skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well you discount the most important thing in the first line. 'Cutting-edge' is a funny way of saying 'most effective', as if it were somehow irrelevant.

I'm discounting it for this discussion because your argument is:

"meta-analyses are somewhat irrelevant" and "Meta-analyses are mostly there for trainees to notch up a paper." which is completely false.

Note a single clinical trial is still only considered "good quality" while multiple trials or meta-analyses are considered "high quality".

To address this new point you raised, when something has very promising early results we start using it in treatment (e.g. 3rd gen TKIs in adjuvant NSCLC) but until this weekend we had no 5 year OS survival for adjuvant use.

It's entirely possible something one thinks is "most effective" is later proven to not be (gen 1-2 TKIs, HIPEC, etc).

> That paragraph from NCCN is quite interesting. It is describing medicine in general really, and belies the fact that oncology has probably one of the strongest evidence base across all medical fields.

> Take for example how many stents cardiologists have inserted long after contradictory evidence was available, or how many pointless back operations have been done, or how many people have sat through fruitless psychoanalysis.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make by addressing other specialties.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network, comprised of multidisciplinary experts from 33 of the leading cancer centers in the country, is unequivocally the authority in oncology and is incredibly well respected. I'm going to defer to their opinion on the quality of evidence available and the hierarchy of evidence.

> Also one of your citations is seemingly casting doubt on the value of meta-analyses in oncology, so somewhat confused about your point.

The JAMA article states that the methodology in many studies does not meet NCCN/PRISMA criteria which is a well known, this says nothing about the relative value of good-quality meta-analyses (which are far more common now with the PRISMA update).

I'm really not sure why you think systematic reviews are irrelevant, this is a very radical viewpoint that I've seen no evidence of. Good meta-analysis > good RCT. The reality is that good quality studies of both types are uncommon in medicine, but the goal is still to use good SRs.
I'm intrigued enough by this article that I'm going to dig deeper into the economics behind it. This article seems to highlight the cultural and political impact of the policy more than anything. As someone mostly naive to this way of thinking, let me highlight some thoughts on the subject.

* Price control only works so far. It's possible to price control an industry into ruin. There is a real risk when using these policies.

* How does employing this tool differ compared to other levers we have. Raising corporate taxes. Enhancing price gouging policies. Nationalizing critical industries.

* Who controls the price control lever, what is there mission, and how are they held politically accountable. This seems like the type of thing that needs more separation from the election cycle like the Fed or Supreme Court than the average law or executive order.

* Do we trust the controller of the price control lever? What does success look like? What does failure look like?

* Are we concerned that reducing private profits will reduce private investment? As bad as the chip shortage was, look at all the investments into fabrication that followed.
To lmm (flagkilled post decrying systemd)

This youtube video has been featured here before, "The Tragedy of Systemd" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19207533

Like the 1h long video goes into detail, I think that systemd is a definite step in the right direction, but definitely has bad aspects about it. To that end, I think work can be (and is being) done to remedy those deficiencies.

Now to compare "good intending but buggy software" to malicious (and guilty of monopolization exploitation) actions to further cement themselves in the lead is completely and utterly a laughable comparison.
Individuals and businesses received direct payments in the form of stimulus checks. I have to think also money got into people’s hands by lending as the banks are how the new money gets into circulation. That’s my layperson’s understanding of a very complex system.
IME you learn which sites and services can balance ads vs user needs. So it's only hell if insist on consuming from those who don't care enough about you.

Of course if ad blocking gets too be too mainstream all that will be left are 'native' ads and directly paid content.
That's... not the key point to take away there. The point is, if the rate of new citizens (who need new housing, i.e. aren't living with a family member who already has existing housing) is greater than your rate of speed with which you can throw up new housing, you're gonna be in trouble. This is Canada right now. Their population is increasing at like 1-2% per year due to immigration. That's insane.

People forget that construction projects aren't like AWS, you can't just spin them up and down in and instant and "poof", 500K houses, ready in a week. There's a significant amount of spin up time for this sort of stuff, nevermind the money required.
Ignoring the fact that there is massive amounts of fraud and room for crime in the crypto currency space by denigrating the opposing viewpoint doesn't progress the conversation and just keeps the tribalism and fighting at the same levels. If you truly believe in crypto currency, why not try to address the concerns and push crypto currency in a direction that would ensure wider adoption?
> to assume that everything you write or say to or near an internet connected device is being recorded and linked to your real life identity.

I feel like if that were exploited at scale, we could see a huge number of criminal indictments etc., of the sort of behavior that's technically illegal but nobody enforces, but would suddenly be exposed through such an effort. Of course if they took it to court they'd have to discuss how they got the evidence.

But the fact that we're not seeing this makes me think it's not as bad as we think, that some amount of discretion is used, or that there is just so much data that nobody is acting on most of it.

I frankly think the more scary abuses of the post 9/11 era are things like Guantanamo. The idea that they can round up people and hold them indefinitely, with no or little due process. If someone does warrantless surveillance and brings a case against you based on that information, the expectation is you can challenge it. If they falsely claim you did 9/11, then... Less so.
Inflation is the increase in price. You may argue inflation is not an interesting metrics to look at, but it seems weird to say:

- inflation is not informative about X

- X is what matters

- therefore we shall call X "inflation"
Well, what's "generally affordable"? $30k for a car isn't even that expensive these days (in the US at least), relative to the competition. The average cost of a new car in the US is almost $50k. Except for the very cheapest new cars you're almost certainly going to pay over $20k.
Cue the soundbit from CJ (GTA San Andreas): "Ah ****, here we go again"
Well, corporations are people, so I’m sure sufficiently large stacks of GPUs are also legally (parts of) people too.

Though I’m not sure what place the US Supreme Court’s opinions have in rational discourse at this point.
I meant to say "just to isolate themselves". Yes that's sometimes part of the reason but typically it's not the only reason, as you can isolate yourself inside your own home quite easily.

It will evolve into a mess of mental illness and likely the end of our race in my opinion if that's the way we go. We can already see this happening. Less people are reproducing, more people are mentally ill than ever, a lot of people see the human race as a blight on the planet etc. We will not evolve, we'll just die out or be something so far removed from what we are it won't be recognizable. It's obvious that digital communication doesn't meet our emotional and physical needs.

Also, did you ever think about the reason why you're "isolating" in nature? It's likely to get away from the modern technical world that's stripping you of something. Sort of ironic in regard to your stance on wholeheartedly accepting every facet of VR into our daily lives.
> Also assuming there is a "fake contributor", who cares under which names contributions are split up? The work still got one. Also, it is absolutely not your project, you don't get to demand people show their ID when they write code for a project.

If I contribute my code to an open source project, then I - as the copyright holder - agree to license my work under an open licence.

If I use an OSS project, I am using other people's copyrighted work under an open licence from them. Without that licence, I have no legal basis on which to use that work.

Only real people can (currently) hold copyright. If person X writes some code, but the licence (incorrectly) attributes the copyright to person Y, and person Y purports to give me an open licence to use that work, then - crucially - I have no license from the actual copyright holder (person X) to use their work.

Until an effective open source license is made, this code is not open source; it is completely proprietary. If person X chooses to sue you for copyright infringement, it is no defence to say that you're using it under a license from person Y, because person Y had no right to give you that licence.

This is a major ethical and legal problem. I would be very wary of the Asahi codebase.
There's a CTF Section available at AccessCyber.co
I have to wonder if that’s because a lot of the hot mobile gaming companies flew too close to the sun, could not maintain their explosive growth even as they pursued F2P microtransactions hell policies, and ended up getting bought by said PC/console game developers.
I think that has more to do with mental framing. Your brain is used to being "in a car" and having weird motion. You also usually have the inside of the car being stationary in your field of vision, meaning your brain can look at that and feel fine that you aren't moving.
Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings
Went looking for some visualizations on all of this and found this article helped. https://eos.org/features/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-earth-b...
Can you bring up a specific example of such a consolidated market for a particular commodity where more than 50% are dominated by the same conglomerate, please?
Manning was not a civilian but a member of the US military subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice

https://vwac.defense.gov/military.aspx

Snowden was a civilian contractor

> Snowden himself thought being Gitmo'd was a real possibility

Maybe so but that doesn't make it a possibility. Help me understand how that would unfold. What legal avenue is there?
The transparency is important! ChatGPT does the same with its Python executor model.
I'll put it to you this way:

The Liberal Minister of Housing, who is responsible for making housing affordable (and has failed at virtually every portfolio he's ever been given), has been buying more rentals.[1]

One in three Liberal Ministers owns rentals. These are the politicians bringing in more people into a housing crisis. They are not here to serve the public. Like Trudeau, they are here to get rich, and housing is the way to do it in Canada.

The US investor may want to "trade like Pelosi", but the Canadian investor should want to "buy housing like a Liberal". It's literally a government-backed investment and they will do anything it takes to keep it from going down.

---

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoRealEstate/comments/13az7qt/...
It’s not that is written like obfuscated, the routine/ algo is just hard to understand even if they commented every line. Likely some recursive trick is involved, those are always hard to follow
Exactly, this is the main reason.

The most successful OSS business model is the service model. Release your core product as OSS, and build the best commercial SaaS around it.

The author is wrong when they say:

> Some enterprises make open source projects then provide cloud services. [...] But, regarding this business model, it is weak because it is vulnerable to the other services like AWS providing the open source software as a service, and actually that is happening a lot.

Licenses like the AGPL level the playing field, so any competitors must also publish their changes to your software. The crucial aspect, then, is to make your SaaS objectively the best on the market, which should be easier for you, since you're the primary expert of your software. It also drives innovation by keeping you on your toes to always innovate and improve both the core and SaaS around it.

You can also go the Redis and Nginx way and use a separate commercial license, but this is a murky legal topic.

The important part of this open core model is to truly offer a compelling OSS product. Don't try to swindle users with crippleware, nagware, or prioritize business features over OSS ones. Give the best support you can, have great documentation, and make the OSS tool easy to use, with clear market advantage over the competition. Then your SaaS offering should be the icing on the cake that includes premium features that are mostly relevant for businesses. This is how you attract those huge corporate contracts.

The main issue with mold is that a service can't be easily built around it, and that it's a very niche and technical tool. The product needs to be something that's appealing to a large audience. Even if it's a developer tool, an improved linker is not something many developers will flock to.

The author is clearly smart and talented. But this product failing to be monetized is not related to OSS business models. Monetizing OSS is more difficult, sure, but there are many companies that have done it successfully. I'd suggest looking into what they've done differently.
There are several ad blockers or content blockers (free and paid) on iOS with varying experiences (and sometimes annoyances due to the platform limit on the number of rules a blocker can include). Firefox Focus on iOS comes a built-in blocker. Additionally, using something like NextDNS – which allows adding the same filter lists as uBlock Origin – also helps. Of course, these will not allow easy element picking and blocking.
The thing I've never really understood about this is... to what end? I get that, on a philosophical level, it sucks that in theory your privacy can be violated and that choice has been taken from you.

But on a practical level, that's just wildly unlikely to ever happen or ever have an impact on a normal person's life, so why stress about it?

Don't get me wrong, it's not to say we shouldn't advocate for govt. orgs not doing this sort of thing - but I also don't know why you'd spend so much time and mental energy trying to avoid a theoretical bogeyman.
Manufacturers and retailers will also change models for sales. Black Friday sales are sometimes cheaper, lower quality versions. Discount clothing retailers sometimes get items made specifically for them. And that's ignoring bad QA. Patagonia just filed a lawsuit against Nordstrom Rack for selling counterfeit clothing.
When you're building applications on top of LLMs, there are a number of central problems that you're trying to solve and this is one of them. Solutions are numerous and widely variable, everything from basic regex parsing to fine-tuning validator models to new programming/modeling languages. Here's some examples:

- https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/
- https://github.com/r2d4/rellm
- https://shreyar.github.io/guardrails/
- https://lmql.ai/
- https://github.com/jbrukh/gpt-jargon
North Africa / Fertile Crescent are not as fertile as say the Nile or the deep European forests

North Africa and the Fertile Crescent are great examples of climate change.

They're deserts now but they were lush fertile lands several thousand years ago. The Nile floodplain was also substantially larger and more fertile than it is today.
You literally said the statement that you then claimed nobody ever made.

Almost word for word.

Is your cognitive dissonance that extreme? This gaslighting is idiotic when your own comments are right there to read.

Just stop. You’ve clearly proven you can’t even keep your own arguments straight, let alone properly respond to others’. There is no basis for discussion if you refuse to acknowledge the things you’ve clearly said.
> Twitter had an apparent and now resolved regression allowing CSAM to be posted to public profiles

Yes, this was a failure after Musk took over Twitter.

> Did I forget to take my crazy pills today?

Possibly, I won't judge you on that account but you could do with reading that article maybe a bit slower and without preconceived ideas about what it contains and whether or not it supports your arguments, especially after you've been corrected on this multiple times.
Intriguing little bit of poetry here. But this I don’t quite understand: “It shows us a time when entering a virtual world required a gizmo. That’s the past, not the future.” In what sense is entering a virtual world without a “gizmo” a present or future reality? Are they talking about imagination, with “virtual” used in an unusual (from a tech perspective) way?
Regulation would be the least bad approach I think. The current crypto currency direction is untenable currently with the massive amounts of fraud present.
Replace it with "government-issued" for a similar effect
What's the purpose of using checks, when other better options exist today? Is it just inertia for those folks?
There are a lot of cheap, poorly designed LED bulbs that put heat stress on critical components.

Technology Connections : A troubling trend in lighting? - https://youtu.be/fsIFxyOLJXM (It goes into how a number of LED bulb failures are because the lamp wasn't able to dissipate heat from the electronic components. It also shows how some higher quality LED bulbs are made so that they dissipate heat better - they don't make as much heat as an incandescent bulb, but there is still some and that is the cause of a lot of failures.)

The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps - https://youtu.be/klaJqofCsu4 is also interesting. They have a different design and it gets into the electronics.
>The odds of a global nuclear conflict are hopefully not in the double digit percentages, but I can't see why they aren't at a historic high in history.

It's not even close. There are many precedents for nuclear powers fighting each other directly without triggering a nuclear war. For instance:

- The Korean War. It wasn't a proxy war, Western troops were directly fighting Chinese soldiers and the Soviet air force.

- The Sino-Soviet border conflict in 1969. Two nuclear powers fighting each other directly on their own soil.

- Indo-Pakistani conflicts. Both have nuclear weapons and they fight each other on their own soil.

- Indo-Chinese conflicts.

I'm not advocating for it, but I'm fairly certain that even a direct NATO intervention in Ukraine wouldn't lead to a nuclear war. Hell, Putin might even welcome it, it would give him a good excuse for the poor performance of his troops.
The whole concept of Third Places[1] is kind of dying out. Like you said, bars don't work for kids, and other common places are either dwindling or just don't allow loitering - which is basically what teens are doing when they go hang out somewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Price fixing and regulation are forms of control.
The Vision Pro is probably the most advanced consumer tech available and it's by far the best AR/VR headset. However, it's DOA. It's going to flop and Apple knows it but they know that they need to release it now to let developers and users show them what it's true purpose will be. The real deal will be the AR glasses, not these big ski goggles that nobody wants to wear.
Is Anyone Else Having Indexing Issues with Google Search Console?
Hi all - I'm having issues getting my site (http://twkids.app) Indexed onto Google Search Console. I've submitted my Sitemaps over a month ago & also have all the same URL's as Internal Links from my homepage. However, not a single one of my Sitemap URL's has been indexed. It just says "Discovered - but not currently Indexed" & status is "Started", but no other explanation.
The Google Crawler automatically indexes some pages but it's been quite slow. And the Inspect URL works, but it's very manual & there's a daily limit (I have around ~60k pages to index).

Is anyone else having Indexing Issues and know how I can resolve this? Any advice would be very helpful!
Housing, childcare, and healthcare dominate the increased costs for families with children. Education comes into play as well, but is not as clearly dominant.

Food and apparel (of any quality) are cheaper in real-terms on the time-scales you are talking about. This is an important distinction because while you can substitute beans & rice for meat and patch-up your old clothing, you can't just not have a roof over your head.
In BC and Alberta they cut the rap attack (helicopter crews). Saved 20 million or so at the time...
Is she? No widespread price controls have been implemented in the U.S., yet inflation is slowing due to the effect of contractionary monetary policy. Price floors on grains have been implemented in some Easter European countries, but that's mainly a populist measure to protect against cheap Ukrainian imports.
I am always a bit disappointed when only few arguments are provided. Ken Griffin might have a good understanding of the implications of LLM or not but that is hard to tell here.

Especially law will be interesting to watch. Lawmakers have to encode their intentions into text. LLM are good at detecting patterns in texts, find inconsistencies and so on. On top of that I would argue that we learn from the past to predict the future. Laws do not change as frequently as tech does. So LLMs might turn out to be excellent at understanding the law, at least written law, and experienced from all the cases they saw during training. I think law is in for a change similar to software.
FWIW: the numbers on that site show a vehicle with an accident rate that is vastly safer than average. The site is sort of a joke. They launched it with the intent of proving a prior, still lead with that hypothesis as an assumption in their text, and... they couldn't find the goods!

In fact it's so bad that you just have to assume their data is wildly incomplete because the not at fault fatality rate for a car just being in traffic (i.e. Tesla drivers killed because someone else hits them) isn't correctly represented.
There are plenty of those who purport AGIs threaten us and conflate "existence" with "potential". This is aimed at those driven to hysterics by such.
Same basically everything. I try to be a good patron and buy an emergency exit seat or a front of section seat, but those are always the first to go.

And even purchasing well ahead of time, I've been rebooked/reshuffled so many times and the airlines just don't care.

I wish everyone just knew how miserable it is before getting angry about not being able to recline. It's basically torture.

I don't know what the solution is. I would recommend just having a few 'tall person' seats and charging more, but people will just snatch those up the same.
No paywall: http://archive.today/2ouXQ
One thing I think tesla does much better than other manufacturers is they don't do a yearly lock of updates the same way other manufacturers do, though that can be slightly annoying when trying to figure out the exact configuration a car has as a consumer.