skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a number of good reasons and also bad reasons for the appearance of incisions.

Crooked incision: flank incisions rarely end up perfectly straight and I understand the cesarian in the conscious patient is not optimal from a surgical positioning standpoint, though good for the patient and baby.

Odd spacing: in live tissue, even when you measure 6mm or whatever the tissue seems to move. In addition, there is often a bit of subcutaneous tissue that is hidden better with one placement over another.

Half hitches: these are bad knots, and one of the failure modes of the square knot. If surgeons are leaving lots of these they might be careless. However, monofilament suture has more likelihood to form them and it's preferred on the skin.

Loose ends: monofilament suture is a little unforgiving and the last throw often does not stay in place. This is why 4 throws of the square knot is preferred.

Speed: how long do you want your patient to wait for you to finish the cosmetic portion of the incision? A model might have a plastic surgeon on hand to finish the job.

The layers you cannot see are the important ones from the standpoint of no hernia or infection. Hopefully they are all done flawlessly, but there cosmesis is not the goal.
GitHub would help lawmakers a lot.
Are operators doing spam filtering for outgoing SMS messages? The messaging patterns must be quite different from normal customers. Maybe you could also detect the suspicious amount of messages originating from certain location (cell).
Which raises the freelancers bid, which decreases their competitiveness, which decreases the chance of winning the job/contract, which decreases overall pay. That's what one of the other commenters meant when they said they have to pay it one way or another.

The only way the fee "magicly" disappears is if someone in the pipeline doesn't care about the increased cost and eats it. At which point, the freelancer is underbidding for the job anyways.

The real point is having effectively having high % fee discourages/suppresses the volume of transactions. Because freelancers are pretty heavily locked into the platform by design and the companies that hire are not, the freelancers get hit with the burden of the suppressing fees to a much higher degree (they have to compete with bids from other platforms/consultants that don't have large fees)
I see https://github.com/oobabooga but where's the Discord posted?

https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client does link its Discord.
Nope, normal chromium user agent.
If they did use brave, many websites wouldn't work.
That’s really interesting. I’d love to hear from more people who went this route to see what their experiences have been, especially when it comes to not just getting by in life, but the emotional connection OP is looking for, people, maybe if there are certain personality types more amenable to this way of approaching partnership.
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Sure, we can try to change people's behavior, which of course will only work with smart incentives. And/or we need a lot more grid-scale energy storage. Changing people's behavior is really hard. And before it's even possible to implement "surge pricing" in a way that's exposed to individuals, we need a ton of infrastructure changes. Those are good goals, but it might be simpler to incentivize behavior at a larger scale than consumers and cover the gap with storage. For example, add storage to car charging stations instead of telling consumers when to charge. The charge station would then charge up at low demand so it won't pull from the grid during peak demand. Maybe we need all of the above, we'll see.
As long as they aren't yapping the location to their killers, you really only need to kill one round of people. The second round of killings was already overkill.
Lots of game studios use Unity builds like this. It saves a massive amount of time. Last I heard it also improves Incredibuild performance which is another popular tool for decreasing build timed.
I am the exact opposite. I dislike semi automatic docs like most rust libraries have that don't tell you anything about how you're supposed to use things, and I love the general python docs that are the opposite. Django in particular is super good at this.

I would compare it to having a recipe vs a list of ingredients. Both are useful but I can't just cook if you just give me a list of ingredients without instructions.

And then you have NestJS that does neither so you just get a random piece of information but missing 75% of instructions and no good API doc.
I just read that piece by Ted Chiang and I have to say it’s one of the more important articles I’ve read for a while. [1]. I’ll share this around. Thanks.

All I can say is that I’m quite happy many many people are starting to see the same issues as each other.

For me personally, I was told that “tech” and progress would make us all better off. That seemed true for a while but it has backfired recently. Inflation is up, food prices up, unemployment up, energy prices up, salaries stagnated.

We can’t blame tech for this, but we’re fools as “tech people” if we can’t see the realities. Tech is the easy part, building a better world for all is hard.

1] https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intel...
At this point it does not matter.
Yup, but on android chrome gives the entire phone model in the user agent, kind of ridiculous.
I am curious what HN thinks of RFK Jr's position on nuclear power. He was a guest on the latest all-in podcast and went into his positions in-depth.

Something to the affect that nuclear is more expensive than other traditional and renewable sources. No traditional insurance company will insure nuclear plants. No traditional bank will finance nuclear builds. Nuclear power is still too risky to be considered as a viable power source.

He adds, instead continue focus on wind and solar and improve transmission (using DC) to make it a viable power system for the US.
Is he uninformed? Direct current (DC) is the worst kind of power type for long distance transmission. (Unless something has changed).

My understanding is that solar and wind generated power has shown not to be consistent enough and too localized to currently meet US power demands.
Might as well write out my democracy fantasy:

- Everyone gets to vote if they're over the voting age (eg 18).

- Your vote counts in proportion to your expected remaining years left in society. So if you're 95, you get 1 vote. If you're 20 you get around 60 more, depending on the tables. If you're an immigrant who arrived as an adult, eg a corporate expat, you get maybe 5 votes. There will be a table of stats about all sorts of things like this. Skin in the game.

- If you have kids, you get their votes, split with the other parent. So a 10 year old would give each parent roughly 35 extra votes.

- When you vote, it's a quiz. The questions will be known questions out of a bank of maybe 10k questions, and the quiz is 100 random questions. If you get 75 correct, your candidate gets 75 x your weight. We want voters who cared to learn the facts to have more say.

- Parliament is chosen by proportional representation. Have a few areas represented in proportion, then add overall balancing seats. There's several ways to do this.

- Term limits. Maybe just a single term of 10 years. Takes time to learn politics, like anything else. But also we want people to make decisions that aren't just about getting re-elected. If you know you're leaving eventually you can just focus on getting the things done that are important.

- Large salary and large pension for the MPs. Independent commission that looks at all your finances in private, during and after tenure. Flags things that it finds flagworthy.

- Not sure about geographic seats. Maybe just assign each voter to a virtual MP, at random. Local geographies should have local government to deal with local matters. This also does away with gerrymandering. But if we're going to have geographic seats, get a computer to assign random blobs.
I am unlikely to use a product if I cannot figure out how to use it intuitively. I prefer products that are easy to learn and use, without the need for extensive documentation.
Kolmogorov complexity would like a word! It seems intractable for AI to read minds, there should always be some degree of skill involved in prompt writing.
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Why engineers need to be bored
The pretty reasonable copium is that the differences you're focusing on are traits which exist in the DNA of every person you see, including ones that don't exhibit those traits. They're just expressions of a random/environmentally-determined subset of the DNA within everyone.

As anecdata, wait until you meet a girl from a broken family of alcoholic rednecks who live in the woods and find out that she can code circles around you despite growing up without anything you can call broadband. ;p
I don't know that we will be able to tell the difference.

I know animals can suffer. Suffering is not limited to what we consider intelligent. I have no idea where that line is.

I do not see why the capacity to suffer should be dependent on biology.

re: Blade runner replicants being electronic versus biological: I think it is clear that the bodies are bio-engineered, but not clear to me if they had implants in their brains.
Grep only works if you want an exact string match. If you want to find words out of order or support features like stemming, fts is necessary.
> How can you differ one tank from the other?

Multipoint sensor fusion contains track-data the autonomy calculates a level of confidence to decide friend from foe in the battlespace? The hole in that idea is the fog of war situation where the vehicle is unable to receive the world update to confidently interpret the moving parts onboard sensors perceive.
The risk is already here, its the data companies of men control and the 100 year effort to enhance our ability to mine it. If we say AI is the coming risk we are fools.
It is very hard to set a price. But when you are negotiating with brands you soon get a feel for what you are worth. And yeah I increase my rates over time if I grow the average views per video.

Typically the deals are only on a video-for-video basis, even if I had contracts lasting up to 5-6 months at most. So it is easy to ask for a new price when you negotiate the next deal.
Does that mean they would have to rewrite each site to remove the username specific links and content out of the mirror to keep the origin sites from banning their accounts?
Also relevant: “The World Set Free” by H.G. Wells (1913). It continues to stand the test of time, and addresses exactly the same issues as Schneier is discussing, but without the information systems approach (and proposes a different solution).

One thing the Schneier seems to be missing vs. Wells is that we’re entering an age of unlimited energy production, and therefore unlimited natural resources. Wells has a blind spot around environmental issues, but I think he’s closer to the mark on resource scarcity than current thinking.

Anyway, Schneier actually has some interesting insights not covered by The World Set Free, which is refreshing.

https://www.schneierfacts.com/facts/537
I wonder when Russia will regret bringing an Afghanistan-lite quagmire to their border.
Burn Deep Learning Framework Release 0.7.0
https://github.com/stochasticai/xturing
GPLv3 license - but where is the code? Why do your userguides have docx and pdf extensions?
Just keep an eye on the costs, and watch the credits quickly go away.
This is equivalent to saying with enough liquor, anyone can be transformed into a drunken aggressive person.

I don't think it's as absolute as you're saying.
Religion was not the sole reason girls were originally excluded from education. And like race, religion was also not the only original reason that when group schooling was made available to girls and women it was in segregated schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sex_education

And not all Catholic schools segregate by sex.
We always communicate and somehow end up in the office together. There's always a way. Many weeks someone says 'I'll be in the office on this day. Anyone else coming in?' And then a few people say yep, let's do it.
> context where the average consumer is starting to recognize ChatGPT as a brand name.

Zoom was once that brand name which was equated to a product. Now, people might say "Zoom call", but may use Teams or Meet or whatever. Similarly, people call a lot of robot vacuum cleaners Roombas, even though they might be some other brand.

Brand recognition is one thing, but the actual product used will always depend on what their employer uses, what their mobile OS might use, or what API their products might use.

For businesses, a lot will be about the cost and performance vs "the best available".
The FastAPI docs are fantastic: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
Some of these are very good, but quizzes are very undemocratic. I get why they may seem like a good idea, but they end up being a great tool for disenfranchisement.

For me, I would add that any law passed must have a relatively short sunset clause. This forces us to reconsider laws periodically to make sure they're still relevant.
It’s very true that trying dig out of lonelinesses in average American suburbia is playing on hard mode. Everything about the built environment says keep to yourself. People talk about taking a stroll at Target with a coffee purchased at the Target Starbucks as the closest thing to “being in public”
Watson sucked though and had few real uses behind winning jeopardy after massive investment and tons of BS marketing and hype.

Chatgpt has many uses.
Hey Micael. I've been a subscriber for years, love your channel and all things macro photography in general.

Really wasn't expecting you to pop up on hn!
Interesting. I've been aware of this technique for years because of the SQLite Amalgamation, but that was always sold as a way to simplify distribution and perhaps improve performance of the binary. I hadn't considered it as a build speed optimization, though that seems somewhat obvious in hindsight.
The system in question has always been something that combines various sensors, interpolating and adjusting to produce broad numbers. There's an extensive academic reference list here under the "About" tab: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst
Transposing a scale to a different key would be straightforward on a guitar (e.g. with a capo), it's just that playing any scale might be difficult independent of the key.
Sympathy for the Wordcel (2022)
The Pope has an AI advisor
I used it many years ago and it was decent, but not good. Tried again recently and it’s way worse than I remember.

Pretty much every client expects you to enter a bidding war starting at $100 (and going down, obv) to build them a multiplatform app with backend and a mountain of features.

What I don’t understand is who accepts these jobs? Scammers? I can’t imagine that Upwork has many happy clients.
It could do with a heavy perf pass tbh. Haven’t had time juggling all the feature work, but it’s planned for 1.0. Mind letting me know what machine you’re on?
I think it could be done reactively, as long as two things are true:

1. spending limits are fine-grained — rather than having one global budget for your entire AWS project, instead, each billable SKU inside a project would have its own separate configurable spending limit. The goal here isn't to say "I ran out of money; stop trying to charge me more money"; it's rather to say "I have budgeted X for the base spend for the static resources, which I will continue paying; but I have budgeted Y for the unpredictable/variable spend, and have exceeded that limit, so stop allowing anything to happen that will generate unpredictable/variable spend."

This way, you can continue to pay for e.g. S3 storage, while capping spend on S3 download (which would presumably make reading from buckets in the project impossible while this is in effect); or you can continue paying for your EC2 instances, while capping egress fees on them (which would presumably make you unable to make requests to the instances, but they'd still be running, so you wouldn't lose the state for any ephemeral instances.)

2. AWS "eats" the credit-spend events of a billing SKU between the time it detects budget-overlimit of that billing SKU, and the time it finishes applying policy to the resource that will stop it from generating any more credit-spend events on that billing SKU. (This is why this kind of protection logic can never be implemented the way people want by a third party: a third party can only watch AWS audit events and react by sending API requests; it has no authority to retroactively say "and anything that happens in between the two, disregard that at billing time, since that spend was our fault for not reacting faster.")

Note that implementing #2 actually makes implementing #1 much easier. To implement #1 alone, you'd have to have each service have some internal accounting-quota system that predicts how much spend "would be" happening in the billing layer, and can respond to that by disabling features in (soft) realtime for specific users in response to those users exceeding a credit quota configured in some other service. But if you add #2, then that accounting logic can be handled centrally and asynchronously in an accounting service which consumes periodic batched pushes of credit-spend-counter increments from other services. The accounting service could emit CQRS command "disable services generating billable SKU X for customer Y starting from timestamp Z" to a message queue, and the service itself could see it (and react by writing to an in-memory blackboard that endpoints A/B/C are disabled for user Y); but the invoicing service could also see it, and recompute the invoice for customer Y for the current month, with all spend events for billing SKU X after timestamp Z dropped from the invoice.
Zillow ChatGPT plug-in now available to “select number of ChatGPT users”
I smell dutch :p
Yeah, and they're going to keep breaking records for the next 100 years at least, and as a consequence atmospheric water vapor will continue to increase, with the various knock on effects of drought in some places, floods in other places, and increasing random extreme weather events all around the planet. Get used to it, and plan to adapt, because it isn't going away. Ask the chatbot, it seems to understand the current state of science (this is after querying it about Fourier, Manabe, planetary science etc. for a bit)

> "Let's say we take an Earth-like planet with a similarly sized ocean, increase the concentration of infrared absorbing gases in the atmosphere about two-fold, then stabilize the atmosphere. How long will it take for the ocean to stop warming, from the perspective of both transient and equilibrium climate sensitivity estimates?"

Transient: > "Using this model, we can estimate that it would take roughly 100-200 years for the ocean to stop warming, depending on the specific assumptions used."

Equilibrium: > "Depending on the specific assumptions used in the model, it could take several centuries or even millennia for the ocean to reach a new equilibrium state."
My guess would be between 6 months and 2 years.
Does WiFi texting not require the involvement of a mobile service provider somewhere along the line?
Thanks, bookmarked!
> You only need to run N steps where N is the number of possible states.

It's at most N steps - the machine can return to a prior state long before that happens, which would also prove that it's non-halting.

Of course the memory requirements to do that make it purely theoretical - but so too is exhaustive execution (due to time requirements).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#Exact_values_and_l...
it’s in many places on macOS and iOS.

The Lock Screen on iOS , safari, photos, keynote, shortcuts etc…

I don’t think there’s API access though which would be really handy.
They're all undemocratic, it's not how it's done anywhere! Except maybe PR.

The quiz thing is mostly exhaustion at the idea of people who don't bother to learn anything having a say. It's no different from having kids deciding what we should have for dinner.

We can come up with a bunch of facts beforehand that everyone can read the answers to, and then it's up to people themselves to decide how much they really care.
> AI safety is about whether my government is concerned with my continued comfortable existence once my economic value as a general intelligence is reduced to zero.

You wanted a "free market" and now you're complaining? Didn't you get what you want?
I don't know how true it is vs how much PR it is, but Khan Academy's use of LLMs was interesting in that they apparently craft a prompt from the AI itself. Ie a two step process where the AI generates the steps, and then the AI reasons about the result of the steps to attempt and judge the accuracy of the data. This was just a blurb from the Ted talk[1], but i'd be interested in seeing a slightly more in depth explanation about this strategy.

Made me wonder if you could have an recursive cycle of thinking. Where the "AI" prompts itself, reasons on the output, and does that repeatedly with guards such that it will stop if it doesn't judge anymore advancement.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJP5GqnTrNo&t=715s
The present tense is fine in this case.

The author means “composed of” and “consists of” are better phrases to use in general (i.e. according to style guides), not were better phrases exclusively for use on his Wikipedia project. We know this for sure because in the “Quotations” section the author says that he changes “comprised of” to “composed of” or “comprises” in quotations under certain circumstances. He is not wary of using “comprises”.

The author also indicates that this work is still ongoing and meant to be evergreen.
>"...then feeds it into GPT..."

explain this please
Schneier has earned much of my respect over the years, but he lost a little by hosting this. It's written by a star-struck fan who is so impressed by Schneier's life work that the article is almost entirely focused on how impressed the author is with Schneier, and I was entirely turned off by the time "the Plan" is mentioned. There was a keynote speech, which I'd be interested in reading a transcript of. Instead, the author swerves to talk about a sci-fi reinvention of democracy which is not "the Plan". Is there a plan? I don't know, the only thing I learned is that Schneier is willing to post lickspittle under a bait headline.
Your point? The goal here would be to have a policy that protects you from someone stealing your toll badge (i.e. hacking into your AWS account) and running you through a toll bridge a million times (i.e. generating huge variable spend.) I don't see how what you're saying relates.
Appreciate that :) In a previous life I was a programmer/CTO, so it's an old habit to visit HN.
I remember SCaNN. Are there easy to use implementations available now?

You also seem unsure.

Personally, I love a cheat-sheet like in Slide 7 of the presentation. It's a game-tree for what ANN implementation to use, given your problem setting and the assumption you don't want to do groundbreaking ANN research; rather, you have an ANN problem you need to solve on the path to your actual problem. Maybe that's why SCaNN wasn't cited?

A quick google reveals that SCaNN is available on pypi from Google: https://pypi.org/project/scann/
Do any users have any feedback or experiences to share?

[edit: GPT4, comparing hnwslib and SCaNN: "Note that SCaNN recently ceased to be supported by Google Research, and there won't be any further improvements, bug fixes, or documentation updates from them. However, you can still use and get support from the community. This recent change in support could shift preference towards hnswlib for future applications."]
props for using "overkill"