skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US health insurance is simply completely nuts for an European (EU) person.

My health insurance is not free (it is taxed as a separate social tax) but it is way, way less than this.

There is still one important disclaimer to add. Because very good niche doctors who can perform very specific rare procedures can charge a lot more in US then it can happen that these doctors will emigrate to US from EU and it is possible but not necessarily true that this kind of very expensive insurance could cover such procedures and make them more available for US insurers than for EU insurers (e.g. tax payers).
I am not surprised, I used to work with someone that held a retro arcade high score (national, rather than world-wide, I believe), and they almost based their entire personality on it.
DARPA will find its way one way or another. You can virtue signaling, but there is no reality you can stop them obtaining the technology. Besides your enemy will not wait.
Why can I buy an Audible audiobook directly in the app on iOS (and for cheaper than listed on Amazon), but not a Kindle book?
> that nobody cares about.

Obviously enough people care about it that: a) they track a high score, b) have rules about how to get that high score, and c) actually check if the high-scorer violated said rules.

> It's absolutely insane to me that this grown man has fought tooth and nail to protect his status as a high-scorer

People are weird. I'll bet there's a bunch of things in your household that are involved in some kind of "best of" competitions with competitors that are fiercely protective of their status.
“DEFINITION OF APPLE

Depending on your Home Country, “Apple” means:

Apple Inc., located at One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, for users in the United States, including Puerto Rico;

Apple Canada Inc., located at 120 Bremner Blvd., Suite 1600, Toronto ON M5J 0A8, Canada for users in Canada;

Apple Services LATAM LLC, located at 1 Alhambra Plaza, Ste 700 Coral Gables, Florida, for users in Mexico, Central or South America, or any Caribbean country or territory (excluding Puerto Rico);

iTunes K.K., located at Roppongi Hills, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6140, Tokyo for users in Japan;

Apple Pty Limited, located at Level 3, 20 Martin Place, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia, for users in Australia or New Zealand, including in any of their territories or affiliated jurisdictions; and

Apple Distribution International Ltd., located at Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Republic of Ireland, for all other users.

“
[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/term...
Readthedocs-Sphinx-Search breaks for older releases
Not a huge issue to fix (just needs to be upgraded) but it broke deployments to two open source projects I work on over the past couple days.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Idk.
Do you have a link to that study? I'd be very interested in the full results!
You are correct, but CP/M was written for the 8080 CPU, and the Intel 8080 is a subset of the Zilog Z-80, so a direct translation is entirely possible. The Z-80 is not hardware compatible. (E.g. it cannot be plugged into a system to replace an 8080.) The Z-80 is however 100% software compatible with the 8080. Anything that will run on an 8080 will run on a Z-80 without modification.

So the process to reproduce DOS would be:

1) Convert the 8080 assembly mnemonics in the leaked CP/M BDOS and CCP into Z-80 mnemonics. I remember that there are tools to do this under CP/M, but I haven't run CP/M for nearly 40 years, so I don't remember their names.

2) Run the Z-80-to-x86 cross assembler (conveniently written by the same company that "wrote" DOS -- SCP) on the Z-80 assembler files you've just produced.

3) Change all occurrences of CALL 5 to INT 21.

4) Integrate with BIOS for your x86 hardware.

5) Done!
Why was this downvoted? It is a good comment. Thank you to clarify.
It's based on public comments about the per-mile cost of Cruise and Waymo, and the fact that Waymo is currently operating in only a tiny number of areas. Expansion greatly dilutes the fixed costs, and iterating on the hardware will drive down the marginal/capital costs.

Amazon made no profit for many, many years, but that's because they were re-investing all their revenue. No one doubted that they could have turned a profit if they wanted. (Tbc, there is not yet a component of Waymo that is profitable because, as mentioned, they are just operating in a handful of cities.)
But at the same time, he put a stick in the spokes of the woke tandem bike known as Twitter. So I’m at loss for words.
BTW that library was named by John Gilmore, who’s a pretty hardcore libertarian.
Mostly agree with this. Would also financial freedom/transferability also plays a part... to have a "reserve" currency, assets denominated in that currency should be easily exchangeable. If you're hotel california - you can only buy into a currency / not sell, makes it harder to have your currency accepted by others.
You can probably include development of SDKs and documentation as well.
It's quite a quite since ZDNET habitually always described Linux as "the upstart operating system". But things haven't improved for ZDNET since its heyday in the late 1990s when it was a Microsoft sycophant.

I honestly thought that ZDNET had spiralled to oblivion some 15 years or more back. Well, some zombies do hang on long after they're dead.

PS. Linuxmint MATE 21.3 is very good.
Judge blocks JetBlue-Spirit merger in a major win for Biden's Justice Department
"Being the policeman of the world absolutely sucks"

What's the alternative? It's as good a job as any and we are all enjoying it's warmth, right now.

Humans need war. Kurt even waved off his anti-war schtick after thinking about it long enough. This was a guy who lived though the direct impact of unimaginable destruction and death brought on by war. He profited from it!
What about nation states? Do you really think the US military will avoid working towards AGI if they think it would give them a tactical advantage? Or the CCP? Or North Korea?
Personally, if AGI gets developed, I’d rather the first iteration be in the hands of someone who doesn’t also have access to nuclear weapons.
This is all an elaborate mating ritual
The problem is all the bottom tier machines also have all this crap installed
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments? You've done it repeatedly and we've already had to ask you about this. Crossing into personal attack is particularly unwelcome.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Yes, true, you can construct a machine on which any project you care to run is CPU bound. But meanwhile on my pretty beefy servers compiling a kernel from scratch is very much i/o bound. Maybe if I run it twice in a row after all of the caches have been prepped I can get it to be CPU bound but that's cheating, no? With enough RAM almost anything is CPU bound but that's not the normal situation. A typical laptop has 4 or 8 G of RAM and will rapidly consume all that while doing a kernel compile to the point that it's talking to the disk to a degree that it will slow down to where the CPU's are stalled.
AI wasn't the thing behooving in my post - it's understanding AI that is behooving us. We should be behoven by it!
Would be fun to chat...don't see your email in your bio though.
The open space on small models is a whole other developing angle, but O was referring to the general commoditization of a lot of these models. With rare exception after launch it seems the lifespan of any of these models is rather limited. From a business standpoint that sort of scenario is generally very unattractive and thus was trying to understand if they have some other angle they’re trying to play here to make a viable business out of this. Or the business model can just be get acquired before that matters and let that be someone else’s problem to figure out.
I was able to run this model in http://lmstudio.ai as well. Just remove Compatibility Guess in Filters, so you can see all the models. LM Studio can load it and run requests against it.
Actual time spent scrubbing and gowning up is minimal, and you have to do approach and closure physically on the patient (not on the robot console). In a training institution, these can often be handled by trainees, but the lead surgeon will want to take a bigger role in placement of the ports used to introduce instruments.

The ability to physically see instruments, supplies, etc., is often important. So you'd have to have some setup that allows injecting other images into the surgeon's feed from the robot.

This is pretty everyday stuff for an efficient surgeon doing certain kinds of surgeries (i.e., ones whose duration is relatively short and predictable), so I'm not sure why this is being reported on as though it's new. Maybe there's even more standardization of technique?
Tesla vision gets confused by shadows when it is sunny. Its the new phantom braking when using the Tesla vision stack on freeways. Before it was low hanging freeway signs that the radar picked up.

Also it can't figure out lanes at all and is always trying to change lanes into the wrong lane. The navigate on Autopilot stack seemed better than the current FSD stack.
> Being the policeman of the world absolutely sucks.

It would probably suck less if it was more neutral and without the self dealing / corruption.

The "policeman of the world" thing often seems like just a fig leaf / marketing to paper over dodgy stuff. :(
The industry also made a huge mistake by making earlier hybrids butt ugly to the point of being laughable. These things matter.
DMA: I had to look it up. For others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act

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The DMA covers eight different sectors, which it refers to as Core Platforms Services (CPS). Due to the presence of gatekeepers who, to a certain degree, affect the market contestability, the CPS are considered problematic by the European Commission:

online search engines (e.g. Google Search);

online intermediation services (e.g. Google Play Store, Apple's App Store);

social networks (e.g. Facebook);

video sharing platforms (e.g. YouTube);

communication platforms (e.g. WhatsApp, Gmail);

advertising services (e.g. Google Ads);

operating systems (e.g. Android, iOS);

cloud services (e.g. Amazon Web Services).[4]
>>
Meanwhile:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-i...
Yeah abstain from having a life and a family just so you can afford to spend your days hacking on other people's websites for free as a hobby or something.
I believe this is coming, but (rightly) from the police investigating credible allegations of criminal wrongdoing, rather than from Government intervention.

2x fairly prominent Fujitsu people have been interviewed under caution on suspicion of perjury, and some of the recent revelations from recent testimony in both the parliamentary committee hearing and the public inquiry seem likely to open the door to further such investigations.

In terms of internal conduct, the Post Office is now (as of first week of January) apparently under investigation for potential fraud offences. There is some speculation this includes individuals, as well as the entity itself (given many fraudulent actions would be carried out by individual people).

I imagine such prosecutions (properly carried out, independent of government actions) may help focus people's memories and also begin to start the process of punishing those individuals concerned, and implicate others in the process.
IMO Vite isn't better or worse, it just has a different use case. Next has more bolts included (like robust SSR + fetching/caching strategies, routing, middleware, etc.)

If you're just building a SPA, using Next is overkill (and will often get in the way, actually). But for some other websites, having all of that included and supported by a single source/vendor is very valuable and beats trying to Frankenstein a project out of 30 other libs like the bad old initial days of React.

For simpler or client-only sites, Vite is actually wonderful. But it's not automatically the best choice for every project.
There’s an entirely different way of looking at this that is perfectly in line with why self driving. Cars have failed several times before…

Who is liable?

That’s what largely killed prior attempts, especially those using custom built roads. If the car crashes who is liable - the manufacturer, the road builder, or the driver? I think it is telling that the pull back we’re seeing is correlated with early cases in this becoming more salient.

Why does this have to be a technical limitation/success (im not saying it is or isn’t) only?
South Korea launches digital nomad visa to boost remote work options in 2024
Midjourney has better quality but does not offer any control. Community has done and is still doing a a lot with SD models because they can be played and tinkered with in any way anyone wants to.
It is more for the other bigger corporations that will have more to lose, and will be flagged via outside auditors, that will pay it accurately.
I dual booted BeOS back in college. I know, that period where you "experiment".

It was pretty good as a daily driver, and I even purchased a few games for it. Some Korean company took a risk and made a couple, the one I played the most being a top-down hack 'n slash RPG, which was OK. I cannot remember the names, but I can tell you they are not on this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BeOS_games

Ah ha! The RPG was Corum 3:

https://www.mobygames.com/platform/beos/
> Run the Z-80-to-x86 cross assembler

That's not what that assembler does. From the manual:

The Seattle Computer Products Z80/8086 Cross Assembler runs on the Z80 processor under CP/M or its derivatives. It accepts as input a text file of 8086 source code using mnemonics similar or identical to Intel's ASM-86. (Emphasis mine)

...

Why a Cross Assembler?

During the early life of a new processor, a cross assembler offers the user certain advantages over a resident assembler. Chief among these is the ready availability of low cost software for the older host computer. For the Z-80, this software includes editors, operating systems, and utility packages. Using a cross assembler also enables the user to write machine language code for the new processor even before the hardware is available.
So if I sign up for, say, Spotify on my windows pc on the browser, and then download the iOS client, Apple believes they deserve 30%?

Yeah they can piss off with that. It’ll go away with time.
This is, I think, just one of those spots where "all models are wrong, some models are useful" is true. From the wikipedia page on Refractive Index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_index):

> The refractive index may vary with wavelength. This causes white light to split into constituent colors when refracted. This is called dispersion. This effect can be observed in prisms and rainbows, and as chromatic aberration in lenses.

--- snip ---

> For most materials the refractive index changes with wavelength by several percent across the visible spectrum. Nevertheless, refractive indices for materials are commonly reported using a single value for n, typically measured at 633 nm.

So we were all lied to in our introductory optics classes. n isn't a constant for a given material but rather n(lambda) but weakly.
Actually yes, they do. That's what makes it abusive - the victim doesn't have the power, control, or will, to simply walk away.
Starbucks coffee has a Prop 65 label. It's likely that any domestic toaster would also put one on. The reason for this is the onus is on the company to prove it doesn't have any risky chemicals. The USA is the land of the frivolous lawsuit so its just not worth it.
augmenting your advice with chatgpt shouldnt be difficult. You could simply bounce your ideas off chatgpt before meeting a client, that way your work has already been crosschecked, its not like it would be providing advice (your product) for you.
I've admittedly been at the same company for 10 years, but no where that I know of does unpaid internships anymore. And our experience with interns is that they are a great way to find some really good future employees but absolutely a productivity drain on the team while they are here. It's worth it because of the hiring pipeline it creates, but 100% not worth it just for the work the interns do while they are interns.
Why not three models? One model does basic feature detections, like lines, shapes, etc. A second model that can take the first model's output as its input, and identify birds. A third model can take the first model's output as its input, and identify houses.
Yes Russia did have some accounts and bought ads on US social media some years ago, but analysis showed it had marginal effect. They are outsiders on US run social media platforms. The real power is in the hands of those running the social media platforms that can suppress or send viral what they want with a few adjustments. That certainly happened and continues still now aided by AI.
They'll sell you the pipe without any guarantee and some include provisions that allow them to instantaneously downgrade your pipe if they decide your servers are a traffic management problem.

I can't speak to GCP, AWS is pretty generous, and they even suggest you contact them for a deal once you're in the low 5 figure range, and that's across all services in a region. If you move enough data the discount is significant and approaches overage pricing at VPS providers.

I'm sure. If I were running things that were more bandwidth heavy as opposed to integration heavy, we would have gone that route as well, and we would have gone through the extra trouble of getting some provider diversity and redundancy built in.

For smaller cases, they can avoid all that overhead and just trade those into bandwidth costs. Which, if your costs do get high, it's much easier to build an external caching network then it is to build a bunch of external dependent infrastructure with bare metal providers.

In any case, I don't think it's that AWS is taxing it's users unfairly, I think the costs are a solid reflection of where their engineering effort and variable costs are concentrated. It seems like maintaining symmetry in bandwidth is one of those.

As a customer I can use petabytes one month and then zero bytes the next month. They have link agreements with multi year terms and possible "balance payments" required if symmetry is not maintained. This type of bandwidth isn't as cheap to provide under these terms.
Well, the most vocal ruby community was RoR users, while python even back then was used by multiple camps.

Ruby done a smart upgrade path - new features in 2.x and breaking changes in 1.9.x. Ruby also got a "new" VM (it wasn't new, but it was the new default VM).

Before 1.9.3 the best way to deploy ruby was Passenger with RubyEE. RubyEE was based on 1.8.7 and with all the improvements that the mainline ruby implementation got there was no reason to maintain RubyEE fork. The 2.0.0 release meant to be 100% compatible with 1.9.3 and had ABI version 1.9.1.

Also, prior 2.1.0 Ruby used versioning very different from SemVer, hence 1.9.x had multiple breaking changes in its lifetime. It didn't mean "patch" version back then.

I think the main difference is that the newer ruby was actually faster than the older ruby and gave plenty of reasons to move. The main pain point im ruby migration was that it became encoding aware. Python 3 wasn't as lucky.
What should happen is that governments regulate these policies out of existence (or into sensibility). We already do this for things like credit card processing fees (in Europe) and it works well.
As the comment you replied to indicates, both of those APIs perform bounds-checking. In certain tight loops, this can add up to quite a bit of overhead [1]. However, it's not documented, but if you really know what you are doing you can convince the JIT to elide the bounds checks for MemorySegments [2].

[1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2023-July/0193...

[2] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2023-July/0194...
> from natural language requirements to more precise computer languages

This makes sense. Translation to precise code would include more of the logic/planning bits of the brain, since that's the context of the output. I suspect a person fluent in Lojban[1] would show similar areas activating during translation from English to Lojban. I also assume translating code to words, with documentation, would include more language, since that's the context of the result.

That doesn't mean it's not translation. It's just translation to a precise description of intent.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
Very interesting. Could someone feed their own novel to it?
They weren't all restrictions, some were things you can do.
If you really insist on shooting yourself in the foot, you can do MemorySegment.ofAddress(0).reinterpret(Long.MAX_VALUE) to obtain a MemorySegment for the lower half of the address space of your process. Obviously, you set the address to Long.MAX_VALUE for the upper half.
Do you compare alternatives based on value when making a health care choice? From what I can see you get the cost AFTER the issue has been resolved.
Zero way? This will totally stand for a few years at least.
I mean, prior to them unilaterally changing the deal I can see how you could have some sort of faith.

But that’s been shown to be bullshit now.
I think this does a disservice to actual victims of actual crimes. This is at most a business dispute over fees. The app store developers were cautioned that throwing their lot in with Apple (and let's not forget Google) would eventually lead to a situation where Apple controlled their business and could charge whatever they wanted. But the money was good and so the walled garden App stores became entrenched. But in principle they were always broken.

This is why unions are a thing. They create collective bargaining power. If all of the app store vendors would unite they'd have a formidable position vis-a-vis Apple, Google etc. And there is no reason why app store developers could not form such a collective to increase their bargaining power.

You must have seen it mentioned on HN before: don't build your house in someone else's garden or something to that effect, in other words: if you make all of your income in someone else's eco system you are giving them a lot of power over your business. That's a bad move, but if you have to do it make sure you have a lot of friends, just in case.
> The commission will apply to “purchases made within seven days after a user taps on an External Purchase Link and continues from the system disclosure sheet to an external website.”

Remove the link and offer a url ;)
The Internet has Made News Worse

Actually the internet has meant that we are no longer restricted to getting our news locally, with all the biases (and/or propaganda) that entails.

I get my daily news from sources all over the globe. Many bits of propaganda cancel each other out, leaving a kernel of hard news. After a while you begin to see which news outlets are dependably correct, and which news outlets are dependably untrue.

And the identity of those outlets can be quite surprising. Both ways!

(One particular news agency that I would swear by until a few years back is very close to the top of my 'take no notice of any of their bullshit' list.)
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. If the web was invented today browsers would never be allowed on the App Store. Not even a dumbed down version without advanced scripting capabilities.

The fact that they have a browser and allow “3p browsers” is only because the web was already established and customers wouldn’t have bought in without it.

iPhones and iPads are not general purpose computing devices. Not by tech, but by policy.
There’s also chargeback risk, which I imagine is quite high for digital purchases.