skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree -- this is exactly why when my current smartphone dies, I'm going to be switching to the dumbest phone I can find and start carrying a real pocket computer along with it.
I wouldn't say that I love or hate it. The post definitely isn't sarcastic. What part(s) need more clarity for you?
Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy via Inference with LLMs
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
Typescript wil not help, you can create the same mass.
What me helped is to write almost all code functional and not oop.
Every method had just 1 way data can in and out the method, no side effects.
Classes have a lot of flexibility that make things complex and increase bugs.
If you are strict in what to accept and what to produce, and start with the test, if you create mess, you can eat refactor to create clean code.
This has to do with the fact that robots are still pretty bad at basic tasks such as picking items from a container, or handling fabric. Just have a look at the state of the art in garment manufacturing robots. For most tasks, human muscle and sense of touch are way ahead of any robot.
The weights to the parameters are also always changing. But slightly. This is where AI comes into play.
Follow the drugs and you get drug producers, follow the money and you don't know where you'll end up.
Yeah, the key point the article is making is this:

> Over the past decade these firms have quietly increased their presence in America’s vast health-care industry (see chart ). They do not make drugs and have not, until recently, treated patients. They are the intermediaries—insurers, chemists, drug distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers (PBMs)—sitting between patients and their treatments. In 2022 the combined revenue of the nine biggest middlemen—call them big health—equated to nearly 45% of America’s health-care bill, up from 25% in 2013.

Their answer to the question "who profits most?" is this category of company. That's still compatible with the fact that the manufacturers of the pharmaceuticals have extremely high profit margins.
I guess this would be neater if it demonstrated multiple pages? Otherwise unclear how it's an improvement from a single html file.
Again, healthcare expenditure has been going up versus inflation, and physician compensation has been going down versus inflation. So if you're looking for divers of growing healthcare costs over the past decade, physician compensation isn't it.
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I’m in the same boat, the one time I had issues with the battery on my 2020 crosstrek was when I accidentally left the dome light on for a week. Looking at the class action lawsuit seemingly related to this: https://www.subarubatterysettlement.com/ looks like the Crosstrek and Impreza aren’t included in the class.

Perhaps they are not impacted for some reason.
I mean't finding new streamers you are interested in seem much easier for the user on twitch, for the reasons I mentioned.
Oh, I didn't see this before posting. Well, at least the chance is higher that somebody reads the article ;)
Ask HN: On improving the quality of submissions (on the top/front page)
I noticed that I now sometimes write negative comments for poor/incorrect posts which in the past I would have merely ignored. At first I felt bad about doing so but was compelled nonetheless. On reflection I think it's a response to the number of low-effort/low-quality or factually devoid/incorrect stories that do sometimes make it to the front page.

I see value in a feedback mechanism for raising the bar of top voted submissions. Since posts aren't downvoted flagging is reserved for other use, what other acceptable means is there for providing this signal? At the same time, if there's not already discussion on such a post, even a negative one is engagement which could further popularize it.

Another thing I've started doing is being more liberal with my upvotes to get them above the floor of low-quality post scores.

Does this seem like what's happening and a fine way to approach it, or should something else or nothing be done?
It's both.

I've consulted in many situations where people make horrible business decisions based on "statistically significant." People mistake p-values for p(hypothesis|data), mistake p-values for effect size ("it's highly significant!"); moreover, people using NHST don't understand multiplicity or "topping-off" problems.

Of course one could argue that they just need to review Intro Stats, but that skips over the impenetrable conceptual nature of p-values and NHST. Given that regular people must use applied stats and given that NHST is fundamentally arcane and confusing, then the stage is set for endless drama.

Now if we were sampling manufactured products from batches and looking for a quantitative upper-bound on the failure rates, run over many batches, then we have a winner!
Ui needs some help on mobile. A lot of the text is overlapping.
States do have strong incentives to improve things for their residents, which is why, once ACA programs like state exchanges and Medicaid expansion are implemented, they are popular.

Many state elected leaders, however, have strong individual incentives to avoid any change that exposes previously hidden costs to their constituents, because then their opponents can accuse them of raising spending and/or taxes. (Even though they all know the cost has been there hidden all along.) This is the same incentive structure that inclines state politicians against spending state money on environmental protection, workplace safety, infrastructure, and many other areas where the federal government ends up taking the lead.

You seem pretty plugged in and sympathetic to the point of view of state elected officials. The idea that federal taxes are money stolen from states, for example, is a classic state politician talking point.

But I think you might be surprised how many federal actions are secretly supported by state officials who publicly campaign against them. They get to benefit from the material improvements delivered by the federal program, while blaming Washington for out of control spending, unfair coercion, etc.
Disagree :) Having a `examples/` or `demo/` directory is already good enough, and this repository even has one of those too! https://github.com/aperturerobotics/bifrost/tree/master/exam...

One of the examples seems relatively easy to grasp if you're a web developer, about how to do HTTP forwarding: https://github.com/aperturerobotics/bifrost/blob/master/exam...
> a line cook is a user, a doctor's secretary is a user

I was with you on other types of users, but can you elaborate on these particular use cases?
Can you read? That's literally what I said. (with the exception of insurance, which is just a reflection of the prices charged by providers and drug companies)
Interestingly, going down the rabbit-hole a bit found this letter snippet [0], which suggests this new fabric may have been less of a success in the long term than the article suggests.

[0] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1910Natur..84..429P/abstra...
Exactly right and most of those layers are in the insurance side. There can only be so many layers in a hospital it becomes clear that someones not doing anything. But in an industry like insurance where nobody is ever expected to do anything productive at all well you can justify as many layers as your greed allows.
Buddy Levy's book on the Aztecs and Cortez is one of my favorites of all time.

https://www.amazon.com/Conquistador-Hernan-Cortes-Montezuma-...

It would be amazing if you created an interactive history experience based on this. I'd love to be able to jump around to see where all of the historical tentpole moments happened throughout the city, such as the mass slaughter that happened while Cortez was away, and other historically significant moments.
Are you arguing that the opaque pricing is effective?
The book has eight voluminous chapters and only one is about hypothesis testing. Much of it is about design of experiments and statistical process control, think something like optimizing the workings of a factory. Hypothesis testing has been under attack in psychology/economics/etc., as part of I think a broader problem those disciplines have drawing reliable conclusions in general, since it is difficult to control all the variables. This book is about engineering and industrial applications which are closer to physics.
I don't see a reason pharma industry couldn't function like food industry.
For me, these links either never load or I get an nginx page. Must be an ISP-level block

Works with Tor though
It might be back up to date due to the Venezuelan immigrants (that don't have money). I have been there at least 10 times. Never hat any issue with counterfeit money. Last time I got stuffed with it.

Recommended, rafting in the jungle. Loved it: https://expeditioncolombia.com/tours/rafting/rafting-day-tri...
That doesn't save much money. You have to attack the costs. The rest of the world is not on single payer, you know?
The article points out that the ACA caps insurer profits at 15%.

A 15% profit doesn’t begin to explain the double cost of American healthcare. The article postulates it’s all the middlemen, which, incidentally, the insurers are acquiring in search of higher profits.
Would be good if homeoffice will be more standard. It is the future of work and saves a lot of CO2 (I think the IPCC goals will not be able if we do not roll out homeoffice broadly). It is also a good was to combine work and family for women and also men.
I agree that software is easy, and managing (human) processes is hard. Just the other day I advocated for a Free Management Foundation [1], in the same vein as the Free Software Foundation. Anyone care to spend their life on that?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37968979
vb (6?) may have been copy and paste back in the day but with the advent and continuing "work" on .net VB is just as impenetrable as all the others now.
Not entirely accurate. Public for profit hospitals have done poorly. “Not for profit” hospital conglomerates have done very very well. it’s just that they’re competing with businesses that don’t pay taxes on profit and pay less taxes on property among other incentives. privately owned hospitals are a mixed bag.

The hospitals required to treat charity patients (to maintain not for profit status) as you say are actually doing the best. Hospitals get most their profits/surplus from surgery.
depends on the kind of game you are making. People made MMOs in the year 2000 when CPUs themselves were an order of magnitude slower.
The simple answer here is to just allow us to buy it in other countries to get around the price discrimination.
I should say, doing this only mitigates the middle-click-paste pastejack exploit. The underlying issue - JAVASCRIPT CAN ALTER WHAT YOU HAVE SELECTED AT WILL AND WITHOUT DETECTION - remains, and I believe we'll see other exploits pop up from this.

Say you're about to copy a crypto wallet. You have it selected, and are about to press CTRL-C to copy it. It is entirely possible for malicious code to detect that. And, as it turns out, it's possible for it to change the selection to a different (invisible) string, right as you press CTRL-C.
In addition to AMA artificially limiting number of docs coming out of school, teaching hospitals prefer to take on specialists, since they get paid more for specialists than GPs. As a result, in the US specialists represent ~70% of doctors and in other countries, specialists represent 30%.
Since moving to America from the UK, 8 years ago, I am completely baffled by the whole system. You could blame capitalism but the reality is that it seems to be where the government intervenes that causes the problem, every time they try to do something they cause unintended incentives and break more of the system.

The government needs to take charge of insurance like we have in the UK, at the very least they need to stop doing stupid things that break the system.

Nothing is worse in my opinion than some sort of half capitalist, half arsed regulation, it’s the worst of all the worlds, it’s not free markets and it’s not socialist, it’s Frankenstein.
This comment thread is full of people sharing their uninformed opinions without reading the article. It's maddening, the article is very good and worth a careful read.

Two pull quotes to whet your appetite:

> The country spends about $4.3trn a year on keeping citizens in good nick. That is equivalent to 17% of gdp, twice as much as the average in other rich economies. And yet American adults live shorter lives and American infants die more often than in similarly affluent places.

> Much less attention is paid to a small number of middlemen who extract far bigger rents from the system’s complexity.
Bill Burr is talented, he definitely has wit, but has gone in such a crusade against feminism that he is almost not funny anymore, just a angry man.

I personally love Louie C.K, he is really at showing our social boundaries, pushing us to the limits, the weirdness of them, without trying to push a narrative on how other people are just stupid.
That is bad faith. They're not trying to understand the systems that they feel they can take the responsibility to try to "fix".
I had that warning some days ago, too. It's gone now, not sure what changed in the filter lists.
draw.io (now called diagrams.net) has a sketch style that mimics xkcd / Excalidraw. You can try it here:

https://app.diagrams.net/
> we should not accept any health care reform proposal that any of the American Medical Association, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or the American Hospital Association are generally supportive of.

That seems like a lot of people to piss off to get any reform done.

Wouldn't an actual smart negotiator play off one against the other, and make the doctors support the initiative at the expense of the pharma industry, or vice versa?
I don’t remember having any say at all one way or another.
I think most people feel completely apathetic and helpless when it comes to our government. They do what they want and there isn’t really anything the average person can do about it without an absurd amount of money backing you - so might as well do something different with your time.
I think the part that's missing from most of these scenarios is that all this surveillance can be retroactive.

Now, you might say that things can't be made retroactively illegal, but selective enforcement can be done retroactively. The protagonist angers someone in power, and then finds that they are being summoned to court for jaywalking 357 times over the past year, getting their license revoked for 957 traffic infractions, illegal disposal of hazardous materials like lithium ion batteries in household garbage, etc. They are also a "subject of interest" in customs duty evasion, until they can account for every discrepancy in their last 46 airport x-ray bag scans. Apparently, they are also a serial loiterer, as confirmed by 588 separate security camera videos. They have been seen exchanging something with known drug users (the videos where it is clear they gave a homeless man $1 are quietly ignored).
Apple Freeform yes, comes with macOS. Before that I used Keynote.
When wahnfrieden receives ad-free video from YouTube, it is another form of welfare "freeloading". An adblocker is indifferent from a handout except by name.
I don’t think comments make a story more visible on HN, it’s not like

https://tildes.net/

My belief actually is that visibility of posts is suppressed if they get, say, 20 comments and already have 50 votes.

So if you want to be systematic about posting comments with some “tough love” go right ahead.
The stylesheet is just under 3KB even with no minification or compression. At that size, the cost is negligible, and inlining will consistently be faster to load even than a warm cache of an external stylesheet. In most conditions, you’ve got to get towards 100KB before it even becomes uncertain. Loading from cache tends to be surprisingly slow, vastly slower than most people expect. (Primary source: non-rigorous personal experimentation and observation. But some has been written about how surprisingly slow caches can be, leading to things like some platforms racing a new network request and reading from disk, which is bonkers.)

Seriously, people should try doing a lot more inlining than they do.
I dont understand why congress should be involved in the residency program to begin with
It is a single board computer. Are you adding daughter boards? No? Even your phone has separate storage pieces. Adding storage has never broken the concept of a single board computer. I'm not sure why it would now.
Freeform is basically a simplified Keynote, which it is based on. I used Keynote before. Might actually return to it since Freeform is pretty basic right now (it's pretty new).
Yes, during peak COVID I asked a few doctors about this as they complained about doctor shortages. Let's just say the responses were guarded at best.
Hold up...Firefox is holding all text input in memory, even after the text is gone via tab close / deletion?

That seems odd...generally handwaving for clarities sake: privacy and performance
Indeed, your example explains what's going on perfectly.

Generative AI images are "plausible description generators" with a human in the loop.

They aren't trying to draw something, they're trying to get you to call what they draw something.

Given a prompt from a human, they produce an image likely to be labeled as such by a human.

"Well sure that's a Mexican person but I meant..." is not a valid caption.
Without touching on the computer bit, feelings certainly have little to do with consciousness. A dog feels feelings. Happiness, fear, etc. We know a simpler organism like a beetle has some sense of “feeling”. They respond to their environment and move to safety, resources, etc. Go even simpler and you’re at unicellular organisms, which similarly respond to positive and negative input. Plants also do the same.

Ultimately what is a feeling but a response to environmental stimuli? Why is consciousness necessary in the equation?
https://nitter.net/dsnugentmalone/status/1715356998525485498...
There's great dedicated hosting providers for Pis, such as https://rpiservers.com . The big downside seems to be sd card wear; a major reliability concern. The idea of an rpi5 with PCIe 3.0 NVMe is very very alluring as an entry level point of presence online.

The price point would need to be better than rpiservers, imo. $10 for a pi and external powered USB drive is not compelling enough; a shared vps is probably better/cheaper. However their $7 for a pi and unpowered USB drive does seem great, and there are some really amazing USB drives. Doing that for a rpi5 would be awesome.

It'd be nice if the pi could do 10Gbps on one port or two 5Gbps ports, so we could plug in a fast USB drive. But even with only 5Gbps, that's still around the same perf as the officially supported PCIe 2.0 speed.
I saw a couple guns. Even had a friend of mine get robbed at gun point in broad daylight.
In the DIY scene (hardcore, punk, metal, etc.) vinyl was a very popular format for independent bands because it was cheap and accessible (both for the bands, their small labels if they even had one, and the fans), but I think obscurity and doing the opposite of what the mainstream is doing were significant factors as well. I used to have an absolute shitload of 7”, EPs, and LPs from random bands all over the world but I got rid of them because a good amount of it I didn’t listen to anymore, and I just didn’t have the space for a record collection. Some of those records that I got for next to nothing are outrageously expensive now in the aftermarket. With the vinyl revival that’s been happening for a few years, oddly enough some bands are going to cassette tapes for similar reasons as the old vinyl days.

I’m looking forward to the 8 track revival and the wax cylinder revival.
> in general perform much better than cubic splines

Source? (I couldn't find that in the paper you linked.)
My post did not ascribe a value judgement to the side, merely surfaced a factor. Do you think financial incentives don’t matter? Do you go through your entire life that way or is this the only topic where financial incentives don’t matter?
Kind of crazy that they push the whole outdoorsy camping image in all their ads and build something so flawed. How does that work? Go explore the great outdoors but don't go too far, or you're battery is gonna die if there's no cellphone service? I don't know about the US but it's not hard to go that far out in Canada!
I have ridden these fads for the last 25 years (well actually longer - I had a different career first!) and made a fuck load of money out of it. But I am tired of it now. I really don't care any more.

I am fed up of solving the same problems again and again. It's more than just earning; there's intellectual dishonesty in this and it's tiring and demotivating.
No, I don't believe it was specifically tied to this system.

Dr. Mark Peterson[1] who has his own great channel[2] and a video on this topic (in Korean)[3] explains it as mostly just happening as a clerical matter both during the Choson period by simply registering a name to align with prestigious families and to hide your caste status and then later during the Japanese occupation since it was demanded as part of the growing Japanese empire.

In practice, it's less confusing than it sounds. Koreans will use contextual associations such as other family members, titles, friend or business associations, and historic clan hometowns to discern things.

"Oh, you are a Kim also? Which one?"

"I'm from the Jeonju Kims."

"Oh haha! I'm from the Incheon Kims. I know another Jeonju Kim, are you that one?"

"No that's CEO Kim he's my distant uncle. I'm just the normal Kim. My wife is so and so."

"Ahh, okay."

(completely made up example that's probably wrong but meh)

And after that everybody is clear on who is who. This kind of thing is often included in some introductory stuff about what age everybody is so you can get your honorifics sorted out as well.

1 - https://youtu.be/4VVCbApZ4bg

2 - https://www.youtube.com/@TheFrogOutsidetheWell

3 - https://youtu.be/tLcwZ4p2pIU
> In general, it's hard to argue that people who condemn Mr Cosgrove's statement should be ostracized, while simultaneously claiming a lack of bias.

I don't see any disconnect as I didn't claim to be a block of wood. If we are going to ostracize people for supporting things, it should be people who support crimes in the state of high emotion. I sure wish they were ostracized after September 11th.
You raise a good point about optics. While the optics, such as which Western leaders may be seen to be supporting incompetent or enabling behavior, are certainly important, it's vital to consider that in a conflict as complex as the Israel-Palestine one, it might be hard to definitively pin down who is "right" and who is "wrong". It may even be hard to judge with certainty who is "responsible" and who is "victim".

All these binary labels may sometimes only function to further divide already fracturing conflicts and make resolution and reconciliation harder to reach. So, binary thinking is often to be avoided.

But "binary thinking" may have a silver lining, in that, perhaps the only real choice we have is between deciding if we want to invest our time in either: figuring out who we are going to label as "wrong" and who as "right"; or, focusing our attention getting results that reduce conflict and suffering.
The problem is not that doctors are overpaid. The problem is that they are overworked, and not available enough.
> That's a lot of peoples salaries and livelihoods wiped out and they will fight tooth and nail to protect it.

Why? We're currently undergoing a major shift in labor wrt to automation, AI which will absolutely destroy entire sectors. Not a lot of people give a shit, it's considered good for the bottom line and for profitability. But when it comes to healthcare, the narrative is that we suddenly care about labor? People applauded the tech layoffs but the parasitic private insurance overhead is just too important? Disgusting