skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is avoiding catastrophic costs not a compassionate reason?

Different people can have different reasons for supporting a program. The fact that you think government provided healthcare is "compassionate" doesn't mean that other people can't think that it's a purely transactional arrangement similar to home or car insurance. A grocery store providing food is arguably "compassionate", in the sense that it stops you from starving, but no one would claim "grocery stores are inherently compassionate".

>Why should someone not be eligible/worthy to avoid catastrophic costs? If someone is paying their premium (be it from a Medicare/Medicaid plan or from their tax dollars), why should they not be covered?

Most other forms of insurance often contain a clause saying that it doesn't cover intentional or negligent damage. If you're doing doughnuts in a parking lot and crash into a pole, that won't be covered by your car insurance.

>Should we also refuse to rescue people who went hiking in deep wilderness or boating in unsafe waters?

AFAIK in some circumstances people get billed for those rescues, so it's not as good as an example as you think it is.

> Or negotiate the release of citizens taken prisoner by hostile foreign regimes or gotten seriously ill while vacationing against government advice? Since when is it good policy to refuse help to people who have made poor choices or taken risks?

At some point.. yes? These sorts of scenarios exist on a spectrum. The state department is probably not going to send in Seal Team Six to extract some kid who traveled to Syria to join ISIS but got cold feet. On the other end of the spectrum are stuff like "preventable" car accidents: most car accidents are arguably preventable (eg. rear ending a car because you were following too close), however such accidents are nonetheless covered by car insurance. Drawing the line at "elective cosmetic surgery" isn't "outrageous".
Our own frame of reference is the only one that matters, given the comment I'm replacing to.
Well said .. Hope the pile of complexity accumulated would not be a time bomb ...
My mom saw Hendrix and the Beatles in Seattle… she said both shows were awful because you couldn’t hear a thing due to subpar sound systems and, in the case of the Beatles, screaming young women. For the type of music they were playing the venues just didn’t have the tech yet to accommodate their respective sounds and crowds.
I’ve had the same experience, except helping complement build components or scripts.

Everyone on HN tells me how LLMs are horrible, yet I’ve saved literally hundreds of hours with them so far. I guess we’re just lucky.
I think what you mean is that all your examples don't work when recorded. But a human being in a train may hear the pen on the paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caznxOmRByU
https://archive.ph/kcZcY

Archive seems to "bake" JS sites to plain HTML.
Ok you win.
Tata seals deal with Pegatron for iPhone plant in India's Tamil Nadu
The last two sentences of that quote hit me so hard.
Can someone explain what the service worker strategy accomplishes that plain old http Cache headers don't? It saves a (almost zero weight) network roundtrip, but feels like it's re-inventing the entire wheel for that small (I think) optimization? Am I missing something?
I see. I didn’t realize the book uses a functional language. Thank you for explaining.
GAO claims to have saved a paltry $70B [0] in taxpayer dollars last year.

Here's them in 2022 saying $247B [1] got lost in that year due to "payment errors".

Looks like their job is to only make recommendations on spending and nothing more.

[0] https://www.gao.gov/blog/gaos-scorecard-how-we-saved-federal...

[1] https://www.gao.gov/blog/federal-payment-errors-known-improp...
Nothing. I'm not proud of anything from this year. A lot of the stuff is still half built due to time constraints.
Not true, the W790 chipset is purely for HEDT/workstations, distinct from the sapphire rapids server line. AMD also has an entire separate HEDT socket, sTR5 for threadripper CPUs. HEDT is alive and well!
Yep - i thought / hoped / assumed it was about Optimizers aka Sat solvers, etc

A la https://github.com/google/or-tools
I'm quite surprised about the number of times I've seen the world 'yggdrasil'.
Most countries require it.

It's as American as customary units
The Idiocracy theory. The trouble is that the traits behind the birthrate differences you're observing aren't genetic but financial: it's not genetically "dumb" people who have more kids, it's poor people, and genetic lines that transition out of poverty generally see commensurate birthrate drops.

If poor people were going to "outcompete" and wipe out rich people, it would have happened a long time ago.

Also, "religious" have been steadily declining for a while, so that theory doesn't work out. (Of course, the idea that most bad behavior stems from religion, and everyone would be nice to each other without it, is another fallacy.)
A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon(2019)
Thanks, that's a much better article (and published on a site that, while slightly annoying on its own, is infested with fewer rudely intrusive and resource-consuming ads).

Reading both, it's clear that (a) you are correct, and (b) the submitted link, besides being materially inaccurate, is shameless reblog spam and should be changed.
It's not really that. The quality of these tools will probably increase, and I'm fine with more competition, and with less experienced developers being empowered to build their own products.

What is depressing to me is that the products showcased here are essentially cookie-cutter derivatives built on and around the AI hype cycle. They're barely UI wrappers around LLMs marketed as something groundbreaking. So the thought of the web being flooded with these kinds of sites, in addition to the increase in spam and other AI generated content, is just depressing.
Uhh, about that English skill ranking... I wouldn't take that very seriously.

I mean sure, Japan is quite infamous when it comes to English proficiency. But looking at the list, some countries are quite interesting in the "High proficiency" group. I know that in some of these countries most people would die of thirst if they had to ask a glass of water in English (or any other foreign languages, to be exact).
Grammar and style are ultimately just two ends of a spectrum. The greatest writing sin is ambiguity (including partial ambiguity due to the possibility of mishearing or similarity to common errors); improper placement of weight means having ambiguity until the reader completes the sentence.

Weight is harmed by the widespread "rule" against using the passive voice (which is as bad a rule as "said is dead"). I'd say that topic (vs comment) is most important, then agent (vs action/patient), with subject (vs predicate/object) last and thus not sensible to make rules about.
What's your point? If they couldn't manage to secure the resources necessary, they shouldn't have agreed to livestream it. As a customer, I don't care AT ALL if it's difficult.
The World Grid and New Geographies of Cooperation
Have you used much python, or are you just buying into the "python slow" memes?

Unless they've done something very very wrong performance will be fine. This isn't doing anything where python's overhead would matter.

It's glueing together some highly optimized code written in other languages, or using python as a DSL to interface with highly optimized libraries like numpy, or generate highly optimized assembly with something like JAX, or if they're really fancy compiling a restricted subset directly to GPU shaders or something.

Python is plenty fast for most stuff, and when it isn't it has one of the best pathways towards optimization.
Little-known fact: a syndication feed (RSS or Atom) can be used as a sitemap.

Quoting https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#otherformats:

> The Sitemap protocol enables you to provide details about your pages to search engines, […] in addition to the XML protocol, we support RSS feeds and text files, which provide more limited information.

> You can provide an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) 2.0 or Atom 0.3 or 1.0 feed. Generally, you would use this format only if your site already has a syndication feed.
The truth is somewhere in between. The "Great Man" theory of history has been in declension for decades and it is mostly conservatives who are propping it up and keeping it alive. (Pick up any major bio of Churchill to see an example.) I think it deserves to thrive alongside other theories of history.

But thumbs up for the Stone Soup trope -- it is right up there with The Emperor's New Clothes and The Dog in the Manger in terms of its general applicability to life.
wysiwyg document authoring experience, afaik there are still no alternative publishing platforms with both the flexibility and point click content authoring UX of Notion. Change my view, I’m in the market!
Yes, and they weren't all a bed of roses. Aftermarket car alarms, disablers, remote start systems, etc. were pretty notorious for causing minor to fairly serious issues of their own. Also maybe because a lot of the installers were not very good at their jobs.
It's not a surprise that most of students failed and hate abstract algebra right ? I mean to learn the concept, you will need to know more about the concept itself in a real world context.
A 0.4 with cosine similarity is not the same as a 0.4 with sigmoid thresholding.

0.4 cosine similarity is pretty good for real-world data that isn't an near-identical duplicate.
> What if your kidney isn't compatible with that of your family member, and they'd have to rely on a stranger's donation? How would you then feel about never having donated in the past?

Donation chains partially address this.

But more importantly, donation now means you and your family get bumped up to the top of the list if needed later.
Yeah, but a new generation is coming of age, whose teachers only learned these ideas through books, not experience. They are rediscovering computer science one blog post or tweet at a time, because books and classes are obsolete.
Sad that people have to pay their employees?
Well yeah, it’s tape storage.
> But wasn’t macOS the only major gaming-relevant platform still using OpenGL anyway?

At the time, there was a decent number of non-gaming cross-platform applications that relied on OpenGL for rendering. OpenGL wasn't perfect (especially compared to DirectX 9) but it was a good-enough solution for simpler apps and games that wanted the write-once-run-anywhere treatment.

> If you’re already writing a Mac-specific backend, why not just write directly for Metal instead of OpenGL?

Because a lot of people don't write Mac specific backends in the first place. Unless the app was designed to be Mac native from the start (a rarity in the professional world), there is very little impetus to rewrite everything to work with Metal and/or AArch64 targets. OpenGL suggested a future world where this would be unneccesary, and people liked it. With Metal as the only option now, a lot of people feel like Apple slammed the door on people that wanted to write cross-platform apps supporting Mac.

> Or, at the least, write for Vulkan and use a translation layer like MoltenVK?

MoltenVK is too slow for games (compared to DXVK it is an utter slouch) so most people don't even bother. There are a few apps that you can run in it, but for the most part it is a toy that rightfully isn't relied upon to deliver industry-standard experiences.
I’m struggling to recall some of those early fun accounts. Do you remember any interesting automated feeds from Twitter’s early days?
If they are willing to pay for this kind of eye surgery out of pocket, then I suppose it is not too much asked that they pay a treatment for glaucoma, cataract or macular degeneration out of pocket.
A computer fundamentally isn’t functions though. That’s not how a processor works. If functions are a useful abstraction, why haven’t functional languages taken off?
It's not, the liver can regenerate multiple times as long as you haven't sustained damage (scarring, etc) that would prevent it.
>if you want weight lose drugs that cost $1k+/month, you should show proof you aren't being a glutton.

This makes as much sense as "if you want anti-depressants, you have to prove you aren't being sad".
But in that case there shouldn't be any invalid moves, ever. Another tester found gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct to be suggesting at least one illegal move in 16% of the games (source: https://blog.mathieuacher.com/GPTsChessEloRatingLegalMoves/ )
John Oliver claimed that they ran out of time one season but were going to do an episode on those headlights. I'm still sad they didn't get to it, or at least just dump their source material because I also think it's become terrible
Glad to see that the author is highlighting verification as the important factor in design productivity.

We at Silogy [0] are directly targeting the problem of verification productivity using AI agents for test debugging. We analyze code (RTL, testbench, specs, etc.) along with logs and waveforms, and incorporate interactive feedback from the engineer as needed to refine the hypothesis.

[0] https://silogy.io/
Meanwhile, you will get automatically banned for posting "there are only two genders" on Bluesky: https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1858157070018560377. And I will get downvoted here for showcasing the extreme censorship on that platform, to be sure.
Suppose you run a fleet of a thousand machines. They all autotune. They are, lets say, serving cached video, or something.

You notice that your aggregate error rate been drifting upwards since using bpftune. It turns out, in reality, there is some complex interaction between the tuning and your routers, or your TOR switches, or whatever - there is feedback that causes oscillations in a tuned value, swinging between too high and too low.

Can you see how this is not a matter of simple deduction and rollbacks?

This scenario is plausible. Autotuning generally has issues with feedback, since the overall system lacks control theoretic structure. And the premise here is that you use this to tune a large number of machines where individual admin is infeasible.
i liked the pictures :)
This seems intuitively true to me. The more I run, the quicker my heart rare matches whatever I’m doing. Resting - low heart rate; running - high heart rate.

If you watch elite runners, they can go from 2+ hours of sprinting (elite marathon pace) to giving an interview in 30 seconds
I presume apple store had similar approach on building native applications after saw marketplace analytics. It all about resources and market reach.
> For years I've kept a list of apps / ideas / products I may do someday. I never made the time, with Cursor AI I have already built one, and am working on another.

This is one fact that people seem to severely under-appreciate about LLMs.

They're significantly worse at coding in many aspects than even a moderately skilled and motivated intern, but for my hobby projects, until now I haven't had any intern that would even as much as taking a stab at some of the repetitive or just not very interesting subtasks, let alone stick with them over and over again without getting tired of it.
I have experimented with a Thinkpad T14s and Framework 13 AMD during the past year. Running Linux.

I think the Framework is a much more solid machine. The quality of the hardware feels higher to me and I like the screen ratio more. The keyboard feels even better than my Macbook Air M2's.

I would recommend it for Linux use at least. I don't know about Windows.

If something closer to the hardware quality of Macbooks came along, I'd switch immediately, but there doesn't seem to be such a thing. Of course, I don't have the resources to try everything out there.
You are comparing mathematicians to programmers.

A more fair comparison is engineering or applied math major, not pure math at MIT.
But, a lot of employers demand a degree.
Facebook has infamously failed to solve their moderation problems with their real name policy - why do you think it would work any better for bsky?
Family can object to organ donation from dead relatives where I live.
That one was for work - but let me try again on an example project and I'll share it sure.
Of course it's bad that they have to. But not letting them do it doesn't magically make the ends meet. Right now, today, people have to sell their organs to make ends, but they can't, so they fail to make ends meet.

Your argument amounts to rejecting marginal improvement because it's still not good enough.
The same applies to CS, so you're missing something else -- skilled tutors and the campus experience.
"Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. Allow the man to steal your F-35 documents and you must communicate that teaching time is over."
India's successful test of hypersonic missile puts it among elite group
I just tried YouTube And back and forward works just fine. Exactly how I would expect. Can you expand more on what you see?
That pretty much sums up X: people hurling insults at each other while Dear Leader exhorts them to support conservatives in unblockable posts.

I get it can be satisfying, but I just walked away from the toxicity, as I would in real life.
That’s a hell of a way to achieve universal healthcare.
I absolutely cannot fucking stand in-video advertisements/sponsorship segments. I wrote a chrome extension a while back that just feeds the transcript to an LLM and gets the start/end time of the sponsored segment, then just skips it in the video.
Less than a week, tops. The hard part was the content - curating the resources for creating the podcasts
It's a single tape. Even without any kind of fast forward, the write speed of LTO-9 is 6 meters per second. It takes three minutes to go completely end to end.
you do know that there are other kinds of freelancing apart from coding, right?
Armchair QBing this thing with practically no info, but I wonder if this isn't the type of idea that should target specific places with incomes that can support higher prices and demographics that are educated enough to be looking for/open to this type of service and expand/scale once established.

Meaning, target affluent blue suburbs first. And then use those as beach heads to scale to lower income areas over time. This could have been tried for all I know, but I think if you do it in a controlled manner like that you can also build deeper local connections with care providers so that people have someone they can talk to in person, which I sense is also important for users of this service. Also, I don't really like the name. It tells me nothing about the service. This is also something that I'd be open to as a girldad.
That doesn't change anything wrt what the parent commenter said.

Imagine—

Officer: The reason why I pulled you over is that you were doing 45, but this is a 25 mph school zone right now, and even aside from that the posted speed when this is not a school zone is only 35. So you shouldn't be going faster than that, like you were just now.

Motorist: But sometimes you want to go faster than that.
That's the consequence of procreation
that they can be used to compute stuff locally

I imagine ideally we want user choice of where the computation is happening. if on a mobile device I'd save battery in exchange for network latency

but in a desktop computer I'd rather do as most local computation as I can
Why is it depressing? I find it exhilarating

I’m able to bring ideas to life that I could only think about before
GPT-4o's Personality Revealed: An INFJ in the Machine?
Reminds me of how some manufacturers tried to combine a small SSD with a large HDD the same way in the early 2010s.
Yeah, that's fair, I've had very low bodyfat and been pretty fit in the past without having a sixpack, so I know it's not something everyone can reasonably achieve.

I guess I would assume that the overlap of people that would be this motivated to get a six pack, people for whom a surgical sixpack would look reasonably convincing, and people who cannot otherwise achieve a sixpack would be relatively small, and it seems I would be wrong to assume that.
Especially for small startups, https://typemill.net can be a handy solution, since it is very lightweight and can also produce handbooks in PDF format.
Don’t we have some sort of agreement to keep planetary biospheres clear of earth organisms?
I don't mind tools that empower programmers or even less technical people to build products. I use these tools myself in minor ways, even though I find them to be more of a nuisance than actually helpful.

What I find depressing is how quickly someone with minimal experience can flood the web with low quality services, in search for a quick buck. It's like all the SEO spam we've been seeing for decades, but exponentially worse. The web will become even more of a nightmare to navigate than it already is.
Independence itself is a point in time thing. When there is a movement that results in something the movement doesn’t suddenly disappear after the success. The movement continues to influence power and how things are shaped.

If a movement of violent uprising resulted in Indias independence, the British may have packed their bags but the armies and militias would stay and given the nature of militias, will probably not suddenly turn peaceful. The British was the enemy yesterday, the other <religion, language or another faction> would the enemy today. See any African country.

What the nonviolent movement achieved in India is not just independence. Like you said there were other ways for independence, arguably faster. What the nonviolent movement achieved was long term stability and lack of civil wars /internal conflicts(for the most part).
Even if true, which I'm skeptical of, social media sites don't have to be permanent. It's no different from any other service being enshittified, just use it until it sucks and then stop.
If you have an inverse function, use that to test all round tripa?
There are so many frameworks, especially on the web and in Javascript, that I have absolutely zero interest in learning.

In fact, my main reason for not doing any web development is that I find the amount of layers of abstraction and needless complexity for something that should really be simple quite deterring.

I'm sure e.g. React and GraphQL allow people to think about web apps in really elegant and scalable ways, but the learning curve is just way more than I can justify for a side project or a one-off thing at work that will never have more than two or three users opening it once every few months.
China is a country of over 1 billion people. It has advanced and surpassed many Western countries in the span of just 40 years. Trying to put a leash on them with sanctions is futile, hostile, and will only increase their determination. We should be trying to find common ground and working with them instead of fabricating another boogeyman for no reason.
In this specific case, it's hard to see how LLMs can get you from here to there. the problem isn't the boilerplate code like when you build a react website with them, but the really novel architectures (and architectural decisions, more importantly) that you need to make along the way. Some of those can seem very arbitrary and require deep understanding to pull off. You can't just use language-like tokens to reason this out. Fundamental understanding of the laws and rules of thumb are important.
I think I should create a video showing it

Usually its v0.dev for the basic UI and then just prompting cursor
That's not a meaningful benchmark for valuing art or creating art
Radio is one of the biggest users of battery on mobile devices.