skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of OTC medications have potential issues and interactions. That said, my primary care recommended I take vitamin D based on blood work and no one has batted an eye at my taking 5K IU. So the idea that's some widely-accepted radically dangerous dose is simply untrue. (Doesn't mean it's a wrong idea but it's not one that doctors generally accept.)
Sorry it was sort of joke, cause the problems that you describe are extremely common, and people running those teams really struggle to keep people on.

Anyways, you should try both to find a new job, and (since it could last a little bit), try to improve your situation internally.

Also, when you interview for your next job, make sure you ask the devs what it’s like to work there, what’s the general code quality, is there a bunch of “legacy” stuff. People generally open up when it’s bad…
I've been talking to a friend about this lately, in the context of "prepping". Curious if anyone here knows whether a laptop computer could potentially get fried from a solar storm if it were unplugged? I'm guessing it's just things connected via wires that would be destroyed. If I'm mistaken, would a faraday cage keep the laptop safe?
I've already moved to zig since it's the only real C alternative out there right now. I'm just making a point C itself as a written language is not bad. You could make something that is very similar, but avoids most of the common issues with C (which are much less than with C++). C won't die and interop will be the C ABI for long time still.
Sounds like a perfect time to handle impending commercial real estate crisis!
Better question: why does a simple search for “What color is a labrador retriever” require any compute time when the answer can be cached? This is a simple example, but 90% of my searches don’t require an llm to process a simple question.
As a non-biologist, interesting on the molecular work to get from vemurafenib to HRX215. Modern biochemistry for drug discovery is fascinating!

Also, small sample size, but the 85% hepatectomy in pig model results are interesting, where liver efficacy seems to be boosted enough to prevent systemic collapse post-surgery, at a normally lethal removal amount?

That's a pretty smart experiment for "Does this drug do what we think it does, or are we misreading other results?"
agreed! this is another censorship tool.
The first walkable city in America in a century
"But there are still pitfalls ahead"
I suspect that a lot of people who say they want to do this have a delusion that at some point in the past the whole country/world was aligned with the
fantasy envisioned in their head.
Which laptop models share system RAM with an Nvidia RTX cards?
of course, but Lyme is most prevalent and, I'd like vaccines for rocky mountain etc. as well, and there are efforts towards each (Well probably not for the alpha gal sensitivity caused by lone star ticks).

there was an actual ready to go vaccine for Lyme, LYMERix, which was pulled because it was not profitable. That's the problem there, which is that vaccines should be made available even if they are not "profitable".
I agree strongly with Biden when he characterized the recovered American economy as "the greatest story never told".

The reality is that the US economy is very strong, and has been for quite some time now. We all just don't like to admit it.
The question is more boring than that. I agree that running models in the browser would be cool.

The question is, where are the models coming from? If they're downloaded & stored for each website, that's going to get out of hand very quickly. It seems to make sense for browsers to ship with some useful default models, but that doesn't seem to be what the specification is for.
> Having sources of trust is the basis of managing complexity.

This is a false equivalence that I’ve already addressed.

> When you turned the tap water on and bought a piece of meat at the butcher you didn't yourself verify whether its healthy right?

To a degree, yeah, you do check. Especially when you get it from somewhere with prior problems. And if you see something off you check further and adjust accordingly.

Why resort to anology? Should we blindly trust YouTube to judge whats true or not? I stated that labeling videos is fine but what’s not fine is blindly trusting it.

Additionally, comparing to meat dispenses with all the controversy because food safety is a comparatively objective standard.

Compare, “is this steak safe to eat or not?” To “is this speech safe to hear or not?”
I understand wanting to defend your baby, and I think C++ was VASTLY better than most other languages for performance sensitive code until maybe 5 years ago - but the combination of memory safety and thread safety that Rust offers means that there are very few situations where C++ is the appropriate choice for a new project now.

I have written professionally in C++ for 20 years now, and I would pick Rust for a _new_ project/fresh codebase in a heartbeat. tokio alone is so vastly superior to anything you can do in async C++ that it makes zero sense to select C++ for a _new_ project (obviously if you have an existing codebase the price of interop may not be worth it).

Bjarne is being deliberately obtuse here.
Anecdotally, had a moment of silence once, after it became apparent the 100x network bill was from a compromised vm due to two human errors combined

I appreciate that Google Cloud refunded the $10k despite our faults in the situation

The errors

1. Spinning up a vm for some experimentaion, with a public ip

2. Setting a weak password on a well-known username

The vm became involved in a ddos network
There may be a couple in Northeast PA (and others in Pennsyltucky), but those parts of PA aren't usually thought of as part of the Northeast US.
AI Book Generator 25,000 Words
I built an app to generate content 10,000+ words. Nearly all AI content writing tools max out at 2 or 3k. Get inkflow.io for less that $2 per week.
I am one of the devs who built this, and have a lot of opinions about RAG frameworks and constraints. Also knowledge graphs. So it would be great to see how anyone else has solved this or is working on the problem of specific retrieval for LLM output.
MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-to-Image with 1 Hour of Data
> Risks of not disclosing

> It can be misleading if viewers think a video is real, when it's actually been meaningfully altered or synthetically generated to seem realistic.

> When content is undisclosed, in some cases YouTube may take action to reduce the risk of harm to viewers by proactively applying a label that creators will not have the option to remove. Additionally, creators who consistently choose not to disclose this information may be subject to penalties from YouTube, including removal of content or suspension from the YouTube Partner Program.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491

This is censorship. That's all.
https://archive.is/mr9lV
Love this advice. I’ve always struggled with the same thing.

One friend started telling me to get over myself and publish, then he reworded it to:

“Get over being under yourself.”

For some reason that one stuck with me and gave me the strength to ship my first few pieces of writing.
I think it’s both (great economy, poor sentiment). The economy is strong because unemployment is low. Unemployment is low because of a tight labor market due to structural demographics. But housing is expensive because of housing shortages, which will take years, if not decades, of building to resolve. Credit is expensive making buying durable goods expensive (autos, specifically). Healthcare is…you know.

We’re closer to “living within our means” (versus cheap credit inflating consumer and business spend) from an equilibrium perspective, but the ZIRP party is over, happiness is reality minus expectations, and everyone is disappointed in what reality looks like.

You might not lose your job, but you’re still chained to a treadmill with no relief in sight. Hence, sentiment.
Sorry, I should've said there are "essentially" none.

The two towns, Lancaster and Allentown, in PA with Waffle Houses, are kind of exceptions that prove the rule. They are special rarities -- the northern waffle house, like the jumbo shrimp.

But Waffle House in its true environment is no more a rarity than an orange in Florida. Its commonness is an inherent part of its charm.

Technically, it's possible a northerner could drive a few hours to get to a Waffle House. But the whole point and charm of Waffle House is its ubiquity. Anytime, anyplace: just past the next offramp and open 24 hours.

It is not a planned destination, it's ... just where yall end up. And so no, while technically there's a couple waffle houses north of the mason dixon, those in the know would agree there isn't really waffle house in the north, regrettably.
> It sucks to be disabled and this is why it sucks. People shouldn't be wasting lifetimes of time to so that visually disabled people can be slightly more convenienced to browse the internet or play with an app.

I think that a big part of why it sucks is that people feel comfortable expressing the idea that working to allow people of all abilities to enjoy the same conveniences is wasting time.
I would argue that it made sense for performance-sensitive code until the maturation of Rust, so it made sense even in 2015. But not today.
The springs are different than the opener. I don’t think the springs can be disconnected, they have to be carefully removed. You would know if they were or were broken, because you couldn’t open the garage door.
If the economy is that strong, why are housing prices outrageously high on either coast, where the jobs are? To paraphrase Jesus, it's not about Man serving the Economy, it's about the Economy serving Man.
Absolutely, poor media coverage has lead to poor sentiment despite a consistently good economic recovery since gas prices went down in 2022.
Yes, but all of these are essentially all because the existing code is already based on C(++). We should be able to move to Rust sooner than people think.
Show HN: Movie recommendation engine using RAG
Jobs are everywhere in this country, there's a reason why the unemployment rate is so low!
Is this already available?
I attempted an almost identical repair like this once and ended up in the ER. Don't do it. Call a pro.
> Forecast for US Recession Within Year Hits 100% in Blow to Biden

* Bloomberg Economics sees near certainty downturn will start Tightening conditions, inflation, hawkish Fed weigh on outlook

Oct 2022

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-17/forecast-...

I wish that the American media had a bit of accountability for their reporting.
> ...to her my voice is someone else.

To her, your voice is your voice not someone else's voice.

If you share a Youtube account with your wife, "someone else" means someone other than you or your wife.

The more interesting and troubling point is your use of "synthetic you" to make the real you sound better!
2008 was a spell ago, but it seems my recollection is correct that Obama was the one who emphasized his experience as a community organizer: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/us/politics/07community.h... (“Mr. Obama’s three-year stretch as a grass-roots organizer has figured prominently, if not profoundly, in his own narrative of his life. Campaigning in Iowa, Mr. Obama called it ‘the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School,’ an education that he said was ‘seared into my brain.’ He devoted about one-third of the 442 pages in his memoir, ‘Dreams From My Father,’ to chronicling that Chicago organizing period.”). Certainly, Obama was steeped in racial politics prior to his becoming president. And racial activism has flourished in the aftermath of his presidency—though it’s unclear whether he’s a cause of that or a symptom of it.

I’m not blaming Obama for these things—it’s not clear that politics in the US could be otherwise given the facts of history. But it’s certainly not conducive to good government.
I started building this because I was wondering the same haha

Guess we just needed someone to start the project!
Inflation always feels amazing when it starts. The problem is that once it gets going it’s really hard to get it to stop
How is this the first time I have heard this? Just golden wisdom that is broadly applicable to so much DIY.
I don't see the difference between those two statements absent scientific data. That's merely a useful seed of an idea, not a sufficient premise for an argument.
> I don’t understand why it’s even considered safe to have one of these springs in one’s garage without a solid shield of some sort.

The shield is the steel tube that runs down the middle of the spring. When the spring breaks, it's got an integral safety containment, similar to the aircraft cable that is often run through extension style springs (which are probably far more dangerous when they break, though less dangerous to service).

> I’m honestly not sure why springs are common at all in this application.

They're nicely matched to the load profile of the door. As the door is fully closed, the spring is exerting maximum upward force. As sections of the door transition to the horizontal track, the spring is simultaneously relaxing some, meaning it exerts around half the force when the door is halfway up and very little force as the last segment hits the turn in the track. It's a pretty elegant match of mechanism to the load profile.
My advice: if you can't decide, aim for the $$$. It is always good to have more $$$. The more dough, the more financial freedom you have. Money is more magical than computer architecture as it is one of the most profound drug everyone believes in.

You can decide what you really want to do later.
I'm less worried about corporations wielding too much power than I am about individuals wielding too much power. It wouldn't surprise me if the first person whose company achieves robotic AGI and can bring it to market quickly becomes a trillionaire. Someone with that kind of wealth will be able to buy entire nations. With the change from their sofa cushions they could easily "own" the for-sale politicians running our legislative bodies and have laws changed to their favor. If they were to dare get criticized by the media, the next day, they buy out that media company and install their own flunkies, or just shut the offending company down out of spite like what happened with Gawker. Hell, why not just buy the top 20 media/press companies lock, stock, and barrel for about $450 billion and completely flood the airwaves with favorable propaganda while they go about installing their robo-teachers into our schools and robocops into our police forces?

If there's one thing that past 10 years or so has taught us, it's that at least in the US we are completely okay with oligarchy, and we have no viable mechanism in place to thwart it. At least not after "Citizens United."
Housing market is still a shitshow, and greedflation is still unchecked by the "invisible hand of the free market".
A "not AI" filter is an excellent idea.
You can buy a splunk license, or you can hire an engineer dedicated to administrating opensearch, but you're paying either way.
Well, yes and no. The wealthy have not experienced a hard landing, and at the same time, the wealth inequality has never been greater. An entire generation now has no prospects of buying a house, even renting is hard, etc.
A hardware guy might appreciate

https://github.com/snabbco/snabb

https://blogs.igalia.com/dpino/2017/11/13/snabb-network-tool...
>the US economy is very strong, and has been for quite some time now. We all just don't like to admit it.

What should "a strong US economy" mean to the common middle class worker? I think that's the issue. Unemployment is low, but several sectors are finding it harder to find work than ever, with companies slashing roles in real time.

Where are these roles, what kind of roles are they (part time, gig?), and can people actually live off of these roles? if unemployment is zero and everyone is flipping burgers, that doesn't seem to be an actual win for the working class.
Nvidia's keynote at GTC held some surprises
I suggest just using Stability's API. You aren't allowed to use it locally for commercial use anyway.

You could set something up on RunPod or AWS, but I doubt it's worth the effort.
When I graduated high school in 1999, it was a reasonably prosperous upper-middle-class campus, so a lot of kids had cars.

It was a couple years too early for the Koreans to have a serious market presence, and a couple years too late for Geo and really cheap Japanese cars.

As I recall the default new cars there were either Chevrolet Cavaliers or the old Mitsubishi Mirages (the ones also sold as Dodge Colts) for the kids whose parents were subsidizing stuff.

Of course there were also plenty of random hand-me-down 80s and 90s stuff that was clearly "all I could get for $2000." But there were quite a few 'car kids' who had obviously either taken their parents' projects or started their own, so you'd see one or two IH Scouts in the parking lot on any given day. They were bigger and bulkier than anything else around at the time.

So these kids are now mid-40s, and saying "we did the minivan phase, I want something cooler." Will they remember the kid with his restored Scout in the parking lot?
"We hire only the best who can fully recall the intimate nuances of their high school experience?"
Isn't caffeine one of the most bitter-tasting substance out there? Like, it's used to measure bitterness.
I am not sure how verifying that a photo was unaltered after capture from a camera if very useful though. You could just take a photo of a high-resolution display when an edited photo on it
If the iPhone one is the one I’m thinking of, it turns out the leaf was actually there.

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026
You can believe on your pet conspiracy theory, however the fact is that there is no evidence these people were affected by anything real.
Care to elaborate on this line of thinking? What jobs and where?
what does this even mean, the globalists? anyways more ants for me!
This reminds be of doing WOW raids with Ventrilo back in the day, and how much I miss that, but something missing from back then.

It didnt have screens but it had multiple rooms, so full-party/group leaders/tanks/healers/dps/etc...each had rooms, and you could still 1on1 with someone.

Sometimes I feel like a team/department would like to discuss, or maybe even someone 1on1 wants to talk, and it seams all moderen meeting software misses that today.

I hadn't actually thought about this in a while, but there are few things more stressful than the entire company/raid party watching over every breath and movement, and being able to talk to a coworker or someone/team can't really be done with todays meeting software because its 1... ONE... shared room, vs even in recent memory at least in office teams were in the own spaces/buildings/etc, and they could mute the confrence call and talk amongst themselves.
The evolutionary record is piled high with the bones of extinct species, extinctions caused by changes in the environment or by other species. We are not unique, we are just one of many millions of species to find a way to rapidly outcompete others but the difference is that we often choose not to. So far we can’t even hold a candle to the humble cyanobacteria in terms of wanton destruction of their environment and all life on the planet when they evolved the ability to photosynthesize. Similar though less dramatic events have likely occurred with each major evolutionary adaptation that allows a species to exploit something not available to others. For us it’s intelligence but for others it was eyes, fins, teeth, legs, claws, etc. all leaving a path of destruction and allowing the possessors of such traits to multiply and differentiate until their unique attributes are now the common necessities for survival.
> So, other than maintaining a legacy code base, why try at this point when other options are available?

What options would you recommend in 2024? I write C (not C++) and work on projects that are inherently memory unsafe (the last one required hand-written assembly code). I've explored potential C successors in the past, but have yet to discover one that matches the freedoms, simplicity, ergonomics, and performance of the C language.
It is? I didn't know that. What kind of trivia?
Albeit a nice read, PG is really the outlier, even by HN standard.

But we should all strive to be outliers.
That wouldn't look nearly realistic. And it would be significantly harder to achieve for most people anyway.
Yes, this argument only works when there is no study of any kind. After a lot of research, a lack of evidence points to a lack of existence.
Side-mounted extension springs can be easily disconnected with the door up (and ideally clamped). GP describing them as "not connected to anything" makes me suspect that they're extension springs, which can be easily/casually inspected and determined to be not hooked up to anything. Torsion springs you probably need to look to see the marks on the spring wind up (or make a straight chalk mark on it and see if that twists uniformly).
In my mind this type of cheating can only happen one way. The client code that was being used by the players in this competition is a hacked version of the apex legends source code. What these players did not realize is that the software contained an open connection for the attacker to remotely exploit at his will.
Op probably referring to an M series MacBook since it has a unified memory architecture and the same memory space used by both cpu and gpu
As someone who studied video production two decades ago, regarding the criteria you mentioned for AI:

- Makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn't say or do

- Alters footage of a real event or place

- Generates a realistic-looking scene that didn't actually occur

These are things that have been true of edited video since even before AI was a thing. People
can lie about reality with videos, and AI is just one of many tools to do so. So, as you said, there are many flaws with this approach, but I agree that requiring labels is at least a step in the right direction.
Safe modern c++ is poorly understood compared to the decades of experience and knowledge corpus around old practices. The unsafe ways are still easily accessible and widely used, taught, and understood. C++ also is laden with complexity and idiomatic styles, immense foot cannons, etc.

Rust is fairly explicit with what’s unsafe (ie unsafe) and safety is default. It’s also generally a simpler language overall with less accretion of backwards compatibility. There aren’t decades of bad habits still usable in rust. It’s got modern sugar, first class functional constructs, and it’s generally cooler in the way metal was cooler than big band was in 1988.
The Man-Made Miracle of SpaceX
To train well with it I think you still need to store all the optimizer state (derivatives and momentum or whatever) if not all the weights (for RigL), so maybe not nearly as much memory bandwidth advantage as you get in inference?
> by the time the nut at the top [of a McPherson strut] runs out of threads there's generally little to no force left in the spring

This might be true on heavily lowered cars, but cars at stock ride height [with stock springs IOW] this is not my experience at all. I sure wouldn't risk my life or limb on it and spring compressors are quite cheap compared to an ER co-pay.
Then the server farm where your code runs will be taxed. Maybe you run it from your house, in that case then it is part of that.

You are still just moving it around at the end of the day. Presumably as you grow more profitable and wealthy you would relocate to higher value real estate. If not then you are spreading the wealth to lower value areas which is also a good thing. Seems like all good things in the end.
Selling options is an even worse idea.

Frankly, I don't understand why we made it possible for individuals to gamble by selling options. As Charlie Munger used to say, Wall Street will sell shit as long as shit can be sold.