skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the very same reason, breast cancer screening is under discussion.

We treat false-positives and low-risk patients that actually don't need treatment. As any treatment, at scale, invariably results in (averse) side-effects, that's a problem.

And the easiest way to get rid of false-positives is to not screen in the first place.

For breast cancer the statistics are the same as for prostate cancer, there is no society net-benefit to screening, as false-positive side effects are equal or worse to the benefits of the screening.

But, women are way better in handling (their) health than men, the public outcry over removing breast cancer screening would be load.

In other words, men are not load enough when it comes to (their) health. Which is no surprise I guess.
Yeah, that's weird. Depending on how you count least India, Pakistan, and Nigeria has more English speakers than the UK in absolute terms (Nigeria might end up either side depending on how strict you are), and Nigeria is on its path to overtake the UK as the country with the second largest number of native English speakers, as it's increasingly often the 2nd language of parents with different 1st languages.

E.g. my ex's parents had Igbo and Yoruba as their 1st languages, but she and all her siblings has English as theirs.
Keep posting! I have also some ideas about advancing this field of research (or hobby, etc.).
i found this feature by accident while comparing performance of duckdb and clickhouse for materializing from an sqlite file, duckdb was instant vs clickhouse taking seconds to stream the data from sqlite. then i found out duckdb actually uses sqlite directly including the indices that were stored. once the table was in a clickhouse table, clickhouse was twice as fast without an index than duckdb or sqlite with index but the initial load from sqlite took way longer. for one shot things like in a dbt pipeline duckdb might make more sense if all input formats are supported.
New Class of Life Has Been Found in the Human Digestive System
Capstone Auto-Sync: Generating Disassemblers from LLVM
You don't have to imagine an ordered grid. If grid unit is small enough (say plank length 1,6 10^-35) and the grid is chaotic, for the distances of ~ 10^-16 that we can measure, everything will look the same in all directions.

This happens the same way in which steel demonstrates isotropic behavior although its microscopic structure is anisotropic.

So there is no easy way to prove or disprove continuity of space.
>80 years ago

Either this is wrong or I'm doing great for 84
What Does Game Theory Say about Negotiating a Pay Raise? (2014)
The recently released ZX Spectrum NEXT, an upgrade to the veritable ZX Spectrum platform of the 80's, has contemporary new-school Teletext capabilities:

https://dashboard.nxtel.org/Help/Topic/FAQ

I'm yet to enable it on my ZXSpectrumNext yet (too much fun playing old - and NEW! - games) but its on my list for the next few weeks.

There is also a thriving BBS community based around the ZXSpectrumNext .. everything old is new again, and we seem to be at a point in the road where anachronistic computing may soon give rise to an entirely new user platform ..
If you do want to learn the geometric formulation, part 1 of Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity is a good resource (and has exercises!).
> I take the most favorable interpretation and I presume that the young age is in play in such large ignorance.

The US are just one of the 195 countries in the World; don’t assume that everyone on the Internet is 1- living in the US and/or 2- familiar with the US culture as if it were the center of the world.
My point wasn't "there's no free energy", of course the energy has to come from somewhere. But transmission lines have parasitic loss anyway. My point is that rather than that energy being lost to the environment generally it can be directed to a specific circuit and used. Obviously though this is a much much lower amount of energy than can be "actively" harvested.
It being illegal seems like a pretty big barrier to me.
just stumbled over this article related to the topic:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marissaperetz/2019/05/16/hiring...
A short blog post about the latest MCU offerings from WCH.
Yes to clarify the false positives are also the thing that annoy me. Not when the system works as intended. But as somebody else said here if you have a passenger it really makes a difference to the social situation. I don’t know that much about safety engineering, but my hunch is that if there was a bypass button it would weaken the system significantly. Maybe it could be temporary and deep in the menu.
Negotiate your salary with a little philosophical backup
Strategies of the Request (2011)
There's no hard facts separating a 3+3 from a 3+4, just one (or two if you're lucky) overworked pathologists and their subjective opinion on what they see on their slides.
i found it funny
>Feeling "screwed" happens when you feel entitled to the upside, but don't take the downside along the way. When the business folds, and the owner loses his house, are you chipping in? Are you signing paper to cover liabilities?

Hard disagree here. A startup only works if you get really motivated people to sacrifice a good portion of their lifetime to work for you. Most startups can't provide competitive wages with "big corp". If the startup folds these people lose their jobs, too. If it succeeds they should see a good part of the upside, too.

Working for a startup is a risky investment of your time. And should be rewarded accordingly. A startup that doesn't give you a living wage and at least a bit of equity is trying to screw you over.
Thank you for the answer.

I do realize HN trends are unreliable. As a few others who replied, it felt peculiarly acute in this thread, but my impression was not based merely on this thread, but on several such 'huh' moments in the past two years. While HN always felt somewhat heterogeneous and still does, compared to 7-10 years ago, to me it feels that there is relatively more science contrarianism or even denialism with regards to climate, vaccination, etc., more subthreads derailing into religion because someone justified some strongly held position upthread using religion and more socially/culturally conservative attitudes. These are things which for lack of a better term I labeled a rightward trend in the USA sense of the word. In my unreliable memory, I remember HN being mainly economically right leaning and culturally left leaning which mirrors the corporate environment which found it much easier and cheaper to gain good will points that way. In retrospect, the pandemic feels kinda like an inflexion point (both HN wide and society wide).

I also have a limited POV into HN, for example I never really looked at the Launch HN threads (for the simple reason that most focus on the USA, at least in early stages, while I am in eastern EU) so I never really got those data points. With no real data and just remembered personal anecdotes is is hard for me to tell if this was merely an illusion or things haven't changed but I have become more aware of these aspects or whether the trend is real. Others in this subthread have proposed explanations for the trend and I think several theories can be found both society wide and HN wide. But while we do have some evidence the trend is real society wide, I thought it worth checking if the it is true HN wide before hypothesising explanations. Also, (compared to FB for example which we know captured a certain cohort and is aging along with it) with HN allowing easy account creation and throwaway accounts I think it is hard to accurately measure how well the HN sample reflects the population of society at large (we do at least know there is a heavy US-centric bias for obvious reasons).

I wish there was a reliable political alignment text classifier I could use to science this.

I am disappointed to see some have interpreted this inquiry on my part as me trying to police the thread.
It is harder to sound important, intellectual and well educated in English, since it is easier to sound important, intellectual and well educated.

In many languages there are some obscure grammar that you need to get right to sound smart. Like a filter for people with university studies. A in group out group thing. Secret club handshake.

My point is that English teachers try their best to emulate that, but they don't have much to work with, so it comes down to trivia.
It takes some gall for the NYT to accuse others
> You mean “LLM chatbots”. There are tons of “AI” (without hypespeak known as “ML”) systems in deployment already.

A fair point, but as it happens, wrong.

I don't mean just LLMs or chatbots. I mean any AI system that learns from human behaviour.

This inherently excludes a handwriting recognition system trained only on handwriting, because that's not learning from human behaviour.

It does not inherently exclude a system which learned to play chess by watching YouTube videos, even when humans recognise them as absurdist comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xNlzsnPCQ

For a while, whenever I saw Boston Dynamics release a video of them showing their robots were resilient to being shoved or hit with sticks, the top comments were variants of "Skynet gets started when the machines watch these videos", and I think that's at least plausible — monkey see monkey do, then monkey makes machines that do what they see.

> There will not be any commercial deployments of any chatbot that do not tune it to be polite to the max.

People will try to do that. It may or may not get there — as should be clear from how long it took to get the LLMs to stop responding with their own prompts, and that we've still not fully solved the category to which the "my grandmother the napalm manufacturer" was an example, we currently suck at some combination of (a) tuning them and (b) knowing all the ways we even need to tune them before things go wrong. (And (c) far too many people treat them as magic that doesn't need to be tuned).

You may think this is a non-issue because these are deliberate attempts to break the system, but the Waluigi Effect (I hate this name) suggests that bad behaviour can very easily just pop up, seemingly at random.

> The concern are the remaining majority of people liable to transition to psychopathic behavior towards other humans, because they will learn that treating something that talks like a human as if it was an appliance is OK.

I think the problem there is the way we treat the in-group different from the out-group. We've been doing that for at least as long as we've had writing — "𐀞𐀞𐀫" is "barbarian" in Mycenaean Greek Linear B.

Which is not to disagree with you that it is a problem, I just disagree that it's a new one for the future.
I work as a security engineer and, yes, the CT logs are extremely useful not only for identifying new targets the moment you get a certificate but also for identifying patterns in naming your infra (e.g., dev-* etc.).

A good starting point for hardening your servers is CIS Hardening Guides and the relevant scripts.
Under-delivering is always compared to your promises. And they significantly over-promise, and, thus, consistently under-deliver. Especially at the company level - look at the Cybertruck and electric trucks - way over schedule, under powered, and under-delivering on every single metric they claimed originally. FSD is the other major example - which has been "fully autonomous safer than a human driver by the end of this year" for 5+ years already, and is none of those things in practice.

Also, while the sales are nothing to scoff at for such an expensive car, Tesla is still a small player in the world car market. Toyota sells more cars in the USA alone than Tesla sells worldwide (but much cheaper).
Very cool project. This hits two of my nostalgia vectors: 8-bit computers and teletext. I remember as a kid (growing up in The Netherlands), I could spend a lot of time typing in page numbers in teletext, waiting for the counter to reach the page and see what kind of information would come up. I guess it was like an early version of the internet for me. But more mysterious in a way because the page number didn’t hold any predictive information on what would come up.
It was just a needlessly disruptive move to cynically try to get an audience that would never be able to use their new services onto a new platform.

Someone using Teletext in 2018 was not going to be able to navigate the world of BBCs internet connected TV applications.
The scotch tape bit is fun. You can apparently strip atom thick layers of things with scotch tape, and also generate x-rays with it.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/10/23/217918/x-rays-ma...
Groovy has monkey patching and methodMissing (and propertyMissing) but runtime lookups make them slower than dispatch to classloader-defined methods.
They’re not the same and I don’t think they’ve ever been synonymous with each other (or at least not by people who work in the Broadcasting industry).

Red Button is the service that replaced teletext/ceefax in 2012. Teletext was an analogue service, Red button was a whole new digital service offering similar information, it’s entirely different infrastructure underneath, it’s not just a “lick of paint”.
This makes sense to me -- I find that if I ask it to generate more than, say, a paragraph of code at a time[1], I'd be much better off just writing it myself.

That said, I have issues with RSI, so every saved keystroke is extremely useful to me. I find Copilot's ability to accurately predict the next, say, ten words I'm about to type very useful.

The usual insult thrown at LLMs is that they're "fancy autocomplete". I think that's actually about right, and I'm extremely sceptical about any claims made about their critical thinking skills which I think are essentially non-existent. Where I differ with most AI-sceptics is that I think fancy autocomplete is incredibly valuable.

[1]: Let's say that's about a mid-sized function definition.
Typically decompressing software deletes the output file if there is a CRC error.

But I use 7zip as a library, so if I get a CRC error I still have the output. Which in my case is JSON files. By careful diffing and going over them I could identify single bit flips like '{"base": 10}' being decompressed to '{"bbse": 10}'. I made this example up, letter 'a' becoming 'b' might be a multi-bit flip, but you get the idea.
> Singling out the engineer isn't blameless.

Considering that everyone already knew who was responsible, I think saying "you won't be held accountable for this mistake" is the most blameless thing you can do.

> Sure it's a learning opportunity but it's a learning opportunity for everyone involved. One person shouldn't be able to take the site down.

The way I read the comment, it sounds to me exactly like what Zuckerberg said.
I'm pretty sure it's still used in Portugal. Older people in the countryside seemed to enjoy it when I was last there.
> You, reader, have never been in a plane crash, because if you’d have been in one, you’d be dead.

You’d be surprised:

> According to a study by the European Transport Safety Council, plane crashes technically have a 90% survivability rate, and this figure is increasing, largely thanks to modern aircraft design, which features enough exits to allow for a full passenger evacuation in around 90 seconds.

> Recent proof of plane crash survival came in October last year when a Boston-bound private plane taking off at Houston Executive Airport struck a fence and burst in flames. All 21 people onboard survived. In 2018, all 103 passengers survived a flaming plane crash in Mexico when strong winds brought down Aeromexico flight 2431.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/06/15/how-to-survive-a-...
I think this is because the English concept doesn't map into Japanese. I've seen plenty of times where shops would have signs/labels saying OPEN and… CLOSE.
Both us political parties are conservative to be fair. And both aren't strict conservatives either (strict conservative in the US would be Amish I think?).
That does make the most sense. Given the technological gap over more than 50 years, that's the one advantage those missions had, and with 6 successful landings (and none of the failures being in the moon landing phase) it couldn't just be luck.
Trust Zuck to get it wrong...
"Teletext" in this context is a signalling protocol for transmitting text content over PAL TV, for decoding by an appropriate receiver.

The BBC's service was branded "Ceefax", ITV and Channel 4 branded theirs "Teletext".

The current 'red button' service is a completely different protocol running on DVB (Digital Video Broadcast, i.e. digital TV). Text packets are added to the MPEG-2 stream.
> Perseverance's soil and rock samples will be brought back to Earth by a future expedition and studied for evidence of past life.

Can someone explain to me why we need to bring the samples back to Earth to analyze them? What "signs of life" are we looking for that the rover itself couldn't report?
I think you're doing better than me ;)

Corrected.
I don't think it would be the developers that would revolt. Well some would for sure, but the real opposition will come from the C-level, as this would give their employees way too much power to say no.
I was about to say more or less the same thing, then I saw your post.
Not really. If you single someone out as CEO that's a punishment. Even if your words are superficially nice what he really did was blame the engineer and told him not to do it again. He should have left it with the engineer's line manager to make that comment, if at all because essentially he's telling the employee nothing that he didn't know already.

You did something well, but we made mistakes.
In a blameless culture there is no one person responsible.

It should not have been possible for one person to take the site down. There should have been controls in place to prevent it.

There shouldn’t even be someone that “everyone knows” is responsible, because by definition that’s impossible.
Someone please tell me who are these people? I have no clue.
The problem is that skepticism on its own isn't a route to the truth. An embarrassing number of people "doing their own research" are doing on reddit, not e.g. arxiv.
Who else knows "murder of crows" because of the Simpsons?
"Organize my Gmail inbox and draft responses for all important emails."

I just love this example. If that's even remotely doable, then you're not adding any value. Your boss is probably already planning to replace you with AI. Because if this assistant can do it for you, it surely also can do it directly for your boss.
If you are running a local LLM already (which no one in the "general public is") then the bar is really not that much higher for fine-tuning (either for an individual or community member to do).

And you don't need any additional equipment at all. When I say trivial, I really do mean it - you can go to https://www.together.ai/pricing and see for yourself - a 10M token 3 epoch fine tune on a 7B model will cost you about $10-15 right now. Upload your dataset, download your fine tune weights (or serve via their infrastructure). This is only going to get easier (compare how difficult it was to inference local models last year to what you can do with plug and play solutions like Ollama, LM Studio, or Jan today).

Note also that tuning is a one-time outlay, and merges are even less resource intensive/easier to do.

To put things in perspective, tell me how much cost and effort it would be to tune a model where you don't have the weights at all in comparison.
I do wonder if there is a U shape here - ie at some point the company get's so large that the central control breaks down and innovation starts to happen in the cracks.

My experience of very large companies is there is an official way stuff get's done, which is different from how stuff actually get's done - which is through peer networks.
In the EU this already happened and slowly but surely it is having an effect. Some US companies are still fighting it tooth and nail though.
We need middle endian
Would just cause more companies to outsource anyway.
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By having professionals agree on a minimal set, and writing them down?
Pipe Rings (2023)
Work-to-rule is less dramatic than a strike and thus less effective. If, however, you can't strike for whatever reason it's a good tool to be aware of.
Strange way to describe the same situation and Zuck's thrust there in different words. Zuck is literally saying "failing together" and "learning together".
I'm not sure how much you know, so with the risk of explaining things you aready know:

NO_HZ config options are there to remove ticks if theres nothing in the process queue.

This just means "Check if >1 processes need CPU time from the kernel, if not, skip";

The drawback is that it can actually be worse for latency, as you say, because there is an kernel<->userspace buffer that has to be checked and this is pure overhead.

However, if your process is mostly userspace (and almost no kernel interaction) then you will see better performance, because your process won't have CPU stolen by the kernel if there's nothing to be processed.

Since it doesn't remove ticks entirely, (just aborts ticks early); setting a high value for your tickrate gives you the best odds of getting your kernel bits rid of as soon as possible to minimise latency when there are ticks.

I think they're trying to compromise betweeen having a low tickrate (so a process gets a lot of CPU time for each tick) and a high tickrate (so kernel calls don't take long before they see CPU time).

I think the combination needs to be tested with your workflow, they conflict and might make things less good for many workloads (heavy IO, data processing, compiling)
Likely "Return to Office" is actually raising fixed
costs(office space,devices,maintenance, electricity,etc) to pre-Covid levels,
which means it much costlier to have tons of people on
premises vs remote workers(which don't require all these things)

That and IRS rule changes that removed tax writeoffs for "research".
raindrop.io or devonthink
Fontsource[0] is also an easy way to self-host variable fonts via NPM packages.

[0] https://fontsource.org/?variable=true
I can't say my parents' TVs had zero memory, but it was at least very limited compared to my grandparents' TV.

The former was maybe fast if you were on page X and navigated to page X+1, X+2, maybe X+3 and X+4 (is that how the coloured buttons were usually arranged?) but for everything else was slow.

At my grandparents, every page was retrieved almost instantly.
After over a decade of GTK claiming fractional scaling is "impossible" and GTK devs vetoing any fractional scaling in the wayland protocol, they finally got feature parity with Qt in this area.

Now we just need proper support in Wayland and we'll finally have support for HiDPI in all major Linux DEs.
Popular compressors like 7zip are some of the best tested software on the planet, because corruption is immediately detected.

And we know hardware bugs are real, that's the whole point of rowhammer.

You might want to look at Facebook research:

> “Silent data corruptions are not limited to rare one in a million occurrences within a large-scale infrastructure. These errors are systemic and are not as well understood as the other failure modes like Machine Check Exceptions.” A large part of the responsibility should be shared by device makers, Facebook says.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/01/facebook-architects-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc
Why I take short timelines seriously
This is really interesting. They had a team of incredibly smart people and it seems that humans on board can handle difficult situations better than a computer. Apollo 11 would probably have crashed without a highly trained human on board.