skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any doctor's office just blindly asks you sign a HIPAA authorization release form.

You are incorrect. You are being asked to acknowledge that you received a copy of their privacy policies. You can decline and it doesn't change very much (if anything), because they will still document that they informed you of them... which they did.

It's understandable that people don't read what they're signing; I often don't have time, either. But you are posting about that form having not paid much attention to it, which is less common, in my experience.
If we’re discussing

> What is the motivation behind keeping medical records confidential, why do we actually care?

A respect for the patient’s privacy is likely going to be one of the driving reasons, if not the primary reason itself.
I don't care about any other company being "transparent" in this sense, I care how much what I am paying for will actually cost.

It's a low bar, I guess, but the excuses as to why it's too hard are just so insulting to the reader...

It's so incredibly strange to see a large corporation complain that figuring out how much its product costs is too hard with one hand while billing people those same fees just fine with the other.
https://wetrockpolice.com/redrock

Rock climbing is really popular here Las Vegas, but due to the sandstone being brittle it's both dangerous and "bad ethics" to climb after rain and risk breaking popular climbing routes. I wrote a tool that checks precipitation information from the rain gauge at the park's visitor center and displays it in an easy-to-understand manner.

Nowadays the site supports a couple other rain-sensitive areas, but Red Rock is primary the reason people visit this site.
If everyone keeps their private vehicle, and that is still at over 90%, why would any part of society change due to AI cars? The parent post described a situation where strip malls would be redone in the image of AI cars. I'm not sure how that happens when the future continues to be like the present with overwhelming majorities owning a personal car.
Yeah I think this makes sense too, all or nothing. Go to the office to have zoom meetings with remote workers and struggle to concentrate in an open office just makes you feel like a jackass.
NVDAs foothold here is not about gaming, but machine learning. Few people play on Linux anyway, but machine learning is basically not happening without Nvidia. Not that this is favorable, but it is true. And yes, I am taking it, I simply do not care that much.
My thoughts exactly!

Like the inertially-secure module would be an AI and occupy the top several floors of a tall building.
Ask HN: What are some of the important branches of mathematics in your field?
This entire thread is a mine-field of really interesting rabbit holes.
I use similar abbreviations in code editor, for example:

r0 -> return false
rn -> return null
t -> this
puf -> public function

You can easily find the opportunities for saving typing by analyzing existing code and most used words there.
So the mill is going to be released then, right? Right?

Not too psyched to use some proprietary black box compilerthough.
I once built a typing tutor that did something like this - it monitored all the mistakes I'd make, and would surface the most typo-ed words for practice.
This argument carries no weight. Comcast doesn't show me prices until I give them my address, at which point they have all of the data necessary to show me the actual price.

This is not a difficult problem for them to solve, they just don't want to do it because these companies are run by greedy shitgibbons who don't want to tell you the actual price of their product until the last possible second.
I scanned a couple dozen of them from the 1910s on an Epson Perfection V600 flatbed scanner. Incredible detail on the resulting scans, so the original camera must have had quite a lens, not to mention a good photographer.
Lol, my "loyalty" is that I show up and expect agreed upon money and benefits.

Real loyalty is saved for family and friends.
study is about the plant being “good at” grabbing the bad stuff.

> They predicted that because marijuana is known to accumulate metals, individuals would have higher metal biomarker levels than those who did not use the drug, and the study confirmed that marijuana is a source of cadmium and lead exposure.

but to your point it would also make a difference in how and where the plant were grown.

the article lacks a lot of details that would make the study useful. or not.
>>They predicted that because marijuana is known to accumulate metals, individuals would have higher metal biomarker levels than those who did not use the drug, and the study confirmed that marijuana is a source of cadmium and lead exposure.<<

i dont think ive met any grower that is not highly selective, about soils and amendments used for culture.

so far i see no mention of regionality regarding user demographic, or source of cannabis.

heres a couple links from the submitted article:

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/cannabis-may-contain...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15569543.2021.1...
> But that's only bad if performance is something you're having problems with, or going to have problems with.

The first part is easy enough, but how do you predict when you're going to hit a knee in the system's performance?
It's not a hypothesis, which asserts something may be true and proposes tests. It's just conjecture, enumerating a variety of possible explanations for a puzzling discovery. IT's restrained and not conclusory. Scientists are allowed to have imagination and speculate. Y'all are making out like he's arrogantly asserting this is the only possible explanation.

This is the actual quote (citations omitted for readability):

The “BeLaU" abundance pattern suggests that IM1 may have originated from a highly differentiated crust of a planet with an iron core outside the solar system. In that case, IM1’s high speed of ∼ 60 km s−1 in the Local Standard of Rest of the Milky Way galaxy and the extremely large number of similar objects per star, ∼ 1023±1295, inferred statistically for the population of natural interstellar objects it represents, are challenging to explain by common dynamical processes. The “BeLaU" overabundance of heavy elements could perhaps have instead originated from r-process enrichment and fragmentation of ejecta from core-collapse supernovae or neutron star mergers. However, the “BeLaU" pattern also displays s-process enrichment which must have a separate origin, such as Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars. Another possibility is that this unfamiliar abundance pattern may reflect an extraterrestrial technological origin.

These interpretations will be considered critically along with additional results from spherule analysis in future publications.

Quit with the pearl-clutching.
For as much as any man in 21st century America can claim to stand for the position of the superhero rich man trying to dictate policy in favor of industry, he does. He argues for less regulation, less taxes, even such quaint things like free speech. But the rich can also stand for the opposite of those things, as the Rockefeller trust and the Bill Gates fund do.
The compressor idea is really clever, but wouldn't it be nice to have 100% direct control over everything?

This got me thinking about the possibility of building a series of simple context/token probability tables in SQLite and running the show that way. Assuming we don't require massive context windows, what would prevent this from working?

It's not like we need to touch every row in the database all at the same time or load everything into RAM. Prediction is just an iterative query over a basic table - You could have a simple key-value pair of context & the next most likely token for the given context. All manner of normalization and database trickery available for abuse here. Clearly a shitload of rows, but I've seen some 10TB+ databases still satisfy queries in seconds. You could even store additional statistics per token/context for online learning scenarios (aka query-time calculation of token probabilities). You could keep multiple tokenization schemes online at the same time and combine them with various weightings.

What would be more efficient/cheaper than this if we could make it fit? Wouldn't it be easier to iterate basic tables of data and some SQL queries than to trip over python ML toolchains and GPU drivers all day?
Reminds me of how often I add "reddit" to the end of Google searches because I know the base results will be useless for a whole range of topics without it. This is doubly true for any even slightly risque or illegal topics.
I find it interesting that people write Google queries in correct, often polite English as if there is something intelligent on the other side. When I try this query: "where mango grow washington" I seem to get decent results, but the human-sounding query does return garbage.

Perhaps the problem with Google is that it's trying too hard to convince people that it's smarter than it really is. I treat it as a stupid, mindless computer and it works fine most of the time.
Possibly a dumb question but: why not rf for the first one?
Like others downthread I recommend White Noise. But I highly recommend the Viking Critical Edition — which will explain what you’re missing. (I mean, skip if you loathe postmodern litcrit; but I found the batch of essays/analyses well-chosen and accessible rather than the inscrutable academic katas such things can be)
I'm pretty sure they're enforcing an existing rule, it's just that people weren't aware that urls booked from the Google Search app would get stored somewhere else that was sharable, and ended up getting flagged.

It doesn't seem like something sinister from Google, but rather poor planning when developing how links get saved. As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with your Chrome Browser bookmarks or anything, but a different system that most people are either not using, or are unknowingly using.

This really could be fixed by only enforcing this policy on infringing collections content that is shared. As an example, you can still upload movies and TV shows to Google Drive without consequence, it's only when you share those files that Google might intervene.
Okay … sure. "Key" if you're like me, and working in healthtech, I suppose, as it's one of the sections they repeatedly try to cram into your head in the mandatory training sessions. (…and for good reason.) In the intersection of Facebook and PHI.
I think very much you're an outlier. Rampant fatigue in the tech sector is a huge problem.

I do not see how mandatory 4 weeks off (paid) are mutually exclusive with PTO accrual. In my own corner, I've been elected to a board to represent other employees. Something we're lobbying for is a certain minimum of mandatory paid leave - as well as circumstances where being overworked would accrue additional time. Am I mixing up terms?

Something we're trying to cut down on is 7 days a week, 14-hour days. We've attacked this from a cost point of view if we can't get leadership to understand the humanitarian need. We're now putting it in policy that working lengthy hours will accrue paid (admin) leave. So the supervisor ultimately hurts themselves authorizing so much overtime. They will have to settle the books, and lose that person for their minimum and accrued time.
my bank used to send me an sms for every transaction, until they decided to only send an sms for transactions over $50. i found the change very irritating. i would have accepted a lower limit of say $10 or $15. and it would have been bearable if they had sent an sms every time $50 in transactions accumulated, but as it was, i could go for weeks without any notification as long as every transaction was below $50. getting this live confirmation was very useful because it also included the remaining balance.
Which bank gives ACH access to non-business accounts?
Do you have any thoughts on when a JSON column is too large? I've been wondering about the tradeoffs between a jsonb column in postgres that may have values, at the extreme, as large as 10 MB, usually just 100 KB, versus using S3.
I don't think the word "fascist" is meaningful here. The most significant and violent revolutions in recent history resulted in success for communist parties (Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia, People's Liberation Army for Chinese Communist Party).
Thanks! This is really cool stuff. I'll start digging online looking at some of this stuff. Curious what the resolution constraints are for this video. I'm assuming for cinema purposes, they have separate control video to keep things fast?

And I now have to convince myself that i don't, in fact, need to physically play with one of these things. :D
https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-app

I built this web + mobile app (PWA) written in React Native + TypeScript that does simple revenue forecasting for a SaaS that uses Stripe.

Stripe's mobile app and others kinda do this already but some of their numbers can be inaccurate (as detailed in the repo's readme) so that made me open-source + solve an issue my own SaaS[1] has with Stripe.

As mentioned in the challenge section, getting data from Stripe is slow so I've been reluctant to put this app in front of others even though it is fully functional.

I actually shared this on a similar HN thread not too long ago[2]

[1] https://Last10K.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156101
>The problem is that people either don't bother to show up and vote, or vote for candidates purely by party affiliation or campaign marketing dollars.

The first part leads directly to the second. Primary elections are low-turnout affairs, but the extremes of each party are far likelier to participate in them than moderates. We get bad choices in general elections because we abdicate nomination power to nutsos by not voting in primaries.
Not modular ones.
I've seen them a lot of times for nicer-ish hotels in any major city. Sometimes it will include things like Wi-fi or breakfast, but usually it's mandatory with the stay.
> Anyone using these models on a daily basis is not impressed with Llama 2
Being at a FAANG adjacent company working with these models on a daily basis, Llama2 is more than sufficient for a large number of use cases. It ultimately depends what exactly you're looking for. Exposing the LLM directly as a chat interface to users? Then yeah, in many cases it won't feel sufficient. Using it for search, summarization, moderation, etc.? Then it's often more than capable.

FWIW GPT-4 is not one single model as you're aware and it evolves over time. In our experience it has objectively degraded in quality over time.

As for anyscale, ultimately it's more like databricks (and funny enough lots of ex databricks folks there). Anyone can just run hosted spark. Databrick's ecosystem has set them apart and it looks like that's what anyscale is building towards.
In most cases microservices are an anti-pattern, because they are trying to solve problems that can be solved without incurring their complexity and sacrifices.

However, I remember that Sagas originally were proposed to deal with multiple 3rd party APIs. The example was "book flight, hotel, rental car". If you're dealing with necessarily separate systems, then there's probably a place for sagas.
Possibly. But it's more than that. You have site issues, even with one pump, that you need to navigate. There are only so many viable places on a body to attach a cannula for good absorptoin and, while small, these things aren't _tiny_ (especially the Omnipods where the site holds the cannula, pump and reservoir).

It'll be a while before we see highly reliable and well-tested dual-reservoir systems is my bet.

The complexities of balancing insulin and glucagon in a two-pump system are also high. And the feedback loop from sensors that detect BGL aren't super fast. My kid's Dexcom works on a 5 minute sample loop now. So you can't make decisions fast and when you do, you can't course correct a bad decision quickly.

I love that people are working on this stuff. The folks at https://wearenotwaiting.net/ are amazing and we even use NightScout here, but the fragility of the systems are stark and it'll be a ways to go before it's not just the brave pioneers pushing these frontiers for T1Ds.
>> European markets competing with Chinese EVs like the MG4 etc. <<

I suspect that most Europeans buyers have no idea that MG is now owned by a Chinese company. No native Chinese brand sell above 1% in the EU.
Grenades are low precision weapons that are relatively safe to use. Guns are high precision but very difficult to use in a firefight.

If you watch Ukraine footage, soldiers barely even look where they’re shooting. They’re just trying to establish suppression over an area so that they can toss more grenades to kill people.

That’s because both sides have guns. If you aren’t fighting an armed combatant to the death. The calculus changes a lot.
I was thinking about similar solution (actually, textblaze funded by YC is pretty much that) but I didn't like remembering the shortcuts part. So I made a different kind of indexing for it: https://discu.space/ Presentation uses 'what are you answering to' as a key, but you can use anything.

It currently exists as (hopefully working for everyone, could use more testing) Chrome extension, but there's a universal API underneath. It could be run entirely locally if one was to give up portability.
Any HIPAA authorization form I have signed has had me spell out who is allowed to have access to my records, like my wife or another Doctor’s office. Did you read what you signed?
I have followed this topic for some time out of curiosity. Every time I read an article I am left with the following impression: in America, caste issues are not explicitly mentioned to non-Indians, no matter how close their co-workers or friends are.
There is a long history of controlling diets before missions, and providing very specific foods for these missions to not upset the stomach. See an MRE from the U-2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZuEGAsO4CA
Ironic the mention of "The Truman Show" town, which is a real place; a town in Florida called (perhaps unimaginatively) Seaside.

https://www.visitflorida.com/places-to-go/northwest/seaside/
"S3" is often used to refer to any S3 compatible object storage system. You can even self-host it with something like MinIO.
Right, all of the innovation in cars has been the ability to make them larger. We absolutely didn't have the capabilities in the past, did we? It's remarkable what the current times bring: finally we have advanced car tech that can support my need for size.
You’re right assuming preferences don’t change but I think it is worth highlighting the research suggesting that large EVs will never break even compared to normal sized ICE vehicles. We can’t afford to allow greenwashing where someone pretends a large SUV is anything but polluting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism

Finding a term for that was a cathartic experience for me. Before then I thought I was the only one who had that perspective.
It is easy and simple. If you want to share between computers, keep it in github or just sync it online somewhere. That's good anyway in case you accidentally clobber it. And maybe set "noclobber" in your shell.
Sleep deprivation is not as dangerous as dying from an acute condition. If you're in the hospital for one night, you're being treated by doctors who want to make sure you're not going to die for the night. If you get admitted for a longer period, it's a different environment altogether. At least this has been my experience.

You get used to the beeping after one night anyway. If not, you can ask the nurse for earplugs or even sleeping pills (although sleeping pills are harder to get).
That's a technical problem though right? The ISP could create state/county/parish/municipal maps that show which passthrough fees are in effect. Putting that on a bill would be difficult I agree.

What about listing the ceiling of the passthrough fees e.g. <$7.00 ?
There is no way I can not make sense of it. For how many months have you paid, how does that add up? How does your case relate to the average case?
There was functionally no public education system available to most Indians until a decent bit after Independence, and even now most rural communities have atrocious schooling standards with chronically absentee teachers.

India has been an extremely poor country for a long time. It’s not a situation like the US where there were plenty of opportunities available and some segment of society is gated out of them. Almost all Indians save for a narrow clade of people who worked directly under the imperial administration of the British Empire had access to anything, and even those were the cream of the crop from the pre-British days who could translate their prior privileges to getting ahead of their peers in the rat race.

It’s basically tautological to say OBCs are underrepresented in the upper echelons of society. That’s literally how the category is defined. The system was set up from colonialism on down to leave very few positions with contemporary standards of dignity for “natives” to occupy.
Thank you for mentioning this example. I never knew units had that feature! (Also, to save the next person the few seconds to try out the most plausible symbols, it's "You want: hours;minutes" with semicolon.)
Also the creator and maintainer of ESBuild!
Zoho is worth a look
You can think of a video as a set of images taken from the same camera from different perspectives. So, you can assume as if they're different cameras (with the added bonus that the camera intrisincs remain the same), and apply "multi camera" techniques. I'm assuming you "move" the camera for parallax and what not.

With this, you can retrieve depth information by correlating the difference in position of easily identifiable points, and recreate the scene as a mesh.

This is basically the basis of photogrammetry as I know it. AI solutions may help at various stages to speed up the process too.
Because that would be expensive.
If I recall correctly, EMM386 would actually switch to protected mode an run DOS as a v86 application. It provided VCPI and DPMI apis. Their use case was a bit different (VCPI would allow you to run your code in ring0, while DPMI would run on ring2.

Fun fact, Win95/98 could of course run 32 bit DPMI apps without a problem, and many of the relevant OS interrupts such as 21h could be invoked directly from protected mode.
Why do you think this was an preexisting rule? The fact that no one expected this behavior weighs somewhat in the other direction.
> probably from some great-great-great-grandparents

How did these come to be in your hands, and are you interested in the lives of you great-granparents^3 or does it not matter?
I think comment OP was referring to the viral news piece that came out just a few weeks ago that stated that OpenAI's expenses were $700K a day and it would go bankrupt by 2024.

https://www.wionews.com/science/openai-may-go-bankrupt-by-en...
It would be interesting to see how much time you save.

I guess average typists will type "the" much faster than a complex word. Through muscle memory. I think it will be less noticeable for fast typists, who get their speed by being consistently fast.
I love this! Most important information at the top and more detailed information when scrolling down. Perfect :)