skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's try to fix the world's vast number of actual, boring health problems before trying to add the equivalent of spoilers and chrome-plated hubcaps to perfectly healthy human bodies.
The fear of being beholden to a company for your health is not one to dismiss so easily.
I live in the Bay Area, I consider myself a leftist.

The progressive idea of "defund the police" and do interventions didn't work. The Hard right idea of "just lock them up" also didn't work.

You know what will change this... throw them in the back of a police car and give them the choice, rehab or jail. Do both and give the user the option.

And, housing and jobs when you get out of either are a MUST HAVE. This is another area where CA have dropped the ball.
Ok- so, in general, businesses don't hire low or mid level staff to jump on a bandwagon like crypto or AI. They hire leaders or expert consultants. This is a super frustrating trap that many many junior people fall into.

If you are junior, and you learn something specific in a domain, you can maybe be hired by a startup focusing on that specific thing. But that is tough to do without context. Many interesting/exciting technologies don't in fact have a useful business purpose. And "AI" or "crypto" are not specific enough, there are hundreds of potential specialities in each.

To get some context on specific technologies might develop business utility, try the Thoughtworks Tech Radar. Go through the trial and assess categories going a few years back, see what has matured into adopt and what is on hold. The Radar is specific. Each item is a specific tool, technology, or practice that an individual person can build expertise in.
>There’s over 128BB in the fdic fund so we can easily bail these customers out. But they should figure out if it’s fraud or what not.

If FDIC is going to step in, it's clear regulation needs to be created that saying "We are FDIC Insured" is only allowed if your money directly transfers to bank account in your name.
As long LLMs are seen as patterned knowledge aggregator then work as intended. They hallucinate answers mostly because they try to interpolate data or there is some pattern that it didn't catch due to lack of context or training.

They're really good for type / name finding and boiler plate generation.
For larger suggestions as your pointed out they're too wrong to be used as is. They can give good ideas, especially if guided with comments, but usually at this stage I just use Phind.
That reminds me of a method for rolling a dN if all you have is a dM.

Divide the interval [0, 1) into M equal pieces, [0, 1/N), [1/N, 2/N), ..., [(N-1)/N, 1).

Use the dM to generate a real number in [0, 1). If that real number is in the interval [(k-1)/N, k/N), your simulated dN roll is k.

To generate a real number in [0, 1) with the dM you simply roll the dM an infinite number of times, and take each roll as a successive base M digit in a base M fraction 0.abcd... where a, b, c, d, etc are base M digits.

You don't actually have to roll an infinite number of times. You can stop when you have enough digits to tell which interval the number is in. For example if you were trying to roll a d12 using a d10, and the first two d10 rolls are 0 and 7 you can stop, because all base 10 numbers that start with 0.07 are in [0, 1/12).

If the first two rolls had been 0 and 8 you would have to keep rolling, because although 0.08 is in [0, 1/12) subsequent rolls could change that because 1/12 = 0.083333(3).

For any particular N and M this can be turned into a state graph where you start at the start node and then select links to follow with your dM until you reach a terminal node labeled with the simulated dN value.

Here are such graphs for rolling a d7 with a d2 [1], a d7 with a d6 [2], and a d5 with a d8 [3].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/Qk2kexn

[2] https://imgur.com/a/EhW7lkc

[3] https://imgur.com/yFmHbnp
In theory FDIC only covers the $250k but in recent years these bank wrappers have gotten a little bit more clever and abstracted it away by distributing holdings across multiple partner bank accounts: https://www.getevolved.com/openbanking/fdic-insured-sweep-pr...

Mercury is the provider I know who does this (in partnership with Evolve, as the link indicates) but I think there are others as well.
whats iMessage?
Isn't that the exact definition of the placebo effect?
But it does frequently cause nasal congestion, unrelated to sexual simulation
I can (at the ripe old age of 78) confirm this completely. Without stimulation, nothing except facial flushing. With stimulation, and only with stimulation, a functioning erection.
Ideally a LLM would have every text in existence in its training set, right?

Only if every text in existence provides good source material to factor into generating the response. Given that half of all texts are even worse than average, this seems unlikely, and Karpathy’s argument seems very reasonable to me.

The final paragraph from the original tweet, after the quote in the GP comment, mentions another interesting aspect. Even if we do have sufficient expert-level source material in a particular field to train a useful generative AI model and that in itself produces more desirable responses than training on a larger but more average-quality data set, is there still potentially useful information that could be extracted from the larger training set as well? How can we classify which aspects of a larger training set are desirable to keep while filtering out noise that competes with higher-quality source material? It feels like the progress of generative AI over the next few years might be defined more by these kinds of questions than just trying to build ever larger models using ever larger sets of training data.
I work at a farm part time, there's three big air tanks filled by an air pump that is driven with a belt to a small gasoline engine. Those three tanks of air are used for the air operated diaphragm pump to supply water throughout the farm from the well. If for whatever reason gasoline isn't available, there is an untested contraption for mules to run the air pump.
You shouldn't mix uppers and downers.
Ask HN: Gre vs. GMAT. What is better for MBA journey
I'm aware that this might not be the best platform to ask this. But hey - why shouldn't I?

I have been preparing for my MBA journey for the last 8 months and I have had this question several times in the Journey: Which to pick - GRE or GMAT?

This question was mostly driven when there is a challenge, I'm certain - that my brain wants an easy way out and that's when this thought is invoked and I have wasted around 3+ months switching b/w the both.

Share your thoughts on this.
It is not backed by DirectMusic - the mng files just play wav files via whatever DirectSound equivalent for the platform (source files for the games are available in certain places)
You may want to have a look at how they do Extended Keys over in bitcoin: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/keys/hd-wallets/extend...
Awesome.

Reminds me of the time that an expensive Spectrum Digital XDS200 probe didn't work on Linux, and then bricked while I was doing the firmware upgrade it said it wanted. SD said the only thing I could do would be return it to the US to be reflashed. The cheap clone worked out of the box, so that was nice!
Another sibling comment here references it obliquely but on x86 the prefetch queue produces similar behaviour, until Intel decided to detect SMC on the Pentium and newer CPUs so that modifying the instruction about to be executed will always have an effect.

However, someone much later found another undetected edge-case: a self-overwriting repeated string instruction.

https://silviocesare.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/anti-debugging...
Termux – Response Following GooglePlayStore App Updates
One is addictive and the other is not.
Also, strictly speaking these aren't topological defects.

They are massless spherical shells, i.e. a sphere embedded in 3d space and thus can be continuously deformed to a point by sending the radius to zero.

Spheres are literally the second homotopy group and the homotopy group of flat space is zero. Q.E.D
Mind sharing more details?

What you're describing sounds more like a knowledge base and less like a general intelligence. The high schooler might fare worst on something that requires memorizing an encyclopedia but might fare better on an original problem that nobody has seen before. Was GPT-4o just synthesizing something from its trained data or did it have to do real problem solving?
This sort of thing is exactly why browser extensions never should have required Mozilla's "approval" in the first place; forcing people onto beta or developer builds to have proper control over their own software is an appalling failure to live up to their stated ideology. If they wanted to "protect" average users, they could have defaulted to only allowing approved extensions and made it clear how to opt out for users who wish to do so.

This sort of condescending, controlling, anti-user behavior was one of the reasons I left Mozilla, and the politically/culturally difficult situations it puts them in are a bed they have, unfortunately, made for themselves.
Of the Seven Jokes you can’t make on the Internet, sarcasm and facetiousness and two of them.
My definition of simple in "Make it Simple and Simpler" changes as I age and experience more end users problems.

I also think we still have a very long way to go in both hardware and software.
As the saying goes... Everything from before our teens is antiquated; everything from our teens and 20s is normal and right; everything invented after we turn 30 is suspect and unnecessary.
While the distinction is indeed important, the slashdot article links to the article submitted two months ago about the charges.
Running LLMs in the browser and creating AI-enhanced experiences is where is the innovation in the frontend lies now. UI frameworks is a matter of taste, there is simple, complex and bloated/corporate alternatives.
Except they totally flopped with virtual reality.
We don't know how many medications actually function. We put them inside of increasingly complex animals and study the results to see what they do (and hope they don't die). Botox was intended to treat muscle spasms. Powerful anti-depressants are regularly prescribed for pain from nerve damage in people with no mental health issues. And MDMA isn't prescribed for anything because the powers that be prematurely decided to ban it based on completely fabricated claims, which I assume is part of a massive hundred-year conspiracy to make sure people... keep dying from alcohol? Not totally sure about that last one, but it's hard to deny the facts.
There is no risk in which to hedge unless you gamble. If gambling is stupid, then hedging risk must also be stupid by association.
Car insurance is nationalized in a few Canadian provinces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_auto_insurance
Computer architectures sometimes necessitate no-ops under certain circumstances to facilitate functionality. Even though they're no-ops, they're not useless. To the contrary, they have very specific and required uses, which is why they exist.

Evolution works on integrated systems, not parts. Which goes a long way toward explaining why life doesn't seem to have any single-use components - everything serves multiple purposes. We just don't understand them all yet.
Love this! Like when we accidentally discovered the axolotl can turn into a salamander if you stress it enough.
https://archive.is/psIUU This is the article. This answers some questions and leaves more.

How the hell do you get a checking account and a debit card from "not a bank"?
What secret state do you mean? All PRNGs have state right? Which you need to keep secret if you don't want the sequence to be predictable. Is there something more I'm missing?
This isn't about what I thought it might be about - who has the physical keys to the White House, when there's always someone at the door? - but it's interesting all the same.

I wonder when all of Lichtman's keys will be determined for the current race and he'll give his prediction.
What other browser might you recommend other than Firefox?
How did you get that past peer review?
Your account has been using HN almost exclusively for political battle. That's not allowed on HN, regardless of what you're battling for or against.

We have to ban accounts that do this—otherwise HN would quickly turn into a site for those topics and little else. So I need to ask you to please stop posting like this.

There's lots of past explanation via https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if you want more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It'll still be react. But react won't be the same react as today.
My bro was so good at duck driving he made me rage quit duck hunt.
And a month's supply of generic tadafila 5mg in Brasil costs less than USD$7.00
In other words, insurance is gambling's antidote. Gambling takes on a risk, insurance hedges against the risk taken.

But if gambling is wrong – implying you shouldn't do it – what do you need insurance for? If you never gamble, you don't need to hedge the gamble. If gambling is wrong, then insurance must also be wrong by association.

Perhaps it is not gambling that is wrong, but rather gambling for the sake of entertainment? That would have no doubt been seen as a diminishment of hard work under Protestant eyes. In other words, farming would have been seen as okay because it requires hard work, done for a purpose. A casino game, on the other hand, would not be acceptable as someone may gain (over and above the fun value) while having fun.
No doubt you'll see an Android/Apple split and the Apple people won't be able to date the Android people because of incompatible augmented pheromones that smell funny if you're not on the same platform.
I agree that it was not in stall, based on reviewing the video. At that level of G a stalled wing would enter what's called an accelerated stall, which will almost always cause a rapid snap roll to one side or the other, as one wing will stall slightly before the other.
Was it unnecessary? It’s her career and her reputation.

It’s also on a time schedule where she has a limited period during which she can have success.
Connecting your composting to the ground makes a lot of things happen automatically. Way, way easier.
Great TV Characters of the 21st Century (2020)
This is what happens when your IT department isn't run by a Bastard Operator from Hell
But if you just compost the fungi, you are just back to where you started. With phytoextraction you have to incinerate the plant material afterwards. I know fungi aren’t plants, but similar principle.
Mozilla is starting to seriously have a long list of highly questionable if not directly user hostile behaviors. They are hiding behind the fact that they are the almost only viable alternative to the chrome ecosystem... But they may well loose that advantage. What should we think of their VPN they try to promote so much if they bow to Russian demands for blocking extensions...
Can you please edit out personally belittling assumptions from your posts to HN? It's easy to fall into, but nearly always wrong, and in any case it just adds sourness to the threads.

Also, it would be good to review the site guidelines generally because you broke more than one of them here—for examople, "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can do both things at the same time.
So the nice thing about people wrapping their car around a tree is that the out of control car stops. Often street trees form a boundary between the road and the sidewalk or between directions of a divided highway. Advances in vehicle safety mean car vs tree is a lot more survivable than it was 30 years ago, at least for the occupants of the car.

I agree that there's not a lot of meat, but sounds like one thing he doesn't like is wide roads (or lanes) in places where you want people to travel slowly. Sounds like some focus on communal transit vs individual transportation and a need to accomidate multiple modes of transportation including pedestrians. None of this seems very new or groundbreaking; we've been hearing a lot of it from many sources.

I'm strongly in favor of individual cars, but some of this stuff clearly needs to change in better ways; highway standard roads with 25 mph speed limits don't make sense and it's hard for a driver to follow. Give me a narrow lane, and I'll naturally go slower. Make communal transit work for me, and I'll use it when I can; but it takes a large, consistent investment in capital and operations to be useful and a lot of municipalities don't have the ability to plan for that; dilapidated roads remain useful at lower levels of maintenance in a way that dilapidated transit that only runs infrequently for limited hours and limited days doesn't.

I'd like more data on the bit about edge lines (we call them fog lines around here) and how that affects safety, especially since around here roads with edge lines tend to be those with higher speed limits, more traffic, and much greater trips per day. Edge lines are present because the road surface is wider than the lanes, and the road surface is wider than the lanes so that there's more likely to be room for two way traffic while there's an obstruction.
thank you~
> The current global attention allocation system is biased towards the biggest attentions craving characters on the planet And those who can buy the most ads.

Would it not be more accurate to say it's misallocation of attention, rather than a scarcity? That is, even if we had more attention to give, we should avoid dedicating as much as we do to those who can buy the most ads

A small, fairly pedantic difference, I suppose.
I am not an expert but it looks like the quanta author has invented a definition for "highly connected" because C-expander was too complicated a concept for them (me too). There are older competing definitions for "highly connected" along the lines of a graph where the number of edges is greater then half the number of vertices which is obviously insufficient to guarantee a loop.

Then they have used networks instead of graphs and added a comma, for no apparent reason.
Yes, pretty much everywhere but the eye.

https://www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000138735-PDE5A/tissue
> Misinformation has been the backbone of campaigning and lobbying for generations. It's suddenly a threat

I mean... hasn't it always been a threat?
What about beOS?
No sorry /s
one theory is it is anti-viral.
can't infect a gene you can't find because it is a needle in haystack
It’s more like a bagel, with everything.

When the bagel began it had everything all at once in one place.
When I try and imagine what that must be like from the inside—I can’t think of anything more exciting or scary than to gain a new sense.
I have found that since I started using an Apple Watch and customized the notifications on it to only urgent ones, and silenced my iPhone (I don't think I've had a ringer turned on for...5 years? Longer?), I'm actually more in danger of accidentally leaving my phone behind than I am potentially distracted by it.

In fact, were it not for the camera (and the fact that I dearly love taking photos) I would regularly leave home with just my Watch.
If I'm interpreting the article correctly, it seems like the amount of hearing recovered is pretty good. I was wondering how much hearing was actually restored.
I’ve been skeptical of secondary dumb phones for a while, Given that they are so lacking and many of the useful features, I need on a daily basis.

That said it’s become clear to me that even different profiles on my phone don’t solve the problem of distraction In the same way that putting my phone in another room/using a different device does.

To speculate a bit: if I were able to use generative UI To customize the experience on my phone, I could enable useful tools like posting to social media, while disabling distracting features like scrolling through the newsfeed. In this way, I could separate my consumption and creation time for more than I can now.
(2017). E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24519684
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I never understood that move. If you're evil, you can be evil just fine even when "don't be evil" is your motto.

If you're not, then there's nothing wrong with it.
This is an area of active research, and there are many issues to solve. A technology that distributes a gene editor throughout the body is called a delivery vector, and it is typically a modified virus.

After the patient is two years old, many large molecules do not pass through the blood brain barrier. Typically most of the treatment ends up in the liver. Viruses and the gene editor can be toxic. Combining the two previous points the correct dose for most of the body can be highly toxic to the liver. The delivery vector may support genes up to a specific size (in kilobases) which may be smaller than the gene you are trying to fit. Sometimes you don't want to target organs that the delivery vector hits. Sometimes you want to target organs that the delivery vector misses. And more.

There is rapid progress being made here and all kinds of caveats and nuance to the above.
Not uncommon for universities to self-insure. I don't know if they commonly reinsure, but I would assume they do.
What I like about event driven is that you don't even need to know if anyone is listening to or cares about your event.

And as a consumer, many independent tasks can be triggered by the same event.

I'm working on a system right now and because of events, it's very easy for me to write a handler for when a certain type of record is created in the database. My feature depends on knowing that new record was made so we can send some emails and do other things.

The people that wrote the code that creates the record, didn't have to do anything to support the feature.

But I agree that it's not the right solution for every problem. But there are certain problems it solves really well.
That's not true. I understand most of things posted and discussed here. And I'm not some amazing 100X programmer. Having a CS degree definitely helps.

However HN is definitely skewed towards the obscure and the nostalgic with a dash of genetics and cosmology. Most of the programming happens in traditional languages - C/C++/C#/Java/Javascript/PHP/Python, and HN would make you believe everyone is writing functional stuff with monads and functors in LISP or Erlang.

The community is great though, very knowledgeable.
Seems I was wrong.
>It is important to consider the sociocultural context, particularly in regards to the deaf community, which has its own unique language and culture

Frankly, I disagree. I think a deaf person should be entitled to decline a low-risk treatment that would cure or mitigate their own deafness -- but to make that decision for a child is altogether different. Deliberately restricting a human being's sense experience throughout their lives should be considered child abuse, in the same basket as female genital mutilation. It's also about the most selfish thing I can imagine -- especially given that there's no reason I can see why a hearing child of deaf parents can't grow up "bilingual", learning both spoken and sign languages.