skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really want to get names right, you'll provide the ability to configure the name used in each context, while perhaps providing an option to do one or more standard conventions (e.g., first/middle/last) and derive uses automatically from that.

But it's not clear to me what your real priorities are: these lines imply quite different priorities:

> If there are employees there who have edge case names in this paradigm, they can try their best to conform to this standard. [...] I've personally never met someone who had a different name standard that wasn't met by the first/middle/last convention

> It’s important for my software to get names right because it sends out emails and messages on the users behalf.
Meh. Happens all around the world. Even if the product works there is no guarantee that it will be safe.

Asbestos products are a good example of this. A more recent one is Teflon made with PFOAs or engineered stone like Caesarstone.
Half right:

> "They ordered New York-based Skiplagged to pay *$4.7 million in disgorgement from the travel site’s revenues* and another $4.7 million for copyright infringement."

The fine is half trademark infringement, half for "costing" AA money through not letting them resell the seat themselves
I always hate the “don’t view on phone” deterrent where I legit can’t even read about this product. Now I will never see or use this product as a result.

I suggest you at least provide a demo to mobile users or a landing page.
Seems like maybe the airspace used for the approach should be class C?

How does one find a map?
"Tesla says on its website its FSD software in on-road vehicles requires active driver supervision and does not make vehicles autonomous."

Despite it being called "Full Self-Driving."

Tesla should be sued out of existence.
If it takes 3 months to approve where steel rocket falls you might as well give up iterating something as complex as FSD.
> making 4 report crashes and 1 reported fatality for 2.4 million vehicles over 8 years look miniscule by comparison, or even better than many human drivers.

This is exactly what people were saying about the NHTSA Autopilot investigation when it started back in 2021 with 11 reported incidents. When that investigation wrapped earlier this year it had identified 956 Autopilot related crashes between early 2018 and August 2023, 467 of which were confirmed the fault of autopilot and an inattentive driver.
> longer queues for advanced treatments

Americans always toss this out like it means something. If you're not in queue because you can't afford it, then you are in the queue it's just infinitely long but you're not counted.

Your entire culture here is so broken you are fundamentally incapable of even beginning to understand how other countries discuss these metrics: when they discuss wait times it's for everyone who needs it - no one is unable to afford it or being denied it by their health insurance. "The queue" is triaged against available resources - i.e. patients needing urgent care will get it earlier then those who are stable.

Could it be shorter? Of course it could, but it also includes everyone who needs it. And if you don't like the queue the gasp you can still pay to be treated privately and receive prompter service under most systems.

Your system is so broken you literally can't comprehend the wording of complaints about other systems because you contextualize it through your own. Built into the entire model is that "the queue is long and also we already kicked a bunch of people out of it, which is not what anyone is talking about in regards to the NHS, or Australian Medicare or any other system.
No, that's essentially underneath the landing path to the airport. Aircraft operate in three dimensions, and the airspace is sized and configured in three dimensions to support all the navigation needs and users in the area.

Did you know that there is a "tunnel" of uncontrolled airspace directly about Los Angeles International, between 3500 feet and 4500 feet, and you can fly through with commercial airliners whizzing about, talking to absolutely no radar services or ATC controllers? Called the LAX SFRA.

https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/advocacy-briefs/air-traffic-se...
I was asking about Switzerland, since you brought it up. It's a fascinating place, I'm keen to hear your observations.

Don't conflate bankruptcies. _Purely financial_ bankruptcy is recoverable, given good health and time. (Not to trivialise it.) But, for a peasant with terminal cancer: _medical_ bankruptcy generally means a miserable and undignified death. There's worse pain than pain, you know?

So, while I have to respect the dispassionate argument that "not _that_ many people die in a ditch", I reply that my £200 buys me not just passable healthcare but also some pride in my nation finding some fucking compassion.

That moral point is also an economic point, but I'm not ready to articulate it concisely. Let me say simply that a nation needs to find character on the way up and then again on the way back down, and America is currently fumbling for the second step. A nation is founded on its citizens. The cost of a zeitgeist of rage and distrust is, eventually, everything. What price empire?
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I appreciate the response!

I can't understand your methods without example prompts or code, so it's hard for me to interpret the data in figure 6. It will be important to document the methodology carefully to avoid concerns that your "text response" methodology is unfairly punishing other models.

In any case, since the methodology that Anthropic applied is documented and straightforward, it would be possible to do an apples to apples comparison with your model.

(I'm also very curious to know how 3.5 Sonnet performs.)

Is your text methodology based on CoT (like the "PubMedQA training dataset enriched with CoT" you trained on) or a forced single token completion like Anthropic used in their evaluation? In the latter case, I'm not sure how "text responses" differ from log probabilities at Temperature T=0 (i.e., isn't the most likely token always going to be the text response?)
Even more generous to selflessly sacrifice the lives and property of others that the vehicle "self-drives" itself into.
Answering the phone at all hours of the day.
I love how the image in the article has a caption that says it tells you to pay attention to the road, but I had to zoom in all the way to figure out where that message actually was.

I’d expect something big and red with a warning triangle or something, but it’s a tiny white message in the center of the screen.
Because this does not only happen to unzip and I want to find a solution in general.
World of difference between, 30, 40, 50 and 60. Feels like something I have noticed between west and east coast drivers. Latter really send it on country turns and just trust the road. West coast, particularly montana, when vision is reduced, speed slows down. Just too many animals or road obstacles (eg: rocks, planks of wood) to just trust the road.
Engaging in relevant sub-reddits has worked out well for me.

Ads also generate installs but since my app is a one-time sale the economics don't work out. If it costs ~$4 in ads to get an install and the one-time in-app purchase is $9 you're losing money.
I don't understand why cheaters are such a problem when it comes to bans.

Why ban them? Flag them as cheaters behind the scenes, and let them only join cheater-only servers. They'll stop soon enough.

It's like telling a web scraper that its IP was banned. It's stupid cause you will have nothing to gain from that strategic move. A better way is to flag a web scraper IP behind the scenes, and give them only garbage data, randomly injected/inserted into the pages. That'll teach them not to scrape your website :D

In my opinion the same goes for cheat detection. You will only lose the strategic advantage you have by banning them, because rotating IPs or CD keys or accounts is just a minor inconvenience for them.
Product Hunt generated exactly zero sales for me. I won't bother next time.
I'm astonished it's currently legal for airlines to ban passengers for optimizing their ticket fares—for taking the offers the airlines themselves publicly tender, and being too competent at choosing at the best one.

- "American reportedly removed a 17-year-old from a flight last year and banned him for three years when he tried to fly from Gainesville, Florida, to Charlotte, North Carolina, on a ticket with a final destination of New York City. The ticket was supposedly cheaper than booking a flight to Charlotte alone."

There ought to be a consumer protection law about it. Not one specific to airlines, but a universal protection—a "right to optimize", if you will. If you ban customers for taking advantage of a publicly-advertised offer, then why are you allowed to advertise that offer in the first place?
Technologies that won't exist in five years
That was a typo, I fixed it, you were too quick. It's 500 000. Check the source linked.
Drive it in larger and larger closed courses. Expand to neighboring areas with consent of the communities involved. Agree on limited conditions until enough data has been gathered to expand those conditions.
This one will be too. Some Tesla supporters here have admitted to flagging negative stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217615
And what if the car swerves, and you aren't able to correct in time and end up killing someone?

Is that your fault or the car's?

I would bet that since it's your car, and you're using a knowingly unproven technology, it would be your fault?
> How is pricing by available time to wait any more fair than pricing by available money to spend?

Because its a lot easier to get someplace early on your day off than it is to suddenly get into another tax bracket. Even poor people usually get at least one day off every single week.

Restricting access by income level is going to leave most people who don't earn enough locked out for their entire lives because upward economic mobility is declining in the EU and a total joke in the US.

Certainly when it comes to travel there's already a high barrier and limitations on opportunity so a lottery might be better than only knowing if you'll get in on the day.
I think they mean running inference. Either more efficient/powerful hardware, or more efficient software.

No one thinks about the cost of a db query any more, but I'm sure people did back in the day (well, I suppose with cloud stuff, now people do need to think about it again haha)
Also... they DID sell that seat. To the person that bought it, and paid for it, and then didn't use it. They didn't cost the airline any money. They paid for the seat. They don't get the money back for the seat they don't use. The airline keeps the money for it, while not incurring the costs of filling it.
I get where you’re coming from and would also be interested to see, but based on the clips I’ve seen that wouldn’t be enough in this case. Of course the bias is inherent in what people choose to post (not normal and not terrible/litigable), but I think there’s enough at this point to perceive a stable pattern.

Long story short, my argument is this: it doesn’t matter if you reduce serious crashes from 100PPM to 50PPM if 25PPM of those are new crash sources, speaking from a psychological and sociological perspective. Everyone should know that driving drunk, driving distracted, driving in bad weather, and in rural areas at dawn or dusk is dangerous, and takes appropriate precautions. But what do you do if your car might crash because someone ahead flashed their high beams, or because the sun was reflecting off another car in an unusual way? Could you really load up your kids and take your hands off the wheel knowing that at any moment you might hit an unexpected edge condition?

Self driving cars are (presumably!) hard enough to trust already, since you’re giving away so much control. There’s a reason planes have to be way more than “better, statistically speaking” — we expect them to be nearly flawless, safety-wise.
The driver’s fault. Tesla never accepts liability.
Of course!

Over the years I've known some engineers who, as a side project, wrote some great software. Nobody was interested in it. They'd come to me and ask why that is? I suggest writing articles about their project, and being active on the forums. Otherwise, who would ever know about it?

They said that was unseemly, and wouldn't do it.

They wound up sad and bitter.

The "build it and they will come" is a stupid Hollywood fraud.

BTW, the income I receive from D is $0. It's my gift. You'll also note that I've suggested many times improvements that could be made to C, copying proven ideas in D. Such as this one:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

C++ has already adopted many ideas from D.
A large body doesn't really matter, but the small head does. It's about half the size (linear measurements) of a deer head for reference, which is a pretty easy shot for almost anyone at 50 yards and not bad with a twidge of focused training at 250 yards.

However, for whatever reason, snakes don't seem to die very quickly when you shoot them in the head a few times (enough news stories if you're interested). I'd imagine that's at least part of where the recommendation comes from. Plus, they die incredibly slowly (if ever) if you go for a body shot. It'd probably suffer less if you drowned it (an ordeal that itself also takes hours), and none of those methods are even slightly humane.
Senate report: How private equity ‘gutted’ dozens of U.S. hospitals
Yes, you can. Stop treating politics like it's an existential battle between good and evil; that attitude is literally destroying our country.
That doesn't really fix it, because of the integral promotion rules.
I think mass refusal to work and spend money to the point where it starts inflicting enough pain on the government to take the desired action, would also significantly affect people who have nothing to do with the conflict, and it would have a greater effect on the poor than the rich as recessions tend to do.

I’m not sure if that would be an ethical course of action outside the country where the oppression is actually happening.
I get your point. I've watched the enlightening presentation given at MIT by an airline economist where he explains that for any route, there's no single fare that would make the route profitable. To have the convenience of modern air travel, we seemingly have to put up with the pricing games that make it possible.

I've never intentionally skiplagged, but there was one time the first leg of my journey was late, I missed my connection and I was going to be in the airport for 8 or 10 hours to catch my 1 hour flight to my final destination. I decided not to, and instead minimized my misery and bought a ticket for the 3.5 hour train ride home.

If an airline looked at that behavior and blacklisted me for not using the service I paid for, then they are the greedy fucking bastards.
that does mean "no leaking!!11!", right?
> But what do you do if your car might crash because someone ahead flashed their high beams, or because the sun was reflecting off another car in an unusual way?

These are -- like drunk driving, driving distract, and driving in bad weather -- things that actually do cause accidents with human drivers.
Definitely something to look into then - My thought was that I would have to open an LLC or something which would cost a couple hundred - will research about it more as a real option tho, thx :)
I don't visualize while writing the code. I do scribble written notes about bits to rework, ideas, notes on other parts I'm adjacent to but won't touch on this cycle.

When I'm designing a data-schema or some systems integration I'm in my head with blocks (different shapes/colour) wired together. Then document with PlantUML, C4, Mermaid or whatever the gig calls for. Back in the day it was Visio.

Different modes for different tasks.

And manager mode, ugh. It's lists and checkboxen floating on board game (Risk?)
This feels like an argument about definitions. Substitute whatever term you prefer. Though: I don't find it plausible that the American aboriginal rights movement is directed by foreign powers.
What's the context? I'm assuming this somehow related to embarrassing messages being shared as part of the ongoing drama?
There are almost no industry without some regulatory restrictions on them.
I was actually talking about my earlier self here, sorry if I hit a nerve!
:( I know a lot of us would like to see more features on here, but at the very least I’d like to see them adopt a more mature stance to moderation and content approval sometime soon. This doesn’t have to be a goofy “meh it’s how I was feeling” style website anymore, especially with y-combinator unquestionably entering a new era. Maybe we move slowly and break a few less things?

TBF if I had to pick any two benevolent dictators these two are pretty damn great, but still… it’s a matter of structure and consistency, not individual discretion.
Then please send an email to: hn@ycombintor.com. I believe the standard is high and also reasonable, please give it a shot.
Strep A kills half a million per year; why don't we have a vaccine?
It was actually supposed to be `cent` and`ucent`, but we needed a library type to stand in for it at the moment.
Ask HN: What selfhosted PaaS would you recommend?
I recently acquired a decently large server (512 GB ram, 64 cores), and am looking into self-hosting some web applications -- Invidious, file server, proxy, to name a few.

I was recommended Dokku[1], and after searching I also found several more similar products, like Coolify, DokDeploy, CapRover. I'm pretty new to doing this, so I would like to ask what experience you've had with these.

[1]: https://dokku.com/
How many of the 45,000 deaths on US roads( and an order of magnitude more injuries) occur due to 'challenging conditions' ?
There are industry standards for this stuff. ISO 21448, UL-4600, UNECE R157 for example, and even commercial certification programs like the one run by TÜV Süd for European homologation. It's a deliberate series of decisions on Tesla's part to make their regulatory life as difficult as possible.
What would happen if somebody forgets or loses the key?

Reality: there's nothing that blockchain does better than an Excel sheet.
That study (full text[1]) is extremely selective: namely, the only factor they looked at was hospitalizations causing bankruptcies, and ignored emergency care expenses, chronic conditions and other long term treatment. In fact from their introduction you can very much see the problem:

the fraction of people filing for bankruptcy who happen to have substantial medical expenses.

Like...that is a weird factor to just try and wash away with sample selection.

The only factor they considered was the proportion of people who filed for bankruptcy by years before/after hospitalization, which they found was about 4% of total bankruptcies - for non-elderly adults.

we estimate that hospitalizations cause only 4% of personal bankruptcies among nonelderly U.S. adults, which is an order of magnitude smaller than the previous estimates described above.

Now let's put that in perspective: one of the most common routine surgeries for a healthy person would be having your appendix out. That's a hospitalization, you stay overnight. It's also fairly cheap and immensely routine.

It is also notable that the study was focused on patients at a single Californian hospital -

we therefore selected a sample of people who were admitted to the hospital in California

Our study was based on a random stratified sample of adults 25 to 64 years of age who, between 2003 and 2007, were admitted to the hospital (for a non–pregnancy-related stay) for the first time in at least 3 years

In short, the way this study is being thrown around to assert how medical bankruptcy works is invalid. And I'm calling completely bullshit on this methodology. Even their conclusions more or less paint the picture:

We have found that hospitalizations cause: *increased out-of-pocket spending on medical care*, *increased medical debt*, and decreased employment and income

* asterisk emphasis mine.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5865642/
Wait, what? Are you comparing cryptocrap with vaccines?!?
> West coast, particularly montana

Montana is not "West coast".
Echoing what vunderba said, it's hard for me to enjoy this because I'm used to the symmetric layouts of e.g. the NYT and the satisfying flavor of their clues.

However, this is well done and it inspired a thought- I wonder if it would be possible to procedurally generate word games, such as a mini crossword or word ladder or so on, as part of a language learning regime? Think Duolingo but for word puzzle fans.

As an example, you solve a mini crossword every day where 80% of the clues/answers are in English, and 20% are drawn from a progressive set of vocabulary in the other language.
Emergency breaking will sure as hell kill you or at least the person behind you when you’re going 75 or 80 in the first lane.
Hell yeah!! This is the best thing to happen all week!!!
What makes a person seem wise?
Check out Mautic. You can self host and connect to AWS SES for a very low cost solution.
"Move fast and kill people"

Look, I don't know who needs to hear this, but just stop supporting this asshole's companies. You don't need internet when you're camping, you don't need a robot to do your laundry, you don't need twitter, you can find more profitable and reliable places to invest.
It's an earlier work. I see that the release date of the free book was just this year. If Radio Razz entered the public domain this year then it's possible that Trial and Error will be on that site within the next decade.
It gets progressively bigger and louder the longer you ignore it. After 30ish seconds it sounds an alarm and kicks you out.
The standard set by openai and shared by everyone else is to use SSE when “stream: true” is set.

Personally I like to strip all the excess data as soon as possible and expose the raw response as a plain “transfer-encoding: chunked” stream. That way the client can decide if they want to accept each chunk as they come or simply await the whole response with limited code change.

Either way, being able to easily pass the response writer around and set headers, write, close, as needed without being tied to a single function’s control flow is nice. It can be done in the more modern frameworks ofc, but ends up being a bit more machinery required at each endpoint.
A number is prime if it is the number of times Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked Optimus Prime
Weird, I wonder why the original got flagged? I thought it was interesting and pretty-good writing and it seemed to teach me something. Thanks for the link.
minor knit-pick: immigration policies are not driving the cost of living crisis
As others said, in many cases people would desperately want to live, just not in their condition anymore.

And the condition can be poverty, loneliness, and other things for which solutions could be provided.

I had run into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqVaaBx3gg
Any policy is going to have instances of people who are harmed that otherwise would not have been. Focusing on those cases is not insightful.
I took M490 “Problem Seminar” (a math class) in 1995 with Dr. Hofstadter - we studied triangles, and the definition of a triangle’s center.

You would think that there is a limited set of “triangle centers” but he showed us (and he had us discover and draw them out using The Geometer's Sketchpad) dozens of ways to find triangle centers and he had notes on hundreds more definitions of triangle centers.

His approach to teaching was fun and made us want to take on challenging problems. :)
In all the hype of AI etc, if you think about it then the foundational problem is that even Computer Vision is not a solved problem at the human level of accuracy and that's at the heart of the issue of both Tesla and that Amazon checkout.

Otherwise as thought experiment, imagine just a tiny 1 Inch tall person glued to the grocery trolley and another sitting on each shelf - just these two alone are all you need for "automated checkout".