skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do not change it, from what I have seen, o3 is more hype and marketing than a meaningful step towards models which can exhibit real creativity and reasoning as humans perform it (rather than perceive it, which is the root of the hype)

For example, a small child is completely capable of being told "get in the car" and can understand, navigate, open the door, and get in, with incredibly little energy usage (maybe about the amount of a single potato chip/crisp)

Now consider what I have been working on recently (1) evaluating secops tools from both a technical and business perspective (2) prototyping and creating an RFC for the next version of our DX at the org. They are very far from this capability because it involves so many competing incentives, trade offs, and not just the context of the current state of code, but also the history and vision. Crafting that vision is especially beyond what a foundation in transformers can offer. They are in essence an averaging and sequence prediction algorithm

These tools are useful, even provide an ROI, but by no means anywhere close to what I would call intelligent.
This is a great point! And in the class of problems I was trying to illustrate. There's a lot of low hanging fruit here. We're programmers, we should be able to take our frustrations and turn them into solutions! If we're not, then we're doing something wrong lol.

FWIW, in Apple Calendar there is an option for "Travel Time". This will prepend the event with some buffer value. When looking at the event on my calendar, in my iPhone, and ONLY in my iPhone there is a little : (vertical dots + car) symbol and saying (e.g.) "15 minutes travel time", while the event has a vertical continuous bar next to it. On my Macbook, the whole event is just expanded.[0]

My pet peeve: dramatically differing interfaces between devices. I do understand that at times this must happen. But there's no reason for it to in this case. But worse than that, when CREATING a new event on my Macbook it is just so much clunker. I don't see "Starts" and "Ends" until I click on the time, where it instead expands. Then I can see the "travel time" option (in iPhone it is "Travel Time") and if I click the end time I can only select from a pre-determined time of 30min to 3hrs with 30 minute intervals. If I select "starts" I don't get this. In both cases I can __type__ the actual numbers in.

[0] Update: while writing this comment, my macbook's calendar updated to show the vertical dots but does not include the little car nor the text (again with continuous vertical bar under actual event). Why did this take so long? "Just works" my ass. Arch linux has been more stable than trying to live by the Apple way.
Are you asking if it is the implication, or if it is the implication that which is implied is true?
This point come up in every thread about office speak, so rest easy that you are not alone
Are you implying that this was a deliberate attempt by an agent to create tourettes-like tics? Are you also asserting that this hypothetical boogieman can do similar attacks on demand because of their understanding of social contagion [1]?

The idea of social networking (or other broadcast or widely disseminated media) being able to influence beliefs or behavior is kind of inarguable. In specific cases there might be causal confusion - whether the media was effective because of existing trends or piggybacked on other phenomena vs. creating the effect directly. But this is a far cry from claiming that it can be deliberately weaponized, or that it is more effective for this purpose than other means of information dissemination.

[1] Social contagion, a phenomenon that long predates the internet
While I am a proponent of code reviews, what this article actually described is mentoring of a junior engineer by a senior engineer, and requiring effective testing to be implemented alongside the feature.

It also shows a broken culture where the other reviewers were not engaged and committed to the success of the feature. When a bug escapes, it's both the author _and_ reviewer at fault.
I realize political content is in general discouraged here, but I feel this particular instance (rather, the backlash of replies) may be of interest as a "catalyst" post considering the entity in question is, I think, pretty widely known by this point on the nerd/hacker internet.

Title was taken from their second reply.
Yeah nobody does direct inheritance, its all trust funds that pay out so its like regular income.
Failure is not an option! It is included in the price...
Can you explain how discount cards (like GoodRx) work?
On that note, does anyone have a copy of "The C programing language" (first edition) that isn't falling apart because the acid paper is decaying? I was referring to my copy the other day and it is clear the days I own that book are numbered because of planned obsolesce in the 1970s. I never bought the second edition, but if I did I'm sure it too would be falling apart from age before my likely death.
I feel like most of my peers took handwritten notes, but most of them didn't write them in cursive (some did)
>and it’s definitely an annoy.

You didn't have to do it to drive the point home, but boy did this do the job.
Setting aside human health and agreeing that it should be outside capitalist endeavor would be incredibly damaging to human health. I can hardly imagine any policy that would reduce life years more than that.
I’m on paid Google Workspace for my one-man business : I paid for a month of the separate AI add-on but I stupidly agreed to an “annual commitment” which means that, even though I don’t use the AI stuff (it’s not particularly useful) I have to keep paying for it every month for a whole year! :-(

Anybody know if this means they’ll let me off my annual commitment now that it’s included in the base price?
How does “no detectable increase versus control, in our test data” not prove there is no connection (errors in the study aside). And why does that not prove anything, but "yes detectable increase versus control, in our test data” does?

Because, sure there can be errors either way. But a study produces new knowledge, not just knowledge or "just as much a mystery"
Reminds me of an entertaining story about Microsoft Copilot last year, where companies were turning it off because it turned out it was TOO good at its job - if any accountant anywhere in the company had messed up their SharePoint permissions asking "what does everyone at this company earn?" would spit out all of the salaries: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/23/microsoft-copilot-data...
Couple hundred jobs last year. Got a few onsites but everyone was extremely picky. My performance during interviews wasn't too bad. I got the feeling multiple times that it didn't matter how well I performed - there was something else going on. I talked with peers from FAANG and they experienced the same. I applied for about 50 in July and received 0 callbacks during that time. It was extremely depressing.

Even doing team match calls with Meta, I've heard the words, "you're the perfect candidate/match" and still did not get matched. I guess you need to be beyond perfect in this market.

I'm starting again this year and have applied to about 150 positions in the last two weeks between SF, NYC, and remote. A few interviews lined up but mostly with companies you wouldn't have ever heard of.
Heavy backpacks full of textbooks are an American style of education. There are other options between huge textbooks and laptops.
They also are the largest employer of doctors in the United States.

They've essentially constructed their own single-payer health care provider, but instead of being paid for by tax dollars it's a publicly traded company whose primary goal is to increase shareholder value.
Theoretical question. What is replacing it? Is it this? Is it something else? Nothing? Curious to peoples thoughts on this.
Nice, thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware of this, but certainly anticipated we'd continue to see improvement in this area. And I completely agree on teachers being wrong, usually without realizing it, but not always. :)
That bothers me less, as finding a device to play CD music is very hard and expensive now.

Also the CDs will degrade in another decade to worthlessness, unlike books
To me there are semantic distinctions. If I say there was a request, it's neutral. If i say there was an ask, you know I think it's something a bit bigger, possibly a bit unreasonable. If I say there was a question, you know it's just information being sought.

The article here points out the more annoying characteristic, which is using lots of stock phrases that don't contribute meaning over single words.
Many young people are vulnerable.

I was bullied in elementary school and graduated the same way Ender Wiggin did.

I was out two years and skipped three, started in the middle of freshman year.

I had no idea how I was going to find a mate. The world my parents grew up in, where my mom was introduced to my dad by his sister, was long gone. I knew I couldn't trust anything I saw on TV or in the movies. Adults, including my parents, were completely dismissive of my concerns. Might have made a difference if I had a sister, but she was born premature and I never saw her before she died.

I sat next to a beautiful girl in English who left me feeling entirely outclassed. [1] I came home crying from school about this every day for most of a year until I met the new physics teacher who let me hang out in the lab during study breaks, which gave me some meaning in my life and led me to get a PhD in the field. I still was afraid I'd wind up alone forever and went to a "tech" school which had an unfavorable gender ratio; I did find a girlfriend in my senior year, then was lonely and miserable in grad school. I found someone who was a friend of a friend and I've been involved in a love triangle ever since which he lost out in. My partner is a 100% reliable person from the same culturally Catholic background of myself (my parents did not involved me with the Church, she did all the things and has a positive orientation towards religion but doesn't take communion because she doesn't believe it literally.)

Boys today don't have it any easier. My immediate reaction is to be sympathetic towards "incels" but as an organized group they teach boys self-loathing which is primary to the 50% attraction-50% hate that they express towards women (hmmm... something a lot of people who are more or less healthy feel towards their parents because the conflicts that come out of being dependent on people)

[1] She was traumatized by her parents going through a nasty divorce. She teaches the Quechua language in Hawaii now. There's a photo of her next to a huge dog, no sign of any human relations. I probably did better at love than she did in the end.
I don't particularly care if health insurance is public or private.

DIRECT health care labor costs (doctor's, nurses, etc) are ~40-60% of TOTAL healthcare spending.

Smart people try to figure out ways to make our system better every day. If there was a silver bullet, we'd have already taken it.

Health insurance profits are ~1.2% of total health care spending, the cost of running it is approximately ~4% more.

It's always going to cost SOMETHING to run - whether you move it to the private or public sector is largely a rounding error.

If you take all those insurance jobs and pop them into the Federal Government - you're unlikely to see much efficiency gains (the most pro-medicare articles state it's 37% more efficient - that's an improvement of ~1.5% in total spending).

UHC had a net margin of 6.1% in 2024.

Sure, if all 6.1% of that went to spending instead of profits - health care would be slightly better.

But it's mostly a rounding error. Private health insurance profits are only ~1.2% of total spending.

Maybe you're focused on a ~6.1% margin, or ~$60B in total profits.

You're not going to get substantially better outcomes by simply having ~1.2%-2.7% more money to spend.

You'd need to bring down the actual cost of healthcare substantially - which isn't going to happen unless you pay doctor's and nurses way less money.

Pharmaceuticals are only about 9% of total US healthcare spending - even if you nationalize that (never going to happen) - you're still not getting substantially better / cheaper outcomes.

Profits on pharmaceuticals is <2% of total spending as well.

The only way you're getting significantly cheaper service is by reducing your biggest cost significantly - i.e. paying less for direct patient healthcare (doctor's, nurses, etc), and that's probably not a great strategy for getting better outcomes.

Who knows? NHS pays doctors dirt, and their system isn't obviously worse than ours. Some people think it's way better, others way worse.
AI Agent maps are broken, let's MECE it
Tons of AI Agents being launched every day. Trying to sort them all in an structured manner for the enterprise.
Just built this, happy to hear your thoughts. Goal is to structure in a MECE manner for enterprise.
This is based on my thoughts after looking at many directories like Insight Partners', or other classifications.
Tag your AI builder friends!
https://ai-doppel.vercel.app
Totally agree. Before I clicked into these comments I was actually just thinking about the single example that irks me the most is "the understand".
Would you have been more satisfied if the US government forced a backdoor to TikTok? That's why Google pulled out of China.

The US is doing the opposite, it's removing TikTok because they probably spy / psyop for the CCP.

One country (China) was trying to force foreign companies to spy / psyop.

One country (US) is making sure a foreign adversary doesn't use it to spy / psyop.
I went this route as well, and I've now repopulated many of my favorite books from my youth in physical editions. I wish more physical books were like Goodman Games where any purchase includes a digital download code.

Regretfully, I still prefer generally reading on my Kindle, so I end up buying two copies of the book.
I was just thinking... Depending on the type of articles one can pretty decently describe what makes it a good one. Recipes should be short texts that may link to a gallery, a video and to a text about it. They should have a section called ingredients and one for preparation and may have an author and a date. Research articles should cite sources elaborately.
The incentive drives them to do sht like that.
Are you reading, or are you studying? When reading my phone is great. When I want to study though I will want to take notes, compare tables on different pages and other such things that my phone doesn't work for.
I disagree entirely, jargon use is to help us from keeping defining things so we can move on to the next problem. How do you even use "unsprung weight" or "distributed cache" for social or political ends? Maybe it can be used at some cringe encounter with layperson but that's not at all what jargon is used for.
Label giant Avery says website hacked to steal credit cards
That’s asinine. Every nation responds to things such as tariffs with a proportional response.

We have plenty of evidence that the U.S. has been harmed with our open approach to unfettered access to our electronic systems. Meanwhile our geopolitical adversaries have no qualms about fire walling their citizens from accessing foreign networks at all.

This is a clear case where the U.S. should treat them as they treat us. IMO any 1st amendment arguments are made in bad faith because there are no shortages of non-hostile channels for Americans to speak freely and openly.

Does anyone else remember “free speech zones” from the Iraq War era? Where was this argument then?
If you removed the top country responding to that survey, would Canada still be the highest?
Empirical Health (YC S23) is hiring interns to build data-driven primary care
Ban all social media.
Fast reactors do have some attractive features. They have better neutron economy and work better with plutonium. They can achieve breeding ratios comfortably above 1 with the U-Pu system. They produce less actinide waste since the chance of neutron capture not causing fission is lower, and can more effectively destroy actinide waste. Sodium-cooled fast reactors will operate at higher temperature than LWRs, enabling the salt thermal storage scheme they propose to use.

In large reactors, these features have not been enough to compensate for the disadvantages and sodium-cooled reactors have not been successful, coming in more expensive than light water reactors for a given power output. France, which had been developing fast reactors, has recently mothballed the effort with no plan to restart before 2050.
I think some critiques of American health insurance are simplistic, but this truly seems very bad. From the report:

> "Higher markups can also result in larger internal transfer payments from health plans to affiliated pharmacies, which may allow vertically integrated PBM-pharmacy-insurer entities to retain revenue and profits while formally satisfying the insurers' medical loss ratio ("MLR" ) requirements, but without providing the clinical care and quality improvements that the MLR rule seeks to promote. In
addition, higher markups can result in significant patient cost sharing requirements because
reimbursement rates are often correlated with point-of-sale prices, which can influence how
much patients are required to pay."

In other words. Health insurance firms have capped profits in the US. But in this case one conglomerate can own both an insurer and a PBM, so it can just overcharge consumers for insurance and then launder its profits through the PBM.
So they're raising prices just because they're now including some AI nonsense?
I feel people defend them by opposing any other approach to solving this. Politicians in particular say things like "preserving customer choice", which I think just means having the ability to select among all the terrible insurance companies who will treat you poorly.
Integration will likely be the biggest growth driver for Gemini, I guess.
Agreed. Most of these scams entail an immoral dimension on the part of the victim. After all, it's not great that for helping out bail out an embattled Nigerian prince, that the victim would take an exorbitant fee (which was probably stolen from Nigerian tax payers). Even with that, those victims, just like the woman in this story, deserve a level of empathy. In this case, €830k is a lifetime of savings for most people and these guys will move on and do the same to someone else.
A lot of that research is primarily done in university labs, mind you. On the taxpayer dime. Somehow the research escapes a lab and Pfizer manages to put some stupid name on it and reaps billions in profit.
And what are we going to feed into the models without the journalism?
You fundamentally misunderstand the rights American citizens have that are being violated. The government doesn't get to decide where it's citizens get their information from. We're supposed to be free to come to our own conclusions even if presented with propaganda and disinformation.

Once the government decides it has the right to curate what media it's citizens are exposed to you are living in a n authoritarian state.

These actions make me more hostile to my country.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663
We had lockers in the European high school that I went to. As I recall it was not allowed to bring backpacks into the classroom, you were supposed to only bring the relevant items to each class and keep the rest in your locker.

I don't think the combined weight of all books used in an entire semester would add up to 30lb, maybe if including dictionaries and atlases and other reference litteraturen that was kept in each classroom (or carted around on trollies by the teachers).
My kids learned it this way, and it was somewhat useful to show that we could arrive at the same solution using different methods.
One thing that confused me at the very beginning is, the author says the weak force is weak because it is short range. But the strong force is also short range.
Depends where the house fire or a flood is. If it's in a data center then they might suddenly disappear[1].

[1]: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
I recommend looking into the many things that NEA (and other national unions like it) do to enact their agendas regardless of their ability to bargain within a given state. For example the U.S. Department of Ed basically exists because of the NEA's lobbying efforts.
I was thinking that way in the past. But then, the only stable ABI is the win32 one.

The linux kernel one is very stable, but the libs ones isn't.

As soon as the dev ensure and cooperates with wine/proton to make it work nicely, i'm game.

Needing those old libs in linux is rather cumbersome, if at all possible. So having wine doing the translation layer is a really good thing. As it frees the devs to be able to focus on 1 plateform.

I also noted that the switch enabled a lot of linux native ports. That's also a nice side effect.
The particular shows don't matter to most of Netflix's customers. Piracy to them is someone in a dark room wearing a balaclava with a laughing ASCII skull on their laptop. The ones that care about "The Office" will either throw up their hands and watch whatever suggestion Netflix has for them, or they'll subscribe to Peacock.

Netflix has succeeded in diluting what product its users want from "The Office" to "something funny". Why hunt for one specific show when it will throw a million options at you?
You’d have to pay quite a bit to get journalists to answer your questions specifically.

The whole isn’t about generating news articles, it’s about getting the model up to date on facts so it can synthesize a newspaper for you. I’d say it’s a way to get journalists to be journalists again instead of clickbait composers - as long as the model doesn’t inject clickbait there itself. I don’t trust Google to not do it sometime, but they aren’t doing it now and the infrastructure is being made for others to consume when Gemini suffers from inevitable enshittification.
We've gone the whole way from decentralization and rebelliousness of the early internet and the landscape is becoming suffocatingly sterile (=lifeless).

I'm much more excited about eventual emergence of underground homebrew models without any guardrails...
not totally, I used yt_dlp for the Twitter downloader and the YouTube downloader
The problem with greed is it has no limits. These people are happily dancing on graves all the way to the bank, and we allow it.
The Trouble with Elon
You do not have to use cursive for handwriting notes. What happens with young people (based on what teachers in my kids school said) is that they abandon cursive for handwriting the moment they can - and everyone basically invents own way of writing letters.

End result is worst then if they were taught handwriting that is not cursive, looks more like printed text and is easier to read and write.
It's been asked and answered many times. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/service-specific-terms-deve...
You have a choice of what public school your child goes to based on where you live. Many parents “shop” for their schools in this way.
> This is incredible,

Is it though ? How easy is to reinstall the malware on those computers ?
I have good news! If you move it to the public sector, you will effectively pay doctors less money for the same work. That's because the way it works currently is that the doctors have to deal with private insurance bureaucracy. By freeing them from this responsibility, they have more time to take care of patients, which should effectively gets you more medical bang for your buck.
Exactly the right question. Journalism has been given a lifeline, a way out of the attention economy.
Learnings.

Reminds me of Gurgi from Lloyd Alexander's Taran books (The Black Cauldron). Makes me giggle.
"chart goes up and to the right!" seems to excuse just about anything in some peoples' political philosophy.

much shareholder value was increased, I'm sure.