skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not the tiebreaker. There are 49 other votes that could also be a tiebreaker.

> Have Democrats never had the political power to make change? Did the Obama presidency not exist?

Correct. They had the votes for 6 months in 2009 in which they passed the most comprehensive reform that I have seen in my adult life, the Affordable Care Act.

> If democrats were as militant about their positions as the GOP, maybe they’d have more than one major liberal policy win made through legislation in the past 50 years.. but they’re not, and they don’t.

Makes zero sense given the numbers
of votes needed, but okay. Even the ACA barely had the numbers, which is why it has to be watered down to attract the Republican-lite members to vote with the rest of the Democrats.
What to Know About the Context Going into Your Code LLM
CNN Caught Falsely Claiming Texas Abortion Ban Led to Increased Infant Mortality
> Attesters will be required to offer their service under the same conditions to any browser who wishes to use it and meets certain baseline requirements. This leads to any browser running on the given OS platform having the same access to the technology, but we still have the risks that 1) some websites might exclude some operating systems, and 2) if the platform identity of the application that requested the attestation is included, some websites might exclude some browsers.

I feel this is the bit that's going to be hand waved away for the sake of convenience.
I've always been curious about this. Can you briefly summarize how you take peripheral blood and fractionate it out to these small bits. What's the deal exactly? Is it like centrifuged and the plasma pulled out and everything is solution there or it's in the buffy coat or down deeper? Where are these proteins found exactly and how are they purified?
My equivalent of this was finding a brand new SAN array had been formatted wrong. It was nearly empty and unused so it would have been a 5-minute job to format 99% of it and shuffle the in-use 1% around so that the rest can be fixed too.

Both the storage vendor tech and I vehemently argued for solving this immediately but were told to “do it later”.

I pointed out that “later” would be when it is full and has 10K production users using it 24/7. Hence any reformatting would be a six-month project requiring additional kit for the scratch space needed. Not to mention the risk!

I was wrong. It took 12 months.
Does anyone know of any tools or maybe analysis made by researches gauging guerrilla marketing vs. actual interest (which drives the algo)? Because both seem like very plausible possibilities to me. Or even a combination of both, which reinforce each other.
At work, a large consulting company, we use constraint programming (actually, mostly mixed integer prog and meta heuristics) to solve problems in logistics scheduling, route optimization, staff assignment, production planning, marketing (pricing, store assortment) finance (portfolio, capital budgeting) and others.

Large companies (think any of the Global 2000) benefit from a couple % improvement on their operations that lead to many $M in savings.
Yeah, I think I dropped a zero :) For 80 cents a word I might just switch jobs.
I'm thankful I never experienced that. My family switched from AOL dial up to an AT&T ADSL connection (either started out as 128, 256 or 512kbps down circa 2006 IIRC). It still didn't make downloading FreeBSD and Fedora Core 6 ISOs easy but it definitely was doable in a reasonable amount of time!
Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should.

On a serious note, this is absolutely badass. In the spirit of hacking, kudos!

The ideal market for this seems to be people with only PHP web app experience that need or want to build a "native" app, that otherwise wouldn't be able to do so with existing tools.
My favorite way to tackle this is to use a bowl of bait and one of those cheapo bug zapper rackets.

I take the racket and use a rubber band around the button to keep it "on" and then set the racket above a bowl of whatever bait I need to use.

I leave it there until the zaps finally stop.

Has yet to fail me in clearing out a fly infestation.
> This story screams antitrust.

It does but the complainers are usually tabloid crap pushers whom no one in power really supports.
large language model
Silly analogy. If you're going to remove grazing animals, you might need to figure out how many new fields you'll need for the extra veg required and it's transport, figure out where wool and leather are going to come from, along with the dairy, pet food and all the other derivative products. But sure, we'll just magically stop meat (I think there are ways to easily reduce the need for so much feed without removing meat production) and go to meat free without causing any other issues. Environmental win-win to keep the population Ponzi growing
Annual physical in the U.S. is one's chance to get a "relatively free" doctor visit for an issue they have.

The conclusion that if you are healthy there is a higher chance to have a false positive is misleading.

a) that is true by definition: they have asserted the patients are healthy already;
b) statement assumes that in the U.S. people go to the doctor at the same rate as they go in other countries; and thus have a chance to test themselves / do checkups necessary to their particular family/individual risk profile;

So drawing the directive that annual physicals are to be discarded is hypocritical. And to be substituted with "questionnaires" is .. [well I don't really have words.] They are stretching for a conclusion to remove the ~free annual requirement.

(cc from your linked blog study/recommendation):
> Second, they acknowledge that if the annual visit is to be discarded, primary care doctors will need to find a more proactive way to monitor their patients' attention to preventive care. They suggest that waiting for patients to keep their annual visits to review this is too "passive" an approach, and encourage practices to shift to "active engagement" of their patients. Ways to do this might include: online risk assessments, waiting-room questionnaires, and a review of preventive care at any visit to the doctor.
Are you in Arizona? Any tips on where to start?
> The value of the movie-going experience is not insignificant, which you get at any theater.

Not arguing, just curious: what do you perceive the value to be in going to a (8) plain 'ol regular theater? As opposed to something like a 65" OLED in your living room.
I don't disagree. I was latching onto the idea that people are running single-node "clusters". Whatever it is, it isn't a cluster.
I hope Google opens this up to actual journalists who can find and validate facts, then use AI to write long form content.
It ships with two web servers, per the Security page.
No. Say you release your project "Foo" as open source (permissive) on project-foo.com. I cannot come and ask you to remove the sources from project-foo.com, and go to everybody who downloaded the code and ask them to delete it.

The version of Foo that you released as open source will always be open source. Now I can make a copy of Foo, use it in my proprietary software Bar, and ship Bar to customers without sharing the sources of Foo (but I need to share the license; all permissive licenses that I know require attribution). Foo is still open source on project-foo.com, I just don't distribute it with Bar.

I can modify Foo, and ship it to customers as a proprietary library (with attribution). My changes to Foo will be proprietary, but project-foo.com will still exist and will still be open source.

Now you own the copyright of Foo, so you can decide to start shipping it (and all new versions) as proprietary. But you can't ask me to delete the fork I made from your open source version, foo-fork.com. So that one will still be open source.
Some people with coding experience just like PHP.
This is already happening. It’s just mildly harder now. Try opening Teams in Firefox or Safari.
I think we all know that doesn't occur.

Retractions are printed in small type on an inside page, if at all. That's been the rule for decades, if not centuries.
The LinkedIn icon takes you to facebook.com... not the most assuring. This whole operation seems sketchy at first glance, especially when considering this is a financial product.
I think it should be noted that this enforces grammatical constraints on the model's generated text, but it doesn't do anything to properly align the content. This would be useful if you needed to ensure a server delivered well-formatted JSON, but it I suspect it wont solve a lot of alignment issues with current language generation. For example current iterations of Llama and GPT often do not label markdown code-blocks correctly. Using grammar-based sampling, you could enforce that it labels code blocks but you couldn't enforce correct labeling since this is context-dependent. You also couldn't invent a novel domain-specific language without aligning against that language and expect good output.
> something 'non-owners' can only provide?

Commerce/consumption. What's the point of all the production if no one can buy it?
I'm enjoying eating my own cake on my non-rooted GrapheneOS mobile.
I've tried this several times and it's never been successful. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I'm glad you got it to work!
I'd say the primary concern is not with the purchasing party exercising their right not to disclose their intent post-sale. It's that they're intentionally masking their identity to prevent unwelcome influence on the transaction (i.e. If you know I'm rich, you're going to jack up the price.)

I think the argument is really over whether parties on either side are entitled to privacy/anonymity. The answer seems to be 'yes' in the form of typically legal shell corps, anonymous LLCs, and the like.
What exactly is "native" about this?

I remember there was PHP bindings for GTK [0], which at least looked sort of native on Linux.

This could be cool if you can ship a large PHP backend codebase, allowing a web app to become an offline desktop app. You'd probably have to bundle a MySQL instance many cases though :)

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP-GTK
> I read that it’s kind of like if you had no skin and thus all your nerve endings were exposed.

That seems to be exactly right. However, it also seems that, with some intelligence and introspection, people can totally learn how to deal with that and live a normal life.

It's hard for me to tell whether the symptoms actually subside, or whether they are just perfectly capable of dealing with them. From what I've been told, a big part of BPD is "internal emotional feedback loops" that become hard to break out of, but it's apparently possible to recognize them early and not build up.
The higher the numbers, the better the thing.
Vision Pro has at least grasped the idea that serious effort and specs need to be put into bringing AR to the world, and has made a valiant, priced-to-match first effort.

Quest Pro doesn't seem to know what it is; its an over-priced Quest tottering about in Professional Heels, showing a leg at the productivity types as they walk by scratching their heads.
> Science only works if contrarians get a voice.

I completely agree, but it's counterintuitive. There's a part of me that thinks "science == reproducible, observable fact". But it really is much more (er, less) than that. It'd be nice if there was a different word for the "not irrefutable" parts (i.e. almost all of it).
That's true; with a cap of 250 Mbps for the DCP stream, and a 4K frame size of 4096 × 2160, that's ~28 bits per pixel (if the soundtrack is disregarded). There might be a small amount of subsampling or run length encoding going on, but it's entirely plausible to distribute and play an uncompressed film on a professional projector.

EDIT: Forgot to factor frame rate into the math. Divide that by 24 frames per second. That got me curious, so I looked into it and found they're using JPEG 2000 on each frame with no inter-frame deltas. Essentially like a constant stream of I-frames.
Well the other thing is, if he got a positive test in 2006, he'd be on anti-retrovirals and wouldn't have died of it. He had money and access to good doctors. It's rare for someone like him to die of AIDS complications.
The traps are there to help as well. Highly recommend.

You still have to find the source as you describe. However, if one of the moths flys out and away from the cupboard, they still might lay eggs some where else. You want the new hatchlings to go straight to the trap and get stuck.
Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3, played in sequence without stopping an hour a day for six months straight.
Why distilled water? It presumably doesn't rain distilled water outside.
Does it disturb anyone else that this is (a) in a personal namespace & (b) reason given for closing discourse being a single individual's need to disconnect from work at the weekend, when that person is employed by a large corp to maintain this spec which they are implementing in their product?

Surely Google as an org, if they're behind this, or at least a standards bodies own org namespace should both own this project, and also decision making around discourse, with any individual employees being free to leave the project un-answered outside of working hours?

This isn't some open source passion project someone's doing in their off time...
There are PalmOS emulators out there, wouldn't make sense for them to roll their own instead of licensing one of those. I had one on my last Android phone that was a treat for using my beloved old Palm apps.

I suspect the HN crowd's interpretation is correct that they merely replicated the look and feel. Which makes sense - Palm is still the best GUI I've ever been fortunate enough to use.
> you've provided no source.

Yeah: it isn't shocking and can be quickly found using Google (as I just did now). (I have provided some extra links but am only quoting Brendan Eich as you seemed particularly interested in him saying the words himself rather than his team.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/bw6sek/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/b7rwbx/

> 1/ native C++/Rust code, no JS tags on page that have zero integrity. That means ability to use SGX/TrustZone to check integrity and develop private user score from all sensor inputs in the enclave; ...

> We already have to deal w/ fraud. That is inherent in any system with users and revenue shares or grants. We do it better via C++ and (under way) SGX or TrustZone integrity checking + OS sensor APIs, vs today’s antifraud scripts that are routinely fooled.

> What Brave offers that's far better than today's joke of an antifraud system for ads is as follows: 1/ integrity-checked open source native code, which cannot be fooled by other JS on page; ... (1) requires SGX or ARM equivalent, widespread on mobile.

They are also building an SDK and talk about using this tech to ensure the ads presented by their SDK in someone else's app are legitimate.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9yys6b/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/97trex/comment/...

> Part of the roadmap (details in update) is a BAT SDK. Obviously it would be open source, but more: we would require Secure Remote Attestation (Intel SGX broken but ARM TrustZone as used by Trustonic may be ok) to prove integrity of the SDK code in app.

Again: the very tech they are excited about to make their ad-based business model work against people cheating and blocking their ads is the same tech that Google is going to use to make their ad-based business model work against Brave cheating and blocking their ads ;P.
Perhaps a guide? Might make $100/mo!
Pitcher plants don't need a tropical environment! There are many that are even from Canada. Ours is doing great in an indoor Seattle environment just sitting on a windowsill that only gets an hour or two of direct sun per day.
I do. But there are only ten different ones and they don't tell you what thing you've stamped. So if you're stamping enemies, which one is "skull"?

Why doesn't the game do this, it obviously knows what enemies are where? If you've already encountered them, why not just let you filter that enemy on the map?

Even if it made you take a photo like it does for the compendium, that'd be better than the "sometimes vague locations" we have now. Why not list map locations of that enemy for all enemies in the compendium? Or at least the special ones like Lynels, Hinox, Talus etc?
During the shortage lead time for many semiconductor products went through the roof, so it would make sense that there has been at least some stockpiling. Probably you're right that that doesn't affect top tier products which are the bulk of the revenue, because those are the ones that got preferential access to fab capacity. Whether the stockpiling affected a big enough fraction of revenue to cause this effect is not something I have access to the data to know, so like you I am merely hoping that this is the explanation.
I think his stock "evil ethnic yet cosmopolitan assassin with conspicuously foreign name" characters are kinda weird. (In Inferno it's a woman named "Vayentha" working for a guy named "Zobrist".)

This might be a literary SF trope. One of the silliest was in Tad Brown's Otherworld[0], which has an evil yet cosmopolitan Aboriginal Australian assassin.

[0] it's like a literary SF version of Sword Art Online, and if this makes it sound weird it's a lot weirder than that
I've started down a new hobby that requires a specific and somewhat pricey bit of kit, and can see this while trying to make an informed choice between different models from different manufacturers of this kit

The closest some reviewers get to outright panning something is making a pros/cons list comparing a given model against an inferior model from a different manufacturer as if they were in the same class as the sponsored model (the other manufacturer usually has a more expensive model available that would compare more favorably, given the chance)

also, you can tell when a bit of kit came with a list of talking points in the box, and when a review i'm watching makes the same talking points as the others i've seen, that manufacturer has _less_ merit in my mind (the least their marketing team can do is personalize the talking points they send out...)
> Also, I struggle to imagine what a world of regulated software engineers (with an enforceable set of professional ethics) would look like. To use the author's example, giving surgeons a monopoly on surgery is pretty simple: if you cut people up with a scalpel, even with their permission, and you're not certified by your country's board of surgery, then you're committing a crime. What would a world of regulated software engineering look like?

Here's what I imagine it would look like. I don't particularly like it.

All powerful computers operate like iPhones. Normal people are prohibited from executing code outside of a limited sandbox. Licensed software developers have the ability to execute code.

It's already starting to happen, except the "license" is a developer account with individual platform vendors.
Yea, it totally should be. Many of the ultrasonic sensors from robots use similar methods, but all this stuff could be wired up to simple projects.

I would be interested in exploring with you if you wanted to.
If a mouse can get in your house, so can a fly. There are holes
Licensure is a natural response to LLMs making code generation easier. People want to protect their jobs and AI is coming for them. Creating a regulatory cartel let's some in-group become "the real engineers" who are able to approve the output of LLMs, or other "non-engineers".

All this under the auspices of "ethics", which as a reminder, is just an arbitrary set of rules which someone is trying to pass off as having a divine origin.
The SSD isn't all that fast with the Air, though.
It is a disorder if it brings chaos into normal life. Narcissism isn't the same as NPD
56 years is kind of an upper bound on microwaving plastics (for the sake of argument, let's focus on that for now), and that's when it started. It means people who were born then and are < 56 years old now might've been exposed to some fraction of (not even nearly the same amount) as much plastic as people born today would be. If we posit that the current exposure levels might cut a few years off the human live... as a layman, naively speaking, can I really expect anybody to have even noticed this in the last 56 years? And given scientific studies like this take years/decades to bear fruit, why would anyone expect this to have been an established fact if it were true?

(I get that this isn't your personal argument; I'm trying to figure out why this argument might seem plausible to other laymen.)
I finally learned about the proportional relationship between time/effort required to prepare a meal, and its health benefits. Processed and shelf-stable food is basically chewed for you already, so eat up, baby birds!

The process of digestion itself is important for the body, and so the more you cook or process food, the less happens in your GI tract.

I started shopping in farmers markets, and while this is a net positive, it's not a silver bullet. The store is still packed with unhealthy foods, loaded with sugar and preservatives, full of empty calories, including brands which developed organic cred, and then sold out to agribusiness, like Annie's Homegrown. My PCP said that the organic food movement is a gimmick, and she's partly right. Organic labeling is also not a silver bullet, but it's a step in the right direction. And yes, it costs $$$.
Well the grammar will be correct as enforced by the sampler, but the content it's filled with could be anything at all. Sort of how when you change the prompt template the output can be garbage for some models. I haven't tried it out yet myself, but apparently even OpenAI's implementation of this exact principle on their API still has function hallucination issues even with GPT 4.
Many industries have massive negative externalities and a stranglehold on regulation through lobbying, loose campaign finance laws, and regulatory capture. I get that scrolling can become compulsive for some people, but I think comparing it to Big Tobacco or even like the firearms industry kind of overstates the case. Magazines and print media clearly led to high prevalence of eating disorders and other behavioral health problems in the pre-internet era, did the publishing industry ever have it's "Big Tobacco moment"? What about the auto industry, which has absolutely trashed the air quality in our cities and towns? The meat industry is a horrorshow of environmental destruction, negative health effects, and labor abus, where are it's big showy hearings and investigative committees? Instead we shower it with government support in the form of grain subsidies.

Ad-tech is sleazy, and no doubt needs to be reined in, but the problem is that private corporations in general need to be better held accountable, not "Big Tech" specifically.
I agree! Although I just had a kernel panic on my first boot after installing Slackware 15.0 on a Ryzen 5700G chip / B550 board. Likely due to LILO + EFI (or defaulting to CSM / legacy BIOS boot?) + an NVMe SSD + MBR partition table. I hope to chroot into it and figure out whats wrong since the installer ISO booted and ran without any hiccups. But I agree that in general, I have only count on one hand the times I couldn't load X11, lost network connectivity, or couldn't boot after an update or installing new hardware. We definitely are in the year of (the relatively compatible) Linux desktop(s) :-P
I am in a similar situation and use a Air Hood to help with this problem https://theairhood.com/
The Promise of Zoomable User Interfaces (2011) [pdf]
Our living room air purifier used to ramp up whenever we cooked smokey things but ever since we remodeled the kitchen ,which included a range hood, it hasn’t done that.