skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. I've sometimes dreamed of leaving clinical medicine to pursue a career helping integrate some "smart" helpers into EHR (ones designed to help physicians and patients instead of just billers and coders).

With 10 minutes and scikit-learn I can get pretty good test-set accuracy for length of stay based on pretty bare bones input (time of day, mode of arrival, age / sex, bigram / trigrams of chief complaint). Given access to vitals, labs, historical diagnoses, a provider's (and their colleagues') historical practices, and a little PyTorch / HF transformers I bet there would be some low hanging fruit for suggested diagnoses and quick pick orders. Could in some cases streamline getting to the same end result, in others possibly make recommendations to bring practice more in line with current recommendations or to prompt investigation into uncommon presentations or rare diseases.

And certainly would have some sharp edges and potential harm too. But based on HN reports of experiences with US medicine, seems like the potential upside may be worthwhile.
I remember this from back when the Valve employee handbook was released:

https://jgreaser.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/valves-t-shaped-mo...
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployee...

I've always wondered if they were the ones to come up with this or if it was taken from somewhere else?
> Winners and runners up for the past 15 world cups

The information your son has access to is outdated.
I've worked with a bunch of engineers, and while I respect and admire them tremendously, I'd not want to be lumped in with the kind of code they generally write. And don't get me started on the typical code a scientist writes!

Let the downvotes commence.

Edit: This is a gentle ribbing, but there really does seem to be a different approach in the philosophy of how to solve a problem. Engineers seem to eschew abstraction while software folks embrace is (sometimes to a fault). It's actually pretty fascinating.
So true.

I wish that C had a more rich way to define struct layouts and low-level representations for integral types.

I really like how Ada does it:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Representation...

If you need to read or write specialized hardware registers, being able to define a data structure with a custom representation is very nice and can save significant time and effort.
True, for the record I really like Forth and have had a go at implementing a forth like language interpreter (well maybe more than one go...). Getting it to be simple is not easy but it's really instructive to try.
People don't get that Free Speech is not about the content but the existence of the supreme court. The Supreme Court is the so called Free Speech. This is in comparison to the times of kings and emperors where just the mere act of questioning the king, even in thought (if refusing to immediately act according to instruction) would get you in trouble.
Of course it shouldn't be neutral on genocide, but it could simply refuse to have/give an opinion on certain contentious issues (like what tax rates should be or if there should be more or less immigration). I don't think it should take a "middle position" but should simply say it has no position at all on matters like these.
If it's possible for you to do what you're describing to your own IoT device, wouldn't it also be possible for you to do it to other people's laptops and phones that are on your Wi-Fi?
With a nutrient recovery system, bioreactors, for the fish sludge, we think that we can get close to not having any supplemental nutrients for the plants. It depends on the content of the fish feed, the groundwater used etc. Exactly how close to zero time will tell, we are seeing great potential. The key is that the nutrients need to exist in the system in the first place and when you harvest something, you take things out. How do you put what is needed back?

We see that a very large portion can be done with circular biological systems. We have been working to incorporate food waste via insects. We take allowed food waste and feed insect larvae. There are several teams in Sweden working on this together, with some government support.

I haven't seen the "fermented plant juice" before, but the principle is the same, let bacteria work on it.
Nvidia proprietary. Never was interested in battery life to be honest. However my Thinkpad P1 gen3 does last coding over 4h flights, can tell you that.
"Feminist" is a bit like "socialist", indeed some would argue it is a continuation of the same tradition. There's too many meanings and too many variations.

My mother was a feminist and I would not say I have views that contradict hers. There are certainly flavors of feminism which are more about empowerment of women which I would find no problem with.
I am admittedly more turned off by the oversexualization of today's culture (emphasizing relationships based primarily on sex), and blame all genders for this, but I do see a lot of proclaimed feminists today pushing these kinds of lifestyles, hence my comment.
I had PRK done in 2010 and still have 20/20 all these years later. Definitely a huge upgrade to my quality of life as I hated glasses/contact lenses.

I went with a high end clinic in NYC recommended by a colleague. They had weekly appointments for eye tests before and after the operation and I thought it was very carefully done. Also it's one eye at a time. So picking the right clinic/doc could be a factor.

I just wore sunglasses for a while and it was fine in 1-2 weeks.
That's sure, but I mean the "general adage", most current narrative is "specialized is good, cool, the way to go, nobody want to be generic, ..." while actually all rulers, broad leaders etc need to be generic.

To seems like keep crying "do not be rich! It's bad!" and now I see something I call a small reversing trends where more and more sources start stating "we need more generic/wildcard/T-shaped/$choose-a-label-not-to-say-generic-directly". I call it "a bit late, but still good".
The most common chronic diseases can be prevented effectively through proper diet, physical activity, and avoidance of toxins (substance abuse). This is not novel, it has been known for a long time. (Of course there are a minority of patients who just have bad genetics and will suffer from chronic diseases regardless of their lifestyle choices.)

AI technologies are already being applied to some phases of the drug development process. But the low-hanging fruit has mostly already been picked. The odds are low of AI ever finding a miracle drug that mimics the effects of good diet and exercise. The main bottleneck in drug development is phase-3 clinical trials, and AI can't help much with that.

As for AGI, we're not making any visible progress towards that goal. So don't count on it being available in our lifetimes.
He is being charged with conspiracy, securities fraud, and money laundering. Those are financial crimes. They are only "computer-based" in the sense that cryptocurrency is coded as "tech" and he ran a website. This is in contrast to something like malicious exploitation of computer systems and being charged under the CFAA.
i've read comments like this before on hackernews. Are the payment terms not on the contract signed? It seems like something you'd really want to understand before starting a project...
Let’s not put people on a pedestal. Being prolific at open source software doesn’t imply that somebody never procrastinates, or that they never just get an itch to make something that’s not driven by an immediate need.

Sindre Sorhus makes some amazing projects, but he’s still human.
That's a misread.

If I collect the dust from your car, I can (in abstract) place where it's been with 99% accuracy too. For example, I can pick of pollens, and sequence them down to a specific tree. That doesn't mean if it has pollens from one place or another that it's significant in any meaningful way, or that you can make statements about a car based on that.

Most of the differences we know about account for things like skin color (which, in turn depends on vitamin D versus cancer for a given latitude), local diseases immunity, and similar things. Some account for random things which have no impact on natural selection (e.g. aesthetic details like hair color or thickness).

We have no evidence for things related to personality, intelligence, or anything associated with classic constructs of race and racism. Given that we would expect beneficial mutations to have evolutionary pressure to spread around the world, it's unlikely that ones which matter would stay constrained to one region for extended periods.
PyPy v7.3.11: release of Python 2.7, 3.8, and 3.9
The best app for this task doesn't support it: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/56
What do you mean by "stable statutory definition"? Are you meaning to imply that they have removed subjectivity from identifying it? It seems like Germany's approach has the same problem that all others do, in that so-called "hate speech" is usually in the eye of the beholder, and so it's impossible to define or identify objectively.

The net result, of course, is inconsistency and absurdity (see e.g. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/erding/volksverhetzung-... for a recent example).
Consolidation by sending crypto to "a no KYC exchange based in the Seychelles"?
> How you would you feel about an electric company that sent you an invoice and wanted to be paid daily

This would be trivial via Direct Debit.
It’s a lot more clear if you use EDI to transact with trading partners
You talk about how categories that "seem like sensible" ones get "spun around" too much for politics.

So are you promoting no restrictions whatsoever? How close to violence do you want to allow? How allowable is a specific threat before it is actionable? How much intimidation is allowed to influence "free" action in your mind in the name of preserving "free speech" before it has too high a cost of preventing "free action"? How does something like fraud, or the slippier forms of it called "false advertising" or "hype" fit in?

We cannot be so paranoid about potential future government harms to us that we overlook the immediate dangers of current and ongoing harms done person-to-person.

If you extended the same level of paranoia to other abuses, you'd end up abolishing the police and any other sort of government body that could be abused as well... yet very few of us would choose that world. No world will be free of harm, free of crime, free of abuse of power - we must simply try to minimize their occurrence in practice vs trying to fit things into a slogan.
> This paper is not even using GPT-3.5, it's using PaLM.

Where are you getting this?

From the excerpt:

"We set out to investigate whether GPT-3.5 (Codex and InstructGPT) can be applied to answer and reason about difficult real-world-based questions"

I am going to be repeating that ChatGPT cannot classify popular animals correctly as many times as needed. I've been using the app daily and it's quite frequently factually wrong about many other topics, too (for example, programming, or history).
Well yeah, the German constitution doesn’t guarantee an absolute right to freedom of speech. There is a clause to the effect of “These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws”

In the USA, however, freedom of speech is an absolute right. There are some narrow limitations (Libel, Calls to Violence), however the legislature does not have the power to add limits without a constitutional amendment, which requires a super-majority.
> when the prices/etc don't line up

Actually, that does have me confused as to how this could happen. Was the coffee quoted per case or per bag? And when the order came in per "unit", how did they not notice that price was 6x higher than it should have been?
I agree with the fundamental data/measurement bottleneck. Humans should likely concentrate our effort on scaling and democratizing this, physical, side of the equation.

Still, given the apparent usefulness of basic unaided visual analysis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK330/ I expect the upcoming multimodal language models to provide a tangible enhancement to diagnosis accuracy, if we allow them to see the photos of the patient.
Social discouragement is often more effective than legal.

The 'n' word is mostly stopped by social means.
Eric Schmidt ultimately failed to revitalize them in spite of best efforts. But Noorda and Bob Frankenberg have to share at least some of the blame as well--as does a whole lot of internal politics. Novell basically managed to go essentially nowhere through the 1990s while Windows NT was maturing.
> But the general wisdom is to always try to take maximum advantage.

While in Japan everything is paid up front because this is what is culturally appropriate.
> Publishing research is pretty normal for traditional companies.

Published research is "open" to the extent that it is transparent but it is not "open" to the extent that it can be used and accessed by people. Unless you are an AI researcher, half these papers (to be generous) might as well not exist.

My argument is from that perspective (ability for the average person to use it), academic research only gives the illusion of openness.

Not only that but the training data is often -- but not always -- omitted from academic research. So reproducing the exact results they did is often out of reach without a significant investment in building your own collection of training data.

For example: Facebook and Google have both announced similar technology to OpenAI yet neither is usable out of the box (or at all for practical purposes) where as OpenAI despite being "closed" I can get started in 5 minutes.

Take by contrast to both of those, Stable Diffusion. Which I think is miles ahead of DALL-E... their code and their pre-trained weights are very easy to use as well as being open.
Phoenix 1.7 is View-less
They should put energy labels on programming languages. It’s convenient to use Python, but a waste of cpu cycles
That's cool!

I was specifically talking about the carpenter use case.
Can I use styled components with Tamagui?
Not to be insensitive, but it always interested me that idea of serial-killers/murders (or better put methodical killers or spree killers), abruptly stopped at the end of the 80's and early 90's. They were such a cultural phenomena during their time.

I'm sure the human nature that drove those things hasn't stopped... if anything it's probably gotten worse with the advent of the internet.
New Contactless ECG Continuously Monitors the Heart
It's the other way around I've found for a lot of the automotive industry. Most of the big automotive companies try to keep their suppliers a hop and a skip away from not being able to keep the lights on in borderline debt bondage to the auto manufacturer. Puts them in a much better negotiating position and makes sure that the profits go to the auto manufacturer rather than their suppliers.

That was half the reason for the chip shortage. Auto manufacturers collectively (and incorrectly) forecast a decline in demand in cars during the pandemic, cancelled a bunch of orders for chips and a bunch of the suppliers went under. Then started offering 10x-20x for replacement chips from their few remaining suppliers (that pretty much all went to buying out wafer slots that would have been non-automotive chips) to keep a $35k car not being able to be shipped for the lack of a $0.30 part.
So I’d sell products to my customers (say bags of coffee) and then 30 days later come by their house (charge their credit card) to collect?

This is a terrible idea. Half of the people wouldn’t have the money and your company would become a debt collection agency. You’d be forced to charge at least 3X for the product.
Invasive treatments should be signed off by a real person for the time being.
CoreOS (and its spiritual successor Flatcar) are immutable, which gravely limits the silliness that can be done to them post-launch. We use now use Bottlerocket since we're on EKS, but it's even more locked down since to even get an interactive shell is some major hoopjumpery. I believe Talos goes even further and is completely devoid of a shell

So, yes, it absolutely matters which OS you use, of course depending on your threat model and tolerance for "no, you don't get to ssh onto a Node and do whateverthehell you want"
Tell me a region in the world which couldn't do with more competent leadership. :)
On the gpu side there is no "x86 duopoly" and the situation is arguably worse than cpus. So that's probably not it.
English Houses
Thank you for saying that. I personally always found it confusing that people at some point simply say 'I am done learning anything new' as if their current model of the world is already perfect. I might understand there is a physical memory limit, but I sincerely doubt it is even scratched for most people.

I understand the evolutionary underpinnings for it ( 'what I did got me this far did it not?' ), but it is still not a great excuse for a conscious being.
1. Make a plan 2. Procrastinate 3. Forget the Plan

https://www.instagram.com/digitallybaffled/?hl=en is amazing.
We want to ban speech today that was considered acceptable 60 years ago; and the things we celebrate today are things people wanted to ban or censor 60 years ago.

You can’t have it both ways: if you want to speak freely about what you care about, you have to let the people you hate speak freely too. Over the last 100 years, it has done far more good than harm to let people express themselves
Agreed! I think one useful direction to take this debate is to admit that in order for you or me to interact with the tool we need to have a mental model of the tool (so we have some idea of how to interact with it).

So which mental model is superior when evaluated under the criterion of "ability to interact productively with the tool"? (a) It's just statistics / stringing together phrases from the internet or (b) it's more like a human brain with vastly superior general knowledge?

Personally, I would put money on (b) resulting in better interactions. This is probably something we could study empirically.

But ultimately I don't really care that much about the philosophical issues, my mental model of it (a more nuanced version of b) has enabled me to use it productively almost every day to do things that I couldn't do before.
I did PRK about 10 years ago.

Recovery was interesting. They tell you vision is gonna be rough for a few days, but right after surgery vision is perfect and you think you got lucky. Nope.

I basically laid in bed for about 24 to 36 hours straight, lights off, curtains closed. I remember waking, looking at the ceiling fan and how blurry it was, then falling back asleep.

By day 2 I think it was I ventured out to watch TV and even at the lowest brightness it was blinding. I had to wear sunglasses.

I started work day 4 or 5 and had to increase the size of everything. I specifically remember that - and = looked identical, which makes code very interesting to read.

I guess by day 7 to 10 my vision was perfect, or at least, better than it was before. Any improvement past that would have been incremental. Sorry I don't have more concrete dates, I actually kept a detailed journal but lost it along the way.

I feel like my night vision took a small hit, but that could just be age. My eyes are light sensitive, but they always have been. But we're talking like, full Florida sun on white pavement. Looking at a screen doesn't make my eyes feel blinded.

Lemme know if you have any questions I can help with.

Side note: My wife got LASIK a few years back. Her recovery time was way less, and could see much better with a day or two. Her only problem was dry eyes that seemed to last a few months, but that went away too.

If I had to do it again, I'm not sure what I'd pick. After seeing how quick and painless LASIK is, I may go that route. I'm of the opinion that any force strong enough to 'rip open your flap' is going to cause eye injury one way or another.
> gave me a long lecture about why we didn't work with that industry.

Automotive? That has big automotive energy.
Back in the 90s, my brothers and I had our screen time limited by egg timers. 30 minutes a day normally, 60 if our grades were good, 0 if our grades were poor. This was for games/TV, computer time spent on school work or other research was not included.

This was not common at the time, most of my friends had unlimited screentime, a few of them had to abide by rules similar to mine. Also, the computer was a big thing in the middle of the living room, not something I could slip into my pocket. So auditing for rule compliance was a lot easier. And the three of us shared one computer for most of that time, so if anybody was cheating the timer and taking more time, the odds of being ratted out were pretty good.

In retrospect I think the rules were worthwhile, because they kept me active outdoors. And because in college I got to see the damage video game addiction can do to some people. It's like alcohol in that most people can enjoy it fine but a substantial minority ruin their lives with it. Parents would be very careless to not place reasonable limits on how much alcohol their children drink each day.
> and it is perfectly possible to create a stable statutory definition of hate speech

Doesn't sound like it. If the washington post is saying you're going too far in this category, there's a good chance you've already gone off the deep end

> The raid Wednesday came a little over three months after he replied to a tweet from Andy Grote, the interior and sports minister for the city of Hamburg, describing him as a “pimmel.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/13...
>In other words, the First Amendment recognizes that the government cannot regulate “hate speech” without inevitably silencing the dissent and dialogue that democracy requires

While I'm all for debates about the pros and cons of more or less permissive speech policies, sentences like this always betray the quasi religious nature of American speech attitudes. Many of the oldest democracies in the world work perfectly fine and do not follow this line of thinking.

It would probably be worthwhile to have a much more empirical approach, trying to actually measure what the impact of prohibiting certain speech is. How many people are unduly silenced, how much intended harm is prevented, and so on. Because statements like:

"It is quite clear that the perceived benefits of censoring psychically harmful hate speech are far outweighed by the costs of such suppression."

aren't clear at all. We often don't know because these are really not evidence driven claims. In our information age there should be a rigorous science on how moderation of speech impacts networks and it deserves fairly high priority.
I'm happy they were able to move their stock, but yeah. Something got signed with these terms in it. So you need to account for the possibility or have it renegotiated.

This sounds like the business equivalent of college advisors. They had an advisor who was probably well meaning but couldn't fully accommodate the young company because of ignorance/inability/whatever and now they're deep in a decision they never would have made.

$5-10k in a decent retainer would likely have prevented this.
Not chatGPT
I shared some in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34183088
That was a cool bit of insight. That there is someone to talk about an obscure subject on demand is pretty cool.
... the crime revolved around use of computers and incentivizing people to fund and use his FTX computer based "exchange." It seems like a hard stretch to not consider it computer based.