skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's assuming the extremely broken and frankly incomprehensible American model.

Over in the EU, where most of the healthcare is single-payer (sometimes with optional add-ons/extra payers/private care), cost of care has been growing too. There are simply many more treatments which are available now than before, more tests possible to discover issues, etc. as well as of course the higher life expectancy and higher average age across the board. That doesn't mean improvements shouldn't be undertaken. Such as electronic medical files (which are the norm in multiple EU countries but sadly not everywhere, and not on an EU scale - as born in one EU country and now living in another, it would have been extremely useful to be able to automatically share my childhood records), or maybe ML to do predictions and stuff.
Small-batch EVs and plenty of robots–Hyundai's new innovation center
Someone doesn't get good at programming with low quality learning sources. Also, a poor comparison because models are not people - might as well complain about how NPCs in games behave because they fail at problems real people can solve.
In the US, the cost of health care has not significantly decreased since the introduction of rules, regulations and government money pushing healthcare organizations to implement and use EHR systems.

I would say all of the intervention by the US federal government has made everything much worse. The EHR vendors (I'm looking at you, Epic) managed to consume the money thrown at the problem and yet have only moderately improved. In my opinion it also pushed smaller hospitals into expensive contracts with EHR vendors, eroding their already tenuous financial health and leading to even more consolidation.
Fair enough!

Maybe the Youtube and snacks example was a bit misleading in that perspective. In my head exercise is in the same category of routine as brushing your teeth, showering, getting dressed, and feeding yourself. If one struggles with those on a daily basis then I agree that's a whole different issue. Putting a time slot for exercise on the calendar may work for some but in my view it's a more fundamental part of living.
> The gap between rich and poor is growing at increasing pace, just like the gap between rich and mega-rich is.

Why the hell should that matter? If the system wanted to keep poor people poor, won't the poverty rate stay the same? Thats the assertion I was countering.

Why keep moving the goalpost? But I will play along:

> If you went completely hungry yesterday, nearly starved to death, but today you get enough calories that you feel less pain so you can at least stand up and walk around a bit, while you watch your brother stuff his face with so much cake he has to puke 3 times to make room for more, to then play frisbee with the rest, what would you think? How it was for you yesterday isn't the standard. How it is for others, today, is the standard. It's about fairness and human dignity, nothing more and nothing less. If everybody was starving, we wouldn't even have a name for it, or a problem with it. It wouldn't be a slight on anyone.

1. You should first ask if your brother got his cake fair and square. If so, then you should be happy you are not puking and be happy for him. Don't be selfish. Let's say your brother worked 10 times more than you (80 hrs) and smarter than you while you stayed in bed and watched TV all day on his dime. Isn't inequality the fairer but still painful outcome in this case? F

2. Should you and your brother have the same quality of life despite the efforts you put in? Why should you be entitled to his fruits of action beyond sustenance?

3. If you agree there in diversity in level of effort and thought, then inequality is the fairer outcome.

4. Also, one should stop comparing only outcomes, you should also compare inputs.
Reflecting on how crypto once fit with the HN ethos. Hard to say where the community is now, partly because I don't spend as much time here. But it definitely seems to not be the darling it once was.

Don't know if this is because it's mainstreamed in a way that makes it less "hacker"-appealing (quotes intentional), the HN community has changed, or because crypto went full crypto-bro so hard.

May be some combination.
> There is the third option, though - don't consume the content if the terms by which it's offered aren't acceptable.

I'm always amazed of how people forget that option
>Researchers temporarily separated newborn rats...

Not worth my click.
We don’t know (and they don’t either) that the text of this book appeared in the training set.
Via the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, sale of tax credits is how the US has funded below market rate housing at the Federal level since the tax reform of 1986.

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/lihtc.html

Reductions in corporate tax rates at the Federal level have the effect of shrinking the pool of money for development of housing at below market rates because they make demand for tax credits fall.

But of course, reducing the supply of below market rate housing is a feature not a bug for people who seek market rate rents on housing assets.
Use Whisper! It's a fairly small AI speech-to-text model that's great for getting your feet wet with AI libraries. It's extremely precise and easy to get working, I recommend it over pretty much everything else.

https://github.com/openai/whisper
How does it help clear the bad image? There are seemingly no large crypto orgs left that are untouched by criminal convictions.
Have you considered maybe good people who want to help their communities don't want to be part of a corrupt department?

Everyone has to remember, not all departments are bad, but all departments can have bad cops; some WAY more than others to put it lightly. It's the unwillingness to remove or even punish the bad cops, that is the issue.
> YouTube has no financial incentive to actively punish non-chrome useragents. They make money in their division by serving ads, regardless of the useragent.

Google has big financial incentives to punish non-Chrome user agents.

First, we've seen that Google pays a large amount of money to be the default search engine in competing browsers. A big reason for funding Chrome development is so that Google doesn't have to pay someone for the majority of its search traffic. If Google is paying out 30-40% of search ad revenue from non-Chrome browsers, that's many billions of dollars if they can get more people to use Chrome. If non-Chrome browsers are a bad experience on one of the most popular sites on the internet, that pushes people to use Chrome.

Second, Google is altering Chrome so that ad blockers won't be as effective. If they can push people to use Chrome, they'll get more ad revenue since ad blockers won't be as effective.

Google has been pushing Chrome because people using Chrome makes them billions of dollars. Maybe YouTube itself doesn't have a financial incentive, but Google definitely does.

If Chrome vanished tomorrow, Google would then face steep fees when their deals with Mozilla and Apple were up for renewal since they'd be dependent on traffic from Firefox and Safari. Instead, Google can keep paying Mozilla less and less money over time as more people use Chrome instead of Firefox.
> And both Google and Sony really doesn't want Apple to control the music streaming industry as it could affect their device sales.

Is that true? My Alexa and Sonos devices work great with Apple Music.
How will the BTC ETF even work?

I'm not super savvy with money but why would anybody buy an ETF and pay their fees when the assets in the ETF don't grow or give dividends? How will they secure those assets? Cold wallet in a vault? What happens if they do their audit and the backing coins aren't there (stolen) or there's a hardware failure on the cold wallet?
Yep, Hacker News in past. Now it is more like Freeloader News by Ethical Champions of our times.
Meditation may help. Taking advantage of windows of time when your feelings may be more neutral may help. Discarding judgemental thoughts in favor of more neutral thoughts may help.

It's a battle for most people, some more than others.
Fun anedote:

I played SMRPG as a kid in the late 90s using an emulator and a cracked ROM.

The game was translated to Portuguese and apparently the translators were big Dragon Ball Z fans.

It was quite the experience reading Nintendo characters calling each other maggots and such.
It’s not just this, you are given answers to related questions when the answer to your actual question is further down. Possibly to increase stickiness? It doesn’t make sense.
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Amazing that it’s impossible to tell whether you are a real crypto booster or joking at their expense.
Isn't the medical field one of the most regulated?
Show HN: Music that responds to your flow state
Hey, HN! I had fun hacking together a little toy project recently and I wanted to share it with the HN crowd.

I've been impressed by games and other media that have music that builds in intensity based on events driven by a player or by a scene, and it inspired me to whip together such a project for my own use that overlaid stems of music when I was really getting into a solid flow while working on projects.

It's (very) rough around the edges, but it served its purpose of fun, and I thus wanted to share it.

Enjoy!
> The "auditors" are jackasses, no doubt. But you need to protect the freedom of jackasses to be jackasses.

Even the article couldn't help calling out auditors for being confrontational assholes, but for what it's worth, Reyes doesn't act like typical auditors. He's polite and cool headed. He's assertive while still attempting to deescalate situations. He's the least confrontational auditor I've ever seen. What's compelling about Reyes's work isn't the video showing that the police in the NYDP were acting like assholes and breaking the law, but that he then follows up with formal complaints, lawsuits, and revisits to see what's changed.

I love that there are people willing to risk their safety and freedom and invest the kind of time and money it takes to follow through using the legal system. It'll either change things for the better or at least let us know how bad things really are and where more reforms are needed.
https://www.chainalysis.com/law-enforcement/

https://www.chainalysis.com/regulators/
There’s a common saying, “you can’t outrun a bad diet.”

I hate this saying so much. I can’t imagine how many people don’t bother to exercise because they already have a bad diet, read stuff like this, and think “what’s the point then” and give up. Despite the fact that exercising on a bad diet is so much better than not exercising on a bad diet.
Home assistant with zigbee, z-wave, or tasmota/esphome devices is pretty great.
They won't give out the model due to "Security Risks"
Ethics is really just scaffolding to explain how people interact. This reads as a rationalization for the ends justify the means, which might be considered a branch of consequentialist ethics.
>Is this resentment?

No, it's unfair market conditions which are illegal in most developed countries.

How can small companies expect to compete with the big established ones if those players enjoy deals way way better than what the new players have?

It's basically hardcoded inequality creating winners and losers from the start and goes against the free market principles.
Yeah, we considered following Linux's lead by creating a new "i386 with 64-bit time_t" ABI but frankly nobody was interested in doing a lot of work for probably very little benefit.
I think it helps that the updates to the music were done by the original composer.
Can you give an example in how Anthropic and OpenAI differ in that?
I would go for something similar.

I would try supabase + Astro.

With astro you can have more choice in frontend framework, vanilla js, alpinejs, react, svelte, vue.

I recently made a portfolio website for my girlfriend and the experience was awesome.

https://zhazira.design/

If anyone's hiring junior designers ;)
"It's funny that you and a sibling have essentially opposite asks"

Trying to please everyone is the road to madness, while acomplishing nothing.
The real fear of AGI is that it will outsmart humans at every turn. We're not just talking about an analogous catastrophe to an explosion or some kind of nuclear accident, but rather a catastrophe that is analogous to a powerful demon that can control and outsmart people for its own goals.

I feel this distinction has been somewhat forgotten now and people just think AI is overall dangerous and an existential threat. LLMs are quite impressive but I would still consider them narrow AI, and at best with the right architecture is a multimodal narrow AI. For it to be general, it simply cannot make some of the trivial and obvious mistakes it does so frequently, from hallucinating to looping, etc., and also it would not require the extensive amount of training examples to learn.

in short, we are not really replicating what nature has been able to accomplish with human brains. We'll need another breakthrough that discovers what the brain is really doing in order to replicate it in software. I really doubt we will just stumble upon a 5 trillion LLM that "wakes up" (although not impossible I guess). Most likely we'll need the theory first and that means we will know ahead of time that AGI is being attempted. Therefore it's not as massive as a risk as many make it out to be. That said, the drama and entertainment value of doomers is still worth the attention it brings to the industry.
I actually don't think it makes any sense to base it on the cardinal directions! But it's easy to remember and I have no preferred alternative haha
Ethics is a luxury. The luxury of not having to hire armed guards every time I go to the ATM. The luxury of not having to test my groceries to make sure they aren't going to poison me. The luxury of being able to trust the financial statements of my bank, or my broker.

It's a luxury to live in a society where most people have ethics. I really enjoy having that luxury; I suspect you do, too.

So if you want to not have them yourself until you get ahead of everyone else, that sounds kind of like a sociopath.
Does the answer change if it's a million rich people?
I agree, but that’s what you get when your mission is AI Safety so it’s going to be a dull experience.
> tons of hacks and heuristics

So, business as usual in the Javascript space. That's how the ecosystem got here, and why nothing works reliably.
Deep-Sea Treasure Hunter
"the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" seems like pretty essential part of a functional democracy to me.
...and Samsung recalled two series of their flagship phones to replace their batteries, and fail (and cancel the model altogether). Because of their failure, planes started and still continue to announce phone charging related security measures during take-off.

Every company makes big mistakes. Also Apple once built laptops with self-cooking GPUs, a couple ones very fragile keyboards, a series with too-sensitive screen coatings.

We can write tons of problems with every producer. The most important metric is whether they're learning from that or not. As far as I can see Samsung and Apple learnt their lessons.
If you hate government regulation, then wait until you see a market regulated by a company ...
I often post the same complaint ("What happened to all the hackers?"), but endlessly posting "Script X doesn't work with browser Y, now I'm forced to view ads, somebody do something," isn't hacking.
In their defense, I also tried it semi-recently and literally couldn’t get past the tutorial. I got to a point where I didn’t know what to do next, walked around for 20 minutes, then gave up. I could’ve searched the internet but I generally make it a policy not to do that with games.

I’m probably just stupid, but games back then had this tendency to make everything into a maze, where the “challenge” was in figuring out what the hell to do next. SMRPG suffers from this too, there’s a few points near monstro town that if you don’t know exactly where they’re trying to get you to go, it’s really confusing. Childhood me couldn’t figure it out and I never made it past there (I have since revisited and completed the game.)
Because it varies, there’s even less reason to be upset. You know there are people whose dysfunction looks more like perfectionism or overplanning and the advice is meant for them. You understand that variance in individual cases means that not every general discussion will match yours.
I have firefox with ublock origin, privacy badger, and a pi-hole. I haven't noticed any slowdowns. Though, last week one day youtube woldn't play videos at all for a couple of hours for me.
Yeah, I find it interesting to read about their work, but it might as well be vaporware if I can't use the API as a developer. OpenAI has actual products I can pay for to do productive things.
>> She can't understand how her classmates can have difficulties understanding

Because most people are completely illiterate with respect to mathematics. I wouldn't hold high hopes on their ... whatever the opposite of "functional illiteracy" is.

One idea in case you talk to that "17 yo" again. Ask her to ask her classmates to compute "{{2} over {3}} over {4} + {5} over {{6} over {7}} = ?", here's a visual view of this operation with fractions: https://imgur.com/IqhEsmX

I bet the discombobulated by "z = x + y" also get flabbergasted by fractions. If so, it's not they have trouble learning programming. They have trouble learning anything, q.e.d.
OpenAI Is a Strange Nonprofit
Academic who has served on tenure-track hiring committees here.

At my (public) institution, none of these identities were discussed when considering candidates.

We did look at diversity statements as an indicator of if applicants were aware of the broadening participation requirements set by federal funding agencies.

As an aside, the experiences of the marginalized people you describe don't seem to indicate that there is a net advantage to them. I think anyone who was adopting an identity in bad faith would quickly discover that it wasn't as helpful as they thought.
Water systems and sewage are luxuries, not an ecology.

The Earth and its ecology is a life support system - it’s the only one that’s ever existed for longer than a human generation or two. Though human maintenance is not required - we are inherent to the system - we’ve nonetheless rapidly figured out a way to break it so grievously our own part in it is endangered.
Now try the North Sea on a windy day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYzIWngs_T8

Watch the helicopter coming in to land 30 seconds into the movie. It lands at the end.
For companies, rehiring a founder can be enticing, but results are usually worse
My experiences have been the same, unfortunately. It can do simple tasks, but for anything requiring indirect reasoning or completion of partial content from media (think finishing sonnets as a training content test) Claude just falls flat. Honestly, I'm not sure what makes Claude so "meh". Not to mention having to fill out a Google Doc for API usage? Weird.
It should be possible to auto-generate these block editing UI's starting from an abstract description of the syntax, as used e.g. in a tree-sitter parser. Sometimes this kind of block-based editing is also integrated with type checking to enable smart, query-based filling of "holes", as seen perhaps most prominently in editors for Agda (a pure functional language).
Sometimes, emotional leverage helps. I sometimes use anger at perceived slights. I think it's OK if you leave it on the exercise bike or treadmill and don't carry it through your day.
The VPN ad in the video got a genuine belly laugh out of me. Good stuff.
Like gold ETFs, they can do BTC synthetically via futures or have a custodian take custody.

The interesting ETF will be for Ethereum because a custodian can possibly stake it and earn yield. ETH can earn within the basic protocol.
same. what would you use as an alternative?
Imagine the vocabulary you'll have to use to do so
You would have to somehow scare our elected reps into doing what is right

Or start our own “people’s hospitals” or even insurance (there should not be insurance schemes IMO)

Or maybe not pay existing hospitals/ insurance companies

I do not know how else to “try”
I do find it funny that people who pay for YT jump into every adblock thread and shill for an evil megacorp. This is Hacker News. Or was.
Except when you need libraries from npm, and then you have a choice 1) use npm: imports and watch things not work 2) use esm.sh imports and watch supposedly-immutable URLs change their contents all the time, and be ready to pile on kludges to get transitive dependencies to behave.
Coinbase would be the custodian
ancap freedom sounding more like serfdom for us peasantry
The EU mandates a minimum €0.36/L excise tax on gasoline, which is about $1.49/gallon. In practice many large countries like Germany, France, Italy already levy more than $3/gallon. But they certainly don't funnel the revenue into carbon capture.
Isn't it like that at any company?
Probably because the brave new world of cryptopunk anonymity and liberation has turned into this mess of fraud and in-your-face centralisation and crime.
I don't know what you're doing with your LLM, but I've only ever had one refusal and I've been working a lot with Claude since it's in bedrock
I think Renewables (especially solar) tend to be fairly easy to cutail (stop generating) and can probably avoid generating much during negative prices. I'd guess the negative prices will probably mostly hit legacy assets that don't have that ability.
Well the `!important` is a good example if general misunderstanding of the core basics of the CSS: the cascade.
People usually think it means something like "override everything what was declared up until now in a way I don't need to check the selector specificity", while in reality it means *"teleport this certain declaration to the higher mirror cascade origin realm"*, what is way cooler yet mostly unknown concept of CSS.

There are _Browser_ styles, that are overridden by parts of —
— _User_ styles, that are overridden by parts of —
— _Author_ Styles, that are overridden by —
— !important parts of _Author_ Styles, that are overridden by —
— !important parts of _User_ Styles, that are overridden by —
— !important parts of _Browser_ Styles.

What is a neat mechanism, isn't it? The "weakest" can have the last word here.

Sadly neglected concept of the web standards is that they were conceived not as rigid projectors of what authors create, but as a platform where individual user agents process authors' contents and negotiate the way how their users want to consume it. One of the first Håkon Wium Lie's CSS proposals even had some "weights" for individual attributes, so that user could express "I prefer serif fonts for headings this much" and author could express that "I suggest this sans serif font for heading with such weight, but it is not so important and my content will make sense in different font faces as well, but it is crucial that this particular text will be slanted, otherwise user would miss important aspect of information."

-- https://www.w3.org/People/howcome/p/cascade.html
I haven't tried this; but if you have an Android TV, NewPipe might work on it.
Brain chemicals are best for me in the morning, until mid afternoon when the food coma sets in.
OpenAI board are now in talks about Sam Altman's possible return
Upgoer Five-style analysis of Musk's Media Matters suit
What about the psychos that print help messages to stderr so you get nothing from grep and have to run the command again piping stdout to stderr?
So no one was effectively banned from anything by MM. Got it.
He's trying to say that AI-non-alignment would be a greater threat to humanity than having Nazis take over the world. It's perfectly clear.
> A perfect CV is highly likely to have lies and was made up based on the job ad, addressing every single requirement bullet.

Wouldn't "AI" also know this though. I would imagine AI is doing more than keyword match type stuff.