skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whole body MRI is fairly available in major metro areas, though not cheap and not very sensitive or specific.

The Galleri blood test screens for a range of cancers (sensitivity varies by cancer) and is ~$900, although you need a doctor to order it. You also may not technically be within the intended use population unless you have some risk factors (e.g. you are older than 50, or have family history of cancer).

Colonoscopy is a good idea, given the rising rates of colon cancer among younger adults.
It's not just the "rendering engine" it's the entire software stack from down at the bottom with the IO and networking libraries to mid-layers of JS and core rendering, to very top with the UI toolkit. There's not much in Thunderbird that isn't Firefox and it's almost all custom Mozilla code, about 20 million lines of it, and not heavily reliant on major OS libs like so many other large-scale apps.
One of the biggest reasons I love Shakespeare (and other older literature) is that it really highlights how human nature hasn't changed. The good and bad of mankind, as well as the struggles we face, are largely the same as they were centuries ago. It really makes me feel a kinship with these people who died long before I was born, to know that they had to face the same kind of insecurities and challenges I do today.
This. I liken it to the flawed approaches associated with self driving cars... software handles everything up until the point it can't then asks the user to take over in the last second. Not a great strategy.

As a software engineer and private pilot, I'll take mechanical controls connected to the flight surfaces and my competency as a pilot to risk my own life, rather than turn it over to other software engineers, hoping they get everything right, leaving me with no real connection to the flight control surfaces when the shit hits the fan.

I'd at least have to know what kind of engineering process and change management practices or functional safety procedures are being followed by the company developing this stuff before I'd even consider going for a ride in such a plane.
Not really. I know the voting process is 'fortified'
Court blocks net neutrality, says ISPs are likely to win case against FCC
Defaults are incredibly powerful, Safari and Edge are the second and third most popular browsers next to Chrome. Chrome itself is a default on a lot of android devices. Speaking of android devices, Samsung Internet is 4th/5th most popular as it comes default on Samsung devices.

To say defaults don't matter because Chrome is used on Windows is a bit absurd. Chrome in 2012-2014 was still trading blows with IE even after the tremendous shortcomings during the Windows 8 and 8.1 era. This was a time when everyone was telling people to not use IE, and yet it retained ~20% use. Nothing like now where Chrome dominates ~70%.
MEMS gyro for fly-by-wire airplane using “ clever sensor fusion math” does not sound reassuring

At $500,000 why not use the laser-ring gyros that’s hardly cost prohibitive
Because it was helped by already nearly ubiquitous Google search shoving it down everyone's throat on every page

And then ubiquitous Youtube dealing the killing blow: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/ex-youtube-engineer-...
TOW missiles are a LOT faster than a drone and fired a LOT father away.
Thank you for your writing. I'm sorry it has come to this, and I don't quite know what to write other than that you've provided lots of valuable insight to an area I was unaware of.
>I am neutral to the iniative but I can answer this question very clearly: Games are cultural products and you want to get the exact same experience (as you want to see the same film and not something else)

Maybe this is a bit too philosophical, but: you'll never get the exact same experience. Year 1 Wow is not even the same game as year 20 WoW. Braid in 2008 won't give the same "wow" factor in 2024, be it due to stiffer competition or your opinion of the creator himself over the course of 16 years. these will affect a game no matter the state, single or multiplayer, indie or AAA.

There can be some archival benefits, but I don't think anyone would expect to start a MP game 10 years from now and get the exact experience as a day one player (for better and worse).
Yep. Of course there are ton of solutions that seem better at a glance. More digits! Alphanumeric!

Problem is decades and decades of software with the assumption of 4 digit flight numbers baked in.

My hunch would be an additional airline code would probably be the easiest solution.
This makes sense to be used with Open Banking regimes, that is being mandated by government legislation.
How else will people be able to go on independent aerial excursions to watch the ice sheets melt in real time?

Kidding aside, we’re really going to name the company using a homophone of the most famous missing pilot in history?
the offer model will require a multisig escrow, but with some additions. We need to be sure that when someone buys compute, the same computational resource is still available. To solve that, you can use a fair exchange protocol.
you don't really clarify why people should stop flying, I'll assume it's due to global warming? Personally, I think this is a fantastic idea, to simplify the user experience of flying to make it accessible sounds incredible. Private jets are the ultimate luxury in life that so few have access to today. If it is global warming related, then I think that problem needs to be solved as well, but it's somewhat separate. EVs have become a reality, and there needs to be a lot more work done to solve global warming, not a reason to stop all progress.
I guess you're correct. Still, I think that LLMs are overhyped and have yet to see any real life productivity gains because of them.
If you want to get very paranoid most instructions probably use slightly different amounts of power for different operands which will change thermal output which will affect CPU throttling. I'm not sure there are any true constant time instructions on modern high-performance CPUs. I think we have just agreed that some instructions are as close as we can reasonably get to constant time.
For people who say things like, “I only enjoy video games,” my usual response is to ask them to think about what aspects of video games they like. Strategy, teamwork, grinding, solving puzzles, exploring, etc? And there may be another why deeper than that. The “why” can often translate to other domains where it can be applied to projects/work.
I work on a system where id reuse was necessary due to memory constraints. We were identifying hundreds of thousands of objects using GUIDs and referencing the GUID of course cost the whole 128-bits. All this data also had to be networked.

We moved the system towards using arrays which are filled with object data and the index of the object in the array is now the id… the 32-bit ids were of course 4x smaller.

All this being said, we do not claim the objects to be “globally unique”.

Edit: if I could go back in time though, I still might give this pattern consideration https://lucassardois.medium.com/generational-indices-guide-8...
Technology Media Bias Research Hub
(I also agree with most things, and don't reply to those parts)

> In the real world a lot of work was done to minimize that over x86’s lifetime. In the early days RISC did do a lot of what was promised, but clever (some would say hacky in some situations) updates to x86 CPUs and compilers made these advantages less (although one could argue the x86 microarchitectures that showed up in the mid to late 1990s were more RISC like).

They were identical to RISC architectures, with the exception of a more complex decode unit, which led to extra transistors burning extra power and costing speed in the early Pentium days.

That mattered a lot when a 1993 Pentium had 3.1 million transistors.

That matters a lot less when a modern Intel CPU has ≈5 billion transistors.

Fundamentally, that's what allowed x86 to pass all the various RISC architectures in speed. Those kinds of differences in instruction set just don't matter anymore. At that point, it was just R&D dollars, which Intel had more of due to volume.

As a footnote: It's worth remembering StrongARM. The SA-110 was just as fast as the fastest Intel had to offer, when introduced in 1995, at a much lower price and power budget. It was crazy I could get a little embedded board for $100-$300 which was just as fast as $5000 computers. Intel acquired it from DEC. Oddly enough, it barely improved from there on. A decade later, clock speed went up 4x on the XScale (and only on the very top-end), and more than 15x on the x86.
> Unlike a traditional airplane, it becomes impossible to command the airplane into a stall, a spin, unsafe attitudes, or other bad states.

Interesting product and definitely different from most YC startups we see!

However, I am curious how the above will be impossible. Since it is fly-by-wire it seems like there is always a chance your sensor/servo fails and causes bad input. Or a software defect causes bad input with no manual overrides to just fly the airplane.
Carry Trade
Google: Hands 20 billion to Apple to keep defaults to Google.

You: No, defaults aren't incredibly powerful.
At least on mobile Firefox for Android, that's not true. It's there by default.
The recipe from “My Lisbon” had two versions, one that you ferment, one that you make with wine vinegar and don’t ferment.

Both of the recipes calls for roasting the peppers under low heat (my oven min is 170F) for an hour or so to drive off some water… every time I do that I think I kill off the lacto. I get mold every time I try the fermented version.

If you know of any family recipes I would love to hear them!

Also I’d love to hear about the tech scene in Portugal, my wife and I have been thinking of moving the family there
HPV vaccine has to be the biggest bang for buck. To anyone reading this, you should get it at any age because you likely haven't been exposed to all the strains that e.g. Gardasil-9 protects you from. You should also get it if you're male despite it being initially known as the cervical cancer vaccine because HPV causes oral cancers and you also don't want to potentially be a carrier.
> The point of standardized components is to provide reusable elements that can be used across all platforms and implementations, thus saving on the development effort of upgrading and porting the code across implementations and even platforms.

It's a shame that C++'s "standardized" components ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT on different platforms.

Some of the C++ standard requires per-platform implementation work. For example std::thread on Linux and Windows obviously must have a different implementation. However a super majority of the standard API is just vanilla C++ code. For example std::vector or std::unordered_map. The fact that the standard defines a spec which is then implemented numerous times is absurd, stupid, and bad. The specs are simultaneously over-constrained and under-constrained. It's a disaster.
They can, their customers can't. What will we build here, state-side? Intel doesn't ship EUV yet, which means TSMC will have them beat on density for the next 5-10 years guaranteed. They could angle for the 14nm node they love so much, but Samsung is hot on their heels and does it all cheaper. Anything bigger than that can be had from a domestic GlobalFoundries fab that was built a decade ago.

If America didn't have to compete with the free market to ship an attractive product, it would be a different story. But the parent is right; it's prospector-mentality to assume America would be fixed by fabbing silicon domestically.
The airline design industry seriously needs some sexy

He ain’t wrong there
The code review comments indicate they had an in-person meeting: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D86987

(My impression is that the feature is hidden behind a setting because it's half-baked and not yet ready to replace opensearchdescription xml, add-ons, and bookmark keywords as the official way to add search engines.)
Nice work, can I ask how you tested this with SWIFT for example? Is there a development portal you need access to?
I don't know about banishing death entirely, but I do believe (echoing the sentiment of "if our civilization survives") that we'll significantly, massively increase life expectancy in the next century (like by a factor of two or more), and/or discover how to digitize or preserve brains to the degree that we'll be able to live on in some capacity beyond the deaths of our bodies.

If this does turn out to be true, it's a bummer that many/most of us alive today are likely too early to benefit from it.
Genocide? Maybe they should rather work on open source man pads for the last generation crowd to shoot down the planes.
Generational Indices Guide
That last part requires a nudge and a wink, just like those OEMs who didn't "need" to make it annoying as fuck to turn off secure boot under the terms of their contract with Microsoft but did it anyway because they knew what was good for them.
Thank you for the reply and sorry if it was indiscrete. To be honest I was doubtful myself that your mazes project was all LLM generated. To be more honest if it had been, I'd be very disappointed because I found it interesting and novel (so I'd be disappointed to myself, you see, for not spotting the LLM-ness).

Also because I've done some recent work on generating and solving mazes, and other grid-based maps, with a form of symbolic learning and I wanted to link to it, in case you (or someone else) are interested:

https://github.com/stassa/ijclr_2024_experiments/tree/master

When I was writing that paper I was looking for a quick way to generate grid-based maps of different kinds, not just mazes, so I would have been interested in your project. I might be able to use it in the future, if I do more work on mazes.

Edit: um, sorry for the harsh criticism of the temporal logic essay. I do think it needs more concise language, and more formality too.
Fortunately the music industry does not seem to go the same way as the video streaming industry: each platform having their exclusives, fragmenting the offer, and making life hard for customers. Music streaming services differentiate through other means.

That’s why I’m happily paying for Deezer and not for video services.
Why do you need Raycast for this, isn't there a built-in shortcut Cmd+? or something?
The US voting system doesn't give you the Congress you vote for. We saw that with Ross Perot in the 90s. 19% of votes and zero representation.
The actual distribution is not free, management companies take a huge cut both formally or informally. For some reason[0], you can't just upload your music to Spotify or Apple Music directly, you have to have a middleman, and that market of "middlemen for unsigned artists" is just three companies[1]. They all suck in different ways, but there's a lot of creative-class wage theft going on, even beyond Spotify just underpaying indies on rights.

You can upload music directly on YouTube, but they pay very little on short videos and music streams. And there's also sketchy management companies and MCNs there anyway.

We also have to keep in mind that the music industry loves complicated and unclear ownership structures over the music being produced. Nobody completely owns a music track; there's separate copyrights for melody and recordings, both of which get separated and broken down in extremely opaque ways. Remixes and sampling make the rights situation even more complicated, and at best, mean that the person who made the remix or used the samples has to share revenue. At worst, you get to deal with all sorts of bullshit claims (or lawsuits) from people who think they own more than they do.

Insamuch as cheap distribution has flooded the market, it's often either in the form of attempts to launder money through Spotify[2], or online advertising style click fraud of some kind. The problem is not that there are too many honest artists, but that nobody does proper KYC on indies. Either they don't care if you're legit or they don't want to work with people at the small end.

[0] In the case of Apple, long-standing trademark disputes with The Beatles prohibit them from representing artists directly, which is how management companies got their start for self-published acts. However, this would not bind Spotify or other streaming services.

[1] CDBaby, TuneCore, and DistroKid, if I remember correctly

[2] e.g. buy a bunch of Spotify subscriptions with drug money, publish a bunch of nominally unrelated artists on Spotify, listen to them 24/7, then the Spotify payments are clean cash
Lets not kid ourselves. This wasn't a random reviewer giving you a hard time, your extension is definitely being "reviewed" way up the chain in order to find any menial reason to not allow you.
Specifically, Google was leveraging their existence as "THE web" to push their web browser. Every single Google property aggressively displayed banners and reminders and nag prompts ensuring you "Gmail is best in Chrome" and other nonsense that "Just one click here to fix".

Yes, putting a single button with vague words in front of users almost always gets a lot of clicks, which we've known for decades, and it turns out, if you have the attention of nearly the entire web-browsing world, you can put that button in front of people's faces way more than your competitors. It should have been considered billions of dollars of free advertising for Chrome that should have been assessed against them somehow.

It's blatantly unfair and should have been shut down in literally days, but nooooooooo we aren't allowed to have regulation here in the states.
Indeed, virtual instruments open up a whole lot of creative space. And not having to record everything in reverse order of importance while burning the previous version is a substantial benefit vs even professional recording gear of the past!
So you have no incentive to vote for a carbon tax
More importantly, they wouldn't be able to pay for the talent to pull this off. Also, due to how government contracts work it would almost assuredly end up staffed by eg; Raytheon, Booz Allen, or some other contractor which would hire bottom of the barrel contractors, give them minimal resources, next to no flexibility in requirements, and pocket the money.
I agree. There are many more important issues that could be solved with this person's expertise and willingness to apply themselves. Unfortunately, you can only lead a horse to water.

The vastness of areas which could be studied, advanced, or challenged lends itself well to human curiosity. I feel it would be unwise and unreasonable to stop people from exploring their area of interest.

Consider all the academic papers written with 0 citations. Did they waste their time? Should they have picked from a centralised pool of "most important" issues? The breadth-first search approach benefits the scientific community long term, I'd imagine.

Do you work tirelessly to prevent climate change as your day job? If not, why?
The piri piri oil recipe from Nuno Mendes’s book is amazing.

Cook down lemons, spices with Piri Piri (dry and fresh both) and throw some uncracked pepper corns in with the dry peppers directly into the jar with great quality olive oil, it’s my favorite condiment
Quantum state mimics gravitational waves
We forget that there was at least a decade of several "Google killers" a year [1]. It's a graveyeard. That was 2009 too. The volume slowed down but people are still trying (and failing) [2].

Microsoft has of course tried but Bing is only really propped up by Microsoft's deep pockets. It's not a profitable enterprise (AFAIK). And this is with Microsoft using every trick they can to bypass EU and US consent decrees and legislation to trick users into Bing. Microsoft has poured billions into Bing.

Apple rejected Google Maps and launched their own Maps product in 2012. Obviously they consider this core to their business so I get it. But even with Apple's resources, it's taken more than a decade for Apple Maps to reach some parity with Google Maps.

It's really hard for a goose to lay a second golden egg. With Microsoft, it's their Windows/Office monopoly. With Apple it's the iPhone. Google is an outlier among outlier because they do have several golden eggs but one is much bigger than all the others (ie search).

Think about it. If Apple makes $300 billion in revenue selling iPhones (made up number), how would as an internal leader try and build a search engine? The iPhone will always take absolute priority, mainly because your search engine is such a drop in the revenue bucket. But without these resources and this priority it'll never grow big. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sometimes just throwing money at a problem just isn't enough.

[1]: https://technologizer.com/2009/05/19/a-brief-history-of-goog...

[2]: https://searchengineland.com/neeva-shutting-down-427384
Safari beta lets you selectively block distractions like pop-ups
If the rate Google pays is in some way set per usage/rev-share, then Google is indeed paying to make the setting difficult to change.
Evaluation of LLMs Biases Towards Elite Universities: Persona-Based Exploration
Any NFTs?
Apple does not like to compete. They would rather call it spatial computing and price their product in an astronomical band than risk being seen as yet another VR headset competitor.

They will never make a search engine.

On the other hand, they have already made a search engine. Which you don’t think of as one, and which provides a boost to their ecosystem tie-in.
> The report which the company provided to the New Jersey Department of Labor credited Cecil Drinker as the author, however the ominous descriptions of unhealthy conditions were replaced with glowing praise

How did this blatant fraud not automatically prompt the government to come down hard on USR?!
Oh man that description immediately made me think of a government IT job a friend used to work in
At some point, if you have an M rating on your box for GTA and you decide to buy it for little Timmy, you don't really get much ground to be disappointed that Timmy was exposed to all these 17+ rated content.

I'd rather at least test content awareness before we go to bans (e.g. explicitly list that a game has MTX on the front of the box).

>If we made seatbelts and airbags optional they probably wouldn't have caught on either.

Why are we comparing a life savinng hardware device for a multi thousand Kg car moving 100+ km/hr to a video game server not shutting down in 6 months? Despite the initiative name, games haven't directly killed anyone.
Remarkable trees: A living fossil, a deadly canopy, and the biggest seeds
Have you seen timoni? it ticks all my boxes. It uses cuelang which admittedly is a steeper learning curve, but o boi, its conceptual model is so nice once it 'clicks'

https://timoni.sh/
Even Firefox has its issues - they don't sync search settings along with everything else, and the reason is they're worried about interfering with paid search defaults on new installs.
Perhaps they are listening to music, but would still be willing to pause that to converse? It's not that crazy of an idea.
I was on my way to Hawaii on vacation and we flew directly over that. I wondered what the heck that was out there in the middle of nowhere but couldn't find anything online. And, now, here it is!
cool!

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas...

doesn't seem to have code, just ftp links as far as i poked