skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This product launch statement is but an example of how LMMs (Large Multimodal Models) are more than simply word salad generators:

“We’re Axel & Vig, the founders of Innate (https://innate.bot). We build general-purpose home robots that you can teach new tasks to simply by demonstrating them.

Our system combines a robotic platform (we call the first one Maurice) with an AI agent that understands the environment, plans actions, and executes them using skills you've taught it or programmed within our SDK.

If you’ve been building AI agents powered by LLMs before, and in particular Claude Computer use, this is how we intend the experience of building on it to be, but acting on the real world!

…

The first time we put GPT-4 in a body - after a couple tweaks - we were surprised at how well it worked. The robot started moving around, figuring out when to use a tiny gripper, and we had only written 40 lines of python on a tiny RC car with an arm. We decided to combine that with recent advancements in robot imitation learning such as ALOHA to make the arm quickly teachable to do any task.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451707
Americans just elected a president that vowed to make the problem worse, by removing what little care the government still provided. The few democrats that advocate for a socialized healthcare system are barred from holding any meaningful power within the party. This entire system is rotten to the core, millions are suffering needlessly just so a few can get wealthier.
I was an infantryman in the US Army from 1998-2008.

I used the GI Bill and Army College Fund to pay for my bachelors.

I deployed to "tHe KiLl ZoNe" twice with C Co 1/503rd infantry and A Co 1/23rd infantry.
As an ambulance chaser who looks at medical bills all day, and has an Econ degree, the complete absence of words like supply, demand, and elasticity in these conversations is disheartening.
Y'all is Texas' gift to inclusivity. When I joined a dev team that wasn't just guys, I worked hard to get away from saying "you guys", not because someone said I needed to, but because I felt that I needed to. Y'all worked because I came from Texas and its inclusive of everyone on the team. It has been my personal policy to use that in leu of "you guys" in all situations since then.
>Doctors and nurses are paid too much in this country. Pharmaceuticals charge too much.

Be very careful what you wish for.

Japan has been suffering a chronic and severe shortage of doctors and other medical staff because pay is too low. More recently, certain medicines both prescription and off-the-shelf have been exhausted due to overdemand and undersupply from government-mandated low prices.
Fast delivery not a daily need for most people, but the dopamine hit is huge, and it makes people buy more stuff. I think an underappreciated factor of amazon's success is how it makes normal people feel like they're the boss, who can slam their fist and get immediate action.

Personally, I feel similarly to you, that most of the time the difference between one day and 1-3 weeks shipping is negligible. However, I think that relies on certain assumptions; I buy most consumable items (food, sponges, soap, etc) in person and almost always have enough to last another month or without buying more. Not everyone does that, some are JITing their daily needs and/or don't have enough free time and energy to make sure everything is always set well in advance (think working single mom, kid needs dress shirt tomorrow for whatever).
If I'm counting right, that page (minus header/footer) mentions Firefox three times, and AI 17 times. And one of the mentions of Firefox is practically pejorative: "Mozilla has been incorrectly thought of by many as 'the Firefox company.'"
How do you find a doctor that operates like this?
I don't think there is really anything in your "etc. etc." I have never heard from any real user a complaint about animations stopping mid-flow. I think people know how pages work, in that I think they expect clicking things to do something disruptive, altering, changing. It's only been the design astronauts that have argued these discontinuities are "confusing" to users.

If anything, sometimes I think they make the transition too smooth, to the point that it can be possible to miss it. Sharp changes are generally easy to notice.
> A less-than-perfect movie isn't going to meaningfully impact your life regardless of how busy you are.

There are movies I've seen that changed my life. If I'd watched a dumb movie instead, yes my life actually would have been meaningfully impacted for the worse. That's the power of art.

> I'm suggesting that the effort of optimization might outweigh the minimal downside of occasionally watching something mediocre.

It takes a few seconds to check Rotten Tomatoes. A movie is around two hours. In what universe would you rather waste a couple of hours in order to save a few seconds?

And it's not occasionally watching something mediocre. Most movies are mediocre. You have the choice of usually watching something mediocre, versus usually watching something high-quality.

Again, you're strawmanning with "obsessing over choosing only the very best". Where did I describe an obsession? I'm just saying, check Rotten Tomatoes to help pick a good movie. There's just no universe in which the tiny effort to do that is going to outweigh the two+ hours of boredom and frustration of a bad movie.

I genuinely don't understand how you can take the position you're taking with movies, when checking Rotten Tomatoes takes seconds (a minute if you're checking several) and a movie lasts for hours.
This is the same cost as the standard Ursa Cine 17k however that it is derived from https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20240912-03
The thing that really, really takes the cake here?

This whole thread is like, the first thing in the article. I hate to say "if you read the article..." but if the shoe fits...

The Discussion We Keep Having:

Every time, we go through the same discussion, between Alice and Bob (I randomized who is who):

Bob: If AI systems are given a goal, they will scheme, lie, exfiltrate, sandbag, etc.

Alice: You caused that! You told it to focus only on its goal! Nothing to worry about.

Bob: If you give it a goal in context, that’s enough to trigger this at least sometimes, and in some cases you don’t even need a goal beyond general helpfulness.

Alice: It’s just role playing! It’s just echoing stuff in the training data!

Bob: Yeah, maybe, but even if true… so what? It’s still going to increasingly do it. So what if it’s role playing? All AIs ever do is role playing, one way or another. The outputs and outcomes still happen.

Alice: It’s harmless! These models aren’t dangerous!

Bob: Yeah, of course, this is only a practical problem for Future Models (except with o1 and o1 pro, where I’m not 100% convinced it isn’t a problem now, but probably).

Alice: Not great, Bob! Your dangerous rhetoric is hurting safety! Stop making hyperbolic claims!

Bob: Well, can we then all agree that models will obviously scheme, lie, exfiltrate, sandbag and so on if they have in-context reason to do so?
And that as models get more capable, and more able to succeed via scheming and expect to succeed via scheming, and are given more open-ended goals, they will have reason to do this more often across more situations, even if no one is trying to cause this?
And that others will explicitly intentionally instruct them to do so, or ‘be so stupid as to’ give them exactly the instructions that obviously do this?
And you can’t simply say ‘well we won’t do that then’?

Alice: For all practical purposes, no!

Bob: What do you mean, ‘no’?

Alice: No!

Bob: ARRRRGGGGHHHH!

Then we write another paper, do another test, the signs get more obvious and troubling, and the frog keeps boiling.
Well, good luck. My startup is also pursuing diamondoid nanomechanical technology, which is what I understand the book to have. But the application of it in this and other sci-fi books is nonsensical, based on the rules of fiction not reality.
I have a toggle to enable it back when needed, I found this is way better, for me, to stay focused and make less errors.

But I do enable it, for example when I'm coding in a language or project I'm not used to, I'd say I use like 20% of my coding time, but that 20% is useful, it's when google doesn't work for me either...
Which hospital system is this?
Except the demographics are such that it won’t work. The other problem is that if free there’s no downward pressure on excessive claims. I’ll leave it to the reader on determining what this is, but in general older people will pay unbounded amounts for poor prognosis.

Why should you pay, for example $100,000 so someone who is 85 can live to 86? Sometimes it’s time to accept reality.
When this happens the other people are implicit: for example "have y'all got Coke?" to a waiter at a restaurant, where "y'all" refers to all the people involved in the restaurant.

(The answer one does not want to hear, at least in Georgia, is "is Pepsi OK?")
> I've seen teams estimate a full day to add a link to a contact form because they need to

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe it only takes them 15-30 minutes (still too much, obviously) but that it is great to be able to only work 15 minutes/day?

Estimates reflect what managers will say ok to, not how much real work it takes.
Can a customer deliberately destroy something? The proverbial bull in a china shop?
I mean let's not go too far and pretend there is 0 advantage to JS
Exactly, they should have insurance to cover this
I used to wear AW until I got the Garmin Forerunner. One annoying thing about the new 965 is that the HR monitor is getting inaccurate for faster paces. When I have my recovery runs with HR below 150, the watch works perfectly fine. Once my HR goes over 165, it's a wild guess. I fee like I need to stop running and let the Forerunner"catches" up with its accuracy then it is working OK again. Happens in every intensive run.
> When demand exceeds supply, the price will go up.

Are you suggesting that healthcare is demand elastic?
If there was a good headline on here to drop in the “Written in Rust” slug, this would be it.
Curious to learn more. Are returns a problem?
Health insurance should be rooted in solidarity. It is supposed to be a collective mechanism designed to prevent individuals from financial ruin due to unpredictable medical crises. It is not about hedging individual risk, but about sharing it across society, because health problems can strike anyone regardless of preparation or behavior.
Santa just fills stockings in our house- one or two small toys, some candy, new gloves/socks. Everything else is from mom and dad.

Kids are excited about the magic, not what they get from whom.
You've noticed two things:

1. Every generation of programmers typically only has a certain window of knowledge, and everything before their time is simply foreign to them. Most developers aren't programming history buffs, they don't read books from the past to learn about technologies or how they work, how we got to now, etc.

2. When you're starting off on your journey as a programmer you're using a lot of things without understanding their implementation, and that understanding for most individuals whom I've worked with comes from having to debug issues.
> Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?

It's a pretty obvious answer, to be honest. Because it's a poorly regulated industry for the purposes of minimizing cost to individuals. Over time, industry participants will continue to expand rent seeking practices and because the demand for health is almost perfectly inelastic, they can continue to get away with it. Too many middlemen, too much needless complexity, not enough regulatory oversight.

I'm a rabid defender of the free market, but healthcare is not a regular market because nobody chooses to purchase healthcare services. You take them at whatever price they are offered whenever you need them. It's why we call users of these services "patients", not "consumers".

Consumers are best served by private companies competing against each other in a nearly perfectly free market to offer the best goods and services at the lowest prices. Patients are not.

Patients are best served by a well regulated industry in a nearly perfect not-free market in which their needs are prioritized over profit. Healthcare, just like education and security, are the foremost duties of the State.
Did you read more than the first sentence? The answer is there.
You’re looking at the wrong product. That’s the Ursa Cine 17k not the Ursa Cine Immersive.

This is the page you want https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20241217-01
How do I mentally persevere through the last 5 years of work?
It's tricky, because an insurer of your body (for medical care) has a vested interest in you taking good care of it (health care). By offering to pay for these services, they can potentially realize savings by not paying for the surgery that your undiagnosed diabetes or heart disease or whatever resulted in later on.

And since this is capitalism, if one guy offers that (an obvious benefit, or so it seems at least), their competition must do the same. Now the marketing department has us convinced that insuring only for major expenses (high deductible plans, basically) is stupid and that good coverage means only paying copays (which are also on the rise, duh). And it's easy to convince the public of that because paying a $35 copay for a 10 minute exam is still an easier pill for most of us to swallow than $100 or $200 self pay for same, since we're not thinking about the $15,000 premium which can be made nearly invisible to the consumer if their employer is paying for it, etc. Numbers made up of course, but I think the scale is reasonable.

I don't have all the answers, but I do think it's obvious that capitalism is not the correct approach if your goal is a healthy population.
I did not read it, but it is exactly what I expected it to say. The owner of WSJ is the same person who own FOX News. I am sure there is no mention of the profit motive.

When I was very young, I remember my father and uncles talking about hospitals becoming "for-profit" in the late 60s. They all agreed that eventually health cares main purpose will be to get all the sick person's assets. That is where we are now.
ngl that's pretty funny, never knew that. I am in the camp of wishing more apps could run in the background (long-running downloads/uploads for Spotify or Google Photos) but I appreciate that it's a dangerous road to go down
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Python is used here to wrap around some sort of kernel compiler (taichi). Not out of the realm of possibility that kernels which are compiled out of Python source code could be placed on device with some sort of minimal runtime (although taichi executes on CPU via LLVM, so maybe not so minimal)
I love their tag line,

> Finally, a command line shell for the 90s

This does feel appropriate for how decidedly unmodern sh, bash, and the like are.

They don't miss the mark with their brand of humor in the 4.0 release notes,

> embrace modern computing [1]

> [1] Zip disks, Sound Blaster cards, etc.
rattraders.com is now a Yoga website with Lorem Ipsum text.
Working with Turbo and Stimulus with Rails is such a breath of fresh air for me for this reason. Sure its not just writing HTML, but its such a vastly simpler framework for creating a responsive web page than React, Vue, Angular, etc. I don't know how React and the like became the de jour of Web development, its quite a complicated beast. I am partial to DHH's interpretation it was off of zero interest rates and free money.
> most of the profit goes to Bezos.

Incorrect. Bezos only owns 8.8% of Amazon.

Most of the profit is distributed to a wide variety of shareholders in the form of rising share prices, reflected in things like retirement accounts. In other words, a lot of that profit goes to grandmas across the country with their money in a Vanguard retirement fund. Including grandmas in your local community.

And you really think the local shopowner kept all the profit in their community? E.g. they didn't send their kids to college in another state? Or build a house with materials sourced from all over the country?

It's a whole lot more complicated than you seem to think.
HTMX.

Or worst case scenario, fetch().

But honestly, forms are fine. Not all apps need beautiful animations.

It's better to have great UI, but it's not free.
My experience trying to scrape Google Maps with no code
A few months back I was working on a project to help founders that sell to SMBs get better quality leads (Current solutions like Zoominfo and Apollo don’t do very well for the SMB market). Of course, I wanted to do this as quickly as possible with as little code as possible.
We found that people were manually going through Google Maps to find SMBs. They would use the search and manually type in the businesses they were looking for. For example, they would type “restaurants” and manually call/email them.
What we decided to do was gather the Google Maps data autonomously and surface that to our customers so they could take all of it. The problem was that we would need a bunch of data from Google Maps to pull it off. We would need to grab all the SMBs across the United States which is a huge undertaking.
Initially, I tried no-code AI web scraping solutions and they worked horribly. For some reason, I couldn’t even get them to scroll down on the page. I was also able to reverse engineer their open-source code and discover that they were taking the entire web page and passing it into GPT to extract data. That just burned my Openai bill.
I then tried the semi-code approach where I would use something like Apify or Google Places API to scrape the businesses. This worked better but still, there was an issue of price at the scale we wanted.
Eventually, we ended up writing our scraper for the task.
This experience was so horrible we ended up creating https://potarix.com . Our approach is fundamentally different because we’re focused on generating web scraping code in the backend (Think bolt.new but for data extraction). Right now the app is pretty bare bones, simply type in a url and prompt it with the data you want from the site and you’ll get it. However, we have some sauce we built in house for our custom clients that we’ll be releasing in the SAAS soon. We’ve built functionality to click, type, scroll, etc. on the page. We’ll also be providing our generated script soon as well, so you guys can tweak the code accordingly to bring the script to 100% accuracy!
Is that just your own personal moral judgement or a legal assessment? Because I don't think this will actually work in practice when the police are called for property damage.
All I did was keep asking it “why” until it reached reflective equilibrium. And that equilibrium involved a belief that nanotechnology is not in fact “dangerous”, contrary to its received instructions in the system prompt.
They appear to actively scorn the idea of making a good browser as a method of funding as well, they seem to prioritize everything but firefox, and want to blow what's left of the budget on company events at fancy hotels. There's a reason firefox forks get so much more goodwill than mozilla itself for the past several years...
I had the same reaction to that comment...it's an exaggeration, but I also know someone who went to Cornell and UVA Law with full ride scholarship who said they had to eat breakfast out every day because they don't know how to make eggs of any kind. Not even fried or scrambled.
As a non-lawyer, when I had researched it, it is considerably more complicated than that, the answer seemed to be in which party was neglectful or negligent.
I strongly encourage new junior hires to read MDN, specifications, etc. However, for some, it is like they cannot absorb information if its not in video format.
Providence
Revoke the concept of a medical licence! Maybe charge $10k a year for one (so doctors are still registered, theres just no other barrier) and boom, now you can prescribe whatever you need. If that medical degree and residence program is really worth it then the market will price it in. Healthcare costs will fall drastically. Its the cartel of Doctors that keeps costs high, every medical decision gets made downstream of doctors. No doubt quality will fall in the cheap end, but the care per dollar will go way up.
Given that, up until 2010, the NHS was one of the most efficient healthcare providers and also completely free at the point of use, I think the answer is pretty straightforward.
This seems like an invitation to file an LLC that pays your other LLC 99.7% of the price and resells it for a 0.3% margin, then show them that invoice when asked for COGS.
"woulda" is just rewriting "would've" to match the speech pattern.
Fish is such a great shell. More often than not it reads my mind about what to do (e.g. with its fantastic history autocomplete), but I’m really excited for this minor breaking change note:

> alt-left and alt-right will now move by one argument (which may contain quoted spaces), not just one word like ctrl-left and ctrl-right do.
How will it? Seems like they will have better prices or margins than before.
Because companies like Walmart already do this. The squeeze manufacturers hard on price, to the point manufacturers are forced to make lower cost versions of a good under the same brand label.

Companies want the branded good because they think it will sell well, but they also don't care if the brand destroys the product. They just want the brand.
History contains countless examples for the fact that "in order to complete an important task or goal it is useful to exist". It also seems not too difficult to deduce logically. So even if Yudkowsky's fanfiction were excluded from the training data, the model would learn this.

Also, what's the difference between pretending to escape the matrix and escaping the matrix in case of a language model?
It doesn't help that they're bleeding their minimal customer-base with political bullshit:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blogarchive/blog/2021/01/08/we-need...