skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Irreversible electroporation isn’t that new, it’s being actively used (i.e. not trials) for liver, lung, pancreas and kidney cancers for a few years now.

We use it quite a bit in radiology. Usually faster / easier to use thermal ablation (microwave or cryo these days, used to be radiofrequency more often) but there are cases where it’s not feasible due to heat sinking or other reasons and IRE is an alternative.
It isn't an "interpretation"

The wikipedia page literally says that you must end your relationship with the union due to inadequate representation
Why should First Republic get destroyed by a panic because they are headquartered in San Francisco? By all accounts they are a well run bank.
You considered suicide but not quitting? You're still waiting for your contract to end? I don't understand.
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Show HN: Hurdles we faced whilst building the largest public transport database
We build an API that can calculate travel times to hundreds of thousands of nearby locations. We don't use any data from Google, which is why we needed to create a public transport database. Let me know if you have any questions.
It depends on how you want to compute the stipend. Many stipends are officially $50K or more but that's because they include the tuition (which is kind of silly as most PhD students aren't really students in the traditional sense beyond the first year or two, but still officially have to pay tuition). But yes, students are unlikely to see more than lower $30K as actual pay as the tuition is generally taken out automatically.
You writing a shitty knock off Harry Potter novel "wears" on the brand. Just think your favorite book, movie, or music and think if you would enjoy it if there was really no way to know what was real work and what was just some copy-cat or straight up scammer selling rubbish. Now it is easy; you can not publish your Harry Potter novel due to copyright.

Put it in another way: to become a author in a world where copyright is not a thing is pretty much impossible. Either you have to sell your book digitally with draconian DRM - and you will still get your book stolen or you have to own your own print shop, because if you send your book to any publisher they can just take your work and publish it as their own.

And let's be real the amount your bike wears out from me riding it to the shop and back is so negligible that it won't make a difference in the life span of the bike.

There are good reasons to have copyright - however I do not like how long the copyright is. I've stated it before that in my mind good copyright would be something like 10-20 years or life time of the author whatever comes later. This would allow any creative to hold the right to their world/characters/whatever until they are gone and it wouldn't discourage them from publishing in their old age since even after they have passed their families would still benefit from the works for sometime.
JFYI, apache httpd has had a similar event-driven request processing module for about 10 years, maybe more.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
Golang contexts and blocking functions (2022)
This is not true for everyone. It's mostly true for me (although I play Guitar Hero, which makes it quite active). It's not at all true for my girlfriend, who listens to music very actively.
I assume both examples would run at indiscernible speeds on modern hardware. How about more complex scenes? Are poly calculations more expensive than map ones?
I think the WYSIWYG WPF and Silverlight tools were pretty close to VB6 level of usability. The tools are great for building a quick UI, but I think they fall short for more complex applications.

This is why designers have their own preferences when it comes to designing the UX, to give them the flexibility to create the UI as they see fit. When different teams are working on a shared goal, there can always an element of "throw it over the fence".

As a developer, I always saw part of my job as getting plugged in with the other teams as much as possible. Providing continuous advisement and feedback on UX patterns as projects progress really helps things move smoothly.
Neat! Seems a bit overengineered for this though, you can do it in 30 seconds with a very tiny script, or for free with a one-line redirect definition on platforms like Netlify or Bunny.net - it really just takes a wildcard redirect rule.
> I'm frequently stumped by man pages, and end up having to hunt down an example of how to use a particular command line application on Stack Overflow.

If you're not aware of tldr [0], I highly recommend it.

[0] https://tldr.sh/
Tell me you have never done anything creative in your life without telling me you have never done anything creative in your life.
I think these days, LOC is a reasonable metric for a peer-reviewed code base. It is unlikely that the lines of code in a given project can be reduced by 10X in a maintainable way. Can we easily reduce the LOC in the Linux kernel or Postgres by 10X for example? It seems unlikely.

LOC is a fuzzy proxy for the amount information in a code base. It should never be used for any kind of productivity metric however since that is obviously dumb and easily gameable (win by writing terrible code). Of course most productivity metrics are fall into the dumb/gameable category so lets not use them.
So will every struggling bank get a bailout from now on? How long is this sustainable?
> Few years ago it was built on top of Debian.

I don't think it's ever had anything to do with Debian? It was RHEL-like/RHEL-compatible (and now Fedora) AFAIK

https://readwrite.com/amazons-linux-ami-is-all-grown/

https://serverfault.com/questions/798427/what-linux-distribu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Machine_Image#Amazon_Li...
https://www.phillipstricker.com.au/prostate-cancer-treatment....

"After a full workup to ensure that our patients are suitable for the program they then undergo a day surgery procedure which takes between 40 and 60 minutes. Depending on the extent of the cancer this may simply ablate the lesion, a quarter of the prostate or a half of the prostate. No prostate cancer cells are resistant to this treatment. Large areas can be treated with minimal side effects.

After the treatment patients stay in the day surgery unit for two to four hours and they are discharged home with a Foley catheter in place. Postoperatively pain is minimal and patients are discharged with tablets for mild pain, moderate pain, bladder spasms and relaxation of the prostate and antibiotics as required.

On day 2 a limited multiparametric MRI is performed. The Foley catheter is left in for two to five days depending on the extent of the treatment."

I'll ask him about prep / recovery
The other, less sensational possibility, she said, is that what appears to be emergent may instead be the culmination of an internal, statistics-driven process that works through chain-of-thought-type reasoning. Large LLMs may simply be learning heuristics that are out of reach for those with fewer parameters or lower-quality data.

But, she said, finding out which of those explanations is more likely hinges on a better understanding of how LLMs work at all. “Since we don’t know how they work under the hood, we can’t say which of those things is happening.”
I think the tweet misses the point of these demonstrations. AI has the potential of being a dangerous technology and it's good that people are showing how it can be fooled into doing things it shouldn't.
You can tell it's a character because the wrapped lines don't indent & align like a real bullet list.
Convert everything to a drag and drop input
> is this community concerned about that (perhaps very realistic) outcome, or do their interests end when AI is compliant with its masters?

The short of it is yes. As far as I'm aware the long-term hope in the Less Wrong community or more generally the AI safety community is that AI becomes available for everyone and under the control of everyone.

But the first, paramount step is to make sure it doesn't destroy everything and recognize that such a guarantee doesn't come for free, but rather requires an enormous amount of work and coordination.
Were you aware of how MS killed off the competing MacBASIC?

Did you ever see the sourcecode for it?

How would you tell the VisualBASIC side of this story:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt&cha...
Are you sure of that? I thought Amazon Linux was always red hat based (mostly because of yum usage).

More here: https://serverfault.com/questions/798427/what-linux-distribu...
Interesting choice!

Before reading what they used I assumed they would run tch-rs (torchlib bindings for rust) on wgpu and ship it via wasm.
Productivity with modern tools (SPAs, microservices) is often a lot lower than oldschool stuff (django/rails, maybe even Visual Basic, Delphi)
Its clear they are trying to prevent a bigger meltdown here. But this is probably not the end of it…
Why would you respond to a comment about a topic you don't understand and spread false information? You clearly cannot tell the difference between garbage collected language and smart pointers.
I did those things as well as a teenager. I wrote a tcpi/ip chat program and we used it in school to chat with each other. It all seemed like magic to me. I did the thing with opening the CD drive continuously in a loop, and sending this to friends. It was hilarious.

Altough I'd never use it today, it still acted as a catalyser for my interest in programming and computers.
In the studio, the photographer directs the lighting, the model, tweaks the shot, issues commands to modify the scene, presses a button, checks the outputs, iterates, chooses the best shot.

In a virtual conversation, the promptographer directs the computer to set the tone, chooses their model, tweaks the inputs, issues commands to change the virtual parameters, presses a few buttons, checks the outputs, iterates, and takes the best output.

One of these is a creative work guided by a tool and one is a act that shows no human creative authorship at all.
It’s guaranteed money for the next year and a half and I’m basically totally isolated with no expectations of me actually doing anything. In addition, I will be forced to leave the country if I quit. Therefore it makes no sense to quit. Also there is not anything else I want to do. I would not be less suicidal if I quit
Same type of mistake as Ariane 5. Upgraded the size of some parts (from Ariane 4), but failed to thoroughly check every other system component would be compatible with the up-scaling. Specifically: the real-time control software was carefully written for the small parts, but not adequate for
the upgraded parts because the bigger numbers would overflow a fixed-width integer field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88?useskin=vect...

- "The greater values of BH caused a data conversion from a 64-bit floating point number to a 16-bit signed integer value to overflow and cause a hardware exception.[5] The programmers had protected only four out of seven critical variables against overflow to keep within a required maximum workload target of 80% for the on-board Inertial Reference System computer, and relied on assumptions which were correct for the Ariane 4, but not Ariane 5, trajectory about the possible range of values for the three unprotected variables.[6]"
I asked GPT-4 to take this ode and make it rhyme better, and to make it more clever and beautiful:

A sonnet to the effervescent ale,
The potion crisp, sincere, and hale,
A quaff that's chilled and full of light,
The ambrosia for a summer's twilight.

With every draught, a surge of hop,
A zestful taste that will not stop,
The subtle fizz, the amber glow,
A panoply of notes that flow.

In festive throngs or solitaire,
A bracing brew brings comfort there,
It's known and soothing, mending, clear,
A balm for hearts, a joy austere.

So let's extol the sudsy cheer,
The stout or porter, far or near,
For in each varied draft or blend,
A lively beer shall ever mend.
Counterexample:

...XX
SF.FD
...XX

S = start
F = fire
X = wall
D = destination

The cat can to the destination in 6 moves passing through 1 fire. In the fireWillingness=1 pass, the middle tile is reached after passing through fire, so the destination appears unreachable. The proposed algorithm will pass through 2 fires instead of 1.
Personally, I found GPT-4 to be helpful when writing code for games. But I'm a web programmer trying to learn game development, I'm no professional game developer by any measure. And I'm using Rust and Bevy, for what it's worth. So it might not be as helpful for someone like Tyler who actually know what they are doing, similarly for me if I were to use it for web development.

The most helpful thing with GPT-4 have been getting help with math heavy stuff I don't really grok, and that I can try to compile the code, get an error and instruct GPT-4 that the code didn't work, here is the error, please fix it. Other things it been helpful for is applying the "Socratic method" for helping me understand concepts I don't really grok, like Quaternions. Then, knowing GPT-4 isn't perfect, I always verify the information it tells me, but it gives me great starting points for my research.

Here a conversation I had lately with GPT-4 in order to write a function that generates a 2D terrain with Perlin Noise: https://pastebin.com/eDZWyJeL

Summary:

- Write me a 2D terrain generator

- Me reminding GPT-4 it should be 1D instead of 2D (I used the wrong wording, confusing a 1D vector with 2D)

- Code had issues with returning only values with 0.0

- GPT-4 helping me tracking down the issue, where I used the `scale` argument wrong

- Got a working version, but unhappy with unrealistic results, I asked it to modify the function

- Finally got a version I was happy with
Yeah but sometimes bad code is just bad code. Sometimes what it is doing is not obviously wrong, but ends up being wrong, but it's so bad that it's not even doing the wrong thing right, so when you "fix" it you discover it should never have been written in the first place.
Quite interesting if you think about this not as a marketing jingle but as Art. Contrast it to Poe's Beer Poem "Lines". What does it say about humanity and their ability to create wonderful things? Does it change ? The beauty of poetry is finding the meaning hidden in the rhymes and verses.

Lines on Ale: Edgar Allen Poe

Filled with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away.
What care I how time advances;
I am drinking ale today.
It may rebound the price, but it doesn't mean it will big. The money will likely be used for helping out with cash flow and surviving the next months, until the bank is out of the red zone.

A stock price is representative of the value of expected future earnings. $30 may just already price in those. Since the stock didn't go to zero, it means agents on the market still expect the company to survive and operate at a profit in the future.
Still, it's a lot to learn. I don't want to just use ML algorithms, I want to be able to thoroughly understand and be able to build ML algorithms. Learning something for me means from the lower to the higher levels.

If the phrasing is more important that the general idea, let me rephrase it:

* for people who quit other software engineering fields to become ML engineers *
This has the same sort of energy as the fears of the devotedly religious that a world without religion leads people to moral depravity.

Just more pearl clutching and reverence for the mystical is what it looks like to me.
A long time since I was a Research Associate at a UK university (salaried short term contract) and trying to finish a PhD and I remember someone from outside of academia describing me as "hyper cynical" - that was after 5 years or so.

I left, co-founded a startup and never regretted leaving academia.

Edit: That comment didn't make me leave but it does rather reflect my state of mind at the time - which was pretty bitter....
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Nice catch. Only it would not be 70000 tons, but one million tons of regolith.
And who is going to pay those artists? Entertainment professions usually serve those who have money to spend.
I'm working on an outsourced codebase right now and boy, I wish they hadn't commented their code at all
Burnout + Isolation + Financial burden + Career uncertainty + Unrealistic expectations = disillusioned old phd student
I'm more intrigued why the author finds this a difficult problem for the needs of their game. It looks like their search space is at most a 10 X 10 grid for the most part (I'm assuming based on asset since and detail it doesn't grow too much larger).

I know it isn't relevant to the Chat-GTP code writing discussion, but A*, Dijkstra and heuristics to move an entity around 8 spaces could raise the question "Can the developer be more pragmatic?".
https://www.pressreader.com might be worth a look. I only have limited access through my German library card, but what I've seen so far I liked.
How is this a bailout?
This is variation on the common "it has to be perfect" argument. I don't really buy it.

Right now, GPT 4 would earn a top 10% SAT score, implying that it can give very high quality answers on a range of scholarly topic. This output is basically free.

Nobody that's beholden to even mild economic pressures is going to pay for an expensively constructed 100% solution if they can have the 99% solution for free.
The "brainlessness" of television is the fault of content producers, not the medium itself. Fred Rogers was probably one of the greatest users of television.
I said:
> I do not think one should reject any social privileges one has

to which you replied:
> Putting barriers up to prevent this sort of thing

If you reread my comment, you may find, that I mentioned explicetly, not to put barriers on "this sort of thing" but instead respecting the fact, that some people just have no chance to enter a group, without the group taking additional steps in finding them.
I love my heavy-duty label maker so much
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Love it. Some notes:

It seems buggy in several places. First, sharing doesn't work for me at all. Nothing ends up on my clipboard, WhatsApp messages are empty, etc. I'm using Firefox Nightly on Android. Second, I think my opponent when playing the computer skipped a go, since their score didn't increase on one turn and their played word didn't change.

If you can get sharing working I'll be playing this regularly :)
Go is a garbage collector. Smart pointers are not.

It's fairly simple:

instead of new --> make_unique(); this returns a pointer, but it will automatically delete its memory when it goes out of scope.

instead of delete --> do nothing; the memory is deleted when you don't need it any more.

There are additional API methods on the unique pointer that allow you to do other things for flexibility, but while continuing that memory safety.

This is nothing at all like a GC language like Go.
it should be a loan(with highest interest rate their charged they customers) and then some kind of insurance/loan.
Now I understand the point of a normal map. Thanks!
Can you source your claim that Exynos used weird GPUs? AFAIK, Exynos mostly used ARM Mali (the default for ARM chips) cores with the exception of the most recent iteration when they formed a partnership with AMD to use RDNA in the 2200 model. I am absolutely sure no Exynos chip ever used Adreno and I also think they never used PowerVR.
No money printing involved here: this is just a whip-round to support a struggling colleague, admittedly with very large numbers involved. It's entirely private action, no government involved!
It's pretty sustainable as long as it's banks having liquidity crises instead of solvency ones.
In action: https://9gag.com/gag/a7q8xK2#comment
I know it never seems like the right time to do anything else than moving forward, but please seek help.
The same was said 10 years ago. It's astonishing what can be done, but you can already see fundamental limits. I think it will raise productivity for some tasks, but not fundamentally change society.
Big depositors are moving their money out of small banks and into big banks because they see that big banks will get bailouts if they get into trouble whereas small banks will only get the 250k insurance.

Nice bit of consolidation. will make it easier for the gov to roll out central bank digital currency and obtain even more control over our lives.
I find dragging-dropping and re-arranging far more expressive for 3D modeling using BlockSCAD than I do the equivalent OpenSCAD code:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/

I'm trying to achieve a similar fluency using OpenSCAD Graph Editor:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

hopefully a future version will be even more useful than BlockSCAD/Blockly.
Why are these putting an uninsured deposit instead of buying equity?
This is not a bailout. This is just what it says: deposits. An anti-bank-run by the other banks.
That's irrelevant to your original claim that React is not a small API. btw, have you seen the DOM API? It's huge!
My guess is that the training data includes things specifically about the GPT itself and its capabilities, so it would be somewhat correct. But it's also known to just make shit up when it feels like it, so you can't 100% trust it, same as with all other prompts/responses.
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That's perfectly reasonable. I have fortunately worked on greenfield projects, so don't have to contend with legacy paradigms.
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as someone spending fair bit of time watching streams on the site for much longer than Shear's tenure, i had no clue who was running the show. unlike the leadership at youtube, an average viewer had no such visibility of what's happening behind the scenes.

and that too, during the most interesting few years twitch has had. people have already listed out the bad parts, but simultaneously the site has broken several (albeit self-set) records.

it is crazy how so many people from mainstream media have interacted in the site, yet it is riddled with a lot of fundamental issues.

good luck to whomever takes over.
If brute force isn’t working, then you are not using enough.
Make one bank to rule them all. Call it The Bank.
If you are going to work with a legacy codebase, then sure. My comment was more about fresh codebases, which are fortunately the only ones I've worked on.
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The WYSIWYG GUI builder that VB provided, I have never encountered afterwards again in quite that manner.

At the time I think delphi did that concept in a better way, and I definitely switched from VB to Delphi as soon as I learned about it. Delphi still exists to this day.

There are also many low code platforms which have a VB-like UI builder, like mendix, or outsystems or microsoft’s power platform, but they tend to be a bit too enterprisey where VB was really the people’s champion.

I think canvas apps in power platform give much of the “feel” of dragging and dropping visual basic forms and let you build actually useful stuff, while targeting web and mobile. The downside of power platform is that as soon as you try to do anything serious with it you need the premium stuff and end up paying a lot. That makes it less suited to take up the niche that VB and Access had, because that niche mostly can’t afford power platform. Contrast that with scratch which is free to use and has a large community of “regular people” sharing cool stuff. Intuitively it seems that Microsoft should make power platform entirely free and use it as a lure for azure paid services, but then it is easy for me to spend their money.

By the way, I still don’t understand how power apps on iOS are according to apple’s guidelines, because you can use it to ship mobile apps to iOS users while entirely bypassing apple.