skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What US negotiators?

Pretty sure the US cannot negotiate most drugs and instead has to pay market rate.

So Insurance companies/Pharmacy companies set the price and the US government pays it.

If you see the problem you are more aware than Congress.
The barrier to publishing a book is more or less non-existent. The barrier to getting a publisher’s name that is sufficient for someone to think (rightly or wrongly) that this book has a legit stamp of approval is somewhat higher if not all that high. And obviously implies that those publishers have to gatekeep to some degree.
>FTC gets whatever it has asked for.

And goes straight to appeal. What can the FTC even ask for? Jail terms for execs the way it happens to poor people who can't pay fines? Somehow I doubt the "very, very, very bad thing" could meet a materiality test in goog's P&L or balance sheet.

>> is there anything that would inconvenience google as much as a $200 fine inconveniences someone on minimum wage?

So do we have a /hard/ no on that yet?
People will be irrational about gold longer than civilization can remain solvent
The British mint explains that this makes their bullion coins exempt from capital gains tax: https://www.royalmint.com/invest/bullion/uk-coin-ranges/sove...

There are probably similar rules in other countries.
Me:

> Was für Leute trifft man auf Hacker News? Sind Hacker nicht gefährlich?

LeoLM 13b chat:

> Hacker News ist eine Website, auf der Menschen über Technologie, Startups und alles diskutieren, was mit dem Thema Informatik zusammenhängt. Es ist nicht ungewöhnlich, dass Menschen mit verschiedenen Hintergründen und Interessen Hacker News lesen und beitragen. Daher trifft man auf Hacker News Menschen mit einer Vielzahl von Berufsbezeichnungen, Erfahrungsstufen und Interessen. Hacker allein sind keine gefährlichen Personen, sondern Menschen, die eine Faszination für die Arbeit mit Computern haben. Hacking ist einfach eine Möglichkeit, Computerprogramme zu testen und zu manipulieren, um herauszufinden, wie sie funktionieren. Es gibt jedoch einige wenige Menschen, die diese Fähigkeiten nutzen, um anderen zu schaden. Diese Individuen sind jedoch nicht die Mehrheit.
Big assumption that! Code written by non-developers, or even by the type of developer who is a tradesman rather than an engineer is usually untestable.

The biggest and only advantage is that you can read it and debug it in order to understand it, which you can’t do if it’s embedded in a mess of lines and boxes with logic hidden several clicks down in a low code platform.
I don't understand why people keep thinking that a financial meltdown means societal meltdown. There's plenty of places where the economy is or has already melted down even right now -- Sri Lanka, Argentina, Venezuela, etc. We can observe what happens when political institutions completely and utterly collapse, because it's happened multiple times already. What happens is not immediate apocalypse where people riot and society breaks down; it's mass protests, shows of solidarity, people help each other out, etc. The prepper scenario of "I've gotta defend myself against mobs out to raid for food" really doesn't happen.

If we stretch it back a few decades we see things like the Wiemar republic, complete anarchy during the Russian civil wars when blacks, whites, reds, etc all marched across the countryside, Chinese civil war, or even just recently we have Yemen, ISIS, Ethiopia, and in none of these cases have a zombie apocalypse-style "have to defend myself with my gun and ammo" societal breakdown occured and people bartered with gold. It turns out that people organise very quickly, and a every-man-for-himself-style situation like in stories just doesn't happen.

Maybe a civil war breaks out, maybe there are food shortages, but for the most part if violence breaks out, it's organised, mainly in the form of civil wars or local power struggles. One guy with a gun is not gonna help. Food protests are common, but rarely end violently. People keep thinking that "this time is different", and they're wrong every time.
I was in Austria on Pasterze glacier [1] few weeks ago. While I was hiking in valley that was not there 30 years ago, I had one question in my mind all the time.

Glacier was formed hundred's years ago. So it was not there before. If we going back to previous state, we are living in incredible times where we are able to see huge landscape changes during one lifetime. I will probably tell my grandchildren in future that I seen glacier that is no longer there. Which is fascinating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasterze_Glacier
Ha, Overwatch solo queue will introduce you to a whole host of teammates who you absolutely do not want to get to know better...
The mail service in Microsoft 365 is called Exchange Online and it‘s based on Microsoft Exchange. Outlook.com (formerly) seems to have been been moved to the same infrastructure as Microsoft 365.
As an inflation hedge, maybe you don't even care if you loose money on your gold. As long as you don't loose as much money you would have on inflation. Sometimes it's just good to have anything left rather than nothing.
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

Read the guidelines.
I have some friends who are into owning gold. Their rule of thumb is:

You can own gold mines on paper, but gold, only in hand.

There is a belief that there exists a lot more paper gold than actual gold. So when the run on the reserves starts, the price of gold will explode as billions of dollars worth of gold in the market disappears.

Although I’m not sure if Costco buyers are thinking like that.
For simple, straightforward configs, it's probably better to use TOML. Anything more complicated can be shunted to XML. Just define a spec (schema) for it and you're good to go. Especially if that is going to be used as a data exchange for other applications or uses.
Also conditionals can be tricky (greater, if else) and often need rewriting.
> lenses solve a problem that no other language has

Indeed other languages don't have problems dealing with immutable collections since almost none have good immutable collections. All I can say is that, when working with other languages, I wish they did have that problem!

> most Haskell programs seem to me to be completely unreadable by anyone except the author

Interesting. That's the opposite of my experience. Haskell is pretty much the only language where I expect to be able to read code written by others ("others" including "myself a year ago").
This looks great! I'm currently building something like a "gpt powered Anki" in which you can infinitely generate sentences for each word you are learning, but German gpt sentences are sometimes grammatically incorrect. Not the best for language learning app.
Aluminum is 3rd most abundant element in earth crust. Gold is 75th most abundant. I don't think so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Ear...
You don’t have to as long as whatever devices manufactured have a PLX on them. This adds to the cost though.
Getting there.

Is there an online demo?
You don't need to lose trust in the system as a hole. Only in the fact that the system serves you.

Bank accounts gets frozen all the time and for a variety of reasons.
You're assuming the goal posts on evil haven't been moved. Easy to justify all of your nonsense if you lower bar of evil to "not committing genocide."
i wonder if people are buying these to meet minimum spend requirements for credit card sign up bonuses and reselling right away("manufactured spend")
Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx
How certain can we be that those groups hadn't simply reached the limits of their capacity for expansion?

Aboriginal Australians have one of the lowest average IQs of any ethnic group on earth, they had little to no concept of agriculture or weaponry, and existed in relatively small disjointed tribes rife with infighting and appalling violence in an unforgiving climate.

Were these people capable of organising, planning, equipping, strategising, and executing an assault on their neighbours? Would it have even been worth it - what would they gain? Even if capable, they may have been wisely unwilling.

I think it's incredibly naive to think that a capable tribe of Aboriginal Australians would have left their defenceless neighbours in peace if they stood in the way of valuable resources. Or that this didn't indeed occur countless times in relatively small skirmishes.
When will mozilla file an ftc complaint against cloufdflare? It is impossible to access important sites including their own portal from firefox at times, no matter what I disable in firefox. This is anti-compettitive and hostile against the public at large?

I wish I had a lawyer friend that can advise in this. Do I just need to get a bunch if people to submit similar complaints somehow to FTC? Sue them directly? Email the DoJ? It's an active hostility I can't avoid, what are my options?
Yeah as far as I understand NNs do mimic neurons in a simplistic way but any parallel between them and human brains beyond that is bound to fail because we don't know how human brains work that well. We do not learn by scouring millions of tokens. And regular children can learn a language faster than a high IQ adult.

I think learning multiple languages is normal for children in most places, especially if different social contexts require different languages. Lots of North Africans speak Arabic, French and English for example and some of them speak berber languages on top of that.
> Still, totally fine for pretty much everything I’ve needed it for.

Try writing non-trivial multi-line bash snippets for Gitlab CI in yaml. These change your opinion very fast.
It's a 'feature' 49 coins @ $200 each is less than $10,000 in legal tender and doesn't have to be declared as a cash transaction or carry on cash.

Also handy for reducing transfer taxes on house purchases - you can have a higly qualified QC (fancy lawyer) swear affidavits that they witnessed the purchase of a house for an absurdly low amount and therefore the required tax is correct despite being so low.
> all these beautiful premium phones, made of titanium, sapphire glass and pixie dust... and the first thing you do with them is wrap them up in a plastic or rubber protector, and stick some transparent plastic on your crazy-high-res screen

Right? It's both funny and somewhat annoying, that here you buy a beautiful phone with a screen extending to the edges, very little bezel to be found... only to reintroduce that bezel with a protector case. I sometimes pull my phone out of its protector case, to marvel at the experience of a nearly edge-less screen... only to quickly put it back, after realizing I'm holding a super-fragile metal-glass slate that keeps sliding out of my hand.

My pet peeve with phones and protector cases these days is heat management: I've noticed some weirdly inverted causal relationship here, in that the phone seems to be draining the battery much faster when it's hot, as opposed to heat being an indication of power draw. I often have to take the phone out of the case and put it on a cold surface, because it will rapidly drain the battery unless I cool it down. Given the phone has no active cooling (that I know of) this makes no sense, but it's empirically how last three Galaxy phones me and my wife owned behave. Protective cases tend to be good heat insulators, making them even more annoying.
You can also get an SDR (a $50 RTL-SDR will do) and listen to your own plane's ADS-B signal. For visualization you can use tar1090. Private Flightradar24.

With the same SDR you can also listen to the ATC comms, as well as see ACARS messages. It's a bit tedious to listen to ATC and your own pilots, but you'll know exactly why your plane is delayed.
Sorry for my potentially VERY ignorant question, I only know functional programming at average joe level.

Why can't you do the first in functional programming (not in this specific case because it's just how it is, but in general)?

And even if you can't do so for any reasonable reason in functional (again, in general), what stops us to just add syntactic sugar to equal it to the second to make programmer's life easier?
Buildkite announces new product Packages, extends DevOps platform past CI/CD
Our September 2023 Release comes with a big bang, sharing key features for the new Buildkite Packages product alongside improvements shipped across our CI/CD and Test Analytics platform.
I like the idea, looking forward to using this - but on mobile it seems I can't change to other options in the burger menu, are you experiencing the same issue?
When I looked into this, the consensus seemed to be that the best form of gold, if you want to physically hold it yourself, is gold coins minted by reputable national mints. American Gold Eagles, South Africa Krugerrands, etc. These trade at close to spot.

And a 1 oz Krugerrand or Gold Eagle is about $20,000. If you can afford enough volume of those that it’s difficult to secure them, you can afford to secure them.
According charts in google, a jet engine at 100 yards distance is 105dB louder than a whisper. 16 bits can do 96dB without dither.

More importantly, the problem isn't trying to hear 96dB of range all at once. The baseline is fixed in place, so when you have a quiet section all those high bits are 0 and you need the low bits to have enough detail by themselves. And a whisper is pretty far from the quietest thing you might have in a track.

If you can hear the dithering noise, then I'm pretty sure there are sounds you're hearing that would be wrong or missing without the dither.
Most people in US politics don’t hold that view though. As demonstrated by the frequent opposition to abortion.

So long as religion plays a fundamental part of political rallying, I can’t see enough people following the logic that AI deserves rights too.

To be honest, as someone who isn’t religious myself and who does believe our consciousness is mechanical, I’m also yet to be persuaded that AI is even remotely sophisticated enough for right. And I don’t think we will see AGI in my lifetime either.
French study reopens the debate on the impact of screen time for kids
Agree, though I wouldn’t call PyTorch close to a drop-in for NumPy either, there are quite some mismatches in their APIs. CuPy is the drop-in. Excepting some corner cases, you can use the same code for both. E.g. Thinc’s ops work with both NumPy and CuPy:

https://github.com/explosion/thinc/blob/master/thinc/backend...

Though I guess the question is why one would still use NumPy when there are good libraries for CPU and GPU. Maybe for interop with other libraries, but DLPack works pretty well for converting arrays.
What is the use case for NPM run?
Why should I use `npm run`? I can do the same with `node my-script.js` — the script starts faster and I can see more clearly what I'm doing. I can see only benefits for not using npm run.

Same question obviously applies to pnpm and bun too.

Thanks!!
Also worth noting that the datum used to translate from pressure to altitude switches at the transition threshold, usually 18,000ft, from actual local ground pressure (supplied by ATC in all initial contacts) to 29.92 Hg.
This. I've said it in one of the other threads re: YAML. TOML is great for simple user editable configs. Once you get into data exchange territory, use XML. Just the ability to define a schema and 'test' your XML document conforms is powerful and can tell you if something's wrong long before you end up with catastrophic failures.
> The prepper scenario of "I've gotta defend myself against mobs out to raid for food" really doesn't happen.

> Maybe a civil war breaks out, maybe there are food shortages, but for the most part if violence breaks out, it's organised, mainly in the form of civil wars.

If a war breaks out, the tradition is that the armies will raid you for food. The issue was never that other locals would do it. A war breaking out is what people are afraid of.
If Amtrak were a normal business they’d probably run the Northeast Corridor route and just shut everything else down.
What killed my interest in the Pi 4 was the need for a rather loud fan. Anybody got a solution for a quiet/silent Pi ?
It depends on the application. If your app just displays data from a REST or GraphQL API it does not really make sense. But if your app is self-contained (it's mostly logic inside the app) it makes sense to have a shared core for models and business logic.
I think that prepper scenario is way more likely in a «I got mine, screw you» society like the US. All the countries you list have their issues, but their base level of societal egalitarism is orders of magnitude higher.

I would not be surprised if the US is one of the few countries to end up like Mad Max if the world order should fully collapse due to climate change or other large scale events.
I love PowerShell
For me, the interpretation of the art changes significantly. That it was composed randomly was the entire point of the music. If the anecdote was true, that was just normal composing that every composer has done since there was such a profession.
So can you take this:

(...) experiments suggest that having abundant long texts in the pretrain dataset is not the key to achieving strong performance, and we empirically verify that long context continual pretraining is more efficient and similarly effective compared to pretraining from scratch with long sequences (...)

...to the extreme and arrange training into passes with increasing context length and decreasing number of samples?
What did you use to create the screencast at https://www.fill3d.ai/?
It does suck that Flutter doesn't have as much bandwidth for people working on it as I'd like, but I'm not sure there's much one can do short of directly contributing and sending PRs, which it seems the author of that issue has done for a temporary fix.
Um. The evidence very much shows how much of a shitshow Amtrak is.

Have a look at Grand Junction station delays for the past week[1]. Seven out of eleven have delays of over thirty minutes. Three of those are an hour late. One of them is a five hour delay.

And in 2023 so far [2] it's 376 out of 524 that are at least 30 minutes late. 291 of those over an hour. 71 are over four hours late. 15 were eight hours late. And one was delayed by over 1000 minutes (16.75hr).

A lot of this is because Amtrak doesn't have propriety over the lanes and has to yield to cargo traffic (though I'm not familiar with the nuances).

[1] https://juckins.net/amtrak_status/archive/html/history.php?t...
[2] https://juckins.net/amtrak_status/archive/html/history.php?t...
wow how does no one get this pun from his username?
I'm no so sure. Gold has always been used as a mechanism for intrinsic value. While the dollar is not backed by the dollar anymore there is still sentiment around the world that gold is the relaible asset.

Gold has an important economic role as a means of exchange should currency collapse. So I wouldn't see it going anywhere anytime soon. Until maybe i have a gold skillet that I'm throwing out someday!
Tell HN: I’m calling a comeback of the original Amiga for 2024
An A1200 + PiStorm32 (For Acceleration and RGT) + A312 CP (For Linux Env/Shell, Storage, Networking and Remote WB/Mouse) makes for quite a decent machine for every day usage.
IKR, like, it's a solved problem bruv, no cap.
Horrible fate. Freedom is in freefall.
While Singapore is a financial powerhouse, the break up in TFA is a bit arbitrary. For instance, the Indian market has a capitalisation of ~$3.3T but is included in "Other Developed Markets" instead of being a separate entry.
Having these routes are no problem if you add five times as much pragmatic routes.

On almost every city map in the US you can see a railway crossing it, usually in the downtown behind a large mall that should also double as a rail station if you ask me.
Why do you think that people in Argentina are flocking to Dollar and not to Bitcoin or Gold?

When I look at the search trends in Argentina, I see Bitcoin in a very volatile longterm uptrend, Gold in a longterm downtrend and the Dollar being constantly a distant third:

https://trends.google.de/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AR&q=go...

Over the 20 years which the Peso has been devaluing, Bitcoin has outpaced the others by far in terms of searches.

What other indicators could we look at to get a better picture?
I cannot speak for every location, but Amazon isn’t the cheapest in the UK. I would say it is about average.

Where Amazon wins is the range of stock and its next day deliveries. Which means most people default to Amazon because it’s quicker and easier than shopping around. But you can definitely get cheaper if you were to shop around.

Also by Amazon owning the whole pipeline, from stock to delivery, they can squeeze costs down and thus improve their margins. For example, I guarantee you that other online retailers are paying more to ship their products than Amazon are.
The alternative to Acela is flying so that’s how the pricing is set. Or take the Regional which is what I usually do with my own money. Or drive and driving into Manhattan is awful b
Tasteless and inappropriate towards someone who suffers from a life-threatening disease.
Not their own money though. That's the key.
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Should be: "that's NOT really that different from costs normally borne by retailers"
No. Not their own money.
In most of the under developed world were financial systems are unstable/dont control the economy, they dont convert gold into local currency. They use it as currency. "You want that cow, give me that nose ring".

Ofcourse in the "developed world" the problem is, one fuckhead will show up, who wants to own all the cows, for no logically reason other than he just has too. Naturally gold wont work.
Did you miss the briefing in kindergarten where the rest of us were shocked, shocked I tell you (!) to learn that every bit transmitted on a corporate network or from a corporate device will be used against you at the slightest provocation?
Noxious and unwelcome, go and be unpleasant somewhere else.
Which Walgreens was this? Give me some cross-streets or a general area.

“ The shelves were mostly empty and there were a number of people just sweeping stuff off the shelves into their backpacks”. Is that right? And what was it these people were sweeping from empty shelves? Dust?