skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unsure how recognisable your handwriting is, but the following tech understood mine.

Try LLMwhisperer[1] pdf extraction API. You are only one "curl" command away from extracting your handwritten text.

The best thing is it preserves the layout of your notes, which means it can keep tables as tables and lists as lists.

Check this screen grab for extracting handwritten notes > https://imgur.com/fXk0tcR

[1]: https://llmwhisperer.unstract.com/
[2]: Try it with your document here > https://pg.llmwhisperer.unstract.com/

[edited] added links
What about "forcing" you not to walk around with your genitals out? I presume you're okay with forcing other people to cover their genitals, right?
I'll stick with my P100, thanks.
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> Does it do these things any more than losing the same amount of weight by other means in a similar time frame?

"Diet-induced weight loss reduces muscle mass without adversely affecting muscle strength" [1]. (Not sure about magnitudes.)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764193/
/s I wonder how close we are with phones to what was back in 50-80s with smoking [1]. Maybe in 100 years, people will look back at early/mid 21th century and call it "like the Wild West".

1. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4843a2.htm
I really like the focused idea. This is likely the best product in its niche. It's an oddly large niche--this is a tool that can solve a lot of problems.

Is the battery replaceable if it fails?
Bridging between source languages, in WASM
I noticed that their twitter ads had comments disabled. This is probably why.
As someone who was in DC area but isn't any more, talent in DC area is not anything to write home about. We have a ton of talent on paper because government requires gobs of tech workers and prefers they have advanced degrees but since it's just boring enterprise work, the spark of innovation is snuffed out quickly.

Most of startups in the area are catering to the government. There are already VC/PE/Startup accelerators more equipped for the unique market.
For those of us who live in places where 'students' usually means people at university or college, this article is about schoolchildren.
> these drugs are not under patent

"Semaglutide is expected to become patent-free in the United States no earlier than December 2031" [1].

We could probably strike a volume deal for ~$200 for 5 years and then $75 (the upper end of your study’s estimate for manufacturing cost) for another 5.

[1] https://www.drugpatentwatch.com/p/tradename/OZEMPIC
At some point, it seems like fancy restaurants should shift toward "no reservations" and/or selling seats (like a Broadway theater).
Read further down in the study. It discusses exactly what i'm referring to. The title says "N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID" that's not what the study found. It found that duckbill N95s were nearly perfect at blocking COVID.
I believe that the conflict over masks stemmed from a fundamental difference in perspective.

Masks work great at blocking transmissions even if the fit is bad, much like covering your mouse when you sneeze.

Masks CAN work great at blocking absorption if fitted properly, but thats hard to do correctly

If you are a fundamentally selfish person you only care about whether masks prevent YOU from getting COVID, you don't care about spreading it.

If you are non-selfish, then you probably care about both yourself and the broader community well being and are not only concerned about catching covid yourself, but also spreading covid to other people.

I think its hard for these two groups to interact because there's not much common ground.

I would argue that if you only care about your own risk of catching COVID and don't have training on N95 masks, then the argument that masks aren't worth the hassle is probably right.
https://archive.ph/2024.06.03-125948/https://www.wsj.com/tec...
I just wanted to chime in with a reminder that though Voyager 1 is speeding away from Sol at a constant velocity because of the Earth's revolution around the sun it can be up to ±1 AU closer or further away, depending on the time of the year.

This article is for Voyager 2, but the issue is the same. For a brief moment every year we actually get closer to Voyager 1, then we pivot away in our revolution around the sun and the distance between Earth and Voyager 1 or 2 increases sharply. So distance, when plotted over time, looks like a wobbly line.

https://earthsky.org/space/voyager-spacecraft-getting-closer...
The Moral Economy of the Shire
As it should be. The legislators should be chosen by the people, not by other politicians.

And I seriously doubt the people want to choose more than once every two years (many only vote once every four years).
>I assume you wash your hands when you use the bathroom?

99% of the people I see in public restrooms don't wash their hands. They just sprinkle some water, when there's soap right there, and then go back out. And that's assuming they actually stop by the faucet.

So you know what? Forget masks, make people fucking wash their fucking hands after handling their literal fucking instruments.

I hate handshakes even though it's social ettiquete because I know those hands have, literally, seen shit.
I think it was mostly motivated reasoning by people who didn’t want to wear masks. Also a “gotcha” because of the early advice/request that people stop buying masks (because they were needed for medical professionals and also because it wasn’t known the extent to which they would help).
> It was never about science, it was about convenience.

There was an inverse problem coming from the other side though. There was also a large and vocal group who argued that the masks did nothing as a way to create unnecessary anxiety and force unnecessarily inconvenient lockdown restrictions - like banning people with "inferior" masks.
just out of curiosity, what's wrong with the more 'traditional' Linux desktops, such as Plasma or Cinnamon?
Many projects export/fork their internal FOSS projects onto public repositories on github or sourceforge.

There is a lot of really good reasons to not host public snapshots, but primarily when a docker build script includes your site it can get hammered hard.

At some point people have to make a choice to either give something away libre, monetize your time in other ways, or go closed ecosystem.

Amazon servers are usually not "normal" users, and a black-hole of certain IP blocks is highly advisable in some circumstances.
Yes, you're right, I was talking more about how to visualize a tensor. They also do have special transformation rules under coordinate changes where you have to compute the Jacobian to account for how the tensor "warps" regular Euclidean space locally.
Tiniest clarification to the author, you should include the speed at which this person is travelling. Long duration of travel could result in techtonic shifts, so the traveller might even strike Seattle again. Maximum pedantry
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The link to the NIH paper in the commented I replied to is from the surgical wings of various hospitals in Lahore.

In other comments USU extension is Utah State University... which while not BYU has similar influences.

The impartiality of these sources is to be brought into question.

I would also note there is a significant cultural difference between Utah, Poland (the sources for two other links), Lahore, and the US at large that may more than slightly influence the agendas of the authors.
Yes. But AFAIK the official reason for the breakup was "we wanted him to pick a lane" and not "we disagreed with his defintion of the word 'open'".

I cannot say whether YC changed their mind because I don't know what their mind is. Therefore I commented with the hope of an official answer.
It looks like the companion app is in the App Store, but yeah if it's going to be open source then I don't understand either.
https://archive.is/SFQwj
LLMs don't and are not built to reason, they are next token predictors.
Can't argue against the first point, that distinction is probably true. But contra "hard to locate": Take vision. Suppose you see a cat. Your vision is subjective in a sense... but there's a pretty strong correlation to there actually being a cat.

In fact, all of our senses work like that. So it would be surprising if this other felt sense isn't also usually, approximately, but correctly, homing in on objective good.

Are there times when what we perceive to be true really is rarely the actual truth? Absolutely -- in deeply abstracted thinking, and over highly complex domains. That seems to me to be more of an argument against trusting the complicated chains of logic that lead one to deny the evidence of their moral senses, though. I've made enough "trivial" mistakes in math class that led to a totally wrong conclusion to be skeptical, and that was back when I could check the right answer with Wolfram|Alpha.

(My own deeply abstracted thinking suggests that your moral intuition homes in on objective good similarly to how the processes of markets home in on Pareto efficiency. See how silly that sounds? And yet I can't shake it. It's like making up a conspiracy theory to explain why water is wet!)
Consider that CTE chronic traumatic encephalopathy was discovered only a couple decades ago, despite the fact it could in principle be physically observed with stone age technology [0]. Knowing and caring where to look are important, and its tricky if there's no conceptual framework for it

[0] gently bash someone on the head for decades, cut out their brain, notice it's all shrunken and weird in composition ... maybe in a culture with strong warrior and ritual cannibalism practices
Look, that's my point: for any given specific task, there are some humans better at it than GPT-4. But there are no humans that are this good at more than a handful things simultaneously. GPT-4 is. It's not word-class in anything, but it's above average in almost everything. That's a very useful quality to have.
At the same price level Analogue Pocket exists (https://www.analogue.co/pocket), with two fpga cores (NES, SNES, arcade cores exist), a much higher res screen (for ultimate nerdery simulating old school Game Boy screens). Besides price, I guess they're hard to get by if stock is out.

At much lower price brackets, Anbernic et al have already been mentioned. There are kits for making your own OG Game Boy as well.

Add to this that a certain P. Luckey showing up and there is not a single upside to this device...? Sorry, but I don't get it.
'We're going all in': how France raced ahead of UK on electric car batteries
Love this - congrats Dave on the launch
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Physicists coax molecules into exotic quantum state – ending decades-long quest
Interesting - do you know if they ever went after someone that violated these conditions?
Sometimes I think about how wild it must have been that there was a time when people simply didn’t have smartphones. Just people going out into the world not knowing anything except what they carry in their brain and what is immediately around them.
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I've seen data but I don't catalogue everything and much of it doesn't come from established sources.

So one must look for evidence of conspiracy elsewhere. NYU Langone releasing commercials a year after mass mRNA inoculation featuring children with myocarditis would be one example of non-data evidence of something awry.
Well, they have been invented 2 times, roughly at the same time largely independent from each other. But it needed a general high level of math. The romans lacked many of the more sophisticated math tools I think.
Link to said statement?
It was also curious that BRK.A was affected, yet BRK.B was not.
If you think that general dating is skewed against men, but also against older women; just watch that one of 14 year old boys.

It is a minor miracle if you date at 14 years old. Just about everything is stacked against you. As a 39 years old I believe that this experience has irrepairably damaged my expectation of interactions.

It's completely OK if you're content with not having any romantic life at 14! But what if you're not?

WRT "damages their relationships in the future" - I can't imagine that, except by these superhuman types who are able to have relations at 14 not really feeling the need of having stable relationship when they in their prime, since they can JIT romantic life out of thin air. In any case, why would you owe anything to your future selves? They got all your stuff without lifting a finger, whereas they didn't lift that finger a bit to help you (since they're obviously in the future).
lol, your account was created 11 minutes ago for the purpose of rage commenting.
Fair enough, I was thinking newspapers but they were also sold.
I don't live in Silicon Valley anymore but I found it _extremely_ ironic that in my experience, it's the parents that work in tech that are more likely to limit technology usage for their children. (Full disclosure: I'm part of this demographic)
I like this, they never had rules explicitly against NSFW, but tech companies love their unstated rules and boundaries and it's nice to have somewhat of a reversal on that, as small as it is.

YouTube, Twitch etc all have such vague standards on NSFW that it's pretty common for streamers to be completely unsure if something that could be perceived as NSFW would be considered as NSFW by the platform. It leads to all sorts of disappointing self-censoring for no logical reason.

Edit: I wonder if the idea behind this is to make it so legitimate accounts feel comfortable labeling their NSFW media properly, so that X can deal with the bot problem by detecting unmarked NSFW media.
It's starting to show it's age. Things such as charging speed and battery life are abysmal. I loved mine, it's still on firmware 3.60, but using my phone with a controller is more powerful and flexible.
Steve Jobs didn't even worry about cancer enough to save his life. Why the fuck do you think he would have an even remote understanding that squeezing people could result in consequences for him?
I never considered how a Chinese speaker (writer?) would deal with a foreign language that doesn't have a written form. What did they do in 950AD? Surely there's some way of transcribing sounds in languages like Chinese for foreign languages.
In the full, strict sense presented in the article? No. Since the publication of the book in 2010, we have a lot more serialization languages available to us, and I try to avoid creating a full, true parser for a brand new language when possible.

I've created a couple of things that can be plausibly called interesting DSLs, in the sense of having some grotesquely non-standard execution model relative to the host language, and having language-like recursive grammar constructs, but so far I've managed to keep them within YAML and/or JSON and thus didn't have to create a new language.

(Before someone pops up with "ick! YAML!", consider your options; do you want to encounter your fifth or sixth YAML format, or you want to encounter a brand new bespoke language for whatever it is I solved this way? At least you know how YAML is broken; Jerf's Bespoke Language is a minefield of "interesting" of unknown size and density, and I'm just talking in grammar... we still haven't even gotten to have it actually functions and you've already blown more limbs off than you realized you had.)

Going back even farther, the "interpreter" pattern in the GoF is extraordinarily powerful, but in 2024 I'd update it to if at all possible be written in the form of some existing serialization mechanism that then serializes straight into your AST(-equivalent) and starts off to the races from there. If you have to write a real grammar, well, there may be times that is unavoidable, but if you can avoid it, you can cut much more directly to the "meat" of your task without having to deal with bringing up a complete grammar first.
The overpricing is not inherent to the manufacturing of these drugs as far as I understand, it's an artifact of the American healthcare system.

You know what else is a temporary fix? Vitamin C for scurvy. Your body does not produce it endogenously. You are already a lifelong patient -- all humans are -- and it just so happens that the medication to treat it is part of your diet.
All processes can crash at any time due to out-of-memory, bugs, hardware failures, etc. so this should not introduce additional inter-process failure modes. It may reveal existing failure modes, of course!
Google can keep your phone if you send it in for repair with non-OEM parts
I would love to see a quantitative comparison of the Form 4 against competing SLA printers, that measures and compares accuracy and repeatability of the printed parts (i.e. engineering applications, not artistic).

Formlabs makes some bold claims, eg. 99% of surface area within 100um of spec when using Precision Resin [1].

[1] https://formlabs.com/store/materials/precision-model-resin/
One thing that I see glossed over on the engineering side is reactive UI that changes as the models its built from change. This is good for many things except when it comes to presenting the user with UI objects they need to interact with. It has to be one of the dumbest and most infuriating things in UX and is often seen as working as intended. If you present something to the user do not change the options right before they click. If you aren’t ready to show any options, don’t!
Using it to train an LLM seems orthogonal to the output of the LLM. For instance, they could have their LLM include a link to the license. Merely training an LLM on the data does not seem to be against the spirit of GPL or Apache license.
Afaik, this is an apples-to-oranges type thing.

Cochrane's analysis is that they can't say if masks are effective or not. It's not evidence of harm or helpfulness. A similar way to think about this is if I show you a coin and ask you if it's weighted? You don't have enough information to make a determination (perhaps if I flip it a bunch of times you can claim one way but that's not part of the question/data).
I didn't run any statistical analysis on their tables but given that their "Viral respiratory illness ‐ influenza/COVID‐like illness" for No Masks is 160/1000 while "Viral respiratory illness ‐ influenza‐like illness" for Masks is 50/1000 I'm guessing masks do have an effect but the amount of samples in their data is not enough to demonstrate it.

Where the oranges come from is the UMD paper is studying how many viruses appear in a plague doctor's mask [1] which is obviously different than how many individuals get sick (apples).

[1]: https://sph.umd.edu/sites/default/files/styles/optimized/pub...
There are tons of different kinds of privacy film so there might be one that works for you.
> There is no way to safely interrupt an arbitrary block of code. Anything could be happening at the end of that 5 seconds.

IKR!? Like, I'll be click-click-clicking away on my 1982 IBM PC/XT, I mean I'm REALLY hammering it, like REALLY leaning into the keystrokes. Then, all of a sudden, WHAM! Out pops some random lines of code; right at the end of my thread.abort block. I mean, D00000D. OMFG. This can happen anywhere! Anytime! How is any programmer supposed to know what their code is executing?!

I guess I tend to believe, if you don't know what you are doing, then don't do it.

If this is that big of an issue, maybe try real estate. Say it with me, "three-brrr", "two-brrr". Good. Now together...

Also, "idempotent". Everyone keeps dancing around that. Not sure why.
The title is still not misleading. You're conflating the results from two different masks. Both N95 and KN95 were tested.
> Ah interesting, how do they usually conclude for you?

I let them know I don't have anything else, ask an open-ended anything on your mind type question, then we call it and get back to work.
There is a clear reversal of trend in American society when it comes to DEI policies. Lots of corporate layoffs in the DEI department, elimination of DEI statements in hiring (first MIT, now Harvard, probably others too), reinstating SAT in admissions, firing of incompetent hires who checked the right profile boxes (Claudine Gay) etc.

I am rather glad about that. While I support DEI goals, the effort seemed to tackle only the superficial symptoms rather than core problems which are hindering diverse representations. It also didn't help that there was no clear leader with a coherent goal (eg. MLK in 60's who wanted voting rights for Blacks). Instead, we had weak-sauce thought leaders (Kendi or DiAngelo) and DEI essentially meant whatever one wanted it to mean, leading to a lot of potential attack surface for detractors.
There's also the oceanic currents carrying warm water from the gulf. Europe is in a very lucky position.
Only people in major cities had fast internet back then. The vast vast majority of people had 56k dialup or slower.
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Because none of us have enough friends, colleagues, or professional contacts to have access to someone good in any random thing you may need for one-off custom job. Most of the time you have, you'd have to pay through the roof for it. GPT-4 is approximately free, so even if it's not particularly good at most things, it's still more help than any of us could have otherwise.
A better link

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I mean the article says right at the start that until 90s(!!!!) it was legal for kids to smoke in school and in fact some people have been advocating for keeping it legal. Madness.
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Depends on the virus. Not all need a droplet
Amazon's official documentation for Amazonbot, at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

states

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Yearly checkup, new lab doctor asks how many hours have you fasted. You reply "Zero, but I've only consumed my own alcohol".

Still not worth it.