skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly enough, my threads here are deterministic because they always just wait for the execution to finish. So they're the same as not having them.

My plan was to go back and store off the threads generated and have something else wait for them, but I needed to think it through so that it could be done in a way to get deterministic results (like threads only read from member variables and writing to them is done in deterministic order or idempotently). Although, for a contrived example, it was more work than I really wanted to do.

I agree, punting is definitely the right course of action. I sort of have a vague intuition for what's going on here, but hammering down the exact details is just so tedious that I don't want to do it.

Although, it is interesting that the AI basically sees threads and blurts out that the problem is impossible, when they're not actually doing anything in this case.
According to this study, illegal immigrants are less likely to commit any other crimes, whether violent or nonviolent.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117
No explanation of where this data is coming from or how it's being labeled? Your top table on the right hand side shows seven "countries" but only one of the names in there is actually the name of a country (Norway).

It looks like you're just taking the top-level headers from that "who's using Github" page? Civic Hacker is one of those and is showing up as a "country" in your dataset, but clearly isn't. Looking at the first few tiles, it includes at least a few US cities, some US states, and Romania.
The limitations of the old style encyclopedia are immediately obvious when you go to actually use it. Thousands of articles that only barely scratch the surface on the topic. Even then if you're interested in something even mildly obscure it won't be in there at all. Of course you couldn't use it as a source when writing a paper, and worst of all they didn't even provide the sourcing information for the articles that they did have (maybe nicer ones did? The ones at my library did not), so as a research tool they were near useless.

I do remember that there was an exception for the Encyclopedia Britannica, which could be used as a source as long as it wasn't the only source. For some reason it was considered more scholarly than other encyclopedias.
It has to have gotten worse since the whole JFK thing.
It’s not the first time I’ve written about this. The hyperscalers are pretty much the most expensive way to build a business that isn’t presently hyperscale, and their ecosystems are increasingly optimized for sprawling stacks built on a virtually unlimited number of microservices.

That’s just not a realistic or necessary approach for everyone.

AWS is engineered for excruciatingly detailed billing right down to the moment you’re consuming or releasing capacity, and that’s how they built it. Managing that spend is exhausting.

My business runs on under $200/mo in Linode compute resources and the performance is significantly better than on similarly situated EC2 instances. We were spending that on databases alone with AWS and getting a fraction of the performance.

I make extensive use of “pure” Linode Kubernetes Engine k8s. It’s portable to any other Kubernetes cluster, and it lets me take my stack _anywhere_, even to a rack in the nearest data center willing to rent me space, if I really wanted.
1. Shredding does this edit.
2. I think this is a myth and they still keep the original message.
Random fact; this website is created and maintained by Sveinbjörn Þórðarson who also made Platypus (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus) and Sloth (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Sloth) — software that Mac nerds might be familiar with.

Sveinbjörn is a ball of energy that just radiates positives for human society.
interestingly health data is a huge problem in the UK. In that the NHS trusts have extremely valuable information on a population wide basis and do next to nothing with it.

Does google/a private company have to do it? No, but at a minimum the UK govt needs to make significantly better use of this data for research purposes. a 100x increase in medical research spending and a new more agile public medical research body would probably be enough
Very good insight here. This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about.

Case in point the electric substation attacks early this year.

Or on a micro scale, just walking into a store, taking what you want and then walking out.

I don’t think anyone really wants to live in a society that is fully secure but to not have that we need to stop the breakdown of trust.

Arguably, the only reason we have society and not total anarchy is because everyone kinda tacitly agrees to “act right”
It works with a one line fix found in the issues.
I also looked into this and couldn't find any reliable information on what pasteurisation method was actually used in the UK.

I did find that US allows the use of hormones to increase milk production. Possibly that's a factor? But very difficult to tell.
It’s wild, the world before HIPAA was even more walled off and data just didn’t flow at all. It was still a world of paper records widely at that point. Where we are with HIPAA is so much better, but still plenty of room to improve with delegated access.
>Are you saying that only owners can decide what happens on a given neighbourhood?

I think they're saying owners should be able to dispose of their own property as they see fit.
It's been quite nice to have a 150 W charger in such a small form factor. Particularly since these charges tend to come with multiple ports in case you want to go from "I'm just charging my MacBook" to "I want to plug a couple of things in overnight at the hotel but don't want to pack a bunch of chargers". Typically that's some combination of my watch, airpods, phone, and laptop.

My current charger of choice is the Anker 747 150 W, 3 usb c (equal capabilities per port of 100 W) and 1 USB A (24 watts) but there have been a lot of other models released since then. Somewhere around ~240 W might be when I look at options again, right now my MacBook won't charge at full speed due to the 100 W limit on the 747.
Finance is man-made. Resources are real. But the point makes sense in that it's a main point of competition with sports being another.
I'd be OK with a system that gave researchers access to my medical history only if they obtained actual, informed, and un-coerced consent. No "In order to use this medical service you must consent...", no "Please click Agree on this 38-page terms of service (which also sneakily agrees to consent)". No "I provide consent to each and every so-called researcher who wants access to my health history."

An actual written request for consent from a research institution, telling me exactly what data they intend to access, how they will access it, how many people will have access, for how long, and what they will do with the data / results after they are done. One that I can at my option sign and send back, or trash.

I'd in all likelihood say yes! But as a patient, I deserve the right to say yes or no. "Lives might be lost" is simply not justification for obtaining it.

This doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. It balances the need for research with the patient's need for privacy.
Why would you want to bring your desk into the kitchen or to the basket of laundry?

Not being flippant -- I really think that's the big question.

Current AR/VR (Vision Pro included) lets us do desk things at not-desk places, but why would I want to do that?
I would recommend getting this script to work for you so you can automate it.
Nice, however "a day ago" isn't particularly helpful. For this local EDT time would be fine, but I'd like to know it it's 8am or 11am
Reminds me a lot of the Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. Lot of space travel concepts explored there similar to this.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...
> It should be easier for people to opt-in to sharing their medical data

This seems like a good compromise moving forward. Add a section on whatever HIPAA forms you already need to sign that gives you the chance to opt in to use of anonymized data for medical research purposes.

I think for this to work, the law would need to clearly define how records must be anonymized, and provide penalties both for poor anonymization and for not clearly communicating to patients that this sharing is optional.
My takeaway from the article is that it's more about the novelty and nostalgia, but also could serve a purpose--and that purpose is more about bad information being available online than about it going away.
This made me curious if it would ever be possible to see some material more conductive than copper in consumer cables.

Doing a quick bit of research there isn’t really any other option. Silver has 7% less resistivity than copper, but it tarnishes.

Aside from that, humanity hasnt discovered other options!
That was my first question -- is this still going to be at 20V? The kind of current that would draw is crazy for those tiny pins.

Looks like the spec goes up to 48v now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#USB_Power_Deliver...
Stuffed animal toy
> Based on what I've seen, the people are informed as to where the buses/planes are going, and voluntarily go. They correctly understand that any large city farther from the border has more jobs, more resources than any border town. And they are correct in this assessment.

> There's this weird, and frankly bigoted, infantilization of economic migrants who cross illegally. They aren't stupid. They are just as smart as your typical colleague. They are informed, they have agency, and access to information via smart phones they bring with them or the ones provided to them when CBP gives them a data to appear for their asylum hearings.

And their understanding is likely a lot more sophisticated that a general inference about large cities. I would be highly surprised if they didn't have detailed, up-to-date knowledge about different US cities and their policies towards migrants (e.g. go to New York, be welcomed with open arms and be put up in a hotel). It's a major project to get to the border, and they're going to be trading information with other migrants, including ones that have already arrived at their destination.
The $100k is one figure I saw for the whole district but looks like they got it for $20k list each for a stationary one according to this article https://www.nbc12.com/2021/09/16/manassas-public-schools-use...

Either of the models are more sophisticated than just extra fans and filters though
Decentralized software is not the only alternative. A non-profit site would be much better than a publicly owned one. Further, it could be operated by a co-op and democratically run, with its own “laws”.
I love that we’ve gone from “is anyone going to buy this?” to “would someone think of the children, this is going to destroy society.”
Yes, it should increase on paper, but no source of energy to power that expansion is found yet. Big Shrink can power itself, so I'm voting in favor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_Attractor
Have you tried allulose/Monk Fruit? That's the new zero calorie sweetener hotness. I've been using it for sweetener the past year and haven't heard of any ill effects but that could just be due to lack of studies like we have for sucralose and erythritol.
Your desire to "help" others at the cost of social stigma for me is something I find disgusting.
As a Tesla owner, I generally have no need for any non-Tesla chargers. Tesla's network has been everywhere I want to go and has been reliable. I have an adapter in case, but the only time I've used it is just to try it out to see how it works. That probably doesn't make me the target market of the other networks.
> There will be no lack of people that would line up to have moderating powers in a large enough subreddit.

I don’t see how having bad mods not willing to put in the work and is just taking the role for the power is good for the subreddit and Reddit as a whole.
That would destroy their whole value proposition, your user generated content is their goldmine. Of course they don't have to sift through your thousands of posts to find the one that has GDPR info, you'll have to show them the post.
Debian includes unmodified tarballs in its archive for its source packages, so since they needed it before the freeze, they definitely would have to rely on that in similar scenarios.
Morrowind was just fantastic. I loved that everything seemed to always exist. You could wonder around and find a super powerful artifact or kill or lose something required fornthe main quest. It felt more immersive that way.
Fortunately for us we can see them.

Gravity waves are much harder to observe.
The 240W profile uses 48V
There are 3 things that standout about apple's vision product line.

First there's technology. This is clearly better than anything else in the market. Enough has been said on this.

Then there's usability and market. There's no real trojan horse feature that will get this product mainstream right now. Apple's hope is that the dev community will either build one or users will point them in the right direction with usage stats and telemetry. Maybe they will, or they won't nobody knows.

Finally there's the future. I see people comparing this to previous apple products and their past experiences with them etc. There appears to be two factions here, one that says "This is the future I want and I love it", and the other saying "This is the future I don't want and hate it". Both groups however are saying one common thing ... "this is the future". And that's pretty much Apple's bet.
I never had a desk at google that was anywhere near as big as half a door.
Pushshift already scraped your data and it's now floating around in torrents and on Archive.org. Someone will make a new way to access it without the soon-to-be-IPO'd reddit gatekeepers. I say delete it all!
Not unexpected; electromagnetism is 40 orders of magnitude stronger than gravity!
> i cant give you that guarantee today.

Well that's really the point, ain't it. You can't even meet the bare frakking minimum for this to be workable.

> Everyone in my life already knows about my health conditions, i speak openly about them in my personal life, my business life and online there have been zero consequences to this.

Would you mind listing them out? Also, some vital info like date, place of birth, name, family medical history? Who was your mom and dad? Grandparents? Got any siblings/cousins? Also, go ahead and measure your bp, heartrate, blood sugar levels, and post those here as well, might be useful to know those too. Oh, reminds me, gonna need to see your hepatic and renal panels as well, you never know when that sort of information about you might come in handy.

I mean, now that we've interacted, I'm in your life too, and I'd like to know all these medical facts about you.

Edit:

> How does someone weaponize your information?

A lot of other people have posted some of the terrible consequences that can result, but let me give you a more inane one that might actually be a little easier to connect with.

Blood types are not evenly distributed, especially when it comes to blood banks. Some blood types, and especially if your have an uncommon Rh factor might be harder to get. So just imagine if your health insurance was more less expensive just based on your blood type -- something that you will probably need to know (and will thus be available to your insurer) at some point in your life, and probably relatively sooner than later. How'd you like to pay hundreds or thousands more for health insurance based on your blood type alone (because there won't be any discounts for the common ones, just penalties for the rare ones.) Or worse, being denied coverage for a surgery because the blood you'd need transfused during it would be 'too expensive'.
"Tesla hasn’t launched a new consumer vehicle since 2020, and it’s widely seen as falling behind other automakers"

This is so comical. They just took over the best selling car title in the world, beating out the Toyota Carolla. Ford and GM are clamoring to use their technology, but they are falling behind?

Yeah, okay.
I've got fond memories of my Funk & Wagnalls Science encyclopedia. It was "my" encyclopedia - it wasn't useful for all school projects, but it was great to just read. As opposed to the school library's encyclopedia that was better for more direct queries, but filled with topics I didn't care enough about to read through linearly.

I never associated it with being the budget option, but I don't think my set was comprised of different editions either. Also I think my parents could have afforded a Britannica if they had been turned on to the idea, but they were drawn to buying things incrementally from immediate sales channels. You're spot on about the marketing. I remember them always being prominently at the front of the store. From what I remember the first book was $1 or free with a grocery purchase or something like that, and then of course after reading through that I bugged my Mom to get the next one.

(Also I can't help but notice Macaulay's "How Things Work" on the bookshelf in the article. Another hands-down classic that I would definitely push towards kids today even if they don't take to encyclopedias. I believe he's written a follow up book for modern tech, too)
As a patient, I feel like HIPAA has been used by care providers to bully me into giving away my rights and data on pain of not getting care. It's a train wreck.
"pay us enough and we'll provide the real upvote numbers and not the fake ones" as well
I found an unmaintained version on gitlab and github, is there a current version that you use?
A summary of this week's major AI developments
For my W2 job, I broker the commercial sale of "real world evidence". It's usually hospital, insurance and pharmaceutical claims data. The buyer is largely big pharma. They want it for things like monitoring a patient's journey and adverse events related to their drugs. There's use-cases in clinical development and pre-market as well.

As archaic as HIPAA is, the tools that we have today to obfuscate PHI (e.g. tokenization) respect the individual's privacy. The major cloud infrastructure providers are all HITRUST certified and ready to sign BAAs to keep everyone accountable.

I think we're in a good place right now for innovation with healthcare data. Multi-modal (think genome + claims + social determinants of health) are starting to become a thing. As a population, we'll benefit from more targeted therapies.

Technology is catching up with the swaths of data that has been amassed since the 2000's. I hope for more innovation vs. shackling it with uninformed regulation.
This does not benefit AirBnb, though, but the people who let properties through AirBnb or any other way. Basically this is for the benefit of anyone doing furnished holiday letting.

This also does not sound like a "loophole" but a tax break specifically created for this, probably to encourage holiday lets. Now that AirBnb has made them explode the pendulum has swung back to wanting to discourage some of them and so they want to change the tax rules accordingly.
Could be! I imagine I also notice the difference because I usually use UHT when I've run out of fresh milk. So the taste of coffee with fresh milk is pretty recent, vs travelling to another country.

I'm sure if I was using UHT every day I'd start to forget the difference.
I wonder how much money it unjustly costs other people for every dollar Google saves on support personnel costs.
"We have all noticed that the Russian military appears far less capable than we thought it was; frankly it seems incapable of even some of the very basic tasks of modern industrial armies engaged in conventional military operations."

I wondered about that. For the record, I have zero evidence of this as reliable records are hard to find in that arena. Chechnya was Russia's bigger conflict and now, unlike Syria and few other spots, Russia's approach resembled anti-terrorist stance ( pop in for a quick action and hold a small group keeping tabs on things ).

The societies that seem to have a handle on this are ones that currently do not have peace ( say Ukraine or Israel, where both deal with an enemy threat on a regular basis ).

"Instead, the new incentive for most countries would be to build a military in a way that aims to minimize the political costs, rather than maximize combat power or even ‘security'."

I am willing to agree on this one. There is a clear weariness in US for giving military even more money. I am seeing something similar in the old country and that is despite Russian aggression aimed at Ukraine.

"Meanwhile, maximizing the army for repression means developing paramilitary internal police forces at scale (Rosgvardiya is an obvious example), which direct resources away from core conventional military; such security-oriented forces aren’t designed for a conventional war and perform poorly at it."

The argument seems valid, but I am not entirely convinced. Secret police is not new to Russia and if any country has their apparatus working, it likely is Russia. If that is the case, it makes it difficult for me to believe that they do not have a working system that recognizes and gives some leeway, like any wars before that, to people doing the actual fighting ( like.. you don't put a front soldier in Gulag just because he openly says Putin is a dick ). That said, the argument does provide an explanation for Russia's failure. I am just not sure I agree though.

"revanchist powers (Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Finland, Ukraine, etc.)"

I found the listing of Poland and Finland interesting, but I am not sure what argument for keeping them on that list is.

" Of course the big unanswered and at the moment unanswerable question is where countries like India or the People’s Republic of China fit."

I am not sure it is unanswerable. Some people have definitely taken a stab at it. Right now, the momentum seems to be generating a new axis with both India and China rising as new powers and flexing their individual muscles ( we hear a lot about China, but that seems like it is mostly, because it is US's current main concern ).
You could also work with the Finanzamt to rearrange the payment schedule, giving you more time to sort things out. You can also reduce the size of your tax prepayments as needed.

You might also have access to ALG I if you were an employee for 12 of the last 30 months.
Yup, that's why I bought the 3060, my first GPU card. For the 12gb. It allows me to play with LLM. I can get 7/13/30B models, but it's dog slow. It's a terrible thing that Nvidia is dragging in increasing the memory or cores just to make a profit. It's so bad, I'm thinking of selling it and buying a used P40 with 24gb which will allow for larger models at almost the same performance.
I actually thought about building this but shyed away due to not wanting to handle hippa and being a one man shop at the moment. Good to know someone tackled this.
Usually it goes something like this:

- Grab the data in a raw format

- Upload to Internet Archive

- Figure out how to extract structured data from raw dump

- Upload structured data to IA
> googling something with kagi.com

This always makes me chuckle. Kaging something may not be mainstream yet but Kagi-fu sounds better then Google-fu!
This almost never happens, to my knowledge. Most fields have people pursuing alternative hypotheses even when one thing is in vogue. For example, in the case of Alzheimer's Disease there were and are a lot of other threads of research and I would be that your typical AD scientist would have had a good grasp of many of them regardless of the research they were focusing on.

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/3223/what-altern...