skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"White liver refers to a condition characterized by sexual excess and a wasting to death of sexual partners."

White liver: a cultural disorder resembling AIDS (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8456330/)
Hey this is very cool! And something I've looked for multiple times before
It worries me enough when I hear that level of buzzword application in the private sector. I'm genuinely terrified of hearing it out of SECDEF.
A compelling read. What goes unaddressed however is a parallel to what we humans are in through climate change.

We've overwhelmed earth to our short term advantage and to net negative disadvantage of our climate and transitivily on what sustains us: the food chain, clean fresh water, clean air, rampant pollution in the sea. Species are extinct etc. We can get to a place where run away green gasses can destroy us and everything here.

We now realize we depend and some level of equitable co-sharing is required.

Would agi share with us?
No, LLMs with soft attention use compression, and actually has no mechanism for ground truth.

They are simply pattern finding and matching.

More correctly, they are uniform consent depth threshold circuits.

Basically parallel operations on a polynomial number of AND, OR, NOT, and majority gates.

The majority gates can do the Parity function, but cannot self correct like ECC does.

The thing with majority gates is that they can show some input is in the language:

This the truthiness of 1,1,1,0,0 being true, but 1,1,0,0,0 would be failure as negation, but doesn't prove that negation, it isn't a truthy false.

With soft attention will majority gates they can do parity detection but not correction.

Hopefully someone can correct this if I am wrong.

Specifically I think that the upper bound of deciding whether X = x is a cause of m) in structures is
NP-complete in binary models (where all variables can take
on only two values) and Σ_2^P
-complete in general models.

As TC_0 is smaller than NP, and probably smaller than P, any methods would be opportunistic at best.

Preserving the long tail of a distribution is a far more pragmatic direction as an ECC type ability is unreasonable.

Thinking of correctional codes as serial turing machine and transformers as primarily parallel circuits should help with understanding why they are very different.
> until that lawsuit is filed

So then this would be the process of not accepting Apple's interpretation of the DMA.

Thats my point. That is the exact process for which they would be rejecting Apple's interpretation.

So no, they don't have to accept Apple's interpretation, instead they can go through this process.
The other approach is simply accepting one's fate. No, there isn't some cure just around the corner with the only roadblock being FDA approval. There just isn't. There are cancer treatments with terrible side effects but they are approved because they have measurable efficacy. There are no ALS drugs because none of them work. Wishing hard doesn't change that.
Presumably there'd be a messages table that you listen/notify on, and you'd replay messages that weren't consumed when a listener rejoins. But yeah, this is the overhead I was referencing.
…you have to be able to do these things while running MS Teams calls.
Yeah, but that is the thing, in many cases re-runing is not an option, as most services don't guarantee idempotenty.
BSD 3-clause https://github.com/prevayler/prevayler/blob/master/LICENSE.t...
What does this mean in practice? I leave my Messages app on my laptop open all day and correspond entirely through it with family. Since I'm typing I send messages rapidly at volume. I've never once hit a limit. Think hundreds of responses a day.

If an app running on my machine has subclassed the Messages app and is reading strings and sending hit strokes to the (Send) button on my behalf, how can Apple possibly rate limit this?
If you don’t have an Apple computer but have an iOS device, you can also do something similar with the “Shortcuts.app” + “Calendar.app”.

I have a daily shortcut that runs at X time. Shortcut checks a calendar for events, if today contains one or more events. It will parse the text from these events (comma separated fully qualified phone numbers or iMessage accounts), and send the message contained in the body of the event.

Added bonus here is that I can also send group messages.

If I need to have the message sent on repeat, then I put the cal event on repeat.

I could possibly even have templated messages (ie, insert month and year into message), but I haven’t deep dived into that rabbit hole.

Downside here though is that you need an iOS device to always be on.
Lehmer Code
This reminded me of that... but I also don't know enough to say 100% for sure.
I would also add that after Vietnam war America became more reluctant to put Americans in harm’s way. Is almost impossible politically to institute military draft in America: USA did not do it when it was fighting two wars at the same time (Afghanistan and Iraq).

This helps explain at least partially why America is so keen on military tech.
Don't forget Ketamine. It's truly remarkable for depression and PTSD, arguably better than mdma or psilocybin because it's not as psychadelic but produces profound effects regardless. I took my mom to a ketamine clinic recently and up till then my biggest concern for her health was that she was always stuck in fight or flight, constant 11/10 stress levels, what I would call PTSD or complex PTSD. Anyway, after just 1 visit to ketamine clinic (2 low-medium dose sessions only), she's completely cured of her stress disorder. It's remarkable. This was a long-standing pattern for my mom and ketamine (with the help and guidance of an incredible therapist too) fixed it in a weekend, basically.
There's no fully general test for truth for an AI to run.

In some specific domains such tests exist — and the result is, generally, computers wildly outperforming humans. But I get the impression from using them that current LLMs didn't take full advantage of this during training.
It doesn't matter what Apple says on this topic, the final say on how to interpret DMA lies with the CJEU. The text of the law says Apple must offer the "EU mode" to "end users established or located in the Union". If CJEU rules that a person on a 3-month trip to a different country is still "established in the Union", then Apple will have to abide by that.
When you cut corners and refuse to "shine the apple", this is what happens.

Quality Assurance is not a joke. It's your insurance of yraceability, accountability, and accident prevention through process and observability. And yes, it costs.

When you don't do it, welcome to watching people die, and watching workpieces tear themselves apart.
Same in Persian. I didn't know the difference between jigar and kaleja. Looks like kaleja is of Sanskrit origin while jigar is of Persian origin.
> I've come to a practice that whenever I see the words may, could, might, etc. in the title of an article, I automatically invert it

This is similar to Betteride's Law of Headlines:

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Even if it's safe, the harm is in rewarding drug companies for producing very expensive products that don't work, and selling them to desperate people and their families who will sell off everything they own and go as far into debt as they can to pay for them. This creates incentives that we don't or should not want.
Only works when there is control over the source code from both sides, and even so, not everything can be made idempotent.
The problem is not the trial. The problem was an out of order early approval after only a phase two trial with very weak evidence. The phase three trial of course would go on even without such an out-of-order approval. The false hope such an approval creates doesn’t just affect patients directly. It may lead other companies to abandon or slow down therapies that might have competed in this indication. Approval of a drug is a huge deal. Perhaps eventually our drug approval system will change, but right now approval gives a company the power to market a drug to doctors, and doctors can prescribe it to patients, patients can ask for it, insurers cover it, and so on… This one was a conditional approval and the condition failed, which means the system still works, however it now has a possible loophole for how to bootstrap a pharma company. It is not clear yet if that loophole may increase human suffering on average, or not, and it likely depends on how the companies that take advantage of such a loophole grow. Drug discovery, design, and development are capital intensive operations and suffer from lack of innovation, but they also attract greedy people at the executive level who don’t bring therapeutic innovations to the table but rather find out how to draw investor money.
It appeared too late to make a difference for my dear friend and the kindest human being I knew. The manifestation of life's injustice drives me mad ngl.
It can be, for sure, but there's also so many different kinds that are sold as MDMA when it's actually a very similar but slightly different molecule.
What is the impact of something being designated a breakthrough by FDA? What changes as a result?
We're at the point now where an individual can get to the point of building an AGI with their own resources, provided they have the terabytes of training data downloaded, and sufficient compute to process it.

Given the appearance of a Memory prosthesis for LLMs with MemGPT, all the components are in place. Sure, the moat will continue to shrink if trends continue, but we're there already, in my opinion.
LLMs Understand Base64
Oh yes some do. They just want that higher alpha predator to be at THEIR service.
It makes it more honest, for one thing.

And second, it may sound as a paradox, but those authoritarian leaders are more connected with the masses and their needs (and vice-versa) compared to a pseudo-democratic and very opaque assembly composed of some hundreds of members (what are now called “parliaments”) of which no-one knows all that much, for that matter.

So a switch to an authoritarian leader would in effect, and comparatively speaking, mean a return of effective power to the masses, because it is on those masses that the legitimacy of said leader depends. Today’s parliamentarian regimes have long lost their legitimacy (notice senile 90+ years old ladies being parliament members in the most “democratic” country on Earth), it’s all a Glasperlenspiel [1] at this point, following prior moves blindly while the reason behind those moves has long been lost.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
I'd recommend explaining even a tiny bit what erasure coding is. I had to look it up as I didn't know the term. It's really cool, explain it yourself, why you're excited about it!
No evidence of grass before the very tail end of the Cretaceous, either.
In my experience, it fits the definition. On higher doses of MDMA I experience mild to moderate closed eye hallucinations when listening to music (morphing shapes). Though I have never had open-eyed hallucinations to any degree.

And I would absolutely define it as "consciousness expanding" in the sense that having conversations with friends while under its influence opens up aspects of my emotional mind that are very difficult for me to uncover while sober.
No, LCDM can't explain the observed velocities.
These claims are all over the place, and false. Insurance profit margins are 2% to 4%, with the exception of UNH which is ~6%. Medicine company profit margins are 20% to 30%. All publicly available information.

Most importantly, though, is you would need to show what incentive an executive of a publicly listed business would have to show less profit rather than more profit (net income). Investors pay higher prices for shares of more highly profitable businesses, and executives get paid in shares.

So claiming that a publicly listed business chooses to somehow hide less net income (ignoring the claim of fraud), first you would have to provide the incentive for why executives would want to earn less.
I'm impressed that it auto detected my country (Turkmenistan), and made up a kinda sensible price in my local currency (the Turkmenistani Manat).
I'm afraid it will be sold at a price most will not be able to afford, especially without health insurance.

I'd support decriminalization efforts instead: we let people with cancer get weed from a dispensary.

Why not let veterans and other people with a generalized anxiety disorder get LSD the same way?
I believe it's hard when the vehicle doesn't have water inside, since you're effectively pushing against the external water pressure. But once the car is full/near-full of water, it becomes much easier — just like opening a door regularly.
>The biggest problem for me about the ISP routers is their sheer size, they probably make them big so that they seem "powerful" to the average person and he chooses that ISP believing that their router provides superior Wi-Fi.

Size is not just for fun, if you have mu-mimo capable device with multiple antennas you need distance between them. Same with the spider like gaming routers, its not just aesthetics.
> The documentation sounds like it's a global switch though? This is really a per-function property…

It is a global switch per cluster, yes. Agree that it should be a per-function property, and we're working towards that. It's currently in beta.

> What benefit AI gives here — especially in this form, hidden in the RPC layer — I don't see at all. If I want AI to help me identify which functions are retryable, I'd rather have it do that in my editor by visibly sticking the "retry" attribute on the function. That way I can fix it if it mis-guesses.

I think you're mistaking "identifying functions" with "identifying failures". The AI does not identify which functions are retryable. That's your job as a developer. The AI helps with figuring out which *failures* are retryable.

You can't potentially account for all retryable cases in your code. Some exceptions happen in underlying libraries, database drivers and OS level that you might not have see before.

ECONNRESET? Yes
ECONNREFUSED? Yes
429? Yes
400? No
DatabaseDeadlockError? Yes
PGPoolConnExhausted? Yes

> Also: what do you do if with your RPC implementation the guess is wrong and a function is retried when it really shouldn't be? What's the fix?

Good question. If there's a function that you definitely can't afford to retry, there's an idempotence helper [1]

[1] https://docs.differential.dev/advanced/idempotency/

edit: typo
Thanks. There's definitely a need for this, hence why I built WakaQ. Most distributed task queues have bugs or lack features and are overly complex. Would have been nice to find one I could have used instead of building my own. To be transparent, had Hatchet been around I probably would have self-hosted unless your cloud pricing gave similar throughput for the price I get on DigitalOcean. I'm unique, as a bootstrapped solo company. Maybe Hatchet can be the right solution for others. Keep the momentum going!
His previous sentence is telling:

> The types of desires that motivate open-source developers are the same as those of creative people in other fields

Yes, that does seem to be true! However, he draws the conclusion exactly backwards: for most creative people, it is the desire to create which is paramount, but the tedious necessity of making a living leads to a lot of aesthetic compromise and time wasted on business overhead, which would all be joyfully jettisoned if there were some other way of meeting one's material needs.

If artists could satisfy that desire to create without having to worry about making money, most artists would probably not bother to charge for their work at all, because charging money introduces a whole layer of accounting and taxes and promotion and (oh my god, just kill me now) process which purely distracts from the goal of making art.

For me, the fascination and satisfaction of creating software came long before any prospect of making a living at it. For most of my career, I also wrote code in my free time, to give away, for the sheer joy of it. It is inherently satisfying to make something beautiful which liberates people from repetitive drudgery.

Running a business is tedious and time-consuming. The amount of money I could make selling the kinds of things I like to work on would be trivial, and the kind of work I would have to do in order to make enough money to justify the side-project would be... well, I already have a job! Why would I want a second, worse job on top? It's not worth the hassle. I'd rather spend my free time contributing to the global commons and feeling good about it.
Thank you for the comment, apologies if I came off a bit antagonistic! It's just a little frustrating when you see really great apps potentially ending.

It's really too bad there's not a better indie-dev model for the App Store, if I am buying an app (I think maybe I maybe paid $19 for Monodraw -- totally worth it btw), am I buying the app as-is? or do I get updates ... if so how long should I expect to get them and are the updates minor fixes or bigger whizbang features.

I can see that once an app gets to a steady state, there's probably diminishing returns in putting a lot of effort into new features esp. if your market is small. On the other hand, if the app has some sort of subscription, now there is an expectation for updates (not unreasonable, but possibly the numbers might not work for the developer).

I think Pixelmoter sort of got this right, although they did release a Pro version separately (which I also bought). However, I suspect they're a much larger company and probably have quite a large market share and can afford to continue to release updates to keep it fresh (and for someone like me, the app is exactly what I need vs. say photoshop and the price point is reasonable).
Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
It's probably like those email providers that allows you some number of outbound emails per, but it's like 200 - 1000. High enough that most users won't ever notice, but low enough that there's no way to use the service commercially.
Or STM32x2
How does it actually work? Ketamine is a tranquilizer, right? Is it like a therapy session you do using Ketamine to turn off your stress so you can think clearly? How does it have lasting effects?
Wow, so the bottom line is that zsh basically does tail-call elimination with execve on scripts that end with a non-builtin command? That kind of makes sense once you see it, but still, that’s a surprise.
Super neat!! I currently take encrypted zbackup files par2 split them and then seqbox and burn them to M-discs.

What is a better sequence of steps in your opinion?

https://github.com/MarcoPon/SeqBox
It is what happened to each of the wives of King Henry the 8th. It's a famous rhyme intended to make it easy to remember the order of what happened to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Henry_VIII
The way he/she manages time.
Reminds me of a game that I played on Apple II a very long time ago. Can't remember the name but, it was a very basic two player shoot artillery at each other game and I loved it.
I have CF, and my whole life I avoided things like CF communities explicitly because I felt these ties to the disease would lead to a crisis in my life if it was ever something I could stop centering my life around.
The ultimate in fast fashion. The result might be a massive pile of discarded clothes that fit no one unlike now when discarded clothing is bought and sold sometimes several times over.

Plus you have to bear in mind that for many people having to make decisions about style, fit, material, colour, pattern is a burden not a pleasure. People just want a new pair of jeans to replace the ones that got damaged so next time they are in Tesco's or Sainsbury's they just grab one off the rail and throw it in the trolley.
Show HN: Halve-Z – a retro theme for Zola
I remember a while back when they broke one of the ancient Unix tools they actually ship by hacking in some option badly. Their attitude to maintainership is like two levels below a Debian guy breaking OpenSSL.
Because Microsoft sold out the US to China, and is now trying to play victim it seems.
Open Ocean Project
You keep describing them as a salesperson, that's the answer to your question:

> why would they advise about general longevity for a use case context most likely to consist of banking/email chores?

Because their job is the upsell. They're trying to sell your mother on an M3 because it is the most recent one, and they (Apple, not the individual, but they incentivize the individual) want the sales numbers to reflect a high degree of uptake in the market for the newer devices. Don't trust sales people. Just examine the devices yourself, their prices, their suitability for your uses, and their capabilities. Or not, and do trust salespeople but then you're going to spend most of your life being upsold and scammed.
It means test on prod and find out

(lose your main iCloud account... 'bold move Cotton')
Bare metal or an RTOS.
Yeah. "fundamental discoveries irrefutably demonstrated the central role of the heart in human physiology" seems like an awfully narrow perspective.
they'd never been extended to work on more than 8 bits, even in the 8086; they only really existed for 8080 compatibility, and arguably the 8080 primarily had them to ease the path from earlier intel processors designed for, if i'm not mistaken, literal pocket calculators

in pocket calculators you have to display the result in decimal after performing a single arithmetic operation, so it's much more efficient to do the arithmetic in bcd than to convert from decimal to binary, perform the arithmetic operation, and then convert back
I wonder how much change is needed to how we use GPUs for this to yield real gains. Can we revise libcuDNN (and other higher math libs) only, or CUDA itself? Or must GPU hardware change too?
Bubble Wrap Popping
Let's give the Mac Classic 4 megs of RAM [video]
That's why most optical computers lean into quantum computing.
I can get LSD25 on a casual walk on Haight st. on a Tuesday. Excuse my French here, but fuck the FDA.
Rigid Body Physics in Minecraft without mods [video]
Those are things that could go wrong, sure. I don't think this framework is claiming to make all of those impossible. What's your point?
Thoughts on subjecting Jewish-Americans to this?

We've lost reems of technology to I*aeli espionage.
Same as Ketamine. Ketamine therapy is available now but, the cost very high so, it is practically unavailable to most.
Single Purpose Robots
There are enough rich singers. I don't really see them releasing their songs for free en-masse.
What happens if you train a model on nothing but AI-generated output, recursively? Does it eventually get inbred?
The harm here is the medical industry sticking with the amyloid hypothesis in the face of repeated and expensive failures.

The funding needs to move on to something that might actually work. Propping up these failed drugs with "what does it hurt" is in the way of getting an Alzheimer's drug that might actually benefit people.