skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other big national health program, Medicaid, is pretty similar scale and pretty similar proportion of fraud.
Huh, wow, I never thought about how our licenses are encoded. I agree that it is disproportionate relative to the other records.

Perhaps it's making the same mistake as SSNs in that people use public or easily generated information to verify identity in the first place.
I'm pretty convinced that this is the tip of the iceberg. I think most end of life care is a scam designed to separate the dying and elderly from their wealth and benefits, before they actually die.
Last time I did this, we ended up routing our flags through a reloadable config system which used Consul for distribution.

We almost never shared flags across our fairly chunky servicees. We usually found a softer way to do it.

Even with Consul, you can still have enough skew that a few requests in the middle might see A and !A if your request rate is high enough. So it depends on your business model and architecture if that’s acceptable.
With beginners, there's a severe "working memory" limitation from the fact that they have no compression that comes from tying things together.

The for line ends up being one independent line they can grok, then free from their memory when looking inside the loop, knowing that I gets bigger for a while. From my experience, something like the recursion will blow away a beginners working memory, because they can't piecewise it. But, the biggest problem is the for loop is trivially expanded with the exact same format, you just shove stuff into the body. The recursion method requires significant reworking to expand. Beginners appreciate simple templates that they can understand and modify, because they're still putting it all together.
Have you tried Firejail security sandbox:

https://firejail.wordpress.com/
There's a little typo in the repo description: "Xioami"
It doesn’t have to be mandatory. Just offering it means businesses will use it to offload liability, and only accept customers that sign up for it.
Are there any example rulings that you can share to illustrate this how courts have “consistently held” this?
> But I don't observe anything in the world that would support it,

Portugal

Legalisation of capabilities across the globe

Coca in Bolivia (I am on thin ice, I know too little, but they elected a coca grower as president)

I think there is plenty of evidence that a considered thoughtful approach to drugs is better

But the psychopaths and sociopaths that make up the bulk of our governments (here in Aotearoa and in the USA) refuse to pay attention
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and the Birth of the Weird (2016)
I’m not sure what you mean.

You can see the plots if you prefer, or think of it this way: out of a total of 100 trials, one team gets 40 and the other gets 60 = 40 + 40 * 50%

If you want to think of a 75% win rate as a more extreme example: you could say 25% above random or you could say one team wins 3 times as many cases as the other. Both are equivalent but I think that the second way conveys the strength of the difference much better.

The results in this work are statistically significant and substantial.
Interestingly, there's a bunch of HNers who chide us and tell us we all have a moral responsibility to allow malware to be installed on our systems, because using an ad-blocker is "stealing".
Everyone laughs when I say this but pull up a thesaurus. When you change the semantics of a thing, you have to change names to have old+new live at the same time. Don’t trust your mastery of English (especially if it’s your second language). There’s a synonym out there that describes the new behavior as well or even better.
> without courting disaster

Too late?

weeping...
Maybe I should have also explained that, in spite of these difficulties, there do exist lots of pornographic materials legally available in South Korea. There are many adult-oriented channels in many cable television providers for example. If my wording made you think that legal pornography is technically possible but practically dead in SK, it is my fault. Legal pornography is okay, but just less popular than illegal pornography, I meant to say. (Probably because it is still a taboo to openly say about illegal pornography.)
> The only way to fix cross-contamination issues is to have a different production facility for every possible combination of allergens.

I don't think that's right. You don't necessarily need all 2^n kinds of facilities, because there might not be a commercial demand for products needing every one of those combos.
Thank you for the info. I'm picking up "bear attacks" now :)

I'm in/around the Pac Northwest
Wait, what were they basing the previous model on?!
That ASM-135 is probably the coolest thing I've read about all week
> Doctors and the FDA etc were straight up lied to

Oh please.

Doctors, did not believe the preponderance of evidence that ulcers were caused by bacteria. The reason, the person who discovered it was a vet.

They had to give the man a Nobel Prize to get Dr's to pry their heads out of their self aggrandizing asses and pay attention to reality.

Opioids were addictive. They never stoped being that. Dr's were fiscally motivated to prescribe. Nothing more nothing less.
It makes sense that lessons one learns from working with dense networks, applies to transformers as well since these are at their core still just dense networks.

The way I grew to understand the relationship, and I am happy to discuss this / receive feedback, is that a layer's width determines how much that layer can memorize while network depth determines the complexity of abstraction possible for the network to learn.

So a wide enough layer can simply remember everything while a deep enough network will be able to, through abstraction, recreate memories of everything using a simplification of the input.

Ideally, you want a balance of the two, since you don't want to rely on memory alone, as this doesn't tend to generalize well, nor do you want to deal with the fantasy outputs from something relying too heavily on abstraction, as this is not likely to be reliable.
New meaning for "Wonder Bread".
Historically, similar things happened with heliocentrism and evolution, but I guess we weren't there to see it.
Message while logged in works. Got a reply.
> Do you also think that's an unfair burden to put on the roughly-90% of people who are not mobility-impaired?

Not op, but I share his view and don't think commercial buildings should be forced to accommodate people who are mobility-impaired.
> but it's surprisingly rare to see it in "day to day" code

I rarely use them because I became tired of having to explain them to others, where I've never had to explain a simple while loop that accomplishes the same thing with, usually literally, a couple more lines of code.

From all of my experience, recursion is usually at the expense of clarity, and not needed.

I think it's related to the door memory effect [1]: you loose the sense of state when hopping into the function, even though it's itself.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
Whenever I want to baffle someone with terminology, I always lead with “Well, I may be just an unfrozen caveman engineer but…” and then launch into as many TLAs as possible.
I agree with the pragmatism of your suggested approach.

But I think it's a stretch to say nobody is being evil or unethical, because there's no consensus about what those entail.
Writebook (Once)
To be fair to Windows Defender, a PyInstaller binary does look like malware. If it didn’t do this out of the box, it would become a standard way for malware to be distributed very quickly. Unfortunately for every person trying compile or run a valid python program from the net on a Windows PC, there’s a 1000 malware/Trojan instances trying to infect one.

Ideally code signing / validation would be cheaper

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/e99bhe/comment...
> [...] some guaranteed amount of all revenue.

Is that a proportion of revenue, or an absolute amount? For the former, what if I give away the music for free?
They are saying to play by the spirit of the rules instead of working the ref on the letter of the rules.

But businesses could give a fuck about anything other than their current margin.

Putting it another way, the FDA put forth a regulation intended to make the lives of a certain group of people better, and the response was to figure out how to not bother with that.
"Because it can be difficult and expensive to keep sesame in one part of a baking plant out of another, some companies began adding small amounts of sesame to products that didn't previously contain the ingredient to avoid liability and cost."
Parallel Nix Evaluation
that whole registry is amazing. It's like satirical characters come to life. There's no way this is real people, but it is.
"Very real grievances"? The grievance being that an intern at Mozilla threw their notes into a couple LLMs and wrote a blog post one day?
You might like https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=735 for some speculation on those topics with slightly more technical grounding. Direct link: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf

Especial the chapter: 'Computational Complexity and the Turing Test'
It's not easy. I missed once but struck gold the second time. I'm sorry you haven't felt supported. It's really hard when you don't feel like you can just be yourself.
“Global climate model”
here's a better explanation than I could put in a comment:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
You're right. I didn't notice that, but I guess the initialisation would be the caller function's responsibility or there would be a wrapper function with a default initialisation value (maybe with the recursive example nested inside the wrapper).
It seems a little odd to me that this is not just… a vscode extension pack?
Funny. I've programmed professionally since 1984, and have never really had an "architect" in the organization.

I almost only work in small companies, and in and near the agile world.

What I've learned is that while architecture is very important, it's best done after the code is written. It's hard to convince anyone of this who hasn't experienced it :)
This is all decided by business needs, not by engineer preference. If devs aren’t pulling the levers it is good to expose them in an accessible interface, not plaintext.
Cross contamination includes stuff like fragments of sesame seeds stuck in a corner of a conveyor belt or air duct since yesterday's production run. I don't think cleanroom baked goods would be affordable.
No one else in this discussion accepts your definition of an archive. No one else is moved by the argument that they violated your chosen definition. The problem isn't that you haven't explained yourself clearly; you have, we understood, and we weren't convinced. Repeating yourself won't change that.

To be frank with you, it seems to me like this organization did something that is counter to your politics, and so you refuse to acknowledge the obvious reality that engaging in archival activity makes them an archive (to all the world if not you personally). I don't think you're speaking from a place of interest in preserving cultural and historic artefacts, it would appear your interest is in lashing out at them because you have chosen to view them as your ideological enemies.

And I think that's a shame, and not compatible with the goal of curious discussion. I think you ought to be able to express your disapproval without taking these ontological liberties. The other commenter's suggestion ("they shouldn't be protected by the law") is a good example.
If producer A just puts sesame in their products, and that means they can undercut producer B who spends the money to comply with the spirit of the regulation, producer B goes out of business because their expenses are higher.

So what do you expect would happen? Consumers like cheaper rather than higher prices, this isn't a new thing.
ENSO events are inherently chaotic, one of those pendulums that are known to swing back and forth but difficult to predict exactly when.

In times well past there was a certain degree of divination that looked at accumulated patterns and made guesses that worked more often than not in the short term (less than a year in advance.

Then came "black box" non physics based methods:

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have pushed these boundaries, achieving accurate predictions up to 16–18 months in advance. However, the "black box" nature of AI models has precluded attribution of this accuracy to specific physical processes.

Not being able to explain the source of the predictability in the AI models results in low confidence that these predictions will be successful for future events as the Earth continues to warm, changing the currents in the oceans and atmosphere.

and now:

"Unlike the 'black box' nature of AI models, our XRO model offers a transparent view into the mechanisms of the equatorial Pacific recharge-discharge physics and its interactions with other climate patterns outside of tropical Pacific," explained Fei-Fei Jin, the corresponding author and professor of atmospheric sciences in SOEST.

"The initial states of the extratropical Pacific, tropical Indian Ocean, and Atlantic enhance ENSO predictability in distinct seasons. For the first time, we are able to robustly quantify their impact on ENSO predictability, thus deepening our knowledge of ENSO physics and its sources of predictability."

Still getting 18 month predictions, but now with a delicious senses of likely understanding why.
Hrm :-/ okay, please disregard.
I've successfully explained a while loop to many a child, and adult, with no experience in programming, within about 5 minutes.

I'm absolutely sure the people who think tail recursion is any way similar, in complexity, to a while loop have never attempted to teach someone how to program.
I was a victim of this. Endless gaslighting. Impossible deliverables. A slow, grinding of the human spirit into dust.

Employers, sack up already. If you are going to fire someone, fire them.
I'm not sure what would lead to you believe this. I've worked in the data science/ML space for over a decade now and I see the majority of pure analytics projects started in R, including at big tech companies I've worked at recently.

Of course, ML projects and other things that need to result in production-grade models are almost always done in Python. This is currently the most visible form of "data project" due to all the ML/AI hype, but it is far from the only data work going on.
It's considered processed when the bran and germ layers are removed and you are left consuming only a small part of the original foodstuff (with all the fiber and most nutrition removed). Most instant ramen is also fried, which then adds a lot of trans fats that would have never been part of historical food (trans fats are industrially created fats that taste really good but the main consideration for manufacturers is they have a long shelf life and are cheap to manufacture).

I think a problem being shown in is we are so many layers deep into processing it's confusing what is being discussed.

I'd really try not to eat individually packaged ramen that's for sure, especially cup-o-soup style where you then add the layer of cooking in the cheapest container made for shipping and cost savings more than it's qualities as a safe cooking surface.
Htop explained – everything you can see in htop on Linux (2019)
Lars Andersen: A new level of archery
Taboos are part of how a society functions. Taboos can prevent the 'tragedy of the commons' in a way that rules and laws cannot. Think about it - people break the law all the time. They rarely break taboos.
Also to a first approximation we can treat all music as roughly interchangeable and we can measure the 'amount' of music eg by runtime or by song, so compulsory licensing can set some arbitrary fees.

You can perhaps do something similar for video, but it's hard to do that for all copyrighted material. Eg for a video game a single sprite has a very different value than some modules in the game's engine.
We already have this for companies. They are called 'Shelf Companies'. It looks like 'shelfidentities.com' is available.
AKA the postpositive adjective. I do wish they had gone with Available Source Software for the acronym possibilities.
You have a legal duty to not poison people by telling them there aren't allergens in their food when there might be. You don't have a legal duty to create a hypoallergenic product line. Regulations exist to protect your rights, not make your shopping experience more convenient.
> For example you can no longer rely on the loop condition being false on loop termination. Instead you have to do a flow analysis of every loop and conditional leading to the break to determine the established postcondition.

I rarely write loops where the relationship between the loop control variables has anything meaningful to say about what the iterations did.
Unusable in what way? I don't personally find the macOS app to be "unusable" at all.

Also, you may be underestimating how buggy Swift and the rest of Apple's stack are. It's hard to get those bugs resolved unless you happen to work at Apple. Thus, a lot of time is spent working around bugs up the stack. So I don't find it surprising that a company moving fast like OpenAI ships _some_ bugs. The mac app just came out this month? Give it time.
> When, where is the outrage when describing 'voltage' as a type of 'water pressure in a hose'. As you say, it is only accurate to a degree.

I was a bit sloppy in distinguishing model and analogy. I guess I meant physical analogy like pressure/voltage (which does outrage me!) vs model being an abstract description of the phenomenon built from the ground up, and was thinking in the context of physics or engineering.

The problem with the "bad" kind of analogies/models is they come with a list of conditions under which they don't apply, which is huge and usually not specified at all. For the "good" kind (Ohm's law/etc.), they come with a list of conditions under which they do apply which is finite and explicitly stated along with the equations so you can actually know if the model correctly describes a particular case.
I just Googled "Geocities" and it's a pretty cool Easter egg. I'll let you do it for yourselves :)
I both agree that it's pointless to argue about definitions and think you've presented a definition that fails to capture a lot of common usage of the word. I don't think it matters what the dictionary says when we are talking about how a word is used. Like we use "deceptive" to describe inanimate objects pretty frequently. I responded to someone who thought describing the outputs of a machine learning model as deceiving people implied it had agency, which is nonsense
I didn't see any Rothschilds there.
I thought there was a hn article about intel's just announced silicon photonics product:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812465

:)
CATL is starting to scale up production, but they haven't been explored much until now. The thought is that they might be similar enough to lithium batteries that they could benefit from much of the same industrial learning. But only time will tell.

If lithium prices spike again, it will provide an opening for replacements. Until then, there's little pressure to move off the main path for batteries that can be used in a wider range of applications.

Lithium ion's density might not be needed for grid storage, but it also doesn't pose any problems, as you point out.
i get the cynicism but all you’re talking about is legalized extortion.
In Korea, ISPs often encourage their customers to install programs to access additional services. For example, antivirus and parental control programs are quite common. Parents also use these programs to monitor and restrict their children's gaming and internet usage. Distributing malware as part of the installation process for these services is not difficult for ISPs.
It appears to be an arms race between physics based models vs machine learning models.
Yet another example of people blaming chaos when it’s not the relevant limiting factor. If chaotic behavior manifested at a sufficient level on the 18 month time scale to preclude forecasting El Niño, neither the back of AI models nor the new improved physics-based model would be capable of making such predictions.
In parallel, I read most of the time on my iPad... but my wife and I both keep our old Kindle Keyboards for reading outdoors in natural light (beach/pool). They're far easier to read in that setting.

The model is almost 14 years old now (the actual devices are probably about 12-13), but since battery life is really a secondary consideration for our usage (we can charge every night), I haven't bothered replacing the battery in either one. Store doesn't work anymore, but we always take a laptop on trips anyway, so USB sideloading is a fairly minor hassle (esp with Calibre and DeDRM Tools).
The biggest factor is that internet companies experienced a huge boom during COVID and hired assuming this boom was permanent, but it turned out to be temporary, so they ended up with more staff than they needed, particularly when growth seemed to stall.

With a glut of people on the market companies naturally needed to pay less to hire them, leading to a general depressed wage level for new hires.
> The fundamental unit of democracy is the polity, [...]

By polity, do you mean a Greek city state of at most a few thousand people? Or do you mean something the size of the Roman Republic (but not the provinces)? Or do you mean something the size of modern federal republic of India? Or do you mean individual Swiss Cantons? Or perhaps the European Union? Or individual political parties, as long as they elect their internal leadership democratically?

I'm not sure if there is a 'fundamental unit', but if you want to make an argument that the 'polity' is the fundamental unit, you at least need to say which level. So eg municipality, county, state, nation, supra-national institutions like EU or even the UN? And that's just for federal countries. There are also unitarian countries and probably lots of weird edge cases.
Retention policies are likely set by the client. That’s how it works with the vendors I’ve worked with in this space, but I haven’t worked with this specific vendor.
We need these protections immediately, not 30 years from now. How do we start a movement that builds awareness of the degree of digital tracking and surveillance everyone is subject to?
Probably because government regulations require it. I know it's a requirement for AML/KYC which many of these companies are subject to.
Current SOTA (which this is apparently matching) is AI based.
Can somebody explain why would I use it instead a simple Redis/SQS/Postgres queue implemented in 50 LOC (+ some grafana panel for monitoring) (which is pretty much mandatory even for a wrapper of this or any other service)? I'm not trying to mock it, it's a serious question. What is implied by "task queue" that makes it worth bothering to use a dedicated service?
This has been working very well for us. Been using it for almost a year now https://unthread.io/
Can't tell if you're serious or not. Private complaints must be reviewed by the local AHJ and include a certificate of merit. Folks being sued privately have 2 weeks to add labels. This is, of course, after waiting 2 months for the government to take action.

Hardly the worst kind of teeth.
> and that the house you grew up in or the favorable college you got into or whatever lifestyle you had growing up

Are we talking about wealth I inherited? About wealth I wrongfully inherited from the wrung necks of the dead? When in this framing do we start to consider where that money should have been vs where it is now? I presumably in this scenario did nothing wrong personally, and yet what wealth do I _deserve_? Do I _deserve_ this wealth extracted by mass destruction enacted by my relatives, granted not by myself, but that someone else would otherwise have?