skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a much more informative article available here. [1] Stabilization does not have the colloquial meaning. It's defined as, "To provide such medical treatment of the condition as may be necessary to assure, within reasonable medical probability, that no material deterioration of the condition is likely to result from or occur during the transfer of the individual from a facility, or, with respect to an emergency medical condition..."

So somebody with a serious medial condition could be discharged, but only once that condition was treated and unlikely to further deteriorate. And then there's also a bunch of other rules hospitals that accept medicare have to follow for all patients, which are similar in spirit to EMTALA. And then there are going to state rules on top of all of this. Violations are severe with penalties able to be imposed on both the hospital and the doctors/staff involved - up to and including loss of license, and they are not covered by malpractice insurance. And the courts have invariably ruled on the side of patients, so I don't think there's any doctor that's going to be looking to try to short-serve the requirements of the law. Part of the reason you can find a million negative articles about it!

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305897/
> I think they want to be able to sue the companies who indirectly benefit from this kind of spam, which is pretty ridiculous.

There's the legal concept of an implicit or implied conspiracy. Usually comes up in antitrust law, where sellers raise prices at about the same time without actually getting together to talk about it.[1][2]
It's a difficult area of law.

[1] https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...

[2] https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
The lockout doesn't exist without the authentication system in the first place. Which exists to keep people from knowing the information. Its a subset of something that is needed for obscuring the information in the system from anyone that should not see it.

I really feel dirty trying to justify this level of nerdy pedanticness. I'm sure you can poke some holes from my off the hip internet comment if you really want to I'm not trying to be academic. I mostly fueled this comment with my distaste for that other platitude.
Indri: The only mammal, besides humans, that can use rhythm
To your endocrine system, it's neutral?
I seemed to have recalled there was a bit more than just a mention, but I might have confused it with some other stuff I read. A lot of well known figures seemed to have crossed paths during the early days of the internet which I found pretty fascinating
If you’re pushing down the data, you’re losing the real-time capability no?

If you want fast, adhoc, real-time querying, load the data as it’s created directly into duckdb or clickhouse. Now you’ll have sub-100ms responses for most of your queries.
For those who would rather have five minutes, back this long post turns into overt racism towards the end. Unfortunately characteristic of “x” these days.
(Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/15/24038677/the-1000-year-ph..., which points to this)
> while LLMs right now are worse than useless due to hallucinations meaning you cannot trust a single thing they say

This is absolutely not true. You should try Bing copilot (or whatever they are calling it this week). It provides extensive citations for everything it asserts. You can easily verify facts by following the hyperlinks. I agree that the original Chatgpt interface is very hard to trust on factual matters due to the lack of citations.
I think variable fonts are really neat—but I'm curious to know what professional typographers think about them. Take Concourse [1] by Matthew Butterick for example—if you click on the "PDF" link at the top, you'll get a PDF sample of the Concourse font, and on page 7 Butterick talks about how the font has been carefully duplexed so that different weights always take up the same amount of space. With a variable-width font, presumably you'd be able to adjust the tracking as well as the weight to make them match, but maybe not? And maybe not automatically? I dunno.

Do any professional typographers have opinions on the pros/cons of variable fonts?

[1]: https://mbtype.com/fonts/concourse/sample.html
I believe it does, I use another privacy based app that can use location and requires data to download the weather stats, but it's optional.
Cryptographic complexity is math if you ask me?

A hammer is not construction, it's a tool used by construction?
Since everyone here knows how to do it better, start a company and crush those incompetent companies!
The wiki is very, very out of date and it's something that's undergoing an overhaul (when Dan can get time to do so).

Player-owned places are fairly straightforward to learn once you're in there, but the drag-and-drop is a reference to the programming aspects of a place. They're mostly conditional things, like being able to display different descriptions for different times of day... but they go all the way up to being able to set up logic chains sufficient to set variables based on past events, displaying different things depending on what room a player came into a given room from... there's a lot of depth to it that I've never mucked with.
The Dream Job That Wasn't
On the other hand, much of this had always been anticipated. E.g, Fermi's question from 1950 and the Drake equation are essentially based on the presumption of exoplanets. Or, the sensors (automatic mini labs) of the Viking probes in the 1970s were essentially based on the assumption that any life on Mars would be based on water (which in turn includes the presumption that there either are or had been significant amounts of water, an assumption strong enough to include this equipment, in the first place.) What has changed, since, is sensor technology.
Yes: many debuggers support setting watchpoints[1] that break on writes to a particular memory location.

Depending on the platform and the debugger, these can be implemented using CPU architecture-specific debugging features, or in software, by single-step program execution and checking watched addresses for changes after each step.

[1] https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Set-W...
In my experience, you learn a lot about who someone is when something real was at stake. I met one of my best friends at a startup and that completely changed my life in ways I’ll be forever grateful for.

I’ve also seen friends be so afraid of confrontation in a work context that they gaslighted me and stabbed me in the back instead of talking to me. I’ve seen people from church act so differently in a work context, I’ve questioned if they have any ethics at all.

Would I work with a friend again? Sure, if I knew they could be professional and be forgiving if things don’t work out. I would be prepared for our friendship to change as we both learn who we are. It could grow or end.
Not much, a calendar and some custom features that I haven't gotten into. I prefer the lite since it doesn't have the annoying GPS download.
Compute is so God-damn cheap these days that it often makes sense not to fabricate a custom ASIC, just emulate what the ASIC would do with a microcontroller. For example, in the case of people who build new, retro style computers, often a microcontroller or two are handling I/O to and from the peripherals like the screen and keyboard. Like there might be an Arduino or Pi Pico generating a VGA signal instead of a dedicated CRTC (because no one makes old-school CRTCs anymore). I just think that's wild, especially when the I/O controllers are more powerful than the main CPU itself (as might happen with a Z80-based system).
it's a piece of paper tacked up outside... rely on the wind/weather/humidity/sun to curl/yellow the page and take it down when it looks old.
Ask HN: What do you do when you feel alone and sad
Specially when your parents are no longer there and you don't have friends.
You neglect to mention that they are unfinished on purpose.

In reality these "homes" are nothing more than a concrete box for legal/tax reasons.

These are second or third "homes" for people that were purchased as a poor investment.

The investors should eat the losses.
Best, least political job I ever had—-including 25 years of self employment—-was in Microsoft.
The Sacred Lake Project: preliminary findings
> apple is using anti-competitive practices to unfairly offer artists a better deal.

Exactly - Apple is paying both sides of the fence here

Competing with Spotify and at the same time having the boot on their neck

Unfortunately this is the capitalist curse/destiny. A computer company is now making Movies, a Music streaming app and building cars

They can buy Disney and knock over Netflix - there are no bounds

It’s all about the TAM
I wonder how much of that is... human nature?

it's like... we go like gangbusters in our lives doing the things that positively need to be done.

Then when we get a moment to breathe... we do the things we want to do more than the things we need to do.

Things work better with a slight sense of urgency, but less than full-on burnout (although fighting along up to burnout is probably pretty ruthlessly efficient)
Kind of reminds me of the "messenger boom" back when Facebook Messenger was new and hot and a bunch of people thought that the "next big thing" was apps that utilize a chat interface. An argument I encountered frequently was that the ultimate interface was a chat-like interface where you asked for what you wanted in natural language and you got it. I thought the hype was well and truly dead until ChatGPT came out and re-animated it.

I think we overestimate just how much people like to browse for stuff rather than have it auto-magically done for them or shown to them. When it comes to online shopping, you probably prefer to browse, unless it's a recurring purchase. I still use a search engine for code issues because I prefer browsing for answers vs having one generated for me, usually because I like the additional context that comes from browsing.

Outside of browsing, I find it really bizarre that all the generative AI art tools out there use chat interfaces rather than a suite of generative graphics tools, i.e. a generative paintbrush, but then again, most people using said tools aren't trying to create some kind of specific thing in their minds eye, they just want an image. Otherwise, if you wanted to paint a picture, then you'd want either a paintbrush or some kind of paintbrush analogue. Painting a picture through a chat interface just seems kind of ungainly.

Kind of an extreme example, but imagine trying to drive a car that has all the familiar controls replaced with a chat interface. Even the A/C is better served by a dial of some sort rather than asking the AI to make the interior a little bit cooler.
That is two words or a phrase. Also, it is understood to refer to the names of people and not all countries are known to be liberal as some in the legal equality of incorporated entities - maybe alethonym or an orthonym. More practically, in the US the SEC could take the initiative and at least extend https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/lizarraga-statement-names... to some of the absurd ticker names especially given the desire to focus on humorless freeway postings.
Their faith in the Lorenz cipher aka Fish cipher codenamed Tunny also arguably cost them the war.

The Germnans were suspicious of Enigma security given Polish cryptanalysts had an attack in the late(?) 1920s and further attacks in the 1930s.

The German High Command used Lorenz for significant traffic .. this was cracked by the Britsh, by Bill Tutte and others, in house at Bletchley during WWII.
Bit of a rambly reply:

There are different types of web security vulnerabilities and the attacks you see from automated scanners are likely to be far less sophisticated than targeted web attacks. Specifically these scanners are going to spam out widespread and common CVE's that might grant privileged access to the server or dump credentials in some fashion.

The more sophisticated attack you described is essentially an overflow, and most modern web servers are usually written in memory-safe languages making it very unlikely to see that type of attack on the web. More often it's the underlying OS, servers, or communication stacks (bluetooth, TCP, nginx, etc) that have these types of vulnerabilities since they are often written in low level non memory safe languages like C and C++.

Attacks that exploit the HTTP and HTTPS protocol are a little more interesting. Request smuggling lets you trick certain load balancers and webservers by sending an HTTP request "smuggled" inside of another HTTP request.

Here is a blog by James Kettle's about some request smuggling vulnerabilities and the impact they can have.
https://portswigger.net/research/http2

There's really a lifetime's worth of knowledge on web security and the type of stuff you see in scans is just trying to hit the low hanging fruit.
Portswigger has loads of free challenges and information about different web security topics.

https://portswigger.net/web-security/all-topics
Just so happens I started following a fitness youtuber this week, that appears to be a "Born again Christian". Seemingly unrelated pursuits. Yet having watched a few of his videos, he's made some astute observations ... ideas he's taken from being a Christian and integrated them into his fitness journey. Things like the idea of Logos, and the "power of words" and their translation into direct action. The importance of Love, etc. I mean there's some powerful core ideas in Christianity. Many religious ideas have been refined over thousands of years. It's basically wisdom on how to work on your mental state, and how to orientate and integrate yourself into a social hierarchy. How to delay gratification, and restrict and reflect on your actions.
Makes his videos more interesting, and cohesive, since there's at least some philosophy behind it, and it's more than just trying to look good.

If anyone is interested:

https://www.youtube.com/@BrianPruett/videos
What Is Incoherence?
If you can imagine an AI system that records some approximate representation of its own thinking, and can play that back, and can record its thinking during the playback, and play that back, and then 2-ish times more at decreasing fidelity, you've got one. That's it. In actual humans most of the processing is done during the remembering, and remembering is a destructive process, so the brain is pretty good at papering over various issues and maintaining appearances.
Wow, what a cool resource. There are some beautiful fonts in here.

I dutifully clicked "Load 30 more" 12 times to see them all, but it'd be really helpful to be able to search and filter, and maybe "Load all".
> someone who is already very sick

But what caused this initial sickness?

https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/links-between-air-polluti...

: In a study funded in part by EPA, researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that children exposed to outdoor coarse particulate matter (PM10-2.5), were more likely to develop asthma

: Coarse PM can come from roadway particles such as brake and tire wear, and mixtures of road dust and metals.

: This finding is significant because while researchers have generally found that exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with the development of asthma and other respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

: While researchers do not fully understand how air pollution exposure increases asthma prevalence, evidence suggests air pollutants suppress genes that regulate the immune system’s ability to differentiate an allergen from a dangerous foreign substance, such as a virus or bacteria. The immune system then goes into action, setting up an inflammatory response whether the substance is harmful or not, which leads to asthma.

: In the study, researchers from the Children’s Center at Stanford University examined the impact of air pollution on two genes involved in immune tolerance in children from an area known to have high air pollution levels. Researchers found that short-term and long-term exposures to high levels of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and PM 2.5 were associated with alterations to these two genes and those alterations were significantly associated with asthma.
Show HN: Byte Size Text Visualizer
Sounds like a smart farmer. Let’s pretend that the original resistant crop was natural, his actions are normal. Selecting good crops is basic farming. He was a victim here.
I played his Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano in college. At the time I knew all about PDQ Bach, but I wasn't aware of his serious compositions until I played the piece. It was really quite lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMbwNtWZABA
I've observed this scenario occur frequently. The lesson I've learned is to remain silent until your new job in the new company stabilizes, and then, after some time, share the news with the world. This gives you 2 things

1. Time to acclimate to a new company. If things don't go as planned, there's always mostly the option to boomerang.

2. The likelihood of your previous employer imparting a 'lesson' significantly decreases.
Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
Discworld Cake Recipe
If an application is for the general population, it seems there is some empirical evidence that open-ended text interfaces won’t meet those users’ capabilities. So exposing a language model directly to the end user is probably not a good design direction to go in.
California Bill Wants to Mandate Electronic 'Speed Limiters' in Cars
The gab post this links to is deleted. Fake.
Yeah, still use Linux, vi, Ruby, etc.
> The Home Office says the polygraph records physiological changes in a person, quoting research from the American Polygraph Association which found deception is accurately detected in 80 to 90% of cases.

80% accuracy is a bold claim. Here's Wikipedia [1]:

Despite claims that polygraph tests are between 80% and 90% accurate by advocates,[21][22] the National Research Council has found no evidence of effectiveness.[14][23] In particular, studies have indicated that the relevant–irrelevant questioning technique is not ideal, as many innocent subjects exert a heightened physiological reaction to the crime-relevant questions.[24] The American Psychological Association states "Most psychologists agree that there is little evidence that polygraph tests can accurately detect lies."[8]

I'm not really convinced by the 80%.

> Since 2014, probation services have carried out more than 8,800 polygraph tests, while police have conducted more than 4,600, says Prof Grubin, who explains around 60 to 70% result in disclosures - where someone reveals relevant information.

"Reveals relevant information" doesn't mean "was confirmed to have lied about whether they did the crime". Being questioned is stressful, stressed suspects' memories are unreliable even if the police never try anything malicious, and police sometimes do try malicious "techniques". One example is memory implantation [2]. To use the hypothetical example that Professor James Duane gave in the Don't Talk to the Police [3] lecture, suppose that a suspect previously heard a news report of a murder: "Three victims were killed." No mention of a murder method. During interrogation, the police officer asks, "How many people were shot to death?" The suspect falsely remembers that the news report mentioned a shooting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_implantation

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Wasn't NeXT in the same building (or was it next to?) on Deer Creek that was later used by Tesla?

Also nearby was Syntax's corporate headquarters from 1959 until its demise. While more yam that silicon, I think it's hard to overstate the way that Syntax fundamentally changed women's lives.
...complete with a gab link that has already gone 404 and 0 corroborating evidence
I'd read that page a few months ago, and it started out compelling, but there were some off whiffs of culture that sounded like it might be more arrogance than meritocracy. (Maybe not, but it's a pattern elsewhere, and I was getting that vibe.)

More recently, unrelated, I re-signed up for Netflix as a consumer, and almost immediately noticed several problems (most not explained by intentional dark patterns). So I'm not buying the self-proclaimed universal excellence.
Hi!

A few things.

Reddit advice: delete Facebook and hit the gym

Things I tell my kids: drink water and go for a walk outside

Old lady from down the street wisdom: find someone to help and help them whether it’s a local nonprofit or soup kitchen or somewhere else, helping others will help you
> That is two words or a phrase.

In a word: no. Specifically, it’s a compound word (singular).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)
That’s basic farming. You choose your best crops for the next season. If Monsanto can’t keep from seeding into non-customers crops, they aren’t allowed to demand the farmer cripple his ability to farm.
The actual paper is https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/528/2/1841/7589620?se...
Thank you for the weird, racist screed about something that absolutely 100% really happened, guy who only seems to post archive.org links.
Arrival of the Dingo
No one wants to be on the lam forever. Even crims want to go legit someday.

Nowadays, crime is much smaller and more ephemeral, which is good for criminals. They can get away with walking into an establishment and walking out with whatever they like. Most of the time with no problems at all. I think I prefer that to errant car bombs.
Japan's Slim moon lander overcomes power crisis to start scientific operations
GrapheneOS supports almost everything that a normal android does. The exceptions are Google Pay NFC Payments and some banking apps that require the OS to be signed by a trusted party.

The Google apps, if you use them, get sandboxed and prevented from having full access to the phone.
Why you've never been in a plane crash
cheesy kitsch
Many of them aren't second homes. The ones in the ghost cities sure, but Evergrande has (had?) more legit projects that were designed as actual housing. In any case, given that the mainland stock market is pretty much known as a sham, real estate has been the only investment option for much of the middle class. Investors "eating" their losses basically means huge widespread social upheaval in China. Imagine everyone being equivalent to their 401k going belly up, that wouldn't be pretty.
We have some of this functionality in Presto (https://github.com/prestodb/presto), but it takes fair bit of work to implement it for all the different backends.
Programming the Web with HyperLANG and HyperCLI [video]
It will then have to be proved it isn't life from Earth that got there somehow, to really be that huge change for society.
Calling method_missing a sharp knife is like calling GOTO a sharp knife
Prompting can be compared to writing machine code. Higher level extractions will pop up soon enough, when the core developments slows down a bit.

You click the magic button and behind the scenes it automatically adds a bunch of fancy tokens, like "iridescent" or "affluent", that trigger the desired effect.
Yeah its a bit easier to say you only have the best at 1k to 5k headcount, then at a sprawling 150k+
I communicate with my friends. I expect them to tell me things like this.
On Windows you need in depth knowledge just to add an local account or to switch browsers
That pretty much describes all the social sciences. A morass of non-reproducibility, lack of controls, cherry picked data, bias, and subjective conclusions.