skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that the models not only use bone structure (or similar) itself, but improve their prediction with "forbidden" knowledge, such as "green people have an overall lower or higher rate of bone cancer than others" or "people who come to this specialized hospital have bone cancer anyway, so I don't even look at the image"

Now you can say that this is perfectly fine and represents the most likely real-world use case. Or you might prefer a model that looks at the image only, with the implicit assumption that this "forbidden knowledge" will be added by human doctors later on in the pipeline. This is beneficial because the "forbidden knowledge", such as whether patients from Hospital A always have bone cancer, might change overnight! Imagine the hospital gets assigned a new name in the system and the prediction is shit now.

This second, "unbiased" AI system will always have a worse performance, because you lobotomize it when you kill the forbidden knowledge with a sledgehammer. This study just showed that "group fairness" is at odds with optimal predictions" and how much it is at odds.

PS: You might even prefer a society where everyone is worse off, but every protected group is equally bad off. You'd also ban the humans from applying the forbidden knowledge. Whether that is desirable, is, of course, out of the scope of the paper.
You confirm my observation as well. Even motel chains have developers building internal tools these days
The Physics–and Physicality–Of Extreme Juggling (2018)
> Commit Faster - Stage Files, Hunks and Lines with no waiting - Sublime Merge is really, really fast.

Fast as opposed to what? What could possibly be slow here? It's just local git operations.
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Using Sublime Merge for over a year now after using Magit/Emacs mostly (and git command line for years before that).

What I like about Sublime Merge is its performance and the stage/unstage UI/UX is intuitive and fast backed by a competent text editor engine, similar to what I liked about Magit. Having multiple repositories open in a tab interface is also nice.

What you have to keep in mind is that Sublime Merge also includes a competent merge tool (hence the name). Sometimes we have to do more complex merges and Sublime Merge does this in an intuitive and integrated way, which would be a completely separate application in many other popular Git front-ends. Therefore the price is IMHO fair and justified. I can recommend giving it a try for a couple of weeks.
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Module are already being used by Office, and those of us that don't need to rely on GCC, don't hate CMake, can already enjoy using them.

Which is what I have been using on my C++ hobby projects for the last two years, on work projects we are still on C++17 land anyway.
I mean, is it generally considered to be a dead end coding field?

Is too boring?

Please share your thoughts
When visiting the announced URL it is unclear (1) who is behind the bot, and (2) if anyone besides myself has access to the conversation.

Re. 1: For me it would suffice with a simple About page with contact information.

Re. 2: I would like to know where the conversation is stored, for how long, and who is able to read it. The bot is presented as “emotional support” so the conversation could potentially contain personal and sensitive information. E.g., if I'm in Texas and tells Ella about my unwanted pregnancy, should I be worried that the conversation falls into the hands of the texan authorities?

Cheers.
> Probably nobody is studying this because farm workers are not a protected class

FYI a "protected class" is an attribute category, not an attribute value. In your example it would be something like "career" or "employment type", rather than "farmer".
Mac and Windows only? What the hell.
I think they don't even trail S&P 500 - with all the dirty tricks up their sleeves they roll losses over and over. Bottom will fall off at some point when hype train stops rolling, but so far it was good years as we have hype after hype.

I am waiting what will be next one after AI, because quantum computing feels like too hard to become a hype, the same with space ventures, there is some upward trend going on there but still space is too hard.
Right, but that's an anecdote - and if we're sharing those my last company that I left very recently everything was an email. If you needed to speak to a lead or a developer from another team you'd email them, even though we had MS teams. You'd maybe ping the person on Teams for a quick thought, but if it was anything more complicated than couple messages you'd send an email. And that was a a big corporation of 40k people.

>>But on personal side, I haven't received anything from a human for years.

I actually have an old friend back from high school and we talk daily using emails. He doesn't use any IM apps so it kinda stuck as our default way of talking.

And of course I exchange emails whenever there's some kind of customer service thing that needs to be dealt with - it's always best to have things in writing.
Another AI response, or humor from an actual person?
But you can transport search queries.
There are three floating bridges on Lake Washington in the Seattle area as well. The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge[0], the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge,[1] and the world's longest floating bridge the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridg...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_M._Hadley_Memorial_Bridg...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Point_Floating_Bridg...
These IP blocklist services also have a reputation of their own: if you are trying to send legitimate mail, there's a good chance your IP is on several of these blocklists for reasons you have nothing to do with. You can only remove it by grovelling and paying lots of money (extortion). So using one of them will cause you to reject legitimate mail.
In that case I suppose you'll need to find yourself a universe with different physics from ours...
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I believe in the simple golden rule, you give back to society what society has given back to you. Just like all others who gave back their changes, I trust any corporation should have no difficulty, since they are using the product of thousands of man hours for free. Not a single dollar is required, only the source code of any new changes made.

Secondly, my game theoretic argument. Lets say a powerful corpo takes your code and makes something that turns out very useful and popular. If it was BSD, they have no obligation to share anything back and your original project is left to dry and rot. If it was (A)GPL they are obliged to return the changes, and then you can absorb their changes and beat them to the punch. Its more competitive and creates a stronger capitalist environment. BSD's end state is feudalistic, GPL is capitalistic.

Also, I trust you'd be happy to have your code MINIXed, to have your code end up in closed source bootloaders locking down your new ARM laptop, and so on. At least with GPLs you get some code dumps. At least with Androids we end up with a begrudgingly shat out Linux source dump, that helps a little at least. With iPhone you got, absolutely fucking nothing, nil, nada. I am just suggesting please do not complain if BSD works ever end up creating such a world.
He made significant contributions to the theory of elliptic curves.
I'm an Ethereum fan and I found this funny.
I'm with you that RPC is better suited for action-oriented APIs - but flask-restx gets the job done well and I know more about it, which is enough for me to simply stick with it. I also like swagger. I'll consider RPC for my next project though
Zig is basically Modula-2 for C afficionados, those of us that are confortable with C++ hardly have any benefit from it, those improvements are also on C++ type system.
Great article. I am not going to name names, but over the last one year, whenever there is a concept that became popular in Gen AI, thousands of startups pivoted to doing that. Many come from software background where the expectation was that if the code works on one dataset, it would work for everything. You can see this with 1/ Prompt engineering 2/ RAG 3/ and now, after Apple's WWDC, it's adapters.

Enterprises I have spoken to says they are getting pitched by 20 startups offering similar things on a weekly basis. They are confused on what to go with.

From my vantage point (and may be wrong), the problem is many startups ended up doing the easy things - things which could be done by an internal team too, and while it's a good starting point for many businesses, but hard to justify costs in the long term. At this point, two clear demarcations appear:

1/ You make an API call to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Together etc. where your contribution is the prompt/RAG support etc.

2/ You deploy a model on prem/private VPC where you make the same calls w RAG etc. (focused on data security and privacy)

First one is very cheap, and you end up competing with Open AI and hundred different startups offering it. Plus internal teams w confidence that they can do it themselves. Second one is interesting, but overhead costs are about $10,000 (for hosting) and any customer would expect more value than what a typical RAG provides. Difficult to provide that kind of value when you do not have a deep understanding and under pressure to generate revenue.

I don't fully believe infra startups are a tarpit idea. Just that, we havent explored the layers where we can truly find a valuable thing that is hard to build for internal teams.
I would be outraged IF I found out. If the AI-to-human hand-off is smooth enough, there is no way to figure this out. In your scenario, if the AI's only task is to send gazillions of emails to generate leads, and then the human takes over when the leads come in, the respondents have no way to figure out that the initial email was an AI.

Of course, the answer is to have AI send a response with a CAPTCHA (assuming those still work), before showing the initial email to the recipient.
This process should not require a human in the loop.

Consider:

* spammers have access to large amounts of compute via their botnets

* the effectiveness of any particular spam message can easily be measured - it is simply the quantity of funds arriving at the cryptocurrency wallet tied to that message within some time window

So, just complete the cycle: LLM to generate prompts, another to generate messages, send out a large batch, wait some hours, kick off a round of training based on the feedback signals received; rinse, lather, repeat, entirely unattended.

This is how we /really/ get AI foom: not in a FAANG lab but in a spammer's basement.
For me personally, coffee is true poison. I bless the day I decided to stop drinking it. It is a proper addictive substance messing with everything in your body. I'm sure studies will slowly but surely find correlation between coffee daily intake and a myriad of diseases plaguing humanity today.
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When they're paying real money to scam you, wasting their time isn't a terrible idea. Like keeping the Microsoft virus scammers on the phone for an hour while you set up a virtual machine for them to remote into.
iostream is good enough for most jobs, unless one is writing high performace IO code battling for each ms.
It's 1500. The full data set is 37500 but you get there by spreading the larger message across several subframes. The full data set includes ephemeris data for all other satellites. It's precisely as long as it needs to be. This also means there is a built in fixed maximum number of satellites in constellation.

The time code gets 300 bits. It lasts 6 seconds and it's repeated every 30 seconds. Critically, it will always occur precisely on the top (:00 seconds) of the minute, or the bottom (:30 seconds) of the minute.

Interestingly, most of the time code is used for /correction/ parameters, as precise values for these are required to accurately calculate time. Satellites themselves drift in performance as they age so these parameters are not static for the lifetime of the deployment.

If you want to get into the nitty gritty, again, made in the 70s, so it's pretty approachable today: https://www.gps.gov/technical/ps/1995-SPS-signal-specificati...
if they are not profitable with these prices ... what the fuck they are doing!? do they just have company coke-athons all day every day?
> Quote-unquote “bedrock” is a simple idea, but in practice, geology is more complicated than that.

There is always bedrock, but in some places your pile would have to be really long to reach it:

> The gravel deposits of 100 m (330 ft) are the deepest in the south of Munich and decrease towards the north.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_gravel_plain - not saying this is anything really extraordinary, but it's the area I'm most familiar with)
Both motives are likely to be true.
are there even any VCs pouring money in LLM infra? I would assume VCs aren't interested in projects which won't give them a tenfold return. And with infrastructure there are some many existing competitors (like AWS) so that such returns are never expected
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Did any of the startups in question actually ever want to build AI infrastructure or did they all pivot from Metaverse to Crypto to AI in the great pivotting of 2022.

Given VC's penchant for throwing cash at grifters in the latest hype space is it any suprise that some of the beneficiaries are looking for a quick exit before they have to do any actual work?
> Does this mean that I should private my GitHub-mirror to my personal blog, because this can become a common thing? I have removed my email from my GitHub-profile now, but they can probably get it from my Git-log anyway...

It's possible to use a noreply.github.com linked to your username for making commits. And you can to change the authorship of past commits in your own repos with write access.

I try to avoid give my email in a public and processable format whenever possible.
Kind of, not when using Native AOT, and Roslyn is never available, unless packaged alongside the application.
And indeed GPL/AGPL minimizes burdens greatly on me as a user of a product, I can easily download to debug and if wanted modify the source code of the project of the company I want without involving anyone else.

Whereas if the company had forked a BSD project, there is no such legal recourse for me if the company chooses not to share the sources, at best you can hope to talk to them/pressurize them but of course that is most cases futile. As a user its much more inconvenient for me, I need to use advanced debuggers, disassemblers, etc to debug or modify. Sometimes even that does not work.

As a user, GPL/AGPL provides me far more convenience by default than "permissive" licenses do. It gives me an assurance I can just as easily see and modify the sources of any forks of the project, and if in any case such fails, its only because it wasn't strong enough, for example using GPL software in SaaS, due to which stronger licenses like AGPL were invented.
Ok but why a single country ? Why hasn't it split?
"For that matter, will Discord still be here next year?"

Probably way more likely, than a random volunteer. Kling said they used discord because it was easy. No energy spend there. Migrating the communication structure is work and energy. Friction.

But so far I also did not followed developement closely, because I did not set up discord yet and do not really want to. But I realize I am not in the majority here and I do not think I am in a position to demand anything here. Your words sound a bit like demanding something.
It's true. If you build all your infrastructure n times over you could have solar panels powering (some of?) each infrastructure full infrastructure location. But would that work out better?
More mentally taxing workflows. Git is fast enough, but human brain is not, especially in complex cases. Untangling the view is a boon.
I dislike that too, but one reason is that they're actually using the platform native UI toolkits (making it wonderfully well integrated and snappy). Adding another platform would be a lot of work and the authors don't believe that Linux even has a clear platform native UI toolkit (though imo GTK would be a safe choice).
They already did this pre-Ozempic - a lot of foods are optimized to keep you eating, and that's why there's an obesity crisis. Low nutrients, high sugar and fat. In the post-Ozempic world there will surely still be things that trigger the continued appetite of Ozempic users. Especially with the FDA having just been neutered.
I really hope this will succeed. It's sad browsers became free and dependent on Google.

I loved opera to death in the early 2000s. I was young and broke and didn't want to pay for it, but even though there were cracked versions around I dealt with the officially free, ad-sponsored version (Google ads, ironically) because I wanted to support it.

Now I've donated to Firefox in the past, but they've disappointed again and again with questionable business decisions. Still, I'm exclusively using Firefox than anything Chromium-based out of principle and I think I will switch to ladybird as soon as feasible. I have no problem paying for a browser that's truly independent.
This was my general take as well.

Although now that I think of it, there could be a "fairness" angle regarding how many training data are obtained from each population group.

But if that's what the author meant by fairness, it wasn't clear.
I’m not claiming there is. There might be, but I find it unlikely. When the NSA develops practical QC systems, a lot of QC research will suddenly go quiet. That hasn’t happened.

There is a viable pathway to low error rate, scalable quantum computers on a less than 10 year time horizon though.
This shows kind of a naive view of security. Many soft targets are believed to be safe from adversaries that absolutely are not and are used for escalation chains or access to data.

Hospitals often try to make this argument about unsecure MySQL connections inside their network for example. Then something like heart bleed happens and lo and behold all the "never see an adversary" soft targets are exfil.
Tell HN: I created a grand mnemonic to stay away from smoking cigarettes
A-to-Z Reasons For Not Smoking
Smoking damages nearly every organ of the body, not just the lungs. Here are 26 easy-to-remember reasons why smoking is so dangerous:

A — Aging: Smoking speeds up aging and causes premature wrinkles.

B — Bad Keystone Habit: Smokers are more likely to pick up other bad habits like alcohol and hard drugs due to social influence.

C — Cancer: Causes various cancers including lung, mouth, and throat cancer.

D — Diabetes Type 2: Increases the risk of Diabetes Type 2, with symptoms like increased thirst, frequent urination, hunger, fatigue, blurred vision, and poor wound healing.

E — Erectile Dysfunction (ED): Increases ED in males and infertility in both males and females.

F — Fatigue: Smokers easily feel fatigued and less energetic after physical activity.

G — Guilt: Smoking breeds guilt and shame about harming one’s body and lack of control.

H — Heart Diseases: Permanently damages the heart and blood vessels, leading to cardiovascular diseases and coronary heart disease.

I — Immunity: Reduces immunity, making one more prone to infections and diseases.

J — Jaw and TMJ Problems: Leads to dental problems like gum disease and tooth loss, contributing to jaw pain and TMJ disorders.

K — Kidney Diseases: Causes poor blood flow to the kidneys, kidney damage, and kidney cancer.

L — Lung Problems: Leads to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), emphysema, and lung cancer.

M — Memory and Cognitive Decline: Negatively impacts memory, cognitive flexibility, and overall cognitive function, affecting attention and executive functions.

N — Nicotine Addiction: Causes strong cravings and dependency due to neurochemical hooks in the brain.

O — Odour: Causes bad breath and makes clothes, car, and house stink.

P — Passive/Secondhand Smoking: Increases exposure to secondhand smoke, compounding the harm from firsthand smoke.

Q — Quality of Life Deterioration: Decreases physical health, mental well-being, and social interactions, leading to a lower quality of life.

R — Restlessness: Causes restlessness and anxiety, with nicotine withdrawal leading to irritability and difficulty concentrating.

S — Stroke: Major risk factor for stroke, increasing the risk three to four times by causing blood clots.

T — Taste and Smell: Deteriorates the sense of taste and smell.

U — Ulcers: Increases the risk of peptic ulcer disease and stomach ulcers.

V — Vitamin Absorption Reduces: Impairs absorption of essential vitamins like C and E, leading to deficiencies and health problems.

W — Weakening of Bones and Muscles: Contributes to osteoporosis and muscle degeneration, reducing bone density and muscle repair ability.

X — eXtra Effects: Causes negative chain reactions in life, such as social disapproval and missed opportunities.

Y — Yellowness and Discoloration: Causes yellowing of teeth, nails, and skin, and darkens lips due to reduced blood flow and harmful chemicals.

Z — Zzzz: Affects sleep quality.
AI is a long term trend, next is more products on top of AI. Just like the internet.

Biotech and space will both be trends but slower and less bubbly because the cost to play is high, though the returns are possibly huge in both.
I am because I've been happy with it for the past couple of years.
For most civil purposes, it really doesn't matter but we're techies and it's in our nature to obsess over details like this, often to the determent of ourselves and the systems we're trying to maintain. It appears many of those with the most influence over setting the example for such things in the civil realm have indeed discovered the leap second is far more trouble than it is worth and now it is falling out of favor. For astronomical, aeronautical and other scientific purposes, they'll continue to deal with the hassles, but for the rest of us, it appears the era of leap seconds is slowly drawing to a close.
Which gigantic issues has it solved? Curious to know.
Spend some time with languages like Haskell, Rust and Perl, and it will grow on oneself.
The most tragic part about this story is not his death, he chose a lifestyle and stuck to it despite all the warnings, for me it's the fact he persuaded his girlfriend to camp with him in bear territory and ultimately got her mauled as well.
I don't understand why scientists don't study dragon fossils.