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One of the main issues doctors face today is that everyone is really fat, and being fat leads to every diagnosis under the sun.

People don’t like being told that being fat is causing their problem (when it almost definitely is), and this is creating a lot of distrust in doctors.

I mean, you see these examples of it being more than just overweight, but that’s the minority, and everyone being fat unfortunately contributes to increasing the rate of these misdiagnosis.
The natural world truely is beautiful, and it's no surprise that someone would ascribe the majesty around us to higher powers. In fact, many scientists throughout time have been inspired to pursue scientific endeavors as a way to view the mind of God (and/or God's, depending the religious beliefs of the individual). However, we do God(s) a disservice when we deny the intricacies of their creation of the universe in favour of overly simplistic shortcuts such as "feather good because God made it". The story of natural selection via evolution is marvelous, and I don't believe that the God that made this universe would want us to ignore the intricacies of this fascinating process in favour of thought-terminating explanations such "well, it was just made that way".

I also don't believe that God has an interest in deceiving us. Which would be the only explanation to reconciling a Creation explanation with the overwhelming amount of evidence for natural selection.
This article is ADHD-walled. The long load time, the weird slide show. Then the first page has a jittery animation that makes it impossible for me to actually focus on reading the article.

It's less of a marshmallow thing (though I often fail that test) and more of an overwhelming impression that the article does not want me to read it.
OpenBSD recently built a simple httpd and I think a mailer (replaces sendmail) as well. There's probably a write up of one of those.

The big difference on those is a very limited scope.
The first line does not have two errors, it makes perfect sense. Here it is below for others to actually see that everything is fine there.

> From 3AM on Sunday September 11, 2011, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks is re-releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

It doesn’t say that the original 9/11 incident was on Sunday or in 2011. It says that Wikileaks will be re-releasing their US national text pager intercepts on sunday 9/11 in 2011.
The way med school works by definition is that it filters for very conformant hard working individuals and then fills them up with the most common symptoms, diseases and treatments and turns them into human dictionaries. There are of course many exceptions to that rule, but if you look at medical textbooks that is the structure most of them follow. A human competing on who's the best dictionary is a terrible way to solve this problem although it might have historically been helpful.

I recently had a retinal detachment, not entirely sure why, no doctor can tell me anything useful besides you must have been stressed, but I got it lasered despite my better judgement, because I knew fixating something in the eye somewhat arbitrarily must cause problems, so it left me with blurriness and aniseikonia(a condition with one eye seeing things smaller).

I don't need an LLM for that, just the right google queries do the trick. This is by far not the only issue I have with doctors, but my experience with doctors has been vastly different between exceptional doctors and people with absolutely no interest into any kind of in depth root cause analysis, but the vast majority of them has been in the latter category.
I'm not against "context sensitive" advertising. It can even be beneficial at times.

If I specifically express a need or interest in a particular product --- for example by doing a search, some ads are not unreasonable.

What is blatantly unreasonable and just plain dumb are these ads following me all over the internet on totally unrelated web sites for weeks or months --- long after I have made a purchase and no longer have any need.

In a great many cases, "personalized" ads are totally ineffective and waste the advertiser's money while being nothing but a nuisance to the consumer --- squandering his time, attention and communication bandwidth and violating his privacy.

Allow those who disagree to "opt in". This should be fair enough but the ad industry knows full well that there would be very few takers.
I would believe that many people don't know about this difference. And I would also think that many would consider this to be unintended behavior.
Statistics are kinda pointless when you only have one life, just enjoy life and try to balance having some health as well.

There are many studies that prove that having a healthy body (like not very obese) improves your lifespan.

But going 5x to the gym a week, or a 6-pack has very little impact.

So make sure you touch grass, have sometime to take care of your body but don't go extreme, it's a waste of time
Wow pretty amazing. This seems to point very clearly to a muscle tension issue. The piercing into some area on your head may have helped some chronic tension to release, stopping the migraines.
Ended up dumping it all into a database schema. I realized that in order to do comparison, there is quite a bit processing that needs to be done to normalize data. Things like identifying chemical compounds, nutrients, etc.

This def turned out to be a lot more cost/time consuming than I expected, but I do enjoy the learning process.

Since the data will be in PostgreSQL db, I will be able to slice and dice it however I want to export it later to Airtable or other formats.

Thanks for all the recommendations!
I would have expected we are close to steady state. The number of companies cyclically migrating too/from the cloud seems unlikely to decrease.
Same goes to you. Are you dense?
I remember that too - I think it was an HN comment, iirc he also had more empathy for less capable people as a result of having temporarily been less capable himself.
GDI was founded to root out disinformation but, as the founder Clare Melford explained, they now target anything that is in their view "harmful" or "divisive". Their aim, by their own admission, is to push their world view and they are being funded by governments to do this.

Regardless of UnHerd's politics, this is problematic.
> how many non-marshmallow articles are out there on the internet

Most of the HN front page aren’t marshmallows. If you believe they are, it’s irrational to be here, let alone waste time commenting about it.
And the cloud is water droplets, not a datacenter. Apple is a fruit, not a product company. OpenAI isn't incredibly open, and so on. There was a time when it was worthy to die on the hill that AI is really just a product of ML, or whatever, but that ship has long sailed. It's not really intelligent (most likely), but the term is stuck now. Time to move on, the horse is long dead.
I didn't bring in economic money supply to the conversation so your comment is unrelated to mine. You created a strawman.

I didn't argue "workers receive their wages as a gift or some kind of welfare."

And I want to just highlight that "all wealth is labour" is actually not a universally held truth nor a fundamental fact of economics but is the basis for one theory of economics: the Labor theory of value (Smith and Marx).

Build your argument from a solid foundation and not something that is easily picked at apart by inaccuracies if you want to yield influence.
Some cards can do transactions offline. Terminals can be configured to accept this (at the expense of increased risk).

However, I'm pretty sure the app-based charging stations are all internet connected anyway, so I'm not sure if this is a big deal in practice.
Taking what you say as accurate and complete just for the sake of argument, those tax cuts also meant that people had a greater non-tax financial burden. They also had adverse social consequences that increased costs for everybody.

The wealthy certainly did get great gains out of it, but it was at the expense of the non-wealthy because the tax cut they received was tiny and didn't offset the increased expenses.
This has recently been working for me: https://github.com/gtirloni/internet-serenity-now/blob/main/...
I have a heating pad that uses it. It's supposed to penetrate deeper, and does seem to help my lower back.

If it's placebo, I'll take it.
You were reading my thoughts! I was going to say something about my LG remote having three absolutely useless streaming buttons I cannot change.
Stealth aircraft also use gold-plated canopies to a) contain emissions from the cockpit to the cockpit b) reflect incoming radiation of a well-defined surface instead of whatever mess is inside the cockpit.
Yes, but mostly because of the manufacturing process (requires a vacuum).
Nice writeup! Super interesting that we both took different paths, but ended up with similar latencies.

I built a real-time conversation platform in Elixir. I used the Membrane framework to coordinate amongst the STT, LLM and TTS steps. I also ended up with latency in the ~1300 ms range.

I found research that says the typical human response time is 250 to 300 ms [0] in a conversation, so I think that should be the goal.

For my solution, some of the things we did to get latency as low as possible:
1. We stream the audio to the TTS endpoint. If you're transcribing as the audio comes in, then all you care about is the tail latency (the time between when the audio ends and the final transcript arrives). That helped a bunch for us. Google is around 200 ms with this approach.

2. Gpt 3.5 still has a time to first token of ~350 to ~400 ms. I couldn't find a way around that. But you can stream those tokens to ElevenLabs and start getting audio faster which helps.

3. ElevenLabs eats us most of the latency budget. Even with their turbo model their latency is 600-800 ms according to my timings. Again, streaming the words in (not tokens) and calling flush seemed to help.

The key I found was to cover up the latency. We respond immediately with some filler audio. The trick was getting the LLM to be aware of the filler audio text and continue naturally from that point

[0] https://journalofcognition.org/articles/10.5334/joc.268#
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I wonder if they'd like a percentage of the profit now and in the future? Your reaction to the C&D shows some resilience, which is nice to see.
Because if you don't do that then you end up with inconsistencies across the stack because you used apps with different conventions. (Things like the help menu being in the wrong place, or a core app suddenly not having a menu bar at all because GNOME decided those are obsolete, or some applications ignoring the system theme, or OK/Cancel being in the wrong order...)
I get the template hate, they take a while to wrap your head around and can create cryptic bugs. Nonetheless they can be extremely powerful and enable performance and reduced complexity by being a bit complex upfront.
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~20 years ago, HN user sophiebits made a nice arithmetic trainer: https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/ (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1728309)

I think it's great, but my 7yo son doesn't want to use it every day, because the countdown timer creates unnecessary pressure.

I thought about sticking a piece of masking tape on the iPad screen to cover the countdown timer, but my son didn't like that idea.

So I built something similar, but without the timer: https://math.twilam.com/

The features I plan to add to make it 'complete':
1. Select operation types and number ranges (like sophiebits' site).
2. Select the number of problems you want to do (analogous to sophiebits' timer).
3. A 'power bar' which fills up as you reach the number of problems you wanted to do.

I might also add:
4. A way to persist config options.
5. At the start and end of each session, display the length (# days) of your current streak.
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> Though even if we do manage to alter the orbit

I think it can be done by diverting a very large asteroid or series of asteroids to pass close by the Earth repeatedly, using their gravity to gradually change Earth's orbit. 200 million years gives us enough time to do so.
Fair enough, I suppose I'm naive and I like the analogy. You're right in claiming that wearing the hazmat suit has clear signs of competence, appreciation of the dangers.

I'm (naively) hopeful that wearing it day in day out will ultimately make them feel uncomfortable, maybe guilty about their activities, change their act, reconsider spraying a harmful chemicals, etc.

The incompetence I was alluding to lies in proposing these types of laws in first place. Well intended, but harmful. Understanding the dangers forces knee jerk reaction to at least make sure they themselves are safe from harm. Dumb solution, but progress made on learning about the dangers.

But I say dumb as in short sighted, not malicious. If they'd thought this through they'd understand these exemptions don't protect future-thems, their loved ones or whomever else is powerless, yet needy of their (political) support.
I didn't upvote, but maybe this helps.

We work in an industry that is people building systems-of-systems-of-systems, which seems to match the popular misconception of entropy.

People are desperate for viewpoints and tools to help manage that complexity.

As someone who has just enough science background to be annoyed by the misunderstanding of entropy, and enough architecture experience to be annoyed by the misunderstanding of how to effectively try to manage complexity, I get your frustration.

Error twords building simple systems that are easy to replace with defined boundaries and the org structure to build such systems is a better path.

Proving causality in complex systems is hard, if even possible, but if someone finds value in this model, the use of flawed analogies is probably useful for them.

Hopefully they realize this is a lens and they will need other lenses with models flawed in different ways to see the bigger picture.

As most complex problems only allow for approximation, I have tried to let go of what specific lenses people leverage and have moved to asking them to use multiple views.

At least in this case where invoking properties of macroscopic qualities, Gibbs free energy etc...

It is technically wrong in multiple ways, but I can see how people may find value in it
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No one forces you into stupid traditions except you yourself.
Is there any reason why there are comments are in there, it would be nice if the functions were self documenting.

Other than the comments being distracting making the code hard to read, this is a great deep dive blog post which is very technically impressive.
Good, I'm glad we've decided to just let the world rot because why bother. Great solution.
I mean let's not be so negative here. The lives of majority of humans on the planet in this generation are incredibly better off than the ones before it and the ones before it. Sure wealth inequality exists but why don't we focus on moving the needle on important things than spending countless hours and energy trying to split apart our populations opinions trying to fix something that is inherent in human since the dawn of time.
Hey, thx for your answer. I really like to see that you are building upon existing logic languages not totally inventing your own. I think you should market it as that, because many people (like me) have been burned by companies that thought it would be a good idea to invent a completely new language (or even DSL) from scratch.

I think you should also focus on making integration with existing code as easy as possible. I know there even is one of the more research-class PLs that has first-level support for running small prolog-like scripts within other more imperative code. Essentially that is exactly what you guys do, just natively built into the language (which obviously you guys can't do).

Essentially, if the language is simply enough, I'd like to define and build both the facts as well as the logic from within my own programming language, rather than having to use your web-editor or other tooling to get support for syntax and things like that. Then, if I have a usecase where my own language is insufficient or annoying, I can still write "plain" code in your language if needed.
I read the area that talks about race. 1. This only mentions African americans, who are mixed West Africans and are a tiny portion of the black race. 2. It specifically says that black people's scores on tests have improved since the 1970s. Around the time they got civil rights. So this is to do with poverty and systemic oppression (the combination of these, and cultural impacts of these, not JUST socioeconomic factors), not race. The statement "blacks are stupider than whites" is very different to "African Americans do worse in tests due the legacy of systemic racism". This is why Bostrom updated his comments to say exactly that.
Not a surprise. Allred was basically a marketing shill with no educational background before lambda / bloomtech. Not a surprise then, the claims they make will be borderline fraud.
Regulation could help solve that. You shouldn’t see so many patients in a day unless you also double your working hours.

I’m surprised this was many years ago. Now this pressure exists because medical school is so expensive and people need to pay off their loans. Want to see improvements in care? Make medical school free / cheap.
Nobody cares until you start making nuisance to everyone around you, impeding their work and life because you care about X.

I dont care about X why do I have to deal with your 'protest'?
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Cards get declined. Support tickets get created. Customers die and you have to hold all their stuff open for 90 days while trying to reach them, without a chance of getting paid.

You might not be stupid, but there are people who look _just like you_ who will email support over a six cent billing issue which turns out to be correct anyway - but just burned a couple hours of support people’s time.

Epic probably doesn’t do stuff like that.
there's a workaholic / achievement / perfectionist satisfaction aspect at play - hustle to make yourself into an idealized version of self. Since achieving this is difficult, gradual, and ultimately impossible, it becomes a perpetual distraction.
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Candidly, that was pretty clear even decades ago when this was an obscure little place.

PG, for example, didn’t realize that discriminating against people who have children might not be great until he himself had kids.

He’s a mid dude with gross feet who came up with a wildly profitable business model (6% equity in as many promising founders as possible).
This is going to come off as overly cynical - it's a very cool project. But are you really pushing the original Xbox to the limit when you replace and overclock the CPU, increase RAM, add solid state storage, and overclock the GPU?

It's not really an Xbox at that point.
> it seems hard to evolve in a gradual way

There seems to be 4 different hypotheses. So there is no consensus on this question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_avian_flight#Hypothe...

A video about the "wing-assisted incline running" hypothesis:

"The Origin of Flight--What Use is Half a Wing?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMuzlEQz3uo
Someone needs to share utilization data on these super computer clusters. Most have a long queue of jobs waiting to be ran, and you have to specify how long you think your job is gonna take to properly schedule it.
I’m sure they’ll be surprised how many books aren’t freely available on the internet that are in common training sets.

It would have taken them a few minutes to learn about the current lawsuits around book piracy.

I agree with you. That they didn’t try asking novel questions or even look into what training data is used makes this paper bunk.
I've often felt this way about depression, but it's hard to tease apart the long-term after-effects of a depressive episode, the probability that my current symptoms might just be the beginnings of an episode, and the long-term (after-)effects of the medication I took/take for it.
> until we are certain that the technology will be used responsibly ...

That's basically "never" then, so we'll see how long they hold out.

Scammers are already using the existing voice/image/video generation apparently fairly successfully. :(
It's worth pointing out that what you are fondly remembering from a consumer standpoint was an absolute nightmare from the publishers', and not just for pure greed, though that definitely plays a role.

Game consoles were (and still are to a some degree), by and large, toys. Toys that parents buy for their children with the expectation that they can be mostly left to their own devices with them. The ESRB/PEGI/etc. ratings system was put in place so that parents would be able to trust that they know what's in the toy without having to sit over the kids' shoulders every single minute they are playing. In a sense it's not unlike Mattel spending a lot of energy making sure their dolls and action figures don't pose any choking hazards.

Allowing modding breaks that system, and by extension the accompanying trust. This is a big deal for a toy manufacturer. It's also why Hot Coffee was such a mess despite the content not being normally accessible. Parents don't want to have to care about technicalities.

People like to think of this situation as a "think of the children"-type of hand-wringing, but it's actually more of a "think of the parents", who happen to be the ones with money.

Again, not discounting the greed and DRM aspects of this, and it definitely sucks pretty hard for adult users of the systems, but it's far from all there is to it.
You're talking web development specifically here. I was talking about front-end work generally.
One thing the article doesn't really speak to: the future of Cyc now that Doug Lenat has passed away. Obviously a company can continue on even after the passing of a founder, but it always felt like Cyc was "Doug's baby" to a large extent. I wonder if the others that remain at Cycorp will remain as committed without him around leading the charge?

Does anybody have any insights into where things stand at Cycorp and any expected fallout from the world losing Doug?
I think your estimates are way off. A study in 2014 found that 4% of death row inmates were wrongly convicted[1]. This is likely to be the highest scrutiny cases in our system, so I'd expect that non-death penalty cases would have a wrongly convicted rate of >= 4%. And that's not even counting the people that have been leveraged into plea deals for crimes they didn't commit simply because the system is so weighted against them.

1: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1306417111
I saw multiple cardiologists in Lincoln, NE, and San Francisco, CA.

Multiple nephrologists throughout the 25 years.

These are the "specialists" I was referred to from my general physician.

I had to work side-by-side with them to manage my condition.

I had lost significant weight in the past, but it never reduced my blood pressure medication intake.

But there was nothing special about these doctors.

They simply had no answers beyond the typical.

The equivalent for software would be that a bug report comes in and the engineer responds with "have you tried rebooting the servers?" Just superficial, unhelpful recommendations.