skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t see the negatives other commenters are pointing out. Yes she’s talking about her perceptions born from her clients and years worked. That’s an absolute right for all of us, right? To simply relate the experiences we’ve had.

She's not "simply relating experiences" though. She goes beyond that, turning them into a general sociopolitical claim:

> Unlike sex work, my “good” jobs didn’t threaten to overthrow traditional power structures. Many sex workers, including myself, have long hypothesized that the reason so many people in power work to keep the commercial sex trade marginalized is because they’re threatened by it—by the idea that it’s the only field where women outearn men, that it’s an industry where women get to call the shots, and that women profit off something that men have been told they’re entitled to for free: sex and attention in equal parts.
> Is it really helping Europeans not get conquered in a bloody war to expend virtually all of their materiel on a US lead proxy war intended to bring about regime change in Russia?

The purpose of Western support for Ukraine isn't to bring about regime change in Russia, its to arrest the long pattern of Russian aggression against its neighbors with (and by turning back) the invasion of Ukraine. It follows on the failure of the accommodationist approach to preventing Russian aggression by going along, in 2008, with Russia’s request not to give Georgia and Ukraine NATO Membership Action Plan onramps, which Russia responded to by immediately invading Georgia, and, having established a friendly puppet regime in Ukraine in the interim, turning around and invading Ukraine the instant the local population displaced that puppet regime.

Also, calling the Ukrainian defensive effort “a US-led proxy war” is the dumbest statement in the universe if stated for any purpose other than sigalling fidelity to Kremlin and its not-even-trying-to-credible propaganda.
It's great to see so many apps for Lemmy. RedReader for Lemmy would be neat.
Well we're certainly overrepresented domestically, but there are still a reasonable number of Canadian acts that are known quantities south of 49.
This article names the dentists who got it right, while leaving anonymous those dentists who conspired to commit physical assault by performing unnecessary medical procedures. A factual listing of what each dentist recommended should not incur any legal liability.

Maybe the legal system that makes journalists afraid to name and shame clearly dangerous dentists is part of the problem?
Illegible? It's #444 on a white background—that is a 9.73:1 contrast ratio, which gives it a perfect AAA accesibility rating.

If you can't read it, there's probably a wild CSS messing things up on your end.
If it's truly the case that you're paying for Google Search, that would be an even bigger incentive for consumers to leave to a different search engine (in essence, they would be paid to switch).
This reminds me of a classic "scientific vs magical thinking" comparison investigating "woo" such as Feng shui. They set up an apartment identically for a about a dozen different Feng shui experts and recorded their recommendations. They all said wildly different things: "You need your bed facing east", "The bed should face away from the door", "The bed should face so that the morning light isn't blocked", etc... Same variability with the couch, dining table, and so on. Literally nothing was consistent. Both the furniture layout and the justifications given were about as variable as it was possible to get.

I've internalised that little experiment as my "acid test of scientific maturity".

A random example that passes with flying colours is Chemistry: the exact same periodic table is taught in every school in every country. Nobody debates the existence of benzene, or the ability of acids to dissolve metals. There is no "eastern school" competing with the "orthodoxy of the south" or whatever. There is only one chemistry, globally.

A lot of other supposedly "highly scientific" fields fail this test. For example, there was a survey of practising theoretical physicists about the foundations of quantum mechanics, and it turned out that they disagreed on everything. Meanwhile they were all individually convinced that there is consensus, and that they're in agreement with it.
If it was my project, I would want to know about a possible name collision. Saying it once seems fine.
I watched a couple of the movies years ago. the game is enjoyable and very well done, I'd probably have more fun if I was an actual fan.

You can definitely see the amount of effort put into recreating the castle/town.
I've realized that every few months somebody posts a link to one of the many (cool) things on oimo.io. I wonder what the next one will be :)
IANAL but “Zoom for Healthcare” is a business associate under HIPAA and treated as an extension of the provider with some added restrictions.

Covered entities (including the EMR and hospital itself) can use protected health information for quality improvement without patient consent and deidentified data freely.

Where this gets messy is that deidentification isn’t always perfect even if you think you’re doing it right (especially if via software) and reidentification risk is a real problem.

To my understanding business associates can train on deidentified transcripts all they want as the contracts generally limit use to what a covered entity would be allowed to do (I haven’t seen Zoom’s). I know that most health AI companies from chatbots to image analysis do this. Now if their model leaks data that’s subsequently reidentified this is a big problem.

Most institutions therefore have policies more stringent than HIPAA and treat software deidentified data as PHI. Stanford for example won’t allow disclosure of models trained on deidentified patient data, including on credentialed access sources like physionet, unless each sample was manually verified which isn’t feasible on the scale required for DL.

Edit: Zoom’s BAA: https://explore.zoom.us/docs/en-us/baa.html

“Limitations on Use and Disclosure. Zoom shall not Use and/or Disclose the Protected Health Information except as otherwise limited in this Agreement or by application of 42 C.F.R. Part 2 with respect to Part 2 Patient Identifying Information, for the proper management and administration of Zoom…”

“Management, Administration, and Legal Responsibilities. Except as otherwise limited in this BAA, Zoom may Use and Disclose Protected Health Information for the proper management and administration of Zoom…”

Not sure if “proper management and administration” has a specific legal definition or would include product development.

Edit 2: My non-expert reading of this legal article suggests they can. https://www.morganlewis.com/-/media/files/publication/outsid...

“But how should a business associate interpret these rules when effective management of its business requires data mining? What if data mining of customer data is necessary in order to develop the next iteration of the business associate’s product or service? … These uses of big data are not strictly necessary in order for the business associate to provide the contracted service to a HIPAA-covered entity, but they may very well be critical to management and administration of the business associate’s enterprise and providing value to customers through improved products and services.

In the absence of interpretive guidance from the OCR on the meaning of ‘management and administration’, a business associate must rely almost entirely on the plain meaning of those terms, which are open to interpretation.”
Is psychic vicuna a special model, or just regular vicuna wearing a bejeweled turban?
What do you mean by huge investments?

The sales team is about 7 people. Only in recent years have they begrudgingly expanded their consulting wing - but hospitals IT teams manage the software themselves.

Mostly it is driven by the fact that as bad as people like to think Epic is... All the direct competitors are magnitudes worse.
No crimes were solved here. We can't take a thing that literally did nothing except cost taxpayer money, police time, and stress for a pregnant woman and declare victory for it.

> It's doing the same part of the task as a photo lineup does.

It's doing something subtly different, and arguably pernicious: a lineup is meant to contain a variety of individuals of varying similarities, so that the person selecting from the lineup are themselves tested in their recollection. We have no evidence that this system is being used in this way; instead, it seems to be finding the closest match in an existing dataset under the assumption that anybody who's ever been photographed by the police is permanently a criminal suspect.
std::variant is a good example of many things bad with c++ improvement process, as a language.

If you want to just pattern match on type of visitor there is “another convenience helper” that you need to bring, and result still looks not pleasant.

Introduced in like c++17, even in c++23 you still need to write a std::visit to process it. Committee members waste time on yak shaving that std::print
I wonder if this will harm Google as a search engine even further. It's not as if they are removing the content, merely the index entry. Others will still return the result.
Even if you're just doing NAT holepunching and orchestrating some P2P sessions, if you get 700% of your expected load and still stay online then good for you.
Cell phone ping data from nearest towers can help solve problems. What if missing people reports are not filed? What if dead bodies are not found?

There are many unsolved homicides even today, even though family and friends know who could be behind. It is just that cops can't pin down suspects.
>Congrats, you yield all the economics of scale to China

That is the goal and why "Break up Google" is being aggressively pushed by pro-Chinese bots on reddit, twitter etc.

"Break up Google" should be translated to "Give all the data to China".

Before the rise of TikTok I would as a European have supported the US shooting itself in the foot by breaking up Google, Microsoft etc. I assumed those would be trivially replaced by European alternatives. However today, post-TikTok, I know the majority of people will just eagerly jump on the first Chinese spyware alternative that pops up.
Don, on any Lisp or Forth or other post on niche languages on this site, there is a long comment from you going into deep detail about its history and evolution.

Your wealth of knowledge is incredible, and it is thanks to hackers like you that I've been spending the past year rediscovering the roots of computing, the wonders of Lisp, Smalltalk and, this past week in particular, Forth ( HONK ) .

These days my ~/Desktop and printer spool are full of papers from the 70s and 80s that, compared to the clunky world of Javascript and UNIX clones, feel like science fiction.

So thank you for broadening our horizons, and teaching code monkeys like me the lost art of programming computers. Your contributions are invaluable.
I think $100000 wealth is fair. Most of people in the world doesn’t have that amount. Why to go upper?
Cloth Simulation
Calling out "blackface" for somebody in the 90's dressing up as Aladdin is a definite tell for somebody's political biases.
It feels like this issue could be fixed with human processes to cross check the facial recognition results.
If the original project has a governance process that's difficult to integrate with and that slows down progress, a fork has a better chance of hosting a vibrant ecosystem than the original.
> The Media only report on mistaken arrests when the victim is black

Strong claims have a strong burden for a proof.
The wolf is in the henhouse giving advice to the hens.
So what was the final grade - did whoever did the grading just look at the pictures?

did he quit and go into CS, is he on HN?

Did he make any other discoveries regarding the assiness of other fields of human endeavor as the years went by?
Why wouldn't you need to verify identity to buy a car? Every car I've purchased the first thing they ask is to see your driver's license, even at used shops.
There are these trends

https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace
As a European I would fully support the US shooting itself in the foot by breaking up its Big Tech companies if it meant that European alternatives would replace them. However we all know it's going to be Chinese alternatives.
I especially liked, "The company’s dress code is that when visitors are on campus, wear clothes."
Or thanks to the end of leaded gasoline, or the advent of legalized abortion, or some combination of the three, or none of this. The only evidence in this article is one serial killer they maybe tracked down after 25 years of searching.
The funny part is that in terms of raw part cost, the microcontroller is likely cheaper.

I was just dabbling and saw that a 7 segment hex decoder chip was, like, $8 or $9 but a Raspberry Pi Zero was $5.

Makes one rethink the issues involved.
Most statements I've heard about the dating scene are pretty negative for men at least. Mostly stuff like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/y0heqs/what_is_the...
Here's some ideas about WASM forth I wrote about previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34374057

>This is a great article! I love his description of Forth as "a weird backwards lisp with no parentheses".

>Reading the source code of "WAForth" (Forth for WebAssembly) really helped me learn about how WebAssembly works deep down, from the ground up.

>It demonstrates the first step of what the article says about bootstrapping a Forth system, and it has some beautiful hand written WebAssembly code implementing the primitives and even the compiler and JavaScript interop plumbing. We discussed the possibility of developing a metacompiler in the reddit discussion.

[...]

Check out this beautiful hand written wasm code, a dynamic wasm based Forth compiler:

https://github.com/remko/waforth/blob/master/src/waforth.wat

It compiles new Forth words into teenie tiny little wasm modules, and hooks out through JavaScript in the browser to create and link them in to the main module, so it can call the code it just compiled. Wasm doesn't let you modify compiled code, but you can compile new code and link it in and execute it!
There is way more to Mexican food than burritos and tacos. Unfortunately folks who are only exposed to Bay Area Mexican food would never be aware of that.
vicuna v1.5 7b
Is there a comprehensive list of the ones with known PFAS content? I'm not finding much except one article with only like 10 listed.
yeah that bothered me too and I was hoping it got better a few more sentences in

there are places to get massages that aren’t sex work so using euphamisms as both to placate a cultural appetite and coping mechanism is odd and needlessly confusing.

I’m halfway through the article like “is this another sex worker that can’t acknowledge what they do in plain English, while the rest of us are supposed to repeat ‘sex work is work’ for the labor rights along with the ironic convenience that will come with it, or is this a place to get a massage“
It could be good for in memory stores / log-structured merged trees / other data store applications although it isn't used much now-days. I find them simpler to implement and understand than red-black trees -- although that's a matter of taste I suppose. They beat red-black trees in read-heavy loads (i.e. writes / updates are more costly for AVL trees than for Red-Black trees although they beat R-B trees for read-heavy loads). You can find another implementation in Illumos (an open source Unix operating system) available here: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/...
Look up the boards that use the Lattice ECP5 chips, I think these are the largest FPGAs that have a fully open toolchain: https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr

You'd need to learn some digital design for any FPGA board. I recommend the book "Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by David and Sarah Harris.
We could easily 10x the funding and 5x the manpower we throw at STEM research if we actually cared what they produced.

NSF grants distribute 8.5 billion dollars a year, which is less than Major League Baseball (and its Congressionally granted monopoly) makes. The US Congress has directed 75 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine to date.
Alternatively: you need to be O(Europe) to avoid being bullied by big tech companies.
Duplicate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37022857
Limited shelter plus forced fasting is a way to achieve self actualization, learning both the limits of your body and discipline. Only to a degree, too much and you’re physically injured perhaps permanently.
This is a legitimate way of viewing things. I wonder how “true” it is in the sense that explains Mexican food in California today. Specifically, I don’t think the Mexican population in Alta California was really all that high in 1848. I think it just wasn’t all that high in general.

So there are families that can trace themselves to Mexican California, but I believe their numbers and culinary influence was overshadowed by the significantly bigger population that came later. But maybe that’s just as authentic. They were bringing and making dishes, not copying them.
All the Twitter employees fired for complaining or questioning about Twitter on Twitter must be eager to take his money for their legal actions.
> hjkl shouldn't be the default because the author had a keyboard with those defaults half a century ago

hjkl are still a pretty good choice for a modal editor. If you’ve learnt standard touch typing, your right hand will be resting on jkl;, so it’s extremely convenient.

The Vi(m) philosophy is to reduce how much you have to move your hands about, so everything is put as close to the “home row” (asdf + jkl;) as possible.

This is why Vim-spinoffs like Helix and Kakoune, while turning the whole keybinding system on its head, are both keeping hjkl. Not for historical legacy, but because it’s actually a good choice.
> Microsoft Activision is a prominent recent example.

That was always ludicrous. The only way for the FTC to win that case was to define the relevant market as "games produced by Activision". That would have made the merger anticompetitive by definition... but no more anticompetitive than Activision already was.
"The central planning system, while intended to ensure equitable distribution, was riddled with inefficiencies and mismanagement."

I'm shocked. Shocked, I say!
"The central planning system, while intended to ensure equitable distribution, was riddled with inefficiencies and mismanagement."

I'm shocked. *Shocked*, I say!
> Turns out I had quite a few hidden cavities

And you know this from any other sources than the dentist you then paid to fix it?
It’s the same picture.jpg
Most of these indices are nonsense and perception based.
Open Letter to Pause Superconductor Experiments
Seems to just crash for me after initialising on iPhone 13
I'm sure they'll miss your business, but this change will hardly impact their bottom line. Most users will continue to use it, even if they're aware of and are concerned by this, as the cost and inconvenience of switching is too high.
You can easily look up non peer reviewed papers on arxiv. Why would this be different with replication?
> You’ve hired right? As a hiring manager you want someone with fresh successes in the area you’re hiring for.

My approach has always been very different I guess. Likely because I have seen so many shifts in technology. As an example, when I was attending university for electrical engineering FPGA's didn't exist. I had to learn FPGA's years later (used PLD's and PAL's before that). The same is true of so many things.

When hiring engineers, I have always cared far more about how they think, how creative they can be and how well they can learn new technologies. To me that has always been far more important than getting someone who, as an example, has been driving Javascript for the last ten years, is an expert, yet could not make a shift to WASM if their life depended on it.

I'll give you a real-life example. I'm expert level with AutoCAD and Solidworks. I got a contract with an aerospace company. They used SiemensNX for their 3D CAD. I had to learn it and become capable enough to to do the job. It took me about two weeks to make a pretty solid transition. The software is different enough that you can't just jump into it, although, yes, skills I had with other tools helped. That's kind of the point, I am was making. Experience and flexibility to learn are valuable when combined.

Your comment exposes that I think of the hiring process differently than, perhaps, most, and that likely influences how and what I present to others when applying. In other words, what I see as a strength, to others, might come across as a weakness or just confusing.

Thanks.
I guess art, music, professional sports, and fine dining are all essentially zero-sum and useless as well then? What tangible benefit does a museum visitor get for their ticket?

I presume your job must be much more important for the good of society than sex work.
Basically, yes. I think we've all come to expect freeware to also be free (libre) software. I certainly am in favor of free software as well, but I think that we assume at this point that if you aren't making money from it and you aren't releasing the code, you have something to hide. However, the interesting thing is that back in the day, shareware was often closed source unless you paid to register it, in which case you got access to the code (depending on the publisher, obviously).
It would also have the benefit of making supply chains more robust. Baby formula prices shot up during the pandemic because one factory had a contamination problem. My sister-in-law was asking friends on Facebook to look in their local stores for a specific type of formula her baby needed, because her store has empty shelves of it for a month.

The free market wasn't solving that problem. A new baby formula factory can't just be built to cover a gap that'd probably disappear in a year. But that leaves people in a shitty position for a year.
Do we have any confidence in the narrator in the last section? I assumed that there was no more reason to take any of that as true than there was at any other point in the book.

Probably the only thing that we truly know at the end is that Winston really did love Big Brother.
The pressure to replicate would make folks publish things in forms that are easier to replicate. This cost would go down over time.
I would be interested to know whether the cable-stayed bridge is putting any load on the cables, or if they're just an art object supported by the bridge.
Ask HN: As a software developer, what's your specialty?
[Australian here] Recalling these 'negotiations' when they happened and when Facebook blocked news links for a short while (which was actually quite a lovely time) - the whole thing came across as a shake-down with all the subtlety of a tele-evangelist.
It's not 'no reason' :-)

They are being scrutinised for a reason.

And that reason is the in the very nature of the software. What it does, and what it wants access to on the system and so on.
Seems like a best case scenario to me.

- Less outrage farming in Canada

- Meta/Facebook suffers a bit

- Canadian media oligopolies suffer a lot

- Government gets a black eye for doing Rogers' dirty work