skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you exclude the private insurance market (!) and look only at public health costs, the US picture is dismal.

- 944 billion on Medicare (federal)
- 805 billion on Medicaid (federal + state)
- 118 billion on VA health costs
- 21 billion on CHIP

That's 1.5 trillion alone, and that doesn't count ACA subsidies, or other state and local government-owned or subsidized medical facilities. That's $5800/year per capita - ALL persons in the US, whether they have private or public or no insurance. US government per capita health care spending is already higher than many European countries and a little more than two-thirds the Swiss number you mention. While US private health insurance companies don't help the situation, neither are they a main cause of US health care costs.
I imagine there has to be some kind of security implication here, the same reason why the US is restricting the export of AI chipsets to china. It's not ideal if US megacorps are heavily investing in or buying out EU AI startups.
Chimera: FastAPI-Like Library for Go
Decided that go needed a framework for OpenAPI 3.1 + automatic handling of requests and responses
I prefer having the freedom to change the interface between my components without then having to update large numbers of mocked tests.
VirusTotal

1 security vendor flagged this URL as malicious

I don't know how reliable that is though
Sorry you might have had those experiences but in my experience that is not true. Those terrible chat bots usually come forth by management that has zero experience on the technical side that implement a cost savings via a consultant. It is still a mess but not "neo-feudal post capitalism".
That's not remotely true, at least not for Apple in China.

We know that Apple will throw their users under the bus for profit if incentives align.

"Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing" https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/apple_warns_suppliers...

"The problem with canceling Jon Stewart: Apple bowed to Chinese government censorship" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/10/26/jon...

"Apple pulls Taiwanese flag emoji from iPhones in Hong Kong"
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-08/apple-taiw...

Even Google didn't went that far and withdrew from China.

"In early 2010, Google shut down its Chinese website altogether after failing to reach an agreement with Beijing over how much content to censor in search results." https://observer.com/2022/10/alphabet-shut-google-translate-...
The Brain of the Greatest Solo Climber (2016)
News about Denmark, in English (translated by LLM)
Yes, structured log exactly. Why I prefer "wide event" as a term because it has this "wide" component that serves for 2 purposes:

- it highlights the intention of storing as much context as possible
- it also hints on the implementation for a system that would serve them. One likely need to use columnar storage to store wide events, there is no way around it

But just a personal preference in the end.
GPU's aren't yet awfully efficient at 1 bit math.

I could imagine FPGA designs might be competitive.

And dedicated ASIC's would almost certainly beat both by a decent margin.
> it has been clear that people's aesthetic sensibilities are a matter of habit

It's not as simple as that. It's a combination of universal patterns (for example unexpected loud & deep sound will trigger specific response in most people) and subjective preferences based on past experiences (which also seems to form by following certain universal patterns).

The title of this article is a little clickbaity. What this study finds is that timbre can modify what we perceive as consonant, and it seems that can explain evolution of inharmonic scales in non-Western musical traditions.

> The researchers were surprised to find a significant preference for slight imperfection, or 'inharmonicity.'

Preferences for slight deviations disappeared upon elimination of the upper harmonics:

> We identified a subtle but interesting phenomenon for tones with strong upper harmonics, whereby listeners prefer slight deviations from exact just intonation ... This effect seems explainable by listeners enjoying slow beats, a phenomenon that can be straightforwardly incorporated into interference models of consonance perception. Consistent with this hypothesis, these preferences for slight deviations disappeared upon elimination of the upper harmonics, presumably because this eliminates the slow beating effect.

But I agree that there are lots of ways things can go wrong in studies like these. That table height study blunder is hilarious. I haven't heard of it before.
The compiler doesn’t need a Markdown parser, only the separate javadoc tool does.
"One does not simply..."

bash public officials over the head.
Cool project. What is the tech stack behind it. I can already guess few. 11labs, OpenAI…dreamtalk. There are so many similar services to what you are doing. What sets you apart? You should partner with local media or outside. Good luck!

Check out https://www.flawlessai.com they been around since 2018. Interesting stuff. When I first saw it in 2021 I was blown away.
You could call them connection machine and perhaps have an llm trained on Feynman help with the design.
Microwave Energy Could Fix the Biggest Problem Facing EVs
> i also didn't know python supported // on floats

Like most surprising features in python, it would be terribly annoying if it didn't. Especially since you couldn't make sure the argument to the function you're writing wasn't a float. At that time, anyway.
> and it is even more disappointing that this is made from the creator of Homebrew.

Max hasn’t been involved with Homebrew for over a decade.
Not really, that's for the binary version of the algorithm, the ternary version can propagate a lot more information in the backwards pass using the fact outputs either -1, 0, 1.

But I imagine they are using the same thing since a bunch of the authors are the same.
I’m a young Portuguese that left the country for better opportunities, part of the demographic this “author” claims to care for, and it’s hard to not feel disgust at the cynicism and extreme liberal bias.
Apparently everything is the socialists’ fault and the center right parties just didn’t kowtow to fascists hard enough.
sorry, but for me this is still heavily [citation needed]

sure CTO says something, but what exactly happened? do we know? you wrote that no new C/C++ projects were started. that to me sounds perfectly reasonable phase-out.
Oh, I agree, I'm just saying that there is no reason in principle for floats performance to be better than integer.

edit: also this might be implementable purely using bitwise vector operations. Would need to check the throughput of those.
I believe these issues are instances of the frame problem [0]. Specifying the effects of an action is easy ("show more diversity"), but specifying non-effects is hard to impossible ("do not show more diverse Nazis"). Computer science and logic have worked out how to avoid side effects in formal systems, but the real world is a different animal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_problem
I agree with this.

Developers whose primary skill and interest is in coding seem to be in complete denial about the future.
5 years ago I was at MIT’s QC lab and 4 qubits was the max number of entangled qubits their machine could reach, sustainably. All the marketing fluff from IBM and Google about hundreds, or thousands, of entangled qubits is misleading - they don’t maintain those entangled states for long durations. Only when we can get hundreds of qubits to maintain entangled states for sustainable periods of time can we then attempt the theoretical use cases of the technology.
>He's got his own blood boy!

Gavin Belson?
I had a go at porting an A*-algo implementation from pure python to a RAM
& CPU -optimized Numba version.
For this I used the help of Gemini-Advanced (if that's what Google names their paid-for offering today)

It's been a mixed experience, it got me started but did not help much with understanding the error messages, retreading a lot. Still basically from its dawdling I gathered knowledge I did not have before, and gave me a sense of how to progress. To get me over the bump to a functioning solution I had to do my own thinking, the back and forth with Gemini stopped. At the end I used it again to fix some edge cases, there it helped.
Without it I would maybe not have attempted the task, or I would have started with a focussed study of numba, and with this old-style approach I do not think would have gotten to a functioning solution faster, not sure though, too late to try that now.
You can totally build a GCP function that will tear down your site if a billing alert hits the pubsub bus, but you can also set billing caps for a bunch of the APIs.
Haha, I think this term is originated by Honeycomb team actually.

Why I prefer "wide event" over "structured log" as a term because it has this "wide" component that serves for 2 purposes:
- it highlights the intention of storing as much context as possible - it also hints on the implementation for a system that would serve them. One likely need to use columnar storage to store wide events, there is no way around it

But just a personal preference in the end.
This brings me a long forgotten childhood memory, I remember going to my cousin's house and she having a linux machine (It had a linux sticker on it), we played the hell out of this game. Unironically this was also my very first encouter with Linux.
I wonder if the customers having an enraging conversation with a bot agree it's solving 2/3 problems.
That's exactly what I am thinking about, thanks for the insights. I am sure there are hundreds if not thousands examples like this with probably as much impact. See their massive investments in nearly any underdeveloped region of the world.
Doing all the work and taking all the stress only to have the EU remove a chance of growth and exit is a problem that I never want to have. I went through some failed startups, and at least that was our own fault, but still I never want to do that again. I don't know what I'd do in this situation.
Why PHP continues to be a popular but divisive programming language
The worst thing about dubbing is that it's more important for the translations to have roughly the same length and correspondence to the original mouth movements than to be accurate. So the original meaning is often altered, and you don't even know it because of course you have no easy access to the original most of the time. But unfortunately Germans are so used to dubbing that subtitles don't really stand a chance. There are a few cinemas here and there that show original-language movies with subtitles, and on TV there was one experiment that I'm aware of a few years ago (on Pro Sieben Maxx) to show TV series with subtitles, but it was cancelled after some time. AFAIK it's also more expensive to secure the rights to show English-language content compared to dubbed content.
No, it does work that way. The issue is that without AC our buildings will eventually get so warm insulation does not help.

Buildings would not cool down anyway during night in Stockholm due to the very short nights and Stockholm bring by a lake, we do not have cool nights. The only solution is insulation plus AC.
People are working on that [1]. In some sense, it's a step back to analog computing. Add/multiply is possible to do directly in memory with voltages, but it's less versatile (and stable) than digital computing. So you can't do all calculations in a neural network that way, meaning some digital components will always be necessary. But I'm pretty sure analog will make a comeback for AI chips sooner or later.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06337-5
In both cases this is a prime opportunity for anyone to disrupt Nvidia. They are in this market position in large part because both video games and neural networks do a lot of highly parallel floating point math, especially matrix multiplication. This model architecture doesn't do any of that.

Of course it should be fairly simple for Nvidia to add special silicon and instructions for two-bit addition to a future generation of their cards. But it'll take a while because they already have a roadmap and preexisting commitments. And any competitor doesn't have to copy everything Nvidia does to make floating point numbers go fast, they can just focus on making two-bit data handling and addition go fast.
I was recently on a kafkaesque chat with uber's AI customer service, and I gotta say I've never been so angry at a machine in my life. It felt insane to try and convince their embarrassment of an implementation to escalate to a human. In their last message they informed my ticket was being closed.

I'm never doing business with them again, don't need more liability in my life, and there's plenty of alternatives.
How do you handle light? I'm in Hilversum and the houses are just ovens.

Until recently I lived in Ireland and people looked at me like I had 3 heads when I talked about air tightness, deciduous trees in front of south facing windows, and eaves/awnings - the idea that you might not _want_ as much light as possible baffled the dinosaurs in planning.

I hope the Netherlands is better but I still see an awful lot of windows with no protection from sunlight. Eaves are perfect (and deciduous trees) because you can angle them such that you get light in the winter but shade in the mid-day summer sun.
A lot of databases these days support nested transactions using savepoints, which Django's test framework can take advantage of.

There's a separate mechanism for writing tests where you need to explicitly test transaction mechanics: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/testing/tools/#...
+1 On this, the real proof would have been testing both models side-by-side.

It seems that it may be published on GitHub [1] according to HuggingFace [2].

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/bitnet

[2] https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.17764
In my last project we used https://java.testcontainers.org/modules/kafka/ to start a small Kafka container. It's not the exactly like a production installation, but it goes a long way.
https://archive.ph/OMRUi
You mean way after he introduced the bad way of doing things? Looks like an afterthought.
The problem when mocks happen when all your unit test
passes and the program fails on integration.
The mocks are a pristine place where your library unit test works like a champ.
Bad mocks or bad library? Or both.
Developers are then sent to debug the unit test... overhead.
I don't much about ML but I would think that they should follow some rules
resembling judicial rules of precedence and witness cross-examination techniques.
Elon Musk Calls on Microsoft CEO for Laptop Issues
What is the read latency like on HBM3E?
Yes, air source heat pumps (mini or multi split systems) in particular.

Unfortunately most houses in northern Europe are obsolete and plumbed for radiators so people tend to opt for systems that heat water instead of upgrading to something that offers cooling as well.
So only 1/3 managed to get the bot the redirect to a actual human before they have given up?

I get it's more complex than that, but I have given up on several of these bots before.
Or DDG is just sucking the well dry and isn’t bothering to build value for the long term.

Disclaimer: I applied for a job at DDG several years ago and they had the nerve to turn me down :)
Take this with a grain of salt until someone reproduces it. Improvements such as these require extraordinary evidence. Not to mention extreme quantization has been tried before.
Speaking from the heart and being well-versed on popular topics. Most people read headlines, not the actual news nor the history of what led up to these events. I tell them what I know based off my experiences or sources. I state facts from studies I've read or heard of. "In my experience..." or "I've read that X is Y."

As for arguments, make them try to convince you. Make them come to you. This is power. It's easier win an argument from a defensive stance. Picking apart their attacks is easier than you convincing them. They either see the error in their ways or you will see errors in your own and tell them you'll think about it. For this to work, you will need an open mind.

Also, if you have time, prepare as much as you can.

People that try to dominate in an argument instead of keeping a pro-social, open-mind only desire to boost their ego, not to truly learn. Avoid these people. Relieve yourself of the insecurity they wreak upon you.
The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk
If you are writing the standard library for a programing language than unit tests are useful. If you are implementing an algorithm for any other reason you should ask why isn't this in a standard library already. Sometimes your company will have good reasons for making their own standard library, sometimes you will bring in a third party algorithm library. Most coding though isn't making an algorithm it is using existing known algorithms to massage data. As such most code shouldn't be unit tested.

If you are making a standard library then you should be writing a lot of unit tests. However odds are that isn't your job.
Single-photon_source#History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon_source#History :

> As well as NV centres and molecules, quantum dots (QDs),[14] quantum dots trapped in optical antenna,[15] functionalized carbon nanotubes,[16][17] and two-dimensional materials[18][19][20][21][22][23][24] can also emit single photons and can be constructed from the same semiconductor materials as the light-confining structures. It is noted that the single photon sources at telecom wavelength of 1,550 nm are very important in fiber-optic communication and they are mostly indium arsenide QDs.[25] [26] However, by creating downconversion quantum interface from visible single photon sources, one still can create single photon at 1,550 nm with preserved antibunching. [27]

"A physical [photonic] qubit with built-in error correction" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243929 :

> "Logical states for fault-tolerant quantum computation with propagating light" (2024)
LLMs will give normal people a firmer standing in technological society. That's a good thing. But will it change everything? Not a chance. Even if LLMs did change everything, that probably would not be a good thing. Dijkstra says Muslim algebra died when it returned to the rhetoric style, and the modern civilized world could only emerge —for better or for worse— when Western Europe could free itself from the fetters of medieval scholasticism —a vain attempt at verbal precision!—thanks to the carefully, or at least consciously designed formal symbolisms that we owe to people like Vieta, Descartes, Leibniz, and (later) Boole. So don't be so proud of these graphics cards you've made, because the ability to understand the human tongue is insignificant compared to the power of math.
And we do. The issue is all old homes that need to have AC installed.
EU has to tech scene, so it doesn't want a potentially successful project to be transferred to US.

What is the most biggest EU software company? SAP?
Yes. I wonder then how long before someone that does have a lot of compute power like OpenAI/MS, or others, can rapidly pivot and try this out on some even larger models.

Doesn't this mean that current big players can rapidly expand by huge multiples in size.?
What do you mean? I’m talking about Java code inside javadoc, like code example docs.[1] That’s straightforward if the doc markup is MarkDown with code fences.

The MarkDown code character backtick is especially great for Java since it’s not a metacharacter in the Java syntax.

[1] I didn’t mean writing docs in Java itself, whatever that would look like.
int(x) // int(y)
I think this is a naive way to looking at things.

I like Sam Altman's quote on this. "I think the world is gonna find out that if you can have 10 times as much code at the same price, you can just use even more. So write even more code."

I agree that it will have an impact, but I'm wary to predict something specific, whether negative or positive.
At least in Israel apartments are much better ventilated than in Germany - there are usually multiple directions with windows (e.g. windows on 3 air directions, so you can open all the windows and get good circulation), a lot of apartments in Germany have only 1-2 air directions and the rooms are not setup for good air circulation. Also windows tend to be much bigger and open up more conveniently in Israel (in Germany because windows open inwards if you have anything on the way you can’t easily open the window, you have to first remove everything from the window sill - in Israel windows often slide or open outwards).

It’s subtle differences and when its super hot (40c) you need AC anyway, but upper 20s/low 30s still feel ok in a well ventilated apartment and not so much with one built for keeping the cold out (like in Germany).

It’s also much more common to have functional window shades (like these http://alumgo.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/7/14671210/7800745_or...) in Israel than in Germany. In homes I’ve mostly only seen the cheap kind of shades or curtains in Germany, and these aren’t very good.
Societies and people can learn from their past mistakes and be wiser now.
It seems that AI gurus don't believe in diminishing returns. I don't think it's just linear from here.
Without a doubt Heroku is ultimately easier but I found that once I spent the time playing with ECS and using LLM tools to understand permissions in AWS it made a lot more sense. Now its quick enough and cheaper for me.

I don't think the way you are doing it is the worst way. I am biggest expert here of course. I do mine via a github action, right now it triggers on merges to main but could also be setup independently.

Condensed but I use
1) "build-push-action" - github action to send an image to ECR
2) "aws ecs update-service --cluster <name> --service <service> --force-new-deployment" for the deployment
Some elderly arch-conservatives bemoan the decline of Hanja use in Korean society. I’m sure many academics also feel the same. I see this sort of similar as some conservative Catholics bemoaning not doing Latin Mass.

One reason I’ve heard is that many Korean words (same for Japanese) have roots in Chinese and not knowing the Hanja representation means you lose some of that connection.

Whether that connection is really worth anything of practical value, is a matter of debate. I lean towards…no.
You could have asked the same question when Google started building their index. Or OpenAI trained their models.

I'm in Germany. I'm a licensed lawyer. I see the dangers.

The safest path will be to simply offer the production of multi language translations to content owners themselves. Which is also going to be more efficient - translating the thing at the source, rather than having consumers each create their own translation.

But the original intent for this has been to have my computer translate a video I want to watch with my kids in my private home. Technically, it's not "my computer" in the sense of being just the device that's physically in my home. There's stuff that happens in the cloud. Technically, copies are being made. So one could argue the point.

For most people today, getting your content seen and consumed is the highest you can achieve. To sue someone from another country who cares enough to pay someone else to translate it for him would seem bonkers. But I'm sure there are lawyers who are desperate for work. Who cannot code, and can't be bothered to learn, but still want to do something "in AI". I'll at least give them a hard time. And dare they use ChatGPT hallucinated references on me! :)
How is the goal of customer service to avoid helping customers? If specifically you mean crediting their accounts or cancelling services or replacing devices under warranty, perhaps in some cases an argument can be made.

Otherwise the goal is to resolve issues as quickly as possible presuming the company isn't absolute garbage.