skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that would massively improve language models ability to reason is whiteboarding. Being trained to make, review, improve, and add to notes. While maintaining a consistent goal.

I am unaware of anyone who can reason to any serious depth without a paper, computational, or actual version of a whiteboard.

This doesn’t seem like a particularly challenging thing to add to current shallow (but now quite wide) reasoning models.

Imagine how fast you could think if you had a mentally stable whiteboard that you could perceive as clearly as you can see, and update as fast as you can think the changes.

Our brains have probably been tragically speed limited by our slow vocal & finger speeds for some time.

That will take AI’s to a wide AND deep reasoning level far beyond us very quickly.

Now add mental file cabinets and an AI could trivially keep track of many goals and it’s progress on them. Again, not likely to be a huge challenge to add.

Now, given all that long term reasoning ability, let the AI manage instances of itself working across all the problems with speed adjusted for priority & opportunity.

Finally, have the model record every difficult problem it solved, so it’s fast wide (non-whiteboard) abilities can be tuned, moving up level after level. Occasionally do a complete retraining on all data and problem-solution pairs. Again, straightforward scaling.

Every new dimension they scale quickly surpasses us & keeps improving.

At this point, IMHO, anyone pessimistic about AI has expectations far behind the exponential curve we are in. Our minds constantly try to linearize our experiences. This is the worst time in history to be doing that.
Do the new Airs not meet this need? Are they too big, or...?
> We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine

Access isn't binary, nor is it ever "solved". Every person in wealthy 1st world countries has access to enough food that they won't starve, access to secondary education to 16/18, and emergency medical care. I'm sure you would consider those things insufficient.

A right asserted without any degree is pretty useless.
It's a real thing that happens all the time when copying. Delete is a different operation, but now you're asking for a different space calculator when performing delete which will have its own set of bugs and performance issues.

Hard links are a pathological case.
funny if we end up going full-circle back to replaceable VRMs like they had on dual CPU boards 25 years ago.
A note taking app, bit like Notion.
Right, because who cares about quality and outcomes, a race to the bottom FTW.
Don't let this happen In your Mid 30s or 40s and How I Recovered [video]
> what is topical anesthesia ?

A drug applied topically. Can be the same drug or other drug.

The problem is that religious thinking is not compatible with modern medicine.

Anesthesia inhibits thermoregulation on babies. It is common for core temperature to drop by 1 to 2 degrees Celsius in the first hour of anesthesia. Sick babies can became hypothermic easily and struggle to keep themselves warm. Add anesthesia to that mix and you could be reducing the survival rate.

Some researchers also claim that anesthetic exposure can cause toxicity and neuronal apoptosis (death of neurons) in the developing brain of a baby, and this has the potential to became a long term problem in the later nerve development.

This is a problem particularly for premature infants. This babies sometimes need to pass by multiple surgical procedures with multiple anesthesia. Premature birth is a main cause of death in children, so they have yet a lot of things to address even without the toxics.

Avoiding punctual pain at any cost shouldn't never be the main (and much less the only) objective here. And adding a new risk to the medical procedure, just for ideological reasons, is very stupid.
Sun Microsystems used to give employees the week between Christmas and New Year off, it was called Winter Break - probably a relic of its academic roots. It was its own thing, you didn't need to take PTO for it. I wonder which large employers still do this. All bets are off if you're doing billable hours. Retail is its own creature, though, you need to be open to make sales, so Patagonia is an outlier in their class.
Wonderful, thank you. I have here in front of me "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms" I think Ill read up a bit in there to see what I can find out.

(heh saw you in another thread, mr 4/4 (that Kuni Kath architecture vid was interesting)

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Paul Stamets is a national treasure - I just wish he would release what he knows about Portobellos that he claims they will kill him if he releases it.
Clips work by observing transmission of light through the finger being absorbed by oxygen-carrying blood as opposed to the single chip wearable which depends on measuring reflected light. Different techniques, different patents.
Anyone who knows that they want "fpga tools" knows that pnr means place & route in that context.
Exactly this.

The Chouinard family still completely controls the company. They may not technically be billionaires in the sense that they can liquidate the capital for their personal benefit, but they remain billionaires in the possibly more important context of capital control and influence that nets them massive power in the highest social circles.
>it became my notes app

This is exactly what it is for me - and I am currently trying to figure out things I can do to extend it as such.

One example is I wanted to learn how to understand the Spec Sheet released for the plasma engine that Neumann Space released, which led me down understanding Specific Impulse, the Rocket Algorythm and coming up with a formula for the math behind knowing when to flip an engine around to slow velocity such that you end up at a final velocity of choice (the orbital speed of the ISS)...

https://chat.openai.com/share/b43cca9d-0eeb-4ee0-9639-043c62...

Understand a lot more about orbital dynamics than I did before and am able to actually read the formulas now.

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I use it to venture down and add deeper context to things I am reading and commenting on.

For example being able to tie the genetic generational cycles of the migrations of monarch butterflies to 'reservoir' concepts in GPT

And gene sharing between plants via mycelial mushroom root networks

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38768578
> The state is expected to see 21,000 new cases of cancer this year alone, more than double the number of new cancers recorded for 1973, the year Iowa began keeping records, according to Charlton. Since 1973, the state population has grown only a little over 10%.

I'm not "pro chemical" or anything, but screening has gotten much better in 50 years, other causes of death have decreased, and our society is aging rapidly. Chemical bugbears are probably not the main cause.
What regulations are you referring to that we can remove ?
I would love some type of plugin for Obsidian that could generate a searchable transcript of audio/video files I drop into my notes.
Didn’t watch this specific video (already knew how), but this one is definitely a skill worth learning—so either this video or another one is worth watching for sure.
It's being reduced though. A lot of private practices are being bought out by big (in many cases for-profit) hospital or doctor's groups, and the doctors are put on salaries instead of owning their practices. In many areas there is now only one big group. Naturally this can be highly profitable.
You, on the other hand, sound like a very not-sad person.
> The compiler can't reasonably do anything helpful with it _because_ of the above rules.

Well, you can delegate work to a function with `__restrict` on its parameters, and then the compiler _can_ help you. Though you would probably need to check that the _restrict_ is valid. Still, classes should probably not do the performance heavy-lifting.

... but then again on the other hand, `__restrict` is a compiler intrinsic, not really part of C++. That's a gaping hole right there if you ask me.
Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals
Your inspiration should simply be anyone. We are all just human. Why is it more inspiring if they look more like you?
Code tends to live longer than projects management tools like JIRA. The version history should always be understandable from itself without access to external software. Not to mention that JIRA tickets should be based on concrete user stories while commit messages describe implementation details, they are different layers of concern. As for individual commit messages, you need to so the poor soul reviewing your MR knows what the hell you are doing.

Seriously, please think of the poor soul having to maintain you legacy code when the JIRA is long gone or the external contractor who doesn't even get access to it in the first place.
Formatted output library <print>
With a little fiddling most of those DirectX games work on the Deck. Again not perfect but absolutely functional. And never say never, fans find solutions to dead games all the time.
In part due to access-to-care issues. More competition in medicine should increase access thereby reducing ED use. One that comes to mind are in-house visits, something expensive for no good reason in America.
So only usable with their own app that may disappear with the company in a year? That sound like potential e-waste in a short amount of time.
Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley didn't recuse herself from hearing the Microsoft-Activision FTC case just because her son works at Microsoft (and ruled in msfts favor!)

So are recusals for such conflicts really optional?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-the-biggest-tech-mer...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/upshot/hospitals-medical-...
It's a British anachronism and also a translation thing.

"Teen ko Char se divide khar do"

Is

Divide 3 by 4
You should have pivoted and become price comparison site with good product search.
According to the Massimo CEO, Apple has not made any offer whatsoever to resolve this.
Good for them. And great of the Patagonia mgmt to give them off.

I am myself off - the company I work for gives us paid time off (not deducted from our paid vacation) from Dec 22 to January 8. Each year. Apart from our 35 days of PTO. Plus 4 days to attend school events. Apart from German public holidays. Oh, and we work less during the spring and summer months. We go down from 38 hours per week to 35. German engineering manufacturing company - 250 employees. Family owned - 5 generations.
The roadmap mentions only Dynamic views, which is not the same as interactive editing of databases, not even on Notions level. But as I remember, this was different at some point. Did this entry change?
Possibly canonical links. HN looks at the submissions and updates the links to the canonical link if present. I'm on mobile so not able to double check the Google books page at the moment, but if you view source check to see if there's a canonical link in there. This also bites some blogging sites that end up with a canonical link to their base http://blog.example.com on all their posts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element
I feel the profession has layers. I had a dream in which I had a seat next to Bill Gates on a commercial flight (bear with me!). I asked him how he pursued software development now that he was running the world’s largest software company, and he said, by running the world’s largest software company. Of course that wasn’t necessarily his actual opinion, more like my own brain laundering my own opinion.
My sense (as someone with generations of family in healthcare) is, at least in the US, there's a massive gap between what the healthcare system was like decades ago and how it functions now. At one point in the distant past there was probably a better balance of population size and number of providers, service demand and provider type, a greater number of more independent and locally run hospitals and clinics, less regulation about certain important issues, more permanent employee positions with more standard employer benefits, and so forth and so on.

At least in some areas of the US there used to be public hospitals, run at the local (state or county level) but they were essentially privatized or defunded to the point where they had to close or become privatized.

I could give lots of examples of this, but things now are less local, more controlled by centralized, private but national entities, more regulation, more consolidation of clinics and hospitals, and so forth and so on.

I'm for putting more central resources in public control (government insurance, more public clinics and hospitals) but also believe there needs to be more deregulation of important elements and more competition to drive down costs on the supply end.

In my opinion, there's a lot of hidden factors driving up healthcare costs, in the form of insulating providers and hospital and clinic chains from competition, taking choice aware from consumers, decreasing transparency about costs, as well as "hiding" public funding of healthcare that's already happening. It feels a bit like, in the US at least, we have this system that likes to pretend it's 1960, at least insofar as doing so benefits certain people and groups.
Multicellularity arose several times in the evolution of eukaryotes (2013)
Rope has been the hype since years and now author is claim that it was piece table all along.
I review the pull request as a whole, looking at the diff between main and the latest commit on the branch (i.e. what GitHub/etc show by default). Reading commit-by-commit means you’d read code that the author knows is wrong and had already fixed it, but you’re cluttering your mind with it. During re-reviews, I usually look at the diff between the last commit I reviewed and the newest commit.
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I don't thing that is necessarily the case. If your model is to sell the software as a SaaS, then yes it gives you a disadvantage, because someone else can just take it and sell the same thing without paying for development. Same thing if you sell a packaged product. If you sell support, you have a slight advantage, because you have more expertise in your product since you created it, and can make changes directly to it. But then it can be hard to find customers willing to pay, and you have an incentive to make the product difficult to use so more users require support.

I think the ideal situation would be where you are paid for the development itself, rather than selling the resuling software. Maybe with a pool that interested parties can invest in for initial development, new features or continued maintenance, like kickstarter or bug bounties. But that probably wouldn't have the high margins that the software industry has become accustomed to.
Is this word salad a joke?
Jason Kottke's List of 52 Interesting Things He Learned in 2023
Buy the company, saddle it with the debt used to acquire it, take all its real estate and transfer it to a separate company, make the company rent from the company that owns the real estate at inflated prices. If its something like a software company you convert its software to a rental model and keep jacking up the price so that now an annual subscription costs the same as the perpetual license price from three years ago with 25 years of maintenance. Sure, you just lost 98% of your customers, but really, you just need one or two customers that can't leave you to keep it running in perpetuity. In the case of a retail store, though, you just run the store into the ground over the next year or two and now your real estate division is the #1 creditor of the retail chain and gets first pick of the liquidation and it now owns the real estate, which it then sells for 10x its real value to a developer who will bribe the local approval board to turn the area that is zoned commercial only due to flood risk is now overpriced homes or condos. When everything floods the victims that bought houses or condos will have to move elsewhere.

Or, your PE firm is actually owned by a foreign country and they don't care about profit as their long term goal is wrecking your country's economy.
"And C++ is explicitly a multi-paradigm language so there can be affordances for multiple approaches." - In other words, a jack of all trades and master of none. For a systems programming language, I'd want to be able to easily reason about where allocations, memory barriers etc are happening and I'd want an emphasis on correctness/verification (rather than ease of use). C++'s many abstractions, intended for applications programming, actually get in the way of systems programming.
Speaks to the power of youtube as well. A generational innovation.
Yes, that's correct. Thank you!
No doubt. But skimming some of the revenue for profit goes directly against that
I haven't ever used a 3d printer. But your comment made me realize that if PrusaSlicer is based slic3r, it's actually also using software that I wrote many, many years ago.

That's another side of open source: if you don't rely on it to make a living (though it did help in getting my first job as a developer!), there's that pure joy in seeing your software get picked up and used by others. This little discovery made my day.
Can one of your kind souls explain a hackathon for someone who is self taught and feels impostor syndrome?
I share your wish. This project started out because Just is not apt installable. But at a certain point, it became a "just for fun" project (pun intended).
I'm sorry I upset you over the internet, I hope you feel better by knowing you did not even understand what I wrote.
I wonder if any large storage provider has been affected by this. I know Hetzner Storage Box and rsync.net both use ZFS under the hood.
Ah OK. I'm an Org user at this point, part of my emacs addiction.
I bought one of these for my house recently and it’s been great. We wrote custom software for our own info display, straightforward since you just serve images over an HTTP endpoint. I’m sure there are cheaper ways to achieve this result but it’s nice to have a prebuilt package like this. My only complaint is that the custom software requires using a proxy server managed by the device creator which is bad for longevity, hope that changes eventually.
Nice. That's a good general rule to follow.
I’d love to see evidence supporting the claim that a free market would make these things come to pass. Otherwise, this comes across as a list of things you’d like to see, with “the free market” standing in as the just-so story that will magically right all that is wrong
I’m quite a ways into my career and being able to dance up and down the “full stack” from designing circuit boards, to writing low level firmware, to backends in Python/Elixir/Java/etc, to frontends in JS/ObjC/Kotlin/Swift/Dart has been a lot of fun. I did the dual EE/CS degree because the “computer engineering” program wasn’t introduced until a few years after I graduated.

That’s all kind of missing the point though. This whole thread has been a discussion about whether Software Engineers need to get down into the nitty gritty low-level stuff. My take is absolutely yes. You might not use it directly every day, but you’ll make consistently better design decisions if you really feel it in your bones. Over on the electrical engineering side of the world you don’t get to graduate without that background understanding. In the software engineering world some people seem to take pride in their ignorance of the foundations they’re building in; in my 20-ish years of experience, those people often end up building things that work poorly and they don’t have the background understanding needed to fix it.
You are correct Masimo is not a patent troll.

Having tested a bunch of of fingertip SpO2 sensors for $reasons, i will say they are the real deal.

In particular, the most important thing they have accomplished (though i don't think apple uses it) is that they have fingertip SpO2 meters that work ~fine during exercise.

Most fingertip SpO2 meters cannot handle movement at all, or a very small amount (apple's watch requires you remain completely still). Those that claim to work give mostly nonsense results.

Meanwhile, Masimo has fingertip meters that work fine while, say, biking, for example.

Staring at the particular patent, it looks like patent that covers a specific arrangement of sensors and processors, which i can believe is important to make something like a watch work properly.
It feels like you are assuming that plant domestication was a process of collecting new gene mutations, instead of aggregating existing ones. You can do a lot with selective breeding, but whether you’re creating something new or something that has been done fifty times before depends on where you are in history.

We don’t have a monopoly on innovation and the history of it is not uniformly distributed.

We talk about innovation in terms of evolutionary versus revolutionary, but quality of life changes from a friendlier pig or a better hunting dog affect individual lives quite a bit. And if those are quiet lives, those changes may matter as much as the things historians tell us are important. If you weren’t there for the rise of Julius Caesar or the Fall of Rome then whether your son marries the neighbor girl and the family farm thereby gets access to a better water source, matters a lot more than what Galileo has been up to in his lab.

Yes, introduction of corn and cassava to Africa had massive impacts to world politics and especially human rights (for the worse). But those same crops already revolutionized South America millennia before that.
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"14% faster than LLVM -O0" is fairly misleading too. How does the generated code compare with LLVM -O2/-O3? These are SQL queries, which are usually fairly short programs, where I would presume the cost of compiling is negligible compared to the cost of execution.
It will be interesting to learn what, specifically, Cummins is alleged to have done. As of now, there seem to be no details about what the defeat devices are and how they are supposed to work.
That seems like a very uniquely Nintendo problem rather than a modern console problem.

Yeah, PS3 was from the era of consoles where backwards compatibility wasn’t as heavily demanded (given that Steam was in its infancy too), so they went with a notoriously and uniquely overcomplicated making games for it (and, by extension, compatibility). But PS4 era and onwards, any digital purchase you made back then for PS4 is accessible on PS5 as well.

And hell, even for PS3 digital purchases it is still kind of true. Unfortunately, PS4/5 cannot play PS3 games natively, but if you purchased a digital PS3 game back then, you are able to stream it using PS Remote Play on your PS4/5.

As far as I am aware, a similar thing happened in the Xbox space as well. Xbox One generation and onwards, any digital purchases you made back then are available on the most recent Xbox consoles. And for older games that aren’t natively compatible (and even a bunch of those that are compatible), they provide streaming too (through xCloud). Though don’t quote me on the exact details about how it works for Xbox consoles, as I haven’t used one since the Xbox360 days.

Meanwhile, Nintendo resells SNES era games in their “virtual console” section of Switch eShop at a pretty significant premium.
Then use such a paradigm; it is explictly made possible.
I think Apple gives all days off between Christmas and New Year. That's for employees, but not for contractors.
A lot of automotive factories in the US do a week or two shutdown over the holidays, but it's a "temporary layoff", not paid time off.
How would it work if my tracker is with me on a train with 20 other people in close proximity for let’s say 5 hour trip? Would they all get warnings about my tracker that I am using for my own keys and also get to disable it?
Ropes have all kinds of bonus benefits. The Xi editor author has some good notes about text editor rope coding: https://abishov.com/xi-editor/docs/rope_science_01.html
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