skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with your scenario is when the consequences are unknown.

People who aren't in medicine really have a hard time understanding just how grisly the things the human body can go through might be.

Medical staff saw during COVID the mismatch between the degree of fear the average Joe had about the consequence of intubation and the degree of fear and panic of the average Joe when actually getting a tube down their throats.

A drug that goes wrong in a bad way can go REALLY wrong in a bad way. Dying from cancer sucks, but it's still several degrees less horrible than dying from your CNS being eaten away from an autoimmune response to an experimental drug which somehow leads to opiate-resistant neuropathic pain.

But if we simply caution "we don't know if this drug will cause horrible side effects" versus "this drug may likely cause unthinkable pain that we can't control in your last conscious moments" that's a very different level of informed consent.

You might be surprised by the number of doctors who privately lament how patients and patient families in general will so often choose to shoot for low odds outcomes that mean terrible conditions for the patient in their last months of life. Even when risks are known, people tend to be bad at actual risk assessment, and will downplay risks and focus on potential rewards, and this extends into medical care. And I'm skeptical that descriptions of what might go wrong versus actually seeing firsthand what it looks like when things go wrong still represents adequately informed.

So while in spirit I agree that completely criminalizing personal choice around consumption is not ideal, when there's insufficient data for truly informed consent I'm not sure I still see eye to eye on the topic.
Sawing a Woman in Half
> If you arrive by boat, you must use public transport (or good old feet) to get around.

As someone who lives in a city that's popular with tourists and has a major summer cruise industry, that's...not entirely accurate. A lot of tourists exit the boat and head straight for a line of taxis and app-based gig workers. This results in a staggering amount of added car traffic. The city has tried adding tourist-focused bus routes and branded shuttles but rail bias is a major thing in tourism.

> I am putting money in to the local economy. I do not use international chain (except Ikea in Sweden - meat balls). Local worker in local shops.

I understand that it feels like this and maybe it is true to a limited extent, but when an area becomes dominated by tourism, tourist-focused industries take over and shops and services that cater to longer-term residents are pushed out.

CityBeautiful has an insightful video on this happening in Venice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClC9TtQlco
Generally said to be people who can swim who get into trouble and drown. People who can't stay out of the water. So if you can't swim you are missing out on fun but are probably safer in practice.
These contribution calculations are almost always misleading. The right wing parties (in particular the AFD) have been making these sort of calculations for a long time arguing that the EU is a money sink. The reality is that Germanys economy has likely been the biggest beneficiary of the integrated market offered by the EU. So the EU has been a huge net gain for Germany.
Not that I know LLM from LLC but just curious, does your employer allow you to publicly disclose target salary / salary range?
It's hard to overstate the environmental carnage a cruise ship creates. They sometimes wake up our kid with their horns. I'm suspect about the real economic impact they have, most people seem to use hop on hop off busses, mill around a bit, and go back to their boat to eat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK2F1SeBQXY
I would not bet my brand on generative AI being ready to handle customer-facing conversations without supervision.

Seems insane. But hey, maybe the ROI is there for replacing frontline support. It’s lower quality but way lower price, so you can afford to escalate to a human quicker?

Just to steelman, if I could easily and instantly talk to a support chatbot that was somewhat knowledgeable about the product lineup, it might be useful. Better than the Intercom chat box where the human replies to you in 2-10 hours.
There is also a linked Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gi7nMuyUc4

He looks real.
Ironically I hurt my back attempting dead lifts. Perhaps the form was poor
It looks programmatic because this is the simplest way to describe what parameters and sentences structure the authors have found works well. I find its best to remember that LLMs are infrence engines - they are stoy telling machines. LLMs that work via instruction are building probible narrative, not responding to their instructions like orders but as a writer being asked to continue a scrip.
Precisely. Tourists are like locusts. They congregate on that cute little place that suddenly then isn't cute anymore, turn every other store into a souvenir store and the rest into hotels and restaurants to feed the hordes. It drives up the rents and consequently the property prices until the people that used to live there no longer can afford to.

And that's before you get into drug tourism, which Amsterdam has a lot of as well.

I was born there and lived there for 28 years, I'll still visit occasionally because I still have some friends there but on the whole the city has lost its charm for me.
Outlines: Generative Model Programming
I know there’s mixed feelings about this for many reasons but I think fundamentally this is the right step. Drugs are not the problem, mental health and lack of social services is. If we criminalize drugs, we’re throwing people who are struggling into prison which only exacerbates their problems.
This was common in Czech Republic, but the large stores switched back to weighting at the cashier checkout. I assume that the way how the consumer-facing scales are connected to the rest of the store's system has something to do with the stores wanting to eliminate it (different vendors and the backend interface typically involves shuffling CSV files around over FTP or SMB). Obviously, with the variations of borrow a scanner (Typically Zebra MC17/MC18/PS20)/scan by mobile application they had to reintroduce the scales back, so now they are somewhat stuck in supporting both of these processes. And well, I became so accustomed to scanning things myself as I put them into the cart that for me and large grocery purchases the only real alternative for that is not going to the store at all and ordering it online.
That's great, thank you. In the mid-90s I was running all sorts of large public Internet nodes off 386s with 4Mb of RAM on Slackware. Great to see you can still find Linux to run on these.
Yes, it's easy enough call the APIs yourself.
Yep, that works. Thanks!
You can mimic graph data with joins in SQL but it's not a good fit for querying properties of a graph. Think of something like "find all the distinct cliques (sets of elements where every element is connected to every other element in the set) that contain this element."
Whenever I go sailing with friends on SF bay, if we go anywhere near a cruise ship my sea sickness goes into overdrive from how disgusting the exhaust odor is.

Vile machines, I wish more places would ban them.
It’s not about any one person in particular. It’s about whole communities descending into hell for what could be multiple generations.

I know that in theory we all should be free and take whatever we want, but I know that in practice this doesn’t end well.

There are good reasons to control consumption of some classes of drugs that don’t have anything to do with religion and/or fake sense of morality. Some things just mess us up too hard and especially some people who are susceptible to it for various reasons.
Well, my 88 year-old Grandpa is still working. He has lots of medical issues but we know if he stops working, he'll die.
Turkish-made anti-personnel suicide drones that use AI to find and engage enemy personnel have already been used in Libya.
Cruise ship tourism isn't necessarily type of tourism you want to encourage. Specially if you are already popular and well enough connected location for all strata.

The tourist arriving with ships already have paid for their board and food. So they are less likely to spend money in the city. And then it is possibly they go on tours run by the ship thus most money not going to locals.

In the end many cities in Europe especially don't need this type of tourism. They have enough organic self-grown much more profitable tourism already. Does not mean there isn't some places where local economy depends on it. And even then cruise companies are trying to capture also the gains there.
No. I'm going to say you can't always avoid getting into water. So at least minimal (with an emphasis on that word) skills are important.
The articles dated July 2 and 6th are both about how to hide api keys and say basically the same thing. The header images all look like they came from the same base prompt. And, just for icing, the rest of the posts are all about how to use chatGPT
what is "verified C"?
Wake me up when they ban private jets from celebrities and wealthy people instead of these stunts.

And I say it as someone with no interest in cruises.

Also, it's fun that Amsterdam pretends it does not like certain type of tourist unless they spend money in museums but it clearly caters to the "sex and drugs go crazy in AMS" tourist.

Much to the point that it's shocking to other tourists who are simply visiting it as one more city.
> It literally just works

In only a few toy scenarios!

For example:

Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, and SQL 2022 in a VM all support AAD authentication.

Okay.

SQL 2022 supports only user accounts and not managed identities.

SQL Managed Instance requires an additional global AAD permission button to be pressed post-deployment or it won’t work. This can’t be templated.

The first two have AAD permissions controlled via their template (ARM API) — but only exactly one full admin group. All other permissions must be assigned via T-SQL. Again, can’t be templated via ARM. (Microsoft has better data plane RBAC for random open source products than their own flagship database!)

User access audit logs are easily collected for Azure SQL Database, needs manual T-SQL for SQL MI and is missing in action for SQL Server.

This is just SQL, which now at least supports user-assigned managed identities… if you include the latest SQL client which has a breaking namespace change and hence won’t work with third-party code. It also drags in 500 MB of dependencies.

Lightweight functions, you were saying? Hmmm…

Anyway, I got fed up with the whole thing when I tried hooking up a Storage Account in the same way and discovered that it didn’t support UMSI in connection strings — you need two code paths for dev-time and runtime!

Up until recently the whole thing was an unstable mess. Authentication would take 5 seconds in some scenarios and then wouldn’t cache the tickets properly.

It turns out that every Azure team is implementing the whole thing separately! It’s not at all like traditional AD where the platform provides the authentication functions in a uniform way and apps can just pick up the ambient tokens.

No, in this shiny new world every service does RBAC differently, connection strings differently, auditing differently, caching, config, and on and on.

All of this within 100% Microsoft products and services.

It’s a poorly thought out mess.
While it's possible to use the laptop keyboard while looking at an external monitor, I don't think it's nearly as easy or beneficial as both an external monitor and a separate keyboard. The reason is because you're still going to use that screen, which leads to the original problem, or you won't use it and it gets in the way of the external monitor. Or even worse, you put it off to one side and the external monitor to the other side.

So even if that separate keyboard is no better ergonomically than the laptop keyboard, it's still highly recommended. And let's be honest, it's hard for a non-laptop keyboard to not be better to use at a desk than even some of the best laptop keyboards.

Not defending the other poster. Sit/stand desk shouldn't be the first adjustment you make, but it should be considered soon after the first.

I emphasize the same for my team: get an external monitor, get a separate separate keyboard & mouse, and then either setup the laptop at a good height to be just another monitor or leave it closed while connected to the dock. (We provide this in the office, but we only provide a laptop & dock when they work from home.)
Historic heat in 2023 breaking all thresholds [video]
The chiropractor’s assessment, as mentioned in the article, is consistent with the research I’ve gathered over a decade of amateur bodybuilding and powerlifting. I would bet many athletes will disagree with the above sentiment surrounding chiropractors. I personally haven’t met one practicing holistic medicine. What I primarily see in practices is active release therapy (ART), Graston, cupping, along with traditional physical therapy - an aggregate of effective soft tissue and joint manipulation techniques. Back cracks just happen to come with the package.
I think the counter is that in almost every town locals hate tourists, but an average citizen hasn't thought through the consequences of not having the tax base support them.

As someone who currently lives in NYC it would be great for me if tourists stopped coming to the city and magically the level of restaurants, sanitation, and public transit didnt change at all.
They’re expensive and demand is lower than in the past. All the racial content in the article was unnecessary.
As Broge said, I’d like a filter for free apps, no adds, no in-app purchases… basically filter and sort for everything.

Wondering: what’s your business model ?
Read source code.
Don't programs runnign in iOS and perhaps Android (and macOS) have to put up modal dialogs requesting the person running the program for access to things it could screw up?

Is that an example?
Vibration White Finger / Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome. Not really a concern for the occasional DIYer, but it can definitely happen to people who use tools like the hammer drill for hours per day.
No, but it helps to own a house if you wish to work to 100+
If you're Enterprise enough, you can have a lot more levels than that!

We appear to have four levels of grouping above "Epic", albeit none of them are even visible in our sprints.
Thank you! It shocks me how many people don't know this.

If your back is giving you hell, you don't want a chiropractor, you want an orthopedist. And that orthopedist will probably refer you to a physical therapist, which is where the magic really happens.
Not a lot of textile still made in Europe. The Luddites got that one right, they were just a bit off about the timing. But this AI thing, assuming it manages to click the ratchet a few more times has the potential to eliminate a good 50% of all of the remaining blue collar jobs and a sizeable fraction of the rest. That is the sort of economic blow that I highly doubt we are prepared for. The big problem is that I don't see where those jobs will be going to, they are eliminated, not transformed this time around and that is a very serious change in the recipe.
I stand corrected. However, I still think he's using GPT to generate much of his content, and at most doing some post-hoc editing of it.
Progress is brought forward by people who are 'out there' and are 'out there' enough to let the whole world to know that they are.

But you cannot confine it to science and academia, rather it's the general background 'out there-ness' of the whole planet which then finds its way in various sectors.

In other words you don't get the Einsteins without the Hitlers and you don't get the Richard Feynmans without the Charlie Mansons
> Their city is not built continuously, and has no splendid temples or other edifices; it rather resembles a group of villages, like the ancient towns of Hellas, and would therefore make a poor show

Thucydides.
Here are a few papers on some scattered DP topics. I'm working on a guide to learning DP now similar to one I've written on measure theory in the past.

The Matrix Mechanism (2015) https://people.cs.umass.edu/~miklau/assets/pubs/dp/Li15matri...
Good introduction to the select-measure-reconstruct approach to answering large sets of linear queries (e.g. histograms, averages, ...). This paper is important for the statistics approach to DP synthetic data (which is what I primarily work on): https://differentialprivacy.org/synth-data-1/

Differentially Private Quantiles (2021) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.08244.pdf
It turns out that medians are difficult to deal with under DP. This paper introduces a method called JointExp to estimate several quantiles at once. One innovation here is that the user doesn't have to know anything about the distribution of the variable in advance for it to work.

Boundary Differential Privacy (2020) https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/tq/5555/01/09286504/1p...
The main motivation for DP is to protect the privacy of people whose data is used to compute some statistic. This paper, instead, uses DP techniques as a way to inject controlled noise into the output distribution of a classifier to defend against model reconstruction attacks.
Amsterdam doesn't seem to be discouraging ordinary tourists; this appears to be targeted exclusively at cruise ships.

Over 5 million tourists visit Amsterdam a year[1]; only a small fraction of that probably come from cruise ships. If banning those ships improves local quality of life and the tourist experience for non-cruise tourists, then it's probably a net win in terms of tax revenues (besides everything else).

[1]: https://amsterdam.org/en/facts-and-figures.php
Sure, just emphasising on it because the initial comment looks like a bit of mischaracterisation.
i am not expert, but my reading of wiki is that there were two wars:

- first invasion where persian were defeated by athens, and sparta was not involved much because persian didn't come to sparta close

- second, much larger invasion, where persians again attacked athens first, essentially defeated athens (athenians left the city), then athenians asked sparta to join the war or otherwise they will surrender to persians. Sparta assembled army, and defeated persians in the battle of plataea.

It looks like spartans defeated persians, and athenians would surrender if no sparta's involvement
I don't know what better term to use for people using the term associated with a sexual minority as a term with a negative connotation on people not affiliated with said minority. And "dumb/wild" is just one tame usage, sometimes "gay" is used as an even more generic "this person/thing/action is bad"-word.
The workstations are the coding machines. You're not allowed to have google code on your laptop.
After 15 years of trying I have to say that it just doesn't work. Your sitting body is not at rest; you fidget, move around, your legs need to be planted so you can reposition easily...

So raising your chair and then putting a footrest seems logical but just doesn't work out unless you teach yourself how to adapt to it.
I imagine cruise ship visitors are overwhelmingly relatively low spend visitors (cruises tend to be the cheap way to travel) supporting low margin activities like restaurants.
> So what you're asking for is very not radical.

Shame. Radical seems to be all the rage these days.

Maybe I can brand it as radically conventional.
> If this is a resource problem then the case for increasing the budget is clear.

Agreed.
One of the best things about sit-stand desks isn't even the standing part, imo, it's being able to set the sitting height exactly where you want it. I have the same issue where most static desks are an inch or two higher than I'd like them to be.
I think your examples also highlight the issue at hand - the automated systems are great when they work, but when they don't work it means that there are now a lot fewer real humans that can solve your problem.

Take travel bookings. When I know where I'm going and have relatively firm dates, I'd much prefer the ease of online booking. However, when I'm more in the mood of "I want to go on vacation to country X, but I don't know a lot about that country or what the best places to stay/visit are" I've found myself wasting a ton of time on endless travel websites trying to get a better "feel" for what I want to visit. About 15 years ago I went on a long trip to Italy, and the travel agent was invaluable. These days I'm not even sure travel agents like that exist any more.

Somewhat tangential (or ominous) aside, I've found ChatGPT to be really the best tool for travel planning/travel ideas when you're in that "I have a general idea of the kind of vacation I want" mood.
The vast majority of jobs could be eliminated today without AI and still they are not, so we are very safe. Even with AI getting better and better we will be
The assessment might be correct; this does not make a chiropractor qualified to make it.
I know the author personally and he is in fact very real, and very well intentioned.

Take it easy!
So many municipalities would kill for a large number of people to come in, pay locals and local taxes, and then leave without using any social services.

A cruise ship can be a giant loophole that leaves all externalities to others. Even AirBNB model leaves more money to locals.
Amsterdam is already crowded with visitors.

You want to discourage lower value visitors after a certain point. Cruise passengers would spend far less than land visitors in Amsterdam.
IIRC, chiropractors empirically can/do provide short-term pain relief, just not long-term fixes. And short-term pain relief is a reasonable thing to want.

It's on the front page because it was upvoted and other things were upvoted less at this time.
Hopefully he makes it into a clinical trial. In case anyone is interested in reading what trial options are available for this type of cancer you can find the trials here: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=Squamous%20Cell%2...
I'm with you in part, but I think it would be good to try to be fair: life as it was before the industrial revolution wasn't exactly paradise either. The industrial revolution solved some problems and replaced them with far larger ones. And for those far larger ones we don't have solutions, even after the thing has run for a couple of hundred years the problems are still increasing. And coupled with runaway economic systems, massive imbalance in the world with respect to where the benefits landed we don't look particularly good when it comes to the historical record of such revolutions.
>is that there will need to be a fundamental restructuring of the economy

Yes, and basically a fundamental restructuring of the power relations in the economy.
The ruling class wants slaves.

Be it animal, human, or machine. In every case where something made a better slave, capital has switched to using it.

Recognize what class you're in and see it for what it is (lotta people identify with the ruling class on this site), but don't pretend for a second us tech workers are somehow insulated from being workers. No one will care when we're homeless on the street anymore than the current group of i-got-mines care about the current homeless.
So is Gmail - it’s Google after all.
Santa Monica tests AI cameras for parking tickets
I know that, historically, I personally _always_ forget to take interruptions and the time spent context switching for such interruptions, which can dwarf even well estimated efforts.
Because most people (men are people) live in cities, and cities are packed and so regardless of physical form tennis courts are scarce, and so are basketball courts etc.

Running and lifting weights seems purposeless, so according to the author the happy medium is pickleball, in Europe and South America is increasingly becoming Padel.