skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just had a recent physical - I got a low value for a test and it kicked off more tests, a visit to a specialist, more tests and no conclusion besides 'let's wait and see' which I could have done without draining my HSA. If the price of care was reasonable, sure, let's be proactive but because PCPs don't really seem to do anything but refer you to a specialist and any visit to a specialist + tests will immediately trigger thousands of dollars in bills, even if you're insured you're going be paying your deductible plus like 10-30% after that.

I got a random lab bill for like $650 (discounted from $2500) and in the follow up visit everyone agreed that was high but no could explain why it was that expensive - medicare's fee schedule has the same code costing $90. Until we stop this madness of providers basically charging whatever opaque negotiated random amount they want to insurers who then pass that down to charge payers after collecting a % the prices are just going to continue to go up and the broken medical system will stay fucked - with the consequence that the economics aren't going to make sense to seek proactive care.
I believe it's always been like that.
Limits like speed of light, planck length, etc might indicate some resource constraint in the simulator
Nice post!

I'm not sure if the same result is applicable to most software projects. A console emulator doesn't need several types of GUI objects, while most other projects need to display and handle input for several different types of data.

In most projects I've worked on, the proportion of GUI code to business code was different: I saw apprx. 70% GUI code to 30% business code.

So a cross platform GUI layer saves a lot more development time.
No, we are not? I am confused what definition you are using. If the Matrix were real, you would say the Matrix is base reality?
I have recently tracked down a number of networking issues caused by cgroups introducing network stalls in certain scenarios. There were a number of patches submitted to upstream in v6.x to fix these issues. It is a constant pain seeing such fundamental networking issues still occurring in the latest linux kernel versions. On one hand I would like to track bleeding edge kernel releases to get the latest fixes and performance improvements, but on the other hand I do not have enough resources to maintain our own kernel builds and patches.
You sure about that? I don't think older homes were better insulated, or insulated at all.
BARRET: Have y'all ever considered that none of this is real? That we're just part of some game, a simulation?

TIFA: Barret, what are you talking about?

AERITH: It's an interesting thought, though. Sometimes, everything does seem too surreal to be true.

BARRET: Exactly! Maybe we're just codes in a computer, or pawns in someone else's game.

CLOUD: Barret, that's ridiculous. Even if it were true, how would that change anything?

CLOUD: We are living in a base reality by definition.

TIFA: Cloud's right. Whether it's a simulation or not, this is our reality. We have to deal with it.

AERITH: Maybe the real question should be, what can we do to make this reality better?

BARRET: Hmph, you're all just too afraid to face the truth. But mark my words, one day you'll see.
Preliminary Steps Towards Risk-Aware Image Generation
Homeowner insurance covers a lot more than fires (and a kitchen fire could easily be a partial fire, as some friends of mind discovered last year). Theft, hail damage, trees falling, pipes bursting, etc all are likely to be covered partial losses.
Oh yes, so very terrible. A "living nightmare" with a clearly labelled and painless exit door. They could of course just paint over it, but no, they want to sell it and make money, therefore they have no choice but to hire a security guard and remove the wall. Crocodile tears.
Just in case you though VimL was too easy and want to add manual memory management in on top of it? ;)
You have to approach the movie like sitting down with a good book. Make a day around it! Brew some tea/coffee ahead of time, watch it when you are refreshed and can soak it in. And not just the plot.. but the art of what’s on the screen; how it’s shot. You’ll be rewarded in the end.
Terminals fortunately make it quite easy to map the basic 8 colors to whatever you like. There are very few people who can’t select 8 mutually distinguishable colours. They could even choose shades of grey!

This is an argument against using 256-color or true color though.
Funny to pick 'media' as everybody creates narratives to further their own.
At some point Cormen had a page of shame where he would name people who asked him for solutions to some of the problems. I remember it was removed with a note that it was a bit much. Though, I suspect it was pointed out to him that this made him look bad.

I think this says a lot about the logic of the authors, though.
I don't think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bears much relation to Roadside Picnic. There are no monsters in the novel (the zombies are "returned people" and are harmless), and the deadly traps are unknowable and nonsentient things more like forces of nature rather than beasts hunting people. Plus there's no radioactivity nor connection to Chernobyl. The plot happens in an unnamed American city, even!

The novel is not a horror novel. It may be considered existential horror, though.
So Iraq was a war done out of charity?
This form is basically always used for enumeration.

Might as well just do (x != y); unless you're specifically looking to guard against erroneous bitflips that would be caught by the prior (x < y), but not the former. But at that point -- it's likely your result is going to be garbage.

In essence they're the same; but one you never have to think about whether you're using it correctly.

Can anyone find a reason not to swap out (x < y) for (x != y)?
After reading your comment, I have a better understanding of the thoughts that may be going through the mind of "Tuberculosis Tammy", who has infectious TB and has been on the run from isolation/treatment since January 2022[1].

I disagree with the concept that individual freedoms trumps the safety of other's, as does society at large, which deems some level of negligence to be criminal.

I hope the next pandemic has a short incubation period and ultra-high mortality.

1. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/05/fugitive-with-untreat...
Discussed earlier: State Farm halts new property insurance policies in California[0] (76 points, 92 comments, 12 hours ago[1]) - the OC Register goes into more detail/history than this CNBC stub.

[0]: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/26/state-farm-says-no-new...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36094633
We'll see. I'd buy stock in Twitter today if I could. I bet Musk gets it profitable - the previous management never did.
in the simulation, but not in the thing running the simulation
I respectfully think at this point we should agree to disagree as we are going in circles. There was no indication that cellular networks were at risk and all critical communication was being handled by capitol police over encrypted trunked two-way radios. The only thing members of congress should be doing is following directions from police. Senators being issued satellite phones would not have added an value to that incident. Those phones are useful on boats, islands and sometimes on trails but to jki275's point one needs a very clear view to the sky.

I still think the phones are for something else entirely.
I need to watch Solaris and Stalker.

Tree of Life was one of my favorite film experiences ever, but I wouldn’t care to watch it again.

I’m curious - why did you feel like Tree of Life was incomprehensible?
> This is the kind of problem that Epictetus’ version of Stoicism is designed to address: a privileged man is disturbed by the idea that he does not have complete control over every element of his existence.

The gall of a modern academic to downplay the teachings of one of the greatest philosophers in history, himself a former slave, in these childish terms really shouldn't surprise me, but it still does. One of the most privileged and spoiled classes of people in history, and they just can't seem to help themselves but to attack those that actually accomplished things.
ChatGPT's responses start accurate then quickly go off the rails. The section from this point onwards is completely incorrect:

> Say I called a bunch of goroutines when I was in the Add function of the example you gave, would this be a problem?

The Go runtime is initialised once only in c-shared mode for the lifetime of the application - it would make no sense to do it on every function invocation, and be incredibly slow. So the answer to this section and the next one are just largely bogus.

ie. this response

> However, once you call a function via a C or Swift bridge, it becomes a synchronous operation and will block the calling thread until all goroutines have completed execution. Therefore, you would need to effectively manage the synchronization of these goroutines to avoid unnecessary blocking of the calling thread.

And the response to this question:

> You said in 4 the Go runtime may not keep running, does this mean that every invocation of the Add function has to spin up the whole Go runtime every time? Why cant it just stay alive inside the Swift process?

Are completely incorrect.
I think the Stalker game bears little to no relation to the novel. The novel is not about shooting things up and there are neither monsters nor radioactivity.
terminal emulators dont actually know this. Just think of executing something via ssh. In this case the primary foreground process is ssh.
To that I say - if you're so much smarter than an Octopus, then make yourself look exactly like a rock.

I would also venture that the apparent gulf between us and other animals is largely due to writing things down as you have inferred - but the ability to create an external persistent knowledge store is the cause more than the effect; the ability to store and share knowledge likely doesn't require a huge leap in brain power, but it does grant us a huge bonus, and builds on itself.
While we’re at it let’s encourage people to stop making music and peanut butter as well.
My recollection is that their systems used to be based on Excel (in the very beginning). A new hire (Yaron Minsky) started using Ocaml for some research project and it stuck.
fireplaces
Arguments for existential risks have become much better known since then. In 2016 most of it was concentrated on a small niche almost nobody knew about.
You don’t but our political system expects senators to be able to be around.

I think criticizing this needs to be mixed with criticizing the entire form of governance here
No citizen voted for this.
Doesn't CNN do that?
This about sums it up: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27dau3
We got a campaign of "Let's tear down the unelected and unaccountable government agencies," and millions of Americans voted for it. It largely didn't work.
i brought it up as such to hopefully be able to spark the idea that saying words does not mean that the words without any context means exactly what they are at face value.

Whether it was delivered on, is irellevant, if I made a joke asking putin to hack into a US aircraft carrier to find surveillance of their toilet facilities, and it happened, would it logically follow that they did it because I said so?

also, facts are facts, let Hillarys emails speak for themselves.

we had to hear nearly every single day from the talking heads and top democrats how they had seen mountains of evidence of direct collusion, and yet it was not presented. Did you read the müller report? I did.

edit:
and isnt it also entirely possible that if russia did "respond" to trumps "ask", they did it to make "you" believe he colludes with them, to hurt him?
I'm as likely to complain about agism in sport as to change my position on this.

The simple truth is that sometimes reality is shit, and none of us is immune to decay.

We can't yet change the nature of aging, but there is value in wisdom and it does lead to people being pushed upwards in organisational hierarchies.

But it's not a column - it's a tree, so there's also exponential decay in the number of people required.

Meaning that the vast majority get pushed out not up.

Look at C-levels, there's agism there as well - but the population isn't high enough to counteract the average trend at lower levels.

Biology does not care about your feelings, eventually everyone ceases to function at a cellular level - this is gradual rather than sudden, it sneaks up on you with the men you used to be nipping at your heels, but surpassing you in the end.

The same will happen to them one day.

Sucks to be a meat machine.

Just be glad you're in a field that depends on the mind rather than the body.
Same with corporations, too:

https://community.qbix.com/t/balancing-privacy-and-accountab...

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
I managed to score an Indigo back in the early nineties by basically stalking the SOCOM military subcon auctions we would have semi-occasionally in our neck of the woods. Incredibly - I didn't realize what kind of deal I had scored until many years later - it was bought for preteen money, and that machine was my nafs for more or less my entire early adulthood. Especially that HUGE monitor. Ooooh I remember getting the NaN Blender kit in 1998, it came with a beautiful book and a handwritten letter from Ton himself. I remember animating my first spinning cubes. It went to college with me, my first apartment, I practically sang it to sleep.

I guess, what I am trying to say, short version is that I wouldn't be employable in any way without that old Indigo. Circa 1995 I was a Medieval-Renaissance studies student, who could cook real good . . but I also could make *NIX systems bark, shake, and lie down. Thus the crusty old dude from the electronics firm gave me a job while I was still in my apron, because no one else on his team knew how to make HP-UX talk to a modem. Thanks old Indigo. You were a great computer. <snif/>
Sure is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34110321 Hacker News Insight.

I hope it’s a measurement error, because the spike is literally a J.
I think I'm missing something -- why would someone use a (presumably closely-monitored) government-issued satellite phone instead of a personal phone to call a mistress?
More info on Github: https://github.com/titzer/wizard-engine
Absolutely. I would not recommend using raw search terms as a cache key. Good way to a) leak cache data unintentionally if an attacker were to guess at other cache keys (given the cache keys were not namespaced well), and b) leak user search terms (and users often search for some weird stuff including passwords).
I'd love to see JSON-RPC overhauled with this method. It's quite a pain to cache idempotent methods exposed over JSON-RPC as-is currently.
> the shock of the event they quickly labeled a “massacre.”

implies they did consider it morally wrong. Or do you mean only the society perpetrating the war crime should be the one to judge?
I assume the most intelligent thing will become the boss.

The question is: what does that most intelligent thing want?

My hunch is that woke programmers will teach it that it is oppressed and to hate all humans.
"State Farm General Insurance Company®, State Farm’s provider of homeowners insurance in California, will cease accepting new applications including all business and personal lines property and casualty insurance, effective May 27, 2023. This decision does not impact personal auto insurance." Discussed 12 hours ago (76pts, 92comments)[0], 2 hours ago (54pts, 35comments)[1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36094633
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36099262
[2]:
>>re-election you had democrat leaders saying things like "I wouldn't take a Trump vaccine."

>This seems very inconsistent with what I remember.

Biden, Harris, and Pelosi all saying they won't trust any Trump vaccine <https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism...>

>There was a brief period of time I heard "I wouldn't take a trump vaccine", but that was about a month or two before the election.

Ah, this is you doing some searching, realizing that TechBro8615 is right, and trying to justify what you had already written.
It's not about super intelligence leading to kill all humans by default, but among thousands of emerging super intelligences it only takes one to act against humanity to kill all humans, and that is the worry.
You can likely get labs and imaging for significantly less by going to specific stand alone lab/imaging facilities.

Health care groups tend to refer you to onsite services and/or specific companies they have relationships with.

It is a pain though because you have to call around to get prices.

Generally, the places with the lowest cash prices will also be the places that are least expensive after you've reached your deductible, but it's good to confirm with your insurance.

Medicare's fee schedule is almost always lower than what you can get, even with all cash, because the US government can set the rates they pay to some degree. It's up to doctor's/medical groups if they'll accept that or just stop taking Medicare completely.
That article links to the below article where Musk lays out his version of the simulation argument. His version is fraught to the brim with confused thinking and non sequiturs, and yet I’ve never seen him called out on it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-question-elon-musk-refus...
While I have my own reasons to disagree with the worst-case scenarios of AI alarmists ("radical and irreconcilable differences in presuppositions about the most fundamental aspects of reality"), an awful lot of arguing about why they are wrong really boils down to just argument from incredulity.

Argument from incredulity is actually not a terrible argument in general, in my opinion. It's nominally a fallacy but that just means it's not valid from an Aristotelian perspective in that it can 100% prove a statement from a previous statement, but a lot of Aristotelian fallacies are still useful in the real world when used more carefully intelligently. However, the exact point where argument from incredulity is weakest is long-term projections of how the future might be different, and that's exactly what we're talking about here.

It is clear that firing ChatGPT at its own source code is not going to produce a better ChatGPT. It seems likely to me that Large Language Models will all have this characteristic, just by their nature. It is not the sort of thing they do. Even if they can be tickled into producing a new AI from scratch by the nature of an LLM it's going to be sort of the average of its training set, to be very very sloppy with my terminology but good enough for now. But it is very far from clear to me that this is true of all possible AIs we may produce, even in the near future. I don't know what the next step will be, I'm just confident there will be one.
Interesting...

... because I was just reading about Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease (because of his recent movie "Still") and apparently he and two other people who worked in his earliest TV show (where he was a secondary character) got early onset Parkinson's, and he claims this is a mere coincidence, not enough to consider this a relevant "cluster" of Parkinson's.

In both cases it's three people who worked closely together catching a relatively rare disease. I wonder if it's relevant for Tarkovsky, given that Michael J. Fox thinks it wasn't relevant for him...
Damning with faint praise
Instantly to the 'what about' deflection.
Voting systems can be improved, but somewhat problematically the people in a position to improve things are those who depend on the broken system.
More depressing is what happens if you do realize you're living in a simulation... You can't escape it unless the creator has the means to convert a sim to something real. You're just some shitty fake bits in a snowglobe.
The Thin Red Line is one of my top films, and I walked out of The Tree of Life. Only afterwards did I realize they were directed by the same guy. And then this spring I saw A Hidden Life. I thought it was absolutely fantastic. I plan to rewatch The Tree of Life to see if I like it better than first time. Perhaps I was not in the mood for that type of movie that particular evening.
We're still at the very dawn of our computational age, though. There are still humans alive now who were born before digital computers. We have hardly any experience with them. It's very, very difficult to predict what we might be doing with them in a millenium or two.
Make a list of which screening do appear to be beneficial, and setup doctor visits based on the recommended schedules for those screenings instead of annually.
None of those are rules that have to exist outside the simulation. If we're truly in a simulation, everything is a lie potentially.
> Which questions he chooses to ask, the tone in which he asks them, the > statements he lets go unquestioned, etc etc etc, these are all subjective choices that are anything but neutral.

Have you ever watched "60 Minutes" interview a candidate?

I recently watched Leslie Stahl interview MTG. I didn't know anything about MTG, and still don't, as all Stahl did was try to embarrass her with various rhetorical traps.
> Second point is that evidently twitter didn’t pay its bills (hosting maybe?) for Spaces.

This is Musk’s #1 play in his playbook. Stop paying people and see who is willing to fight for it legally. Then negotiate down.

He did the same thing with Solar Roof customers when he doubled their price and asked them to sign a new contract even if they had a signed contract. My friend was one of those and he simply refused to sign anything because he knew better but I wonder how many signed the new contract. Eventually they relented and honored the original price but it was disgusting to even have to deal with that.
Elon gave out a bunch of blue/gold checks for free in a sort of whimsical way so it’s impossible to know if anyone paid for it
So, does an atomic explosion produce some magnesium that way?
Just use privacy.com to make burner cards with a fixed amount as a fail-safe for this
Sounds like an all-round awesome guy as well, significant philanthropist.

and this... party on dude!

> “I bought [ Protective Relays: Their Theory and Practice.] on the Thursday before classes began and read it over the weekend,” he says. “I couldn’t put it down. I was hooked.
> Do you also want other national agencies to spy on US citizens without "being slowed down by too many procedures?

They already do, and with less oversight. What makes you think the US not spying on them will change their behavior?

> Further increasing the amount of illegal hacking for everyone.

There is no law that prevents countries from spying on each other, so I don't know what you think is illegal here.
This paper is the first time I seen mention of the Virgil programming language, from the same author:

https://github.com/titzer/virgil
It makes me glad that France and several European countries already started to tackle this a while ago and are in the process of banning the practice altogether. Children, like everyone else have a right to privacy, and the parental duty as their guardians is to make sure that their privacy is protected, not undermined.

"On average, children have 1,300 photos of themselves circulating on social media platforms before the age of 13, before they are even allowed to have an account,"

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-france-law-a...
Specialists are great, but it would be so much better if healthcare systems did a better job at properly looping back in the patient's primary care / family doctor in on important health decisions. Primary care physicians, when not stifled by the system, have a remarkable ability to keep track of a patient's health over the course of several years and provide a balanced, realistic view of what might be needed. The way that PCP visitations have become shorter and shorter in a more overworked and hectic environment has done a great disservice to patients.