skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question, why exactly should we work so hard to insulate the ultra-rich from the consequences of their actions? They are already virtually completely insulated, whereas everybody else is held to the standard which should be reserved for those with the education to know better and the resources to do better.
I have large extended family scattered all over the country, and very few of them live in high cost areas. Only two household are in the top 1%. Out of the rest, almost all are working regular jobs outside the tech industry and living regular middle class lives. Most who have been out of school for a few years own their own homes. They haven't been victims of any major crimes. I've met some of their neighbors, too, and they generally seem like nice upstanding people.
I'm still waiting for someone to name me a major American city that isn't a blue city. If every major city is blue, then there isn't anything to compare it to. At least NY has had a couple of Republican mayors this century, but I doubt the same could be said of San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston.

Big cities will naturally have more crime than little villages, but as someone else mentioned, per capita stats are key.
Call it WebScript. It has nothing to do with Java anyway.
It really reads like a fun thought experiment which in practice is really impractical for real-world use cases.

"I can make your life miserable and I have enough money to do so" is something that can happen in the real world and that the average person doesn't want to happen. Tthe Statute of Anne was created b/c previously printers could essentially publish any work that wasn't already in publication by another house... which is in some ways closer to a Harberger tax situation, but was widely hated by everyone who wasn't one of the publishers who monopolized access to the printing presses.
In my personal experience, libraries/code that is widely applicable is what benefits from having a great weird fun name. No one wants to deal with a one off service you decided to name Hecate with no reason or broader appeal.
I heartily recommend the Korg Opsix to anyone who wants to experiment with FM synthesis.

As the article mentions, the UI of the DX7 made programming it, modifying existing sounds or coming up with new ones entirely, difficult to say the least.

With the Opsix, much of the ability to tweak aspects of the operators, envelopes, LFOs and so on, are given dedicated knobs and sliders, or easily accessible menus whose parameters are tweakable with physical knobs. The hands-on UI of the Opsix turns what once was an ordeal of menu diving and incremental buttons into a much more rewarding, interactive experience.

I play one live in a band and use an old Yamaha KX76, the dedicated controller bigger brother to the DX7 as a controller for the Opsix. Best of both worlds. The feel on those old keyboards is superb.
Isn’t this kind of a universal problem in media now? Movies compete with every other media. The only voices that can be heard in that competitive marketing environment are big budget, winner take all, projects, and direct access to niche segments (YouTubers).
If they're residing in the other country, they're supposed to be paying income taxes to that country, in addition to taxes to the US. The taxes to the US will probably be canceled out by the tax exemption they can claim for the taxes paid locally though, but they still have to file in the US unless they renounce their US citizenship.
But what's the point of making piano patches that sound realistic, except as a tour de force? It's sort of a "Pierre Menard, author of Quixote" sort of thing.

What I'd be interested in is how viable it is for producing intetesting, distinctive sounds, and tweaking them to your liking in a comprehensible way, not poking blindly.
The difference is fanny packs have utility. Even Batman has a utility belt. I call my fanny pack my "Utility Belt" in fact. Batman didn't wear beads. lol.
It's possible for someone to have the legal right to demand something and still be a butthead for demanding it. Noting that fact doesn't make you a jerk.
Private companies could sue under the act. There are associations of small grocers that could have sued and didn't.

I wonder if enterprise pricing by software vendors and negotiated pricing between payers and providers violate the act.
> At scale, you are doing the same thing with humans too. LLMs seem to have an error rate similar to humans for the majority of simple, boring tasks, if not even a bit better since they don't get distracted and start copying and pasting their previous answers.

This is the big one missed by the frequent comments on here wondering whether LLMs are a fad, or claiming in their current state they cannot be used to replace humans in non-trivial real-world business workflows. In fact, even 1.5 years ago at the time of GPT 3.5, the technology was already good enough.

The yardstick is the peformance of humans in the real world on a specific task. Humans, often tired, having a cold, distracted, going through a divorce. Humans who even when in a great condition make plenty of mistakes.

I guess a lot of developers struggle with understanding this because so far when software has replaced humans, it was software that on the face of it (though often not in practice) did not make mistakes if bug-free. But that has been never been necessary for software to replace humans - hence buggy software still succeeding in doing so. Of course, often software even replaces humans when it's worse at a task for cost reasons.

They're at the very least competitive, if not better than, doctors at diagnosing illnesses [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/health/chatgpt-ai-doctors...
> Single payer literally meant that all citizens are subscribed to the same government operated health insurance.

Correct, but that's a pretty big change from the propaganda you repeated in your previous comment. What you said was, "This was discussed briefly during the Obama healthcare debates, but broadly rejected by left who wanted to eliminate private options." In another now-deleted comment, you also said, "the left was too fixated On preventing people from buying better care".

Nothing about having single payer healthcare prevents people from also purchasing private healthcare. Single payer does not require the elimination of private options--when you said that was what the left wanted, you were repeating a lie. People can and do purchase private healthcare in countries with single-payer systems--it's just not common because generally the private healthcare options aren't worth it.

> If the entire "single payer" program was completely optional and offered at cost, they totally missed the messaging on that one, because I was paying attention and that wasnt my take away.

Single-payer is optional in the same sense that current subsidies to insurance companies are optional, it just costs less and results in less death and human suffering.

Your insistence that it has to be "offered at cost" is basically an insistence that people who can't afford that cost but need life saving care can just die. So no, it wasn't "offered at cost"--that's the entire point. I want Americans to be able to receive life-saving medical care when they need it, even if they are poor. That's just basic empathy for our fellow humans.
Confluent Developer but Wes Anderson [video]
Does this film feel biographical in nature? Do you, too, struggle to overcome the data problems these poor souls face?
Congratulations on your work! I tried Outerbase Studio and really appreciate the clean and visually appealing design. However, I noticed that it occasionally slows down during use. Looking forward to seeing future updates to make it even smoother!
I'm not sure people care much about the debt repayment thing? If I rack up a bill at a bar, I can technically force them to accept a sack of pennies as repayment, but most people use digital payments like credit cards. At that point it doesn't really matter if my bank account holds USD, GBP, BTC or any other liquid asset, as long as the payment infrastructure can handle any necessary conversions.
Human communications are more naunced than DB transactions. If I forget to mention something important I send a new message rather than editing the already sent one, to make sure I catch their attention. Edits can go unnoticed. Imagine this scenario:

[12:00 / sent] Sell the house.

[12:05 / failed] Please feed the baby.

[12:06 / sent] Oh and the cat too.

Now the receiver's going to sell my cat [example inspired by The Art of Multiprocessor Programming].
I have Open WebUI on a Hetzner instance connected to Deep Infra. Works on mobile by turning the web page into an app. I find the web framework that WebUI uses quite bloated/slow, but apart from that it does work reliably. Price at Deep Infra is typically about $0.04 per month even when actively asking lots of questions during programming.
> Video games offer known "analytical" solutions for the interactions that the model provides as a "statistical approximation", so to say.

I think this is precisely why they're doing it. Video games are where the data is, because the analytical solutions can generate it.

They aren't trying to make a video game. They're trying to make an android.
If he had called Apple “a butthead fruit company”, it wouldn’t make sense to hold him to higher standard.

But a legal response to some light hearted rudeness? That was him taking things to a significantly lower standard.

If instead, he had used “Butthead Astronomer” to refer to himself on occasion, that would have only added to his (already significant and well deserved) legendary status.
Need not I say different bugs have many names...
Forget global warming, I want EVs to help air quality in my area. The silver lining of Covid was we had the cleanest air I have ever seen for a week or two when everyone was holed up in their homes and nobody was driving cars.
Now that you are caught up with the rest of us, read my response.

Am I saying I don't understand or am I saying I understand but the response is too nitpicky for me and what I feel is reasonably acceptable by the average person.
Doctors don't worry much about job security. Unemployment rate for licensed physicians is ~0% and demand is growing faster than supply. Greater use of wearable devices will only create more work for them, not less.
Unless you boot to terminal, while taking advantage of Microsoft contributions to the Linux kernel, Mesa is the thing that allows your graphics desktop to take advantage of your graphics card.

Are you sure none of the binaries being used by you wasn't implemented in Rust.

By the way, the Rust contributions to the Linux kernel are mostly driven by Google and Microsoft employees.
How much work have you put into having the value of your house double every four years? How many people are invested in your house appreciating like that? If your house appreciates, do a bunch of bankers and hedge funds also get rich along the way? How many politicians have you taken to lunch and on ski trips with the proceeds from the last time you sold half of your house when the price doubled?
I'd maintain that an important property is for the system to be eventually consistent with regards to history. You don't want a transient network event to potentially result in two users permanently seeing messages in a different order.
White House official: 8 US telecom providers hacked by Chinese
Killing the CEO is like in the movie "I care a lot" which is about a sociopath business ripping old people off. Wonder whether there was some inspiration from that.
Americans are largely solving this problem by not having children, or only trying to have children when it’s financially easy but medically difficult.

Automation may actually be the answer to a declining birth rate, and we might stabilize at a much lower world wide population as a result (say 4 rather than 8 billion). People will complain less about Waymo stealing jobs when there are no uber drivers left, but we really aren’t there yet, we still have a surplus of labor.
While serving time in HPC I saw a set of ETL jobs that were written using awk and xargs that beat the pants off a lot of in house code on both a performance and a simplicity standpoint. You lose a bit of "safety" when you take that approach (yes, I know you can do it in awk), but if you tightly control the inputs you don't need as many guard rails.

It's both unsurprising and amazing to me that a well crafted shell script can be highly performant.
Respond to my comment with your recommendation(s) for apps that allow or assist you in contacting others with encryption strong enough to keep out state-level attackers.
CEOs of largest companies don’t tend to spend much time near poor folks communities that suffer from violent mental health episodes. Executives even way further down forbs 500 have security staff.
But it wasn't cheap "back then" either. I've spent 1 hour one way riding 2 buses to school (same as my parents to work). We had 62 m^2 (670 sq. ft.) of house for 2 parents + 3 children.

It's just now we suddenly consider that too bad. Back then it was normal, just like everyone else.
Certainly at this point we have some of these answers, right? I have to imagine a lot of medical researchers have been excited about all this data. So is that information just not making its way to them? Is there not software? I got to imagine there is if lawyers want the data
> © 2025

Plus, we get free time travel to boot! Great project, I love it.
Except mirages are real optical phenomena that can be captured by a camera. Hallucinations are made entirely by your brain and cannot be captured by an external observer.
Well whatever demographic differences we have are isolating our experiences so that you see this as a Reddit phenomenon and I see it as real life. Age gap?
SequelPro for me!
This sounds like a pretty good use case for a consensus algorithm like Paxos or Raft
There is an obvious sounds to pianoteq which is basic the best place ano modeler out there. We are closed to the real thing but so far at the same time.
What value do they get from it? And in order to keep it, they must expend resources, and negative PR (although Oracle already had a bad enough reputation, that this would probably be negligible).
Using AI to analyze changes in pedestrian traffic
And at one point glyphosate was less toxic as well.
> While the hallucination problem in LLMs is inevitable

Oh, please. That's the same old computability argument used to claim that program verification is impossible.

Computability isn't the problem. LLMs are forced to a reply, regardless of the quality of the reply. If "Confidence level is too low for a reply" is an option, the argument in that paper becomes invalid.

The trouble is that we don't know how to get a confidence metric out of an LLM. This is the underlying problem behind hallucinations. As I've said before, if somebody doesn't crack that problem soon, the AI industry is overvalued.

Alibaba's QwQ [1] supposedly is better at reporting when it doesn't know something. Comments on that?

This article is really an ad for Kapa, which seems to offer managed AI as a service, or something like that. They hang various checkers and accessories on an LLM to try to catch bogus outputs. That's a patch, not a fix.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/alibaba-releases-an-open-c...
This didn't sit quite right with me and I think I've pinned down why.

The nature of code is that it is communication: it communicates action to the computer and behavior to the reader. Variable names are not for the computer, they are for the reader, so, whenever possible, the names we use should be meaningful to the reader.

If the name requires specialized knowledge, such as "what does this name mean," it is lingo, which is sometimes necessary, but should be regarded as a smell, as it is often better to use language which does not require specialized knowledge, so that the reader will be able to make sense of it without a thesaurus.

According to the concept Domain-Driven Design, we should be using names from the domain itself in the program. So what could be the proper name here?

Well, EPD is short for Extended Position Description, which is a notation for representing a particular board state. SAN is short for Standard Algebraic Notation, which is used to encode a particular move.

So an EPD SAN is a particular board position when a particular move is applied to it. I propose to call the combination a "play" which is the act of moving from a particular board position. The code would then be:

let difficulty_by_play = //...;
let existing_plays = //...;
let unique_moves_by_play = //...;
fn play_to_condition((epd, san_plus): &Play) -> _ //...;

The result is legible, the concept is meaningful, and a naive reader could make sense of the variables and operations. No cognitive / conceptual overhead.

Cleaner code, I would claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Position_Description
http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-complete.ht...
This. Every time I hear parents in SF Bay Area complain that kids are too expensive, I ask them what are they spending -- turns out they consider stuff like private school a necessity. The bar of "normal" is raised significantly, that's it.
> If the government is transparent and does not lie about major issues, the theories (many of which do not even involve any conspiracy) will stop.

I don't see why this would be true. People don't think the moon landing was fake because the government sometimes lies. Put another way, proving to them the government was honest would not sway them.
Postmodernism Generator – for generating random text from recursive grammars
I’ve read about this approach in the past and am curious if anyone has any experience trying to get an organization to buy into it.
I am serious.
Have you ever done infrastructure work?
The big and serious guys all use IP whitelists. Look at how email actually works, for example.
A Playground Worth a Thousand Programmes [video]
I'll be blunt, a lot of what you explained went over my head.

I saw some charts that expressed 1hz in the A4 range a bit higher but essentially what you explained. The lower in the scale the more cents per hz but each "scale" has 1200 cents broken up evenly per semitone.

We could create a reference chart that shows the "increase" in the scale in hz which would be a logarithmic curve while the cents would be growing linearly based on an underlying logarithmic scale.

In my previous response I was being prickly with the previous responder because they came off with strong "well awkshually..." energy.

I get what they are saying but I don't think it's outlandish to speak in hz when the extra precision from cents is arguably beyond the average musically trained ear.
They explicitly don’t import or make entry level BMW and Mercedes in the American market to keep it a status symbol, but you’ll see lots of 1 and 2 series BMWs in Europe and even Asia. In the USA, 3 series is entry level.
Do you know doctors IRL?
MINIXCompat: A compatibility environment that can run M68000 MINIX 1.5 binaries
I think a main root cause of high insurance costs is failure of govt to break up health company monopolies and other impediments to a competitive marketplace like no individual mandate which should make it hard for smaller players to take on risk that they can afford to manage.
I went through this in Switzerland until I discovered that imported eggs from France were a lot cheaper than domestic eggs.
A lot of people are disabled right now!

Unless you have a young/quick death, there's a really good chance you will be, too.
I was actually aiming for the situation where a function is defined on all reals but still discontinuous (e.g. the piecewise function in the wiki article for the removable discontinuity). So there's a discontinuity (x=1), however the function is defined everywhere.
What dimension vectors are we talking here
I don’t know where you were born and how old you are, but that situation was defiantly not usual when i was a child (born 1983 in Israel). If anything I think I’d need a startup-liquidity-event level windfall to be able to afford housing as spacious as my parents bought in the 80s (housing costs increased way more than wages).

It may have been when my parents were born though (mid 1940s, one in what is now Israel and the other in what was then the Soviet Union).
Hokkaido monkeys soak in hot springs
Think this is a failure of govt to use capitalism as an effective tool. More competition in the insurer space means non-evil players can afford to manage risk
for my local install of codemirror I styled a (single) range control as the drag-to-resize border between my editor iframe (on the left) and my preview iframe (on the right) and was about to get into doing the same for the individual html, css and javascript editor iframes within the editor iframe. so I'm looking forward to seeing whether this component will be a one stop shop for that solution. thanks for this, OP
A frequent post to HN. It seems there is appeal in trying to systematize the entire idea of TC. I'd like to see this extended to three dimensions.
> As mentioned in the article, wearables monitoring heart rate variability do quite a good job of telling people ahead of time that your body might be trying to fight something. During covid devices monitoring HRV would spike before people started to present with the symptoms of COVID-19.

I think the article was talking about changes in heart rate, e.g., increases or decreases in the beats per minute. It certainly makes sense from an English point of view to call that heart rate variability but it turns out there is an actual medical term "heart rate variability" (HRV) that means something a little different.

Heart rate: count the number of beats in a minute.

Heart rate variability: how the beat to beat interval changes.

So say if you have a rate of 60 beats per minutes the average time between beats will be 1000 ms, but the actual times will vary around that. HRV is a measure of that variation.

Some wearables do track both rate and HRV.
Curious how the author first spends words to explain that concatenating strings can be wasteful of precious memory, and then does exactly that in the program, by repeatedly printing constructed strings (with "+") instead of merely printing them side by side (with ";").
It's only grim in comparison. I remember the story of a remote mexican tribe, that lived poorly, but happily as they didn't know they are poor. Once they got connected to civilization, they saw that others have such a nice things like sneaker shoes, and their lives changed, everyone agreed it made them unhappy.

I've traveled the world a lot, including the US South. They are VERY rich out there, but think they are poor, that's it.
Sure, but they could get away with this cost cutting, because the synth had enough to offer without them.

A classic analog synth wouldn't sell with such controls.
> the dollar is at record highs

Compared to what? Other government currencies?
I think the questions assumed USA
Assuming the details of the DX7 are similar to some of the PC Yamaha FM synth hardware, you could do things like set the attack/decay of a modulating operator to be very slow, the attack of a carrier to be fairly fast, and subsequent key presses wouldn't necessarily sound the same. And with a big chained algorithm like the DX7 can do, I agree, you couldn't capture the full behavior through a sample.

You could replicate the most common behavior, though.
> There is another 25-30% of households that spend all of their income on ordinary expenses beyond necessary expenses.

> This includes things like car payments on a new BMW or a mortgage

So you're not accounting at all for how much of your income goes toward e.g. interest on the loan vs. the principal? Isn't that kinda important?

Also, do car loans for cheaper cars somehow not fall in this picture? Why do you portray people as buying new BMWs when all cars in general have gotten so expensive?