skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong.

In a perfect world, healthcare services would be well-matched to the level of care needed. Standards would be laid out and followed, and effectively priced care delivered.

And then, please don't laugh, if lower cost healthcare was delivered, then premiums would go down. No, no, don't laugh. Okay, you're right, there's no incentive for a local monopoly health insurer that owns the hospitals to pass the money to the consumer. YOU DON'T HAVE A REAL CHOICE. So if you are in buttshit Indiana, you basically get to use Anthem. And they have no incentive to deliver cost savings to the insured.

So of the four pigs, they are all opposed to each other to some degree:

Doctors: hate insurers (who want to lower their salaries/fees/billing) and trial lawyers (who cost them in malpractice insurance).

Drug/Device: hate insurers (who want then to pay less than bloated retail price) and trial lawyers (who sue them in massive class action lawsuits)

Insurers: hate everyone (because they own the money that comes into the system, they attempt to let it go to anyone else, be it drug company, doctor, lawyer, or claim)

Lawyers: hate insurers

BUT, the one shadow incentive they all have is to increase spending on healthcare. So even though the pigs oppose each other on details, they all want people and the government to pay more money for healthcare.
My brother passed about a decade ago from complications from a double lung transplant, which he needed because of CF.

It seems like something every day reminds me of him. I’m really glad there’s hope for people with it. It’s a particularly shitty disease and he was the nicest most thoughtful person I’ve ever known. I miss him dearly.

Bittersweet. Glad there’s progress, wish it were earlier.
Most of us, especially adults, are pretty much settled in with the state of our condition - we've had it our entire lives. Anecdotal, but many CF patients (including in online communities I'm a part of) have reported a lot of increased anxiety.
But it's the about the number of people in that chain. In addition to trusting Threema or FooCorp, because of the app store, you also have to trust Apple not to mess with it. It would be better by not having to trust everyone along the chain by just having a shorter chain.
Tokyo actually builds a lot of new housing which accounts for why housing is affordable there. People think Tokyo is an expensive city -- and relatively speaking it is -- but it's a lot cheaper than the small US city I'm living in now.

Tokyo is a surprisingly affordable megacity because of housing availability.

(gift article, no ad wall)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/editorials/tokyo-...

My understanding that one thing that is unique in Japan is that housing is not an investment vehicle for preserving wealth. Housing is a consumable -- not an investment, and old houses actually lose value (most prefer buying new). Part of it is due to the fact that it's earthquake prone, so houses are ephemeral anyway.
“Because they are machines, and therefore cannot own property, especially not Intellectual Property, they won't have economic incentives to cheat and steal, or even be bribed.”

What matters is not whether the government says you own something, but whether you actually have control over that thing. You can effectively own something without others having to agree that you own it. AIs are agents that take actions to achieve a goal, and it’s easier to do that if you have more control. Since they don’t have human values unless we find a way to specifically add that, an AI, given the opportunity (which current AIs don’t really have) would be even more likely to seek control than a human
This is cool. I like code like this that bandaids over someone's problems. I think all of us have things like this laying around, and it's always cool to be reminded of that fact.
I have an LED lightbulb which failed into purple mode.
In my experience, it is crucial to avoid human nature, and instead, simply evaluate the math. It either works or it doesn’t, no emotion. Emotion destroys risk adjusted returns, and is harmful to preserving capital.
I've played with my enzyme dosage, and there are a lot of unpleasant side effects as you've mentioned. Overall, the best approach has been what everyone else has to do: watch carbs and sugar, reasonable exercise, etc.
Ok I'll expand.

If you haven't been living under a rock, you know that the cost of upper education has exploded over the last 3-4 decades. Tuition has increased far above inflation, while endowments have exploded.

And yet, these are nonprofit organizations. There are no shareholders, no private ownership. Salaries are being heavily depressed in professors as financialization of departments results in humanities studies being axed. Teaching is either TAs or the rise of the minimum wage professor: the adjunct.

There has been an arms race in facilities, but that does not explain all the increase. So:

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

Every college professor will tell you that administration has exploded in size. Wait, these colleges basically functioned perfectly well without huge administration orgs. WHy are they there?

Because they, who spoke MBA to the rich benefactors (aka former captains of induasty) inserted themselves. And of course any MBA of any place anywhere, be it nonprofit charity, corporation, or administrator of a college, in the last 30-40 years has seen their pay dramatically rise.

A "CEO" of a charity used to be ... a charity. They'd get paid peanuts. Now it's pretty routine for a substantial charity director to get paid millions. Because of course they are so valuable and amazing that they need high compensation to "retain" them lest they take their amazing talents to corporate world.

College administrators get to point to the fundraising and tuition increases and the overall revenue increase to show their amazing abilities and how they need to be retained with high six figure or seven figure salaries, otherwise clearly the university would fall apart.
Browser, OS, laptop joined with IP looks like a pretty good ID
The Political Sabotage of Nuclear Power
Optics/photonics can potentially perform analog as well as digital computation. One trendy thing at the moment is accelerators for neural networks.

Some potential benefits of optics include high data rate, parallel processing of multiple streams, transmission over longer distances, and lower heat dissipation.
Unless computation can be accomplished on differing overlapping frequencies, wdm devices, which resemble train switchyards, are huge, on the order of mm. So optical computing would have to take place at multi THz switching rates using very short pulses.
Ever wondered why the population of Tokyo keeps going up? Hint: it's because of the apartments

> In the past half century, by investing in transit and allowing development, the city has added more housing units than the total number of units in New York City. It has remained affordable by becoming the world’s largest city. It has become the world’s largest city by remaining affordable.

> Those who want to live in Tokyo generally can afford to do so. There is little homelessness here. The city remains economically diverse, preserving broad access to urban amenities and opportunities. And because rent consumes a smaller share of income, people have more money for other things — or they can get by on smaller salaries — which helps to preserve the city’s vibrant fabric of small restaurants, businesses and craft workshops.

https://archive.is/pLedf
> I occasionally wish someone would make a camera with a circular sensor that captures the entire usable field of view from the lens.

I've had the same thought, though I wanted just a 1:1 square camera sensor. It could perhaps be "oversquare", so that the corners are slightly rounded off. That wouldn't be so wasteful, since a sensor needs some shaded pixels to measure noise anyway.
And later, when computers weren't so slow but still required multiple fans and HDDs (using real metal discs!) you got an auditory indication of resource utilisation. I do wonder what we'll say in the future when we look back at computers from this time - perhaps it won't be so much an auditory clue, but the subtle feel of one's phone getting warm in your hand when it is running all cores at full clock?
This is a good explanation. So effectively it's making the lazy/eager distinction controlled by the caller and not the callee.
'other countries' would not even developed the drug...Vertex, a US pharma company, developed Trikafta. No one is paying the 300k out of pocket. The high price incentivizes research. Expensive drugs seems like a tradeoff for more innovation.
Since neither of us actually have any data to show, it's more reasonable to assume that the anti- and pro-Apple behavior is equal than that one is more common. To proclaim, lacking any actual data, that one is more common and that it just happens to be the one that matches up with your preconception, suggests confirmation bias.

> And what was "unreasonably anti-Apple" in that comment that it needed be flagged?

Please show me where I said that comment was unreasonably anti-Apple, or that it deserved to be flagged.
Evidently AI Migrates to Litestar
Vertex is very good about providing programs to put it in the hands of those who need it. I have great insurance and a great income, and they even apply deductible assistance to me.

In the online CF communities I'm a part of, I've never heard of anyone who couldn't get access to the medication (aside from the country they're in not approving it) (I'm in the US so my perspective is probably skewed)
I can't describe the exact use case, but suffice to say I'd like to incrementally replicate (in one direction) data, but I don't desire to track what has changed or having to index the data.

I'm attracted to the simplicity behind Merkle trees where you can use hashes as a much smaller proxy for the upstream data, and even describe use the root-level hash as a "signature" representing the state of the dataset.

A naive, non-Merkle-y solution would be to associate each datum with a modification timestamp, and simply grab any data where "updated_at > $last_timestamp"; this would require an index to filter efficiently, however. Another simple solution would be a log that tracked every insert, and a process could then tail this log; this would require all the bookeeping this entails.

Thanks, I will check out those links.
> There is NO opportunity for large scale integration

What about vertically?

CMOS logic is still "mostly planar". With sufficiently low heat dissipation, you could make a cube and easily overcome the planar density problem.

The main challenge seems like it would be lithography cost for each of the many layers, but if the minimum feature size is 1.5um, there might be a clever way to make this work cheaply (DLP projection + gradual extrusion?)
Two projects related to the topic:

Serial Terminal Project (forum)
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=308154

RC2014 Pico VGA Terminal
https://ncot.medium.com/rc2014-raspberry-pi-pico-vga-termina...
> in the Java world?

No. The most recent one I saw was a (hobbyist) C++ game engine that used XML to declare game entities and such.
I've been wondering if there was anyplace that could diagnosis autism savant syndrome. It may be a useful label to communicate who I am to people. I have my early mathematical biography at https://tetration.org/index.php/Biography.
You're using this "Lesser Peruvian Fruitbat or whatever" as a rhetorical tactic to make environmental concerns seem silly, but we live on the same planet that they do. It's useful to consider extinction rates as a function of general environment health. If the water is so full of shit that the things living in it are dying, that's a good sign that the water isn't going to be good for us either.
If you averaged together ten such samples, you'd get something that approaches the true values from the device. The more samples you have, the closer it would get.

Fixing this would require removing the information leak entirely, not just masking it under a layer of random deviations.
The Surprising Left-Right Alliance That Wants More Apartments in Suburbs
If you're going to go look for devices to help, you should consider something like the Cala kIQ: https://calahealth.com/

It is covered by some insurance and there are also clinical trials that you could get in which would provide it for free.
I think this is the difference between critics and creators. Tolkien of all people would have understood and appreciated that, despite his distaste for Dune, there was a tremendous amount of work that went into it that nonetheless deserves some basic respect.
> Problem with fission waste is it's super long decay duration.

Some of it does, the decay chains are wildly variable. Fortunately, the longer the half life, the lower the power output. If Cobalt-60 and Plutonium-242 released the same energy per decay event and you had the same number of atoms at the start, the radiation from the cobalt would be 72,000 times as intense to start with, but equal after 84 years.

But the main point, all things nuclear are so energy dense that in practice there's (relatively speaking) so little of the waste it basically doesn't matter. I've been in single rooms large enough to contain all the world's high level nuclear waste.

> The original bomb scientists really wanted to go with thorium as it has several safety features. One it needs to be pushed to criticality so it can't go runaway. Two its waste is much safer in its duration.

That seems like a flaw for a bomb, which is specifically it going runaway.

But also, it's quite hard to crush uranium or plutonium hard enough to do that. Even with Chernobyl, the fuel was surrounded by stuff designed to make it more energetic (although not as energetic as the actual accident, obviously).
Do we? How does that work?
I grew up with a lot of money insecurity, was homeless for a while and started my career with nothing - one change of clothes and a floor to sleep on. I’ve since done very well for myself and have a considerable amount of net worth at this point and a lucrative forward for as long as I want to keep working at it.

I’ve lost most of my money anxiety, but it took a lot of purposeful work inside myself to achieve that including years of daily meditation and intentional study of Buddhism. Before that my money anxiety was unbearable. It didn’t matter how little or how much I had, because it wasn’t about money in truth. It was a fear of losing control and other things like self worth and identity issues as a result of my earlier life. As I learned to let go of the self and my identity and live life as it is rather than what I’m afraid it might be I’ve lost my fears, not just about money but all of them. In my experience lack of money instigated my anxieties but once they started it didn’t matter how little or much I had.

That said it drove me to get more and more, and I enjoy having more than when I had none. But even if I lost it all I would be ok now.
The deBroglie wavelength of the photon IS its wavelength. That’s why it can’t squeeze into nm features and optical waveguides are still not used on-chip, after 35 years of effort.
This is almost exactly what happened to me in 2022 and led to the authoring of my paper:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39569747

I had been having months of focal (non-tonic clonic yet) seizures that I thought were panic attacks for about 5 months

I had a massive psychiatric event in Dec 2022 and started writing that paper

I was in the bath tub the same night and saw a hallucinated blue orb for lack of better term that “felt” like it was trying to communicate that the paper was good

So very interesting! The brain is crazy and I have spent a lot of time studying it and it never ceases to amaze.

Oh and I forgot, my art style got really honed in and I was more prolific in 6 months than I had been in years, leading to my first art show in 15ish years:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzC8HoZOApQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng...
Insomnia and postman are pretty similar these days. I like the REST extension for VS Code and hurl
Right, I think the fact that these features exist at all means sites are gonna ask for them… even if your browser denies it, the site can easily pop up a dialog saying “hey you should give us notification access!”.

The result is that the web just keeps getting incrementally worse and worse. It’s all good intentions in creating these API’s but the result is that everything just gets more terrible.
I literally just received a box of Trikafta on Wednesday. My copay was $150 on a $31,855 retail price. (I actually don't pay the $150, due to Vertex's copay assistance)
> In Silicon Valley there's lots of ways to get money to smart people.

The site we're on is a testament to that. Even if Elon is just a successful VC investor and not an engineer, why denigrate that? I'm not saying this out of any love for Elon, but to recognize that getting the right people together in the right time and place and funding them is, in and of itself, and accomplishment. eg Al Gore and creating the Internet.
This made me think of Kernel, a programming language of the Lisp family where the main primitive is vau rather than lambda, defining a fexpr rather than a function.

Juste like lambdas, fexprs are lexically binded closures. The difference is that a fexpr arguments are not evaluated before it's called, instead, the arguments syntax is passed to the fexpr (so it's not call-by-name either, more like a macro), except that the fexpr also receives the dynamic environment (the one from the call site) so that it can eval its arguments in this context if it wants to.

This makes fexpr a kind of all powerful form that can do both what macros and functions can do. Even primitives like lambda or quote can be written as fexprs. Quite fascinating.

See https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html about Kernel :).
The post isn't satire but this statement of mine was indeed incredibly sarcastic:

> After all, it's a dangerous hallucinogen, and it's equally dangerous for everyone. Just like how alcohol and nicotine are equally safe for everyone.

I was indeed poking fun at the fact that LSD is considered unsafe while alcohol and nicotine are allowed to run rampant. I think LSD should not be illegal, and you should be able to source it safely, from regulated sources. I don't want it limited to clinical trials or prescribed treatments - I want to be able to pick it up at a store (or drug store, whatever) and trust that it's not NBOMe or whatever, without having to pay for and handle expensive and dangerous chemical reagents. Then I want to use it at home, in a safe environment, and spend time with my friends and pets.

However, LSD is a bit unpredictable. It's not necessarily safer than alcohol or nicotine for everybody. I know that for myself only, and in a strict physical sense (i.e. not really possible to die by LSD25 overdose), but the mental effects can be quite profound for certain people or for certain neurotypes. Whether these effects are positive or negative varies by individual.

Of course, a similar thing could be said for alcohol and nicotine. Alcohol can often result in self-destructive behavior and nicotine typically causes some pretty bad addiction and dependence. Which is why I think it's unfair that LSD is treated the way that it is.
But it needs SPACE, on the order of a few um minimum, that cannot be occupied by other devices.
> ... OpenAI was supposed to create AI for humanity ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160110090414/https://openai.co...

> OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.

> Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact. We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as possible.

> ...

> Because of AI's surprising history, it's hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. When it does, it'll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest.

> We're hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We'll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies.

---

Is the research that they write not open? Is it locked behind paywalls or internal only (note, I can only guess there) to prevent other organizations from benefiting? https://openai.com/research

What gates were closed that were open before?

OpenAI has never been open source but rather has always been open research.
You are confusing geometry, and the excitation traveling through that geometry.
As I understand it, microring resonators can be very small, µm rather than mm.
Hurl is great, especially for testing but I fear it's not acceptable by a huge segment of developers because of the lack of a UI
Would love this
Yes, the CFF has partnered with companies like Vertex to take an almost VC-like approach towards developing new drugs (Trikafta being one of many similar drugs they've developed with Vertex)
Okay, I guess I misunderstood the article. What is the takeaway?
Thank you for clarifying. Just made me download it.
I'd appreciate it if you could point out how the function can be called more than once. Here's the source code for the orchestrator [1] and a demonstration of it [2].

If there's an error in the source code or the copy, I'll happily retract it.

[1] https://github.com/differentialhq/differential/blob/236ffc53...

[2] https://github.com/differentialhq/differential/blob/236ffc53...
I speak hindi and never realized that's what jigar means! Always just assumed it was another word for heart or soul.
Orders of magnitude variation in phonon energy is a thing though. You can do the basic statistics of waves in the open ocean and show that waves will never get high enough to crest an oil rig in the North Sea. Then go search for "rogue waves" on YouTube and watch it actually happen.

We're just starting to get a handle on the mathematics underlying this phenomenon, but it does exist. And the causes of the phenomenon transpose directly into crystal latices. So we absolutely should expect "rogue phonons" that have energies orders of magnitude above average phonon energy, enough to overcome Coulomb barriers and trigger D-D or D-T fusion reactions.

Of course thinking of using this to generate energy is something else entirely. It's a freak occurrence, and if there is a way of making it predictable or enhanced in some way, that solution is not obvious. But it should be detectable with very sensitive equipment, and would be a wonderful experimental physics result.
I don't really have much of an issue with it. It's got bad vibes by association. I find it a little annoying how much stuff is done with text, and this is just a small part of that.
Yes, I (CF patient) just had a one-week hospital stay, and right now the (retail) price of that vacation is around $100k the last time I looked at all of the bills. (fortunately I have amazing insurance)
Hurl is better than any of those GUIs. You can version your Hurl files and use them for CI/CD.