skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realized that’s what they meant but I was worried that tying low-trust with cheating students from a country that has a tarnished image because of tech scams and low-wage tech workers might paint a different picture to those who don’t know about the term or OPs intent.
I already have the feeling that people in the U.S. are sorted by ethnicity, even if they are “white.”

My wife’s family is Italian and my relatives there are so typecast it seems like a parody. Men work in construction or own pizza restaurants. The women work as hairdressers or schoolteachers.

My own family is French Canadian and Polish and the fraction of my cohort who are cops or first responders (even the girls!) is a little scary. (My uncle rose high as a bureaucrat in a city government and it helped that he married into an Irish family which might have been low status overall but was higher status than where he came from.)

People from other ethnic groups might think their only options are college professor or reporter for a prestigious newspaper and when they bomb out of that their parents might have more respect for them being a notorious conspiracy Youtuber than if they got one of the above jobs.

East asians frequently get it drilled into them from preschool that they are a nobody if they don’t get a professional degree, etc.

“Anti-racists. struggle to get to the bottom of “systemic racism” but look closer you see not every white has the same “white privilege” and anyone who tries to go outside the tracks of their family history will find all sort of mysterious ways that they don’t fit in, things go wrong, etc.

It is all a mockery of competence, equity, etc. so when i see a new “typecast” is catching on I think that’s automatically a bad thing.
>In fact, I'd love to see a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how many tons of CO2 would have been saved in total if

•we didn't include massive JS libraries that are not truly necessary

•we didn't track user's every move and report that data back
> At this point I could just flag every mastodon content, since it is not available. Good idea, I will just do that.

If HN requires sources to be available in no-js only form yes, that would be appropriate, if not it would be abuse of the flagging feature.
Intent worries me less! It’s the PHP days all over again - lots of new coders (good thing!), copying insecure code (VERY bad thing!), and it won’t end well.
Parent specifically said dishonesty should not be respected. Helping people in your family/community is a fine goal as long as it’s not dishonest. If Bob gets hired at global corp A and is able to hire his unqualified family to the detriment of corp A then that’s just as bad. If they’re qualified then there might be a culture clash, but it doesn’t sound necessarily dishonest.
It’s janky, half complete and shows nothing but an empty shell.

I’ve seen better OS “emulations” on HN made by devs in their free time.
That's a weird flavor of kook-aid you're drinking there.
It looks up for me. Anyway archive.org seems to have good coverage.
He went to a clinic, while you, me and he may all agree it fits the definition of an emergency, he didn't go to the ER.

Getting emergency care:
In an emergency, you should get care from the closest hospital that can help you. That hospital will treat you regardless of whether you have insurance. Your insurance company can't charge you more for getting emergency room services at an out-of-network hospital.

https://www.healthcare.gov/using-marketplace-coverage/gettin...
The nag/friction that happens every time I try to open the app when I'm under buddget on this has cut down my doomscrolling so much. Really a fan of this approach - Twitter usage is down probably 95%. General stoke on this is really high!
See also CrazyEgg, or HotJar.

Although I am not sure why these would violate GDPR. Customer usage data is specifically exempt if it's anonymized.
Robots.txt is mostly ignored btw
If you need to list out apps that haven't been killed, I think that kind of proves the point :)
Just a shout out to Alamo Drafthouse. We have two theaters in our area and they're excellent. Great image and sound, comfortable chairs, always clean, never have to worry about loud people due to their moviegoer policies. Before they were built, we almost never went to the movies. Now, we go all the time.
US export controls certainly must slow down China somewhat. They can't import Nvidia's fastest GPUs, but are stuck with buying hobbled variations. Getting a domestic industry on par is hard.
This is how it is a failed system. It doesn't really do what most people who have one think it does and yet it gets rolled into law and everyone now has to deal with it constantly while still not fixing the original issue.

It's like the EU doesn't understand that bad law has a negative value.
> "there will probably be incredible opportunity down the road to combat this,"

I am curious to hear more about what you mean by this.

I crave living in a high trust society. I've attempted to act as though I do (though not with complete success), but reality often rebuffs me. I am discouraged by the high (and seemingly increasing) "capacity to benefit from dishonesty," especially as I feel powerless to meaningfully affect this trend/condition.

It sounds like you see ways in which society can shift to be higher trust. Can you elaborate?
Author of the article here! (I tried to submit it but HN rejected it)

I started researching this last weekend, reading through the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, and tons of related court rulings (with the help of Google Translate). 2002/58/EC and EC 2016/679 is engrained into my brain now. I was so nervous releasing to the public, but I breathed a sign of relieve after reading your comment.
Thank you! :-)

Glad you say the phrase "it [full marathon] just doesn’t feel like the human body is particularly made to do it". I don't mind the training, but question the long-term safety aspect.

My left foot is flat and it aches noticeably around the area of ankle joint after 22KM distance of hiking or running. This is "diffuse pain", and it goes away in a day or two.
I've been trying to understand the root-cause of it for a long time to no avail. I recently visited a sports medicine specialist to get a professional opinion on whether I can safely train for a full marathon. He suggested a fancy "SPECT-CT" scan for the foot-bone. Looking at the result yesterday, everything is good; no major issues, but "I spot a sensitivity in the area of that ankle joint, but I still don't know the cause of it", he said. So he suggested an MRI scan to rule out any other issues. This will be my last attempt at understanding this problem. I know how to live with it; it's not egregious if I'm being careful.

But he did say that I can train for a full marathon if I wanted, "but listen to the foot" after each longer than 22KM training run.

For now, I'm still enjoying the 22-25KM range. I'll probably start some trail runs, which require different preparation for the unexpected bumps in the terrain.
Sure but I think climate change trumps that by a wide margin. Plus, our most acute geopolitical foe gets most of its revenue by selling fossil fuels, so it'd work out nicely to steal all their customers.

And it's not like the US controls who gets energy right now, or would be able to for more than a short time. China is already attempting to copy the Helion reactor; if it works then efforts like that will ramp up worldwide.
It's probably a net benefit to be pessimistic about world-changing technologies you hear about in the press until they're proven and operating. Being endlessly disappointed is draining. Not to mention getting scammed sucks.
The copyright system is what has enabled so few companies (and one giant corporation in particular) to become the owners, controllers, and beneficiaries of the vast majority of American fiction and culture. From visual media companies, record companies, and publishers, you can probably distill ownership of more than 90% of the culture that the average American lives in to fewer than 20 companies.

Copyright has been the most powerful tool in any media company's toolbox when it comes to consolidating power and IP and rolling into a larger and larger ball of what we call culture.
There seem to have been very few details released so far as to the exact nature of the agreement between Helion and Microsoft, but I think it's almost guaranteed to include an investment in Helion by Microsoft (maybe a series of investments based on meeting development milestones?), in addition to eventual power purchase agreement.

Helion gets continued funding from Microsoft (maybe increasingly expensive at this stage as they scale the tech up and operationalize it). Microsoft gets good PR, a likely profitable investment, and eventually cheap electricity as a bonus.

I believe Sam Altman has most of his personal net worth (to tune of few hundred million) invested in Helion, and no doubt brokered this deal, so it can also be seen as a doubling-down by Microsoft of their relationship with and commitment to OpenAI/Altman.
Yes. They operate platforms with billions of users.
But you do have to compete with grid hookups for pricing in data centers.

I definitely buy that there's a market for small power plants that cost too much to be competitive on the grid (in some sense that's literally what generators already are), but I don't see how datacenters are in that market.
graphs were especially informative, thanks for sharing!
>Unless you work for OpenAI, your GPT leverage is likely wasted on trivial business code

But trivial code is the only level of code GPT can really write.
We're all victims in waiting. But, just like with other arbitrary systems such as the enforcement of victimless crimes or traffic laws, most of us don't suffer too much most of the time, so the systems endure despite the inherent incoherency and unfairness. It's just the occasional poor sucker having their life ruined, but never enough to create a meaningful backlash.
Yes. For some products, "Pro" is a marketing term. I'd say for iPads and MacBooks the extra features of the Pro version are used often used for work-related purposes.

But the PlayStation Pro, AirPods Pro, etc - it's just the top tier version of the product.
Probably. I've been down here 7 years now and I used to be pretty active in the local scene in terms of going to meetups, talks, etc.. I am not as active these days but participated in Hack Week.

We probably have a few folks in common. Do you participate in any of the meetups like Brickell Tech Tuesday, the Wynwood Tech slack group, etc..?
Canada's consumer debt problem is much worse than in the US. Far more Americans do things like keep cash in a safe and we also hoard gold and silver. Normal savings held by Americans is more than twice as much as held by Canadians.

Trying to pull that shit here would guarantee riots and runs on banks.
Instead of disrupting and exploiting, why not befriending and collaborating with our little artificial ones?
Thank you for this insightful comment!

(Love the aside at the end ... seriously, though, Aurelius had an incisive eye, his writings have great value and much to teach just about anyone ...)
You can go a long way in work without doing anything of value by getting credit for any success and dodging blame for any failure. Cheating goes a long way here.

Don’t even get me started on cheating metrics.
More of a federal Medicare problem because the government runs an insurance plan that fails to throw its heft around and negotiate beyond “you can’t charge us more than other insurers”.

Gets very opaque fast.

Edit: lots of (I assume) correct points below about hospital/procedure charges, but it’s only in 2026 that Medicare will start negotiating drug prices, and just for 10 medications in the first year:

> For the first time, Medicare will be able to negotiate prices directly with drug companies, ensuring lower prices on some of the costliest prescription drugs

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/03/15/hhs-releases-initi...
i gave some examples in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883963, though arguably those are not very concrete. also i pointed out there why unit tests that use exact comparison on floats are not necessarily bad: ieee-784 specifies bit-exact results for the five fundamental arithmetic operations, and if your compiler is introducing rounding errors, you want your tests to fail. (or introducing nonerrors, in the case where it's introducing fmas.)

even hashing is useful for memoization

i think probably you're asking in the wrong places

the lapack source might be a better place to look; we can probably suppose that if something is in lapack it's realistic and also not a bug, and numerical code doesn't get more 'good, production' than lapack

in dgelsx for example i find

ELSE IF( ANRM.EQ.ZERO ) THEN
*
* Matrix all zero. Return zero solution.
*
CALL DLASET( 'F', MAX( M, N ), NRHS, ZERO, ZERO, B, LDB )

and also (fairly dubious, at least to my uneducated eye)

* Determine RANK using incremental condition estimation
*
WORK( ISMIN ) = ONE
WORK( ISMAX ) = ONE
SMAX = ABS( A( 1, 1 ) )
SMIN = SMAX
IF( ABS( A( 1, 1 ) ).EQ.ZERO ) THEN
RANK = 0
CALL DLASET( 'F', MAX( M, N ), NRHS, ZERO, ZERO, B, LDB )
GO TO 100
ELSE
RANK = 1
END IF

as well as some sentinel-value checks

and in dlar1v:

WORK( INDS+I ) = S*WORK( INDLPL+I )*L( I )
IF( WORK( INDLPL+I ).EQ.ZERO )
$ WORK( INDS+I ) = LLD( I )

and also

TMP = D( I ) / DMINUS
IF(DMINUS.LT.ZERO) NEG2 = NEG2 + 1
WORK( INDUMN+I ) = L( I )*TMP
WORK( INDP+I-1 ) = WORK( INDP+I )*TMP - LAMBDA
IF( TMP.EQ.ZERO )
$ WORK( INDP+I-1 ) = D( I ) - LAMBDA

and also

IF( ABS(MINGMA).EQ.ZERO )
$ MINGMA = EPS*WORK( INDS+R1-1 )

of course float comparisons for ordering are much more common than float comparisons for equality, but there are numerous realistic examples of float comparisons for equality in lapack and, i think, in applied mathematics in general

but if you ask an audience of type theorists, sysadmins, and web developers, they won't know that; they aren't numerical analysts and probably haven't inverted a submatrix since sophomore math class, if ever

(there are 6550 files in lapack 3.9.0 of which i looked through 15 to find these examples, suggesting that there are on the order of 1000 realistic examples in there; eventually i'd probably find one that wasn't even comparing to zero)

plausibly instead of giving them floating point by default you should give them fixed point with, say, nine digits after the decimal point; that was the approach knuth took in tex, for example, to guarantee reproducibility, but it also gives human-predictable rounding. and in most cases it should be perfectly adequate for simple stats and percentages. as a bonus you get 64 bits of precision instead of 53
Which insurer was this? It makes no sense to me that they would care about reducing the price you owe to a third party.

You do not owe the insurance company $2,000, and the insurance company does not send you bills. So what is their incentive to pay the healthcare provider the $1,800, or otherwise engage with them to reduce how much the healthcare provider charged you who has no contract with them (since they are out of network)?
Elon Musk Retweets Milady NFT Collection
"No surprises" apparently may have some surprises:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/28/1159786...

Insurer tries to get away with: the provider is not in network, but not strictly out of network (because they know that would be covered by the law), so they call them "participating", a 50% coinsurance applies and patient owes 121K.

(Resolved in patient's favor after state government got involved and media coverage about it).
Thank you! I think the average HN'er is frankly pretty ignorant about how copyright law works, the history around it, and the arguments for and against various reforms. In fairness it's an esoteric topic and most software developers depend in some way on copyrighted work for their income so that's not a huge surprise I guess. But it probably explains the contradiction you observed!

The #1 issue with copyright today in my opinion is that if we keep on extending it forever, it will forever entrench the wealth and power of a small number of companies that hold the largest portfolios of IP. I think this is also a huge issue for AI, maybe the biggest issue, because at the end of the day an AI is really just another copyrighted work. It is not the anthropomorphized thing that countless people are acting like it is, it's a work. Change copyright and you change the nature of future AI works.
I share your optimism.

ChatGPT could also empower individuals who may not have considered learning programming to create practical programs that enhance their daily routines, similar to how VB6 significantly reduced the barrier to entry for developing various applications.
Fair, thanks for the clarification.
As always, we must consider the actual alternatives and not just our imaginary ideal scenario.

What is the alternative for the relatively large population looking to start families in a neighborhood with a good school district and child care on 1-2 working to middle class salaries while building some equity?

Can you point us to someplace where there is quality, affordable, and aesthetically pleasing new home construction happening at scale?
The Silver Bullet to Reduce Payment Processing Costs
I dare to say that human readability that accounts for that extra size allowed many people to learn basics about how internet works, namely HTML and its compatriots. Mankind would be poorer for this enriching experience, even if it resides mostly in the past, and for me personally 15% (or 100% extra) could easily justify that.

Plus add easiness of debugging this (before you bring some javascript monstrosity that hacks around it and will stop working probably in weeks after paid support of it ends)
>vigilance to maintain.

I think this part is a crucial part, that many comments here miss. Honesty is not useful if it's not rewarded, consequently if cheating can be rewarding, because of non-vigilance. We see this not only among humans but also in animals/birds, and in general nature.
I would think the opposite. It's just going to result in users not knowing whether the people "around them" in the virtual world are actually people or not.

People like single player games, sure, but the potential for trickery here is far too high.

Remote work is already basically over that line for me. Once AI becomes good at simulating video it'll be a complete write off.
Seems irrelevant if the people getting the job by cheating are considered high performers getting promotions
This sounds like a business idea to me. Rent small rooms in highly populated areas, make sure cell phone signals are blocked, let interviewed do their virtual interviews in this room on a provided computer. Sell it as "certified interview" to big tech.
1. Can you merge inserts of characters into inserts of strings reliably given both the original inserts and the current document history? E.g. if the closed set of history that only inserts in the middle of the subset of inserts that you want to turn into a string those inserts can be permanently merged into a string insert.

2. String merging should also allow null merges, e.g. identity the same closed set of history inserts that refer to only the inside of the original inserts, and so permanently deleting history of characters in the document could be replaced with a null insert that can still be referred to by other inserts/merges.
"She said Cigna does not directly benefit from such savings."

The quote indicates that the employer group was self-insured, and Cigna was the plan administrator. This means that Cigna is not insuring the health plan. Cigna is probably paid a per member per month (PMPM) fee for third party administration (TPA). The actual medical claims and associated costs are directly paid by the self-insured entity (the employer group).

Self-insurance can make actuarial sense for companies with >2,000 employees.
Please pay careful attention to the section on what information to include.

It takes at least three pieces of info to positively ID the correct policy for a large (national) insurance company. It's a HIPAA violation if they send you the wrong files.

If you have a common name, have a relative with a similar name, etc, it's especially important to make sure to include things like policy numbers and claim numbers.

I wish this sort of article were not necessary. This is not how it should work, though I don't know how to fix this mess.
There will be no rapid transition. Even if Helion's design actually works (and it might not), the plants will be expensive to construct. It would take decades to scale up production.
No they are not. They are required to comply or take on liability.
Certainly. I entertained similar ideas, but I abandoned such notions because I was afraid it was circumventing rather than transcending the problem. I ended up concluding that if you're going to get this close to RUM you might as well just do it.
I think conferences have long been about the socializing and the excuse to travel. “Learning” was the pretend business excuse.
Oh you mean when the DOJ used to trial Anti-Trust suits? I can't recall the last time they acted on a monopoly.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate that these amazing advances in datalog don't make it into general purpose languages.
Skill plays into ownership too. It plays into everything. What is your point?
I don't think there is any way to reliably count unique users without collecting an inappropriate level o f personal data. Even tracking unique devices requires significantly undermining privacy.

This simply isn't data companies should be allowed to collect without meaningful consent.
By default, yes. The same way transit cards can work with your phone off.

It's the sensible default option and it can be disabled in settings.
I think the point is that the individual doesn’t reap the full reward of trivial code written for an employer. Instead, the individual should leverage the new tool to scratch his own itch, build products for his own use or as part of a business which more directly benefits him.
How good is GPT-4 in programming something new?

This reminds of all these web programming courses that build a todo list or simple insta clone.
Decades of tons of things turning out to be a pile of lies and fraud.
How to Reclaim Your Online Privacy
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Right, I didn't want to expand too much on that matter as I usually make unreadable comments. Most of the reasons I can think of that would prevent me from using headset for work are largely personal (though I think many people might identify themselves in it):

I need to play with stuff with my hands (and I mean random stuff, not just always the same toy. Like right now I'm busying my hands with mounting/dismounting some lego that requires putting a bit of force in it, not really something you can do with a controller). I need to look at my smartphone. I might do interruptible stuff which would require corner vision (say I'm playing on TV, waiting for my build to finish that I can see in the corner of my eye). I'm chewing through gums (k I could probably do that with headset on)

Possibly all of those stuff could be fixed with better hw and sw. But. BUT. One of the feature I really like about current day VR, is that I am disconnected from everything. Which would pretty much contradict fixing every issue I have mentioned.
Another possible translation: "You should feel so fortunate you weren't among the masses we laid off that you don't need a raise."

I presume they already cancelled bonuses as well, yes?
People live up to what you expect them to live up to.

If you expect a 6 year old to run the grocery store you own while you're away, then they will

Let make decisions and give them the agency to make those decisions, then they will.

The infantilization of people has caused far greater harm than almost any other thing.