skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a country where annual checkups are mandatory (companies are fined by the government a lot of money for each employee who does not get it done). I've been told a couple times now that something is a bit off, not too concerning by itself, but it requires more tests to rule out suspects from a list. had a lot of blood tests done, nothing unusual came up, still being regularly told to keep doing tests in between checkups. I can say perhaps one of the upsides is I get nudged by the doctors to keep a healthy lifestyle.
I’m not a professionally trained philosopher, but I have read and taken a lot of value from ancient stoic writers (Seneca in particular). I remember reading Seneca’s letters and feeling frustrated that he almost seems to get close to a denouncement of slavery, but the argument turns into more of a cosmopolitan one (in the stoic sense of the word).

Having grown up poor (but checking some privilege boxes), when I first discovered stoicism it really helped me comes to grips with an unjust world. As I have climbed the social ladder, I find that the more things/privileges I have the harder it is to be stoic. I suppose this is why I like Seneca so much. He feels like a rich dude (I’m not rich but comparatively well off) who is working on not being a bad person. A lot of what I have taken from stoicism and Buddhism are lessons on how to develop a compassionate and just mindset.

I’m fairly skeptical of reading ancient philosophy through a modern lens. This critique had a weird tone and it seems the author might be have an issue with modern proponents of pop-stoicism and a lack of impetus for collective action. I have seen a couple similar arguments going on in Buddhism around the idea of “big-tent” Buddhism and the question of whether or not Buddhism advocates for activism.
Is it really common to sue for testing or lab work? i mean, theranos being an obvious exception here.
A definition of "plausible" is "apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing".

In what limit does "apparently reasonable and credible" diverge from "true"?

We'd make the LLM not lie if we could. All this "plausible" language constitutes practitioner weasel words. We'd collectively love if the LLMs were more truthful than a 5-year-old.
Author here. I'll take this comment charitably, because it did lead me to discover that I merged the PR well before my Github action to compress images completed. Just re-ran it, and the images are all ~50% reduced in size now: https://github.com/whatrocks/blag/pull/22

Thank you for this nudge. I'm sure there's more I could do here, but hopefully this helps.

The JS bloat is likely the interactive stuff in my "/library" and it's been on my to-do list to fix this. Thanks for this nudge, too.
Was re-watching The Limits of Control by Jim Jarmusch recently, and realised it had a reference to Tarkovsky's Stalker in the scene with the "cinema lady".

"The best films are like dreams you're never sure you've really had. I have this image in my head of a room full of sand. And a bird flies towards me, and dips its wing into the sand. And I honestly have no idea whether this image came from a dream, or a film"
This is the silliness I'm talking about. Nobody's going to go rip X support out of toolkits.

Distros still ship token ring support; they're not going to literally "get rid of" X either.
Last year, I took "drawing intensive"– a difficult, heavily compressed, very technical, and often frustrating drawing class required for my BFA for a career realignment. I signed up for the night section because I'm a night owl and it fit with my schedule. Unfortunately, my afternoon dose of short-acting Ritalin would wear off right before the class started, but I did a lot of art for pleasure at night, and figured that wouldn't be a problem. I always had plenty of energy, but my focus was shit, so I wouldn't expect myself to be able to focus on algebra or dense reading.

4 weeks of class pass by and I was struggling. I could feel a near complete disconnect between looking at a scene and making marks on the paper. At first I thought it was my inexperience with drawing that precisely, but realized that this disconnect felt an awful lot like some other things I had trouble with before my diagnosis. The next week, I split my afternoon dose up and took half right before class. It was like an entirely different activity. My working memory now held enough data to reason about making the marks on the page after looking and before drawing. A fellow student who I'd never spoken to approached me after class and said "I was watching you work today and it was like something opened up inside of you." I went on to become one of the only students in the class to get an A, and another professor from the fine arts drawing program saw a portrait I did hanging in the hall and told my teacher "make sure you tell whoever drew that they're really, really good."

Don't glibly talk about people treating attention deficits like people downing Dexadrine so they can work all night long. My dose is so small I can take it two hours before bed and still sleep— while I haven't been able to have coffee after 2pm for years— but it completely transforms how my brain functions in some very specific and important ways.

tl/dr: you have no idea what you're talking about so stop being a jackass.
Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2014)
People stay on this stuff for years and continue to get therapeutic value from it. There's nothing shoddy or fake about doing whatever works.
Lookup direct pay family doctor office in your area. I pay about 80 bucks a month for doctor I can call, text, spend 30 minutes of I visit. She have arrangement with testing lab with really tiny costs for tests, x-ray, etc. And because of direct relationship, she indeed can track my health over the years.

I still have high deductible insurance to cover something serious, but otherwise pay cash for routine stuff.
A lot of people don’t explicitly opt into these plans. In Texas there are dozens of private companies to choose from when getting setting up an electricity plan. Some of these companies pull shady tactics like starting you on a discount plan for one year then automatically rolling you to the wholesale price plan. They have salesman at the grocery store signing vulnerable people up. You could still call that opting in because they signed the deal.
Is 70% of the code actually GUI code, or is it business-and-platform-logic-coupled-to-GUI code?
Yup. I cannot believe how much insurance providers bend over for actual fake bullshit like chiropractors, dentists or "naturopathic doctors" who use homeopathic remedies, and related quakery, but then try to screw people over on stuff that's actually scientifically more sound.
I think this is what our tech overlords are investing all the money for. They're getting older quite quickly and probably feel like immortality is just around the corner if they keep syncing money into AI research and keep taking risks, they will cheat death.

I compare it to the the great pyramids. The pyramids were arguably another technological marvel also built on the back of slaves (just like modern tech now) and probably a lot of great inventions and innovations were made to facilitate their creation. To people of the time, the pyramids must've been absolutely incredible marvels to behold.

But all those Pharo's are dead, just like everyone else. I think the current tech overlords will die like everyone else too.

Nature already has a way for people to live on, it's called having children and dying. It's a great system and no one ever gets bored. However, the ego of some people is so strong and isn't satisfied with this, so on we go pouring money and resources into the search for the holy grail no matter what the risks are to everything else.
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If you (+above commenter +any other HN per users) want a good Wikipedia article, the metalanguange/metacommunication ones do a great job of explaining how this works in CS friendly terms - the connection to meta programming is a great aside.
Good point, we are seeing a lot of layoffs in bay area amand other HCoL locations in the US but at the same time hiring is still going strong in Eastern Europe and India. Typical outsourcing destinations where you can get a developer for fraction of the price. We can debate about quality but for sure countries like Poland have lots of developers that are on a par with best ones in Bay area
It would be really convenient to do motherboard firmware upgrades and memory timing configuration from the browser
You may want to reconsider your knowledge of the current state of neuroscience. It seems to be lacking
close!

its a text-and-terminal style UX at moment. so we have some Infocom/IF like-modes, but also have true Rogue-like-looking UI elements where those fit. (I should revise the project page to make clear. But Itch.io forced me to pick a category)

I want the best of both.
From the article I got the impression this was exactly the process they are doing.
Hydrogen battery: Storing hydrogen in coal may help power clean energy economy
I like this a lot. “Error handling in relationships” is a great concept for a blog post
As fascinating as the ants are, have you told the person you're renting from about the ant infestation? You might want to do that sooner rather than later, lest they blame you for the ants...
I've heard that so many times... I wish it was told that you would pay it after and the negative impact it will have on your life with all you miss when you are hyper focused.
Also, it could display foreign characters in text mode unlike CGA cards. It was the serious business card of its day.
Demonstrably untrue. CVS sells a kit to do hba1c for $50

https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-at-home-a1c-test-kit-pro...

Other tests can also be done with a lab. You just have to ask.
Jensen Huang’s commencement speech at NTU 2023 (English)
But the second you mention some new issue that’s cropped up, it no longer coded as an annual checkup and you will be paying.

The only way to guarantee a free annual checkup is to go in, say nothing about your state of health, let the dr take your vitals and leave.
The cost of one party is the profit of the other. What was that money spent on? Weapons, ammunition, vehicles, food and clothes and other stuff for the soldiers. Someone sold that stuff, and those people needed these wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_co...
Right - companies like OpenAI should be held accountable for their deceptive practices.

There isn't a new tech in this case, only the hype that they've created using the massive amount of data and compute. If you don't believe me, listen to real experts (like Gary Marcus, whose questions Sam deflected) who have spent decades in this field.
This worked for any mono card. Mono was at segment 0xb000, Colour text was at 0xb800, VGA was at 0xa000.

I used to run Turbo Debugger on one monitor, and commercial games I was fiddling with in various ways on the other. You could break into code without disrupting the VGA registers.
His product vision is to make it into a one stop application with all media and e-commerce - something he calls X. The whole free speech platform thing is a distraction. There’s no money in free speech. It’s just a way to lure maximum number of people to the platform.
Where are the better deals for s3 compatible storage?
The current trend for productionizing LLM-based applications is to write your own (really thin) wrappers around the actual LLM call. The majority of your code should be business logic independent of the LLM, anyway: information retrieval, user interface, response logging, and so on.

In my experience with cloud-based and local models, LLM chaining compounds errors; I would urge you to look at few-shot, single-query interaction models for business applications using LLMs as a new unit of compute.
>> How did people do this before Lucene supported it?

By performing query expansion based on features of documents within the search results. Very efficient and effective if you have indexed the right features.
Private medical care is in most circumstances illegal in Canada and they have large enough wait lists that people are dying in large numbers waiting for medical care. Medical tourism to Canada is a non-starter for Yanks.

> “Canada is the only country in the world where it is illegal to obtain private health insurance when there are long wait-lists. That surely says something,” said Dr. Brian Day, medical director of Cambie Surgery Centre in Vancouver and past president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).

…

> He launched a legal challenge to the B.C. Medicare Protection Act, saying wait times in the public health system are too long and stopping patients from paying for those services outside the public system violates their rights.

> In July, the B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed the Vancouver surgeon’s challenge.

> However, in their ruling, the judges accepted that the act’s provisions “deprived some patients’ right to security of the person by preventing them from accessing private care when the public system had failed to provide timely medical treatment.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/9099696/canada-private-health-car...
I just went to ChatGPT page, and was presented with the text:

"ChatGPT: get instant answers, find creative inspiration, and learn something new. Use ChatGPT for free today."

If something claims to give you answers, and those answers are incorrect, that something is wrong. Does not matter what it is -- model, human, dictionary, book.

Claiming that their purpose is "to produce plausible language" is just wrong.. no one (except maybe AI researchers) say: "I need some plausible language, I am going to open ChatGPT".
People try to avoid dying every day.

They put on their seatbelts, make sure their food isn’t covered in poop, check their boots for scorpions, take their insulin, etc.

They can’t avoid death. Nobody in the history of humanity has successfully avoided death.

But once death happens nothing matters to them any more. They literally no longer care about the life they’re not going on living.

Dying might be scary or painful but death isn’t.
Also, the article isn't really about the US. The question about the correlation (the HN title is the subhead; the title is "What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth") isn't the main topic of the article, but a framing device for discussing the idea that availability of stimulants contributed to the industrial and scientific progress of Europe and the UK in the 19th century.
You think our eighty year old representatives are going to get ahead of this? Think they could even regulate it?

Maybe, because while you're so negative and ageist, I watched the congress hearing with Gary Marcus and they actually have the wisdom to know it's out of their depth and an agency with younger and smarter people who know about this stuff needs to be setup.

There is no need for such negativity towards older people.
You need to do a little more research here, honestly. The scary side effects of heavy ampethamine use are mostly due to the associated sleep deprivation that it masks. If you work in an office setting or a school, then I guarantee you are surrounded by people who have spent years on a daily dose of these stimulants without any issues.

The main problem with meth, which Adderall solves, is that the supply chain is some hobo in a trailer rather than nice, government-regulated pharmaceutical plants.
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Why not? They should use it, with sufficient understanding of what it is. Doctors should not use it to diagnose a patient, but could use it to get some additional ideas for a list of symptoms. Lawyers should obviously not write court documents with it or cite it in court, but they could use it to get some ideas for case law. It's a hallucinating idea generator.

I write very technical articles and use GPT-4 for "fact-checking". It's not perfect, but as a domain expert of what I write, I can sift out what it gets wrong, and still benefit from what it gets right. It has both - suggested some ridiculous edits to my articles, and found some very difficult to spot mistakes, like where a reader might misinterpret something from my language. And that is tremendously valuable.

Doctors, historians, lawyers, and everyone should be open to using LLMs correctly. Which isn't some arcane esoteric way. The first time we visit ChatGPT, it gives a list of limitations and what it shouldn't be used for. Just don't use it for these things, understand its limitations, and then I think it's fine to use it in professional contexts.

Also, GPT-4 and 3.5 now is very different from the original ChatGPT that wasn't a significant departure from GPT-3. GPT-3 hallucinated everything that could resemble a fact more than an abstract idea. What we have now with GPT-4 is much more aligned. It probably wouldn't produce what vanilla ChatGPT produced for this lawyer. But the same principles of reasonable use apply. The user must be the final discriminator that decides whether the output is good or not.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Most diagnostic tests have good sensitivity (they pick up most cases of real disease) but relatively poor specificity (they pick up lots of false positives). Actively looking for asymptomatic disease does identify some diseases earlier and improve outcomes for those patients, but it also subjects a large number of patients to expensive, inconvenient, painful and risky tests and treatment. The benefits to the former group are matched almost exactly by the harms to the latter group, so (with very few exceptions) just waiting for symptoms to emerge gives you the same net benefits at significantly lower cost.
> Shouldn't you rather use $TERM=dumb (or unknown) for this, since there are plenty of other escape sequences that you also wouldn't want?

Lots of software out there, especially from nodebros, blithely ignores $TERM and just barfs ANSI escape codes to standard out, under the rubric that, well, everybody uses macOS Terminal/iTerm/Alacritty.
For what it's worth hypertension is a good example of a bad test - or a routinely poorly executed one, anyways.

According to the AHA, blood pressure is supposed to be taken with feet flat on the floor, relaxed, and quiet for five whole minutes before, on an empty bladder, without caffeine and not having exercised within 30 minutes. I can count on zero hands the number of times I've had my blood pressure measured in accordance with this procedure in a doctor's office during a check-up. [1] It's a highly variable thing that can spike instantaneously and take a long period of time to return to normal without issue.

Which is probably part of why 30% of people who get their blood pressure taken in a doctor's office will register a higher than normal blood pressure principally only in the doctor's office. This is called 'white-coat hypertension' and doctors and researchers are pretty split on whether or not this represents an actual problem. With that in mind, it makes this a pretty worthless test in the context of an annual physical.

The optimal way to make a hypertension determination is a 24-hour continuous blood pressure monitoring cuff. You should take your blood pressure at home, on your own time, in a relaxed environment and if you see a consistently elevated reading, only then reach out to your doctor and set up an appointment to confirm with a 24h test.

[1] https://www.heart.org/-/media/files/health-topics/high-blood...
There are a lot of replies beneath you attacking Musk and his vision/execution on Twitter. They mostly address the second half of your post, but most people are ignoring the first half.

A prominent media outlet is running what amounts to nothing more than a smear article against Musk/Twitter. Why? If this were an isolated occurrence, I’d write it off as strange and move on, but it isn’t. Dozens of media outlets are pushing similar content. And every time the subject comes up, the replies are filled with terse and snarky comments along the lines of “Musk bad because <reason I gleaned from smear campaign against Musk>”.

I haven’t used Twitter in years, so I can’t comment on the UX. I haven’t stayed incredibly up-to-date on all the goings-on, so I can’t provide citations or rebuttals. Maybe the site is truly that bad, that it is worth the entire Internet hammering home every single day now. It seems more likely to me that it is the other way around and the Internet decided Twitter was going to be bad once Musk purchased it.

I say the above because, how many outsiders would have noticed any changes based on their usage of Twitter? Would users have known about the mass layoffs? Has the site experience degraded as a result of that, or was Musk right that most people were doing nothing? Would users have known about changes in the content recommendation algorithm, or were they hyper-alert to changes on their feed because it was widely reported? These are half-honest questions because I really don’t know as a non-user, but also somewhat rhetorical because I suspect the answer is no.
Hey, I was moralizing and sanctimonious long before Adderall
Just to double check, you actually do mean you're happy for some people to die from cold in exchange for lower energy bill for yourself, and ignoring the required infrastructure maintenance? (hoping outages won't affect you too much)
I just read this for the fifth time :-(

Super sad and dark.
Developers Need Smarter SCA Tools to Fight Software Supply Chain Attacks
Author argues:

To make SCA more effective, companies building AppSec solutions need to prioritize three simple outcomes:

1. Lower rate of false positives - false positives represent noise that slows developers down and prevents real issues from being fixed. As Loic Joly from SonarSource argues, a limited number of false negatives can be less disruptive and dangerous than too many false positives.
2. Pattern recognition - SCA based on code matching will only find components integrated into your software stack without modification. Pattern recognition and intelligent analysis is needed for components that have been modified in irregular ways.
3. Integrated platform - ultimately, SCA is only one aspect of software security analysis. Developers should have access to SCA, OSS detection and Static Application Security Testing (SAST) features from within the same platform, allowing them to collect and combine security insights.

While big names in the SCA space - such as Checkmarx and Veracode - have struggled to keep up with the needs of developers, newcomers are working to make a difference. The Apona platform - formerly Labrador OSS - claims to utilize intelligent pattern recognition and deep scanning across file, component, and function levels to detect modified OSS components with close to 100% accuracy.
There are 256^3 colors.
> I think the main reason for disabling color output is the programmatic use of the output. It is easy to remove color within pipes (c.f. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17998978/removing-colors...), however quite cumbersome to clean the output of each potential program just to make sure nothing breaks.

Most programs that output color already disable color if the output isn't a terminal; in fact I just pipe the output to cat when I want color off.