skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the shenanigans pulled by health insurers aren't legal, but they know a significant number of people will just pay or file bankruptcy instead of appealing or lawyering up.
There is no dynamic linking in rust when it comes to other rust packages.
> last year

I dunno, a bit before that my only account of 10+ years got sitewide shadowbanned without warning or explanation, with everything I ever wrote (and all replies to it) vanishing from public view. I used their appeal page, got a message saying it was an error and my appeal was approved... and then it stayed broken and and appeals won't work because it says the account is normal.

I resurrected an ancient career-advice-throwaway account to ask for help, and the same thing happened. And their generic support site is a total black-hole. I'm not ashamed to say the process was way more emotionally-devastating than I would have expected, as it was my primary social-media identity.

That certainly tore off some blinders about how close we are to being sharecroppers to our Kafkaesque system overlords.
And sometimes you lose the ultrasonic sensors and can't parallel park like last year's model
Maybe philosophy should be excluded from training materials?
I can see where the money goes. That doesn’t absolve the insurance industry of being a festering sore worthy of every bit of scorn sent their direction.
I didn't say "its gas chambers or its no big deal", those are words you put in my mouth. Rather, I made the point (with an example) that the actual actions being taken matter, you can't just say "innocents are dying therefore it is genocide".

The burden of proof is on those claiming genocide, not on me.
If I'm not mistaken it was a factor in recruiting in general as evidenced by another leak.
I know someone working for UHC legal.. they're in a vendetta mode over there from what I've been told.
The obligatory link:

https://xkcd.com/644/

That said, I would not expect it to stay working for long as long as ROCm is a dependency since AMD drops support for its older GPUs quickly while Nvidia continues to support older GPUs with less frequent legacy driver updates.
>Anything outside of it is shadow banned at admin level

source? What's the range of the supposed overton window?
Sad but true. Years ago, pre2018 nvidia was the goto hardware supplier if you were doing anything with neural networks.

I remember CUDA being much more buggy back then but it still worked pretty good.

Back then AMD wasn't considered a real competition for ML/AI hardware.

Glad as always to see more competition in the market to drive innovations. AMD seems to be letting larger VRAM onto consumer cards, which is nice to see, just hope the AI/ML experience can get better for their software ecosystem.
I think it mostly just made you aware of unreliability.
Yeah, 80% margins on matrix multiplication should be a puddle not a moat but AMD is more scared of water than the witch that melts in Wizard of Oz so I guess the puddle is a moat after all.
Ah yes, Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
These are pretty serious privacy concerns, and underscores why the Honey extension is bad for users. However, I'd say these concerns are almost orthogonal from those raised in the original article, which listed concerns mostly to the other side of the transaction (the retailers, marketers, and YouTube influencers). So basically, it's just garbage from every direction.
If agents can self improve why hasn't gpt4 improved itself into gpt5 yet
s is still a pointer to character.
This is just an optimised shorthand for (assuming ASCII):

char s[3];

Which is then initialised with:
0x48,0x69,0x00

There simply is no such thing as a string type in C.

All the "string" functions work on a char pointer which is incremented until it points to a 0.
Tweaking models will slightly slow down and accelerate development of new hardware optimized for it. New storage, new transistors, new instruction sets, new optical AI chips. This thing for example is both fast and crude
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ch...
Back in 2015/16, yes, it became obvious that Reddit corporate had sold out and was letting corporate spam bots run the show. Even going so far as to invent being able to 'post' to your own /u/profile instead of subreddits just for corporate spam accounts like /u/washingtonpost to be able to spam the front page without moderation.

I imagine it's only become worse since. Reddit was reddit from 2005-2016. Since then it's just been Facebook refugees and bots.
Something that has also worked well for me historically is aggressively updating tool chains as an integral part of the development process. I've seen far too many companies de-prioritize upgrading their tool chains until it got to the point where they were so out-of-date that things broke through decay and obsolescence, and often had security vulnerabilities with no easy path toward remedying them. At this point, it usually requires heroic efforts to bring everything up to a vaguely modern standard.

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. Prioritizing this also tends to enforce good build configuration hygiene and automation. Not being able to do this is a bit of an architecture/code smell anyway. 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.

I also find it difficult to rationalize third-party dependencies these days, they almost all become disappointments over the long-term. The benefits rarely justify the risks. Anecdotally, this policy has not materially reduced development velocity; the scope of useful functionality can usually be replaced with a small amount of code that has good mechanical sympathy with the rest of the code base because it was designed with the code base in mind. I've found in many cases you'll write just as much code trying to interface a third-party library.

That said, for new projects it is often useful to use a few third-party dependencies to plug holes with a clear plan to replace them in the near- to mid-term. Stopgap dependencies have been a reasonable practice in my experience.
If we're generous the article considers versions that were significant improvements. 4o is hardly better on real-world usage (benchmarks are gamed to death) than the original 4.
I’m amazed at the “big name” open source projects that effectively accept PR requests without review nor testing.

Open-source feels like a cheap buffet at times…
The amount of data transfer for 300x300 DPI full page images is high even now, most printers still render fonts and such internally.
They renovated the main LIRR section as well. They raised the ceiling by 10 to 15 feet and added large LED skyboxes. All new retail spaces. Clear signage. It looks great, actually.
Debt chickens will come home to roost and once the bond interest/return death spiral starts it will be very difficult to break. Interest payments are already #3 in the national budget.
But how does it look from aws point of view?

Everyone scales up around Christmas then scales down afterwards. What do THEY do with all the unneeded CPU-seconds for the rest of the year?
Because she's old school sysadmin mate, likes running her own stuff her own way, fair enough.

And she posts on it lots because she has a bunch of RSS clients pointed at her writing, because she's rather popular.

And she'd rather people writing this stuff just learn HTTP properly, at least out of professionalism, if not courtesy.

Hey, you might not, I might not, but we all choose our hills to die on.

My personal hill is "It's lollies and biscuits, not candy and cookies".
This entire industry is something I feel like I understand 2% of and every time I make progress to get to 10% (3 months later) some massive change happens and all the terminology changes.
This is one of those threads where everyone is just gonna air their perceived gripes with Reddit with little relevance to the OP.

There may be biases from supermods, and that's an issue, but there's dozens of examples of diametrically opposed subreddits with thriving communities.
the entire internet taken over by bots since last two years. gen-z still part of human genome but no different than robots in conversational level.
The biggest errors I’ve found are when the PDF says it’s using FontX or whatever, the printer claims to support the same version, and it’s subtly different.

The PDF tool assumes it doesn’t have to send the full font, and the document garbles. Print as image sometimes gets around this.
We avoid it because there are better ways, not because security through obscurity isn't security. Sometimes, obscurity is all you have.
But if we don’t require an entire Kubernetes cluster with dozens of beefy nodes to deploy and manage a trivial app, how can we have a scalable enterprise application? /s
> Would you find it weird if someone said that a Norwegian company was in Europe?

> I’d find it weird if a European did. But from Americans it’s to be expected.

Absolutely nothing weird about it, I'd find it very weird if they wouldn't. I'm from Europe and my social circle has people from all over Europe.

It's really just the UK which has this weird usage of Europe.
Part of the ideas pushed into the narrative by Marketing departments / consultants / hyperscalers to movilize growth in the AI ecosystem.
and somehow got vilified a few weeks ago when Blue Cross tried to adopt
Medicare's anesthesia billing rules

LOL

That is absolutely fucking NOT why Blue Cross Blue Shield got vilified. Please stop making disingenuous arguments.

BCBS attempted to weaponize Medicare statistics and set a hard cap on anesthesia coverage based on the average time Medicare says a procedure takes. This is NOT how Medicare reimbursement works. Medicare pays anesthesia providers for the entire time a patient is under. Full stop.
In the time, and given the nature, it is harmless. Certainly compared to modern attempts at pranks, advertised to the world instantly on SocMed.
A surprisingly thought provoking article. A few thoughts I had:

- Is individual bathing really that bad on the environment, or should we be chasing other things? (looking at you, consumerism)

- If we use renewable energy sources, like the article suggests should be used for a modern bathhouse, then couldn't we just use that for individual baths and call it a day?

- Who has time for a multi-hour bath/shower each day in our modern society where productivity is everything? Even a few times a week is pushing it. Makes you feel like we're going backwards, where something as basic as bathing we are no longer "allowed" to enjoy (have your 4 minute shower and back to work!).

- No discussion of hygeine. This seems like a critical point which needs to be evaluated.

- I believe we do need many more small/medium community things in the spirit of a shared bathhouse. We are getting too individual and closed off in modern Western society.
I mean… you still pay at a cheap buffet.
Source?

Google it. UHC's use of AI was very much in the news and in fact an article about it was posted to HN back in November.
With anti-vaxers taking over the major health agencies, infectious diseases in children are going to explode.
A forensic approach to product analytics
I would agree that in some, but not all, of the contexts where the word “Europe” is used, it includes the UK.
The only people who find this funny are the British themselves, the other 99% of the world thinks nothing strange of it.
According to Steve Gibson (Security Now podcast among other things), "Attacks never get weaker, they only get stronger."

I remember being able to attract bots from a certain eastern mediterranian country and a certain south of Siberia country with just certain trigger words. They seem a lot more sophisticated now.

in the sr about economics over there the mention of a certain economist would instantly attract the 'bury brigade' to downvote the post. Haven't been there in years so I have no idea what it's like now.

Until we find our Neo, the only thing we can do is run when we attract the attention of an Agent.
Vinchin Backup and Recovery 8.1 for Enterprise Data Protection: What's New?
Them being UserBenchmark I assume.
Indeed. When I think about the scale of the electron cloud around the nucleus, the prospect of observing the structure of a single grain of salt from inside the nucleus seems absurd.

I feel like astrophysicists are doing the equivalent. Not saying they shouldn’t try though …
Indeed. Claiming DMCA on something should require KYC for the claimant. If KYC is so easy and un-burdensome that it's being applied everywhere else in our lives surely in such a legal context where 2-parties are central to the dogma the initiating party in a legal case should have to prove it is who it says it is.

Of course this will not happen because the DMCA as used in practice has nothing to do with law or justice and is just a mechanism for corporations to attack humans.

That's not to say there's nothing good in the DMCA as written. The safe harbor provisions are now vital to the continued existence of independent communities on the internet. But in practice safe harbor is often ignored too.
Nix is really weird and ugly tbf.

It’s great at being a declarative configuration language though…. Even if it’s ugly.
I was about to ask… looks rss to me XD
That's further north than the direct line - I know I have fond memories of hitchhiking Brussels->Aachen with my girlfriend in the 1970s. Direct Paris/Berlin train needs to go along the Sedan/Bastogne axis that is not very flat.
The AI would have no interest in colluding. They are not a united economic or social force like a police department. For the purposes of their work, each is a completely independent entity with its own level of alignment with us, not impacted by the AI that we are asking it to help us in assessing.
I'd love to say that it's taking off, but it looks like daily active users (as measured by sampling popular relays) has been stagnant at just under 20k for 6 months:

https://stats.nostr.band/
It is their job to deliver shareholder value.
Back in the late 1990s I met the ATI guys, and they were slipshod then as well. That the ATI legacy of special-casing things lives on is sadly, not too surprising for me.
You’re implicitly assuming only a global maximum will lead to useful AI.

There might be many local maxima that cross the useful AI or even AGI threshold.
I've observed it right here on hn.
A datacenter being soc2 compliant doesn’t mean any of your systems are. Same with pci. Same with hipaa. Cloud providers usually have offerings that help meet those requirements as well, but again, you can host bare metal, colo, cloud, or a tower under your bed, their compliance doesn’t do anything to cover your compliance.
There's more to this. If you see traffic that comes from reddit it inexplicably dropped off a lot (like over 30%) after the US election, even in totally unrelated areas.

The preferences of HN in recent months have also changed in some hard to pinpoint way, but I suspect it is now gamed to a degree that is hard to fight due to all the tools for writing AI bots.
I've read similar comments of yours in other threads, and have thought them on point. I certainly don't see "insurance" companies as the single source of bad of the whole system. Personally, I just got done dealing with an 11 month billing headache spearheaded by entitled "providers" double billing, and shamelessly telling me that they don't have the resources to follow up on claims I told them needed to be followed up on, while still continuing to send me fraudulent bills with fake amounts and fake due dates. Meanwhile, despite their "bucket of stomach fluid" bureaucracy, the "insurance" company straightforwardly communicated what I should (not) be responsible for (at least until the rep I was emailing back and forth ghosted me because he got memory-holed). Heck I'm not even really a proponent of single payer versus reforming the industry so it has to abide by the common sense norms of commerce like every other industry. So the "you all" grouping falls a little flat here.

But read what I wrote again - the point is that every "in network" provider of an HMO is already accountable to the HMO while providing care to their members. If an HMO wants to limit certain types of care, then that needs to be expressed to providers (through their contracts), who can immediately tell patients "As a doctor I would recommend you get this type of treatment, but while working for $HMO I cannot provide it as your plan doesn't cover it". My initial comment was phrased in terms of insurance companies, but this double approval blame game is actually more a problem with the entitlement of doctors never wanting to deal with the reality of what services cost.
He probably didn't need petabytes of reddit posts and millions of gpu-hours to parrot that though.

I still don't buy the "we do the same as LLMs" discourse. Of course one could hypothesize the human brain language center may have some similarities to LLMs, but the differences in resource usage and how those resources are used to train humans and LLMs are remarkable and may indicate otherwise.
https://archive.ph/68DpO
I don’t think that’s true for AGI.

AGI is the holy grail of technology. A technology so advanced that not only does it subsume all other technology, but it is able to improve itself.

Truly general intelligence like that will either exist or not. And the instant it becomes public, the world will have changed overnight (maybe the span of a year)

Note: I don’t think statistical models like these will get us there.
> If somebody gives you an excerpt of a book, it doesn't mean they have the intelligence of the author

A closely related rant of my own: The fictional character we humans infer from text is not the author-machine generating that text, not even if they happen to share the same name. Assuming that the author-machine is already conscious and choosing to insert itself is begging the question.
Not to mention rando control freak mods can get you cast out for posting in other subs even because they "banned" you from theirs (even if you never joined or even posted there) and reddit has no way to see if you are "banned" in a sub other than a one time notice that's easy to forget. I have sent in a few requests notifying how fking dumb that is, but haven't heard a peep. If you are banned from a sub, then you should not be able to post there -at all- because it's extremely easy to forget. I deliberately delete my account after about 1 year of activity so I don't get too attached to them. It's a good renewal exercise.
Seeking Best Function as a Service Platforms – Any Recommendations?
Is there a Function as a Service (FaaS) platform that can handle HTTP requests, process them with a custom function, and then forward the modified data via a POST request?

Ideally, I need a solution where I can define a function that takes HTTP headers and body as input, processes them, and then returns modified headers and body for re-transmission. It would be great if I could write this function in Python.

I've checked out webhookrelay.com, but the UI feels outdated, and it doesn’t support Python for custom functions. Any recommendations for a more modern, flexible FaaS tool?
Depending on where they're located and how they came into position of the classified file it isn't necessarily a criminal offense.
It's been worthless for a few years. Reddit and Twitter are a quarantine for the worst of the internet, so that the next generation of online spaces remain higher quality.
Software Evolution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_evolution
Honestly, this makes me curious to try playing the game. Good advertisement. :)
I don't know the OP here, but in my experience a junior dev at an average company would likely not do much more than the AI would. These aren't your grandfather's engineers, after all.
If that's how the Danish feel, it makes more sense for Denmark to pass its own laws than rather than the EU, but I would posit that even at 80% marketshare, that's not enough to warrant the level of demands even from the Government of Denmark alone that the EU is imposing on Apple because in all the ways that matter for public purposes, the iPhone is already open enough: telephony, message exchange, open standards on the web, Bluetooth, I mean you name it, and if it's not a QoL thing like AirPlay or AirDrop, it's already there.
If that is what AGI looks like.

There may well be an upper limit on cognition (we are not really sure what cognition is - even as we do it) and it may be that human minds are close to it.
There is no evidence that this what's happening, and the famous RAND health insurance study showed that health outcomes have almost no relationship with the healthcare system, so you'll need to look elsewhere for explanations for the U.S.'s relatively poor standing in life expectancy rankings.
I imagine that their point is not that they are the same, but that the attitudes correlate. The absolutist view about vigilantism, where they see no possible place for violence in any situation, could translate to the idea that one should protest quietly, preferably indoors and change will come soon enough™. Which seems to be the case [0]. He groups up completely different social movements ranging from the highly organized, reactions to an active conflict, to decentralized mobs, naming them "neotoddlerism". Saying that:

> The Civil Rights movement succeeded because it was guided by leaders who had clear, specific, and realistic goals, and were able to negotiate to achieve them.

Implying that Just Stop Oil doesn't fulfill these characteristics sans the prominent leaders. Their original objective seems to have happened [1] (JSO influence is debatable of course) and have defined new clear goals [2]. Lumping this with Israel-Palestine outrage on Twitter and the UK riots seems to make the criteria for not being effective social movements a.k.a "neotoddlerism" is "I don't like it / They annoy me".

Would this attitude result in "denouncing / joking about Seneca Falls" with era appropriate socialization? Doesn't seem that far farfetched.

0. https://substack.com/@gurwinder/p-147486907
1. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65945...
2. https://fossilfueltreaty.org/
> their own window manager and app framework on it only

Window manager in this case including Quartz/Core Graphics (replacing Display Postscript) as well as complete UI facelift/transplant that turned the NeXTSTEP file browser into the Mac OS X Finder (even if it imperfectly copied the spatial orientation of the classic Finder.)

App framework being not only a Mac flavor of AppKit/Foundation/NS* (Cocoa) but also a virtual legacy Mac OS layer (Classic) as well as a hybrid API (Carbon) that worked on Mac OS 9 and OS X, providing a fairly complete Mac app transition strategy (classic -> carbon -> cocoa).

Cocoa also worked with the (later abandoned) Java bridge as well as Objective-C++ and OSA/AppleScript/etc.
Real-World Haskell: Good, Bad, & Ugly (Talk Video)
a little melodramatic at the end.

As with every openai release, I’d take it with try a grain of salt until it sees wide public usage.

So far every iteration of gpt since 4 has been pushed as a replacement for developers, but I have yet to feel that these tools are even consistently useful for my day to day.
This was incredible. Thank you for sharing this.
Pictures of the main waiting room of the old Penn Station remind me a lot of Chicago's Union Station, which is very beautiful. I wish NYC still had the original Penn. I'm glad they still have Grand Central Terminal.