skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think all note apps are just databases. Some day an LLM might be able to make sense of the messy notes in my note taking app but I am not holding my breath. My notes are not supposed to stand the test of time. They are ephemeral thoughts relevant only for a specific period - a best-worst case against the risk of forgetting them.

The most an AI should do is find relevant notes on a topic I search. That's it. I don't need its robotic voice summarizing my grotesque ideas in a painless, unpassionate way. The last thing I need is more of my ideas seeping into more of my computers in hopes of somehow making me smarter.
No medical intervention is without risk. Any drug or surgical intervention has the risk of negative side effects which must be weighed against the benefits of the intervention. Medical research won’t make surgeries much less risky than they are, even highly targeted laparoscopic procedures have risks. Cutting deep into you tissues is just inherently risky. Drugs too, even the safest drugs will have very negative outcomes for some number of people.

That you think this is a trivial problem shows that you’re largely ignorant of some 30 years of research and clinical debate.
What I really want is "nice" cycling routes, and then doing the longest paths. Many times I've tried to find the longest path that doesn't repeat from my house where I do not intersect with automobile traffic, or taking low-traffic streets without any major intersections. It's tough to get far this way, but competing for space with cars is just so stressful, so it's why I don't do things like ride the perimeter of my city. It's just not very conducive to keeping my bones intact.
I don't think OpenTF interop with future TF is important. Particularly if OpenTF just moves at a faster pace, and gets way better in time. I would say leave TF in the dust and just start innovating.
400 billion market cap companies do not usually have 400 billion in liquidity laying around. And after the first bankruptcy there may now well be a second:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/jj-effort-resolve-talc-lawsuit...
I was thinking of this when a friend passed away from pancreatic cancer a couple of weeks ago. One of the reasons pancreatic cancer is so deadly is that it is deeply internal and symptoms of it are not present. This is true with all of the deadliest cancers. We already recommend colonoscopy to older adults which is a fairly invasive procedure to screen for colon cancer with no other history. If we could scan people with low or no ionizing radiation that would be a great tool.
Are they gatekeeping? We saw how recommending mammograms earlier and earlier was not a great benefit. Medical arts aren't always just magic and more isn't always better.
It is partly due to the crazy litigation in the US and the rewards people get for some coffee they spill on themselves just because the coffee was "too hot". There are two sides to this story and it is not only the business' owners who are the culprits here.
"You were serious about that?"
I think that world is preferable to one in which the meaning of words is different to their definition.
Not really. Oracle provides software that does not require any activation cose but will phone home and snitch on you so that oracle can send you threats if you don’t pay license fees.

I’m thinking of some additional virtualbox guest additions.
Humans have trouble with this because our brains cannot let go of the context surrounding a question. For example, a logician may find it funny to walk up to a police officer and say "all of the hookers in my trunk are dead." That is technically true, even though there are no bodies in his trunk. But the brain of the police officer is awash with why someone would be talking about dead hookers at all. Surely something is going on! I would not expect that logician to have a great day.

So we read things about bags with no marbles and bearded kings of France and pink goblins and we think someone is taking the piss out of us, because we can't let go of the context behind those statements. Why are we talking about goblins at all?

All models are wrong. Some models are useful. If you're getting hung up on how it just doesn't make sense that "A -> B" is always true when A is false (which is really the same issue), you have to realize that it's not meant to be intuitive, it's meant to be useful. And the theory of predicate logic where ALL([]) == TRUE is much more useful than the one where it's FALSE or even NULL. It's more useful because TRUE is the identity element of the monoid AND and ALL is the unary set-aggregation of AND. There really cannot be any other choice if you want your theory to fit in with the rest of mathematics and logic, which a useful theory must. It's internally consistent, useful, and really does make deep sense if you are able to let go of context-laden real-world examples.

You should not rely on English sentences making sense to be a good metric of whether a model is useful or not. Consider:

Dogs must be carried on escalators.

You don't have a dog. Are you allowed on the escalator? Of course you are. This is, in fact, a perfect example of why Your_Dogs.All(is_carried) must be TRUE if Your_Dogs is empty.

Hard hats must be worn in work areas.

You don't have a hard hat. Are you allowed in the work area? No! How can you tell the difference between these two situations? Only from context. Yet you can see how easy it would be to form the 2nd sentence as an (erroneous) example of "Enforce(HardHats.All(are_worn))", but it's not that. It's more like "Enforce(People.Where(in_work_areas).All(have_hard_hat_on))" -- if there is someone in a work area, then they must have a hard hat on. But if there's nobody in the work area, no rule is being broken! Again we actually see ANY([]) having to be true here.

When you come up with weird-sounding examples where you're sure All([]) must be False, you're just poisoning your intuition with unhelpful context.
It isn't just wasted time and costs, it's a risk beyond that.

If you scan any middle aged adult you will find abnormalities in their scan. In almost EVERY case those abnormalities will be benign, but once you've found them depending on risk factors a biopsy may be required. Almost all of those biopsies will also be negative, the tiny calcification in your lung or breast isn't a tumor. The swollen lymph node isn't a sign of lymphoma. A spot on a scan is FAR more likely to be down to habitus and scanning issues than some underlying medical issue.

But if you scan everyone, biopsy everyone, you're going to end up killing some of them too in addition to the waste of limited resources.
I used https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook at one employer and it works quite well for Jupyter. Of course Org is great but if your coworkers are unfamiliar it's probably a non-starter.
In the spirit of parent post (and for a whole lot of reasons by itself) then change the system.
The country you seek is called Heaven. I don't blame you for recognising the need - I'm the same. Sadly many of our companions would rather see themselves in charge, just to make sure everyone is treated justly of course, but that always causes Hell for somebody.
That doesn't change who the content belongs to. It just gives some rights to FB. Any, in fact, without something like "perpetual" and/or "irrevocable" in there, it doesn't imply that they could keep using it after you deleted it (or that you couldn't revoke a grant of rights.)
Most doctors will freely admit that they sometimes do unnecessary procedures out of an abundance of caution.
So if one orders WGS at 30x or 100x from someplace like Nebula, what do you actually get?
And so, according to your logic, no one is allowed to talk about guns using the words people typically use. You’re literally gatekeeping.
https://archive.ph/BDZX8
I tested helloSystem when it was still new and beta. It was buggy but it showed great potential. I will try it again tomorrow, I guess a lot has changed (for the better)

I love the idea of FreeBSD on a desktop (or laptop), and stock FreeBSD has always been troublesome to get working nicely on a laptop (at least for me)
Short term shareholder value at any cost to the people doing the work...
With deepest respect: I can't speak to any other comments you've made, but on this thread the downvotes are almost certainly because you've stepped into a philosophical debate that has gone on for over 2,000 years in Western philosophy and more-or-less asserted "If this must be cast to a boolean somehow, the only 'logical answer' is no." I believe the community is interpreting that as a bit dismissive both of the contents of the post and philosophy in general; one of the field's goals is to get past what we feel ought to be the answer to establish some kind of framework where that must be the answer, and your assertion is a bit dismissive of the other viewpoint (which, FWIW, happens to be the modern orthodoxy; IIUC your preferred answer is the old orthodoxy that leads to logical paradoxes and has therefore been put on the shelf as less useful).
I bet they’re A/B testing hundreds or thousands of models
Its interesting that "for all <is true?>" seems to imply a non-empty set, whereas "for any <is false?>" seems to not make the same implication.

It's certainly misleading in every day speech. On the bright side, all my papers have been published and all of my research funding has been granted.
Excellent. I've made and supported sevreral PRs in the past and they all seem to just drift around for so long
I agree.

Obviously people can live in this way if pressed, but what kind of life is it? Humans are social creatures, and we strive for more than mere survival.

If our current society somehow "collapses," we will immediately form new societies that will work to pick up the pieces, and there will be strength in numbers.

It is fundamental to our nature.
> The only damage they actually cite despite claiming to have access to a 1100 page report is someone's trail camera seeing birds getting scared off and their eggs being eaten by another animal...

The article you're supposedly commenting on starts off by referring that "almost four acres of state park were burned" and animals being incinerated. The pay wall stops me from reading the rest, but that much is clear.
Thanks for the mention: we've got tons of free content at https://www.pinecone.io/learn

and a lot of open-source Notebooks at github.com/pinecone-io/examples which demonstrate techniques from semantic search to question and answering to retrieval augmented generation (RAG)

FWIW, our free tier is sufficient to use any of these notebooks or our open source vercel templates - so whether you're a student or just a solo dev looking to learn, you can create a free account and get started and never pay a dime - the one limitation is you can only have one index live at a time - so delete it once you're finished experimenting with a given notebook.
Can you explain why you believe it is "PR hogwash"? It seems like they are putting a lot of capital and effort into making their stated vision a reality.

I'm not denying that SpaceX, like any other company, pulls PR strings and does greedy corporate things, but that doesn't mean they are flat out lying about Mars.
Past HN: Books You Read in 2016?
I bought this online from Amazon.

It's curing salt. I use it to make corned beef.
Your argument implies that having less information is better. Why?
With EyeOS, you certainly could. It would just open an iframe, however.
Yeah, I should have mentioned this is specific to nvidia. Update: fixed.
How is this different than xanmod, liquorix or pf-kernel? I see zfs mentioned, is zfs not included in the gaming/performance project kernels?
There are zero marbles. All zero of the marbles are black. All zero of the marbles are white. There are zero marbles.
There are a remarkable number of people attending our Emacs meetup who are under 30. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself.
I think the spirit of the parent post put more thought into it than "change the system".
We need immigrants in North America, why send them somewhere else
I don't think he was treating "all marbles are white" as the negation of "all marbles are black".

The comment he replied to was claiming that any question that is true for n = 1 should also be true for n = 0, but this comment shows that it is obvious nonsense.

The comment above basically claimed:

marbles = ["black"]
all(m=="black" for m in marbles) # => True
marbles.pop()
all(m=="black" for m in marbles) # => True

If that is the case then the following would also need to be true:

all(m=="white" for m in marbles) # => True
all(m=="green" for m in marbles) # => True

What color is the marble?

Just because the question “there is a marble in the bag such that…” is false does not mean you can just negate it and say “all marbles in the bag are…” if the actual answer is that the question is not applicable.
I share the hateful sentiment. Too much magic and mystery in sbt for me
What's funny is that I recall reading an article 30 years ago about rich Japanese forming clubs to purchase MRI access for regular scans. It stuck with me because I thought "someday, we'll all get annual MRIs for baseline data. But now 30 years in the future it still not happening. Because we suck at preventative medicine.
> There’s only no harm in more data if you handle false positives perfectly. Surely, this is never the case, so there’s always some harm in more data.

That's not the correct way to think about it. The correct way to think about it is whether or not there's more harm with more data than the status quo.

Most medical professionals seem to think there's more harm than the status quo, but that doesn't change the fact that you're thinking about it wrong.
> Oh no, we lost a few crabs? Yeah let's abandon Mars it just doesn't seem worth it.

Do you think a private for-profit company should get a free pass for the damage they cause to the environment just because you like their business?
My plugin is here: https://github.com/gsuuon/llm.nvim -- one of the "starter prompts" is commit message, so with vim-fugitive I open up the git status window, stage my changes, press 'cc', then ':Llm commit\ message' (or just ':Llm mess' tab complete). Then I make changes as needed. I notice that normally it fails to capture my intent for larger changes (things that should be refactor for example get labeled as feat), and readme only changes are sometimes not labeled as 'docs' correctly.

Here's where the commit message prompt is: https://github.com/gsuuon/llm.nvim/blob/2d771cc882ad9edd8011...
Wouldn’t that be largely solved by doing two scans a few months (or so?) apart?

You’d see if any of those potential issues grew, or disappeared.
What are the risks involved with getting an MRI?
It wasn't presented as that by Zuckerberg.

It was mostly an example to highlight that the graph was a little misleading. By the same token, ChatGPT is an extension of what OpenAI has been iterating.
> First of all, how do you steal an idea? We’re talking about pictures.

We're talking about the fruit of someone else's skilled labor and the long labor that went into developing the skills.

If you're so certain that's not valuable, well, then it shouldn't be any hardship to forgo that entirely and simply figure out some other way to get trained models.

If it is valuable, then maybe it's worth treating it as if it is, both in terms of compensation and determination. Not only for moral accounting but also because of economic feedback: if it's not treated like it's valuable, then it will become less frequent that people can invest time and other resources into doing it.
> For a far more stable company like T-mobile, this feels like cruft-culling.

What possible basis do you have for saying that the five thousand workers are cruft?
Are you sure the MPL is free software?

Last time I checked, debian had to provide a forked version of firefox and thunderbird because their license (the MPL) wasn’t free enough.
> thankfully a worst-case scenario

Considering that the models predicting the worst cases have tended to be more accurate (eg https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24672), you may want to hold off on that thankfulness.
A next-gen wipeout in VR would be incredible. And vomit inducing.
are you suggesting controlling the price as a centrally-planned public healthy policy, or that costs drive medical prices? in the US free market the price goes to administrative overhead and profit margins
Here’s what we wrote about BIMI. Some selected excerpts:

> To ensure that logos are actually truly representative of the brand involved, and more cynically, to make money and penalize small senders, an optional Verified Mark Certificate can be added to the DNS records, which some mailboxes will validate before showing the logo.

> Unfortunately VMC certificates cost upwards of $1000 USD to purchase. Which puts them out of reach for casual or small senders (of which we are big supporters here at MailPace), and undermines the BIMI effort overall.

https://blog.mailpace.com/blog/what-is-bimi/
> No medical intervention is without risk

no but an mri scan and blood tests are pretty damned close

30 years of research and clinical debate have largely come to the wrong conclusion because medical doctors are, by and large, mathematically illiterate; in some countries, like the usa, they are also strongly motivated by cya, which comes into direct conflict with the patient's well-being in cases like this
It'd be a bit weird if they weren't in the wild though, wouldn't it?
> We already recommend colonoscopy

You're behind the times. Now it's Cologuard. Not invasive although it is gross.

It's the 16% false positive rate, which they helpfully do not provide a dramatic anecdote for, that should give you pause.
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> No medical intervention is without risk

Risk will dramatically decrease with advances.

> That you think this is a trivial problem shows that you’re largely ignorant of some 30 years of research and clinical debate.

Biologists are still doing punch card-level stuff. If we started cloning monoclonal, antigen-free bodies in massive body farms and performing head transplants, that'd solve almost every non-cranial disease. I could see that becoming a preventative solution to aging, too. Renewed cardiovascular health, clean lungs, thymus, etc.
> Few months later, change license and/or close source it.

Not to defend HashiCorp too much but in this case "a few months" was actually nine years.
Why not? Because of the well known, widely understood problem of iatrogenic harms. Your conclusion does not follow from your premise. If you have a predisposition to a particular disease, get screened FOR THAT specific thing. Getting a full body scan just opens you up to unnecessary psychological distress, unnecessary treatments, and unnecessary healthcare costs for many things which would have never affected you in the slightest had you avoided getting a full body scan. Do you REALLY want to know that you have an aneurysm that only has a 1/100 chance of rupturing, when you would've otherwise gone your entire life without ever worrying about whether tonight will be the night that it ruptures and you won't wake up tomorrow? Do you really want to know that you have a slow growing cancer that would only affect you when you're already less 12 months from your ultimate death at age 92, but instead you got invasive life-altering surgery at age 65 because it just happened to show up on a scan? If we had instant, easy cures for every disease, then yes, get a full body scan - unfortunately this just isn't the case, and the harms greatly outweigh the benefits.
Agreed, I think people imagine these scans are a magic Star Trek tricorder. These aren't magic machines that diagnose exact things precisely. Most of the time you're looking to diagnose something you already know about, different situation and different uses altogether.
The TL:DR of GDPR is "just don't drack your users without their consent". Why is that difficult for US corporations to follow? Even '90s web was by default GDPR complaint.
An annotated history of some character codes (control characters explained)
World Power Systems' explanation of what ASCII/Unicode control characters were actually used for, with details about pre-ASCII codes.

WPS (aka Tom Jennings, creator of FidoNet) used to be at wps-dot-com.
I think we can do better than 11 characters!

I happen to have a corpus which includes pretty much every word ever written in a book, including many misspelled, mistranscribed, or otherwise non-dictionary words.

After eliminating nonsense, non-English, or other mistakes, I think the real winner, coming it at 12 characters, is:

teetertotter

That's a relatively common word. Even though it's usually seen hyphenated, the unhyphenated form is recognized by all the online dictionaries I found.

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And some other candidates, just for fun, in the 13 or 12 character range:

proproprietor
priorityqueue
reporterette
preprototype

"proproprietor" seems more like a misspelling. Should have a hyphen, or be two words.

"priorityqueue" is of course familiar to hackers here, but is more of a jargon term, and is only concatenated due to appearing in source code. Invariably it's two words when actually written out.

"reporterette" is antique, but appeared in a NYTimes headline as late as 2018 - the author reflected on her career, including sexist epithets. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/opinion/george-hw-bush-ma...

"preprototype" is used exactly as is, in lots of scientific papers, up to the current day. That's a pretty good one too, and could be a tie for "teetertotter", but it's verging on jargon.
Sounds a bit like the Wave Defense scenario. It is available within the game: https://wiki.factorio.com/Wave_defense
The problem isn't with all([]) -> True, the problem is the if [] -> False.

[] exists. It happens to be empty, but it is neither a False nor a None. Therefore it should be a True if applying truthiness to it. IMO, any expression which does not result in an actual False or None should be judged as True.

- edit -

On second thought, all([]) -> True is also a poor choice, same in Ruby. The idea of judging an empty collection as having all items being any value is flawed, since there are no items to measure. It is on par with 1 / 0.

This is fun: in both Ruby and Python...

[].all? -> true

all([]) -> True

[].any? -> false

any([]) -> False

So both languages agree that all elements of any empty collection are true, but if you ask them if any of the elements are true, they deny it. So they are all true while also not having any true elements.
I'm not sure I follow. Both proposals are suggesting that browser's engines ignore the syntax completely to allow some other, external, process to check them.

They use slightly different wording but are describing the same basic idea: This syntax will be ignored entirely and then optional/other process can use this area for whatever.
MRI scans and blood tests are, but what comes next? If they find something there's always a least a follow-up biopsy, and often times what's seen on the screen would have never impacted the person's life. Yes, there are outliers, but if you do enough scans you are guaranteed to find something wrong with you that you would never have known about otherwise.
I'm trying to understand why all BIMI-mail shouldn't be simply rejected on the SMTP layer ..
Reaction: The U.S. had very good reasons for adding the Sixth Amendment to its Constitution. But slashing or eliminating History Departments is a red-hot trend for modern American colleges & universities, so ...
>It's either a problem or it isn't

Try looking at a full body scan and make that call.
Or changed their saves to be more sparse. Why not have save files store seed + world settings + delta? I've noticed that generating mostly empty map space by shooting exploratory artillery shots caused save files to jump to 100s of MB.

My saving grace is that I always host a dedicated server so no one is responsible for save file distribution other than myself (which is easy enough to automatically sync to interested clients).
Porting the Amiga bouncing ball demo to the NES