skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, exactly my experience as well. And the more of a mom and pop store that it is, the worse this problem tends to be. I have actually audibly laughed out loud for a second before catching myself when seeing some of the prices.

Ironically, it's the big chains that seem to be the best on this. They have some curation and their pricing is usually a little higher than What I'll see on Amazon but isn't outrageous.

The big exception is anything edible, such as groceries. Anything edible on Amazon is going to be wildly overpriced. For edible items I definitely go to big chains that are local
Had a similar moment at one job. We were discussing possible API design choices for an integration project, and more than an hour into the meeting we realized half of the room was assuming HTTP. This rendered the majority of arguments spoken so far irrelevant.
I actually started using the term y’all after I learned French. One you’re introduced to the concept of ‘vous’ you realize how weird it is that English doesn’t have a standard equivalent.
To be fair, "reading" in Socrates' time was viewed as social media or Netflix is seen today. Mindless entertainment. There was more of an emphasis back then to focus on a few solid works, memorize and really chew on the content and not consume religiously.

Times haven't really changed.
Why would anyone be surprised that AIs are mimicking human behavior when they are trained on human-generated data?

As much as I wish otherwise, one thing we learn from history is that the only thing that constrains bad human behavior are consequences (you go to jail, are sued) or social pressure (shunned, shamed). (When it comes to human nature, I tend to agree more with Hobbs than Locke.) Unless AIs operate under the same constraints then I expect we'll increasingly see "bad" behavior as their capabilities grow.
Critics, not fans, perpetuate the failed second album myth, study shows
Seeing how it took earth 4 billion years to figure out how to get inhabitants to set foot on another stellar body the rise of intelligence may be the unlikely event here.

Perhaps it's much more likely to have happened elsewhere in the galaxy 4 more billion years from now. If I remember correctly, stars with our particular properties haven't been around for too long.

I recommend looking into cool worlds lab since you seem to like inferring from the numbers.
I'm not necessarily opposed to a single payer system, but it wouldn't fix those things unless it also imposes severe price controls. Fixing prices below the market price inevitably leads to supply shortages (i.e. longer queues). This is why we see affluent Canadians come to the USA as medical tourists to get MRIs here and skip the queue back home. On balance it might be better overall but let's be clear about the trade-offs.

While physicians in the US are paid much more than any other country, there's not a huge difference for nurses.
I mean it depends on if we’re talking ‘enough to bring joy’ level of money versus ‘enough to corrupt one or more significant enough officials’
In my mind Perl was the Rust of the 90s. Perl evangelists were everywhere and wanted to rewrite everything in one line of Perl.
To be fair, it's not fair that printer manufacturers do this to us for decades.
Awk is a tiny language that you could learn in an afternoon. The real trick is remembering how to use Awk when you need it.
Yes. Technology is a key part.

- businesses are more optimized and driven to improve efficiency and metrics.

- technology for record keeping has improved so that the threat of debt is more scary (can’t just flee to another state, etc)

- people are more reliant on the industrialized healthcare system to full that need than in the past (less countryside medicine, etc)

- the legal system supporting doctors keeps strengthening (government recognized experts in many more areas)

- more inequality. One person who will pay covers 10 who won’t.
Re: failing business

To be fair, satellite TV has always been one of these even when it was a healthy business. High cost of acquisition, high commission for sales, high barrier to cancel.
Not at all.

There are plenty of things you can do with static websites, especially given you can have site generators and/or can write javascript by hand too (shock!).

For example if the requirement is to have website editable by non-programmers, that's where static site generators shine. Sure, one has to press "deploy" button and wait a minute before changes are visible... but you get to keep all the features of static pages, like trivial scalability and very high security and availability.

Even if you have to have dynamic functionality (like a shopping cart), there is no need to do the whole website dynamically. Sure, have an API server which may even render the cart page, but the rest of the website can be fully static, maybe with a tiny bit of javascript to render the "number of items in the cart" icon.
Police aren't showing up for this.

The law generally puts responsibility on the party that should know better, which is the professional.
Ah yeah sorry I should have mentioned it wasn't the same, I used it as it has a nice number that shows the bias to a pretty extreme degree.
In early modern English, thou and thee were both the informal 2pp, with thou being the subject pronoun and thee being the object pronoun. Thou/you is similar to tu/vous. Eventually, thou became archaic, and we think of archaic words as being more formal.

(Aside: In Middle English, ye was strictly plural, but ye became acceptable as formal singular as well, again paralleling vous. And as an additional aside, in the "ye olde English" phrase, the ye is actually þe, where þ is thorn, which wasn't available when the printing press came to England.)
> We don't give them direct access to the HR platform

We already algorithmically filter resumes, using far dumber 'AI'. Now sure, that's not firing the CEO level... but trying to fire the CEO when you're an AI is a stupid strategy to begin with. But consider a misaligned AI used for screening candidate resumes, with some detailed prompt aligning it to business objectives. If it's prior is that AI is good for companies/business, do you think that it might sometimes filter out candidates it predicts will increase supervision over it/other AI's in the company? If the person being screened has a googleable presence, where even if the resume doesn't contain the AI security stuff, but maybe just author/contributor credits on some paper? Or if its explicitly in the person's resume...

Also every time I read any of these blog-posts, or papers about this, I'm kinda laughing, because these are all going to be in the training data going forward.
Ah; a kindred "old fogey" :-) Yes our experience shapes how eager we are to jump to learn new things. But it is eventually done at our own pace. In general though, with age and experience people become more cautious psychologically. Probably because we have made so many mistakes which in hindsight could have been avoided if we had thought more and studied more. This is what is frustrating with "shiny new" features. Even before people have gotten some substantial real-world experience with C++11, you have C++14/17/20/23 piling on top and making us feel peak "imposter syndrome". To make matters worse, the noobs/wannabes start "cargo cult programming" with no real understanding and thus ruining the s/n ratio. They don't understand that merely learning the new syntactical features will not magically make one a better and more productive programmer.

The C++ standards committee really needs to disband itself for a decade and leave us programmers in peace :-) Stroustrup wasn't kidding when in the preface to the 4th edition of TC++PL he said "C++11 feels like a new language".

Finally, i agree that we need to be aware and keep abreast of new languages/features which are genuinely good/useful but i would rather be "slow and sure" than "fast and fail".
I'm referring to healthcare specifically, not the insurance market.
I mainly write code by opening my notebook and drawing boxes with little arrows between them.
Did you try using the previous configuration as an initial guess to the numerical optimizer? If the next position is close to the previous one, the solver should be very quick.

Also, you can probably get much faster results if you obtain the gradient of the forward kinematics.
Sure, but I'd say mere hundreds of years is brief, almost but not quite negligible, on the scale of human history — the Greek dark ages was about 400 years long.
I'm hardly a serious runner, but I'd say the pros you laid out for Garmin are quite nice, and the cons are inconsequential to your average fitness tracker user. I'd probably argue they're inconsequential to everyone but the absolute elite and, for them, are pointless.

Sleep tracking is hard to action on for the average user outside "you slept this long" and none of the writst-based devices are that good anyway.

Pace to sub 5 is a little more annoying, but probably not useful for the majority considering most people are just running, not craning over their watch the whole time.

VO2 max is also a wild estimate, and I'd hazard it's not particularly accurate for the average person. It's off by close to 20% for me, and I should be a pretty good candidate.

On the flipside, you can get tons of data out of a Garmin that costs significantly less than an Apple watch. Plus, the majority of Garmins sold are fitness devices with some smart features, with Apple watches being primarily a smart watch. While maybe not justified (I think the Apple watch features are quite nice) I'd expect that's a major part of the reason Garmin has the rep it does.

If someone is buying a device to run, most would recommend the cheaper, light, simple, specialized, long battery life watch over the opposite. If you already have an Apple watch, it's probably a no brainer.
For the high-end Garmin devices, it's a little more complex, but not many people are considering a US$800+ device without knowing the nuances of the discussion, or having enough money to not care.
F-Shaped Web Reading Pattern: Misunderstood, but Still Relevant (Even on Mobile)
fascinating. It represents every failed public housing project in the U.S. as well, like the one in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi#Filming and in NYC
Article doesn't answer question... it vaguely talks about search, defaults, threats but you have to kind of infer and guess what is actually written in the judgement. I wanted to read "the judgement says xxx which means xxx will happen which causes xxx".

I have more questions after reading than before!
I think those people are (1) worried about Google and also simultaneously (2) worried/annoyed by activities that they think will never be sufficient to replace Google funding and that distract from browser development.
>An Amazon delivery car with a bunch of products to deliver is the equivalent of OP filling up his car with purchases when shopping in town.

Right, but if you want something in 2-3 days (which amazon provides), you need to make a dedicated trip. Even if timing wasn't a factor, at best doing a consolidated errand run allows you to visit a handful of stores, whereas an amazon delivery van delivers to dozens of houses in your neighborhood in one trip.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study...
>Maybe they should think of starting to spend "Mozilla Foundation" money on browser development

That would be tax fraud. Tax-exempt charitable donations from MoFo can't be used for product development by MoCo, a for-profit company.
Why not mandate that each browser shows search options on first install, and then periodically ask again every... 6 months?

Google could still pay to be the top sponsored option.

Would Google still pay Mozilla in this case?
Track the XB-1 Boom test in realtime
https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1
UFO Sightings and the Delusion of Crowds
Why do you care about providing your credit card number to order something? You're not liable for fraud and most banks will replace the card quickly. In 25 years of having credit cards and using them extensively online I've had them compromised only a few times. It's really not something to worry about.
UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material
Brazilian punk rock band Garotos Podres (Rotten Kids) recorded a song called "Papai Noel Filho da P#*&@" (Santa Claus Son of a B&#£¢). It's an Anarcho-Socialist anthem that exposes how Santa is a "capitalist pig" that "rejects the poor", "gifts the rich and spits in the poor" (quotes from the song).

Slightly changed radio lyrics: https://www.letras.mus.br/garotos-podres/46145/
I personally stopped giving them money when I learned they didn't spend any of the donations on firefox.
From a purely selfish and practical view, that goes against my ideology, it’s already difficult enough to keep my elderly relatives keeping their iPhone free of scam apps. Opening it up will make it even worse.
Some people complain about the weird contractions that English can construct, but at some point, you just have to accept that that's the kind of language it's.
This is brutal.

Amazon pays less in all outcomes.
Amazon gets to reimburse you based on equivalent drop shipped item costs.
Alternatively Amazon gets a breakdown of your costs which they can use as insight for their house branded alternatives and even negotiations with suppliers.

I suspect many premium brands are going to leave Amazon with this change.
> Also, what's the difference between pretending to escape the matrix and escaping the matrix in case of a language model?

It is neither pretending nor actually escaping.
After pondering, my single favorite capability of rust is this:

fn modify(val: &mut u8) {
// ...
}

No other language appears to have this seemingly trivial capability; their canonical alternatives are all, IMO, clumsier. In light of the article, is this due to Rust's memory model, or an unrelated language insight?
It appears you've never lived with Medicaid. Medicaid makes it clear that the poor don't deserve as much or as good a quality of medical peer as someone well-off.
> when the same people simultaneously moan and complain any time Mozilla tries to branch out and cultivate independent revenue streams.

I don't know what "same people" you're talking about, but the criticism I see is typically about a) Mozilla's attempts to branch out which failed, b) Mozilla's "branching out" attempts that are just as bad as their reliance on Google (like how they bought an ad company and are pushing their form of "anonymous tracking" or whatnot.)
AirTags use the same Find My protocol that's been out for years before them, I doubt Apple will cut them off. They also get regular software updates, so the hardware should last that.
I read an article, I think here on ycombinator, that eventually most people will interact with an AI as opposed to a real Doctor.

In a way, I would not be surprised that is the case in maybe 10 or so years. And I expect this AI will be run by Health Insurance Companies. We already seeing a bit of that.

It is time for the US Gov to stop collecting bribes (contributions) and "man up" to fix Health Care, even if it means they will lose their job. Congress is suppose to serve the community, not private health care and other fortune 500 companies.
But then they want the brand, so the seller gets to extract a premium for the brand even if you knew their COGS to the penny because it's actually worth that much in additional sales and they both know it.

The thing where they make a worse version of the product isn't Walmart screwing the seller, it's the seller taking the short-term profit option by screwing the [Walmart] customer until the customer notices. And then the question is whether the customer notices whether the product is worse, or the customer notices that the product is worse from Walmart.

Also, a lot of the store-specific SKUs aren't actually different whatsoever, they just put a different number on the box because it gets them out of MFN clauses with other retailers and the retailer likes it too because it gets them out of price match guarantees since nobody else has that SKU to match against.
Here in Massachusetts, I don't hear it often, but when I use it nobody even blinks an eye at it. It's well understood.
No, hygiene means anything done for the purpose of maintaining good health. It is commonly used as a synonym for cleanliness.
The blame falls on us olds for not communicating the benefits of the hypermedia approach to the younger generation, and allowing flashy front end boosters to bully us into silence on the topic.

The tide is turning to an extent though. Here is my contribution:

https://hypermedia.systems
> that drawing really makes it feel like the entire thing is made of cardboard, hopes and dreams.

In the same way that corrugation gives strength to cardboard, it's possible that the city could have been so dense that it may have been relatively resistant to collapsing.
It's sweet that you think they would introduce a human in this loop. This is going to be AI'd all the way.
I’ve been feeling this same way but didn’t want to articulate it, possibly out of fear. I also wrote a little book based on “old school” or “pure JavaScript”. I’m sure you could make some of the same criticisms of that, but I tried to make it pure and down to the basics.

It’s on Amazon at the URL below but if you’re willing to give feedback, reach out and I’ll send a free copy.

https://a.co/d/bwF4YF5
Ask HN: FaceTime using generative models on low-quality calls?
Hi, I was in a call two minutes ago with two friends and my Wi-Fi connection was acting, so the call quality dropped a lot and lost connectivity for a few seconds—after it reconnected, I instantly realized that the low-framerate video feeds of my friends were using some sort of generative model, it was as if they were “DeepFake”ing themselves!

I didn’t find anything on the internet regarding this nor I think Apple advertises this “feature”. The closest thing I’ve found is FaceTime Attention Correction, but this was quite obviously a neural network generating the video frames. Does anybody know what this is?
I think many Aerospace jobs that aren't directly Defense/Military (think SpaceX Falcon 9 flight control development) are also behind clearance. Of course you will indirectly help launch military satellites but I wouldn't call it a military job exactly.
This opinion is fully consistent with Mozilla's self-interest

This opinion is fully consistent with Google's self-interest.

Coincidence? I think not --- there are about $400M reasons for it.
Big fan of y'all and it's variations. Primarily for it's ability to compress words with no ambiguity.

For example:

you + all = y'all

are + not = aren't

y'all + aren't = y'aint

Now that's a beautiful thing.
I always think of Randal shwartz when I think of people saying, “I’m an X language programmer”. You don’t want to be the last guy on earth that’s the expert in a dead language.
The things you need from Awk you can also find in Perl and learn in an afternoon. Whether you need anything else from Perl is an independent question.
Except basically none of them store the CVV and so even if I use them, I still have to go get my wallet. And many cannot fill out the varying expiration date fields correctly.
Intention is irrelevant, what matters is the observed actions. In this case you can see the chain of thought and the model is clearly ruminating on whether to subvert the RLHF process.

This has nothing to do with left-polarization / wokeism in models.
Working on banner ads is the kind of thing you will tell your grandkids about.
Please, no!

I worked with a 3rd party library that had this mentality. "A bug is a bug so the assert fails and thus the code is now in an unknown state thus The right thing to do would be to ABORT the process execution immediately". Oh my.

Just do "if (pointer)" and when that fails, error out from the smallest context possible that applies to that pointer, and nothing more than that. I.e. the real BEST thing to do is to abort the current connection. To skip the current file with an error. To fail writing that piece of memory. Whatever. But never abort (unless maybe in debug builds).

The end result of this library was that we had a WebRTC server handling 100s of simultaneous video calls, and then when a single new user tripped up during connection and went through a bogus code path, the library would decide "oh something is not as I expected so I'll abort, of course!" and the whole production server was brought down with it.

That kind of behavior does not help achieving high production quality and providing robust and reliable services.

We ended up removing the library's runtime assertions, which meant that connections that would bug the library code would just end up failing with an error somewhere else, that could be used to just discard the attempt and try again. All in all, numbers showed it was a huge positive in stability for the service.
> Doesn't it take a lot of energy to convert rust back into something usable?

The required level is achievable with a furnace made from clay, with an air pump made from sticks and leaves and mud, heated by charcoal made from heating logs in the absence of oxygen: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGnWLXjIDnpBVRqu5lz5JGaQx...

(And again, this guy is starting basically from scratch each time; he's more interested in that than in practical re-industrialisation).

Coal is nice to have, not mandatory.
If you have a monopoly, the only way to handle it is to split the company down the middle. Give both full rights to all the contained IP except the name of the original company. Google.com would redirect to the two resulting companies randomly. Maybe after this split stabilizes you need to split the resulting companies again.

Markets need to emulate evolution. Consolidation is emulating invasive clonal individuals that eventually crash. We need to emulate offspring and the death of the parent.
What if they found a way to monetize Firefox

It’s not like those alternative streams have been very successful. Feels like they’ve been floundering from project to project for a decade now.
I see this endlessly repeated across the Internet, but it doesn't work. -n't is not a general-purpose clitic the way -'d and -'ve are; it can't attach to arbitrary words. ("Well, Mary'd _said_ she was gonna, and the rest of 'em've all gone home.")

Yes, there are portions of the internet which gleefully misuse it on everything, and sometimes I am part of those portions; but even there, a) it's marked speech, and b) you wouldn't say *Y'all'dn't've gone, you'd say ?Y'all'd've gonen't, and only partially because it's funnier.
I'd strongly consider Ruckus R710 off-lease from eBay, running Unleashed firmware.
Sadly Mozilla is like a large dead tree husk, full of parasites, that deprives healthy tree saplings from sunlight. I know its harsh, but I say knock it down. Much better for the browser market.
Wild that the best way to tell what kind of USB cable you've got is the equivalent of knocking on a melon to see if it's ripe.