skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that Adult Swim short for many reasons, but especially that blink-and-you'll-miss-it statement that trans women are, in fact, women.
Show HN: I'm challenging your clicking speed with this game I rebuilt
Hello HN,
last week, I stumbled over an old project of mine called Click The Number. I built it about six years ago to compare my clicking and reaction speed with that of my friends. The idea is simple – just click on the numbers in orders as fast as possible.

I couldn't resist and rebuilt a lot of parts again, making them a bit nicer. I updated the design and added some features like a personal high score. It lets you keep track of your own best time (which makes it ever so _slightly_ more addictive).

I'm curious what you think about it, and if you have any ideas where I could take it. Have fun!

I wish you a great day,
Marc

PS: btw it's much harder on desktop. What's your personal high score?
And what about when they take the government money and start doing innovative work, then once the funding dries up they realize that bitcoin mining is more profitable after all and promptly switch back to that. That's the problem with putting public good in the hands of private entities who have their next quarterly report to worry about and not much else.
Soyuz MS-22 coolant leak
The "you can't lean out of your window to hand over your paperwork" is an actual problem.

I would like to believe that the Tesla UX team did field research before doing their cab design, but it sounds like they might be graduates of the Jony Ive School of Design.
Exactly! UX/Pipelines/Integrations are the next logical step. It's my belief that samples will essentially be 'free' very soon. We will see DAW plugins/integrations that contextually offer samples to the composer. I'm confident in this because that's what I'm working on.
You are a living legend! :-)

> I have one native ad on my site,

Here https://contractrates.fyi ?
Modern SW developers don't want to fix bugs. They want to write features.

Having bugs looks bad for PR. So they hide those under Newspeak.

And shipping improvements with bug fixes was always a recipe for disaster.
An AI capable of deciphering some of the JIRA tickets I see at work would make even the most advanced fictional AI quake in their digital boots...
Can‘t you see that your statement is just as silly or even more?

Have you actually looked into CS deeply? Obviously not. (I‘m not saying this cannot also be true for music, which I don‘t know.)
What you described is exactly why I'm waiting to install more automation in my home. I think Matter + Homekit (assuming Apple continues to work on Homekit as it's still pretty clunky for me UX-wise) will eventually be the solution for me as I'm already so deep in that Apple ecosystem.

If you've watched Linus Tech Tips videos recently, there's hours of content covering his Z-Wave woes. It's funny, his house is supposed to be automated but it ends up eating significantly more of his time in debugging than a manual house would.
I did my time in the peer review trenches trying to give constructive feedback and reproduce results, only for editors to stop asking me to review or saying "don't waste this much time on this"
School of Quant: At $29,000, a Public NYC College Outclasses Princeton
I did try a few, and they were deleted from archive.org :/

So a picture of a link, of a deleted tweet, you have to access via Internet Archive, that's also deleted.

You know links are usually click and go, not transcribe, click, go back, go to Internet Archive and try there. Then do some internet sleuthing.
Deep pocketed rich guy threatening a cannot afford a law suit average guy.
Because the risk of e.g. dying of myocarditis from the virus still exceeds the risk of dying of myocarditis from the vaccine.

It's good to point that out, but the first term needs to be multiplied by the chance of getting the virus.
Yes, but in a few years we have to reevaluate this, probably language models are going to be good enough to allow a PM to replace devs. AIs will code at superhuman level because it is possible to test code, it will learn like AlphaGo learned from self-play.
First human trials test light and sound therapy for Alzheimer's disease
Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica, a twenty-minutes-into-the-future ecothriller, is much recommended reading for anyone who'd like to know more about McMurdo, the South Pole Station, and about the history of Antarctica's exploration and its geography and ecology. As is usually the case, KSR has definitely done his homework. (Disclaimer: you might fall in love with Antarctica, or at least develop a serious crush, as a result of reading this novel.)
but it is somewhat suggestive of absence.
https://archive.vn/6AqOZ
He doesn't care. He's hoping the threat of a lawsuit is scary enough. The guy should start a fund raiser. Maybe they could preempt this by suing Musk first and get a nice liberal judge. The advantage Musk would have by suing first is finding a corrupt Trump-appointed district.
The idea that artists can be automated away is really just kind of dumb, not because people like AI created art and can get it cheap, but because it has no real impact on the "whole point" of the art... for the creation of the art. Pure art, as human expression, has no dependency on money. Anecdotally I very much enjoy painting and music (and coding) as art forms but have never sold a painting nor a song in my life. Just because someone won't pay you for something doesn't mean it has no value.

As far as money goes... long run artists will still make money fine as people will value the people generated (artisanal) works. Just as people like hand-made stuff today, even though you can get machine-made stuff way cheaper. You may not have the generic jobs of cranking out stuff for advertisements (and such) but you'll still have artists.
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This is a spot where inference doesn't work, but has the same problem as the relatively tame example you used.

The solution here is not to eliminate the type signatures. The solution is not to wait until compile time to figure out the type of a thing. Nominal typing, as in named types, is the solution here. If you have a 'thing', which also happens to be an application.someHierarchy.someLongAssPackage.someLongThing implements application.someHierarchy.someLongAssPackage.someInterface, anotherLongAssDefinitionForTheReturnTypes but that's an implementation detail, not a type description.

It's an Address, or a customer impression, or a similar product, or a fuel tank. Just fucking call it what it is instead of pretending like you're working on your PhD thesis. Your coworkers aren't robots, or academics, they're human beings who've got real work to do and kissing your architectural astronaut butt/complementing your farts are not on the list. Name things like a human. A wise human, but a human.
Note that this model is not able to write code.

Prompt: "Write a C program to RSA encrypt a string."

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Compare text-davinci-003:

#include <stdio.h>
#include<math.h>

// Utility function to find GCD of 'a'
// and 'b'
int gcd(int a, int b)
{
if (a == 0)
return b;
return gcd(b % a, a);
}

// Function to find Modular Multiplicative
// Inverse of 'a' under modulo 'm'
int modInverse(int a, int m)
{
a = a % m;
for (int x = 1; x < m; x++)
if ((a * x) % m == 1)
return x;
}

// Function to compute a/b under modulo m
int modDivide(int a, int b, int m)
{
a = a % m;
int inv = modInverse(b, m);
return (inv * a) % m;
}

// Function to calculate (a^b)%c
long long int power(int a, int b, int c)
{
int res = 1;
a = a % c;
while (b > 0)
{
if (b & 1)
res = modDivide(res * a, 1, c);
b = b >> 1;
a = modDivide(a * a, 1, c);
}
return res;
}

// C function for extended Euclidean Algorithm
int gcdExtended(int a, int b, int x, int y)
{
if (a == 0)
{
x = 0;
y = 1;
return b;
}
int x1, y1;
int gcd = gcdExtended(b%a, a, &x1, &y1);
x = y1 - (b/a) x1;
y = x1;

return gcd;

}

// Function to generate public and private
// keys
void generateKeys(int p, int q, int e,
int d, int n)
{
// n = pq
n = p * q;

// Computing phi(n) = (p-1)*(q-1)
int phi = (p - 1) * (q - 1);

// Choose an integer e such that
// e and phi(n) are co-prime
*e = 2;
while (*e < phi)
{
if (gcd(*e, phi)==1)
break;
else
++*e;
}

// Compute d such that it satisfies
// d*e = 1 + k * phi(n)
int k = 2; // Fixed value
*d = (1 + (k * phi))/ *e;

}

// Encryption Function
long int RSA_Encrypt(int msg, int e, int n)
{
// Cipher Text c = (msg ^ e) % n
long int c = power(msg, e, n);

return c;

}

// Decryption Function
long int RSA_Decrypt(int c, int d, int n)
{
// Message msg = (c ^ d) % n
long int msg = power(c, d, n);

return msg;

}

// Driver program
int main()
{
// Two random prime numbers
int p = 3;
int q = 7;

// Message to be encrypted
int msg = 15;

// Encryption key (e, n)
int e, d, n;

// Calculate n and phi
generateKeys(p, q, &e, &d, &n);

// Encryption
long int c = RSA_Encrypt(msg, e, n);
printf("Encrypted message is: %d\n", c);

// Decryption
long int m = RSA_Decrypt(c, d, n);
printf("Original Message is: %d\n", m);

return 0;
}
As I read it, the HN title is an incorrect summary. The title is "Launch of the Newborn Genomes Programme" and the text says it's for information gathering, not for actual sequencing:

> Genomics England is to receive funding from the government to gather data and evidence on the effectiveness, and potential ways of implementing, whole genome sequencing to find and treat rare genetic diseases in babies. ... Since 2021, Genomics England has been co-designing this NHS embedded research study which will build on the UK’s strengths in genomic infrastructure and expertise to determine whether, and how, sequencing should be implemented in newborns.

It's kind of hard to have a full democratic debate without information, yes?

The linked-to "expert reaction to launch of the newborn whole genome sequencing pilot programme" shows some of the existing debate. I think you would like the comment of Prof Angus Clarke, Clinical Professor, Institute of Cancer & Genetics at Cardiff University, which includes:

> “This debate should be happening openly and publicly, with a decision made after that rather than it being imposed from above, as seems to be habitual for NHSE and GEL policies. ...

> 3) “Unfortunately, the pilot programme of NS by WGS that is being launched is a pilot for the lab aspects and the bioinformatics; it is not in any sense a pilot of how the programme would operate if it came in as standard across the NHS. ...

> 5) To place such extra demands on the NHS just now, when the NHS is failing more and more blatantly to cope with the demands it already faces, would be clearly unprofessional and wrong.

Yeah, I agree that it feels like it's a "look at all the cool analysis we can do with this data."
This is just insane. Sooooo incredible. Don't really realize how far things have come until it hits a domain you're extremely familiar with. Spent 8-9 in music production and the transition stuff blew me away.
Humans have existed for close to 200,000 years. Who we ‘are’ is nothing close to what we have today. What humans actually are is an invasive species capable of subjugating nature to fit its needs. I want to just push that further and subjugate nature with automation that can feed us and manufacture worthless plastic and metal media consumption devices for us.

Your diatribe about not caring about humans is ironic. I don’t know where you got all that from, but it certainly wasn’t my previous comment.

I also don’t know what pact you’re on about. The idea of working for survival is used to exploit people for their labor. I guess people with disabilities that aren’t able to work just aren’t human? Should we let them starve to death since they can’t work a 9-5 and work for their food?
Or just a live (remote) programming interview, with no use of Codex or Copilot.
Paying all your family members $200k a year until the end of time has a much lower tax liability than taking a billion dollars of income in one year.
We're lucky he cares about that. Being unashamed is the new fashion since Trump (or before that even) and the next president may care very little about the business pages...
Air conditioners are already pretty efficient, so you're not going to get huge wins there.

But solar-powered air conditioning could be a huge win. You can avoid the DC-AC-DC conversion losses, and avoid any impact on the grid. Most people without air conditioning would be quite happy with air conditioning that only works while the sun is shining.
Here's the thing: We're all a failure in most areas of life. Really.

I'm not good at fixing cars, or running marathons, or doing woodwork, or soldering, or cooking, or art, or fashion, or yardwork, or interacting with kids.

I'm not good at most jobs. There are something like 50,000 different job categories, and it keeps going up, and I am no good at almost all of them.

Just keep looking. There's something you'll be good at - in fact, better than most people. (You've got a job? Start by looking around at what other people do there. See if there's a way that you can try it for a bit. It's always better to get paid for your looking.)
NFT. - Nuts for Trump
I think today he/she learned an important lesson for his/her career: there are things more difficult than the epitome, the apogee, the quintessence of professions, called computer science.
Again, it depends on the level. Maybe you took trivial CS courses. Many parts of CS are indistinguishable from mathematics, is that so easy as well? What about the various open problems that have remained unsolved for decades now in theoretical CS? You think these are simpler than music? Really?
This works until it leads to politicians asking for grand juries to investigate anyone associated with the vaccine.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/13/ron-desantis...
Bird SQL, a Twitter search interface that translates natural language into SQL
As one of the meatsacks whose job you're about to kill... eh, I got nothin, it's damn impressive. It's gonna hit electronic music like a nuclear bomb, I'd wager.
chatGPT seems amazing at taking corrections, iterating on the requirements, fixing as it goes. So the badly-specified requests are going to be sorted out by multiple rounds of interaction.
This isn't true and you are also probably confusing energy and electricity

Edit: wow, since I'm receiving instant downvotes, here's the evidence.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
It is obvious to anyone with even a passing interest in American law that a statute that has already been struck down twice is unlikely to survive a third challenge. Whoever doesn't understand that has a bunch of Wikipedia pages to read before discussing anti-SLAPP laws.
I think the human need to feel useful, or to produce something is more sociological than a base human need.

When/if that becomes an issue, if social rejection was not a consequence of not being productive more people would be okay with simply participating in things for their own sake.

For example, I don’t play Stardew Valley because I want to be the most elite virtual farmer.
"an unauthorized seller on Amazon was selling poor-quality counterfeits of the map and even though it wasn’t his fault, Tavis offered to replace any of the crappy maps for free." what a nice gesture!
We need a better way to reward the contributing artists making the diffusion models possible. Might we be able to come up with a royalty model, where the artist that made the original source content used in training the diffusion model, gets a fractional royalty based on how heavily it is used when generating the prompted art piece? We want to incentivize artists to feed their works, and original styles, into future AI models.
I wrote the original article they're basing this on. I kinda wish they would've linked my article directly in their post (although they linked the original HN thread). Especially since this post basically just reskinned mine for SEO and missed some important substance IMO.

https://www.bedelstein.com/post/mcmaster-carr
I happened to stumble across this [0], on the effectiveness of a third covid vaccination for 18-29 year olds, while looking for recent (omicron) studies quantifying how well vaccines keep people out of hospitals, and thought I'd pass it along:

> To prevent one COVID-19 hospitalisation over a 6-month period, we estimate that 31207–42836 young adults aged 18–29 years must receive a third mRNA vaccine. Booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm: per COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented, we anticipate at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines, including 1.5–4.6 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalisation). We also anticipate 1430–4626 cases of grade ≥3 reactogenicity interfering with daily activities (although typically not requiring hospitalisation). University booster mandates are unethical because they: (1) are not based on an updated (Omicron era) stratified risk-benefit assessment for this age group; (2) may result in a net harm to healthy young adults; (3) are not proportionate: expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission; (4) violate the reciprocity principle because serious vaccine-related harms are not reliably compensated due to gaps in vaccine injury schemes; and (5) may result in wider social harms. We consider counterarguments including efforts to increase safety on campus but find these are fraught with limitations and little scientific support.

As an fyi, I also bumped into stats saying that it was something like 5-6 times less likely for vaccinated people to end up in the hospital (although most people who end up in the hospital are elderly), and vaccinations seem to confer only 15% benefit against long covid. I was hoping to find something breaking hopsitalization down by age and comorbidities in addition to vaccination status, but have had no luck so far.

[0] https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/05/jme-2022-108449
If you can remove the hard drive you could probably copy data to it directly, including drivers for a PCMCIA ethernet card.
Not gonna lie, I spent an entertaining hour bathing in the angry tears of some especially loyal Trump influencers this morning. Sometimes you just have to let people lick the frozen pole.
Vaccination has only limited and temporary effects in reducing the risk of transmission. I would encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated but this does very little to prevent it from spreading in society.

https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2116597
>For it to be a reasonable choice to not want to take the vaccine wouldn't you need to balance the risk of death / complications from the vaccine against the risk of death / complications from covid multiplied by the risk of getting covid?

a huge chunk of the population already got covid during the entire year no vaccine existed and have natural immunity, so that's not really a factor at this point. The risk of getting covid for them is already baked into the calculation because they got it when there was no other option. They can now decide whether the additional risk of the vaccine is worth it

you can't even make the case for mandates based on "stopping the spread" anymore because the vaccines failed at that as well, so it's no longer a public health issue and becomes a personal health decision. Or at least it should be
> The problem is the massive leaps of logic being made by people who have (quite wrongly, based on available evidence) become convinced that the vaccines are a greater threat to healthy people than the virus is.

In some cases, it may well be true that the vaccine is a greater risk than the virus. For example, in Australia, the official recommendation is that healthy people under 30 not receive a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine, since Australian health officials believe the risk from vaccine side effects (such as myocarditis) in that age group outweighs the risk of COVID-19 itself. [0] Furthermore, for healthy people in the 30-49 age group, the official Australian position on fourth doses is "permitted but not recommended", since it is unclear if the risk of COVID-19 is greater than that of the vaccine. This is different from the recommendations made by a number of other countries (US, UK, Canada, Singapore), but it appears Australian health authorities weigh the risk of vaccination side effects versus the risk of COVID-19 differently than they do.

[0] https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-you-won-t-get-another-co...
> McMaster is also better for wandering the aisles than Amazon! Just hop onto a catalog page, and see related item after item.

It’s all fun and games until you get blocked for viewing too many pages. Been a few years since I needed to use them but that was always super annoying.
Originally I kinda got the back and forth argument. Now I'm out of excuses to sit on the fence, this isn't the walled garden I want to participate in. I smell him in the corner.
Pg newbie here, first time I'm reading about this. Super useful for internal tools indeed!

Could you point me to any tools or resources on achieving that (pulling data from several external databases into a single one for the purpose of analytics/aggregation)?
Well... the awkward part about this is right now, it is now the opposite problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/opinion/environment/covid...

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20221127/more-vaccinated-peo...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/vaccinate...
Who cares? That's the point of an integrated editor...
https://archive.vn/DJLuC
As mentioned in another comment, most (if not all) of this can be handled by a shell. For example, I use fish, and with it I get highlights and visual autocomplete (with gray text, and explanations of what commands do).
Probably better to link the original Twitter thread instead of an "article" that just reprints it, intercut with ads and the "writer" telling you what the tweet he's about to copy-paste is going to say. https://twitter.com/TOrynski/status/1600968577246711808

Also, the number of people replying with variations on "you're just scared of change, you don't understand good design, being a trucker doesn't qualify you to comment on truck design" is really alarming.
Now 83, she supposedly remains active in music, but is still an elusive figure who fiercely protects her work...

Her self-imposed seclusion is a cautionary tale for us today, something that she admitted in the 1979 People interview. “The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent,” she said. “There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life.”

It's really hard to say how things might have gone had we taken some other path and she remains a reclusive figure. Some things are intractable problems, like it or not. (And I definitely don't like how hard the world makes it for trans individuals.)
I'm fond of http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe...

Unfortunately the finnish latin-language news service has shut down.

Edit: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicipaedia:Pagina_prima
The conversation isn't about you or your hobby, it's about professional artists and illustrators, who are already being automated away by AI.
My experience was: Most papers are not useful for patents. Corporate funding might require a pre-publication review for patent worthyness, and if it is there, it is applied for before publication.

Most researchers I knew had little interest in patents, so non-corporate funded papers got published without patent considerations. When it came up, it was a before-you-publish-think-about-it topic.