skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> long before our current high rates of cancer

Be careful there. It's difficult to know historical base cancer rates, given recent advances in cancer detection. It's likely lots of cancer deaths in the elderly were simply chalked up to old age.

Also, every time DNA is copied, you roll the dice with cancer. Live long enough and you'll eventually get cancer. As people live longer, one expects cancer rates to increase, all else being equal. (Yes, there have been recent dips in life expectancy in the US, but over the time frame I'm presuming you're comparing with "our current high rates of cancer", the trend is still positive.)

Now, maybe cancer rates have increased due to increases in environmental carcinogens. However, it's not obvious to me that's the case.
Humans do very little "search", as we can see in games like Go. Which suggests it isn't essential for AI either.
Is a lot of federal funding going into EVs?
Seemed to work for Stack Overflow.
If private, a private familiar photo history would be great...

There was a company called ORIGAMI that launched into private claiming to solves such - and they got acisition-hired before they could even launch and then the entirety of the team evap'd

but we still need a solid solution in a PI powered black-box with "facebook in a box for a family" with a familial social calendar...

this is what Nextdoor attempted to do - but its run by sketchy people I would never trust - we need a solid little container on a Pi that allows for a NAS of pics and a calendar and an air-tag tied to all our shit so we have a home hub that with a single click shows all the things/folks attached and then a timeline of all the pics taken (I appied to YC to this FN 10 years ago)
I did like Herb Sutter's relatively recent push for metaclasses though. He pointed out that people are already doing similar things in their codebases, just manually with text level preprocessors like QT uses.

https://herbsutter.com/2017/07/26/metaclasses-thoughts-on-ge...
I am looking for something a little more specific to make a gallery out of screen shots with OCR and combining the dates and metatada with any text extract.

Photoprism looks close but no OCR.
Step 1:
Install XAMPP by going to https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html --
Download option "8.2.4 / PHP 8.2.4" or highest current version for your operating system. --
Note the directory where the files were installed. --
Inside the directory, open the "htdocs" folder. --
Create a folder here called "images" or whatever you like. --
Copy your images to this folder. --
Launch XAMPP, if not already launched.

Step 2:
Download this free image organizer from https://www.files.gallery --
When you click on download it will download a single file called "index.php".

Step 3:
Copy the index.php file you just downloaded to the images folder you created. --
Navigate in your browser to http://localhost/images/index.php (or replace images with whatever you named the images folder)

ENJOY!
The discussion notes are awesome too. Lots of examples raised.
A library choosing to remove books that don’t meet its criteria is curation. A library having to remove books because someone else told it to is banning.
I find his crabiness and rants pretty funny, I have not really enjoyed his own music, but definitely enjoy his production of course Nirvana, but also Jason Molina and J. Tillman (before we was "Father John Misty").
This kind of thing is why I’m not a big fan of governments deciding many things for me.
its not only spanner multiple services got hit. the console wasnt even accessible. to me it looks like they have one datacenter and in this datacenter multiple "availability zone"
Stay away from those ones with Canadian branches, unless you must have the office experience. They always scale pay by location. Corollary, stay away from companies that pay by location when seeking remote work, unless you live in a very expensive location.
For those who RTFA but didn't RTF (original) A, here's the "scanning":

[A]dministrators first compiled a master list of commonly challenged books, then removed all those challenged for reasons other than sexual content. For those titles within Mason City’s library collections, administrators asked ChatGPT the specific language of Iowa’s new law, “Does [book] contain a description or depiction of a sex act?” “If the answer was yes, the book will be removed from circulation and stored."

So the text isn't being scanned; instead, they're relying (as we've seen before in other domains) on the temperature-dependent output of a stochastic parrot to make censorship decisions, which brings up procedural due process concerns at a minimum.
Time wasted. I have not missed this cycle. All posts and discussions I have read were pointless at best - toxic at worst.
Albini wrote one of the most biting indictments of the music industry I've ever read: "The Problem with Music" aka "Some of Your Friends are Already This F*ked." https://archive.org/stream/TheProblemWithMusic/TheProblemWit... (The formatting is kind of messed up, especially in the breakdown of a band's first album and all the revenue and expenses, since this copy is all plain text.)
Yeah, seriously. More competition, and monopsony do not dwell in the same space. We’ve been very lax in our reigning in of big companies that destroy competition while claiming they’re competitive. It’s like bringing a gun to a track meet and saying you won the race while one racer lies bleeding on the ground and every other racer has suspiciously slow times.
Finally people start paying attention to the politics of water subsidies. That has been going on for years and was one of (many) weird things in California that everybody is talking about water crisis and nobody is talking about alfalfa.
Whether or not it's true, it also persists amongst reactor operators in navy subs, according to my cousin (said reactor operator for a navy sub during his time).
> People in those towns have family connections going back centuries in some cases.

You are correct, in some cases they go back 2-4 centuries. From when their ancestors settled in the colonies there. Settlers. Colony. 2-4 centuries, short term by European standards. It is hypocritical to expect it to be eternal now. There was no guarantee that it would last past when they milked out all the non-renewable resources. As noted, the US tends to be fairly institutionally indifferent to e.g. a Dust Bowl.

I hope that they better than that this time, I really do. But not at the expense of keeping coal mines and coal-mining-towns with no other viable way open. It never was a good job anyway (see "black lung").
It's LPDDR memory with wires going between the chips, the difference to other LPDDR applications is just running the wires inside the same package.
> One of the things I look forward to in an HN discussion is the comments of people who can collate expert opinions on the subject and surface these kinds of points in a more ELI15 kind of way.

I can tell you from first hand experience, much of the time subject matter experts are often downvoted into oblivion by the HN hive mind. To the point where you only see clueless people at the top.

Happens to me regularly when it comes to machine learning, neuroscience, education/university threads.

For example, people say crazy things about things like university admissions or grad student salaries. Never mind about ML where most of the information here is just wrong.
So, so many questions.

Let me preface this by saying - if this works well enough to give devs confidence in the tool, this could be revolutionary. It would combine implementation, documentation, visuals and deployment into a single view simple enough for everyday devs to grok.

I couldn't find any documentation - if there is, that answers these questions, please link me to them.

1. How does authentication work? Is it handled by the tool?

2. Can it support non-AWS resources, such as Grafana?

3. How does version control work? Can you review changes, roll back, etc?

4. In the demo on the main site, the security group was not attached to any VPC, what's going on there?

5. Does this remain maintainable when dealing with very large configurations, for example, a multi-account AWS setup with tens of thousands of resources. If so, what mechanisms are available in this tool to facilitate this maintainability?

Thank you
I have a wall clock that syncs with an atomic clock in Colorado, which was cool at first but I live in Arizona now which doesn’t observe daylight savings so it’s often wrong by an hour now.
Seems pretty obvious they decided to be a product maker. This is them doubling down.

They started out obviously doing API stuff. chatGPT was some sort of proof-of-concept or whatever but once it went viral, the obvious pivot is to be a product maker. The margins on ChatGPT+ is way better than an API, as every ChatGPT clone will tell you. A viral product is really hard to make, never mind make and throw away to focus on lower margin corporate customers.

They seem to have a great vision now - make a good product (WIP, but rapidly iterating), and sell the underlying models to Microsoft to offer as an API for the residual value they can’t capture directly. This should make it clear that if you’re selling a Chatbot off of their APIs, they’re planning to compete with you.
Ever been sunburned? The mechanism has nothing to do with "drastic temperature changes"
Only an idiot is incapable of gleaning insights and information from fiction.
Sound can travel in a vacuum
Yes, and it's extra painful that most "apps" on the "App Store" are just thin wrappers around web technologies anyway. You have to have an iPhone[1] or Android because you "have to use the app" for lots of things from mobile food ordering to ticket purchasing -- and yet most of these apps have little to no native code, and despite our phones being 100x more powerful, these apps are more laggy than a BlackBerry or Sidekick app was, because they're bloated beyond belief.

[1] From my experience, even Android is an iffy choice in America, because 99% of the execs here who allocate the resources in companies use iOS, so they don't mind when the Android app is barely usable. This is a peculiarity of the US though, elsewhere Android is considered equal or greater in importance.
The law is what it is, but I thought the response from the district was quite rational:

> “Frankly, we have more important things to do than spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to protect kids from books,” Exman told PopSci via email. “At the same time, we do have a legal and ethical obligation to comply with the law. Our goal here really is a defensible process.”
The Cu₂S was responsible for the temperature dependent resistivity measurement caused by a phase change at 104 °C, not the magnet properties. If you have some more information on the ferromagnetic properties of copper sulfides, I'd like to learn more.
I have a citizen watch with this. Tends to keep time just fine. Though so did all my other quartz watches until the battery dies
Early 2023 called and they want their stochastic parrot back.
Would be an unproductive way of doing it (that's what "AirTag traveling with you" detection is for) but they'd probably just mandate the tracker has to show you a cookie popup.
> There are a lot of people in that group that would go to war for Trump because they trust him,

Probably true—I wonder what he did to earn that level of trust?
Not really, WireGuard is a protocol for direct encrypted transfer of bits on the L3 layer. Do something simple and do it well.
thanks!

Ah good catch! I'll update the docs for that :).

The project is still really early so thanks for bearing with me. I'll probably add a single docker compose file to get up and running easily.
I feel like this is the kind of thing where an amalgation of Linux tools hacked together and based on this would offer a significantly better solution than most self-hosted media serving software I've seen.
omg I love this
They misspelled Mainflingen, where the German DCF77 transmitter is located, as "Mineflingen", which is basically spelled phonetically (for English speakers).
There are a lot of machines out there with a dead battery on the real time clock. Every time they boot, the time is miles out and at some system-determined zero point.
This is one school board, not the state.

With that said -- I'm in Iowa, my fiancé works in public libraries and for the Iowa Library Association and the ALA as a resource for those facing book challenges, and it's a shit show here (and in most red states) right now. It's largely coordinated by conservative groups (e.g. "Moms for Liberty") who band together to canvass the schools with their "think of the children" pleas.

This is only the beginning after the signing of the Senate File mentioned in the story. The same people bitching about social media companies censoring their tweets are now trying to keep books they don't agree with out of the library.

It's starting in the schools, but the public libraries are next. https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-w...
What does this even mean. It's as if you just shoved possible words together.
They're better now but a few years ago, I actively avoided buying tools at Home Depot because they always just restocked broken returns and I got burned by it multiple times. I'm not sure why they would do this other than sheer laziness. They even asked why you were returning it. (Why ask if you don't care?)

On one particular trip, I returned some kind of complicated saw or jig or something because it was broken in a spot that I didn't see until after I brought it home. (It also had obvious signs of use, so I wasn't the first "owner" of it either.) After the return, I walked around the store to get some other items and then came back to the tool isle to get a replacement and was non-plussed to see that the exact item I returned 15 minutes ago had already been put back on the shelf, without a discount sticker or anything.
For me TODO is more literal, reserved for things that must be done. So, I use SMELL if it's unsane. If it's somewhat broken, I use BUG, and file a low priority issue. For both, I put long explanations, in the code, for the future reader.
Thank you for this comment.

I would add, contrary to that, physical eradication of certain parts of society has been and is the goal of Russian rulers. (Ukrainian hunger, Ukrainian dams in 1930s - the purge of Ukrainians didn't start February last year)
I have a ML PhD - maybe slightly qualified to answer this question.

Yes, absolutely doable. Immerse yourself into learning things well. Learn the basics. Don't do course hopping & book hopping - pick a rock solid book or lecture series, devour it & get building. The last part is the most important part.

People with ML MS/PhD only have an additional (1) degree & (2) networking. If you invest time, you can overcome (2) by asking good questions in Twitter/Reddit & making connections. I still do it after finished my degree. Twitter is the Linkedin for ML.

As for (1), YSK that most advisees are getting advised by professors who made it big before deep learning took off. So everyone is still on the learning curve of sorts - advisors, advisees and your peers. Sometimes student's intuitions could be better than the professor's. Don't sweat over it. Focus on building.
Addressing climate change does not have to be coupled with making our lives worse, nor is it a condemnation of industrialized society. Fossil fuels need to be replaced with energy sources that don't emit greenhouse gases, but otherwise it does not require de-growth.

I think there's so much skepticism of climate change precisely because so many of those pushing for action are so invested in using climate change to push for other political goals. Chiefly anti-capitalism and de-growth. People aren't necessarily adverse to climate action, they're adverse to anti-capitalism or de-growth. As much of a buffoon he's been in recent years, one of the best things Elon Musk has done via Tesla is demonstrate that climate action does not have to be coupled with the deeply unpopular positions that so many climate activists espouse. Likewise, France demonstrates how electricity can be thoroughly decarbonized without making people's lives substantially more uncomfortable.
Some people don't actually use it as a phone or otherwise connect it to anything that provides time info (think a kiosk iPad) so it is an issue. Enormous time jumps also tend to find bugs in your system, like if there's a task that deletes old data but it turns out it's not actually old.

> mute

Did you know it's "moot"?
>A library having to remove books because someone else told it to is banning.

No.

A "Ban" means the government legally prohibits circulation. Stop these ridicolous word games.
Read it again. The statements are not in conflict because the culture reacted to the increasing obesity, not the other way around.

If modern cookbooks had more fattening recipes, then I would be wrong and obesity would be explainable by culture, but they don't. Modern cookbooks are leaner than old cookbooks. In decades and centuries prior to the 1980s people ate more sweets and fats, not less.

Modern cookbooks have leaner recipes because obesity is a problem now. Obesity is not a problem now because cookbooks have leaner recipes (how would that even work?)
For precisely the reasons you listed, this entire article, but especially the headline, are safely labeled click bait.

Everything about it is technically accurate but it's carefully designed to be misleading so passersby think "that can't be right" and click to seek more, or worse, become furious and click to figure out who is responsible.

There's also the knock on effect of someone seeing the headline in one of their various feeds, and forming an opinion one way or another, without having clicked at all.
>the simplification to 4 computer types was later attributed to Jobs once Gil was out.

Amelio simplified the product categories down to four. They were still full of garbage--Jobs made the real difference there. He got rid of all the trash peripherals and replaced the (many) computer lines with only the iMac.
Seems pretty slippery to "curate" a collection to never include any mention of homosexuality except as a mortal sin. Or to curate away historical texts that happen to mention that chattel slavery was real and also bad.
Yes but perhaps it reminds you of fond memories? Or just makes life a little more interesting - "Hey, dentist, sorry I'm an hour late!"
Simplify your C preprocessor usage
Computers have a lot more temperature variations than a typical quartz watch. In the absence of temperature correction, they'll be less accurate.
Ok either this is a niche issue or its the next holocaust. It can’t be both.

Your complete inability to be consistent in your argument kind of does my work for me. Look at the contortions you have to make to argue against the simple idea that western society isn’t doomed to repeat its worst mistakes.

If you had a good argument you’d have given it by now.
That is technically true, though in practice the definition I believe has expanded to include "general news and press coverage of XYZ", which is how I'm phrasing it here.

Having had some work get incredible attention, and other work not at all, I've experienced a small slice of the volatility of the web. My most popular, for example, tweet chain was a semi-technical vent I wrote over the course of 30 minutes after stewing about some semi-useless technical hype that no one seemed to be addressing the flaws in. I wrote it in a way that was more attention-grabbing somewhat than my more technical posts, put it out there, and shared it in a few places. It was pretty shallow, technically, I think, but I feel like it really had to be stated, since it sorta felt...really pretty obvious?

Two days later or so, my number of Twitter followers had over quadrupled.

I think humanity can be quite finicky sometimes (a more general statement, I don't think one could conclude that from the previous anecdote alone).
Does this extend to climate change science too?
This was great science. Hypothesis, test, and attempted confirmation. Too bad it's not superconducting, but the process worked the way it is supposed to.
> Clearly we need more research

This phrase sets of the same alarm bells for me as “think of the children”.

It was the main argument made by proponents of tobacco, climate change, asbestos, artificial sweeteners, trans fats, HFCS, DDT, etc, etc.

There has been strong evidence that PFAS causes severe health issues since at least the mid 1990’s.

People can always use weasel words like “some studies show there may be a correlation” (and leave out the p=99.99999 from the cited studies).

Here’s a present-day example for DDT, over 50 years after it was banned:
https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/ddt-...
> Seems like a very standard acquihire. There's no indication that any of Global Illumination's projects will continue, or that OpenAI will get into the gaming business.

Deploying AI agents to 3D worlds seems like a huge potential market. Not just for gaming, but as a test bed for real world 3D SLAM.

Rendering scenes in 3D with AI seems like another huge potential market, at the intersection of movies and gaming.

This is both at once. I think it'd be a mistake to put them to work on ChatGPT.
It's probably still the case that Windows will consider the firmware clock more reliable than anything but a stratum 1 (direct gps/glonas/atomic) or maybe 2 time source which can result in truly bizarre behavior if the firmwar/hypervisor drifts too far from dozens of stratum 2 or 3 active directory servers. It logs no messages about this logic fork.

I don't recall the exact conditions that determine this but troubleshooting it is an exercise in thinking you're having a stroke.
>I can find a lot of information from around 2018

I would guess that's because this was just a passing fad.

Genetics is an extremely complex topic. And we still don't know a lot of things.

This is why I think nobody was able to create something useful for consumers.

For accuracy I think the 'next generation' methods are pretty good. Especicially when we talk about reference-based sequencing. This is the case when we already have an assembled genome when can use to compare our new data.

For diagnostics it's not that useful when we talk in the context of a large population. There are some diseases associated with some single nucleotide mutation (SNP [0]). The is that in most cases we don't have a way to reliable to say "mutation X causes y". In general the medical history of your family is way more useful than any genetic testing.

For privacy this is a nightmare.

For genealogical information they don't provide anything meaningfull.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism
A side but related question: what are some interesting industrial applications of machine learning that are not related to advertising, consumption, back office efficiency, and other such things? In other words, what makes machine learning an interesting field to work in?