skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True that - and we are back to the CP Snow "Two Cultures" pamphlet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures). Looks to me that still STEM people learn much more of humanities, then humanities learn of STEM. To say "I'm illiterate" is shameful (in places that still have illiterate people - thankfully not many and ever less) in a way that in many - even developed - countries to say "I'm innumerate" is not. Shows up frequently (recently in the UK, on the belated subject of teaching maths), quite literate public figures publicly proclaim "I'm rubbish at maths" as if it's a badge of honor, not something to be ashamed of and worked on to be remediated.

The quality of online learning materials is mind boggling, never been better. For humanities maybe teaching logic and logical thinking (modus ponens, modus tollens, quantifiers like "none, some, at least one, at most one, all") in the context of public discussion, argument, public debate maybe more effective and receptive. It's fair to acknowledge that maths with abstract symbols and all that is too hard for most people and there maybe better way of teaching. Ditto data, distributions and statistics - that is I think a new can of worms (and we still struggle with the old one).
I have an example for you. I self-host a Telegram bot, which is written in Python. However, I believe that if it were written in JavaScript, the situation would be similar.

The bot is rarely used, so on average, it only uses 0.06% of my machine's CPU power. However, it consumes 3% of the RAM at the same time. --smol switch according to Jarred's tests reduces memory usage ~7 times by increasing CPU usage just 2x times. In my case such redistribution of resource consumption would be a clear win!

To save RAM, I actually switched to a 32-bit Python base image. This switch resulted in a 30% reduction in RAM usage.
Maybe someone should create a throwaway and provide a list of they’re concerned about retribution. People not calling out scum because they are afraid of the consequences of outing criminals makes the world a crappier place for everyone.
> But the biggest thing is probably that it made assemblers and compilers possible. Well, I'm not sure if that's strictly true. Maybe you could still have them without a shared memory architecture. But the shared memory architecture made them a whole lot easier.

I think the actual important part is being able to address and manipulate code like it's data somehow, rather than the specific architecture. Having two separate address spaces for code and data doesn't necessarily prevent that, though it's surely simpler with only one.
Well it's unlikely he's as productive as he was in his prime.
Is AI/ML being used in anti-cheat software for video games yet?
Are there any known examples?
Exactly.

It's unbelievably frustrating to see Google saying "oh, we wouldn't abuse this, trust us, you just have to meet the requirements (that we conveniently haven't specified)" -- frustrating because we know what attestation and chain-of-trust looks like for Google and it's already abused today, and there's zero reason to believe this is going to be different.

Telling us that they're not going to abuse us or limit user freedom while they're actively holding back user freedom. But we're supposed to just not look at that. There are so many examples of Google abusing gatekeeper status, we went through this with Widevine. But even if we ignore all the past abuses (not that Widevine is a past abuse, as far as I know it's still not available today in a generally accessible form for new browsers) -- even if we ignore all of that we still have Play Integrity on Android today, currently, that is currently being abused.

We're supposed to not only ignore the past, we're also supposed to ignore the present and to ignore Google's current attestation policies on Android and just assume that Google still has good intentions here.
> They also fought for freedom and democracy.

They claimed to do so. Most revolutions have some kind of noble ideology that is proclaimed over what is actually a complex mixture of self-interest and enmities.

> Without their heroic example the French Revolution would never have happened and the world would still be ruled by hereditary monarchies

The French Revolution is widely regarded as a disaster of sorts: any noble aims were downed in the blood of innocent people during the Terror that immediately ensued. Moreover, even the French reversed its achievements multiple times over the 19th century.

That the world would still be ruled by hereditary monarchies is a stretch considering that even the state that the American Colonies rebelled against had reduced the power of the monarch in favour of Parliament many decades before.
>In cases where an experimental therapy has at least some limited evidence (i.e. suggestion it might work) it’s quickly approved and pushed into clinical pipelines, osimertinib/Tagrisso for lung cancer is a recent example of such a treatment.

I think that's the main point of disagreement. There are some encouraging cases where the process works well, and it's fair to point to osimertinib as an example.

But there is a good case to be made (although various blog posts likely state it better than I could in a comment) that the current process introduces enough delay that the opportunity cost is higher than the risk.

Most drugs fail. But getting the drugs that do work to patients even a year earlier may be a much larger benefit than the cost of giving people with serious diseases broader choices, in addition to the current best known standard.

No one is advocating we just let people die, but there's an argument about the cost of delaying therapies and the cost of giving people choices that warrants careful consideration. While proven therapies are good and snake-oil is bad, improving standard of care for everyone historically saves many more lives than sticking with what we know for a longer period of time.
I'm not scared of death. I'm scared of an extended painful exit.
Arthritis during surgery, nice.
Show HN: A KISS CLI and keyboard centered YouTube/local music player
If you work with AI, it's on you to refuse those jobs.
As a commoner I’d trust the elites far more than the “commoners”. Populist stuff is invariably short sighted and historically doomed and only works to dislodge an unbearable incumbent, not realistically implement effective governance after the fact.
I have a very similar issue and likely the same cause. What has helped for me: Cortisone shots (temporarily relief but not a fix), losing weight, core strengthening activities and switching to a standing desk 100% of the time. YMMV. 43yr old male, lifelong developer.
https://archive.is/iXcTw
The cause of those "explosive" side effects is relocations. The JSRs aren't actually jumping to low memory (e.g. 0x000007DE); they're relative to the base of the CODE resource, and get fixed up at load time based on a list of offsets stored elsewhere. Move one of the JSR instructions, and suddenly the relocation gets applied to the wrong place.
> Imagine energy grid not working, no tap water, non-existent food supply, money is worthless ... such kind of future.

Unless you're a subsistence peasant, which 99.9% of rural and semi-rural (suruban) people aren't, you're going to have the same exact problems from a lack of all those things.
Good sir, if we're going for fantasy/conspirological themes, we have to go deeper than this distasteful banality.

People and technology and aristocracy are for the memes. It's just one huge anthill where the ideas evolve, living on biological (and then technological) foundations.

Power hubs (be it aristocracy or any other form of government) is just a convenient mechanism for spreading ideas - politicians and millionaries are just superspreaders (in their respective ages, but they're losing it to the technological platforms - and of course there's a struggle). So is technology. So are people. It's all an evolutionary process - just notice how designed systems rarely win, nearly always giving to chaotic blind evolution - whatever catches more brainspace truly matters, not what works best. If the memetic winds will blow in a certain direction, LLMs may make us obsolete, but not in the way we think they would.

This comment is sponsored by "You think the moon is real?" meme. Sorry (not sorry).
This study [1] seems to suggest that there are quite a few negative effects that can be associated with retirement itself rather than age alone. But the effects are rather small and it also seems like they can be offset by maintaining a social life and physical exercise after retirement. So yeah, being alone on the couch all day is bad for physical and mental health. But that holds for any age, retirement only exacerbates it for some people.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/27751397
> Is it such a bad thing to dream of a life which values things outside of a workplace? To spend time with friends and family.

Friends and family are great reprieve between working hours and obligations. I wouldn't want that to be the only thing going on. Stay at home moms and retired people around me are not the image of fulfilment.

The few retired people I've met that were happy and engaging are the kind that didn't stop working past retirement.
Hard work, intelligence, and preexisting resources are typically prerequisites, and then a whole lot of luck comes into play.

I suspect taking their wages in stock wasn't an option actually offered to janitors, and even if it had been, they wouldn't have taken it: unmarketable equity doesn't put a roof over your head or put food on the table. Bezos, on the other hand, could afford to take below market compensation (at least liquidity-wise) because he had a pile of money already from his time in finance.
Homelessness is a huge problem that needs additional resources. Most of it isn't really visible.

And then there's the huge sub-problem of people who are chronically homeless, drug-addicted, and visible.

Large efforts at simply improving access to housing are likely to make a large dent in the larger homelessness problem, but may not be effective in addressing people with long-standing drug addiction and behavioral disorders.
Many/most have behaviors that are incompatible with conventional housing.

The solution for this subgroup is going to be a lot more complicated.
Safari on iOS does not play nice with Basic Auth. No credential saving, re-promting you for credentials on each page you navigate to.

non-iOS browsers seem to handle HTTP basic auth gracefully.
I found it to be more of a burden than a cure, back in the day. Now it's irrelevant
As someone whose desktop is showing its age and no longer games much, I'm curious about your build machine.

Do you have a physical build machine? Or in the cloud? And did you build it or order it from somewhere?
Not quite the same, but there was also the Macintosh TV [1] - an all-in-one desktop Mac with a TV tuner - and the Pippin console [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_TV

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin
Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions (2020)
Symptoms are used to diagnose, ergo is a treatment of symptoms a cure?

Lets not forget the expansion of the DSM which pretty much incorporates every human being as having a mental health issue or sexual deviancy fetish.
There is no normal in the DSM, so would some medical experts start dialling back on diagnosing new conditions to pad out their careers and income?
Exactly. I’ve been writing JavaScript as long as I have been writing php and I prefer PHP by a lot.
I'm just wondering when is OpenAI going to jack up their prices once vendor lock-in reaches some critical mass.
Giving someone Treatment X likely means they won't be pursuing Y, whether it be to avoid polypharmacy drug interactions, or simply because the patient prefers X's side effect profile to Y. Y may be the proven treatment, with worse side effects but better efficacy. Even if the doctors inform the patient "X may not work at all and may make it worse", the patient might still choose it.

"What's the harm?" you say. The problem is, without any threshold, there are countless Treatment X. Every single snake oil comes out of the woodwork.
But except for who practically creates life peers, that’s the same as it has always been; not really a reuse, or surprising given the name.

They have less substantive power, now, to be sure, but that's not what you seemed to be suggesting.
Tobacco plants produce nicotine in their roots, so it would have been possible that the tomato received some.
Easy? Who else has done it? FDR was very wealthy, but he clung on until he died. People like power, wealthy or not. It's the ultimate seduction.
Right, Autocorrect keeps correcting it wrongly. It's the SV billionaire from the PayPal mafia.
Yes, that's what the docs linked say. And the GP is correct in saying "you definitely can." The GP is a correction to the article which incorrectly states that "there is no way to incept [sic] a panic in the current thread." The correct phrasing would be "there is no way to guarantee that you can recover from a panic in the current thread."

In the context of the article, this is a somewhat minor point. Because you can't guarantee the recovery from panics, you often code as if you can never recover from panics. And thus, when you write code that can panic (for example, `slice[i]`), it's best to conservatively assume that any such panic won't be recovered from. Still though, the existence of a recovery mechanism can be useful advice in some circumstances: https://docs.rs/regex/1.*/regex/#panics

The broader story here is a knot that is difficult to untangle because 1) people have different values and 2) words mean different things to different people. I tried to untangle some part of it here (although it's more broad than just "panics can or can't be recovered from," it's still all connected): https://blog.burntsushi.net/unwrap/
The people labeling data for $15/h are supposed to take the stand?
Firefox Android certainly supports Progressive Web Apps with push notifications, I use them daily.
Maybe "The Mortality Effects of Retirement" ?
https://www.nber.org/bah/2018no1/mortality-effects-retiremen...

There are a couple other versions of this full paper

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24127/w241...

https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/wp_2016-7.pdf
Running ROS1/2 hassle free(M1/Intel/Nvidia)
This projects stems out of my own frustration with getting ROS1/2 to work with visualization support on my Macbook Pro M1 and other machines. I hope this helps you get started with ROS development on your own machine.

This is a Docker-based project for running ROS1/2, including support for visualizations and optional hardware acceleration. Compatibility extends to Focal, Jammy, Mac (Intel and M1), along with support for ROS2 Humble and Noetic. Works with Ubuntu Focal (20.04), Jammy (22.04) and Macs both Intel and M1.
Currently has support for ROS2 Humble (master branch) and ROS1 Noetic (noetic branch)
Can visualize RViz, Gazebo, Intel RealSense Viewer, and other GUIs via VNC or X11 hardware acceleration
Supports both Nvidia and Intel Integrated Graphics
I strongly disagree. You can't easily have conversations about issues in Git and even if you could do you really want to have a commit for each message?

I'm aware of some systems that try to tack issue tracking onto Git in a similar way to Fossil, but they just aren't as good as a proper issue tracker.

That said, Jira is a terrible issue tracker. I do not understand how it is so bad given that it is literally its only job.

I used Phabricator for issue tracking in my previous company and it was so far ahead of Jira... It makes no sense.

Something as basic as parent/child issues is barely implemented in Jira. You can only have 2 levels of hierarchy.

You can't put a task in your sprint unless it matches the task filter for that sprint, which means you can't easily track the work of people that work on multiple projects.

You can't even put tasks from multiple projects into one sprint. Realistically you should have a single project for everything.

They haven't even got basic stuff like "refresh the page when information on it changes" working.

And that's before you even get to the core flaw of Jira which is that it encourages product managers to overcomplicate it.

But just because Jira is awful doesn't mean issue trackers in general are. Phabricator's is great. GitHub and Gitlab are basic but decent. I haven't got experience with any others but I'm sure there are great ones.
I think it was scale of the grains of rice. Not the scale of how long it takes to count to 10,000.
Grant writing is so easy that a bit of human brain tissue can do it eh.
I didn't know about him, thanks. But it illustrates my point - you had to reach back two thousand five hundred years to find an example.
Maybe it's just me, but I think it's silly to ask for the boss because Elon has not demonstrated a shread of competency or vision on his purchase

Every other day I get added to some BS spam list (either bitcoin scam or something else)

The timelines are broken

Either that or Saudi Arabia paid him to put a wrench onto the mechanism
For me the best option is a floor desk. I found sitting on the floor challenging at the beginning. I even had to re-learn how to get down to and up from the floor properly. But with time (and yoga/stretching exercises) my core has gotten stronger and my joints feel great and I can withstand any amount of time sitting on the floor. I'd say the amount of times you get down and up count as mild exercise. I have had no back or any other kind of pain whatsoever, even after longer sessions. A great thing is that you keep changing posture naturally and you have many more ways you can sit or squat on the floor than on a chair. I don't see this mentioned often, but to me it makes a lot of sense. Children prefer sitting on the floor (they haven't experienced any mobility loss yet), hunter-gatherer tribes sit on the floor for most of the day [0], older people in Japan (and other cultures) sit on the floor without much problem, etc., just to mention some examples.

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sitting-all-day-bad-f...
They don’t have lock in yet. They have an advantage in their LLM. But competition is racing and are improving their LLMs fast.
AM modulation is just a matter of multiplying two frequencies together.

Pardon my limited knowledge here, but isn't amplitude modulation actually the practice of varying the amplitude of the carrier frequency alone?

FM, frequency modulation, by contrast does vary the frequency of the carrier itself, which can be modeled mathematically as a function of two (or more) frequencies being combined as with Fourier analysis.
In 2022 the US sent about $113B USD to Ukraine.[0] There is an estimated 168M taxpayers in the US. So, if instead of sending the money to Ukraine, the money was distributed evenly back to taxpayers, everyone would get a little more than $800, which is a significant amount to a majority of US taxpayers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck.

If, rather the money had been distributed to all SNAP-eligible households (about 65M according to the social security administration), each household would have received approximately $1,700. Again, not a negligible amount.

[0]: https://www.crfb.org/blogs/congress-approved-113-billion-aid...
[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-...
You need to work out or you'll turn into a potato that can't support your own upper body. You'll end up with all kinds of medical and joint issues.
Thucydides, an Athenian who fought the Spartans and also spent some time with them, would beg to disagree. Spartan diplomacy, while not very eloquent, was nevertheless very effective during the Peloponnesian War, with Athenian allies frequently doing their utmost to desert to the enemy. Spartan troops, while few in number, prove extremely effective in combat, usually routing their direct opponents and only losing the occasional battle due to their allies' unsteadiness. Even the battle at Pylos, cited by Mr. Devereaux as a major defeat, comes very close to being a second Thermopylae, with a small group of Spartan warriors stranded on an island and holding off against all odds for months, until a freak accident burns out all the trees and reveals their lack of strength to the enemy. Finally forced to take to the seas, inexperienced Spartan admiral Lysander concocts a brilliant strategy and utterly destroys the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami.
Good for you, my personal life often involves connecting to real hardware in the field and ChromeOS doesn't work for that.
One aspect of the problem here is the difficulty in running a clinical trial, particularly at the recruitment stage. The covid-19 trials all had a surfeit of participants because of a pandemic, but with modern cancer treatment trials the qualification requirements significantly cut down on the eligible population.

This, in itself, isn't a huge obstacle. The problem is the state of healthcare data systems. It's next to impossible to perform high-quality search (even by individuals approved to do so by the IRB). The state of the art in most places is regex searching in SQL.

This is something we have the power to contribute to. Bringing modern search capabilities to important datasets like health (while maintaining HIPAA-conpliance) is a much better use of engineering time than mining spyware data for creepy insights...

[Disclosure: I contributed heavily to one of the major medical search products on the market. We dealt with organisations that expended tens of thousands of dollars and many months per candidate for recruitment. Using some very straightforward IR tech we literally found all their candidates in a few minutes, plus many more. But there is so much more to do!]
The people don’t look real to me.

The shadows and textures on the dog jumping don’t look.

Even the backgrounds, grass, walls, buildings don’t look real.

Is this supposed to be actual video of a location with a real human jogging alongside the dog?
Actually, he just asked a question.
The author is Hugo Landau, so of course it is a bad take, how else could it be. The real question at this point is why his terrible takes reach the front page every two weeks…
We are all, in some sense, terminal. At what number of months or years left to live does your terminality become sufficient to let you try whatever?
Japan Says It Can Make Coal Cleaner. Critics Say Its Plan Is ‘Almost Impossible’
They're a damn pain. It'd be nice if HN flagged them with a red asterisk or such.
> Most drugs fail. But getting the drugs that do work to patients even a year earlier may be a much larger benefit than the cost of giving people with serious diseases broader choices, in addition to the current best known standard.

This is contradictory. Most drugs fail, how do we identify the efficacious ones other than through trials?

Depending on the anticipated efficacy from early trials as compared to existing ones it will get fast-tracked before the phase II is completed.

Where is the evidence that we’re delaying efficacious therapies where there is no good alternative?

I sound like a broken record right now but this blog post is suggesting we jump to experimental therapies (which would be off label for the author as he does not meet inclusion criteria) before we even have phase I data let alone efficacy, when good validated treatment options exists.
For now.
Remote attestation will devalue non-attested advertising. Once your stream of revenue dries up due to devaluation, that's when the executives will have a choice to make.
Facekini: Meet the woman behind China’s most infamous beach accessory
Loads of revolutions have ended with one or more of the warlords involved relinquishing any formal role in the subsequent elected government, in exchange for simply keeping their massive wealth and networks of influence. After all, formal roles bring duties and obligations, so why bother if you don’t have to? The idea of Washington as some kind of saintly Cincinnatus is itself a literal textbook example of early American mythology.