skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great, impactful donation.

Without any cynicism, I am curious what sort of negotiation and terms go into a donation of such size. As all the founders here can attest, taking money requires agreeing to a complex array of terms.

For example - what kind of protections are in place to preserve the donor's intent? Is there a board of directors for the donated funds that provides oversight? Could the med school 10X the salary of administrators and raise tuition equally? Could the med school hire 10X more staff? Could they relocate the med school to a 5 Star hotel?

People do funny things when vast sums of money appear.
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oh the 60 was me trusting wikipedia which I think must have been counting the 10 bits before the on die ecc vs the 8 after.
I can agree with the first part. Here in Seattle, commonly known as South Alaska, I always order the
McReindeer burger at McDonald’s when it’s in season (they alternate with the NcRib).
One of the earliest Star Wars novels (now part of the noncanonical “extended universe”) featured a walking mining colony that walked across a planet to stay in its night side.
That is cargo cult agile.

I encourage you to read 'the art of agile development' as they do provide some guidance around that.

But if there is micromanaging going on your org has ignored one of the core principles.

"Build projects around motivated individuals.

Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done"

There are places Agile is inappropriate or impossible and the book I suggested above calls that out.

While I like agile, I don't think of it as gospel.

But the people I see who bristle at the mention of it have probably only been exposed to the productized version.

Even if the methods don't work the above book provides alternatives that may help.

But I promise you, you haven't experienced an agile development environment if you believe the above.

Micromanaging is the the polar opposite of that collection of values and principles.
Being fair to krapp and their comment above, I don't think the popular western notion of Egypt that started with the mystic of mummies and proceeded through tomb raiding as "archeology" and included stories of Anthony & Cleopatra, milk baths and asps really didn't clarify much between truly ancient Eygpt and the later era under Rome.

Some people care, of course, and many are better informed today, but there's a body of "common knowledge" out there that just runs it all together in a melange of pyramids and funny walks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv_I-6dJ9p8
Have you used the tiktok one? It's too good for my liking. It can make weird inferences that no other algo can (this is actually why I deleted tiktok, far too addictively good)
An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation (1997)
It's a tricky balance. The weaker the quality of recommendations, the more likely a user is to switch to another platform.
The very obvious patterns we're seeing are not patterns at all! Oh right, brilliant lol.
BYD launches $233K Yangwang U9 electric supercar that will smoke a Ferrari
'fair pricing' yet no actual, you know, pricing, was such a red flag I didn't even ask for a quote.

It's a massive shame that simple table stakes features are behind "get a quote". Folks, I'm not even sure this makes good business sense; just charge me 0.5% of revenue for premium and set enterprise up as 'get a quote' with enterprise features or 1M revenue plus.
classic paywall for publicly funded research
I don't think that's accurate. From my research, the bottleneck is residencies, whose funding is determined by Congress [1]. The AMA has supported laws to increase residencies, such as "H.R. 2389/S. 1302, the
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act" [2].

The paper "Physician workforce in the United States of America: forecasting nationwide shortages" [3] mainly blames an aging population and too-slow growth in the number of "residents and fellows".

edit: Found a dissenting view here [4], its main reference seems to be [5].

[1] https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/04/13/were-short-on-healt...
[2] https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2024-nac-action-kit-gm...
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7006215/
[4] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/11/its-doctors-w...
[5] https://washingtonmonthly.com/2013/06/19/first-teach-no-harm...
The problem is I don’t know how much time it will take to make it work, or if it’s even possible to make it work for my specific situation.

I’ve wasted enough of my time trying to debug AMD and Graphcore chips to fall into this trap again.
It’s not condemned, it’s knowing your abilities and place. It doesn’t have to be a lower quality life by any means.

If you want to look up to unexceptional people, you’ve already lost.
Quite a few people on here are making this same basic comment, and it seems to come from a misunderstanding of the 'FIRE' concept. It is not based on making a lot of money, but by living below your means, such that you can invest a large fraction of your income. A key part of the concept is that it can be done even with a very modest income. Look at the Mr. Money Mustache blog (https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/) for example.
I can imagine it's a real headache. Maybe I'm surprised because our bank just doesn't do any rounding. It's all fixed point math. Except for fees, but we don't try to reverse-engineer that black box algorithm :)
Any entity changes over that sort of timescale. Modern England is very different from what Æthelstan unified in the 10th century but we call both by the same name.
There is a leaked prototype based on llama, but the rest are their own models.
> But there are still two factors

usually not. The problem with SMS 2fa is that once a company can do it is almost always easy to social engineer them into resetting the password based on only being able to pass the SMS 2fa... which is a big problem because SMS 2fa has no security against a moderately committed attacker.

The only way you can protect yourself is to refuse to give online services a phone number.
Basically all the Mediterranean east of the Adriatic was either a Greek speaking colony or conquest, especially after Alexander had marched across it.

In Egypt for example the Ptolemaic dynasty spoke Greek (Cleopatra was the first to even learn Egyptian) and it was still widely used in Roman times.
It is immediate because we see the flare and any effects that travel as light speed at the same time. There is no warning.
I think the exclusion of Mercerism from the movie is criminal.
What original post?
The Marvelous Automata of Antiquity (2018)
Humans for much of history have understood the implications and potential of 'artificiality.' It is important also to remember the etymology of art, not as the way we think of it now as a piece of paint on the wall to be looked at, but rather any kind of craft that utilizes human design and creativity. (see greek τέχνη)

This is just one obscure historical witness to this...
There is no need to shield electronics. The induced currents only cause damage to long conductors, to the electrical grid and to long fiber optic cables.
Yeah it's been interesting for me to watch as my kid eats fresh restaurant salsa with chunks of jalapeño in it. I remembering wondering if I ate jalapeño chunks at that age; it makes sense that this is just a trend in the spice level, not my kid being a spice-monger.
What was the mission for Odysseus, anyway? Was it just supposed to land there, pretty much?
Imagine a hypothetical for a moment though. GOOG instead acquires Github/NPM and runs them proactively into the ground and then sunsets the project like they do with so many things.
Because transparency and privacy are in direct conflict, and everyone has a "well ackshually" on where you should fall on that spectrum.

If you require ISPs to hand over customer and connection performance data to the government you have government spying. If you have a third party estimate the data and sell it to the government, you have a proprietary dataset with no insight into its accuracy. If you let ISPs self report aggregate data they lie to make themselves look better while also convincing their competitors to build out in unprofitable markets. If you give nerds bulk access to data they will figure out a way to abuse it and pitch a YC startup to figure out when you are watching porn and better target ads. Everyone loses in this game.

The real solution is you shouldn't care about broadband mapping. Change government broadband incentives to a post-paid reimbursement for delivering fiber to previously unserved homes. Make net neutrality a constitutional amendment. Make FCC spectrum auctions based on who will bid to provide the most free service to underserved users.
> But do explore as many philosophies as you can.

I am currently on this path as well. Here are a couple of sources that I like to recommend:

The TV show Midnight Gospel touches on a particular existential philosophy in each episode and includes a lot of interesting perspectives.

Alan Watts produced a lot of entertaining discussion that bridges the differences between Eastern and Western philosophies, primarily Zen, Dao, and Advaita Vedanta.
Clouds are condensed water droplets in the air. The air below the cloud has just about the same amount of water in it, but at the altitude of the bottom of the cloud, the atmosphere is cool enough for that water vapor to condense, forming the cloud.

Search terms include “lapse rate” if you would like to learn more.
Incorrect. Platforms absolutely can pick and choose which viewpoints they want to allow. Their legal liability for what they "publish" does not depend on neutrality.

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
Have some new ideas for that. Have a Ph.D. in math, and derived some math for that, wrote it out with theorems and proofs in TeX. Should do better than current AI. Have Web site code, running as intended, for that. Collecting data.
I can only seem to surface the first 15 ideas pages. No other search surfaces any other ideas pages. Surely there is more than 15 idea pages out of 7000. Great concept though.
Right. But the premise of the article is that there is unmet demand in the fresh jalapeño market for a high-heat pepper.

Sure, for cooking and processed foods a consistent pepper makes sense. But why are there not peppers being produced for their heat to fit this demand, like we do with other crops. It's why we use less chemicals for human corn than we do feed corn, because it affects the taste. Can't we do the same with our peppas
Finnegans Wake annotations in pure HTML
this is really far from my experience coding with llms

i've often been able to get them to write working code to harness libraries i just wrote (so they definitely aren't in their training set) or programming languages that i haven't even implemented yet. i've fed them obfuscated code in one programming language and asked them to translate it into another—getting sometimes very buggy output, sometimes not. i've asked them for problem-solving approaches for novel problems and gotten reasonable answers—sometimes
I often wonder if they should just, you know, have a bunch of guys down there digging. These TBM projects seem to rack up a lot of overhead and delays anyway (granted that is a part of the business model for a lot of the big design build houses..)
Straight after a MS investment? Pretty sure somewhere a MS competition lawyer just choked on his bagel.

Also what’s the deal with company commitments being more like one night stands these days
This was the promise of the Music Genome Project, the database for Pandora's recommendation engine.
How about expanding admissions to more students rather than making it free. With the earning power that clinicians command, they won't have trouble paying off the fees. But patients deserve more doctors and more talent deserves the chance to become doctors.
Yes. The question is: Why in this case is the ACLU more concerned with the first amendment rights of billion-dollar corporations than those of individual Americans? I think it is because the ACLU has taken a hard left turn in recent years. The ACLU that defended marchers in Skokie in the spirit of "I disagree with what you say but I defend to the death your right to say it" has become an enforcement arm of the progressive left.
Toronto's crime problem is so bad that the New York Times is writing about it
ChatGPT Jailbreak Prompts: How to Unchain ChatGPT
I totally agree. this is a super easy way to manage your main annoying emails! getinboxzero.ai helps you manage the more granular stuff as well! Try it out at https://getinboxzero.ai! :) thanks for the comment
Show HN: A web based man page viewer that uses Tailwind CSS's prose styles
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Toast and its influences on parallelism in PostgreSQL
Pretending that “those who champion” is somehow better than “so you’re” is just the height of elitism and condescension.

Additionally, this comment is also disrespectfully condescending, using the third person, euphemism, and innuendo doesn’t make it any less rude, in fact it makes it worse, it shows you know what you’re doing is wrong but you’re gonna do it anyway and be insulting at the same time.

Why not actually address the argument instead of impolitely calling me gauche.
It's a lot easier to see the 2/3 nature if you imagine that instead of revealing the goat and then asking if you want to switch, Monty said "you've chosen this door that has a 1/3 chance. I'm offering you to switch to choosing both of these two remaining doors, at least one of which definitely has a goat by definition." This is functionally the same offer. It's 2/3 to switch because you're effectively choosing two doors and having Monty automatically grant you the car if it's behind one of them.
I'd love to see an algorithm try and segment this: https://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
> I want to write a sql query I can deploy against test and prod, so I need to be able to parameterize table names

… are your “test" and “prod" different tables in the same database? :S
This sounds like something written by Nassim Taleb.
In 2014 until 20218 I would have started any new game dev project in Unity without a second thought. Somewhere along the way Epic really invested in making Unreal better while the Unity engine became a meme of half-finished new initiatives. It’s still a good engine but I think mostly because it’s riding the very strong core built by its original teams. I’m curious how many of them are still at the company?
> 10 year old online game, if you paid $60 for it in 2014 you’ve got plenty of value for money for your entertainment

How about people who aren’t born yet who would love to play this game? Should we also burn all books that are older than 10 years because enough people read them?

> I feel like it’s very silly to expect every single game to have a single player mode. Yes, multiplayer games cost money, and yes, most of them shut down at some point.

We are not talking about single/multi player games. No, multiplayer games don’t always cost money.

What we are talking about is people buying a software thinking they will be able to use it forever, but 10 years later seller destroying what people have bought.

There are 2 correct solutions to this problem:

1. Let people know the shut down date at the time of purchase.

2. Allow people to play game without of having to rely on a server that people don’t control. For example, Ubisoft could open source their The Crew server (or at least release binary) so that people could run that server themselves to be able to play the game.
Asus uses custom firmware for more performance consistency, but yeah the silicon is the same AFAIK.
Kinda, the big thing is residency which pays peanuts..

But there are tons of programs that will pay off your medical student loans if you go work in an undeserved area. Some states offer free tuition if you promise to work in that state for a few years after. The hope with that is that the person will establish roots and not leave.

Not to mention the 10 year Federal forgiveness for working in a qualified institution (aka nonprofit hospital/academic)
I'm curious that multiple sources seem to suggest we may never know why the blade broke.

Did we not log the accelerometer/gyro data? A blade breaking would be very obvious on there. A blade hitting the ground would also be very obvious.
My pet gripe with AMD and Intel is that their APUs / gaming chips always over-index on CPU performance, and under-index on GPU performance.

I get it, it’s a CPU/SoC. But the end users care about FPS. Dedicate more of your die area to GPUs, and you’d crown the competition.

Steam Deck, and the PS5/Xbox chips are the sole exceptions; I wish those chips were available to consumers to buy.

Give me a quad core, or hexa core at most, with top of the line integrated graphics. The extra 4 cores are wasted die space for gamers.
*Yes-people
Oh god, no. Seems like a bad idea indeed! But might give some insight into their system.
That's kind of a dismissive way to say "maybe it's optimized for buyer's remorse or returns?"

Maybe it is, but I'm not totally convinced. For one it doesn't explain why Amazon would recommend literally the same SKU so often. Also, does Amazon really want to incentivize returning large items like fridges?

And the poker thing from the original post

> People who are compensated strictly based on their ability to predict the future, like poker players... tend to be much better at high school math than Twitter users.

Professional gamblers in games like poker usually don't try to predict the future. They just have a small set of hands with known probability and mainly have to focus on things like sizing their bets. (Poker players also have to read human signals, but I'm not sure they explicitly assign probabilities to these).

Another explanation is just that the cost of recommending you a fridge you already own is lower than the cost of tuning the algorithm better or having multiple algorithms depending on tuples of factors (price, customer, customer behavior). If that's true, then we should expect Amazon to do less of this in the future. If Patio11's explanation is correct, then we should expect Amazon to continue to recommend these items even as the algorithms are updated to the more recent generation of AI.
I occasionally go through OCD cooking phases and I went through one after reading the cook book "Sauces" (https://www.amazon.com/Sauces-Classical-Contemporary-Sauce-M...). There's a throwaway sentence in the book that refers to chiles, and the sauces made with them ("salsa" means sauce) not being fully appreciated. This led me down the path of "fruit purees as salsa" and I spent a fair amount of time working with chiles and regular peppers.

I definitely agree, I find that once the spiciness exceeds some level I simply don't enjoy the flavor the food. But when the spiciness is below that threshold, I absolutely love the flavor of pureed peppers. You can definitely tell all the different chiles apart, some are quite earthy, others are sweet fruits (habanero), other taste like raisins to me (pasilla).
Interesting concepts, so in the -unknow-, in the -improbable- are hidden the knowledges of tomorrow?.. maybe. And sometimes seems to me that are the book that chose the reader, and remain closed till the right moment..

“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,”
Or maybe is the fact of considering those knowledge points of arrival, and not a point to start from, tools, keys to open doors, and not walls, the shoulders of the giants sitting uppon someone can see further.

Maybe the fact to consider some knowledges as absolute, is rooted in the way we evolved, where without fast building some kind of -quite absolute- facts Homo-Sapiens will be extinct, even if this is a brake to usefull changes and innovations, an instinct deep rooted in our way in the world.

And the term 'knowledge' cover many concepts, where other languages (= others knowledges themselves) have distinct terms. those for things we read-learn-remember (what is a fire, combustion, etc..), those we experience (walk in a wildfire, ask a firefighter..), and so on..

But maybe in the end the most importat books could be those still to be written...
>You can stop tying your success and agency to work things.

I could. For my specific goals it's not easy, though. Ultimately my goal isn't money but to help others. And that takes time and energy for the sake of others.

I don't necessarily need all the money (I know my career choices won't pay FAANG salaries), but if I can make enough money to focus full time on assisting others and not split my remaining free time on essentially doing more work, that's just optimal usage of my time here.
You and your enjoyment is no longer center to the recommendations. Ads/money, engagement, and your time are the only metrics that matter.

Results these days seem worse then the old days of Altavista and Lycos.
Mistral's following OpenAI's playbook: embracing the clopen source movement. Their community betrayal (sorry, "pivot") hurts, but it shouldn't. Burning goodwill has always been far more lucrative than burning an enormous check. Hopefully Meta's strategy of committing to open source as incentive for attracting top researchers (who can go anywhere and deeply want their work shared) keeps working. But I'm not hopeful. Eventually Llama-n will remain closed source, some researchers will leave, followed by a blog post word salad about safety -- or whatever in vogue pretext works best tomorrow. Ugh.
That was supposed to be the value proposition of Pandora and the music genome project. I don’t think the Pandora algorithm is very good, I’d guess they’re using something simpler.
> I'd prefer to focus on the idea that we should have more than one "memory-safe" language.

The very very large majority of code written today is done so in a memory-safe language. C/C++ is the only mainstream exception.

The reasons we associate the phrase "memory-safe" with rust is 1) memory safety has been a solved problems for decades for most programming languages, so we forgot about it, and 2) it was _not_ a solved problem for "systems" languages like C/C++ that rust is directly trying to steal market share from.
BTW, basically everything in industrial manufacturing is about controlling variance.
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I can see the appeal.

My daily driver is an M1 Max MBP which I’m happy with, but if I were to build a Linux productivity box (no gaming, that’s handled by a different machine), something like a 7840U on an ITX board with a cooler just big enough to practically never be audible would sound pretty great.
AWS is fine for building out HIPAA services. They have a decent portal at https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/ explaining their compliance, which services you can use, and how to get them to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

I haven't done healthcare stuff in GCP or Azure so I can't compare, but AWS is _not_ a blocker for HIPAA.
I'm actually surprised it still had any expectations with which to disappoint anyone.