skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really do sugary drinks, so Diet Coke/Diet Pepsi is out as well. I also just actively dislike tea and coffee, so I don't really want to go with any kind of decaf version of those either.

So yeah, if the bar has Diet 7-up or Diet Caffeine Free Coke, then I'm fine, but at least in the NYC area I've not really ever seen that at a bar. They're not even guaranteed to have them at grocery stores.

As it stands, the one thing that basically every bar is guaranteed to have that's sugar free and caffeine free is water, so that's what I end up defaulting to. It feels a bit lame but I really like being able to sleep.
Nope.

And the world has not imploded.

There's a lot of chicken-little-ism around the prescription system
Not really. Alcohol can make people stupid, but it can't make them tell the truth. You will hear far more lies and boasts from a drunk than you will deep dark secrets.
It would probably be relevant that Mercer doesn't ever say, "Don't hire anyone for this position if you can't get someone willing to do it for the market price." (I'm assuming they don't.) You can advise people on how to set the prices of things, and you can advise a lot of people at the same time, you just can't advise them to participate in what essentially amounts to reverse collective bargaining.
Sometimes I wonder if T&C updates are just made to remind you you're in their system. I don't read them (except for work stuff, of course) so I probably wouldn't ever notice if anything actually changed.
That data is far too granular. It stops at middle class as though $200k is something impressive in this day and age.
Isreal at 2.9 fertility rate and significant labor force participation.
Sure, of course you would make practical decisions about what kinds of tests to administer, and not proactively administer the tests that have significant negative side effects.

For the other point, personally I don’t really buy the argument of “it’s better not to know you have cancer X, because it might end up being low impact.” If we had excellent regular screening, yes detection of low impact cancers would become a lot more common, but I think people’s perception of them would change too. If it became a common thing for cancers to be detected, but the detection could reliably say “this is likely low impact, we should just keep an eye on it but not treat it”, this would be a lot less scary. It would become normalized IMO. Cancer diagnoses are partly so scary right now because we’re often mostly catching cancers that have progressed and are causing symptoms, so the public perception is rightly “cancer diagnosis = very scary.”
I would like to discuss your phrase: "..voters being wooed away from the certainty of a social safety net by the idea of obscene wealth".

Your preference for "certainty" may not be the OP's preference. The leap from their comment to "the idea of obscene wealth" is also troubling. It is entirely possible to have different preferences, without implying that the person wants "obscene wealth".

To me, policy success would be that we get to make choices - whether they lead to us living modestly and having to deny our family opportunities that wealth might buy, or whether they lead to you living with the margins that allow you to provide your kids the leg up.
The real test is to replace AI with "humanity, given 1000 years". If the statement is reasonable after replacement then it is possible. If it still sounds unlikely then it merits deeper inspection. Will humanity cure cancer given 1000 of study and medical development? It's quite possible, and AI will probably help. So it's not unreasonable to claim that AI can cure cancer (eventually).
I guess they felt as if someone had to stand up for the oppressors!
"Edge" unfortunately is a broad term whose definition depends on the scope of the system. But "Edge ML" is the precise way to communicate what we're doing.

I agree that "on device ML" is less ambiguous, so will give this some more thought.

Thanks for the suggestion!
Could this be related to the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? Or be an artifact caused by the measurement?
Why is facts about how these systems hurt people leftist?
Meanwhile the C# (.net) implementation is 4x faster.
I appreciate your tacit yet loud acknowledgement that you are UNABLE to provide a single example pre-dating year 2017 where a tungsten rod was demonstrated to rapidly decay when exposed to a plasma fusion reaction.

A scam artist would not be able to originally discover and present such a result.

>> So as long as no reputable independent team is a able to verify their claims

The Safire team has worked directly with LLNL, which is as "reputable" as Science(TM) gets.

>> The EU 2017 conference is not a science conference

Nobody said the EU 2017 is not a Science(TM) conference. The Safire team is just one of many speakers there.
Is this seriously the right forum for a political hit piece? It's also shameful that local decision making (which has been Florida's MO: let the local authorities decide) is being shunned. That's how it should be, and part of what makes the US fascinating: we can see how various policies play out.
Yerba Mate is very caffeinated, and I wouldn't say very different from tea, aside from the social norms around it.
The fundamental problem here is that they have a billion users and most of them don't know what they're talking about. If you create a simple way to contact the company it will soon be full of messages from end users who can't even articulate what their problem is but it's usually some kind of malware or user error and is definitely not a problem with whatever component they're reporting the issue against.

What you really need is a way to report problems which is high friction. You have to submit a git pull request of your ssh public key so you can transmit your bug report via sftp. Now they only get bug reports from people who can figure out how to do that and can actually pay attention to them because it filters out all the spam from people asking Microsoft how to connect their Android to a Mac.
Google has 100000+ employees to create mess, and not nearly enough to clean up that mess. They have done a _lot_ to improve the coding culture over the years, without that it would have been unworkable.

As for the generations, may I have the honour of knowing your age, my friend?
You can either go down the route of finding the team that owns the code and then contacting someone on that team, or by contacting someone you know from the company to look it up for you or report the bug on your behalf.
It's illegal in Mexico because the US put pressure on them.

The US said "you need to stop selling this without a prescription system". So Mexico stopped selling it entirely.
That not curing cancer. It's just an improved component of our existing mechanism which cannot cure everyone even if it could reach them all.
Where did you get the idea “the majority of wealth is now inherited”?

I’m curious about your assessment of what fraction of wealth was inherited one and two centuries ago, and how you’re measuring the total stock of wealth.

Holding legal title to a thing is one extremely culture specific subset of wealth; being healthy, consuming goods and services is another, having status in your communities of choice is yet another, and control of the levers of societal power is yet another.

I am deeply skeptical of the claim that a larger fraction of titled wealth is now inherited than it was centuries ago, and I don’t see how you’d measure these other forms of wealth in a meaningful way.
> Objects in the industrial world can’t be repaired.

That makes no sense to me, as industrial things commonly are repaired. Sometimes many times across decades as one part or other wears.
When they disagree, how do you know which article is accurate about what? How do we know?

People say these things about almost every OP on HN; the claim itself isn't a signal.
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You make an interesting point. While the concept is never introduced in the book, the sum total of the information of the book is that price fixing doesn’t work.

How do I square that with the lesson that I learned from the Bible? While price fixing is not mentioned in it it is pretty clear that it says that price fixing works
"We"...

You mean the rulers don't value parenthood. Of course not, because they need to squeeze as much productivity and profit from the younger generations they can before they (the rulers) die. Parenthood gets in the way for that, when the only priority should be to generate as much taxes and corporate profits as possible, and not snot-ridden kids.

The reason for this is that all real estate value, 401K value and stock value gets transferred to the corresponding accounts in the afterlife, so you can understand why the older generation is in a hurry to get as much as they can.

"For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath."
Matthew 13:12
I think you’re giving too much credit to “professional” journalists. This is also an excellent way to hit a certain word count if you are a few sentences short. Basically you bloat it up without needing to write anything new. Listicles and other pre LLM blogspam did this all the time.
Bad articles like this is the reason why I keep buying Nvidia shares.
> My experience was before lived in Asia (USA only) I thought drinking was bad (bar fights, drunk driving deaths, etc...)

Wow, I guess I just don't hang out with the same kinds of people you do (USA as well). I don't think I've ever witnessed a bar fight, and no one I know has been involved in a drunk driving crash (on either side of it). And yet I've done plenty of drinking (I don't remember much of my 30s because of it, sadly).

Instead, drinking around food was a place to get to know people.*

I agree that alcohol is a good social lubricant, and sure, it can be an aid (or even a shortcut) to social bonding. But this article made me believe that, in some East Asian cultures, alcohol is pretty much required to get them to communicate effectively about certain things. That seems... not particularly safe or healthy, not just physically, but emotionally too.
> Russian propaganda channels

There's literally no reason to believe anything in those channels is factual. That's the point of propaganda. :(

Also, no telegram account personally and no interest at all in having one.
Joplin has a WYSIWYG editor mode. https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/rich_text_editor
Joplin also can use external editors. https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/external_text_editor
Truth costs.

One way of really denting the "Don't look up" crowd is to make sure
experts are not for sale. Being an expert and sticking to your guns
doesn't pay well. Sometimes it's a "career suicide" move to stand by
the truth. We shouldn't have to appear at conferences sponsored by
special interests, toe the party line for universities and grant funding
bodies, or be "on message" for those that underwrite our expert
status.
When I checked out an operator repo for some stateful services, say, elasticsearch, the repo most likely would contain 10s of thousands of lines of YAML and 10s of thousands lines of Go code. Is this due to essential complexity of implementing auto-pilot of a complex service, or is it due to massive integration with k8s' operators framework?
I understand that you're trying to monetize your business and I think that is important, especially since you're here commenting on an open source alternative.

But, sending multiple emails to customers with a threat to delete their private photos unless they pay, is a kafkaesque way to do business. Sorry, I'm not going to pay for something when I'm treated with actual hostility...

April 19th 2022: [IMPORTANT] Free account limit enforcement changes.

May 12th 2022: FINAL NOTICE: You are in violation of our free account limits.

Oct 6th 2022: Reminder: Your account is in violation of our free account limits.

It seems that after Oct 2022, someone realized this wasn't a good idea and the emails stopped. I just logged in and checked and still have everything there. What is the point of paying, just to silence the empty threats?
Yeah that’s wild! I do think proactive medical screening is something most medical systems have mostly given up on, other than in very targeted ways, for very specific diseases in very specific high risk populations. But I don’t think this is because it’s a fundamentally bad idea, I think it’s more that it’s impractical right now. It does seem to me that AI has a chance to make it practical.
> My argument would be that these social intoxicants allow for the reduction in anxiety stress which enables a ego reduction

Just a counterthought:

If I your anxiety stress becomes reduced, you might be less anxious to call your boss an idiot. :-D

Seriously: if you become less afraid of the social consequences, this actually might increase your ego. I know quite some people who in my observation have a stronger ego under influence than when they are sober.
If you need pdf viewing and management (indexing, annotations, citations), it might be useful to look into citation managers, which are built to do exactly these things: check out Zotero.
Haha... very funny... not
I can’t understand why people all write these articles about something fast evolving. Five years ago people would hang thought “AI will make art” laughable and now some very successful movie producers are shuttering projects because they think they’ll be using it soon.

Today’s AI won’t cure cancer, but we have no idea what the AI of 20 or 200 years from now will be able to do.
And obviously vulnerable to your husband if he controls your entire financial future.
I read this article a while back, it contains several alternatives

https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/
You can do something that requires problem-solving very akin to boolean algebra using simple mechanical components. Give subjects a place where they get to put in their components in an arrangement of their choosing, and you get something that either works or doesn't. Mechanical gates can be really simple[1][2]. The task can be as basic as "push the ball".

I'm not saying you should do exactly boolean algebra. Trying to fill in the gaps in many kinds of mechanism will already test problem solving skills and creativity. If crows can figure out levers and using sticks as basic tools, I'd wager any functioning human could - and if they can't, that tells you something about them already.

Bonus points if you can set this up physically. Shouldn't be hard to make someone understand.

The hard part is making sure that there's actually enough material to choose from so that the subject has to be creative, rather than just matching whatever fits.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Two-mechanical-logical-g...

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raul-Rojas-6/publicatio...
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It's kinda crazy how confident they are about it too.
Here we have a theory which turned out to be fundamentally wrong while having predictive power.

Maybe every physical theory is just a model approximating something that can at any time be replaced by by a better model that is still just that, a model.
Palantir Football AIP Demo
Artificial Intelligence Platform Demo Football Case leveraging GPT4, Claude and Gemini.
Total fertility rate of 1.59 in 2022 [1], well below replacement.

[1] https://www.statice.is/publications/news-archive/inhabitants...
"Interlisp is a very large software system and large software systems are not easy to construct. Interlisp-D has on the order of 17,000 lines of Lisp code, 6,000 lines of Bcpl, and 4,000 lines of microcode."

from Interlisp-D: Overview and Status

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

Ah, the days when a "very large software system" had 27K lines of code. :)
In some cities there is - kind of. DC, for example, publishes all ShotSpotter events publicly and you can download all records of their events. You can notice by plotting their events that there is a lot of extra "shots fired" on January first (probably from fireworks). If you knew of gunshots at a specific geographic coordinate you could confirm or deny with the DC data. I suppose you could also go to some specific spot in DC and fire a gun to see if they could detect it - but I don't recommend that.

https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::shot-spotter-gun-sho...
https://archive.is/TiiWA
Blindness from some inherited eye diseases may be caused by gut bacteria
> Even though we know prognosis is much better for cancer, and many other diseases, if you catch it early,

5. Diagnosing cancer/disease early does not necessarily improve outcomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_time_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_time_bias

> we do essentially nothing to catch it early.

Huh? That’s the whole point of cancer screening which we do a lot of in the West. The benefit of which remain hotly debated. New tests are also constantly being researched.
That's not actually true. We refine the theories, making them more accurate or extend them to cover a wider range of situations, but the theories usually hold out pretty well. Newton didn't address some things that Einstein did, but within their scope - which is most of human perceptual experience - they are accurate.
Are you asking why it isn't present, or why we don't see it/it isn't put on display? What areas do you have in mind?
That's the trend since 2012 basically, when deep learning took over from hand-tuned feature extraction for image classification.

The fiddly, brittle and multi-step nature of 3D vision endured longer but is going through the same transformation.
" as though $200k is something impressive in this day and age."

Middle class is defined as 2x the median, and adjusted for locality. In the vast majority of the US, $200k+ is not middle class and is impressive.

"That data is far too granular."

It's granular enough to show a trend. Perhaps you have other data to share?
Thanks. I just pushed a new version that throttles the FPS to 60. If you could test again on your device that would be great :D
> Companies do marketing because these techniques work, not because they enjoy being evil

These techniques work... to make them money... which is the part they enjoy. The distinction between evil for money and evil for evil's sake is mostly academic.

But your main point is correct: for most of us here, the screen we view, the ISP subscription, and sure as hell this website, were all paid for in part – perhaps in _large_ part — by fleecing at scale the technically unsophisticated, who lack the faculties to evade the machines we build for companies whose hunger will persist even after it has swallowed every coin from every pocket from every destitute man on earth.
X4500HD introduced H.264 decoding on the last Core 2 generation

https://web.archive.org/web/20120620155937/http://intellinux...

edit: turns out this was never merged and attempts to get the old code running on a modern stack were not successful

https://github.com/intel/intel-vaapi-driver/issues/544
Do you think there will be a market for typical household electronics items such as the hairdryer specifically made with repairability in the near future? Perhaps driven (unlikely) by consumer demand or more likely by resource prices or legislative pressure.
Sure, but my understanding is that for many types of cancer, detecting that specific cancer early does make a big difference. It can be the difference between a single, minimally invasive surgery to remove a tiny rumour that hasn’t spread, that can be effective even without chemo/radiation/etc., and stage 4 cancer that has spread a tonne where even with extensive chemo/radiation/etc., your chances aren’t good.
Ah too bad, I do need a rich text notes app (and no markdown, I hate markdown, under the hood it's fine but I don't want to deal with it :) ). Also hate kanban and agile methodology by the way ;) Luckily I'm not a dev otherwise I would have to work with all of those lol.

But perhaps you could do the monetisation via the sync service only and make the app open source :) That would be great, at least for me so I could compile it on FreeBSD. Some others do this, like Obsidian, for which there's an actual BSD port. But it's electron, sadly. But I understand... It's a tiny niche. I'll keep looking.

Of course I can't use flatpak and snap. And I can't stand snaps so no way I'd use that. Flatpaks are a bit better but not working on BSD.

I really used to love tomboy. It was fast, rich text, would automatically hyperlink notes together as you typed, it was so great. But they stopped development on it. There were a few reboots but they were complete rewrites and lacked all the speed and smoothness I loved.
I doubt it, why would an insurer charge extra to someone without the risks of living on a coast? Wouldn’t another insurer be able to offer lower premiums and take the business.

I would bet it was simply increases in cost of labor for construction and materials, which means the cost of fixing his house has gone up, and so the insured amount has to go up too.
Ask HN: What is your favorite tool for Open Source Project collaboration?
What is your favorite relatime communication platform for Open Source project collaboration?

* Discord
* Slack
* Circle

Something else?
Better cooling with Python, Grafana, Prometheus on top of Kubernetes with enchanted AI. Who needs PID these days?
Right. This should be helpful for all 3D printing. Finite element analysis on infill patterns looks like it helps.

This pattern looks like it's designed for an isotropic material.
Sintered metal printers ought to produce solid metal. Extrusion printers, though, tend to have weaker inter-layer bonds than bonds within the layer.
So this may not work as well in PLA. Might need a pattern that compensates for the weaker inter-layer bonds.
AI will cure cancer if it didn’t already just as much AI will help continue prevent the awareness of such cures.
Manichaean Painting of the Buddha Jesus
> has been demonstrated in written and printed matter across the centuries.

which centuries are we talking about?

> It helps that written Spanish has been particularly well documented from the Age of Discovery onwards.

and that was how many centuries after the Arab occupation?

There are tons of Arabic-origin words in Spanish, (alcoba, aljibe, almohada, cerveza, naranja, zanahoria), so the hypothesis of "usted" sharing said origin is plausible.

Maybe you have some relevant evidence to your theory?
Combating olive oil fraud with nuclear innovations
Thanks. Does it make running identity based compartmentalisation
across multiple bits of hardware any easier? Anything to
replicate/migrate VMs across a network securely or owt like that? Or
is it more "single workstation" model as you say?
A Rare Look Inside Britain's 'Sublime Society of Beefsteaks'
The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle (03 Mar 2024)
When solid science is ignored by people in influential roles, it is of interest to this forum.