skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Complex corporate structures enable plausible deniability.

It's literally managements job to be aware.

Imagine if a crossing guard waves cars through an intersection as children crossed and goes "Well, you know, I wasn't driving the car".
Depends on your relative age and family size. For me, my 40s are for funerals like my late 20s were for weddings.

Nowadays many families have just one or two kids and everyone is spread over all of country and world.
They were certainly not doing their best to answer that question! Stats will answer that question correctly, answering “they’re all performing the same, within the margin of error.”

Yes, actually understanding what the hell is going on is really helpful, but as a backstop, it’s good to have the basic stats knowledge that you can’t come to any conclusion from a handful of samples.
Question about 900 convictions based on the software bug: is 900 a large number of embezzlers representing a white-collar crime wave (that these execs and lawyer then covered up), or is 900 a small-enough number consistent with ambient fraud?
There was talk of an ongoing nuclear renaissance in the early 2000s. [1]

American companies and utilities announced 30 reactors. Britain announced ~14.

We went ahead and started construction on 7 reactors in Vogtle, Virgil C. Summer, Flamanville, Olkiluoto and Hanhikivi to rekindle the industry. We didn't believe renewables would cut it.

The end result of what we broke ground on is 3 cancelled reactors, 3 reactors which entered commercial operation in the 2020s and 1 still under construction.

The rest are in different states of trouble with financing with only Hinkley Point C slowly moving forward.

In the meantime renewables went from barely existing to dominating new capacity (TWh) in the energy sector.

Today renewables make up 2/3rds of global investment in the energy sector.

The failure of nuclear power is that it is horrifically expensive and the timelines are insane compared to the competition.

Steam locomotives technically work, but are like nuclear power uncompetitive.

Lately nuclear power has caught the imagination of conservative politicians as a method to delay the renewable disruption of the fossil industry and have an answer to climate change.

When their plans, like in Australia, get presented they don’t care the slightest about nuclear power and it is only a method to prolong the life of the coal and gas assets.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_renaissance_in_the_Uni...
Within the context of the current system it’s still better than being denied insurance due to pre-existing conditions.

What the author ignores re: the shooting is that United Healthcare is particularly bad compared to other insurance companies. I’ve had multiple instances of them denying a first choice drug without explanation despite doctor’s write ups. Doctors are always on the edge and saying things like “if the insurance approves.”

What is the point of going to medical school/residency/fellowship/etc if at the end of the day the insurance is making medical decisions?

From the blog:

> If insurers were so good at extracting money from the system, why are they so unprofitable?

Maybe their unprofitability is driving them to find new ways to extract money?

For healthcare I don’t understand the need for profit except for the researchers and companies who directly had a role in discovering and manufacturing the product (and funding trials).

Why do we even need insurance companies if we actually trusted doctors to make the right decisions?
Dunno - check out old guy on mobility scooter video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2028301917230649

I'm a little like that myself - not as old at 60 but have switched to an ebike to still go fast.
I think if it stops at where the first bullet is you just put the second one next to it.

Btw, this question can be gambled a bit by using the fact that it has exactly one correct answer and going after easiest cases. This also makes the details of where you put the second bullet after a spin irrelevant provided that you don't always put it next to the first one.

Often I'm surpised and delighted when problems are accidentally constructed so that "this has exactly one correct answer" provides a lot of infromation, sometimes more than half of the actual question provides.
Neither Argentina nor Brazil has ever had nuclear weapons, although both countries did historically produce low-grade enriched reactor fuel. Argentina resumed its enrichment activity in 02015. Brazil resumed its enrichment activity in 02006 but still does not have enough production capacity to supply even its minuscule fleet of nuclear power stations.
> The 5th republic presidential system, which we owe to De Gaulle, is a large part of the issues we have, though.

Alternatively, looking back at the disasters of the 3rd and 4th republics, a strong Presidential system is the only option for a coherent stable long term government to exist in France. The 5th tries to do everything to ensure there's a strong figure and a majority they can work with; the first time there has been no majority, and it's total chaos, reminiscent of how the 3rd and 4th (didn't) worked. And their existence over multiple decades shows that if deputies were forced to compromise more often, it still wouldn't help.
> That's how it is in France unless the terms somehow align

The terms always "somehow" align, because the president can reset the term of MPs, which is extremely beneficial just after winning the presidential election.

Because of that and because the president's mandate now has the same duration has the legislature, the two terms are synchronized, we rarely have snap elections (this year was the first time ever since the 5-year presidential mandate was introduced).

The senate works differently, but since it can't block laws, it's less relevant.

> but not guaranteed.

Situation: you get elected but the Assemblée Nationale is against you. Why would you ever not call snap elections? That's what Mitterand did in 1981 and 1988, and it worked both times. We are extremely likely to have new MP elections in 2027, just after a new president gets elected.

> In any case this has nothing to do with coalitions

Of course it does. Because the president has so much weight on the executive, and because appearing as principled and uncompromising is important to prepare for the next election, coalitions are too risky for opposition politicians to enter them: they risk too much and they gain too little by entering a coalition.

> Yes but that's beside the point.

Why? Explaining the lack of coalitions using the concrete constitutional mechanisms that make it impractical makes much more sense than trying to explain it by some immaterial virtue of french political ethos.

> The issue in France is that the strong Presidential system is seen as "right wing" not least because it was created by a General so the left likes to criticise.

Ah, yes let's make it a partisan issue now.

> The reality is that it has worked well

Everything works well when there is no hardship.
Perhaps most importantly, why would drones with a nefarious purpose have navigation lights?

They could run completely blacked out and it would make no difference to the operator.
Again, for most of agricultural history, energy was not used to grow food. The key commodity was land. The concept of energy you're referring to didn't come along until the 1800s, a couple thousand years after people invented the coin, and didn't have any real economic meaning until the industrial revolution.

I get where you're trying to go, but I just don't think it makes sense. If you're serious in trying to find some sort of fundamental thing behind money, you might read Buchan's "Frozen Desire".
Fix your points of regret while this is still possible. If you do so, you will find that very likely, you will want to go once successful.
If Sora is anything like Dall-e a prompt like "A pelican riding a bicycle along a coastal path overlooking a harbor" will be extended into something like the longer prompt behind the scenes. OpenAI has been augmenting image prompts from day 1.
Management is not allowed to take a pile of money and just burn it for funsies. But the law does not require them to prioritize shareholder profits over literally everything.

Shareholder Theory wasn't even a social norm in the US until the 70s!
Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
The problem is that there are no tasks that LLMs are reliably good at. I believe that's what OP is getting at.

I fixed a production issue earlier this year that turned out to be a naive infinite loop - it was trying to load all data from a paginated API endpoint, but there was no logic to update the page number being fetched.

There was a test for it. Alas, the test didn't actually cover this scenario.

I mention this because it was committed by a co-worker whose work is historically excellent, but who started using Copilot / ChatGPT. I'm pretty sure it was an LLM-generated function and test, and they were deeply broken.

Mostly they've been working great for this co-worker.

But not reliably.
> You just need to keep a rough track of the business's income and expenses (which any sensible person would be doing anyway

We are not talking about a business here. The whole problem is that these are things that people are doing as essentially voluntary work.

What your saying would be true in a different context, but this is not business. I do not know whether you find it hard to grasp that some people will put a lot of effort into something for motives other than profit.
I know. Maybe you should read the comment I replied to so you understand the context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415924

You will notice that it is about the ability to create lock files and nothing else.

And btw I've been using pip-tools for years and it's worked great for me.
This is gonna sound crazy, but you can potentially just ignore unjust laws in countries like the UK if you don't live there. At your own risk of course, but that is the nature of protest. If OP divests completely then it should be out of his hands.
That's exactly what I mean, all of those methods take some human effort, there is a human involved in the process. Now we face a reality that it might take no human effort to do... well, anything. Which is terrifying to me.

I do believe that humans are restless, and even when there is no longer any point to create, and it is far easier to dictate, we still will, just because we are too driven not to.
Teenagers are allowed to take high interest loan? Where? I think in Poland it would be possible for every parent to refuse repay such a loan.
Author may wish to look up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_coordinates
Yeah, prediction markets are better for this. With time you build an incontrovertible track record of getting things right.

On the other hand, this kind of service could be better adapted to the social reality. A prediction market can reveal the "wrong" people to be right, whereas this would probably be used more by people who are already well known and expected to be right. By only revealing correct predictions, people considered smart would not risk their status.

Looking at patio11's record on Manifold, for example, you will see that he is quite clueless about the world. Had he used tolduvault instead, he would have continued to appear smart.
The point isn't about people disagreeing, but promoting that disagreement with the intent to misinform others.

People are free to disagree as long as they don't put others and their children at risk - if that's the case it should be considered illegal.

I'm all for people who promote misinformation to be allowed to present their peer-reviewed research in a special court.
Right, so the 'accounts' are correspondingly simple. Essentially just a list of things the company has purchased.
If we see skyscrapers as an end, yes.

If they are a mean to an end it would be smart to compare them with other means.
Its the director of the movie that made it a cautionary tale about fascism.
The commentary track is great as well.

Verhoven calls out specifically that fascist tickle your senses by making it fucking sexy.

Imagine our great future and all the good things we can make possible (if we don't have to listen and consider.)
Overall interesting idea. Not sure how it could change ChatGPT with more curated prompts. There are couple thing I didn't liked about it:

1. It seems that you cannot create your own topics or at least I couldn't find in the dashboard how to create new one.

2. For some reason it requires a microphone access before the start of discussion. Landing never mentioned that you will have to talk with it.
FTC Announces Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees
That's what we do at Stainless. By curiosity, what languages are you looking for?
> No matter how much we pretend, the equal sign (=) leaks through, and that in itself creates infinite confusion in people who pretend to get it.

I have a feeling that this issue might be amplified by the facts that

1. many US-American students are monolingual.

2. I have observed that many native English speakers are less interested in their own language than native speakers of other languages for their mother tongue.

For 1: If you are used to learn multiple (natural) languages, you are very used to the fact that (nearly) identical words can have very different meanings in different languages (false friends).

Examples:

sensible [en] vs sensibel [de] ("sensitive" in English)

bite [en] vs bite [fr] (a vulgar word)

So for me there is nothing surprising about the fact that "=" means different things in mathematics vs programming languages that use = as an assignment operator.

For 2: There exist quite a lot of English words that can have very different meanings depending on the context (arbitrary example: "left" can both mean a direction, and be the simple past and past participle of "to leave"). So what is so difficult about the fact that = means something different in a C/C++/Java/C#/Python program than in a math equation?
> Many countries have parliamentary systems and manage to be stable and working democracies. Many more have mixed systems which are much less forceful than France and also work fine.

And over the 70 years of the 3rd Republic and 12 of the 4th, stable and working are not labels that could be applied. The average length of a government in that period is around a year, with many being in power even less than that.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_gouvernements_de_la_...
Can the postal service actually function as efficiently as commercial companies? There are laws and regulations that set how it must work:

* Title 39, U.S. Code, Section 101, 3622, 3401
* Title 18, U.S. Code, Sections 1701–1737

Interesting, the postal service has the largest service area, with last mile delivery to almost everywhere. I'm surprised that they haven't leveraged that to provide unique products and services.
The $50 million settlement would be worth $217 million today if it was paid as Facebook stock in 2016
Yes, I'd rather be where opposing views are allowed.
Remember when Covid vax was promoted as it'd prevent you from spreading the disease, or that they were "safe" (no heart related side effects).

People don't win when government officials are guardians of "the truth".
Thanks! Schemio is open-sourced with the exception of the backend part of https://schem.io. But the frontend code is completely open and you can even host your own server. Although in that case it would simply use a file system as a storage, so no database and no user management.
OK I should have said 60 years
That just sounds like "stubbornly" to me. People are often stubbornly wrong (or right), but in your examples I don't see anything that would make me call it religious in the sense of the comment you're replying to. Which, to be clear, is a set of given notions that they use to make sense of the world.
> It's like putting makeup on a pig, your get rid of null-panics

How so? In Go, nil is the zero value for a pointer and is ripe for panic just like null. Zero values do not avoid that problem at all, nor do they intend to.
Somewhat a different take. I am ok with people who are predicting events which are like broken clock is right twice in a day. Because, one needs to find the right broken clock, decipher the time at which the clock has stopped and choose opportune times or precursor events in the world to adverstise his/her predictions. Get these things right are crucial so that others take you seriously.
I loved apple id login support
Thank you for the hint, I didn't know Uiua. I'll definitely take a look on it.
Those are not mutually exclusive.

We are both creating content which hacker news serves up to people who read comments. We’re not the only ones this conversation is seen by.

Hacker news is, among other things, a platform for YC to find talent and advertise its startups. People come here both for the posts and comments.

The content we create and post here have clear commercial purpose even though we as the creators don’t necessarily benefit or care.

Welcome to the internet.
From article:

Babbage also wrote more than twenty programs that he never published.[19] So it’s not quite accurate to say that Lovelace wrote or published the first program, though
Automatic color-coding of cells in Excel financial model
I made a simple tool where you drag n drop an XLSX file, and get back another XLSX file where hardcoded numbers' font is in blue, formulas with external spreadsheet references are in green, and normal formulas are in black. It also finds hidden hardcoded numbers in formulas (purple)
Great timing as developments elsewhere show that baseload is an outdated and unnecessary concept.

The Japanese may not have heard about that as they quote made-up 2012 renewables integration costs in their report, so presumably they're about a decade behind and have no way to access real integration costs from the last ten years.
Perhaps this part isn't appearing above the image for you?

"NVIDIA is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed.

There's an eFuse blown on the AD102 die to halve the perf of FP16 with FP32 accumulate. RTX 6000 Ada is the same die w/o the blown fuse.

This is not binning, it's segmentation. Wish there was competition."
Regulations aren't all designed for society's well being. Some regulations are very narrow and help only specific businesses, like tarrifs.
I love Linux, but I do like MacOS for one reason - the unified nature of the ecosystem where Apple devices can talk/switch between each other is quite unparalled.

There's nothing quite like listening to music with Airpods on my iPhone, then switching to listen to music on my Mac while I'm Airdrop-ing photos from my phone to it, then hopping on to my walking treadmill and immediately switching to listening to the Mac Studio while having iPhone Monitoring on, etc.

Also for certain things - especially for creative work - the Mac is just hard-to-beat. Drivers for audio equipment, and VSTs for DAWs work well and without issue on the Mac; it's quite a struggle to set them up on the Linux, and there's always latency issues or manual config to deal with.
I see the rippling and the smooth pieces, that one is ok. For me what is hard to distinguish are the individual pieces from each other within one colour. The knight from the bishop from the pawn, etc. It is possible to figure them out, but at least for me I can't see it at a glance. I have to think about it and compare them. (whereas with a more traditional set I see it immediately)
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434423
Going to need a citation on that millions ... Sure ~57% of Americans disprove of Trump but can't extrapolate "disprove" to "ending of humankind".

Although to be fair to your hypothetical millions, a guy known for repeating getting bankrupt was elected to lead the country. Seems a bit fair to say his track record implies he'd bankrupt the country.
In short: we’re closer to clever statistical predictions than to genuine intelligence.

Paradoxically, this sounds like LLMs have a better grasp of LLMs than many humans do.
> Lucky enough for humankind this is self-correcting problem on both local and global level: people with partying genes will become extinct.

Humans aren’t fruit flies. Very little of our behavior has simple genetic controls in general and our brains are famously flexible based on our experiences. It’s also complicated in this case because deciding whether to have children involves any of the same skills people need to be successful in life: it’s a multi-decade commitment and so the problem is hardly “self-correcting” if it means that most of the children are being had by people who don’t make major life decisions rationally. Fortunately, most of them would be the ones choosing to party instead.
This, surely, must be peak AI mania. Can't make the docs readable to humans; it might upset the robots.

It does look like they've backed off, now:

> I've learned today that you are sensitive to ensuring human readability over any concerns in regard to AI consumption

I mean, you'd think that would go without saying.
How would you call it instead?
Out of curiosity, who does assembly language programming these days? Back in the 90s the compilers had learned all our best tricks. Now with multiple instruction pipelines and out-of-order instruction processing and registers to be managed, can humans still write better optimized assembly than a compiler? Is the juice worth that squeeze?

I can see people still learning assembly in a pedagogical setting, but not in a production setting. I'd be interested to hear otherwise.
Self-host PowerSync and build local-first apps
I help people mod their motorcycles. I wanted to do something not related to tech or coding in general.

People consult me for doing performace mods, parts sourcing. The sports bike scene is emerging in my country.

I'm planning to build a dyno from scratch, if it's a success. I'm hoping to recoup the cost from proving it as a service.
Finally, we can get the team up between Pappy and Haddock.
Released 0.0.1 version
> Nobody is building nuclear power plants for data centres

Argentina just announced they're building nuclear plants for AI.
I agree, but most social media allows for delitions or edits. I hate to suggest it, but would timestamped uneditable claims be something blockchain is suited to?
You grossly underestimate the average American’s desire to thumb their nose at government regulations, even if it means spending far more money than they should to do so.

Look at the prices of new trucks, then at the median salary. People should not have car payments that rival a small mortgage, yet they do.
Funerals are an "odd custom"? What an entirely odd thing to say, I cannot imagine what you mean. Why is meditating on the passing of a friend, remembering their life and being present with the grief of their family "odd"??
Here are general docs for Lean4, which is what is taught here: https://lean-lang.org/lean4/doc/whatIsLean.html and another tutorial: https://leanprover.github.io/theorem_proving_in_lean4/introd...
Sometimes you've just got to laugh a little.

But I contend it doesn't specificity imply that one agrees, just to tick that box if one wants to progress ... besides I do agree some people find pineapple on pizza is delicious, lots of others would find it nice or just ok or interesting or ...
Makes me think of Bugles Corn Chips.
> A forum that isn't proactively monitored (approval before publishing) is in the "Multi-Risk service" category (see page 77 of that link),

That's not true, you'd need to conclude you're at a medium or high risk of things happening and consider the impact on people if they do.

> and as nebulous as "users encountering Hate".

But users posting public messages can easily fit into the low risk category for this, it's even one of their examples of low risk.