skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently read Outlive, and he makes the claim that almost all of the increase in survivability for cancer comes from early detection. I think projects like this are extrapolating that out. I think a little heartache and worry is excusable if it means 10 years added to your life. Over time, we'll develop a callous there and take it in stride.

e.g.,

My two friends who got early screening had a few false positives, and one true positive treated early. One later died of heart attack and one lived long enough to get dementia.

My two friends who didn't get early screening, one died of heart attack and one died of cancer that could have been caught. Both died earlier than two above.

Sadly, at this point, you want to die of cancer, but you want to do it when you're 85. It beats a sudden heart attack and it beats dementia. You just want to prolong the outcome.
A trick which works if you use Mastodon, since that page is a Mastodon post:

Go to the Mastodon instance where you have an account, and paste the URL in the search box. It should load the post within your Mastodon instance (and allow you to boost/favorite/etc), without running any JavaScript from the post's instance.

(It won't surprise me if someday a Firefox plugin is created to open these Mastodon post pages without running their JavaScript, by detecting it's Mastodon and going through the same protocol as federated instances to fetch the content. Of course, it would be better if the Mastodon server software didn't require JavaScript for simply showing a post page in the first place.)
'California Stop' Is Costing Californians Millions in Tickets
I just wish they would let Pi users in on pre-IPO shares like Reddit
I think the parent is implying the opposite here.
Nobody's restricting anything, we're discussing someone choosing not to work for a particular company.
This is what passes for common sense when you live in a conservative media bubble. The mainstream of climate science as represented by the IPCC has tended to be over conservative when it comes to how much change we should expect over a given period of time.

Right wing media outlets focus on the the predictions of lay people like Al Gore and Greta Thunberg and use those to try to dismiss the entire field of climatology. Which is a non sequitur.
Yeah it’s more product development than r&d
This isn't contrarian, this is just correct and well understood. What's contrarian is the article suggesting that any attempts to change people's behavior, no matter how well intentioned thought-out, actually result in the opposite of the desired outcome.
Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good
Millennial here and I was outside everywhere. Walked to middle schools because it was close and biked to high school. My kids elementary school it’s about a mile away and I’ll bike with them a day or so a week.
Chicago is big: over 200 square miles. I'm sure there are parts of it where you would not want young kids walking alone (near a busy road, or a place where broken glass on a sidewalk is a regular occurrence). And I'm also sure there are many parts of it where young kids walking alone will be, realistically, about as safe as if they were driven in a car.
Cannabis neuroprotective properties could treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Did someone tell you about SAP Ariba? The website for invoices where you cannot click on your list of invoices, but can get an other click menu to get “send me a link by email”…
> radius from likely thermonuclear targets

which direction did you take it though? did you move to a place away from likely targets (which really, with as many nukes that are out there, what's not a target?), or did you move closer so that you'd be taken out in the first wave and spared the life of misery after? my dad used to say that one of the deciding factors where he chose to build the house I grew up in was based on the latter.
> The last time the US passed a federal consumer privacy law was in 1988.

Sounds about right!

> Google and its fellow Big Tech cartel members have expanded IP law to allow it to prevent third parties from reverse-engineer, hacking, or scraping its services.

Some laws are still being written though.
Ask GPT-4o for the cutoff date and it will likely answer "October 2023".

And then ask the model when GPT-4-Turbo was released, and it will accurately reply November 6th, 2023.

You can't use those models to ask about self-aware information, this is just asking them to hallucinate a plausible answer.
How feasible would running a local gpt2 fine-tune be on m1/m2 macs. The usecase I'm building for has privacy as a pretty big need, so I need to ensure the data never leaves the user's machine.
I agree. I don’t care for and actually dislike most “features“ of AI including and especially chat bots but it’s also none of my business to go and stand on the soap box of my own subjective morality to tell others how to live. If you don’t want people ruining their lives over this, go after root causes not this piddly shit.
There's also societal expectations - in Japan if a five year old unaccompanied minor asks an adult a question they'd get an answer; in the USA that same thing likely will result in a call to the cops and CPS will get involved.
Gene driving is the specific technique you’re referring to:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10795774/
Low crime and being well off, along with good social norms and culture, likely all go together and come as a collection of traits of certain groups of people.
Shelter and gasoline are self inflicted injuries

Looser zoning, land value tax and investments in energy would solve them
> In british historical drama there is an old standard that any character that coughs will soon die.

That reminds me of the classic short-film subversion of this trope: The Man Who Has a Cough and it's Just a Cough and He's Fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQNULEudss&t=67s
Your comment is so misguided I can’t tell if you’re joking, trolling, or serious. I don’t know what else to say other than please keep the following in mind: CO2 is transparent to solar radiation, but opaque/reflective to the IR wavelengths that earth radiates heat back to space.
Totally agreed—this is a design choice that basically comes from our agent architecture, and the codegen-based architecture that we think will likely proliferate for web agent tasks in the future. We provide Tarsier's text/screenshot to an LLM and have it write code with generically written selectors rather than the naive selectors that Tarsier assigns to each element.

It's sort of like when you (as a human) write a web scraper and visually click on individual elements to look at the surrounding HTML structure / their selectors, but then end up writing code with more general selectors—not copypasting the selectors of the elements you clicked.
There is also https://www.sustaphones.com, which presents the supported devices in a more graphical format, and allows filtering based on headphone jacks, battery repairability, etc.
> Yes it is. Because companies (like Oracle) will take as much as they can and give as little as they can.

Yes, they will. So? Nobody is actually harmed by this. The software is still perfectly available for the public to make use of.

> It's a gift to the public, not to individuals and companies (like Oracle).

The public is not some separate entity from individuals or companies. It's simply the collective of all individuals and companies. So yes, when you gift something to the public it's a gift to Oracle as well. It's not exclusively to them, but they are a part.
We probably won't rebuild most of what is lost. People will largely have to make due with living in poverty for an indeterminate number of generations.
Millennial here and I was outside everywhere. Walked to middle schools because it was close and biked to high school. My kids elementary school it’s about a mile away and I’ll bike with them a day or so a week.

By the time I was 11 I was biking everywhere with big groups of kids. Or my buddy and I would go to the store and grab a drink or snack.
Is it more disturbing to sacrifice a child's development by isolating them 1) due to irrational fears, or 2) merely to satisfy the local busybodies?
Great question, also situations where you have multiple CTAs with similar names/contexts on a page is still something I see LLM based automation struggle with.
John Knoll was the FX lead for the Star Wars prequels, and went on to direct Rogue One.

The behind the scenes documentaries for the prequels have aged well: https://youtu.be/da8s9m4zEpo?si=5y5gHUMxztwVzMny
iOS 17 Image Descriptions are quite good, but audio descriptions don't seem to work on non-Pro devices, even though text descriptions are being shown on the screen and the audio menu is present and activated. Is that a bug?

Even on Pro devices, audio image descriptions stop working after a few cycles of switching between Image Magnifier and apps/home. This can be fixed by restarting the app and disabling/enabling audio image descriptions, but that breaks the use case when an iPhone is dedicated to running only Image Magnifier + audio descriptions, via remote MDM with no way for the local blind user to restart the app.

On-device iOS image descriptions could be improved if the user could help train the local image recognition by annotating photos or videos with text descriptions. For a blind person, this would enable locally-specific audio descriptions like "bedroom door", "kitchen fridge" or specific food dishes.

Are there other iOS or Android AR apps which offer audio descriptions of live video from the camera?
It's because immigration is increasing, and more non-Swiss are in the country.
then you would agree that warning labels are the lowest common denominator solution to a well known fact, vis-a-vis all processes, products, & procedures are aimed at the lowest factor.
That's also an issue for some scenarios, but if you're looking directly at the sun (even partly obscured), your pupils are probably already as small as possible!
I never see this mentioned and found out about it by chance - maybe somebody finds it useful \o/
The nosy neighbor is a big issue for those who even want to let kids have more freedom.

You have to gauge the area/neighborhood and find out what's common - do you see ten year olds walking around? Twelve? Fifteen? And then you have to get to know the neighbors to reduce the risks, and then deal with all the other issues that may pop up.
One rumor I've seen is that dealers have been replacing LSD with NBOM which has a significantly higher chance of causing a psychotic break and is harder to safely dose. This gets back to the big problem with illegal drugs isn't the drugs, it the illegal.
I wonder if this announcement had anything to do with the bombshells OpenAI and Google dropped this week. Couldn’t this have been part of WWDC next month?
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner

It was also amazing read and it just made me fall in love with programming all over again. And thanks for mentioning Doom Guy, just ordered it.
That's basically the thinking behind some of the flavor of market socialism. Allow private companies, and allow or even encourage market competition in many areas, but have some mechanism by which large, established companies move to be increasingly publically controlled over time such that the purely profit seeking behavior can be overridden.

Of course, the devil is very much in the details.
>Whenever this topic comes up on HN it strikes me as bizarre that anyone thinks they can genetically modify a bacteria, release it into the wild - and that it'll stay genetically modified?

Hubris?

I'm all for progress and innovation. We need to couch such progress through the lens of thinking through the potential impacts of such progress though.
Have you ever done it?

Because what you’re describing doesn’t resemble LSD at all. You’re describing deleriants like datura if anything.
Fuzzysort v3 release – Fast, Tiny, & Good fuzzy search for JavaScript
Less powerful inventions have caused more drama than this, historically speaking.
I feel like, if some organization like the Internet Archive were to offer a "software source-code time-delayed-publication escrow service" (with real boilerplate legal contracts punishing early leaks), a lot of companies would take them up on it.

I imagine such a service could be pretty automated/low-touch. One way it could work:

1. you mirror your git repos to a private server the software-conservation org controls.

2. The software-conservation org then sets up matching public repos, initially empty.

3. Every hour, an agent runs, that scans all the private repos for commits with commit timestamps older than ten years (or whatever each company has signed on for as a release period); and syncs just those commits, into that repo's matching public repo.

4. Refs are then also synced, but rewritten, as if `git filter-branch` had been run to remove all commits less than ten years old. Any refs that are empty after filtering are dropped.
This seems to run contrary to basically everything I've read on this topic. For instance during Trump's presidency there was a tremendous amount of fearmongering about him possibly wanting to nuke North Korea. This led to commentary from numerous generals and others opining on the topic about whether they would or would not obey the order. Here's some rando link. [1] The sort of system you're describing would enable the President to unilaterally carry out illegal orders independent of the military. I just find it difficult to imagine that they would concede that, not only because of the power concession, but because of the ethical or even constitutional implications. Notably officers don't swear an oath to their commanding officer or anything of the sort - they swear it to the Constitution.

As for Nixon, he was literally playing the madman as part of a strategic goal [2] (arguably the exact same thing North Korea is doing in modern times), but privately was the one who ultimately scrapped a plan that involved nuking Vietnam. [3] A nice quote from the Madman article (from Nixon), "I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that, "for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism. We can't restrain him when he's angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear button" and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace."

[1] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5082689/Retired-gen...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hook
I neither said nor implied that AGI being firmly in the realm of science fiction is a bad thing. There's nothing wrong with thinking about the implications and they would be significant. It's just such a stretch from where we currently are that it's not worth investing significant resources in mitigation. The threat from AI that is present and real is janky systems being depended upon for life and death decisions. Authors like Vernor Vinge (and I love his stories) depend on bending the rules of both physics and computation. Physics in that computation is somehow fundamentally different in different areas of the universe and computation in that known computability limits no longer apply.

It's easy to re-imagine science fiction as being closer to reality after the fact.

AI safety is an issue whether AGI is 10 or 100 years away.
I've set up a filter that moves emails that contains word "unsubscribe" to trash.
It's not the amount that is wrong, it's how the model is trained. The model is trained for zero and few shot tasks. It is not surprising that it is performing well when you ask for that.
If only summers were 70F (~21C) here
:'(
Is there a block button? Or a filter setting? You are see unaware and uninquisitive of actual human language, you cannot see the gross assumptions you are making.
I don't know what that sentence means. But I know it doesn't mean "warning labels solve the problem that everything has to work for the most troubled and challenging individuals", which is what this discussion was about at least a few messages ago.
A 5C warming is indeed likely to make a few areas uninhabitable. I'm not saying climate change is not a problem. I'm just saying it's not an extinction event.

But keep in mind that the areas that tend to get the greatest warming tend to be the dry ones. In such places, sweating will still allow human bodies to regulate body heat, if air conditioning breaks down.
When you say "locally" it usually means it uses the browser's API to navigate the inbox and perform whatever actions necessary. This extension instead requires pretty intrusive permissions, just like the alternative competitors (which are under fire for selling your data).

I appreciate that you state that "data doesn't leave your device", but the whole point of "local" extension is that I don't have to take your word for it.
Vehicle Motion Cues to reduce motion sickness
I understand why some people might not weight the probability and risk of AGI as highly as others, but to deny the risk entirely, or to act as if it's ridiculous to be concerned about such things in my opinion is just an intellectually ignorant position to hold.

Obviously near-term AGI and climate change present us with near zero risk, and therefore certain groups will dismiss both. This is despite clear trends plotting towards very clear risks, but because these individuals are yet to see any negative impact with their own eyes it's all too easy for them to dismiss the risk as some kind of hysteria. But these risks are real and rational because the trends are real and clear. We should take both seriously.

The nuclear risk is real too, but unlike AGI and climate change the risk isn't exponentially increasing with time. I think other weapons like bioweapons and drone weapons potentially fit that risk profile, however.
Yeah, I can imagine SKIP LOCKED being faster if used that way. Just hasn't been an issue for me yet, so I haven't tested.
I would disagree with this, just on the basis that there are localities where it becomes physically impossible to do so. Most commonly in relatively "dense" suburbs where having children walk around is a genuine hazard because of cars and because other parents will call the cops if the child looks under 12. Of course on the individual level it is possible to go against the grain but in the current cultural sphere it's definitely really hard.

I am annoyed I cannot find a great case study I saw of this being done where an unattended child of 8 was playing by themselves on a playground and had the cops called on them multiple times by multiple sets of "concerned parents." This being despite the fact that kidnappings and incidents of that nature are actually extremely rare compared to basically every other form of injury for minors
That's a technique used since the 1950s with great success against the parasitic screw-worm; it's now gone from North and Central America. Every year we release millions to keep them in South America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique

https://www.fao.org/4/u4220t/u4220T0g.htm

> In February 1991, after 15 years of production and the sterilization of 220 billion insects, Mexico was declared screwworm free. The screwworm rearing plant in Mexico, the only one of its kind, continues producing flies on a large scale for the eradication efforts under way in Central America and now provides FAO's Screwworm Emergency Centre for North Africa (SECNA) with sterile flies to combat the recent outbreak in North Africa.
They probably got a lot of hand holding from AMD.
Yeah, God forbid anyone take ginger or mint for an upset stomach, chamomile tea to relax, or melatonin to help them fall asleep. Or, more on topic, a toothpaste with FDA approved fluoride and FDA approved biomin which, when combined, lacks FDA approval. I never make any decisions that have not been approved officially by the US government
In Morse more frequent characters are represented by shorter codes. You can also see here that A is only one dash.
Back when I grew up in the 80s and 90s there was a child abduction scare due to high profile cases like the Michaela Garecht case in Hayward, California. In fact, we lived in the same general community as her family (my parents knew the Garechts). Yet they still allowed my sister and I to choose how we got to and home from school (bus, walking, or bike) or to our friends' house. Speaking to them in adulthood about it, they said their choice to allow that was a combination of what you said -- teaching us to be autonomous -- and also that it jibed with their busy professional lives. Seems like they also got stares of disapproval from other parents, but I think it was the right choice.
What is your definition of "data race"?

While I'm aware of some differences in opinion in the details, all of the definitions I'm aware of exclusively refer to multiple threads of execution writing to the same memory location, which makes the concept of a multi-process data race impossible. For example, Regehr: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/490

A data race happens when there are two memory accesses in a program where both:

target the same location

are performed concurrently by two threads

are not reads

are not synchronization operations
Although not nordic not including basque which I guess could also be considered an European low-resource language.
Emojis are great for conveying the wide and varied levels of human emotion that differ from person to person that may type the same exact sentence with an entirely different meaning.

This is especially true when you have repeated communications with someone and come to understand how and when they use certain emojis.

For this same reason, I don't think they are great for technical information. They feel antithetical to the purpose of conveying exact information. You can use them as iconography, but purpose-made iconography is still superior, in my view.
Email signatures are essentially end to end. The company would have to keep a file of all the identities of all the people that everyone in the company knew. To make this useful, the company would also have to record information about who knew who.

As already mentioned, the email might also be encrypted (the most common case). Then the signature would not be available as it would be hidden under the encryption. These sorts of filtering issues are why corporate cybersecurity people, somewhat ironically, tend to dislike encrypted email. There is an opportunity here to make better email clients that treat encrypted, but unsigned, emails with suspicion.
Okay, so what happens if I (french) kiss a person that is taking this bacteria producing continuously mutacin-1140 and ethanol ? Could it take over my mouth, and I would ended up mutacin tolerant, and accelerating my cirrhosis ?
Open-Source, High-Performance Analytical Database (ClickHouse Competitor)
Airbus debuts its half-plane, half-helicopter to the public
Fair enough but I do feel like our everyday experience with biology informs this. If you cultivate a certain color of rose and release it into the wild, you wouldn't expect that color to persist, right? Maybe I'm out of touch but I feel like that's intuitive. Maybe the technology is sexy and dazzling and that makes it more difficult to engage critically.
I assume you've answered your question but just to explain further:

So generally in order to actually help you mass unsubscribe from unwanted emails, most email cleaning tools handle your email data on their server. The process of parsing email data to fetching unsubscribe links or unsubscribe instructions etc..

So there's a trust problem where some tools have been caught selling user data:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/personal-data-...

So the goal here with InboxPurge is to move all these processes related to your email data to your device(browser), ensuring your privacy.