skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone else noted, https://www.purposestudies.com/purpose1/ is the study page.

Globally, women and adolescent girls bear the highest burden of HIV, highlighting the critical need for effective HIV prevention options. In Sub-Saharan Africa, women and adolescent girls make up almost 60% of all new HIV infections. Stigma, marginalization, poverty, gender-based violence, and social inequities are some of the factors that have made women and adolescent girls especially vulnerable to HIV. PURPOSE 1, which enrolled cisgender women, will evaluate an investigational drug, lenacapavir, and an FDA-approved PrEP drug for people assigned male at birth, emtricitabine/ tenofovir alafenamide, also known as F/TAF or DESCOVY®, for PrEP. This trial is taking place in South Africa and Uganda and has completed enrollment.
Eye of the needle was one of those rare twofers: a very good book and a very good movie.
As an American, I knew multiple of those were from Waterloo, but not all. The post makes me think Waterloo does not realize they're totally respected.
Now for something that takes this data and detects ships with no AIS data, or which changed AIS identity.
I wonder if this is a case where "promotion" carrot / stick doesn't mean much to your average individual contributor?

For this to work there needs to be some clear / reliable promotion system, not some vague threat. On top of that I'm sure that makes much sense when the common belief is that to move up / get a reasonable raise you need to change jobs anyway.

It has been at least 20 years since I worked at a big company with clearly defined promotion systems for individual contributor employees that you could reliably achieve. Even then towards the end it wasn't really the most reliable / predictable system. HR kept coming up with a new system every year it seemed, it was hard to keep track of it.

On the other hand, it probably seems like a good carrot / stick to folks in management who have fairly clear promotion paths / structures. They maybe just don't realize their ICs don't have the same system, or value / trust such systems.
I think they were on high alert up until recently and are now in the process of trying to figure out how to get along with them. On the border areas, there were a handful of markets in the mountain villages where they allowed Afghans to cross the border to sell products. These markets were shut down once the Taliban took over but have recently been re-opened (within the last month or two).

As of last year but probably since the Taliban came to power, Tajikistan has has military checkpoints along the border. Also, I don't know about for all seasons but during the summer, the river seemed too fast to be crossable along most parts of the border.
See comment elsewhere about 'negative waves'.

I also loved him in Kelly's Heroes, which sadly isn't mentioned in the obits I've seen so far.
That seems like a good advice, and is having exactly the intended effect. That's what this system is there for.
People really, really, underestimate how important prompting is.

I would be confident in stating that half the people who complain about a model are actually just suffering from poor prompting.
Tailscale (et al)?
Try to stay optimistic. There are market forces in favor of remote work:

1) Employers who allow remote work will have lower office costs

2) Employers who allow remote will be able to poach employees from competitors who do not offer remote work

These are both strong incentives for employers to allow remote work. Obviously not all do, but over time employers who allow remote work will outperform their peers due to the two reasons above, which can help encourage other employers to allow it in order to stay competitive.
Single digit million per year? Where is the source please.
Whoa - Can anyone explain why I'm getting downvoted?
nVidia has had some implementation of path traced audio in their VR SKDs for quite a while. I don't think its that's popular, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozhywx2YbzM
Surprise, surprise making it easier to work allows more people to work.
Taking a phrases I read about the latest iPad. If they stop neutering the workplace by not allowing remote work then more people will work.
Sort of like how cities are neutered because they are car centric and not people centric.
And it’s not just the currently disabled but caregivers as well. I had a PM that was caring for aging parents and we could hear her feeding them as we were on calls trying to unbork a business process that wouldn’t let us give customers the software licenses they paid for.

This is a good thing but there are some people who hate the idea of remote work because they can’t comprehend a management style that isn’t their First Grade teacher’s.
I think Atkinson might have the edge if you were looking at it on a blurry CRT instead of a modern LCD/LED screen.
The problem is that there are no truly 'public' interests, there are only clusters of private interests. Going down this route would eliminate all non-profits (which I'm not entirely against).
Have you used GPT-5?
My dad (UW CS grad in the 70s) loves talking about WATFIV, or, “Waterloo Fortran IV” which I’ll never tire of being the most ridiculously confusing name for something.

Naming is hard but does it have to be this hard?!
> What is the downside of clamping down on borderline fraud, exactly?

Fraudsters don't get rich. And more importantly, wannabe fraudsters have their dream career path cut off. It's a huge downside to them all.
Reading that was just grim, the guy got laid off, then finds a new job at "a technology company that builds software to make AI writing harder to identify. In other words, Miller is helping a company that's using AI to do the work he was forced into after AI took his job in the first place."

There's just no happy ending either:

"Miller doesn't look back fondly on his time in the AI-humanisation mines. "I contributed to a lot of the garbage that's filling the internet and destroying it," he says. "Nobody was even reading this stuff by the time I left because it's just trash." Ultimately, Miller assumes the company will just take down the AI articles he worked on. "It'll be like it never even happened."
Yep, that final scene is soul-searing
and PHP indirectly (where Lerdorf studied)
Is this what https://ground.news/ is trying to be? I keep getting advertised the service on Sean Munger’s YouTube channel
I understand you need to call OpenAI through iOS to send data to them and that's all non-identifying information, but they literally having top executives quitting because of ethical concerns. Look at all the dirty tricks Meta and Google has used to get around privacy settings. Why is anyone putting their faith in a seemingly bad actor whose entire business is admittedly built on theft? This isn't an industry built on good faith and the billions invested in these companies will have to be paid.
There is a bigger chance that a toddler smashing a keyboard finds a bug than gpt5. LLMs can't understand intent, so they literally work like `grep` with little to no understanding of the context, so most of the time it will false flag good code.

There are already a lot of tools already to find bugs, like fuzzers, but I am sure that LLMs won't be one of them.
The fact that U Waterloo didn't take this opportunity to mention PHP or Blackberry is a rather sad indictment of the Canadian tech scene
I remember using Maple in college, it was a really cool tool

Loved being able to visualize functions in realtime

Made calculus a lot more tangible
I don't think it's really true that they've outsourced the costs. Meta sending one of their lawyers to defend the company in small claims court a single time would be hundreds of thousands of times the cost of resolving the case using a customer service rep. Of course, this approach also generates costs for the taxpayer, which sucks for everyone.
Maybe but keep in mind that there’s often a substantial lag in practice between a fixed vulnerability and its deployment into production.

That said, I’m quite skeptical there’s any AI’s on the horizon that can autogenerate exploits from CVEs.
Couldn’t escape (the geese) if I wanted to…
Related ongoing thread:

Tetris Font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737294
The WSJ opinion section has been a running gag for 50 years. It’s where they let the cranky old conservatives let off steam. But the newsroom is separate and more measured and middle of the road.
Stockholders are global, there is no disproportionate gain for Europeans. Novo trades on an American stock market, and Americans (whoever they may be) are reaping just as much of a benefit from Novo as they would from Eli/Pfizer/etc.
The summary text explicitly called out why that would be unethical in this case.
Almost makes you want to check your priors. Almost.
GPT-5, maybe not. But somebody somewhere is building something that can do that. And if they can't do it _now_ they have a plan that tells them what's missing. TLDR; it's coming, soon.
Don't Look Now is one of my favorite movies! So weird and spooky.
> Like howling of wind, the sound from musical instruments

The typical technique used to model these is a "digital waveguide" - treating the wind instrument or string as a one-dimensional tube. The wave propagating down the tube is sampled at your sample rate spatially, so the computer model consists of a pair of queues of samples propagating in each direction. A typical guitar string might have a pair of buffers 300-600 audio samples long, and you move pointers into those buffers every cycle to model the propagation. I'll link to PASP as others are doing for a diagram:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Ideal_Acoustic_Tube.htm...

At the end of the waveguide (typically where the string is attached to the bridge, or the sound hole of a tube is), the traveling wave encounters an impedance discontinuity, exactly like an electrical wave on a transmission line would, except the units are different. This discontinuity causes the energy in the wave to reflect, and as this repeats, the string vibrates.

That's the core technique. There is so much research on top of this, backed by hard math, to model other nonlinear behaviors of strings, to add other components to the model, etc. I find it fascinating how physical modeling is very well studied within a very small circle of researchers, and nearly nobody else has heard of the concepts.

Happy to discuss further, either here or over email, if you or anyone else has questions!
Probably because you're bringing LLMs into a conversation when there's no clear link, and adding nothing else to the conversation.
Yeah, VP clicking that button is <10 people company that has 5 C-Level titles, a few VPs and a few SWEs that do the without fancy titles.
Related:

Show HN: Fuzz Map – a GUI fuzzer, interactive demo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32578311 - Aug 2022 (33 comments)
Pretty much me at this point. I've had the same remote job for 9 years, and while I could work an office job at the time I was hired (I was 31 then), now at 40 and with a number of my chronic conditions rather a bit less background than they used to be. Not to mention that pretty much everything I have is either respitory, or one of the major comorbidities for COVID, which is still very much in circulation.

To give one example... about 2 years ago I had to spend about 10 months on near-total bed rest to get a healing-resistant foot ulcer to finally heal. I was able to work from bed for almost all of that. If I'd been working an office job it basically would have been a choice - keep my job, or keep my foot.
If there wasn't the bandwidth to include full colour depth information then there definitely wasn't the bandwidth for the high-frequency pixel data for dithering.
Ode to Blue Skies: The Importance of the Flight Simulator
Right, but my point is that this is a problem that the AT protocol is trying to solve. You pointing out that it is a problem elsewhere is exactly the point; why not try to solve it?

This is especially important for a federated system where individual servers may come and go, and you want to have the ability to move your account if the server goes down or starts doing something shady.

Part of the reason people choose a centralized social media service is because they know their account will last and they can build a reputation. Unless you can move your account and maintain your reputation, a federated system won't have that trait.
Exponential growth of solar power will change the world
https://archive.ph/JuoYa
The fee comes from the payment processor. There's no way to avoid it while providing credit card services without starting your own payment processing company (at which point you're then eating those costs directly).

FedNow should help in the longer term as non-credit card payment methods show up that use it, but it's still not going to get to the realm of 10¢ micropayments (the service has a flat $0.045 per transaction fee, and companies still have to then consider their own service cost overheads on top of that).
Agreed - pre-pay. I'd pay $5-10 easy and let it run out slowly over time
Thanks, and yeah, pixels mattered then.

When I made Glider in color for the first commercial release, I used only the 16 colors of the Macintosh palette - I guess to keep the performance up, memory footprint down.

There was a good deal of experimenting with hand-dithering to get more muted colors — like maybe a checkerboard pattern of brown & grey to get a mustier-looking wood.
The Economist is also amazingly objective in its reporting. It's the only publication (that I know of) where you feel like both sides get a fair hearing.
Mozilla hit with lawsuit from former Chief Product Officer
Fascinating! Loved the video with the demo
> Have the Taliban ever conducted any operations in Tajikistan? I know people go back and forth over the river (I went to Badakshan once and saw them swim across!), so there's contact, but I don't think the Taliban have a habit of going to Tajikistan to take hostages or anything like that?

I don't think they have. It also wouldn't really make sense for them to do that. The Taliban mostly have issues with Iran and Pakistan so you will see conflicts with these nations most often in the news. I've never heard of them in conflict with any of the other stans. Badakhshan is also quite distant from the core of Taliban power which is mostly in the South. Northern Afghanistan is traditionally Northern Alliance territory.
> I know remote work existed as a small niche before that

You have to distinguish not physically being in the office from "working from home." A LOT of jobs (e.g. many sales job, on-site consultants, even my oil delivery guy) didn't involve being physically in the office much but weren't WFH.
500k Books Have Been Deleted from the Internet Archive's Lending Library
> All of that is something that I consider to be platform-level

I agree with this, but the whole point of the blog-post is that the "platform" currently handles this rather poorly.

I have yet to see a frontend-project that was bigger than some three-person-garage-hobby that didn't occasionally run into CJS versus ESM issues. Maybe not something that pops up on the radar of all the devs in the project but at least at the level of folks who take care of the setup and whatnot, it often pops up in rather painful fashion. Case in point; a few angular-versions back, umd-bundles were dropped, which at least for the project I worked on caused me quite a lot of headache as some of our tool-chain (most notably our testing-setup) relied on angular shipping commonJS-compatible modules.

It's currently also a major pain for anyone publishing an npm-package, even if it's primarily intended to be run on node. The kind of incantations one has to do are just insane (especially if you dared to import from node:crypto or want to support more than just the latest lts); I've just stopped bothering after tearing my hair out for a weekend to no avail, even though I really wanted to support ESM as well.
"imagine feeding this into an LLM/ChatGPT" is the new "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these"
I came here to post this - he was perfect for that role. He and Robert De Niro played off each other so well.
To each their own, but I still prefer ChatGPT. The UI for Claude is terrible in my opinion.

I had subscriptions for both and I would fire off questions to both of them and see which one I liked more and I consistently liked the ChatGPT ones more. I canceled my subscription last week for Claude. I am super happy that Anthropic continues to push the envelope on this and I hope to re-subscribe to them in the future.
Great idea, would love to see that loop going
It was released after community pushback on 15.5 being the last.

Then they are now calling something Leap 16, but it hasnt much tot do with Leap: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/17/opensuse_confirms_lea...
Bigger problem might be using agents in the first place.

We did some testing with agents for content generation (e.g. "authoring" agent, "researcher" agent, "editor" agent) and found that it was easier to just write it as 3 sequential prompts with an explicit control loop.

It's easier to debug, monitor, and control the output flow this way.

But we still use Semantic Kernel[0] because the lowest level abstractions that it provides are still very useful in reducing the code that we have to roll ourselves and also makes some parts of the API very flexible. These are things we'd end up writing ourselves anyways so why not just use the framework primitives instead?

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel
Your entire scenario here is based around a local (state and county) tax, and has nothing to do with the federal tax code the parent article is concerned with.
You're making an assumption that a hospital is a monopoly. I explicitly said "unless it's a monopoly".

Ok, if "many areas have one hospital"... I don't think that's true at all. Most areas have multiple hospitals. Most people live in metropolitan or suburban areas.
> We think people who work hard and come up with good ideas should become successful.

I think that's some sort of platonic ideal that hasn't really been all that true for a long time, though. What brings success is coming up with valuable[0] ideas, and then executing well on them. There are many ideas that are good that are unfortunately not so valuable. And there are many people who work hard but just aren't all that talented or effective or productive, and their work ends up not amounting to much.

> Does [someone who doesn't work that hard but has high income] deserve that money? Is he someone we should look up to? I don't wanna say no, but I also don't wanna say yes.

Maybe we should step back and consider that this is the wrong question. "Looking up to" someone is an emotional thing; IMO we should only look up to people for intangible "virtuous" reasons, not because e.g. they've managed to make a bunch of money. Look up to people because they are honest, have integrity, are kind, and help people.

"This guy makes a lot of money despite not working very hard" should be viewed dispassionately. Evaluate the work itself, and the representation and selling of that work. If it's done with integrity, the product of the work is as promised, and no one is harmed, then it may be worth emulating.

I personally think that the social conditioning we've all gotten that suggests that hard work is good and virtuous is garbage, and is an attitude and message that has acted as a tool of oppressors. I hesitate to repeat the "work smarter, not harder" buzz-phrase, but I think there's a lot of truth there.

[0] I don't even necessarily mean "valuable" in the monetary sense, though that too-often is a big driver.
McDonald's $5 Value Meal Intensifies a Fast Food Price War
the idea is that you need to buy something to figure out if it works most of the time. What you are saying us that your preferred society is one in which you are not allowed to determine if something works before you buy it.
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Consciousness vs. the Ruliad – Stephen Wolfram Λ Donald Hoffman [video]
You answered your own question, they just spend more money.

How does non profits spending money inefficiently to burn revenue help society?
Why? You use SSO in your personal life all the time. Why would you not want to continue doing so in your business?

If anything, small companies need SSO more than any others - those companies usually outsource a lot (SaaS vs a dedicated hire), managing credentials is annoying.
I think federation is currently the biggest tax on performance. Joining even medium sized groups with only a hundred users takes a few minutes and eats up a ton of resources on the server. It got so bad that I had to turn federation off completely. That said, I only have ~1GB of RAM.
How to lie with statistics, election year edition.
Drugs in general are not tested on people in africa ("african people" is probably not the right term). More likely drugs are tested less in africa vs other places.

If you are talking about drugs for diseases that are a much more serious problem in africa than in the rest of the world - well doesnt that make sense? You dont test a new malaria drug in canada where there is no malaria. You test them where there is the biggest problem.
A comment on YC, a social media platform formed by a venture capital organization, and a comment saying “motivated by profit” gets downvoted.
People are sexually active at different rates over different times, I also assume that a 100 people having sex with each other, where none of them have HIV, would not contract it.

It's like giving police officers new buller-proof vests, and then none of them getting in the firing line. You can't say that your vests are more efficient than other vests if they technically didn't get tested.

So, my thinking was how they ensure that all test groups are sexually exposed to other people with HIV, for the trial to be effective.
With Slint [https://slint.dev], we're also trying to make a desktop GUI toolkit that'd work in typescript.
So I think there is indeed an opportunity.
Like I said, being bound to the country of your birth is cruel unfairness comparable to slavery.
Easy solo dev continuous deployment for GitHub
People have worked around this problem by choosing an account at a well known, long lasting, centralized service.

This is why people have email accounts on gmail instead of a smaller provider; they know the email will last and they can maintain control of it. Same for twitter and facebook accounts.

If the whole point is to get away from centralized services and move to a federated model, that problem needs to be solved.
Islam does have a specific problem in this regard since its scripture explicitly calls for violent struggle to spread it over the world. Ignoring this fact does not make the problem go away and only serves to undercut those who attempt to start an 'islamic enlightenment'.
Hi! I’m a product engineer on the Claude.ai team. Claude.ai does support branching conversations. If you hover on a message, there should be an edit button, and once you edit the message, you can again hover on it, which will show you left/right arrows that will switch between the branches. Please let me know if you have any troubles with this!
> would pay their tithing if it didn’t result in a substantial tax break

Do you understand how tax breaks work? If you make 100k, and tithe 10% of that you don't get a 10k tax break, you just don't pay taxes on that 10k. You're still out the money, and best case you could rationalize it as only costing you 8-8.5k (depending on your marginal tax rate), but it's not some magic sauce that gets 'the wealthier' free money.
Sure, and what we have been doing to solve this old-as-dirt problem is people pick the big, centralized, social media companies to have their account and identity at, so that they know they will have a persistent identity.

If we want to avoid that, we need a solution to the old as dirt problem.