skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't really that they're expensive - they are, they shouldn't be. Proactive access to care is good.

The article kind of hints at this, but it comes down to Bayes theorem [1]. The general population has a relatively low incidence of disease, so even tests that are fairly reliable in a population with a high incidence of disease become super inaccurate when applied to the general population.

Worse, false positives generally - especially in the US, due to high financial liability risk - end up involving expensive, invasive medical follow-up tests, and the probability of a false positive multiplied by the risk of the exploratory procedures outweighs a later diagnosis.

No wonder annual physicals don't do much good.

High-risk people should get periodic tests for the things they're at risk of, and people should be in a position to report issues they discover in the course of their lives. However testing otherwise-healthy people for things they probably don't have isn't likely to yield good results no matter how good the test. It's just math.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
I regularly pull HN data from the API. Any idea what kind of pattern I should look for? Like? Old+low karma? Maybe I could use GPT to analyze someone comment history?
Is 10 normal? Msft: up to 25, google: 20-25, meta: 21 (or more?). The worst I heard is apple with 12 days at the beginning
The argument is more properly seen not as "an AI will inevitably kill all humans", but "the set of AIs that simply neglect humans is far larger than the space of ones that care for them, and if they become the dominant power in the local ecosystem even simply neglecting humans will make it the most dangerous thing we've faced".

Yes, from our perspective this makes it look like it will kill all humans, but it would do so in the same way that a particular ant hill believes I have a vendetta against them, when in fact I was just clearing dirt to pour an extension on my driveway.

That said, a murderous AI is more likely than we may like simply because our militaries have the money to fund them, and they basically already exist. They just aren't hooked up to anything at the moment that makes them an existential risk to the species. But time is deep, and even thinking about "the next century" is a provincial point of view in the end. So worrying about what happens if someone forgets the "but don't kill the good guys" switch is at least worth talking about over the next 100 years. (To say nothing of the ethics of who decides what the "good guys" are and related issues.)
What reductionist drivel. Discussion involves making actual points with logic and examples, in this case that would be examples about why Russia's actions (killing tens of thousands of civilians when the year prior to the war only 21 people were killed over territorial conflict, mainly by mines) and motivations (launching a war of aggression against a neighboring country that did nothing in the immediate time frame to justify such a murderous ESCALLATION on Russia's part, there was no immediate need to resort to overwhelming force) and are not evil (even though their troops use rape, pillage, and keep authority over their own through violence).
My house has a fireplace, which is never used. The only reason it has one was because the architect said a house without a fireplace is unsellable.

Every house I've lived in had a fireplace.
> It should be up to the user whether color is used, not the software author.

I don't understand this sentiment. As well say "it should be up to the user what the function of the software is, not the software author". If you don't like what a particular piece of software is doing, fork it and fix it, or replace it.

(To be clear -- I support the idea of `NO_COLOR` and other standards generally, and I strive to implement relevant standards when I can. I just think the above sentiment is bananas).
`<` communicates the intent way better. It also more readable

Example: The loop should run as long as the counter is smaller than 10. `i /= 10` achieves the same thing but communicates something very different. It implies `i` may be changed inside the loop to become larger than 10. The condition itself implies a larger valid state space.

It's a moot point anyway. Modern languages have much better looping constructs.
Let me save you 20 minutes of your life: This guy's lead argument is that the smart people who advise caution in creating super-intelligence look weird. He's quite proud of this argument.
> But that was a gamble, and in the ice storm they lost hard.

It wasn't necessarily a fair gamble. It was determined after the fact that for 2 of the 3 days, it shouldn't have been kept that high. There's still questions as to why, and who stood to benefit.

As I recall, that $9000/MWh cost actually went primarily to power distribution companies, who, to my understanding, had been somewhat neglectful at making sure their systems could handle such adverse conditions... Which is a sort of 'insult to injury' in that a decade prior a similar situation happened.
There was a ton of discussion about those claims but it largely stalked because the leaked emails didn’t show anything significant. You can still find Bernie die-hards claiming a conspiracy but they’re generally ignored because there’s no evidence that he did anything but lose fairly.
There was. Only barely literate morons and Russian social media astroturfers interpreted the leaked documents that way.
Radix sorts are N lower bound
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Beware the Integrated Tests Scam (2023)
I started watching it tonight, because of this thread. It was my second attempt. I quit about 40 minutes in and started to browse IMDB user reviews in hope to understand it. The 1 star reviews resonated a lot with me. Hate is a strong word but definitely not my cup of tea.
Didn't a few of the companies who provided fixed contracts go under as a result too though?
I agree, and your username is hilarious and appropriate given this subject matter.
A half-lifetime of experiencing and observing modern medicine, in good faith, has taught me that participating in the medical system while not in need of emergency care is risking one's health and life.

Assuming that one doesn't engage in risky behavior, the smartest path is to avoid the medical system altogether. That doesn't mean "seek alternative medicine". It's just what I said.

The Medical system doesn't highlight its failures. It obscures them, and only speaks in bullshit PR terms. Its failures (premature suffering and death) are almost always attributed to causes other than the malpractice that caused them. Even families are hoodwinked.

Laugh at anyone quoting "evidence" without citing it for critique. The medical profession hasn't had broadly-intact scientific integrity for decades.

Much of medicine is charlatanism for billing. Doctors know this though most won't admit it. The consequences range from annoyance, to minor malfunction, to catastrophic.
Maybe I’m saying the most obvious thing ever, but with that last paragraph, you really make it sound like the American healthcare regimen is decided upon by the for-profit insurance companies.
If it's more complex, why not add details of that complexity to the discussion instead your vague comments? You know, add know depth, knowledge, or detail instead of just saying 'but it's more complex'? Perhaps because they details don't justify a war of aggression? Because the details paint the aggressor in a starker light than your incredibly lacking 'a bit more complex'?
The Cochrane review referenced was updated in 2019 and if anything the conclusions are stronger now: https://www.cochrane.org/CD009009/EPOC_general-health-checks...
Nobody in FAANG tech in the US is getting 2 weeks of vacation. 4-5 weeks is more common.
Sounds like someone doesn't know much about how Twitter is capitalized.
Completely fair point. I was just happily surprised at how easy it was to add the support.
Trying to analogize the bullish case for LLMs as I perceive it:

If you had an intern at your beck and call, who was obedient but knew nothing about anything except how to use a search engine, would that make you a "10x" at whatever you do?
I’m pretty sure much more damage is done yearly by fires started by PG&E but no one seems to constantly bash California’s power company. The focus on ERCOT is most certainly because of politics at least on Reddit and WaPo etc where we see the most noise.
I'm not aware of many woke individuals that are in the business of making human killing machines. I do know the kind of people that embrace fear and hate to justify their actions to hurt others.
> I've seen 100 pound women make killer whales beg for treats

Just like I have seen 3 pound kittens make 300 pounds women’s rush for treats
You can’t downvote until 500 karma so it doesn’t matter. HN has voting ring detection as well.
One of the things that shocked me the most about the futurist/ai/techbro sphere is that folks take people like Eliezer Yudkowski seriously. Lex Friedman asked him what's his advice for young people and Eliezer answered "don't expect to live long". He's advocated for airstrikes on datacenters that try to advance AI. I don't know what to say, if these are the intellectual references of our brightest minds, makes me terrified that they're all children mentally.
We’re doing 60/mo on their $20 plan so far and it’s not been a problem.
Saw a similar study - dry swallowing but head still below stomach.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9550520/
Will be trying both exercises myself.
Very well written, and quite interesting.

The one thing I was hoping to see but didn’t: how long has this been broken? Has it been broken since coalescing was added? Or was it a regression introduced by some other patch 2 years ago, or what?

They said they started noticing this recently. Is that due to its introduction? Or has something else changed (configuration, tuning, the traffic passing through) that is causing this far more than it used to?
Well. They should try again, right?

- Hugging Face and IBM partner on watsonx.ai, next-gen enterprise studio for AI builders

- https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-and-ibm
This isn't what happens. A huge volume of the people that come in to US hospitals are chronically ill people with no money and very commonly no regard for their own health. Quite often they are also disrespectful and combative to hospital staff. The system pays for their extended care and the healthy majority pays huge premiums to subsidize their care. The vast majority will be paying premiums vastly out of proportion to what they will use.
The point is that intelligence isn’t measured by thing you know or what your society can do.
I have no dog in this fight, but curious what policies or plans do Republicans have to fix an issue like this?
He’s been paying for the Starlink connection that the Ukrainian army has been using in the field. Tell me again how he’s anti-Ukrainian?
Do you have any citations for that dismissal? Multiple researchers have the Uyghurs on the order of a million people, plus something like half that number of children separated from their families into boarding schools, and the primary reason for the decline in camp population being the preferential switch to forced labor programs rather than giving up on the genocide.
MENSA culture
My early memory is when I was a kid they were drafting 18 year olds and sending them to Vietnam. 15 years before that they were sending young men to Korea. And before that 10 million men to Europe and the Pacific.

If you want something more related in 1948 or some such there was a small outbreak of smallpox in New York. And they vaccinated 80% of the city in a couple of months.

Speaks to me that while the state has and always had had these powers it's become loath to use them.
Hundreds of millions!
from your own article:

"If a senior official in another country or with an airline orders it, a country could overlook the withdrawn passport, the official said."
I mean, "no reason" is understood to mean no good reason.

Say you walk next door and shoot your neighbour dead. Many people, even when they know it's because he made friends with his other next-door neighbour when you demanded he only be your friend, will say that you killed your neighbour for no reason.

> "being evil“ is a child's explanation

Fair enough. It was because Putin is a good person who was lonely and wanted to be loved and appreciated by his closest neighbour. That neighbour made him sad by befriending other people, and Putin had no choice but to slaughter thousands in an attempt to regain the exclusive friendship of his closest neighbour.
Yudkowsky sticks out because he's weird and his position extreme, but by no means is his p(doom) representative of the increasingly-many worried researchers.

I find it tricky to think about cases like Yudkowsky (full disclosure I used to read LessWrong a lot), because if he has sufficient credibility then loudly staking your extreme position can indeed move the Overton window.
In the last ten years technology has increased substantially. In the last five years AI has advanced significantly.

That is worth really letting sink in.

I try my best to avoid every kind of online discussion on these topics that I reasonably can avoid. Some might even see it as paranoia. But I assume that every single thing I post online (or say on the phone, send in text, or write in emails) is traceable back to me directly, that it is being captured and stored by multiple agencies and countries and that it is all fed into AIs that are at least as capable as GPT-4.

Imagine a Gov-GPT where you can ask it: "Tell me everything I need to know about John Smith" and the AI can related his job history, credit score, recent emails at home and work, his phone calls, his purchases, his political opinions, his spiritual beliefs, his likely weaknesses ... all smartly formatted in a succinct essay that we know and love from ChatGPT.

My question is, if we aren't there already, how long until we are?
I would assume that historically, cold snaps like the ones resulting in the Texas 2011/2021 blackouts were far less common.

To that point, an article [0] published shortly after indicates that 61% of all homes in Texas used electrical heating rather than Natural Gas. While -yes-, you still typically need electricity to run a gas heater, the grid demands are certainly much lower compared to an electric heater.

[0] - https://ajot.com/news/texas-uses-natural-gas-for-electricity...
(If I'm understanding correctly) one example is if have two places where you x++ in the loop, so if you make an error in there you might end up hitting both of them and incrementing from y-1 to y+1.
I saw A Hidden Life within the last month and it is one of the best movies I have seen. I have also seen Stalker and after an interesting start it eventually bored me. I can see why you make the comparison, but I found them very different.
It’s been gutted for future customers - https://solarrights.org/savecaliforniasolar/
Which results in killing all humans. I never said anything about murderous intent, so I’m not sure what distinction you are properly making here. Seems like the end result is the same: all humans dead.

(I don’t buy the orthogonality thesis or instrumental goals argument, however.)
This is an amazing Gish gallop. Sprinkling in speculation, "read the terms and conditions", claims without sources, and ad hominem.
Sounds like a better outcome would be firing his boss for the stupid idea that someone's bonus should depend on a largely unpredictable process working predictably.
What remains of a brick house after a forest fire is still not livable, is it actually much cheaper to rebuild than a wooden home?
Nuclear winter leading to crop failure and famine is still a terrifying specter. Even if there was a magical pill that made people 100% radiation proof that could be easily manufactured and distributed without any logistical problems, there would still be UNFATHOMABLE death and misery, and I think there’d still be pretty good odds that we’d go extinct.
They were minutes away from a total meltdown that would’ve knocked out their grid for months, according to the heads of ERCOT at the time. Had they not issued an emergency rolling blackout and destroyed the grid, it would’ve undoubtedly been one of the largest humanitarian disasters in American history.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-...
This makes no sense. The conflict started in 2014, you point to an article from 2014, how does that show years of bombs? In addition Russia no longer keeps up the lie that the 'little green men' that invaded Ukraine were just ethnic Russian Ukrainians already in Ukraine. They admit that they invaded with Russian troops. Soldiers will often have their service in 2014 hyped in online obituaries when they are eliminated now. Ukraine was responding to an unannounced invasion by it's much larger neighbor with the weapons is has at hand (weapon's that Russia also has and uses). What a non-point made with non-evidence trying to place blame on a country that was invaded. Do you also use 'how she was dressed was asking for it' as an arguement?
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/us-quietl...

Those come from the Pentagon's budget, not Elon Musk.

2. Musk turned off Starlink in Crimea.

3. Musk believes Crimea belongs to Russia. Following, and loudly proclaiming, Russian propaganda.

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Given all the issues Starlink has been having, all it has proven is that SpaceX is an unreliable partner. In the future, its clear that unless your politics line up with Musk, you shouldn't trust that internet service.
They give the LLM access to a search engine powered by embeddings so that it can pull in relevant info. These embeddings could be created numerous ways: TF-IDF, Word2Vec, BERT, GPT.
So now I need to install an extension to get to the point of an article because the writer wants to dance around the point in an effort to retain attention?

No.
in my exp, glassdoor pages arent immune to brigading or other rating gaming tactics
What choice words do you have to share about Stephen Hawking?
The problem isn’t the pet names, it’s the oversharing on Facebook and YouTube
Yeah, we are kind of missing the bigger picture. The article said there was a new Senate Sergeant at Arms after January 6, he offered representatives the phones, "to ensure a redundant and secure means of communication during a disruptive event."

So the phone may have been prompted by January 6, but were not necessarily intended for January 6 scenarios. For example, I assume these phones might come in handy if hackers or saboteurs took out or jammed the cell phone network while terrorists somewhere set off a tactical nuke, etc. It seems remiss not to have the infrastructure set up before hand. Senators using police radios may not be as secure as having communications prepared for them in advance, even if not perfect. Just in case.

Is that what you meant when you said that you thought the phones were for something else?
I think discussions about superintelligence are mostly pointless. They are storytelling at best, and often little more than bullshitting.

Language is an imperfect model of the reality. The further a discussion deviates from the observable reality, the less confident you can be that the conclusions you make within the model are also valid in the reality. Once you are talking about something as wildly hypothetical as superintelligence, words have basically lost their connection to the observable world.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it's that smart people are often stupid. They come up with all kinds of silly ideas, because they rely too much on reason and too little on hard work. And even the ones who ended up revolutionizing the world usually sound ridiculous in retrospect, if you listen to all of their ideas instead of just the successful ones.

Maybe there are some valuable ideas in the superintelligence discussion, but you can't identify them in advance.
See also https://bixense.com/clicolors/ for CLICOLOR and CLICOLOR_FORCE env variables. In my applications and CLI libraries (like Rust's clap), I support both.

FORCE_COLOR is a de facto variable without a de facto meaning, so I don't bother to support it.
His motive is that he wants to reestablish the Russian Empire and he views the Euromaidan as the US taking Ukraine from him
Google requires it, for no apparent reason other than their anti-competitive practices.
I mean, JavaScript doesn't just run in browsers. Some older forms of JavaScript run in all kinds of software--embedded in Windows (JScript), embedded JavaScript engines in other runtimes (Java, Qt Quick), older Node.js software that people are stuck on for whatever reason. I'm sure many people don't care about making all of those devices obsolete but maybe with a slight amount of effort we can try to slow down the inevitable filling of landmines with perfectly workable devices?
On the contrary, preventative services such as annual checkups are mandated to be covered 100% by the Affordable Care Act:

https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/preventive-care...
Highschool is cruel.
You've insinuated that any block done by OpenAI would be for political reasons, but would you accept that perhaps they feel they would be breaking law in Saudi Arabia? So, "legal reasons", rather than political.

Does Bing offer their chat AI in Saudi? Or just search results. Search results are easy to filter and have a whole framework for compliance in GCC countries that is relatively straightforward to follow.
It’s one thing to believe that other vertebrates dream. There is a clear evolutionary link between them and us. Octopus, as mollusks, are very far away on the evolutionary tree. When our lineages split, brains were rudimentary, if they existed at all. If we assume some kind of intelligence in an octopus, is there any reason to assume that it works like ours does? Do they need dreams? Are dreams inherent in any intelligent being or are they a function of how our particular brains operate. I don’t think that that is a settled question.
I think that's basically a fantasy. My experience with primary care physicians is that they barely remember who I am, and they frequently move on to other practices. It's not uncommon to see a new person each time.

On my latest attempt to make an appointment they said that I am no longer a patient because I didn't come in during COVID, and that I would have to wait to get back in.

I decided I'd just go without until something bad happens. So far so good.
Pythagora creates automated tests for you by analysing server activity
I still have a box of white wings from my childhood! I built a bunch of them but kept the unused ones in the box. I'll have to dig it out at some point.
Not necessarily. The sudden loss of load would cause over voltage and frequency ramp ups that cause further trips.

I believe the 2003 blackout was basically a cascading set of load loss faults
As you're interested in identity and profiles, do you have any comments on how Ivan and Katya had (realistically or mistakenly) thought the other would have affected their own identities? (and where does Kolya see himself in 5-10 years? "most likely to become a New Russian"?)
This new breed of (ethical) hackers are what gives me hope.

Back in the day we had lod, mod, thc, mitnick we had the types of folks that didnt just give in. You know, ka-tet one from many.

Thanks to those people we have, at least a pretence of, checks and balances.

The battle of the intellects is on.

Those who know, know.
> If the data shows members with annual checkups have better health outcomes on average than members without annual checkups, that is something that's relatively cheap and easy to do with potentially significant impact.

In the case of annual checkups, I believe insurance companies are required to cover them 100% by the Affordable Care Act:

https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/preventive-care...