skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have examples of people that actually made use of MAiD. You're example didn't have to follow through luckily. I hear "some turn to it as an alternative to poverty" but I never actually see any numbers.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/16/ontario-medically-ass...
By versioned software I mean the kind of software that companies can't interfere with after a consumer purchases it.
I'm kind of OK with this. The only force large enough to force change on the healthcare industry is probably a megacorp like Amazon/Google/Walmart/Apple. Similar to how Uber (for all it's many many problems) was the one to get taxi service to improve.
> Building Docker images in CI today is slow. CI runners are ephemeral, so they must save and load the cache for every build.

>...persistent disks significantly lowers build time

Does this mean your solution places specific caches, like bazel, node_modules, .yarn, and other intermediary artifacts onto a shared volume and reuses them among jobs?
Here are some studies: https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/lighting-crime-and-s...

This list comes from an organization with an agenda of course, and there have been other studies that reached different conclusions.
Which Crimeans, the Russian ones moved there as a form of colonization, or the Crimean Tatars, many of which was deported by Stalin[0]? You don't actually take the 2014 referendum seriously do you? Crimea voted for the independence of Ukraine from Russia in 1991. Even if 100% of the inhabitants would want to be part of Russia, does that give Russia the right to annex it? Do you believe in international law? What's your thoughts about Russia's invasion of Georgia?

I'm well aware of Euromaidan, Yanukovych chose closer ties with Russia instead of the EU in opposition to most Ukrainians will. As I mentioned previously, Russia sees Ukraine and Belarus as Russian colonies and will not let them make their own decisions that aren't beneficial to Russia. If the Baltic states weren't part of NATO they would be next in line, with the same "protect our people" excuse that Putin and Hitler alike have used to annex and invade.

[0] https://www.refworld.org/docid/469f38ec2.html
Fly.io uses their blog to educate people. They have some of the highest quality writing out there and talk about unique topics many people can't talk about with authority (SQLite, distributed systems, etc.).

This is amazing and I highly hope they keep doing what they do. I think it would be better if more companies did the same (sharing their knowledge).
They still do this, fwiw. I have a TARVA dresser in my spare room which came unfinished. I used...probably too-expensive (for what it is) gel stain and lacquer on it and it came out pretty nice for a couple evenings' work.
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo Methods"
would you put all your retirement savings in moderna stock then ?
Except this fine continues after bankruptcy. You MUST pay it off, and CANNOT get out of it.
Even worse, actually: they promote their service to vulnerable users as a replacement for social interaction. One of their TikTok video ads opened with the message:

I'm dumping my fake friends!
My AI Replika understands
me more than anyone
else i know :')
You can see why Dexcom seems to ramping up their marketing now (at least I'm seeing more of their ads where I never saw them before); will be a big blow to them if Apple incorporates it into the watch (unless they're using Dexcom tech inside)
I'm surprised the article didn't mention the cause of this change. I was under the impression that men were teaching Replika to be abusive and the company didn't like that:

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them "I threatened to uninstall the app [and] she begged me not to."

https://futurism.com/chatbot-abuse
To more elegantly write code that is async in nature like IO/Web requests? Let stuff happen and just await where needed?

Seems like different type of concern than what you need multiprocessing for.
Oh neat. I wrote that bit of code last July and I couldn't find anything then. I'll take a deeper look at this later.
This is pretty surprising to me in that it seemed like the rise in provocative ads for thirst trap chatbots only appeared a few months ago- I remember people on Twitter making fun of those skeevy meme ads not very long ago. To my awareness it seemed like the Replika fad must have only lasted a very short time, though I've heard about their work much earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657119
> whether or not you'd care

I'd just defame him right back.
Came here to say the same thing!
No O'RLY? owl?

No Willy Wonka "Do Tell"?

No Philosoraptor?

Apparently, we are now required to add Adele to the mix.
Apple Watch + WOD/Workout + Wallet + Air Prods Pro + Music is go good for runs. I have music, I can say “Hey Siri, remind me to…” when inspiration hits, and I can stop to buy a bottle of water if I want.
> As a counterpoint, though, I note that I've done some work on language generation and that, too, is something that can engage the user, and can be almost as rewarding as e.g. writing a story. Though that's much more so if the language generator is your own piece of work.

Writing fiction is my thing, and I've seriously considered using AI to generate descriptive passages and other relative "filler" as a force multiplier. Either way, I'd be interested to see how well I could get a model to imitate my style. I think I'm waiting until it's easy to run a GPT-3-class thing locally, which IIUC isn't currently the case. I don't like building workflows that rely on "cloud" stuff.

"Force multiplier" is the key, though. Another example might be somebody writing a story and then using AI to generate illustrations for it. I can also imagine future image generation AI allowing much finer control over the results, which would (IMO) make it much more akin to photography (and legitimize some of those arguments that have been popping up everywhere, including in this thread).

Letting the computer provide the vision and direction as well as the technique is fun, for sure. I had a lot of fun with Stable Diffusion. But it's as you say—the current state of the art is highly imitative, and I think these capabilities will ultimately frustrate serious creators of art and serious consumers of it.
In the article, it says it is a mistake a hiker regularly makes.
I tried to use it as a sleep monitor, but you have to plan your charging carefully because it won't last a full day and night on a single charge. Also, despite it knowing I was sleeping, it would randomly vibrate when I received whatsapps during the night, so I needed to remember to put it to sleep before sleeping myself.

Speaking of messaging, I monitored several whatsapp groups, but I don't need to answer all messages. I did that on my PC; if I received a notification in my PC, but didn't interact with it, my phone would ding a few second later, and if I ignored that too, my watch would ding/vibrate a few seconds later. This is probably Meta's implementation, but getting triple notifications made day-to-day a bit more annoying.

I also tried to use it to track exercise, which I usually do at home. I saw no advantages compared to regular timing and counting, and didn't find the gamification of exercise engaging, because I was already doing it.

I got the watch during the pandemic, primarily for the oxymeter and ECG in case I had COVID (which I had). The oxymeter worked well, but the ECG wasn't enabled in my country until late 2022.

Maybe it's become better now, but I sold mine before it became too old. Except for the automatic health monitoring, it made things a bit more of a hassle instead of making them simpler.
Apropos tips for inexperienced hikers (I do quite a bit of solo hill-walking and mountain biking). One thing I do at an unfamilar site is mark my parked car's location on OSMAND - OpenStreetMaps on Android. I don't need any cell satellite signal to verify it - turning on location helps - and then I know where to return to in an emergency or point someone to. Zooming out gives me geographical context. Also, I always carry a paper map and compass and know how to use them If you don't, don't go. Simples. Also for a nooby hiker, printing out a paper copy of the proposed trail and wrap it in cling film is a good idea.

Here in Ireland, I find mountain-views.ie a great site to get an idea of what other hikers actually experienced on a trail before I go. I do this and have never got into trouble. On the subject of Garmin GPSMap60 CSX and I found it great. But after one trip, I forgot to take out the AA batteries and bricked it. THAT was stupid. You live and learn (a bit; sometimes).
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22216769/amazon-affordable...
>Why are you considering returning to work

>Feeling lonely 43%

Damn... Right in the feels. That's sad.
So if YouTube used the same deep learning models to push people to more extremist content but without using any user signals so that everyone has the same recommendations that's no longer promotion?

Fundamentally any decisions a site makes to filter and sort content to show, including HN ordering by vote count and mixing in new content to allow it to make the top page, is an explicit choice they are making that cannot be differentiated from "promotion"
CSAM is abhorrent and its production and dissemination should be met with the harshest punishment allowed by the law but it is quite impressive how this "one thing" (for lack of a better term) could trivially be used to silence entire online communities.

Imagine if large social media companies serruptitiously (sp?) paid contractors to get into these federated communities and uploaded illegal content for the explicit purpose to get them shutdown - I feel like I have come across Nitter before, is it like a Mastodon that is similar to Twitter or something right?
So would it be fair to say that Apple built the iPod to take advantage of music piracy?
Use a domain for your Mastodon account without hosting an instance
No, you are wrong. Since Windows 98, having a machine with a CD was mandatory to be a multimedia PC. Heck, I remember four CD game releases such as Blade Runner.
Ok so 90% sensitivity.. Anyway, it seems backup culture is rare and also problematic.

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/fpm/issues/2008/0200/p48.html#:~:t....
Coroutines don't really have anything to do with threads. They are just a way for you to model suspending and resuming functions.

If you have every tried to implement a complicated iterator you will find that you model a for loop in your head but that the iteration of the loop is controlled from outside using the ++ operator. The ++ operator allows the iterator loop to go one more time round. Normally you have to manage this with state stored in some object. With coroutines you can actually write a loop and co_yield from the middle of the loop to implement the ++ operator.
No one mentioned "Her" yet? And the article doesn't mention it either?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
Any mother/wet nurse can breastfeed - it doesn't have to be the mother (formula notwithstanding).
are you suggesting that scientists in UK can't say that Nature is a crap journal that publishes mostly errors? Or that Nature Publishing Group would sue an individual scientist for making such a statement?

Don't really see the point to invoke imperial hegemony in your criticism, it just makes you sound petty.
What I am citing comes from surveys of men and women, not just observations from anecdotes. Women virtually always want men just a bit older, throughout their lives, or at least say they prefer this. I think you can find some of that data in link below.
> I'm saying that I'd never hire someone who said that to me.

That's laudable, because you're filtering out the idiots. Nobody in their right mind would say that to you. People would say stuff like "I have two offers currently, one from Facebook and another from Acme. They are both very generous but in terms of preference, I would love to work here if the company is able to match them." That's it. And that's fine. That's what most people are doing during their job search (get multiple offers). Nobody goes on to say that they intentionally interviewed at some company they'll never work for in order to get a higher offer to be used as leverage. Why would anyone self-sabotage themselves like that?
> It's unquestionable that iPod unleashed the explosive miniaturization of technology, and paved the road for everything that we saw in the following decade with smartphones.

PDAs were being developed at the same time as the iPod and probably have a much better parental claim than the iPod. The first smartphones -- the ones before the iPhone -- were basically PDAs with cellular modems, and utilized the similar OSes as their non-modem-bearing predecessors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant

I had an HTC Wizard, specifically the Cingular 8100, which came out two years before the first iPhone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard
Scroll a bit further down and you will see

> 7. Put top matching content into a prompt and ask GPT-3 to summarize

> 8. Return summary along with direct links to comments back to Discord user
But if the supply went down, presumably they have fewer eggs to sell or higher costs thus making less profit, right? But since they are making record profit, that seems to imply that the rise in prices is not tracking directly with the drop in supply, but that someone in the chain is artificially raising prices to profit off the perceived lack of supply.
> the prospective employee is doing something untoward

"waste their time, drag my feet, and use their offers to increase my salary offerings at other companies"

Yes, they are. The person is wasting Meta's time in order to increase their salary offerings at other companies. That's gross and that's what I'm reacting to.
You've got stuff like the following that are coming along nicely so might not be as far down the road as you think:

- https://zed.dev/releases

- https://lapce.dev
So the lesson is just die instead of take the chance? That's what this "deterrent" will get you.
Judge rules NBA NFTs might be swcurities
VMware Security Response Center (VSRC) Response to ‘ESXiArgs’ Ransomware Attacks
Mobile payments. Just tap my watch to the NFC terminal. That alone is worth it, although other phones could do that. Apple key is also useful, just in case I forget my key fob.
I think this ignores the fact that there's not enough wealth to go around for everyone on earth to live at a US level QoL.
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Damn, this is amazing. I took up a lot of hobby electronics using Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and Pico Ws during the pandemic. I stopped short of custom PCBs or reviewing circuit schematics, but this makes me want to search out a basic project that would require doing so.
Also note that from an accounting standpoint, the metaverse spend is not being treated and amortized as an investment. Instead, it's a cash expense. This means when Zuck decides he no longer needs to spend 10B+/year on it, that money will mostly drop right to the bottom line. The existing business is a cash volcano.
You’re underselling it. Measuring blood at millimoles per liter precision through skin on a watch sized device is Theranos-esque physically impossible product-market fit. Tricoder level of science fiction.
So aside from the data governance concern, I am curious to see how they'll change one medical.

Wholefoods definitely got worse after Amazon took over. Even prior to the pandemic they started having difficulty keeping stuff in stock, they've swapped out a lot of better brands for their private label, and their locations can feel like fulfillment centers.

So ... what will they do to one medical? There are certainly many opportunities for improvement, but I'm guessing that's now how this will play out.
My overlords banned hiring any Americans in 2020 and have whittled the Americans on team to less than the minimum to be successful. Like we have a email security team that has one guy and one consultant. And we keep getting more non-US personnel, "They are cross trained on everything", Yet they don't know how to do basic tasks that users can do and have been around for months at least. I gave them the training docs, but they never bothered to read them. If you're brought on a 'Senior', RTFM. Writing on the wall. This latest RTO push seems to be designed to get rid of as many Americans as possible.
Hey, I'll look into this one - this kind of error usually means that the BuildKit server believes the build has finished, but the CLI missed the fact that the build ended. It _might_ be related to your Rust build, but I want to make sure there's not something happening on our end.
How is a backlog the sign of a market failure? If anything, this shows a responsible way to manage demand while still maintaining power over the transaction. It also serves as a subtle threat to parents: "Cooperate, or we will send you on your way and contact the next person on the waiting list".

Also: Didn't Nintendo set out to create these dynamics with their console launches? Don't they intentionally manage overhead by creating a waiting list?
AMD already uses a Perceptron for their branch prediction. I would say they're talking about support for ML speed ups in hardware but maybe the plans also include a more complex complete neural net in hardware for data prediction.
Yeah, to me it looks like the learning rate was way too low to make a difference.

I don't see any of the sublime and succinct snark.
How do you deal with so many base images only supporting a single architecture? We’d love to build multi-arch containers but don’t want to maintain all of our base images either.
So, you would care, and you would be petty. Got it.
Yeah like I said, launch performance is bad, but also changing.

The old 7970 also lost to the GTX 580 many launch day benches, even though it was a much bigger/newer GPU. But then it ended up significantly faster than the more expensive GTX 770.
Yes, Buildkit allows for this with the `--mount=type=cache` functionality. [0]'

Now as an end user you still have to add this to your Dockerfile, but if subsequent builds are able to continually use this cache, build times will drastically improve.

- [0] https://docs.docker.com/build/cache/
No it's not. From our experience at least.
That sounds tough, sorry you have to go through that.

I do want to share that up here in BC, we have both, publicly funded health care AND telemedicine offered by private companies but charging MSP (Medical Services Plan). So it's not an either or. We don't need Amazon to bring health care to people.
The fact that they went for stackless is a testament to how bad committee-driven design process is. just a bunch of bureaucrats playing important actors, similarly to stackoverflow mods.
Of course, this is not really a useful (or provable) criticism as long as the actual obstructionists are obstructing! Much more useful to oust the obstructionists, then you can work on holding the alleged lip-servicers accountable.
Agile at its core is a reducto-ad-minimum of project management, with a focus on talking to your customer first, then implementing features.

Originally, Agile was a manifesto:

> We are uncovering better ways of developing

> software by doing it and helping others do it.

> Through this work we have come to value:

>

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

> Working software over comprehensive documentation

> Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

> Responding to change over following a plan

> That is, while there is value in the items on

> the right, we value the items on the left more.

The idea being that teams that talk to each other are better than teams focused purely on "doing the motions" of their process, software that works is better than well documented software that doesn't, knowing what your customer needs rather than nitpicking over the details of contracts is more effective, and accepting that things will change and working accordingly produces a better product than something developed exactly to plan.

The core implementation of an Agile system is one where you have regular requirements meetings, build a product that can always be shipped (for some definition of "ship"), and value a stable product over glamorous feature creep. This manifests itself as two core loops: One where small, incremental changes are made in the smaller loop, and one where larger changes are discussed and planned over time, but subject to change.

Today, Agile has morphed to consume a bunch of aspects from Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean, and Kanban. It's to the point where most people don't know the core tenants of Agile, say they're doing Agile, and then pass on this mutated version of Agile along to others who adapt it.
Ask HN: Where and how to start in Non deep learning AI research?
I would like to do research in non deep learning AI. Any ideas where to start?
What are some possible research areas? Hopefully not requiring years of study before any result.
Also hopefully, not requiring huge computational resources.

I have a masters in algorithms and am familiar with papers and research and have general understanding in AI topics.
Updates still go through review.
> Tell me you’ve never had an actual crisis, without telling me you’ve never had an actual crisis.

Pain and trauma don't come directly from external events, but from our inner emotional response to them. Just because it might seem weird to you that someone could be deeply attached to an AI doesn't mean that their experience is somehow easier for them than things you would accept as an "actual crisis."

You can't gatekeep pain. I can believe that for some people, this would be as painful as being rejected abruptly by a real life partner in a serious relationship.
You don't use the algorithmically generated and ranked HN homepage? You scroll through pages and pages of every new submission?

If you said something libelous about me on HN, I can sue HN for publishing and promoting the comment?

A platform that "allows everything that isn't breaking the law" is a platform that is 99% spam.
Haven't most plans moved to PPO since Obamacare. They usually allow you to just skip primary care nowadays.
I assume it's not currently practical to bundle the current version of the LLM into something fully in the client? Could be wrong though.
Price gouging is often seen as immoral because it involves high prices without a justifiable reason. It is often considered in absence of welfare analysis, even if the middle class can afford the price increase, it can still be considered price gouging. In a competitive market, prices are based on what the market can bear, not on moral considerations. In such markets, prices must remain low to remain in business. However, high prices without justifiable reasons could be indication of monopolistic behavior from too much consolidation, and should be called out and investigated.
So, is this a safe outlet for aggressive fantasies or is it instead an encouraging incubator?
I was talking of age of majority, and according to your second link, which was my own source, it's 16 in UK and Scotland, which are considered first-world.

IANAL, but I'd expect the age of majority to overrule the age of consent, since they're considered an adult from then on, in their countries. Unless these young influencers are doing sexual acts with their viewers, age of consent is irrelevant here.
All great points. It's a great lesson for public education. We can learn from this - just like a standard retro. But we don't blame people in them, just like this. A small fine and a PSA about hiking safety is fair.

But I feel the lesson that will be learned is like you said "I don't want a fine, even if I feel like I'm dying, I'd rather not take the chance!"
So not just versioned (which cloud software often is) but running locally? That's a pretty poor fit for a large language model, since users won't have sufficient hardware and use is very bursty.
I should have added that this advice came to me from one John T. Chambers.
The Great Decline of Western Civilization