skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kagi assistant is technically still in beta, gathering feedback. We are not satisfied with the experince yet and are working on an overhaul, planning to officially launch it in March. This is why it is a bit 'hidden' from view, but yet available.
Absolutely this. The key to making those meetings effective is starting with an agenda and leaving with either a decision or action items that will lead to a decision.
I dunno. It seems to be captured quite concisely in the Churchill version.
Salaries have actually been increasing — at least in the U.S. overall.
So it's no unlike Epstein? (by that I mean there's doubt as to whether the death was natural or not)
The founders certainly intended that constitutional rights would apply to people’s business activities (e.g. the contract clause). So the real question is whether the founders intended that business owners would be deprived of those rights merely because of the legal structure of their business.
Love it. One suggestion: it would be nice if one could choose the galaxy. I'm not from here, so ...

("Check your galactic privilege!") ;)
RAG vs. Fine-Tuning
"In an argument that appeared to flabbergast a small claims adjudicator in British Columbia, the airline attempted to distance itself from its own chatbot's bad advice by claiming the online tool was "a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions."

"This is a remarkable submission," Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) member Christopher Rivers wrote.""

From https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-c...
As a German who pays a lot in taxes each year, I’m more than happy for those taxes to support our Ukrainian friends who are refugees during this terrible situation
BRIEF by UnderWare! I loved that editor. I particularly liked the “go to this line number, but use the line number before unsaved edits”. This let you compile a file, get the error log, then start making edits; but the line numbers in the error log were still useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)
The standard of care in the US is immunohistochemistry (IHC), with FISH testing in equivocal cases so not really ELISA based.

HER2 testing is done on all breast cancers as it affects treatment choices though the majority of breast cancers are not HER2 positive. (HER2 is also expressed in some normal tissue (notably cardiac) and is also seen in other cancers as well).
Pounded in the root by a Systemd
Incredible achievement. Awkward timing with Gemini announcing the same.
I think you two agree more than it seems.

You are allowed to be sad about the world without helping it get better, which the parent never implied they were. They're just agreeing with you that things are bad, assuming they work in tech they're probably just as conflicted about it as you or I am, so the attack felt kinda out of left field and unrelated to the original debate, which is whether things are getting worse in general.
> It's a rational choice.

Yes, I agree here. To me, this feels like the cookie legislation all over again, in the sense that the end result was a lot of annoying cookie banners instead of websites stopping the usage of cookies. And yes, I know that answering 'no' in these banners reduces the amount of cookies used, but I am seeing more and more websites where things like videos don't work unless you accept cookies.
> By this metric, we can see that the states where it’s easiest to find housing include Utah (2.83 units per capita), California (2.75), Hawaii (2.57), and Texas (2.57). Overall, in the United States, there are approximately 2.35 housing units available per capita

I don't know how deedclaim computed those numbers, or the reliability of the source; but California most definitely has a shortage of housing. The numbers I quoted come from the McKinsey Global institute study: https://web.archive.org/web/20161105022549/https://www.mckin...

And local policy is very much a problem. Briefly as described in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IHEMHc2yfY, California has a lot of housing restrictions, a high cost of construction, and processes that make it easy for housing opponents to block new developments.

And your statement "you will see fewer homeless people moving to California to camp in a tent and then finding it tough to get back into housing." is not an accurate characterization. Most of the homeless in California are Californians. Quoting from 2023 UCSF homeless study (https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CA...): "People experiencing homelessness in
California are Californians. Nine out of ten
participants lost their last housing in California;
75% of participants lived in the same county as their last housing"
Not quite. Theranos was stating that they were capable of doing what was impossible prior. The real issue with Theranos was physics. A single drop of blood is simply not a large enough sample for them to do all the testing they claimed. As in, impossible with today's tech and in the near future.

These folks are just stating that, "so far, this looks promising".

At least, thats my read. YMMV.
Under-appreciated factor here: a hell of a lot of people—even in the corporate world, even (somehow!) college graduates—are shockingly bad at reading comprehension (which is simply being bad at reading) and at writing clearly (or, simply bad at writing).

I suspect the population for whom this holds isn’t much smaller than the famously-a-majority “bad at math” set, and the difference in visibility of the issue is because the “bad at literacy” folks don’t volunteer their status as readily as the bad-at-math folks.
Yeah, I forgot again that you want the automation. Kagi used to be about being explicit, and not guessing what you want. That is what I want back.
AI Thermal Camera
They will also demand your phone number, by pretending to politely request it, then insta-banning your account if you decline.
> I wonder how much ... is actually necessary for the service to function in the first place.

Probably more than you might think. IANAL but the general operation of Spotify-like service, which I'd summarize as "making creative content digitally available to any user, anywhere in the world, on demand" requires a lot of that.
DOJ removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses
I wonder why healthcare is so expensive in the US...
The lack of that kind of clause resulted in a lot of shows having to replace all the music they'd licensed when they later tried to release their works on VHS, DVD, and again on streaming services. A famous example being Daria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria) which ran on MTV and just used whatever songs were popular at the time. Licensing issues kept the show from being released on DVD for ages and when it finally did, it came with an apology letter explaining why all the songs had been replaced with generic music.
In case you haven't noticed, the demographics of America have changed a little bit since 1990.

We also have a small problem with fentanyl.
You'd need a much larger n to determine the false positive rate. Sensitivity by itself isn't very useful.
Stop mansplaining plz.
> This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger.

It is the same as what every human being is doing. We consume and we create. Sometimes creations are very good, but most of the time they are just mediocre. If the machines can create better average results, it will be due to the genius of the humans who invented those machines.

So we can be happy, that we have such beings among us and should cherish, that we will have better content to consume in the future. When you look at the world, you will see, that there are still plenty of problems to be solved for humans.
AR will be the next big consumer space, the new generation is growing up using vr headsets even if they seem dystopian to you. The meta quest 2 sold more than ps5 last christmas
Kids in my elementary used to bully an autistic-ish boy by calling him "monotone" for the way he spoke. I guess instead they'd use NPC and bot these days.
https://archive.is/xjJhE

Because for the first time in a long time, this page was absolutely unreadable on mobile.
Defaults as they are today on reddit are terrible. Log out and look at the shitshow. Its either low effort flamebait, gawking at hotties, or basically shill driven ad posts, all of which probably contribute to engagement from multiple angles. The beast is rotten. At this point all thats of value are the vestigial users who still have their network of non-default subreddits they frequent. However that population will only decrease over time since these new users engage with the site in a different way now than e.g. nerdy niche interests like it was in the past. I don't even know where to go these days to discover content that isn't pure agitprop or on the race to be something like that these days. Even this board is only so busy. I might have to just write off browsing the web like I've done for years and get into that pile of books I've been meaning to read instead.
no, adtech and walled gardens collecting your browsing data and monetizing/weaponizing it against you is the imposition. refusing to provide this data by wiping cookies is not a "burden" this guy chose to impose on himself for fun, it is the logical answer to the adtech companies' hostile action.
Hopefully we are about to find out.
No, that’s utter nonsense. Statistical power is well defined and the required N to reliably detect an effect is a function of its effect size, which is the thing that wannabe statisticians don’t understand.
>It does not explain why the low-probability event of these constants being what they are occurred. It does not explain anything.

Maybe you could explain (no pun intended) why it's not an explanation? Go back to the card example I used earlier - would you agree that me intentionally arranging the events is an explanation? What exactly is it that makes this an explanation, but not an intelligence behind universal constants (I won't use the word God so as to not offend you---again, the idea that there is an intelligence behind universal constants doesn't commit us to any particular faith, doesn't commit us to the idea that the intelligence must be the ultimate cause or omnipotent or omniscient or anything like that)?

>All it does is move the goalpost for explaining beyond unreachable and trap the inquisitive mind in a box.

What box-trapping are you referring to here? If by moving the goalpost, you mean that it doesn't explain anything about why the intelligence is what it is or how it behaves---yes, indeed, it doesn't, and we're still open to asking these questions. Again, we're not committing to any particular faith here, you could even use this argument to provide credence for the simulation hypothesis (something you're probably fine with since it's not a strictly theistic idea), since we're not saying anything particular about what this intelligence is like or how it came to be. In the context of the argument, we say "God" to just mean "intelligence behind the universe".

>As to the predictive power, the multiverse theory does have it. The fact that we can't experimentally confirm it today doesn't mean that it's not falsifiable.

Oh, interesting, what are you referring to here? What could empirically falsify the multiverse theory?

>Again, just like with intelligent design, there is not a single physicist who was an atheist first, and then learned about fine tuning and became a believer. Every single proponent of fine tuning was a person of faith first (predominantly Christian but some other faiths too) before they became a physicist. Can you name a single counter example? (that might make me reconsider)

I don't see why the behavior of people who accept or reject the argument is relevant. We don't reject intelligent design because it's pushed by Christians; we reject it because it appears to be inferior in terms of explanatory power and utility for scientists. (Of course, intelligent design is still an explanation; another key point here is that there's a difference between a false or bad explanation and a not-even-explanation---off the top of my head, I can't even think of what a not-even-explanation that purports to be an explanation looks like.)
XDarwin
"a decent education system that's largely free and accessible for everyone"

I give your Universities a 2-3 (On a scale 1 Top, 5 fail). High schools are getting worse and worse due to the immigrants. So you would want to send your kid to a school without many immigrants, mainly due to language barriers.

"a decent healthcare system"
Again, I give you a 2-3. More and more people are sucking services, fewer people pay in. Hey, alone 1 Million Ukrainians are insured, while less than 25% have a job. How long do you wait to see a specialist? >6 months!

"a decent public transport system on local, regional and federal system"
Again grade 2-3. You have a functioning public transport system. But ask Switzerland what they think about it. Or look at China if you want to learn something about bullet trains.

"and a very decent social security network that covers unemployment, pension and elderly care."

Is on the brink of collapse. Pensions are great. For state employees. The rest gets retirement benefits. They are compared to the EU very low.

I don't have health insurance by the way. Germany has to take care of so many immigrants. Nothing left for me. And try to compete with them to find an apartment. The government pays for them. And the government is never late with payments, hence landlords prefer this.
I have bought this book for every friend learning python for work purposes, really fleshes a lot out that's not taught implicitly. The data model stuff is really useful.
> Not the original poster, but the more frightening part of the sentence, is the "not understanding how something works part" over the "becoming my father"

That was my point, exactly.
To the influences that they know. Our brain isn’t an attribution machine. When a musician recreates a chord progression that they’ve heard before without noticing it, is that theft?

If a comedian accidentally retells a joke, is that theft?

Our influences are subtle and often inscrutable.
Smoking isn’t nicotine. When we talk about smoking, we’re talking about cigarette smoke.
Getty images has started to sell ai generated content so I’d assume they’ve vetted the legal side of things. But they’re shady so not sure - just another data point am not a lawyer
6,000 dollar deductible per person with total 15,000 dollar out of pocket maximum for the family. My current health plan is better because my company found a partner that aggregates many smaller companies to get better rates from insurers. Before this I was uninsured and would call many different providers to negotiate the best cash price for various procedures such as wrist MRI with contrast. I got cash quotes ranging from $850 to $3500 and got exactly what I needed from a local provider for $850. I called up several providers in Canada and they offered similar cash prices (on the low end) so it wasn't worth the 8 hour drive each way.
The same factor that makes private prisons problematic also makes taxation problematic - in both cases you've got a captive market that can't opt out thus no pressure to provide a good, efficient service. In a hypothetical world where inmates could choose whether to remain in prison and which one to be in, private prisons would be competing for service quality. Actually we've got that, they're just called "hotels".

I wonder if the solution there would be to force politicians and everyone involved to exclusively use government-provided services - so as a condition of going into politics, you can't use private healthcare, your kids can't go to private schools, and you need to spend a day every year in a random prison and so on. Then it would mean the decision-makers got at least some incentive to make sure these services are functional and fit for purpose.
It's not just the fact that it's not open and accessible; it's the fact that it is owned and controlled by a tiny number of companies with the necessary resources.

It's like a world where Windows and a non-unix based Mac are the only OSs. There is no possibility for something comparable to Linux (FreeBSD etc. etc.) could emerge as viable alternatives free of large corporate control.

So it's not just sad, it's a major problem. Not right now because it's more of a novel toy than anything, but as more systems are built on these LLMs we will be increasingly at the mercy of the companies that control the LLMs.
You don't need to sell it - you can lend against it or sell part of it.

I don't think it's a toxic mindset but a financially literate mindset.
> Very few people care what the political drama du jour was in January 2007.

...which begs the question why so many people care what the political drama is today. February 2024 is just March 2041's version of today's January 2007...
Counterpoint. Engineers created meeting hell.

You know what's a bad meeting? Any Scrum meeting or status 'sync'. Meetings are invaluable. Get together frequently to talk about what you're actually trying to build with the stakeholders and you don't need process, you barely even need tickets.

But you have to be present, involved and responsive to jump on a quick call.

Instead engineers whine about context switching and how the business context of their work is irrelevant "just put it in a ticket". So now we have micromanagement up the wazoo with execrable Scrum type meetings.

I love meetings and feel a lot of anger to the type of engineer who thinks it's beneath them. Equally I detest all 'ceremonies', absolute time wasting dregs.
It's a little more subtle than this, and of course subtlety is doesn't play well these days, but the US stats vary greatly across geography and ethnic lines. Cuba isn't a great comparison, beyond the shock of "they're worse than a bunch of commies!"
This is going to significantly disrupt market economies (capitalism). It’s increasingly hard to see how humans can get compensated or incentivized or paid in anyway — without some kind of AI tax that gets redistributed.

It seems like a good way to deal with the copyright infringement of current and future AI models — all revenue is taxed 10% for an endowment for the arts.

Is this a crazy idea?
I'll take one holodeck, please.
That's not a good argument, because we have no way of knowing what is the ration between our time and that of the universe where our simulation runs. Even if it takes hours to generate one second of our universe, we only experience our own time.

Besides, time is not absolute, and having it run slower near massive objects or when objects accelerate would be a neat trick to save on compute power needed to simulate a universe.
>Smoking may be self medicating for depression and at least one study suggests smoking lowers the risk of death for people who suffer depression

That's interesting because nicotine contains MAOI(monoamine oxidase inhibitors) compounds that are used treat depression.
Cool video - I wonder what sensor does it use?
I was born in 1999 and couldn't agree less. I barely remember a time before smartphones were popular, and now I despise them. Both the social aspects that have built up around them and much of the software technology itself. The fact that "Sideloading" is even a term seems absurd to me. And I plead that some day the current AI trends will be over, and we'll still have at least a few people left making good literary and visual art. Sure ChatGPT can make you a nice internal memo, but that's because they were already being used to say little and convey nothing.

I'm in exactly the right stage of my life to take advantage of generative AI, but I want nothing to do with it, and somehow an entire industry with millions of people working in it can only focus on one thing at a time.
Without a larger n you can't really tell what the fp rate is and that means that the accuracy figure isn't very useful. If accuracy holds in light of a false positive rate that is much lower than other tests then this may well be very useful. But you can not conclude that at all based on the evidence presented.
The article doesn't mention the problem of people not preparing for a meeting. It's possible to follow all the author's suggestions about meetings and still end up wasting time because people show up unprepared. Someone doesn't read the agenda or doesn't know or understand the desired outcome or decision to be made. If that is a pattern for someone, they not only are under-performing, they are hurting the performance of everyone involved.
It's a strangely heated topic for them, far more than the previous two generations. I'm generalizing of course, this is just based on my own personal experiences with Gen Z, there's a lot of variability within any generation. That said, the identified causes of suffering have shifted inexorably.
Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords
The loaded language is equating taxing with theft. Moving things into a "right and wrong" moral framing doesn't help. And your closing sentence is just flat out aggressive against education and self government.
do you think that ~25% fees on every in app transaction ( Total is 30% but 3% is used for credit card transactions.) is maybe too much to cover these software development costs?

A counter to this would be game store sites like Steam have in 30% fees but steam doesn't have a monopoly on the games store. Apple has a monopoly on the app store.

Apple has been taking a lot of actions within the last year against the developer community:
1) Retaliations in the anti-competitive lawsuits against Apple in US (surrounding fees) :
* You must request an entitlement now from apple to link to an external payment provider in app. You must still give apple a 27% even if you use external payments.
* If Apple feels a lack of compliance with the entitlement program they have the right to look through financial books and bill for if they think their cut was missed.

2) Retaliations in the anti-competitive lawsuits against Apple in EU (surrounding fees) :
* PWAs. PWAs were starting to become a form of protest for developer to get around Apple's closed source system. PWAs don't utilize Apple's SDKs. Sure Apple may have some points surrounding the technical inefficiencies surrounding PWAs but it is suspicious that these rules have taken place during these lawsuits.

3) Beeper
* Everything going on with Beeper enforces the point that Apples wants to have a stranglehold on their monopoly

Optional 4) The insane markup of the Vision Pro relative to competitors. Making it difficult for devs to test new products.

All of these exemplify Apple's use of their monopoly on the individuals who support their ecosystem (developers). There is strong consumer demand for Apple so their is a strong incentive to develop with Apple. Being an early-stage founder myself I am finding it very difficult to convince myself that developing on Apple for proving product market fit is the way to go.

These rules are hurting the smaller developer teams who can't afford to pay these fees and can't pay for a compliance guy in the beginning to look over Apple specific polices. PWAs being canceled is just another example of Apple over-using their power to hurt the little guy.
Presumably far less than what is required to make the offering value to Microsoft. Still it is probably hundreds of thousands of devices, if not low millions.
Terms of service are generally pretty shitty, yes. But this is egregiously shitty.

https://tosdr.org/ is a good site to compare. Any service over Grade E (Spotify, Facebook, the usual suspects are all Es) is (very likely to be) less bad. DeviantArt for example is a D, and doesn't include waiving your moral rights among some of the other overreach.

Some service terms are actually quite good (DuckDuckGo, Mullvad, off the top of my head). Though these aren't content sharing platforms so it's not really as fair of a comparison.