skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many insurers, after whittling down physicians' reimbursements, now take an additional cut if the doctor prefers — as almost all do — to receive funds electronically rather than via a paper check.

What’s the angle here? Classic rent seeking because they can? Profiteering collecting interest on the float? Banking on doctors being slow to cash physical checks?

There’s some heavy stickiness to using one of these paperwork handlers for doctors. The switching costs are significant. But you’d still think there’s enough money there for someone to step up and offer the service without the fees. There’s enough money in fee per service to eat the big guys’ lunches.

It’s ridiculously close to the payroll business and we all know what happened there over the past 5-10 years.
You don’t sound like you’re asking in good faith, if you are, let me know and I’ll answer.
I'm happy to give lisp credit for everything cool.

but Common Lisp has all the good stuff you need to manage different generations of objects under changing classes, not the least of which is jumping into the running system and examining the running state. warnings and errors about redefinition, maybe jump under a different package to manage generations. state and functions are separate, thanks to dynamic dispatch.

Ruby, on the other hand, rewrites the class. hope all the data and functions are forwards and backwards compatible! good luck.
I understand the logic, but I never understood why we (and I mean, collectively, the JS VM engineers across the browser vendors) didn't just rewrite the benchmark (or fix it) and name it SunSpider 2. I suggested this many times. It's not that much code.
There is no objective, public, or shared "value" at play here.

The only "values" that matter are the personal whims of whoever happens to own Twitter, or Google or Facebook.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm certainly add a `--user` flag. One kind note though, the service being set up does not have root access. The value of `User=` is $SUDO_USER (hp- my regular non privileged user that initiatiated sudo mode) instead of $USER (root). Sudo is needed for writing `.service` files to `/usr/` and for start, stop operations with dbus.
I made a wine kit for each of my children - it makes 30 bottles and we drink one a year on the birthday itself.

I've found it helps for scale and as a bonus you get to see how a wine really ages over time.
For prompt ingestion... I dunno.

Unbatched token generation is basically RAM bandwidth limited, as the entire model has to be cycled through for each token. I bet theoretical performance is similar to the GPU, albeit with much lower power consumption.
Nope. That’s consolidated storage usually mediated by a device that manages things. I’m talking about a more ad hoc system. Synology is great until I need one more drive than I have bays.
"Crypto-christian" just means saying they are not Christian, yet still assuming things just because Christians insist upon them. Bart Ehrman is a good example. You can shriek "crank" all you like, but either you engage with the evidence, or you are a crank yourself. Carrier exposes all his evidence and all his reasoning for public inspection. Ehrman just huffs and blusters disgracefully.

Your assessment of a "minority position" carries exactly zero weight. Either the gradient is positive, negative, or static. For the case of mythicism, the gradient over the past century is strongly positive: a hundred years ago nobody could even discuss mythicism. Twenty years ago, few found it plausible. Since then, the number has risen sharply. As Max Planck said, science advances one funeral at a time. The trend is clear.

Does it actually matter? Only as much as any history matters.
Indeed, the point OP is trying to make is that despite Manifest v3, Firefox is nevertheless still losing users (to highlight how dire the situation for Firefox is).
Hi! Yes Mozilla approached WA (talks were held with Brian Acton if I remember correctly). We tried various workarounds:

- 3rd party clients. That worked initially, but WA was quite aggressive in breaking them, and once e2ee was added they stopped working.

- we wrote a j2me VM in Javascript (https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet) to run the S40 version :) Perf was not good enough when dealing with java threads.

- we collaborated with a company (OpenMobile) to run the Android app in a container, rendering in a DOM element. That was a pain in term of OS integration, and OpenMobile finally didn't get the distribution agreement from WA.

I implemented the KaiOS additional APIs, basically exposing a subset of libsignal. You're right that there are missing pieces in the web stack for these apps - it's very frustrating that you can't rely on WebCrypto for all the e2ee. Let's hope WebAssembly will fix that!
While everyone should be keenly aware the limitations of taking experimental results in mice and extrapolating to humans (aka, they often don't), doesn't that mean what we really have, is a bunch of well tested medication for meth addicts? Which; if there was a way to get meth addicts off meth, would be a boon?
Even if you were a contractor performing these “non-essential services” it isn’t uncommon to take that experience and “move up” by moving to another organization. This pattern is also broken by the dynamic described in parent comment
https://www.photoprism.app/
It’s already well-known that interest rate changes take a while (months? A year?) to effect the economy. It’s also well-known that higher interest rates hurt startups, “pre-revenue” companies, consumer buying power, etc. So to be bearish right now seems like a no-brainer.
I'd love to hear more on this, what are some problems we don't see? And what do you mean by effective?
I want solar powered. The doorbell probably gets pressed what, once in 5 days? Cover the enclosure of that thing in solar panels and have some super-capacitors for overnight power.
Disney in 2020: "Gambling taints our family reputation, we want a clean record."

July 2023: "Boss, we're plumb out of cash and laying off employees!"

Aug 2023: "We love sports gambling! It's very recreational! Even Mickey does it!'
It's limited to 300 logit biases at a time. Knowing GPT4's vocabulary is ~100k tokens it's not nearly enough to get reliable guided generation. Although it could work in some cases, and another advantage of this work is that we can determine that before generating.
musicnotes.com has a subscription at this point. Not a "traditional" publisher in that way, but it's a huge player for PVG (piano, vocal, guitar) scores that isn't Hal Leonard.
Could AI ever master jazz music?
> The only people complaining are the ones who want to disregard road laws because they don't care about the danger they pose to others, and like that there's barely any enforcement.

I question whether or not this will lead to safer roads. It doesn't stop people from getting where they want to go at unsafe speeds, it just adds a toll that many will be happy to pay. It doesn't and can't always impact the actual driver, either, because the system can only fine the owner. There ya go, someone not interested in disregarding road laws.
This is quite a silly comparison, because these cards are cheap to produce and trivial to manufacture relative to something like a car. The value is from the perceived scarcity, not from the perceived quality or luxury or usefulness, and the scarcity is at the whim of the manufacturer who artificially decides which cards will be scarce and which will be common.
Leave it with a neighbour, attempt redelivery the next day, let you collect it from a delivery office, hide it in a less obvious safe place.

Usually they give you the choice of what to do.

Though having said that, I live in the UK and do occasionally just get parcels left on my very public doorstep. It's the exception though.
Now do additional testing by adding and setting the http referer to t.co or twitter. Is it Twitter, or is it NYtimes doing this?
The objection that perfecting something beyond what's practical would be
unfeasible is not a good one against making it better within reasonable limits, right?

It's very difficult to quantify the harm that jail does to you. It depends on a lot of factors, some of which are entirely personal, and besides, jail has multiple functions (in short: dissuasion, retribution, prevention and re-education). A fine exists mostly for dissuasion, and has a very precise economical value that is easy to gauge on the income/ wealth of the person fined.
What is the current state of "correspondence between fed text and output text"? I.e. how much, when fed in the training e.g. that "Spain invested 6000$ in Columbus' first voyage", LLMs will repeat that notion exactly?

This, without taking into account reasoning and consistence. And already this notion that I picked randomly is not without issues: dollars how computed? And, it is not difficult to state that Columbus reached the Caribbeans in 1492; more complex to "decide" the year of the siege of Troy out of the many dates proposed.

But already at the simplified level of determined clear notions: if LLMs are told that "A is B", and in absence of inconsistency in the training corpus, what is the failure rate (i.e. then outputting something critically different)?

> ways to check up

Some LLMs work as search engines, outputting not just their tentative answer but linked references. A reasonably safe practice at this stage is to use LLMs that way: ask then use the output to check the reference.
At least 3 Russian journalists and activists poisoned abroad since fall 2022
"the check was fraudulently cashed by an unknown third party."

There's more to this part of the story:

roommate?

Ex?

Family member?

Or your mail gets stolen frequently. You've taken measures to prevent mail theft. Oh, you haven't...
Right, Hal Leonard's digital outfit.
Uh, clearly you don’t know anybody who actually worked there? Management is very very very unpopular and they’ve been facing a massive brain drain for years.

Because they do have a great browser, but have a horrible strategy and have wasted money in any number of ways, and made themselves wholly dependent on Google for handouts.
Oh no, Google must be really sorry about that!

EDIT to clarify: Google is known to make sure the web experience breaks for firefox, same story for youtube, so this is not an accident. Don´t use chrome and don´t use gmail if you want to keep the web open.
I think we would find common ground, yes. That would be fun! But I'll be the designated driver and stay sober. :)
I was taking about Fibre Channel...same drive with a different controller would cost 2x, and the switches and management software were just obscenely priced.

there was also iscsi. I tried to use to it in a couple jobs and it was really poorly performing, and not very reliable. I _suspect_ that's just because it was never paid attention to properly? maybe because it was using TCP instead of a reliable but unordered protocol.

thinking about it, I'm off on the bandwidth numbers. SSDs move out quite a bit...so maybe you wouldn't replace your primary OS drive. But for secondary and tertiary storage ethernet drivers would really be nice

PCIe fabrics are still kicking around. I agree that's another enabling technology that just hasn't found a home. You would think with this USBc stuff that would suddenly be of great interest.
The framework you're looking for is more or less Vue.

(some will probably disagree, but I think most that have used Vue significantly won't)
I have never found a website that is broken on firefox that isn't also non-functional on chrome. What does firefox break?
One way or another the company's obligations are down. Company revenue is ~$200B/yr so they will easily take advantage of the full tax exemption, which you could then think of as paying workers or any other business expense (pessimist note: I strongly suspect it will not go towards higher wages or better working conditions).
My Nan ate whale meat during the war in the UK. She didn't recommend it. "You didn't know if you were eating fishy meat or meaty fish."
Porch pirates and various vandals.

Of course, Rings are essentially worthless for vehicle identification. You would need LPC (License Plate Capture) cameras set up in two directions just for that. They aren't even particularly good for facial identification.

Really, if you wanted something actionable, you would do what I had seen someone else done, which was capture plates and have the right cameras and ... as the secret sauce, an IMEI catcher, filtering out the usuals and highlighting who just blasted past.

If it is one of the Kia Boys around here, they just get out and re-offend.
Sounds like tiny gpt2.
I like the cut of your jib. Logical fallacies run rampant in today’s “rhetoric”. Makes it easy to brainwash people.
Google sucks. Your position seems to be, though, that because Google sucks, we can't talk about the self-inflicted wounding of Firefox and other buffoonery that happens under the Mozilla Corp umbrella—since Google sucks so much more. There's a word for that: whataboutism.
"That's back-end" is how you can tell a good javascript dev from a bad one. A bad one doesn't know where the express/bun line ends and the browser begins. Be glad.

Also, GUI development has traditionally been a shit show. From Qt/WinForms to WPF to now using Web tech because the whole industry threw up their hands. There's MVC, MVVM, MVP, you name it to describe a proper UI->data relationship and all have failed to breach the boundary of their domain. Components, like ECS in game dev, are one way of solving this issue. Because we have to separate our markup from our logic we have JSX. I really wish I could do something like:

this.view.set(<div></div>);

but the reality is this. If you're developing a UI using code, you don't need markup at all except for the specific element/display you are representing. Almost all of my webcomponents are just a div in a document.createElement and the rest is built up using the same. document.createElement. It's tedious, it's error prone, which is the argument for JSX. I don't need to create a Nav component and a Nav Bar component and a Nav Item component and a Nav Menu component, etc. I can just create a Nav Component and handle it all from there, simplifying my UI view code.

In the end, all of these work arounds are simply because we have to deal with the final product, html and we (myself included) get stuck behind the default tags because thats what we know. We don't need any of it. Define your own. Treat the page like it's one giant empty xml document and everything's derived from a div and see if the browser treats it any different. It doesn't. So your entire body could be made of:

<article>
<post>
<post-title/>
<post-author/>
<post-body/>
</post>
</article>
Betting fatigue will set in, more states will legalize and the hype will settle. Disney might want to look longer term as in 2-3 years these investments will lose their "shine" and might be a liability. I could be wrong, but as an avid sport fan (and watcher of ESPN) I'm sure sick of the betting ads and I'm not alone.

I believe it will be similar to legalizing cannabis. In my local region, there was massive hype around the first stores and now there's too many to support the market, and the weaker stores are struggling.
> You, and society generally, do not consider "one single negative outcome" to be enough of a reason to not do anything.

Like I said, this is a completely incorrect reading of my position, and it should be obvious to you that it's incorrect because I'm taking privacy risks right now. If I believed that "a single negative outcome" was enough privacy risk to justify not doing something, I wouldn't be talking to you right now, I'd be living in the woods and shooting drones out of the sky. But I'm not, so very clearly you are missing something about my views.

> whatever abstract value me using Whatsapp will provide you, a complete stranger.

Collective usage of E2EE makes it easier for other people to blend into the crowd and makes usage of E2EE messaging less suspicious. This is not exactly hard to understand and it's not abstract. It's the same reason why many cisgender people list pronouns when filling out profiles on new services -- it's a very low-cost way to make it so that transgender users aren't singling themselves out.

Collective normalization of E2EE also encourages people who aren't technically inclined and who are just following network effects to switch over to better messengers, which makes them safer without forcing them to become privacy experts.

And of course, when we talk about the "nothing to hide" fallacy, we mean more than "your actions as a stranger benefit me" -- we're pointing out that the risk analysis most people do about privacy risks is flawed and over-optimistic and advising you that you might want to redo that risk analysis. For comparison, you wearing a helmet when you ride your bicycle won't keep me safe, but the safety benefits to you outweigh the downsides and you should still probably wear one anyway. Because people feel invincible about accidents even though they're very much not.
I would love to switch to Firefox but I'm stuck trying to deploy the Firefox Sync server myself in a way that 'just' works.

The old version is not developed anymore, and the new version isn't easily deployable without going through 10 separate issues and trial and error (and I've never succeeded in it).
It's often debated but in my mind, you know you're talking to a "senior" dev when nearly every response they have to a question is "well, it depends..."

Every software project is different since software is a physical manifestation and codification of human process. And human process is... messy as all hell and doesn't like to be constrained by a lot of rules no matter how much effort and management goes into things.

So, I prefer to advise teams build software that can be replaced easily, however that works. Isolate the points of change, make the system components replaceable (because they will be), but keep mind of where things need to be focused on efficiency and less on abstraction. This applies to a single code file all the way up to large scale distributed systems.

In larger orgs, this helps since inevitably we all fall into the trap of Conway's law, and re-orgs inevitably lead to refactoring of systems along new ownership/communication lines. So, the right way to do something will always conform to the unique situations in which a system is developed -- "it depends"/
How do you define a conspiracy theory? If you break about the words, it simply means a theory about a group of people working together towards a common goal.

People who do engage with some wilder ideas do in fact take some actions that are harmful. It’s not the ideas that are harmful, but the actions taken without more complete knowledge that is.
Knoppix is also without systemd since release 8.6. Release 9.1 is current, though 9.2 is available via a German magazine.

http://knoppix.net/get.php

Details and release history:
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=knoppix

Having been released in 2021, Knoppix does not support Wayland, whereas the more recent Devuan does.

https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/daedalus-release-announce...

Both will boot live.
I don't think anything on HomePod ever leaves your home, and any requests for things like... weather are done in a way that doesn't reveal your personal information to a third party.
If there are a microcode update on zen 3 / zen 4, that means there's no way to turn the mitigations off, no?

I'd way ratehr have a fast computer than worry about processes side channeling each other. If I have malicious processes running at all, that's bad. I'm not relying on my OS to defend against hostile processes on the box.
It's possible. We have plans to do so. There are a bunch of finicky corner cases, though. For example, destructuring will call the `return` method of the iterator when it's done (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...), so we have to be careful if somebody has defined `return` on the Array iterator prototype. You can supply a default value when destructuring, which is lazily evaluated, so we have to be careful about arbitrary side-effects taking place in the middle of the destructuring. We need to be able to fall back to something less optimized if we suddenly see a generator, or a user-written iterator. And so on.

Fundamentally, it's the same thing that impedes most optimizations: there are hundreds of different patterns we could optimize, it takes a fair bit of thought to get it right, and we have finite resources, so we have to pick and choose. This particular pattern turns out to be idiomatic in a lot of React code, which is why we're looking at it now. (Or so people tell me; most JS I write is gross little testcases.)
Which was back when you had a bunch of options. If firefox goes under and chromium throws up, it's not like there's a large field of choices.
“Up to £100k”, damages don’t appear to have been decided in that case based on a Google? It’s also a case which has some egregious aspects to it, which the Daily Mail is ignoring in their haste to write another sensationalist headline.

Some of the analysis away from the front pages has been interesting [1] though:

“During the hearing, some of the main issues under investigation related to:

the field and depth of view of each camera, in particular whether they couldn't ‘see’ Dr Fairhurst or her visitors entering and leaving her property, her car, or the car park;

the sensitivity of their microphones;

the extent to which the devices activated themselves automatically, or were triggered, to capture, transmit or record video images and/or associated audio from the field of view;

whether Mr Woodard consulted neighbours sufficiently before installation or provided adequate notices or warnings after installation of the equipment; and

how and for what purpose Mr Woodard stored and processed the data produced by his devices.”

It looks like neighbor tried to solve this without a court case and he was perhaps not receptive to that approach.

[1] https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/f...
Fascinating. I'm not very good at math, but one of the first things I programmed was bruteforce search for the fraction closest to Pi.

It's nice to see the "proper" way of doing things! I might revisit my program and see what the efficiency savings are like! (99.99%?)
Agreed. I also think alcohol ads should be restricted the same way smoking ads have been.
I can't help but point to the rise of dual-income households as a leading cause of the lack of home communities. Who has the time to build a community when most adults are away for almost the entire day?

Nobody ever put a price tag on the value of a healthy living community, so the market is optimizing against it.
As someone who knows systemd very well, my team of Mac-based devs did appreciate when I made something like this. I used a different framework, a precursor to Tome:

https://github.com/toumorokoshi/tome

Using this, I was able to create a very focused tool with few commands and simple docs, which supported things like:

- my-cli help
- my-cli start
- my-cli stop
- my-cli restart
- my-cli status

Sometimes the commands were thin wrappers around systemd, sometimes they were a bit more complex because we really had a collection of services, not a single one.

So while my first reaction was "why not use systemd?", my second reaction is "Oh yeah, I built something like that and it was helpful".

Systemd is great, but it does have a massive amount of a commands and documentation and be overkill and overwhelming.
>Ah yes, so Firefox is faster than chrome, allows you more latitude for adblockers, and isn't pushing garbage hostile web standards, but clearly, mozilla just isn't doing enough

>How many average users even KNOW about firefox anymore?

A hard lesson I learned at my last company was that it's not enough to have the better product. Better marketing and better relationships will, more often than not, trump a better fitting solution to a problem. It sucks, but it's real.
That's a practical design problem, not a fundamentally-necessary evolution of code.