skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2/3 false positives

It's a screening blood test which, when positive, makes you go get a more serious exam. So the effect of a false positive is that you get, say, an MRI. So at worst, 3x the required number of MRIs will be taken due to such screening. It's not even excessive irradiation of people.

> we don't have enough evidence yet to support this as screening

For the general population, you may be right, I'm not an epidemiologist. For people with a strong family history of prostate cancer it's a different story. The point is the different people need to consider different checkups based on their personal medical situation and family history.

> literature is 3% infection rate requiring hospitalization

Prostate cancer rarely requires hospitalization - unless you do nothing about it for so long that it metastasizes. Otherwise, treatment is typically as an outpatient. So that metric is also not really relevant I would say.

> PSA screening does not improve overall mortality

Again, wrong metric. You can wait until symptoms appear and still have very low chances of mortality, but the damage due to treatment is much more significant.

The point is to catch the prostate cancer early enough, that treatment can get rid of it with very little damage to surrounding tissue.

> this is not true in US, to a minimal extent in Canada

In the US, a large part of the population is not even cared for medically: There is no universal automatic coverage of residents.

Also - medical health providers can easily bring up arguments such as those you have brought up, to avoid screening even conditionally for various health risks.

So I believe you have an overly lenient evaluation of screening policies.

> The reason no one is pushing PSA screening on you is because most physicians don't believe it

Based on your questionable choice of arguments and facts, I am not very credulous that this statement is indeed true, and that a proper survey with the proper question and relevant information has been put to the relevant physicians.

At any rate, at least first link you gave, to the description of the issue by the AUA, is very saddening, because they also mis-represent the dilemma, and apparently aren't bothered about people's quality of life as long as they don't die. I've been told otherwise by more than one Eurologist, and with an insistence to the degree of making me set a phone calendar appointment several years from now to remind me to go get my first PSA blood test.
Memory management/performance are just among the most obvious points of comparison when looking at Rust versus other languages. Ergonomics come up too, though less often, and with less agreement on how good they are, since it's a pretty subjective judgement on a mixed bag of features and syntax.
> Isn't openAI only charging something like a 20th of a penny per interaction right now?

They don't charge per interaction, but per token. The chat models range from a fifth of a cent per 1000 tokens to 12 cents per thousand tokens (depending on whether it's gpt-3.5, or the 8k limit gpt-4, or the 32k limit gpt-4, and, for gpt-4 models, also prompt v. response tokens.)
They are a replacement for cities not for all road travel, same way trucks aren't going to be replaced by scooter, it's a different mode of transportation better suited for shorter distances. The comparison could be valid if you filter the car travel for <15km of planned route.
You don’t think tit for tat is a good strategy in this situation?
The Python quiz code is easily read as identical to the equivalent syscalls. You can click through to the answers and read them out of the docstrings without ever running a Python interpreter (that's what I did).
The biggest issue is attribution.

How many shares should I get versus you?

Next you have the problem with all your early employees leaving if you give them too much equity.

Also at some point new products would cannibalize old products.

Next is the issue with attracting startup and growth capital.
"we" do not pay them for doing it. Government does and is not asking us. We are just a cowards that do not have enough guts to protect our rights or hoping that as long as it is not me it is fine.
And Alex the Great conquered from Greece to India in his 20s. Doesn't mean random 20 year olds should expect to be able to now.
Btw, https://towerrecords.com is baaack!
There is also a set of study guides that go with the old Britannica Great Books set called "The Great Ideas Program"! Somewhat hard to find nowadays though.
6 months if you're a college-sophmore-level student doing it part-time (my own experience + numbers), I'd estimate 3-4 weeks if you were spending more than 3hrs/day on it and knew 2 other languages.
Getting a bit old....
I've found that the code it produces is on par with what a mid-level developer could come up with if they were working with you, but the difference is that it generates the code in seconds rather than minutes.

While you still need to keep an eye on the generated code, it saves you a ton of time and effort in typing it all out yourself. Plus, it can be a big help when you're stuck and not sure where to start, or just feeling too lazy to think through a problem.

As an example, I recently needed some code to create an ASCII spinner, something I am perfectly capable of doing myself, but I just could not be bothered to do it again. The tool was able to generate working code for me almost instantly. Then, when I wanted to try out different spinner animations with different characters, I was able to easily iterate and generate new code without having to scour the internet for examples by just saying: "Give me another one with different animation".

People here like to pretend that it's the end of the world if the code it creates contains errors, but in reality, with the type of work most people do - it is perfectly okay to use it. And if you work in a nuclear power plant or on life-saving code just don't. It's as easy as that.
Rust is cute until you notice your project build creates 50GB of ... something.
How many people live in the Rockies though? And how many live in relatively flat cities. You're not wrong I just think that this is akin to saying EVs aren't practical in the US because of Alaskan winters.
As far as I know, yes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323

"Specifically, GPTQ can quantize GPT models with 175 billion parameters in approximately four GPU hours, reducing the bitwidth down to 3 or 4 bits per weight, with negligible accuracy degradation relative to the uncompressed baseline."

This would be 175 billion 3 bit weights instead of 175 billion 16 (or 32!) bit weights. It massively reduces the size of the model. It makes loading it in ram on consumer computers feasible. The number of parameters stays the same.
I'd love to have both of these, to be honest.
Doesn't autism have a whole set of extra social issues like not being able to understand emotions of others?
I trust myself and market forces more than labor union executives tbh and am not willing to outsource my agency to labor union
Irreplaceable humans
It's a self-serving article by the corporate elites to get people comfortable with the idea of returning to the office. Some VP is gonna point to these types of articles and say covid is no longer an issue, back to works guys.

Kinda how like Zuckerberg recently pointed to bogus 'reports' on in-office workers being more productive than remote workers, and then used it as an excuse to RTO. Except it's funnier in that case since Meta is all about the metaverse and being remote, so it's kinda ironic.
I agree that is super important and maybe worth mentioning but the point of the quiz is to demonstrate that Linux's implementation is actually more constrained than the traditional "unique src addr/port dst addr/port 4-tuple" (for TCP).
Ask HN: What is the story behind the ternary operator?
I would like to understand the ternary operator better, to know its origin and the creator of it.
I think we’re a little early for that
Not sure where you are from — in the US at least, most urban cores already have a bunch of space wasted on roads. If we just cut those out and split the recovered space, it should be fine. Bikes only need a couple yards or meters of width devoted to them.
every 10-15yrs. like the set interval of a ground swell, traversing the pacific ocean. Sets roll in, the surfers waiting turn and paddle hard. How unimaginative we are
If the WASM module has no GC'able objects, then there'd be no reason for the GC to run. At least in theory. Certainly the 0 GC'able object case seems like an easy optimization.
Phenomenal! Good books are critical, and were formative to me. Add Life of Fred for math and you're golden.
There's nothing wrong with doing it for the money.

I care about my income, pick good jobs and negotiate my salary. I also care about technology, and care about the quality of the product I work on. I don't care about "family" or whatever.

If you're in tech for the money, and the money dries up, you'll leave. That was my point. I personally work in tech because I enjoy technology and I enjoy software development (the money helps). I don't think ill of someone who is in it for the money, money is important. That said, if you're in it for the money, and you're not in-tune with the industry (or trying), I won't shed a tear if you have trouble staying in it during a down-cycle.

I do think ill of managers who are in it just for the money and don't care about anything beyond their middle-management fiefdom. I've worked with plenty of them, and I enjoyed working with none of them, and I think they've all had a bad affect on the success of the business (especially at scale).
Hmm, so you did mention my data, but didn't acknowledge that I must at least be somewhat informed.

I don't think fringe is a pejorative.

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Yes, finding issue with the schools is part of the response. However, complaining about the schools is not a great victory for those arguing for homeschooling. They would have to provide a superior alternative. And there isn't overwhelming evidence that either is better, because there are so many variables. And a good study would try to control for them, so it is good that the one you mentioned did.

Everybody knows schools have problems and many try to solve them or have their children go to other schools.

When parents say their kid can't possibly go to any school that has other kids in it, though in some cases, it is a bit like Munchausen's syndrome where the parent invents a problem wants to step in and be the hero. And that is difficult for a lot of children to handle.
That's true; those streamers tend to be the ones who have made it and have "tenure" now.
i collect these for fun!

more here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#bac...
If you're satisfied with the results who cares what it thinks it is
Didn’t realize this was the 90s again.
When the US says jump, Germany asks: how high?
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There have been some papers and articles on it. Apparently it's possible (with GPT3 anyway, maybe not GPT4).
> I hope cyclists are prepared for actually being held accountable to laws

What percentage of cyclist do you think are breaking the law?

> The police budget isn't going to refill itself.

Ticketing is not the main source of revenue for policing (thank goodness)
> tools like GPT potentially disrupting our careers on a timescale best viewed on the scale of months.

GPT is cool, and has a lot of potential uses, but don't be scared by the hype.

The biggest impact GPT is going to have on most people's software careers is that everyone will have to include "Prompt engineering" on their resumes in the very near future, and data science/ML folks are going to have to answer a lot more questions about transformers by people who have never heard of "Attention is all you need", even though the deepest they'll have to dive into the subject in practice is a few api calls.
Happily Linux is at most a 32-year old accretion of mistakes (and I'm not completely confident 0.01 even had TCP).
Because Germany has good living standards in many cities and salary is not as bad as you indicate.

I would consider moving to Germany before considering the UK. I certainly wouldn't ever move to the US.

The only place you mentioned I would rank above Germany is Switzerland.
Your username says it all :)
Yes Rust is significantly harder than go. It's diametrically opposite if there was a circle of complexity.

I honestly have no clue how someone without low level experience (eg. never did systems level programming) even approaches Rust.

The ownership model makes sense to me but if I had to grok manual memory management and rust abstractions on top of it at the same time I think I would be unable to contribute even trivial stuff for a month.

Oh and coming from a dynamic language background at that ?

Not saying can't be done just saying time till contributing is probably weeks-months.

With go it's probably days.
> Let's start with the idea, "If all A's are B's, then there is no information contained in 'x is a B' that is not also contained in 'x is an A'."

All humans are primates, but not all primates are human: the two ideas are not interchangeable. I'm not equivocating; I'm simply saying that it bothers me when people who implicitly philosophize think or say that they are not.

> That said, it is trivially true that the way that science is carried out demonstrates that they have adopted an implicit philosophy. But that philosophy was mostly developed by scientists themselves, and I've never seen it accurately described by philosophers.

That a truth is trivial does not make it self-evident.

Methodological naturalism is not the same thing as philosophical naturalism, but many people (scientists and otherwise) conflate the two. Whether the philosophy is true or not is a metaphysical question, not a scientific one.
In any city I lived in in the last 10 years ebike would be stolen or at least the battery would be, in minutes.
This is a very good point on thinking about engineering sustainability
1000% this. Having worked in Haskell and having learned rust the past couple years. I love Haskell, but Rust really married a ton of the good parts of Haskell with a lot of "soft skill" elements that allowed it to graduate beyond being mostly a research language. It matters that in Rust I don't need to go read some blog posts about type theory if I want to make an API endpoint. It's not even that Haskell the language requires that, Haskell the culture requires that because there aren't (or at least weren't a few years ago) that many people promoting practical Haskell.
It started as an FTL knockoff and ended as a space opera.
Running isn’t necessarily the issue. The moat is creating a high-quality model like OpenAI has, which (and here the article is mistaken) doesn’t seem to be easily reproducible.
I don’t know if “backroom deals” means “relationship deals”. Basically every private bank operates with relationship deals, meaning they know who you are, what you do, and they know your assets, on which the relationship manager can make a call what kind of loans or other services to provide.

What SVB did was that they know your are vc/founder who raised from a16z or whatever and have this many assets etc. Because of that information they were willing to give you a loan on favorable terms because see low risk defaulting on your loans. Based on quick google search Jason Calacanis net worth around is $60-120M. It seems reasonable that he should be able to pay mortgage with that net worth and SVB might want to come by his house to maintain the relationship.

How every other bank does it: they look at your credit score, ask 2 years salary, ask if you own 20% of any company and some other basic questions. The feed it to some algorithm running in cobalt which gives them answer if it’s good to go or no. They don't care about your profession (except if it's something illegal or qustionable), the fact that you run $100M business or your personal assets. You might have $10M equity portfolio but normal bank doesn’t care because it’s not part of their mortgage/model questionnaire. If you say yes to 20% company ownership question, their model then tells them to in the company revenue (again not assets but taxes and revenue) and the answer likely might be no because ge banks don’t like bank entrepreneurs (even if company has $100M in their bank account).

IMO SVB knew much more about the people they were making loans for than most common banks. Their main risk there was that they had huge tech industry concentration that could hurt them if tech completely melts down).

Common banks models optimized to dealing with companies and people who are cash poor who then need loans to bridge whatever they are trying to do. The primary way to asses risk is look at their cashflow the past 2 years.

(Disclaimer: I don’t have loans or deposits in SVB. I did apply for the mortgage with but didn’t take it)
Your regularly sounds like something that happens on the weekends. My regular is taking 2 kids to school everyday and leaving my bike parked out in the rain year round. Not all bikes have enough trail room to fit a double legged kickstand and I have never seen a stem lock fitted on anything other than a moederfiets/transportfiets (not a lock smith 'key and lock' but a 'twist' lock to lock the stem to take your kid out of the front seat without the front wheel spinning around on you).

My point is just that if you're planning on replacing a car with a bycicle there are already solved problems for kids transportation.
Weeds out people who didn't memorize an answer to a well known test. But it's more efficient to discuss a real world code problem as this allows you to weed out people who can't solve problems or code either.
Australia and NZ had much more successful conversions to the metric system than Canada but there are people alive today who would have used the Fahrenheit scale early in their lives. Contrast this with non commonwealth countries who converted to the metric system 100 years earlier than the commonwealth.

UK Metrication: 1978 (partial)

Canadian Metrication: 1976 (partial)

Australian Metrication: 1988

NZ Metrication: 1976

French Metrication: 1858

German Metrication: 1872

Mexican Metrication: 1857
did you try bun?
it is exactly what you just described
> That's not the reason why the centre of the universe is undefined.

Be patient. It hasn't been evaluated just yet.
Yeah, but once GC is an option 99% of the sites you are going to visit will utilize it and use as much resources that they could ever "get away" with.
I live in what would be called a 15 minute city, but we don't really call it that.

I just bring a bag or two and ride my bike to the store. Or if I'm downtown, which is a 10 minute train ride away, I'll stop by the grocery store next to the station before hopping on the train and just carry my groceries in a bag or put em in my backpack.

The only times I choose to drive are when I want to get a large quantity of something lightweight, like toilet paper or paper towels.

I typically don't buy a lot at once, I'll plan my meals for the next few days and only buy what I know will definitely get eaten to reduce waste.
This is absolutely a thing.
The British pioneered it with the Metropolitan line and swathes of suburban London with developed this way; they called it ‘Metro-land’.

Japan ran hard with the idea too.

A recent example would be Crossrail being partly funded by Canary Wharf, Heathrow Airport, and a large UK Housebuilder.
Go for it! Really enjoying it :)
> increase of co2 have a huge effect on plant grow especially in hash deserted conditions.

Which might sound good for crops but of itself can destabilise ecosystems, African savannahs are already becoming scrubbier with brush and shrubs due to more CO2 enrichment for at least ~1 million and possibly several million years. That will definitely have implications for populations of animals adapted for grassland
Actually, HN offering to give old, new or unprefixed links to reddit based on a preference here would be neat :-)
Well let’s make cycling safer with proper infrastructure then.
Ars: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove IA hurt sales”
The author does seem to be alive and well today, has a load of various websites and projects. Also on instagram https://www.instagram.com/allenbukoff/
Guarantees about those things are impossible to add after a language/community abandons them, and you can Arc::<RWLock<T>> your way to writing Java pretty fast. I hold that keeping the strongest-possible abstractions is the best decision, even if that means your average developer needs to learn borrow checking. I've started a career writing Java, spent a year with Rust, and when I came back to Java my data structures were 5x as useful. I could spit out features _WITHOUT_NULLPOINTER_ISSUES_ in hours where previously it would have taken a week.

Yes there is a skill gradient, but everyone who doesn't climb that hill is a fool and a weaker team member for it in my opinion.
baryta is barite, not baria. baria is not just caustic but also toxic and prone to produce dangerous peroxides

i think the price i cited for it is retail, locally

i was interested in density for psychological effects when i made the list

thanks for the tip about barium zirconate; it sounds very promising. how about lead zirconate?
The current webdev paradigm is "treat JS as bytecode". We have enormous build processes that compiles high-level languages (TS, JSX, SASS etc) into "low-level" and unreadable JS/CSS/HTML. The latter were supposed to be the high-level language interfaces to the browser. It's a mess.

We'll be much better off with an actual compilation target i.e. WASM, full stop.
>I don't know where you learned shell scripting, but your formatting is very confusing

i don't know where you learned English composition, but I can't follow your critique. are you pointing out your preferences (which may well match gnu or bsd standards, i don't know tell me) or things that actually make a difference? Did he break emacs auto-indent? Are you pointing out all the flaws or the correct ways, i'm having to eyeball diff. Use more of your words.

while
do

doesn't seem substantially worse/confusing compared to while;do unless you have some reason?

spacing out ;; does it make a difference? or do you like things spaced out?

etc.
> Write me a fanfic where the Animorphs battle the truck from Duel, but in the style of Mark Twain

Whoa. I want to read this! Duel - what a great film. Twain - amazing writer. Animorphs - published after my teen years but sounds like a great story!
The Reddit Mods/Moderation Is Out of Control
not yet that is.
Man I remember seeing the comparison but for an apple ibook g3 (The one with the handle :P)!
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