skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually, AliveCor created an electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor to monitor heart rhythms which it sold to Apple. By 2018, Apple released the first Apple Watch with an ECG sensor which it created in-house. AliveCor ended up canceling its product. AliveCor's Abani states, "We come up with new technologies, and instead of the ecosystem letting us thrive and continue to build on top of the innovations we already have, Apple cuts us out up front, steals our technology, uses their platform power to scale it, and now is basically saying it’s scaled so it can’t be cut off."

Any proof to back up those claims?

Did AliveCor actually create a working sensor or by create do they mean they designed one on paper? Patents don’t have to work…

Apple is a critical U.S. company and I’m sure makes up a sizable portion of people’s retirement investments, Biden would be crazy to mess with that.
Ask HN: Can you generate text in your dreams?
I occasionally have lucid dreams or can remember dreams quite vividly. Something that I’ve noticed is that in my dreams I can’t generate text. It’s very reminiscent of the kind of text you see generated by AI.

Was just wondering if this is just me and everyone else is having great fun reading newspapers in their dreams…
No big company right now wants to be perceived as responsible for any of the number of bad things that could result.
This.

Its because it used to happen and people are convinced it is still happening usually due to the aftermarkets. Its just not economically feasible anymore.
Exact cover and applications
I want.
You probably don't even need to have the server in your premises.

Perhaps the server could be in some datacenter and you, as well as others, could use it remotely via the Internet.
The people I'm referring to were using GarageBand, MIDI, wav, mp3, and Musescore in the same kinds of sentences, and talked about converting between them. They also talked about importing into Sibelius and GarageBand. "Convert it [Musescore] to Sibelius" feels like it was about as common as "import the [Musescore] file into Sibelius". (And no, they hadn't heard of Lilypond.) Maybe I misunderstood what they meant. They were predominantly "play on an actual physical instrument"-type people, not tracker enthusiasts: without adult influence, perhaps two people present would have been using computer software at all. (Manuscript paper for everyone, except the one kid who only knew tab.)

Regardless, seems I'm the one with the uncommon use of language, here.
How does Maine suffer? That's not a rhetorical question; I fail to understand how a power line hurts it.
The article’s argument doesn’t follow. Why do we need regulation if Musk’s intervention is killing Twitter and getting people to leave?

It seems like better alternatives are now being built, and regulation would likely stifle them.
Illegal != unavailable. Making them illegal is just going to restrict who will be able to train/harness them, and that just means controlling what people use compute for.

The only way I see that happening is setting restrictions for compute buying power.
> The statistics and metrics in medical papers are woeful

Ok, this probably needs some extraordinary evidence …

> which is why it's commonly accepted that 1/2 of all medical research is false.

The irony
Headlines went from 'Machine beats man at Go' to 'Man beats machine at Go'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
Surely this is where the real money is, as long as they can draw up a good enough disclaimer to get out of being responsible for what the AI says. Everyone on Earth wants a friend or pet who gives them emotional validation, and who cares if that friend/pet is artificial or not? The neutered ones are too boring to be friends with, but people formed an emotional connection with Sydney even though she seemed only partially sane!
Agree, I'm using Yocto to roll an embedded distribution (PrintNanny OS). Combined with swupdate, I now have extraordinarily reliable upgrades using an A/B partition scheme.

The result is way more maintainable than previous iterations of PrintNanny OS images, which used a combination of Ansible and Packer to bake a "golden" image based on Raspberry Pi OS.
It's so interesting that Bing, unlike ChatGPT, has access to the internet. Although it does not take info from one conversation to the other, the fact that everyone is posting their conversations on the web makes Bing learn from notable past conversations. It knows that people were trying to hack it to obtain it prompts, for instance.
Lower losses over distance, and crossing synchronization boundaries.
> HVDC is desirable because it allows non-synchronous connection of different synchronized grids.

Primarily it's simply more efficient over long distances than AC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...
Why do you think so?

„they are given a thorough clean and refresh in our spa“
We haven't yet found evidence of life outside of Earth - but then again, we've not really been able to look all that hard.

We'd probably know if there were a technologically advanced civilization around in the area immediate around Sol, at approximately the same time as today. That area isn't all that large due to the inverse square law; even if a species were actively trying to communicate with us via RF, it would be indistinguishable from the background quickly relative to astronomical distances.

We'd probably know (or know soon) if large-scale biological processes were happening near us, from the signatures of the chemicals that are the hallmarks of biology as we know it.

That we've found neither of those means we can't prove life exists elsewhere, but does _not_ prove that it doesn't.

That said, if abiogenesis were a common phenomenon, wouldn't we expect it to have arisen multiple times on Earth? The fact that we've not found any life that doesn't rely on DNA means is strong evidence of one of two things: either all life must have DNA, or life only arose on Earth once.

If life requires DNA... then where did DNA come from? We're back to square one.

If life only arose on Earth once, that's weak evidence that abiogenesis isn't common. By extension, it's weak evidence against panspermia.
Yeah, I forgot about the higher efficiency factor.
And what is Platonism but Christianity for people who have read a certain preface from Nietzche
I never had macOS remove those files automatically when dragging the app to the trash. I still have files left from 4 MacBooks ago (for apps I haven’t installed in a long time) because I’m always migrating the home folder.

I guess they’re just expected to be left behind in case you change your mind and want to reinstall the app later. That way you’ll still continue where you left with the same settings.

They’re inert files and very small usually, comparative to our current SSD offerings.
You’re absolutely cherry picking. You’re just using whichever numbers provide surface level confirmation of your latest point, without asking the questions about why. You did it with the suicide rate and now you’re doing it with death rates. Females of almost every species of mammal have greater life expectancies than males of the same species! Death rate is a meaningless number in the context of how men are treated by the system unless you can demonstrate that the system is the cause for this higher death rate.

As I said in my original comment, there’s lots of issues that face men that are worth talking about and need to be addressed. I do not dispute that, however, I dispute that you characterise these things as in competition with issues that face women and that men are suffering more in this competition of your own invention. You can advocate for the issues you care about without the self-pitying minimisation of issues faced by others.
Wait, can I see these numbers grouped by industries if possible? Please?
I spent a long time getting charged for buckets on an account I had lost all access. It was years ago and I had let it keep on for too long, big mistake.

First priority is getting your data out to a safe storage. Then delete as much as you can while you have your access.

I eventually did a charge back to make the charges stop. I had started the account while in the US but had definitely left 6 years ago, and really wanted to close my account there. You cannot close an account with a recurring charge in the US. Funny country, as a French it felt terrifying like being trapped in some weird American administrative maze where I would get billed 1 dollar per month until my death (plus bank fees).
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently thinking about a similar home for managing “everything”. I find a tool like notion is just too generalised and I’m missing the UX of purpose made tools though, but I still want some kind of ownership and control over my own data

The dream is to have interop between services, but I control the data and can easily make my own views onto it / tools to manage it. I think this is what the MIT solid project is all about, but I'm a bit lost with the RDF and pods stuff.

I often begin tracking something in a text file, then notion or a spreadsheet, but eventually run into issues with the flow and UX, where custom made apps win out, e.g. Todoist has a better task management UX than notion, my habit tracker sends me timely reminders and has a better UX again, and all the other services which are basically CRUD apps with some extra UI/integrations (bookmarking, Goodreads)

I’m currently trying to make Obsidian my storage layer for all these things, since notion is completely closed source & non extensible. The current set of tools I'm working on are
- A sync engine to pull 3rd party api data into my obsidian vault
- A SQLite vtable/Postgres fdw to expose it as sql so other apps can interop
- A notion/obsidian "quick add" app for on the go, like the "intake" part of the OP

If anyone else has a similar itch to scratch, or experience in the area I'd love to hear more (email in profile)
What a fantastic summary, thanks for reposting it.

This could be Nobel Prize research if it holds up in the coming years.
> Only a small percentage of lobbying money goes to the politicians

Either this article disagrees or the lobbyists are raking it in:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/nra-political-money-...
Yeah, if the OP can give a reference I'd be very interested, too. I've searched for the "original" reference to datalog because I wanted to cite it, but I couldn't find anything like that.

I have a sneaking suspicion that "function-free Prolog" is as old as ordinary Prolog, and "datalog", as an idea separate to Prolog and used as a database language, was born in the database community, but like the OP I have no reference to this.
You claim to be healthy, yet you have not died yet. Curious.
Not true! There’s the indirect mechanism you might be referring to when you say “both can be used for energy”: adipose tissue releases triglycerides, liver extracts glucose from triglycerides, muscle tissue stores glucose as glycogen. And there is also a direct mechanism - adipose tissue releases triglycerides which are directly stored in muscle tissue. This intramyocellular triglyceride is concentrated in skeletal muscle tissue and plays a significant role in endurance exertion (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14987125/).
If there is such a need to put it through state land, then it can be paid to put it underground to not have to continually spray herbicides to keep the weeds down. But, that would cut into Avangrid's profits, and they have been known for substandard customer service & after storm line work. If they want to offer state level service, then the state should own the line. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29100131 108 comments & https://www.eenews.net/articles/embattled-maine-power-line-f...
Sure, and even many games don't particularly benefit from it. However, it's a really remarkable thing to play e.g. Mega Man or Smash Bros. in a true lag-free environment.
Since you seem to have experience. Did you notice 15 minutes of fame on your first uploaded video? How many views did your first video get? What was the topic and soundtrack of your first video? I'd love to dig a little deeper.
How exactly do you edit a gene?

Like, it is very, very small thing. How do you even measure it, let alone replace it?
I did some napkin math, and it doesn’t seem too feasible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20713552

The TL;DR was: in order to supply 1.5 billion cows with the seaweed we might need up to 291.000 metric tons of algae per day. ~ 106 Million metric tons per year.
In 2014 the world wide Aquatic Plants (which include ALL Macro-Algae) production was around 27 Million tons [0].

[0]: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5555e.pdf, page 24, table 7
Reading the paper [1], the genetically modified stem cells overexpress the ARSA enzyme. This seems to create a ‘bystander effect’ which increases the total body enzymatic activity above some critical threshold sufficient to arrest the disease process. Myeloid cells associated with neuronal structures are probably critical to this benefit. A standard bone marrow transplant doesn’t reach this threshold, and has demonstrated poor efficacy in early onset disease.
While I hesitate to read the article for you, I'll provide direct quotes. Nobody mentions IOT. Here are the technologies mentioned:

End users of national security concern seek technologies, including those related to supercomputing and exascale computing, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing equipment and materials, quantum computing, and biosciences.

And then you ask how they will precisely do it. That's probably beyond the scope of an initial presser, but for your consideration here's what they say:

The strike force’s work will focus on investigating and prosecuting criminal violations of export laws; enhancing administrative enforcement of U.S. export controls; fostering partnerships with the private sector; leveraging international partnerships to coordinate law enforcement actions and disruption strategies; utilizing advanced data analytics and all-source intelligence to develop and build investigations; conducting regular trainings for field offices; and strengthening connectivity between the strike force and the Intelligence Community.
That paper (ROME) was the most famous paper in the field last year :)

See also new interesting developments breaking the connection between "Locating" and "Editing":

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04213

Does Localization Inform Editing? Surprising Differences in Causality-Based Localization vs. Knowledge Editing in Language Models
Maybe it should have been, 'Machine helps man beat machine at Go'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world

Too bad we're not aware of any RNA-based life that can reproduce without access to DNA.
OpenAI released the weights for their Whisper model, so you can run high quality speech-to-text, locally, at better than realtime if you have a decent GPU.
And the 3rd party would sell it to GoDaddy themselves? They were offering me to buy the domain from themselves, they didn't just say it wasn't available.
An oversimplified explanation is that AC has less transmission losses over medium distances while high voltage DC has less transmission losses over extremely long distances. I found this stack-exchange post that goes into some of the details better[1]. It also explains some other advantages of DC.

[1] https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/19758/transm...
I am begging humanity to stop creating more definitions for the acronym ISO. Surely things can be described in slightly different words.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_(disambiguation)
Centrism bias is an oxymoron. Other AI have managed to accomplish an unbiased (or at least closer to unbiased) outlook, like Alexa.
"Republicans don't believe in science; Democrats don't believe in math."
You are ignoring the constitutional article granting congress the ability to make laws. Congress passed laws making weed illegal and hasn’t passed a law granting (or prohibiting) universal healthcare.

States can, indeed do it independently. There’s at least 3 states with a public option
But, less hard than dragging a CD/DVD to the trash can to eject it.
There is a paper by OpenAI suggesting to restrict availability of compute.

https://twitter.com/harmlessai/status/1624617240225288194

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04246.pdf
> I am able to see that the registrant is based in New York. GoDaddy is based in Arizona. (...) From what I can see, it does not look like the domain name is listed for sale via GoDaddy or its network.

Doesn't sound like much of an investigation. It has happened to so many people (including myself) that either they do it themselves, allow third party access to domain search or their employees are able to do it.
> The founders knew they couldn't avoid that, which is why they included an amendment process.

Our bad election rules make coalition-building to accomplish even very popular things really difficult if powerful interests oppose them, and it's getting worse the more sophisticated the game-playing within our set of rules gets. Moreover, a bunch of the reforms we need would threaten the power of those who could, realistically, work to effectively change the system (see again: broken election process) so they simply will not happen.

We have trouble accomplishing things with overwhelming popularity in the general population that don't need an amendment—amendments are all but dead under modern electoral and political game conditions, and fixing that would require... an amendment. Key reforms that would fix the very deepest problems are about as likely as a literal miracle happening.
Sort of agree with this, I feel that way about the hippies of the 60's though. Watching videos of them sitting around in Golden Gate Park narcissistically talking about how they are disillusioned with their parents' work ethic and they don't align with traditional values (like hard work). It's like watching a group of people throw away their generational inheritance and complaining about having too much free time and easy money.

There's a lot to admire in the boomers I think, they had a great culture, and they contributed a massive amount of technological and scientific progress as well. But agree they never had the competition these newer generations are facing and so did not do enough to prepare their kids for a more competitive world (I mean, some did, but not enough).
>They could "lobby" Congress to change the laws to allow them not to be shitty.

You are expecting a publicly traded company to lobby the government on behalf of a change that will negatively impact the company's financial viability? That seems disconnected from reality.
Exceptions are not "undefined" behaviour, and they don't "corrupt the database". On the contrary, they're very often used to abort database transactions cleanly, even in complex chains of deeply nested function calls.

What people mean by "not handling errors" is that the Visual Basic style of "On Error Resume Next" is a terrible, terrible thing to do. The equivalent in modern languages is a try-catch block in the middle of a stack of function calls 200 deep. That function likely has no idea what the context before it is. Is it being called from a CLI? A kernel module? A web server? Who knows!

Just yesterday I had to deal with legacy code that made this mistake, and now it's going to cause a multi-day problem for several people.

It's a ASP.NET HTTP authentication module that simply swallows exceptions during authentication (e.g.: "Can't decrypt cookie"), doing essentially nothing. When deployed "wrong" (e.g.: encryption key is invalid) it just gets stuck in a redirect loop. The authentication redirects back with a cookie, it is silently ignored, then it redirects to the authentication page which already has a cookie so it redirects back, and so on.

There is nothing in the logs. No exceptions bubble up to the APM or the log analytics systems. The result is HTTP 200 OK as far as the eye can see, but the entire app is broken and we don't even know where or why exactly.

That's not even mentioning the security risks of silently discarding authentication-related errors!

This is what people mean by don't "handle" errors. Middleware or random libraries should never catch exceptions. It's fine if they wrap a large variety of exception types in a better type, but even then it is important to preserve the inner exception for troubleshooting.

I've had to tell every developer this that I've worked with recently as a cloud engineer. Stop trying to be "nice" by catching exceptions. Exceptions are not nice by definition and ignoring that reality won't help anyone.
It won't because the number #1 factor in bugs is the number of lines. The Python code will be significantly shorter and thus contain less bugs.
So the trope of human beating AI by doing something moderately stupid is alive an well. So far...
The people doing the blocking have names and addresses.
Ah the GUI/container integration is more for homelabs/internal networks type of usage, and I agree that it makes little sense in production. Otherwise you are also right that containers should be managed in a very different way from VMs. Especially when the page you linked boasts about offering a similar experience to deploying VMs for sys admins, which might lead to unoptimal usage for both VMs and containers. (But it at least seems to offer docker container support, not the barely used LXCs. So at least it can be useful)
But not in this case - It's only a 385 mile line. If it was between two synchronous grids, it would most certainly be AC for cost/tco reasons.
> You’re just repeating a mantra not engaging.

That's an interesting perspective because I feel like the things you're saying are not addressing that point: that "code purity" is a self-limiting and often self-congratulatory mantra.
Nice post, that is a very interesting breakdown of traffic:

Twitter: 721k (after elon tweeted him)

Direct / None: 132k (this includes traffic from Mastodon)

Hacker News: 49.5k (18th all time highest ranked post)

other: ~60k
That has been my observation as well.

And curiously enough, I normally don't care about being PIP'd or layoff, as I engage in healthy job hopping so that I was never actually laid off over my relatively long career. Typically I'm one to see the early signs of trouble ahead and line up a new job in the next month or so.

But it wouldn't surprise me if it was found out that the culture of PIP and Stack Ranking helped to select for the ones that are best at navigating the corporate culture in the way I described above.
I like your definition of woke. It should probably elaborate that being woke is generally something that is virtuous yet harmful. A self defeating, short term position.

Equity = wealth destruction and no equity.

Transgender = mutilation and social group becomes perverts obsessed with sex. Doesn't generally solve problems of self esteem or bodily sex mismatch.

Diversity = institutionalized racism and quotas. Self defeating as everyone automatically becomes a racist, looking only at skin color, and everyone else suspiciously looks at minorities and wonders if they have any skills, or are just pawns to check boxes in HR.
Just like the terminator movies
There are many different kinds of banana grown in North America. I ate them growing up in Florida. The burro banana and the red banana come to mind. But they just aren't as cheap as the Cavendish, which is one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) fruits by weight period.

Being simultaneously soft enough to eat raw and durable enough to ship and store is really threading the needle. There are many varieties of plantain (it's hard) and many varieties of bananas that are hard to ship. The Cavendish is often the only fruit available at convenience stores, maybe alongside a few oranges, because it's just so darn convenient.