looked stronger
I don't understand- in what sense is this "1 bit"?
One thing the article didn't mention is the aging boomer generation. I suspect that's significant. They're roughly 60-80 and huge.
Live For Speed renders from multiple cameras - one camera per monitor - to prevent distortions.
It can render a 360 degree view if you have enough monitors. Can't do that with a single viewport.
For new med school grads it makes little sense to go into primary care. The pay is low, the hours are long, and job satisfaction is plummeting as check-the-box medicine takes over.

As giant corporations like CVS, Amazon, and Walmart acquire primary care practices we'll see primary care physicians turn into fast food workers, much like pharmacists did a couple decades ago.
Define "real thing". Again in the past it's really easy, people didn't put much "fake" content up. Now there is mountain of documents that have 'content' that matches your request... How much energy are you going to put in to determine if its low or high quality content? I did the search that OP did and I got tangentially related documents, but not the exact think that OP was likely looking for. And this defines the problem, there is far more noise than signal, and the ancient internet did not look like that at all.
Only a month or two ago I found this ridiculous, but then my mental model of GPTs shifted and I don't think it's so stupid anymore.

Technobabble explanation: such "silly" additions are a natural way to emphasize certain dimensions of the latent space more than others, focusing the proximity search GPTs are doing.

Working model I've been getting some good mileage off: GPT-4 is like a 4 year old kid, that somehow managed to read half of the Internet. Sure, it kinda remembers and possibly understands a lot, but it still thinks like a 4 year old, has about as much attention span, and you need to treat it like a kid that age.
I had a little sheep which walked on top of windows, and occassionally fell off them.

When I switched to Linux, I was astonished that sheep.exe worked on Wine, too. This was ca 2000.
In India, I went got a physician appointment for next morning, diagnostics the same afternoon and results at night via a text message.

Follow up with the physician, next morning.

All out of pocket for $80. No BS bureaucracy.

American healthcare is utter garbage.
Close your gmail account and only use search engines that respect your privacy.
E.G. DuckDuckGo. You might also investigate browser extensions uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.
Not necessarily endorsing this (I haven't looked into the details of Bluesky myself) but one thing I don't understand is - how does Bluesky intend to make money? Have they announced a plan? It's a corporation, so obviously they have something in mind. But googling about it, I can't find a good answer. Centralized social networks bank heavily on the network effect, but you don't really have that if you make a genuinely decentralized network like Bluesky says they're trying to.
I really enjoyed that blog post. Especially the comparisons that lay out how feasible it can actually be to do the stupid, simple thing of "grep the whole data set every time" up to a surprising point.