skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of papers about using some kind of LLM to cut costs and staffing in hospitals. Big companies believe there is a lot of money to be made here, despite the obvious dangers.

A quick Google search found this paper, here's a quote:

"Our evaluation shows that GPT-4V excels in understanding medical images and is able to generate high-quality radiology reports and effectively answer questions about medical images. Meanwhile, it is found that its performance for medical visual grounding needs to be substantially improved. In addition, we observe the discrepancy between the evaluation outcome from quantitative analysis and that from human evaluation. This discrepancy suggests the limitations of conventional metrics in assessing the performance of large language models like GPT-4V and the necessity of developing new metrics for automatic quantitative analysis."

https://arxiv.org/html/2310.20381v5

For sure there's some waffling at the end, but many people will come away with the feeling that this is something GPT-4V can do.
Over the past few years, I've built up a bunch of tooling for virtual D&D/TTRPG games I played with friends. DM prepping, note sharing, inventory management, scheduling, etc. And all of that with Discord integrations so you can pretty much manage everything from a Discord server.

I'm currently in the process of converting it to a proper commercial service and making it available to others. If this sounds like something that would be of use to anyone, I'd love to hear from you! Email is in my about section (or just respond here).
The boat changes direction after impact with the bumper
The EU's Share of Apple's Global Revenue
I think it's probably something less than "conscious" but more than "dead matter". I like the ideas of Michael Levin and basal cognition. It avoids metaphysical woo and just empirically demonstrates how certain types of cognition exist in biological organisms at multiple scales and in different problem spaces than we're used to. It doesn't get down to the atomic scale, but it's a step or two down in granularity from brains and nervous systems, so at least it's a start.
Time is not a dimension in the same sense as the spatial dimensions. It's a coordinate for events, of course, but you can't for example cross from one side of a line on a 2D plane to the other without ever intersecting the line by moving in the time dimension like you can if you have a 3rd space dimension (e.g. by flying over the line).

Even in relativity, the fourth time-related dimension is not of the same nature as the other two (the distance between two points counts the time dimension differently than the space ones).
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There's an exponential inverse law. Being too far below poverty makes everything 10 times harder. Being far above makes everything safer, simpler, less costly (you have time, resources to take risks, and you have people willing to give you hints to ensure better odds).
This sounds neat, but I confess I'm already not clear that my large monitors count as a massive productivity increase over my laptop monitor. Certainly helps in some ways, but once I know what it is I need to do, the laptop is never a blocking item.

The home repair ideas is certainly a neat one. Guessing it will be a while before the content is readily available in large quantities?
The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped
The effect of wind turbines on property values is decreasing in space and time
Original full title was too long:
The visual effect of wind turbines on property values is small and diminishing in space and time
tnx! aesthetic.computer: demo[1], live[2]. Includes chatbots... hmm, so maybe Chat(with app) will someday be as familiar as Save and Paint?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-7UszmI1K4
[2] https://aesthetic.computer/ Then press "Enter" and enter "list".
I find the sensation to see my consciousness slipping out under me always _so odd_! I try to observe the process of falling asleep within myself when I fall asleep. So far, I've never been able to fully make it through.

I once read about the idea in some book about Buddhism, was sceptical and realized it'd be fun to try! For a lifetime!

It definitely doesn't harm my ability to fall asleep. It helps me a bit actually, as I can sense in myself what it takes for me to fall asleep. I'm a really bad sleeper, nowadays (because of this) I am only semi-bad.
> That's why for example noone is using AMD GPUs for ML

You're right, they are behind, but to say that nobody is using it, is not truthful. AMD HPC clusters are being used [0] and [1] for AI/ML.

The larger issue is that AMD has only been building HPC clusters for the last period of time. Now, with the release of MI300x, we have Azure and Oracle coming online with them now. Disclosure, my business is also building a MI300x super computer as well, with the express goal of enabling more access to developers.

[0] https://defensescoop.com/2023/08/23/navys-new-25m-supercompu...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12705
Just to add another thing that changes to the other ones which were already mentioned by sibling comments: “standard jpegs” are not necessarily set in stone.
Yes, it's really quite good right now, and very accessible under programs like OpenEmu. I have a Saturn hooked up to a CRT still, but the emu doesn't feel very different these days.
I tried it in Firefox on my Android and got this error when I tried to use the demo:

"Error: NotSupportedError: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported."
There's a degree to which (senior enough) programmers still have more leverage than some workers, but the leverage of landlords has been ratcheting steadily toward stronger and has moved considerably in the last few years, and that's on top of a wave of layoffs that's made it considerably harder for many to jump ship from a suboptimal situation, which is the only form of leverage programmers really had over shareholders in the first place, because as a population we've consistently been duped out of building up other kinds of power even as the hiring side of the equation has gradually consolidated more
Simply put the general purpose programming language inside the YAML automation.
"Tech and AI solves life's issues." Some dorky H1B Indian stuck in the Bay area.
You’re doing this to me right now, no? You don’t know how I’ve come to this conclusion.

I understand your point though. I’m not referring to those who are against AI for whatever reason, because there are lots of reasons why people are against AI that are reasonable.

I’m referring to those (mostly on Reddit) who talk badly about the quality of AI, those who use it, and businesses embracing it. It’s totally fine to think AI produces crappy work, but it’s the vitriol against anyone who suggests otherwise that makes me think it comes from somewhere deeper.
Would it be possible to use the SaaS offering for a bit, then transition to the local option, and vice-versa, without losing my data?
It does have Script in the name!
Why wouldn't you have your enclave carry a certificate instead of doing this?

You may eventually need to rotate its identity key, and if you want to do that, you need a certificate system.
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But - I am SO looking forward to getting this. I have Perplexity Pro anyway, so getting it included just made this a steal. If I hate it, I can just sell on and keep the perplexity pro.
The K-Machine would be a super interesting retro-computing project to get going. The schematics, the Lisp Machine system associated for it, are available (I'm unsure of legal status). If anyone is interested in driving that, I'd be really interested to help (but my primary interest is just the CADR due to lack of hours in the day :-) )

Here is a wonderful article about the K-Machine: http://fare.tunes.org/tmp/emergent/kmachine.htm
That's what makes sense to me. Ships are designed to minimize drag going through the water. But the friction of the entire hull scraping across the bottom should be MUCH larger and thus able to exert lots more stopping force.

Also, if the ground is sloped, it will act like a ramp, lifting the ship out of the water. The loss of buoyancy means its weight will push downward on the ground below it. An increased normal force means more friction, thus more stopping ability.
The problem is that the bridge collapses that do happen are just catastrophic. The economic impact alone will be massive for Baltimore. But will the responsible parties pay out that damage in full? Unlikely.

Cost-benefit analyses aren't designed to evaluate the total risk a business venture presents to everyone who could possibly be involved; they're designed to evaluate the risk posed by a problem that will launch lawsuits that will play out in courts for years, if not decades. Meanwhile, some injured parties settle for pennies on the dollar, laws change, and in the absolute worst-case scenario, major shareholders draw down their positions in the corporate venture that caused the problem. The world keeps on spinning, and just maybe some regulatory agency will pay attention to the report issued by the likes of the NTSB and USCG.

The process does not adequately protect the public.
As the console continued on, if we assume it lived a full five years or something, piracy would have gotten worse as more and more CD burners became commonplace.

Didn’t they have to pay MS a small license fee for each unit? I’m assuming that was a drag too. Not one that killed it, but just another little kick.
The end of free money and a weak economy (at least from consumer spending power). Yes, it will be bad. I'm especially screwed for a few reasons.
"I respond by letting her know she will be able to buy a house if she wants one..."

Guess you haven't mentioned that Santa isn't real, either.
The article from the security researchers is a fascinating read: https://blog.lumen.com/the-darkside-of-themoon/
And also for organisations single tool is likely to be cheaper collecting number of separate ones, each with their own subscriptions and over head in managing that.

Which really is what makes MS offering so good.
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The talk about clubs made me think of "Fight Club" which within the story went on to be a sort of all-encompassing cult. In retrospect, it really wasn't all that subtle about the problem of nihilism in advanced societies.
So you are saying I'm not in a bubble, BUT I'm in a bubble because, I quote, "people around you" "they work with solar and wind".

How can I be outside of the bubble if the people around me are all in the bubble.

If I'm outside of the bubble, I will see people who work in solar and wind AND people who work in nuclear. And according to you, people in nuclear will not act like people in solar and wind, so the overall observation would not be that I see that solar and wind is considered as a very valid solution, because I will see people saying it's not a valid solution.

You even say:

> given your sector, could it be a bubble?

And you also say, I quote again

> Of course people in renewables tend to say that nuclear doesn't work, and people in nuclear tend to say that renewables don't work.

So, how does it work? How is that possible that, according to you now, you are not assuming that I'm working in solar and wind and not in nuclear, and at the same time, assuming that I cannot work in nuclear because, then, I will see people saying that solar and wind is not a very valid solution?

As for what I've said next, it's the pot calling the kettle black: even right now, you need a tortuous gymnastic to twist your words so we may slightly imagine a version in which you did not assume anything about me. As for what I've imagined, the rest of the discussion just make me think I was 100% right.

> how can you jump from "could it be a bubble?" to "you jumped to the conclusion that I am in a bubble" (and I'm just mentioning one here)?

Anybody with basic training in basic logic can do that.

1) you say people working in wind and solar may be biased and think of it as a very valid solution

2) you say people working in nuclear may be biased and think of it as very not a valid solution

3) THE ONLY LOGIC POSSIBILITY FOR ME TO SAY I ONLY SEE IT BEING CONSIDERED AS A VERY VALID SOLUTION IS THAT I ONLY SEE PEOPLE WORKING IN WIND AND SOLAR.

There is absolutely no other logical solution.

(oh, and you would notice that I did not say "I see some people considering it as a very valid solution", which means I would also see others not considering it as a very valid solution. I'm saying it's a broad consensus to the point that this solution is very generally taken seriously. If you think I was saying "I see _some_ people", who is unable to read what the other has written?)
It is a memory safety bug - by using this "indexes as pointers" methodology it is possible to write code where two different owners simultaneously believe they are the sole owner of an object.

Writing that using normal pointers is impossible in safe rust (barring a compiler bug, which do exist but are rare).
Maybe as an extension on MemoryChannel based clusters back in the Alpha days.

But normally OpenVMS clusters are not shared-memory systems, you get shared disks, locks, queues and access controls.
Yeah, you're not the first person noticing the Leopard Print Sofa Problem: https://redsails.org/suddenly-a-leopard-print-sofa-appears/
I approach life thinking that I should do the best for myself and my family regardless of what broad societal problems are. I want to raise my kids to be the same way. There is no way I am going to raise them thinking they should just quit.

It isn't a lie, I don't know what the future will be but I know there will be people who thrive and people who wither.
What is weird, is I suspect it is flat out a good headset. At the price, almost certainly better than the alternatives.

VR has come a LONG way and it works surprisingly well for anything where you aren't expecting to walk. Gran Turismo could legit work as a teaching tool for driving. Yes, you lose some force feedback from the likes of braking; but a good steering wheel goes a long long way to the rest of the experience. (Heck, reality is the wheel alone is probably good for an immersive experience.)

I still don't get why folks would be so pumped over the rest of the ideas. Especially with how cheap large decently high resolution monitors have become.
IMHO, we need structural change in the way US healthcare works. Slathering some AI on top won't solve our cost problems but it will negatively impact our already declining quality of patient care.
Keep Diablo open until 2045? Nuclear debate heats up today
because everybody is shit scared of the implications of it being good enough to replace them. This is just a protective defense mechanism because it threatens the status quo upon which entire careers have been built.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Archive [1] as they sometimes region lock articles

[1] - https://archive.is/VoiiU
I'm thinking I'm old too because I grew up with telephones that had crystal earphones connected with non-magnetic copper wire.
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> SF-Oakland Bay Bridge is older

In a Bridge of Theseus sort of way. The entire Eastern span is very new, a lot of the approaches have been rearranged, and major components of the Western span has been replaced over the years. But I guess none of this affects the age of the bridge, at least in Wikipedia’s estimation :)
Exactly, google offered superior product. Enough space for most people even if they were not using it. And competent enough experience. Or even better one. Web mails used be rather bad...
Dreaming is just a different form of consciousness.
No worries. Myelin sheath is never catabolized for energy. It is far more valuable and protected behind solid mechanisms. The heart will stop long before. The only non-inflammatory cause of myeline damage is due to acute serum sodium changes, totally unrelated to fat metabolism. So Ozempic is pretty safe in that regard
There was no texture mapping, and the 'trick' that makes it work is that all you can do is rotate/pan in place. The only movement is instantaneous teleportation.
I want to create a company but I feel stuck
Hello to whoever reads this. I feel like I am hitting my head into a wall because I know what I want to do and achieve but not sure where to go from here.

I have learnt how to write basic code from freecodecamp and some YouTube tutorials but it's still far from where I want to be. I am not trying to be Jeff Bezos but it would make me so proud and happy if I could create a product that 100 people would use daily. I just don't know where to start - should I just blow my savings on paying a random guy to code something for me?
It doesn't seem to help much against fraud. Nearly all bits of accounting software can be manipulated to add/remove amounts from the totals. And remember the government normally only gets to see the totals.

It might help slightly against accidental typos in the 7 numbers. But I really doubt that the transferring of 7 numbers from one bit of software to another once per year is a substantial contributor to accounting errors, when you compare that to hundreds or thousands of invoices/bills that need to be entered into the accountancy software.
This exact situation is happening in NYC, Philly, and so on. Cops have basically stopped doing their jobs because they don’t like having to get “probably cause” and follow “laws”.
It can be hard to find the same model sock when you need to restock. Wear leveling and replacing them all at once eliminates difficulty with matching. Also, if you don't wear level, you may have one new sock and one worn sock, and that can be weird.
Presumably it is still early days for modern agricultural fungus selection. I heard a story that thousands of years ago, corn had six kernels per cobb(might have been seven). Few generations of selective breeding and you produce monstrous varieties.

Presumably we could do the same thing with fungus if we saw the economic/moral/sustainability incentives.

Edit: an article about ancient corn (https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/news/2023/01/24/uf-researchers-di...)

Teosinte is a small, grass-like plant that forms ears of six to eight kernels. Each kernel is encased in an acorn-like shell. These encased kernels grow on a thin stem, not the thick cob that characterizes modern corn. The whole ear is about two inches long, the kernels no larger than peppercorns.

About 10,000 years ago, the Indigenous peoples of what is now southern Mexico began selectively breeding teosinte. Over time, those acorn-like coverings retracted and formed a cob. Now exposed, the kernels were easier to harvest and could be bred for increased number and size, Koch said.
It's no coincidence the villain in Tron is called MCP. As a former colleague who managed an A-series mainframe, MCP is actually very user-friendly. It's just that it's extremely picky about its users.
Scary place
Because horn blasts are very specifically meant to communicate something to other ships. Once you're in "just blast it" mode you're seconds from disaster. I recognize the nobility of your suggestion, but I don't think it could have saved more than couple lives at most, probably none.
> People need to be careful about believing anything taught by an organization when that organization's very survival depends on you believing that thing.

I think you're off the mark here. Your brother-in-law doesn't believe what the church teaches. He believes in the effect he sees it having on his own life (and maybe also the effect that not having it has on his own life).
> Luckily the article is very low on details

The only real detail the article gives is that one of the main proponents of panpsychism is Rupert Sheldrake, who is better known for his theory of "morphic resonance" and his mass-market books about various metaphysical and parapsychological topics.

In short, it's unclear that there's any actual "science" behind any of this.
That has to be the most click-baity title I've ever seen lol
Camden, NJ did indeed fire all the cops and started a new police force and wouldn’t ya know it, crime is way down!
I really liked the explanation of how he used harmonics to get to the frequency he desired.

Also, LoRa is really good when it comes to low power data transmission.
To share a recent example, with just ~100mW of transmission power, they managed to fly an RC plane to a distance of 100km: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYJ2UOrlXgM .(Their transmitter from the ground station was configured at a higher power, but the transmitter on the aircraft was transmitting telemetry back at 100mW throughout the distance)

Another related fun project is using raspberry pi gpio to work as an FM transmitter: https://github.com/markondej/fm_transmitter
Good point. They are going to lean into their advantages in any situation.

But given their lead, customer base, tech and capital, they can monetize and leverage surveillance information better than anyone in their space. More information creates more advantages for them than anyone else.

Any Facebook killer isn't going to out ad monetize them. The opposite. It is going to be something that provides a better but different experience - and likely to be incompatible with Facebooks surveillance-ad business model. A reverse moat Facebook won't/can't cross.