skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently the acronym can now be read as the blander "ExTended OPerationS", or according to the ICAO all such flights can be referred to as EDTO (Extended Diversion Time Operations", which is less fun to say out loud and loses the joke definition "Engines Turn Or People Swim")
At this point it's not really a lot more expensive especially when factories are so heavily automated.

The US has had semiconductor fabs for many years that are still operating. It just so happens that TSMC has the best process, but I don't think that has anything to do with labor costs.
I hope this involves a lot of much faster feedback / modification cycles, and the process ends when all the feedback has been addressed.
> CVS Caremark, by comparison, argued the FTC was guilty of “cherry picking” its analysis by focusing on generics, which represent a tiny fraction of client spending over branded specialty drugs in an attempt to mislead.

So it sounds like the report may be a bit misleading - what is being alleged here is that PBMs overpriced over the generics. So it's like if Coca-Cola set the price of their can at $50, and NoName at $0.50. So you be are being "overcharged" at the grocery store when you buy the Coke and not the NoName.

It's not actually clear from the report that the PBMs actually profited from overcharging. Furthermore, if the doctor prescribes a name brand drug, it's not always the prerogative of the PBM to switch the prescription on behalf of the customer.
I'm the author of this article; well aware that the title "You don't need APM" does not literally apply to all instances of you' in this world (as is evident by the size of the market for it).

Still, I stand by the fact that for many instances of you (up to quite complex ones) APM actually does more harm than good.
Thanks for that link! Really interesting.
How do you do that in a way that's amenable to conclusive analytic demonstration? For example, how do you prevent melted fuel from flowing into the cooling channels that go through the core?

About the only approach I'd be comfortable with would be dissolving the fuel in molten salt (probably chloride salt). This is not Natrium's approach.

Melting of fuel is not a theoretical problem -- it has actually happened at two fast reactors in the US (EBR-1 and Fermi-1, the latter the reactor in the hyperbolically titled book "We Almost Lost Detroit"). No explosions occurred, but it's very troubling the fuel melted at all. The NRC will surely insist on analysis of the consequences of partial fuel melting accidents.
There are plenty of countries with 'socialized' healthcare that had no wars in their territories.
Most people don't even get the ability to select among all the terrible insurance companies - their employer chooses for them!
> other countries have cracked down on some of those scary-sounding chemicals, due to them being unnecessary for food with no real benefit for the person eating it, and possible evidence of negative affects

Just because another country bans something does not make that thing harmful. Politicians banning food products and additives with no real scientific evidence is not unusual. They bend to public will, they are politicians after all. Also, studies that show "possible evidence of negative affects" in mice ingested at higher dosages then a human would ever eat or drink does not show they are harmful in humans. Humans are not mice after all.

> as someone who has lived for multiple years in the US and Europe, it is a drastic difference in food quality between the two

This is purely subjective, I've been to Europe and the Middle East, both have great food. But food in America is no worse in quality. The main difference is when I visited those area's I mostly ate out, at nicer restaurants where food would of course feel/taste/look better then the average meal at home or from fast food. But when eating at friends homes, the food quality (vegetables, fruits, meats) was no different than what I could get here in America.

> it was just whoever ended up eating less processed foods and more whole foods

I'm not arguing that we don't eat more ultra-processed foods. We do eat too many highly refined foods with little nutritional value. My argument is against blaming food additives, dyes, GMOs, HFCS, etc... Eating more whole foods, vegetables, and fruits would make you healthier, but that's due to the nutritional value, fiber, feeling more full for longer leading to reduced caloric intake, etc... Not because you got rid of food dyes.
For at least the last decade, Cloudflare has made the impression on me to be what Google wanted to be, in terms of "being good".

I can't remember when it was the last time I've heard something bad about Cloudflare. Then again, I don't use any of their services, even if I have an old account with them. I never saw the need to use them, but like what I see about the products they offer.

They seem to be doing much more good to the internet than causing trouble.
See the "Can I post a job ad?" section in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This seems too good to be true, wow! Team looks legit though.
>but the greater public ultimately felt he went too easy on them.

Not sure what exactly is meant by that, but most people did not think the killing was acceptable.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killi...
I agree: it's absolutely an in-group joke. Maybe not joke, but a cutesy in-group way of expressing something.

Certainly someone who gets it will, well, get it. But in general it seems like a lot of effort in most cases to gauge whether or not the recipient will understand at the level you hope. Even the UDP example could be misunderstood by someone who is well-versed. Unreliable? A good low-level thing to build stuff on top of? These are both plausible meanings, but would convey very different things.

Better to just use clear language.
A few nitpicks:

First, I am not sure whom you refer to - as (I hope) everyone who uses cosine similarity has seen a . b = |a||b| cos theta. I read its very name, "cosine (of the angle between vectors) used as a similarity measure".

Second, cos theta = (a . b)/(|a||b|) is pretty much how you define the angle between vectors, when working in Hilbert spaces.

Third, you pick a very narrow view of tensor when it is based on spatial coordinates (and so you get covariant and contravariant indices). But even in physics, this notation is broader - e.g. in quantum physics, a state of two-qubit lives in the tensor product space of two single-qubit states. Sure, both in terms of states and operators, you have a notion of covariance and contravariance (bras and kets, respectively). In mathematics, it is even broader - all you need is two vector spaces and ⊗.

In terms of deep learning (at least in most cases), there is no less notion of co- and contravariance. Yet, the tensor product makes sense, as (say) we can have an outer product between the sample and channels. Quite a few operations could be understood that way, e.g., so-called 1x1 convolutions that mix channels but do not do anything spatially and channel-wise.

A few notes here:

https://github.com/stared/thinking-in-tensors-writing-in-pyt...
> I don't think insurers are the most corrupt

Lol, nice defence
Pretty sure it's not due to performance, but due to age of most database code bases and in some cases licensing. How annoying it is to have dependencies in C and C++ also probably a contributing factor.

I'd rather an author pulls in a tinyvec/serde than tries to make a bespoke implementation.
So, if I get it right...
You didn't meet that woman for years. You meet her, subtly ask if she's alone, then propose?

That was bold of you, but even bolder from her to accept.
Would you test a candidate's unaided vision or hearing? Would you want them to admit that they can't see the tiny print or hear the faint sound?
Nobody remembers the "SSL added and removed here :)"?

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/cloudflare_ssl_added_and_rem...
The shallow response here is that use is important. The hammer on your shelf is an effective tool for hammering in nails.

Is the hammer on your shelf an effective tool for influencing public opinion? It can be used for that -- you can smash statues of people you find objectionable and maybe have a greater effect on public opinion than you could by trying to tear down statues with your bare hands (although the nature of the public opinion change is not really that predictable). But it is not a tool for that because it cannot be directed to the general purpose of influencing public opinion. You cannot convince people that assisted suicide should be acceptable or that we shouldn't keep cats as pets or that we should not go to war to defend Taiwan using the hammer.

Similarly, TikTok.
> So the only contribution of Big Pharma is that they take the risk

That seems to me like the big thing you're kind of glossing over. Like I said, I don't really want to go to the mat for them, but I'm sure there's plenty of risks Big Pharma corps have taken buying up research they thought would pay off and then failed to bring to market.

Maybe it'd be better to have governments buying the research and bringing it to market, but as this subthread hints at, profit is one of the big motivations for researchers to do what they do. Hopefully the government would still be paying big bucks for the research, and hopefully the taxpayers wouldn't vote in someone who wants to gut whatever arm of the government is responsible for that after enough failed purchases.
Yes, because it would at least show a modicum of honesty. Instead it's being done indirectly through putting a company in the hands of state-sanctioned owners. What difference does it make other than theater?
>It facilitates extortion and corruption, but so can almost any police power.

I'll add taxes to the list.
It's not space debris, it's the deliberate disposal of the upper stage of the rocket precisely to prevent it from becoming space debris. The time and location of re-entry are planned and controlled. This is not going to crash into your neighborhood (except if you're neighborhood is in certain areas of China, where they they happily dump spent rocket stages on populated areas).
I have a library of work-related books (military). Most of the great ones have no digital alternative. Authors of rare or definitive works know to avoid digital formats. Last year I paid 200+ to get my hands on a newly printed book because i know it will still be relevant on my shelf in 10/20/30 years. After reading it once I may leave it on that shelf for years. One day i will need it again. I will know where to find it no matter what OS i will then be using.

Things like this cannot be bought digitally, nor would most readers want a digital copy.
http://www.hisutton.com/pages/Book%20project.html

I cannot champion this guy enough. His website belongs jn the 90s (it needs the "www") but his skills in open source analysis and drawing are unmatched. (He draws in MS paint!)

http://www.hisutton.com/

https://youtu.be/PdKkR_lbLN0
I don't begrudge them for downvoting. They are, nonetheless, wrong in their belief that a return to printed books makes long term sense.
They will also complain about waiting times - as if you don't wait with private insurance companies.

That is after you convince them that your procedure or exam is even needed, which can be a long protracted fight in itself.
Is there an ISA for WASM that's faster than RISC-V 64, which is currently 3x faster than x86_64 on x86_64 FWICS?
https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm#emscripten-on-browse... demo:
https://ktock.github.io/container2wasm-demo/
I stopped reading after that opening paragraph. I don't know of anyone I take seriously who thinks that code reviews are bad practice or pure red tape.
One should not profit from denying care. All health systems ration care. Doing so in a way that people profit from denying care is immoral.
Can I ask it to check for deals on products and make it search the web several times a day?
Have you given ATProto a look or try? Thoughts?
> first I must solve rendering 2D graphics purely on the GPU

To be fair, the original author of Xi ('raphlinus) has been working on GPU-side 2D rendering much longer than on Xi.
1) The article stated that using bootable images for backup was a preference. That doesn’t invalidate asking whether that’s an ideal preference

2) Arguing that it might be better to avoid such methods because of possible problems with data integrity isn’t a lack of an approach to data integrity.
Keep it up there are never enough media downloaders online, somehow they always fade away into oblivion.
By informing them that most of that is funded by taxes and students doing all the work, not corporations and not based on their revenue. If anything, they have an incentive not to make better treatments because better often means less profitable.
>There should be a method + requirement to pay royalties back to public funding for basic research,

You mean the patent system? The university of california holds patents on CRISPR, for instance.
Why does our version need an anti-caking agent when theirs doesn't? And why do we need to get calcium from checks notes oat meal (the non-cream version, mind you) when people in other countries can get it from things it's in naturally, like milk?

There may be ostensible reasons why some of the extras we get are theoretically useful, but I'd still wonder why we're the only ones who go to all the trouble (when we don't seem to come out ahead for it, health-wise).
None of the people assembling Apple products in China are 10-year-olds making $0.18 an hour.
This strategy works incredibly well and it's a continuation of their free dns proxy / caching service. It's a no brainer: the quality of the free services is unbeatable.

At the same time, everytime you need to buy something, you'll think "should I add a new cloud service or just buy Cloudflare?"

I don't like their almost monopoly-position but it's so good I use Cloudflare for all my projects and I keep recommending Cloudflare to all my clients.

In that regard, they remind me of a young Google.
John Deere faces U.S. lawsuit over farmers' ability to repair tractors
You need to measure long term remembrance of the material, not short-term learning. A 5% increase in the speed of children learning a fact for the first time doesn't matter if the fact has disappeared from all their brains 6 months later, but to accomplish the latter at scale, there's no substitute - you need some kind of spaced repetition system. Otherwise you may as well have not taught the fact at all, and let them spend the time having fun or getting some exercise instead.
> If you just meant "unreliable", how was this better than just saying that?

It's not. Well, if the person you're talking to happens to get the intended meaning immediately, it's a cute in-joke. To me, that's the only real (dubious) benefit.
Nice, congratz on the launch!

Submitted my product for tomorrow, excited to see how it goes!

Some feedback:
- Could probably benefit from adding white-space: pre-line; in a couple of places, e.g. comments to support line breaks
- The encoding issue mentioned elsewhere too, stuff showing up as like &#039;
- Launched today should maybe be a bit more prominent, but maybe it also looks better once there are more products that just one.
Yes, but that's going to be on top of the ~1.3% hallucination rate (largely, there's always some very small chance it hallucinates the truth when the article had it wrong - but basically not worth considering).
Those are words I use a lot and I was starting to wonder if I the office jargon was bleeding too much on my personal life. Then I read your comment and realised I started using them after attending a math course at the University. I loved my teacher. Thanks for the memories.
I'm increasingly suspicious that Java applets were removed from the browser so it wouldn't be easy for non-nerds to easily run tools like yt-dlp from their browser.
I recently learned that my library has 3D printers for anyone to use, and microfilm of local newspapers going back to 1797; it really is incredible what you can discover in them!
Extremists came from misery, and misery is what drives united states today
They didn't hesitate with 8chan, even when it was known that fedposting was a thing here and that the straw that broke the camel's back they pointed to could have well been a false flag.
That is quite literally what they are for!
It is quite disheartening to see a comment about farriers being downvoted. In professional blacksmith shops, horse shoeing is a job done by a qualified farrier and not as trivial as one may think.
In both cases the point of divergence appears to be ~1975.
A government, by its size, can spread the risks.
FYI If you want to turn this off in workspace you'll need to go here https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/47208553126 and here https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/793154499678.
That's pretty much exactly what it means in software too? A trivial task is one that you think you know how to do. A nontrivial problem is one which sounds like it should be doable, but you don't immediately know what steps will be required, and until you look into it further it may take anywhere from days to decades.
> Google’s AI, for instance, and also here — that the virtual particles with mass actually “decay“

Do virtual particles decay?
RFK Jr has frequently and publicly claimed that the side effects and dangers of most all vaccines are worse than the diseases they prevent. There is no legitimate data that even suggests that is true. You can get into the minutia of potential dangers and health effects of vaccines all you want. But when you look at the actual outcomes, like with COVID, the public is far, far better off having taken them and RFK's fear mongering endangers the public health.
Honestly, I'd bet there are a variety of delivery models that would be most effective for each person. Having choice in that would really be amazing. Unfortunately, its also very hard to organize and measure.
2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
>http://crn.hopto.org/media/#government

Nice cartoon on the government.
It's easy to just blame the insurance providers, but keep in mind:

Everybody expects a higher standard of care, because now we treat things that we didn't even know about in the past. For example, I have a CPAP and went through surgery for sleep apnea. 50 years ago, who knows what would have happened to me?

Medical providers are incentivized to "find" things to bill for. For example, I went to a podiatrist for foot pain, and she tried to figure out how to have me visit monthly.

Likewise, end-of-life issues can get very expensive, because it's hard to say "no" when loved ones' emotions are fragile.
The rebuttal is something like "things are complicated, large scale societal trends are always rough descriptions of reality at best and can never be reduced to a single 'cause'"
The public key is also just like a normal public key, but the encrypted secret key is often called an evaluation key or a key switching key, or some other names. (It's also public in the security sense)
He bailed out SVB and Sachs didn't even give him a t-shirt.
The miracle of US healthcare is how at every step, work is done to minimize every party's ability to either use market power to lower costs, or to make people cost-conscious about their own expenses.

Insurance, in a vacuum, detached from an industry is a perfectly sensible way to try to spread risk. And as you say, this fair, reasonable insurance isn't about getting extremely rich, but about being the best at identifying where the risks are, and using market power to lower costs. But with healthcare, and especially with the US peculiarities, we manage to get minimal value out of it.

People getting care don't know their options, and how different the pricing can be. Insurers are capped by a percentage of services paid, so they really are happy if everything is very expensive. Providers band together into conglomerates that make sure it's hard for insurers to lower reimbursement rates. Pharmacy benefit managers build complicated schemes that let them take a bigger piece of the pie. They even purchase pharmacies, and restrict the expensive purchases for themselves, while the local pharmacy is squeezed. All in all, it gets very expensive, with minimal control of spiraling prices, and nobody that can lower costs is incentivized to do so.

We blame insurers because that's the people that get paid first, but yes, it's not really a matter of just insurers. It's a kafkaesque system that is basically impervious to significant reform. And for good reason: Every dollar we overpay is someone else's salary. A decrease in costs per person for the same care to match, say, Spain would involve a whole lot of people making a lot less money, including many losing their jobs. Not exactly a political winner, even though the country would be better off with more efficiency
I haven't attacked Sabine, it was OP who used her as some some sort of authority in children mental health.
> if it can only ward off the manipulations of the yacht class.

The inevitable enshittification of goods and services once they reach a certain level of maturity (i.e., profitability) basically guarantees that the yachted-classes will be involved.

Given this de-facto inevitability, the original premise (that algorithmic content is eventually a bad thing) makes more sense
> I think stiffness is an ok term if your aim is to maintain a field centric mode of thinking.

"Stiffness" to me isn't a field term or a particle term; it's a condensed matter term. In other words, it's a name for a property of substances that is not fundamental; it's emergent from other underlying physics, which for convenience we don't always want to delve into in detail, so we package it all up into an emergent number and call it "stiffness".

On this view, "stiffness" is a worse term than "mass", which does have a fundamental meaning (see below).

> Mass as a term is particle-centric.

Not to a quantum field theorist. :-) "Mass" is a field term in that context; you will see explicit references to "massless fields" and "massive fields" all over the literature.
I just love the experience of reading a paper book, especially in trade paperback - which is weird because it's not a great format, but something about the dimensions (as long as the book isn't too long), and the cover and the feel and the paper...
In fact, the union leaders prevented the teachers from even voting on changes (that the majority of teachers wanted

How is this possible, aren't union supposed to be democratic ? If the leadership oppose the majority, why can't they be voted out ?
If there is a silver bullet, the first step would be getting rid of the for profit mechanisms.

Instead, because despite data linked in this thread that profit margins are only a few percentage points, Healthcare is an incredibly lucrative field that extracts a lot of money into the private market without delivering results commensurate with the cost to the public.

Add to that lobbying making it incredibly simple and cost effective to influence policy (which comes out in the P&L as a cost of doing business and so isn't tracked as profit FWIW), we are stuck with this situation despite overwhelming evidence that it's a bad deal.
Are e-ink displays especially bad for the environment, or are you talking about electronics in general?
I don't think it's similar at all, unless you have some sort of directors/investors telling you what to do (based on your comments, you don't)

I (and OP) was talking about people who have power over the product (software engineers, managers, designers) not caring.

In your case, people with power over product (you) clearly care very much, it's just the product is not interesting to others. (Which kinda makes sense? It's yet another PHP framework with AI and Crypto, and there is plenty of them...)
Hey don't forget all those brutal incursions during the war of 1812.
3D-Printing Optical Components for Microscopy Using a Desktop 3D-Printer [pdf]
So wokism has nothing to do with racism? Don't be ridiculous. You are ducking an issue.