skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You two are arguing across each other.

JumpCrisscross is saying ignore the 80/20 rule for the insurance side. If you look at UHC's overall parent company profits - the profits after they've calculated in the profit from the supplier side like pharmacy benefit company, pharmacy, doctors, et al - it is 22% gross, 4% net.

In other words the double-dealing only got them 4% net profit.

For my part I think a lot of the extra money is disappearing into administration. Every doctor's office of any size employs extra staff just to deal with insurance company nonsense. Insurance companies employ extra staff to deny claims and fight providers. That extra staff justifies more layers of middle management. This repeats across all specialists and disciplines. Your radiology company? Extra staff to deal with insurance. Lots of people employed to shuffle papers and manage workers.
> It's sad that we CT drivers seem to be caught in a crossfire between Tesla and Tesla/Elon haters, when all we want to do is enjoy our cars.

The good news is that it’s just the ones who drive their truck with the now-known-to-be-faulty FSD turned on who are caught in the crossfire. (I’d say they are actually and should be in the “crosshairs”, but that’s moot.) Doesn’t have to be you.
In my youth I'd keep friends on the phone entirely too long, and sometimes fall asleep while talking. (How my friends tolerated me I'll never know...)

Occasionally I'd realize I was saying something ridiculous and catch myself. Most times, though, they'd ask me for clarification about whatever crazy-sounding thing I said and I'd snap back to wakefulness (briefly). I wish I had recordings of some of those things I said. They left my mind almost immediately (to the point that I couldn't respond to questions asked directly after whatever I'd said). It would be entertaining to know what I was saying. (I didn't ask friends at the time and, at >30 years ago, I doubt any of them remember.)

I read to my daughter before bed. She drifts off sometimes when I'm reading "boring" stuff (at her request) and says fun things. I keep notes and ask her about it later. I enjoy the window into her mind.
Perhaps they have improved their heuristic for this one, though perhaps it was actually Uber/Lyft that randomly picks one when given as a destination...
He's not talking about books like that, I think he's talking about things pop sci and management books, but struggled with a way to describe only those books and not anything else that falls under the broad hemisphere of non-fiction. You could say that he's begging the question ("books I think are the problem are, in fact, the problem") but I immediately felt I knew the kind of book he meant, so I was not confused by it.
[stub for offtopicness]

[see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018086 for why]
In the official results, the vote totals for all the 3rd party candidates add up to ~2%. And Green Party is the by-far largest piece of that.
>falsely linking the trials to the billionaire Bill Gates.

I feel like the Bill Gates connection is a weirdly required bit to some of these conspiracy theories.

It seems a lot of people when it comes to food topics are just waiting for the next thing to be terrified of. I do not understand it, they seem prepped and ready for anything.

My wife was recently reading an article about cooking pans and was very concerned about what she read. She doesn't cook and proposed "maybe we should get one of these pans". It was a stainless steel pan ... we own one ...

Even for people already using the thing recommended or NOT using the scary thing these kinds of "scary" events seem to draw some folks in.
> the data is pretty clear how many people use FSD without issues.

Serious question - what data? And who is supplying that? Tesla? And what is the emotional human equivalent for the level of confidence that we should assume is "safe"? 1% error rate? 0.5%? 0.00001%?
No, that's the weird thing. Even the RMA models were failing. But sure enough, it wasn't just some incompatibility with the NAS because I tested them on PCs to confirm they were failing, and they were.
Well I specifically disagreed with “wouldn't have been particularly noticeable in any one life time”. So it would seem it’s quite different from what you said. If you happen to live in the Pontic Steppe for most of your life yet your e.g. grandchildren are born in Britain that’s quite noticeable.
Releasing an App in France
Does anyone go through the huddles to get additional documents to release the app in France, or just skip the country and not worry about it at all ?
Agreed, it's just my experience, but for fb posts, I usually get over 80% accuracy in tone and voice using open source llms and maybe a dozen public posts from the original author.
>he falsely identified himself as a senior federal law enforcement officer, provided the federal law-enforcement officer’s residential address to the dispatcher

I would guess this one really put him on the map

Given the scope (375 total!) and the for-hire nature, it seems like this kid got off easy. I'm not totally against it given his age, but wow.
Just because it is populate doesn't mean it isn't dead. Or should be dead. COBOL was really innovated in the day, but many of those innovations proved to be bad ideas. However switching to something else is very hard and expensive - thus it continues on.
"If he wants" != "he wants"

"He approved" != "He wants"
8TB Ironwolf NAS ST8000VN004
> they are still going to be mad.

Historically it seems like they will be happier despite no change or worse change as long as their "team" won.
Difference here being that you actually learned the information about computers, whereas the modern programmer doesn't learn anything. They are but a typist-like vessel that passes information from an architect onto a text editor, rarely ever actually reading and understanding the compiled instructions. And if something doesn't work, they don't debug the machine code, they complain about the compiler for not getting it right. The actual knowledge here never gets stored in the brain, making any future learning or evolving impossible.

I've had to work with developers that are over dependent on high-level languages. One didn't even know how to trace execution in machine code; they had to ask a debugger. Almost as if the person is a zombie or something. It's scary to witness. And as soon as you explain them to explain their memory segmentation strategy - dead silence. They can't, because they never actually _thought_.
Sure, but there have been many threads about that*, there can and will be others, and those threads are the place to discuss it.

Not allowing large/important/hot/generic/divisive topics to drown out smaller/quieter/marginal/curious/specific ones is one of the core principles here.

* Edit: here's a partial list:

What's happening inside the NIH and NSF - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940257 - Feb 2025 (1519 comments)

CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937 - Feb 2025 (719 comments)

CDC data are disappearing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897696 - Feb 2025 (589 comments)

NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886661 - Jan 2025 (488 comments)

'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817910 - Jan 2025 (111 comments)

NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798960 - Jan 2025 (440 comments)
It's ridiculous that returns on public basic research have been so great and yet funding has been so neglected. The chips act was a small positive step.
Agreed, and I haven't yet seen any single instance of a company firing software engineers because AI is replacing them (even if by increasing productivity of another set of software engineers): I've asked this a number of times, and while it's a common refrain, I haven't really seen any concrete news report saying it in so many words.

And to be honest, if any company is firing software engineers hoping AI replaces their production, that is good news since that company will soon stop existing and treating engineers like shit which it probably did :)
Silicon Graphics was a great company name. With a great (initial) logo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#/media/File:S...
I didn't say that, I said that talking about tyranny in this context is divorced from reality, and it is. I'm not even engaging with the "duopoly" thing, I know how hopeless a conversation like that. I just wish that people could represent their desires and complaints on this topic like rational adults.
I'm not sure what your point is - as I've already mentioned this comparison is between all cybertruck deaths, none of which were low speed collisions resulting in a fire, and the deaths that the NHTSA review identified as caused by fires from low speed collisions caused by the design flaw in the Pinto.

I know that neither you nor the other commenters nor the person who made that website needs anyone to explain to you why this comparison is invalid. It is such a facile comparison that to describe it is to explain why it's invalid.

So, again, I'm confused as to the point of your comment.
Today we are introducing Boomless Cruise–supersonic flights
if you use "jobs" then literally any job can look like a net positive, that's a cop out

what about the value lost from the people who work in advertising that have skills applicable to more productive industries
It's very much normal "gamer" aesthetic.
> You can either accept that these business do not have a lot of pricing power...

I definitely do not accept that assertion. Especially for the big vertically integrated ones like UHC.

> Or you think there is a massive fraud and a nationwide conspiracy amongst 7 publicly listed businesses (UNH/Elevance/Cigna/CVS/Humana/Centene/Molina), and numerous non profits like Kaiser Permanente and various BCBS affiliated plans (because their premiums are basically the same as the for profit insurers).

Yes? It's a cartel.

"Massive fraud" isn't really even in dispute! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage...

> Even then, their profit margin is only 5% or so, which is objectively a low profit margins.

Walmart's is lower than that.

> The easiest thing to do though, is ask yourself why shareholders would accept lower annual returns if their business they own earns so much money?

That's why they do stock buybacks.

> You would think they could do better than SP500 if they were raking it in.

If everyone else wasn't also enshittifying at the same time, sure.
Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails
CUDA compute version is a big deal. 1080ti is 6.1. 3060 is 8.6. It also has tensor cores.

Note that CUDA version numbers are confusing, the compute number is a different thing than the runtime/driver version.
Yeah, fair. Tribalism and all that.
The negative quality impact of quantization is more pronounced for smaller models [0], so I'm surprised this tiny quant works at all.

[0] or rather models closer to saturation, which is a function of model params and amount of training
I would unconsciously delete the trailing comma for a couple weeks/months.
My great-grandma talked to several children that she miscarried when young.
Totally agreed with the fist paragraph but after that you're ignoring the existence of Waymo today, which people generally feel comfortable in and around where they are. Elons marketing is so strong even the doubters feel like Tesla is the leader of the pack.
... well that's weird, I got exactly the same weird bug on the 7.1 GB F32 GGUF version: https://gist.github.com/simonw/58ff74a55b402dc55764a567b10ec...

% ollama run hf.co/bartowski/agentica-org_DeepScaleR-1.5B-Preview-GGUF:F32
pulling manifest
pulling 84159ad584aa... 100% 7.1 GB
pulling 8aa4c0321ccd... 100% 493 B
pulling c737442a210a... 100% 170 B
pulling ed76df87b934... 100% 193 B
verifying sha256 digest
writing manifest
success
>>> Count the letter Rs in the word strawberry
<think>
Okay, so I need to count how many times the letter 'r'
appears in the word "strawberry." Hmm, let's break this down
step by step. First, I should probably spell out each letter
of the word to make sure I don't miss any 'r's.

Starting with "strawberry." Let me write it out: S, T, R, A,
W, B, E, R, F, U, R, Y? Wait, maybe I'm not spelling it
correctly. Actually, let's count each letter properly.

The word is spelled as follows:
S T R A W B E R F U R Y. Wait, no, that might be longer than
needed. Let me write it out more accurately:

The full word is "strawberry." So breaking it down:
1. S
2. T
3. R
4. A
5. W
6. B
7. E
8. R
9. F
10. U
11. R
12. Y

Update: running the F16 model fixed that problem:

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/agentica-org_DeepScaleR-1.5B-Preview-GGUF:F16

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017599#43018767 and https://gist.github.com/simonw/9e79f96d69f10bc7ba540c87ea0e8...
the holy grail of course is adapting the text of the novel to the readers mood in realtime via smartwatch monitor and making them go and buy something before they reach the end of the chapter.
>About eight hours before my father died he was having a conversation with his unseen mother, who died when he was 14.

Anecdotally, my grandad did the same thing a day before he died. Except he was talking to his best friend who's been dead a long time.
> Thomson Reuters prevailed on two of the four factors, but Bibas described the fourth as the most important, and ruled that Ross “meant to compete with Westlaw by developing a market substitute.”

Yep. That's what people have been saying all along. If the intent is to substitute the original, then copying is not fair use.

But the problem is that the current method for training requires this volume of data. So the models are legitimately not viable without massive copyright infringement.

It'll be interesting to see how a defendant with a larger wallet will fare. But this doesn't look good.

Though big-picture, it seems to me that the money-ed interests will ensure that even if the current legal landscape doesn't allow LLM's to exist, then they will lobby HARD until it is allowed. This is inevitable now that it's at least partially framed in national security terms.

But I'd hope that this means there is a chance that if models have to train on all of human content, the weights will be available for free to all humans. If it requires massive copyright infringement on our content, we should all have an ownership stake in the resulting models.
Building a RN app without any features (authentication, notifications) is easy - but adding those features and then navigating the outside-app ecosystem isn’t. It’s definitely not like the web.
No worries, soon ChrisArchitect will link related threads.
you meant the team-bonding company bus trip in the Sahara.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8042654/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4643145/

https://www.ijrar.org/papers/IJRAR1944311.pdf

Antimicrobial doesn't necessarily mean it literally kills everything.
One overlooked feature of physical controls is that they also give interiors an identity and experience.

Growing up obsessed with cars, I loved seeing how different brands would lay out the cabin. Volvos from the 2000s used a rather large diagram of a seated person to select the HVAC vent for example.

Also, in my brain, a 3000+ pound object just dang requires some stuff to physically press, push, and hear click!

A couple giant touchscreens with touch controls nearly eliminates that.
Does this mean the model of LLM = search engine is also coming to an end? Ignoring things like functions and google search capabilities, current chatgpt models have quite a lot of niche knowledge, I assume from crawling the entire internet.
In some traditions it's not a hallucination taking place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo
Yeah I'm very impressed that the tiniest quant version appears partially usable... especially now I've replicated that same S, T, R, A, W, B, E, R, F, U, R, Y bug on a much larger one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018494
Or getting into a car accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbotIsLJWw
That's unnecessarily hostile.

House building is not that difficult. And literally zero of the licensed trades (plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc) cannot be learned by a smart and motivated person in 1-2 months at most, instead of the multiple years (each, nonconcurrently) required for apprentice, journeyman, and eventual master licensing.

I've built three houses. I subbed out the work that was required by local regs (this varies by jurisdiction and year), and did the work myself, with inspection where available, wherever possible. Not difficult at all.
I'm a big fan of adding `WHERE 1=1` to the first line of a where clause. Then all remaining lines are prefixed with `AND` or `OR` which is nice for readability and indentation, and makes it easy to comment out a line while iterating.
I think it is safe to say we have improved as a company between when the code was started and the rewrite. And we have improved a lot since then.

We have also improved a lot as an industry. The rewrite was started in C++98 because C++11 was still a couple years away. Today C++23 has a lot of nice things, but some of the core APIs still are C++98 (though less every year) because that is all we had the ability to use. And of course rust wasn't an option back then, but if we were to start today would get a serious look.
From my perspective it seems like HN abandoned the mandate of intellectually curious stories and conversations and is instead a place where only non-controversial stories and conversations are encouraged. If people can only talk about things where no one can vociferously disagree then we aren't really being inquisitive and curious, merely eccentric.

Your comment of "discussion here is marginally* more substantive" footnoted that it's not particularly good also seems a bit condescending. Its dismissive to those attempting to engage with these stories in good faith even if a vocal minority are behaving in bad faith. When a dozen stories are popping up and disappearing in a few hours it feels a lot harder to participate in a thoughtful and substantial ways.

I can understand HN is in a rough spot. But on the other hand, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
This is absolutely possible, even currently - albeit in a very much non-portable way. For example boost::pfr and my own (wip) repr library have the required machinery for this.
I don't dispute that. My understanding is that the introduction of chili allowed a reduction in salt content, which was important in an era where salt was expensive to produce.
None of this makes any sense.

A lack of CRL doesn’t make TLS insecure.

A root doesn’t produce “self-signed certificates”. That especially doesn’t make any sense. What do you think the “self” references in “self-signed” certificate?

Add the root to your trust store, if you trust it, and you’re done.

What’s more concerning is someone working on (assumingly) secure, sensitive, air-gapped networks knows this little about TLS?
Honestly the biggest issue is time difference. If US corpos were strategic they would have invested in Latin America and build huge talent pools there.
Same time zone, same culture same holidays, same language with big portion of the US population.
Unfortunately quite common to see serious mathematical issues in the medical literature. I guess due to a combination of math being essential to interpreting medical data and trial results, but most practitioners not having much depth of math knowledge.
Just this week I came across the quote "Frequentist 95% CI: we can be 95% confident that the true estimate would lie within the interval." This is an incorrect interpretation of confidence intervals, but the amusing part is that it is from a tutorial paper about them, so the authors should have known better. And cited by 327!
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6630113/
GPUs were last used for Bitcoin mining in 2013, so you shouldn't be concerned unless you are buying a GTX 780.
Exactly! This is an amazing observation and analogy.
Are you certain about that? I think it would really depend on the severity of symptoms. Cases like Munoz v. Watsonville Community Hospital et al indicate that courts have interpreted the legal requirement to stabilize the patient rather more broadly. Just discharging the patient with painkillers and a referral isn't necessarily sufficient to avoid liability.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018356.

Your post is totally fine; I just want to save space at the top of the thread (where the parent is now pinned).
This is finetuned to the benchmarks and nowhere close to O1-Preview in any other tasks. Not worth looking into unless you specifically want to solve these problems - however, still impressive.
Is it a quantisation or tokenisation problem?
I think it is important to point out that boring tech is not Java 8 or .NET 2.0 that some companies are stuck with.

There is still lots of interesting stuff if your company uses newest Java or newest .NET but both are „boring” in a good way so mostly stable and changes to those are incremental and progress is stable.

Heck Angular with its latest improvements in v17 and v18 is quite interesting - but counts as totally boring and stable tech. Migration to signals and standalone components is a bit of a hassle but still is rather easy.
It might not be that the process was discovered so much as the method of cooking pot production happened to suit the food being cooked.

In particular, lots of civilizations learned to strengthen the basic clay pot by the addition of lime-y things, eg burnt mussel shells. If all your pots are made in this manner then you dont so much discover nixtamalization as experience it only by its absence when you meet settlers that have pellagra and dont use your style of pot.

See [0] for a technical write up on this and many other pot themes.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/arcm.12986
Can CoT models also call external functions? What if they had access to a calculator?
Waymo has conditionals (type of car, what roads it will drive on, range, etc) on how and where it can operate, FSD's conditionals are much less stringent.

I'm still waiting for Waymo to safely drive in the snow.
Let me guess: 3DConnexion's SpaceMouse?
https://github.com/open-source-labs/Chronos
We've already started, we just haven't finished yet
My point is the data is right there and you can do your own analysis to make the comparison. Do you not know the difference between data and analysis?

I'm confused as to the level of your incompetence.
https://www.npmjs.com/~chronosnyla
You don't need to crawl and filter lots of internet data when you can disteal large models.
> it doesn't apply to us

This is also what your website says,

But it could be interpreted contrarily - that VPN services through, for example, encryption via signals that the VPN service itself has power over through agreements with subcontractors, etc. could possibly be seen as an electronic communications service ...

And I'm not just talking about Mullvad VPN (the "electronic communication service" provider), but Mullvad AB, which also hosts websites and builds apps (like the browser and VPN clients), too.

So, is the "law doesn't apply" a fact? If so, may want to reword this bit on your website to make that much clear:

[Mullvad's] opinion is that the reasonable interpretation is that a VPN service is not to be considered as an electronic communications service based on previous legislative history.

If not, due to the "covert" nature of the Act, if Mullvad was coerced to co-operate with the govt, it seems Mullvad couldn't even publicly talk or hint about it (like warrant canaries, for example)?
Having replicated it at F32 I now suspect tokenization.