skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far from it being a straw man I think it's already a reality that affects us. In very affluent, safe countries we are so far removed from death or meaning that most people's lives consist of picking a different flavor of craft beer or game from their Steam library. This isn't just the concern of some theoretical immortal being, people have a crisis of meaning already, there's a bestseller with that title probably being published every week because in a way the illusion of immortality we have has already rendered most of what we do exchangeable and banal.

Mind you it's no accident that the one meaningful thing most people still have, which is having kids, is precisely given meaning by our own mortality, it's the one transcendent thing that only exists because our lives are finite.
Non profit means very little and opens the doors to worse forms of corruption, just means board members are greatly getting enriched instead of shareholders.
This still resolves as "business person asks for code, business person gets code, business person says if code is good or not, business person deploys code".

That an LLM or a human is where the code comes from, doesn't make much difference.

Though it does kinda sound like you're assuming all LLMs must develop with Waterfall? That they can't e.g. use Agile? (Or am I reading too much into that?)
I'm planning to do some negative scanning with a phone or iPad as a light source. I know I'll have to make some simple tweaks to the color balance of the scans. I believe it is totally normal to have to make some adjustments to scans, the side by side example in the article seems to show that a white light source is perfectly fine for this work. It's unlikely that an RGB light source would produce scans that don't require any adjustments, so I'm failing to see the benefit.
I'm guessing there are non-zero number of people(not including myself) who hoped it is about a secretly reprogrammable mouse sensor.

Many cheap mouse sensors these days are ultra integrated to the point they often even lack USB pullup resistors. If they could be reprogrammed to, say, add a pixel dump command that very few of them implement, that would be very interesting.
Usually my rule of thumb at work is that if a key SaaS vendor gets bought by private equity, we start planning a migration project. We just about always wind up needing one, as the private equity firm tries to milk customers for all they're worth while degrading service.
In Quill I am planning on incorporating something like this over the weekend. A single recap so that, if you choose, you only need to read it once.
Infinite patience with clients.
Alpha go is not a good example in this case.
It doesn't seem like the study lines up with that headline. I am NO fan of private equity at all, so I'm not defending them.

Here's the actual study.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2821826?gu...

Hospital Assets Before and After Private Equity Acquisition

Private equity acquisitions appear to have depleted, rather than augmented, hospital assets. Although funds from asset drawdowns might be redeployed to enhance care or efficiency, previous studies suggest such effects may not occur. Financial outcome of private equity hospital acquisitions and effects on patient care require further study.
The line has to go up, and the slack has to be taken out of every last source of revenue. Like that story that was here yesterday about insurance companies monitoring customer's insured assets with drones and AI. Every unexploited dollar left on the table is slack, and a perfect market leaves no dollar unexploited. Therefore a more perfect market can be built with more perfect machine-powered decisions to more perfectly screw you out of every nickel they can.

"Oops, sorry your brother cut his leg and you had to speed to the hospital, but you better get a second job if you wanna keep your car."

Fuck this shit. Fuck all of it. And fuck all the status quo warriors sitting on the sidelines bleating about "it's just the way it is" because the axe hasn't swung for them yet. You're safe now because the market has more vulnerable people to grind up first, but rest assured, as it churns through them, your time will come too.
Very cool, and very impressive work.

I want to preface this by making it clear that this is supposed to be constructive feedback. You may want to have GPT-4 give some alternate wording for some lines on the homepage.

"Child bedroom" would likely be referred to as "Children's Bedroom" or "Child's Bedroom" and "Allow to go through the 3d space for an immersive VR experience" might be "Walk-through generated spaces in immersive 3D" for some examples.

I've been working in 3D CAD for about half a decade now, and I would expect smoother copy. This is the only critique I have, because the actual product looks great.
In broad strokes, you are correct, however in this case specifically I'm not so sure. Access to healthcare today is extremely unequal. I really doubt it'll become less unequal when immortality is on the line.
> Everyone seems upset about OCSP as of late, but the domains being sent in plaintext is not exactly limited to just OCSP - we've had this with SNI and DNS.

My main privacy related concern isn't about domains being sent in plaintext but that they are sent to the CA and they can then theoretically do analytics on this data and profile web users.

But maybe this concern doesn't really make sense as we have strict personal-data regulations now.
Researchers aren’t the ones profiting off of price gouging.

Of course they’re working for money, they live in society.
Because that's how the younger employees feel like they can contribute by rewriting everything. Clearly, anything created by theOlds can be improved upon using modern but of course they'll make it emoji friendly because that's how you know it's modern.
Awesome, glad to hear it! Let me know if you have any other questions or feedback :)
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Not only that, but thousands (>10k) of WW2 aviators died in training before deployment.
Ask any healthcare economist. Private healthcare sector has the most market failures in any sector.

1. Adverse Selection loop: Individuals in poor health are more likely to purchase health insurance, leading to higher payouts for insurance companies. Premiums may rise, discouraging healthier people from buying insurance, and so on.

2. Moral Hazard: Insured use more healthcare services than necessary or neglect preventive measures, when insurance will cover the costs. This leads to inefficient resource and costs.

3. Information Asymmetry: Patients lack information to make informed choices.

4. Monopoly Control and Entry Barriers lead to higher prices and limited choices for consumers

5. Interdependent Demand and Supply: supply and demand are not determined independently. Often more demand -> less supply.

6. Externalities, such as the spread of communicable diseases, can't be efficiently addressed by the market.

7. Public goods: non-excludable and non-rivalrous, are underprovided by the market
I think you could set up a good reward function for a programming assistance AI by checking that the resulting code is actually used. Flag or just 'git blame' the code produced by the AI with the prompts used to produce it, and when you push a release, it can check which outputs were retained in production code from which prompts. Hard to say whether code that needed edits was because the prompt was bad or because the code was bad, but at least you can get positive feedback when a good prompt resulted in good code.
Looking forward to US police departments getting these when our military does their yearly Goodwill drop offs...
I have a very simple integer linear program and it is really waiting for the heat death of the universe.

No, running it as a linear program is still slow.

I'm talking about small n=50 taking tens of minutes for a trivial linear program. Obviously the actual linear program is much bigger and scales quadratically in size, but still. N=50 is nothing.
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Well, hello fellow endurance person!
But not as non-profits as they exist right now. They are as greedy as for-profit with the only difference that the profits go to execs and their business friends and not to shareholders.
I don't agree at all. That's like saying the world is only beautiful because it will one day be consumed by the sun. I love my life, and it isn't because I'm going to die.
Or rather the cost of basic necessities is (and has been) rising so much faster than income. Education, health care, insurance, housing, are all rising many times faster than 'core' inflation numbers suggest and incomes aren't even rising as fast as cpi.
Wanting to avoid potential pitfalls is worthy -- but also realize that you won't avoid them all no matter what you do, so learning how to recover from them is also important.

For me, there's only one mistake (out of thousands) that I really regret: I had a company fail following a great success because I didn't start efforts to develop the next product early enough. This meant that when I did, the project became a "bet the company" sort of deal and I lost that bet.
One frivolous lawsuit destroys the revenue from multiple happy customers. Unfortunately.
From Wikipedia via the IMF money is: Fungible: its individual units must be capable of mutual substitution (i.e., interchangeability).
Durable: able to withstand repeated use.
Divisible: divisible to small units.
Portable: easily carried and transported.
Acceptable: most people must accept the money as payment
Scarce: its supply in circulation must be limited.[27]
In my country we have a saying. "Porcupine in the pants". Sounds like for all the good it can do, it isn't written safely and carefully.
I believe death is a nuisance. I am tired of burying people I love. I already miss the time I won’t spend with my family after I die - with love comes loss, because we know death is unavoidable. Between my wife and I we kind of agree that the one who goes first is the lucky one.

Would I enjoy 10 trillion years of life? I don’t know. My human mind has limits about how much information it can hold. Will I by then have forgotten my first love? Will I forget holding my first child? Will I have forgotten cuddling up in my mom’s lap? Will I miss having forgotten these things? If I can still remember all those moments, so long in the past, will I still be human in any sense?
I can go one step further with an anecdote- in the small town I live in, private equity bought our small hospital, and the land it sits on.

Consequently, it changed policy, raided the equipment to take expensive equipment to other hospitals, ran it into the ground, and then closed it permanently on the grounds that it was too expensive to operate.

The hospital sat derelict for probably more than 6 years as the city fought with the owner to try to get a hospital + emergency room back to no avail.

It was then promptly razed to the ground, and now the highly valuable real estate is currently sitting there growing weeds, as the owners contemplate what to do next. We believe they will build luxury senior housing there, but nobody knows.

The closest ER to my house used to be less than 5 miles away. Now it is more than 15 miles to the north, and it is shared by a much larger area. The nearest ER in any other direction is 30+ miles away.

It destroyed the hospital, and our local medical community in the process.

So yeah, at least in my case (and I suspect I'm not alone), private equity was completely destructive to our hospital.
The structure of sound: Network insights into Bach's music
Intel MPX had both hardware support for "bounds tables" and bounds checks[0], along with a "memory key" system[1] more similar to CHERI for memory tagging (only at page granularity, however). Both were massive failures and they are no longer supporting the extensions on new chips going forward.

0: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.5/x86/intel_mpx.html
1: https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/
Yes, but where did sqrt come from that the parent commenter mentioned?
Exactly. In many cases these non-profits are as greedy as for-profit.
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What we really need for this is on-screen cameras, so you can actually look someone in the eye. Now, you only look them in the eye when you look away from them at the camera. And when you look them in the eye you're just looking at their mouth.
It's launched on the Atlas V. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V

> After 87 launches, in August 2021 ULA announced that Atlas V would be retired, and all 29 remaining launches had been sold. As of July 2024, 15 launches remain. Production ceased in 2024.

IIRC they only have enough reserved Atlas V to fulfill all the manned missions they promised to NASA, so there is no room unmanned for test. (And that's a huge problem!)
I love that egotistical billionaires with a god complex go to bed afraid of dying. I wouldn't want to take that away from them.
A lot of news is based on opinion but I feel like the BBC try more than most to be impartial see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/imparti...

In fact some of the issues may be caused by being too impartial and giving weight to opinions which many feel should be ignored.
Completely different case, though most reporting doesn't make that clear.

The first time you build a physical rocket and test sending it up, it's almost certain to fail. Seeing how and why it explodes is pretty much the purpose of launching it!
> I would think that if someone gave me a wearable FM radio that I could turn on/off at will, I would think that I certainly would accept that.

In this way it is an apt analogy, since many deaf get CI. The implant process removes any residual hearing, so the moment they turn it off everything is completely quiet. It's nowhere near a fully qualified hearing, however, so it's useful as a supplement to sign language, not as a replacement.

I don't know of a good analogy for it, but sign language obviously also carries with it some advantages and disadvantages that vocal communication does not. You need a flashlight to talk in darkness, but you can talk (sign) as much as you want in a library, through a soundprood window or in a noisy environment.

The conversation dynamics are also completely different. Often everyone will sit in a big circle with multiple conversations going on at once, and you can "opt in" to the one you want by watching whoever is speaking.
I pay $150 a year for my local paper, but really I only pay $75 because it’s tax-deductible where I live.
PRC Test Spacecraft 3 (Chinese space plane)
I hate it enough that I leave it disabled by default. Which leads me to a standard rant on this topic: webpages that don't degrade gracefully and instead just become effectively nonfunctional in the absence of JS.
True. In many cases the self-correcting cycles of markets may take decades or centuries.
And I've known about them for, let's see, at least fifteen years, and I've definitely gotten over my "oh my gosh I must use these for everything" phase.

Though I do wonder as well how many people encountered them in their "spread their wings" phase and happened to be learning about sum types just as their general programming skill was leveling up in general, and conflate the two. When you learn how to use both skillfully, I really feel like the differences collapse quite a bit. I see so, so much bad code with type-based extension, but it's not because they're using type-based extension, but just that it's bad code, regardless. Of course bad type-extension code is worse than good sum types code, but there's still times and places for both approaches when you know what you're doing with both.
That's the relevant differentiation here. Local news are practically relevant and lack the potential for mental abuse that is found with inter/national events and news.
I was hoping that the exploit would only execute if he stuck the landing across the gap
“This flywheel is coming up to speed so slowly!”

Lots of jurisdictions have phase out dates for new fossil fuel vehicle sales [1]. This, importantly, forces manufacturers to reconfigure their supply chains to hit these clean vehicle targets. 1 in 5 vehicles sold globally last year were EVs, PHEVs, or hybrids [2], out of ~90 million global light vehicle units sold. BYD in itself is a Goliath, and now employ twice as many workers as Toyota [3].

Look at where the puck is going. We are almost at the EV inflection point, if not already there [4] [5].

"There is perhaps no better example of China’s rapid transformation towards electric mobility than BYD. The carmaker successfully pivoted from international combustion vehicles to what’s known as “new energy vehicles” in China, i.e. battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. As our chart shows, the company did so at breakneck speed, ramping up production of its electric passenger vehicles at a pace European or American legacy carmakers can only dream of.

Since 2018, BYD grew its sales of (partially) electric passenger vehicles from little more than 200,000 cars per year to more than 3 million in 2023, all while gradually phasing out production of gasoline-powered cars, the last of which rolled off the assembly line in March 2022. Considering that completed phase-out, it's even more noteworthy that BYD surpassed Volkswagen as the best-selling car brand in China last year.

In August 2023, BYD celebrated the production of its five millionth new energy vehicle. After it took the company 13 years to produce one million vehicles, it took just 18 months to produce the next two million plug-in EVs and less than a year to build the final two million to reach that milestone. By the end of 2023, BYD had sold more than 6 million plug-in electric vehicles and it looks likely to reach 10 million in cumulative sales this year. (My note: !!!)" [6]

(TLDR EV printer goes brrrr)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic... ("Wikipedia: Places with planned fossil-fuel vehicle restrictions")

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500942 (citations)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674421 (citations)

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/electric-... | https://archive.today/569kX ("Bloomberg: Electric Cars Pass the Tipping Point to Mass Adoption in 31 Countries")

[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/world-hit... | https://archive.today/p2hl1 ("Bloomberg: The World Hit ‘Peak’ Gas-Powered Vehicle Sales — in 2017")

[6] https://www.statista.com/chart/30754/byd-passenger-car-sales... ("Statista: BYD's Rapid Pivot to Electric Cars")
There's a huge gap between someone being an odious asshole whom everyone just accepts, and, "this is how I'd prefer to be addressed".

Like, if a "Robert" says "I prefer Bob" and you still call them Robert, you're choosing to make them unhappy. If someone says, "I prefer they/them" and you use her, you are choosing to make them unhappy.

If someone says "I will be an asshole in public and won't accept critique on that" and everyone is like "this guy's an ass but deal with it" that's a problem with the community that should be addressed.
Well said. But, uh, there’s no “maybe” about Markdown being intended for writing a blog. That’s literally exactly what I made it for — for me to write Daring Fireball.
You mean because there is no talent?
Personally, I love the aesthetic.
private equity does seem to be kinda crap at running stuff, even screwing up with successful brands. It's not a surprise that hospitals and smaller businesses also get screwed up.

Like Toys'R'Us, Sears, Gymboree, Payless, Claire's, Radioshack, Sports Authority, Brookstone, all of them filed for bankruptcy, some closed for good. Now maybe they would have anyway, but it's hard to say.

But I guess they get money out of them. If you pile on debt and pay yourself, and then the company goes bankrupt, well you got paid, that's what matters to PE investors, right?

Not how good the care is at hospitals.
Quite possibly, though the last time I was in B&N, earlier this year, I found it a fairly disappointing experience (though given how much they shifted shelf space to current hot genres, it's likely they are succeeding with a much different audience than in the past)
Awesome, have been looking for something like this!
That's a great point, thanks for the amazing insight!

素晴らしい着眼点ですね。気付きに感謝します！
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I was incredulous but many normal people actually enjoy ads.
I really loathe the hubris of modern people who think we shouldn't die like everyone did for millennia before us. Yes, we live longer and we have better medicine, stop trying to live forever.
We all know that society applies almost arbitrary values to all these things.

42,000 road deaths annually? Meh. 3,000 people die in the terror attacks of 9/11? Multi-trillion-dollar, 20 year war.

Politicians only fund NASA manned launches because the average voter thinks it's kinda cool and maybe it inspires some kids to work hard at school. Too many high profile, fear-inducing deaths and politicians are liable to decide the money spent on NASA could be better spent elsewhere.
Cables.gl: Visual Programming
saw this somewhere, and couldn't find it when searching here. Really cool way to create graphics
Didn't they start saying "source first" instead of "open source"? What's wrong with that?

Nothing about their current licenses stand out as unreasonable to me. Even though their licenses aren't technically "open source" - i.e. not an OSI approved license - their license is clearly in the same spirit and I would absolutely refer to it as "open source" in casual discussion.

They did the wrong thing at first, but their intent was obviously not malicious and they corrected it. Why let that undermine the rest of the good things they're doing?
I couldn’t say it better myself. Thanks.
Even after working with colorspaces for decades in Photoshop and various game dev tools, I find color conversion mystifying. I've studied all of the equations and given it my best effort, but would not bet real money that the colors I'm displaying are close to real life. It's like the game of telephone, I just can't trust so many steps.

So for this article, I don't see mathematical proof that the negatives have been inverted accurately, regardless of method, even though I'm sure the results are great. I suspect it comes down to subjective impression.

Here's a video I found discussing monitor calibration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxt2HUz3Sv4

If I could fix everything, I'd make all image processing something like 64 bit linear RGB and keep the colorspace internal to the storage format and display, like a black box and not relevant to the user. So for example, no more HDR, and we'd always work with RGB in iOS instead of sRGB.

Loosely that would look like: each step of image processing would know the colorspace, so it would alert you if you multiplied sRGB twice, taking the onus off of the user and making it impossible to mess up. This would be like including the character encoding with each string. This sanity check should be included in video card drivers and game dev libraries.

If linear processing isn't accurate enough for this because our eyes are logarithmic, then something has gone terribly wrong. Perhaps 16 bit floating point 3 channel RGB should be standard. I suspect that objections to linearity get into audiophile territory so aren't objective.

For scanning color negatives, the brand of film would be mapped to a colorspace, the light source would have its own colorspace, the two would get multiplied together somehow, and the result would be stored in linear RGB. Inversion would be linear. Then the output linear RGB would get mapped to the display's sRGB or whatever.

My confusion is probably user error on my part, so if someone has a link for best practices around this stuff, I'd love to see it.
Respectfully, "raised" you probably meant razed.
The "diamond problem" isn't a C++ problem. C++ solved it with virtual inheritance.

Also C++ has exactly what you want. No interfaces, multiple inheritance. People don't utilize it unless it's a GUI lib.