skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me neither, though i only joined 10 years ago so maybe I've just never known what it should be like?

(A couple of the location subreddits i follow have seemingly shifted political allegiance over the past 3-4 years. Changing demographics, perhaps. Pandemic-related sanity level changes, possibly. Maybe the mods have found they've got more engagement by encouraging this.)
I briefly talked to Huffman (u/spez) about this during ModWorld and followed up with him later. Many of us made it clear that the appeal process is essentially a black hole. Send me an email (on my profile) and I will ping you if I get any further info from him.
It's a real shame that Sony didn't allow the interview to happen
Previous years:

2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777115 (the rest of this list is copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779963)

2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628

2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988

2017: none?

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370

2013: none?

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681
No, from everything I understand about the situation, this is the opposite of the truth. Feel free to cite a source saying otherwise! I'll read it!
TLDR: The Good: [ease of refactoring programs], The Bad:[Broken Ecosystem]
Next up : Drive thru ad-blocker. You enter your order into an app and at the drive thru it automatically plays a message that you are not using their fucking tracking points app, then reads your order, and forces the server to read it back to you and checks exactness, including checking the screen for another verification of correctness

poor workers yes... but fuck them just constantly adding more things to say and getting you to donate
I know you're getting at a specific point. And I'm aware that health insurers are not the only moneymaking component in the health care pipeline.

I don't think eliminating profit is doable. Capitalism is the worst system other than all the rest. But surely we can agree that health insurers that are publicly traded do not prioritize human outcomes.

The profit motive needs to be tempered, if not entirely removed, from health insurance. Profit motive should be tempered in the basic healthcare space. Excessive testing and treatment are a thing too, I understand.

What I guess I'm saying is, I know it's complicated, but no amount of nuance absolves UHC and others for the kinds of denial stories that people have been telling.

(I don't work Monday... I may be rambling).
Yea, the LIRR section of Penn Station is really nice now.
https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1870220129255981364?s=46

You see the themes everywhere. Similarly worded comments and posts made at the same time and upvoted in order to manipulate thoughts and emotions.
Actually didn't know that about BeOS, and suddenly the name of the Haiku Project makes a lot more sense to me.
7+ different publicly listed companies and myriad mutual/non profit companies as well as self insured businesses all colluding to pay more so they can collect higher premiums?

And simultaneously, health insurers denying coverage left, right, and center to pay less so they can profit more? (See adjacent comment by blackeyeblitzar)

Make it make sense.
I brought this up to Huffman (u/spez) during ModWorld and followed up with him later. The mods on r/pics have been on a pre-emptive banning spree lately. The issue is on his radar now at least.
> … these people won't ever get cancer …

Prostate cancer is surprisingly prevalent but (commonly) slow-proliferating, and is often “beaten to the punch” by other causes of mortality.
> Something that has also worked well for me historically is aggressively updating tool chains as an integral part of the development process. ... I've adopted a policy that for every significant compiler or build system release, we create a branch that verifies a good build. If it doesn't build without warnings or errors, or fails in testing, that is treated the same as a bug in the code to be dealt with ASAP. ... This also makes it much easier to incrementally modernize and refactor the code base with new language features -- the tool chain supports the latest and greatest even if the code base doesn't yet.

Good Point.
X jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harder
Thus ends the professional enshitfication of redwhatit, and only the armatures are left. Best of luck monetizing that API.
How much lower can profit margin get than 2% before a business stops being a business and becomes a charity?

Why would it even have shareholders at that point?

Surely, even someone who hasn’t operated a business can see why revenue should exceed expenses by a couple percent to survive volatility, much less make it worth investing in.
I believe that some people really needs that. Ironically the ones which need it most.
No but if you want to join the Distributed Systems Corporation, you should email arthur@distributed.systems
>You can’t possibly say, in good faith, that it think this was legal, can you? Of course it wasn’t. It was totally legal discharging some of the less odious things into the river despite going through a residential neighborhood about 500 feet downstream

That is exactly my point. Nobody would dispute that bad things would happen if you don't have laws against dumping pollution in the commons and enforce those laws.

>Doesn’t matter.

It does matter when we're trying to compare the overall effect of various economic systems. Like the anti-capitalist one versus the capitalist one.

>What someone said in 2023 has no bearing on what businesses did in 2020 based on the best available science and their motivations for doing it.

Well that's an entirely different argument than you were making earlier. There was no evidence that masks outside of a hospital setting were a critical health necessity in 2021 and the intuition against allowing them for customer-facing employees proved sound in 2023 when comprehensive studies showed no health benefit from wearing them.
Very unlikely, for the reason that human minds evolved under extremely tight energy constraints. AI has no such limitation.
Sure, these are standard problems, I’ve said so myself. My point is that my productivity is multiplied by ChatGPT, even if it can only solve standard problems. This is because, although I work on highly non-standard problems (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10069 for an example), I can break them down into smaller, standard components, which ChatGPT can solve in seconds. I never ask ChatGPT "where's the race condition" kind of questions.
> I also find it difficult to rationalize third-party dependencies these days

Your home grown auth code doesn’t have the minds and the scrutiny of security experts like the go-to third party auth lib everyone uses does, nor does it have the free pen testing, security fixes, maintenance, optimizations, refactors, ever collaborative maintainers, or corporate sponsorships.

Auth is a solved problem by minds much smarter than my own. I’m glad to outsource things like that to third party deps.
Absolutely. Honestly, I took the presence of this HN post itself, and the fact that it directly contradicts my own first hand experience, as a really bad sign (for HN).

Very little has changed on Reddit since the protests. A few tight knit communities went to discord. But tons of people loooove to complain.
They're not just "not the only" moneymaking component; they're an order of magnitude and another integer factor away from being one of the most significant.
The problem in American health care is (1) how much providers charge and (2) how many procedures and services are prescribed.
People call out Gelsinger all the time.

And yes, she is definitely responsible for this. Probably more than Gelsinger.

At Intel it is not so obvious what they should have done to improve their fabs to better compete with TSMC, which is groundbreaking tech where you often have to make risky bets.

At AMD it was pretty obvious what had to be done to better compete in AI, and it was basic software engineering, not lithography wizardry. Totally achievable by just spending money, increasing head count, hiring top talent, and firing underperformers.

They have so much low hanging fruit that could have been solved just by hiring 5 or 10 software engineers.
Yeah, go read the rules set forth by CMS. Medicare pays for the entire cost of anesthesia.

So here's why I'm so dismissive of your garbage argument. From Medicare's policy manual:

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/chapter2cptcodes00000-019...

A unique characteristic of anesthesia coding is the reporting of time units.
Payment for anesthesia services increases with time. In addition to reporting
a base unit value for an anesthesia service, the anesthesia practitioner reports
anesthesia time. Anesthesia time is defined as the period during which an
anesthesia practitioner is present with the patient. It starts when the anesthesia
practitioner begins to prepare the patient for anesthesia services in the operating
room or an equivalent area and ends when the anesthesia practitioner is no longer
furnishing anesthesia services to the patient (i.e., when the patient may be placed
safely under postoperative care).

Compare this to BCBS's policy (which they've tried to scrub from the internet):

https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/...

Anthem will arbitrarily pre-determine the time allowed for anesthesia care during a surgery or procedure.
If an anesthesiologist submits a bill where the actual time of care is longer than Anthem's limit, Anthem
will deny payment for the anesthesiologist’s care. With this new policy, Anthem will not pay
anesthesiologists for delivering safe and effective anesthesia care to patients who may need extra attention
because their surgery is difficult, unusual or because a complication arises.

There's a vast gulf between those two approaches. Medicare pays for the time a procedure takes, BCBS does not. BCBS deserves every ounce of vitriol they got over that.

Your entire argument appears to be that doctors are corrupt and cannot be trusted which is entirely orthogonal to the the issue with pre-determining the amount of time a procedure will take. Meanwhile BCBS overcharged (a.k.a. fraudulently charged) the federal government for over $100 million. Doctors are not the problem with health care in the United States.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/anthem-must-face-us-government...

UHC? $7.5 billion (with a b) in fraudulent Medicare charges.

https://www.startribune.com/report-unitedhealth-group-tops-l...

Cigna? They settled their fraud cases for $200+ million.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/cigna-group-pay-172-million-r...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/united-states-reaches-3...

Independent Health Association? $100 million.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicare-advantage-fr...

Private insurance is one of the biggest drivers of the obscene cost of health care in this country.
I tried posting on Reddit a couple of times when I had new blog posts but found my posts were immediately deleted because I didn’t have post history on the subreddits. Haven’t used Reddit since!
If I recall correctly, uv is doing some ninja stuff like guessing the part of the relevant file that is likely to contain the metadata it needs and then doing a range request to avoid downloading the whole file.
Agents can trivially self improve. I'd be happy to show you - contact me at arthur@distributed.systems

Why wouldn't you hand me 35 million dollars right now if I can clearly illustrate to you that I have technology you haven't seen? Edge. Maybe you know something I don't, or maybe you just haven't seen it. While loops go hard ;)

They don't need to release their internal developments to you to show that they can scale their plan - they can show incremental improvements to benchmarks. We can instruct the AI over time to get it to be superhuman, no need for any fundamental innovations anymore
??? how do you know cooking (!) is trivial for an llm. that doesnt make any sense
In junior high, we had to memorize and recite a poem in front of the class and this was one of the choices available to us. It's the one I chose, so it holds a special place for me.

The teacher who taught our class was probably one of the best teachers I've ever had. She was tough but fair and so you really wanted to impress her 'cause she knew what you were capable of. When you're a teenager, having an adult treat you with respect but call you out when you fell short of your own standards goes a long way.
Yes, you can't know what kind of poisoning was done in the initial training data set, and you can't review the data, you can't review any human inputs, and you can't retrain from scratch. All those are things the model author can do, downstream folks/companies/governments should be able to do them too. Otherwise it isn't open source.
It's helpful thinking for bipolar or depression. When I learnt I had ADHD I realised my "acute depression" was just extreme exhaustion and that there was no need to be sad - that is just my System 1 trying to explain why I can't do anything.

Basically there are a lot of useful heuristics you can get from the concept that your thoughts are only partially under your control.
That’s a great point: the client software isn’t listening to the server, so the server software should break the loop by escalating to the human reader. The message response should probably be even more direct with a call to action about their feed reader (naming it, if possible) causing server problems.
A lot of providers don't even require it to be a statutory DMCA complaint. Just a simple "I own the copyright, please remove it." These are private sites and can remove material on a whim with no legal recourse.

That's why it sucks to have to rely on hosting your content on other people's territory.
Short story: yes.

Anything that is not targeting current events is super easy to game.

Hot chicks, historical photos, "TIL", and "interesting" subsa re rife with unoriginal content and onlyfans bait. Then, as some have noted, there will be bots that steal comment top comments of those reposts, for another layer of bullshit.

Many current events subs are safe spaces of far left or far right agendas.

I'm left wing, bit the Texas subreddit got co-opted by overtly political moderators and it is mostly political now (though it's hard to avoid politics these days).

The only genuine places these days are hobby subs that are hard to game karma from. And maybe some local or regional subs.

Otherwise... Yeah, it's gotten really, really bad.

I should do a write up with some of my findings.
This defines most of social media. Some (many?) topics on HN are not immune either, it just has good moderation.
Yeah f that
> The thing is that spoken languages lack precision

This is true, but extreme precision is most useful if there's only communication one way, i.e. the programmer communicates to the computer how to operate and the computer does not respond (other than to execute the code). But if there's a dialog, then both parties can ask for clarification and basically perform a binary search to quickly hone in on the exact meaning.
While in Europe, there's no extensive beefs with the Americans in sports like there are between football (soccer) fans from any two given countries in Europe.
That is how Kaiser works- the doctors have internal guidelines, e.g. a set criteria for a diagnosis, and every treatment that is ordered is automatically approved. This isn't a perfect solution either though- the guidelines are often unreasonably strict, and still deny people treatments they very much need.
Why do we have to?
The last couple times I tried to make an account, it was instantly hellbanned.

Guess they prefer the bots. So I come here and go on Mastodon for ocean-pissing
Also because so much of software is uniquely poorly suited to obscurity. Attackers will often be able to probe the "obscure" system at their leisure trying to reverse it, or in non-SAAS cases get their hands on the actual (compiled) algorithm itself. And once you figure it out every single copy works exactly the same.

It's not like trying to measure the penetrating capabilities of a tank round, where you need physical access to a batch of large, expensive, explosive, tightly controlled objects to figure it out.
I know there was more to it than that, but it seems to me that a better managed Apple in some alternate history might have just thrown all the extensions "support" out, shipped, and said there would a better documented API for that kind of crap in the future. Probably also not waste time on OpenDoc because there was no shot that was ever going anywhere if you considered it from Microsoft's, QuarkXpress's and Adobe's perspectives.

Which is basically one of the reasons Mac OS X actually ended up shipping. You got a Classic VM in an OS that otherwise didn't care about making breaking changes, but you had a sliding scale from Classic to Carbon to Cocoa to fix your software eventually. Also OpenDoc got thrown out of consideration very early in the house cleaning process at Apple.
2024 Music Year End List Aggregate
> Users think with data. Imagine you are a cashier at a grocery store. You learn how to calculate the amount by watching the owner do it for a couple of customers.

No one does that. You go to school and learn numbers and basic arithmetic, which gives you all the formulas you need. And even illiterate people work out quickly the minimum they need to do transactions.

> This ability to abstract logic is what separates developers from users

Then everyone is a developer as everyone can write a serie of instructions which abstract action from context. It just that the computer is very limited and you need to be very precise. But what it can do, it can do it very fast. What is instant for us is an eternity in CPU time, and you can do a lot with simple operations if you can do a great number of them.

> Just like a developer's brain can think about a problem and come up with a solution using code, o3 generates a program (i.e., metadata) on the fly to solve the problem

Again that's not happening. You think about a problem and solves it by constraining yourself to the basic operations you have available (the APIs, languages, libraries, platforms). The code is just the written form of that solution. You can't invent operations that does not exist, you can only group them under a new name. Each set of names is another layer of abstraction that make it easier to write the code. But the constraints don't go away.

The code is not how you create a solution. It's how you instruct the machine to replicate the solution you came up with.
Those are positions, but you need arguments to back up your positions. I know this is an advertisement, but couldn't she put in at least a few so we can sample her reasoning quality?
As you well know, because Musk is a free-speech absolutist/crusader. Actually so much so that he is constantly attacked, and vilified for his courageous position. He is also a bold defender of the light of human consciousness itself. So working backwards from there you can determine that deleting posts is actually a form of constitutionally protected speech which X (the everything app) is doing, as a public service for all of humanity.

There, FTFY
All EBS volumes except io2 have advertised durability of 99.8%, which is pretty low, so don't count it in the magic networked storage category.
> If the average user is given unfettered access to the entire source code of his/her favorite app, does he suddenly understand it ? That seems like a ridiculous assertion.
And one that I didn’t make.
I don’t think when we say “we understand” we’re talking about your average Joe.
I mean “we” as in all of human knowledge.

It's an analogy. In understanding weights, even the best researchers are basically like the untrained average joe with source code.

>There is research coming out on this subject. I read a paper recently about how llama’s weights seemed to be grouped by concept like “president” or “actors.”

>But just the fact that we know that information encoded in weights affects outcomes and we know the underlying mechanisms involved in the creation of those weights and the execution of the model shows that we know much more about how they work than an organic brain.

I guess i just don't see how "information is encoded in the weights" is some great understanding ? It's as vague and un-actionable as you can get.

For training, the whole revolution of back-propagation and NNs in general is that we found a way to reinforce the right connections without knowing anything about how to form them or even what they actually are.

We no longer needed to understand how eyes detect objects to build an object detecting model. None of that knowledge suddenly poofed into our heads. Back-propagation is basically "reinforce whatever layers are closer to the right answer". Extremely powerful but useless for understanding.

Knowing the Transformer architecture unfortunately tells you very little about what a trained model is actually learning during training and what it has actually learnt.

"Information is encoded in a brain's neurons and this affects our actions".
Literally nothing useful you can do with this information. That's why models need to be trained to fix even little issues.

If you want to say we understand models better than the brain then sure but you are severely overestimating how much that "better" is.
When the government does it, it's bad. When the Free Market™ does it, that's innovation.
Most of the "leaks" are just documents that had been leaked elsewhere and circulated around the internet for years previously, that got reposted and reported without context.
If you never got a problem then how is it getting better?
Don't you see? The people paying for the API are running bots...
Whatever changes one may have observed at HN, I promise you, it is still a fortress compared to reddit.
LLMs will end up being the good human-machine interface that lets us talk to whatever AGI really looks like

(whoops expensive... will be hard pushes to make all further layers even more expensive though, capitalism will crash before this happens)
The nice thing about 70s-80s computer magazines (and even some books) on archive.org is the relative lack of copyright concern: they're just out there without sign-on and checkout protection. Especially the ones for the 8-bit machines. You can find almost all the old magazines for those machines freely available, and no copyright concerns when people upload more. Even though it's still 50 years before they're public domain, in the computer world they're just "too old to worry about."

With one exception: there are absolutely no old issues of the Apple II magazine "Call A.P.P.L.E" (Apple PugetSound Program Library Exchange) anywhere online. The reason why is the group decided to keep the business going. The only place you can get those old issues is from the official callapple.org website for the price of subscription. Too bad, because there are old issues I'd love to read.
And most people will still be bike shedding about whether it’s “real intelligence” and making up increasingly insane justifications for why it’s not.
No, they do not. This was a whole controversy last year.

https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2023/...

Lots of stuff to go find at this search:

[medicare anesthesia upcoding]

Reiterating: this is exactly why Blue Cross was vilified, and people angry about it were getting played by a lobbying group of some of the best-compensated professionals in America. Anesthesiologists getting paid more is not a consumer protection policy; it is the opposite of that, and it's wild that people think it might be otherwise.