skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predictive analysis of Vitamin D deficiency & potential disease progression based on the individual.

Personalized intake recommendations.

Comprehensive health assessments from various health sources (labs, wearables, etc).

Monitoring vitamin trends through health assessments w/ time & overall wellness.

Reading and applying latest research/clinical trials to all the above.
Like another comment says this is is not recent - these have been up on YouTube for a while. If you're in the bay area, these are free to attend (and recommended if you're a Knuth fan ofc), but reach early because the seats get filled up. Also at the end of the lecture Knuth gives away free copies of some of his books. These are usually in a pile, and are given first-come-first-serve; which is a polite way of saying there can be a mad rush for them :-)

I have been lucky to attend 3 of these in person (technically 4, but I had to leave one early), and more than the lectures themselves, Knuth's attention to detail and enthusiasm have been inspirational. He's 85 now - I would consider myself lucky if I have a third of his mental acuity at that age!

TAOCP Vol 4B is the most recent book in the TAOCP series which covers SAT solvers - apparently Knuth's deep dive in the area is recent, in due course of which he implemented a few SAT solvers (5, if i remember right). Talk about dedication. Since I have dabbled in using SAT solvers a bit, this is the volume I got autographed by him at the 2023 talk.

An interesting thing that came up was someone mentioned to him that a lot of results in 4B were empirical (including those around the topic he covered this time: dancing cells). His response was that theoretical analyses is still to catch up in these areas, so empirical comparison is the best you can do. I thought that was an interesting parallel to how ML has evolved.
I'm not sure "interfere with their own offerings" is quite the right framing. It's more about "going beyond their imagined use case".

iCloud Drive is a File Provider. Third-party services that want to do the same kind of file syncing as iCloud Drive, and thus compete it with it, can. And there are several highly-popular competitors that have recently moved to File Provider, like Dropbox and Google Drive. But when they did so they had to lose some functionality, like the ability to store data on an external drive [1]. And for the less popular use case of third-party filesystems that aren't just for syncing, File Provider is completely inapplicable.

The box covers most of the use cases that most users are using third-party filesystems for. But it's shrink-wrapped around those use cases – no room to invent new ones.

[1] https://talk.tidbits.com/t/dropbox-drops-support-for-storing...
The Spectator often makes valuable points that are hard to accept but true. One of them is that British climate efforts are pointless, it accounts for such a tiny percentage of world emissions that it could drop to zero and be a rounding error. Therefore the "success" of this policy is a mirage. Yes the UK had reduced emissions. No it won't have any effect on the climate. Both these things can be true simultaneously: the policy succeeded and failed.
i have a couple of old blog articles that cover the basics of writing a generic makefile for c++ here: https://latedev.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/generic-makefiles-w...
Who cares, if it gets results, that’s all that matters.

We really need results right now.
Or you can win the patent lawsuit and invalidate the patent !!
Products like these make me realize that a standard e-reader has the perfect general purpose e-ink display. The Kindle for example is about the same size as this but much sleeker, is backlit, multi-tone, has a battery, wifi, bluetooth, all for less than half the price. I wish there were more mainstream jailbreaking projects and alternative operating systems to really unlock their potential.
Not for everyone, iostreams are great.
So a few hundreds years ago, women would just futss around while men would kill themselves taking care of the fields/cattle/etc?

Women have always worked. People need to stop using the 1% as representative of the whole population in History.
See https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/16/fuse_macos_closed_sou... for more info. I wonder why a dual-licensing approach was not pursued though, e.g. some viral license (AGPL?) for the open-source part. This could have the same benefit of getting companies to negotiate an explicit (paid) license agreement while still making source available.
An Efficient Data Structure for a Hex Editor
Man that comments section is something else.
> The size of the pages side effects were written on says absolutely nothing about what the side effects are or their severity.

Naive question: Do they say what the side effects are and their severity in an easily accessible manner somewhere?
They don't actually have to line up precisely. It seems to be an elastomeric or "Zebra strip" connector. Basically like those little rubber strips that you see when you take the LCD out of a calculator, used to bring power and data from the PCB to the glass surface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastomeric_connector

Cerebras has evidently scaled them up a bit (and repatented them, according to the video).

Interesting early application (if not the first) from the 1970s: http://www.hp9825.com/html/hybrid_microprocessor.html
The actual binary (vim.com in this case) is also a valid zip file, which it can read and write as a private virtual mount point. /zip refers to files inside the binary, inside the zip file.

Redbean web server (by the author of Cosmopolitan, Justine.lol) also uses this method to store its web root.
> Runs through Jan 2

That's nice to see. The biggest hangover of my life was on Jan 1 when I would have done anything to eat Chipotle, but every one of them in NYC was closed...
It's funny how these things work. They don't even specify the wavelength of the LEDs used, instead preferring to patent any wavelength imaginable. But obviously not all of them will work. Why was this allowed in a patent? How is this a valid description of what they built?
I think even this is a little unfair. Almost no one buys Android because they are a horizontal operating systems provider, and OEMs don't use it because of same, because the former don't care and the latter already know the reality. People use it because it's their best option, and not due to any monopolistic practices excluding alternatives. It's just the best option.
Honestly, I'm not sure I buy the second brain marketing myself either. If it's a knowledge-base then it probably has more value in a wiki.

I use Obsidian as my daily journal, personal log and thinking partner. I have AuDHD and have a tendency to forget and I stress out when I can't remember things. Sometimes I need to make detailed plans and have it someplace accessible (phone) so I can stay on track.

The E2EE Sync as part of the service was a plus (not happy with the Jan '24 changes to Sync but that's a different story). It works very well on my iPhone.

As my journaling tool, I find it incredibly powerful to link to things I think about day-to-day. I can create a note about a topic I'm thinking about. (New notes automatically create a link to the current day, thanks to templates). At times, I will make a note on a particular media I've consumed (book, movies, etc.), put some things that I thought about it, and link it to the day I finished reading it. I do this for movies and other things. I often will forget that I've seen that movie already so a quick look-up can save me an hour of my time.

When I revisit a day on the journal, I'm able to see backlinks to things that I have thought about, watched, read or have done in that day. It also helps me with my emotion dysregulation and working through what I'm going through. Sometimes it's hard to understand because I don't always remember clearly what's happening. It helps me with weekly review. It helps me understand how I'm using my time (time blindness) a little better and it does so in a frictionless way.

Could I accomplish this with other tools? Yes.

But: 1) I value my privacy above everything, 2) I wanted a tool that doesn't impose a certain philosophy on me, 3) it has a mobile app, and 4) e2ee sync service.
It's not about what anyone cares, but about making calculated decisions.
I would argue that any person isolating for 10 years will for sure have very significant health drawbacks, so that would also have to be factored in.
> Storing recipes is great example of why this doesn't work. I never have exact list of ingredients, equipment, energy level for a recepie.

Really? My fridge typically has the same things I've found. Regarding energy level I have a different node called "low-energy recipes" the other recipes are linked from.

> I now just ask chatgpt that I have x,y and z in my fridge and I want to use to use oven and vitamix and that i am tired. It concocts a recipe for me that i can tune further.

I've done that, but there are tradeoffs in quality and depending on how you view LLM's.. confidence in the end result.

> Most of the stuff I cook aren't unique recipes that need to store in obsidian.

It depends on your memory... I forget certain steps of recipes I've cooked for years sometimes. Knowing I have things just there at my grasp puts things on easy mode.
I haven’t used LLMs much, but if you want an answer, shouldn’t you ask a question, rather than make a statement? Now, the LLM thinks you asked it two questions, so you get two answers, and that makes the text longer.

Also, I don’t remember what they are, but there are phrases that fairly reliably remove that “let me know if you have any other questions” part.

As to the other parts of in your eyes superfluous text, I would try asking it to keep answers short.

I don’t see them as superfluous, though. For example, if on that question, it replied

> allocating 3 reactor power points to the engine system should result in a 15% evasion chance.

without that “as you mentioned”, readers easily might think “that’s what I said. Didn’t you read that?”.

The truly shorter reply would maybe leave out that entire phrase, quite likely even that entire first paragraph, and a truly concise reply would say:

> There are other factors that can affect the evasion chance, such as the pilot’s skill level and the presence of an autopilot system.

(If, as the LLM seems to indicate, those can only increase the evasion chance, a follow-up question could be “those can only increase the evasion chance. What factors can decrease it?” or something like it)
And how does that change the demographics of the applicant pool? If I get 80 men and 20 women applying, and I send my recruiters to twice as many colleges I'll probably get 160 men and 40 women. The proportional representation is unchanged. You can get more applicants, but you're drawing from the same pool that's 80% men and 20% women. I could direct my recruiters to exclusively advance women to the interview stage, but that's illegal.

There are a few universities where there are above average proportions in STEM fields like MIT and Harvey Mudd. But these are few and far between, and their graduates have heavy competition for offers. There aren't enough graduates to meaningfully make a dent in representation. Furthermore, these universities have big gender disparities in admissions rates - over two to one [1] - so directing recruitment at these universities is still achieving "better" representation through discrimination, just indirect discrimination.

1. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/can-your-gender-give...
If the name were an arbitrary word which didn't attempt to define itself, would that be any better? I don't see why the name must mean anything specific, nor why you should expect the name to explain what the project is. That's what the documentation or other descriptive text is for. That the name gives some understanding at first glance is a bonus.

PnR is "place and route", and is a very common acronym in the ASIC/FPGA/VLSI space. It seems fair to expect those who'd use this specialized variant of Yosys to also be familiar with PnR. For reference, here's [1] Yosys's PnR tool, which expands the acronym in its README title.

Realistically, if you're using Yosys tools, you're going to need to have some familiarity with the underlying flows anyway; in my experience they're very powerful but also pretty DIY. That's not great, but it's the reality. That's just the nature of the space right now, given the alternative is a ~$1M single user license.

[1] https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr
Save yourself 40% of the video by skipping the informercial intro, use this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE-XeZ3R98U&t=42s
I agree in principle, however IMO there is room for much simpler apps that don't necessarily follow the UI conventions of the platform and still provide a magical experience. The keyword here being "simple".

The app of my Bank (Commerzbank) looks the same in both platforms (despite being native, last time I asked), and IMO provides a much better experience than lots of native Apple or Google tools. And IMO a better UI/UX too. Same with Monobank from Ukraine, astonishing app that doesn't really care about the platform and gets things done in IMO a better way than native-inspired apps.

I would prefer for most apps to move into the Commerzbank direction than in the... I don't know, Pixelmator? Which is 100% native but still feels very unintuitive sometimes ("Save as" for example) despite being my daily pic editor for 15 years...
You're right, it's a millenia-old pattern at least. Women have been working for as long as we have recorded history, women not working is a modern luxury (technically it was an upper class luxury in premodern times).
Well it is FDA approved to treat epilepsy in children :-)
Does this have an option for quantization levels? Don't think I saw it.
This is true. While billionaires are the largest landowners (well, actually Farmland Reserve/Mormon church probably is) and a lot of their land is old ranches they bought up, there's 2+ million cattle in Montana, 1+ million in Wyoming, I think almost 3 million in Colorado.

There are many, many ranches in all those states. There are certainly far less than there used to be, but there are still very many functional ranches. That said, another reason the ranchers don't like wolves is because they get landowner elk tags that they can then turn around and sell private hunts with for 10s of thousands of dollars. Wolves have cut into their ability to find prize elk in recent years (as well as some harsh winters, which have probably don't more damage, but the perception is there for wolves).
> Is it Vim as a single executable?

Basically; it's using the "Actually Portable Executable" system to make a single binary that includes everything it needs including enough portability stuff to run on different systems directly.

> Is so, what is this doing?

When I say "everything it needs", that includes files; APE binaries, AIUI, include some code to transparently read files embedded in themselves, so that line says "run this vim binary, but when it starts instead of reading the user's normal .vimrc (if any), read the vimrc that we embedded in this binary under the virtual /zip path"
Many cancers are caused by random chance, not factors you can do something about. sure, don't smoke and all, but odds are still high cancer gets you.
Ref shilling: I think there should be a very straightforward test for whether someone should hit "publish" on a piece of content, or a comment, or an ad bid.

Two questions: "is the place where I am about to publish this content/ad or cause this content/ad to be published by a third party my company's own website?" and then "could I reasonably expect this action to result in a net financial or traffic gain for my company?". If the answers are "no" and "yes" respectively, you should be about to incur a fine which is a double digit percentage of gross revenue for the last financial year, with no opportunity to appeal or reduce. 100% if that revenue was under six figures, to immediately exterminate startups who think advertising is OK.

This deals with shilling, astroturfing, "disclaimer: I work for X and recommend" comment section crap, YouTube sponsors, advertising, blogspam, Substack, Medium, and all the rest. Cause an advert, namedrop, or traffic driver for your company to appear on any site that isn't your own? You just lost your entire profit for last year and then some.

Kick the corps offline, give the internet back to the hobbyists, the enthusiasts, and the academics
Though there was plenty of good content in the years that followed, to me Wired reached its peak when it published Neal Stephenson's 'Hacker Tourist' article.

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Another undocumented feature is that flagging posts/submissions very likely is weighted differently for different users.
wow, super cool!
Someone tell my CEO this before April please, thanks -_-
And this is currently starting to be problematic, when combining as much backwards compatibility as possible, the care about ABI, and some stuff that actually doesn't work in practice when compilers start catching up to ISO.
I think there was some misunderstanding, you're arguing different points than ones I made.

> Of course this approach produces a worse code than a full compiler by definition---stencils would be too rigid to be further optimized.

Yeah, but that's not what I meant by "worse code". I just meant that even being aware this is a naive copy-and-patch JIT, my first impression was that the code was slightly worse than I expected. I don't expect the compiler to do any magic on a small code slice; I only claimed that there's "room to improve" in the currently generated code, though I may be totally wrong on whether it's actually possible to achieve by "just convincing clang" and without manually messing with the asm.

> But I think you are thinking too much about a possibility to make Python as fast as, say, C for at least some cases.

I never said this about CPython, quite the opposite.

> I believe that it won't happen at all

(FWIW, if we're talking long-term and about Python in general, it already did happen, PyPy (and modern JS runtimes) are good examples of this being possible in principle. But being able to make a language orders of magnitude faster (with some major asterisks too) doesn't mean I expect the same from the CPython implementation.)

As for your example with integer adding, I totally agree with all you said, and that's exactly what I meant by "there’s only so much one can do without touching the data model".

> In the best scenario, it will eventually hit the limit of what's possible with copy-and-patch and a full compiler will be required at that point. But until that point (which may never come as well), this approach allows for a long time of incremental improvements without disruption.

That's why in my initial message I said I wonder about expected peak improvement. I won't be surprised if it (together with theorized uop optimizations) barely exceeds single-digit percent perf gains, which would of course be still totally worth it. And even it's more, well, even better :) And in the worst case - which I hope won't happen - the point you mentioned is today, and copy-and-patch would never be worth enabling by itself.
Except Oracle has no capability to sue anyone over OpenZFS.
It’s not at all odd because we learned the disastrous, widespread international consequences, of privatization of HIV/AIDS treatments in the 90s and 2000s. Treatments were developed with publicly-funded research in rich western countries, hoarded for profit at the cost of mass death in the developing world, which led to increased severity of the disease from unchecked spread, which then spread back into the countries that hoarded them. There is nothing more fundamentally stupid than trying to manage global pandemics with nationalism and IP restrictions in a world with interconnected economies and constant international travel.
> It does still blow my mind that Apple won their lawsuit from Epic, yet Google lost

When Google chose to open the Android OS, it created a marketplace for Android devices which it attempted to control by the use of anticompetitive contracts and actions.

The parallels with Microsoft and Windows are obvious. Microsoft has been found guilty of anticompetitive actions in the Windows PC marketplace it created by opening up Windows.

Yet Microsoft also has the XBox, which it did not open up to other hardware makers and which is just as much of a walled garden as iOS.

There have been no legal ramifications of Microsoft choosing to be the sole maker it's own product, nor of having it's product be a walled garden.

It's not illegal to have a monopoly over your own product and it's not illegal to have a walled garden.
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Examples of such workflows are:

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2. Multi-step document review

3. Transcription that requires different kind of outputs (summarization, outlines)

4. Speech generation from multi-lines script

Would love to hear your feedbacks and what you might want to do with this tool. Thanks.
My understanding is that building a .deb is not too hard. The hard part is finding a willing Debian project sponsor to add the package to the archive.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#How_do_I_add_a_new_...
Exploring the Potential of 3D Printing Technology for Sustainable Plastic Roads
You mean in terms of immune system not having been exposed to enough pathogens?
There's ways this could be optimised too. Such as using page open time as a reference for what to save (if you open a tab and close it within within a few seconds then odds are you're not going to miss a snapshot of that page)
Outside of tech hubs nobody has any idea what programmers make.

I've heard stories of staff engineers at Google being offered IT jobs at their uncle-in-laws car dealership because "it'll be a step up"
When at least one is from privileged background they usually can both work lower paying jobs.

It's a lot easier to make a decent living out of it if you already own a house and your parents can act as a safety net in case unforseen huge expenses fall from the sky (e.g. if your parents total their car: you won't need to cover for them)
> What about a person living in simple solitude who works remotely and orders everything in? This is a realistic, non-absurd scenario and they would possibly risk getting Covid-19 on their way to the appointment of getting the vaccine.

The biggest whine from anti-vaxers was that they were being told they needed a vaccine to do social things they enjoyed , like air travel or coughing on the elderly.

I don't think you're hypothetical neo-hermit would being doing either of these, so itseems unlikely they'll be "forced" to get a vaccine.
I think their CL is CLTL1 or 2 and I think the nice thing about Medley is the whole graphical system, not the bare lisp implementation (I’m sure you know this, but some context for others who might not be as familiar
with the history here)
Ninja was super easy to pick up even after using make for some time (10+ years). GN is just a ninja generator that is optional.

https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/+/main/docs/quick_start.md

https://ninja-build.org/
All previous vaccines were aimed at preventing infectious diseases. None of them are (primarily) indicated for preventing recurrence of a non-infectious disease. Whether it meets the technical definition or not, we can probably agree this is fundamentally different to all other vaccines.

Also, since no other vaccines are custom to each patient, using the term “vaccine” could cause confusion. Do we really want to give people the idea that they can be “vaccinated against melanoma” when the reality is that they can receive a treatment to prevent their specific melanoma, which they have to have already had, from recurring? It seems laden with confusion. Personally, I’ll just call it immunotherapy.
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