skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What dumbass metric is causing these stupid decisions?

Sales and margin for the most part. The sales part, I imagine it's largely a failure of successfully marketing the vehicles, but I could be wrong.

The Volt to me was largely a failure of marketing at the time. Practically no normal people I know have any clue about what the Volt was. I went to a few dealerships to look at one and most salespeople didn't have a clue about the car (common though with car sales) or didn't even have any on hand to show. There was practically zero mindshare of GM equating with hybrids; the vast majority of car buyers I knew interested in hybrids essentially only knew/cared about Toyota. With declining sedan popularity in the US the writing was on the wall.

The Bolt was seen by many US car buyers as too small of a car and often confused for the several years older PHEV Volt. The amount of normal people I've heard use Volt/Bolt interchangeably is incredibly high. The people I talked to about the Bolt EUV figured it was just a different trim level of the same car, not realizing it was a good bit bigger.

Three different cars with different capabilities and yet so many people would just think they're the same V/Bolt thing GM talked about a decade or so ago.
I'm fairly certain a large chunk of the problem is demographic shift. healthcare is one of those industries most used by the elderly, and the proportion of the population in that demographic has skyrocketed
> Adults often come to see small-scale solutions to major problems as childish. Yeah, you could make a couple of sandwiches for the hungry—but there are billions of people who need better access to food. Maybe your effort is better spent working on solutions that can scale.

Much of this essay is baffling to me.

From 2022 to 2023 the fed funds rate was jacked up. The aim of doing this was to, among other things, drive up unemployment, so that more working class people working in supermarkets and the like would become unemployed, and to increase food scarcity for their families. The rate rise affects us as well, with tech hiring somewhat dead since late 2022.

Looking abroad - the International Criminal Court charged Netanyahu, Israel fires on and invades UN bases in Lebanon, Israeli television broadcasts Israeli soldiers raping in Sde Teiman (go look on YouTube for the footage) as rabbis and Knesset MPs swarm to defend them. Gazan children starve as European countries block weapons being sent to Israel. In the US, Biden sends troops abroad and Israel weapons to further the slaughtering, which has spread to the West Bank, Yemen, Syria, Iran and Lebanon. Also, the US vetoes at the UNSC effectively help block Gazan children being fed as they starve. Kamala Harris backs Biden and vows to continue arming and funding Netanyhu doing this, and Trump is even more belligerent. So Americans elected the person enabling this and over 98% who vote will vote for a candidate doing this.

It is not a lack of care or attention to Gazan children, Americans, or 98% of those who vote are paying attention to Gazan children and are trying to starve them - or at least are willing to trade a specific tax cut or whatnot to enable their starvation.

There's nothing about lack of individual or scaled care - the vast majority of Americans work for the opposite - to continue the famine.

Going back to the point of scale - the <2% of people not voting for candidates arming Israel and continuing the Gazan famine are working together as a mass movement and at scale and many for, as the essay mentioned, "socialism", because this <2% has to coordinate and work together against the 98% who are actively pursuing the famine in Gaza, or who are neutral about it and willing to trade support for it for a tax cut and such.

Gazan children don't starve because Americans don't pay individual or scaled attention to Gazan children. They starve because 98% of Americans will vote for someone who works to starve them. It is what the vast majority of Americans are and what America is. And works for domains outside Gaza - like unemployment and the fed funds rate mentioned.
Not a lawyer, but my (possibly poor) understanding was that courts were leaning towards it indeed being fair use?
I feel you, but the bigger sizes for me generate so much friction that I end up writing this post. :)
Policies like the ones in the article, the removal of complexity billing codes, drastically reducing GP earnings.

But AFAICT mostly it's their lack of constructive new models. Alberta has been fiddling at the margins with changes like dividing up the province into districts. OTOH BC introduced a wildly successful new physician pay model almost 2 years ago. I indirectly know several doctors who moved from Saskatchewan & Ontario to BC partly because of that.

P.S. I should emphasize that the new BC physician pay model not only attracts new doctors but it also encourages rostering, encouraging doctors to become the single point of generalist GP that is becoming scarce in Alberta according to the article.
What exactly do you use VS Code for?
Is 21 half of one's perceived life?
When government sets prices quality won’t always decline right away, but supply will be limited.

This is what happens every time a Canadian doctor moves to the US for the money.
how does a company like Costco unleash a global propaganda campaign to shift blame for things like global warming to individuals? how many governments did they overthrow?

tell me about how netflix dumped millions upon millions of gallons of oil in the ocean and wiped out entire ecologies.

There are definitely egregiously-bad actors compared to those that aren't.
Were they better educated? In some states, it would have still been against the law to teach evolution. When I was in grade school we had court-ordered desegregation of the schools; they had Jim Crow. Schools represented very different values in those days.
A Day in the Life of the 39-Year-Old Factory Boss Managing 3k Workers
These arguments sound about 15-20 years too old. I have wealth but I can't see a doctor. What the hell happened?
Not even a mention of Blockchain
There’s a ton of evidence. Whole books dedicated to it. This is simply never shared or referenced in universities, on TV, or in the press. Systematic suppression. I put a short summary of types of proof available here:

https://gethisword.com/evidence.html

Let’s look at your comparison. Observationally, Jesus existed, did miracles, fulfilled prophecies, manuscripts were higher impact, and millions report similar things today. Far as testable predictions, even His enemies who repent report life transformations and miracles in His name. Macro-evolution has failed to happen billions of times in observed creatures. Bible is evidentially stronger even though not a scientific claim.

Also, while experiential evidence grew for the Bible over thousands of years, many scientific theories and philosophies failed instead. Tons of fraud and politics, too. There’s a test of time principle that says you want to build on strong foundations. God’s Word is more trustworthy and reliable over time than scientific claims in general. It’s compatible with good ones, too, since Jesus was full of grace and truth.
Korea's writing system is not logographic anymore. They didn't go Latin but Hangul is absolutely an alphabet/syllabary
It likely depends on the rural area. In the middle of North East GA where I grew up, it's about the same, social isolation is becoming a huge problem because you're forced to drive long distances and plan ahead to meet with people.

In another small town right up the street they have a thriving main street area and the housing is mostly built around that with the exception of outlying farms. It's a smaller town, but chances are you can walk over to the square and everything you need is right there, so they have a much more vibrant feeling town even though it's smaller.

I'm not expert though, that's just my suspicion for why they're different having grown up in the area.
Never happened to me, for years with the mini already, first 12 and then the 13.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/business/whirlpool-youngest-factory-mana...
An AI powered web scraper. Chrome extension. Uses interesting LLM capabilities in natural language (website of your choosing)->structured data. It’s working pretty well!

https://www.extracto.bot
Pay them more, sure. But also let's get rid of the artificial limit on how many we can have. They're not being used effectively and we're all worse off for it.
Even for the first person described in the story, her search for a doctor is not primarily described a search for medical care, but a search for someone who can create a paper trail to ensure her child's eligibility for benefits.
> We need more doctors and nurses, full stop. Anything that prevents that is what needs to be actioned against.

I agree we have a shortage, but to offer a counter-argument:

We shouldn't need a 100% full-blown doctor for everything doctors do today. We could also help address the shortage by splitting out some responsibilities that are restricted to just doctors among professionals that only have 80% (or 60%, or 50%) of the training / certifications of an MD.

We've already presumably been doing this in the US with physician assistants and nurse practitioners. It hasn't solved it, but the problem would undoubtedly be many times worse without them.
Alberta is the richest province in Canada and has a population half the size of Singapore. That doesn't seem to be helping them.
I'm waiting for a Pi-Hole that is powerful enough to put in my HDMI connection and just filter out the ads using AI.
It's been 8-10 years but when I was serving tracking pixels we were astonished how long we still got requests from residential IPs for whole hostnames we had deprecated. That means I would not trust DNS caching anyway. I'm not talking days here, but months, with a TTL set to mere days.
> Imagine if all of your e-mails bounced while the power was out.

Retry for a while until the destination becomes reachable again. That's how email was originally designed.
Notion AI-like Character with JavaScript – open-source
create a virtual character in JavaScript that give identity to your AI project.

Key Features:
- Manual Mode: Control the character through on-screen buttons.
- AI-Controlled: Connect with an AI assistant to enable automatic actions.
- AI Characters: Customizable visual expressions and animations.

Github:
https://github.com/Barqawiz/Tamagotchi
This is where the advice in the article is excellent.

If you start with code that's easy to delete, it's often possible to alter your data representation or otherwise transform the problem in a way that simply eliminates the edge cases. With the result being a design that is simpler by virtue of being more robust.

If you start with code that's hard to delete, usually by the time you discover your edge and corner cases it's already too late and you're stuck solving the problem by adding epicycles.
There is no one size fits all.

In a many cases I'd still
rather have three or more versions of a function, many which may just be very thin shims to accommodate that scenario than 10 copy/pastes of variations. Or shim at the call site and keep one function if that suits.
Especially when we are talking pre-20th century. Child labor was the norm outside of wealthy families. It was more remarkable not to have a job at a young age than it was to have one.
The model underlying the word "singularity", AIUI, does involve a vertical asymptote. It is not supposed to be "merely" exponential.

Of course, exponential growth is much more compatible with our experience of the real economy. And even it is probably a local approximation of some sigmoid.

But, to return to the singularity idea --

Iteration 1: Computers think at speed 1, and design a twice-as-fast computer in one time unit.

Iteration 2: Now computers think at speed 2, and design a twice-as-fast computer in half a time unit.

Iteration 3: Computers think at speed 4, and design a twice-as-fast computer in 1/4 time unit.

You will note that --

a.) The total time to do an infinite number of iterations is 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + ... = 2 time units.

b.) After this infinite number of iterations, the computer thinks at speed "2^infinity".

So that (bad) model does have a literal singularity.
Great call out, I agree. NPs [1] are the NCOs (non commissioned officers) of the medical field. Where applicable, level up folks with the desire and aptitude from RN->NP. This specific pain point is a talent pipeline health and structure challenge. MD feelings around this are going to be something to consider, to note when preparing for the opposition [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_practitioner

[2] https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/...
Is I/O starvation the bottleneck with GPUs?

I didn't think it was.
What argument? I’m not making an argument. I’m pointing out what I think are facts. Apparently you don’t have enough wealth provided you are in the U.S.
That's not a very useful approach unless you go full Ted Kaczynski and disconnect entirely. For those of us living in a society, not seing ads when vising websites you effectively have to visit to do that is the preferable option.

Nothing about an ad blocker stops you from limiting your exposure to ad-supported media but it makes it more bearable in the cases where avoiding it would be even worse.
Can’t attract VC money with it anymore
I'm sharing all my nonfiction book summaries/notes on https://littlerbooks.com/.
Engines are a tough cookie to crack since the material science need to do it with high performance and economy is a tightly guarded secret and difficult to reverse engineer. They’ve been dumping billions into this but it’s still a moat (they keep claiming that they have engines ready for high performance/high mileage to overhaul military use, but keep needing to use Russian ones instead).
Coins used to be largely worth what they were worth because of what they were made of. So cutting them in half would lead to two seperate halves of the value. I'm sure there's more nuance than that but broadly I think that's how it used to work.
I am not from Asia so I would trust more what our wife has to say than me.
But I would argue that it is common for people living in a country with different language from they native language to forget how to write or even say some simple words. There's a good active effort to learn a new language.
> I won't be able to see the latter until late January 2025

Where are you? This is unusual.

In America, the "average wait time for a [cardiologist, dermatologist, og/gyn, orthopedic surgery or family medicine] appointment for the 15 large metro markets surveyed in 2022 is 26.0 days" [1]. In Canada, the "median national wait time 1 was 78 days," with wait ime "defined as the period between a patient’s referral by a family physician to a specialist and the visit with said specialist" [2].

Broadly speaking, American medical wait times are quite good, particularly for specialists [3]. But PCPs/capita vary greatly from state to state [4].

[1] https://www.wsha.org/wp-content/uploads/mha2022waittimesurve...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7292524/

[3] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-ca...

[4] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and-ratings/s...
Nice catch on the typo - thanks

Gus Gorman is someone I would have expected would be identifiable from pop culture, based on the other descriptions I gave of him (collecting fractional cents lopped off transactions, being to flashy with buying a sports car, etc) - if not immediately by name, surely by description: Richard Pryor played him in Superman III
I wonder what percentage of medical issues we could tackle by better analyzing and categorizing the existing medical studies that are out there.

And then attaching a user interface to the data that guides the user through a step-by-step self-diagnose process.
Premium + deductible + prescriptions + out of network care

I believe 30k is possible for a healthy single American.
> Want to know what food and housing was like before regulation? Read the jungle.

Not convincing since you're reducing the entire time period to The Jungle which was sensationalized fiction, effectively political propaganda.

But to your broader point, things improved directly from capitalism and markets. My reading recommendation? Deirdre McCloskey "Why Liberalism Works" on the absurd increase in living standards brought about through innovation enabled by capitalism, we're talking some 3,000% in average income over the course of time you're referring to.
Memory bandwidth is the bottleneck for LLM inference. That's my understanding at least.
> Maybe once that relearning has occurred you can move faster

This has been my experience. I have about a year of rust experience under my belt, working with an existing codebase (~50K loc). I started writing the toy/throwaway programs i normally write, now in rust instead of go halfway through this stretch. Hard to say when it clicked, maybe about 7-8 months through this experience, so that i didn't struggle with the structure of the program and the fights with the borrow checker, but it did to the point where i don't really have to think about it much anymore.
Yes, I have a family of 6.
Good on them, because it will significantly increase their downside risk. And if Microsoft invests in Bitcoin, and Bitcoin drops significantly (which happens from time to time), Microsoft's senior management will be blamed for the money lost.
> One major difference between prompts and traditional software is that the underlying engine that interprets prompts, the LLM, is not deterministic and so the same prompt can result in different results in different calls even using the same LLM. Also, because the types and varieties of LLMs are proliferating, it is even harder to ensure that the same prompt will produce the same result across different LLMs. In fact, LLMs are evolving rapidly and there are important tradeoffs that can be made between inference cost, output quality, and local models versus cloud-hosted models. The implication of this fact is that when the underlying model changes, the prompt may require changes as well, which suggests that prompts will require continuous tweaking as models evolve.

And in this paragraph you explained exactly why prompts are not programs. No one wants a program they can never rely on and have to constantly tweak, that’s an insane idea.
Describing LOTR as "obviously an artifact of American culture" is a bit odd: it was written by a Brit and directed by a New Zealander.
Yes, Covid did cause massive disability. The colloquial term for it is Long Covid. I know at least three people suffering from it —- along a spectrum from slight to severe impairment of daily functioning.
https://archive.is/yHQa9
Not sure whether it’s part of her talk, but this demonstration of the RDS stream she uploaded on Soundcloud is pretty cool:

https://soundcloud.com/windytan-1/rds-mixdown
Canada has a worst of both worlds system. Most wealthy Canadians come to the US for procedures because they can afford it and there is no waitlist, and so they don't care how bad the Canadian healthcare system gets.
No disagreement from me regarding that.
Did Friedman utter those words to any member of Congress? Was he at a podium in an empty room at midnight?
> our next visit we didn't even get to see a doctor, just a nurse practitioner... Kinda annoying I don't want parenting advice from a nurse

Is your kid sick? If not, you don't need a doctor.
I didn't think so back when I was in a startup insurance program where it literally covered stuff.

But i've been on a "normal" health plan through my wife's job for the last 5 years.

The American health system is experienced totally differently by different classes of people.
Building connections and mini tools for my website builder and funnels to gain users organically through tooling that doesn't exist yet.

Sync contacts, products and orders with 3rd party processors like square, Stripe, others.

Also probably set up some basic AI hints like one click ad generator for Facebook, Instagram, or other ad platforms that will link to your Funnel.

Once complete I will either make lots of money or it was a huge waste of time.
However, the learning experience is priceless.

Also Making an offline Fantasy draft tool to learn Elixir and Pheonix.
That struck me as odd too.

It may be just additional HTTP headers added to the response, but then it's hardly fair to use that as a point of comparison and treat smaller as "better".
I'm working on a solution to the age-old problem of tracking my food intake. Every app I have every tried from the many dozens on the market has not met my need of a low friction simple UI tool, so I've built it myself.

I've built Journable, a simple & frictionless chat-based & photo-based calorie tracker. Just type in what you've eaten, in as much or as little detail as you can. Or type in what you did for exercise. Or just snap a photo of your plate. Whatever works for you.

https://www.journable.com/
It's not very mundane, it's quite difficult to search for things when you don't know exactly what the thing is. Computers are laughably bad at this. I can tell a friend to find something in my room and give a vague description of the object. But with a file on my computer, I need to know actual content in the file. And images or video? Forget about it, if you don't remember part of the filename or what subdirectory it's in then it's gone.
This is my understanding of the US situation.

It used to be that doctors were running their own small medical offices a lot. Unfortunately, due to insurance overhead it's no longer profitable for individual doctors to do that, especially without existing patients, so the remaining offices are mostly from doctors near retirement age.

So as doctors retire and new doctors don't want to start their own practices those practices have been getting bought out by large medical networks or private equity. Some offices are also going out of network with insurance companies. It doesn't help that PE is willing to pay a ton more than any new doctor could for the practice.

I'd recommend picking medical plans with out referral requirements and with good out-of-network coverage.
I'm finishing building a 120sqft shed in the back yard, learning Fusion 360, and hopefully getting my chronic sinusitis solved.

Poured a slab, designed, framed, used as much reclaimed lumber as I could, and sheathed a lean-to style shed. My first attempt at building a structure, and it's coming out nice. This is to replace the 64sqft 5' shed that a neighbors tree fell on earlier this year, but we really need the extra storage.

I got a Bambu P1S 3D printer for Father's Day to replace an old Ender 3 Pro, and it has just been a dream. TinkerCAD, while amazing and a very capable tool, I'm ready to move on to something else. I tried Plasticity, and it showed a lot of promise but I found it very frustrating, bumped against some missing documentation and ran out of free trial time. Tried FreeCAD 1.0RC/Ondsel, and it's a fantastic piece of software. Yesterday I decided to give Fusion 360 a try and it's just so much more refined. Started the Product Design Online tutorials on Youtube yesterday and the stuff you're building in the first 5 15 minute lessons are frankly amazing.
LookOutWindow.com , mapping the routes between airports, and showing points of interest along the route. I wanted a way to read about what I was flying over, and which worked offline. We have amazing views up there, but no idea what we are looking at.
Caring about efficiency and performance doesn't have to mean spending all your time on it until you've exhausted every possible avenue. Sometimes using the right tools and development stack is enough to make massive gains.

Sometimes it means spending a couple extra minutes here or there to teach a junior about freeing memory on their PR.

No one is suggesting it has to be a zero-sum game, but it would be nice to bring some care for the engineering of the craft back into a field that is increasingly dominated by business case demands over all.