skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Healthcare is already a huge fraction of the government budget. The lack of free universal healthcare in the U.S. isn’t due to cost.
No we don't. I still want this design back: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130235040/https://www.youtu...
Wise. Stops people saying "and don't call me Shirley!"
Your last paragraph: I would recommend this instead: VOO-Vanguard S&P 500 ETF
Serious question: Are we learning anything new from this now? Or is this merely a novelty?
First 'bilingual' brain-reading device decodes Spanish and English words
> “The Civil War was inevitable, but it didn’t have to be that way.” ---quote from a student history paper. A month before the paper was written, the history professor ranted extensively to the rest of the faculty how annoying it was that he had to stop his lecture, and spend time defining the word ‘inevitable’ to his class.

This sounds like it could have been an interesting discussion about what historians mean when they call something inevitable. "Inevitable literally means unavoidable, and in practice historians use it to mean a situation where... Scholars often say the war became inevitable after..."
no, i found it (and basically every book i read these days) via Ryan Holiday's monthly reading list:

https://ryanholiday.net/reading-list/

If you havnt signed up, do it. Guy is a reading machine.
I’ve heard of some pretty aggressive non-competes in finance, but AFAIU (never worked in Connecticut myself), it’s both the carrot and the stick: you get both paid and a stiff contract if you leave with proprietary alpha between the ears.

In tech I’ve never even heard a rumor of something like this.
So is my theory for what its worth: https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba

The US as a democracy isn't supported by evidence.
wait long enough and the other product will be able to expose the secrets.

future gpt prompt : "Take 200000 random comments and threads from hacker news, look at how they rank over time and make assumptions about how the moderation staff may be affecting what you consume. Precisely consider the threads or comments which have risque topics regarding politics or society or projects that are closely related to Hacker News moderation staff or Y Combinator affiliates."
I really don't care about the "algorithm" here. I think this place is distinguished nicely by the fact that I almost never know how much karma a post or user has. If it was in fact a total dictatorship of a few, posing as some democratic reddit thing, who cares? I'm OK as it is, and these things don't last forever anyway.

All you can really do on the internet is ride the waves of synchronicity where the community and moderation is at harmony, and jump ship when it isnt! Any other conceit that some algorithm or innovation or particular transparency will be this cure all to <whatever it is we want> feels like it never pans out, the boring truth is that we are all soft squishy people.

Show me a message board that is ultimately more harmonious and diverse and big as this one!
This has already infected humans in some places. Deer hunters ate deer meat from infected animals and got what appeared to be Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000204407
The plus side if there is one is that not too many people eat deer meat.
> if Lisp is so good, why isn’t its use more widespread?

There are over 39 thousand McDonald's restaurants worldwide, yet there's no general consensus on whether that's really good food. Opinions on McDonald's food vary. Some people enjoy it for its taste, convenience, and affordability, while others criticize it for its nutritional value and health impact.

Popular doesn't necessarily mean good, and vice-versa.

Consider classical music as another example. It's praised for its intricacy, artistry, and emotional richness, yet it lacks the widespread popularity of genres like pop or rock. I'm not a musician, but I believe any aspiring artist would gain immensely from studying classical music. Similarly, any programmer would find significant value in learning Lisp. The concept of Lisp is genuinely captivating (don't confuse it with Common Lisp, I'm talking about the general idea of Lisp, not a concrete implementation). Good ideas have enduring relevance. Much like classical music, which, though never mainstream, perpetually retains its allure, Lisp remains perpetually attractive, even if it never reclaims mainstream status.
My activity on Reddit has gone way down since they stopped supporting .compact view on mobile. I definitely miss it and want to go back but it’s incredibly hard to engage with the content on mobile browsers now.
Check out dfw’s Tense Present for a discussion of these opposing schools, prescriptvist vs descriptivist:

https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-...
What's the steelman argument for this being a slippery slope? I can't think of one.
Yes. It's _incredibly_ frustrating. I was not a Biden supporter, but he's gotten some absolutely incredible things accomplished - the IRA alone is so far outside what I thought would've been possible. The word from the actual people actually doing climate work is that, as far as they're concerned, the IRA solves the financing problem and the rest is implementation now, but the average voter apparently has no idea what's been done in that space. Antitrust is another area where the administration is reshaping how the economy works - they're getting a bit more credit here, but it's still widely underappreciated.

I think there was strategic value in keeping things close to the vest, and I'm not sure how much is in their hands and how much is how the media's reporting on all of this, but you're right, their inability to do messaging is going to lead the most economically progressive administration in half a century to be a one-term affair because their own voters haven't updated their priors.
https://golangci-lint.run/usage/linters/

The ones that are enabled by default. These are much more critical than unused variables or imports.
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I'm very interested to see what that kind of competition would do to ticket prices. I've often seen Ticketmaster painted as the "designated fall-guy" for consumers to hate instead of the venues and acts which are (according to this argument) the source of a lot of the junk fees. This is also the position that Ticketmaster claims as a defense [1], so it's hard to know what to believe in the absence of competition.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/ticketmaster-taylor-s...
In the coming years? It pretty much already is
> 30% of those who consume meat do so very infrequently

You misread the quote. Less than 30% consume meat regularly; 30% consume it infrequently.
nitpick: this blog post was written in 2013, so they were wasting their time watching TV or browsing facebook, not on "twerk tick" (I assume you sarcastically meant tiktok)

major point that is not a nitpick but is related: Since 2013, especially since the pandemic, most educators I've talked to agree it's gotten significantly worse. It was bad then and it's awful now. The reality is if you can add, subtract, multiply, divide, estimate, convert between, and understand the real world meaning of fractions, decimals, and percents, let alone apply it to real world situations like which bag of flour has a cheaper unit price, you are in a minority of american adults.
What would be the stock market play here
Latency of search isn’t much of a concern, I was speaking to quality but did not word it well.

We have just found that vector search does not play well with numbers and does not provide consistent results, so we end up needing more chunks which results compounding token usage, slower responses, and higher chances of incorrect responses due to the customer facing model getting confused by similar results. I’m sure we could optimize our approach but full text has worked far more reliably than expected so we have invested more resources into how we handle documents, latency reduction, and pulling in structured data.
I agree with you. I'd add that this kind of snarky sniping nonsense causes rifts between people who might otherwise agree with one another.
My top 3 questions:

* Is this a one-off toy, or is it part of a larger interest in skeuomorphic[1] design?

* Since your site[2] mentions you first tried to write code seriously at 27, did a prior interest in cars help lead you to programming?

* If not cars, did any interests help or hinder you?

1. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/skeuomo...

2. https://trizuliak.com
yup.

companies say that all the time.

another way they do it is to say, it is company policy, sorry, we can't help it.

thereby trying to avoid individual responsibility for the iniquity they are about to perpetrate on you.
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At least 8 states do, and more are actively trying.
> Edit: Looks like they're doing the right thing here:

> Altman’s initial statement was criticized for doing too little to make things right for former employees, but in an emailed statement, OpenAI told me that “we are identifying and reaching out to former employees who signed a standard exit agreement to make it clear that OpenAI has not and will not cancel their vested equity and releases them from nondisparagement obligations” — which goes much further toward fixing their mistake.

1. Get cash infusion from microsoft

2. Do microsoft playbook of 'oh I didn't mean to be shady we will correct' when caught.

3. In the meantime there are uncaught cases as well as the general hand waving away of repeated bad behavior.

4. What sama did would get him banned from some -fetish- circles, if that says something about how his version of 'EA' deals with consent concerns.
One of my professors was an Amish mathematician. Had a Ph. D from MIT.

Actual Amish. Lived on an Amish community near the university.

He never used computers. Always brought a ruler, compass, and protractor to class, which was cool.

Forced us to read Euclid in the original Greek, which was slightly less cool.
It isn’t disappointing at all. The US government was intentionally designed to prevent fast, large decisions especially if they affect individual rights. Otherwise would-be tyrants and control freaks would try to control other people on everything.

If anything we need a return to more celebration and protection of the individual.
For training workloads? Yes. For inference? Nope. Their competition is very technically strong there. The lack of market attention (pun intended) is utterly baffling there. And before someone inevitably chimes in about CUDA - for inference you don’t need it. Ask Google for example.
This is what “Better to ask forgiveness than for permission” looks like when people start catching on.

It’s one of the startup catchphrases that brings people a lot of success when they’re small and people aren’t paying attention, but starts catching up when the company is big and under the microscope.
If I see a job application with spelling or grammar mistakes in it, then it's a huge red flag; it tells me that this person does not care about accuracy or they don't check their work very well. These are very important attributes to have in engineering.

If you see it in a job advert, I'd assume the same for the people who are doing the hiring.
I'm not sure if the between layers thing might be a similar thing to when bubbles show up on the sides and bottom of a glass of water. Some of the bubbles are also staying because once it's settled down, there isn't enough action to cause them to pop. The constant associated with the surface tension in the sim can also be turned down.
> By this logic, human travel should also be banned. It's bad for disease risk, the environment, etc.

Shhh you’re giving the hall monitors ideas.
Numec: Did Enriched Uranium from U.S. Aid Israel's Nuclear Weapons? (2016)
In one paragraph the politicians claim it is about protecting children. Their supporting evidence is that 40% of college age women report being choked during sex. The implication is that by banning minors from watching porn it will protect college age women.

There are so many issues with this reasoning. The most obvious is that the legislation wouldn’t ban college age men/women from watching porn.

If this law is really about “protecting children” then why are they banning all porn and not just the particular violent videos they object to?
It sounds racist because they phrased it very bluntly, but that aren't saying that black people can't do math. One of the reasons why Americans are bad at math is because our expectations of math are abysmal. Raising these expectations will reveal just how far behind black students are in math, which will get you accused of racism, so schools are incentivized to keep them low. One can argue that this is actually a form of systemic racism because the schools that are failing to properly educate black students are shielded from scrutiny.
15y account here too - also quit. Tried lemmy for a while and didn't like it. At least it helped me kick the reddit habit. Don't even go there anymore

https://old.reddit.com/u/speff
I've had a pretty awesome experience with this, even with an old 8 GB AMD card. It's not perfect, but being able to run models locally within the paint app while mixing different control layers feels like the future.
Only one of 16 has lasted this long. Another lasted 12 years. I can’t find numbers for all of them.
Likely because it’s very deadly, spreads rapidly, and now that the virus has transferred from birds -> cows -> humans, it could start to mutate into something that spreads human to human.

> Human infections with HPAI A(H5N1) virus have been reported in 23 countries since 1997, resulting in severe pneumonia and death in about 50% of cases.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/influenza-a-virus-subtypes....
The US are not the world.

Over 1000 people got infected worldwide. Mortality rate >50%

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22401-bird-fl...
Then leave it to the market to decide. If people need to be coerced into it or forced, they don’t want what you are selling.
$12M seems steep for a RPi addon
HN hates cryptocurrencies but 'equity' to me is even worse than the worst shitcoins. It's an IOU that the company controls (and one people think is a tangle part of their 'compensation.') Just imagine if a company thinks you're about to jump ship and you have equity close to being vested. The company almost has a perverse incentive to fire you to nullify that equity. This gets much much worse when you know the typical vesting schedules that startups like to use. I know some of you working at the top companies might get your equity vested every month. But in my experience its much more common to be talking about yearly vesting schedules at startups where you have to stay for many years to get anything.

So think about that. They offer you an average to low base salary but sweeten the deal with some 'equity' saying that it gives you a stake in the company. Neglecting to mention of course, how many different ways equity can be invalidated; How a year in tech is basically a life time; And how the whole thing is kind of structured to prevent autonomy as an employee. Often founders will use these kind of offers to gauge 'interest' because surely the people who are willing to take an offer that's backed more by magic bean equity money (over real money) are truly the ones most dedicated to the companies mission. So not being grateful for such amazing offers would be taken as a sign of offence by most founders (who would prefer to pay in hopes and dreams if they could.)

Now... with a shitcoin... even though the price may tank to zero you'll at least end up with a goofy item you own at the end of the day. Equity... not so much.
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The recursive nature of your reply should not be lost on HN readers. :)
Thanks. It's a WebAssembly simulation so mostly CPU and very light on the GPU because it's just drawing points. It will actually run on mobile too with multitouch.
There's a technology called a driver's licensing and examination bureaucracy. It was invented hundreds, maybe thousands of years ago (not for driving obviously but the basic idea of having a state bureacracy that administers exams and tracks and validates agaainst something like a written database of who has passed them in exchange for special privileges under the law -- the Chinese had a merit exam system in ancient times for xample; medieval Europe had all kinds of licenses, guilds, and other ways individuals had to prove they were good enough to be able to do something, for bettter or worse).

In other countries with more stringent licensing systems, driving poor behavior is much less.

So yeah, it's an easily solvable problem that involves just being willing to better apply an ancient technology.

I'm not kidding about calling this a technology -- you need writing and central state administration to carry this out, and those were pretty big advanced 10,000 years ago. We should probably have figured it out by now here in the backwards (on this specific topic) USA.
It’s sad that this type of projects will not be possible with Wayland, because apparently pluggable wm is not a thing in Wayland
Startups after first round of investment would have severe motivation to succeed!
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-j...

There is a great deal of documentation and discussion, but this document covers some of it, here are a couple of on-topic quotes:

>"Documents from and testimony by FTC managers show that Chair Khan marginalized the litigators and investigators at the FTC who had the skills necessary to win cases."

>"One manager consulted with his team and reported to
the Chief of Staff that Chair Khan was “[s]capegoating the career staff for the FTC’s ‘underenforcement’ of the antitrust laws”26 and “contributing to an external narrative that denigrates staff.”"
> The performance cost is...

Measured how? Being good enough or not for which of a million uses? Without that these statements may well be true for the author but meaningless for the reader & potential user.

(Avoiding allocations is frequently a reasonable idea when minimizing latency, for example - maybe not for you).
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Depends on the specifics of the contracts which are almost all unique except for some union and management agreed baselines.
Shrink defense spending when Russia and China are gearing up for World domination?

I am from Europe, and in more immediate danger, but I would still hope US will defend any sort of democracy we have vs the threat of dictatorships. I know my country has helped out US with its wars.

Now is the time to increase those budgets, not decrease. Decreasing would actually increase the odds of WW3.
I took it to mean they're not worried about themselves catching it, but more about the implications if this disease were to spread more. How bad could it be if it started infecting more than just the eyes? How fast could it spread between people before we have a vaccine ready?
So what should Israel have done to not hand control over to Hamas on a "silver platter"?

In terms of preventing the Hamas-Fatah war and the initial takeover of the Strip -- there probably wasn't very much it could have done.

But after that juncture -- perhaps if the Prime Minister did not have an explicit policy of keeping them in power for 14 years (in order to "smash the vision Palestinian state into two pieces" as he would boast of his genius plan), backed by allowing $1.8 billion in transfers of Qatari cash from 2012 to 2018 -- that might have helped turn the tide.
If it wasn't in the original contracts for the equity, they wouldn't be able to claw back.
Fairly obviously, the mechanism can't be in the exit agreement because you didn't sign that yet.

Normally a company has to give you new "consideration" (which is the legal term for something of value) for you to want to sign an exit agreement - otherwise you can just not bother to sign. Usually this is extra compensation. In this case they are saying that they won't exercise some clause in an existing agreement that allows them to claw back.
But their product isn’t really differentiated anymore and has really low switching costs: Opus is better at almost anything than the 4-series (training on MMLU isn’t a capability increase), Mistral is competitive and vastly more operator-aligned, both are cheaper and non-scandal plagued.

Mistral even has Azure distribution.

FAIR is flat open-sourcing competitive models and has a more persuasive high-level representation learning agenda.

What cards? Brand recognition?
Yeah, reading old threads is weird. The majority of everything is intact, but there's enough deleted or mangled comments that it is an effective minor inconvenience.
Yeah he’s an idiot on twitter. But he’s still smarter than both of us. Or I guess I shouldn’t include you in that, in case your day job happens to involve conducting high-level business and engineering reviews of manned spacecraft like Elon does.
If so, what happens when the music stops and they run out of furniture to burn for heat? Is the job market going to explode again because suddenly they desperately need IT professionals to rebuild the mess they've made? Is it going to tank further because so much capital has been destroyed that there's less to work on?
Which laws? Who?
Raisi?

Sure. He's pretty much a product of his environment/government. Did I imply otherwise?
The race to build their own chips vs buy nvidia… I imagine they do both. Any nvidia they leave lying around the others will buy and start training models with. Arms race basically and you don’t want your enemy buying the alternative.
Yes, it can't write to parts of a file.

It also can't read (seek) into the file (or couldn't when I last looked at it).

It is not a file system, but is often mistaken for one.
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One possible explanation is that we require this of our vendors and suppliers, and the easiest way to achieve that is by making it reciprocal.

The actual policy wording:

> No Third-Party Trading or Tipping. Do not trade in the securities of another company when aware of material nonpublic information about that company in connection with your work at ******. This includes trading in the stock of ****** suppliers, manufacturers, vendors, or customers, such as cellular network carriers or other channel partners. You must also not tip material nonpublic information about another company.
> He said I can't do that, no one off contracts.

There was still potential to engage there:

"That's alright, as you said it's not enforceable anyway just remove it from everyone's
contract. It'll just be the new version of the contract for everyone."

Doubt it would have made any difference though, as the lawyer was super likely bullshitting.
The consumer cards are just nerfed enterprise ones anyway.
ScarJo claims they reached out to her far earlier when she rejected them and the 2 days prior to launch was a an attempted follow-up by OAI that didn't happen.
If they don’t my wife and I are just going to stop going to shows that use TicketMaster/Live Nation. Any more a third of the ticket price is fees. Not worth it.
The discourse is about the same, trouble is the only mods left are the truly batshit ones.