skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Using it to". Problematic phrasing.

I'm sure they also use paperwork to deny claims.

Would you make that into a headline?

It's like "using dice to deny claims". Yeah... I guess? But they are the ones performing the actions. What they base those actions on is besides the point.

The point is that denying claims, particularly denying >90% of claims as the first generation of "AI" did (a D20 model), or denying claims requested by doctors without a Very Good Reason, is tantamount to refusing medical treatment to people who have already paid to be covered for medical treatment, and may stand to die if their medical conditions are not treated, as a result of second-guessing the doctor.

It also dramatically reduces the productivity of doctors, who are being filibustered by a system that forces ever-increasing amounts of pre-approvals, charting requirements and appeals on them. If the median doctor can suddenly only perform half as much work... people also die as a result.

It's not behavior that _deserves social protection_, is the point. Allowing companies to participate in social murder & fraud if they claim an AI told them to internally is morally, politically, bureaucratically, and economically abhorrent. Tear it all down and salt the earth with the bankrupt remains of these companies that had the _audacity_ to shift to second-guessing a majority of medical claims.

> Before health insurers reject claims for medical reasons, company doctors must review them, according to insurance laws and regulations in many states. Medical directors are expected to examine patient records, review coverage policies and use their expertise to decide whether to approve or deny claims, regulators said. This process helps avoid unfair denials.

> But the Cigna review system that blocked van Terheyden’s claim bypasses those steps. Medical directors do not see any patient records or put their medical judgment to use, said former company employees familiar with the system. Instead, a computer does the work. A Cigna algorithm flags mismatches between diagnoses and what the company considers acceptable tests and procedures for those ailments. Company doctors then sign off on the denials in batches, according to interviews with former employees who spoke on condition of anonymity.

> “We literally click and submit,” one former Cigna doctor said. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”

The problem is not the dice. It's the denials.

RealPage is a service used by landlords to fix prices and reduce competition. It doesn't actually matter that it uses AI to achieve this, they may as well have used in person conversations or a weekly newsletter, what matters is that it's all price collusion. They aren't "using AI to...", they are knowingly and proudly fixing prices to reduce price competition, and AI (or some kind of algorithm at least) may be used somewhere in the data analysis tools.
Also his plane disappeared from radar
The point is this: renewables are getting cheaper faster. Batteries are getting even cheaper even faster. Batteries can support the grid. The demand for batteries to support the grid is going up exponentially whether the renewables market growth speeds up or slows down, because the grid is always short of storage, because energy generation investment always leads energy storage investment, irrespective of energy source. But because storage production can now grow even faster than generation production (this has never been the case before, it was always too expensive) storage can tap into pent-up demand that has been building up over decades. You are absolutely correct that batteries were not scalable before: they are only just crossing the scalability curve.
Some go as far as writing software for themselves, and even open sourcing it
Or most volatile depending on your age. Yoloing an all stock portfolio is a pretty safe bet when you have time to play the long game.
Tracing and Monitoring Tools for Linux
Stanfordnlp: DSPy: The framework for programming–not prompting–language models
https://github.com/NVIDIA/RULER results in benchmark other than needle in haystack seem solid all the way to 128k
Apple Plans Three-Year Modem Rollout in Bid to Top Qualcomm
Deciphering C++ compiler errors: Nonsensical errors from a function declaration
Wait, who's responsible for maintaining the building?
https://archive.is/dKHx7
The glue from the stickers needed a solvent to remove from the lens after going out in Berlin and Amsterdam. Ruined my photos until I got it clean.

Generally I like the idea of people not being photo focused and if this is the fix, I’m fine with it.

But, to put Berlin on a pedestal of partying, especially compared to NYC, just screams “I have a very specific and narrow bias of what a good party is”. Let’s stop promoting a city that has formalized racist / nationalist bouncers into a “cool” thing.
> So it should be very possible to build a CRDT which uses this information to detects & mark conflict ranges when branches are merged. Then we can allow users to manually resolve conflicts.

So you end up with “conflict” as part of your data model. Seems an amusing way of achieving the C (“conflict-free”) of CRDT, though perfectly legitimate and probably the only way.

The next fun challenge is when you get conflicts over conflict resolution!
I agree.

Stephen Wolfram seems to get a lot of hate on HN, but for doing experimental math, puzzle solving, quick data viz, and much more, Wolfram is a deep and lovely language. The integrated notebook, mouse hover docs, and (shockingly) single massive namespace with thousands of functions somehow add up to a simple and productive experience unlike any other I've used. And I am not generally a fan of "thick" IDEs.
Thanks for the feedback!

It's not an itinerary generator; it's a replacement for people who use spreadsheets to plan meticulously. Definitely not for everyone!
Old buildings look so dark die to centries of dirt. Especially since industrialization and automobiles. But before that due to fires (for heating and light) For many of those old buildings there are light stones beneath the dark layer.

Same for glass windows, which in old times haven't been as clear as today possible, but still lighter than after centuries of dust settling.
Even if this was completely accurate, doesn't it make you mad that they will spend millions of dollars and 100 times more man hours trying to hunt this guy down than 99% of all other murders?

Also they are going to track and investigate thousands upon thousands of social media normies who decided to let some schadenfreude slip for a sweet meme opportunity
To expand a little, some providers may apply more aggressive optimization in periods of high load.
What a great project!
I hope stuff like this is still around when I retire, because right now it would just collect dust and make my heart heavy because I don't have the time to pursue such a hobby
Exactly. Use less plastic for food containers. Don’t use plastic cooking utensils, filter your water, etc. This is one you do have some influence over.

Oh, and donate blood as often as they let you.
Correctly or incorrectly?

(Not expecting the former, but it needs to be explicit as the distinction is kinda important...)
> One piece of conclusive evidence we have is that it is extremely difficult for scientists to tell the difference between authentic and adulterated honey, and it requires extreme measures not generally taken for foodstuffs, measures never said to be indicative of nutritional value.

It's hard to tell the difference because natural flavors vary so much.

If you give me two jars of honey and tell me one is the original and one has either 0% or 25% or 50% sugar water mixed in, I can run a taste test and figure out the answer. But if you only give me one jar, it's not easy to figure out if weak flavor means adulteration or a bad season.

In other words: Even if I can't figure out if a specific batch was adulterated, the adulteration is making a significant difference. There's a lot coming from the flowers other than raw sugar.
not when its anti-consumer, these ideas work in free market with multiple suppliers who can upscale and compete.

Real estate is not a free market, due to building regulations, insane municipality fees to pay upfront for housing units (for example, in canada a lot of provinces require housing developers to pay 100k+$ per 2-3bhk apartment upfront before even completing and building housing units, for 4 floor, 3 apartments every floor, thats 100k * 4 * 3 = 1.2 Million$+ in FEES alone before even selling a single unit !)

Plus these systems are being used to force sellers to algorithmically collectively raise rent prices , to max the revenue collected as possible.

This is literally anti competition, anti free market, distributed oligopoly price-fixing like behaviour.
The best way I have found is to setup keepalived -> pgbouncer -> Postgres. Use repmgr to manage replication and barman for backups. Setup a VIP with keepalived with a small script that checks if the server is primary. You loose about 7-9 pings during a failover, have keepalived check about every 2 seconds and flip after 3 consecutive failures.
Ok, here is my post-hoc disclaimer: an LLM was indeed used as part of the process of putting this together, but I was heavily involved both before and after editing the text. I personally am not a bot. Would you like me to put some spelling mistakes in?
“Why food shortages cause hunger”
> Honestly I expected Stonehenge to be more impactful but Notre Dame is a way more worthy visit.

I think people underestimate how much Beauty can be path to experiencing the Transcendent.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty#Western_Middle_Ages
> MMORPG where you can check out

Had this same type of idea cycle around recently quite a bit lately. Similar issue, if this experience actually had the "uninstall", "quit", "leave", "exit", or red X in the corner, it would have been hit a long time ago. Much rather drop and go bodily join some fantasy or sci-fi land than the perpetual grind of meaningless, mundane, superficial, banal America. There's a reason millions spend almost every waking moment staring at a screen, playing a game about a fantasy or sci-fi land where you can actually feel like you accomplish something than interacting with the human race.

Frankly, a lot of MMORPG economies almost look preferable these days, and nearly as believable. At least in quite a few you can personally manufacture something and at least have a possibility of making money that's relevant. On Earth, rather challenging. Etsy for example:

Only 26% of Etsy shops are successful and run as full-time businesses, or 74% of all Etsy businesses eventually fail.
Average Etsy seller makes $2,900 per year

Almost every part of the world economy seems designed to punish every member for not being born rich and a celebrity at birth. What's the best way to get followers online and be an "influencer"? Already be a rich celebrity who's influential. Most followed on Instagram - Christiano Ronaldo (635m), Leo Messi (504m), Selena Gomez (425m), Kylie Jenner (398m), Dwayne Johnson (396m), ect ... The top 50 is pretty much universally previously known athlete, actor/actress, musician names. "Normal" influencers are an order of magnitude or further away down in the 10m, 1m, 500k range. It's simply another way to make even more money, have even more fame, be even more self involved, and take even more of the same photos.

One part that's been really bothersome lately is how many games actually seem better implemented than the "real" world. Farming Simulator being one of the perennial cases. The equipment is implemented down to the individual bolts and seals on the engines, and you can probably print out the CAD models and manufacture your own tractor they're so detailed. Yet the game actually implements numerous technologies that the "real" farming consistently refuses. Quicker iterations, quicker development, quicker releases and responsiveness to customers. Intermediate cost farming equipment for the starting farmer, bicycle and human powered equipment with low yearly input costs. The "real" farming sector appear unable to do little other than offer the same $500,000 super-rigs they've been offering for years. There was a post a while back where the Farming Simulator people actually complained to the John Deere's of the world "common guys, how about some entry level stuff, we don't have anything to offer our players."

Anyways, TLDR, would have quit, uninstalled, and then burned the computer in the yard a long time ago.
Yea, sure, being gay or having anal sex, is still a crime too in some places.

We can argue it shouldn't be considered a crime and I'd argue deepfakes should not be a crime. I'd also argue considering them so is close to "thought police".

And, I'd argue fighting them is a losing cause. They get easier and easier to make daily. Lots of papers at the most recent Siggraph on how to take a single photo and turn it into an deepfake, oh, I mean avatar for a game, model for virtual clothes fitting, etc...
I was looking for this comment, because rake is great. One big thing is it never felt good imposing Ruby on a (say) a JS project (and I'm not sure of the current state of macos default ruby), so next time this comes up, I will be taking a look at just.
presumably at each step they mask out all tokens that would be invalid at that step according to the grammar
So glad to hear I'm not the only one doing this. I built and manage a very large and complex internal tool that we started building in 2019 before the full switch to functional components and Hooks happened. We use MobX and it has been great for us. Somewhat recently I was considering refactoring to use functional components just to be forward thinking. I was realizing that useEffect and other hooks could almost completely and entirely be avoided if you simply used MobX stores (like we already do), and local component scoped MobX stores where necessary. It keeps state management consistent throughout the app, and avoids the complexity of useEffect and other hooks. Like you said, components just observe. I started wondering why I didn't see this pattern more often out in the wild. It just seemed to be very straight forward.

What's surprising to me is that React 19 seems to be doubling down on hooks, adding more cognitive load by increasing the number of hooks you need to be aware of and their particular behaviors and requirements. Doing that instead of moving toward the more universal reactivity model that MobX, SolidJS and even frameworks like Svelte 5 are starting to adopt.
> Germany does not own their own nuclear weapons. It may host US/NATO nuclear weapons, but they're not German...

Correct, but some of them are part of the so called 'Nukleare Teilhabe',

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing ,

meaning we are not only entitled, but even mandated to shoot us into our own foot with them, just in case...

Which was the case since the days of the F-104G Starfigther, F-4F Phantom, MRCA/Panavia Tornado, and is now with the Eurofigther.

Which was also the point of controversy from several points of view. For one, the range of the aircrafts, loaded with these free-falling 'firecrackers'. (See shooting into our own foot abvove... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb )

For another, the unwillingness(for some time, got resolved) of the USA to make sure the avionics of the Eurofighter get the necessary codes for integration. "Nice plane you got there, but wouldn't you rather wanna buy the superior F35?" (To shoot yourself into your own foot with our own firecrackers, just in case?)
If online posts and discussion over the last few days, it most definitely does not have social protection.

Though they aren't claiming that it's okay because AI does it. It's that it's profitable and makes it even more so because now they can fire the people whose jobs it was to deny claims.

You can get away with most things in business so long as a pension or retirement fund gets to wet its beak. And that's what private insurance with no public alternative does.
This and...

I remember when in France, the work week went from 39 to 35, that was 35h work week paid 39 - no pay cuts.

Now I get that the economy/job market isn't like it was then, what with all the layoffs to protect shareholder from growth dropping from +9% to only +5% (arbitrary example from one company).

But I am baffled at how quickly employees seem to have internalized the idea that reduced hours require reduced pay before even getting a chance for any negotiations. With all the value that's being produced, we're just accepting that it continue to be unfairly distributed, and that workers see no benefit (or barely) from the increases in productivity.

I'm sorry, if a pay cut is required, or condensed hours are required, it's no social progress, just lip service at best to exploit people
more under the guise of flexibility.

I'd prefer having fridays officially off instead of being stuck at my pc not doing much work. If I'm already not working most fridays, why is it such a big deal to just make it official, get paid the same and not have to warm a seat poitnlessly?
Pasting a URL in NewsBlur also uses several of these techniques to find the feed(s), and it is open source, so the feed-finding code could be ripped out of NewsBlur as an alternative to this.
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I’m not going to pay thousands for a commercial license
Competition Bureau investigating high tech price-fixing by Canadian landlords
From the transponder data, right? Must have switched it off.
>You might be thinking ‘poor’ but look at median household incomes. In 1960 the median household pulled in $5,600 https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1962/demo/p60-03... inflation adjusted that’s $59,720 https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ which is almost where median household incomes sits today (80k). https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2024/comm/medi...

"almost" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. The difference between 80k and 60k is 33%, which is significant.

>Except to make basically the same money more than twice as many households are dual income and productivity is vastly higher.

"number of dual income households" seems like a weird metric to compare against. It's impossible to go from "twice as many households are dual income" to calculate "how much of the household income rise was explained by more earners". For instance, if dual income households were 1% and it doubled to 2%, that would have much less impact on median household income compared to 50% to 100%.

Why not use the labor force participation rate directly? Looking at BLS data[1], women labor force participation rate was already 37% in 1960. In 1990 it's 57%. In the same time, male labor force participation rate also dropped from 83% to 76%[2], but let's ignore that and pretend no male jobs were being displaced. If we assume that, the average earners in a married household went from 1.37 to 1.57, which is only a 14% increase. The 33% rise income is now looking much better.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001
I do agree that sometimes you have to consume less negative content or else you can become pretty doomy after reading about it.

But dont forget that sometimes you need to feel bad to understand that you are sick. If you were sick without feeling bad, you could die, because you did not take action!

Dont sugar coat the world! If you feel shitty, maybe there is a reason for it, a reason within or outside you!!
Of course it is.

But if your only standard for whether or not something should be done is "does it create monetary value", you would do anything to get that value anyways.

Which is why we have to have regulations to prevent that from happening, because humans will do some pretty screwed-up things to get money.
It crashed or made an emergency landing near Homs
> the new manager is technical and familiar with the codebase, and can assess that the reason for the rollbacks is a genuine quality issue. This is useful information

Only if the report doesn't already know it. But they probably do. It doesn't seem likely to me that the report would be in the dark about why the rollbacks happened. And if they already know it, it's better to let them ask for help than to tell them up front that you, their manager, know that their code quality is an issue. Give them a chance to identify the issue themselves first.
My Grandpa is a beekeeper, i help him take care of his hives.
The honey i get out of that crystallises quickly to a relatively rough texture, and has a deep taste. It is a completely different thing than what you get in the store.

I don’t know if that one is adulterated, or just processed so much that it is all flat and smooth.
It doesn't sell to Microsoft
The Art of Calling Out Room Dynamics
We were very lucky to see Notre Dame before it burned. So glad it’s been restored.
PKSPREAD related to PKZIP by Phil Katz somehow?
Disappointing article - it's pure marketing copy without much in the way of interesting technical details.
I think that will lose track of what you're really after if the function changes enough, or is moved to a different part of the file, or just moved out. Without tools that understand the code (e.g. AI) git alone can't keep track of changes the way humans do.
a technical item, center of recent discussion. basis for understanding what is being referred to.

it would be a quite uncommon item, as low numbers are produced.

it is however simple and a motivated person could manufacture one.

there is a possibility, a similar device was used in a very high profile case in newyork. the historical nature of such items suggests tradecraft may be afoot.

fallout 3 has made it popular, and its symbolic of a resistance movement circa WW II.
Slipping on Banana Peels [video]
Really? It's the one part of the traditional c build system I actually still use. Easy to write, easy to debug, relatively small—what's the issue? I hear people complain about make incessantly but people rarely have substantial criticism to offer. Is it the syntax? Reliance on the filesystem? Inconsistencies between implementations?
Profiling people for advertising, building shadow profiles, buying 3rd party user data, tracking people across the web, devices and geographically, psychological experiments, optimizing for engagement, limiting post reach without pay... generally prioritizing profit over people.

https://www.techpolicy.press/is-it-ethical-to-work-at-facebo...
There is a price for everything. I think there are plenty communes that people can join if they want to retire from the typical modern life and have a simpler existence.
But the history of lithium-ion is thirty years long, and over that period, their price did drop by 99%:

https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-...

The drop has been a fairly steady exponential, so if you look at the last decade, of course most of the drop was early, since that's how exponentials work. As far as anyone can tell, the trend shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.
It should never be used for essential goods like housing and healthcare.
"Neoliberalism based on privatization, deregulation, and liberalization has led to reduced growth, financial instability, and higher inequality since the 1980s."

I have read several of Chang's books and thought they were educational.
Seems like there are some others wearing similar thinking caps, albeit 10 years ago

https://doi.org/10.1179/174892407X180928
I own two Teslas and will never until I die buy a car which is not a Tesla. It is the best car there is by widest margin imaginable.

The “self” driving sucks balls and is nowhere near where it needs to be after years and years of effort.
Nice little detail about Canada’s system. It explains how a place with so much land can have such unaffordable housing. It’s a cartel.
Turkish Lira Currency Code: An Unexpected Source of Problems for Programmers