skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Raising taxes in an inflationary environment is scarier than raising taxes in a deflationary environment.

I know it can be scary, but, we are going to have to muster the courage to try unorthodox things--like actually paying the bills. Raising taxes in an inflationary environment can be a very beneficial move. Why? Higher taxes reduce demand, which helps fight inflation.

This takes some pressure off of the Fed. The Federal Reserve only has a very few policy tools to control inflation or to stimulate the economy: basically they can either rase rates or lower rates.

But if inflation is being controlled by increased taxes, the Fed doesn't have to raise interest rates as much--or even at all--to control inflation.

And a lower interest rate means that companies can afford invest in things which will increase profits and will raise the productivity of its workers. Which fights inflation.

In addition, higher taxes means lower deficits, which means the government isn't hoovering up all the money available for investment. It will issue fewer bonds, and people who would have bought those bonds will have to start investing their money in actual productive businesses. Which also helps inflation.

It doesn't have to be a doom spiral--we can spiral up if we just stop buying into the notion that we can get out of this if only we make the deficit large enough.
Approximately 0% of parachute-wearing is based on validated research. Doesn't mean it's not a good idea.

While I agree that dentistry absolutely has an overtreatment problem, there's enough evidence that some procedures result in pain relief at a minimum that we don't need to insist on double-blind trials -- and in fact performing such trials would be unethical.
Both the radio waves his cell phone emits, and the information (voltage change of an ADSL line or photons moving in an optic fiber) used to communicate over the Internet, actually leave his home, and then are registered. So I think in nature it's the same as sending a letter. So let's symmetrically consider that you send a letter, and police/agency asks the post office to attach to each letter information (from, to, weight, stamp...) the phone number from their database. If that happens for all letters going through a given sorting room, I can understand how that's an abuse.
> Mozilla does not, EVER, need to be a customer.

Does Mozilla still need to be the seller or partner in deals with commercial entities (e.g., Mozilla getting paid to be the default search engine or LLM within the browser UI)?

If so, would ferocious skepticism within Mozilla be appropriate in vetting and monitoring those deals?
Beautiful. Classless needs to become the standard for CSS libraries. I'm tired of learning your DSL to center a div. Just make the HTML do what I expect it to.
Same as high waisted wide jeans, everything is coming back
Nilpotents aren't exactly new.
I actively treasure my shower thoughts time and have been thinking of doing more of that. One issue is that if I'm in a bad mood, stressed, annoyed at some stupid coworker, etc. my mind will wander in that useless area instead of in the direction of cool problems.
Turbo Pascal is a wonderful language to learn, especially around functions.
Ask HN: Will LLMs Be Commoditised?
With the new LLMs being released every now and then by big player I am starting to think LLMs won't be that unique.

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Cohere and so many companies are building their own LLMs that have started to challenge GTP-4 and I think this will continue even after GPT-5.

Also with the huge cost of data collection, model training, compute cost and everything included I feel it's a bad deal to build LLMs for the smaller startups. Rather build a platform to leverage AI to deliver value to users or businesses.
Most people would still prefer going through all that bureaucracy than paying $10k out of pocket though. Your slight convenience doesn’t make it a good idea. You can still go to a private hospital in the US and feel free to pay out of pocket.
I didnt know about this school of thought but came to this same realization after decades of beating myself up for not being productive all the waking hours.

Now I am starting to let go -- of evenings, weeknd days, and even some work days. The world turns all the same even when I fail to send that email before "end-of-day" (12 midnight)
It also has an option to do the same for Wi-Fi networks, which is pretty cool
I don’t think that implication was in the comment you replied to. “Well they just use google anyway” is too reductive.
One major issue is that the biggest money maker for dentists, cleaning/scaling, is basically nothing more than a cosmetic procedure that has little to no medical value. Getting your teeth cleaned by a dentist is something many adults with health coverage do on a yearly basis, and yet it serves little to no purpose.

So how do you integrate that into the health care system as a whole? Do you just continue having people see the dentist every year and get their teeth cleaned to continue the tradition so that dentists can continue to get paid? Do you eliminate it and then put a large number of dentists out of business?

A great deal of common dental care as a whole is not actually based on any kind of science or research. Certainly some of it is legitimate and the article points out the few cases where there is a strong connection, but that makes up an absolute tiny minority of dentistry as a profession in terms of the money.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
Has anybody here seen both this and the Tencent adaptation from last year? How do they compare?
Co-creator here: we have multi-language support on the backend site, but it is still in a bit of an experimental stage at the moment. Not all posts are being attributed the right language, so we are still experimenting there. For the time being, EN-language blogs are our first priority. That said, we will beta-launch the multi-language support very soon.
Sure, but do we trust Google's non generative summaries / search results for some reason? It's all a black box to us on the outside. It's already heavily ML'ed, like at no point was a human ranking these things or determining relevance
Confirmed in mice, observed first anecdotally in children with autism.

I'm blown away we still as a society don't have a system where all of this information is quickly accessible in a sorted way by various trusted organizations that follow specific protocols that people determine how trustworthy they are.
A trapdoor function isn't the same as asymmetric cryptography. Trapdoor functions can be used to build asymmetric cryptography, i.e. public-key encryption and signing. In general, hash-based asymmetric cryptography can do it with any hash you consider strong enough, such as SHA-256.

Unfortunately the keys and signatures tend to be large, which is the problem the article is talking about. That's why they are not in common use.

For example, although SHA-256 is 256 bits, which is considered small, the keys and signatures of asymmetric cryptography built with SHA-256 are very much larger.

Making the keys and signatures smaller, yet secure and fast enough, is currently state of the art research.
The world needs blogs, repositories of long-form original thinking on the Internet. As a blogger I appreciate the opportunity to place my link. I salute your initiative and wish you success!
Yeesh, is he both defining the VTable _and_ dereferencing the pointer into his VTable? That's... terrifying
Routine dental care is routine, so calling it "insurance" is really odd in my opinion. Insurance isn't mainly providing protection against tail risk when it comes to eye care, dental care, and even predictable routine checkups. Obvious exceptions exist for accidents that require surgery to eyes or the inside of the mouth, but a dental hygienist (for instance) wouldn't be the healthcare professional involved in those procedures.

It could make sense for some categories of routine care to be included in insurance because they reduce risk or are cheap enough to be affordable perks of the insurance product. I just wouldn't call those features insurance.

If you're unconcerned about health insurance compared to health care as such, that's also OK. But the US healthcare system is mostly not a single payer healthcare system, at least not right now.
It's very high on our list. Optimistically, we are going to release that feature by the end of next week.
What I've heard is that the great leap forward and associated famine are acknowledged in official accounts, but the cultural revolution is increasingly downplayed.

The latter is more worrisome to me because it required enthusiastic participation by lots of normal people to get off the ground. That lesson should be remembered.
Looking at the map and by my own knowledge I think Slovenia is not eastern but central europe.
And exactly how is this limiting your ability to do business with peers more than pulling cash out of the bank did?

Log in to internet banking, ask the seller for their account, enter the number, press send.

It's even less effort than pulling cash, and only vaguely more easily traceable.
(On unsupported hardware; on supported hardware everything just works and has done since at least 08)
Your DAG is big. It's stateless for single pass. Next one doesn't operate on it anymore, it operates on new, updated one from previous step. It has fully connected sub DAGs.

There is nothing stopping you from distributing assembly/machine code for CPU instructions, yet nobody does it because it doesn't make sense from performance perspective.

Or amazon driving truck from one depo to other to unload one package at a time to "distribute" unloading because "distributing = faster".
This whole thing with AI is imagination becoming reality. This is not an age of reductionism.
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> sig myself out

What is meant by this?
Instagram limits political content by default
Wished big companies would stop naming their stuff using existing terms, like in this case, scene script.
wondering how the https://indieweb.org movement and their microformat approach to profiles and the use of RSS feeds isn't already an expression of this idea, only missing bit is the ability to quickly pull a blog contact into one's phone?
That's a good take, I hadn't really thought of that one before and I had certainly used LD_PRELOAD or some incarnation thereof (forgive my memory is was more than a decade ago) to swap out different implementations of the same API.
> there is going to be a whole generation of humans living their lives in zero-gravity

No there isn't, although you might have some cosmonauts doing a few years of it, it's now a long term liveable condition.
LMAO

"infinite games" + "positive sum" => "infinite sum"

has big Sarah Palin energy: "refute" + "repudiate" => "refudiate"

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2010/11/15/13133...
Bitcoin is a tremendously gross waste of energy and resources. I hope it fails before it's done again, but there's no reason to expect this to happen.
(Gesundheit = Health)
It's a known issue for a portion of our visitors, which we are working on. For the time being, you can use the direct link to the form: https://tally.so/r/mJ11E7
Not the same thing and when phenomena are studied they often get additional names
Doesn't make much sense, sorry.

Plus who said anything about sex?
Most dental care is cosmetic. Much of the remainder are unnecessary treatments. Twice yearly cleanings remove significant tooth material and are just an opportunity for dentists to sell more cosmetic and unneeded treatments.

In short it’s a scam industry with a sliver of good health mixed in. It’s definitely not primary medical care.
If that’s my odds are pretty good of living to see it. I hope you’re right.
Companies don't spy on you because they don't like you, they spy on you because they make money out of it. Outlaw making money out of personal data (by outlawing targeted ads, data purchase for insurance, and data brokers) and the incentives to spy on you disappear.

You can't be probusiness and pro-privacy at the same time though, you need to limit businesses in order to protect the people.
It's not recent - I have been using it since the mid-2000s, it's fantastic. It might have been shut during COVID, and just re-opened though.
It does, and the real surprise is only that it took so long.

The strictness of AML/KYC is half the reason why it's easier to use crypto than banking. They're removing the glitch.
This brings an interesting dilemma. Google could try the Kagi approach.

If you're sitting in the CEO chair at Google, you're looking at a tough decision. Google Search isn't just another product; it's the heart of the business, raking in 60% of the revenue. They've been king of the search hill for over 20 years because they did one thing better than anyone else: search.
Now, with LLMs entering the scene, adding them to search results could slash ad views and revenue. Remember the days when a simple search would send you down a fascinating rabbit hole of articles? Those days could be numbered.

But here's the kicker: if you resist integrating LLMs into Google Search, you might slow down the revenue decline, sure. However, sticking to the old ways might also get you branded a Luddite and cost you your job. It's a classic tech dilemma - innovate or perish.
I don't see any problem with trust.

The police will still get the exact same raw data of that one target user. The change just means that they won't get any data on other users.
Given how many people are comparing Scarfolk favourably to Look Around You, I think this image highlights why I feel like it falls well short of that comparison.

Looking at the dates on the blog posts, this is more "(then) current year politics in the style of 1970s British local authority PSAs" than anything that actually feels rooted in the time period of the style it's using. There's ones about COVID in 2020, ones about the election in 2019, ones about Brexit in 2017 and so on.

It's not bad, but I could almost look through the posters to see the author's Twitter feed at points.
I think there are different classes of result that we should discuss. First, there are pure facts. I know that weather.com wants to interpose between me and the weather forecast that my government produced for me using my tax money, but Google doesn't need to assent to weather.com's scheme. That is something they can just answer. In the same way, whether my local chaat stand is open on Tuesdays in not a fact that belongs to Yelp.

Then there are materials that are freely available but someone wants to stand in the way of them. For example, all of the wikipedia-but-with-ads hosts out there. Do we owe them anything? I say no. Do we owe anything to all of the journal indexes that try to convince you to pay $26 for the PDF of a paper from 1913 that's in the public domain anyway? I think not. And I don't think it is problematic if I ask Google whether Heidegger was a nazi, and Google answers with an answer instead of referring me to the gatekeepers of centrury-old information.
Ah good old TP 7.
Sounds like a good idea to kill your spare time.
Coding on tablets is okay-ish as long as not for long, serious projects.
That meaning is also understood in the UK.
> I know that many HNers generally hate Blockchain and smart contracts and decentralized technologies

Whoa, slow down. There's definitely a lot of skepticism about blockchain and smart contracts around here, but that skepticism does not generalize to decentralization as a whole. Self-hosters are strongly represented on here, as are proponents of federated tech and P2P.

There's specifically a lot of skepticism about blockchain and web3 on HN, and I'm really curious to know how you think those specific decentralized technologies are going to make a difference in the search space.
Ha! Yeah I get it, I don't use it either. That's why it was so shocking to me too. It just started popping out at all times, in a weirdly "bipartisan" fashion too. When I asked about it, almost everyone said that they saw it on tiktok, or heard about it there.

I'm usually not super into video content, so even if I'm "younger" i never got into it but imo it's better than say, Facebook for this type of stuff. Even with the algorithm you still get exposed to people you don't follow, by design, which makes it harder to spread fake news in an echo chamber. so I'm not too concerned about the narrative control aspect.

As I said, most of the Palestine related stuff (that I started looking into afterwards) wasn't some pundits or grifters trying to get people outraged about a fictional "other side", it was mostly raw footage of what was happening in Gaza.
I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs claims to be times faster than squashfs, to compress much better, and to have full FUSE support.
Sinusitis has odontogenic origins like 20% of the time iirc. I suspect a lot of heart disease results from the bifurcation of dental from general practice, eg periodontal disease being seen as a dental problem not a cardiovascular risk factor that doctors should be on the watch for.
Won't really be a problem, crypto payment providers are dime a dozen, and they just need to keep records.

Or you could ID and pay directly.
Ah fair enough, was a little before my time!
Your argument of governments are supposed to protect property rights still applies for bonds and stocks and other investments, so once again still not exactly an argument for incentivizing speculation on pieces of paper or shiny objects instead of productive assets.

The point of fiat isn't to give returns to those who worked hard by burying paper in their backyard, the point of fiat is to be an easy medium of exchange which does involve a certain level of value stability. A currency having a slow, predictable rate of inflation can still be considered having a certain level of stability, at least when concerning being a useful medium of exchange. I know that a loaf of bread isn't going to be $50 or $0.05 tomorrow, it'll likely be roughly the same as today. Over a long time scale sure that loaf will probably be more than today, but I'll be buying that bread in 2044 dollars not 2024 dollars, because in the end I shouldn't be incentivized to hold dollars.

And once again the only way to address "it's not good for society that ordinary people have to speculate" is by having strong social safety nets. Hoarding paper or shiny objects is still speculation with risks, as you just agreed.
Not that strange at all, when you consider that one of the primary reasons it's become so obtuse and convoluted is precisely due to the inherent complications of paying for routine services through the model of a risk pool.

The common conception of health care has moved beyond just remedying severe illness or injury, but rules and incentives are still calcified around treating it that way.
Anybody interested in dental health will be happy to hear that Vermin Supreme will be running for president this year.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4d_FvgQ1csE&pp=ygUgcHJlc2lkZW50I...
That’s so clever. Nothing stands as particularly revolutionary but the author brilliantly solved all the problems to deliver the final product. They are only a undergraduate student as well, they have a bright future ahead.
Continuous acceleration to relativistic speeds is impossible without magic. Reasonable drives require impossibly enormous amounts of fuel. Antimatter drives require impractically enormous amounts of fuel.

Relativistic speeds require too much energy, too much reaction mass, and too much fuel. None of the reaction drives are good enough. It would only be possible with magic reactionless drive, and magic source of power.
I'm curious, what is your frame of reference with regards to maximum speed of building inverted indices? Like, what is the maximum throughput you'd expect for this type of task, and what is your reasoning for it?
Reminds me of the animations in The Animatrix
I think it's a typo. He's talking about how many cigs (ciggies, cigarettes) he needs to get joy back into his life - 30, 40, 50 or 60 :)
Chat backups are end-to-end encrypted now. You're right that it wasn't encrypted for a long time though.

I'm not claiming it's the ideal solution. I'm claiming it's much better than lots of other things that came before. There's no point in having a perfect solution if the people I know don't use it. Everyone I know uses WhatsApp. It's a fact that life could be much worse than it is. They could be using SMS.
I get the same error on Firefox 124.0. It works on Chrome 121 to 123.
Yes, if there was something interesting there you'd think since 2017 something would happen. Reinforcement Learning (that is compared with) is not particularly famous for its performance (it is it's biggest issue and reason for not being used that much). Also transformers don't use it at all.
“You may not use the Services to develop machine learning models or related technology.”

If these start showing up on ML searches, I’m going to troll them HARD.
>Approximately 0% of parachute-wearing is based on validated research.

But this is simply untrue and it undermines the rest of your point. The actual satirical statement is supposed to be about clinical trials (research studies involving humans), not validated research in general.

The study linked is not simply about clinical trials but rather than dentistry lacks validated research in general.
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Likely typo for "dig myself out"?
Thats blatantly false. I just left an agency with passwords on all thier unix boxed. With zero rotation policies. Its a shitshow
People have been shouting "the end is near" for millennia. So far, we're still going. Now the singularity is supposedly near. Yeah, just like fusion energy is always ten, twenty, thirty years in the future. But for real now, really!

Just live your life as you see fit. Predicting the future is nigh on impossible anyway and certainly for the big life changing events. The only thing you can be certain of is that resources are getting scarcer and wealth is getting more concentrated by the few rich individuals and multinationals that are doing that already.

Live and worry not for what may be.
Table 4-1 on page 44, I think.
I don't understand - a static site generator that uses HTML for markup is ... notepad.exe?
> That's why some think that a national health care system that is designed primarily around effectiveness of distribution of payment, rather than extracting maximum profit from the flow of money between patient and provider, is the moral and effective solution.

Why would we expect the incentives inherent in putting health care under the monopolistic control of those who seek political power to be any more favorable than those manifest in the current situation of apparent oligopolistic control by both profit-seekers and political-power-seekers?

Where would this solution leave those who just want to obtain services directly from service providers, without any political or financial middlemen either taking a cut, usurping their agency, or homogenizing the market?
Google has been showing "AI-powered" search results for well over a decade now.