skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English definitely has not only numerous footguns in spelling, but there are also the words that it seems nearly everyone thinks they know the meaning of, but do not. The two that leap to mind being nauseous¹ and bemused.²

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1. The New Oxford Dictionary has given up, and offers the common, but technically incorrect definition as its first definition, while the American Heritage Dictionary places that definition at number 2.

2. Here, the dictionaries are holding firm on the correct definition and do not acknowledge the common misapprehension of the word’s meaning.
No, they’re effectively a monopoly for most of the services people actually need. It’s well researched and documented. Google it. They even settled an anti-trust lawsuit with the state a few years back.

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/12/20/sutter-health-s...

https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/articl...

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/californ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/health/sutter-hospitals-m...

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-sutter-health-prices-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/california-sutter-health-ho...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5FFIkdVzq4

It’s a racket. They’re just ripping people off. Sutter is the sole reason healthcare in Sacramento costs more than in LA-and for worse quality care. They’re a grift.

> With most health insurance plans, everything you described would cost you only a co-pay as well (usually $20-40). Uninsured people are the ones stuck with $10k ambulance ride bills... after all, someone has to pay for the services.

You’re either uninformed, lying, or both. Have you ever called an ambulance in California? It’s $2000 minimum even with insurance. This is with an Anthem Blue Cross PPO from a tech company. I’ve had to use an ambulance twice in the last decade and it was considerably more than $20-$40… you were only off by a factor of 50x or 100x.
LLM for Poetic writing?
Sounds like they tried to steal it and got caught
> Remote is not inherently better than in-office work

Remote is inherently better than in-office work even if some people prefer to work in-office. AutoCAD is better than drawing in boards even though until a few years ago lots of people would prefer to use drawing boards.
And it's extremely weird to me reading all the nutty comments at the bottom here.
> The US calls itself a republic. We elect representatives who are empowered to make decisions like this one for us.

In that case, why bother publishing the text of bills online for people to read before they’re laws? Why preserve Congressional debate in the Library of Congress? Why make Congressional debate public at all?

If we let them, the government will classify everything as “national security”. Today, it’s domestic surveillance programs (some of which were illegal). Tomorrow, it’s economic numbers or police statistics.
This is what happens when everyone is trying to do busy work to make themselves look productive and less likely to be laid off.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy” (Hamlet, 1.5. 165–66).
> you don't want your kids to be the last to get phones

Why? Other than maybe bitching and moaning about it, what's the actual harm?
Healthcare is almost the farthest thing from a free market in the US. There are 35 states with certificate of need laws which allow existing hospitals to veto the opening of new hospitals. The US government sets funding for residencies and in effect sets the supply of doctors. In poor states Medicaid and Medicare are the largest payers into health systems. The FDA controls what medicines can be prescribed and for what reasons.

You’re not going to find any libertarians who have anything nice to say about US healthcare.
I think we should restrain ourselves from armchair judgements when basically no one here is a harbor pilot, let alone someone informed with what was happening in the moment in this event.

What happened will be meticulously reconstructed and everyone involved in this is going to have their lives put under a microscope for years worth of legal battles. I don't think we should rush to judgement or second guess from a position of ignorance.
The article is hazy on this point, but the monopoly agreement set an slo of 220 minutes (3 hours 40 minutes), and it was fairly stable, but worsening by tens of minutes per year.

Since then, the hospital in question increased to 10 hours 45 minutes.

Worse, the federal government stopped tracking this metric, and now, among hospitals that elected to share the number, the median is over 5 hours.

So, if you live in the US, you’re probably screwed, regardless of whether you live in appalachia.
There's degrees, though. One party wants government to be so large that it won't allow you to get certain forms of standard medical care, after all.
This is pretty much my approach. I did buy a new jeep in 2017 but went through Costco car purchasing which has a fleet contract (I guess?) - because I was dealing with the fleet sale guy. We were able to get all the options we wanted, paid cash, came back two days later and picked it up. Painless.
Most people go to the ER for non-emergencies. The good news: if they have you sitting around for hours then it means it was not an emergency and you (probably) won't die.

Be worried if you check in and they hurriedly shuttle you into an exam room. That means they think you have an actual immediate life threatening emergency.
on a large vessel, I thought that the captain does not steer the vessel, just gives commands to the helmsman, and same with the pilot. So, in a certain sense, they don't have the direct skills that the helmsman does. And speed/power/direction are indirect through the engine room; it's not a like a little motorboat, all controlled in one place by one guy.
That's a good idea, I don't immediately see technical problems. It wasn't on the roadmap but we'll add it.
I feel like the analogy does not quite hold because when the junk debt was vendored in, the maintainer actually has more knobs than before to fix the problems - and if it's as easy as bumping some dependencies and fixing a few method signatures, it might actually happen.

Whereas in the 2018 crisis, junk debt was rolled into CDOs but there were no 'knobs' the bankers could turn to actually improve the fundamentals of the junk debt. By repackaging the debt they did not get any right to fix the bad actors that made it bad. Things were actually bad, and when it defaulted there was insufficient firewall to prevent the contagion from affecting the encapsulating derivative.

Of course it is up to the maintainer but by absorbing an abandoned project, they are actually reducing the amount of unmaintained code, versus simply hiding it.

Probably the more accurate analogy to 2018 would be if a private equity firm started a company you could pay to upgrade the rating of an unmaintained Rust package, but no actual change happened and all they did was swap labels on things until the problematic rating disappeared.
> It wasn't very common for samurai to commit seppuku voluntarily. More frequently it was "you do this or else...".

I am wondering how did you arrive to this conclusion? I guess one would need to do some comprehensive review of all available materials from that time?..

> Even the katana as the "soul of the samurai" is a later day fiction; samurai during the Sengoku prized katanas (or their predecesors, actually) but they didn't particularly use them except as sidearms; it was the spear and the bow

I am not sure where katana as the soul idea came from, but I speculate that while spear, bow and arquebuse were battlefield weapons, samurais used it only in rare events of going to campaigns, while they carried katana rest of the time, so I guess it could be appropriate to call it soul.
Seeing Too Much Light at Night May Raise Your Stroke Risk
The paper: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.044904
In addition, depending on how you model ER admissions using queueing theory - the wait times very quickly goes exponential with even relatively small changes.
If it's complicated you should probably explain. Your link doesn't disprove the parent -- it compares different water and land use of various cattle raising methods.

Over 60% of cropland in the US goes towards raising beef, a food which makes up a very low percent of the calories in an average person's diet.

https://cattledaily.com/how-much-of-farmland-in-the-us-is-us...
You are quoting what Facebook claimed the app did.

The language in the lawsuit complaint is explicit that FB installed a root cert to MITM and decrypt traffic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39835115
RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s
A demo of Yingren Technology's YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller – built entirely on the RISC-V architecture – showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without any active cooling required. The YRS820 is 100 percent based on RISC-V CPU cores, and is an among the first PCIe 5 controller to use RISC-V exclusively.
That sounds more like a window manager problem than anything else.
AI Therapist with a Phone Number
The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation! [video]
How dumb. This should be an easy win for Apple, and they’re letting it wither on the vine because they just don’t care about games. Despite making billions of dollars off of gaming. I don’t get it.
There's more to startup value that whether or not they've implemented the latest nifty trick into their models. Their moat is architecture, research, distribution, design, and scale. Have all the local LLM hacks based off Llama 2 and the like done anything to diminish OpenAI's value?
Also Meta can spend billions building their own models and release it for free to kill your business.
> The adjective “dear” means high-priced, costly, or expensive in the context below

To save someone else a click
Leg Power Predicts Cognitive Ageing After Ten Years in Older Female Twins
as i said, hip replacement normally works very well. my 80+ mother had two after two bad falls, both worked really well physically, but she went off the rails mentally after the second. apparently there is a theory (sorry, can't find link) that doing surgery like replacements releases a lot of fat into the bloodstream that can drive you nuts. that seems to be what happened to my mum.

i don't suggest anyone should not get a replacement based on my non-medic and probably wrong information.
Yeah the ability to manage / automate UTM parms would be super helpful, especially with some analysis capabilites.

I asked about the API cause maybe there's a way to integrate into a WordPress plugin? For example, publish a blog post or a store product and get a set of URLs a/o QRs to post to social or where ever.

There might be one or two other similar WP plugins but I'm not sure how robust. Ecomm might be a better focus. An interest? I can do it as a side project as long as you're not hyper rushed to do it.
I haven't used this program specifically but I'm using an OK one (called "Take a break") and credit it with letting me look at screens again.

A few years ago my eyes would dry out within a few minutes of using a screen. I tried eye drops, resting my eyes, taking longer breaks, etc... which didn't work.

I did some research and there's something called the 20-20-20 rule which means looking at something at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. I found this app and it fixed my issues. Turns out the issue is your eye not changing what it's focusing on.

Highly recommend trying it even if you're not actively experiencing issues.

Your app looks a lot nicer than the one I'm using so I'll give it a try!
Sure it’ll work but ketone bodies are acids c and the ver time you’ll end up with metabolic acidosis[1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7341377/#:~:tex....
You explained nothing and introduced an entirely novel term “real on chain transactions” which means essentially nothing. How do you define this term? How does it disinclude all transactions of people buying or selling bitcoin speculatively and only include transactions where bitcoin are traded for goods?

Then to complain about how exhausting it is to explain nothing and make random claims genuinely sums up most people’s experience with the bitcoin crowd (and their praying on its downfall)
If it had been "we're sadden by his sudden passion [sic]", it might have been some curious circumstances that led to their demise, we can only imagine.

Also, find meteorites seem to be approaching the "so bad it's good" threshold.
There's a fun story that goes around about the president of an unnamed tech startup using his amex to pay the company's payroll, until they told him to knock it off.
>Our method is similar to GANs in that a critic is jointly trained with the generator to minimize a divergence between the real and fake distributions, but differs in that our training does not play an adversarial game that may cause training instability, and our critic can fully leverage the weights of a pretrained diffusion model.

Very glad to see GANs (or GAN-likes) coming back! Also I don't know if the examples were cherrypicked but a lot of the images look more realistic than SD. For example the dog in the snow[0] is severely oversaturated in the SD version giving it that distinct AI look (sometimes referred to as AIslop). Also the landscape scene[1] has a random lens flare in the SD version which makes it look oversaturated as well. The MIT images are much better in this regard.

[0] https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/images/teaser/teaser2_Page_1_... vs https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/images/teaser/teaser2_Page_1_...

[1] https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/images/teaser/teaser2_Page_1_... vs https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/images/teaser/teaser2_Page_1_...
I hoped we were past the point where people describe priors as "subjective". Sigh. Bayes formula can be applied with complete objectivity. Inference given the same starting knowledge plus the same evidence will always yield the same conclusion. It need not be subjective, but it IS relative to one's knowledge. And why is that a bad thing? Shouldn't more knowledge == better inference? We have a systematic way to build knowledge with reasonable objectivity (the scientific method) - should we not use it? Or do these people literally believe that less knowledge somehow improves their decision making?
> Most. Pop can't be novel.

Pop, etymologically, can't be unpopular, and what's truly novel usually isn't popular, but I don't think it's true that what's popular can't be novel.
I don't think there is genuine use cases to this except for accessibility features etc.
I always doubted voice; however, I'm beginning to see that Oai Voice Engine will potentially be huge and incredibly addicting to chat to. I.e. it's more interesting to confide in a human sounding 'friend' that vanilla ChatGPT with keyboards.
The author cites this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683634 as evidence that his interlocutor doesn't understand the halting problem. But the halting problem is a hard limit that is of concern only for computers with infinite memory. In practice we are unable to compile (and run) many perfectly valid programs due to RAM constraints, and some systems are able to compile programs that others cannot. People looking to compile useful programs already accept these inevitable limits, yet the author seems to think that some notion of fuel in compilation time makes a compiler terribly compromised.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35707565
The Agrivoltaic Juggernaut and the Agricultural Revolution of the 21st Century
A Comprehensive Comparison of Prompt Engineering, Finetuning and RAG
Is it context and history or just that real game positions have much lower entropy? Most people can easily remember a sentence after a quick look, a similar-length string of random characters a lot less so.
If we could do the same for people 16 and over, the world would be a better place.
You can leave DPRK the same way many leave PHL... In a body bag.

So my point still stands.

p.s. Try sounding less privileged and less in denial. It makes for better conversation.

Mike Desmond's "Evicted" and "Poverty" would probably help you as well.
'advanced grass-touching' never change hn lol
This has been debunked repeatedly - that's not a big issue if you're actually eating a balanced diet, which you should be doing.

(Plus tofu is fine here)
An auto loan isn't necessarily a bad move when you can often get one that is at a lower interest rate than what your cash will yield in a high interest savings account. For instance, you can get a 48 month loan on a civic at 3.9% and a 5.0% yield on that cash.
Sleeper video of the year so far. All of that was fantastic.

And imagine that, quality content without “be sure to like and subscribe!”.
Dealers, in my experience, will not agree to sell you a car if you try to pay with AmEx. Checks work, though.
Everything in our society at scale is going to be “poorly executed”.

If your idea only succeeds when the smartest people are running it, and they can’t make any mistakes, then it’s not actually a good idea.
> but be ready to bail if they are too stubborn.

this is best tip that I've personally used. the first time, I wasn't even trying. i dropped my car off for service for the 3rd time for the exact same defect, and was killing time on the show floor. jokingly, i told a sales person if they could make the "lemon" car go away I could be talked into a new car. I did this on the way to work and did not consider how long the process had taken. My boss called with a "where are you" that I turned into a crisis that required me to leave. The price suddenly started dropping to keep me from leaving. Left anyways as i wasn't really looking to buy.
I ask for an "out the door price" and negotiate on that. If I'm buying a fairly common car, like a Toyota Camry, then this is very easy to do across dealerships. I make it clear that I'm paying cash.

That's money they can flip immediately towards the purchase of another car.
> And don't even get me started on trying to text to speak your `mCtx` or whatever

I'm not saying TTS is there (I have no idea) but from an ideal point of view, to have it be equivalent, surely it would read 'm context', which then isn't so bad (maybe m is clear from the ..err.. context).
Wow, what a read. Thanks for sharing.
I mean, a study like this could deliver meaningful results, it’s just that this one doesn’t imo.

Hypothetically, studies on the biology/physiology can be very interesting, but this one comes off as a bit vapid and disingenuous because it’s not longitudinal, has a low sample size, and appears to not even attempt to measure intelligence or select to weed out bias in the sample set (e.g. find people born poor and see if they really do have cognitive impairment into adulthood by studying them over many years, not a backwards looking or self-selecting methodology such as theirs). When they say things like “individuals from lower income households” there’s clearly some “lifelong disadvantage” still in the sample set.
AI-Powered SRE
Curious what your AI is telling you now that a major US port is out of commission.
No, Tennessee does not practice deficit spending. It was a calculated move to avoid raising taxes, and a gamble that did not pay off.

> Anything like politicians without professional health background using their constituents as medical test subjects?

This is bad faith.
Why Japan in particular? Do you have any familiarity with Japanese culture and more importantly the language itself?

it's gonna make it that much more difficult for you to integrate into society if you have no experience with the language. I'm not saying it's insurmountable (I learned Chinese through full immersion by living in Taiwan for years) but it's also a fairly challenging language to learn given it has two phonetic alphabets and a pictographic element as well in the form of Kanji. Definitely a harder language for a Westerner to learn given there's no overlap with Romance languages.
I’ve had success doing the following:

1. Email fleet@<dealer domain> with the precise spec of the car you want and request a quote assuming cash price. Do this to the 3-4 nearest dealers. (Fleet departments are usually compensated on number of cars moved, not on commission, so they are easier to deal with.)

2. Summarize prices offered by all in an email to all of them and offer them a chance to beat the lowest. State that there will only be one such chance.

3. Go to the new lowest bidder and sign. Walk out in 30 min or less.

This is how I bought my last two cars
The roughest thing that Ballad has done is take the brand new NICU from Holston Valley in Kingsport that was opened in 2016 [1], shut it down and move it 30-45 minutes further away to Johnson City in 2019 [2]. Granted we know drive times are further up here, and helicopters are faster, but that could be precious minutes for a NICU baby.

[1] https://www.timesnews.net/living/wellness/holston-valley-unv...

[2] https://www.balladhealth.org/saving-lives/nicu-updates
I would say it has. If no one could demonstrate even GPT3.5 capabilities, then OpenAI could be worth a few hundred billion more in private valuations.

But multiple vendors have already demonstrated viable alternatives.
Diffusion models are exceptionally rich troves of statistical information. You just have to find it. The model will take any random noise and denoise of a bit. By guiding the denoising process, you can speed it up or improve the output tremendously.
Qualities of Successful Pattern Libraries: Pick Any Two (2016)
Not one of your links provides any evidence of Sutter being anything close to a monopoly. They do not own the market in California or Sacramento, and the are many other major healthcare providers here including Kaiser.

"Anti-Trust" actions cover a wide variety of anti competitive behaviors.

Additionally, you are misleading people on the cost of an ambulance ride by conflating out-of-network prices and/or medically unnecessary rides.

"Balance Billing" for out of network ambulance rides is now illegal, and uninsured people are capped at billings equal to Medi-Cal.
The publishers aren't writing the books either. A more apt comeback would be "then they can publish and distribute their own books", except they already do.
These assurance requests are routine and often legally required in countries with no or highly constrained death penalty. They happen in -> US extradition cases all the time.
If the encoder is like a wheel with 24 "teeth" a single LED/detector could tell you when it became blocked, when it became unblocked (by a tooth). There's 48 states already.

You put another LED/detector just a half-tooth out of phase with the first detector and you not only doubled the resolution, but you can tell direction as well.
Some of this advice isn’t necessarily right. The dealer makes money if you finance with them, so if they offer a similar rate as your bank, know that you can use that to your benefits in negotiations. A dealer would rather get 20k from you in cash plus a 1k fee from the lender than 20.5k from you in cash.
Again, it’s not absurd. It’s hard to fathom but it’s true. The math doesn’t lie. Cost of living is outrageous here. $400k is not rich. Try 40 million instead.
If you were a Californian engineer, wouldn’t you speak up?

Anyone with insights about what consequences they are afraid of?
in what situations would finetuning a model still be preferable over using RAG with MyScale?
There are ways to get fungi to make fake leather: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8950489/

There are a few US startups in this space. MycoWorks, Mylo, MycoFutures etc. pp. Some do 'proper' bioengineering, some are more on the chemical side.
That has nothing to do with “protecting the children” from sites you don’t want them to see or apps you don’t want them to use at all.
I don't know, the fact that a buggy memory allocator implementation crashed rather than silently worked until it became a CVE seems like a win to me.