skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no money in fall prevention so it’s not going to happen

How do I know, I meet s great guy a decade ago creating “FallCall” which was supposed to be a Apple watch accelerometer based fall warning (and prediction) and it worked great and patients liked it

Medicare unfortunately wouldn’t pay for that, and so unless it’s covered, no paid health service can survive
I’m pretty sure you’re looking at trailing PE. If you look at forward PE it’s only about 35. If you tripled profit, we’d be looking at about 12.

Using trailing PE shows an inaccurate picture for a high growth company so it makes more sense to just take the last quarter and project forwards.
Of course microsoft is cool with it. They reinstalled sam as ceo specifically so he could do this.
Do you use a pinned version in your code?
Sounds like we need a public option funding and training foundational models and fueling public research which can outpace corporate models in money and brainpower. This could be a thing if governments weren't horrifically corrupted by corporate interests already, or if we could get off our asses and build some sort of decentralized swarm compute network. I do agree, in terms of raw resources (capital) we are far behind and unorganized. In terms of collective brainpower which could be applied if done right... eh, this shit doesn't seem nearly as hard as the ML experts portray it. Either we're being fed a worldwide false reality bubble, or there's a plethora of low-hanging fruit being discovered daily from just a few foundational model finds, and even though the big firms are gonna scoop those up first it's gonna be pretty hard to ever hide that information for long

Of course they're gonna get a few years heads start - which will feel like centuries in AGI time - but either they wipe us all out during that, or we're gonna put the garbage together and make our own AGI too.
Hi, my partner worked in technology strategy for a large healthcare system where she saw many derm AI-based applications evaluated over the last decade. (Dis)Incentives aside, they all followed a similar\ story arc overpromising in their research findings and underdelivering in actual care delivery. They've been around for longer than you'd imagine. I hope they reach their potential, but suggest approaching them with healthy skepticism.
Right? The greats all used ed.
Amex treats me far better than Discover.
> A lossless compression contest to encourage research in AI. It's lossless, I think just to standardize scoring, but I always thought a lossy version would be better for AI -- our memories are definitely lossy!

Gwern posts about this when people say something like that on here, but I'll do it instead. Lossless encoding is just lossy encoding + error correction of some sort.
I converted this to formulas in calculang, a language for calculations I'm developing, and visualize the dungeon and its evolution.

I really liked this output from a very logical process (although I'll admit, I needed to use one of the commented versions linked in the discussion!)

Here it is: https://declann.observablehq.cloud/calculang-dx-pattern-exam...
One of the NASA scientists, secretly has developed a teleporter device. But unbeknownst to him, during trial runs of embezzling gold from the asteroid surface, the gold is transmuted in such a way that it 100% converts to lead, after 60 days of being teleported. Hyjinx ensue.
Current valuations of companies don’t necessarily need to reflect the future earnings in a smooth curve. For example if I believe that theirs is a 50% chance that someone will catch up to nvidia in 20 years this should still be priced way above 20x because they might not. A lot of investors might feel that way and it might be another decade until the stock price drops significantly.
https://archive.is/PXO77
I canceled Spotify in favor of Plexamp.

I was sick of the algorithmic content funnel, and have been collecting albums for better part of 20 years. I find myself listening to and enjoying music from my own curated collection much more than I valued having every song at my fingertips. It helps that the plexamp app is slick and feature rich, I especially like the exploration features made possible by discog tags and sonic analysis.
I think prettier's initial author answered the question quite concisely in the article's first link. Title and excerpt copied below:

> Dig into past research.

> If you're excited about an idea, it's super tempting to sit down an immediately get going. But you shouldn't do that until you've done some cursory research about how people have solved it before. Spending a few days researching the topic always completely changes how I am going to solve it.

https://archive.jlongster.com/How-I-Became-Better-Programmer
I don’t need to remove the glue, I remove the material underneath the glue given it’s soft enough, esp for clothing items
> conformity to mediocrity

So that means a "safe" hire, doesn't it?

> Richard Feynman

Had a PhD from Princeton!
Everything related to safety is on my list. (the list is big)
I think big problems can be broken down into smaller ones.
And groq
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Visa and Mastercard and their highly anticompetitive tactics early in the network landgrab for the payment card space foretold what would happen in the tech space (that is to say do whatever you can to win the landgrab which is exactly what Google/FB did). DFS never caught on. Now the landscape has changed and this deal sort of serves as a bookend. People in fintech should go after the Visa/MC monopoly. There is no “network” and people are paying legacy fees just because it’s what they know.
As someone who’s had some incidents with DSP code, the end of the recording sounds like it may be playing some part of memory that isn’t an audio buffer. I wonder if there’s actually a “DTMF injection” possibility here…
Knowing what word you are about to delete.

As sibling mentions typing w4 will highlight and then finishing the motion with d will delete in other editors like kakoune.
99% isn't nearly good enough to not carry a backup card
Lobste.rs Invite?
Ahoy me hearties, I'm looking for a lobste.rs invite. Can anyone help? :)
I have mine pointed at a mouse trap. It's been super useful, honestly, but I would never point a camera like this into a living space.
I mean, T-Mobile bought Sprint. Antitrust laws might as well not exist in America
I don't know what you're trying to argue here.

That you are attempting to wiggle away from the plainly obvious nature of the quote, for some reason.

Nobody denies that an enormous number of civilians have been killed in the IDF's Gaza operation.

Except of course numerous Israeli government officials. (They don't deny that many civilians have been killed -- but they have continually attempted to dial down the proportion of civilian casualties, along with all the rhetoric about there being "no innocents" or "no uninvolved civilians" in Gaza to begin with).
This is puzzling. They have either:

1) Replaced a pinned version with a new model (problematic for response consistency), or,

2) Decoupled knowledge cutoff from the model (how!?)
VScode official build is not open source. They take the open source code and apply some stuff related to their proprietary extensions and product and then release it. And as you said you can't use their proprietary extensions or their extension marketplace endpoint (legally at least) outside their official build
Exactly, it's going to turn out that it didn't work well but it will still get used harmfully.
Yes. In 568B pin 1 would be Orange-Stripe (left side looking from top of plug). Very odd indeed. This pinout has been burned into my brain since high school - and I've never seen it represented backwards as their diagrams show. I even have the printed 802.3 spec from when I worked for a defense contractor a buddy of mine gave me as a gag gift. I've referenced it over the years more than expected.

But 568A and 568B are specifically color coded to the pins. And these diagrams are wrong.
We have vscodium
It varies from state to state, but public school vaccine "requirements" are generally quite soft and often allow religious exemption with little or no justification.
> While both of these [Emacs and vim] can probably compete with Pulsar in number of extensions available and the amount of customizations and keyboard shortcuts, neither of them have a graphical user interface, and they are completely incapable of doing things like showing images or, for example, a Markdown preview (which by the way you can open in Pulsar by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M).

Claiming that Emacs has limited customization, no GUi, and can't display images tells me they've not used Emacs and probably shouldn't be making any claims without fact checking them. Really colors how I read the rest of their pitch.
Evil mode giving you Vim macros, combined with Elisp as a real programming language.... ooh now that's some fun IDE a la carte-ing
Using virtual reality to train Ukrainian journalists to cover the war safely
I think there’s some hope in the console market via the likes of things like the Steamdeck and other handheld PC devices. Hopefully they’ll get cheaper as time goes on and compete at the same price point as the switch.
Hunter gatherers are like you. They are bound to their identity and are incapable of imagining things any other way unless it is forced upon them. They prefer to stick with what they know.
It works in both ways.
We can just tell the compiler to ignore some function.
We can be also creative writing the code that at same time is good and makes the static analysis happy.
A good sample is linked lists.

#include <ownership.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

struct node {
char * owner text;
struct node* owner next;
};

struct list {
struct node * owner head;
struct node * tail;
};

void list_append(struct list* list, struct node* owner node)
{
if (list->head == NULL) {
list->head = node;
}
else {
assert(list->tail->next == 0);
list->tail->next = node; //ZERO OVERHEAD
}
list->tail = node;
}

void list_destroy(struct list* obj_owner list)
{
struct node * owner p = list->head;
while (p) {
struct node * owner next = p->next;
free(p->text);
free(p);
p = next;
}
}

void list_print(const struct list* list)
{
const struct node * p = list->head;
while (p) {
printf("%s ", p->text);
p = p->next;
}
}

int main()
{
struct list list = {};
struct node * owner p = calloc(1, sizeof * p);

if (p) {
p->text = strdup("item1");
list_append(&list, p);
}

list_print(&list);
list_destroy(&list);
}
> I think you're misreading some parts regarding whether the NCB owned the mines

Fair point, I'm Australian and very second hand to the fine detail.

On the flip side, I'm > 60 and have been around mining most of my life, working in, geophysical exploration and mapping, global mineral intelligence for markets, etc. and I remain deeply skeptical about underlying realities of control versus appearances.

The UK NCB, from many snippets of conversations with various UK people on both sides of politics, (including some off record comments from Alistair McAlpine, Thatcher's political party treasurer) funneled a great deal of money by various means back to the usual suspects .. the former owners of the coal fields .. now cashed up "coal experts" that continued to profit by providing "services" and "advice" to the NCB.

I think we can agree that the actions of the NCB in prioritising resource extraction over mine safety led to several mine disasters including this big one at hand.

I'm claiming that while the NCB was on paper some kind of peoples ownership of coal, it was still essentially being run from behind the scenes by the same class of people that once owned the coal, who still profited from the policy decisions they pushed through, etc. etc.

I admit I missed the detail about the transfer of ownership but I'm unsurprised, it's a not uncommon pattern and one that has been roundly satirised in UK media such as Private Eye and Yes, Minister.

I still lay the blame for such disasters at the feet of those on committees making actual policy and decisions for the NCB .. and from what I can read that does trace back to Lords, bankers, and their proxies.
Do you regret not plowing all of your money into DOGE in 2020? In the scheme of the things you could do to make money with hindsight, accepting a job offer barely ranks.
C safety addons like this (there have been many) is that they don't prevent extracting raw pointers from controlled pointers. Optional memory safety isn't.

> If this can be reasonably retrofitted to existing libraries and projects

That's the problem.

If you want to fool around in this space, consider revisiting C++ to Rust conversion.
There's something called Corrode, which compiles C to a weird subset of Rust full of objects that implement C raw pointers. The output is verbose and unmaintainable.
What's needed is something that can figure out how big things are and who owns what, possibly guessing, and generate appropriate ideomatic Rust. Now that LLMs are sort of working, that might be possible.

Can you ask Github Co-pilot to look at C code and answer the question "What is the length of the array 'buf' passed to this function"? That tells you how to express the array in a language where arrays have enforced lengths, whicn includes both C++ and Rust. With hints like that, ideomatic translation becomes possible. Bad guesses will result in programs that subscript out of range, which is caught at run time. But guesses should be correct most of the time, because C programmers tend to use the same idioms for arrays with lengths. Forms such as "int read(int fd, char* buf, size_t buf_l)" show up often.

Using LLMs to help with tightening up existing code might work.
Also nowadays there's a few GUI frontends for Neovim such as Neovide.
> Why don't I just read a book instead of getting some unpredictable (or predictably unpredictable) synposis? It's not like there's too much specific information there.

I'm trying to understand this comment, because I couldn't disagree more. It is the absolute explosion of available data sources that has me wanting to be much more judicious with where I spend my time reading/watching in the first place.

Your comment was interesting to me because I feel like I agree with one of its main sentiments: that AI generated content all kinda "sounds the same" and gives a superficial-feeling analysis. But that is why I think AI is a fantastic tool for summarizing existing information sources so I can see if I want to spend anymore time digging in to begin with.
This is unreal. I have never seen anything this fast. How ? I mean, how can you physically ship the bits this fast, let alone a LLM.

Something about the UI. Doesn't work for me. May be I like openAI chat interface too much. Can someone bring their own data and train ? That would be crazy!
With some JS you might not need to do multiple roundtrips though. For example to open a tab or a dialog.
There’s a ton of these still available - e.g. https://www.amazon.com/CAPUP-Ethernet-Splitter-Shielded-Inte...

The reviews of them are full of negative comments from people who don’t understand what they are, and think they’ll split one network cable into two, like a three-port switch - even though most of the listings are quite clear that you need to connect two ports at each end of the connection.

Most of the listings are, though, quite evasive about the fact that, even used correctly, they’ll not provide throughput over 100Mbps.
Where do you charge your cell phone?

I totally agree with you, but then I put my phone on a qi charger on my nightstand and go to sleep. It's a device with both quality cameras and microphones, so I feel a little hypocritical given that there is a non-zero chance that someone could be listening or watching through my phone.
As far as I can tell, consumer interchange fees in the US are significantly higher than they are in Europe. The interchange fees for Visa and MC consumer products within the EEU are 0.2–0.3%[0][1], whereas in the US they are from 1–3%[2][3].

[0] https://www.visa.co.uk/dam/VCOM/regional/ve/unitedkingdom/PD...

[1] https://www.mastercard.co.uk/content/dam/public/mastercardco...

[2] https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/vis...

[3] https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/n...
And it is also important to notice - leadership consists of humans and humans could make mistakes, and in Democracy, exists feedback via human rights and via independent press, but in totalitarian countries both things does not exist, and also does not exist feedback, so, when totalitarian leadership make huge mistake, nobody could tell them and whole country become like uncontrolled auto, running into abyss on full speed, and very frequently this end with total fiasco.
Yes.

I work from home so I'm connected 8-10hrs a day. Ethernet has always been more reliable and faster. It's one less complication and in urban areas a significant one.

I have lots of devices on WiFi but my main computers (work and gaming :) are wired
You should replace all + with * in your formula.
What are your thoughts when transactions at open markets aren’t clearing above the tender offer price?
1MB bundle of JS is definitely terrible. I'm not advocating that by any means :)
Perhaps my accusations are more against the set of humans that in practice are diagnosed with dyslexia, than against the existence of a set of humans that in theory it would be reasonable to diagnose with dyslexia. But what happens in practice is, sort of important.
> Learning how to summarise effectively might save hours per week and improve decisions about which sources deserve our limited time/attention.

If you like summaries, you'll probably love de-summaries (WIP): https://socontextual.com/
And then you have Linus Torvalds who uses nano
It works for me, but the selected text is superimposed on top of the normal text in a different size.
The internet died when the desktop became an afterthought.

:P
It's going the other way. The number of levers to pull around architecture, data amount/type/quality, hardware optimizations, decoding optimizations, evals, system architecture (distinct from model architecture), alignment tricks and various other things means the complexity is just getting started.
See, I didn't know that. But, I wouldn't go around claiming it either. Especially if I was making that claim to disparage a competor to my product.
A simple but safe deploy script
My feeling is Google / FB have done nothing close to Visa / MC when it comes to landgrabbing, but I am open to information / arguments.
I don't think it's very compelling to convert C code to a thing that gives you a safety half-measure. You'll still have security bugs, so it'll just feel like theatre.
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/22/fednow-instant-payments-cre...

Networks (credit card rails) are dead long term. Capital One is buying a less than prime customer base instead of organic growth (plus the deposits). The profit is in the revolving interest on a customer base that carries a balance, not the interchange and network.

https://investorrelations.discover.com/newsroom/press-releas...

This should come as no surprise, as subprime is what Capital One does.

https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-fi...

Tangentially, it’s questionable how sustainable this is. This customer base is under material financial stress, and no one knows what’s going to happen next.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCLACBW027SBOG

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/06/credit-card-delinquencies-su...
You're not wrong, but I also think the problem predates video games. Films, novels and even religious texts all are scrutinized for changing people's perspective on life. Fiction has a longstanding hold on society, but it inherently coexists with the "harsh reality" of survival and resource competition. Introducing video games into the equation is like re-hashing the centuries old Alice in Wonderland debate.

Playing video games all day isn't an enriching or well-rounded use of time, but neither is throwing yourself into danger and risk all the time. The real world is a game of carefully-considered strategy, where our response to hypothetical situations informs our performance during real ones. Careful reflection on fiction can be a philosophically powerful tool, for good or bad.
Or use log-probabilities
Calling it public theater is pretty laughable. The amount you get for $25 a month as a consumer is insane.

I literally have a 24/7 consultant with surface level understand of any topic in human history. This consultant also happens to be an amazing artist for $25 a month that gives me the rights to commercialize any art piece they make for me.

This is extremely hard to beat. This will be extremely hard to beat.

As a business they are succeeding.
Nah, programmers of that caliber will use a magnetized needle directly on the hard disk platters.
Thanks for the confirmation. I spent way more time than I care to admit double checking this. I tend to not make my own cables anymore and just use punch down sockets, so it’s been a while.
Care to share your file format with some dummy entries?
TIL Option+Fn+Delete can forward-delete a word! Thanks!
A +1 for me too. The Xbox modding scene taught me the foundation of my systems knowledge despite already having a Windows PC.
If we are talking about credit card fraud for World of Warcraft accounts, the cost to fight it is far higher than ignoring it or kicking it back to your credit card company. There is 0 incentive for them to care other than doing the bare minimum because it's not their problem, it's the credit card company's problem.

They offer MFA and that's all they should have to do.
good post!
Human ‘discovery’ is the kiss of death for other species
Curiously, the act of unpeeling adhesive tape generates non-polarized Terahertz radiation - so the dying act in a sense for one of these being peeled off might be to have one final taste of Terahertz legitimacy of its own creation.
This code will not compile because we cannot return owner as non owner.

To fix we need to add qualifier owner at return type.

FILE* owner open_file(const char* p) {
FILE* owner f = …
return f;
}

Then when returning f , f is moved. Because f was moved the compiler will not complain at the end of scope of f.

https://thradams.com/cake/playground.html?code=I2luY2x1ZGUgP...
How open is your early access? i.e. likelihood to get API access granted right now
If I had to guess, we are very close to a movement that says 'no' to the current overflow of online activity and online presence we saw in the past two decades. We see that the new cool thing tends to always clash and go against the current way of doing things. Look at art, movies, music, etc. Every new trend in jazz was a response going against what was hip before. It people play slow, the hip thing is to play fast; if people play in tempo, the new hip thing is to break things.

My bet is that the next "hip" thing will be either off-line or off-tech.
I want something like this built in to perhaps a little microcontroller module in my system so that from the moment of boot it sounds like a 1980's Macintosh. I thought of running a Macintosh emulator on a raspberry pi as a simple computer for writing, but one thing it would lack by default is hard drive sounds from boot (even if I ran this program after boot).
I use Ethernet everywhere I can and only use wifi if I need to. When you have dozens of devices on a network, reducing the WiFi congestion as much as possible helps all devices. I also use it as a backhaul between mesh wifi access points, so even in an all wifi setup, there is still a good use for direct wiring.