skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It must be! You can’t imagine how desperate I was when I found the main stream UI framework in React nowadays didn’t think SPA is a thing, I just want a file-based routing SPA framework, but people keep talking about SSR and Next. With the release of One, I finally don’t feel alone.
Almost all power consumed ends up as thermal energy in the environment.
That doesn't actually solve anything.
Gonna be confusing when I recommend Roon to people. They might think I’m talking about this.
Good idea in principle. The texts are all royalty free.

The RFP defines value as (1) mandatory requirements and (2) lead time for delivery, which they later specify should be 2 weeks. That’s a steep schedule for such a production from scratch.
I hope you don't think that covid is imaginary.

The article explains well enough that "drug free" doesn't mean inactive. So it's more a matter of what a "drug" consists of.
The Atlantic is run by Jeffrey Goldberg and owned by Laurene Powell Jobs.

Of course these people have agendas, it’s not exactly a secret.
> It's genuinely strange. People will even do it for banks and phone network companies.

Helping other people can be deeply satisfying, even without payment or karma points. Maybe you are already doing it yourself? Otherwise I can only recommend you to try it some time. ;)
That's one way to increase your capitalization.
If we’re talking about inference costs alone (minimal new training) I think it would cover it. I started doing usage-based pricing through openrouter instead of paying monthly subscriptions, and my modest LLM use costs me about $3/month. Unless you think that the API rates are also priced below cost.
Compute is going to be king in the new world; if you have enough GPUs you can spam legal challenges. If you have more GPUs you can deploy those to take the other side and defend.

As with DoS, the interesting cases will be where an asymmetry exists in cost of request vs response (or amplification is possible).

In the short term it seems likely that the government will be on the losing side of this exchange.
Anyone has a general solutions for this? Lots of time that i open such apps featured on hn they're always on 100% volume with no way to turn it down and it blows up my ears... I'm using firefox and tried some volume extension but it was a 20% chance if it worked on the website or not
I'm using "PGP" to refer to the entire ecosystem which uses "BEGIN PGP..." headers, including GnuPG, OpenPGP, and the variety of software packages and libraries available for just about every platform and language.
<rant value="verbose">

It's circuit bending, or Fritzing, not finding a clever exploit in DRAM. Even an ECC module isn't going to help you if it's on the CPU data bus.

I just hope we don't all end up suffering through yet another 50% slowdown in patches to the Kernel to avoid this nonsense because someone buys the BS and now it has to be "fixed", like the row hammer software fixes, instead of just fixing the dam DRAM modules, and better hardware.

</rant>

Another analogy:

It's like when a brain surgeon probes your cerebellum and suddenly you smell strawberry or hear Brahms. The surgeon certainly doesn't know what reaction you have unless you tell them.

You wouldn't go around later saying "Dr Jones made me smell strawberries, on a whim, certainly he's a G*d"
In the US you can have similar labs done at Labcorp or Quest. Prices are similar or slightly higher. MRIs are prescription only and higher priced. One main difference is that most labs here require a prescription, which means you need to go to a different provider just to get the piece of paper and pay them. Of course these providers are both massive chains. Not sure if either are PI owned.
200 dollars for an MRI with no referring reason is inexpensive for sure. Where is that?
"An arbitrary single solution" would be the proper answer for NP. The goal is to find some solution that the verifier accepts, like how in SAT the goal is to find some satisfying assignment for all clauses.
"The line always goes up" ~some finance analyst
3. Demand for immediate care is high.

The next "one level up" might explore how much is because the community is quite morbid and unwell, because modern culture has displaced traditional home/self care with consumerized services, or because of other things.

There are people I know who are largely healthy and who consult paid medical services many times per year for everyday disturbances, and others who take decades to overcome procrastination to even get a physical. The demand for commercialized health services is very much a cultural thing, especially for everyday wellness, and that culture has been evolving quite dramatically.

Meanwhile, there's no ignoring that obesity and sedentary living are rampant, that a recent pandemic spooked people about infectious disease and its possible consequences, etc.

You're thinking about the pocketbook economics, here, but looking at it through these other lenses might provide further perspective too.
The preservatives in flour / bread / etc are illegal in Europe. My sister is allergic and can’t have any bread in the USA. But can in France and Italy.
My concern is why does Matt care all of a sudden? The timing is … suspicious. Especially with the trademark dispute — this feels like Matt trying to shore up a defense or something.
The fact that healthcare is far cheaper in every European country that has universal healthcare suggests that you are wrong.
I imagine that if you’re suing one company over trademark infringement, you need to demonstrate that you aren’t solely singling just one party out.
Disappointing that Norvig didn’t use the model that OpenAI states is their best model for programming.

Also using himself as the programmer seemed like a convenient choice. I’d much rather see him grab a random professional programmer for the task.
I was pleased with my home lab btrfs, had a 12TB raid1, and the PSU rail connected to the backplane sometimes would go down under load. Many scary errors but never lost anything. Took me 2 months to debug and replace the PSU
It's not just regulation. You have electronic health record systems and the like that are often beneficial for consumers. My personal experience is that a lot of older docs, one doc practices, and the like hate this sort of thing. But I personally love the modern systems that a recent merger brought to my local hospital system. It's no longer about (maybe) faxes getting to the local lab for tests after calling them a week before the physical.
Waymo is at the threshold of how speech recognition reached a tipping point through decades of grinding effort. I worked on speech recognition applications in the '80s when the best of it was just barely usable for carefully crafted use cases. Now taxis can be automated well enough if you have the right sensor suite and an exquisitely mapped environment. Waymo can do this for 0.05% of ride hailing riders, if 28M Ubers per day and 100k Waymos per week are reasonably accurate. This is like when connected speech started working with a good mic in a quiet environment. Now automated multi-speaker transcription with background noise, crosstalk, and whatever mic you got works. Back in the day some serious people were convinced speech recognition on that level would be impossible without solving AGI.
No one is suggesting that these bots will in any way influence ("pollute", per your spin) Google search. Obviously Google won't be incorporating their output, and if anything they'll actively block it the moment they get wind of it.

Also, I didn't specifically say these bots would save users time "while searching", i.e. while using a regular search engine. Though I didn't dig too deeply into the T4P proposal (so I don't know what they're proposing), my own guess is that people would seek out these bots as an alternative to general-purpose search engines -- for example as a sidebar on their favorite news sites.
The rise of perpetual cruises that offer the wealthy a new home at sea
For anyone looking for more information about the game dynamics of the “profit-obsessed monster” and why it is inevitable in our current economic system, I highly recommend the following Scott Alexander piece: https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch
The success of capitalism is to allow basic trade in smaller communities. Once it scales to the anonymity of the large corporation and the specialist of wealth extraction, it becomes malignant.
Seems correct but the timing is interesting
I have said this a million times and I will say it again: anyone who thinks the US healthcare system isn’t a flaming train wreck hasn’t used it much. Or is rich enough enough not to care.
> locked in with hundreds of $ in iTunes purchases

Wasn't one of the big selling points that songs bought on iTunes were DRM-free?

(Sorry, I went to search and you are right: Apple went DRM-free only on 2009)
Like I said later in my post, this applies in other cases. Those that wanted to ban alcohol didn't consider the second order effect of creating powerful criminal organizations. Bans on drugs have done the same thing, and outlawing guns would have the same effect.

Similarly, policies that would outlaw, say, coal burning in our country will just outsource that pollution to other countries because we don't enforce the ban on exporters. Such policies make some folks feel good about themselves because they don't think them through to their logical conclusions.

And with regards to abortion specifically, I didn't even get in to the forms of punishment and tracking being proposed. That's where there's a middle ground -- exclusively between far-right conservatives.
Avoid the healthcare establishment as much as you can in general. They are a business, and their motive is profit, they don't care about making you better. Same thing is true of elder care, assisted living, etc. it's all centered on draining old people of their wealth before they die.

Do not go to the ER for a runny nose or a sore throat. You have an immune system. Go to bed and let your body recover.

Take on responsibility for your own health: eat better, get to a healthy weight, exercise. If you have chronic conditions that must be managed medically, shop around, find practices that are still locally owned. They are out there.
Funeral homes and anything else not run by a single professional has had this treatment. This is due to inequality. The wealthy have nowhere left to invest but things like this which raise costs for the lower classes. Taxing wealthy far more is the only solution but people have a hard time voting in their interests. We're doomed.
Here's a story from my divorce 25 years ago. We were having an easy divorce, and so we used Nolo press to get it done. But it was difficult to know what forms actually had to be filed in our case.

So we went to the clerk, and said, out of all these forms, which ones do we have to file?

And the clerk said that they couldn't tell us because that would be offering legal advice. The lawyers had gotten laws passed preventing the clerk from telling us what forms we needed to give the clerk. Nice.

After a couple of minutes of thought, we decided to just fill them all out. So we filled out everything and handed it to the clerk.

The clerk then proceeded to cherry pick the forms they needed, and handed the rest back to us. ("My sole regret is that I have but one face to palm for my country.")

I think in the last 25 years, it's probably only gotten a lot worse.
If suing became an ultra-easy one-click activity, I can see two things coming: 1. maybe that would force us to shape up our tort laws a little so that not everything under the sun was actionable and 2. maybe people and companies would stop misbehaving so much because they knew there was no longer a burden to suing them. A combination of 1 and 2 sound like a great outcome.
You really need to look at how the employer funds it but often those are cheaper no matter what.
The thing is, you can be economical. You don't need a GPT-4 quality model for everything. Some things are just low value where a 3.5 model would do just fine.

I never use the $20 plan but I access everything via API and i spend a couple of dollars per month.

Although lately I have a home server that can do llama 3.1 8b uncensored and that actually works amazingly well.
If the barrier to entry is low for high quality production and anyone is able to make good looking videos, I wonder how audience perception would evolve for judging and valuing what is considered 'good'.
I agree about how aligning the incentives can make a huge difference. The first product I was ever a product manager (and SME) for, I assisted the support team with escalations. This meant that every weird new bug or strange situation would hit me the same day. This really shortened the feedback loop on getting stuff fixed. It also made it so that I became aware of quirks or things that weren't working quite right from the customer's perspective, which is gold for a PM. That information I learned doing support escalations helped in the design of version 2 of the product, which is still in production 22 years later.

I strongly recommend having the PM be the highest point of escalation in the support chain. It really incentives them to make a quality product.
Opsec is never perfect. Let's leave it at that
Does a single payer healthcare system change this? Presumably that would change who pays the healthcare provider - not who owns the healthcare provider, right?
Sell everything in the US and move to a cheaper country like India. You will have free health care.
Wouldn't this make legal counter-action cheap too? The robots fighting each other with a human referee(for now), the winner gets bounty.

On a more serious note though, people not seeking justice due to complexity which leads to high costs is the real issue IMHO. Maybe the idea is that this is pushing people into finding a middle ground but it's also a known barrier to real justice.

So some years ago when Turkey wasn't as totalitarian as today but was on the way to become such, they started having a problems with the European Court of Human Rights. The cases begin to pile up.

EU proposed: Create a way for people to access the Constitutional court of Turkey, so you might resolve most of the issues before coming to us as.

Turkey's proposal: Why don't you introduce a considerable application fee, so the number of cases can drop dramatically because only a few can afford it?

So yeah, that was the Turkish style. The EU way prevailed but this time Turkey dropped its bid to join EU and it simply started ignoring it's own Constitutional Court decisions.

I think the moral of the story is, it doesn't matter that much because people will end up doing it their own way.
The fundamentals don't change. Computers still essentially work the same way. All of these languages eventually end up as machine code at the end of the day.
Poland. For all the faults of my country healthcare is actually run pretty well. There is a public option where you have to wait but people are free to run private practices/labs/facilities.

Because the public option exists they can't run the prices up however they want so it's usually very competitive.
"That particular complexity doesn’t come from regulation."

Considering the ACA requires insurance, it indirectly does. While there are cash-only doctors, it's very rare.
Given that there is potentially an exponential number of solutions, it would be impossible to enumerate them all in anything smaller than exponential time.
Funnily I came across an interview from around 5 years ago where he straight up admitted that he had no clue how to generate a return on investment back then (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzcJlKg2Rc0&t=1920s)

"We have no current plans to make revenue."

"We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue."

"We have made a soft promise to investors that once we've built a general intelligence system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you."

The fact he has no clue how to generate revenue with an AGI without asking it, shows his lack of imagination.
An LLM is not going to go skynet. It's not smart enough and can't take initiative.

An AGI however could. Once it reaches IQs of more than say 500 it would become very hard to control it.
If you're trying to minimize cost, get a pi board and add your own keyboard, instead of getting a 400/500. You need a pointing device anyway so it's likely to be cheaper to have it built in.
Bangladeshi Supreme Court decisions are similar. Just completely lawless. Makes “emanations from penumbras” seem rigorous in comparison.
> Yet people still start businesses, make money, grumble endlessly about those regulations, and society marches on.

But that's the problem, isn't it? They don't. The smaller providers actually do go out of business or get bought up by private equity and then the quality of care suffers -- which is the thing the regulations were sold as improving.
Shields up: "PCANS forms a gel, increasing its mechanical strength by a hundred times, forming a solid barrier"

I wonder if it feels unpleasant
Private equity is no longer doing its job, to the extent if ever had one.

If there were a poorly run company, private equity could use its own money to acquire it, restructure it to be more efficient and valuable, and capture cash flow while owning it and profit from taking it public again. They would make money, the economy would be improved, and a healthy new public company would build more public wealth.

This is a bit idealized, but something closer to this really did happen.

Now they use raise money from rich people and operate more as alternative investment management, take over efficient operations, strip them, use leverage in the opposite direct (acquisition targets take loans and transfer the money back to PE). We end up with worse services, unsustainable and over-leveraged businesses, money transfer from the public to the wealthy from increased welfare and bankruptcies, and a worse economy because of changes to the velocity wealth returns to the economy from private fortunes.

This stinks when it is the Office Depot or Friendly's, but it is a massive problem for residential real estate, delivery of medical care, medicine, and basic food production.

You would think that the brilliant folks at KKR, Carlysle, Blackstone, and others would read their classics and know the story of the ancien régime and Romanovs.
It's a shame that we have not preserved more local, "community medicine" that you mention. Unfortunately, the reason is that we have destroyed the community by moving to a model where advanced technology is our primary aid instead of other human beings.
With all due respect, if you wrote a python program for this in 10 minutes you are not an average programmer.
It would be great to see some real solutions to the menace of private equity, or at least to see these solutions discussed in the mainstream public discourse. Which is a good reason to vote third party, if you're in the US: they might never win, but if they get enough votes, eventually their ideas will be heard (unless and until they too get co-opted by lobbyists from Vanguard and Blackrock).
I’ve long been a proponent of high deductible plans. The part you’re missing is that you also get the opportunity to contribute pre-tax money to a Health Savings Account, which is money that you get to keep (and even invest) over the long term. You can spend that HSA money on medical expenses but if you save it, it turns into another tax-advantaged savings account like your IRA and 401(k).
Believing in the work the author was/is doing is one thing, but I can't help but wonder if/how they still believe in their boss.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732985
> $15 deposit in your account

A transfer on the blockchain, you mean.
You've never experienced effort as fun?
That is... not flattering.
Is there anything that private equity doesn't decimate? Is there any industry that is made better by these rent-seekers?
I had an interesting experience in the ER lately that caused me to do some research.

The average ER wait time across DC was 5 hours and 29 minutes. That's across all hospitals.
Small world: my first job out of university was working for Pete at the first company described here. It definitely was the kind of place you could add "_old.asp" to any URL and probably hit something. Ultimately I'm not sure there was much value we could have salvaged in our position however we handled support or our wider roadmap: this was a regional news group who fundamentally rejected the idea that the internet was going to destroy their classifieds business, and later couldn't cover the liabilities of its enormous gold-plated pension fund. Every business must decide how to optimise flows of value, but it's just as bad doing a good job at the wrong ones, as it is doing a bad job at the right ones.
Show HN: Email Verifier Written in Go
Started working on a small Email verifier project in Go

[Done] Core service to verify email.

[Done] Core service live on https://pkg.go.dev

Next, I will make an API to leverage the core service.
To have a history of trademark enforcement would be my guess, but I think we're all learning that Matt is way over his head, probably from before the whole WPE situation. There's no consistent strategy or narrative.

What I got from other sources is that Automattic's finances in general are not looking too good, and this is just one very public occurence of a flailing, under qualified CEO trying to be hands-on to solve the situation.