skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In all the data, cash prices were often lower than the negotiated prices. This is good for uninsured patients who may be offered cash prices, but it's not great for the insured. "One could argue that insured patients who are already paying insurance premiums should not pay more than cash prices," the authors wrote.

Um, yes?

If you were offered a choice of...

- Work for $X/year, which is always 100% paid on time in cash

- Work for $Y/year...which is probably mostly paid, within a year-ish, after you have re-re-re-submitted paperwork for that, and fought over whether the salary codes that you applied for payment under are actually covered, and endless other crap.

...then what ratio of X to Y would you consider reasonable? That is pretty much how modern American medical insurance works. And all the "medical" employees who spend their days fighting with insurance companies ain't working for free, either.
Nestlé has a history of ethical lapses going back to the 1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Nestl%C3%A9
China is a threat to Europe's gunpowder supply
We plan to upgrade Claude Instant to Claude 3 Haiku in the coming weeks.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078430
Here's something similar by Garrett Bass:

https://github.com/garettbass/oc

...I also experimented a bit with parsing macOS system headers via clang-ast-dump and then code-generating C and Zig bindings but that didn't get far:

https://github.com/floooh/objc-ast-experiments

...with a bit of effort and maybe using libclang instead of clang-ast-dump that's definitely feasible though.

I guess a similar approach is used by the official C++ bindings for Metal:

https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/

...also shameless plug: the sokol headers allow to write simple macOS applications (just a Metal canvas in a window) in various non-Apple languages (currently C, C++, Zig, Rust, Odin, Nim):

https://github.com/floooh/sokol

...I'm cheating though and use ObjC under the hood to talk to Cocoa and Metal ;)
Fly by wire throttles have been commonplace in cars since the early-to-mid 00s.
A bio method will likely be a lot cheaper. Algae plastic would be three route to look at as you can grow a ton of algae very quickly. A little GMO and you could optimize it for CO2 sequestration.
> Shouldn't we have laws that protect all bio-data?

Yes, we should. We should have laws that protect all personal data, biological or not, but we can't even really manage to do that (in the US). So, until/unless we get there, these sorts of patchwork laws are the best we can get.
For sure. I used the word evidence rather than proof!
And that’s not quantized at all, correct?

If so, then the parent comment’s sentiment holds true…. Exciting stuff.
> To be fair, how big is the percentage of US population that actually does?

Beyond the standard American individualism (the baseline), regular people don’t claim that they are such rugged individuals that don’t-need-no-society like “libertarians” do.

That’s the discrepancy. If you take away one of the two things that cause the discrepancy you’re just talking about a different subject.
There are probably a number of melodramatic elements in Casablanca you have to tune out a bit which would be out of place in a more recent film.
Cutting out added sugar and supplementing Vitamin D have both significantly improved the quality of my life. I now have the feeling that all the info we need to live a healthy life is out there and that good health is slowly becoming a choice. I'm optimistic that the internet has dampened the power that some of these corporations have had over our nutrition. I'm looking forward to supplementing omega 3s and seeing if that has any effect.
In those cases the bugs are more like advanced fighting moves. I don't think item dup or insta-kill bugs would be allowed, even if they did exist.
This spin on things is hilarious. It wasn’t the “Tesla haters” screaming “don’t mention our precious software! It’s just a recall!”, it was the Tesla fans. “How can it be a recall if it can be fixed without my car going anywhere? The media just wants to make Tesla look bad! This isn’t a recall because Tesla can update it OTA, something the dinosaurs can’t!”

(Which ignores that while Tesla can update more than most other manufacturers, my car gets regular OTA updates too.)

Meanwhile Lincoln sent me a “fix” for a recall that involved neither software or my car moving an inch.

“We identified an issue in your vehicles user guide that could lead to improper seat operation. Please place this piece of paper between pages 168 and 169 of your guide.”

That was a recall, too.
Just make your own post if you’re selling your product
>> Desktop Cube, wobbly windows

> Arguably the most pointless Linux features ever. A perfect example of a feature which exists purely "just for fun" and for no other reason.

Fun is an excellent reason, but also it's my personal opinion that there was a while there when a significant number of new users to desktop Linux were enticed in by compiz (which I am counting as a pragmatic win).
Llama 3 70B has debuted on the famous LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard at position number 5, tied with Claude 2 Sonnet, Bard (Gemini Pro), and Command R+, ahead of Claude 2 Haiku and older versions of GPT-4.

The score still has a large uncertainty so it will take a while to determine the exact ranking and things may change.

Llama 3 8B is at #12 tied with Claude 1, Mixtral 8x22B, and Qwen-1.5-72B.

These rankings seem very impressive to me, on the most trusted benchmark around! Check the latest updates at https://arena.lmsys.org/

Edit: On the English-only leaderboard Llama 3 70B is doing even better, hovering at the very top with GPT-4 and Claude Opus. Very impressive! People seem to be saying that Llama 3's safety tuning is much less severe than before so my speculation is that this is due to reduced refusal of prompts more than increased knowledge or reasoning, given the eval scores. But still, a real and useful improvement! At this rate, the 400B is practically guaranteed to dominate.
You seem completely oblivious of the high likelihood of China invading Taiwan in the next 5 years. That will make the covid chip supply disruptions look like a supply chain nirvana in comparison.

Any large corporation with more than 2 braincells at the helm is going to want to hedge against Total Supply Annihilation.
Copyleft licenses are restrictive as obligations are restrictions. "You must provide a source code to your users" is equivalent to "You cannot use this software if your source code is not available to your users".

Freedom is a finite resource in which copyleft licenses take from the developer to give to users. (which ends up at the same point as the article but I prefer wording it this way.)
previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085214

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083409
Agreed that it's just a stepping stone. However, it feels like for once we (regulations) are ahead of the economic inertia. If there is any chance of us not falling off of this final cliff, the laws need to start in the USA, not in the EU, for example.
Go already supports an indirection layer, commonly known as vanity URLs. It works by making a request to a domain owned by the project and parsing a meta tag in the response that points to the actual repository location. Of course, the problem is that few projects bother to set this up.
S3 is one of the original AWS services (SQS predates it), and has been around for 18 years.

The idea of a propriety API becoming the industry defacto standard isn't uncommon. The same thing happened with Microsoft's XMLHttpRequest.
Academia pumped-out paper after paper--for over 50 years--on how terrible fat was for you, and now that it has become so very difficult to convince people that that emperor has clothes, they are pivoting to a different bogey-man. This was never the slow march of science, and it still isn't. One guy gets his money from Procter and Gamble, another gets it from publishing royalties, another gets it from youtube monetization. It is all a grift. The actual truth is probably hiding on some Peruvian amateur scientist's blog these days.

I never wrote "it's all the same". I did write that it may be something else entirely, and that some of the more likely suspects are not investigated with the same intensity--probably because a conclusive answer would upset many apple carts.

to ta988: for publishing royalties, i'm not talking about research papers, but popular books / articles. teicholz is a one-woman industry in that respect. not saying that she's right or wrong, but that she (like many others in this space) is both financially and reputationally locked-into a narrative, which is not really science.
I may be missing some context due to Twitter oddities but the big streamers have done studies on exactly how much impact this has.

Generally, since you have the screen on to watch video, and the modem working to stream the content, the overhead of a well written software decode is relatively small and can be balanced against smaller download/ higher quality.

Probably more informative to link one of those studies than a random tweet.
I'm intensely curious: what was the sentence and did you actually do it?

I would've.
Agreed, but Rocket Lab hasn't quite gotten around to shipping larger cargo. I know it's on their TODO list, so I hope they manage to move it to their DONE list :)
“A number of products” that make no real revenue other than driving users to…Bing ads.

The discussion here is what you would get if bought DDG, and the answer is…very little.
The exact quote: "Sam Altman won’t tell you that GPT 4 has 220 billion parameters and is a 16 way mixture model with eight sets of weights."
I haven't been a maintenance worker, but I've worked as an SWE in a company with a large IT dept. Sometimes it's faster to work around them to find solutions to doing your job. Both sides have good intentions but the IT dept. cannot move nimbly.

Same story everywhere.
Pretty easy to block the DOM node with my adblocker.
Well that puts a damper on the oft-stated claim that Tesla makes superior software. Sounds like they are relying on their frequent OTA updates to allow them to half-ass the initial design and just fix it later.
I don't find most of the submissions on this site compelling. That doesn't mean I flag them and try to have them removed. People can choose to just...not participate.

> Are we trying to make it a norm to lock yourself in executive offices or something?

Posting and discussing an article about something happening doesn't mean you condone the behavior it is describing. Should we just not be allowed to discuss any news over here? Or only news that fits one particular narrative?
I threw a rock and it landed in a field
Who Is Pina Bausch?
To me its a sane choice on my own single-user machine. I used to create a top level `/data` directory to put my stuff into (before Android was widespread :) ). Nowdays, my data resides in `/data/main`. This scheme has served me well for more than 10a and through various OS migrations (Windows -> Ubuntu -> Debian).

I don't want to have all this `.cache` and similar stuff to take up my expensive backup storage, nor do I want to waste time cleaning up after all the applications that create/expect files in `$HOME` or think this a sensible place to put executable files. I don't want arbitrary applications (heard of tracker?) to start indexing my files and waste CPU on that etc.

Also I don't believe in /home being portable across multiple Linux distributions because e.g. different application versions might require config files to be migrated. Hence I opt for `/data` that can safely be shared across multiple systems because it contains actual data and not some OS-related state files.

On multi-user systems, the `/data` approach doesn't scale. There, I prefer to do just as boomboomsubban writes: I create a subdirectory in $HOME (usually, I call it `wd`, the "working directory") and treat that like my local `/data/main`. For large/temporary files (e.g. application downloads etc.) I add a `$HOME/large` directory to keep the `wd` reasonably small in such cases such that I can again include it in backups without having to worry about the size.

YMMV
Yes, this case is about money. But I've seen many cases that elude any explanation.

Some people truly just like to see others suffering because of them.
€10000 BlueHats prizes for 2024
My problem with newer C++ books is that all of my projects are stuck using C++17.
At early years of Ethernet, Novell have very unusual point of sale. Because network infrastructure was expensive, many companies worked on old thin coaxial an even on cheap 75Ohm (not 50 Ohm), so suffer wavelength issues.

What I mean, each network (to be exact, coaxial was bus topology), have distributed points, where due to wavelength issues machine don't hear other machines.

This solved by carefully selection of cable snippets of different length, until you could see targeted machine. Unfortunately, because of obvious computational limitations you cannot make everyone see everyone other machines on cable - in real life people choose to make seen server, and that time it obviously was Netware.

PS Yes, in 1996 we already have windows disk shares even on old 3.1, but due to described issues, only could reliable see Netware server, so have severe limited choices.
In early 2000s, market flooded by cheap Ethernet switches, so all move to twisted pair and Netware become history.
Pleasure is all mine :D Have fun and please reach out if you get stuck!
The article is discussing the usecase where each test/set of assertions as a clean DB. I.e. hundreds of DBs per test run.

Are you talking about a single DB reused for each test? That is of course no problem...

Our suite spends 3 to 10 minutes to run too. It provisions about a hundred databases (takes 1 sec each DB template clone.. the wall clock is running stuff in parallell)

Also, every time we change code and run a related test locally we make a new DB to run its test. If that took more than 1 second I would go crazy.
That’s what I think is interesting about it, it looks like (from the outside at least; for all I know it could be super boring to play) a new system on top of the old one that obviates some of the old mechanics by ramming them to infinity/zero, but other mechanics emerge as a result.

What’s the difference between a weak and strong location?

I could imagine funny evolutions over time, just a random thought, if everyone is running a “glass cannon with lots of 1-hit protection” build, then I guess if players had to pick between fast/little attacks and big/slow ones, they’d favor the former. If everyone is walking around with little attacks just intended to trigger the 1-hit protections on their fellow glass cannons, then actually using the in-game armor system might turn those one hits into two-hits, making it relevant again. If the systems were properly tuned, (it could be exponentially difficult to gather 1-hit protections and extra lives, so turning those 1-hits into 2-hits could be really valuable), mechanics could be saved from obsolescence in interesting ways.

I’m not describing Minecraft at this point, just spitballing. It would be interesting to see a game designed with this evolution of “things being broken” taken into account, though. I guess that’s what Magic the Gathering is, hahaha.
So, any feature of a processor is a reason to say something is better than the other?

Ok... The 6502 does not have port-I/O. Everything is memory mapped. Therefore, the Z80 is better.

Or, the Z80 has more registers than the 6502, therefore the Z80 is better.

Or, the Z80 can do limited 16-bit operations that the 6502 can't, therefore the Z80 is better.
Same for me. Mainly due to the packaging fiasco (and to a lesser extent, imports).

The actual language is not awful. Some features are even nice, like infinite precision integers by default, and separate / and // operators.

Language is ok. Setting everything up is atrocious.

The other quite annoying thing is that the docs are extremely badly organised so Google rarely points you directly at what you want. Instead you get stuff like w3schools which is trash, but much better organised. Also annoying that the docs still don't include types.

I would use Typescript (via Deno), Go or Rust instead. There are some other Python replacement languages I haven't tried yet that might be an option like Mojo, Lobster, Nim. Probably still too niche for production; I'd stick with Typescript.
Thanks for replying! The reviews of Launch School are impressive.

I think you're dead on with that first link. I've heard of some schools that did not apply an effective filter up front, despite instructor pleas, and suffered for it greatly with lowered job placement, ultimately failing with the ISA model.

I feel there's a class of students for whom ISAs are perfect, and, just like you said, a class of students for whom they are ineffective. The ones where the ISA works and standard school is out of reach have incredible success stories.

I found something similar when I taught a nearly free C++ class. I put a really simple test on the front with a refundable $20 fee (if you took the course). Everyone who ultimately took the class was really motivated. $20 was all it took to filter. $5 might have even worked since I speculate the effect is psychological, not economical.

The second link is good food for thought, some stuff I hadn't considered. If the ISAs are sold cheaply enough, you really don't need much student success to get a return.

IIRC, in Lambda's case, the ISA sales were stopped while the company was still young (having gotten another round) [caveat: I didn't have much visibility into this side of things], and anecdotally I think they had some of their biggest successes early on, but I agree with your points on this.

One thing that really impressed me about Lambda was how diverse in every respect the student body was, people from just every walk of life. Waaay more so than I'd seen at any university. I credit the ISA for making this possible.

One of my missions in life is to enable people to get the training they want to get. ISAs were wonderful in that regard.
This would be clearer if the title said something like, “provided 1st definitive evidence of…“, in order to distinguish it from earlier attempts to propose or prove global warming effects of CO2.

Otherwise very cool link.
> The HTML editor not so much, and didn't appear to get much attention.

I highly recommend SeaMonkey's HTML editor to anyone who would otherwise be tempted to write HTML in MS Word.

It doesn't have a ton of features, but the webpage will be readable both in rendered and in source form.

I used to use it heavily when creating MS Help .chm (Compiled HtMl) helpfiles.
I am not knowledgeable about cars so please correct me if I'm mistaken but surely that number isn't useful unless we also have the number of models and vintages are in service? I would think Ford have way more models in play than Tesla for example, and additionally brands with a long history would have multiple years of models. I mean BMW and Ford have been building cars since before WWI and have a very wide range so there are probably at least 10 or 20 years of models that might conceivably have a recall. It's not fair to compare them directly I would think.
I press “ok” in a dedicated authenticator app required by a provider. It’s still annoying.
Pet peeve: This is why we use "broadband" as a synonym for "fast internet", but we should stop using it like that, since it completely neglects the symbol rate in that equation :)
After reading the article, it sounds like iPerf3 on Windows is going through an emulation layer (Cygwin) which - I kinda get why it's going slower if that's the case. Isn't syscall translation always going to add overhead?
Definitely HandBrake, being able to quickly compress a video is so clutch
Most people are risk-averse not necessarily because rejection sucks, but because they now have a family/many more responsibilities. It would be nearly impossible for me to do what you did at this point in my life (pick up everything and move 500 km away).

However, I did just this a decade ago, before I had kids. I picked up everything and moved to Asia. One of the best decision I ever made.
So you lock yourself in executive room , what do you think will happen?
> They didn't reply. So, I searched for the owner's name and tracked him down. I would call 2, 3, or 4 times a day for a few days until he picked up the phone and agreed to interview me.

Enjoyed this read, and this part specifically.
I recall reading somewhere that most breakthroughs in a field stop happening after someone turns like 30 iirc. (I can't recall what field it was about.)

But this reminds me of that, as we get older, we take less shots. I would likely never take the approach you outlined above, when that's exactly what I need to be doing right now.

Thank you :)
If it didnt lodge there it would fall off and land under the brake pedal. How fast does Tesla stop with Regenerative Braking System set to Low and no brakes?
It seems typical Elon Musk to me.
Because Python falls all over itself in larger projects, and is poor at utilizing resources efficiently. It's fine for smaller things that don't care about cpu cycles. I would much rather use Rust in a large project.
They could be but it’s just as likely as html only web (most popular platforms require js / apps / tech used by the majority).
Trivia. (Because I lost a bet once--that I was very setup for :-)) The phrase "Play it again, Sam" doesn't actually appear in Casablanca. ("Play it Sam" does.) I assume the phrase was popularized by a 1970s Woody Allen film which wasn't really one of his better works but is somewhat memorable for having a running gag that is one of those things that is totally alien in a world with cellphones.
A Combinatory Rosetta Stone
check out the clang objc rewriter - basically c++front for objc. https://www.jviotti.com/2023/12/01/understanding-objective-c...
Robotic arms that assemble panels on solar farms
Hey HN! We're a YC-backed company building robots that build solar farms. We recently completed the first commercial deployment of our system, and this is one of the first articles about it.

Here's a teaser video we put together too, if you're curious to see some more shots of the system in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2fP1Y5Z2E
minisign - https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/ super simple digital signatures!
I commented something sort of similar - Am curious though (I believe I'm younger than you), do you now feel you take less chances like the email/call route? (Would you say you do less of his approach w/calling for that job, or the business school thing?)
Advances in understanding COPV structural life
Depth of Field being visible is an artifact of 2D screens & prints. Our eyes do have depth of field, but when we look straight at something they very quickly refocus onto that thing, so it's often very hard to perceive. With a static photograph or picture on a screen we can't refocus on what we're looking at within the picture automatically.

It's not that our eyes don't have depth of field, it's that they operate differently than fixed photos or pre-set DoF effects in a game.
Aside from the potential for privacy issues anti-thetical to DDG's own stated goals, another problem is these chat AIs can just be inaccurate, if not just outright incorrect, on the simplest topics. Something which would seem to be a risk to DuckDuckGo's reputation as a search provider.
https://archive.is/WOUeO
What till you learn about the protocol: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

It's a pretty well-known turn of phrase.