skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of related: it seems like compliant providers and services are carrying the burden of patient privacy in good faith, securing the front door. Meanwhile, there are open tent flaps on the sides and back. It's hard to do the right thing while there are minimal regs and enforcement on the rest of the ecosystem.

Eg, Tracking on medical sites let Meta go to town -- https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/2/23288612/meta-hosptials-su...

Eg, Patient data brokers: "Currently, under HIPAA there is no law prohibiting the use of healthcare data shared via marketing practices." -- https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information...
Navy awards HII $1.2B Contract to overhaul USS Boise submarine
I want the exceptional people in my society to have a fast pass to success so I disagree.
That's pretty normal in R&D. Solutions in search of problems are a real thing, and concept designs like this are part of the process of finding those solutions. As long as they're not putting in the money to mass produce it, this seems like a perfectly rational and good R&D project.
Anyone know how this compares to Vimari?
I don't know what punk was like anywhere in 2008. It wasn't (just) that in London in the 1970s, and there is non-commodified version of it that continues to exist in many places (or so it seems).
I remember early in Google Cloud I was working with a Google PM on health-related projects (Google Cloud Genomics). The PM was our ostensible expert on HIPAA, and explained many details (such as BAA). The one funny thing they said is "there is no such thing as HIPAA compliance, that term is meaningless". And I don't really understand what they meant, but I think they must have been wrong (even though they were supposed to be the subject matter expert).
I think spears (I'm including rifle mounted bayonets here) have pretty much been on the outs since magazine fed firearms became a thing. Definitely since the advent of fully automatic guns.

Yes, there have been sporadic bayonet charges in recent times. But they've become extremely rare.

In contrast, helmets are as useful as ever. The ballistic protection is improving with the move from resin impregnated Kevelar to UHMWPE[1]. And they're an important mounting point for hearing protection/headphones and night vision - so much so that some people forego ballistic protection entirely in favor of lighter weight "bump" helmets.

Heck - "breastplates" have made a comeback in the form of body armor vests, being a sort of combination armor and utility pouch anchor point.

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1. Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene
Oh, I don’t mind getting a GPU. I also don’t believe it’s right at the moment to build a machine just for AI activities.

I was commenting more on the idea to run AI in the cloud instead of on device.
That and your example are kind of ridiculous.

Owning a home works out financially better than renting which is what you should be comparing it to. You can't compare it to a financial investment because its unrealistic to have $0 housing budget and put it all in the S&P 500 or anything else like that. I think you're getting hung up on the "owning a home is an investment" catch phrase and taking that literally.

Your example is based on averages, which in the real world don't exist. In a growing area, single family detached homes (i.e. not townhomes or anything with shared walls) are going to out-appreciate others types of homes. And location matters more than anything. Good schools, low crime, close to amenities, shopping, etc. and those houses will go up faster than townhomes or condos in a higher crime, worse school area. You can also help the appreciation on a home by doing improvements to it and the property. Convert a 3rd floor attic to live-able space by adding a bedroom and bath and you could see a house bump up into the next range of comparables for that neighborhood/area.
Seems like Harvard will have an easier time with taxes if it just rebrands itself as a private for-profit corporation.
Usually, the more information an attacker has about you, the higher the chances of coming up with a successful attack vector.
On light, colors, mixing paints, and numerical optimization
Now You Can Message Google Gemini from Any Android Phone
Ok, thanks. My misconception kind of prohibited the insight of a potential (theoretical) assert statement, which is kind of what is meant by

> if the [resulting] dataset "fits" the model architecture properly,

right?

I have too many questions. It seems unreasonable to ask away and I should instead read the studies and some books.
Meanwhile, most people haven't even heard of Capability Based Security.[1] 8(

It's sad to see so much effort wasted, while ignoring the root cause, ambient authority.

Given the sad state of operating systems these days, you're forced to absolutely trust any code you run, which is nuts.

Anything you run can open a port to a server somewhere and exfiltrate all your data, encrypt it, or whatever evil that the programmer wants, and there's no practical way to stop it.

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Imagine if the power grid were built without any fuses or circuit breakers... that's what our internet and computers are like at present, in terms of security.

In that world, it would be like the White House demanding purer copper in the wiring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
The speed you could get on those "box character TUIs with light up Alt-key shortcuts" was insane - I can remember going to Fry's Electronics, where everything was managed by some (probably mainframe) computer that was interacted with via terminals (later a terminal emulator on windows) and the employees who knew it could get you a printed out quote for the cage before the thing had even finished drawing the first screen.
The data backs up what I was saying. Very few bills are rejected by the senate. Most of what you are seeing are bills that died in place because parliament was either prorogued by the liberal government or an election was called resulting in the dissolution of parliament, not because the Senate actually rejected those bills.
The skepticism is understandable at least academically. From my understanding FAI isn't prioritizing clinical trials because 1) their individualized process with AI/ML work isn't aligned with classical physician/allergist work and 2) that same time could be spent to grow the program's operation and get more patients off the waitlist.

The individualized work is also why TIP doesn't scale-- even FAI itself hasn't opened offices outside of SoCal yet (east coast patients like myself have been begging internally for years for them to open locations nationwide).

Everyone would love to see FAI be more transparent, but just because they aren't doesn't mean the program doesn't work. Arguing "its not clinically proven, therefore it's not legitimate" feels pedantic when there's thousands of us in remission.
true, but that requires an accurate clock, and specialised hardware. Ideally you also need to be above the clouds as well.
There is Tiny11 for those wanting to try a custom stripped down version of Windows 11. Never tried it myself, though I was a fan of nLite back in the day.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiny11-23h2-windows-releas...
Yes it was two posh ladies buying the Charlie and looking over at me in the distance nervously. I guess this was before delivery had really taken off. Strange.

Never found that end of Islington to be particularly bad, even if was a bit hectic.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=why+do+I+...
If it's only compliance then, why not go with the other vendors like Vanta etc?
I don't think it's a secret that this is an opinion piece. Do you really need a warning about that when the dude says right up front that he is in a charity dealing with the issue?

>I'm so tired of this. No, it's not an excuse to say "It's fine this guy is writing misleading politically motivated drivel, other people do it too!". Firstly I don't care what other people do, and secondly go take a look at that website's about page -

I don't care what the site's about page says either. News sites publish opinion all the time, and it doesn't take much of a sleuth to figure it out. It sounds like you are only itching to discredit this for other reasons, like you approve of drugs and also hate people who hate drugs.

If the mere sight of this article upsets you this much, go touch grass. Seriously.
Response to Etsy's "Strengthening New-Shop Onboarding to Keep Community Safe"
Focus all your mental energy on answering the following question: What is my next thought?
The key component being going back to your old diet though.

So dietary changes do have a direct impact. It’s just dependent on whether the dietary pattern is consistent long term.
Is forcing everyone to buy a new ev really good for the planet? I would think people keeping and repair existing vehicles would be better for the planet than mining, transporting, refining, building, transporting again a brand new car.
Isn't the goal of the "smart bombs" rather to avoid having to blow up hundreds of structures that cost thousands to get at the one (and to get that one really, properly blown up)?
Is there a price listed anywhere? thats all i care about finding out
I’ve got a 15 yo who decided to start programming in Python using Pythonista on his iPhone. He refuses to take any input from me; just wants to learn on his own. Pythonista comes with some nice game-programming modules. So far he’s shown me a Pong game, 2048 clone, air hockey, and more.
I just took a look at Metabase.

https://www.metabase.com/demo

Demo is nice.
some startups are going to achieve trillion dollar market caps this decade I expect.

The resources used are going to be incomparable to anything before.

And ten trillion next decade I predict. General intelligence is the “last” technology we will ever need, in the sense that it will subsume all other technological progress.
Also, real world speeds will be even slower for most users because unlike on M1 Macs, most software is still x86/x64 and will need to be run under translation to ARM. This is understandably a chicken and the egg problem of course because software developers see no need to port their Windows software to ARM due to its very low market share.
Yes. The ultimate 'portable assembly language' / Swiss Army knife of systems programmers.
The overwhelming net outcome has been construction. Look out your window (or at your computer). We're not living in caves.
As William Gibson famously said, "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
Surfingkeys has much more keyboard shortcuts, implemented vimedit for input fields, better search, sessions...
This is just a press release, but they link to the actual report, which goes into more detail, such as specifically calling out C and C++

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-...
> Presidents, Chief Justices, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, Fortune 500 CEOs has UVA produced

A bunch, what's your point? UVA is a very good institution.

> Top institutions don't need to be dragged down to meet the average based on some arbitrary criteria

"Dragged down" tell us how you really think about the bottom 99.99%! It makes me think you really don't think of the rest of us as proper citizens - should we gate more things to university admissions? Because last time I checked, the current POTUS went to University of Delaware, an institution even less exclusionary than UVA.

> If you don't like it, don't apply.

I think their influence on society should be crushed, because it's been a net-negative since the introduction of "meritocracy" to their admissions policies.
China's Carbon Emissions Are Set to Decline Years Earlier Than Expected
San Francisco police want to use drones in car chases
So, this alludes to "The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps", discussed on HN here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38611175

This document also does not provide a concrete definition of "memory safe language," instead only providing examples of such, but there are two things that are interesting about it: first of all, it provides C and C++ as examples of "memory unsafe languages," explicitly.

The second is more towards your "practical implications" question. It says this:

> With this guidance, the authoring agencies urge senior executives at every software manufacturer to reduce customer risk by prioritizing design and development practices that implement MSLs. Additionally, the agencies urge software manufacturers to create and publish memory safe roadmaps that detail how they will eliminate memory safety vulnerabilities in their products. By publishing memory safe roadmaps, manufacturers will signal to customers that they are taking ownership of security outcomes, embracing radical transparency, and taking a top-down approach to developing secure products—key Secure by Design tenets.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 had language inside of it that said:

> SEC. 1713. POLICY AND GUIDANCE ON MEMORY-SAFE SOFT- WARE PROGRAMMING.

>

> (a) POLICY AND GUIDANCE.—Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall develop a Department of Defense wide policy and guidance in the form of a directive memorandum to implement the recommendations of the National Security Agency contained in the Software Memory Safety Cybersecurity Information Sheet published by the Agency in November, 2022, regarding memory-safe software programming languages and testing to identify memory-related vulnerabilities in software developed, acquired by, and used by the Department of Defense."

This is referring to the above. However, the final bill text seems to be missing this, and I haven't tracked down yet how that happened.

The sentiment seems to feel like this is something akin to a softer version of the Ada Mandate: that being implemented in a memory safe language is a competitive advantage if you want to sell to the DoD, because using memory unsafe languages will require documentation explaining how you're mitigating the issues they have. Time will tell if that actually comes to pass.
When constant progress becomes the dominant culture, counter-culture is, well, counter to that.

And conservative counter culture is not exactly going back to X era. You can't step into the same river twice. It's a different path of progress instead with some reflect on history.

We could also say gay rights were conservative, because they were bringing back something somewhat similar to ancient Greece. A lot of progress is reinventing the wheel, with some changes.
It may feel backwards, but it is real.

While we never saw the 20 Euro airplane fares, for some reason the train fares were almost always more 20-50 Euros more expensive than the plane fares given the same lead times.

It was quite irritating.
Actual announcement https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/directx-state-of-the-uni....
>it was decided to use network booting and running Windows from a RAM disk.

What tech did that use? I imagine a "modern" system doing this would use a small RAM disk for the base Windows installation to boot from with any critical apps inside, and a second disk image mounted via HTTP for any "bulk" data, all via a custom iPXE build.

But NT4 predates the PXE standard by a number of years, and also the concept of mounting disk images via HTTP (or other SAN protocol). Was this some Netware stuff perhaps?
Unwalled copy: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/51003
Mhh why do you want to go through all posts? My thought was that searching would be
more useful than a huge list.
Apocalyptic fires in California, NE Canada, Australia; harder and stronger storms; record heat waves and cold waves every year.. What more visual, personally affecting climate events do we need? Like for Africa or India to quite literally become unlivable?
All of this and then subscriptions and other fees (visible up front or added later).

Apple really screwed up by not making subscriptions/fee apps visible up front until later in the same so the whole thing has a seediness to it.
> That’s how it works for many Linux distros, e.g. Debian etc etc.

Yes and no. It's certainly true of most packages but the smaller the package, the more likely it is that the distro package maintainer will be [a/the] maintainer of the original project, even with Debian.

The same is true of Homebrew, etc. - most of the package maintainers aren't the original project maintainers, which is ultimately why MacPorts support is so comprehensive despite not having anywhere near the same user capture as Homebrew. But the places you see frustrating gaps will always be at the edges, where it may be the original project creator creating a Homebrew package & no-one packaging it for anything else.
Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno
For a lot of people math was that thing people forced you to do without managing to convince you of its connection to your life.

I still do things with math despite my math teachers not because of them.
> They are older and learn slower, they also learned a lot of biases over the years.

Wow, I rarely see such unwarranted confidence in such a blatantly wrong statement.
Wow, those Apache guys have so many projects. Of course, they've been at it for years, starting with the Apache web server, then Tomcat, etc., and also, many projects were first developed outside and then handed over to them, for whatever reasons.
Small world...the Elizabeth McNair pix on the page[1] is the logo to one of my more favorite restaurants[2]. I bought a tee shirt of it for my kid...it's pretty cute. You don't think about the people who produce those things and how talented they are[3].

[1] http://elisabethmcnair.com
[2] http://beetlecatatl.com
[3] Of course, it's now fashionable to dismiss them since it's cheaper to just grind them up and feed them to AI.
> I'd suggest that any reasonable person drawing a conclusion would clearly know he was worse.

You can't base any assumption on the existence of a reasonable person without defining "reasonable" very specifically - we all reason in a social context and defer to norms whenever possible.

We all know Hitler was the worst because we keep telling each other Hitler was the worst. He wasn't responsible for the most deaths, he wasn't the meanest or cruelest person ever, etc. If/when people stop teaching about Hitler as "He was the worst," people will stop learning that he was the worst. Or they might learn nothing about him, like how in my US education we learned next-to-nothing about Stalin and many people I know are pretty ambiguous about the ethics of being Stalin.

And so then when a stupid LLM tries to draw a comparison between Hitler and anyone else who isn't an architect of genocide, and puts those 2 people in the same context, and doesn't say "genocide is way fucking worse than grifting", we lose some of that cultural context that tells us genocide is way fucking worse than grifting.
Local LLM and machine learning for plant care
Can you be specific about what the bubble is?

I am getting 100x value out of my 30 chatgpt bucks. I am doing things that I could not have done pre-gpt4, being more productive by a factor of, idk, 1.25 maybe.

It's quite simply the largest/simplest productivity improvement in my life, so far. Given it's only going to get better, unless they are underpricing the service by a enormous margin (as in: defrauding shareholders margin) I have a hard time understanding what shape the bubble could possibly have.
You PM is right. Unlike SOC2, you dont get a certification. More details here [1]

[1] https://compliancy-group.com/what-is-a-hipaa-certification/
Thanks! Indeed an itch that was both on Linux and Windows - so a tool that I could use in either environment
So you're saying that there cannot possibly be any other purpose in our lives outside of biology because we have a lot of DNA in common with monkeys?

I just don't see how that follows. It's like saying "computers are useless for any applications outside of pure mathematics because every operation a CPU executes is mathematical in nature" or something.
> the net present value of a college education isn't something that shows up in the calculation.

Sometimes it never shows up. Mine never did. And I still have student loan debt.

When you're calculating values, consider that different students have very different levels of student debt despite receiving the same education. Rich kids with the bank of mommy and daddy don't need to borrow at all.

> If I borrow money to buy a car, but have no substantial savings, then I'm a debtor - but if I can easily afford the payment then there's no problem, is there?

No, because your net worth is not negative.
say you have a model with two attributes profile_image_url: str and profile_image: bytes

it's expensive to fetch profile_image since it will involve a http call to profile_image_url. right now, i would resolve this by using the @property decorator

this library offers an alternative method for populating profile_image by explicitly giving the user a hook for when they want to resolve this dependency. they might want to do it before access time, they might want to batch requests to this external profile_image service to reduce roundtrip latency

this pattern has potential to become more powerful if we only have user_id in context initially. we might want to fetch the product_image_url from the database then fetch the actual product_image after. this dependency graph might be simplified/optimized using this tool

the repo provides its own concrete example of this form with batch_person_age_loader
Shadeup Crash Course
> I didn't know anything about this pamphlet other than what you posted before reading it.

You didn't read it, then (you replied to me within 30 minutes).
I can't wait to see what the definition of "harmful content" is. It's likely we'll never know the specific definition because it'll use subjective wording that is up to interpretation which will conveniently be used by the justice system in ways that favor the current sitting government rather than the individual.

Remember, it's "for the children" so we have to ram this legislation through as fast as possible - children in Canada, right now, are getting harmed as I type this comment!

I can't wait until "anti-vaccine sentiments", "anti-government messaging", "apolitical misinformation" etc. all get rolled up into "online harmful content" because "it could cause harm to somebody, somewhere in Canada at any time".

"Prime Minister Trudeau, show me on the doll where the harmful content hurt you."
If you're going for wizard names, there are a few under-known (not unknown, but not widely known) wizards in Middle earth:

* Radagast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radagast)

* Valinorian: Alatar, Middle Earth: Morinehtar (Saruman, ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_in_Middle-earth#Names)

* Valinorian: Pallando, Middle Earth: Rómestámo (Gandalf, ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_in_Middle-earth#Names)

This link appears to have a few well-known wizards in the DnD lore: https://old.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/16qr5pz/ingame_famous_...
You need to produce work that others can evaluate to earn you the title of "polymath" -- otherwise you are not.

It's too easy to self-proclaim titles, and to others, naturally, entertaining statements like these are a waste of time.

All that anyone can gain from your comment are the claims that you consume a lot of information, and that you can recall said information. And that you're good at math despite others not knowing it. But, that says nothing about the ability to use said information usefully. Maybe another person consumes 10% of the total information that you do, but, they select this information more carefully, and can produce insights more effectively than you. This is at least in part the difference between fluid and crystalized intelligence.

Maybe a person that consumes 10% of the information that you do is in fact a polymath, but you are not.

Not that I really care to prove that you specifically are or are not a polymath, because, the designation is meaningless, anyway. This designation never meant anything to those that society has retroactively identified as polymaths, either.