skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on launching!

Compliments first - you described your elevator pitch of the company incredibly well in the starter post here on HN, to the point I'd use that as a template on your site and any kind of social media materials. Fantastic way to explain what the isasue is and how you're tackling it in a novel but practical way.

My immediate thought is "cool idea, but a non starter for me personally when I have a lot of questions about data and privacy" and how the team's handling patient's data. I'd highly encourage you to have a whole page at minimum elucidating the details there, if you're using E2E encryption, all that jazz. Given people's recent concerns about data collecting and menstrual cycles and the recent Roe fallout, this is of special concern to me as a woman.

Wishing you and the team best of luck, all the same!
I understand that this is a hack project (so doing for the sake of doing).

But if I were going to create an autonomous/RC anything, I would start with Ardupilot [0], which has off-the-shelf support for a lot of what's implemented here, like mapping, waypoint management, and even state estimation/control. You can buy a computer that can do all of this for pretty cheap.

[0] https://ardupilot.org/rover/
We're working with AI to help human writers write financial content, and we're not far off rolling our own models. Is that too run-of-the-mill for this? We do have some traction.
In the Super Smash Bros. Melee competitive scene we still use CRTs for in-person tournaments because of the input lag on LCDs. Most original hardware available to play the game doesn't have a digital display output unless you have an early model GameCube and purchase a ~$100 HDMI adapter. Even if you get the hardware setup for modern digital output, most LCD monitors still have poor response times without spending the extra money for a "gaming" monitor.

There has been a lot of work by modders to reduce the input lag introduced by the game engine itself to offset the lag introduced by LCD monitors, but I hope someday LCDs can catch up in this last metric.
We have:

"D" the programming language [0]

"D" the data language specification [1]

"D" the programming language for DTrace [2]

"D3" the javascript library [3]

"D4" library/tool for Declarative Data-Driven Documents[4]

"D4" implementation[5] of the data language specification[1]

Overall, I think "D2" is objectively the best choice here. We have at least three "D"s, two "D4"s, and one "D3", so it makes sense to put it in as "D2". I certainly wouldn't want another "D" or, heaven forbid, a "D5".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace#Description

[3]: https://d3js.org/

[4]: https://github.com/joelburget/d4

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataphor#Languages
Innovation isn't everything in any field. It's important, but so is a lot of other factors.

Silicon Valley tends to fetishize and abuse the idea of innovation, often to the detriment of everyone. "Innovation" is used as a cover for all sorts of bad actions.
I think he meant the performance of the compiled binary, not the build.
>sure, and people can draw their own conclusions about a "marketplace" allowing morally reprehensible products on it, and whether to purchase from them in the future.

How can a piece of dyed cloth be "morally reprehensible"?

I don't think books should be banned, nor should flags.

If that's how folks want to express themselves, then so be it.

That doesn't mean I need to be chummy with people who hold views in accord with the misogynistic, hateful rhetoric of the Taliban.

That said, I'd expect that folks elsewhere (e.g., Iraq or Iran) might find the US flag to be "morally reprehensible."

As such, shouldn't you also deride folks who sell US flags too?

Just because you don't agree with the ideas and ideology represented by a flag, it doesn't mean that making and selling such a piece of cloth is "morally reprehensible."

Don't like it? Don't buy it. It's called "voting with your wallet." And if enough people do that, then folks will stop making/selling it.
Multiple services in multiple regions impacted
Mermaid also does this, and is integrated in github/gitea/gitlab.

To try it out, just open a new github issue and add

```mermaid
graph TD;
A-->B;
A-->C;
B-->D;
C-->D;
```

Or try the live editor: https://mermaid.live/
The landing page is so well designed. Thanks for making this!
If you see a [dead] comment that shouldn't be dead, you can vouch for it, which (when enough users do that) brings it back from the [dead]. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch. We added that feature years ago because banned accounts sometimes post good things.

If you see an account whose posts are nearly all [dead] - which means either they're banned or running afoul of our software somehow - and you don't think they deserve that fate, you can always email hn@ycombinator.com and ask us to take a look. I've actually been working on a ban review system that will allow us to catch cases where accounts have been making good posts and don't need to be banned anymore. Though in the Dostoevskian underworld of internet dynamics, I have seen several cases of banned accounts which, as soon as they noticed they weren't banned, immediately begin violating the site rules in the most garish way until we ban them...apparently indicating that they prefer that state.

Please make sure you're up on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, though, because if an account has been breaking the site guidelines, you can spare yourself the trouble of emailing—we're just going to point that out as the reason why the account needs to remain banned.
How does the "uncapped, no-discount, MFN SAFE" work? What does that mean in terms of the percentage of equity you'd take?

I'm self-funding fakeyou.com from a previous exit. My AI/ML startup is called "Storyteller" and my team is about to launch real time voice conversion (you -> Trump, Adele, etc.), music generation (instruments + vocals), and real time motion capture (for film and animation, essentially super high quality VTubers) in a matter of weeks, plus a bunch of other stuff by EOQ3. From there it's AI musicians, story generation, etc. A takeover and democratization of Hollywood and Nashville.

I have no idea what I'm doing in terms of fundraising. We have 5M+ MAUs and I don't even have a deck. I'm in Atlanta grinding out product and I'm not plugged into this VC/fundraising world, but I know I need to grow this.

The $300k cloud credits sounds right-sized. I also started buying a metric ton of 3090s and running k8s both in the cloud and on-prem. :)
I, and my advisor's lab[1] work in this area. I'm going to focus on the technical aspects of evidence synthesis, as opposed to the business aspects.

There's a difference between symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options, evidence for those, and the audiences for whom these are written. WebMD and friends target a broader market, scientific studies target...scientists and doctors.

I think the hard parts of building a better WebMD (along the article's lines) are:

- screening articles for relevance. This is more than mere search or finding potentially relevant articles, but also making a decision to include them
- extracting _structured_ information from the articles. Frequently we talk about Populations/Problems, Interventions, Comparators (interventions), and (medical) Outcomes, collectively PICOs. Extraction of each component is easy. Assembling them is surprisingly hard. Finding equivalencies between them within documents is surprisingly hard. Finding facets or different parts of a treatment (how do you handle combined treatments for a single study? how about when some studies use them and some don't?)
- establishing equivalencies for your evidence synthesis between documents is even harder: do you care about dosage? combination with other treatments? what happens when a slightly different formulation of a treatment gets used, or a treatment is administered poorly? I don't know of anyone within scholarly document processing community working on analysis of medical methods (possibly ignorance on my part!).

It would be nice if trial preregistration had all these details, but not all trials are preregistered, nor all outcomes published, the aim of the trial can shift, and there's a large pile of literature where this information isn't available.

I think real time updates are the smallest problem among these: solving extraction (including the big structured objects) mostly solves this; the statistics of a meta-analysis are not complicated. To be clear, this is still an issue. I have a figure[2] highlighting the lag.

Presenting the evidence in a digestible, meaningful way, seems like a hard HCI problem to do right, and easy to do poorly. Merely giving PICOs (structured!) and findings is easy and a bad UX for the non-technical, a narrative summary is interesting to provide and hard to do well, and a subgroup analysis can suffer problems from differing group sizes and effectiveness findings (tailoring is tricky).

There are several organizations[3] working on these sorts of problems.

[1] https://www.byronwallace.com/

[2] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/MS%CB%862%3A-Multi-Doc...

[3] https://community.cochrane.org/organizational-info/people/st...
Surprised there are no comments on this, this is pretty much the first decent+cheap RISC-V computer/SBC we can buy soon
That was in the past though. Now Signal is storing exactly that same information permanently in the cloud. Specifically they store your name, phone number, photo, and a record of every person you contact.
This is literally the "Well, what color is YOUR Bugatti?" defense of Andrew Tate spouted by teenagers.
Hasura for GraphQL, Postgrest for REST
It's free for students, I use it for both my day job and my night classes. It has been pretty great with Python, Java and JS.
I am not entirely sure what a cliamte change absolutist is, but have you thought of the possibility they might be right?

Obviously we have had extreme weather before, but many of the extremes we are seeing now are far, far outside normal (in some cases more than 100 times as common).

You might feel that every time an event comes up in the media, it is claimed it is because of climate change. Perhaps most of these extreme events are (or are at last much more common)?

We already know that climate change has an outsided impact on extreme events, particularly heatwaves, making them hotter, longer and more frequent. Many of these physics principles apply worldwide, so we end up seeing the fingerprint of cliamte change in extreme heatwaves across the world.
Naval Ravikant's/Paul Graham's favorite articles this week
just to add, telegram can NOT transfer or back up E2E encrypted chats either. unencrypted chats transfer because they are saved on the telegram server.

i think deltachat is possibly the only one that can transfer encrypted messages because you can copy the encryption keys and the messages are just mails, easy to copy (and usually stored on your mail server too)

i don't know how matrix handles this, but from the way verification works there, i am not confident.
Yeah I looked at my keyboard and saw D beside S and figured that's what you're saying.

Read the PDP/8 instruction sheet. Wow that's nice and minimal.
> One issue with the NHS is that I get the impression the information they publish that strongly respects their goals and desires perhaps to the detriment of patients sometimes.

Do you have data that supports the NHS withholding or advising against necessary care that results in worse patient outcomes?

More utilization is not inherently better, and even in the systems like the NHS, everyone is incented heavily to keep patients healthy and out of the hospital system. The idea that they want you to be sicker rather than provide relatively cheap preventive care is, generally, absolute nonsense.
The tricky thing about TIPS is that they don't pay interest based on inflation. Instead, they're a normal bond with some pretty low interest rate, but then periodically the principal amount of the bond is adjusted upward for inflation.

This makes TIPS behave weirdly in periods of deflation or of high inflation. (Increasing the principal of your bond by 10% doesn't increase your semiannual coupon payments very much -- but then at maturity your bond will be worth a lot more). The rules aren't that complicated, but scenario planning for what happens to you is tricky.
Announced: Google's OSS Vulnerability Rewards Program
Unironically yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatole

However, it strikes me as more likely that pheromones are emitted in places already adapted for evaporative cooling, which in turn would be hairy places, which in turn could be lubricative.
How about this one? https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2022/dall-e-pencil-s...

From https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/23/dall-e/

Have you tried DALL-E or Stable Diffusion yet? I bet you could generate a black and white image that met your standards for being impressive, if you spent a few minutes on it.

You can try Stable Diffusion free here: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/
The size of neural nets grew 3000x in 10 years - from 60M params AlexNet to 175B params GPT-3. Thats about 2.23x per year. Moore's law was a doubling every two years, that comes up at 2^(10/2)=32x.

Model size scaled 100x faster than compute over a decade. We are paying for this difference by using more energy and hardware, but it's already too expensive to train except for a few labs, and deployment is restricted.

Can't even load GPT-3 on most computers. Stable Diffusion is an exception, they did a good job and were lucky the model can be so small.
I’ve often thought it was something like that, milking various rewards options.
Yes, that’s basically what a plasma TV is.
I realize we are not done with it yet. There are new process node launches planned for the next few years and each processor generation continues to improve density, power consumption and price per transistor.

I’ll hold off declaring it dead till it is well and truly dead. And even then we could expect cost improvements as the great wheel of investment into the next node would no longer need to turn and the last node would become a final standard.

As to physical limits, there are plenty of weird quantum particle effects to explore so that seems overstated. We are still just flipping on and off electromagnetic charge. Haven’t even gotten to the quarks yet!
This is a sufficiently general argument against all law enforcement capabilities, though. Give the police any power at all and it's inevitable that someone will abuse it at some point in the future. Typically, most communities nonetheless decide on some level of rules, checks, and capabilities somewhere between "nothing" and "everything," accepting that which risks and tradeoffs are worth it might change over time. It seems to be largely only Hacker News that thinks law enforcement should never get any access to any data at all, ever.

What are these other ways to investigate suspects you're thinking that are preferable to building out networks from Telegram metadata? Bugging houses? Threatening family members to rat people out? Deep cover covert agents? Are any of those less subject to abuse?
It can be a bit clunky setting up the jar (or hosting it yourself), but it's still the best worst option. It scales pretty well and can draw some very complex flows, while still giving you the best in just plain ole text editing.

I could have never maintained the diagrams I used for other developers on my teams or folks on the audit/regulation side of thing without it.

The default styles are really unprofessional looking and I think a lot of folks look the other way once they see that. C4 diagraming with PlantUML is also a breeze for systems diagrams.

https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML
Commercial Open Source VC Funding from Jan 2020 to Present
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/108/556/56...
This. While I appreciate the work AdBlock does, supporting MV3 is ludicrous. If no ad block extension supported it, it would be dead on arrival - with Chrome too (if Google tried to force it). Just let it be, fire up your Firefox and browse freely.
This also speaks to a certain lack of inspiration/creativity. A lot of people who end up in graduate school are great at following a prescribed academic path and getting good grades etc. but when confronted with the prospect of original research might find themselves lacking. A lot of top scientists, like the great artists, writers etc. can't help themselves but think about or work on their field. Grothendieck disappeared to live in a cottage, but still produced thousands of page of handwritten notes of highly original mathematics.
Age adjusted or nah?

Turns out non-covid mortality is significantly higher in unvaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7043e2.htm
exactly, if you do this, then don't complain when people see a cold winter/summer and say: there is no global warming
Yeah, considering the scale, Costco is doing a wonderful job. Plus, their generous return and price adjustment policies, it’s a no brainer to just buy Costco.
The problem is that it's cheap (in terms of time and cognitive effort) to raise objections, and expensive to address them (with explanation and demonstration of observational and modeling method).

Dishonest actors exploit this asymmetry to raise large numbers of shallow objections, in the hope that the audience will be excited by the drama of conflict and bored by the effort of overcoming the objections. Clever or charismatic actors can often win such conflicts at a rhetorical level, and are then naively imitated by people who are not acting in bad faith but want to copy a successful-appearing social strategy for their own benefit.

I got an early life lesson in this via a school debate. Assigned to refute the proposition that 'Brand X is the best cat food', I compared the ingredients from many different brands and noted that Brand X had a much higher percentage of 'Ash' - burnt matter following cooking. On the day of the debate I triumphantly presented my findings, and asked the audience why they would want to feed ash to their cats. My opponent then got up and said 'But maybe cats enjoy burning HASH' and got a huge laugh. Was it responsive or substantive? No, but I had said the word 'ash' too many times and his making a joke about that relieved the mild tension I had created with my overly-earnest argument. His team won the debate.
It was so well done that I initially wondered where they found male and female voice actors
to read a technical script so convincingly :)

As one commenter said, https://tarkka.co/2019/04/28/engineering-drawings-how-to-mak...

> The effort you and detail you have put into your videos is beyond anything I have seen anywhere else. I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to put this together. By the way, the juxtaposition of your two voices really adds to the professionalism. I am a home machinist but I want to do as close to professional quality work as I can and your videos are a great part of that.

Much can be learned from their approach, e.g. providing templates and other actionable references for students to apply the techniques.
Let's not forget that you could freely adjust the refresh rate to resolution ratio to the maximum bandwidth supported by the monitor. On my old 21" CRT, I would have the desktop at 1600x1200 @ 75Hz for maximum productivity and when gaming I would switch to 1024x768 @ 120Hz for "pwning n00bs" in Unreal Tournament '99/Quake 3 Arena.

Meanwhile my 2019 4K display is a fixed 60Hz regardless of how much I lower the resolution. What a downgrade.

I heard some modern gaming displays now also let you crank up the Hz as you lower the resolution, but every cheap CRT could do this back in the days as everything was purely analog so the limit was the bandwidth of your monitor and you were free to experiment with any resolution to refresh rate ratio between the available bandwidth in your GPU control panel as the RAMDAC of the GPU did all the heavy lifting in driving the display, while now, the driving is handled internally by the LCD control board so whatever the manufacturer decides, you're stuck with.

Most CRTs also supported overclocking beyond factory spec, but you really ran the risk of frying some internal components after long term use. Ask me how I know.
If the serious ad-blockers would stop supporting chrome, then all the shady freemium/quasi-malware stuff would be more than happy to be the only option. Most people don't "really" choose their browser, they just use what someone (or themselves years ago) installed for them. The main reason for chrome's shares is google's search&android domination and how hard they pushed it.
Same with it can cause unseasonably cold days and unseasonably warm days, those aren't mutually exclusive and the range of extremes is expanding in many regions. Which remains a big reason to avoid "global warming" as a term anymore when discussing climate change. Even extreme winter storms are a consequence of climate change and the additional energy in the climate affecting all types of weather.

Early climatologists phrased it as a growth in heat in the planet and that earned the nickname "global warming", which is correct enough on a long enough scale, but the real problem of climate change is that it is a ton of additional energy (per Thermodynamics Laws same thing, different side of the equation) in the climate. (For instance, additional energy in the case of winter storms meaning stronger winds which mean lower wind chill temperatures and more precipitation [snow].)
Funnily enough the cat domestication process happened because of the wheat domestication process. We domesticated them to keep rodents away from our wheat storage.

So the wheat domesticated both us... and the cats.
Oh neat, I didn't realize that. I guess it didn't work out very well.
Thats awesome! Thanks for the share!
Knowing it's an AI that wrote it, it seems impressive. (Although I'm not sure how much human guidance it has).

The premise is I think actually pretty good -- but maybe the premise and basic plot really comes from the human-written parts?

The actual writing? If I didn't know an AI had created it and thought a human had, I'd say the writing is pretty terrible. At the sentance level and at the story level, it's just pretty poorly written and hard to follow, with weird choices.

But... sure, maybe it's too much to expect an AI to write a well-written story at this point, the fact that it seems to be a somewhat coherent story at all is the point? OK if so, but yeah.
Works extremely well in Firefox.
A good WebMD would be probability based.

Rather than list all the possibilities, it would calculate in real-time the probability of each diagnosis and show how that probability changes as you add/remove symptoms or possibly even test results.

Even doctors would benefit from this as Bayesian inference is hard and even healthcare professionals generally put too much weight on a single positive test result.
What lawsuit? There is no legal basis for a lawsuit. As a private corporation, Google is free to rank search results however they like regardless of whether that's done by humans or algorithms.
> Downloading a cracked copy of Photoshop and checking out a book from the library on how to edit photos is only somewhat more difficult than learning to use Python and write programs that generate art from some model.

How much practice would one need after doing that, before they're able to match the quality of some of the AI generated art? Not all of the AI generated artwork is perfect, but some of the art would take the average person years of practice to be able to match. Some art requires more than a cracked copy of Photoshop and a weekend of reading a book you borrowed from a library. You may be surprised to find that some people spend years honing their craft.