skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Countries with functional and affordable healthcare got there by making a policy judgment that healthcare ought to cost less. In the US, any cost reduction that might reduce payments to providers is a political non-starter, so we end up nibbling around the edges and staring at the most abusive insurers.
>UnitedHealth Group is one of the most toxic and unaccountable companies in America, a $400 billion behemoth that systematically denies care to millions of Americas, was smack dab in the middle of the opioid crisis, cheats the government, surveils its customers, harms independent doctor’s practices, and has executives who routinely engage in what looks like insider trading.

That sums it up for most folks.
We tend to emphasize diet a lot, I think because it's something we can control, but it might not help as much as we hope.

Eating a healthy, plant-forward diet while minimizing alcohol and red meat might give us most of the benefit we can squeeze out of diet for cancer risk reduction.
The first question I still have is what happened to core knowledge priors. The white paper that introduced ARC made a big todo about how core knowledge priors are necessary to solve ARC tasks but from what I can tell none of the best-performing (or at-all performing) systems have anything to do with core knowlege priors.

So what happened to that assumption? Is it dead?

The second question I still have is about the defenses of ARC against memorisation-based, big-data approaches. I note that the second best system is based on an LLM with "test time training" where the first two steps are:

initial finetuning on similar tasks
auxiliary task format and augmentations

Which is to say, a data augmentation approach. With big data comes great responsibility and the authors of the second-best system don't disappoint: they claim that by training on more examples they achieve reasoning.

So what happened to the claim that ARC is secure against big-data approaches? Is it dead?
Hi folks! Author here. Happy to answer questions or take feedback. I'll be in meetings for an hour or two but I love talking about this stuff. :) Here or over email if you prefer, alex@moment.dev
"Mistakes I made as a new manager which you won't necessarily make because all humans are different"
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/follow-up-to-...
By their own goals, Russia already lost this war 2 years ago. They may end it with a little extra territory and people, but that's not a victory, again, by their own claims.
Yes it’s a properly scary time. I think people are just waking up to it and are becoming more vigilant, it might be too late for the USA though.
This was posted 6 days ago but it's reappeared now 4 hours ago. What happened?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ask+hn+resurrect+site+archive

Very odd.

Even the times of the comments have changed, this is what the post looked like yesterday:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241205054108/https://news.ycom...
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Excellent comment. All the evidences suggests to me that removing Social Security/Medicare and other wealth transfers from young to old are actually the only thing that might incentivize sufficient people to have sufficient kids to meet replacement TFR AND raise the kids into the type of adults you want.

The reasoning behind this is even with the best quality of life, many women will have 2 children, but insufficient women will have 3 or more children such that it offsets the number of women who have 0 or 1 child.

Those with zero children really drag the average down, and if it is because partnering with a certain portion of the population is simply not worth it, then government efforts on improving quality of life via work and benefit policies are not going to bump TFR to replacement rate.
Climate Change Extinctions
We were with mechanical automation too. And computers. And every other advance.

Things improve, jobs take less time to do, so they give us more. But it’s the same number of hours so pay doesn’t go up.

We all get screwed.
for parents only?
I shared this story before on here but my aunt found out she had lung cancer when her t2 diabetes suddenly cured itself.
> Most of these sound like team/people problems, not technology problems.

I wonder what are the frameworks or libraries that have exactly one widely accepted, idiomatic and correct way of doing most things, where the technology itself discourages anything else? Angular, maybe, at least with how batteries included it is?
The hoax was and is that Trump called white supremacists "very fine people". As the transcript shows, that remark was specifically in regards to people disagreeing with the notion of removing statues of slaveholders and Confederates. Trump went on to say

>And you had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally
> Russia, on the other hand, never experienced a Spetember 11

Maybe not on that scale but they had a few major terror attacks of their own: Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, the 1999 apartment bombings, the Moscow theater hostage crisis, the Beslan school siege, and most recently the Crocus City Hall attack.
According to the film "march of the penguins", Emperor penguins walk up to 70km onto the ice, so that their chicks can grow without risk of falling through the melting ice. But by the time they are independent, the ice has melted nearly to the nesting ground, so I guess it is still "near the coast" in a sense.
These countries are more familiar with these tactics and are not wiling to accept it, South Korea too.
I've seen a couple of talks on DSPy and tried to use it for one of my projects but the structure always feels somewhat strained. It seems to be suited for tasks that are primarily show, don't tell but what do you do when you have significant prior instruction you want to tell?

e.g Tests I want applied to anything retrieved from the database. What I'd like is to optimise the prompt around those (or maybe even the tests themselves) but I can't seem to express that in DSPy signatures.
But if you believe it is highly likely this would happen (which presumably the CCR do believe, along with various state-defense relevant institutions), how is this whole process you described better than just cancelling them now?
Arguably, the Japanese view a society that takes care of the elderly with respect as a benefit to themselves. In the other hand, it is a characteristic of Western society to see every moment as an opportunity to make immediate profits, even at the expense of their own future.
Thanks! That did it.
Does this matter without meaningful US privacy laws? Can't China just buy metrics and ads to get the same access?
In a european democracy, things are pretty clear: Influence from Russia and China is forbidden. Influence from the USA, Germany, France is permitted. There are countless examples.
All of my TikTok feed was how poorly his turnout was, how silly his rallies were, and how dangerous it would be to elect him. Had I not also had my head outside my phone, I would have been flabbergasted by his win.

So is that promoting Trump? Or is it double reversi and trying to make people more confident to not need to vote, while also telling them to go vote? It gets confusing.
I made a design decision for a standard for dataset structure to explicitly ban characters beyond ascii [A-Za-z0-9.,-_ ] precisely because all the positivity around utf-8 often leads people to think that it comes with no additional complexity cost. There is an escape hatch with a way to indicate that a dataset uses unicode filenames but the standard states that any consumer may reject such datasets because unicode support is explicitly not required.

I got pushback from people who would not have to implement or maintain the systems for being a backward asciite so seeing this article is rather vindicating.
This year seems to finish on the same note as it began -- that most AI evolution happens in the smaller models. There's been a true shift as corporations have started to realize the value of training data and massively outsizing the resulting model size.
This is a fascinating insight.

Can you walk me through, at what point the HR department has the power to delay and deny claims for medical care covered under the insurance contract?

It is my understanding the hatred doesn't extend so much in the denial of claims but rather the denial of claims for covered events.
How is annulling an election any different from their power to invalidate results?

The power cited to ensure election procedure doesn't seem vague. It appears to be quite broad:

> The Constitutional Court shall have the following powers: ... (f) to guard the observance of the procedure for the election of the President of Romania and to confirm the ballot returns;
Maybe you're aware of the sort of reference essay on the subject, but just in case you hadn't see it, it's very readable and beautiful:

http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~johnda/Papers/wignerUnreasonableEf...

Books, I don't know, I haven't been keeping up.
Wine 10.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
Have Yourself an AI Christmas
Well, I couldn’t read that because Forbes is a nightmare that kept redirecting me to other articles but I’ll believe you. Pretty funny that the scheme didn’t work, I wish I had bought their deflated price stones when I had the chance.
That still doesn't inform us in any way that directly relates to the study.

In the big picture of cancer research, there are countless caveats and idiosycracies because most cancers are more different from each other than they are similar. This is only amplified when you're trying to make inferences about dietary consumption, where interactions between coincident foodstuffs have large chaotic effects and species (and individuals) often have different digestive behavior on the way from dietary food to some intracellular interaction.

Ignoring all that inherent, acknowledged, complexity so that one might harp on some dead punching bag whose story is only known through the lens of commercial media is about as anti-scientific as you could be.
The Expanse on Amazon video are as good as the books too.
I find computers frequently do not do what I tell them to do:

“Hey Siri, set a timer for twenty minutes.”

“You can’t set a timer for a time of day. I’ve set an alarm for twenty hundred hours.”
That's the opposite of what the phrase means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_w...

If a system constantly fails to do what it was intended to do, then we should consider that what it does in reality is its true purpose. Basically this is functional structuralism.
“ For example, can you tell me if EU is about saving the environment and stopping climate change? If so why they are blocking the Chinese electric cars?”

This is talked about in many treasury departments. China supports some businesses an order of magnitude beyond the competition because they are a state/corp hybrid model and this allows those businesses to sell below material costs. This eventually destroys competition for future price raises and is a good long term strategy that only authoritarian countries can afford.

Other Countries like in the EU are hesitant to let China destroy war machine production capability so they apply tariffs to right-size the actual cost.
> What was done to Mariupol ... These places are basically uninhabitable now

Anyone can see the extent of the uninhabitability of Mariupol on the video:

https://www.youtube.com/@MariupolVideo/videos
Through two options; insurance or debt.

I agree with the statement as you present it, all other things being equal.
I liked the halt catch fire TV series too.
Well... I think the NSA should be abolished!
We don't have all the answers yet and there's a bunch of speculation that the intelligence services were a bit incompetent or even supported him in hopes of taking votes away from other candidates, but things may have gotten a bit out of control and they underestimated his popularity.

Georgescu's stance wasn't super well known to most of his supporters and it's not what was being pushed, he's mostly flag-waiving, talking about sovereignty and God, not really saying much of substance, but he's palatable if you don't know his views and he was something fresh compared to the other candidates that were more known, thus giving him a boost among anti-establishment types.

He's not completely new to the scene as he was touted as potential PM by a minority political party at some point, but they also distanced themselves from him to clean up their own anti-EU image.
You are using the terms "uncensored" "malicious" and "unaligned" interchangeably.

There would appear to be a few issues with that, the most obvious being the uncensored model would presumably be "aligned" with what the finetuner wants.
Checkout the TULU3 report from AI2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.15124
François, have you coded and tested a solution yourself that you think will work best?
The Taliban very openly offered Osama up, provided he'd be granted transit to a 3rd-party nation where he'd get a free trial.
HN has a “resubmit” mechanism whereby the mods can resubmit interesting posts if they think they might stimulate more interest by being posted at a different time (or just by having better luck).

To avoid a dupe, this mechanism post-dates the original post.
Sounds good. Most people in workplaces act as their own bots, rewriting their natural style to be compatible with the culture/recipient because we're too diverse to all just get along with random non-friends in our natural way.
10 Million a year remuneration, is like $50,000 a day. Probably more than lots people earn more than a YEAR
It pretty much is a soft coup, yes. The general population is apologetic for it, since the concept of rule-of-law is not that important to Romanian culture.
correct title is "Research reveals how fructose in diet enhances tumor growth"
> It's functionally isomorphic to a black box where I make a deposit, every time it denies someone medical treatment I get back monetary reward and I can withdraw my deposit at any time. If we ask ourselves, "Should this black box exist?" I cannot reasonably expect people to say, "Yes." Yet, here we are.

I am honestly extremely baffled about what your mental model here is. When UHC doesn't deny a claim, who is paying for that treatment? You can't just look at one side of the ledger when deciding whether the system is doing good or bad! They deny some claims and they pay for others! You're leaving out the whole second half!
could we fix this by adding '\n' to the password? then it wouldn't be guessed, the hackers would just think it was the end of the password
Is there a lower prevalence of cancer in cultures that fast?
While true (about the Chinese tower vacancy rates), it is much less than you might expect.

I heard an interview with the guy who popularized the Chinese Ghost Cities a decade or more ago. He has admitted that China has done a pretty good job at populating those dozens of tier 2 and 3 cities that he used to describe as ghost cities.
I agree. he can be prosecuted for not reporting his spending probably, but as long as he didn't ship boatloads of fake ballots it doesn't warrant cancelling the election. the authorities should put a stop to the interference, and if the interference to influence was his advantage, the 2nd round, without interference, would have him lose. Just let the people vote.

I still believe that the main "problem" was that the front runner party that has been in the 2nd round for 10s of years and which has the prime minister as the candidate, didn't make it to the 2nd round. Someone wanted this fixed. Obviously the prime minister who was 3rd in the 1st round made declarations in support of the ruling.
Well as long as those NGOs aren't funded by governments, then it's ok. They are NGOs after all.
HN is full of all kinds of fun influence, and Dang swears it doesn't exist.

Are you aware that every HN user account associated with a YCombinator company is visible as an orange username to every other HN account associated with a YCombinator company? They sell this as a "Perk". It's a secret club.
I'm sorry about your parent.

I didn't mean to dunk on Steve Jobs, but I'm sure even he would agree he had an eccentric and extremist personality and the bit about fruitarianism seems very relevant esp with happenings like [Ashton Kutcher being hospitalized when he tried to mimick it](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/28/ashton-kutcher-...)

relevant quote:

> "First of all, the fruitarian diet can lead to, like, severe issues," Kutcher told USA Today. "I went to the hospital like two days before we started shooting the movie.
I was like doubled over in pain. My pancreas levels were completely out of whack. It was really terrifying … considering everything."
This is why Romans used to actually appoint dictators for some periods of time, some how they were often good people who’d come into power , fix a bunch of stuff, then go back to their tomato growing.
De facto, yes. There is substantial evidence that AIPAC and the broader Israel lobby coordinates closely with a foreign government.

However, due to their enormous influence, they have avoided de jure registering as such.

By your logic, the Romanian dark horse can't possibly be a Russian op because they never officially registered as a Russian agent.
I just asked Gemini about this, and it linked me to this article, published today.

Maybe we have a reliable nutrition guide after all!
> The elections will be rerun with the same candidates, because the authorities were unable to do it properly the first time.

No, the whole electoral process will be restarted, as if it had never happened, starting from potential candidates gathering signatures to validate their registration. Anyone who wishes to run has to start anew.

And it's almost impossible to believe that the candidate whose campaign was found to be so illegally run that the entire process has been corrupted and has to be restarted could be allowed to run again. This would be pantomime of the highest level. And I'm saying this as someone who thinks this decision was a soft coup.
I'd be surprised if none of the particulars of the person's case come out (if there are any relevant details). There's the trial in the courtroom and then there's the trial in the court of public opinion. There are people on Reddit calling for potential jurors to know about jury nullification because they seem to think the killing was justified. There's a lot of very angry people there.
The have a charger very near to where I go in Michigan, and 30 miles from the nearest supercharger. They announced earlier this year that they would open up the RAN “near the end of the year” so I’ve been waiting for this announcement. The fact that they will only gradually modify existing chargers to work with other vehicles is a disappointment. It’s all CCS so it should just be a software update. I am really looking forward to charging my model Y at the Rivian charger. I’m guessing that that will be a long time coming now. Oh well, I guess the Red E charger gets my business for the foreseeable future. They have excellent customer service and they just upgraded the charger to be much faster.
Back in the Good Old Days, when the average family size was far larger, and most Americans also had plenty of young cousins, nephews, and such around, that exposure was (evidently) no great deterrent to having children of their own.
> Users should then be presented with those conflicts - and it could even be completely visual. Being able to scrub through history also seems like a viable alternative

I think "Git" would be a wonderful name for this type of CRDT.
> if you look at lions two lions fight the one that wins gets to keep the pride while the other wanders even though there are enough mates for both thats a counter example to the chimps

This isn't a counter-example because chimps possess higher order thinking. Chimps have a distinct sense of fairness that is exhibited consistently even when engaged with their human counterparts.

It's the same for us. If laws didn't protect the haves from the have-nots nature would correct itself when the haves reach a certain level of inequality. When law and order breaks down it's very obvious this is nature. Try hoarding canned food in a food crisis. You'll very quickly find yourself in very real danger. Law, as it turns out, is a very unnatural thing.

The so-called "incel crisis" is a variation of this. It's only a crisis insofar as nature cannot correct itself. The 10%, approximately, of men that get the majority of the women on these apps face no real danger from the have-nots (coincidentally this "incel crisis" has prefaced major social upheaval since time immemorial).

The absurd pay difference between executives and the actual do-ers is yet another example.

At the end of the day the systems are put in place by "leaders" to subvert the hierarchy of needs. Nature can never correct itself, so we are doomed to simply suffer. Nature is brutal not because it wants to be but because it has to be. The only natural order is utilitarianism.
The excuse of misinformation is also fud. Facebook help Trump get elected in 2016 through the whole Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Facebook paid a paltry fine and the executives from Cambridge Analytica formed another company named Emerdata. There would be no need to take action specifically against Tiktok if legislation was the stick given to all companies but lobbyist don't want to crack down domestically.
I think you're significantly overplaying your hand here, and over-assuming the ability of others too.

I'm sure you're very successful and a hard worker with great skills, but plenty of people are pretty mediocre. And plenty of people don't have great high-paying corporate jobs, even if they are hardworking. Personally, my family's savings could sustain us for years without a job, but that wasn't true when we were (single and) young.

Losing a job is easy, even if you did nothing wrong and plenty of people really struggle to find a new job with a similar pay. I had a friend who was laid off from a Stanford medical researcher position (~80k/yr), and he worked retail for 12 months (~30k/yr) before finding a true replacement job. He could barely pay his (pre-existing) SF-bay-area rents on that salary. His groceries were paid out of savings or generous friends. If anything actually went wrong (medically, car accident, etc), he'd actually have run out of money to live. None of his family lived in the US (or had USD savings), so he'd have to uproot his life to live with them. He had friends, but living with a friend is a huge ask - you can only stay on a couch for so long. It's easy to say you'll help a friend, but when their budget is $1k/mo short, you'll burn through a friend or family's generosity fast.

I don't know if most people on HN have looked, but finding a place to rent in SF Bay Area for <2k/mo is hard. If you make minimum wage, it's really hard to find a place to live. If you go from a higher salary, where you can afford 2k/mo, to a lower one where you can't, you're really screwed, because moving is not cheap either, and selling all your stuff (to eventually re-buy later) or hiring movers will certainly deplete the savings of people who can least afford it.

Certainly drugs or mental illness speeds up this downward spiral, but it should be noted that "living with friends or family" usually qualifies as homeless for most of these statistics, not when you start living in a box under the freeway... so "it can happen to everyone" is more true even for you when you realize that you only need to pass 3/6 of your listed steps.
Do you actually use Ultralytics for a product? I don’t understand why people would want to depend on that mess.
There is a terrible license for anything commercial
And from what I’ve heard the code is a mess so doing any customization for your specific use case is a nightmare
> minimizing red meat

could you provide the evidence that convinced you that red meat is detrimental to health?