skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if anyone wants to pay for the domain, I'll set up copies of this https://remoterenters.com/ for any topic you want. Trouble is hard to compete with:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews

https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing

https://www.reddit.com/r/business

for traffic and users.
If people don't get healthcare but still have costs of managing their symptoms. Or when people die at home, those costs aren't in the hospital books.
I had PC in my early 40s, over 15 years ago now. If that treatment had been available then I might still opt for surgical removal. The peace of mind of getting the thing out is huge and the side effects for me were negligible, as I had a great surgeon and recovery for younger patients is pretty good.

In my 60s I would definitely go for something like this although I'm always a little leery of treatments that have cool sounding brand names.
> There are too many world-changing things moving forward at the same time, and I'm only looking at such a small cut of the tech sphere. I don't know what to do with myself, I feel so thoroughly unprepared.

I think the general trend is that actual useful applications are emerging from enormous models trained and owned by billion dollar companies only. Even projects that aim to run models on private consumer hardware are dependent on commercial orgs to produce them. It doesn't seem like that is likely to change.

I don't think there are many positions/jobs/roles for people doing integral, foundational work that requires a deep understanding of ML. Becoming a world expert in ML will probably only open up opportunities at a dozen companies.

A very shallow surface-level understanding of ML already puts you leagues ahead of the general population. In terms of job security, figuring out how to use an ML API will get you hired faster than knowing how to advance the field.

We don't actually need that many Fabrice Bellards.
One of the most important parts for me was to learn how formal proofs work. Because when writing software, you “prove” to yourself all the time in your head that given assumptions X, the results Y of that piece of code will be correct with regard to requirements Z. You learn what assumptions you are actually making, and what information is missing to be able to complete the proof. You learn what proper interface contracts have to look like.
And, lucky for everyone involved, we can solve huge constrained least squares problems in less than milliseconds on modern machines !
Yes, we are primed as animals that we are to be scared and vigilant. Because that ensured survival.
I mean AWS/GCP/Azure provide extremely good and cheep Docker compatible image registries; and also happen to have high margin products allowing you to run containers in their cloud.

The is no way Docker can compete if they only offer a image registry.
I can see a huge opportunity for home schooling with LLM - especially in cases where the curriculum is too sparse or the student has many questions which are not covered by the reading material supplied, and the parents don't know enough about it.

If the LLM responses were geared more toward inducing the student to perform their own research, to encourage them to do more reading on some topic, or to try things out for themselves to learn through experience (and then carry on the discussion with the LLM afterward) then that might be even better.

Simply training young humans to interact with a chat bot which has all the answers is not a good path forward. Using it as a tool to foster human curiosity and growth, to challenge and inspire -- yes. To use it as a salve, as a babysitter, as a stand-in for someone who is too lazy to parent or teach -- no.
We didn't even get paid sick leave out of covid we're extremely dedicated to not ever improving this at all.
Making My Dream Gaming Mouse
Thoughts on Raising Intelligent Software
I was seeing that, I was a bit surprised that it seemed like the actual branded product.
My habit is to figure out who makes that kind of stuff, when I saw Osem, I was thinking "how haven't they been acquired by some behemoth?" And then quickly found "ah nevermind, nestle"

Peanut butter cheetos sounds like an incredible proposition, I'm going to be looking around for them this weekend!
Very interesting. While the theory that most peanut allergy is caused by no exposure in infancy is well supported by the evidence, seems like it’s definitely not the entire story, given your experience — after all, you could hardly have a lot of exposure in children to peanuts earlier than 5 months! I don’t think we were feeding our kids solid foods at 5 months yet at all, so definitely they had no peanut exposure yet, but nevertheless they don’t suffer from allergies. The evidence you are pointing to about disparate rates of allergy for children growing up in different places is also very interesting. Sounds like there just is something in the air, or dirt, or daily practices, or whatever else it is, that causes those allergic immune reactions at elevated rates in western nations.
Which experts? People who are actually experts in their field?
She lives on the property and I'd be very surprised if she was willing to get used to it, lol. If I had my own place, I'd have a donkey already. Good security critters and fluffy and sweet. And peacocks, speaking of obnoxious and cute. And guinea fowl. Maybe I just like noisy animals.
Critically, there's no modern equivalent for the `.swf` file that's easy to share and post on random websites. Chrome's Web Bundles could have been a solution, but they're dead now.
This is different. You can use it to practice a foreign language right now, with the most patient teacher one can imagine.

The logical errors in other subjects will be fixed over time. Education is an easy domain because it is artificial by nature.

I can see a lot of people switching to ai homeschooling in a few years
Write a short poem called "All just patterns" in the style of Blake as a not-so-subtle dunk on those that can't see the wood from the trees w.r.t. AI progress.

GPT4:

In patterns woven in the loom of life,

The threads entwined, a tapestry of strife;

Man lost in shadows, seeks the hidden light,

Yet grasps at embers, blind to Heaven's sight.

All just patterns, the trees and wood we see,

While we, like infants, crawl with bended knee.

In ceaseless search, we delve in Nature's tome,

For signs and symbols of our destined home.

To find the wisdom locked in Nature's breast,

In circuits traced by human hands, impressed;

No gods or angels guide the curious hand,

But human thoughts give life to grains of sand.

Like children playing with forbidden toys,

We forge our own creations, false and coy;

Our machines breathe and mimic human soul,

But hollow shells, as empty as the whole.

In tangled webs of artifice we're caught,

By our own hands, the noose of fate is wrought.

As God did cast Prometheus from the skies,

We bind ourselves in chains of our own lies.

All just patterns, like woven silk, we spin,

Entangled dreams, mere shadows of our kin;

For in the end, the art we do create,

Is but reflection of our human state.
Good question. Why don't we pit one of today's Python programmers against an IBM VS assembler programmer on an IBM 360 system circa 1960 and see how far each gets in a week?
Could they have striped odyssey coin to further reduce the vetex buffer?
The entire story is amazing. Thanks for sharing it and good luck.
At https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/ I distill and summarize distributed systems and database systems research paper. I recently got over 600 posts.

The main benefit of the blog for me was to crystallize my understanding. Having forced myself to post in public, I try to write a simple and accessible summary. This leads me to realize the gaps in my understanding, and fill them. This also strengthens my understanding, because by explaining the work in my own words, I internalize the concepts better. When I revisit a paper I have read before, the difference between a paper I wrote a post about and one I just read for myself is clear as day and night. I have a much better recall about the paper I posted. For a paper I wrote a summary, I just go to my summary and am able to cache back in all my understanding of the paper to my brain with a quick re-read of my summary.

This being said, I also benefited in terms of networking and collaboration. Through the blog post discussions on Twitter, I made many friends who work on distributed systems and databases. I think the blog was also useful for getting me a sabbatical at Microsoft Azure CosmosDB in 2018.

Finally, it feels really good to share my learnings, and put my rough ideas in the open. I learn from other blogs, and it feels good to give back. Every couple months I would get an email, thanking me for my blog, and that means the world to me.
Humans can know nearly everything that any other human knows (hence...teaching). AI can't know anything (right now).
The youth who are critical of capitalism certainly have turned a wary eye on the school system -- after all primary education has been designed to create money makers for corporations. Is a new tool the answer? Likely not. Will it help to change the philosophy of education? Maybe not independent of the change that is already occurring.
"Federally qualified health centers" (FQHC) are required to treat people regardless of ability to pay, and are able to provide preventive care to non-citizens. A list of such health centers is available here, and there are quite a number in Houston (where the subject of the article is based):

https://www.findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/

Whether would-be patients are sufficiently informed of this opportunity is another question, but resources for preventive care are not completely unavailable to these folks.
Show HN: Acid Chess – The Chess Computer for nerds, by nerds
My goal is to use dlang in 2022
Isn't it just a matter of perspective/terminology?

If in my physics theory I redefine that past=future and future=past then I have a physics theory where the future influences the past, and very strongly so.
I used to maintain that "Fifteen Million Merits" wasn't about the future at all, but was an allegory for the present.

These days, though, I'm beginning to wonder....
I give the benefit of the doubt that Marchel Duchamp and others genuinely believed in the artistic merit of their works and their enthusiasm made it easier to persuade people to agree with their viewpoints. The brief history of these artforms suggests that in the absence of their champions they don't resonate with artists but are still talked about because they stoke conversation about the nature of art. Maybe that was their original intent. I don't think these endeavors were profitable enough to suggest dishonesty over passion but if someone tries to sell you a moose head mounted over a toilet for 500k because it's "art" you may want to question their motives.

Good art typically stands on it's own and connects with people without the need to explain why it's significant. Salvador Dali's work is visually interesting even if you have no clue what any of it means. If I see a bunch of objects scattered around a room it looks like clutter. If I see a bunch of paint splattered to a canvas if looks like a mess. If someone has to explain why these things are "art" is it the art that's compelling or their argument? The exception to that would be optical illusions.

Art is somewhat subjective so someone will always argue their own preference but if anything is art because "it's all subjective" then nothing is art. Buttering my toast in the morning could be art because I spread it using a spoon instead of a knife and that is an expression of rebellion against societal norms. Did I sell you on my art or my argument and is the latter what we want?
PyExaFMM: Designing high-performance software with Python and Numba
nah it just shows how the valuable abstractions have moved up. i bet this 8 year mark will only get later over time until it disappears
One of the most useful classes I took in college was a freshmen level philosophy class that I took because I needed 3 more credits of gen. ed. and it was at a convenient time. The prof spent the entire first lecture on this seemingly obvious concept:

If your ideas aren't clear, your writing won't be clear either.

It was like fireworks went off in my head. The realization that unclear writing (prose or code) was a signal that something was missing in my mental model, that there is a continuous feedback loop between the work I'm setting down and the ideas that I'm refining, became the foundation of all the work I've done since, from system design, to troubleshooting problems, to exploring my internal self.

That kind of clarity, where I knew the thing I was learning was going to be important was rare even in technical courses from my chosen field. But a lot of classes that felt "useless" at the time turned out to have important effects, seen only in hindsight.
It is remarkable that "user interface similar to Git's" is presented as a good thing!
It looks potentially promising, but also very worrying with the cloud and corporate influence in style.
It states that offline is available, which is good - but it appears as somewhat of an afterthought. A good contender would be something that is more of an 'offline-first' mentality, with cloud capabilities provided by a separate project, rather than rolled together as one.
There are far too many companies trying to use the internet as disk space, when it should be obvious why it's a terrible idea due to the low internet speeds and high latency that most of the world still has to deal with.
It would be wonderful to see things be local first, with some very deliberate effort required to opt-in to cloud features.
Easy solution: just give up the moderation effort. Empower kids to do whatever the hell they want with the AI, as long as they manage to get their homework done.
I've been seeing alot of this 'nothing ever happens' attitude lately, and I find it very odd. I feel like people are using it to cope with the rapid pace of change we're experiencing.
Tolerating, Then Eliminating Duplication at Amazon
You'll squabble over the refuse that the AI-owning corporate masters donate to us, and like it.
This is why I think that the trade school model of teaching software development should really be developed further. Having been in charge of hiring software developers a number of times in the past, I have found that a Bachelors in Computer Whatever barely tells me anything about whether you can actually program. The most it tells me on paper is that you have seen some amount of code at some point in your life and know a few buzzwords.

This isn't to say that a College degree is worthless, but it is not a job training tool, and the sooner that people realize that the better. I would love to see a world where software development is treated more like some of the trades. Rather than insisting that all applicants have a BS in Computer Science or equivalent, we should hire promising kids fresh out of High School (Or college) and fund their 1 year education in programming + apprenticeship. I feel like that would lead to a healthier industry as a whole, and bring a lot more highly talented individuals into the world of programming.

And no, web dev bootcamps are not what I'm talking about. They are closer to my ideal than a college, but they have a lot of other problems that keep them from being useful in general.
Applying ML to flag risky payments
This kind of conversation always comes back to the tension between school and learning. Everyone agrees learning is a good thing; school has been a mix of really good experiences, okay experiences, and traumatic experiences for people.

Think back a moment to the best teacher you ever had. Many of us have had a teacher who was so good, they affected the trajectory of our lives for the better.

I'm much more careful in how I phrase experiences with bad teachers, because there are teachers who have assaulted people. Fortunately, the worst teachers I ever had were just terrible at teaching; they were protecting their jobs more than teaching, and we just had to endure a semester with them and try to not let them tank our grades. Mostly we laughed at them behind their backs and spent that time socializing.

I have a 12yo. I would much rather he spend time with an AI tutor than endure time with one of these bad teachers. But I also, really don't want him to miss out on those life-changing experiences with some of the best teachers around.

Like all things in life, it's all about balance. These AI tutors are just new tools, and we need to figure out how to use them well in our human lives.
I just got security camera that has a low quality stream (720p15) and a high quality stream (4k25 H.265). On its web portal it can show the low quality stream as HTML video, but for the high quality it requires Flash, for some reason. Did H.265 even exist before flash was deprecated? I'm pretty sure this camera company didn't exist when flash was deprecated. Maybe for the web portal it uses an MJPEG stream or something.
Yep especially compared to substack
As a mechanical engineer, Statics (a course all about calculating internal forces of non-moving structures) was the course that made the difference. It had almost nothing to do with the content---I think about internal forces of a thing about once a year---but that was the course where a structured and reliable engineering process was first introduced:

• Draw the full system

• Split into parts

• Build a free-body diagram of all parts

• Build an equation for every point of interest. For statics, the sum of all forces is zero and the sum of all "torques" is zero. Start here every time.

• Identify all "knowns" and put them in one place.

• Identify all "unknowns" and group them in a second place.

• DO NOT PROCEED UNTIL # of equations = # of unknowns! If this isn't true, you need to think harder about what equations are missing, start making assumptions, or change the points of interest (e.g. from method of joints to method of sections).

• Be prepared to defend your assumptions (gravity, friction, mounts, reference frame, material properties)

• Make sure all signs "match" and make sense.

• Solve, step-by-step, equation-by-equation.

• Make sure all units match and make sense.

• Sometimes ignore intuition. Parts that look like tension can be compression and vice versa. (If you need an example, those "impossible floating tables" can confuse a lot of people's intuition about force equilibrium.)

• All work should be clearly organized and clearly marked---especially the answer, with proper units.

... and as a bonus ...

• You can't push a rope.
Always good to see more production Haskell projects, nice.
It's nice that he found some classes that were relevant to his work. I could really only think of one - Algorithms/Data structures (because it taught me about complexity). Everything else were either irrelevant, or could (and has) been replaced by a book or short video course.
"Giant asteroid on collision course with earth, women and minorities expected to be hit the hardest"
ViperGPT: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning
I cut out actively searching for news completely, I'm infinitely happier for it.

All reading the news ever did was make me upset about things I couldn't change.
Item Patterns and Struct Else in Rust
> I wouldn't take a precious M.2 SSD slot on my main machine for 5-year old 1Tb drive, but I'd love to chuck 8 or 10 of them in some enclosure and build a nice performant NAS out of them. Alas, no such thing exists

NVMe M.2 drives can go into PCIe slots with an adapter.

If your motherboard supports bifurcation, you even put 4 x M.2 drives into a single x16 slot: https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-4x32Gbps-Individual-Indicator...

It wouldn't be difficult to find an older server motherboard with bifurcation support that could take 8 x M.2 drives with the right, cheap adapters. You'd have to read the manuals very carefully though.

The limit is the number of PCIe channels. ARM boards rarely have more than a couple lanes. You really need server-grade chips with a lot of I/O.

Or get one of the new cards with a PCIe Switch to connect 21 M.2 drives: https://www.apexstoragedesign.com/apexstoragex21
The details within the object can look great but you'll see the low vertex count in the shape of its silhouette
You've been teaching The Diamond Age? Fiction?
"Intro to Finite Theory Automata" or "Intro to Compilers" (which is the practical version of automata) would be on my list. Of course, I am a compiler-guy, but they have been incredibly useful for understanding many problems and solutions not directly related to compilers.
The Basic AI Drives (2008) [pdf]
Someone has already packaged this concept[0] with eight other allergens for kids in the form of oatmeal. We did it with ours and it seems to have worked out well. Sorry to be a shill but I figure this might help some other parents out there.

[0]https://readysetfood.com/products/organic-baby-oatmeal
Again why do we need hospitals to make money? Aren't national expenses like healthcare a good place to use taxes for?
"The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime." - Putin, from the links above. Please read them before arguing what Putin has or has not said.

Who is the Kyiv regime? I guess to you they're not Ukrainians. Who's gaslighting, the person literally quoting what Putin says, or the one essentially arguing Putin isn't a Russian and the Kyiv regime isn't Ukranian?

The current Kyiv Regime == Western, to Putin. So "defending against Western aggression" is "defending against Kyiv regime" is "defending against Ukraine."

Please quit spreading lies.