skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would step back from tricks or solutions a minute.

The problem with "slowly" is that it allows denial to set in.

The problem with getting palpably worse as you age is that it reminds you that you are going to die, and soon. It's beyond scary.

The problem with going blind is that vision is much more deeply tied to our everyday experience. Losing it is like living in mud; it constantly reminds you of your degeneration. Every movement and many interactions require it. If you're also losing hearing, it interferes with lip reading. It's very emotional.

The problem with not reading is that you may lose your daily pattern of input, the habits that orient your mind.

The problem with helping an elderly parent is that you respect them and want them to be happy and to be happy with you. You really, really don't want to get them upset, because when they get upset with you, they're cut off from the support you provide.

The problem with getting help from your children is that you've always been the helper. You may see them as accomplished adults, but still feel you need to be there for them, and guide them. Often in parenting you just have to decide, and then make it stick - any consistency is better than none.

The problem is these problems amplify each other. The elderly find it hard to be wrong, and needy, and confused, and feeling like you can't learn new things because you're only getting worse. If you try something and you can't do it, it can make your mom double down on depression and denial, to wait out death. For people helping, all this emotional work can make you avoidant, offering only nominal support.

It was a real moment when I explained all this to my mom. Denial, depression, death-panic, avoidance -- these are all normal and even expected. But she like all humans has to deal with her actual limitations. It will take time and effort, and I will help, with her guidance on how fast and what's feasible. The most important thing was for her to know I would help, and wanted to hear what she's feeling. Committing to being there addresses most of the problems.

In terms of tricks/solutions, a regular phone call is huge. She gathers her issues and we discuss them, or just keep tabs on the world. Migrating interaction to audio and voice was more helpful than trying to maintain reading in our case.

btw: someone at Apple TV needs to deeply grok that barely enlarging the selected item is completely unhelpful to older adults. Draw a bright highlight around the damn icons! It's hard to explain how aggravating it feels when trying to help someone elderly pick their damn show and they have no clue what's happening on-screen -- let alone having to wade through media upsells.
> Couldn’t you just preprocess the edges and normalize their weights?

In case it’s unclear, the article from OP is effectively doing this:

> The team found it was possible to divide the input graph into clusters of low-diameter subgraphs, and then to progressively rework the weights using a series of price functions to build a restructured graph that could be processed almost completely using Dijkstra's algorithm. This involved the random removal of paths with negative weights that would enable the source graph to be converted into a directed acyclic graph: one with only forward paths and no loops connecting the strongly connected clusters to each other. This form was selected because it opened the door to tools that would allow the use of the fastest algorithm. A later phase then reintroduces the missing negative-weight edges. The small number of these paths can be processed using the Bellman-Ford algorithm with comparatively little impact on runtime.
No relation. That project was just a reference implementation of "chat over your data via the /chat API" with a really misleading name.
Also read that death rates from thyroid cancer hasn't changed in 50 years. Despite huge numbers of thyroid screenings and treatment.

An ultrasound of the thyroid often leads to finding a nodule. Which leads to a biopsy. Which comes out indeterminate. Which leads to a thyroidectomy and life long dependence on thyroid hormones.

Another one is ductal carcinoma in situ. Read somewhere there is a 1% chance that will evolve into cancer. And yet you have women having double mastectomies and chemo for it.
>€/kg to €/100g

Knowing the price of saffron for 1kg would be a really impractical information
Managing IAM is a pain in the ass on AWS. I can’t speak to how much this product actually helps with that, but I would assume that that’s the problem they’re trying to solve.
We'll said, and I agree. The primary use cases are things where accuracy doesn't matter like spam and scams.
No, because we might be replacing one cause with another.

That's what they've found with PSA--it kills (via treating things that wouldn't actually have killed the patient) as many as it saves.
Yes they can. Right to repair wouldn't mean that gaskets, o-rings, and silicone must cease to exist.
I had completely forgot about Fig, I remember trying it out on my previous laptop, it didn't offer anything more than my zsh-autocomplete, which made me send in my feedback before uninstalling.

The telemetry part didn't bug me that much, but the product itself was cool, reminds me of warp.dev

Congratz on the acquisition.
Moravec's paradox is the usual counterargument given to this line of reasoning. We've had far less progress in embodied robotics, where a robot has to interact with the real world in any kind of generalized, tactile way, compared to visual, audio, and language processing tasks. The history of AI is littered with predictions that <a reasoning or computation AI breakthrough> will lead to a humanoid robot, and the predictions always end up in the regime of ~real world data collection and integration is harder than we thought.

Maybe this time it's different, and maybe it's not, but that's why most recent robotics predictions fail to convince the ML industry broadly.
It sounds like (pun intended) one side of them was not working as described.

The green end was designed to block out all sound. The yellow end, signaling “whisper mode,” purported to block out loud sound — but allowed the user to hear quieter noises, like conversations.

My source is hear (hah):

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/15/3m-legal-battle-combat-grade...
I’m a novice, and figured it out and have zero maintenance. Unless you count occasionally updating pihole every now and then. I have a word file with all my exceptions (mostly white lists for Microsoft gaming stuff my kids want) in the event I ever need to reload (ever since I switched to a better SD never have had corruption issues). I understand the spouse issue, mine loves clicking ads on her phone. Easiest workaround is to pop off WiFi click link then go back to WiFi.
There will probably be overlap. If you are an Azure customer you use Azure, if not you use OpenAI.
In the german context, everything that is agreed upon with two or more parties is a contract (afaik, I'm not a lawyer). Buying something => (implicit) contract. agreeing to cookies => contract. T&C on a website => contract. Borrowing something from a friend => (very implicit and vague) contract.

accepting a license (maybe implicitly by downloading content) => contract.

Lawyers and courts then decide if certain clauses are ok and valid or not, if and when someone sues. I'm not sure what differences you see between contracts and licenses. In Both cases, both parties have obligations and responsibilities to follow, in return for a gain (or sometimes no gain).
I think there was a time you could comment on Reddit ads as well, but eventually advertisers seem to disable the feature due to negative comments.
To add to this, the following is valid:

fn take_foo(x: Foo) -> Foo {
let mut x = x;
x.field = 0;
x
}

The ownership semantics ensure that because there's a single owner of Foo at all times, it is always safe to make its binding mutable. This is different than trying to turn a &Foo into a &mut Foo, that's not allowed by safe Rust (and an undefined behavior minefield in unsafe Rust).

For constants, you can think of them as a "stamp", whatever the value within the const gets inlined in the usage place in your code, every time. Immutability is about whether the value can be changed. To stretch the analogy, you can stamp a pattern on paper (const) but later doodle over it (mutability).
Same. When I was at my first SWE job after college, I’d get up at 6am and try to beat Chicago traffic to be at my desk at 7am. That’s when I’d pull up HN or my list of technical topics I’d like to learn, then go for it until my teammates arrive. Rather shamelessly, I even had Leetcode open and went through exercises weeks before I left the job. Good reflex training having to force close it right around 8:30am though :)
The fact that they are definitionally ordered does not really matter for this discussion: for all intents and purposes of this proposal, they are unordered (insertion order is pretty much arbitrary order when it comes to their use as positional arguments or kwargs). And my intent was a bit more specific: I was thinking of "sorted", so definitely my bad.

For the proposed use case, either **kwargs would have to sort a subset of the dict with integer keys to map positional arguments to their, ahem, positions, and then either leave the rest as-is (or sort it altogether), or a dict would have its definition modified to keep this order as items are added.

I dislike both, and I definitely hate implicit sorting happening with **.
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Are you ok...?
Is it really affordable to Californians though? Or it is affordable only to the upper class there? Not everyone is making 200-300k a year.

If you look at the median household income pre-tax, CA is 84k while TX is 67k. Not that big a difference especially when you consider TX do not have income tax while CA does. Meanwhile everything in CA is nearly double the price. Is everything really affordable to the average Californians or it only affordable to the SWE circle?

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/CA/INC110221

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/TX/INC110221
Yeah there are always sharp edges on backup processes. For example I'd been taking faithful backups of Hyper-V virtual machines, but apparently there's a private key that is stored elsewhere (and thus wasn't backed up), but without which you can't restore the software TPMs (~required since Windows 11). There are so many of these that the only way to really know is to test. Thankfully that is becoming so much easier with all the declarative infrastructure, Docker/containerization, and virtualization tools these days. Spin up a second copy of your infrastructure once in a while and try a restore.
No, because it would be legitimate? Just like it is legitimate to use force to stop someone from hurting you...
Seems like an acquihire!
To the point argued by the OP in this comment thread, Flagship Whole Foods /claims/ they shut down because of safety reasons. It looks better for leadership if the reasons they have to shut down are outside of their control, rather than things they should have been reasonably able to predict and thus look bad on them, like that opening a high end grocery store in a largely office district during the middle of a pandemic when no one was there is going to the area lead to issues getting people there.
To add detail for the curious:

Blood is hemoglobin, and circulates the body, delivering oxygen to where its needed. Whereas the "juice" from a piece of cooked meat is myoglobin, stores oxygen inside muscle cells until needed, and is responsible for the red color of meat in general.
I'm left curious what the 20 pound rodent was. Capybara?

"In Venezuela, capybara meat was so popular that sometime between the 16th and 18th centuries, clergymen petitioned to continue eating it during Lent. Although biology says otherwise, the Catholic Church agreed. They declared that the capybara was a “fish” and therefore acceptable to eat during Lent."

Found this after a bit of googling
Any "Contact sales" stuff has just been an instant "no" at any company I've ever worked at, because that always means that the numbers are always too high to include in the budget unless it's a directive coming down directly from the top.
Well, yes. Much like dating web sites don't actually want you to be happily connected to [Mr.|Mrs.] Right.
> I misread LLVM as LLM and wondered what on earth language models have to do with Fortran compilation.

You gave me a good laugh this evening!
Sorry if my reply was a bit snarky.

I think we have a fundamental philosophical disagreement here. You think that human systems should follow human ideals first and only deviate when absolutely necessary. I think human systems should follow natural systems and only deviate when absolutely necessary. I think this keeps us grounded and enables the bottom-up growth and evolution of our civilization.

As such I think it is entirely fair that the default is that prices for services should reflect the resources consumed for such a service. I agree there should be exceptions such as healthcare (up to a certain extent that's negotiated within each political unit) but air travel is definitely not one of them.
lots of avoidable copies in NumPy, and even if you manage to get rid of that, the python interpretation overhead isn't amortized until your matrix dimensions are in the several-hundreds at least.
Most americans prefer to live outside of cities:

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/12/16/america...

You can attribute the change in this article to covid, but they were already pretty unpopular before then. Suburbs are the plurality choice among Americans, with cities coming in last of 3. A great deal of people who live in cities only do so because they have to
"The Dead Mountaineer's Inn" is a fairly unique sci-fi noir also from the Strugatsky brothers that was my first introduction to their work. It interested me enough that I read all their other books afterwards -- worth checking out!

1. https://www.npr.org/2015/03/19/392634682/mountaineer-is-a-mu...
Not true. The most effective thing against first class is not working a job or paying taxes, hilariously geared towards SKILL and these doctor/MBA hacks with all their education, state and media control can't stop it. The universe enjoys hilarious irony.
Seemed like a great project. Hope to see it come back!

There are some great open-source projects in this space – not quite the same – many are focused on local LLMs like Llama2 or Code Llama which was released last week:

- https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama (download & run LLMs locally - I'm a maintainer)

- https://github.com/simonw/llm (access LLMs from the cli - cloud and local)

- https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui (a web ui w/ different backends)

- https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp (fast local LLM runner)

- https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI (has an openai-compatible api)
It's helpful to think of OpenAI as Microsoft's R&D lab for AI without the political and regulatory burdens that MSR has to abide by. Through that lens, it's really all just the same thing. There is no endgame for OpenAI that doesn't involve being a part of Microsoft.
I think the point of GP is more that, if you're starting something new, you're probably better off with something that isn't PHP, despite the improvements that have been brought into PHP.

And yeah, many different ecosystems adopt ideas from one another. And it's often a good thing, though it can be hard for people with a lot of experience in something to see new syntax/ideas sometimes. It's also sometimes hard for people to invert/twist their thinking in different ways. I see this a lot when OO devs try to work with FP concepts. Another example is getting used to Rust's pattern matching and enum values.
Why is loss of eyesight not listed among the symptoms or consequences?
Presumably the content will be roughly similar to the article he wrote a few weeks ago: https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-sof...

HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37005937
This debate about definition is sort of irrelevant to the broader question. Should knowledge that someone is good be ignored if the knowledge was gained through prior personal knowledge of a candidate? Even if that was possible, it would seem to me an absurd a route to take. Surely the better question is how those without prior connections can be allowed to sufficiently demonstrate their competence.
>" We do not train on your business data or conversations, and our models don’t learn from your usage. ChatGPT Enterprise is also SOC 2 compliant and all conversations are encrypted in transit and at rest. "

That's great. But can customer prompts and company data be resold to data brokers?
Sure... but I'm focusing on hardware I can actually order.
I wonder if this was the students' attempt to protect their future careers as much as anything—"keep quiet about this or else"—especially given the issues were quickly fixed. In that sense it differs from the classic 90s era retaliation. From the students' POV it was probably quite terrifying. I wouldn't discount intervention by wealthy parents either, but of course I know nothing of the situation or the people involved.
No, you are talking about criminal law. What OP is talking about is severability, which exists so that if a judge determines Clause X violates the law, they can still (attempt) to enforce the rest of the contract if X can be easily remedied. I.e. The contract says no lunch breaks but CalOSHA regulations say 30 minutes required, the contractor can't violate the contract in its' entirety, they just take the breaks and amend the contract if the employer pushes it.

I disagree with OP - a judge can always choose to invalidate a contract, regardless of severability. It is in there for the convenience of the parties, and I've not heard of it being used in bad faith.
Matt Levine
Haven't read the book (I'm interested now), but you could maybe look at it as a war against climate change.
Wow that's really terrible advice. If you see a good opportunity then jump on it and don't look back. Otherwise your career will stagnate and you'll eventually get stuck somewhere with no growth potential.

As for paying your mortgage, anyone working in a volatile field such as tech should prioritize saving up several months of living expenses. You have to assume that on any given day your employer might get destroyed by an upstart competitor and lay everyone off.
Agreed, I find myself having to think orthogonally to common sense whenever I try to use one of its SDKs. Nothing works the way you expect it to, everything has 3 layers of unnecessary abstraction and needs to be approached via the back door. Many features have caveats about when it works, where it works, how much it works, during what phase of the moon it works and how long your strings can be when Jupiter is visible in the sky.

That said, if we disregard the leaky SDK APIs and half-implemented everything, it does somewhat deliver on the pluggability promise. Before OTel, you had bespoke stacks for everything. Now there is some commonality - you can plug in different logging backends to one standard SDK and expect it to more or less work. Yes, it works less well than a vertically integrated stack but this is still something. It enables competition and evolution piece by piece, without having to replace an observability stack outright (never going to be a convincing proposition).

So while the developer experience is pretty unpleasant and I am also disappointed with the actual daily usage, from an architectural perspective it opens up new opportunities that did not exist before. It is at least a partial win.
Genetic diversity is overrated when you talk about stock animal survival. Typically it's only a problem if you can't breed enough to cull unhealthy animals. It just means that your infant mortality rate is a little higher, which can be offset by supplemented nutrition.

As the population grows larger you will see an increase in diversity due to the quirks of sexual reproduction. Also, we can just keep creating new lines of individuals and mixing them into the herd. A single bull would be able to mate with a ton of cows giving you maximum bang for your DNA buck.

The hardest part would be creating a healthy animal in the first place. Once you can do that, the rest is almost trivial in comparison. After that you can even do in-vitro testing of zygotes to select healthy stock. Especially considering how valuable they would be.
My professor have mentioned Fortran plenty of times and its heavy usage in masssive computations, that's what it is good at and deserves more attention.

When visiting the link, I expected some website written in boring plain text describing its history and docs BUT I was wrong, what a modern website for such a old language. Well done!
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What I meant was "sorted", which is a bit more specific than "ordered", but it serves me right :)

The funniest part is that this does not really matter for this discussion: insertion order is pretty much arbitrary when what you need is for key 0 to come first, key 1 to come next...
It was nasty before the pandemic. I’ve frequented the metreon imax for probably two decades, as well as conferences at the Moscone center. The more people became obsessed with the world in their phones, the less they cared what was going on physically around them. We aren’t entitled to nice things, people worked very hard to build and maintain them. Collectively we accepted the decay, and now we have nothing
As an aside to this tangent, the World Science Fiction Convention is in China this year, for the first time in its history (by way of comparison, it's been in Kansas City twice):

https://en.chengduworldcon.com/
Stuff like that drives me up a wall. Everyone will be able to think of something they take undue pride in.
Loans Still Aren’t Securities
"It would be legitimate" is just an assertion. The entire debate is about what is legitimate and what is not. You're supposed to be saying why things are or are not legitimate, either legally or morally.
In the US, a W-2 job means one where you are classified as an employee, which means various labor regulations apply in your relationship with your employer. But even then, everywhere except the state of Montana has the concept of "at-will" employment, meaning absent an explicit contract that says otherwise, an employer or an employee can sever the relationship whenever they want.

So if you are an employee and the manager wants to reduce labor costs, they can simply terminate employees, and the employees would have to apply for unemployment benefits from the state government.

An example of a non W-2 job is when a business sells their services to another business, even if the business is just 1 person. Such as a business hiring a painter who works by and for themselves. There would be no labor regulations involved here because the painter is not an employee.

W-2 is the federal tax form a business gives to employees stating the taxable income and other information for the year, and 1099 is the federal tax form a business gives to vendors stating the taxable income for the year.
See https://twitter.com/garrytan (YC CEO) for the other side of the story.

Edit: can't reply due to rate-limits applied by HN/dang for saying the wrong things.
Not to spoil it too much, but this concept is part of the plot of the movie The Pirates! Band of Misfits, a thoroughly silly and fun claymation movie with Charles Darwin as a main character (along many pirates and Queen Victoria). It’s by Aardman Animation, which is famous for the Wallace & Gromit films.
That's a very good idea, we've heard about a ukrainian student who created a demining drone but for now we're on inspecting energy infra!