skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is where likeness rights come into place.

I don't see how likeness rights apply. I'm not talking about my image being used in marketing materials.

> this is impossible to prevent without stripping people of their copyrights to use their work

That's not a copyright issue. Copyright allows you to restrict how others use your works, it says nothing about how you use your works.

I think you're talking about free speech rights here, and free speech rights have never been, will never be, and shouldn't be, absolute. There are many cases where those rights (like all rights) need to be balanced against other contradictory rights.
In my experience Cloudflare is not appropriate unless you plan to only host CF services on the Zone. E.g. no delegation allowed.
Because it's "perfect for AI applications"! :)
freelancer

I get that they're depressing if you let them get to you, but I've always looked at it as I bill the same whether the client wants me in a useless meeting or a useful one. Helps me through.
Saliva-based tests offer an alternative to nasal swabbing
I think all you do is connect the inverter to any wall outlet. Basically a male-to-male power chord.
It's information still, maybe not targeted to the individual, but it allows still identifying trends which will eventually result in an ad I will (maybe) see. The advertiser wastes its time trying to show me an ad I will likely block, requiring filter managers to spend time blocking the ad and requiring me to spend time installing the extension. The total utility of the system is negative, even if just slightly. Sure there are cases where an ad could inform me of something useful I actually need, but this has basically never occurred to me, ever.

From there we can devise that the best solution for society is a global ban on advertisement.
Differential privacy just means the info isn't linked to individual users. It is still information. Statistical information is information. If it was useless to advertisers, they wouldn't be willing to pay for it. And if it is useful to the advertisers, then extracting it without user permission is invasive.
1) To your oncologist, this is Tuesday. For you, this is the most important thing in your life.

You can spend WAY more time running things down than any doctor.

2) Medical trials are notoriously bad about being findable.

We have had several articles on HN about this. There are actually businesses that take money to chop through some of the red tape for you.

3) The average reader of HN has a much different skill set than the average doctor.

Certainly, the doctor doesn't have the same ability to crunch through data like programmers do. Nor are they likely as focused.

4) Doctors have a spectrum from excellent to sub par just like all humans.

The treatments are damn near miracles--when they apply. The other problem is that cancer, just like any life form, will mutate over time and generally becomes resistant to the treatment.
And it doesn't cite sources, and when it does it makes stuff up. It's even worse than Google; at least with Google I know where the information is coming from.
is it an alternative?
Sure, I understand, thanks for sharing. Take care.
You think Microsoft is going to make a format that's cross-platform?

I guess that leaves jet brains
Yeah that was really odd. I read another version earlier and it mentioned "near Otago" then I see an island that looks remarkably like Taieri Island in the background.
Oh absolutely, the article gave me quite a bit to think about. It wasn't until I sat down and tried swapping a fourier transform/representation into the conjectures that I was able to think critically on the topic.

I suspect that the pruning operation is useful to consider mathematically. A fourier transform is a universal approximator - but only has useful approximation power when the basis vectors have eigenvalues which are significant for the problem at hand (PCA). If NN's replace that condition with a topological sense of utility. Then that is a major win (if formalized).
Then use a message queue, not a log?

Honestly, probably a lot of Kafka woes (as a bystander) come from people using it as message queue when it's not one.
Yes, but who cut the cheese?
I'm not seeing anything in the protocol that stops the first human from paying for the resource and then sharing their macaroon+preimage with everyone else. Normally, I'd account for that by associating the preimage with a specific human (account) but this seems to be intended for use without accounts?
So the only part that anyone actually cares about, as usual, is not supported. Same story as it was in 2012 with AMD vs Nvidia (and likely much before that too!). The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Promptfoo/promptfoo: Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs
Maybe other people's laptops, but 32GB is table-stakes for any laptop I'll buy.
Are you aware that there are many specialty shops that will sell you alcohol, many of them operating 24 hours a day? Many people find bars and liquor shops to be a nuisance; they also sell basically the same set of products!
Ah, it's the "Preview" button in the val.town, or you can go to the hosted page: https://substrate-hackernewsrag.web.val.run
I find the security of the secure enclave to be a bit overrated. It sounds too good to be true. Ultimately, the phone has disk storage. Once the disk is imaged, the secure enclave can be simulated in software, also without the limitation of the number of tries. Only the password is missing.
Is there a reason that there isn’t a Let’s Encrypt-like disruptor for registrars? It seems like it’s such a cesspool.
Also, to wit:

"“LISA is an endeavour that has never been tried before. Using laser beams over distances of several kilometres, ground-based instrumentation can detect gravitational waves coming from events involving star-sized objects – such as supernova explosions or merging of hyper-dense stars and stellar-mass black holes. To expand the frontier of gravitational studies we must go to space,” explains LISA lead project scientist Nora Lützgendorf."

Using three satellites in equilateral formation. The project sounds incredibly cool.-
Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic that primarily targets worms and other invertebrates. It blocks an invertebrate-specific receptor, and is not known to have any other significant targets. It's great for that, and worthy of a Nobel prize. But it's not miraculous Jesus nectar.
> If we already know what a baseline untreated group looks like

There isn't really a single baseline untreated group. For a comparison between groups to be valid, all groups must be obtained by unbiased random sampling of the same population. In a clinical trial, that population is the patients served by the participating clinical center. Patient characteristics differ by time and place.

You can try to retrospectively construct a control group using a case control study design, but then you're getting to pick what control group to use, so the results are less reliable (more opportunity for human bias).

Unless a treatment is both miraculous in effect and works for everyone, it's hard to figure out if it works.
> I'm curious, for what reasons are you interested in the source code yourself?

I am the founder/editor of PLDB. So I try to do my best to help people "build the next great programming language".

We clone the git repos of over 1,000 compilers and interpreters and use cloc to determine what languages the people who are building languages are using. The people who build languages obviously are the experts, so how they go so goes the world.

We call this measurement "Foundation Score". A Foundation Score of 100 means 100 other languages uses this language somehow in their primary implementation.

It is utterly dominated by open source languages, and the disparity is only getting more extreme.

You can see for yourself here:

https://pldb.io/lists/explorer.html#columns=rank~name~id~app...

Some that might have become irrelevant have gained a second wind after going open source.

But some keep falling further behind.

I look at Mathematica, a very powerful and amazing language, and it makes me sad to see so few other language designers using it, and the reason is because its closed source. So they are not doing so hot, and that's a language from one of our world's smartest and most prolific thinkers that's been around for decades.

I don't see a way for a new language to catch on nowadays that is not open source.
Fine, but privacy is privacy. I'm no fan of advertisers either, but if you're going to invoke Shannon let's use the right terms and stay intellectually consistent.
If anybody has/can solve that problem, it's Google. I think their deficit is vision, not implementation.
Do people really feel like its geotagging and wifi thats holding the market back? To me its just a lack of exposure (no pun intended) to what a camera can do for you among the general class of consumers. knowledge of shutter speed, aperture, metering the scene used to be required to take a photo at all, now its a black box where even if you know what this means your phone doesn't let you at the controls. On top of that consider a prosumer camera. Mine from 10 years ago takes 34mb raws. new ones probably double or triple that. SD card transfers to your workstation make quick work of that, much faster than piddly old wifi or the backing up to cloud services I see mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Imagine uploading 16gb to dropbox while out and about, the camera would never shut off.
Accounting. Honestly not sure why I get a thousand dollar bill for a user on the other end to click some buttons and auto gen some reports when I could have a ai do it for me.

I mean crikey xero costs me like 650+ a year and it is a glorified semi automated ledger.

There's gotta be enough coin in that to encourage a business to ai automate an accountant for small businesses. Xeros got like >4 million subscribers.
I think robotics is going to be the next the thing that I would push programmers to concentrate on

Political shifts probably mean that manufacturing will be onshoring and automating. Software in the last 3 decades has basically mirrored like Conway's law management structures without source manufacturing elsewhere.

The next economy will have a lot more near shored manufacturing. And that means hardware, robotics and hardware software boundaries

The real world/physical materials is also a little bit more resistant to AI replacement
The author is working on "a new type of personal computer. No AI. No cloud. No distractions. Just your thoughts."

I suspect what the author initially hoped to make was a physical offline consumer device, like a classic TomTom or a ReMarkable. But then they seem to have noticed that's not a one-person job, so they've reduced their scope to selling an SD card that plugs into an off-the-shelf Olimex dev board. Mailing the SD card is them keeping their dream of being a physical hardware business alive.
> This is precisely the problem. The tool actually solved the problems you needed. So there just simply was no real reason why you would need to spend money on a web host or forge for mercurial.

I'm not sure I follow the argument here. The tool removes the need to spend money. So people didn't use it because they needed to spend money?
When do I know enough?
I'm not sure about the ethical implications, but I gave this bot a try, and it actually works.
Does it?

The original intent of the 5th amendment was that even your stuff couldn't be used against you in a court of law. The Founders were all wealthy businessmen committing treason; surely they'd have been in support of a very weak government when they later framed the Constitution.

The USDA is 1862 and some of the more famous events like "The Jungle" [1] leading to food safety laws are well after the Constitution. Getting sick an dieing was just a fact of the old times and I don't think people were like "lets band together and use government to make use get less sick".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Meat_Inspection_Act#Hi...
Have you done this yourself?

I've tried it in the past after reading a blog post about its effectiveness. I am yet to receive a response.
That system would last only as long as nobody wanted any more precision than you could get from measuring hydrogen atoms. Then they're do what they've always done and redefine it to something uglier but which can be measured more accurately.

> any advanced civilization should know exactly what a hydrogen atom masses.

Nobody can know that exactly. Just giving it a name isn't the same as knowing it. We already have a name for it - "the mass of a hydrogen atom".
I don't find this persuasive at all. Mozilla wants to frame itself as the browser vendor that cares about privacy, but there are now popular independent browsers like Vivaldi and Orion that go much further than Firefox to protect user privacy, shipping tightly-integrated and fully-featured adblocking out of the box. Firefox on iOS still doesn't natively support adblocking, they weirdly segmented that capability out into a separate "Firefox Focus" product.

Mozilla becoming an advertising company unquestionably warps their incentives and brings them out of alignment with the end user. Tracking-based internet advertising is inherently adversarial and there's no silver bullet or technical approach that magically makes it less so. The fact that their chief partner for this is Meta is deeply disqualifying, given Meta's track record (e.g. Onavo scandal, among a multitude of other things).

There's a ton of real-world value in having Firefox, with a non-Chromium rendering engine, remain relevant in the market. But if Mozilla wants to retain any marketshare at all, they are going to have to compete with other independent browser vendors on UX and privacy. Becoming an advertising company is not the way.
SecureDrop Workstation 1.0.0 Released
Use your imagination. All I'm saying that there is room for research for new weapons that doesn't kill the individual, just neutralizes them, so if someone has some moment of rage or mental breakdown the person could live on after caught and treated. Create something that pins down the target or paralyzes like the taser, but from a distance.

But if you blow everyone's brain out with 50+ year ago developed murder weapons, and think this is fine as it is, this will never happen.
> My original comment was about manned space flight in particular. If your application is relatively generic I think it is completely okay, if you are aware of it and mitigate the most pressing issues.

Everything we have been talking about relates to space flight. In fact, with humans on board, you can afford to be a lot less precise, because they can work around most numerical issues by hand. The Apollo guidance computers, for example, were prone to occasional instances of gimbal lock and numerical instability, and the astronauts just fixed it.

> You can use interval arithmetic, which guarantees that you at least know when cancellation has occurred. Interval arithmetic is fast enough for real time, although it has its own significant drawbacks.

Interval arithmetic does not prevent cancellation. It's just two floating point calculations, both of which are actually less precise than the one you would do otherwise (you don't use default rounding for interval arithmetic, you round the bottom down and the top up). You do know when things have been canceled, but you know that in a floating point calculation anyway if you have done the error analysis.

My overall point here is that NASA isn't missing anything by using floating point instead of using other weird or exotic arithmetic systems. Double-precision floating point combined with a rudimentary error analysis and some algebra is good enough for pretty much everything, and you may not be able to do better at all with fixed point. Designing fixed point algorithms also depends on a very careful analysis of interval ranges and precisions, and often gets you nothing over just using "double", where the error analysis is easier anyway.

If you need to do better than double, there's also double-double arithmetic for your hard parts, which is a similar speed to interval arithmetic and doubles the precision you get beyond double.
No matter how you try to spin this, I don’t think you can call your browser a “user agent” if it’s implementing features that exclusively benefit advertising companies.

If it were feasible to write one’s own web browser for personal use, no one would add this feature out of kindness to advertisers.
> I don't see a "buy now" button or a PCIe version anywhere here

"Buy now" buttons and online shopping carts are not generally how organizations looking to spend serious money on AI buy their hardware.

They have a long list of server hardware partners, and odds are you'd already have an existing relationship with one or more of them, and they'd provide a quote.

They even go one step further and show off some of their partners' solutions:

https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/servers-instinct-deep-learni...

FWIW I believe Supermicro and Exxact actually do have web-based shopping carts these days, so maybe you could skip the quotation and buy directly if you were so motivated? Seems kind of weird at this price point.

https://www.exxactcorp.com/Exxact-TS4-185328443-E185328443
They claim they got access to his phone -- pretty quickly! They don't mention if it was an Apple or Android device. Curious how they got into it so fast!
Im seeing this across so many pages. They're unique--docs and about pages for products I built--and Google refuses to index them.
Have you seen Power Automate self-healing AI selectors?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61uF7SNUpP4
The European Union, in my unqualified opinion, must fund free software with billions, and make all its governments run on it, the same way the countries that today make up the EU have spent, in the past, the equivalent of today’s billions to base their societies on state-owned water, gas, and electricity networks and providers.
I actually wrote my thesis on this. Ovarian is very commonly studied for immunotherapy, but there isn't anything out there outside of the clinical research realms. The data is pointing more and more to solid cancers being much less responsive to immunotherapy than blood cancers. Unfortunately, I don't have good news for you here. We are probably 30 years away from having an IT medicine that doctors prescribe regularly. And even then, it will be insanely expensive
Different problem?

Having created a micropayment network, you quickly discover that infrastructure does not exist where you want to use it. Web APIs are kind of the obvious use case, but because there was no micropayment system they trended to an account and batch payment method by necessity.

This aims to fill that infrastructure gap. Of course, there's a huge chicken-and-egg bootstrap problem, but you have to start somewhere!
You think using the word 'gender' while describing the mating preferences of white-throated sparrows is "political activism"? Good grief.

... But I have to ask: to what end? What political group is massively benefiting from this insidious ornithological analogy?
They sell tools not toys. Of course the ux is different than what most developers designing for the consumer might be used to. Its brilliant for what it is on a pro camera. Lots of physical buttons, informationally dense displays, instant startup and off, able to use the device without the screen on at all (in the case of a dslr at least). Does exactly what it says on the tin for you and its not going to rearrange how all the menus work every 3 years when a new PM wants to make a name for themselves.
If you try to incapacitate someone by shooting them, they will either die anyway or kill someone (perhaps you, or someone you are supposed to be protecting, or another bystander) before you can take the shot. If you had a science fictional gun that would only ever knock someone out no matter where or how often they were hit, then sure, you could go for it.
One of the elements that came with mechanical (as opposed to human-powered) phone exchanges was introduction of "impulse billing" (there's probably a proper term for it) where establishing a connection triggered a device that printed a symbol every "pulse" from the timer on a ticker tape. This would be then collected, pulses counted, and you'd be billed based on the amount of those pulses. Similarly different devices would be able to generate "logs" of actions like "connected line A to line X", which would be collated and sorted regularly.

Different billing strategies often were based on how often the pulse was triggered. This is also related to "billing by the second" - it was originally a technological issue that caused per-minute billing.
I know that Google has extremely talented people tackling these kind of things, and with vastly more experience than I, but I can't help to think that the problem is that we as users have extremely diverse needs and use cases, which is impossible to satisfy them all.

It's even more impossible to satisfy them in a way that's also useful for Google's own business model.

The most obvious and potentially naive way of doing that would be to allow end users to upvote or downvote search results. I know that Google already does that in an automated way to some extend, but the problem is that that signal is then used to determine the quality across all the users which, as I mentioned in the beginning, is impossible to get right.

Instead that metric should only affect each user's own search results and not everyone else's. This could improve the quality of the results, bring more people back, and eventually increase the revenue. It would also help prevent "gaming" the system.

What am I missing here? I can't believe that they're not aware of that. I also can't believe that they don't want to fix it or that they're so focused on ai that internal politics don't allow them to do anything else. So what gives?
> still doesn't make any sense

Right. I'm pretty sure actually that it was a joke...
No, of course not. It's a law passed by Congress. Not all rights emanate from the Constitution. Often they are derived from English common law, or else from laws passed by Congress or the states. Unlike Constitutional rights, rights from these latter two sources can be overridden by other laws (or indeed the Constitution, as interpreted by judges).
And how come there was no drone squad? Just one guy with a cheap ass drone, to scan the roofs? I'm not an expert in this topic, but this seems like a no-brainer.
SD card mailers exist.[1] You can even get them custom-printed.

Since all this guy is actually selling is an SD card, he probably should get custom SD cards printed with his own logo on the SD card itself, packed in his own custom packaging. His marketing claim is that this is a premium product, so it needs premium-looking packaging.
This is cheap from China. The setup fees are low.

(I once sold a boxed software product. $4000 for the first custom box, $0.25 thereafter,
made in Silicon Valley. Visited the printing plant and went over the files with their prepress person, who had a Mac connected to an offset platemaking machine the size of a small car.
She said "You want to see the press"? So I put in earplugs and went to look at the press, which was about a hundred feet long. It was turning out "museum quality" art prints at about three prints per second at the time. That shop did those as a sideline between box jobs.)

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Camera-Sd-Card-Micro-...

[2] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Custom-5G-Paper-SIM-C...
For the impatient, what they did was: put a zillion DNS registration accounts into a limbo state where anyone who knew, or could guess the email address associated with an account, could supply that, and a password of their choice, to gain authentication credentials valid for the account because they stored the supplied password without any verification that it came from the owner of the associated email address.