skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you're bringing up direct care. HIPAA specifically allows access to PHI for treatment, payment, and health care operations.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/authorizatio...

When providers fail to obtain medical histories for new patients that's not due to any legal restrictions. In most cases they simply haven't bothered to implement the open interoperability industry standards which make it easy to exchange such data, or haven't joined networks that facilitate such exchange. For example, the majority of physicians still don't have a publicly listed DirectTrust Direct Secure Messaging address even though they could have one at a very low cost.
> Like I said, over a large enough area and with storage, it averages out

Maybe, it's literally impossible to say. That's terrible design for something as critical as the national grid. People die when the power goes out.
Can GPT accurately transcribe English text to IPA?

It looks like it can (https://chat.openai.com/c/c893cf54-5dfa-4774-9800-e6a74b7f9e...):

Prompt:

Eng Rhyming with IPA

User
Transcribe the following English text to IPA:

English:

I wonder if having access to characters actually helps rhyming in English all that much, as English rules of pronunciation are essentially rote-learned anyway. If it were not rote-learning, then it might make different mistakes, for example expecting two words to rhyme because they end with the same suffix.
Perhaps it would be more effective to ask it to produce poems in the format: English0 IPA0 English1 IPA1, where each line is produced in both semantic and phonetic representations. This would give it the context necessary to “see” the rhymes without having to mess around with the tokenization.

IPA:

Response:

aɪ ˈwʌndər ɪf ˈhævɪŋ ˈæksɛs tuː ˈkærəktərz ˈækʧuəli hɛlps ˈraɪmɪŋ ɪn ˈɪŋglɪʃ ɔːl ðæt mʌtʃ, æz ˈɪŋglɪʃ ruːlz ʌv prəˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən ɑːr ɪˈsɛnʃəli roʊt-lɜrnd ˈɛniˌweɪ. ˈɪf ɪt wər nɑt roʊt-ˈlɜrnɪŋ, ðɛn ɪt maɪt meɪk ˈdɪfərənt mɪsˈteɪks, fɔr ɪgˈzæmpl̩ ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ tuː wɜrdz tuː raɪm bɪˈkɔz ðeɪ ɛnd wɪð ðə seɪm ˈsʌfɪks.
pərˈhæps ɪt wʊd biː mɔr ɪˈfɛktɪv tuː ˈæsk ɪt tuː prəˈdus poʊəmz ɪn ðə ˈfɔrmæt: ˈɪŋglɪʃ0 ˈaɪpiːˈeɪ0 ˈɪŋglɪʃ1 ˈaɪpiːˈeɪ1, wɛr iʧ laɪn ɪz prəˈdusd ɪn boʊθ sɪˈmæntɪk ænd fəˈnɛtɪk ˌrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃənz. ðɪs wʊd gɪv ɪt ðə ˈkɑntɛkst ˈnɛsəˌsɛri tuː si ðə raɪmz wɪˈðaʊt ˈhævɪŋ tuː mɛs ɚˈaʊnd wɪð ðə ˌtoʊkənaɪˈzeɪʃən.
Crypto Custody Firm BitGo Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Prime Trust
I work at Prime Trust, this news came as a surprise. Everything is still unclear at the moment, hopefully with clarity coming in the next couple weeks.
> Reddit just happens to have a single-pane-of-glass view for a feed of multiple communities' posts, just like Twitter has a single-pane-of-glass view for a feed of multiple accounts' posts.

I disagree with the "just happens to have" part of this. The single-pane view is the killer feature of Reddit for me. I've tried to engage in smaller forums before, and small, niche communities have valuable but infrequent content. Being able to see which of the small communities have fantastic posts today is valuable, and encourages me to participate in some of the less headlining posts.

For a good example, consider /r/ultralight, which is a backpacking community focused on keeping weight off your back. 90% of the posts are "Help me shave weight! (The 10 pound lead weight I carry is sentimental and non-negotiable.)" Slightly more interesting are new product reviews, and the best are overviews of product categories.

I would not visit a standalone forum for once-a-month interesting content. But I'll definitely follow the sub, which leads me to 1) see all of the most interesting posts, and 2) engage with newcomers occasionally when I'm on reddit and nothing else is catching my attention. ("You really don't need the lead weight - just carry a picture of it for sentimental value.")
I can drive a car but I can't ride a horse.

Somewhere along my family tree we didn't pass this skill forward and it was lost.
Interesting, but I find much more value from discussion rather than the article itself.

Would be interesting to see how much value I’d get from a ChatGPT summary of the discussion rather than/in addition to the article. I could see that being much less “sterile” as well.
If you have a site that is espousing contradictory values to the main site, would the main site accept your content? or would they kind of shun you?

(alas, its shut down... but it used to be that if you looked at the 'moderated servers on a mastodon site you'd find parler in that list which was a modified mastodon instance that no one else wanted to talk to)

If your content is sufficiently shunned from the main instances/interchanges how discoverable would your posts be? Or would you go "ok" and accept the political or philosophical lean of the main site so that your content got syndicated/federated to others?
If you simply delete your account, the comments live on but are anonymized. The username is [deleted].

It's a lot easier than deleting all your comments before deleting the account, and as others have said, it preserves the conversation for future people.

I'd much rather learn what a bunch of deleted accounts thought about in a thread from 10 years ago than getting only a partial conversation.
Yea this.
I think you're onto it... its an AR fart app, lets you put on a $3500 Apple iHead or whatever its called, open the app and point to someone and hear fart noises and see gas clouds appear around them. You get more points if you can hold your laughter in with the cameras watching your face. Eye roll to post your score on social media with clips of all the victims. Multi-player: you and a friend walk around in public wearing your iHead playing together trying to get each other to laugh.
Adds a visual fart cloud when the microphone detects a toot.
Sweet scones? I mean yeah, I guess you could, but why?
I'll also throw a vote out that I do not see the value in having a public feud over whether one specific site is allowed to block HN traffic. I actually agree with stripping referrer headers from all posts (for user privacy reasons), but in addition I think it's clearly the right move to block links to asahilinux.org

It would:

A) not ban people from talking about Asahi Linux and would not prevent links about Asahi Linux from being shared.

B) be at least somewhat of a gesture of goodwill that the HN community is not trying to force itself into other communities (which we shouldn't be doing anyway).

C) not force HN to build a generic "anyone who wants to get blocked can get blocked" system.

HN moderation regularly takes context into account when making decisions (and in fact, the moderation would be much worse if it didn't). Yeah, of course the NYT should not be able to ask HN to stop linking to articles. But that's not the current situation. Regardless of whether or not HN is obligated to block links to asahilinux.org from being posted, it would be a low-impact move for the HN community that would go a long way towards both diffusing the controversy and would (from the sound of things) be a high-impact positive change for the Asahi Linux community.

And regardless of whether people think the Asahi Linux community is being reasonable or not, if there's an easy way to accommodate people who have a concern and it's not forcing us to do something drastic or high impact -- we should do it. If it becomes a problem in the future, if tons of sites start doing this and it impacts the community's ability to have conversations about current events, then change the policy. You're not locked into anything.

In the meantime, why not try to accommodate someone who feels harassed by certain HN users? It just seems like a very simple way to show some kindness towards another community.

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To the point that users might misinterpret those blocks as hostile, I know that HN tries to make very minimal code changes, but no matter how hard I try I also do not understand why it wouldn't be possible with minimal code changes to show/redirect to an error that explained the situation.
I don't know that it produces absolute garbage, you just need to be aware that perfect metrics don't exist. A person having a credential is one data point. You collect multiple data points to form an opinion.

eg., You probably shouldn't hire a lawyer with no law degree or no experience simply based on the fact that there are tons of credentialed, experienced attorneys who are no good.
The argument presented above is flawed in several ways.

First, it assumes that consciousness and self-awareness are merely subjective inner experiences that can't be externally validated. While it's true that these processes cannot be directly observed or measured like other physical phenomena, there is ample evidence to suggest that they are real and have important functional roles in the brain. For example, studies have shown that damage to certain areas of the brain can result in a loss of self-awareness or an altered sense of consciousness. Additionally, research has demonstrated correlations between neural activity patterns and conscious experience.

Secondly, the argument suggests that there is no reason to think humans actually possess consciousness or self-awareness. This assertion runs counter to our everyday experiences and perceptions as human beings. We all have first-hand knowledge of our own subjective inner world - our thoughts, emotions, sensations - which strongly suggests the existence of some form of conscious awareness.
“Crucial Conversations” is one of the books that I always reference back to in my career and my personal life. It helps the reader break down difficult (and high risk) conversations and provides tools on how to turn conflicts into successful outcomes.

I recommend it if you haven’t read it.
Okay. So spez acknowledged in the call that it wasn't a threat, but he felt threatened, so it's okay for him to tell everyone the Apollo dev threatened him?
I'm playing with it, but not for work stuff, and not for everything. Really haven't done a ton, but has given me some useful insights. I'm normally a vim-only guy, so this has been a doubly-useful bit of experiment with using VSCode and using Copilot.

The key thing to me is it's nice for certain kinds of work. Loosely/offhand, those categories:

- Writing stuff from scratch: Sometimes useful. Particularly if it's a "write it, get it working, forget it" script.

- "Polishing" code with close attention to detail/docs/implementation: This is an area where I'm more likely to immerse myself in understanding the code, and wouldn't be likely to use Copilot, as it would break the immersion.

- Writing accessory scripts: E.g. a sqlite alembic migration script; I really am not a DB guy, so outlined some steps in a comment, read what Copilot wrote, tested it out, called it a day.

- Adding stuff in an existing codebase: In cases where there's hundreds of functions across dozens of files, the idea of copilot knowing the functions and suggesting them for me, without my needing to look them up, sounds great. I'd definitely like to attempt this with work's codebase someday. I think a lot of precursor tools could do much of this; but I just never got in the habit of needing them.

I spend more time with ChatGPT currently, but I'm pretty sure I'm nowhere near being a heavy user there, either. I think 75% of my peers are basically doing nothing with AI tools currently. (It helps that I do side projects a lot more than they do, too...)
This is awesome, I am building a visual tool to build frontend workflows, I'd love to talk to you to see where we can match.
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> Tangentially, if they self hosted using say ZFS would the cached artifacts and other such things be candidates for the dedup features of the file system?

Yes, block-level deduplication would be hugely beneficial. If you're running Nix locally you can set auto-optimise-store = true, which enables file-level deduplication using hardlinks; that already saves a great deal of space.
Since I can't edit my post any more, I'll add it here. ABB North America and Flo have announced support for NACS.
Uh....did we read the same article?? It's about natively running Windows 11 directly on ARM.
Other than the points on potential issues with intellectual property I find the article that is referenced completely unconvincing. It's just modern moral anxiety split into bullet points (eg how much energy does it use?, we don't need more code (speak for yourself)). Is there a name for this kind of self hating west coast tech liberal yet?

As for copilot, it's ok. GPT-4 is much much better when you learn how to use it. Busy work is completely automated. I need to transform strings in one form into structs? Just paste a representative sample of the data and tell it to. Is the data dirty? Just tell it how it's dirty and it will handle those edge cases. Want unit tests to verify the function it wrote works for you? Tell it to write the unit tests, then read them, point out what it got wrong, then check again.
I am using it; the process is writing documentation and getting things done. If your API is reasonable, it will figure things out. I am not using it for things I don't know how to write, I am using it for things I know how to solve relatively fast but don't want to bother writing completely.

There are cases though where it came in clutch and implemented a solution much better than I could by leveraging some very hidden numpy function call that I couldn't find even if my life depended on it.
First Binance got rid of USD transactions and now this. Looks like the SEC is tightening the screws in a holistic manner!
You want the showrunners for Rings of Power instead? Amazon went for the best mix of young, talented and well-rexommended they could find, and they blew it.
> Tell me a cron expression to run command on each third Monday of a month

An LLM is probably the only thing which could tell you this.
Even if you don't enjoy that interpretation of

"To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;"

You cannot deny that "among the several states" can be interpreted to mean congress can regulate commerce in the states.
Some find their own minigame in this. One good friend of mine is apparently in it to produce the most powerful deck at the lowest cost - usually via second-hand purchases.

Others just fish for foil cards, which apparently are measurably heavier than normal ones and with a precision scale it's possible to tell whether a booster has one.

I'm not a collector, so I stopped buying them when power creep rendered a second deck of mine useless already.
Serious? I pre & post all of those + bicycling. Whammy, huge difference, especially if you leverage e.g. the caffeine for mental work, or whatever else each chemical is good at.

Had some funny experiments in there but would never go back to nothing. It doesn't make sense, especially if you don't have an addictive personality & any chemical risk is more likely associated with quitting beneficial chemicals than staying on them too long.
I learned a lot from Dr. Dobbs journal and Linux Journal. You could get articles at every level, beginner to advanced, and they had enough details to encourage experimentation. I had many issues saved up at one point of those two, plus Computer Shopper and Byte. No idea where they are now, either in a box somewhere or gone, sadly.
They've got the money.
I switched to carbon steel a few years ago. There's a definite learning curve when it comes to getting them seasoned properly and a lot of people give up. But once they are seasoned, nothing sticks to them, and they need almost no maintenance. I'm never giving them up!
> would exhaust economical uranium resources in less than a decade.

This doesn't seem right. Can you show your work? I'm assuming there's no recycling either? I feel like you're off by more than an order of magnitude.

Besides, who suggests using a single method to produce all the electricity? That seems a bit naive, doesn't it? Better to have a portfolio.
great, thanks. I'm now famous.
Ask HN: How to be supportive to people willing to take risks?
I know people who are starting a start up or on a related area, investing in stocks/companies. Usually they are very enthusiastic and optimistic about what they're doing. I'm unfortunately a lot more risk adverse and cynical about certain ideas / "opportunities" and am willing to debate and challenge beliefs, but I realize that a lot of people just want the support and echo chamber acknowledgements.
I struggle with being unauthentic and genuine and wanting to share my opinions that the other person wasn't seeking.
> it's different reading and reviewing its code than to punch a few characters into my IDE and have code magically appear.

I feel you missed something here.

ChatGPT: reading and reviewing its code

Copilot: punch a few characters into my IDE and have code magically appear... and you read and review the magically appeared code, just like you do with ChatGPT?
Reddit is a really good system for getting incredibly-niche oriented persons to subsume a subreddit, drive a bunch of engagement, yet suck all the usable air out of the channel, and make it next to impossible for a interested-but-casual user to meaningfully participate. Just like Twitter, the people who make the service their personality get to enjoy the network effects, and everyone else might as well be spitting in the wind.
Of course. Try a Razer Blade 13 - it's literally just a MacBook in black aluminium. It's scary how similar it is in build quality. I've had one for 2 years and all my MacBook using friends said that if they used Windows they would buy that as it's essentially a windows-running MacBook.
What's with the weird design decision not to have more West to East lines in NYC? It can make travel very convoluted.
Senior engineer here, none of the strongest developers I know bother with it. It’s fairly useless if you know exactly what you’re doing.
For me, Copilot has had the opposite effect from skill rot: it's pretty lousy at producing big chunks of code so I tend to use it for small chunks where I have a pretty good sense for what I want to do. However, sometimes it surprises me by offering something that I wouldn't have chosen that turns out to be far better, and I learn new things from those suggestions.

For example, I gave Copilot something like this:

const textFile = longfile
const numLines =

I expected it to give me a regular expression that would count the number of new line characters, but instead it split the string on \n and asked for the length of that array. These are decent sized files (300ish lines) and this code is running in a hot loop over thousands of them, but I decided to give it a chance and benchmarked both choices.

It turns out that even with all of the extra allocations, the regular expression solution was 4-5x slower than splitting and getting the length. Not something I would have guessed, but now I know.
The API is already limited. I don't know what it is, and it's undocumented as far as I know.
To date, no one has successfully explained to me what is the benefit of activities over multiple virtual desktops. Would you give it a try?
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Parallels works great for running the ARM64 versions of Windows as well as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and Alma Linux. I’ve also coerced it to run FreeBSD and OpenBSD as well with a little bit of effort. Ironically I haven’t gotten NetBSD to work on it yet.

UTM is also very good, and it has the ability to emulate other architectures. It’s not quite as performant or polished as Parallels though.
Yeah, this is a bit old from February -- nothing's changed here. VMware is still waiting for an official blessing, IIRC?

I'd rather use VMware Workstation/Fusion over Parallels (or UTM). Parallels gets grosser and ickier to me over the years while VMware seems to just remain one solid product.
I don't follow. The NARs are signed by a key that (presumably?) only Hydra has access to. (The signature is then recorded in the narinfo file). The integrity is the nixpkgs history, and the signature verification that happens when you pull the narinfo+NAR from a cache that hydra pushed to.
Hotels generally have level 2 chargers. Those use the J1772 adapter that is included with the car for free.

I also have the CCS adapter, but I've rarely used it. It does help when the CCS station is more convenient. I've had that happen a couple of times, but it is remarkably rare.

The opposite situation, CCS but no Tesla Supercharger access would be a lot less pleasant.
It empowers us to disappear distasteful opinions.
You’ll grow dependent on a technology that might not be sustainable to run on the long term, or will increase in price.
Once the product seizes to be affordable, you’d need to switch away and relearn how you did certain things.

A similar thing happened with me using Adobe products at a student discount, only to realize its hefty $60 per month price tag was not something I was willing to spend.

And if the gained productivity is only marginal at best, it’s better to not grow dependent on these technologies.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies: An Introduction for Technologists
I sucessfully develop .NET REST APIs using ASP.NET Core since .NET 5 (and mostly using minimal APIs introduced in .NET 6) on my Mac using VSCode, Entity Framework Core (with Postgres+SQLite) and deploy it to Ubuntu VPSes. Flawless, and the only issue I ever encountered is rather fringe: I couldn't use AES128GCM algo for JWE token encryption, as it is only supported on Windows. Using the APIs on Linux/macOS will throw an Exception. I switched to AES128-CBC-HMAC instead for my JWE tokens, no big deal.
Everybody likes to see their numbers go up.
What do you mean? This is windows ARM edition natively running on MacBooka, is it not?
Even if we really could ramp up those factories and the corresponding mines for all the battery materials, those batteries will last maybe 10 ish years. Then they need to be recycled and we have basically no capacity for that today. A nuclear plant can easily go for 60 to 80 years with good maintenance.
I think we’re saying the same thing. Are we not?
The comment contributes nothing and is irrelevent to the topic at hand. Not every comment is worthy of a responce.
No, because my workplace bans it, so I don't find a subscription for personal use worth it. Before my workplace banned it, I used the free version last year, and I found it slightly useful, but not essential - more of a smart Autocomplete than anything truly intelligent. ChatGPT and the GPT API have been much more useful for my personal coding (mostly as an enhanced Stack Overflow).
The important to note imo is the length of the period:80. A 17 year old 80 years ago is 97. The last of the generation that were alive during WW2 are dying. Putin himself grew up in the shadow of his brother who died in WW2.

Those that knew war, kept peace. But now, especially with gen-z, there is less alarm and awareness of war. All the tech and military advancement mean war would be even more horrific and cruel but also as you can see in ukraine the usage of drones and remore controlled artillery is reshaping war.

Keep in mind, the rules of war only apply to the loser. The wars most western people alive today are familiar with are fought in remote countries and between soldiers. If your homeland was threatened most of your people will support breaking every rule of war.
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Yes. It was poor wording on my part trying to encompass all these situations under a generic description. But these are excellent examples of what I was trying to convey. Thanks.
I don't know anyone who uses it anymore
Reddit is dead, Twitter is dead, RSS lives on.

RSS is an API first, there is no CEO, there are no investors, the peasants tried to stage a revolt against it many times.

Everyone on HN should probably watch this clip from Aaron Swartz again. (who deserves blame for the creation of RSS and Reddit)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_-_The_N...

It is odd we are to stupid to understand while he explains things so wonderfully?