skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is just them. The way insurance works in the US is that insurers negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to get steep rebates so that they are paying far less for the drug than its list price, typically much closer to what you might pay in other countries. If they can't come to an agreement, they won't cover the drug. Sounds reasonable. But in practice, what happens is that if a pharmaceutical company simply cuts the list price to what the rebate would be anyway, the insurance company ends up dropping them from coverage. This seems counter-intuitive, but it happens for two reasons.

First, the middle-men who negotiate and develop the formularies for insurance companies, called pharmacy benefit managers, get a cut of the reduced cost. So they make more money from a drug being $1000 and rebated to $100 than they would from the drug just being $100 all along. The pharma company makes the same amount per unit, $100, but they are much more likely to get onto an insurance plan if they go through the sham of marking it up to $1000 and then cutting it down.

Secondly, extremely inflated list prices that get rebated down simply mean that it becomes that much more critical for patients to pay for an insurance plan, because it is increasingly untenable to be without one.

These "negotiations" that PBMs do have been closely guarded "trade-secrets" but pharma companies have in recent congressional hearings have essentially said this is the situation. This seems to be supported by the fact that in their financial reports for products like insulin, the actual profit per unit has largely kept pace with inflation over the last few decades, despite the listed price of insulin skyrocketing during the same timeframe.

This is pretty much entirely the result of there not being a non-profit seeking government provided insurance option available to all in the US. If there is a reasonable alternative to private insurance that isn't engaging in the insurance cartel, no one is forced to use private insurance and the private insurers are actually forced to compete in a market. Completely socialized medicine isn't required, we simply need a Medicare-for-all option available to destroy the anti-competitive behavior that currently exists in the US insurance market.
Inside South Africa's 'ruthless' gang-controlled gold mines
I don’t think this is true anymore. Firebase, auth0, AWS, figma and many more SaaS obliterated this dichotomy
I had to deal with some bot activities that used huge address space, and I tried something very similar, when condition confirming bot was detected I banned that IP for 24h

but due to amount of IPs involved this did not have any impact on about if traffic

my suggestion is to look very closely on headers that you receive (varnishlog in very nice of this and of you stare long enough at then you might stop something that all those requests have in common that would allow you to easily identify them (like very specific and usual combination of reported language and geo location, or the same outdated browser version, etc)
I expect they are referring to the traction control system. On ice, it's really hard to get started moving when it's constantly kicking in. If you're trying to get across one or more lanes of traffic to turn left (driving on right), then you can be in danger of getting hit unless you leave a lot more time to get across.
Take two documents.

Feed one through an LLM, one word at a time, and keep track of words that experience greatly inflated probabilities of occurrence, compared to baseline English. "For" is probably going to maintain a level of likelihood close to baseline. "Engine" is not.

Do the same thing for the other one.

See how much overlap you get.
Sure, it's different from the old way, but I don't think "unintuitive" is the right word for that. systemd forced people to change their habits so that it could be more intuitive. Of course, people are going to disagree about whether it was worth it - it's the age-old question about breaking backwards compatibility for the sake of minor improvement. Personally, I got used to it pretty quickly and I like it more than the old commands now.
To reiterate the post you are responding to, saying “not judging” doesn’t make a statement not a judgment in the same way that saying “sharing a personal opinion” doesn’t make a statement not a judgment. “What you enjoy doing is a mind disgracing activity” is a judgment, full stop, regardless of how nonsensical of a statement it is or how you dress it up or qualify it.

That aside I looked up trackmania and lmao
I’m with Octopus in the UK (so not EU any more), on the Agile plan so it changes depending on wholesale prices. My average last month was £0.2061/kWh. Fixed tariffs are closer to £0.25/kWh.
Yeah, I don’t like the phrase either, but market making in these pools is quite literally taking the other side of their trades.
I’ve been using the following RSS aggregators since the mid-2000s:

* Google Reader – until it was shut down.

* The Old Reader – from early 2015 until I became dissatisfied with its lack of features. I was a paying user, and while the developer was always courteous over email, no amount of feedback convinced them to add functionalities that had become standard among competitors, such as filtering by keywords.

* Bazqux – since a week after the November 2024 U.S. election. For my own mental health, I decided to filter out any news containing keywords like "Trump" or "Elon", and it has worked great so far.

How I Read My Feeds:

* On my laptop, I actually enjoy using Bazqux on the web, though I slightly customize its CSS using Stylus.

* On iOS, I use FeeddlerPro, which previously served me well when connected to my The Old Reader subscription.

Evaluations & Alternatives:

* During my search for the right RSS aggregator back in November, I evaluated Feedbin, Feedbro, Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, NewsBlur, ReadKit, and a few others.

* One bridge I haven’t crossed yet is consuming YouTube via RSS. Since every channel already has an RSS feed, this approach would allow me to filter videos by keywords as well.
An AGI will be able to do any task any humans can do. Or all tasks any human can do. An AGI will be able to get any college degree.
That's really good, I watched one of their older videos to understand what I was getting into before I bought a Toyota a few years back. For those reading, the video is from Weber State University, they have a series of hourish long detailed videos on various automotive components including different versions of the Toyota electric transaxle and rear electric drive unit (mechanically separate but present in the AWD vehicles).

My takeaway was the same as some of the other posters here, the system is an engineering tour de force. Simpler than the gas version, proven reliability, and efficiency not too far off the theoretical limit of gas-burning drive trains.
He seems to have a mistake in his rule?

He's got "(Amazon)" while Amazon lists their useragent as "(Amazonbot/0.1;"
It's hard to characterize the entropy of the distribution of potential diseases given a presentation: even if there are in theory many potential diagnoses, in practice a few will be a lot more common.

It doesn't really matter how much better the model is than random chance on a sample size of 5, though. There's a reason medicine is so heavily licensed: people die when they get uninformed advice. Asking o1 if you have skin cancer is gambling with your life.

That's not to say AI can't be useful in medicine: everyone doesn't have a dermatologist friend, after all, and I'm sure for many underserved people basic advice is better than nothing. Tools could make the current medical system more efficient. But you would need to do so much more work than whatever this post did to ascertain whether that would do more good than harm. Can o1 properly direct people to a medical expert if there's a potentially urgent problem that can't be ruled out? Can it effectively disclaim its own advice when asked about something it doesn't know about, the way human doctors refer to specialists?
Jesus gave Simon a new name saying you will be the rock of my new church. Peter is anglicized Petros or rock in Greek.

The story is that Jesus spoke Aramaic. He would address Simon as Kepha. But the early gentile Christians wrote in Greek the language of the educated.
It can change quickly. Great example is the short domination of the ati 9700 that crushed nvidia for a short while.
right you really have to be not paying attention or be living in an alternative facts world. For instance look on X, there are literally thousands of paid for foreign propaganda bots trying to inject hatred and division in the USA and they have free reign and the government is not trying to stop them after Musk told them "no". Soon it starts happening to facebook, except there is no "paid" bluecheck account, the result will be the same. TikTok is a clear and present attempt by a centralized foreign advesary to do the same thing, but they will be treated differently because it's the enemy from without and not owned by an American company.
That’s why tools like Jobs Applier AI Agent are proliferating as well. Fight fire with fire, I guess?
What’s your point? The spreads are tighter than you would get on the open market.

NBBO requires that if there is something better that Robinhood gives it to you.
A while ago I rented a regular car and what bugged me was all the additional vibration associated with parts grinding and rolling against each other.

Also at least once I almost went "woah, horsie" as the car lunged forward because I tapped the accelerator a moment after it shifted to a lower gear without me noticing.

It used to be even worse. I had an opportunity to drive a 2005 BMW 7 series in a city where the speed limit was 30km/h. Unfortunately the gearbox was from a time way before traffic calming etc. went mainstream, so it couldn't decide which gear to pick. I ended up switching to manual gear selection mode.
Polyglot 1.9.0 – Instructional Improvements
> It happened once and I hope won't happen again.

I should certainly hope not. I definitely won't be making "I'm providing free IT support while being bombed to someone who apparently thinks I'm some kind of conman instead of trying to help" a priority scenario in my infrastructure planning.
Additional shout out to the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) which was instrumental in giving me the space and environment to start working on Dusa. I did a partially-remote, partially-in-person batch at Recurse in late 2023.
So it’s not an AGI if it can’t create an AGI?
Translating the word Fitness from a term of art makes this very clear: if you said "good enough to survive", no one would question the statement "I wonder why they survive. Guess they must be 'good enough to survive'".
It should be illegal.

Fake job postings are used to harvest data, to give fake signals like the company is growing.

One is a privacy problem, the other one is fraud.

If you get a response saying the position was filled, you should be able to request for the job posting to be removed, or they should do it within a reasonable period of time.

If the position remains open after they tell you it is closed just apply again.
There was a debate over whether to integrate Stable Diffusion into the curriculum in a local art school here.

Personally while I consider AI a useful tool, I think it's quite pointless to teach it in school, because whatever you learn will be obsolete next month.

Of course some people might argue that the whole art school (it's already quite a "job-seeking" type, mostly digital painting/Adobe After Effect) will be obsolete anyway...
I was only just recently having a chat with my neighbour, a 1000 year old hunter gatherer, over our garden fence discussing the pro's and con's of catching and eating meat 1000 years ago.

Though he is an old chap he agrees with me that the incisors at the front of our mouths were indeed designed by some higher power as a means to tear meat to bits, and not chew on some dandelion stem we picked while hunter gathering.

I asked him if he would ask his decendents next time he had them over for a meal whether they felt the same. He said he would.

Nothing like hearing something from the horses mouth, so to speak, and not relying on some modern day theoretical fantasist to make assumptions about how people lived 1000 years ago.

to be continued
Does Microsoft/GitHub use private repos as training data for Copilot?
https://www.tiktok.com/@storytimewithpapajake/video/74609880...

This 102 year old American veteran who fought in WW2 sure will miss it.
The problem with atproto is that it's rediculously complicated. Every detail in the spec done in the most difficult and stilted way possible.

They could've made something much more like Nostr be at the core of it all, so that the barrier to entry is small for people wanting to write their own implementations, but the developers/designers of atproto put very little value in simplicity. They wanted everything to be as powerful as possible at every single layer, which means far too many levels of abstraction, super heavy-weight implementations, and stacks upon stacks of specs that are hard to unravel, etc.

Anyone can learn Nostr in minutes. To learn atproto you need weeks.
OCR is very bad.

As an example look at subtitle rips for DVD and Blu-ray. The discs store them as images of rendered computer text. A popular format for rippers is SRT, where it will be stored as utf-8 and rendered by the player. So when you rip subtitles, there's an OCR step.

These are computer rendered text in a small handful of fonts. And decent OCR still chokes on it often.
Why not just nuke China then, without these pesky 1.4B people, the world will be a much better place! Otherwise, you are stuck with us, we 1.4B people will never leave this planet. So it's up to you if you want to convert 1.4B of us to your enemy or your friends. But so far, with all the attacks, bullying, theft you are doing to Chinese people, you are not wining any hearts and minds here. Believe it or not, a lot of Chinese people like the USA before 2016. Then with every attack, insult, theft, oppression you are pulling, you are converting your fans to people who despise you. Huawei's executives used to be biggest cheerleaders of USA. Bytedance founder and nearly all Chinese entrepreneurs loved the USA. Now with you stealing their asset, blackmailing, terrorizing them in broad daylight, people are shocked this is the true DNA, color and culture of USA. Protection of private assets? Nope. Freedom of speech? Nope? Humanity, reason, logic, love, trust? Nope? Pursuit of happiness? Nope. Human progress? Nope. Making all people on Earth's lives proper, no poverty, no starvation? Nope. It turns out USA is the biggest pirate, oppressor, dictator, bully in the world. USA say u care about human rights and freedom, what would democratic international relationships? What about the rights and freedom of 1.4B Chinese people to survive, live in dignity, peace, relative prosperity? And spare me Chinese people getting richer is bad thing for the USA. USA companies made trillions of Chinese market and 1.4B Chinese consumers. You only have this market if Chinese people have money. Your companies are stupidly rich and powerful. If you don't think Chinese people benefit your companies, please ban all of your companies from selling to Chinese market. Please no more all talk, no action, ban them now.
> the usage of their algorithms allows the app to influence how Americans think about different issues.

Which, if true, means that the US has been influencing the rest of the world for the past 20 years through all the other social networks.
Some of those drawings are copies of Edward Lear illustrations. I recognised the style. I didnt see that mentioned in the article although I might have missed it. I like the little drawings though very cute.
Which sounds like... a very good thing?
>> but the point is that big company crawlers aren’t paying for questionably sourced residential proxies.

> I worked for Microsoft doing malware detection back 10+ years ago, and questionably sourced proxies were well and truly on the table

Big Company Crawlers using questionably sourced proxies - this seems striking. What can you share about it?
Creators will miss it ?

Billions of humans have managed to live out their lives without short form video and will be OK
Would you get angry because you thought it was real though? Because that’s what happens with these people.

They show you something and say something incredulous like, “I can’t believe something like this is legal. How is this allowed?”

Your choices are to point out it’s fake or play along in a stupid fantasy. The latter is disingenuous just to avoid conflict.
There's a ton of water in the air for it to react with
I don’t live in a dangerous area and my insurance is 2x what it was 4 years ago, and the agents j spoke to expect it to go up 30-40% again this summer. It’s unaffordable already!
I think Opera had even bigger share in Eastern European countries at the time. But it was actively killed by Google. From homepage ads on google/youtube to blocking features or whole applications based on user agent.
Ding ding ding!.

They have a web-app, IDK if it works as the equivalent of a PWA or not, however it would likely mean all sorts of legal hurdles not just for the advertisers and the payees of that advert money (creators). Attempts to subvert that would just be fuel to push for heightened AML/KYC regs.

> If they make a pwa or some other means to subvert the ban available it could undermine peoples desire to act.

To your point, making a PWA would be the worst idea at the moment; all the hurdles of advertising dollars in and paying content creators out still exist, but the user base (if you're gonna put pressure you want numbers) will likely just think 'oh here is a workaround' and just live with it. [0]

On the other hand, it's perhaps a gambit's bluff; By that I mean, a PWA is probably far less 'intrusive' than your typical installed app, and could be a way to push back against the claims of it being used for 'surveillance'. [1]

[0] - I mean, Reddit's mobile app is trash but they try to force you to use it anyway...

[1] - I'm willing to accept this as a possibility but I'd need more proof than the bit of anecdata I have that they are more malevolent than FB/Alpha/etc to change my overall position, will admit some of that response is because some of those companies have had US tendrils involved for a long time...
Fake jobs, fake candidates, fake/useless work, and fake/inflationary money! All for what? It'll all go to zero. Meanwhile, if you want to get a job, a good recruiter still works, although there are many fake recruiters too.
X has been doing this and it didn't seem particularly effective. There are still many bots on the platform.

Also, someone with a lot of money can still get around this requirement.

Bribing a government to get fake passports is possible, but many orders of magnitude more difficult.
I was never able to get a job through applications on LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. Every job I got was through a referral, and the same is true for my friends who are also programmers.
Planetary Solvency – Current climate policies risk catastrophic economic impacts
I assume 99% of the bananas consumed in the US are Cavendish.
Yet, the "ease" of use is a joke. Every try to stop and start a service at different points? At points you choose? Have fun!

Ah well, it's all been said before.
All knowledge degrades with time. Medical books from the 1800's wouldn't be a lot of use today.

There is just a different decay curve for different topics.

Part of 'knowing' a field is to learn it and then keep up with the field.
We all saw through the Great Recession that immigration rises and falls with the economy.

I don't care about the economy as much as I care about my employment. I've directly witnessed the negative effects on American tech employees as a direct result of the rise in off-shoring and H1-B visas.

As an example, virtually everyone on this site should be able to walk into a Java shop and be employed there within a few hours. After all, this is a high-demand technology used by huge corporations. Yet we see people commenting even here about being unable to even get an interview after months of mass-applying.

Also, the US is nothing like the USSR. The US is where you make the most money. There won't be any brain drain from the US.
Humans might create AGI without fully understanding how.
>> Yes, but the point is that big company crawlers aren’t paying for questionably sourced residential proxies

> You'd be surprised...

Surprised by what? What do you know?
US TikTokers moving to RedNote encounter Chinese-style censorship first time
> A driver not employing such techniques still can expect fuel economy as high as 4.06 L per 100 km from the latest generation of Prius models.

I think they meant "as low as".
Thanks so much for the kind words about the UI and concept! I’ve gotten a lot of feedback about improving the gamification and making the user goals clearer, and it’s something I’m really targeting in the next iteration.

I really like the idea of turning this into an educational tool or test, especially for younger or older audiences who need help with tech literacy. It’s a great use case and definitely fits with where I want to take the project. Thanks again for sharing—it’s super valuable!
How can speech on TikTok be free if TikTok as a platform is not ?
Even some non-profit ignore it now, Internet Archive stopped respecting it years ago: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
Mine would be interactive entertainment.
I feel the same way. The big part for me is that it tells us that owyn doesn't use tab completion if they're forgetting about the ".service" part. Sure, I don't remember either, I don't have to.

I'll add the abstraction for anyone confused

program [command [subcommand]] [flags] [object]
e.g.s
systemctl status sshd.service
systemctl enable --now sshd.service
touch -c test.sh
echo 'Hello World'
echo "Hello ${USER}"

Anything in brackets is optional and might not appear or be available. By command I mean a category of commands. Such as 'pip install' vs 'pip uninstall', which are sub-programs inside the main program. But this can have layers such as 'uv pip install'. Often flags can be used in any order because you'll just loop over all the arguments but this is still the standard order.

There's also the two actor pattern

program [command [subcommand]] [flags] source destination
e.g.s
cp /foo/bar/baz.txt "${HOME%/}/"
scp -i "${HOME}/.ssh/foo" ${HOME}/to_upload.sh user@remote:~/
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/diskToDestroy
rsync /mnt/hdd1/ /mnt/hdd2/
If the business stakeholders came out with that scenario, I would modify the prompt like this. You would know the users address if they had an account.

https://chatgpt.com/share/678c1708-639c-8010-a6be-9ce1055703...
OK I won't dispute that. The problem is that they would function nicely as a pragmatic solution to the underlying problem. Maintaining a few HTML attributes on an existing webpage is significantly easier than maintaining an RSS XML endpoint.
3D-printed open source optical microscope for low-cost histological imaging
Yes, people quite literally did go hungry or got far worse food.

The local economies were shit before Walmart. There just happened to be a handful of small business owners that did well squeezing their community.

If Walmart didn’t offer better product/price ratios, nobody would have shopped there.
You can try openrss.org. I believe the Spotify and Apple Music feeds will work for you.

https://openrss.org/feeds/spotify
Are you really arguing for the idea that governments should seize and destroy private property?

I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but at least I respect other people’s things. I’d rather be dull than a thief…but to each their own.
Why have you picked Python for this project? I feel like Rust/Go have better TUI ecosystems and the ability to use native bindings.
Good at what ?