skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited to share with anyone interested in generating PDF files, which I made a wrapper library called Bisotun.

It is written in c, and it's a lighter alternative for Latex/Tex or Microsoft Office word. For people who enjoy having full control over their tools, Bisotun can be a good solution.

GitHub page:
https://lnkd.in/dzRjxGvT

Youtube video:
https://lnkd.in/dxjfhW-h
All in on Boeing.

Any company willing to murder two people to maintain the share price is an excellent investment in my books.
> This is just photography not radiation or magnetism

Ackchyually light is an _electromagnetic_ _radiation_

The question stays valid though, how many benign things would be treated, how many of these treatments would have net negative results, and at what cost for the already crumbling health system of most western nations
This sort of thing does require a certain tolerance for ambiguity if you want to look at the raw results yourself rather than having a doctor do it for you.
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i hope they won't be stupid enough to kill a third one
It’s not better than a colonoscopy because polyps cannot be removed.
Using azure bringing MS money.
Even bing is not growing, the money comes in. If the search is good, it will explode and make MS buy more of hardware, making them the biggest cloud search. they can scale on it.

So the money will come in, that or that way.
Shutterstock will layoff most of Envato within a year. They’ve been treading water for years with acquisitions and routinely roll the acquired catalog into their base. They are essentially an asset acquisition firm who has spent the last 10 years rewriting their core website and missing the boat on ML technologies. Most of this is due to the rotating door of visionary CEOs and CTOs. Best download your media and licenses now.
FWIW, the hungry judge effect is almost certainly nonsense.

The original research assumed the case were randomly ordered, and so everyone should have an equal shot at parole—-but they weren’t! Instead, all the cases from one particular prison were heard together, with breaks usually occurring between prisons. Within a prison, cases were arranged by lawyer, with prisoners representing themselves going last. If people without professional representation fare worse (and they do), then…that’s the whole effect. PNAS published a “rebuttal” article where someone actually interviewed court staff who reported this, but it’s been cited like…70 times vs thousands for the original article.

There are other reasons to think the original result wasn’t true too. The “effect” didn’t occur when considering wall-time (i.e., judges were similarly severe at 9:30 and 11:30), only order (first vs last), but you’d expect hunger, blood sugar, etc to track time elapsed.

Sorry for the aside, but the fact that people still cite this drives me nuts.
>What happens when iGPUs get good enough for 1440p 120 FPS high-end gaming?

The video card goes the down the same road as the sound card.

Given how expensive video cards have gotten thanks first to cryptocurrency mining and now "AI", it's only a matter of time.
The difference is that Twitter employees managed a flow of user-generated content, they didn't actually make things.

Tesla firing 10k factory workers and now the charging unit tells me they might be making a major retreat away from manufacturing.
That sounds like bootstrapping. You still need the rest of the "software" of culture.
It told me the correct country, but the completely wrong city, and then began to describe a typical place in the style of the country - nothing of which was visible on the image.
I think it's elegant actually. Appropriate and a nice link with "device driver" stuff from the past. :) haha

At least they didn't overcomplicate it. I shudder to think of: MouseEvent.MIDDLE_BUTTON_PRESSED etcs.
Nit: MRSA is a bacterium, not a virus.
Documentation for the survey, including the exact wording of the questions:

https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.html

For the alcohol consumption questions, they ask about the times people drank in the previous 30 days.

>You go to a 4th of July party and now you're an excessive drinker for the whole year?

This survey isn't used to morally judge populations, and the (very commonly used) summary statistics for heavy drinking don't mean every single respondents meeting those criteria is a heavy drinker. On a personal level, it depends on body mass, overall health, yadda yadda. But it's a good measure, because for the average man, 5 drinks in one day is definitely unhealthy. And, for everyone who gets swept up in that aggregate because St. Patrick's Day or the 4th of July was recent, there are people doing dry January or called in September. It averages out.

And, even if you argue all that, the data is still useful because it's relative to everyone else. Different definitions should yield roughly the same proportions of heavy drinkers between counties.

>cultural aspects don't vary that much just because of an imaginary administrative line

Those lines aren't arbitrary. They were usually drawn along physical barriers. Those barriers also sorted people into towns and heavily influenced how they intermingled in the past.

I work with county data, and stark differences between neighbors is very common across all data types. For instance, Philadelphia is abysmal for almost all health measures. But Chester county, just west of it, does amazingly. Why? Because Philadelphians have more pollution, lower average income, and a host of other problems. Chester is home to a lot of rich people who commute to Philadelphia.
I use Dropbox Sign API, so a little fearful our private data was accessed.
API keys were leaked as part of this hack. It's unclear from press release if hackers used the API keys to access data/documents of customers.

April 24th they became aware of issue, reporting it over a week later. I'd also be curious on how long this problem went on before being detected on April 24?

I suppose more will come out in the coming days..
this website is sick
Its unfortunate that M$ will end up being the beneficiary of all of this.

Too many anti-consumer features in their products and I think we are about to receive some pain.
Amazon UK has launched a new "one-click to quit the union" tool in Coventry
I know this is a pretty unoriginal point, but I wish cookie consent could be a browser setting you set once and never have to deal with again unless you need to change it for a specific site. The nag screens have got to be the worst possible implementation, it's like none of the people who decided this was the way it ought to be done ever heard of alarm fatigue.
I meant better in terms of patient comfort and accessibility. You are right it is not better for treatment. But if the test finds something, further action can be taken and treatment can be administered.
Evaluating Hacker News' Influence on Startups and Tech Culture
tar is what you're looking for, no?
You should re-think that. First, it's immoral. Second, it's highly unwise.

If the whistleblowers are right, then planes are going to keep breaking. If planes keep breaking, the share price is going to collapse.
Yeah, it would be tough being the target of a media cycle and conspiracy theories.
This is my view as well, high interest rates fuel inflation just because people want higher profit for the risk than they could get if they just rested their money in a bank deposit.
They used to be very active in the NYC Meetup scene, too. ~~I think I visited at least two of their offices and the second was was stunning. It was far south enough and high enough that there was a nearly unobstructed 200° view of the southern end of Manhattan, both rivers, etc. It was also beautifully designed and had an obligatorily huge, open, stocked kitchen.~~ (This was actually Two Sigma.) They were also using exotic tech back then, too, like OCaml, which is itself a form of marketing and helps with recruitment.

Moral qualms aside, it must be a fascinating place to work.
I have no idea but if many decades ago they revealed this [1], at this point it's safe to assume there are much better things.

[1] https://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-hear...
I thought this only happened in second and third world countries.
> His mother wrote on Facebook that he had contracted pneumonia in April and suffered a stroke following an MSRA infection.

I love a good conspiracy theory but this sounds pretty far fetched, how do you cause someone to contract pneumonia?
I kind of already use ChatGPT to surface things because Google's become absolutely useless if you don't know the exact thing you're already looking for.

But Bing has generally been garbage because it just picks a random keyword and reads the first ten links and summarizes them instead of what I'd generally want it to do, hallucinate an answer and verify it against a search result.

Hopefully OpenAI gets something more useful.
And then, even if the measurement was entirely neutral and risk-free to the body, there's still the question whether one can afford the cost (time, and possibly also money) of monitoring the abnormality.
> I did not make any claim for or against transparency, but did say that OPs claim for transparency is weak.

Yeah. And you were wrong.
FTC Says Ex-Pioneer CEO Tried to Collude with OPEC on Oil Prices
Nit picking.

Can't both virus and bacteria be injected?

Has MRSA been used in attacks before?
Cast parts are pretty strong and typically you'll put some energy absorbing fixtures in places likely to get hit, attached in a way that's cheaper to replace.

Once you get into the innards of the car, if it's dealing with enough energy to deform it, you're looking at writing the vehicle off anyhow.

My car's got molded sheet metal welded together to make the core of the car; if it gets hit hard enough to wad up the shock towers holding the front suspension in the right place, the car's toast. If my car's shock tower is cast, and it gets bent, the car's still toast, but it likely took a lot more energy to be bent/broken.
I uploaded a generic photo I took of a field, dandelions, and trees. It confidently stated Switzerland, and provided specific GPS coords.

Of course, it was entirely wrong.

Some level of confidence indication would make a system like this much more useful.
Bacterial infection, grammatical inflection, both natural causes of death [According to uncyclopedia Wiki probably? Don't ask me, I am not germ-anist here in germ-any]
Apple solves the problem in hardware by streaming the persistent storage data through dedicated silicon. Not only is this extremely fast, it guards the key. For the Intel versions of Mac, this was done in the T2 coprocessor.
Vivianite
Companies don't murder people. People murder people.
do blood donations tests check your cholesterol etc ? or just infectious disease?
I like using Gnome but can see here how developers from other apps/ecosystems have problems with them.

They were too defensive, in the end it seems they came around but there was no need for this counter-blaming.
> Neko Health, with its smaller price tag, doesn’t perform M.R.I.s or X-rays. Instead, it uses about 70 different sensors and a mix of proprietary and off-the-shelf technologies to non-invasively measure heart function and circulation, and to photograph every inch of a patient’s body.

It seems like the main use case is skin checks (i.e for cancerous moles).
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I'm a 42 year old male and I had a colonoscopies perform in March. My GP was immediately concerned with my symptoms and referred me to a gastro doctor. The gastro doc shrugged everything off and didn't think I need a colonoscopy. So I went home and order two of the occult blood test. I used one test on Monday and the second on the following Friday. Both came back positive.

So I called the gastro again and he finally scheduled me for the procedure. After the procedure he said everything was fine and he has no idea why the at home tests were positive. I don't know what to think now.
I once worked with a researcher who was apparently the world's expert on giving mice strokes. Pneumonia seems more difficult.
OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?
He's also obliterating Ukraine. So many reasons to keep grinning.
The media needs to report a more realistic inflation metric. Groceries are wildly expensive.
> His mother wrote on Facebook that he had contracted pneumonia in April and suffered a stroke following an MSRA infection.

So which one is it? Suddenly or not?
> If it's good for everyone there's no need to use the force of law.

That's one of the most remarkably stupid things I've ever read on here.
Biden: Xenophobia Stalling Growth in China,India,Russia
As though MRSA isn't a great thing to inject into an enemy...
I hope not. There was nothing suspicious
They may also finally look into all the people that died surrounding the Clintons? Fucking wild west if you ask me (which according to historians was a pretty peaceful place unlike how it's portrayed in popular culture).
No conspiracies are true, i know that from my time in the business world, even in small companies i've never actually seen anyone conspire, create hidden alliances og plot something so surely in larger companies it's even less likely to happen. /s
Thats what it looks like, but then you realise that the author has done this again and again and doesnt really seem to learn anything each time.

https://vkc.sh/another-lady-left-twitter/
What prevents you from getting one ?
> I've moved country.

You are an extremely privileged citizen of a first-world country. Try doing it as a Russian / Lebanon / Afghan, then we'll have something to talk about.
Especially this given how selective they are in hiring. There are likely hundreds of people salivating at the chance to replace you.
Wow!

Thank you I hope something comes of it

I have never viewed "Reaganomics" favorably but I wonder if the intransigence of Volcker was the resistance that "Reaganomics" needed to fly...
That was through bing. And bing uses similar algorithms to google for ranking. OpenAI can do way better.
It’s trivial to make someone’s cause of death appear completely natural if you know how. Even better if you know they have some pre-existing condition you could leverage.
There's also a statistical problem.

Let's say 1% of patients have X, and you've got a test for X which is 99% accurate. You screen 10,000 patients; 100 have X and you identify 99 of them. 9,900 don't have X, and you raise 99 false alarms.

But if you expand screening to cover Y which 0.1% of patients suffer from, and your test for Y is equally accurate, you'll identify 10 patients with Y - and get 100 false alarms.

So the rarer the thing you're screening for, the better your test needs to be - unless you want to be buried in false alarms.

As I understand things, this is why we don't generally screen for prostate cancer in the under-50s.
Might be a criminal or state behaviour, to chose exposure to germs as a method to hurt or kill someone.
But that as far as we know is not corporate style.

A car bomb, to deter other would-be whistleblowers, is more like the typical MO. As has happened with the original Panama Papers reporter on Malta.
Waste Deep
Rabbi Phil Graubart says Marc Andreessen's The Techno-Optimist Manifesto "ignores half of what it means to be human." What are the limits of technology in helping us overcome isolation?
What if your premises are less solid than they seem, and because of the "our thinking style is not only better on a relative scale, on average, it is near flawless in an absolute sense" mindset that often comes along with the culture of "science" you're unable to even consider such possibilities?
I was referring to Google with Android. You're correct in thinking Apple is pro JPEG XL.
I mean, all death is sudden when you think about it.

(I say this with all of the seriousness of a 1980s British comedian who probably thought it before I did)
C'mon man, haven't you seen Michael Clayton? They're independent contractors.
I work in quantitative finance and have wanted to to start using OCaml at work for years. I just find that unless you are at a shop like Jane Street with a well developed proprietary code base, internally developed tooling, etc, there just isn't the ecosystem available for me to be nearly as productive as I can be in other well accepted languages in the quant dev space...which is a bummer. It's been a little while since the last time I investigated this though.
Probably the chief of "special operations" dept. could take over the QA dept.
Facebook, even early on, wasn't really what I would consider very technical in both engineering and domain complexity.

When FB started to grow, it needed the HipHop VM[0] to make it scalable beyond PHP. I'd agree that PHP is a lowest common denominator and FB eventually needed to move beyond it to get to the next level.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHVM
I'm not saying it's impossible, but were I an assassin I'd probably want something a little more guaranteed than inducing pneumonia.
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Funny you mention that. Its my expertise.

Food Deserts are defined in a way that is unhelpful, I live in a food desert in one of the richest counties. I have 0 grocery stores within 1 mile. But I have 6 grocery stores within 3 miles.

Go ahead with the conventional sayings: Tell me the fallacious remark about McDoubles being the healthiest cheapest food ever. Go ahead and say something incorrect like processed foods are cheaper than fresh foods. In a few years you are going to change from thinking Fat is the devil to carbs are the devil. Then you will take up fasting, then keto, then gluten free.

People in the US have too much money to care about food. These are people getting dopamine from food pleasure. No one wants to admit it.
1/3 was completely wrong, in the sense that the coordinates, country and city had nothing to do with it but THEN the sources were other buildings from the actual country and city.
2/3 got city and coordinates correct, but got the country wrong, which idk how that happened.
3/3 got country, city and coordinates correct
Pretty cool
Thanks for the details. It is always interesting how the most innocent things are seen as danger by an autocracy.
Any company that is giving away open source software for free seems to eventually go down the route of open core or restricting commercial use of their open source product.

Uno seem to be starting to go down the enterprise support route - plus open core with their recent Figma plugin release. At least the Figma plugin is very tangential to the core product so it's hard to imagine it competing for features at this stage.

Though with the recent spate of open source company rug-pulls, and I'd struggle to justify using it. It seems like open source is increasingly just being used to build market share, then the VC/PEs come in, make a "contact us" enterprise pricing page, and suddenly issues and PRs start getting rejected because they compete with the paid add-ons.

I really hope the same won't happen with Uno, because it looks like a great library, and something that's missing from the dotnet world. Their sustainability blog post gives me hope, but... sadly it would not be the first time that founders with good intentions find out that running an open source company is nearly impossible, end up taking funding to keep up, then the rest is history.
Corporate personhood. Checkmate!
> Allowing this to all user packages would be a major improvement over the status quo.

We have plans to get there. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32816
Companies are people ʅ(°_°)ʃ
Bad organization. So what if you hire good engineers if you make then do wrong tasks.
Yeah, that's a good question.. If it was philantrophy, wouldn't the one funding it want at least some publicity?
When I see companies that are "magically funded" like this there's always one thing that comes to my mind - a nation state.
MS is working hard to try to be the sole beneficiary of AI. They are using their power to favor their AI products above everyone else with their Copilot key, Copilot all over windows, and dark patterns with trying to force users onto Edge.

We need new anti trust laws that can be applied more freely just based on size of the company. And higher tax rates for very high profits. And aggressive breaking up of ones like MS. Until these things are done, their abuse will continue.
I hate, so much, when people refer to jobs as voluntary cooperation.

Maybe at the very top when you have more money than you’ll ever need, but for the vast majority of people jobs aren’t truly voluntary.
I was in the USA in high school when Carter appointed Volker, knowing that it would likely cost him reelection. The things you mention were worse then, not better:

> I wonder if such perseverance is possible today in what seems like a time of more intense politics, and with the presence of social media potentially making everyone see the bad side of things only.

People are more politically engaged today than back then. The US was just quieting down from a period of mass demonstrations, political assassinations and kidnapping, and the like. Conspiracy theories were rife, spread by local newspapers and such. It was pretty fucked up. The decade before the president had had to made a push just to make sure everybody had indoor plumbing!

> It was a moment from the Fed (and government in general) where they favored long term prosperity at the expense of near term possible recession.

To highly simplify, the problem was that indeed the government (LBJ and Nixon both) had borrowed heavily to both invest long term (infrastructure) and short term (war) which had worked well from the 40s to mid 60s (due to demographics and preconditions) but overshot as the age profile of the population changed. So it wasn’t that they were jerks (well, both LBJ and Nixon were), they just didn’t recognize that life had changed. At least that jerk LBJ was legitimately trying to do good.

But people weren’t sure what to do, and were afraid of hard choices (as we all are). Carter broke the back of inflation by deregulating and hiring Volker. Nobody enjoyed going through that.

Then Reagan showed up, got the benefit, and went back to “don’t worry, be happy” which has led to the current mess.

But it’s much much better now in many ways. People have forgotten how much hard work that was and yes, things are politically riskier now, but on the other fronts better, if still far from perfect.
Lots of companies/industries pray on hypochondriacs, the "vitamin" industry for example. I wouldn't be surprise if they sell shady tests (high false positives/negatives) at a premium for people who "want to be sure". I've seen the same for STDs