skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Punish the investors by forcing them to price the risk of enforcement by having enforcement apply meaningful financial punishment. On the flip side this rewards well behaving competition giving a real market advantage.

For FAANG this means fines need to be on the order of $100B for something significant.

You might have to do this once or twice but once the risk is real investors will put appropriate pressure on boards, and influential employees paid in stock will have personal motivation.
I have always been excited about genetically modifying trees, but chestnuts seem like the wrong subject to advance the research on.

They have saddled themselves with the burden of ensuring the nuts are safe for human consumption, including isolation and rigorous tracking and labeling which created this situation.

Trees are also really good at turning atmospheric CO2 into valuable building materials, and no one cares if their house is safe to eat.

Cut your teeth on a project like that, and when the science has mastered that global-warming-combatting housing-shortage linked solution, we can circle back at yummy holiday snacks.
iOS also has extensions, including ad blockers.
They do seem unusually expensive this year, and I wonder if it's related to the same drought in the western mediterranean that decimated olive crops. Persimmons also seem more rare and expensive this December than in other years and I believe a lot of those are grown in Spain.
Just my non-expert opinion:

I think the economy looks healthy. But underneath it, I think there is a very sizable population that is way worse off than before. This population lost a ton of purchasing power due to inflation. They also don't own homes which means they couldn't take advantage of the 2.5% mortgage rates. Instead, owning home is impossible for them right now. White collar jobs are now harder to come by. Many of these work gig work. So while they're employed and their wages are higher due to inflation, their living standards have collapsed and is in a recession.
Cajun here, I'd just like to interject that those taste great
"Jealousy’s proposed function in protecting valuable bonds from external social threats was the impetus for the present study’s emphasis on how reactions to social closeness between other groupmates varied according to relationship quality, further premised on a social context that might threaten long-established bonds (i.e., introductions). The extent to which agonism and interventions towards others’ affiliation actually succeeded in preserving valuable social bonds (not to mention disrupting the real-time interaction) remains open to investigation, and it is worth considering the additional possibility that jealous behaviors might be maladaptive in certain social contexts, particularly when dispersal is limited by captivity."
To which they said, "Urine; A lot of trouble."
I hope the following from Wikipedia is helpful:

The computer had 2048 words of erasable magnetic-core memory and 36,864 words of read-only core rope memory. Both had cycle times of 11.72 microseconds. The memory word length was 16 bits: 15 bits of data and one odd-parity bit. The CPU-internal 16-bit word format was 14 bits of data, one overflow bit, and one sign bit (ones' complement representation). [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
Cool, never seen this. There's a similar thing on big ships.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-rolling_gyro
The source should be released. Regardless of how "hard" it is to stand up (it's just a server, stop being ridiculous) the people will find a way.
You're missing the incentives. They /could/ change their name each operation, but then, as you note, the target would have reduced motivation to actually pay. By keeping their name, and keeping their word, customers are more likely to pay in the future, because there's a history of good faith transactions. And, of course, a group that is relying on their reputation like this must police their trademark and prevent other groups from abusing it.
iPhone allows content blockers, so... no?
I've come to the conclusion that the value of the RPI is not so much in the hardware platform but rather in being the cheapest Linux running computer you can buy. Its much easier to program for than any embedded board.
It's interesting how much a community can improve performance. It's hard to imagine him doing all of this without a hacking community to motivate him.
I lived for awhile in North Kingston RI and I absolutely loved the Rhode Island Computer Mueseum. It was usually staffed by older gentlemen, who would absolutely love to go into any topic related to computers they knew about. One of my now core memories is playing the original space wars on a working (only 8 remaining if i remember correctly) pdp 12 with one of my friends in elementary school.
Maybe they don't know about the Ventoy software.
Quick read. Excellent Christmas content. Thank you for submitting @Yhippa
I definitely heard it more from my Grandfather, but I still hear it here in South Yorkshire. It seems to be most often used in common phrases, such as "What's tha want for tha tea?" or "What's tha doing?" (tha = thou/thy), or used for emphasis ("I'll tell thee what"), rather than as a general alternative though.

> English dialects are hyper localized

On a vaguely related note, has anyone else (particularly in Yorkshire) use "seef"/"seefing" to mean "see if"/"seeing if" (as in "I was seefing/seeing if it was in the car")? I hear it all the time from my immediate family, but I've never been able to find it referenced beyond that.
Can anyone clarify what is meant by "Mythology: we are modifying the meaning of each token based on what we've seen before it in the context, with similar meanings reinforcing each other." At this point in the text, it seems like the kernel smoothing is being applied to each embedding vector in isolation. I don't see why any one y_t vector derived and smoothed from token x_i would be influenced by the nearby tokens in the sequence.

When you add the r_t tokens, sure then I see how context matters. But is that the only think that takes into account context?
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS feed_items_pubdate_id
ON public.feed_items USING btree
(pubdate DESC NULLS FIRST, id DESC NULLS FIRST)
TABLESPACE pg_default;

create an index on both the pubdate (timestamptz column with potential duplicates like your post mentions) and a uuid primary key column (id in my case) problem solved
I hate to be so cynical, but I'll suggest an alternate thesis to the article: the American for-profit healthcare system is functioning exactly as designed. If you consider its primary goal being extraction of capital instead of taking care of people's health, everything that was confusing starts to make sense.

> at least seven experts spent roughly ten full-time days trying to find out a basic fact about my mother’s insurance, and finally failed. Meanwhile, many thousands of dollars were wasted on unnecessary hospitalization.

The money wasn't wasted -- the broken communication and intricate rule sets delay things for as long as possible, meanwhile the patient is charged, and someone is making a profit.

> On day six, I said “if she doesn’t go to a SNF today, I’m taking her home—the risk of her dying there seems less now than the risk of her dying here.” That got results: the other SNF agreed to take her “on spec.”

And here it is: when there was a credible threat that the money would stop flowing, the system acquiesced, insurmountable bureaucratic problems lifted.

> Are the confused rules Anthem’s fault? I imagine that the 1600 pages try to reconcile federal, state, and local legislation, plus the rules of three federal regulatory agencies, nine state agencies, and fifteen local agencies. All those are vague and conflicting and constantly changing, but Anthem’s rule-writing department does their best.

Here lies an opportunity to rip the spine out of the entire scam. Steal the rule books, leverage a LLM with RAG or other information retrieval architecture, and get answers in minutes, not days. Offer this as a service to (relatively) seamlessly slice through the obscure-by-design bureaucracies -- only of course to be hindered by the entrenched players and the politicians they have lobbied, who will fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo.
I own some ARM stock so that would be cool. But licensing increases by softbank could accelerate RISC-V. That is my hope anyway.
"machine screws and futures contracts come in standard sizes, without which manufacturing and finance would be as inefficient as health care."

oh lord. the finance industry does not even have a standardized way to transmit prices of securities. there is an enormous amount of inefficiency in the most basic behind the scenes systems..

My only real hope is the generation born after 2010, who all grow up playing video games where you get universal basic income and free healthcare laying around on the street in crates and boxes. And those things both actually work, they are not bug ridden half-finished projects that constantly crash and break. They will hopefully try to implement these things once they gain power.
If China invades Taiwan they won't destroy TSMC. They'll probably just put backdoors in the silicon. Everyone will continue to use TSMC until the backdoors have been found, there will be some controversy, but life will go on just has it has since we discovered backdoors in Intel chips.
> after exploding in 2020-21, where there was the largest increase in the entire time series.

The IMGUR link includes the text:

Due to the full transition to NIRBS and the lack of data for agencies that are not fully transitioned, the 2021 data year cannot be added to the 5-, 10- or 20- year trend presentations that are based in traditional methodologies used

That's a giant flashing warning sign to data nerds everywhere that some change in the gathering | reporting of data took place exactly right when things "exploded".

The question remains, did crime (actual homicide numbers) really explode or did national reporting of homicide numbers suddenly improve | include backlogs | etc?

> We are basically back to 1995 homicide levels ..

These are absolute numbers .. and the US population has grown in 25 years, given the change in national reporting the per capita homicides rates may be more stable than the graph indicates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Incident-Based_Report...
While housing obviously takes center stage in real estate market discussions, these quirky little elements in cities all but evaporate when you get past a certain price point. In cities I've lived in, like Boston, the areas I spent time in got so bland in a vaguely upscale, premium-end-of-mass-market sort of way. I moved to a smaller city cheap enough for people to do neat things sort of like this and will never move back to a big city while it's drowning in housing costs and a thoroughly "upmarket basic" cultural bent.
As a former theatre student with a BA in Drana, I love performing Shakespeare, but hate reading it or watching someone else perform it.

The stories may be universal, but everything else about them is a product of the time they were written in. Yes, they’re important but don’t burden kids with having to learn the finer nuances that even escape most adults.
Yes, you are entirely correct. Making a language that’s fully ‘culturally neutral’ is likely impossible, but even so, Esperanto could have done much better in this regard (and as far as I know, some other constructed languages do much better in this regard).

Even then, it's a very big jump from ‘people in some countries already know this and don’t need to learn at all’ to ‘people in some countries will have an easier time learning since they’ll recognise a lot of the words’; making this jump would already be a great improvement upon the status quo. Out of the languages which make the jump, Esperanto is by far the most widely spoken and otherwise used in practice.
Corporate death penalty. Lifetime ban for all implicated from working in positions of authority or safety critical positions.
which is why there should be a law in place to force game companies to add LAN even if it is completely hidden from day 1 which should not be usable if companies care about competitive edge but at EOL they should be forced to add a patch that activates this feature
Twitter doesn’t show replies if you are not logged in. As others have said, I also don’t have an account. So this link provides the full context. The twitter link only shows the post and no replies.
Why are many elected officials resigning in Florida? Form 6 explained
On a basic level, kids give off joy and kids enjoy the world in ways that are long dead to us.

It is enjoyable to watch them grow and putting energy into kids when they are young feels rewarding.

Pretty much everything a kid does is important and/or rewarding biologically to the parents.

I've noticed parents don't talk about it in public, they've forgotten what it is like to be single and wrapped up in work.

Parents often only say that 'you should have kids' and 'it's great' with no further description of what it is like.

Parents are a strange phenomena, they become tribal and grounded, once a man becomes a father.
FFVII hit massive popularity by being the right game at the right time. And it's a great game, and one of the better FF games! But it was a bit of an experimental bridge between 2D and 3D RPGs.
Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy X are much better in terms of gameplay and storytelling.
Linear Associative Algebra – Benjamin Peirce (1882)
I like this idea. I've seen it extended to individual days as well. If I can name one interesting thing that happened in a day, then it was an interesting day with at least one story to come from it.
This is a general human pattern and not at all confined to HN.
All of those incentives were in play 50 years ago. You may as well say you just don't like statistics that you disagree with.
Thank you. Today I learn a new thing!
This has nothing to do with vaccines, and no matter how long you beat this drum, reality is never going to change to accommodate you.
If you can think of a concrete and detailed, workable proposal, maybe you could write up a NixOS RFC and send a PR for discussion (or post something on the discourse community website?).

Who knows, maybe something can be fleshed out and improvements come out of it...
All I remember about VIII was fighting with everyone over playing Triple Triad. I can't remember anything about the story or the game, it was all about working out how to collect those cards.
I was assuming these are general purpose statistics, which means you might want to share them with someone. It's bad for those to get tainted by your personal priors. If it's a purely personal calculation then sure that's fine.
> Why with single payer would there not still be instances of treatment being denied?

The most common failure mode for single-payer is scarcity. You won't be denied, but you'll have to wait many months for an appointment.

> Would this not be replaced with faceless automata in government?

They are controlled by politicians, who are directly responsible to their electorate. Brexit is a good example, using money sent to EU for NHS was one of the more influential ads. Of course, the outcome turned out to be... different.

With the current insurance system, you don't have ANY levers. You can't usually change your insurance company because it's provided by your employer. And even if you want to buy medical insurance yourself via the ACA, you can switch it only once a year. With no way to tell in advance if your new company is going to cover your treatment.

You also can't even sue your insurance company if it denies you the treatment because _all_ insurance companies require binding arbitration. And arbitrators basically always side with the insurance company, because your contract says that the insurance company is always right. That's how UnitedHealthcare can get away with just randomly denying treatment.
Hugo Award winner in 1956. Brilliant story-craft.

This story was first published in 1955 and was collected in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Sky

The story was reprinted in the author's own collection of his favourite work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God_...
Pressure on Harvard President Increases, BoD Feels the Squeeze
It doesn’t have to.
I've found that doctors (at least, good ones) tend to light up when you demonstrate that you're not an idiot.

I don't mean to suggest that "I'm a dum dum" is a bad approach - in fact I think it's great for getting past any cynical defenses that have built up.

But I'll never forget taking my son to the ER and getting to have an actual conversation with a doc. When he was a toddler he would get nasty respiratory infections that had escalated to hospitalizations in the past. When I took him in, he was in reasonably good shape, and initially the doctor just wanted to send us home. But I described his history and said something like "every time he has one of these, we wind up taking him back into the ER at night, where they invariably give him a steroid that clears him right up. Could you just prescribe it to him now, and we'll only use it if it becomes necessary?"

The doc got this big smile and was more than happy to oblige. My guess is that she didn't want to prescribe a steroid for no reason (because they really shouldn't be taken willy nilly), but as soon as I showed her I was, you know, thoughtful and responsible, she was practically falling over herself to help me.

Docs don't want you having to bring your kids to the ER at midnight any more than you do. And for the most part they're in the field for good reasons (especially pediatrics, because you'd have to be insane to do it for the wrong reasons).
Article 28 of the NIS2 Directive and the DNS Industry
Homicide is a tiny fraction of all crime, and the numbers of homicides are low enough in large US cities that small changes can lead to fairly large percentages.
> Just look at how the VA is run and complains about it.

The VA system has on average delivers better outcomes than private insurance: https://www.rand.org/news/press/2018/04/26.html

It's the usual "review effect", you only see negatives about the VA, not positives.
Great for guitars though!
So you've never used VA healthcare. Compared to the insanity of the rest of the system it's pretty amazing. Some locations are better than others though.
Hopefully the Darling 58 ones can still go through.
But you don't even know what to vote for because no one knows what policies reduce crime.

We do know that stricter sentencing doesn't work, but outside of that there are a million guesses.

You could easily vote for someone who pretends to know and makes the problem worse.
Yes, a tree that grew crazy fast for mass timber so there was no need to log existing forests (and disturb the soil where most the carbon is sequestered) in hard-to-predict ways would be fantastic!
One of my favorite things to do as a teenager growing up was to get a ride to Barnes and noble, grab a coffee, and plant myself on the bench in the periodical section to pour through every page of the latest 2600, desperately trying to commit to my memory as much as possible.

Even in the infantile form of the web where this sort of knowledge and editorial transfer of ideas really ought to have thrived, there was no digital compendium even remotely close to how dense and concisely curated these pages were. It really felt like every new issue was unlocking the next level of the game as the Internet was developing..
Merry Christmas

Christus natus est

O Χριστός γεννιέται

Христос раждается

המשיח נולד

ابن الله يولد اليوم
I guess it becomes household activities the moment he gets into the chimney. Big tech should try to exploit this loophole too, somehow. Maybe make Alexa part of your household?
"Good faith" is a difficult to grasp concept when concerning people who are holding your data for ransom
The failure rate in all graduate education is low, because you’re only taking people who have already performed well for 4 years in undergrad.

For med school specifically, you’re only taking the top performers, then of those you’re filtering further based on MCAT scores.

If you’re that selective and you already have a 15-20% failure rate, I’m not sure that lowering the entry requirements is a great use of resources.

You don’t really want a 40% failure rate. That’s a lot of wasted time, effort, and money.

There are already many alternate career paths for medical practitioners who can’t make it into med school or just don’t want to spend as much time in training.
Obligatory I'm a fan of cryptocurrency, and only a very, very small subset of them at that. Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap.

I tried to tell some of these people. What's the value proposition? People talked about artists and all this and I'm like, OK, what's the value proposition to the buyer? Then I'd hear about how they'll be useful for something some day, so OK, they're useless now? And then something something greater fool. It really was something to watch, "metaverse real estate" and all this.

I can tell you the value proposition of a handful of cryptocurrencies. You might not agree, but there's a case I can make. I can tell you Tue value proposition of ethereum. Nobody to this day has been able to give me anything concrete about NFTs or crypto gaming or any of that stuff. It's all hand wavy "this is the future" or "people are going to want this" or something like that. It was all a plainly obvious load of crap.
Obviously it would be possible to run more students through medical school but that wouldn't give us more practicing doctors. The real bottleneck is in residency slots at teaching hospitals. For peculiar historical reasons almost all graduate medical education is funded by the Federal government through the Medicare program and Congress has been unwilling to increase that.

https://savegme.org/
14. Don't get ever distracted by hype, e.g. crypt0. I lost 1.5 years of my life this way.
Currently there is a lot of hype around LLM. Do people think, it will go the same way?. I understand we cannot compare. But usually we get carried away assuming its different this time.

(Btw very nice thread. Thanks)
I just tried this, and it was amazing. Great tip.
Totally agree; I started replaying 13 somewhat recently, and just felt worn down after playing for a few hours. The nonstop battles with no real break between them just isn't fun, despite the game having amazing aesthetics.