skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but this email might not have any force of law because the CFPB was created by COTUS by Dodd–Frank and its parent agency is the Federal Reserve. While it generally complies with OMB guidance, it doesn't necessarily form a legally-binding reporting structure.
> The company, meanwhile, has argued that “Dr. Potter’s claims that she was called out of surgery are false.”

Were they there?
Maybe this is a "including everything" proce, i.e. transmission, connection fees, etc.

I currently pay a flat ~8c/kWh. I could save by using spot price electricity but as I don't use much, this keeps the monthly cost predictable.
Who do you book an appointment or call with if it's corruption and not a simple billing mistake in their favor?
>The reason people do potentially more expensive mix/lerps is because while it might cost a tiny overhead, they are scared of making it a branch.

And the reason for that is the confusing documentation from NVidia and its cg/CUDA compilers. I believe they did not want to scare programmers at first and hid the execution model, talking about "threads" and then they kept using that abstraction to hype up their GPUs ("it has 100500 CUDA threads!"). The result is people coding for GPUs with some bizarre superstitions though.

You actually want branches in the the code. Those are quick. The problem is that you cannot have a branch off a SIMD way so, instead of a branch the compiler will emit code for both branches and the results will be masked out based on the branch's condition.

So, to answer your question - any computation based on shader inputs (vertices, computer shader indices and what not) cannot and won't branch. It will all be executed sequentially with masking. Even in the TFA example, both values of ? operator are computed, the same happens with any conditional on an SIMD value. There can be shortcut branches emitted by the compiler to quickly bypass computations when all ways are the same value but in general case everything will be computed for every condition being true as well as being false.

Only conditionals based on scalar registers (shader constants/unform values) will generate branches and those are super quick.
There's already a two-year-old LLM named Pygmalion; it may be time to revive that https://huggingface.co/PygmalionAI/pygmalion-6b
Maybe it is about the safe points? In a conventional generational gc every thread has its own nursery (plus semi-space for copying collection), so you can collect one thread's garbage without stopping any other thread (so data threads share must not be allocated in the nursery).

> So, for this test with eight threads, on my 8-core Ryzen 7 7840U laptop, the nursery is 16MB including the copy reserve, which happens to be the same size as the L3 on this CPU.

Sounds way too small. Speed of copying collection is proportional to the number of survivors and with only 16 mb you risk having lots of false survivors.
Subclassing in Python, Redux
Tempted to complain twice as hard now that I know it gets to them.
I document technical things on my blog and hardly anyone reads it.
But later on when I need that thing again, I just go there and I have the perfect documentation available for the topic (it's perfect since I wrote it hahaha).
There’s nothing wrong with posting your openings, and indicating their exact nature. If anyone has a problem, you can always remove the post.
Gee, I wonder if there's a law famously referred to by Obama's name, that improved the appeals process for denials? Maybe the internet even has information on this that you could search for? [0]

Yes, obviously Obama tried to improve this, and Trump at most ignored it, and will probably make it worse within the next few weeks.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3366385/
My guess at the upshot: Some domains, like math, are general but have outsized effective vocabularies like all possible numbers, which makes them more expensive to train by the same method that works for domains of regular-sized vocabularies. If you train for reasoning steps in such a problem domain, you can reinforce the comparatively few general terms of the vocabulary like "add", "inverse", "solve". And that leaves the arithmetic of number combinations separate from particular problems because you're not emphasizing one-shot answers. You can train N reasoning cases + M arithmetic cases instead of N*M whole math problems. So you have to use more inference power but you can get better answers for less training.

Theory aside, I would think a good application-side method is to use this general reasoning process to structure a final expression and then pass that through a traditional evaluator. Then the reasoning and training thereof need only go as far as symbol manipulation. This is something like Wolfram Alpha, if its NLP handed off to the evaluator much later in the process.
Your snark comment is out of place since if you knew something about Cyrillic you'll know that most letters have 1:1 mapping with their Greek counterparts. And since Bulgarian language does use Cyrillic the jump to Greek is quite short. You could argue that there's a bigger difference in pronunciation of letters between English, German and French which all use the Latin alphabet than between Cyrillic and Greek.
All processes and by extension code tolerate some level of error, even our most reliable systems. Whether LLM produced output is within that tolerance is up to each practitioner to test and verify.

I think AI has revealed that there is a lot of low hanging fruit that is very tolerant of errors across many disciplines that isn’t met by our current supply of software engineers. In my own day to day that’s a lot of low impact bash scripts that automate personal things while at work it’s sales and lead gen where it’s not a big deal if a salesperson cold calls someone who couldn’t use our product (other than the temporary embarrassment it causes both parties).
Or there's things like doctors ordering dozens of tests to identify a particular cold virus even though it wouldn't change the treatment or patient outcome, and oh, it just so happens the doctor owns the lab. (A real example)

Or a doctor prescribing a monthly massage to a patient. Or approving a questionable disability claim. etc. etc.

Fraud finds a way to happen.
Let’s rephrase things a bit then: U.S. health insurance angencies and the system they operate under need to be dismantled.
Sony Reveals Compensation for All PS Plus Players After PSN Outage
The Feynman Lectures on Physics was used as the textbook for Caltech's introductory physics course for nearly two decades, and it is still used in some universities. I learned physics from it and have met many Caltech alumni who used it as their textbook, all of whom felt they learned a great deal more than "intuition" from it. So I am guessing you've never actually tried to learn something from it if you feel that way.
So true.

However we basically have 1 solution, and its not legal. And naturally, its the solution in this article.

To be completely fair, just from the people who I know who have terminal uncovered diseases, I'm surprised more "direct action" hasn't been done. Desperate people with no good options can and do take the terrible options.
Can you name three people who practice in this field (Turkheimer, who I named upthread, is a harsh critic of the book and a giant in this field) who agree with your take here?
Look, our society functions at all because most people are good people. Not everyone is good, so good people who are scared of bad people have given government power over all people. The problem is, power corrupts good people.

Government gives power to insurance (and to other healthcare related companies, and really to a myriad of other players in other industries) primarily by:

- introducing regulations that make competing with incumbents nearly impossible

- giving tax breaks to favored corporations and behaviors

Why does government do this? Again, because the good people in government have been corrupted by power. The people they give power to help them stay powerful by giving them campaign contributions and other favors. It's a vicious cycle.

I'm not sure how to answer your last question, "what actions do you think companies might take to benefit customers if not for government involvement?" when every corporation does things to benefit it's customers. That's why any and every corporation exists, to benefit it's customers. Customers are anyone that benefits the company. Apple makes great products that benefit their customers without the government telling them to do it. In industries like healthcare in the U.S. right now, we are not the people who are primarily benefitting the corporations. The way things are bought and paid for right now I don't think we benefit health "insurance" companies at all!
So it's plenty worse under Obama and Biden. They're both the same ffs. Your tribe has more things in common with the other tribe than it has differences.
Jesus that thing talks?!? That's reason enough to get rid of it.
> We did not vote to send our tax dollars to other countries for these things.

I have no reason to believe you know what "these things" are.

> People are outraged that their hard earned tax dollars are being wasted on stuff like this.

And they too don't know, and don't even ask, what "this" is. They see "men having sex with men" and it's off to the races apparently.

> You can keep throwing around the word “coup” as much as you want, the only thing it’s accomplishing is to make the word mean less.

With whom? The people who are going along so far are probably FUBAR anyway, not everything is for them.
Thank you so much! I built the website using Framer. For the animations I used https://particles.page/ but as i see now the component is no longer available.
Financial Times [0]

> Focusing American power on its own hemisphere would allow Trump, in other words, to square many circles: to make America great again by making America’s imperial footprint smaller, to reduce the tax burden on the rich by cutting into the apparatus that a global imperium required.

So, (IMO) the idea is ceding Europe to Putin (long the plan, which included sabotaging NATO), and the rest of Asia (and presumably Africa) to Xi, cutting the defense budget and giving most of it (and education and health care funds) to the rich in the form of tax cuts.

[0] https://archive.md/XEEtx

Canada, Trump and the New World Order.
Funny you mention Wikipedia, since in most professional settings (particularly research roles) you can't just cite Wikipedia. Maybe in highschool that's okay, but when there are actual stakes on the table, putting some effort into your research beyond reading the Wikipedia article is probably necessary.
What were those credible sources?
What hurts adoption here in NL from what I hear (from installers so grain of salt etc etc) is that there aren’t enough people to do installs and then later maintenance.

Having looked at getting a heat pump set up in our house (built in 1902) is that even with the extra insulation we put in, the energy needs of a heat pump are huge which means more electricity is needed and what with congestion happening locally is getting to be a problem to supply all houses with enough oomph to run heat pumps, electric stoves and charging EV’s.

Even with people having solar installations this remains a problem because we’ve had almost three consecutive weeks with heavy cloud cover and fog as well as hardly any wind. So renewable power generation was down across the board.

Fact of the matter is, we adopted many energy hungry solutions without providing the necessary capacity up front.

I worked at a startup (Jedlix) where we built a platform to optimise EV charging specifically to deal with these problems (demand shifting) but there are so many hurdles to get this rolled out at a large enough scale to matter.

Car OEMs don’t provide the necessary APIs, (local)grid companies won’t provide usage data necessary to steer on so billing/compensation becomes impossible removing the incentive for consumers.

It seems so obvious that this would solve a real problem but even though the technology exists it’s not going anywhere. Maddening
> As soon as you bring up a refund/warranty errand with the retailer they will offer a 50% discount for the battery in return for you not giving them a 1-star rating.

Wait how is that supposed to work - why would you buy another bad battery from them at 50% off? why would they have any say in why review you leave?
Presumably when receiving the object, you'd first unescape the string (which should yield a unique output unless you have big parser bugs), check the UTF-8 bytes of the unescaped string against the signature, and only then decode the unescaped string as the inner JSON object. It shouldn't matter how exactly the string is escaped, as long as it can be unescaped successfully.
A single payer system is politically impossible :/. But there are ways to get the system without overturning it completely. But they all come down to cutting or eliminating insurance profits in some way, I think.

For example, prohibjt insurances from making profits at all - earnings must go into savings, future rates need to go down when savings are getting built up beyond a safety buffer.

Another idea: a government mandated catalog of services that have to be covered, including fixed costs (maybe plus a small effort scaling factor based on provable additional needs for a patient). If a doctor claims medical necessity, the insurance is automatically required to pay that fixed amount - no rejection possible. If the claim is fraudulent, they can sue the doctor later.
These things are a choice though. The natural monopoly isn't the trains, it's the tracks. And it's not maintenance of the tracks, it's ownership of them.

So you have the government own the tracks, contract with a private company to maintain them. Then anyone can use the tracks, like anyone can use the roads. Private companies offer train service to the public. All they need is rolling stock and they can start selling tickets. You then get a market that looks like airlines, i.e. entering the market is a moderate investment (millions; buy rolling stock/planes) rather than needing billions to build the network itself. More popular routes get more suppliers, which turns into more frequent service. There is plenty of competition because rolling stock is mobile and can easily be reassigned according to customer demand.
It's user-land remapping of the keyboard input. Even on Linux it's a deamon you can start/stop at any time, and if it's not running no processing is done.
You can peruse Medicare fraud prosecutions for all kinds of scenarios. See for example https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/doctor-sentenced-54m.... If you convince a confused elderly person that they need some device, and submit paperwork falsely certifying you agree they need it, that's not trivial to detect.
What class is US healthcare best in? It’s probably among the best in quality you can get as a rich individual, but as a system it’s deeply flawed in many factors. US doesn’t even make it into the list of best 50 countries by life expectancy or maternal mortality ratio. Which is batshit crazy for such a rich country.
Also you can get a 3 piece suit custom made in SE asia for $1-500, custom shoes for $50-$100. If your goal is to have a custom wardrobe a plane ticket would save you thousands.
if you expect doomsday to come anytime soon, sure
Well, I find myself forced to agree with you there. I think these models are tremendously useful for data processing, and that chasing "reasoning" and the production of artifacts for human consumption are entirely red herrings.
Neither. It captures your regular keyboard and creates a virtual keyboard - at least on Linux.

Added later: This is what I get on my sway desktop in addition to the physical keyboard:

Input device: kanata
Type: Keyboard
Identifier: 1:1:kanata
Product ID: 1
Vendor ID: 1
Active Keyboard Layout: English (US)
Libinput Send Events: enabled

And the mapping from the physical keyboard to the virtual keyboard is done by kanata running as a user service (without root privileges). You just need to give uinput access privilege to your user account.
Learning from Your Career Crush
the same Time magazine that named Hitler "man of the year"?
I imagine most concrete applications in the world are actually reinforced concrete applications. Without rebar, I don't think you can build most spanning concrete structures that we're use to.

This would leave block/stone to mostly go into pure vertical loading applications. It'd probably be reasonably useful for some wall applications, but that seems pretty limited. Even for a true foundation application, it seems like large stone blocks embedded in a concrete matrix would be pretty heterogenous, and you could potentially end up with weird stress concentrations that would be more difficult to model (and perhaps have less desirable failure modes) than rebar concrete.

Another benefit of the "break down and put back together" approach of concrete is that it allows you to get very accurate and precise predictions of behavior. Large blocks will be less predictable. This will likely lead to requiring higher safety margins (which means more material/energy/cost).
Because there is a non-zero chance that at some point you'll need a medical procedure that is, even at non-inflated cost price, more expensive than your net worth in order to survive; and society considers it unethical to let you die in that case. With the same reasoning you're not actually the single payer for your food, and food stamps exist.
"Europe is free now"

I guess Musk has never heard of Ukraine, or Belarus. Nor does he understand the history of the service, or history in general apparently.
You are correct to note 'real' costs of the leading labs are not public. It is surely true that the labs are operating at below cost (we are definitely not paying for the full R&D), but it seems unlikely that this fully explains the reduction in inference costs over the last years. We also know from open models like deepseek that the cost per inference token at a fixed performance level is going down very quickly matching the curve of leading labs inference cost decreases. You can even test it yourself on your own pc if you want.

I would add that inference cost decreases is what we should expect, it stands to reason there will be algorithmic improvements in inference, and compute cost is still going down just because of (a somewhat sloped) Moore's law.

Maybe you could also be a bit friendlier and forthcoming in your responses.
This is only for air source pumps, right? My furnace will probably outlive me so this is a more theoretical discussion but my plan has been to get a ground source pump if it ever breaks.
Naturally most people lost money
Yeah, the need of the "-mllvm -x86-cmov-converter=false" hack is stupid; forgot to check with it. In my mind I guess I equivocated that being fixed with https://reviews.llvm.org/D118118 (and indeed __builtin_unpredictable does work with ?:), but, no, that flag still improves things today for the rest of the cases.
The updated version of the Ally replaces the proprietary port with a 2nd USB-C/Thunderbolt port. It also has a black chassis.
Change that Twitter account. Do you have a RSS feed? How can I donate?

Last but not least, your blog is unusable without JS. The posts are not links for some reason, why would you make such a paywall?
Obama couldn't even get the most important part of this plan in the reform! Because health insurance industry effectively owns the democrats.
… are free to organize help for others..

We have done so in the form of government. The whole promote the general welfare bit. The free rider problem is not an issue with publicly funded healthcare.
When Java got thread local allocation pools, stdlib’s malloc was still a blocking operation that didn’t scale with thread count. It was out a couple of years before I heard solid stories of someone pushing for a concurrent malloc implementation to be added to stdlob.

So however wide the gap was between stack and heap, its even wider once you had concurrency.
Single payer schemes don’t usually forbid private insurance either. I don’t see the advantage here.
Remove the requirement to spend 80% of premiums on care. Right now there's no incentive for providers to keep their costs low, which hurts people both with and without insurance.
Rust was definitely created as an alternative to C++, but I don't really get your criticism. Unless you're just saying you don't like robust languages with very strong type systems or something?

Rust wasn't designed by committee.
Robotlist was initially focused on virtual robots/AI agents/AI employees but I agree physical robots need to be added as well. Roomba was just added. Thank you!
It sucks that the guy currently in charge of cost cutting has a blatant conflict of interest in getting rid of the SLS. It really does need to go, but he's not the one to do it.
The market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world, everyone has a slightly different subjectivity and therefore has a slightly different optimal experience when it comes to TODO lists. Subjectivity is formed over time and through the course of events, therefore the market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world for a given timeframe.

It's an obvious hyperbole but I think it stands to show that, in a similiar fashion, there is a reader (and by some aggregation readers plural) for everything you might think of writing.

How to get started with web development in 2025? What is ray-casting? How to emulate a piece of hardware in <language>? What I had for dinner tonight!

It may not be that everything is viral or a hit but you should find that most of the content you right will resonate with _someone_ and potentially help multiple _someones_.

Sometimes being satisfied with that 10-100 readers is all there is to it.
An even bigger issue you immediately run into in these conversations: someone will say "I don't mean heritability that way, I mean genetic heritability". Which, whatever, except: now you've discarded all the science. The papers you'd draw these numbers from are referring to heritability in its technical sense, not in some message board sense.
Interesting post, but all I hear is the classic Slashdot troll; "I don't mean to start a flamewar, but... BSD is dying!"
the S1 paper did the same a few days ago, basically. 1000 total CoT with SFT.

I believe that all this shows that pre-training stage already creates the representations needed for CoT reasoning, so they are very simple to uncover. Either with R1-Zero pure RL, or with few-shots SFT.
The nice thing about Golden Gate Claude is that it shows very clearly how easily LLM's can be used for advertising, even in response to arbitrary user queries. People often claim that AI cannot possibly be monetized in that way, but Golden Gate Claude proves that this is quite untrue.
And more than half of my 50s-year-old friends would be able to retire from jobs where they do the bare minimum just to maintain their health insurance.
Aren’t you making the case for the OP? That it cost so much to extend a line for a thousand feet… how about the thousands of miles of lines it takes to service rural users?

The same is true for all infrastructure in that it gets less expensive per user as density increases. The cost to hook up an apartment building to the grid is a few houses in a suburb but services 10x the people at the same revenue per person. The cost to service a single home in a rural area might wipe the revenue out from a dozen apartments.

Frankly, I’m sick of subsidizing the rural welfare crowd. Let them pay the market price for their roads and utilities if they want to cosplay as Galt gulchers.
Thanks, and yes :)
While there're interesting findings here, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.03373 (also with a lot of good findings) suggested some contradicting theory on the critical mass of training process/data for the sake of reasoning capability.