skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pondered a little bit more to uncover why I felt this way about GR and QFT.

I am sure there are no realized infinities, and I don't think nature can have an if statement.

It can have hysteresis curves, with some extreme exponent, but it cannot have a conditional. A square wave is an infinite Fourier Series, but infinite does not exist, so it is truncated, and there are no zero-step jumps. No Dirac Delta Function. Quantum jumps are layered over tunneling and decaying exponentials, but they do not need step changes or conditional laws.

So GR is pure in this sense (except singularities, but all bets are off, and I don't think they exist - no infinities, no infinitesimals that actually become zero). Singularities are not a prediction of GR (despite Penrose, whom I admire enormously), they are just a realm without solutions, a Terra Incognita, where we know we need a better theory.

One final thought... the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP) is just Fourier Analysis. Every physicist and electrical engineer, just says, "yes ok", and moves on, even though there are various mystical properties ascribed in pop-sci woo-woo explanations. The one finding of the Wolfram Physics project that made me sit up and pay attention, is that they derived HUP as composed of two different structures of ambiguity (simplifying enormously: across and ancestrally within the branchial space). That sounds ~right to me, and indicates some profound insight they are generating from discrete combinatorial approaches.
This is true, but you can inspect the package (and its dependencies) once installed and before importing it. Now it is an all manual process (with default tools, as far as I know), which contributes to the current state that only very few people inspect their packages.

It can give people also a second change to notice, e.g. the typo in the package name.
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The article tries to paint a naive example where private equity buys everything and jacks up the prices. But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

You have to ask yourself what makes healthcare unique to nearly every other well functioning market in the US. The bigger issue is there is third party paying for things. Try to ask your doctor how much something costs and they'll stare at you like you have two heads. Imagine getting your car fixed without knowing how much it's going to cost

The other problem is the regulation and groups like AMA. Why don't new cardiologists enter the field? Because there is a cap of graduates that the AMA controls. Why doesn't a new hospital open up? Because there is often a "certificate of need" to open a new health care facility and other health care providers in the vicinity get to determine who is allowed in.

What would happen to restaurants if new waiters had to go to school for 8 years and there was a cap on how many can graduate and you need to go to a board of neighboring restaurants to decide if you can open yours, and diners are forced to sign up for some company to pay for all the meals.

https://www.ncsl.org/health/certificate-of-need-state-laws
Instead of badging in, you have to spoon in.
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I'm just trying to fight my negative feelings about this people, because I've actually provided advice on how to set themselves up in this place, got leads for their businesses.

I didn't felt we were super friends, but you know, maybe I expected something more. They weren't random jimmies.
If only we could take our money elsewhere, but we are mandated to pay with insurance, which makes them the defacto customer, to decide with the doctors, cutting us out of the process (which is handy under circumstances where the patient can't talk; There's a use case for everything, but coercion and blanket enforcement seems to ruin everything)
The hill is to document and report to the state agency that handles it, and at least make it their problem somewhat.
Additionally, Aseprite runs on Linux, which is a big pro for me.
Would the healthcare providers pay that wage? Quietly paying the protection money gives them incentive to charge more.
Yes, but switching back and forth multiple times? I admit to having done even this before too, but I certainly didn't feel proud of myself after. A really good human driver would avoid this kind of conduct by having a (just slight) bias towards decision "stickiness" to avoid looking silly. This isn't purely aesthetic-- looking silly or bizarre, even if technically safe and legal and effecient, in your driving behavior can attract police attention (not a concern for self driving I suppose).

That said I admit if these are the kinds of complaints we are discussing, as opposed to the kinds Uber attracted (like running a woman over in Nevada), Waymo must be doing pretty well. These are nitpicks to gradually address, not fundamental issues. Kudos to waymo, it was always obvious they were nearly the only player seriously trying
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Yeah, it's like they're shooting themselves in both feet by just naming their project badly. What a pity.

It could have been worse. Years ago a promising audio format was competing with mp3. It was better quality at any given compression and open source. The creators named it "Ogg Vorbis". Like some kind of dungeons and dragons character or something. I haven't seen it around for a long time, I think that's because the name was so stupid.
I wish I was good at coming up with Python tools… we need to complete the set, PiPy and PiPi.
They offered their patent to others very early on, before it crossed regulators minds.
I guess for me it was how people developed sites because they were passionate about the topic, not because there was a chance to become a millionaire off of it. You had lots of fan sites and technical resources about every random subject under the sun, often without any ads or begging at all. Just random people sharing what they were interested in with the rest of the world.

Now that's mostly gone away. Wikis have some of this spirit left, but most other sites seem to be corporate affairs designed to make a buck first and foremost and teach people anything second. Everything's now seemingly about the 'hustle' and trying to become rich as quickly as possible.

It's one of the reasons I still have an interest in fan games and video game mods. Because they're some of the only communities where just about everyone makes what they do for fun, and where the untested legal situation means monetisation is basically impossible.
Because that is how we end up with AI tooling, and Web sites written in Python, or desktop applications in Electron.

No matter how things are supposed to be, that is not how bootcamp, self called "engineers", do their programming.

Also as proven by other ecosystems, with JIT, AOT, REPLs, in the box, having an interpreter like CPython isn't a requirement for anything.

As for your MS jab, it was called IronPython.
Yes, when I wrote that stateb.us/what page, my intent was to express the aspirational vision of statebus. It soon became clear that, in order for the vision to succeed, we needed the network protocol to become a widely-used standard. Thus began my Braid work.

I started approaching the IETF to learn how to standardize State Synchronization in HTTP. I ran across this HN comment by JosephG [1] making a call to the same mission. I sent him an email, we decided to team up, and we went to dwebcamp in California and then IETF in Montreal together, and made a presentation to the HTTPWG proposing to extend HTTP into a state sync protocol. We got an enthusiastic reception, and I have been working on it ever since.

The HTTP extension is getting into pretty good shape, and we're now manifesting the promises on that /what page. They aren't all production-ready (e.g. no blockchains built on statebus/braid yet), but they are coming true at a steady clip!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19816648
Sometimes that opposition is the reason there's good and nice things at all, though.
At the very start of my "career" (in the 80s, when DBIII+ was king) I also noticed that people in general could not grok normalization or any kind of "data design".

So I really think that a spreadsheet was (and still is) way more intuitive at first, and if you were "bold enough" to investigate macros you would just try to solve all your problems with something you had already a good mental image of.
Erlang was implemented in Prolog and ran on top of it (as a prolog DSL? Not sure to be honest.), until the workloads increased and they switched to a VM model (the BEAM).
Agree with this 100%, Postgraphile is awesome. I started a new project recently and was writing “REST” APIs because I’d been reading that people were put off by GraphQL, but it was a complete pain - instead of exposing my data and querying it as needed, I had to try to guess up front what I should expose in what object. It was the bad old days all over again, writing adhoc code on the server to meet the needs of the client… switching back to GraphQL - and postgraphile - was a relief.

As someone who has used GeaphQL extensively, I really don’t understand most of the complaints, which seem like they’d be common to any complex API surface. Sure you can write a query that triggers a server bug, but that happens with REST too. Yes, your server needs to be hardened against these queries… so what?

And security is hard, granular security doubly so. If you need to do field level authorisation then the problem is that you need a policy engine, not a different query technology.
No parent can “train” a kid to be a math genius.
There is a wide divide between a “math genius” and having a high SAT score for instance.
Or perhaps that won't happen in those countries because they will continue to grow and develop their industry instead of languishing.
Thank you so much, this is very helpful and interesting. I'll try to experiment with this at some point.
Providers point at insurance and drug companies.

Insurance points at providers and drug companies.

Drug companies point at providers and insurance.

Don't let any of them fool you, there are three heads on this monster and when they aren't busy blaming the other two heads they do a remarkably even job of splitting the loot.
Yeah, precisely. I'm sure it works fine with Caddy too, it's just that I haven't had Caddy with me in the trenches, yet.
A problem is that health insurance has no bare minimum to compete against. There is no saying "alright, fine, your rates are insane so I'm gonna just go with the state-operated option". That's more-or-less what happens in most Western countries; you can still get private insurance which gets you faster/better treatment, but if you're a fairly healthy person who just wants to cover their bases for a catastrophic occurrence, the state will do that for you. If the private guy wants any of your money, he has to justify it with more than "what happens if you get in a bad car accident or get a cancer diagnosis?".

In the US private insurance is the only way to go, and many of them are operated by people who have profit motives, even if they themselves work for an entity that is non-profit.
But these people weren't tourists, they are living here now. I wouldn't mind if they were some random people saying for a few weeks or months, but this is people I've known for ~2y and we've done stuff out of meetups.

Not to mention that the've reached for help and I did indeed help them.
PE also loaded a UK supermarket chain with debt: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/09/morrisons-s...
I think the root cause is transparent for all to see. Humans need their bodies. And profit-maximizing entities of multiple kinds have figured this out, and bought politicians to prevent laws from reining them in.

That's all.
It is an important consideration for live language models. The example recently of a bad Reddit answer popping up in Gemini -- putting glue on the pizza demonstrates how easy it is.

While there are definitely ethical issues with the data that they are using. Trainers need to get a handle on this kind of thing because for LLMs to be truly useful they have to consume large parts of the web.
Paul Graham would have been officially retired from YC at the time. Jessica Livingston still worked full-time at YC for some years after Paul Graham hired Sam Altman to replace him as president and hired Dan Gackle to replace him as moderator. If Paul Graham had not been retired, this entire conversation wouldn't exist. His retirement is why Altman was president of YC.

Accusing Graham of being "absent" sounds silly.
I've read the article and a few of the responses but have never used GraphQL. However I have a question

Would it be fair to say that GraphQL is extremely useful for internal-only clients? For example an inhouse data store, query service, test status monitor, etc?

So many issues disappear when you aren't concerned about bad-actors and you have _some_ control over both client and server.
In Philippines their president wanted to remove the cap on doctors.

Existing practicing doctors went on strike, they didn't want more competition. Funnily, population sided with doctors, instead of president.
Cognitive restructuring.

Imagine there's <5 years till AGI and all problems solved. What do you keep/change? Start there.
While I am not taking the proposal particularly seriously, I think it's fair to say that we have something close to a model for a company being owned by its assets in law and other professional partnerships.
I am a big fan of direct primary care doctors now, these are doctors that don't accept insurance. As a family of 3 we pay $200 a month to have unlimited access (person, phone, text, email) to our doctor. We pair this with a high deductible plan from work and it works out really well. It might not be the answer for everyone but it makes sense at the primary care level. As I have gotten slightly older I have appreciated having continuity of care (not One Medical) and also not have strict timelimits to discuss my health. When I see the specialist I am fine with it, give me my allotted time, I probably only have a very specific need to discuss.
Some people don't find someone as good again though. Good spouses/friends/etc are not that replaceable.

Or rather, they're replacable practically, but the new persons are not necessarily offering the same level of connection.
Euclid's proof, with Byrne's beautiful visualization:

https://www.c82.net/euclid/en/book3/#prop31
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> why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics

They get bought out by PEs as well.

> The other problem is the regulation and groups like AMA

My SO is a Doctor, and most of her overhead is from paperwork, billing, and IT.

Managing a HRM, your clinic's IT, your clinic's medical devices, your clinic's digitized patient records, the paper trail needed to get paid, etc is hard.

Most older practitioners have sold their clinics to PEs for that reason - they don't want to spend an additional 20-30 hours a week dealing with the issues above.

This is why they sell off their practices to consolidated groups, because they will unify these services but give the Doctor a paycheck.
I thought the coveted "blue check" allowed long Tweets? Even less reason to post an image of text.
>But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

It does. The reasons you cited just makes it worse in medicine.
I have heard the term "wish casting" used to refer to this phenomenon. When people are deeply emotionally charged, they start asserting facts they want to be true, and ignoring the line between fantasy and reality, as if saying something enough makes it real

I see it almost exclusively online, and people don't seem to notice what they are doing.
Say it with me: MEDICINE IS NOT A MARKET GOOD.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585909/

The solution is to socialize it.
> But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

It does, all the time. These places just offer services that are less prone to "whatever price it is, I'll spend it".
But private equity objectively does jack up the prices on those things. It just doesn’t own those businesses. The whole point is that it’s unsustainable to run a business that way. Look at these absurd restaurants prices, it’s private equity jacking up the prices on food and labeling it as “inflation”.
For others that do not know:

This is why python has wheels.
That Twitter thread (as most are) is poison.
Does anybody else wonder how our world would've been if Sam had chosen YC and instead left OpenAI?
> they didn't want more competition

It isn't because of that alone. In PH and Korea, senior doctors are expected to oversee junior or trainee doctors. These senior doctors are already overloaded with both giving care and training junior doctors.

Adding more MDs won't change anything because the residency/training bottleneck still exists and there is no way to change that.

This is why my SO left Vietnam for the US - getting paid $1-2k a year to train 6 juniors and work 60 hour shifts providing care is hellish.

The same is happening in Korea as well, with senior doctors leaving for Japan and the US now.
They could split it in multiple pages instead of a single page! Imagine having to click “next part” >10 times just to see if you eventually end up with a section that contains the actual recipe
Exactly what land do you think you can buy with 5 hours a week of labor, lol?
I only have personal data. Things that would have taken me a long time before take me much less time now.
So indeed the Nakba was not a genocide
"Document and report": There's another half hour of your life done and dusted with your time and effort disappearing into a never to be responded to black hole.
> Somehow, instead of "undefined behaviour" (using your definition) generating a compile time error,

I'm sorry, but this sentence shows how little you understand about undefined behaviour. Undefined behaviour cannot generate compile time errors in the general case, as the compiler does not have all the information. The only thing the compiler does is assume you wrote your program correctly, which you seem to refuse to accept as a responsibility of yours.

As an example, a simple statement like "int a = b + c;" cannot cause a compile-time error about integer overflow, because the values of b and c are unknown. The hardware will know them at execution time, but the compiler does not. And as soon as you state your expectation that overflow mimic the underlying architecture, you are wrong again because you choose the wrong tool: unless you are developing a compiler, you are not allowed to use "C" and "architecture" in the same sentence.

> And now you come along, and say the problem isn't the standard, it's the programmers not being language lawyers.

You said it a bit more bluntly that I would, but you are right. The problem lies on the developer's side. Mind you, I found myself making this error several times; I'm not pretending to be a master programmer, not at all! But every time the only solution was to accept responsibility and modify my code accordingly.

Unless you accept that your expectations are wrong, you are condemned to live the same stress over and over and over! Good luck to you!
In my opinion, part of that is how societies have made their societies less and less safe. If you look at a child the wrong way in the US people are ready to call the cops on you. It was a very odd experience to me, but then I realized that the US has one of the highest child abduction rates in the world.

My daughter is loving a little book of a little girl that her mom sends to buy milk on her own for the first time. It's a Japanese book. Now Japanese and Taiwanese and much Asia for that matter are not famous for letting children just roam without freaking out every step of the way, but there is a pretty common theme in Japan of letting small children do groceries, sometimes as young as 4 years old.

When I grew up in Germany, it too was a very safe society, so we would play in the street on our own. Before that I still have memories of my older brother taking me to buy Bread when I was 3 years old in the Normandie, I think in more remote places in France you can still do that.

Part of the issue is safety from people and the other part is actually just the proliferation of cars, but if I had children in the US I would not let them out of my eyes even one second.

That being said, I do sometimes put a Xiaomi smart band on her when I'm concerned about her heart rate. It's way less intrusive than fitbit. To put a device on a child where the makers used to brag internally about being able to know when people have sex is insane to me.
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tbh I wish something like BEAM's processes would get implemented. I know there's a Lisp for BEAM (https://lfe.io/) but having that in SBCL would be a game changer.

Anyway, it's impressive how fast SBCL can be given the amount of developer time/money it receives compared to Java, etc.
> But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

Restaurants too have slowly been gobbled up in my area of NY suburbs into larger groups. I think the Main St here with 20 or so restaurants is owned by just 3 groups.

Supermarkets are an incredibly low margin business and they would have to compete with existing players on those thin margins including titans like Walmart. There's not much more blood to extract there.

Independent mechanic shops have been dwindling naturally because it's too expensive for newbies to get into the field, especially between rent and needing all their own tools. End of day, formally "car shop" areas here are being bulldozed for luxury rental apartments.
Crunchbase says the WorldCoin seed round was January 2019.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/worldcoin/investor_f...
Anytime the finance industry get involved and sell tailored loans then prices rise astronomically.

Housing? Yep mortgages, people can rarely afford a house without a large mortgage

Cars? Yep, most cars are bought on finance, people couldn’t buy new cars without the finance.

Health? In the us, insurance companies provide the finance.

I really wish society would have stopped this in its tracks.
People appreciating this letter might also appreciate "A crow look at me" by Mount Eerie (a one-person music project), written by Phil just after his wife died of cancer, and dealing with it.

Here's an example track: https://genius.com/Mount-eerie-real-death-lyrics
What country is this? There’s no plan in America that’s anywhere near that good, where the catch?
Somebody needs to write a play consisting of random words as a test of this ;)
It might be that the cats find the crazy lady.