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It's a poorly worded way of saying, if heat doesn't exist, and objects don't gain or lose energy, but only change configuration in a controlled way, physics is reversible. This is traditional time-symmetric Newtownian physics before thermodynamics. "What does down bounces back up."

Entropy is measure of information. If an object changes state according to some law or data that you don't know, then you can't predict the result, and you can't set up conditions to undo the changes. Thus you can't reverse it, because you don't know the original state. If you can explicitly model every particle, you can reverse it.

You can't uncrack an egg, because you don't know an egg works. But you can unopen a door, because you know how a door works. All you need is a perfectly elastic mirror, carefully placed to bounce the swinging door off of.

An expert egg mechanic can uncrack an egg with a precise arrangement of mirrors.
>I definitely agree that just giving kids a laptop/chromebook instead of books is not working.

I'm not really sure why people are pretending it's an either/or situation. Plenty of things are taught just fine or better with technology, but books still have a purpose.

>My own child and her friends just don't have the focus required, and easily get distracted out to email, group chats, everything else going on right next to the text.

That stuff is usually blocked or limited on school owned laptops. If it's not your child's school is failing at something that is very basic.
Only m$-windows? Why not Linux?
Discussed at the time (but before it shrank):

Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30493713 - Feb 2022 (63 comments)
I'd say the most valuable skills are ability to learn / adapt, attention to detail, curiosity, and resilience.

It seems like you're doing things right. Just keep iterating, learn from experiments, and do it again. Sure, you might be over-simplifying some things, but you'll figure those things out with each experiment. Go with your energy and keep iterating.
Are either Israelis or Gazans more secure than when this war began? What has either side achieved?
Their gemini 2.0 flash experimental is on par with the chatGPT o1 model (paid offer). It's really good and I'm really positively surprised. It's not verbose like o1-mini, which is often unusable.

They even got an android app with voice mode (not tried yet).

Overall Google has improved very fast. It's better than antropic, mistral etc
How is this hacker news? From the HN guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. *If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.*
I recently got Gemini Advanced as an additional benefit by virtue of having Google One paid storage. I'm shocked this is being given away for free, because it is now a seriously major part of my work. I literally have an Open window all day long interacting with it. It does make me wonder how much they are losing (investing) on giving all this inference away for free. Also makes me wonder what they are getting back aside from loyalty/data/?

I always felt ripped off by the 5TB/10TB plans (https://one.google.com/about/plans?hl=en&g1_landing_page=0) but now I find it to be a bargain with Gemini bundled in.
> appeal to nature fallacy

Appeal to nature isn't a fallacy, it is a rhetorical device and can be a completely logical razor.

The appeal is to have a diet more in line with our evolutionary past. If we want a yellow food dye should we:

A) derive it from something humans have been eating for hundreds of thousands of years and that a couple studies have confirmed is probably safe...

B) derive it from petroleum (as current US yellow food dye is) that a couple studies say is probably safe.

Who the hell would take B? Unless we believe that our studies are infallible, all encompassing and perfectly established and executed the first will always be a better option. Time and time again we see that things previously thought safe are not but I would argue it is far far rarer to see that on the more naturally derived side of food.
Yeah same.

Doesn't mean the quality is bad. In fact I think Kokoro's quality is amazing.

But it is not the right tool for narration, the kind of training data they use make the sound too flat, if that makes sense.
I credit Trump's pressure on Hamas - Hamas eventually softened a lot of their positions because they realized they had no choice.

And I wish Biden had done a better job of supporting Israel, this war could have ended a lot sooner if Hamas had realized that the entire world was pressuring them to surrender. Instead the message got diluted with support for Palestinians, which Hamas interpreted as support for themselves.

Did you hear a single call by any country for Hamas to surrender? I didn't.

Edit: I got a very quick -4 mod on this, I assume because people don't like to realize Trump is doing more for both Israel and the Palestinians than Biden, and the Democrats lost the election partly because of their lack of support for Israel.
I assume they have a floating-rate loan [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/arm.asp
> None of those threaten US national security - that's what the supporters of this ban are claiming is at stake. US social media companies nuke topics that the US doesn't like, that's not news.

Read the last paragraph of my comment again and you’ll find your answer.

> How do you feel about US media suppressing opposition of the genocide happening in Gaza? Where should US citizens express those views if every popular non-US owned/aligned platform is banned on the grounds of national security?

This isn’t a reality that exists. Did you spend any time at all on Twitter in the last year? You literally could not go a day without hearing about it. It was front page news on US news sites constantly. Protests against both Biden and Harris were constantly in the news and all over social media. The student protests were all over the news and social media. I don’t know what world you’re living in where you think Americans can’t talk about Gaza because it’s all I’ve been hearing about for a year. And here you are, talking about it on an American social media website.
Mandatory code review definitely creates red tape. Every place I've been with mandatory code review, I always see people "looking for a stamp".

At my current job, code review requirements are set on a per-folder basis, with many folders not requiring a review. People ask for a review because they want a review (or, sometimes, they dont. For example, I don't ask someone to review every quick one-liner of the systems I am an expert in).
No not really, trust in my local doctor comes from having a personal relationship with him and trusting his character enough to trust his word. There are things that are going to be beyond my understanding, but if I can trust his character enough to believe he’d rather see me healthy even at the expense of a bigger paycheck, then I’ll do it. How people place that same trust in faceless institutions is beyond me. Again - what forces exist to prevent them from being corrupted? Absolutely the growing cynicism in institutions is because of evidence of corruption. We gave them undeserved trust, they abused it, and now we see the effect of that.
Sure, but they use the “AI is now available to everyone” to justify the price increase.

Opting out of the functionality I don’t need is not particularly useful (I won’t use it anyway) but the thing is I will be charged for it anyway.
Eh, side jobs are easier to get than promotions. The job market is crap so increasing pay is harder. In previous years with a hot market I'd agree though.
Loom downloader is also useful. You cannot download a Loom if you are not premium.
I'm a huge proponent of incarceration reform, especially in regards to making the system more rehabilitative versus retributive. But it does no one any good spreading FUD.

> there's jails / prisons where prisoners do labor in exchange for very low compensation

Sure, but the work isn't allowed to be for private entities. They're doing government-related busywork in 99% of cases (pressing license plates, printing/cutting papers for the court, working on machinery for the police/courts, working the kitchen, etc.)

More importantly, they're not just paid monetarily but receive reduced sentences for the work.

> Considering you get billed for being jailed, I would personally prefer working than to mount up debt I have no way of managing.

You're conflating two separate systems. Prisons are where you go for long stints and generally worry about Good Time/Work Time. You can't be charged a daily fine for prison time.

Jails are intended for short stays (the drunk tank, transport to court arraignment, etc) and can have daily fines attached, in most states. In cases where county jails are used post sentencing for short-moderate stays, daily fines are generally far more limited/disallowed.
I've considered homeschooling but ultimately decided against it because:

A - It's illegal where I live, you have to jump hoops to do it
B - I think an extra opportunity for socialising with kids is worth a bit of pain - we wouldn't have the energy for organising alternatives and also take care of the kids education
C - By sending kids to a nice private school you get rid of a lot of problems of public school: unmotivated / openly hostile and punishing teachers, classmates with bad behaviour disrupting class, immigrant classmates who don't speak the language and / or create gang of people from the same country to gang up on kids (exactly like in prison)

When I went to school things weren't as bad as today and kids were not getting stabbed in public school, still it felt like a prison because of the slow learning pace and because everyone learns at a different pace and wants to learn about different things. School is simply the wrong idea for the majority of boys, it's just a silly machine that print mindless employees.

The strongest reason for not sending them to school is the latest EU mandatory gender theory / sexual education propaganda being taught to kids in school since last year.

Ultimately I decided that years of socialisation with peers trumps a few lessons about political BS; I'm confident I can teach them to distrust authority and teach them that they cannot trust blindly everything they hear in school or on the newspaper.

My friends who pursued illegal homeschooling are quite happy, they even found a teacher who is teaching kids illegally in someone's home, and by grouping the kids together across multiple families they have a soft school experience.
The EU allows 11 [1] synthetic food dyes while the US only allows 9 [2]

[1] https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/food-colours

[2] https://www.fda.gov/food/color-additives-information-consume...

> As a parent, if I notice a correlation between an action and subsequent behavior, are you saying that my lived experience is irrelevant because... nobody bothered to include me in a specific double blind study? How many things do you do every day that have not been studied through exhaustive scientific research?

"Noticing a correlation" could very well just be confirmation bias. For decades, parents thought that giving kids sugar made them more energetic, but the scientific consensus is that there is no link between the two.
Education theory is divided among educational progressive and conservatives, it doesn't entirely align with political parties.

Educational progressivism is actually more antiquated than conservatism - the classic progressives were 19th century while the conservatives were 20t century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_education
No, because they're not banning TikTok, nor is eminent domain anything like arson.

The only similarity between condemnation and arson is that you don't get to live in the house anymore. If your house is condemned and you get fair market value for it, you can buy a new house with it. If your house is burned to the ground, you have nothing.

Similarly, if ByteDance sells TikTok to someone else, TikTok can be to its users exactly how it has been all along. They've simply chosen not to, at least not yet. And it's in their best interest to characterize it as a ban to win hearts and minds, even though that characterization of "banning" is something they're choosing to do to themselves by shutting it down instead of selling.
>Physical books are still better than e-readers because you can put sticky notes on the pages, jump back and forth between pages quickly, and even start to know where pages are simply based on how many leaves/pages are split between your left and right hand.

Only because you prefer to work that way, someone that has grown up with everything digital has equivalent skills doing that stuff using tabs, digital sticky notes, bookmarks, and such.
I replaced the battery in my second hand first generation iPod maybe three times over ten years.

Then for a number of years I used a late generation Zune that I got new at Walmart for a steal.

Now I use Spotify on a smart phone, and it's a slow web app full of ads, delayed page reloads, unnecessary videos, and a buggy seek widget. The only controls are a touch screen.

It is convenient to have my music player in the same device as... wait, all I wanted was a music player.
Intelligence in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Exactly. One doesn't become their own enemy overnight. It's death by a thousand cuts; attrition.
It's like all the people that insist "School never taught me anything useful like how to balance a check book" when you learned how to balance a checkbook in the math class that person never paid attention to.

I'm sick and tired of being told what school is good and bad for by the very people who never paid attention. A school cannot magically make you motivated to learn things for 16 years. It's drudgery to most humans and always be, because we aren't naturally """meant""" to learn complicated and robust concepts for 16 years.

Our options are deal with that and help kids who don't want to learn do things they don't want to do, or have a general populace that knows nearly nothing about the world around them.
Ndr42 said it better than I could.
Even using more accurate financial indicators like Operating Cash Flow and Free Cash Flow still leave lots of room to obfuscate egregious behavior.

I don't know, people who talk about profit margins as if they mean anything in this context are either financially naive or are trying to muddy the water.

I'm not sure a low profit margin is indicative of a company providing a moral degree of service to their insured. Certainly naive profit margin percentages don't show the terptitude of overcharging cancer patients.

For someone who doesn't get this, if a company like UHC buys an entire hospital group they can use that expenditure to legally "hide" profits by reducing their "profit margin" short term while decreasing competition in the space.

If a company acquires enough debt in a given year they can "hide" nearly unlimited profit margins legally.

On a larger scale, a company (UHC) can dump money into "external" money losing ventures that just serve to hold wealth and take that money off their balance sheet, once that entity takes on enough debt the same company (UHC) can acquire it taking on that debt and reducing their profit margin yet again.

GE Capital and Amazon are poster children for having done this process in a legal fashion.

As a beginners guide, if you have access to a talented accounting firm you can ask about these approaches to get started:

1. Management & Consulting Fee Arrangements (Especially with Related Parties)

2. Transfer Pricing (in Multinational Contexts)

3. Debt Pushdown & Thin Capitalization

4. Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) or Variable Interest Entities (VIEs)

5. Intellectual Property (IP) Holding Companies
I'm certainly not a fan of the decision either.

In those countries where MS has now bundled Copilot Pro into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Plans - not the US yet, so far only a few APAC countries like Australia and Singapore - it's still possible to get a "Classic" version of the subscription at the old price and feature set, but only via the cancellation screen, not otherwise advertised. I wonder, but certainly do not know, if Google has similar plans.
> family business

In the organised crime meaning of the word family
That's a filtering issue. For any case less trivial than checking if something is open right now, calendar view is superior. If you want to plan something, calendar view spanning multiple days, combining the thing with your existing plans and events, is pretty much a must.
Is that an appropriate use of flagging?
Dear God. I pay a bit more than 400 EUR/mo, my employer pays a bit less than that, and my employer is delighted for me to take sick leave if I've got a cold because guess who pays my sick leave?

My health insurance.

(Germany, "public" insurance with one of the 150 or so "sickness funds" those of us in the 90% who have to be on public insurance can choose from)
You would want a feature like "self aware" to be pretty canonical, not based on a web search, and even if they had a discreet internal side system it could query that you controlled, if the training data was a year old, how would you keep it matched from a systems point of view over time? Also it's unclear how the model would interoperate the data each time it ran on the new context. It seems like a pretty complicated system to build tbh, esp when maintaining human created help and docs and FAQs etc is A LOT simpler and more reliable source of truth. That said, my understanding is behind the scenes they are working towards the product we experience just built around the foundational model, not THE foundational model is it pretty much is today. Once they have a bunch of smaller llms that do discreet standard tasks set up, I would guess they will become considerably more "aware".
I became progressively more withdrawn throughout my school years and for most of high school I was a ghost. I talked to no one and hid in the library during lunch hours, and for all the kinds of reasons that have already been mentioned here.

My experience in school contrasts dramatically with my experience going through the scout movement. We had an active and healthy group. we would do 10 weekend camps a year and on those weekends I would hit the ground running when we arrived on friday evening and wouldn't stop until I was back in the van to go home on Sunday afternoon. I rose to the rank of troop leader, I won the youth of the year award, I would lead the campfires on the group weekends for 150 kids and their parents. I'm 49 and still in touch with the core group I went through the scout movement with, we're all lifelong friends. I probably would have killed myself if I didn't have Scouts.
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Google says UHC made $370b gross revenue and $12b net revenue.

Not sure what the total exec team costs but if the ceo was paid $10 million that’s 0.03% of revenue and 0.1% of profit.

Not defending them but I do think that people hear $10 million but don’t quite realize how huge the pie is.

I don’t think healthcare should be for-profit, but since we do have that system, what do people expect the ceo of a company (any company) that grosses $370b to earn?

It’s a bit reductive to just say something like “he makes $10 million dollars a year denying patient life-saving treatment”, just like saying the ceo of ratheon makes money from the killing of innocent Palestinians.

In the end though, I increasingly feel like the only moral solution is to have a single payer fully socialized system.
> but that all the other social media networks are not dangerous despite the mostly Russian misinformation and election interference that has been ongoing since 2016

You can affirm one thing without affirming similar arguments. This is important for me to say because you're consigning me to an argument that I didn't make.
It can be both, and the balance shifts to whichever option is more convenient at the time.
And Mark Zuckerburg.
Not liking highly controversial public figures is not "derangement".
I know this is a flip dismissal.

But it illustrates one of my deeply held beliefs pretty well: there are things that are virtuous at small scale that are disastrous at large scale, and vise versa.

In society "othering" out-groups leads to many wrongs. But it's hard to argue there's much evil in cultivating a sense of family pride. The vice turns to virtue at very small scale.

I believe in giving more help to those who need it. But does that mean I should skip Christmas presents for my kids because there are people starving in [insert poor country or war zone]? The virtue becomes vice at small scale.

A unified theory of moral behavior is actually hard to come by.
Doesn’t really make it better though hey.
If it was malware I'd expect it to happen more often; it's usually when I do have a lot of thing going on (browser tabs, VSCode sessions), so I spark up the task manager to work out the problem process, but CPU usage drops before I can investigate.

Plus I'd be surprised if I got the same thing on both linux and windows
I find myself often suspicious of "free" tiers, because it seems to be that 1. the terms can change at any time or 2. "free" can be removed at any time.

I had used CF Pages and I really really liked all the tools it gave me, but free didn't sit well with me. I switched to CDN bunny.net for hosting my personal site and DNS and I pay $1/mo, which is their monthly minimun payment. It doesn't have facny stuff like github intergation or such, but I feel more at peace actually knowing what I'm paying for.

I wish CF would have a personal pricing level, I'd be more than happy to pay them and have a customer relationship instead of a freemium user relationship with them!
There are many different ways to read your comment. Both of which are actually pretty funny. Well done.
The strengthening of the "us Vs them" mentality and terror politics
Yes, eventually.
I have tears in my eyes. Enduring more than a year with a preposterous populist government and endless deaths, this nightmare is finally over.
It's definitely cheaper at home. At the plug station, it would cost me about the same as 10 gallons, which is less than the economy cars common here

$30 for 300 miles on my EV when charging at the station
No, it's saying that they bought the NoName for $0.20 and sold it for $20.

The PBMs are defending it, saying that coke costs $30.

The problem is that the insurer and thus the PBM are supposed to be working on behalf of the insured, but they pay their sibling pharmacy well above the reasonable market price.
Github's code review tool is uniquely bad. Notably it presents every comment as blocking and requiring sign off - even a "Glad someone cleaned this up! <thumbs up emoji>" needs clearing before merge.

It also has some UX snafus that cause reviewers to write a number of comments and then forget to publish any of them, leading to a lot of interactions along the lines of "I thought you were going to review my PR?" "I already did?"