skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a few pieces of advice from friends in healthcare:

1. try to mention keywords to know how bad the condition is affecting you. If you're vague they don't know just how bad your situation could potentially be. Apparently saying "homebound" could be key for me since despite the medium nature of my symptoms, the combination of them all has effectively kept me homebound. The other big problems drs care about is affect on fundamental biological processes, like heart, breathing, eating, vision, sex etc...

2. Go prepared to appointments with data and history with dates. I've been told doctors appreciated patients that take their disesase seriously and are organized. (yet to work for me lmao but I think it makes sense)

3. Focuse on the top symtpom and maybe up to 2 others, but don't bring too much up or else it could be too messy and the doctor will be annoyed by too many things going on. They have a limited window to discuss things

4. Since the appointments are so far out, unfortunately to get the best chance possible, that means making appointments for several doctors at the same time and cancelling if you don't need it anymore. But this was what a friend did. He interviewed the doctors and rejected drs that would not listen or was not willing to work with him.

5. I've had great luck just running tests myself if I want to pursue a theory. There seem to be several companies that are gateways to quest diagnostics blood test centers. It's dirt cheap (in time and money), and you can show up next day and get the results digitally. I know drs probably frown on this but I can move quickly and trade tiny amounts of cash (less than a copay usually) for quick answers. https://www.ultalabtests.com
There's PBS, but yeah if it had the popularity of BBC it would probably look a lot different.
We're Living in a Scroll-and Swipe Doom Loop Culture
The people doing forced labor aren't living in a market economy. Of course there is a business in a relatively free market that isn't bothered by that, but the Uyghurs aren't suffering under free market capitalism, they are suffering under the totalitarian government in China.
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> Which ones?

Take Utimaco Security Server and you'll get 10k+ RSA signatures per seconds. Yes, you'll definitely need dozens of them, but you'll probably want several for high availability and low latency anyway.

> For SSH? Only by having the same private key in all of them, which means it's still around somewhere.

End-to-End encrypted key transfer between HSMs is well established. Ops for such a setup is definitely going to be a pain and lots of manual (and thus expensive) work but it is doable. The banking industry has been operating like that since forever – with symmetric cryptography only. Imagine two people being sent letters with XOR halves of a transport key and physically meeting at an HSM and entering the halves on a PIN pad (not a hexadecimal but a decimal PIN pad, mind you, where you need to press shift for A-F). From a modern perspective it's totally bonkers, but it works.

If I was tasked with building something for large scale companies like GitHub, I would probably pass up on HSMs and use commodity measured boot on a minimal Linux for my trusted key servers. Outside of these key servers the SSH key would only be stored split up with Shamir-Secret-Sharing with few trusted employees which will only restore the key on ephemeral offline systems. Is that overkill? Very much depends on your threat model. Investing in the security of their build chain runners and data-at-rest integrity might have higher pay off. But then again, GitHub has become such a big player that we should also hold them to very high standards. And the setup can be re-used for all their secret management, e.g. TLS certificate private keys.
They have DeepMind which has produced some incredibly impressive toys in its own right. We can't say right now that superhuman gameplaying performance by self-taught machines is less of a step to AGI than completing text prompts. Quite possibly both will be blind alleys along the way. But OpenAI's thing has many more commercial applications right now.
I've used lots of obscure cli tools and the ones written in python are always so slow to the point where it's just annoying. Maybe python is meant to glue things together but many people just ignore that and write everything in python anyway.
People really do try to shoot messengers to make themselves feel better.
I think Qualcomm already charges for value on its own customers, eh? I recall something about them taking royalties from device makers as a percentage of the full device price, not a fixed cost per chip. e.g. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-sues-qualcomm-for-1b-...
Cool, but you really need a grammar check. Pass this through chatgpt or something.
This seems to be a common misconception. You do not need a role for every user. You can assign session variables, at least in Postgres, and use them in your policies.
If that’s true, Google is doing themselves a huge PR disservice by exposing the Bard they have exposed instead of something closer to the internal one.

Yes, I understand the resources and scaling issue, so (1) Google should recognize that this is literally for all the marbles, and (2) done a slower roll-out with its best foot forward if it needed to rush, while at the same time putting as much money as necessary into assuring it could scale out the good model widely.

Google is a trillion+ dollar company, and is facing an existential threat to its core business (because if someone else’s AI is how people interact with the web, the Google’s ads business evaporates with no replacement; if Google is at least competitive on AI, it may still lose its ads business, but it will have something.) Now is not the time to be cheap.
The point was about the rise in prices across the spectrum of available products vs those that would be expected given inflation figures. But thanks for the tube tip!
Parellelism is a good reason to not use Python since GIL is what it is.

But I would argue whatever you gain back from lowered hosting expenses probably aren't worth the extra development time & costs that come with lower level languages, but yes that depends on what you are writing.
If someone put in more work to fine tune LLaMA, it may qualify for fair use.
Same here. I used to listen to NPR while driving but sometime in the last few years it lost relevance for me.

Rather than BBC and other world news, my local NPR station seems to be exclusively focused on hyper focused representation life style issues.

Some of that is of course fine but I would rather hear about actual news particularly during prime time driving.
> Not in this case. Those images are 100% graphic porn (of the cartoon/hentai variety). I saw the pictures upthread. Porn that presents itself as "educational" is still porn (IIRC, that's also a actual real-people-having-sex porn genre).

As I said, the first picture is taken out of context and the second one isn't even in the book. This book is porn the same way other educational material about anatomy and sexuality are porn.
We’re no longer sunsetting the free team plan
On MBA's in relation to the hastily launched and then cancelled products: Enron had the same issue.

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/when-talent-is-not-enoug...

on Sundar: I've talked to a few technology journalists, and one said that he's met all the top CEO's and Sundar was the least impressive of any of them.

His days are numbered. What's the over-under on when he leaves?
I scrolled through and didn't see anywhere that they defined what "complete" meant. It could be as simple as Canada counts a skyscraper as completed when the first residents move in versus perhaps America counts it as completed when the roof is done. This may initially sound dumb... but it can mean a lot "legally speaking".

My understanding is Canada and America have very similar building codes and construction plans. Indeed, many of these construction companies are multinational.
Our org has tools that can look at lines-of-code, number of pull requests, etc.

One of the candidate 20% projects that tempts me is something to keep track of number of words I write in jira. Or slacking with coworkers.

I have great code stats at current job, top tier, but I don't think people have the evidence to really see what I really do. I write. I make our plans. I review the shit out of our work. I help coworkers all the time. (And I write reams of code.)
Loooking forwards to Caddy supporting this
> I use to love hearing Sylvia Poggioli say her name.

We must be twins. It was the highlight of my day.
i would say that easily 80% of asian americans don't really care about it unless it affects them.

in other words, do you think 20% of asian americans are pro-actively doing anything about it?
NPR is not "publicly funded programming" in any meaningful sense. The vast majority of their funding is listener donations.
Is this really "truly lasting impact on the level of Search, Maps, Gmail, Android"? I feel like random people you ask on the street probably wouldn't have even heard of it, let alone know what it is, let alone being impacted by it, let alone in a truly lasting manner.
I've heard this "debunked" many times before, but I looked it up this time for our local public radio [0]. Looking at this report for my state it looks like it's coming up on 29% government funds (state funds and CPB)! Listener and business support add up to about 50%. About 22% looks like it's basically income (proceeds on ticket sales, etc).

I'm not a total public radio hater or anything, but this definitely makes me take the idea that public radio is mostly listener supported a lot less seriously in the bigger scheme of things. Public radio fans can try to talk me down. I'd like to know where I'm wrong.

[0] https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/annualreport2021_fin...

Edit: ... and I do know there is a distinction between the national entity and the member stations. It's just that tracing it up further feels like a shell game. Maybe all the other states are different and have way more donations, but I have no idea. I'm already confused about how many of WPR's "in kind" funding from the UW-system are state/federal funds and even if any of the state funds are from federal aid.
There was a study that showed the number of times NYTimes used the words "racist", "sexist", etc went up 400% or so in the 2010's. I'm not sure if the study covered npr, but I definitely noticed that by 2015, every other story was about those subjects.

I'll post the source if I find it but, yes, npr changed their content to cover these subjects dramatically more at that point.
Tell HN: Airbnb can charge you anything and there is nothing you can do about it
As a part time digital nomad, I use AirBnB quite oftern. It just happened to me that something broke during our stay. Host submited a claim to AirBnB about that (which is Ok) and they included a few other supposedly broken things. Fortunately I took some pictures before departure. I submited those to AirBnB as part of the mediation process they have. So far so good.

And the result? A single person reviewed the case and concluded that I should pay for everything. I asked them to review it again as they probably missed that picture. The response was that I agree in T&C that their decision is final and they will not be reviewing again. I asked to escalate the issue but the answer (from the same person who reviewed it) was the same.

I understand they have to draw the line somewhere but a single person deciding whether you need to pay something without any way of re-reviewing is probably too much. So probably keep that in mind as it can ruin the budget!
I’d more bet on “Warning for years that this is a point of failure but management wants to chase $shiny instead”
Biden White House Pressured Meta to Moderate Texts on WhatsApp
Right, they just care about the 10 minute captive audience bit and how many ads they displayed in that time.
Fine-tuning these models reminds me of the good ol' days with tube TVs where the slightest twist of the vertical hold dial meant the difference between a clear picture and useless, dizzying, visual nonsense.
Agreed. It seems as though the author has perhaps not seen that many people, as both the works shown and referenced depict entirely plausible humans. The “duchess” could be a middle aged woman with untreated acromegaly. Hell, maybe she was, as a male acromegalic ancestor could have done well on the battlefield. Today’s dysgenic traits are yesterday’s eugenic. The woman depicted looking left in the sketch is either missing her upper teeth due to decay, or has a cleft pallet.

An awful lot of the variety of the human form that once was is no more in the developed and even developing world, as disease and treatable deformity are generally avoided where possible - and back then, if you were covered in pox scars, syphilitic, toothless and half blind from cataracts - well, you were 35, and lucky to be alive with a thriving family.

I’m struggling to think of anywhere on earth where the kind of conditions Renaissance cities still persist, and I am drawing a blank. We just don’t have that point of reference as a tangible reality any more.
Any you've heard are good? I did try this one time and I paid a ludicrous $2k per month and my one and only appointment the guy was trying to sell me some quack medicine about leaky gut or something. Felt super off and I ran as fast as I could once I confirmed what leaky gut was all about.
What Is Constitutional AI?
Totally agree with this.

I don't even disagree with most of what they are saying, but it feels like it just became more about campaigning for what they had already decided was the truth rather than actually producing good journalism. There was a time where I actually started listening to old podcasts from years ago because my podcast feed had just became an endless barrage of BLM and culture wars.

I think it has gotten a bit better again over the last year or so, but maybe I just got used to it.
At least it isn't about the Rust language this time grumbles
You mean he led the MBAfication of Google? So Schmidt was more of the geek-idealist?
Ukraine war: How a Russian child's drawing sparked a police investigation
I could see such a project being killed internally because it'd be seen as bad optics to work on a product aimed to kill the very cash cow of the company.
Could you give examples? Because I know that there is subsection of people who simply refuse to use a CLI tool if they hear it was written in python, but I really want to get my hands on one so I can see for myself.
Eu average is ~9%.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/europe_inflation_rate
That is a very fair point. A lot of tech companies have not really been able to capture that lightning in a bottle again.

While this is a much more constrained example - I remember on the podcast Windows weekly, maybe about 6-7 years ago, Paul Thurrot saying that the last real big software release on the desktop was Chrome. He was right, a web browser was the last big thing on Desktop.
> Or have I just misunderstood this completely and python actually is unusably slow for common things?

I use python for some side-projects at work and for most of my personal stuff and it's mostly fine, but its general slowness/big memory footprint implies that you can't just write stuff the "easy" way, you have to use the "fast" API or else it's terrible, and that's infuriating. It's as though the power of your machine is partially hidden from you and you have to go around that limitation.

It also feels like it "should" be faster than it is, which compounds the frustration.

OTOH many performance losses come from using the wrong algorithm, often implicitly (wrong SQL query, wrong caching policy, wrong data structure), and Python is generally fine in that respect, much more than many other high-level languages in fact: the pythonic way is usually also algorithmically efficient.
Docker no longer sunsetting Free Teams
Here is the report for this incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x7njwb481j9b
Schienenzeppelin [Rail Zeppelin]. An experimental railcar
Actually money from selling bonds does increase the money supply.

The government hands out that money, and people use it to buy more bonds, then the government hands out more money, and repeat. There is now more money in the world.

Yes, if you unwind everything it will go back down, but that's never actually done.
Hey that looks pretty fun, thanks for sharing it & count me in, I'll try it. I like these zippy little lightweight languages that happen to have docs and SDL bindings and so on...

BTW how did you arrive at the name?

Edit: Running the linux build script, bit of an issue:

https://pastebin.com/fHzJAFwz
A24 is great, but we’d be in a far healthier place, culturally, if there were ten A24’s funding and developing the next generation of writers, directors, and cinematographers. A little like Hollywood in the pre-war era, for example.

These days to do something original you have to be one of the ten established directors whose movies are proven ROI (e.g., Cameron, Villeneuve) or develop a subculture following (e.g, Peele, GDT). Being randomly struck by lightning works as well, of course (The Daniels).
Stadia is a perfect example of Google's risk aversion. Microsoft invested billions on the XBox from the start, and spent over a billion dollars just to buy Minecraft, but Stadia didn't make an effort to secure even a single AAA exclusive. The same goes for YouTube exclusives. Netflix and Amazon spent hundreds of millions on flops like Marco Polo and Rings of Power. Meanwhile, the only notable series that came out of YouTube was Cobra Kai, and even that got sold off despite being a cult hit. In retrospect, this was the correct business decision as all streaming platforms seem to be hemorrhaging money, but you can't expect to win big with that attitude either.
But maybe they are preparing a bombshell or something

The release of Bard rules that out in my opinion. No one would unveil a product that's clearly worse than their competitor, damaging their brand, their share price, and the morale of the entire staff, if they had a better version ready to launch soon.

The only way this could be true is if Google has more than one AI division and there's no comms between them. Which, I guess, is possible with Google given their competing chat products.
Metaverse is just VR, admits Meta, as it lobbies against ‘arbitrary’ network fee
Plasma (Proto Language ASeMbler for All) version 2.0 released
If he didn't, we should either not trust him or be very unhappy he's in that job.
Yesterday there was a discussion about an article which goes into the usage of Alpaca-LoRA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35279656
> Of course, Americans are allergic to such things as "state run propaganda".

... for good reason.

Is there evidence to show that the BBC and CBC have reduced polarization in Britain and Canada? One could argue that they have plenty of their own biases and are not especially good at detecting or correcting for those.
It's hardly NIMBY-ism, the idea is that you take all the factors involved into account. If you're doubling the population density in a given city by building a dozen skyscrapers, you should account for the resulting increase in demand for electricity, water and food (plus random other issues like public transit and private vehicle parking).

I'm certainly not saying skyscrapers are 'bad', but a lot of people don't seem to understand that one human needs about a hectare or four (depending on dietary choices) of productive agricultural land just to sustain basic life necessities (food, cotton, wool, wood, etc.).
Don't know what mysterious medical problems you are having, but my guess is that you are not so unique. Other people might be out there that have the same or similar combination of symptoms. My first step would be finding that group. They will likely have online forums, advice about doctors, tips of what might work, etc. Then the next step is filtering out bullshit from helpful advice.
Congrats to you and the team.
Win to celebrate by everyone working in metal AM.
Xbox (2001), Kinect (2010), Surface (2015), PowerBI (2015), HoloLens (2016)

I'll ignore the Window Phone era. ;)
They became larger and larger without really delivering anything new

Google has delivered a good number of really good, big products.

And then it abandoned them like a kitten after her new chew toy has lost its new catnip smell.
> they have more ads than the ultra-capitalist Bloomberg

That's because everything Bloomberg does is an ad for Bloomberg and their primary product, the Bloomberg terminal.
Some examples in the readme would be nice. :)
I remember Stadia as being a late-to-the-party (OnLive and others beat them to launch by a decade) me-too offering that claimed that it would be way better than alternatives because of unique Google infrastructure advantages and resources... but didn't deliver on those claims. Hype instead of actual product abilities.

Then when the hype didn't win the market in the first year, they didn't have the stamina to keep going like Microsoft did with the Xbox.
He has a giant company providing money to do extensive research into motors and batteries. A breakthrough in either could potentially be worth billions.

Twitter is one of the most-visited sites (probably top 20 eh?) in the world and it wasn't profitable. If you could make a few changes and make it profitable, that would be ideal. Now that it's somewhat integrated into society and used quite a bit, that becomes easier to do.
Funny that you mention nitrogen fertilizer, here in Belgium there is a minor agricultural crisis going on due to the ag sector needing to reduce nitrogen emissions.
It has the juice.
I can't imagine a more beautiful thing.
This guy also helped find spectre/meltdown. I hope he writes a book or something to teach everyone his secret sauce
Inflation (in general, not food inflation specifically) in the UK is worse than in, say, Germany and France. The reasons for that are specific to the UK, and they do include Brexit. I think it's not myopic to point that out. We shouldn't give a free pass to people who have wreaked economic havoc to the UK just because there are some geopolitical factors that happen to wreak even worse havoc at the same time.
I've been doing nose training with my dog. She's got the idea of the game and she's definitely quicker to use scent, but still prefers to just look.

She acts like it's a lot more effort to sniff something out. Maybe in a home environment there's too many other scents and she has to be right on top of the treat to find it? Who knows.
Maybe, but only if they're refreshing certificates less than a day before expiry. Which isn't ideal.
I think that the concern about LLMs making up information are absolutely valid, and a serious concern. At the same time, I think most people focusing on those concerns aren't thinking much about the alternatives, namely Google.

For many people, Google results have gone from being an absolutely amazing demonstration of what could be done if one had the resources to crawl and process the entire internet to a complete waste of time at best, clogged with spam and nonsense and misinformation. I've been using Duck Duck Go for years now, and recently my middle-schooler switched to Duck Duck Go because I got answer to a question she had already asked Google before checking with me. Some people even pay for Kagi search, because Google is just that bad.

So LLMs don't have to be perfect to be better than the alternatives, not even close.
Great point. Another one is 'judo economics', where a smaller, nimble competitor can dominate a new market quickly as it doesn't have the baggage of existing products and users.
Glass-Steagall’s repeal wasn’t proximate to any post-repeal banking crises. (Glass-Steagall wouldn’t have prevented mortgage CDOs.) It certainly wouldn’t have done anything for SVB or Signature.