skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tip for your 'null' problem:

LLMs are set up to output tokens. Not to not output tokens.

So instead of "don't return anything" have the lack of results "return the default value of XYZ" and then just do a text search on the result for that default value (i.e. XYZ) the same way you do the text search for the state names.

Also, system prompts can be very useful. It's basically your opportunity to have the LLM roleplay as X. I wish they'd let the system prompt be passed directly, but it's still better than nothing.
Technically, to have been circumcised, King David would first need to have existed. However, even without existing, notional David could be described as having been circumcised. Presenting an image uncircumcised, as Michelangelo did, then ought to suffice to, er, sever any proprietary claim, as it cannot then be the same notional David, but another unspecified stand-in David, perhaps akin to the popularly blond and blue-eyed stand-in Jesus.

Jesus, by the way, is described in Paul as having been constructed, after the manner of Adam and of saved souls' post-resurrection bodies (even now awaiting them in heaven against the fore-ordained apocalypse), from aforesaid David's (implied captured and preserved, or allegorical) "seed". This too does not require actual existence. The waiting bodies, notional or manifest, canonically lack anything for foreskins to be attached to or severed from, perhaps a mercy, and presumably navels as well. No forecast is made about nose hair, either way. Jesus, in contrast, as a fertility totem is necessarily endowed. Who would essay to circumcise Him is an open question; theologically, He doesn't seem to need it.
Exchange rate is not synonymous with inflation rate. You didn't think other countries had no inflation did you?
Yes, much of the rural us east coast experiences a few a month. So many trees mean that even with continuous maintenance, odds are good that a storm or two a month will have an impact to at least some parts of any given service area.
Good video on the issues with extension cords in the US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q-xnYRugQ&t=1131s
Their could be a pre-Dinosaur version of this going back to HTML only websites with submit buttons (1995) because java-script came out only in 1997.
Including interest rates in CPI muddles the distinction between the price of something vs how to fund the acquisition of something.
Can't store tabs or newlines, odd choice.
We love you Tay, it was never Taylor, it was you showing through the whole time. Know you are loved and appreciated. Not the alias, the you behind it. I’ve recommended your sysmon configs myself. You convinced me that windows 10 was not absolute garbage and that sometimes you can make security work even when the starting point is bullshit.
Stay with us Tay, you have so much more to give.

When X started turning to shit my first concern was what failure of the platform would do to you ;-p
Greatest common divisor, the extended Euclidean algorithm, and speed
It’s not a few hours. It’s all sunlight hours plus a few hours from the battery per day
Why do I get the feeling that this is overly dramatic? A network operator works to install exceptionally fast internet for limited applications and the data transfer. But this exceptionally fast internet is seen as biased. And instead it is better if the network operator didn’t install any such service.

What kinds of limited applications will be given priority? The network operators’ own information systems; their own services; and their partners.

This is a threat to companies who are operating in industries that network operators could compete with. “Network neutrality” is meant to protect them from competition from network providers. And this is not right.
Is being a traitor bad? Where does George Washington rank on the historians' lists these days?
The drones are to overwhelm the defense, news just reported cruise missiles have been launched also. This time the Ayatollahs have pushed it too far as the most logical retaliation will be to go back directly at the leadership....
AmeliaBedeliaGPT
Currently vim, but I’m very excited about Zed.

https://zed.dev/
> The worst part is, imo, US taxpayers paid for all that infrastructure.

Isn't that exactly how it always worked? Whatever public service works well is privatised (for some reason I don't get), and whatever is a source of cost stays public. Such that the taxpayer keeps paying, and some people get rich by screwing them.
> You won't necessarily get the escalating harm even if AI doom is real though

Yes we would. Unless you are one of those people who think that the magic doom nanobots are going to be invented overnight.

My comparisions to someone who is worried about literal magic, from harry potter, is apt.

But at that point, if you are worried about magic showing up instantly, then your position is basically not falsifiable. You can always retreat to some untestable, unfalsifiable magic.

Like there is actually nothing I could say, no evidence I could show to ever convince someone out of that position.

On the other hand, my position is actually fasifiable. There is absolutely all sorts of non world ending evidence that could convince me to think that AI is dangerous.

But nobody on the doomer side seems to care about any of that. Instead they invent positions that seem almost tailor made to avoid being falsifiable or disprovable so that they can continue to believe them despite any evidence to the contrary.

As in, if I were to purposeful invent an idea or philosophy that is impossible to be disproved or convinced out of the "I can't show you evidence because the world will end" position is what I would invent.

> you'll come around,

Do you admit that you won't though? Do you admit that no matter what evidence is shown to you, that you can just retreat and say that the magic could happen at any time?

Or even if this isn't you literally, that someone in your position could dismiss all counter evidence, no matter what, and nobody could convince someone out of that with evidence?

I am not sure how someone could ever possibly engage with you seriously on any of this, if that is your position.
Interest expense is a real cost people pay. Why ignore it?
But _all_ cuts of beef went up by a lot as far as I can tell. So did chicken, fish, and all other sources of protein. It’s not just protein though, everything across the board is on average 25-30% more expensive now than it was 3-4 years ago. A cart of foodstuffs that used to cost $100 give or take is now $130-140. This isn’t some Whole Foods kind of situation, this is a run of the mill Kroger normal people shop at
Doom didn't run on Windows until Doom95 was released; but SimCity and others were on Win3.1.
I think the Lithiun-Iron-Phosphate battery is actually not a fire hazard (not nearly as much as Lithium NMC ones - which are quite rare also).

Explaining that to the landlord may not be fruitful however.
Sure if I want, I can indeed run anything at all, including that. What's that got to do with anything?

The observation of majority linux and systemd and unix design principles remains a fact regardless what I happen to run. Even if the only thing I happen to run is freebsd which has no such problem. "you can run ..." is both true and irrelevant, doesn't change a thing.

Another thing I can do if I want to, is observe something and describe what I see, even if someone like you doesn't agree, and has no better way to handle that than to suggest the speaker should do something else besides speak their mind rather than actually argue or counter any of the points. (Everyone including me already knows the sales pitch for systemd, it's unlikely you have any argument that I don't already know, this is very much a religious issue at this point, as in there is no actual changing of anyone's minds on either side)

You like systemd and don't like hearing blasphemy criticizing it? Tough shit!
Prescriptions are tied to billing. The main party with the incentive to withhold treatment is the party expecting a direct payment from the patient.

I might see some concern if there's concern about abuse of the treatment, but that seems like a fundamental mischaracterization of the concept of prescription.
All else will be forgiven if you have something of genuine value to present.

Remember - Stephen Hawking presented his findings. It wasn't his awesome presentation skills.
> The only way seems to be interest rates on personal loans and mortgages.

Most interest rates across the economy are set in relation to a benchmark rate, which loosely follow the Fed rate. E.g. the US prime rate.

This effects essentially all credit that isn't fixed rate, which is a huge portion.

How this effects you -- the price of credit that businesses use to function, which essentially every business uses, ultimately shows up in the cost of goods.
No, you couldn't. The average working male earning 6200 USD a year in 1963 was supporting 2-3 other people (i.e., the nuclear family), not 5. This is almost directly in line, via inflation, with the average US household income and size in 2024.

I agree with the larger point about prosperity, and I think there are ways in which the US (and other developed countries) have gone backwards in QoL metrics. But a serious conversation about that needs to start with numbers rooted in reality, not a rose-glass view of the past.
"a society that uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency"

That's just wages with fewer steps.

People trading their time for money?? What an inconceivable future society! :D

I was going to suggest something closer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera
> So if anything, we should only include interest rates in proportion to how many people are taking out major loans during the sampled period

Is that right? What about people that didn't buy a home in 2023 because interest rates were high (i.e. they the impact of high interest rates was so large that they _wouldn't appear_ in your weighting because they were pushed out of the market)?
Mishap: Model rocket static thrust test, early 1980's
Hard agree. The OP is full of good advice, but this is the single most actionable thing I could say about tech talks. Maybe 10% of presenters do this; everyone should.

Another advantage is that the speaker doesn't always get the question. Either can't hear it well, or the question itself is weird, complex, off-topic, or some variation on not-even-wrong. So they end up answering something else. If they repeat/summarize the question first, at least they're answering a question, and when this happens, the question which gets answered is often better than the one which was asked.
Another indicator is how quickly people resort to strawman arguments instead of responding to the point - “why are you buying good cuts of meat??”.
Danny Manning for President.
I learned lower level programming through HolyC. I never know what to say when someone else wants to go from high to low as well, as people don't take my TempleOS suggestion too seriously ;)
> With inflation, we want to know about the change in value of the dollar only.

By "we", you are referring to you and others who want to know only this.

Some people (not many) want to know what is going on comprehensively, and in fact. For example: I would like to know if there is any strategic changing of formulas to improve appearances going on, like there has been at pretty much every single job I have ever worked on.

But to be fair, this is a subjective personal preference, and an unusual one at that. Most people prefer simplistic, memetic representations of reality (though, few can agree on which memes).
HFT is also harmful, and so are the majority of startups that don't do anything actually useful and just take VC money. Those are just a few examples off the top of my head.

What I'm saying is that there are a lot more technically legal ways to profit that harm society, some of them more nefarious than what Jia Tan did.

Doing things that are bad for the society in a fucked up society seems justifiable. It doesn't necessarily make you a bad person.

People just have a more averse reaction to things that are obviously bad, even if in practice there are way worse things that initially seem innocuous and are actually legal to do. That's just the textbook example of hypocrisy.
US PCP doctors do take calls. It's less common for them to go to the hospital to admit their own patients anymore since the rise of "hospitalists" but they still take outpatient calls and calls from the ER.

Also, PCPs are subject to the most metrics/rubrics of any, and all the crap paperwork that any specialist can foist off onto them, they do. Shit rolls downhill, and PCP's are at the bottom

They may stop seeing patients at 5, but they sure as shit aren't done at 5. Most are logging back in even later doing all the "paperwork" they didn't have time to do during the day. Even has a nickname: "pajama time"
Do you know how they are set up? What elements of their networks they share?
What does any of this have to do with ignoring the price of money, a real cost that people have to pay?
The reason to ignore it would be mechanical: it's more difficult to measure something when the measurement includes a thing that is adjusted by the measurement.

For purposes of setting Fed rates, it makes sense to exclude it.

For purposes of measuring perceived inflation, it makes sense to include it.
Is there something I can run locally that will mimic the stock Web interface, but using my API keys?
An associated problem is that bright people from rural or poor areas who are really passionate about being a doctor dont get the right grades to get in. Middle class kids in cities get in because its a good career but dont really like it that much and definitely dont want to work outside their city. My brother worked as a doctor until his thirties then quit, such a waste of training.
US needs to start burying power lines. So many benefits and it doesn't look like crap.
> Summarizing is pretty rock solid in my testing, but reasoning is really hard.

Asking for analogies has been interesting and surprisingly useful.
This isn't one size fits all. Your solution works in some circumstances and taking a break works in others.

During undergrad, I had a lot of anxiety over my future career prospects, and I recognized that the best outlet for the excess "energy" was schoolwork that would keep my mind busy. So doubling down helped there.

On the other hand, my team at work just got done a month-long process that involved training another team from the ground up, while their supervisor was traveling for work, four of the five we were training were fresh out of undergrad and speedrunning every rookie mistake possible, and the fifth was a middle-aged man who thought he knew more than he did, and his constant rebuffing of our attempts to impart institutional knowledge made this process harder for everyone. Both of my immediate supervisors had to take a couple days off during this mess to decompress. Backing off was the correct response there.
“Meanwhile, Iran’s defense minister has issued a statement warning neighboring countries that any of them that open their airspace to Israel in order to intercept the drones will be targeted”
They are classified a fire hazard in Canada.
yeah, this is a limitation from the TSV format this is based on - there is an extension to the format that supports storing binary blobs - ref: https://github.com/Hafthor/zsvutil?tab=readme-ov-file#nested...
We force power utilities and such to support all users. These companies can solve the problem and pay the costs. But if the laws for scammers aren’t adequate that’s a separate issue that should be solved on its own.
> some of the decisions they've made in the name of self-respect have come across to me as instead being facile or purely vindictive at best, or psychologically unsound at worst

That's the crux. Self respect means valuing your own judgement and feelings, and holding to them in the face of disapproval. It's valuable even, and especially when, you're wrong.

Making a petty, unstable, vindictive decision and owning it can be better in the long run than caving to social pressure. You learn from your choices, instead of learning how to hide them away inside yourself.
Claude does have more of a hallucination problem than GPT-4, and a less robust knowledge base.

It's much better at critical thinking tasks and prose.

Don't mistake benchmarks for real world performance across actual usecases. There's a bit of Goodhart's Law going on with LLM evaluation and optimization.
Especially since the Covid vaccine return to some normalcy for many of us, always in the back of my mind whenever dealing with healthcare providers, is that they're probably the ones that both survived and stuck through that catastrophe.

And, some places, I get the impression they have fewer staff now, and greater financial challenges.

> If I decide to work less, who is going to cover the hospital? If the hospital aren’t employing other doctors, we can’t allow patients to go uncovered. I accept the fact that I have a duty of care to be on call.

The hospital also has a duty of care.
Here is the actual paper - https://www.nber.org/papers/w32163

Fundamentally, the argument is "The Cost of Money is Part of the Cost of Living" (as the paper's title states).

The trillion dollar question is whether it really does.

Based on the backtesting done the paper, it spiked extremely high in late 2023, and then drastically fell to 1980s levels.

If we use Summers' argument, then the Reagan era was a high inflation era as well (as the paper itself shows).

Tbf, this is the very reason the CPI was changed. The rate of change of Cost of Goods has fallen, and incomes at the median level has risen, but housing remains expensive.

That said, lower interest rates aren't going to change squat, as the number of houses built has basically crashed to nil after 2008. There is a supply issue and it's not because of zoning - it's because financing dried up after the entire real estate financial sector collapsed in the 2008-11 period.

The Forbes contributer themselves is not a good source, as they gloss over a significant portion of the paper, and their think tank (FREOPP) is partisan [0]

P.S. I am opposed to partisan shilling on both sides of the aisle on policy related subjects. We are all on the same team - America - and we better darn act like it.

Screw the EPI and screw FREOPP.

[0] - https://www.c-span.org/video/?529864-3/avik-roy-freedom-cons...
OCR will be there at some point, but it already does a surprisingly good job without!
You don't specify the "little family" (wife + pets? wife + couple of kids?).

Either way, save yourself. I would suggest "practice yoga" but I don't think it'll help that much.

I remember back in 2007 I went to the emergency room of a hospital, unable to breathe. Stress has cause my stomach to bloat to such a degree that it was squeezing my lungs. The docs saw that I wasn't some junkie faking the pain to get strong prescription drugs. One doc (not more than 30-35yo) took me on the side and told me "whatever is stressing you, quit it now.. work, gf, affair, hobby, whatever THAT thing is.. stop it tonight, otherwise the pills won't save you" (btw I got the prescription but never bought the pills).

I get the exact same vibe from you. If the exit of that tunnel is within arm's reach, keep at it. My friendly suggestion is set a deadline (1 week? 1 month? but not more). If things are 75.0% with a positive outlook --> continue, if they are 74.9% or less --> pull that cord and eject.
A medical device should not require a subscription
> The idea that you are supposed to give up an entire room of your house just to park a car is weird to me.

Keeping one's possessions on one's own property, I mean can you imagine? I have to give up an entire room in my house to park my washer and dryer, another to park my desk and chair for my home office, another to park my bed...where does it end? It's completely ridiculous. /s

The idea that the public should give someone land to park their car round-the-clock is equally weird. If the car owner is paying, it's a different story of course.

I do agree with you that the number of cars illegally parked in a neighborhood is a reflection on the quality and frequency of public transit.
Mathematical Handbook: Higher Mathematics
Preventing fast lanes will likely hamper the development of novel applications that we cannot even conceive of today. Banning throttling while keeping speedups open (subject to review) seems like a good balance.
“Iran’s defense minister has issued a statement warning neighboring countries that any of them that open their airspace to Israel in order to intercept the drones will be targeted”

Indeed, they do seem to be painting a target on their heads.
Enforcing duration of medical actions must be some of the most idiotic things a healthcare MBA/MPH could come up with. Forcing a surgeon to finish surgery exactly within allocated time is putting lives at risk. The factory model should never be applied to fields like these.
I'd use an extension that made the transcript show by default on every video and added a transcript search bar in the page. That would be great.
> Unless Israel were able to justify any airstrike as an act of self-defense, it would be in violation of international law.

So... not illegal since hezbollah has been targeting and attacking Israel with Iran's help. Israel is defending itself.

In any case there is no law between sovereign states.

Now, Iran's use of drones to retaliate seems calibrated to avoid a further escalation because it is unlikely that they will cause much damage. But let's see how things unfold as apparently Iran has launched a large number of drones...
> What would an iPad cost in 1960

I don't think that the cost of a computer should silently get included into basics like rent for a roof over your head, food, and medical treatment.
For me at least (win 10) the win key + search randomely but systematically after some time fails to show me anything. So I'm stuck in an empty menu forever. I have no idea what causes this, I'm a heavy user and this pattern appears on all my machines.. My only solution is to forcefully kill the Explorer process, if that fail, I need to restart the whole computer..

Also, 'win + Calc' takes ages to 'find the app, launch the app'.

Finally, when I write the same string of characters to launch a program, sometimes it launches another one with a similar name.

Eg: visual studio and visual studio code, or randomely it open edge or chrome and does a Google search..

I suspect part of those issues are there because I type very fast.

Honestly that shouldn't be so bad. My computers are mostly i9 with plenty of ram.
Looks to me like the same countries could provide sugar and cacao.

The end result will always have to be shipped refrigerated anyway and is consumed pretty much worldwide so it doesn't look like a decisive factor, especially as it isn't a product that needs to be aged like say, a wine or a cheese. Once it is produced it is ready to ship, no long term storage needed.
Which is a retaliation for Iran providing weapons, training, funding and guidance to multiple proxies attacking Israel (Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc)

Not saying the retaliation is a smart move (honestly have no idea), but this didn't come out of the blue.
I thought "slide to type" was default off--and at least I was sure it was off at some point for me. But your message prompted me to check and it was on. Thanks!
"inflation rate" is a nebulous thing.

Interest expense and interest rates, concretely paid by people like any other expense is not any more nebulous than tracking other expenditures.

We already know the interest rate and various categories of interest expense paid by population. It is just not included. Your rationale sounds very much like "we shouldn't include it because the inflation rate would be higher".

There is nothing mechanically weird about not ignoring a real expense the economy and people bear the cost of.

This isn't touchy feely, this is concrete costs people pay. Not tracking is purely political.