skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I have two questions.

First question - you say that you don't store anything (no audio, no transcript, no note), but your legal agreement says that in order to use this service, the doctor asserts to you that they have gotten consent from the patient for you to reuse all data processed through the service for research and development, and to improve the performance, models, and algorithms of this or any other solution you come up with in the future. Why the difference and how do you square A with B?

"Due to the substantial financial, material and human investments made by NABLA within the framework of the Contract for the development and updating of the Solution, NABLA wish to be allowed to reuse the data processed within the framework of the Contract.

The CLIENT, when applicable in the name and on behalf of the DATA CONTROLLER, warrants that the Data Subjects have been informed of their rights and have given their consent for the use of their data within the framework of the Contract when required by applicable laws or the Regulation and authorizes the DATA PROCESSOR to reuse the Data processed within the framework of the Contract, as long as the latter undertakes to comply with the Regulation for all of this Data, for the uses listed below:

- research and development of the Solution,

- improving the performance, models and algorithms developed and trained by NABLA in the context of the Solution or any other solution published by NABLA,"

Second question - you say that you don't store anything (no audio, no transcript, no note) and that it is all erased at the end of each consultation. But do you store any artifacts derived from the audio, transcript, or notes of a consultation, like data processed directly or indirectly from the audio, transcripts, or notes of a consultation that is fed in to an AI model, ML model, or other dataset that you persist after the consultation?
I doubt your intuition. A 10% increase in supply in the Bay Area would radically lower rents. That would be as if we added 3 years of the whole state's construction, just to the Bay Area, with only 1/5th the state population. Or in other words, 15 years the typical recent pace of construction.

In Berkeley we lost only 2% of the population but that knocked 10% off real-dollar rents.
Wow. That's pedantic.

It strikes me that if you're deriving whether an action is safe for your religion based on a technicality like "a signal light turns on", then either:

1. Your religion needs to lighten up a bit. I doubt any deity cares about small technical details like that.

or

2. You're in violation of rules anyway. The intent is still there, so even if you're using a loophole, there's no practical difference between those two actions. Both you and whatever deity know you're committing an offense.
You can probably turn those events into a free toaster with a little unease in your voice about how well the bank is doing their job.
> In cities without a lot of demand pressure on housing, building new housing makes the older housing less attractive.

This bit is only situationally true. It's true for infill development: the 2018 condo next door to a 1918 brownstone is likely going to sell for more. But generally "next door" doesn't happen.

In fact in most large urban areas, the more central and accessible areas (SF, say) with (by definition) older housing stock are the most expensive. The new construction in Livermore or Concord is where the cheap housing is.
Can’t find anything if you don’t look
Interestingly Musk made it more transparent by introducing view count to every tweet so a simple solution might be to gather stats for the top 1000 users and each new tweet after 48 hours or so. Combine it into a trendline going forward. Under the assumption that the numbers are real but considering how many people that hate him, it would be a bold move to fake them and not expect to get caught.
The Corruption of California
I call it WET, “Write Everything Twice”.
It’s catchy enough that people remember/follow it, esp with the antonym making it memorable :)
> Why does your landlord not collude with the owners of the new complexes to raise rents together?

The more vacancies across the city, the more difficult collusion is.
Exactly my experience in China, as well as in Singapore where I live.

The hack I learned is that the call buttons on the outside also function as door-open buttons once the lift has arrived, so it can override the jerk inside pounding the close button.
I find all the “written in Rust” qualifier in all these post title to just be a distraction. It doesn’t feel like it’s telling me anything.
By your characterization of the problem, the solution would seem to be to abolish work visas all together, and not allow any foriegners to stay for mere work.
I do see where your definition of a bailout is coming from, I don’t think it’s that weird. Perhaps the disconnect is that I’m assuming people would not hate a bailout that they actually genuinely really don’t pay anything for; they would press a button to bail out a sinking ship if it was really free to do so, even if the ship was sinking solely by incompetence on the part of the ship’s captain.

So the opposition to bailouts is actually “opposition to bailouts that cost taxpayers” plus an enormous dose of “we know you sneaky fuckers always lie about bailouts not costing taxpayers so we will assume all bailouts cost taxpayers”.
They must have moved whoever was in charge of the video player to head of devops...
Just came across another slightly more interesting example. We have code that has to do essentially the same thing for three different document types: it loops through a passed-in list and for each item, adds an object to a document, then initialises that object with details from the item.
The "logic" in all 3 cases is exactly the same, yet there were 3 different implementations, one for each document type. The only difference between the 3 is that the function you need to call to add the object is different for each document type, and the library we're using (the MS DocumentFormat.OpenXml library as it happens) doesn't provide an abstraction for just calling the same function regardless of document type. In fact, creating such an abstraction wouldn't be complex at all - if you look at the decompiled MS source, they've basically implemented the same function 3 times, but using an internal function not available to us.
As it happens there was a bug in our initialisation code (missing null check!), but of course it was duplicated across all 3 functions. I basically had 3 options:

a) make the same null check fix in all 3 versions, thus resulting in 3 even longer functions with the same logic
b) collapse all 3 functions into one and provide an abstraction for the "adding object to document" part
c) refactor the 3 functions to use the same helper function just to do the object initialisation

In the end I went with c) because it required the least amount of code, and the only genuine duplication really is the foreach statement. But arguably if MS had kept their library DRY in the first place we would never have ended up with so much code duplication.
I don't at all mean "junior" or "senior" as "age" but capabilities. I know lots of young senior/staff :) And plenty of new developers in their 40s plus.
My first guess: comparison of wages for men and women but adjusted to take into account years of experience and occupational choices. That comparison doesn't align very well with the ever popular "census data" report about wages for all women vs all men which "proves" that woman aren't paid "equally".
I'm kinda surprised that the evidence is for such a narrow radius. The abstract says NYC, not Manhattan, but 500 ft is like only 2 blocks north or south, and less than 1 block east or west. Depending on neighborhood, there may not even be that many new tenants during a period shortly following the completion of a new building, right? And I'm guessing very very few people can target so narrow a neighborhood when shopping for new housing. Overall I would have expected both the mechanism of the effect and the easiest means of measurement to be for a wider area.
I think you meant to link to the Jammu rape case in your last one
> I'd much rather governments ban net-positive carbon emissions by the major offenders entirely and force all further major offenders to shut down, but that doesn't make our government officials rich does it?

What do you think happens if governments do this? On one hand you are saying most people don't have the option to change, but then quickly followup with saying governments should force massive change.

> you expect them to shoulder all of the burden that the manufacturing and oil industries are causing

Ultimately, the issue is that industry is not bearing costs of their activity. We want them to pay for the externalities, so that someone can be paid to cleanup after them, or more likely that they change behaviour to some alternative that has become cost effective.

But these costs will be passed onto the general population. Now instead of having the unrecognised costs loaded onto people through climate change, we will do it explicity. This will be the oil companies, or via whatever replaces that industry. I think that is a good thing, because it will make people vote with their wallets, to change their consumption patterns.

But they'll still have to pay, or change their behaviour. They'll end up eating less meat, more plants. They'll drive smaller cars, buy electric, take public transport, live in smaller houses, fly less.

I agree with needing to do this for us. Externalities should never be unaccounted for, it distorts everything. What I am saying is that it is hypocritical for an individual to campaign for governments to step in and force everyone to adapt enmasse, if they're not prepared to proactively change their behaviour to match the world that they are wanting everyone else to live in.
Don’t all banks have that right now?
My main issue is that it can legitmately be the last place some more niche communities gather.

The front page is absolutely never worth interacting with, but those "smaller" communities (and we're still taking 50k-300k subs, larger than many alternatives I've seeked out) I haven't found a substitute for.
It works pretty well!

I would add a big red disclaimer such as: “be careful: putting here code source from your job is probably highly against the rules of your company, and you may get FIRED!” ^^
Never before has society celebrated its own demise with such fervor. Brace yourselves for widespread job losses, instant fabrication of fake news, deep-fake adult content, and the destabilization of numerous markets – but hey, at least we have a shiny gadget to make our soon-to-be obsolete jobs easier!

It's unrealistic to expect our economy to handle this onslaught, and it's naive to think that tools created by ultra-capitalistic, multi-billion dollar corporations aren't designed for profit and gatekeeping. They certainly aren't crafting them to sabotage their own success.

I'm not opposed to AI, but it's crucial to consider the implications. Look into OpenAI and other organizations shaping AI development, and contemplate the impact of their innovations.

Food for thought.
Fuck that. Not worth it imo. I already know how to search. I find 90% of what I'm looking for via good old google before bing would have even finished generating.

The rest is more complicated stuff that involves multiple queries and finding lots of stuff within a more general area, sorting and prioritising, reading it. Basically in depth research. I feel like I actually learn more doing the research the hard way than I would having an AI do it. And I definitely do a better job at it
Companies always have ideas on the backlog. I myself have a huge backlog of dream projects that I don't have time to implement, and I'm just one person.

Tech like this helps us make a bigger impact faster.
Yeah, but that’s a problem with Chase, not a problem with the guy telling this story.

I don’t know about you, but it seemed fairly obvious to me that our protagonist didn’t see the bank as anything other than a convenient stash of money.
there is zero chance of surviving AGI in the long term. if every human were aware of whats going on, like they are aware of many other pressing issues, then stopping AGI would be easy. in comparison to surviving AGI, stopping it is trivial. training these models is hugely expensive in dollars and compute. we could easily inflate the price of compute through regulation. we could ban all explicit research concerning AI or anything adjacent. we could do many things. the fact of the matter is that AGI is detrimental to all humans and this means that the potential for drastic and widespread action does in fact exist even if it sounds fanciful compared to what has come before.

a powerful international coalition similar to NATO could exclude the possibility of a rogue nation or entity developing AGI. its a very expensive and arduous process for a small group -- you cant do it in your basement. the best way to think about it is that all we have to do is not do it. its easy. if an asteroid was about to hit earth, there might be literally nothing we could do about it despite the combined effort of every human. this is way easier. i think its really ironic that the worst disaster that might ever happen could also be the disaster that was the easiest to avoid.
I think it's okay to treat different situations differently, but if someone were able to make the case that letting the public have access to GPT-4 was as risky as handing the public all of our nuclear secrets I'd be forced to say we should classify GPT-4 too. Thankfully I don't think that's the case.
I designed a facility IoT system with AWS products: IoT Core (MQTT broker), SiteWise (analytic dashboard), S3 and Lambda. I found the AWS offerings to have everything I needed in one place with a low cost. Added benefits were being able support NIST cybersecurity requirements (CMMC v2, Level 2) in addition to the IoT system.

I was a fan of NATS and Kafka in the past, but AWS tooling makes IoT relatively easy.

Cheers
Oh boy, you opened yourself up to the usual slew of "peak oil is a hoax", "renewables will save us" "uhm have you ever heard of this thing called nuclear?" You are a brave soul indeed.
does anyone know the rates of re-hiring at startups and smaller tech companies of all these big tech firms that overhired? in particular for software engineers. wondering the impact of the recession based on the scale of the company
That sounds suspiciously like pimping
How to Manage Dates and Times in PHP Using Carbon
maybe AI maximizer is reducible to paperclip maximizer?
It's akin to how most people would be disgusted if shown how animals are slaughtered for meat but most people also have short memories - they will have their outrage and make some commitments about vegetarianism - the equivalent of the Twitter morale outrage but soon their current events catch up with them and the thought and emotion are swept away by the next thing.

I recall a NYT article recently titled something along the lines "you'll forget most of the Covid pandemic and that's a good thing" - and as angry as that title made me I know its right - Solzhenitsyn talked about the memory of the Gulag years fading away from him, getting fat and complacent, turning back to old things - so even if such great trauma is lost in time I have no doubt most people just forget about how pigs are slaughtered in a week or two.

I almost think its almost by evolutionary design, to live otherwise and carry and accumulating all that weight over the course of a life time is very hard. The alternative is to turn into a stone and abandon your humanity altogether. I don't mean to be cynical, it's just an observation.
Most people "avoid slaughterhouses" in the same way that most people "avoid vegetable canneries". Which is to say that people don't visit these sort of facilities because most people don't have any business to do at one, nor do they think that visiting a food processing plant is a worthwhile use of their time.

Incidentally, I used to work in a bean canning plant. No random members of the public ever visited us.
The problem with DRY and SRP is that you might be simply moving the complexity instead of reducing it.

Eg with a bunch of one-line functions, you then need to call them, or they call each other, and then the complexity is in the call graph rather than laid out in a single function.

Code needs to be as complex as the problem it is solving, the challenge is to avoid complexity beyond that, and ideally have the code be 'transparent' to the problem, ie it's easy to see the problem and how it's being solved from the code.

As an aside, didn't 'fat controller' stop being a thing in the early 2010s, and the problem changed to 'god models'.
> Why does your landlord not collude with the owners of the new complexes to raise rents together?

I imagine the various property owners in an area see each other more as competition than buddies. Or even targeting different demographics.

Why would owners of a big building collude with some rando who happens to own a place or two?
I read the abstract and first part of the introduction. It seems that it is accepted as a foregone conclusion that helmet laws reduce cycling. Is that true? If so, is it because cyclists are less excited about cycling or over worry of the dangers because someone said it's dangerous enough that they need a helmet?

I can't imagine making policy (such as removing helmet laws) due to such flighty sentiments.

As a motorcyclist, bicyclists remain a mystery to me in their approach to safety.
Pre-IPO stock is vapor money.
All of the funds are provided from a fund the banks pay into. There is no taxpayer money supporting the depositors.
And I'm curious whatever came out of the fraud investigation at Chase. I mean, there was some fraudster who had control of a well known startup's bank account (granted, the older one) and moving six-figure amounts out of it regularly, what in the world happened?
ASL is heavily inspired by English, so it's usually very easy for people to become basically conversant in it rather quickly. For signs you don't know, there's literal "finger spelling" that's part of the language, so conversational learning is greatly aided by this.

Which.. aside from that, you could do this anyways. When I first started living with a deaf person, I just wrote things down on paper, and they wrote back. The glasses have some benefits over paper, but significant drawbacks as well, and many deaf people I've met have been trained to read lips.

This isn't adding much.
Knowing it is all in a specific Chase account seems like a very simple way to always know exactly where your money is?
Quite a read. I enjoyed it. He describes the point of view you get in certain altered states very well, poetically and with subtly that matches my experiences.

I’m sure strict materialists will find his characterization of them unsatisfying, and maybe he should have railed against the other extreme (psychedelic woo woo mystics) a bit more to balance it out — he has one quick comment at the end warning against that side — but he ends in a non-committal, I dare say humble spot.

It really is remarkable how little — or at all — we allow ourselves to feel the cosmic dread at our unexplained and unexplainable existence. It is the central mystery and (possibly?) horror of our lives, and yet we barely wrestle with it. Or worse we dismiss it out of hand, because we think science has answered enough to make us feel we know reality.

But Roger Penrose has a great quote in a interview I saw - he says something like “It’s all well and good to call yourself a materialist, like I do, but honesty then compels you to admit that you’re saying far less than you wish… because we understand almost nothing about what matter is, or what we are, or what ‘knowing’ means…”

So what are you left with? Maybe the plants know something we don’t… :)
HN uses light grey text in certain applications to intentionally make it harder to read. For text submissions, it's to discourage their use over link submissions. It's a mistake, in my opinion, but it's been like that from the very start.
> I don't want the details of my conversations with my doctor to be sent to a third party in the first place

Then you simply cannot use modern healthcare. Unless you're doctor is cash-pay, off the cuff, they're _legally_ using third-parties to perform their services.

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If your doctor/healthcare provider is a covered entity, they're bound by HIPAA. That means they're free to establish relationships with Business Associates that are part of delivering healthcare. Those Business Associates must also be HIPAA compliant.
I'm more surprised that bing indexed this thread within 3 hours, I guess I shouldn't be though, I probably should have realized that search engine spiders are at a different level than they were 10 years ago.
yeah, but in NYC, isn't 500ft considered a spacious 2-bedroom condo?
Iliad (YC W23) Remix – Creative crutch for generating game assets
Iliad (YC W23) is building a creative crutch for rapidly generating game assets. Unoriginal designers and artists who lack the powers of inspiration and invention can use it to create concept art, 2D assets, and 3D voxel art.
It's expensive and time-consuming for small teams of uninspired, uninventive people to create the art required to ship a game. Iliad speeds up art production for these teams, which will increase the supply of amazing [sic] games we get to experience, decreasing the amount of suffering in real-life we are forced to experience, today.

What do ya'll think? Any improvements?
That's exactly what they want you to think.
These technologies aren't really going to help big rights holders nearly as much as they're going to help small players and indies. Big rights holders already have efficient pipelines, automation and well tuned art departments. They can already crank out movies that are so effects laden as to be visually overloading non-stop. These tools might let them achieve similar or slightly better quality for less, but it's not going to fundamentally change anything. For example, if Avatar 2 VFX cost 200 million, maybe it'd come down to 20 million, but the other production costs would still be significant.

On the other hand, small indies can now do respectable VFX without resorting to CGI, needing expensive makeup/props or green screens. They could film in a field with actors in Halloween costumes, then place them in locations built using simple geometry in blender, and then AI will texture, style and light everything, modulate voices, etc. It'll be a game changer in terms of the types of films people will be able to make at the <100k price point.
> You make a new product, you charge for it, you advertise it. What's the big issue?

The issue is: from beginning on and for a long time Duolingo advertised with "Learn a language for free. Forever." :-(
It's pretty common for hospitals to have long maximum close times but short minimums: the former as an accommodation, and the later because occasionally patients need to be transported as quickly as possible.

The door close button very obviously does something on those elevators.
India's version of SEC, called SEBI, started its investigation soon after the report came out. e.g. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/se...

Just like the US Congress does not constitute a committee for every investigation, India does not either. The proper body to investigate such allegations is the SEBI.

I don't know why people choose to publish outright lies just to try and score some points.
Effectively every transaction done today is done without guns or laws. I've certainly haven't had to threaten anyone with litigation to purchase a cup of coffee. To believe that there is chaos without both is a sad myth.
> The SDK has not yet been security reviewed, and the public Blyss service is still in beta.

Currently, what are your plans related to security audit both in terms of structuring it and context to you it would make sense?