skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The human body is incredibly complex so most expert-derived models are less accurate than purely statistical methods. There are ways to marry the two, like Bayesian networks, but they take much longer to develop and aren't typically more accurate.

The thing is, a model doesn't have to be accurate to be useful. Expert-derived systems tend to operate closer to how doctors understand the problem, making them more interpretable.
> If the public transport systems were that good, why would anyone need to drive in?

Edge cases and laziness. For two thirds of my trips, I can and do take public transportation. For the remaining third, I'm some combination of lazy, needing to maintain a phone call or going between points inadequately served by public transit.
I don't see how. As I said before, the Earth has been hotter than it is now. We're currently in an ice age, and coming out of it: that's why we have ice on the poles. The Earth was never like Venus, and never will be; the thing that humans are doing now is burning a bunch of carbon that was stored in prehistoric times. Back then, it was all in plants in the biosphere, when the Earth was warmer than now.
I've used ChatGPT for medical diagnoses support, and I thought it was fantastic.

I was most impressed that I could simply cut and paste lab results from a PDF, with its wonky formatting, and it still interpreted everything correctly.
I agree that police who lie should be dismissed from the job and also prosecuted if warranted.
I also believe that failure to obey a lawful order from a cop should result in hard jail time.

Once both are passed, I think police will have less incentive to lie and violent encounters will be dramatically reduced. When citizens realize that failing to obey a lawful order results in long jail sentences, all kinds of bad behavior will melt away.
If it was an environmental policy they'd follow London's lead and not charge Motorcycles. $23 for everybody is a pure money grab to backstop the MTA's ever expanding budget.
Poor people can't afford cars (and certainly can't afford parking in Manhattan). Taking cars off the streets will make the buses faster and benefit the poor the most. The richest will keep using cars but they would have found a way to do that anyway (e.g. in cities that limit who can drive on which day by numberplate, you get rich people buying two cars) - at least this way they're paying directly for road use.
We don't see it because chatgpt is garbage in terms of reliability.

This article is on the media because Doctors claim they're good and effective. But when a unreliable product beats doctors it turns their claim on it's head.

This article isn't saying anything about chatGPT we don't already know. It's saying something damning about doctors.
Update: I made it into a bash script, and now it only runs on changed or new files. Far more efficient, both because it's just bash, and because it only runs on what's needed.

https://github.com/askiiart/askiiart.github.io/blob/main/md2... or https://git.askiiart.net/askiiart/askiiart-net/src/branch/ma...
I live in Vegas and it also sucks for all the local MGM employees that are getting called in to have to deal it. That said, I hope things get figured out and your trip goes well!
It’s not fair to the doctor, but it’s better for the patient.
It hasn't been a surprise to anyone in the field. Turns out it's much easier to read digital content in the form of bits then to read real world data. Hardware is harder than software.
I don't see the board of directors or other large shareholders complaining to Microsoft about their product quality.
> If the public transport systems were that good, why would anyone need to drive in?

If they need to drive in that badly to the only city in the US with a world class public transport system then they can pay for it.
Every operating system in the house supports my nearly 20 year old HP 1022n (which I probably print to weekly) out of the box. The last time I used my 30 year old LJ4 probably 3 years ago, it worked fine (for Win7 and IOS). I bet I can still print to an LJ-II if I still had one. Did they remove PCL and Postscript from HP printers in the last decade?
For sure, but when you say "works well" what would that look like to you? There might be some sacrifices on the video-chat side (this app wouldn't compete with Zoom, for example, on video quality or latency), but the focus would be on audio, translation, and transcription quality.

From chatting with friends, it works well even for long sentences, but the latency can vary between 3 - 7 seconds. So I wanted to understand how much delay would be tolerated by most people who would be interested in using this.
This is so true.

A cross platform Access-like front-end that used sqlite as the data storage engine would conqueror large parts the territory.
Bertrand Russell “On History”
And how much bad medical information has it given?
Sites like Pinouts.ru is more useful than a static document.
> Do you think the EU regulatory agencies haven't properly accounted for the claims made by the makers of this device?

Exactly what regulation do you think applies to this device? Do you think it's an approved medical device?
Yeah definitely. if anything chatGPT is the precursor to the thing that will eventually replace doctors.

But at the same time it's also the precursor to the thing that replaces programmers.
Do you have alternating A/B days or a straight five day schedule? I’ve struggled to find a good way to handle the A/B day mess and ended up just scripting it each year.
Related: I saw a cool truck today (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31309595
fwiw, there are two base rate plans. If you are on the electricity+gas plan, but don't have gas, you're overpaying. have pge put you on the electricity-only base rate plan.
Crimea is not generally considered to be Russian territory, unless one is Russian.
> If the public transport systems were that good, why would anyone need to drive in?

There is a question there about should the people already there have to accomodate people who want to live elsewhere and still enjoy the ammenity of the big city.

I personally err on the side of the people who live in the suburbs shouldn't dictate the built form to the people who live in the city.
Kernel print drivers have not existed since Windows XP.
According to this study, they are as reliable as doctors (for ED's context)[1]. Also, Google has developed Med-PaLM 2, which they also say matches human doctors. So yeah, they may be unreliable. But they are as unreliable as humans.

[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019606442...
Thanks so much for that, I ended up making my own app using Android USB Gadget and some code I stole from Authorizer.

https://github.com/askiiart/android-usb-keyboard

It's my first app, and it definitely shows, but it works. Though, it's definitely missing a fair number of keys.
> ChatGPT synthesized its result from multiple sources and communicated that - no source existed which understood the connections between various symptoms.

Is this true? Or is the source that had all of the symptoms buried under WebMD/MayoClinic SEO spam?
I just realised cloning pets is a thing now.

More interested in seeing if they can get the Wooly Mammoth up and running again!
Neopets was one of my first exposures to web development, in the sense that you could customize your guild home page in a pretty open ended way using HTML and CSS. It felt like simpler times back then haha.
I think the path from VB.Net to C# was too easy and C# offered too many advantages.
The ones I've worked with weren't solely just if->then->else trees. There were also things like weightings, probabilities, risks, etc.
I feel bad for them.
That makes a lot of sense. I didn't think about the volcanic soils and their relation to ground water challenges. I imagine they might also get a good bit of rainfall often so that might make it even easier for rainfall collection. Thanks!
The post could use a 2011 in the title.
A similar approach is to ban vehicles during certain hours.

Allow only delivery vans to operate between say 4am - 10am.

With rest of the time for cafes, bars, restaurants etc to open on the streets.
Not to be callous but, so what? Just because you’re poor means you deserve to be exempt from measures to reduce traffic? Should poor people get tax free cigarettes or $0 fines for littering too?

I can buy that excuse in SF which has a lot of poor exurban car commuters by necessity, but NYC has a much bigger public transit network and parking is even more scarce and expensive in Manhattan than in SF (so unless you’re just taking a shortcut through Manhattan, which this is intentionally penalizing, you’re going to be paying a lot for parking anyway and are probably already wealthy).
This is rad man! I've thought about this a lot when I was running my company. How do I link a ticket's completion to automations that update customers that new features or bug fixes are out?

I've always envisioned as a comment or plug-in on the ticketing system itself. Then when the branch linked to that ticket was completed and deployed, it'd trigger a marketing automation or something like your tweet (xeet?) mechanism.

Cool stuff! Sorry you're getting a couple of sarcastic comments here.
I wonder if this is in response to the ongoing headaches caused by their PrintNightmare fix? Namely, an inability for customers using server deployed printers to print every time a driver needs to update but can’t due to lack of admin rights.
I've enjoyed several Python programs over the years that had a nice Windows GUI interface

https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming
One anecdote is not data. You need controlled trials that include both correct and incorrect diagnoses not just a headline
She went to 17 doctors that misdiagnosed the cause, so my question is: how about the doctors that can't find the right cause of the pain? You seem to be giving them a free pass
> Somehow we need to get to the point that patients expect doctors

Yes, and I think malpractice suits can work well here. If a doctor misdiagnoses a patient, leading to an injury, s/he needs to be able to document that an AI system was consulted and the AI-generated diagnosis was checked or considered. Maybe there's a good reason to discard the AI's suggestion, but you better at least have asked the AI, or you're going to slapped with a big malpractice penalty.
I'm curious if I should have been more kind to Visual Basic because I went with C# and I'm still in love with Ruby. There doesn't need to be a barrier to more powerful and efficient coding, as far as I can see. Even when the technology allows expression, the human element is usually the barrier.
Could a single drug treat the two leading causes of death in the US?
Sounds like a "feature factory" in tech teams - where they celebrate the launch rather than the impact.
> at the moment using AI would lead to the perception that the doctor is incompetent

There are numerous examples, in popular culture, of geniuses working with AI assistants. This shouldn't be a difficult bridge to sell. Particularly if the patient can witness the whole conversation, possibly even feel involved in it.
They already are. The artificial limits on vram have significantly crippled pretty much the entire generation (on the consumer side).

On the AI side, rocm is rapidly catching up, though it’s nowhere near parity and I suspect Apple may take the consumer performance lead for a while in this area.

Intel is… trying. They tried to enter as the value supplier but also wanted too much for what they were selling. The software stack has improved exponentially however, and battlemage might make them a true value offering. With any luck, they’ll set amd and nvidia’s buns to the fire and the consumer will win.

Because the entire 4xxx generation has been an incredible disappointment, and amd pricing is still whack. Though the 7800xt is the first reasonably priced card to come out since the 1080, and has enough vram to have decent staying power and handle the average model.
It's not bizarre at all. Tons of people are in denial of the capabilities of chatgpt. The current strategy is to position it as nothing more than an advanced search engine.

Clearly chatGPT has flaws. Clearly it's more than a search engine. And clearly there's a large contingent of people who don't want to think it's anything more than a search engine. Probably was Bizarre when the hype first started but now these people in denial are a dime a dozen, as cliche as the people they want to bring down.
The author is not giving you enough context, so your criticism is understandable. The NY MTA has major preexisting infrastructure problems, a big fate evasion problem, a pension obligation problem, and a decreased ridership problem.

He's not spelling out how he'd prefer they repurpose the new funding stream, but he's right that the new projects are expensive window dressing on a burning house.
Unless you need something like duplex or multiple paper trays (or as you say scanning), you should be able to pick 'PCL5' or other generic 'HP' driver and it'll work in a pinch. Agreed that an older, well supported printer that doesn't DRM me to death is one less thing to annoy me in life.
Feels like if it were widespread on both sides it wouldn't be all that challenging for you to come up with an example. What's the prominent leftist equivalent of Ben Shapiro ranting for 43 minutes about the Barbie movie? (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ben-shapir...)
Yeah I feel the same. As soon as someone comes out with a medical AI service that gets traction, the AMA is going to go nuclear and get legislation to ban medical diagnosis AI.
My Brother wifi printer behaved just like you describe with Windows 10 and 11... No install, "it just works".
Even if not a single transit project is built, congestion charging in a place like Manhattan is a net win.
Really well-written, and helps head off the anxiety some people feel when a new bug report rolls in.
ah "multi cloud" yes we use Microsoft office for productivity and run our services on AWS.

Very few heavy applications run on multi-cloud, serving static and deployments at edge maybe to get geographic distribution. But this stat is mostly ridiculous.
A more apt comparison would be seeing one of the many "we rewrote our Python app in Go and improved performance by 100x" articles, and pointing out that most of the improvement comes from the rewrite and not the language.

Similarly, the real moral of the article is that doctors miss things and doing independent research, whether that's ChatGPT, Google, Bing, Yandex, or reading research papers yourself is sometimes necessary.
Possibly, but more likely is that cops don't like dealing with boring traffic offenses, and doing a bunch of paper work for them. And the money booked from the ticket, if it is even paid, goes to the general fund and not to the cops to buy fancy toys, so they have even less incentive to waste their time with it.
Chromebooks had basically the same appeal, just different workloads. It’s nice for some, but a large percent of folks will prefer to work locally. I think you’re right more folks will move this way in the future, but I don’t think it overlaps significantly with Apple’s market share.

I also am not convinced Apple is sleeping on this - they have been investing more into removing seams in integration between devices (iPhone as MacBook camera, watch as phone, tablet as monitor, MacBook as compute/desktop for vision pro). I think their vision of the cloud is a tangible, product-driven one, and despite how effectively you could move compute to the cloud, people still love buying shiny devices, and Apple has that down to an art. I also would not doubt Apple has something interesting for cloud-like integration up their sleeve in the next few years. As with anything, they won’t be first to market, but they’ll probably be the instant premium default when they do enter.

For those watching closely, Apple has been pushing more focus on gaming in their devices (Apple Arcade, BG3 expos in WWDC/product launch keynotes, Hideo Kohima partnership for Silicon native ports, Unity partnership, etc). I think they are testing the waters here, but I would not be surprised if they open the floodgates some day soon. Historical gaming on Macs hasn’t been great, but Windows certainly is not entrenched here. The latest M processors are more than capable enough to run most modern games at fairly impressive settings, and this will only improve as more devs target builds for the platform.
According to the article, it is difficult to diagnose babies/kids/toddlers because "[...] they can’t speak”.

The article also mentions that the kid didn't have the symptoms or physical manifestations of spina bifida, complicating the diagnosis.

This case reads as a genuinely difficult case to diagnose.
This is a good point. There’s basically zero current interest in the Scientologist “church” or its involvement in the personal and professional activities of its members. This is evidenced by any cursory googling of the church today. We are all best served by bringing up its equivalence with other churches upon seeing the word online as that serves the best interest of all curious parties.
> She scheduled an appointment with a new neurosurgeon and told her she suspected Alex had tethered cord syndrome. The doctor looked at his MRI images and knew exactly what was wrong with Alex

Doesn't this kind of summarize the article? She went to 17 doctors who did not know about the illness. ChatGPT pointed her to a competent individual who immediately diagnosed it. My understanding is that ChatGPT's diagnosis is wrong because tethered cord syndrome typically occurs after a surgery to correct a spinal bifida which is what the neurosurgeon diagnosed.
Overall I think this is the wrong view. Let’s go back to the 90s - OpenAI is a word processor you rent at the library, an RTX 3090 is a computer you own. Just like the 90s, early on you were buying or upgrading a computer every Christmas if not sooner. Hell, when I got a Pentium 100 (OMG) my heart sunk when the 120 came out like a month later. 20% increase in clock speed in a month!?!

Obviously we all know now that it was well worth it, this is how we got our start, and likely why we’re on HN today.

That RTX 3090 can also run thousands upon thousands of other models for any number of use cases at the same cap and op ex. It can enable and build anything from a sense of wonder to an extremely valuable, fulfilling, and long lasting career. Worst case it’s fun, a relatively cheap hobby. Speaking of fun it also plays games.

The RTX 3090 is an investment, not a cost.

That said, some fair points generally but:

1) 25 hours of use is A LOT. GPUs scale power consumption too. The GPU will use slightly higher than idle power to keep the model in memory, then spike to whatever your power limit is while the model is executing. Let’s say 30 seconds to generate as worst case. Human reads that, comprehends it, does something. Meanwhile the power scales back down until you hit it again. Point is, 25 hours is 3,000 30 second generation sessions - 100/day, every day. For $1 (plus base/idle load of machine). You can also suspend the machine or turn it off to cut down on idle-idle waste.

2) Are you doing any optimization? I mostly work on high scale and inference serving frameworks (not on 3090s) but if I had to guess with something like lmdeploy, AWQ int4, int8 kv cache, etc you should be far exceeding ChatGPT in tokens/s. For example, I do concurrency testing with 13b on the RTX 4090 in my workstation. It hits 115 tokens/s - beating the 15 tokens/s or so from ChatGPT should be pretty straightforward with 34b on an RTX 3090.
One comment in the story struck me -- doctors have become so specialized now that no single doctor is able to see the big picture anymore.
N900 ran linux and it mattered
This is not a big deal for most people that live in nyc. We don’t own cars.

What’s getting worse and worse is rent …
> Also note that this only effects poor people in any significant way.

BIG claim. Especially because, obviously, all poor people and only poor people drive in NYC. Citation needed.
The irony is that the lawyers profiting are doing so because they have not been replaced by AI
I wouldn't bet on that study. ChatGPT hallucinates. It can beat doctors but at the same time deliberately present wrong information.

Doctors at least make a best effort.
I also understand that it is impractical to implement the ATC system software twice using different algorithms. The software at least checked for an illogical state and exited, which was the right thing to do.

A fix I would consider is to have the inputs more thoroughly checked for correctness before passing them on to the ATC system.
Renegade
Exactly. We know that the AI bros won't tell us that, since it spoils their narrative.

For each guess in its diagnosis that is correct, there are around 1,000 incorrect suggestions that it makes, hence why it is untrustworthy in its diagnosis and for every answer it gives it lacks transparent reasoning, making it close to dangerous to rely on for medical advice.
Drivers and lack of admin rights isn't limited to printers, so I doubt that's it. I get why they do it, but it can be annoying.
What are you asking it that hits the filter? I almost never see a refusal
Why would you expect "we have a better solution but we'll charge less for it" to be the outcome in a free market? That's just leaving money on the table.
> “I went line by line of everything that was in his (MRI notes) and plugged it into ChatGPT,” she says. “I put the note in there about ... how he wouldn’t sit crisscross applesauce. To me, that was a huge trigger (that) a structural thing could be wrong.”

>She eventually found tethered cord syndrome and joined a Facebook group for families of children with it. Their stories sounded like Alex's. She scheduled an appointment with a new neurosurgeon and told her she suspected Alex had tethered cord syndrome. The doctor looked at his MRI images and knew exactly what was wrong with Alex.

Notice how it gets very vague about the timing and specificity. It seems not that ChatGPT diagnosed tethered cord as tethered cord but that it happened to come up in one of the many chat sessions that led to the mother doing a deeper investigation of that.
Many Asian transit systems are also ultra clean, ultra safe, and ultra reliable compared to the U.S. The first two might not be achievable in the US due to socio-political reasons.

It’s ironic that many of the people most in favor of aggressively promoting transit (I.e. via aggressive measures like banning cars) are also the same that impede the safety and clean parts from happening. Instead they just handwave peoples’ concerns saying “oh that crazy psycho raving about murdering everyone in the subway car is really harmless. You should be worried about the thousands of people cars murder every day instead!”

Also, despite their amazing transit systems, many people in Asia still aspire to own a private car.
NYC has a particular problem in this regard. They issue get-out-of jail cards...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-court...

> “That was probably the tightest spot I could've been in,” Mike said. “Because [the offense] could've been ‘driving without a plate,’ ‘driving with no registration…’" By driving on the shoulder, too, Mike was driving illegally in at least three different ways.

> Despite that, he felt confident as the cop approached his car and told him to roll down his window. Instead of pulling out his driver’s license, Mike simply introduced himself and produced something better. “I just basically happened to have one of their PBA cards on me,” he said, referring to the small, plastic "courtesy" cards issued by the Police Benevolent Association, which usually have an officer’s name, phone number, and signature on the back.

and openly flaunt parking laws: https://twitter.com/NYPD_Parking