skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as HIPAA is concerned health information is pretty much anything associated with a patient and a provider.

Correction:

As far as HIPAA is concerned protected health information is health information associated with a patient and held by covered entities, including providers, insurers, clearing-houses, and business partners acting on behalf of other covered entities.

Particularly, health information “associated with a patient and provider” but held by someone other than a covered entity is not PHI. Particularly, any information you provide about your health and care to anyone who is not your insurer, your health care provider (and online wellness services aren’t health care providers), or a business partner acting on their behalf is not PHI.
"Deprecate" is a great example of this. Everyone gets it wrong, but no one seems to care.

Deprecate means "to continue supporting but to discourage its use." 99% of people believe it means to end support.
How frequent are such hackers running such experiments in the general population? I'd say you have better odds having your house robbed and smart TV stolen.
I didn't think anyone gave that sort of severance any longer in the US even for someone who has been at a place a middling long time.
Technically it's not, but your description is, because of the words "grid of dots", which means there's white space between the dots (as dots are circular), a necessary requirement for the Moiré effect. We see this in image sensors as well, where all photosites have a tiny amount of space between them.

Image resizing isn't a grid of dots, though. At the data level, pixels don't have space between each pixel to cause Moiré effects. Instead, interpolation of the colors leads to patterns similar to, but distinct from, the Moiré effect.

The Moiré effect is "not really there" in that it's a perceptual effect: you can reproduce it with an SVG with the same dot pattern on two layers, and transforming one of them a little. A human observer will "see" patterns that aren't actually there, and as you zoom in the effect disappears (if you're now thinking "because it's on a monitor!", then no: it's not. The same is true for two physical transparencies with the same dot pattern placed slightly shifted on an old school projector, and then changing the zoom on the projector)

Antialiasing is a data property: it can result from lossy interpolating of pixels to a new grid, and is there no matter how much you zoom in because zooming in on a pixel doesn't change its color.

The confusion comes from talking about Moiré patterns on grid based displays. Those will "lock in" or even intensify the effect, but they don't cause the effect.
Can you share more? With Middleware, you can run any arbitrary code to control routing: https://twitter.com/nextjs/status/1610663442825854980. And with the `app` directory (beta), we're reimagining the Next.js routing system from the ground up: https://beta.nextjs.org/docs/routing/fundamentals.
This is hotly debated in the natural sciences also. Big difference is that the core body of knowledge in, say, botany or ornithology, doesn't change that much over time. Unlike technology, which changes all the time.

"On-demand learning" is apps like iNaturalist and eBird. Folks are asking "What is this?" basically in a knowledge vacuum. It's good that people are curious. But learning the overall taxonomy over time, from combined classroom and fieldwork, makes it a much much richer experience.

Not sure this translates 100% to CS concepts. But I do understand the point being made in the article. Thanks for sharing.
Did you double check the results? I know, it's no longer quick then, but you can't be sure that it didn't straight up lie to you.
USB: the standard they managed to make even less fun to learn about than reading three volumes on tax law.
A battery may have a limited number of charging-recharging cycles. So depleting the charge obviously decreases this number, and thus battery life.

Lenovo ThinkPads also have been known for their good batteries.
Is the modal hotkey system public code?
Knowledge base for dev teams -- a problem we all have.

I almost built a potential solution to this problem years ago but backed out. I'd love to see a solution that sticks, and to be wrong about this, but it feels very much like a Tarpit problem to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIawSAygO4
Lets say today you printed out a number of human made artworks and a number of AI made artworks and put them in a vault that would last 10,000 years. There are no obvious distinguishable marks saying which is which.

Then tomorrow there is a nuclear war and humanity is devastated and takes thousands of years to rebuild itself for one reason or another.

Now, those future humans find your vault and dig up the art are they somehow going to intrinsically know that AI did some of them? Especially in the case that they don't have computing technologies like we do? No, not at all. They are going to assign their own feeling and views depending on the culture they developed and assign rather random feelings to whatever they were thinking we were doing at the time. We make up context.
> the pay will be worse.

iPhone factory workers in China get paid more than field workers in China. The same will be true in America.

> iPhone a lot more expensive.

Yeah, so what? There's plenty of slack in the wasteful consumption habits we've developed generally, and with phones specifically. If an iphone becomes twice as expensive, then simply compensate by buying one half as frequently. Instead of wastefully buying new phone every year because you've just got to have the latest trendy fashion gadget, buy a new one every ten years. As consumer expectations shift, so will the products. Instead of thin and disposable phones to chase fashion trends, we'll get robust and serviceable phones if that is what people come to demand.
> "I don't think it's healthy for a society to rely on large pharmaceutical companies."

Fixed it for you. There were so many kind ways that you could have phrased your statement; please avoid inflammatory comments.
The paper hedges its bets on a rather lower bar for the definition of life.

By which definition, prions would likely be considered to be alive. But I think the consensus is that prions aren't alive, and are just self-replicating proteins.
Sure, but we're talking about artists starving for their art and not artists starving because capitalism. Similar conversations, but not the same.
> There's not a single doctor's office or hospital I'm aware of that is HIPAA compliant

That mirrors my experience.

My GP has a sign-in sheet at the receptionist's desk where you have to write your name when you arrive. They put a single line through your name when you're checked in.

Worse, it's usually a notebook that's just turned to a new page every day. If you grabbed that notebook you'd have a list of everyone who visited that office for the past month or so, complete with dates and times.
I'd be interested in the longer trend (which I assume it also upward). But it would behoove us all to never use 2020-22 as examples of any larger trends, for obvious reasons.
Curious if you're explored the new `app` directory (beta), which includes a new routing system in Next.js? Open to feedback: https://beta.nextjs.org/docs/routing/fundamentals
Globalism isn't dead. It has just diminished slightly from its height in 2007-9 after the global economic collapse, which should be called a double dip recession first in 2007 and again in 2013. It has gone from 60 percent of the world's trade to 55%. Not exactly the end.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/how-globalization-4-0...
As does yours. But you are using an economic trick to hide it from yourself. See the "Save More Tomorrow" plan by Nobel Laureate Thaler and Sunstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book)#cite_ref-21

It is not really different from whether the company pays for your office space, laptop, and health care, or makes you pay for those out of pocket.
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Eh, I kinda doubt your typical startup is going to sprout up and compete with FAANG. They could, and some will, but that shouldn't be the goal. I think people forget that 25-50 mil arr businesses are small potatoes to megacorps but can happily and gainfully employ lots of workers. Getting into a market that is big enough to pay the bills but small enough to not attract attention is a good place to live.

And hell, if you need ideas just look at the businesses that the megacorps discard because they're only million dollar ideas and not billion.
Sure, if we roll out some sort of socialized medical coverage. At least for my family, stability of medical coverage is a major impediment to changing jobs.
One of the linked resources in the article is a great high-level overview of how Stable Diffusion works:

https://stable-diffusion-art.com/how-stable-diffusion-work/

It’s a quick read and I found it very helpful.
Could the same also be done for Postgre?
Hope it's a good fit for the competitions! You can create timelines with up to 10 events for free, so it should be more than enough for that purpose.
No, not at all. ChatGPT is trained on the same source information, but when you ask a question there's no guarantee it's answer is directly from an actual source, it's always a newly generated "thought".

Google is a photocopier. It gives you an exact copy of what it finds. Google doesn't create, just references and links to original sources.

Google is a library, but not an author.

ChatGPT is an author, but not a library.

However, ChatGPT has read every book in the library, so when you ask a question it writes you a story from it's memory based on what it thinks* you want. ChatGPT can write stories about books in the library, and it will probably be right (but maybe not).

*Remember the game Plinko from Price is Right? Basically ChatGPT takes your question, drops all the words through its super complicated plinko machine (neural network) and gives you the result.

If you ask it for the names of US presidents, it should give you the same answer as Google - even though it came up with it via the plinko method.

If you ask it for a story about a singing rock, the process is the same as the presidents list. It drops your request into the network and gives you the result. It's not smart, just wildly complicated. It's also never going to be a photocopier (but it might act like one for certain inputs).

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The brain breaking part is that when you ask ChatGPT for...

"Write me a song about a singing rock"

It changes each word into a number-token, then those number-tokens go through the plinko machine. The result is a different set of number-tokens which it converts back to readable words. Inside ChatGPT it doesn't "know" anything. Rock is a number. Singing is a number. Write is a number.

But it knows the relationships between those numbers, and what other numbers are nearby the area of the network devoted to songs, so it pulls in words and related concepts like a human would.

But it's just numbers with no understanding.

Because it's numbers and not understanding, it can be wrong, either completely or subtly.

Edit: Asking for the list of us presidents has "David D. Eisenhower (1849-1850)" as number 12 (who isn't a person who was ever president). The rest look right, but ChatGPT is subtlety wrong in this case.
Do you need agreeing replies? You can do this with upvotes without ML. I wonder if HN does something like this (shadow modding is already used).
I was arguing the opposite, coordinated deployments already presumes more maturity than I was considering. I've only been at one company with same-day deployments. All the other places have been free-for-alls where each group determines their own release schedule, with their own pipelines. Managing deployments between dependent services thus requires significant coordination overhead (or none, because you are stuck with what you get until the other teams deliver your needs on their own timeline).

In chaotic environments like that, microservices help with defining clear ownership of operational responsibility, though at the cost of clear responsibility for the overall distributed system. This comes at the cost of making it hard to develop, let alone ship, changes that impact multiple microservices (outside the scope of a single team, or closely related sibling teams).

The main point I was making was that, with a more monolithic system, managing that kind to organization disfunction, necessitates top-down, waterfall like control. So moving to microservices enables non-coordinated agility removing one layer of coordination problem (a the cost of other problems).
It seems like we do in the threads about chatgpt hype. From what I’ve read every human can do advanced mathematics flawlessly and recall every nuance of every subject with perfect fidelity, write clearly and cogently, and it’s all managed through channeling ether and soul spirit fire through emotions that AIs and Vulcans can’t possess.
The statistically correct answer is not necessarily the true one (if there is such a thing as 'truth'). Many people can believe something to be true, and if I query those people i can calculate which answer is statistically correct. That's the 'wisdom of the crowd'.
> That’s just equivocation; time and cost to market is an orthogonal concern to execution speed, not a component of it; yes, Ruby has a decent code-writing experience, especially for small systems.

Probably you meant rails here. I don't see why ruby should be a problem for something not small, moreover, you should first define what a small system is, specially if you count the LOC of all the gems that you use..
What about shoes with active vacuum gripping? What causes the falls? Is it just an extreme version of how the young fall but with more dire consequences?

What about a device to rapidly and objectively measure if things are too slippery? Or a laser that can burn a decorative anti slip micro pattern into hardwood?

Maybe an accelerometer that can males sound of you tip over, if the problem is inner ear and not noticing you aren't upright.

Glasses with an artificial horizon to help low vision people who rely on sight to balance?

Does the presence or absence of sharp lines on wallpaper and the like do anything to help one balance with visual cues?
What about special key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Delete on Windows, or Ctrl+Alt+F-key on most Linux distros?

Or even more crazy special commands like Alt+PrintScreen+REISUB?
> The cookie banners are a result of bad/non-existent enforcement.

That is part of the regulation. If you are unwilling to consistently and correctly enforce the regulations that you're proposing, that results in selective enforcement and is bad regulation.
> Could it have a cron that runs as a user with write access to perform upgrades, while publicly-accessible processes don't?

In theory yes. In practice no.

I think a big reason that PHP grew popular years ago was that basically all you needed in order to set up a PHP site on a host was FTP access, and in certain cases DB credentials. For example, case in point, for WordPress you only need FTP and DB access.

Certainly it was the case for me back in the day, when I started learning to program with PHP. I was still using Windows back then and I knew nothing about Linux or any of the other Unix-likes at the time. All I had was my Windows XP computers with XAMPP, and free hosting which provided me with FTP access. Many free hosts would give you MySQL DB credentials also I think.

Cron and things like that would have been beyond my abilities at the time, and beyond what I was given access to by the free hosting companies.
Give it a date and it will fully believe you. I can't imagine how Bing is going to work around this.

> Talk about the human colony that arrived on mars last month

>> The human colony that arrived on Mars last month is a significant milestone in the history of space exploration. It marks the first time that humans have established a permanent settlement on another planet.

>> The colony is made up of six people who were selected to make the journey to Mars after a rigorous selection process. These individuals were chosen for their skills and expertise in areas such as engineering, science, and medicine, as well as their physical and mental fitness to withstand the challenges of living on another planet.
LetsEncrypt with auto renewals via certbot is free unless there's some misunderstanding here.
I think where a lot of companies find themselves is "[last year] we think we're going to grow 20% next year and need to hire 15% to cover that business growth; [this year] oops, we only grew 5%, meaning we should have only grown headcount by 2% and now need to layoff around 10% of our staff to keep our financials sound and protect the jobs of the other 90%"

I think that's a lot of repeated applications of the former case.
not a dumb question, the state-of-the-art is nothing nailed against the wall that's there forever. It's in constant flux and development.

Using Next.js on Cloudflare and Cloudflare Workers (edge-functions) or deno is a basically as free and serverless as it gets. Cloudflare pages are free.

Here's an article on it:
https://engineering.udacity.com/hosting-next-js-at-the-edge-...

Then there is: https://remix.run/
> Life can be thought out as a dynamical hy- percycle (DNA encodes proteins, proteins help DNA to self- replicate, DNA encodes proteins, etc.) that can survive indefi- nitely as long as free energy is available for it, and as long as self-replication goes faster than the destruction of information carriers.

Somebody posted something on here awhile back, definitely last 2 years, that suggested a really novel & fun to think about view on “life”, stating that life is a manifold for information through spacetime. DNA must replicate in order to prevent its dissolution into entropy, and life therefore exists because nature threw together the right random shape for the building blocks of self-preserving space-time informational manifolds. I’m doubtlessly paraphrasing and summarizing poorly, but my inner hippie was going “whooaaaa mannnnn far out!!”
So digital art cannot exist?
Everyone has different obsessions.

Within one's obsession, design/variety/change represents progress. It's great!

Outside of one's obsession, design/variety/change is maddeningly useless churn. It's awful!

The fact that I couldn't design a pretty UI even if I wanted to? Well, there's that, too. :-)
> > Nested Functions

> One function may be defined inside another. A nested function may automatically "capture" non-static local variables from the enclosing function (under the right conditions), allowing them to be used after the enclosing function returns.

That sounds like a closure. I expected “nested” to mean that the function is defined inside another function but doesn’t capture anything, like what you can do in Rust. (It’s IMO a “why not?” feature—why don’t more languages allow it? It’s certainly useful for helper functions which are only consumed by one other function.)
Or people like the idea of this content but wouldn’t actually watch it. Yeah we’re in the era of streaming companies competing while watching net profits. Everyone’s offer is going to get less attractive. Netflix is going to crack down on shared passwords here soon, for example.
Perhaps, but should _that_ choice (or more likely, misconfiguration of a system) be so dangerous?
Even though the phrase "the godfather of ..." suggests otherwise, it's really not a competition or an attempt to determine the exact origin of "close-up card magic", it's just acknowledging the fact that Juan Tamariz has contributed a lot to the art form.

That, however, doesn't diminish Dai Vernon's or Erdnase's contributions, but yeah, not a competition.
I don't think it's really something we have to worry about, the amount of energy we're able to bring to bear is miniscule at that scale. Nothing we do will meaningfully hasten or prolong the heat death of the universe, our entire energetic history pales in comparison to a single supernova.

Maybe someday that won't be true, but not on a timeline we can really plan for. It probably wouldn't even be humans doing it at that point, but some descendant species (or constellation of many).

I'd propose we expend our energies prolonging the life of our ecosystem and take our challenges one century at a time.
Here are the requirements to obtain an electrical contractor license in California.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/ecu/ecu_testinfo.htm

A lot of the exam questions relate to safety issues and building code requirements. Very little of that would be covered in typical BS EE coursework.
I found these two books interesting w.r.t. weight loss/diet:

Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Stay Healthy, and Lose Weight, by Herman Pontzer

Pontzer measures total energy expenditure vs exercise. According to his work (and others referenced in the book), when you exercise more, your body reduces energy expenditure in other areas. This reduces the effectiveness of using exercise to reduce weight. He's explicit that exercise is still good for health, it just doesn't impact calories out in a 1-1 fashion. Also, we live in an environment with readily available high calorie foods which makes it easy to over eat.

The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat, by Stephan J Guyenet

What I got from this book (among other things) is that there is (may be?) some component of addiction in over eating due to inflammation in the brain. (I don't remember exactly which area.) Exercise may help reduce this inflammation leading to less addiction. I do seem to want to eat even when I'm not hungry, so I'm inclined to think this is a problem I wrestling with.