skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I have a strong opinion that the moral hazard of affordable healthcare doesn’t exist based on the lack of evidence. Americans (and the hard right of British politics) are the only group that even consider such an argument.

If there were a moral hazard to affordable healthcare, I posit that you’d see lots of it in a system where healthcare is mostly free at the point of use (prescriptions aside). The fact that obesity and opioid addiction happen in the USA at far higher rates than in the UK points to a strong indicator that this moral hazard simply does not exist. The fact is that the only examples you can give point to issues unrelated to “moral hazard.”

You have failed to point to a systemic pattern of risk-taking behaviour that is higher in a system with socialised healthcare than in privatised systems to convince me otherwise. You cannot because it doesn’t happen. Human beings, on the whole, do not engage in obviously dangerous behaviour more if it’s free to get treatment because we’re simply not that stupid.
Not saying it's wrong but that seems a strange. Around here there are still small mills - some with strange strategies where they will drive lumber large distances. Although they do specialize in this or that product. And seem profitable even though they are small. Meaning that the market can perhaps be entered with a small mill.

But in many economic fields there are unstable states where all producers can be worried but happy not to expand and just raise prices - as long as nobody else expands. "Eventually" can be a long time.
I disagree with this approach. Forced compliance by the “stick” approach I think never wins against a compelling “carrot” approach. Some people are reflexively defiant to what they see as arbitrary punishments for personal choices. Incentivizing smaller and more efficient cars is better. This is an electric truck, it’s still big, but would the net positives of someone buying an electric truck be better than a gas one regardless of size?
I am 100000% in favor of government takeover of the payment card industry. Legal tender is unquestionably in the domain of governments, and with payments moving to 100% digital, the idea of a private company with shareholders and a profit incentive, essentially playing the role of an unelected quasi-government setting quasi-fiscal policy is nauseating to me. Visa and Mastercard don’t deserve to exist.
Something is fishy here.

According to the original report, the “key logger” was in the custom wheels in the requirements.txt, but looking at that repository there has been only two commits, which according to Reddit both had malicious code in them.

Of course, proper discovery would be easier if the GitHub account still existed.
Libtree: Ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not
The first time I ever had anyone balk at my cash was 20 years ago when I tried to buy a car and the guy told me he needed a check. It has gotten so much worse since then that now I only keep $20 or so in my wallet any more.
the afterlife has been described by religions as a place where we will not only reflect on our life but also be able to mingle with our ancestors as well as seek out any other individual who has ever lived.

that can only be true if our consciousness does indeed survive. because if we are not conscious of who we are and what we learned during our life on earth then what would be the point of reflecting and meeting others there?
I also did the same thing 25+ years ago with computer magazines. And similarly, I built up a little programing business.

There, it felt like I learned a lot by experimenting hands-on. That's probably what I need to do more in this situation too. In a structured fashion.

The line between being a "generalist" and "knowing a little about a lot, but not enough about anything to do anything" is fine.
Jeez, what a disaster. More and more it’s becoming clear that you cannot actually trust anyone else’s code unless you audit it yourself.
Can we please just have a sane bifurcation of what LLMs are good/bad at?

They are not good with facts. They are not good with precision. They never will be. That is not even their purpose.

Neither are humans, we rely on sources.

LLMs can be made to rely on sources through RAG and agents. They can respond to errors with actor/critic modeling techniques. But ultimately they should be generating commands to strict rules engines.

They must be combined with goal seeking agents, retrieval/ rules engines, critics, etc to be useful.

Their only advantage is their 24/7 relentlessly consistent scalable throughput.
If you need to do AV1 encoding then you should know the software encoder is dead slow.

Get a cheap Intel Arc GPU instead like the SPARKLE Intel Arc A310 or SPARKLE Intel Arc A380 ELF 6GB.
This is why I refuse to use almost anything on npm. If you have a zero dependency project I'll consider it. If you have a dependency that also has a set of dependencies then I will never use your code.
Yep, some restaurants added a cc surcharge during the pandemic, and none seem to have done away with them. I've watched customers pay at the POS, and pretty much no one seems to realize that the fee is assessed (and the employees don't mention it).
Nvidia Stock Could Rise 10-Fold on New $10B Growth Vector
That's not an argument for trying to eliminate HFT market makers. The competition referenced between HFT market making firms that results in a winner take all structure between the HFT firms, is a competition to take the bid/ask spread, which is something that only HFT firms are trying to do. It should not be taken to mean that HFT firms are the sole collectors of profits in the markets, but that the best HFT firms out-compete the other HFT firms at a very specific type of trading. This competition to take the spread between HFT market makers decreases the spread and increases liquidity for everyone who isn't HFT, which lowers trading costs for non-HFT participants in the markets. Prior to the advent of HFT, slippage costs were consistently higher, due to how much larger the bid-ask was and due to how much less liquidity was present around the bid-ask at any given price, which the presence of HFT has helped to improve.

https://www.ft.com/content/ff8c6486-cb37-11e3-ba95-00144feab...
Yeah, that one's a bit lower. 15.625kHz or 15.75kHz depending on your region.
And then hand-waved the problem with "most studies don't matter and are crap anyway".

Well, then perhaps your field doesn't matter in aggregate?

He has this premise that "the field is disparate findings anyway" so even if most are shot down, doesn't matter, but even in that case, seems like a waste and very low signal vs noise ratio to keep it up...
Handling cash is inconvenient. It has to be counted and secured. It has to be regularly deposited in person. Change has to be maintained. There is a risk of theft and counterfeit.
I am on the spectrum but I definitely know nerds (although not necessarily weird nerds) who are insanely good programmers/computer scientists (and do have that as their hyper specialized interest) who are not on the spectrum.

But the thing is, it's a spectrum.. Personally I do find it a little ridiculous because the biggest parts of autism have absolutely nothing to do with my work/interests but with social life, sensory issues, etc. And it's definitely more a struggle than a superpower (at least to me).
The most interesting for me is the offspring, reproducing a different structure with the same genes. I think mathematically this could be the missing link in evolution, where random gene modifications are just not probable enough to drive evolution. 3 billion DNA pairs cannot evolve randomly, there is not enough time and matter in the universe to randomly try successful generations of life forms. However, bioelectric might be a much much more straightforward and fast way of driving evolution instead of randomly mutating DNA.
the comparison operand ordering problem is a legitimate problem that i keep having even after having written thousands of lines of assembly in at&t syntax. i hope it goes away after i get to tens of thousands...
> There is absolutely nothing wrong with lurking. Consider theatre: do they need an audience to act, or even react?

I lurk both in this world and in the world of Broadway.

One of the biggest shockers I had (many years ago already) was how little anyone involved in making theater cares about the audience.
UKAD accepted that the amount was far below any effective levels. The article makes this crystal clear. It also makes crystal clear that this was contamination, as Lizzy took a hair test to show she couldn’t have taken it deliberately.

The reason why is actually in the article but I’m sick of just typing it out for you when you can stop being lazy and read the thing yourself.
Imo this makes no sense. There's zero chance you will start inspecting all dependencies even in a relatively small application, which now a days could pull already a large number of deps.

I don't see how doing any of this manually will help.
donate them to libraries
Camera manufacturers stopped because the market collapsed, not because the product was inherently bad.

It's somewhat comparable to the markets for slide rules or professional drawing compasses, which have both completely disappeared.
nanoseconds sometimes
I used to run Python 2 on OpenVMS in production. Python can have a pretty wide footprint if one looks around.
Even if you did review it, a motivated attacker is not going to have an exfiltrate_user_data(). The xz backdoor exploit was incredibly sophisticated, and one key of the design was sneaking a "." into a single line of a build test script.

A cursory audit of primary dependencies has almost zero chance of catching anything but a brazen exploit.
Well, yes, reasoning and planning abilities exist on a spectrum, so it isn’t so much a matter of where to draw the line as a question of degree. As for LLMs, I think their reasoning and planning is some of the most powerful and human-like we’ve seen so far, even if the hidden mechanisms and constraints are different (in some cases, more limited, but in others, vastly superior).

Our brains however are highly modular (a “committee of idiots”) so who’s to say a portion, and even a significant one, doesn’t operate on similar principles?
That falls under my first case. I improved my answer to make it more clear.
The article doesn't explicitly mention that handling cash as a business isn't free and comes with its own set of problems. I can understand why one might choose to eschew cash as the cost is greater than any lost business these days when most people have/prefer card or mobile payments. Contactless payments have gotten very fast, low friction, and widespread.

I'm not taking a stand one way or the other and I acknowledge the problems of cashless-only, but I understand why businesses are increasingly often not finding the cost of dealing with cash worth it.
Honestly in the real world, I'be never found repairability to be a huge factor for me. My employer pays for my laptop, including warranty and service contracts. If I break it, which has honestly happened literally once in 12 years, I just get it replaced.
There will be a lot of manual CV redacting to remove or lessen the importance of people's involvement with AI. Like who puts VR or AR on their CVs these days? I have seen to versions on the same CV from a guy who applied for a job with the client I consult for. Two years ago, he was highlighting his Oculus dev experience, this year he describes that role as 3d software development.
Can't you use git hooks to automate the manual steps?
Not sure what they are doing but embeddings and hallucination are completely separable imo (you can have hallucination even without embedding-based retrieval). Likely you have an embedding for the query which is close to the embedding of the doc for some measure of similarity. That could be semantic similarity or even user behavior.
It's how LLMs are wrong that is the problem.

Companies revolve around risk management and whilst people can be wrong, biased, discriminatory etc there are measures that can be taken to mitigate them. There are no comparable mitigations for LLMs.

And so if your LLM continually tells people to eat rocks or glue and you can't do anything about it then that very much impacts their value.
I think another comment said the opposite was schizophrenia.
That seems plausible. There is a trend happening where businesses are increasingly offering different prices to different customers. The Odd Lots podcast just did an episode about it. One of the more memorable examples discussed was to offer a higher price to customers who have probably received their paycheck today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46T--lB2P3Q
Github? ;)
There's nothing wrong with gambling as long as you are aware of the odds and make intelligent decisions based on them. Same with insurance.

Where both insurance and gambling go wrong is when people try to appeal to your emotions rather than logic.
I would very much like to move to live amongst the people that are simply not that stupid.
What if you were 33? Asking for a, huh, friend.
This makes me wonder if it is a good idea investing in Rust now so that I can get good in one or two years and switch to it full time.

The job market is lagging behind the hype. I don't see many positions where Rust is used full time, especially if I don't want to work with crypto / blockchain.
Not quite the educational content you're looking for, but you might enjoy the film 'The Hummingbird Project'. It's the story of two cousins who work in high-frequency trading attempting to lay a perfectly straight fibre optic cable from Kansas to New Jersey. It's more about the morals of their increasingly desperate and underhanded actions to complete the project, but there's plenty of mostly-realistic technical scenes too. From memory there's considerations about fibre optics vs radio, how to shave milliseconds off those links, and of course the engineering challenge of drilling a ~1000 mile tunnel.
If the series of events was: They wanted Scar Jo, she said no. They found someone similar. That would be the end of the story. The question then was, why did they reach out to her again immediately before putting it out there? That seems pretty strange to me.
UPI is linked to bank account, not debit card. Source daily UPI user.
> Because somehow LLMs became the next "big thing" that nobody can explain but everyone wants to be involved in. It's like audio streaming, the most ineffective form of audio distribution, but for a while it seemed like a good idea.

I know it's slightly off topic, but could you elaborate on the "audio streaming" part?
Bookmark managers that I have found:

- https://grimoire.pro/

- https://bookmarkos.com/

- https://wakelet.com/

- https://raindrop.io/

- https://booky.io/

- https://www.knowies.com/

- https://carrylinks.com/

- https://www.zotero.org/

- https://pinalist.com/

- https://web.ggather.com/

- https://lasso.net/

- https://onekeep.com/

And the last one, is mine: https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

My bookmark manager is also a web scraper.
The butcher, the baker and the mechanic pay 35% income tax each. The original $100 turned into -$5 at the end.
Shouldn't it just ignore clicks on the "plus" squares then? I found it quite annoying.
Software Development with Generative AI – 2024 Update
Wild. The invisible hand of credit and debit card networks (Visa/MC/Amex/Discover(CapOne?)) is getting stronger every year.
> Or is that just asking for trouble?

With the interactions an electron-like app might be doing with external services and the ton of JS third party library it could use, I think it would be indeed risky.
It's a type of event driven architecture, since events generated both hydrate models and trigger event listeners/subscribers. For example, a command to update a customer's address might also have a process manager listening for that event that kicks off a process to send an email notification. That same event is still used to event source the customer model which includes an address.

I suppose you could have event sourcing in a purely isolated manner where the events aren't used for anything else, but you'd be severely limiting the advantages that come free with that.
How about Uber vs. Lyft, for example? Do you think there is competitive pricing here?
The trouble for me comes where you want A, I also want A, but I claim to want A*, so that I can ‘compromise’ with you to agree A and another policy I want, B.
That is a good way to put it.

The messy middle between gambling and insurance is "investing".
The settlement is kind of real-time. And there is no concept of disputes or chargebacks, so that keeps cost low. UPI providers bear cost, but they money by bundling other services in UPI apps.
In the long run, sure.

But as the saying goes: in the long run we’re all dead.
The annoying this is that it's hard to spend $50 bills even though they're worth 20 1989 dollars when nobody would treat you like a suspect then for spending them.
Related. Others?

Computational Boundary of a Self: Bioelectricity and Scale-Free Cognition (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39244333 - Feb 2024 (1 comment)

Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127028 - Jan 2024 (396 comments)

Bioelectricity, Biobots, and the Future of Biology [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423588 - Nov 2023 (1 comment)

How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38027587 - Oct 2023 (100 comments)

M. Levin – Bioelectrical signals reveal, induce, and normalize cancer [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140965 - Aug 2023 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36912245 (July 2023)

Aging as a morphostasis defect: a developmental bioelectricity perspective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264719 - June 2023 (1 comment)

Bioelectric networks: cognitive evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009513 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Bioelectric networks: from body intelligence to regenerative medicine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763121 - April 2023 (1 comment)

Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33902641 - Dec 2022 (1 comment)

Michael Levin: Intelligence Beyond the Brain (networked daptive morphogenesis~) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33217070 - Oct 2022 (1 comment)

Plasticity without genetic change – Michael Levin [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32119375 - July 2022 (1 comment)

Mike Levin on using bioelectricity to study how cells form (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819791 - July 2021 (21 comments)

Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27062477 - May 2021 (69 comments)

The Link Between Bioelectricity and Consciousness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26435281 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300376 - Feb 2020 (46 comments)

What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 - Dec 2018 (16 comments)

Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16589702 - March 2018 (35 comments)

Memory in the Flesh: Can memories survive outside the brain? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226391 - March 2015 (12 comments)
Does Divorce Make You Hotter?
Is gambling irrational if you are the house or bookmaker's side of the transaction?
I live in Sweden and don't think I've touched physical money for about a decade. Cash is more or less on life support by now, with a small and dwindling list of places you can even use it anymore - basically grocery stores and e.g. hairdressers that cheat on their taxes. And illegal drugs, I suppose, though from recent news where people get busted by paying dealers using Swish (a Swedish Venmo-ish service) I'm not sure it's used even for that.
What are the contrarian talking points of Venezuela holding US citizens hostages exactly? Or wanting criminals like Viktor Bout back in exchange for them?
Yes, that make sense to me.

I am completely new to HackerNews. I tried updating the title but it doesn't updates as expected.
In addition to the other response (risks), the economy is not a stable homogeneous field. None of the economy is a stable homogeneous field. Instead it's a bunch of discrete individuals living their life and each focusing on just a few things.

And this goes both ways. For a competitor to form requires one small team of founders who are insane enough (in a good way) to believe they should try it, and a funding source that's ready to take the gamble on/with them. So you might get a fantastically successful company "out of nowhere" (Amazon, say). Or you might get a field where nobody is at the moment on hand to try it. Or several do try it and fail silently and you never hear of them. They are individuals, not some mathematical process.

See also, even "efficient market" does not refer to THAT.
You might be thinking of JBIG2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#Character_substitution_e...
> 3 billion DNA pairs cannot evolve randomly, there is not enough time and matter in the universe to randomly try successful generations of life forms

the objection to the process described here is reasonable. thankfully this isn't how it works.
Yes, it's a thing that makes it hard for city planners and transport engineers when they test out new things. Any change often improves status quo in the start, so need to run it for long enough to actually gather valid data.
I use docker compose + traefik. It's nicer than dokku for me because there are less magical abstractions.
Reminds me of the venerable https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/ (disclosure: I know the author)
> There's nothing wrong with gambling as long as you are aware of the odds and make intelligent decisions based on them.

Essentially if you’re aware of the odds and make intelligent decisions based on them there is no_____ _____ ____ gambling.
Could you change it so pressing the operator is a no op then? That way, press it or not, the result is the same.

Even knowing the instructions, I'm finding it very difficult not to press the operator tiles, as it just feels like a natural thing to do.

Love the game BTW, I'm getting my son on this tomorrow too, he'll love it :)
Are you saying you could see sugar being somehow folded into the many different proteins that make up the vast number of tissues in our bodies. Or are you saying our tissues could be constructed out of sugar crystals instead?
- they compete with local taxi firms

- they compete with other modes of transport

- prices have risen substantially after the VC land grab tailed off
Yeah. For normal people, "I am the economy". That is, I don't care about the national economy or the world economy. I don't care about how many widgets get produced this month. What difference does it make to me if the national economy is doing great, but I'm going broke? I care whether I can afford to buy what I need this month. To me, that's the economy.

(With "I" meaning the average person, not me personally.)