skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have so many thoughts about this after navigating a kidney transplant for my wife.

I will say, however, that all government interventions up to this point have made the healthcare and health finance systems of the USA worse and not better as most of these interventions were drafted and paid for by health/finance megacorporations. One example, medicare isn’t means tested in any way and insurance companies will force people to use it despite the insurance policy covering kidney transplants simply because the government offers money for renal failure. Meanwhile, the hospitals don’t even bill for treatment until the patient is on Medicare, because the hospital can charge the government far more money without consequence.
Are you talking about filling a gas tank, or charging an EV battery? Why do you think it sounds like a worse solution?
Is that not the actual definition of spam? Unwanted solicitation? Why would it matter what the content of the message is?
Xbox Series X.

Like, how many X can you cram into a name?
You'll be fine for inference but probably struggle to run any large models requiring multi gpu ops.
I’m so sorry. I hope you can find some happiness in the holidays with your friends and family.
Have you seen houses from the 1920s -- she's not that far off
You're going to love this. https://archive.org/details/computer_shopper
Thanks. And yeah, I was talking to my roommate about enabling edits in the future. I guess the spirit of the site is letting each person do with it what they wish, so I suppose I should open up future dates for edits.
This is the weirdest justification to keep using a non-metric system.

Not able to divide a meter into a whole number thirds, is the least of the metric system's problems.

This is vastly better than having no unit smaller than an inch, and having to write a smaller length in fraction of an inch (e.g. "3/16 inch")
>The best would be probably to let the company cover the PC / tablet / phone costs as they are business expenses

Depending on how your local tax codes are structured and how strictly your local tax authority interprets them, letting the company buy the electronics and then subsequently using it for non-business use might count as a fringe benefit and therefore be taxable. In other words, if get your company to buy you a iPhone 15 Pro Max and a 16 MBP Pro with M3 Max, but all you're doing is some light macOS app development, they might (rightly) think that those aren't really being used for business purposes and are actually a sneaky way to remunerate yourself.
It's still in print: https://juiced.gs/2023/07/juiced-gs-2024/
Extraordinarily grateful for my wife and little one.
Midjourney V1 to V6 – Image generation improvements from Feb 2022 to Dec 2023
Interestingly, I came across this tweet from the founder of Replit:

"Lots of ink spilled on the coming of age, but no one prepares you for middle age: losing a parent, confronting the reality of passing time, and the resulting reevaluation of life’s priorities. More art should explore this period of life."

It struck me at the same age as you. It doesn't seem to be unique and I didn't find the solution. What I think is that there is no solution, just acceptance and making sure we do things that we feel are worthwhile whilst avoiding that "auto-mode" at work.

For me, it was the fact that I live 8000km from my parents. The last 2 years were just so fast it became a blur. But seeing them grow old scared me so much that I'd rather lose out on my career but try to spend more time with them and live closer.

Instead of chasing startups and VC glory, I would like to work on problems that I care about and build small things that are fun despite them not bringing full-time income even if I just do it on the side. My professional goals are around working on worthwhile things (subjective) with a small team of awesome people. The dream setup is to have 5 smart friends and work together on cool shit we all enjoy whilst earning a living.

Also exploring all these emotions and feelings is interesting. I found that having dire nostalgia and melancholic feelings about the past (and hence passing time...)probably signals something. However, if left unexplored it doesn't lead to introspection. It's meta but even thinking about why the feelings that you described exist leads to interesting internal and external conversations. Journaling, therapy, SO conversations.

"Spending your time well" is an art that is hard to get right.

Would love to also hear about more resources on this topic.
And God forbid you start calling them Taylor hams instead, you'll have a full-blown war on your hands.
I was thinking about this, too. Allowing setting a date of death felt pretty morbid...
I'm grateful to have parents who in their age, have energy, health and financial freedom to join us for celebrations from overseas. I'm grateful for my parents to be friends to me and all my friends.

As someone said here, I'm extremely grateful for free quality higher education I have received in my home country. And I'm saddened that many are in student debts for decades.

I'm grateful to be in the best health I've been in last 10 years.

I'm grateful to myself for quitting alcohol more than a year ago and sticking with it.

I'm grateful, for the first time, to feel financially stable for many years to come.

I'm grateful to United States of America for being our home and safe harbor for the past 10 years, especially last 3, given the global instability.
> Is it that hard to hire and organize when you've got a top researcher that everyone wants to work with?

Hire a top researcher? Ok, you could get lucky with a few. But keep? Good luck if you are an incompetent manager. If Sam Altman was the "know-nothing" that so many on HN claim him to be, then the top researchers would leave and go to Meta, Google Brain, etc. It makes no sense that this core research team has been so stable. Is this not evidence enough for you?
From the OpenSSH update:

“Although we believe it is the user's responsibility to ensure
validity of arguments passed to ssh(1), especially across a
security boundary such as the git example above, OpenSSH 9.6 now
bans most shell metacharacters from user and hostnames supplied
via the command-line. This countermeasure is not guaranteed to be
effective in all situations, as it is infeasible for ssh(1) to
universally filter shell metacharacters potentially relevant to
user-supplied commands.” --https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.6

It's not quite a “root can do things as root” CVE, but honestly it's not far off that level of “well, duh”. You can't inject untrusted input (a hostname in this case) into a general purpose command stream (i.e., the arguments to bash -c or an exec call), and not expect to have trouble.
Here's a list of models and years, straight from the manufacturer.

Note that most (but not all) were not deliberate attempts to pass off known unsafe problems, but were rather a culture of doing things like running a test of the driver's side, then copying the same results for certification on both the driver and passenger side.

https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/20231220-4_1.pdf
I would be careful conflating the fate of the Moskva with the ability of the USN to survive an ASCM attack. The USN has been working on this particular issue since the 1960s. And the Moskva was an old, poorly maintained and poorly operated ship.
Ha! Merry Christmas, Kaz, to you and all!
Grateful for my health and family, as imperfect as they may be.
Banks also pay interest on deposit. People need to decide if they want to accept the returns of ethical choices or treat the consequences of banking investment as externalities.

In other news: water is wet.
I agree. I was a bit too flip in my original comment; there are regular tasks now that simply require multiples of the data throughput that the 1980s Cray machines were capable of.

The simpler point I was aiming at was just that: the amount of computational power at the fingertips of so many of us is huge, and it's important to appreciate that.
>having a business with 64% net income on sales is insanely good.

...when you don't factor in labor costs. If this was google or similar, the company would need to hire a developers, which are a major line item on their budget.
> Their opportunities were inherited.

I agree with your first sentence, but I am confused by your second sentence. Are you referring to this part? "Carmack and Woz are legends for a reason."
How'd you get Tailwind working in Go? What combination of libraries?
Ah, that famous movie "as thick as thiefs"

Is thieves not part of the US lexicon?

(The abc news, in Australia, did not write this headline)
No its not. Random people have no fucking clue what they're talking about, HN is a perfect example. As it turns out, looking at WebMD for 15 minutes is actually not a comprehensive medical education.

Both parents are doctors. They complain all the time how they get patients who have no idea what they are talking about come and assume they know better than them. Patients lie ALL THE TIME for no reason at all. Patients also expect long periods of 1:1 time with Doctors about dumb BS a Resident could handle by tossing handfuls of Motrin at the patients general direction and counting how many pills fall into their mouths.

I personally saw one patient scream many slurs at a Doctor for being bad at medicine after the doctor asked what drugs they may have taken (a innocuous question), and ripped out their IV and ran away.

This is the shit that Doctors/Nurses/Medical staff deal with. Hospitals are not a place to go to be pampered.
It depends per school, but 4th year students usually fill their own schedules with electives and rotations. You can definitely fill it in a way to make it as intense for the first three years, but it would likely cause students to start burning out before residency instead of during it.

I am currently on my 4th year rotations and I find them to be some of the most educational, important, and interesting ones. YMMV of course
I started getting into image generation last year with Stable Diffusion's 1.5 release last October, but seeing the improvements from Midjourney and DallE 3 is extremely impressive. The image to video models from Runway and Pika labs & Stable Video Diffusion are reminding me of Midjourney prior to V4, hoping to see similar improvements in 2024 for those models.
Looking at the photo, only one thought comes to mind: he has some unusually wide shoulders.
Don’t worry, always a new sucker to fleece.
Medicare for all is not a panacea and would cause dramatic breaks in care in other places. The fragmented private model sucks, but the belief that single-payer would fix much of anything is faulty.

Reform should happen, but it shouldn’t be based on a bumper sticker, and it should be thoughtful about the vast differences between SF, NYC, West Texas and Southern South Dakota. “Fixing” things for people in major cities while crippling/destroying rural care (more than it already has been) is a bad solution.
> Contrast the first Starship launch this year, which Musk micromanaged, vs the second launch in November in which he had minimal involvement due to being distracted by X and Tesla.

I tried to a Google search for a source. I cannot find anything. Do you have a good source, or insider information?
interesting that this was written in summer-2001, a bit before 9/11, which inspired one of the biggest asymmetric conflicts by the US. the power ratio was extremely skewed in US's favor, and yet resulted in a "forever war".

i'm curious how the author felt knowing that his paper would be so relevant only a few months after publication.
Those tigers(Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan) Heavily focused on education are way smaller than the Phillipines.
Can you give a concrete, relevant example? As a point of comparison: Musk has a far worse (in my eyes) about lying on social media than Altman.
Knowing little about this - a genuine suspicion is - is this a feature, not a bug? As in - doesn’t this arise out of an incentive for health insurance companies NOT to cover procedures? I can only imagine that this bureaucratic tangle reduces insurance coverage by a very significant percentage. Aka - the kind of communication inefficiency must be profitable, no?
Norway. Just overall friendlier standing with Germany than the UK pre-WW2 I think.

No significant minority of ethnic Germans, and I think trade with Germany and the UK was roughly comparable.
Hey, what kind of work are you currently doing in AI? Just asking out of curiosity. I want to have a brief chat with you about these proof checkers and verification systems. I never got the gist of all these. Stuffs like lean theorem prover. I will be glad If you take out some time.
Ah, I see where someone mentioned "obliged to make their products/services interoperable".

By "nationalize" I assume you were thinking of things like mandates that Apple servers be required to support third-party iMessage clients, or that the government takes over Apple's iMessage servers. I don't like these ideas, either.

But I think there are a lot of other possibilities, and precedents. The U.S. regulates and imposes on carriers to handle wiretaps and spam, Europe mandates that phone manufacturers use interoperable power adapters, baseband chips in phones are heavily regulated, etc. Other industries like banking and mining and construction are steeped in regulation. Justified as being for the public good.

Perhaps a better interoperable messaging standard could be implemented as a mandated replacement for sms and mms. The goal is better baseline messaging for all users. Companies can still do their own thing besides that, like they do now.

What do you think of such an idea?
I thought this was all more-or-less intentional because somehow at the end of the day it delivers more wealth to executives and shareholders. So any attempt to really overhaul it will be immediately met with rather intense campaigns to paint a saner healthcare system as socialist or expensive or somehow anti-American or just “guvmint bad.”
>tu', is rarely used (only in the South)

even in places and situations where 'tu' is used it's mostly still conjugated as if it were second person singular.

'EU BEM QUE TE AVISEI - TU EMPINOU ELE PEI'
I am puzzled by it. It is a pretty conservative company that used to put a lot of focus on safety. What happened?
Ah, makes sense. Maybe have it as an option?

And I haven't realized that you can actually see sentences highlighted as they are being read. I'd love that for Chinese (I'm learning it, so it'd help me a lot). I'll try and see if it "just works", and contribute a patch if it doesn't.
The problem is that a public option must necessarily spend a lot more of its focus on preventative care that keeps people from developing serious chronic illness in the first place, for budgetary reasons. There are a lot of people staking their career prestige, high pay, and lifestyles on Americans having the freedom to get sick, seriously sick, on a regular and consistent basis. I'm happy to throw them under the bus, but I imagine some will be more than happy to defend them.

EDIT: Geez, here's one now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38759502
These days, if you're not Visual Studio Code (or JetBrains depending on language), then you're leaving time, money, and productivity on the table. Real hackers ship, and they go where all the good tooling is.
And even digital magazines are somehow feeling the effects: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978042/popular-science...

At the time this news came out, I thought PopSci was just no longer publishing on paper, but turns out even the digital magazine model isn't exciting enough to sustain itself sometimes.
Yeah, we would all be speaking German now if they had won. But to put it another way, German remained the second language after they lost WW1.
> It compiles

That's really unfortunate! The category this entry competed in is "Least likely to compile successfully"
At breathtaking 10,238 mph, catching an object is hard to do.
I had to deal with pediatricians and Neurologists for last couple of years. My general experience is that their training is severely deficient in the empathy. I don't think it should be hard to accommodate it in their training plan.
I don't like victim blaming, so I will tread carefully here. What makes you believe Annie Altman? If her accusations were sound, she should be working with a district attorney to file charges, or at least sue Sam in civil court. From some light Googling, I don't see either in progress.
I'd say it's a lot more than _just_ nostalgia, though that certainly can play in too... But there are plenty of aspects of this, like snappy interaction latencies and a small pool of simple but consistent UI components that behave the same every time you see them, that I think are objectively better than much of what we see today. There was absolutely something lost in consistency and quality when we resigned ourselves to most UIs starting with a blank HTML DOM and building their own custom UI from scratch.
Gluten-free.
I can relate to this experience, having been through it with multiple parents/in-laws. One thing I’ve learned: We are fortunate to be in a city large enough to support a large hospital (actually more than one) with many associated specialists and clinics. If you can stay inside one of these, where people are looking at the same records system and have personal contacts in the various clinics and services, things go so much more smoothly. In other words, try to stay within a single tribe.

Sadly, when you’re discharged to an SNF or rehab, that’s always outside the tribe, and you get the situation described here. Haven’t found a cheat code there yet.
> As in - doesn’t this arise out of an incentive for health insurance companies NOT to cover procedures?

It's not that they're incentivized to not cover procedures, it's that everyone is incentivized to cover their ass unless regulations are really explicit. Since suing insurance companies is impractical for most people, it's really hard to turn that ass-covering in your favor unless a regulator gets involved.

Even something as basic as sharing notes becomes an ass-covering exercise lest someone use those notes against the doctor in malpractice suit or the data accidentally leaks leading to a HIPAA violation.
That's true, I bet the author never could have sabotaged California's high speed rail program with a stupid idea they knew wouldn't work while also wasting a bunch of people's time and money proving that it, in fact, doesn't work.
The thing about VIII is that it has all the pieces of a really interesting story, but they completely fail to cohere into a narrative that supports the themes. The Laguna dreams are a fantastic narrative concept that results in an incredibly dumb reveal, for instance. If you play the game with the idea that it's a story about Squall overcoming his fear of forming connections with others, you can kind of do some surgery on the story as you go, but it still feels like a fever dream. (The story almost makes more sense if you interpret everything after the failed assassination of Edea as being Squall's dying fantasy -- which is not a good sign for the coherence of a narrative!)
The bias is really towards recency, because LLMs are mostly trained on text scraped from the internet.

If you incorporated older content, the bias would be much less liberal. It'd be interesting to train one on only pre-1950 content.
Not the OP, but it’s a choice. The “why” here isn’t really a reason. People have children, or don’t have a belief with which they can expect an afterlife. They try to stay optimist with all the Read Live Love whatever books and motivational social media posts circulating right now. I believe in Islam and thus that 1) The world is in decline since the very beginning and 2) There is an afterlife with absolute justice, so this world declining doesn’t mean pessimism for me, as it’s all temporary anyway and my life spent here is less than a blink of an eye compared to my total lifespan (infinity).
God the web has gone to total crap outside of just a few sites. This site is unbearable on mobile.
This was one of the things that was most surprising to me doing software defined radio. It was "how does a finite impulse response filter work?" and "how to I make it work in a specific way?" The interesting question for synths would be how to give it an input that that changes its cut off frequency.

For me, the "aha" moment was when I connected the dots between "averaging" (which is a common way to filter noise out in an embedded computer) and "rolling average" is just summing the previous 'n' samples as sample * 1/n, and a picture of a fir filter that was (C code but it's pretty readable)

out = 0;
for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
out = out + sample[n-i]/n;
}
return(out);

That is a "FIR" filter where the coefficients are all 1/n. Now take that and do the FFT of n samples of n/1 (adding zeros to get the resolution you want). And that is the frequency response of your filter for frequencies between 0 (DC) and sample_rate/2.

For me at least that connected a lot of dots in what I was reading.
Why the git exclusion?
I guess the real issue is that ProxyCommand is evaluated by a shell, but the substitutions is done textually by ssh rather than by the shell, i.e., by providing the hostname via a environment variable.
Great demo of progress. It may not be able to draw hands yet but we all know how long that lasted given the current pace of discovery
Am I sure? Yep, indeed I am sure! I personally found numerous tungsten tips from the German WW2 shells in the Western and North-Western parts of the Moscow Region, at the places where Nazis were attacking us in 1941-1942.

https://nvo.ng.ru/history/2007-01-19/5_trade.html, here are some quotes:

But, as Charles Higham bitterly states, many major financiers and industrialists, as well as some government officials, chose self-interest over national interest: while building up U.S. military capabilities, they also helped strengthen the war machine of Nazi Germany.

To this day (2007), the vast majority of Americans have no idea what role some U.S. companies played during World War II. In Higham's view, the government also went to great lengths to conceal these facts, and did so not only during the war, but also after the war was over.

Trade with the enemy on the part of the United States was a crime against the nation. Each of the firms and companies engaged in the dirtiest "business" of this kind risked being prosecuted in their own country. However, none of the American corporations that made deals with the Nazis during the war were ever brought to justice.

Ties with the Nazis look even more immoral in the light of the fact that even after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the USA (as well as Great Britain) for a long time refused to supply the USSR with industrial equipment for the heavy, chemical, mining and ore industries, as well as with some types of acutely scarce raw materials (duralumin, tungsten), while generously supplying the Third Reich with all this.
That’s residency, which is after medical school.
> Fans are requested to appreciate the hard work the developers put into their video games and avoid spreading the leaked source code further.

Alternately, appreciate the hard work by making interesting mods for the game. GTA5 has already had an extensive modding scene for the 10 years it’s been out, but now I assume mods will become easier to make and more powerful, benefiting Rockstar’s customers who paid for the game. And who is hurt? Not pirates, who could obtain the game starting shortly after release. Potentially people playing against cheaters online, except I’ve heard they’ve had free rein for a long time.

Companies should release their own games’ source code. Other software too.
It's the ads. Way too many of them, way too many layouts.
Pushed to do what exactly? What's the plan?
FF5 is still my favorite FF
Simulating the Moons of Uranus
YoWASP aims to distribute up-to-date FOSS FPGA tools compiled to WebAssembly