skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life in America's Water-Inequality Capital. It Might Be About to Change
This is because its the profit focus of capitalism that is exactly the problem

Its a disconnect powered by propaganda of the definition of "success"
Tell me you don't know anything about healthcare without telling me...

Sheesh.

Doctors are medical technicians, not lawyers, and the more you bury them in (largely billing) regulations, the worse care you get and the less time with that doctor you get, and the more money you pay for worse healthcare.
Scratchers/lotto tickets are legal in most US states so I don’t really understand what point you’re trying to make here. This isn’t a new problem and the state has been profiting off of it for a while. The alternatives are a lot worse. You can’t legislate away vices.
If you take one of these little pills with a large glass of water for every alcoholic beverage you drink, then it will prevent hangovers.
https://discord.com/channels/734893811884621927/127043967262...
Which version of L. Reuteri did you take?
Unfortunately, while AI has some helpful uses like this, it will be used for trivial and even worse, nefarious purposes as well. And I do think the nefarious will outweigh the good for sure, but those who develop it and sell it to the highest bidder will undoubtedly point to stuff like this to use the emotions of the general populace to twist their perceptions to ignore the nefarious.

A lot of technology gets entrenched using such mechanisms even though its benefits are questionable. Genetic engineering, what could go wrong? But think of the sick children?

Not knocking what these people are trying to do, but I do think that if you add up all the positives and negatives of AI, the negatives far outweigh the positives.
How so? All primitive operations are backward stable, and unlike addition and subtraction, division and multiplication are well-conditioned.
Am I misunderstanding or do you really not eat any vegetables at all, not even in a dish with meat?
Sollya can also do rational approximants, which are only faster in some circumstances, and Chebfun does not (as far as I know) account for floating point quantization, which is a big deal if you are trying to be accurate.
There was a downplayed running joke where Kelso was actually extremely skilled at engineering. In another episode, he repairs a car with Red and explains what he’s doing in high technical detail while Red just pretends to know what he’s talking about because he doesn’t want to admit that Kelso is smarter than him at something.
Facebook's updated feed–more content from strangers
We Built Rufus, Amazon's AI-Powered Shopping Assistant
If I write a small game where a character (a 2D sprite or just a name in form of text) says that it knows its a game character and doesn't have real body. You won't even consider it a lie. For that you have to first consider that line coming from an actual being.
>Yet people still start businesses, make money, grumble endlessly about those regulations, and society marches on.

One such regulation is "certificate of need" laws, where you effectively need to ask the incumbent for permission to open your would-be competitor.

https://spn.org/articles/certificate-of-need-laws/
There are some choices you can make that seem innocuous but dramatically increase the chances of lethal outcomes, like using corn or coconut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnSYfv6bCA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongkrek_acid
NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice
While cool, studies like this always remind me that we deliberately breed and infect animals to see if they suffer and die from the disease or the cure.

No need to remind me that without this we wouldn’t have all our medical advancements, it’s just a sad footnote to all of modern medicine, that’s all.
Othering of Russians is going very strong on reddit. I keep tabs on this because my brother is thoroughly sucked into it. The degree of othering and dehumanization is so extreme and comprehensive that the people doing it seem to become acclimatized to it and don't realize the extent and severity of what they're doing, like fish who don't notice the water they're in.

Before somebody like this jumps down my throat, yes I'm sure Russians are doing it too, and yes I know Russia started the war and Ukraine has a right to defend myself. Spare me the tedious accusations of being a shill for the ""orcs"" and ""ziggers"" (really?), the with-us-or-against-us mentality is part of the extremist radicalization process. Both sides are using it and both can be criticized for it.
Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up
Some of the early lawyerly uses of AI have been no bueno.[0] Yet the legal need to produce knowledge from huge amounts of text is such an obvious alignment with LLMs...

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/canada-lawyer-... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-... https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222273745/michael-cohen-ai-f...
A lot of people go all in on increasing dietary fiber and then experience gut issues and think it must be the plants when they didn't work into it slowly enough. It's like going to the gym and and feeling sore all over all the time or even getting injured and then concluding that going to the gym is bad when no one told you that you should start easy. In my opinion there's harm in how people fail to communicate how to get started on plant based diets when they miss important issues like this that can permanently put people off from it.
Huge profits mean a lot of value is being captured. That can be because of a large amount of value being created, which is successful capitalism, but it can also mean a lot of rent is being extracted from an existing value stream.

Not saying this is the later case, but when people are critical of large profits they usually are critical of the later, where they believe that the value being created has not really gone up, it’s just being funneled away to rent seekers now.

This is especially true for things that are seen as “essentials” where buying is fairly mandatory and so prices are inelastic, like housing, food and medical care. If these markets become uncompetitive consumers can’t just walk away from rising prices.

So rising profits + the same value being generated point to the market being uncompetitive and are not celebrated in the way rising profits + new value are.
One Bit Symphony
> For these models today, if we measure the amount of energy expended for training and inference how do humans compare?

My best guess is 120,000 times more for training GPT-4 (based on claim it cost $63 million and that was all electricity at $0.15/kWh and looking only at the human brain and not the whole body).

But also, 4o mini would then be a killowatt hour for a million tokens at inference time, by the same assumptions that's 50 hours or just over one working week of brain energy consumption. A million tokens over 50 hours is 5.5 tokens per second, which sounds about what I expect a human brain to do, but caveat that with me not being a cognitive scientist and what we think we're thinking isn't necessarily what we're actually thinking.
My Yukon buddy was the safety officer/local guy when they did alone up on great slave lake in the NWT.( near Yellowknife)

He hung around all the time with his hunting rifle and a 12 gauge loaded with slugs to make sure nobody got eaten.

He got in trouble for sharing smokes and giving fire to the contestants a few times.
I think this paper is well written and the data is solid.Provides a new and valuable perspective.
This paper, introduces an innovative approach for exploring and understanding large, evolving software systems using Large Language Models (LLMs).
The key contributions include:

- Automating the transformation of unstructured codebase data into structured, analyzable datasets.
- Uncovering valuable insights into the evolution of the Linux kernel's eBPF subsystem, validated by domain experts.
- Proposing a versatile methodology applicable to other large-scale software projects.

By leveraging LLMs, the paper demonstrates how to address challenges in understanding software evolution, feature interdependencies, and design decisions efficiently.
Money and greed naturally get in the way. Is that not obvious? People are finding any way to game the system just to get more money

You're thinking of using money as a measure but everyone else is using it as a target...
Strace/ptrace is awful, and I don't know what "greappable" means here. Nothing stops us from adding DTrace probes.
It's a valid concern. But I just want to point out that shelling out to other things is part of the "paradigm" when using a shell-like language. If you embrace this paradigm, you will better understand the style.

Think of it like learning functional programming. You have to "embrace the paradigm" instead of just mutating things all the time like you might be used to in an imperative language.
I'm pretty sure grandparent is an ironic comment about demise of Windows (Phone) Mobile.
Hey how bout that. He can be constructive and critical at the same time without coming off like an A-hole.
Hm, actually, it's confusing, because clicking the [>_] links where it mentions running code gives different code than it just mentioned.
Your two statements logically conflict. I understand the article. Your first line is not what it says. See the "Legal Cost Collapse" subhead. In addition, logically LLM's will increasingly allow individuals to free themselves from the need for attorneys. And again, see the Cyber Risk subhead for issues implying an intolerable state of affairs for the wider public. In that light as well as other context, your second line will be a major part of the subtext for why the legal environment adapts away from LLM access.
I just mentally translate any PR statement like that as "fuck you we'll keep doing what we're doing, enjoy your portion of the paltry fine we pay once you receive it after a decade of appeals."
I don’t actually care who is or isn’t Russian. That wasn’t my point. I’m saying it’s a Russian talking point and a silly one. You can’t justify everything bad you ever do by bringing up the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Trust me I’ve tried.
Next step is 8% of each self-hosted WP revenue.
$300 is your part of a regular doctor visit? Or the total bill?

Do you have one of those high-deductible plans designed to discourage people from seeking any healthcare?
Modern Tcl already has a lot more stuff in it than the early resource-constrained versions, though the basic principles are the same. Still, there's no harm in reinventing a better wheel :-)
Scientists uncover geckos’ auditory ‘sixth sense’
Or maybe regulation is in fact a problem. In my country there is less regulation in healthcare services. I can walk into multiple private facilities in my town, get full blood panel with almost everything you can think of included (hormones, vitamins/mineral levels, liver markers etc) for around 100$. The results are going to be available online the same day (with the exception of those that require more lab time). This is fully private enterprise which has nothing to do with "universal healthcare" my country has.

I don't need prescription or doctor recommendation to get it done. I can also take my own urine/hair/swabs, walk into a lab, pay and have the requests results online in a few days.

If I need MRI I can usually schedule it for the next day in multiple private points and again the results are going to be there the same day. The price is around 200 bucks for say cervical spine.

How is it in your country? Do you know how much is required to get those basic services in other countries?
The utilization of everything I said there to train AI without consent. At least that's what I think it was... Brain fog sucks.

I'd dump all social networks if I could, but my family is at Facebook.
You can say “I don’t know that” or “I’d be speculating if I tried to answer that” and then say your approach would be to Google it or whatever the appropriate means of R&D would be.
At the expense of irking many, I'd like to add Musk to the list if someone didn't already.

From robotics, neurology, transport to everything in between - not a word should be taken as is.
The federal government is one of the largest insurers, and dealing with them entails a lot of effort and expense.
It would cost around $5 and about 5 hours of work to prove you wrong...
Lure, Résumé, Detail: The 3-Tier Job Search Cake
You also have Insta-clinic in chains like CVS. Not sure it's a bad thing. Came back from a trip with minor but persistent cough symptoms that were a LOT like the time I had COVID even though I tested negative. Got an appointment the next day at a clinic with a nurse practitioner who prescribed me an inhaler and said it was a "virus" after listening to my chest, etc. I think I maybe had a $40 bill.

Told my primary care at my next appointment and she basically said she'd have done the exact same thing.
Clickmenu.ai: Digital menu, QR code powered by AI for restaurants – free
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Framing this as inverting a function is interesting, but raises a question, since any function that maps multiple inputs to the same output is not invertible.

For example, let's say we invert a checker algorithm and "run it backward from YES". Does that find an arbitrary single solution? Does it find all solutions? What if there are an infinite number of solutions?
You could do configuration management in the 90s with rdist well enough on 100 servers. The problem with IT in the early 2000s was that IT departments were shoveling money to companies like VMWare and EMC and overbuilding all their hardware. Amazon built everything on commodity hardware and open source and didn't have vendors acting like financial boat anchors on their scalability. IT departments also usually had massive amounts of friction and gatekeeping to getting anything done, and you needed a design review meeting to spin up a single server for someone. And really I think it was elimination of that centralized control and bureaucracy that made cloud computing so popular.
other weird thing about exoDOS is you don't download and run. there's a huge decompression process that takes at least a few hours and generates 999 gorillion files. use on disk would be more than 638 GB consequent to the decompress-and-create-a-gorilloin-files process. Then again what you can do, this is arguably smarter than just torrent out a gorillion tiny files
Nice, you can also pass other modes and keys (root notes) as URL search params. It’s G locrian by default.

https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/3c90aadf4db49505878a203...
There are one or two doctors here who operate individual cash-based practices. They don't deal with insurance companies or their paperwork. The seem to mostly focus on services that insurance is unlikely to cover anyway: weight loss, hormone therapy, but also still run a general/family practice.

They stay in business so the model seems to be viable, but perhaps only because there are so few of them doing it.
I think Americans were always happy with profit because they got a share, they had jobs, etc. it was good for everyone.

Now they’re learning first hand what happens when it escalates to outright greed and hoarding, and that life gets pretty shitty for the very vast majority when this happens to the basic needs of a decent life (groceries, education, healthcare, safety, roads, transit)
You should sometimes review the Indian judicial system and their judgements. I have never seen a more self congratulatory, smug and confident yet incompetent people in my life. All hiding under some pretense of intellectual superiority that is enabled by a corrupt collegium system that makes it difficult to disrupt.

Essentially run by a handful of families and inner circle. Just another shadow govt. type entity.
But they obviously aren't the exact same set of regulations everywhere.
"This gets mentioned every time."

No, this gets mentioned in other healthcare conversations but rarely in PI takeover conversations.
I've taken a note and try to pick features that triggered my curiosity, thanks for your suggestions! Btw, headless mode is already something but really rough.
Maybe because Ukrainians are right about Russians? Killing innocent people and starting an aggressive war for land and power somehow justifies them being called orcs, don't you think so?
Good lord, I hope not. That sounds like an absolute nightmare.
This looks like yet another example of the thing where LLMs disrupt processes which are designed to limit engagement through requiring tedious long-form writing using jargon that is not available to most people.

On the one hand this is great - real “democratization” of how society works.

But it’s going to break a whole lot of things in the short term while these processes are redesigned for this new world. And the fixes will likely be to come up with new ways of limiting the number of people who can engage.
Efficient and Effective Model Extraction
> They use an AI tool to comb public information about your company and file hundreds of copyright infringement, IP, and trade secret theft cases. The scale means you can’t just ignore it or settle for a nominal amount.

The "scale" itself is the problem. Because companies are so huge, and their reach is so huge, it invites techniques that increase the efficiency of attacks. Human beings weren't meant to handle things at such scales, and that is part of the reason we have the problem of AI in the first place.

If we lived in smaller, more self-sufficient communities, then we would not have scale and the people in such communities would not have much desire to develop AI either. AI is the natural reaction of a large populace who look for a technological solution to the immense chaos of information.
US credit card debt up 50% in the last three years
probably just waiting for the election to be over before releasing the next gen models
The widespread need for medical insurance only exists because regulation has introduced many artificial inefficiencies within the health care sector that in turn severely distort the pricing of medical services and medical products.

We'd see far more reasonable pricing, and much less need for something like medical insurance, without the regulations that artificially limit the supply of practitioners and clinics, that prevent competition, and that introduce unnecessary costs, among other distortions.
Because it's more about being an absolutist snob than anything. Vegans don't eat honey. If I have a pet hen I can't eat the eggs? Ridiculous.
The barriers essentially are 'we know better' which is weird as I feel it is subjectivity and biases that enable them. There is a good case for making 90% of court cases as objective as possible by rewriting from scratch, but that can never happen in this world.
Almost all energy consumed for computation turns into heat. Increasing energy consumption therefore doesn’t help the climate, in particular if you don’t source it from incoming heat from the sun (photovoltaics or wind energy).
That’s interesting. It kind of makes sense. I guess the US makes this rule kind of funny too. I guess we’re lucky we didn’t get .am for “America.”
Okay. So you are a person who does not care if what they are saying is true. Got it!
TikTok shows you exactly what you like. Which seems like the reason it's both heavily watched and reviled.

My FYP feed is full of golden retrievers, lifting tips, and popsci with some news and comedy/couples sketches thrown in. They even finally learned not to show dancing chicks.

And you can even enable special STEM feed. However, these seem to be largely clips of videos I like more in full on Youtube.

And there is a patchset for TikTok on ReVanvced[1] which allows you to filter out ads, live shows, stories, etc.

[1] https://revanced.app/patches?pkg=com.zhiliaoapp.musically
When I was covered by an employer plan, a lot of people seemed to gravitate towards high deductible plans because they were cheaper so long as you didn't consume a lot of healthcare. (Personally, I never did but a lot of people were adamant that you saved money that way.)
The title of this somehow makes it sound nefarious, but if you read the linked thread, the mods themselves say they tried before and the Reddit admins said they couldn't do it. Matt went to spez and got special approval, so this is actually helping the subreddit, no?
Ah, I'm not definitely not todsacerdoti , who automated reposting all of lobste.rs to HN.

My pithy comment was actually inspired by Sir Patrick Stewart's interview about his role in the Emoji movie: https://youtu.be/CgAIqP6hNlQ?t=215
> By scanning the networks of multiple customers, the company claimed, IronNet’s advanced software and skilled staff could spot signals and patterns of sophisticated hackers that a single company couldn’t do alone

> IronNet was projecting exponential growth that required the company to land a handful of major contracts, according to confidential board documents obtained by the AP. Those prospective deals included one valued at up to $10 million to provide cybersecurity for the U.S. Navy’s contractors and a more than $22 million deal with the government of Kuwait

> IronNet’s ideas about gathering threat data from multiple clients were not unique and the company’s biggest draw was Alexander’s “aura” as a former NSA director

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These 3 points sum up the core issue with IronNet (and a number of similar other startups I and my peers passed on):

1. Bad Product Market Fit - IDS was commodified by the time IronNet was founded. ThousandEyes was already acquired by Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks, VMWare, Akamai, CloudFlare, Imperva, etc could all extend core IDS functionality.

2. Horrible GTM strategy - there's a reason you don't go Fed/Govt sales until at least Series E. Any kind of government or government adjacent sale is a multi-quarter slog. You need a constant inflow of mid-sized deals to keep the lights on, and that comes from the private sector.

3. Relying on thought leadership at the expense of product strategy - thought leadership driven sales is losing efficacy, as procurement is increasingly driven by domain experts. Go into a PoC nowadays, and the people test driving products will almost always be technical, and their inputs are treated valuably.

4. Inexperienced investors - run away from a startup if the lead investing team DOES NOT have a track record funding successful startups in that domain.

This might be racist, but I've found EMEA investors to be the slimiest investors to work with. They almost never have domain experience - and those who do tend to leave for the US - plus they tend to overindex on pedigree instead of network.

5. Investors who lose interest - Forgepoint lead the Series A, but dropped to only a participant by Series B, which is a common trend of theirs. They maximize their returns at the early stage, and essentially don't care about the product itself. Some VCs do care about product, others don't. Tread carefully based on your own interests.