skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the feeling this is only a thing in certain countries. I've never heard of anyone healthy getting yearly physical here in Europe (seeing the GP is almost always free so you could do it if you want, but the doctor will wonder why you're wasting his time unless you have symptoms/suspicions/etc to report or ask).

Of course chronically ill or very old people are getting tested regularly, but only for stuff specifically for their illness/situation.

Doesn't stop the "full body scan" ads on YouTube of course, but that's something you'll have to pay for out of pocket and most GPs will recommend against them as far as I know.

It seems to be a very USA-specific concept, but I can't say for sure no other countries do it. I think Japan does it? I don't think it's common in Canada, is it?
In the US, my HMO doc will do one only if I insist. Even my previous PPO doc was pretty relaxed about it. He said it was up to me if I wanted to do it, but that it wouldn't really be useful.

Certainly there are people in the US that go for a physical every year, but many of us do not. In my wider circle of friends and family, very few of us bother.
In prison on what charges?

In the US it's illegal to imprison someone based purely on vibes, and you can't make things crimes retroactively. (See Article I, Section 9 of the constitution; in particular the parts concerning habeas corpus, bills of attainder, and ex post facto laws.)
You can still look at credentials.

If there is disagreement among people with appropriate background, experience, and education, it can be reported as a legitimate disagreement. The journalist should be evaluating the credentials of sources, but not what they say, and not on the basis of whether the journalist personally agrees with them.
That's a much harder problem :)
It’s not a popular opinion, but I think the negative impacts of social media are overstated and unconvincing. You can get a big dopamine hit from meditation or as a response to stress but you don’t see kids running to Buddhist monasteries in droves or rushing to the stress of public speaking.

It’s probably not healthy to live your entire life online, which is what youth are encouraged to do by everyone around them, and that alone is enough of a problem and I don’t think technology companies are to blame.
This isn't extreme enough. If they're going to put out a very controversial proposal like this, they may as well go all in. The push back against this is going to fizzle out, and it will be shoved through regardless of anyones opinions.

Governments will love this due to protection and security it provides among other things. I wish I could say I was surprised, but Google has continued to fail to deliver even when they try for a power-grab play like this.

Feature requests:
- Add a distributed bad-actors list similar to DNS.
- Start the process of introducing this functionality at the hardware level.
- Require photo personal identification to prove humanity.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You may not owe Nate Silver better but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Slackware was one of my first Linux distros, installed on a 286 laptop with 2mb of ram. We had to trick the installer that we had 4mb or else it wouldn't install. Good times. That's where I learned Perl.

Edit: It was probably a 386, memories of that time are sketchy.
This is actually an excellent article. If you look at why he says the lab-leak theory was problematic for these "journalists" (and the quotes are deliberate), none of the reasons are "it isn't true":

1. It could cause a political backlash

2. It could upset China and undermine research collaborations

3. It could provide validation to Trump and Republicans who touted the theory

But in fact, the journalist's only legitimate question is "is it true?" The consequences of reporting on it are not their concern.

There was a time when journalists thought that way, or at least made a show of it. That time might have been a few brief decades, but it was there.
Again, without a baseline educational background, doing so in a way that's productive -- ie anything more than running around like a chicken with its head cut off -- is impossible.

There were journalists on the COVID vaccine beat for ove a year who had never taken a Bio 101 course, let alone self-studied undergraduate level genetics. They lacked the fundamental background required to assess evidence, to know which questions to ask, to know which people to ask, is all highly suspect.
Interesting. I was done with Google search since GPT/Bing came out. With their SEO spam, wokeism and didactics. Have been paying for GPT-4
Taxes in the US aren't actually that much lower than in other countries - and the exploitation of all your juicey tax loopholes usually requires a pretty expensive accountant not accessible to the average person.
Marching towards the Manifest v3 deadline with improved service worker support is probably the most important part of this release.
Those are not union jobs.
I think Microsoft might be treating it as kind of a loss leader. But from an article I read the employees and executives whose bonuses are based on sales are mad about PS5 being cut out of the equation. And I can see what you site about Game Pass playing into that as well.
Defined very narrowly by what "functions" are expected of you. Which is of course conditioned on social expectations vis a vis (subjective) value systems which may or may not align to some notion of "correctness", even in broadly utilitarian terms.
Eh, I may eat my words later, but unless they are hiding some really big features somewhere, I don't think there's much to worry about with the Vision Pro. It is stylish and neat, but it seems to be shockingly limited both in VR and AR. If anything it seems like just an accessory for an iPhone or a Mac.

Apple definitely has brand strength here, and I think Meta is even counting on it, but the utility of their device is underwhelming.
> Big question: HOW?

Simple: If they are not equipped to understand what they are going to write about, they should refrain from adding noise to the conversation. The potential to add nothing but noise or cause damage is great.

Interestingly enough nobody would ever propose that, say, a fashion journalist report on surgical procedures or a range of other subjects. How is this problem not obvious in other domains?

It's interesting to watch the difference between a reporter/journalist on any TV news show and, say, the people working at a financial news network like CNBC. In the latter case, they have to have a serious body of knowledge just to open their mouths. If you plucked your average reporter/journalist and put them into that seat, they would sound like complete morons because they just would not know what they are talking about.
I'm simply of the opinion that a single blog post isn't enough info for you to make a judgement call on whether a rewrite or a port is a good idea or not.

Criticizing an article without even pointing out any specific criticisms (saying their technical reasons are "weak" isn't actually pointing out a flaw in their explanation, it's just you voicing your personal opinion) just seems to me like people are disagreeing out of habit or principle rather than that they actually have a reason why this company is making a bad decision.

Again, it's a blog post to announce their decision and explain their thought process. It wasn't a blog post meant to persuade lossolo that this port is required. For all you know, the decision making in the backroom might have been much more argumentative and demanding of a justification than what was written in a blog post.

And yes, people who hate on Rust on principle do rub me the wrong way. The pendulum has swung too far the other way; there are more annoying people complaining about Rust these days than annoying people rewriting things in Rust.
musl itself, busybox let’s you have a full unix set of tools for 700kb, which is awesome for embedded Linux. There’s also dropbear, and ssh/sshd implementation in about 110kb binary. So when talking about bloat in embedded, it something very measurable when the option is a 32MB NOR flash chip for the root file system
It made me a bit sad that he bothered to answer in what came to me a little like a patronising response. Not expecting a "oh the good ole times" but perhaps a polite acknowledgment and a dismissal instead of the "Not sure why" part.
There's also the new JVM option which eludes me at the moment which sweeps the strings which are promoted to the older generation and interns them.

Not certain about whether `String.intern` is permanently stored; I rather suspect that it sweeps the existing strings since iirc the java string has a hash associated with it anyway.
NPR from 2015: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/04/06/3971007...

"Each visit usually costs insurers just $150, but with so many people getting them, that adds up fast.

"We estimate that it's about $10 billion a year, which is more than we spend as a society on breast cancer care,""
You can often tweak those apps to stub the jailbreak detection (if you're jailbroken)
I'd guess there's a kind of authoritarian body of thought taking shape as groups look to use professional licensure as another culture war wedge. So there are going to be articles like this "explaining" "how professional ethics work" to tell us how we are supposed to think about it.
I've found the tip of my tongue prompt to be one of the most useful prompts I've ever used, I've been using it since the Gpt-4 release.

The ableton/music prod prompt is eh. I have to correct it and say things like: "Ableton doesn't seem to have a menu like that, all I see is [describe current UI state]. This is less than ideal, and I want to make the prompt better.

I'm very much experimenting with techniques to find and create good prompts at the moment. I've found it to be helpful to ask it to tell you how it will respond to an example question, just to confirm the style of response you'd like. One thing that works nicely, is to spend some time "tuning" a prompt, and then once it answers how you like, tell it to use that answer as a template for other answers.

I'd be curious to know other's "prompt engineering" hacks, or thought processes, or useful abstractions, whatever. I'd love to know how you think about the problem of prompt engineering in general too. We could start a bit of a tips and tricks thread here
Awesome!! Slackware is still my favorite Linux distro. I like to think of it as Linux From Scratch for the lazy.
Nah its cause I recognized the same hangups in myself and want them to work on it like im trying to
My BPD diagnosis was replaced with a combination of ADHD and CPTSD. You may be on to something.
Ok, I've added that to the title above. Thanks!
> Humans have perpetuated themselves in a wide variety of climates

The sad truth is that we are even unable to stop a fucking war created by a handful of beyond repair insane people. War that has been releasing huge amounts of heath and energy in the northern hemisphere for more than 500 days of bombing everything at sight. 500 days that curiously came with top temperatures never registered before

Climate is just a direct representation of energy movements on the atmosphere. If we add a lot of energy to the system, the logical expectations would be that, at some point, the weather will lose its buffer function and start including this fact somehow. I'm still expecting somebody addressing this issue seriously.
Then why didn't the scientists simply say 'we lack the data to conclusively resolve'?

There was a specific reason why they didn't -- and in fact promoted a specific theory, and it had more to do with politics and funding than science.
This. As much as they'd like to pretend they're still free-spirited hippies, this is the tech industry.
Journalist shouldn't be surprised why there is huge drop in trust in mainstream media. Covid exposed perfectly how terrible quick journalism is.
This is the clip that got me to watch the show. Let's be honest, the premise was pretty boring.

So glad I did. Some great acting and really clever writing.
They would have realised it was worth more if the true demand wasn’t obfuscated.
> they make money either way

I mean I wouldn’t say they make money. They are losing millions and only surviving because of subsidies from Microsoft
> I think this is one of those prices that no one pays as insurance covers it

Baffling. You obviously pay for it. It’s priced into the cost of your insurance.
> This is how you get journalists to report disagreements that don't exist in reality. For example, whether the earth is flat, whether climate change is real, etc.

Correct. Part of the problem is that there is disagreement about whether a disagreement exists. Cranks believe that there is a vigorous debate about flat-earth/evolution/climate change, and scientists don't.

Do how does one (journalist) objectively determine whether an issue is settled or not?
Photoshop doesn't create photorealistic live video of you. Even voices can be matched.

"Slightly" faster is vastly underselling it, deepfakes can be rendered in real time now. The same tech powers TikTok filters.
I don't say it lightly. It's trivial to remove the process entirely. The whole point of this style of projection is that it's as much theatre as the theatre itself. It's kept, including the aesthetic of the Pilot device itself, purely for nostalgic decoration and little more!
As someone living in Canada I will freely admit that it can be extremely difficult to book a complex surgery, especially if the condition is not considered life threatening - but for common medical care it's trivial to just show up at a walk-in and get treatment for free - ditto for lab tests. Regular checkups are free and usually prescheduled though not everyone has a stable GP (and it can be a bit difficult to find a GP up here - there are ways to forcefully claim a GP though).
I've known two women who were diagnosed with BPD that later turned out to be Autism. Their doctors believe BPD traits developed due to the issues their autism had on their socialisation as kids and teens. Getting on Ritalin massively improved their and their families lives.

At least in women I suspect more than a few BDP diagnosis mask autism.
Ah. Mandatory for the insurer to offer, not for the patient to do.
Juul Has a New High-Tech Vape and Hopes the FDA Won’t Ban It
Related:

Constraint Solving with MiniZinc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18161145 - Oct 2018 (38 comments)

MiniZinc: free and open-source constraint modeling language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194112 - Jan 2018 (33 comments)

Solving Problems with MiniZinc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15530630 - Oct 2017 (15 comments)

Problem Solving with MiniZinc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14062281 - April 2017 (1 comment)

Clojure to MiniZinc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10042958 - Aug 2015 (4 comments)

Constraint programming and The MiniZinc Challenge (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863946 - June 2014 (1 comment)
> This, is damning evidence regardless of any of that. Nothing remotely like this was being presented by mainstream newsmedia, perhaps because nothing remotely like it was being presented to them by the scientists they talked to. There was no version of a lab origin theory that was being presented as worthy of consideration.

You have to acknowledge this is incredibly weak logic. “A thing is possible, therefore it happened.” Is this molecular evidence the Furin Cleavage Site? Cause that was peddled basically as a lie - they occur in nature just fine, it’s also used in research.

I’m unaware of any compelling evidence for the lab leak theory, but I will acknowledge it’s basically impossible to disprove. We don’t know where most diseases arose (or where they came from) - it’s just we mostly don’t care, unlike with COVID.
A Revolution Against Monopolies
I got inspired by a french kiddo from the past while I was at #Ethcc6

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed."
- Etienne De La Boetie, 1549
Don't go to a hospital if you're not sick. Even people that work in medicine agree on that. They'll find something wrong with you or that could go wrong and the treatment will cure that but give you 10 more things. You are not the customer, insurance companies are. This is another way to maximize profit for them. Our bodies are good enough at informing us when things are wrong.
I do buy in 5-10kg bags (but admittedly takes me much longer to work through than it would an East Asian family) I've just never seen it specify a variety. Just different brands of 'basmati' (which as I said I think is used more generically here than it is up thread).
If there is one, single redeeming really cool feature of the Quest Pro (possibly the 2 as well, I haven't tried this), it's using your controller "upside down" as a virtual dry erase marker in Workrooms.

I just wished that was available in other apps too.
Sure, but still, the difference between BC and Washington state (~2 years higher in BC) is greater than the difference between Washington state and Texas.
The issue is not that they can't do it, they just don't want to. Journalists with no science background are happy to write quite technical fact checks of articles - even articles written by scientists - when those articles are contradicting something the journalists are already invested in.

And often the problems don't need specialist knowledge to spot. The before/after images purporting to be of surgery in this article can be detected as fraud by anyone:

https://blog.plan99.net/fake-science-part-i-7e9764571422

No expertise needed. Blatant stuff like that is more obvious than we'd hope.
So exactly how is an app more invasive of privacy than a website? What information vs they get about you that you don’t explicitly allow?

In fact, it’s easier to be tracked across the web than by individual apps without permission
Ok, we've changed the title above to say that. Thanks!
It feels like there is some ongoing sophisticated guerrilla marketing campaign to promote these movies. YouTube mysteriously promotes some video about how Oppenheimer was a great physicist, Columns are written about what the Barbie movie has to do with Feminism, and even on Hacker News there are multiple links per day about these two movies. Something is going on here.
Yeah, I think it'll be a lot like how Vocaloid hasn't destroyed the market for real vocalists. If anything it's the exact opposite, where people get into the medium via it and end up as actual vocalists, like Reol with No Title-/No Title+. Besides just vocalists, the lower barrier to entry has produced a lot of producers, many of whom also eventually migrate to working with real vocalists.
You can redistribute the model.

A model is not a binary. Training code is not source code for the model. The training code is closer to an editor. You can release open source software created by a closed source IDE.
Twitter: Unverified accounts will have limits on the number of DMs they can send
That seems like a dumb statistic. What we spend in absolute dollars on breast cancer vs an exam that everyone has is a silly comparison.
> Assume you're being bullshitted.

> You don't need to deeply undestand a subject to make someone back up what they are saying.

Isn't that what the Covid vaccine skeptics did? It didn't turn out that great and made journalists look like conspiracy theorists in some cases.
What about the people hurt during those "few more years?"
Atlas sets record precision on Higgs boson’s mass
"Dr. Scientist, you said X. Describe the evidence for that claim?"

"Dr. Scientist, are you aware of claim Y, which seems at odds with what you are saying? Explain why claim Y is wrong?"

Write it up. You don't have to understand it to write a story about what they said. That's what "reporting" is.
I know two women who went though this as adults going from a BPD diagnosis to one of autism and the treatment changes massively improved their personal and their families lives.
Then you didn’t read what I wrote?

I don’t like anti-competitive, anti-consumer sales tactics. When that is all that is offered, I don’t blame people for finding ways around it.

What if instead every pizza place said “you must pay for five slices up front”? If you want a single slice, you have to pay for five. You get the next four without paying, but you have to buy them all up front.

Now you have purchased your five slices, but the next time you want pizza you want something that isn’t offered where you bought from last time. You can go across the street to where they have what you want, but you have to pay for five slices.

Now you have purchased ten slices and consumed two. Is that fair? What happens when you decide that the next slice you want isn’t offered at either of the two places you bought from before? Now you’ve bought fifteen slices and eaten three.

At what point do you decide to eat what you don’t really want simply because you’ve already paid for it? At some point this choice is taken away from you entirely because you can’t reasonably afford another five slices.

Subscription exclusivity in pricing is anti-consumer. They’re pushing you to consume only from them because they know you have to decide based on your means rather than purely what they offer.
Not that straightforward for many. My employer pays for 80% of my insurance premiums, and then the insurer (or my employer) gives me a $200 credit (equivalent to paying me) for going to an annual wellness visit.

Of course, in totality, everyone’s total premiums are paying for the visits, but on an individual basis, those getting the visit and receiving a credit are getting subsidized by those not receiving a credit.
How can apps invade your privacy without explicitly giving them permission?
Universal Paperclips is another game like this, although one with more of a clear "ending" than something like CC or Diablo.
Shitty headline, no one likes being told their lived experience is invalid. However, DSM V does away with the BPD diagnosis for reasons that make sense to me which is what this is about.
I agree with the drug analogies.

I bought Diablo in 1996, I stayed up about 40 hours playing it. To the point that I started to literally hallucinate and click on things that weren’t actually there.

I downloaded the relatively new iOS Diablo game a few months ago and sank tens of hours into the game before waking up and putting an end to the madness. I’m morally opposed to “pay to win” games and wasn’t tempted to buy anything, so fortunately I escaped without financial damage (but the time I put into the grind can’t be replaced).

Granted, there are people who are more susceptible to addiction, and I appear to be one of them (thankfully, I was raised in an observant Muslim family). But that doesn’t absolve Blizzard of responsibility for what they’ve unleashed.
Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors
There are very few connections between Korea and Portugal, unlike Japan, where it is quite noticeable, especially in places like Nagasaki.
How does a 6 week cycle work for planning? We do 3 weeks but each HOUR has to be assigned to a developer which obviously isn't accurate.
One of the things that makes Dan Brown great airport reading is that you can set the book down, forget about what happened, and pick it up again pretty seamlessly because he will repeat all the key points. And this happens over and over again.

It also makes him terribly boring for "normal" reading of if you have a memory longer than that of a goldfish. Give me Umberto Eco any day.
A news outlet can hire scientists to call out shady scientific paper, many scientific paper have obvious bad conclusions, or not following basic scientific rules, that can be detected even if the scientist reviewing is specialized in another fields.
> The account number should be just an ID, not authentication mechanism.

Ergo my "welcome to the american banking system".