skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a nobody in every sense of the word. I didn't go to a fancy school; I didn't join a startup or a unicorn; I've worked as a corporate web dev for 20 years using ASP.Net and C#; I know very few people in tech (and no one high up).

My posts are never "shadow deleted" they in fact sometimes get a boost from the mods when they though it just missed the mark timing-wise (i.e. interesting post, but some breaking news thing happened, and I didn't get the love).

The moderators only car about keeping the discord civil (as civil as possible), and the posts relevant/interesting for their niche.

There probably is a "club" - but not being in it doesn't get your content shadow deleted. It just wasn't interesting enough at the time to get votes.
Python package for administering surveys to LLMs
I suppose we would need hard data; is there an example of a full-featured microkernel-based OS that implements it correctly?
I’m a designer since my parents got me a copy of CorelDraw in the mid-1990s (I might even become a good one someday!), and this has always been a challenge. I’ve never jumped onto a font as quickly or as thoroughly as I did with Inter, and now I have one potential reason for why my subconscious got so piqued after my first experiences with it. I probably spend a huge proportion of time when developing websites doing dozens of CSS tweaks to correct very subtle alignment problems (whilst doing my best not to create more). Glad to see my neuroses being shared here!
That’s great for you! However, what a sad state of affairs that it took effort on your part to uncover your own diagnosis like that. I wonder why. There’s a few levels to it like 1) why didn’t doctor not even think of it 2) why was he so hesitant to give a referral. I try not to be cynical and give doctors the benefit of the doubt
So is free from government consequences not people that can form a mob, not other entity that has power over an individual. To me it just sounds like you privatize social credit score from authoritarian government. "You are free to speak and the government can't knock on your door but by god the rest of the people will dox you and make sure that you can't find a job ever and be a homeless for the rest of your life(short one I hope).". There is no freedom of speech in america or any were. Freedom of speech is dead.
I am not the original poster, so what's your explanation for why his two attempts were both deleted?
USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough
I am pretty interested in weight loss (but I am not a professional), I will try to explain.

First, the stance of medical profession is to treat diseases. There is not much effort on preventing diseases. They will wait until you get sick and then when you pass a magic threshold will assault you with a battery of treatments. We know that diabetes takes decades to develop, yet our description of a person who is halfway to developing diabetes is still "healthy". You need to wait until your body gets so devastated by your bad diet and habits that it gets completely disregulated and you put on a lot of fat before suddenly being considered a subject for treatment.

Second, the dissemination of knowledge in medical profession is glacially slow. Even if the research progresses quite fast, it takes a generation of medical professionals to die out and newly trained people to replace them to actually update the knowledge as it is being practiced. We are still in the "fat is bad" times even though we know and have known for a long time that it is actually carbs, processed food and bad fats that are major contributing factors to the obesity epidemic (that plus sedentary lifestyle, stress and bad sleep).

Third, people in the medical profession are heavily penalised for having a different view on things to the point that most are scared to speak up. For the most part, practicing anything that is not in line with mainline view will get you expelled from the profession and barred from practicing medicine ever again.

Fourth, the dieting, while sounding nice as a solution, does not tend to work well. Most people are unable to stick to a diet long term. Managing early diabetes with a diet would require sticking to it religiously and permanently. Medical professionals are not stupid and know that that's something that very few people can actually do.
AI beats doctors in accurately assessing eye problems
It's the same as all diets, no? We know that if you eat less, you will lose weight. You just need to do that for the rest of your life, forever, or you will most likely put the weight back on. I am pretty sure there is research that shows "diets don't work" because of that.

The same probably applies to diabetes. Yes, if you eat a low carb diet you can improve your A1C, but you would have to do that for the rest of your life (or however long). Sure, part of it is probably _capitalism_, but I'm fairly sure that for a large part of the population, prescribing them diet instead of insulin would result in worse outcomes.
Could you also include VictoriaMetrics into the comparison?
interesting perspective.
So all entities in one big simulation to ensure everyone has the same clock/variables/... and then just simulate around the person?
And I'd prefer a system with an AST as the canonical representation, allowing each programmer to set their own display formatting options entirely independently of the underlying codebase.

Realistically, either of these options would only really work for tools and codebases designed with these workflows in mind, as they'd be useless for inputs to inherently text-based tools like the C preprocessor.
> I'm sorry, but windows itself, let alone applications are anything but consistent. There are still corners of the UI that have a look and feel dating back to NT4/Win9x. And some of the new functionality is oddly worse UX.

A typical KDE or GNOME system is more coherent than either Windows or (at least as I'm using it) macOS. On Windows, built-in GUIs don't even use all the same look-and-feel. On macOS, some vital third-party apps (e.g., Contexts) don't even respect dark mode in their configuration windows.
My one hard requirement is that I need to stay in Manhattan. I can't live anywhere that requires car ownership. Remote would be fine but I suspect all the decent remote jobs are the worst because they are probably getting slammed with thousands of applications and have no easy way to sift through all the incoming spam.
The GDI appears to be an organisation seeking to root out disinformation with data-driven studies that compare News outlets in different countries. They then make an index/score from this that can be updated periodically. Seems pretty sensible in this day and age as long as they do so transparently.

Obviously UnHerd can and should defend themselves from this, very sensible of them to do so. I wouldn't want to take them at face value though.

It does appear that they do defend right wing conspiracies according to their 'notable stories' section on Wikipedia, including the COVID lab leak theory, anti-trans crap, and pro-Russia propagandists.
I would describe that as blackmail. The legal term is different but its a serious crime and should be a police matter. The problem is victims may be scared or ashamed of reporting it to the police. In some places they may be guilty of a crime too.

There should be support. I suspect there are sources of support but a victim of this may not think of looking of this.
Spacecraft going through the SAA experience dramatically higher radiation hits.
Funny enough, I just told my wife how unique I thought it was. It stands out. It's memorable.

I know I've read many of his posts over the last year because of that mustard yellow background. It's a strong branding choice.
Because the TRRS plug is part of a custom dongle, you can plug the dongle into the jack first, and then plug the controller into the dongle after, and eliminate that short risk
Ask HN: Doing $16k MRR. How do I deal with cease and desist?
Last year, I started working on a children's book generation product using AI for illustrations. In the process, I discovered Midjourney and I was blown away by the quality.

I then tried to find their API so I could use it in my product. Google showed no results. I thought I was Googling wrong.

It turns out, Midjourney didn't have an API

<insert pivot gif from Friends>

Of course, I set out to build it. I created a POC and posted it on the Midjourney subreddit[1]. That's when I discovered that Midjourney's ToS specified that user's aren't allowed automated access

Too late, I had already built it and had a lot of email signups from people wanting it.

The initial idea was to have a bunch of Midjourney accounts and let people generate images using my accounts. Now that was a no go since I'd be in violation of their ToS.
To sidestep the issue, I decide to let the end users take the risk. You want API access, you provide your Midjourney account and we'll do the rest.

At first I launched a self-hosted version that people would pay once and then use it on their on hardware.
This proved too cumbersome to setup, so I launched the cloud version. Mind you, it took me months to learn this lesson.

To say it's been going great is an understatement.

I've been building side projects since 2014, starting with HNdigest (which I exited for a whopping $2k ).
The farthest I got was $3,000 MRR in 2019 which was a huge success. Now, ImagineAPI.dev is doing $16k MRR

Fast forward to a few days ago. I check my email and see that Midjourney sent me a cease and desist. They had two issues: ToS Violation[2] and Trademark Infringement[3].

I want to be clear, I've never intended to harm Midjourney. Every image generating with ImagineAPI.dev has been paid for — we don't allow users to generate free images using Midjourney's relaxed mode. There are alternative API products that do that and we get people asking all the time. However, I wanted Midjourney to benefit from us being around; not to be harmed.

However, I certainly don't intend to roll over and kill my product.

We're not in violation of the ToS as we don't have any Midjourney accounts. I've updated marketing assets to specify that we're an "(unofficial) Midjourney API". What else should I do?

What should I respond to their legal counsel with?

Anyone have experience with this type of threat in the past? How did you handle it?

P.S.: My legal entity is based in Canada. FWIW.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/11betr7/i_created_an_unofficial_api_for_midjourney/
[2] https://share.cleanshot.com/NPXjkk3c
[3] https://share.cleanshot.com/94ZvY4q4 https://share.cleanshot.com/j47jnx6N
I started my career in 1985, building expert systems on Symbolics Lisp machines in KEE and ART.

Expert systems were so massively oversold... and it's not at all clear that any of the "super fantastic expert" systems ever did what was claimed of them.

We definitely found out that they were, in practice, extremely difficult to build and make do anything reasonable.

The original paper on Eurisko, for instance, mentioned how the author (and founder of Cyc!) Douglas Lenat, during a run, went ahead and just hand-inserted some knowledge/results of inferences (it's been a long while since I read the paper, sorry), asserting, "Well, it would have figured these things out eventually!"

Later on, he wrote a paper titled, "Why AM and Eurisko appear to work" [0].

0: https://aaai.org/papers/00236-aaai83-059-why-am-and-eurisko-...
That is one way to solve it. However it isn't always a good answer. Mutexs - by definition - mean that you stop everyone else from doing something when you are doing it, which means if two threads are trying to do something one will be stopped. It is also very easy to forget to lock/unlock a mutex at the right time, both of which will cause problems. Mutexs also send a message out to other CPUs which means even if no other thread wants the mutex you still slowed your system down. In the real world mutexs become painfully slow when more than a few threads are accessing the same shared data.

There are also atomics which don't lock, and so in some cases are faster that a mutex - but they can also be a lot slower if in some data contention patterns. While these are often faster, there are a lot of useful data structures that cannot be written with atomics.

The correct answer is design everything to avoid the needs for writing shared data as much as possible. Then use atomics and/or mutexs in those final places where data sharing is needed. You always need to benchmark to see what works best.
Link to the package: https://github.com/expectedparrot/edsl
I like the second picture where it looks like the professor is making sure that the material is indeed one atom thin, but not two!
No-KYC P2P Lightning Exchange on Nostr – Mostro.network
because America is a massive money-hungry machine and run by for-profit corporatjons, and if your business is treating chronically ill people, where's the money in preventing illness through proper nutrition and awareness?

jason fung and many other modern doctors have proven time and time again, demonstrably, that type two diabetes is absolutely reversible purely through better nutrition and dietary practices.

and it doesn't even have to be low-carb.
If you are a font designer, make life easier for everybody by setting your metrics so that ascender − cap-height = descender:

Yeah, but in your example 900-700 != -200, and 16-16 != -16
So people in North America who have friends of family in Nigeria would not be able to send them FB messages.
The heuristics described still depend on semantic html e.g the use of <th> or <caption> to signal a data table.
At least in the US, if this person received such an email they would be able to sue the company that sent it quite easily.
Measuring success this way is nonsensical. Is there anything that is too cheap to meter? Are other forms of energy also unsuccessful until they produce energy too cheap too meter? This isn't serious criteria.

The argument is that this is a silly framing with which to judge success. I agree!

I for one am extremely content consuming energy, more than half of which is nuclear, followed by hydro. It is very successful.
Are its TCB and integration similarly verified? If not formally-verified, are they in a safe language or statically analyzed to block common errors?
I really hate how articles are starting with full page slides and animations now. This is the third article that I've seen this week following the format. I suppose since two of those three were on the HN front page it's a format that works, but I guess I'm not the target audience.
South African users of Starlink will be cut off at the end of the month
Right, but if done right you rarely are in a situation two threads want to share the thread, so in practice you are not. However doing this right is difficult.
> Sex assignment is the discernment of an infant's sex, usually at birth.

The question is not whether you can briefly look between someone's legs and determine their sex. We know (per the article) that this can fail as much as 0.05% of the time.

The question was what is Caster Semenya's biological sex: the answer is male. This is, in fact, clear.
1. chance is that such amount of data is not sitting alone. It is online to be accessed. So you can't just factor glacier as a single cost.

2. a datacenter doesn't require many employees, most of them not being engineers themselves. To get back to my remark on point 1, while managing your own datacenters just to host storage would be expensive, it is usually mutualized with the rest of the infrastructure you need to access and use the data.

3. colo datacenters
I wish they would go into more detail on the cargo. I want to see how they arrive at billions of dollars.
See also: the American Heart Association.

At a macroeconomic level - disease yields substantially higher profits than health in our current model.
There are two types of Passover Matzo - machine and hand. Streit's does machine matzo, but a great number of those who have a "Passover Seder" use only hand-matzo for that.

(There is also egg matzo but that is a different category)

OT: I cannot get openAI to draw me realistic hand matzo, no matter how hard I try :(
Cyrix before the VIA buyout was competitive on integer performance.

VIA (via Centuar, the CPU design firm), focused on low-power, lower-performance chips. They only used Cyrix for the name, and not for very long.
I figured something along those lines - great project. I always find it amazing how much more efficient we can make home energy systems but there is no economic incentive or level of talent in the market to make it work.

I mean at the end of the day home energy is more about comfort then efficiency and is relatively small money economics.
Wasn't my experience FWIW. (Mostly commenting so others won't necessarily avoid.)

Just an in-office procedure using some local anesthesia and acid I think. The first time the whole cycle went on for months while I was regularly going to the podiatrist because of a fairly severe foot fracture of the same foot which may or may not have been connected.

This last time--a good 15 years later symmetrically on the other foot--I was pretty much just "Let's do this" after a couple times trying to just cut the toenail.
I have an hour each day permanently carved out on my calendar just for reading https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new. It satisfies the "continuing education" portion of my annual goals. At the end of last year, I was able to use my browser history to find the total number of opened[at least skimmed] preprints and it more than satisfied my goal.
> the stance of medical profession is to treat diseases. There is not much effort on preventing diseases.

This is totally incorrect. The problem is many people only go to the doctor once symptomatic. Your doctor should be testing for pre-diabetic risk factors at your annual physical.

> dieting, while sounding nice as a solution, does not tend to work

This is the entire answer.
+1 to this. I attended RC in winter of '18. It wasn't the best fit for my personal learning style, but it's an incredible program for the right person.

I highly, highly recommend it to anyone considering going there. Some of the kindest and smartest people you'll meet.
Hey, I'm the author! All of the chapters are done, but there are still some minor updates as APIs change. It should be going to production soon
By design, "free trade" tends to favor the low cost producer.

The USA hasn't been the one in this position for decades.
I do really wish the era of Xbox & Halo 2 modding returned in modern times. I owe that point in time to my career choice and still believe Halo 2 was the most innovative online game of all time.

Just buying a simple tool to load game saves and you could have a soft-modded Xbox in minutes. Now consoles blow e-fuses and prevent downgrades on top of tons of other security enhancements.

Was a great read and trip back in time. Pair this with projects like Insignia launching Halo 2 support and its a great time for classic Halo 2.
>reduces the forcing function for the education to be high quality

Not just the education, but the selection process too.

If the higher-quality inputs are abundant, then the overly-exclusive selection process is somewhat deleveraging of overall potential.

If the higher-quality inputs are scarce, they are outnumbered by others having average-to-below-average potential, who often seek the exclusive membership more so than any actual high-quality performance.

Once again a large percentage of the highest-quality inputs can be systematically excluded in a disadvantageous way.

With good fortune at least a good number of high-quality inputs do gain entrance and it can set a good example, sometimes realistic, sometimes not.

Either way the higher-quality inputs are best identified beforehand, not the result of an overly exclusive selection process.

But it's this type selection process that contributes so much to some institutions' perceptions of quality, when they could be doing so much more.

From the least-prestigious programs all the way up to the most-prestigious, it seems like there is always going to be some temptation to blur the distinction among peers and tiers in a way that's confusing to students, and it's just a matter of integrity whether that is taken a bit too far.
> because cooking isn't a science and precise measurements are generally worse than useless

Cooking and baking are both sciences, and have very different tolerances and methods for working with those tolerances.

As others have pointed out, baking tends to require far more precision, and the methods used are focused on precision as a result.

To your point, spending all of your time focused on precise measurements while cooking - especially with fresh ingredients - isn’t going to be as helpful as developing the underlying skills and intuitions to know how to adapt what you’re cooking to the ingredients you have on hand.

Those skills and intuitions are focused on getting a particular dish into a state that is hard to precisely measure because of the high degree of variation in ingredients (egg size, garlic freshness, how spicy are those peppers?). If we could precisely measure more aspects of the ingredients, cooking could become far more “scientific”, and indeed this is what happens in the mass production of foods in factories.

The point here is that the degree of “science” involved has more to do with the practical considerations and limits of our measuring apparatus across a diverse array of ingredients.

Baking tends to involve ingredients that can be precisely measured, and an end result that can’t be tested until the bake is done. Any baker who focuses on consistent and repeatable results knows that precision is part of the path to getting there.

There is still value in knowing how to adapt to your circumstances while baking. Precise measurements just reduce the variables that you may need to adapt on the fly.
The surgeon did her job regarding the adrenal removal. Agree.

But even with my consultation with her, I bring up the problematic adrenal and the possibility of it being a pheochromocytoma.

She says "For that, I would have to see a scan about 10 years before to see if there's any growth."

To which I responded, "You mean like my PET scan from 2008 of the same region mentioned in the first paragraph of your report?"

She barely read my report.

Sloppiness.

Parallels with the software industry - I think doctors could benefit from being paired with a complimentary doctor to act as a team and to check each other's work.

I think they simultaneously have a god complex for which their assessments are rarely checked. They need social pressure to probe further.
I think the regulations have changed already. In that case it is called the Digital Service Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act
> This article is for the humans of ~200 million years from now

It's a bit naive to think humans will be around for 200 million years. We don't know if we'll be around for another 1 million or even less than that.
Why isn't that the work of an ancient alien magi? Seems like the evidence for the alien magi is equal to the evidence of God.
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Embeddings must be trained, otherwise they don't have any meaning, and are just random numbers.
I think it's funny that you think that tech workers would protest police brutality against black men, let alone in such a way that would put their jobs on the line.