skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Namely, that formal treatment and healthcare for the underlying condition targeted by the "wellness" product is prohibitively expensive for American customers, and so snakeoil thrives in the absence of legitimate medical science.

The issue with that explanation is that plenty of Americans who have health insurance still buy lots of that snake oil.

A great number of the ailments that afflict Americans are related to practically inescapable aspects of our built environment: sedentarism, cheap and high sugar/salt processed foods, car-bound living environments. Those things are hard to change, and there is a ton of resistance to change because those things are very comfortable/convenient in the short term.

Science-based medicine itself struggles to treat these environment/lifestyle induced conditions. While single payer healthcare would help, it can't on its own fix the structural problems with how we live.

This, coupled with superstitious and/or pseudo-scientific beliefs and entertainment being part of American culture, results in many people putting stock in shortcut "solutions".
By default RocksDB uses a ByteWiseComparator to sort the keys in the SST. However, RocksDB allows you to provide any comparator you wish. So ultimately it will depend on the performance of the comparator that you implement.
Axidraw's are pretty much plug and play, and the software support is outstanding with plugins for Inkscape along with a CLI and Python API. There's also Vpype, another piece of FOSS software that can make SVGs plotter friendly.

I believe the new Axidraw (teased on the Bantam Tools website and called the Nextdraw) has better honing capabilities. Seeing as how Bantam tools specialized in CNC mills, I suspect we'll see further improvements too.
Captcha IMO is way worse in terms of user experience than 2FA. And the only 2FA that I don't detest are app push and TOTP.
Isn’t this only the case if you give credit though?
Yeah the only bit of software I’d think of as slow is Steam. Everything else is incredibly snappy. My iPhone is several years old now and it never misses a frame. My MacBook M1 is 3 years old and feels brand new still.
Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, I don't see how that has any bearing on the factuality of the description.

If we're on the same page there, then we can build off that shared understanding, and perhaps discuss issues like whether that's a net loss or net gain to society as a whole, or to specific individual stakeholders, and what so-and-so should or shouldn't do. That's if were on the same page on the above matter, first.

Do you feel we are? Recall this digression started because a couple people were confused how banks were involved in the matter, and thought the banks were losing money somehow. They definitely aren't. I just want to make sure we're all on the same page there, first, is all.
Magic links are not the default as it gives your login process the speed and reliability of email delivery and most login processes are aiming for better than a p95 of about 5 minutes.
>> I also don't do this on my phone, but on a regular PC.

I do the same. Too many times I've had major issues trying to buy stuff on mobile so I just stopped doing it like 8 years ago. Literally the only thing I pay for with my phone is my hockey sessions via Venmo.
Every artist has their own style, because it's their way of creating the product.

Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks have different styles, same for actors, writers, and designers, too. You can generally tell who made what by reading, looking, listening, etc.

I can recognize a song by Deep Purple or John Mayer or Metallica, just by their guitar tone, or their mastering profile (yes, your ear can recognize that), in a couple of seconds.

If style was that easy, we could have 50 Picassos, 200 John Mayers, 45 Ara Gulers (A photographer) which you can't tell them apart, but it doesn't work that way.

XKCD took a couple of guest artists because of personal reasons. It was very evident, even if the drawing style was the same.

People, art, and hand made things are much more complex than it looks. Many programmers forget because everything is rendered with their favorite font, but no two hand-made thing is ever the same. Eat the same recipe from two different cooks, even if you measure the ingredients independently and give them beforehand, you'll have different tastes.

Style is a reflection of who you are. You can maybe imitate it, but you can't be it.

Heck, even two people implementing the same algorithm in the same programming language doesn't write the same thing.
Well, maybe. But it seems to me this somewhat defeats the purpose. If I tell ChatGPT to write me, say, a sorting algorithm (which I'm sure it can do), but if I ask it _wrongly_ it gives me a deceptively looking lemon of a solution, that's a liability.

Conversely, could you share an example of a nontrivial, practical programming problem ChatGPT can solve, but only if you use it right?
> I firmly believe that training models qualifies as free use. I think it falls under research, and is used to push the scientific community forward.

I don't think this is as cut-and-dry and you make it out here. If I train a model on, say, every one of New York Times' and release it for free and it finds use as a way of circumventing their paywall I have difficulty justifying that as fair use/fair dealing. The purpose/character of the model should indeed be a factor but certainly not nearly as dispositive a one as I think you're suggesting.

To the extent that training the model serves a research purpose I think that the general use / public release of the trained model does not in general serve the same research purpose and ought to have substantially lower protection on the basis of, e.g., the effect on the original work(s) in the market.
openEngiadina - Open Local Knowledge
I've been told that historically performance has been prioritized over security in the GPU space. Mitigating things like this does incur a performance penalty.
On homeopathy, I will say that when my mother in law's cancer got to the point where no more treatment was possible, she went home and diligently took her homeopathic "medicine" sent by her German health insurance. At first I thought it was 100% nonsense, but I realized it gave her a sense of agency over her situation, which was good for her (until she got too sick to do anything for herself). So only 98% nonsense.
> who else has or is planning to develop a methane engine?

BO's New Glenn first stage, RocketLab's Neutron, and Relativity Space's Terran 1/Terran R, are all/will all be methane.

> which other widely used engines used H2?

Ariane 5 and 6, and the upper stages of previous Ariane rockets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_propellant#Current_cryo...

Edit: Long March 9 will be mostly methane, with hydrogen upper stage.
> Since September 2023, we have been working with CERT (..)

> Apple: Despite multiple efforts to establish contact through CERT/CC, we only received a response from Apple on January 13, 2024.

> Apple did not respond or engage with us regarding the disclosure.

Well at least they are consistent at not giving a flying f*ck about working with bug reporters, no matter who you are. I have reported 5+ radars in the past and have never received any response, not even a confirmation.
ERIS - Encoding for Robust Immutable Storage
Tbh I'm not familiar enough with how Google Translate is built, but if it's ingesting tons of people's work without their permission so it can be used to replace them then yes I do.
agreed, but i almost feel like it's supposed to feel a little weird to avoid accidentally buying things. either way, if you want to make it easier, there's an option under settings > accessibility > side button. You can adjust the speed required to register a double or triple click.
Java ints etc are not boxed, right?
I would have going in, but it seems obvious in retrospect.

#1 Remember, designers, these aren't people who know who or what or when an IRC is.

#2 To even get going, you have to be able to mentally model the chat entry as a command line, and have an intuitive understanding of a slash command.

#3 The conceit was there were 3 laptop stations, one for Dall-E, one for Midjourney, one for Imagen, and they were rotating stations every couple of minutes. Adding time pressure didn't help.

Another way to think about it, real dialogue we had: wait, I'm at a chat app...okay where you chat, you want me to type slash...okay then imagine...wait whoa what was the menu that popped up after slash...wait whoa why did it go away...okay slash, and what do i type after that?...okay, imagine...wait, no space? okay '/imagine'...wait can I just load Dalle-E that was easier?
If you don’t mind sharing, what are the symptoms you experience when you have a yeast you can’t tolerate? I ask because I believe I might have a yeast intolerance of my own.
We have minimum specifications we meet for our software (games) and a suite of old desktops (that I occasionally have to go kick) that run CI performance tests for us. It's not much investment, outside of the initial setup and generating test cases / automation, but it's been worth it for us. It's helped us find a lot of problems over the years.
Do you really feel that way universally? Would it be ethical to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry by removing all restrictions around drug trials? Heck, you could probably speed things up even further if you could administer experimental drugs to subjects without their consent.

Obviously this is a bit facetious, but basing your ethical framework on utilitarianism and _nothing_ else is pretty radical.
What is my "demographic", exactly?

I'm not outraged, I'm amused... in a "bless your heart" kind of way.
This really activates my almonds.
One thing I've learned is redlining also meant that if a black, Mexican, or Asian family moved onto your street no one else on the block could get a home loan. Which meant you couldn't refinance, get a second mortgage. And if you sold it would have to be to a cash buyer.

See also block busting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting
Maintainer here, happy to answer questions and glad to see it get some attention on HN :)

Outline is a bootstrapped business. The software is used by thousands of teams, including government agencies, universities, and companies from startups to large corporates.
> These require governmental action.

While there are some dictatorships out there, in the democratic world the people voting with their wallets and the people in charge of government are the exact same people. Which means that any governmental change comes by what is ultimately the same mechanism.

> we can only choose between those alternatives which are offered.

Only in the short-term, though. The wallet can also communicate what one wants in the future, and that is only limited by what is fundamentally possible. Of course, often people don't actually want anything better, even if they say they do. Talk is cheap. The neat thing about the wallet is that it proves what people actually want.
> Everything evolved to a crab

Cant' wait until this people eventually discover the Coleoptera
> And yet it takes multiple seconds to start even the simplest app doing nothing

This is what I don't get when people say. On my MacBook, I just launched TextEdit. The entire "launch" time is basically taken up by a window zoom effect that is maybe half a second.

I just put chrome://restart into my browser bar, and Chrome quit and fully relaunched in about three quarters of a second. (And then obviously it takes more time to load the tab contents.)

Double-clicking on a multi-page, 2 MB PDF takes about two-thirds of a second to open Preview and render.

As far as I'm concerned, everything's lightning fast. There's absolute no "taking multiple seconds", whether it's a simple text editor or an entire web browser.
The mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers
Also useful for memory you know you won't be touching multiple times and just thrash the cache.

For example GPU drivers and texture copying - even on integrated GPUs that have cache coherency with the CPU (so don't "need" to manually flush it), there's no point filling the CPU cache with data you're only touching once with effectively a memcpy() on the CPU, you'll just evict more useful data you'll probably need to readback after anyway.
If peers of mine have the intention to explore psychedelics the results, consequences, and outcome can be "serious", it could be positively life changing, it could be terrifying with long term effects, it could be a fun time of little consequence. My goal is to try to put what best practices exist into practice to reduce the chance of bad outcomes and increase the odds of a safe passage.

There are more and more great modern websites and resources out there to educate people and reduce the chance of harm. If you haven't read "How to Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollen I encourage it because its from the perspective of a 50 year old trying to navigate exploration safely in a world where most resources operate underground. Even some of his chosen safe experiences with very experienced "shamans" can have practices that I feel are suspect.

I am operating with the best knowledge I have from research, personal experience, attending scientific conferences on the subject, and reading from decent sources. This sort of comes with trust in my inner circle that I'm not just throwing around bro science haphazardly, It also helps that I'm in my mid 30, health conscious, and have a functioning life from the perspective of my peers. Admitting that there is advise that has not yet been studied in depth by science is a sign of humility. I like to have have a justification for my advise but am open to being wrong here.

I'm not trying to convince you trust me, do your own research, I'm just a stranger on the internet. If we met in person I would discuss to you in great depth, ask what questions you have, and do my best to answer every single one. After asking about your health and history, I would ask you to consider the conditions and environment you would trip in and advise on the expected effects of different dosages. Follow up afterwards is a must. Psychedelics are powerful tools that can deeply effect a person and I feel a strong responsibility to spread good practices.

Where I am out of my element, such as a women's physiology and perspective I try to defer to books or groups that may be helpful. There are alot of areas of mental health that are unknown to exploration with psychedelics and proceeding with other conditions mental or physiological should be met with caution and extra precautions.

The word of mouth advice that gets thrown around at raves and places like reddit are often incomplete and terrible bro advise:
"Bro just heroic dose yourself! gg, hit that bong on the come up and you'll be fineee" "I trip on SSRIs and I'm fineeee" "I trip every other day and I'm fine!" "I dose 5-7g, bro you'll be find" "I have or am schizo and 15 should I trip?", Should I trip and go to school/work?

At the heart of my original comment I'm happy that there appear to be functioning legal and organizational frameworks to spread best practices. If this happened in my current state, a state that hasn't decriminalized or progressed psychedelic as a form of therapy, I would consider making this my full time job or try to help run a training facility.

sidenote: I was very tempted to ask ChatGPT to clean up my comment for readability.
What? The homeopathic market in Germany is not what I would call big, it's well below 1% of the medical budget from all numbers I can find
I agree UBI can have that problem, but I think it can be avoided if e.g. the government owns the means of production.

There are still risks in this scenario.
At first I thought this was a flippant joke, but I can actually see the value in saving time writing junk without having to alter existing bureaucratic processes from which nobody gets much value.
> Spain and Portugal didn't have those and the average person there remained bitterly poor until deep into the 20th century.

It’s mildly controversial, but I really like Buñuel’s Tierra Sin Pan (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Without_Bread). Honestly I never thought that level of poverty existed in Western Europe even in the 1930’s.
Empty Laughter
That depends on a variety of factors. You may find yourself in trouble if you write about a wizard boy called Perry Hotter going to Elkwood school of magic and he ends up with two sidekicks (a smarter girl and a redhead boy).

It could be argued quite convincingly that stories like Brooks's Shannara and Eddings's Belgariad are LOTR with the serial numbers filed off — but there is more than enough difference in how various pieces work for those series to make them unique creations that do not infringe on the properties or cover too much the story. (Although I cringe at putting the execrable Belgariad books in any class with either LOTR or Shannara.)

The "best" modern example of this is the 50 Shades series. These are Twilight fan fiction (it is acknowledged as such) with the vampire bits filed off. They are inspired by Twilight, but they are not identifiably Twilight in the end. It might be hard to tell the quality of writing from that which an LLM can produce, and frankly Anne Rice did it all better decades before (both vampires and BSDM).

Humans can be influenced by writers, artists, etc. LLMs cannot. They can produce statistically approximated mishmashes of the original works themselves, but there is no act or spark of creation, insight, or influence going on that makes the sort of question you’re asking silly. LLMs are just math. Humans may be just chemistry, but there’s qualia that LLMs do not have any more than `fortune` does.
> Without giving bias to humanity

No, we should absolutely be giving bias to humanity. Flesh and blood humans matter, their lives matter, their thoughts matter and their work matters.

Machines are tools for them to use not entities given the same rights and same consideration.

I reject your whole premise.
I like this resource for starting a VM from a container image:
https://github.com/alexellis/firecracker-init-lab
Upthread somebody asserted modern toasters have no unnecessary components (see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing) and this sentence is saying "not all toasters have only the minimal required components".
Mass production hasn't killed art and never will.

What's killing art is this idea by a vocal minority of "artists" that they need to mass produce their work, enter the market, and attempt to make millions of dollars by selling and distributing it to millions.

That's not art. That's capitalism. That's competing to produce something that customers will want to buy more than what your competitors offer.

If you want to compete on the capitalistic marketplace, then compete on the capitalistic marketplace. But if you want to be an artist, be an artist.

Art is still alive and well and always will be. Every day I see people singing because they love singing, making pottery because they love making pottery, writing because they love writing. Whether other people love or enjoy their art, the artist may or may not care. Whether they can profit from their art, the artist may or may not care. But many billions of artists will keep creating, crafting, and designing day after day, and they will never be stopped by AI or anything else.
The Goop demographic can absolutely afford healthcare. People just prefer to throw money at their problems.
Like how Google has parsed webpages of content to develop their page rank algorithm for searching on the web? I'm assuming it does.
Processing corn with alkali actually does improve its nutrition, maybe there’s something real going on here too? I wouldn’t automatically discount it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
There are two problems with this (very common) line of argument.

First, the law is pretty clear that yes if your story is too similar to another work, they have rights. Second, it's not at all obvious we can or should generalize from "what a human can do" and "what a bunch of computers can do" in areas like this.
How did you find you have a yeast intolerance? Was there a test you took? I've had some GI issues that have also limited my consumption of beer despite having previously brewed beer along with many other things I can no longer eat.

If you took a test that determined it was a yeast issue disregard but I'm curious if you've tried things like hop water (carbonated water with hops from beer). If you've had any reactions to that when it's just hops and water.

Does bread give you issues? What about sourdough bread vs traditional bread yeast bread?
Did you do a EXPLAIN ANALYZE on the postgresql query (and perhaps mongodb if it has something similar)?

It might help to find if it was the actual query or the de-serialization that was the bottleneck.
Regular artists take a large number of other artists work and combine them together to produce new art works.

Midjourney is performing the same blending function as regular artists.

It's hard to see why one is any different from the other other than a human is involved.
I do this with my books - everything from my direct store is a little cheaper. This is because I get a much bigger cut of the royalties selling direct (90-100% minus transaction fees depending on direct sales platform, compared to other storefronts' 30-70%). I also value direct sales a lot because these readers let me bypass a dependency on another middle-man and give me better reach to the customer.
Pretty obvious deception, IMHO.

If the point is to demonstrate the training (which is copying a human) then why hide the human off screen? Because it creates the impression that it's autonomous.

Putting "but it's not autonomous" in a subsequent tweet is just plausible deniability.

His fans will argue this is just a simple misunderstanding. C'mon guys. You used to be smarter than this.
They have over a billion dollars in revenue per year. They aren't making a profit because they're reinvesting all of that money into growing the company.
I am currently reading "What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?" by Vinciane Despret, which is full of interesting stories like this and questions how we perceive the intelligence (and other aspects) of animals. Might be an interesting read for people who find this story interesting.
> Emphatically no they shouldn't. The capabilities are vastly different. Fair use should not apply to AI.

Fair use applies even to use of traditional algorithms, like the thumbnailing/caching performed by search engines. If I make a spam detector network, why should it not be covered by fair use?
The only times I worry about min/max/clamp performance is when I need to do thousands or millions of them. And in that case, I’d suggest intrinsics. You get to choose how NaN is handled, it’s branchless, and you can do multiple in parallel.

It feels backwards that you need to order your comparisons so as to generate optimal assembly.
The license allows all use _except_ competing with the cloud offering – you can run in for personal use, or your company without issue. This style of BSL license has become fairly common to protect the business model that allows the software to remain under development.
I think it's worth noting that one of the things that makes this question so vexing is that this topic really is pretty novel. We've only had a few machines like this in history and almost no legal precedent around how they should be treated. I can't remember anyone ever bringing suit over a Markov chain engine, for example, and fabricating one is basically "baby's first introductory 'machine intelligence' project" these days (partially because the output sucks, so nobody has ever felt they have something to lose from competing with a Markov engine).

Existing copyright precedent serves this use-case poorly, and so the question is far more philosophical than legal; there's a good case to be made that there's no law clearly governing this kind of machine, only loose-fit analogies that degenerate badly upon further scrutiny.