skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you're saying they actively decide denial rates at management level to hit profit targets, I don't buy it.

He has much closer culpability to the CEO of the company that sells me cigarettes than the guy who murdered my grandma. The world is a fallen place.

I thought the example up thread re: not being an animal trapper was a Jonathan Swift-esque send up of the whole idea though, so I might be missing a screw or two.
The important detail that has bogged down almost every union type discussion is "zero values". What would be the zero value of a union type?
If you've written Go you know the entire language is built around zero values, disabling it for some types is not an option.
Literally the first three proposed explanations in the discussion of the findings in the meta-study you linked are correlational. It is only the fourth proposed explanation that suggests a possible causal relationship.
Originally the PNR when the reservation systems where built in the 1960’s and 70’s the six / seven / eight digit reference was the hash of the physical location in memory of the booking. It would take very few cpu cycles to recall the booking.

Nowadays of course the booking reference is virtual.
Thank you for making this comment, because it exposes some logical gaps.

Firstly, Go, Chess, and other games have objective rules and win criteria. (There is no “subjective opinion” as to whether Fischer or Spassky won their match.)

Language, the output of LLMs, does not have an objective function. Consider the following to sentences:

“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand.”

“My red lips are ready to kiss your red lips.”

Both are grammatically correct English sentences and both mean basically the same thing, but clearly the former by Shakespeare has a subjective poetic quality which the latter lacks. Even if we make evaluation rules to target (for example, “do not repeat phrases”, “use descriptive adjectives”, etc.) AI still seems to favor certain (for example “delve”) that are valid but not commonly used in human-originated English. There is then a positive feedback loop where these preferences are used to further train models, hence the next generation of models have no way of knowing whether the now frequent usage of “delve” is a human-originated or AI-originated phenomenon.

Lastly, regarding works of fiction, the concern is less about the content of stories—though that is also a concern—but more about the quality of language. (Consider above alternate take on Romeo and Juliet, for example.)
> ...with Calin Georgescu coming out of nowhere to win the first round, with classical polling showing him below 5%.

Obviously I'm no expert in Romainian voting procedures, but how does that make any sense without there being vote tampering? The polling must have been able to see him coming. It is hard to see even a state actor successfully pulling off that sort of insane last minute blitz without resorting to a mind control ray.

Legit or not, something insane just happened.
This is a video game history channel that usually goes a little more in-depth than that. Good production value, a soothing voice, and a nice ride through gaming's yesteryear -- often much better than others in the "genre" on YouTube
On a slight tangent I’m a bit confused by Reddit type internet reaction acting like this guy is an evil mastermind of the insurance industry while he was apparently making $10M per year.

Now that’s definitely a lot of money, but as far as industry masterminds go it’s not indicative of being top tier at all. Second or maybe third tier really.

Is it the sort of situation where the company has 10 people all labeled “CEO” of different functions? Or was the $10M salary alone?
Do you have prior experience reporting to them, or why do you believe this to be the case?

(I'm not affiliated with them, just an occasional customer who's wondering if they have a bad reputation in this regard or something.)
This is a fantastic news!
I spent hours on fine tuning my prompt to summarise text and output in JSON and still have some issues sometimes.
Is this feature available also with Go?
I'm surprised it has taken this long. It's blatant corruption.

The whole concept of civil asset forfeiture is already extremely shady because you are literally guilty until proven innocent. But then you add the fact that the agency gets to keep the money rather than it going to the Big Federal Tax Pile, and this kind of flagrant abuse is the only logical outcome.

Want some new shiny toys? Simply rob a random passer-by, it's legal! It's just "pennies from heaven", after all. [0]

[0]: https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/phelps-county-seizing-sus...
“ we wouldn't have appendices that need removal”

That they weren’t needed was another myth. They turned out to be helpful at stopping one of the main killers of early humanity: diarrhea. Still kills lots of people in the third world. Appendix helps prevent stomach problems, too. Quite a few people whose were removed figured that out on their own.
Do you mean the Color Computer Archive or the Internet Archive? If it's the former, they might already have much of what were on your missing cassettes.

https://colorcomputerarchive.com/

Not understanding the programs I was typing in from 'The Rainbow' and other sources was quite the source of frustration when I first started out, especially if I typed something wrong or the listing contained an error as I wouldn't understand how to debug it, but over time it eventually taught me a lot about programming.

There's a YouTube channel called 'CocoTown' that's going through creating a Moon Patrol clone in 6809 assembly on the CoCo. I've learned quite a bit from watching those videos.
He’s not wrong in that point. But in modern times, electors are chosen by the party or the candidate. Historically, they were chosen by elected state legislatures. Either way, there was a pretty short chain of trust between the voters and the electors.

That trust isn’t there when the oversight is from random people at an election commission or law enforcement agency.
I think the term used to describe the imposed cost regulation is 'Medical Loss Ratio (MLR)', and the providers that own both ends of the claims transactions can use inflated costs to artificially manipulate their MLR.
I am the opposite :) I run every day. I prefer long stretches of asphalt without any bends

Job.

But also, running in forests messes with my pace and focus somehow.
MSRP
The copycats would think of themselves as Dexter, doing good for the society while keeping the hobby alive (pun intended).
Data Processing Inequality and Unsurprising Implications (2018)
I am surprised no one is talking about it.
Agreed, my go to when feeling like I haven't produced real work in awhile is to document processes, especially if there is something I've noticed has been done poorly or been asked about a couple times recently.
Wikimedia Deutschland exists for 20 years, has their own fundraising team which seams quite successfull based on sums raised, has their headquarters in Berlin and employ like 160 people.

From what I read "bar" hosts events every week at worst, including other orgs and initiatives, like Open Data or Open Content (sorry if I use wrong names, I used German article and my German is really bad).

I am always in awe how low is the knowledge of the scale of open initiatives in Germany. Linux distros, openstreetmap contributions, many open data initiatives, businesses developing OSS and offering support to it, or plainly promoting opensource and develepmont among citizens from early age. I'm humbled by their contribution to truly open initiatives and would not blink an eye if they "wasted" rent money for a single place. Also it's pennies compared to contributions they bring.

To any Germans reading, as much as us Poles can't shake off tension between our countries, we still see what you are doing. A true and honest hats off, to what you are doing to education and how vast is understanding of openness in your average citizen.

P.s. Wikimedia HQ is in San Francisco, I wonder how is the rent there...

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiB%C3%A4r
A person who adapts their beliefs just so that they are in opposition to what some official institution is saying is not an independent thinker, but the exact opposite.

It's like when I was thirteen and suddenly thought my parent's interests were really uncool.

The reasons for why immunity to certain diseases is mandated is transparent and easy to understand.

Talk to someone with education in the field, like your doctor, rather than playing the edgelord.

In the abstract I can find the empathy in me to understand the childlike logic behind it, but like I said, zero patience for this bullshit.
Densing Law of LLMs
Developed countries never rerun elections because of stuff like that.
> You'll inevitably get database-as-the-API

I think that's actually the point of "postgres for everything"?
Ceteris paribus everyone wants to minimize the suffering of another. All the more when it's your own child. That's very different from having a moral obligation towards them to minimize their suffering, which is the thrust of my original post.

The thing is the vast majority of people find living to be on the whole a source of great joy, far greater than any suffering they may experience as a byproduct of it. The handful who don't do have the option, grim as it may be to consider, of returning to nonexistence. The fact that this option isn't taken by even 1% of people suggests strongly that nonexistence just isn't that compelling an alternative.
Your point about insurance industry profits is well-made, but I feel it slides rather smoothly past the gargantuan overhead the industry's mere existence demands. Given the industry does not provide healthcare services it seems straightforward to me that every penny spent either on insurance premiums or maintaining headcount to manage claims is money wasted.
And then there’s the Fennoscandia test: do you convert äöåø with the same rules as for German? Because, if you do, it looks very silly at least in Finnish. This is often the case in international sporting events and is basically a joke among Finns how Räikkönen becomes the insanity of ”Raeikkoenen” etc. ”Raikkonen” would be much preferred.
I am currently doing this, AMA!
>Does their lack of preexistence impact that equation in a meaningful way?

Yes. Obviously.
Trump won the popular vote and swept all the swing states.
That is why (e.g.) we chose grist over nocodb.
This is generally a bad idea. I never know when I'm going to get pulled into something that will take my attention away from the task. The only times I really do that anymore is if the task is not time critical or if it is something that I know I could be picked up by others in any state without any issue.
I'm afraid you underestimate rent costs. In smaller cities you may still find something nice for ~900 usd per month, in more popular places like Krakow, Prague ~1500 usd is more realistic but still optimistic.
If you don't have any discipline it becomes hell.

Not to mention that a random team writing a migration that locks a key shared table (or otherwise chokes resources) now causes outages for everyone.
There are many steps between "no scrutiny" and "overturn the entire months long electoral process two days before it was supposed to end based on hearsay".

The right thing to have done here was to let the process continue, have the fascist investigated by the relevant authorities for his likely crimes regardless of whether he won or not, have him stand before a judge, and convict him - and, if he had won, have Parliament suspend him and strip his immunity so that this can all happen.

We have laws and established legal frameworks for all of this. The CCR can't just overrule all other procedures and base its decisions on hearsay.
When I don't sleep enough I definitely have that, but it's not a thing that occurrs otherwise. Thank you!
> Pretty facetious comparison. Iraq and Afghanistan were on the whole a mistake, but completely different from Ukraine.

When I step in dog poo on my way to work, that's a mistake. When hundreds of thousands of people are killed by your actions, that is not a mistake as you put it. Especially when your legal standing to do so is shaky if not downright illegal.

My guess is that you agree with the saying: the death of 1 man is a tragedy but hundreds of thousands of them is a statistic.

> setting up US-friendly democratic governments and corporations.

Ok, lets flip the script here. When the US sets up government for their own interest, it's just helping democracy. When Russia does it, we call them puppet governments. Double standards much?

> There was absolutely no element of expansionism.

You are right, the US coalition simply installed military bases there for 20 years and propped up a government that was not capable of doing the job and was not popular either but all that mattered was that it was friendly to the US.

In Lithuania, when the Germans invaded in WW2, they consider that they were occupied by Germany for about 2 years.

The US stayed there for 20 years but according to you, this was not an occupation. You just ran it, tried to change it according what the west thought was acceptable, and interfered in every possible aspect.

I guess I got confused between the two, after all the difference is rather slim.

> Ask the Japanese and the South Koreans whether they are mad about being oppressed under the thumb of "US imperialism".

I am sure the Japanese are rejoicing knowing the US turned two of there cities into ruble in order to test a new weapon.
I just checked all APIs/Libs that the app uses had declared support of API_LEVEL_28, but have recommended a higher target (above 30). My bad. I assumed this modern Material 3 Compose had hard API-level requirements.
Interesting project! Reminds me of Astra DB who just worked with Wikimedia to vectorize Wikipedia: https://blog.wikimedia.de/2024/09/17/wikidata-and-artificial...

Nice work on the open source approach! Looking forward to seeing how this evolves.
A couple of other possible explanations: 1) People voted who don't normally vote, the main reason Trump has often overperformed polls. 2) Pollsters wanted to avoid a preference cascade.

I think 1 is the most likely reason. It's important to remember Romania is much poorer and more corrupt than the typical Western European country which means the established political parties are both less popular and more vulnerable to disruption by (in this case somewhat unhinged) outsiders.
Terrible video.
Maybe the solution will be for tools like uv or poetry to warn if dynamic metadata is used and strongly discourage it. Then over time the users of packages that use dynamic metadata will start to urge the package authors to stop using it.

I wouldn’t bet on this one. I know a lot of python package maintainers who would likely rather kill their project than to adapt to a standard they don’t like. For example see flake8’s stance on even supporting pyproject.toml files which have been the standard for years: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8/issues/234#issuecomment-8128...

I know because I’m the one that added pyproject.toml support to mypy 3.5 years ago. Python package developers can rival Linux kernel maintainers for resistance to change.
Couldn't it be just the first enum item? Zero values are somewhat arbitrary anyway.
No, this is extensively tested and include educated, higher social-class and stable families. Make a consultation with a practicing psychologist if you doubt the dozens of studies carried out across nations in both the West and the East.

"Even AFTER accounting for family background and achievement at the end of kindergarten, mobile students had significantly lower reading and math achievement tests scores in seventh grade."

"Frequent relocation was associated with higher rates of all measures of child dysfunction; 23% of children who moved frequently had repeated a grade vs 12% of children who never or infrequently moved. Eighteen percent of children who moved frequently had four or more behavioral problems vs 7% of children who never or infrequently moved. Use of logistic regression to control for potential confounding covariates demonstrated that children who moved frequently were 77% more likely to be reported to have four or more behavioral problems"
Why does 3p charging work way better in European countries like France and Germany? Talked to a guy that had a (if I recall correctly) Mercedes EV family van and he was doing a road trip and he said at least in France it was smooth going for travel.

I would think the incentive is aligned because then your not making money but you still have land rent or property taxes to pay but not generating any revenue to cover it.
Those laptops kind of died up to a point, whoever can use an smartphone or tablet used those instead.
> This phrase: "responsible for so many deaths" is doing a lot of work in your post. What is your theory of responsibility?

You can look up the definition of the word "responsibility" to clarify what it means.

You can complement that understanding with the understanding of what are the most basic responsibilities of a CEO, and all the reports about how this specific insurance company implemented official policies to automatically reject access to medical treatment that those who trusted their healthcare provider would desperately need.
Is it Tesla sales that is down or a general down trend in the car market? Tesla's Model Y is still the best selling car model in the world in 2024
This post has nothing to do with Go ignoring computing history. The authors/maintainers of Go can do that just fine on their own.
Aside from technical troubleshooting reasons, never for “social” interactions. For all other times, all
I will say is that your guess is probably correct.
> I'm not saying that those were justified (especially not in hindsight), but the Americans had gotten hit very hard before and had a somewhat credible justification at the start.

France had almost 200 people killed in 2015 at the Bataclan. They did not invade another country because of this.

This is a very weak argument.
First of all, the secret service did not tell the President it was Russian interference. They said they suspected foreign interference.

Legal decisions can't be based on hearsay from the secret service. Courts take decisions based on proof presented in front of them. For extraordinary decisions, they are supposed to look for extraordinary evidence. The declassified documents are pointing at irregularities, and perhaps a campaign finance violation by one individual. That is a far cry from overwhelming evidence.
This paper was first published in May 2023 and discussed on HN the following month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36319076

Some research since seems to add nuance to its conclusions:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01413
People were hysterical about Meloni before the elections and then nothing actually happened.

This could be yet another case of the EUSA establishment crying wolf.
Legendary Irish singer Dickie Rock dies aged 88
Check it out, but ~2020 saw where in the US could BUY a nice manufactured house, with a mortgage, for ~$300/month. Land? Some small rural communities have been falling in population and are eager for new people -- sooooo, land for the house might not be too much.

Be sure to have cell phone and Internet access and be not too far from a Walmart, a hospital, and, maybe, auto repair. In the US can get nice weather, usually not too hot or cold or too wet or dry, in the East at the latitude of, say, Kentucky.

In Maryland, Virginia, and DC, there is lots of Federal Civil Service employment, and the hiring is not based much on "who you know" but what you can do, education, experience.
That's an interesting question. Here are some answers:

> Medicare physician payment has decreased by 26% since 2001. Additionally, a recent Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study found that physician reimbursement per Medicare patient decreased 2.3% between 2005 and 2021 when accounting for inflation. And this was despite a 45.5% increase in physician services to each patient. Again, less pay and more work.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/popmedicine/110901
Why would you release a press write up of a new blade design and not include a picture of the blade design?
Judging by their pricing section I highly doubt it.
> How will this change events like G20, Copenhagen, or Davos?

Nothing will change, have you seen the security apparatus of G20? They literally turn any place into a fortress.

Visit Canary Wharf or City of London and most of the infrastructure for barricading or lock down is already there.

What is unexpected to me is that this starts with Healthcare when my expectation would have been Oil and Gas first.

> What comes next?

A. They find him and he gets accidentally murdered during arrest so that he never sits in front of a jury.

B. They never find him and a copycat trend begins.
Why would it be just the first enum item? How do you even determine how the enum is ordered?
> if you're saying they actively decide denial rates at management level to hit profit targets, I don't buy it.

To believe in that, first you need to believe that somehow any executive of a company has no control over the company, does not have a duty to make certain things are done a certain way, nor is accountable for how the company is managed.
>If you don't boost them with all your night, ... Life of struggle and misery, in today's world.

That's not my experience of the world at all. Quite the opposite, in fact: I had a pretty good time when I was coasting by on minimum effort, and I'm having an even better time now that I'm putting in some mild amount of effort.

I have no reason to suspect this will change in the next generation. If anything the falling costs of goods and services everywhere suggests they'll get an even easier ticket.
> In the Romanian case, the argument is not whether the right candidate won, it is whether campaigning laws were broken.

> Prove that something unlawful happened, and then you can talk.

Why this double standard? In the Romanian case, nothing has been proven. There are precisely two one-page long reports from secret services saying there were irregularities favoring this candidate. This is barely enough evidence to even start a prosecution, nevermind issue a final judicial decision to overturn an almost finished election.

I'm as happy as anyone with half a brain that Călin Georgescu is not our next President. But the way the courts went about this is undeniably illegal.
Do you have a reliable source for those facts? Because there’s a lot of newspaper articles and allegedly some report from the Romanian spooks and I wouldn’t call any of those facts.

If they have a trial and if they prove corruption then that’s fair and square. Right now we’re in the “journalists and rival politicians accuse” phase.
I think there’s a very strong argument Clinton could’ve won the EC in 2016. There was almost no EC bias this year. Trump won the tipping point state, PA, by 1.8, and the popular vote by about 1.5. The country swung 5-6 points right from 2020. But Harris pretty much just parked herself in PA, MI, and WI and kept the swing in those states under 3 points. If she had won, she very well could’ve done so while losing the popular vote.

It also shows that the counterfactuals are misguided. Campaigning makes a bigger difference than the typical margin of the popular vote. Candidates only campaign in the swing states (if they’re smart) so we don’t know what would happen if they were trying to win the popular vote.
It just doesn’t make sense.

Meth can keep you up longer but you’ll still need to sleep eventually.

People like to justify “bad” behavior. We all do it all the time. I just ate some potato chips even though I knew I had enough food today because I have a long day tomorrow and told myself it’d help me sleep.