skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on who you categorize as "middlemen", this health analysis is a common misconception: our outsized health care spending comes from providers, not insurers/payers. We just do more procedures (we lead the world in making procedures doable quickly and outpatient-ly) and pay our medical staff more.
OpenAI says Iranian group used ChatGPT to try and influence U.S. election
The next new film camera could come from Lego
how come verizon gets this special access to insert their code into pixel factory images?

one can find crap like "VzwOmaTrigger.apk" built into the OS even on the original pixel
Are we calling this the Elon problem yet?
Figure out when SaaS growth might plateau.
You don’t know anything about his relationships. You’re making assumptions to create a caricature of sin.

I would not be so eager to cast the first stone.
From an external perspective, is there a way to distinguish between simulation of consciousness and the real thing?

If the answer is no, could you make an argument that they are the same?
Would make for an incredible Obsidian plugin
One reason this method seems good is that it requires you to write down a new list each day. For me at least, it's easier to write a fresh list and get started on that than to get motivated by a list I wrote before. Writing a new list makes me remember what I /want/ to get done, and why.
I generally care about unneeded complexity mainly because often times when you switch projects you inherent a ton of it. Also many projects don't see the light of day because people overcomplicated the infra too much.
I love this. Alas, I don't have a 3d printer, but this has me wanting one. Being able to organize cables under my desk has been a challenge since my 1st computer. This modular solution seems to fix all my needs.
Yes, and you would end up firing hundreds of thousands of voters. By and large Americans don't even agree with the overt merits of the policy you're proposing, but even if they did.
I'll never forgive Apple for breaking their promise of "Apple ][ Forever." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHCp0nuA4xA)
That argument about Greek works being lost due to use of papyrus in Europe in I assume the early middle ages is worth considering (any links would be appreciated). My argument above is about the claim that "if you have nothing to write on you cannot really have a school, library or university. And if you did there would be no material to study from. You would have to write on animal skin (parchment) and that doesn't scale at all." Specifically that the second sentence results in the first sentence being the case in Europe (ie. that there was nothing to write on in Europe).
Because Google needs Verizon's consent for their phones to work on Verizon's network.
Can you challenge it and e.g. double the radius of the last circle? That should make the rendered output unintelligible. Let's see if it still thinks it represents the iconic logo.
There seems to be the implicit (and unspoken) assumption that these probability terms (PN,PS) are all independent. However, clearly they are not.
Genuinely interested, whats Nanny mode?
Combining radio and visual tracking of road vehicles
Turns out you're right, thanks for the correction! It's been so incredibly long since I used XP that I forgot it does need to be installed. It was introduced as a default in Server 2008 & Vista per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
Yes, immich is incredible! I have my entire family's photos (not all technical users mind you) synced and backed up thanks to immich server and its phone app. The web UI is easy, fast and they've even started adding basic editing capabilities recently.

I see a decent amount of skepticism and negativity in this thread, but I'm glad to see that someone is funding projects like this.
Not the OP but my biggest missing features would be:
- the ability to send the output of one smart query into the input of another
- not needing to escape every quotation mark in a query, and maybe the ability to combine operands eg ( title =~ {linux,macos} as opposed to title =~ \"linux\" or title =~ \"macOS\")
- a dashboard mode that can show a snippet of the top headlines and maybe autoscroll
- ability to mark an article as read after a certain delay

I've started working on my own "power user" RSS reader that lets you weight the keywords you're interested in (so an article that hits important keywords but is older could be displayed above an article that's newer) but it's still closer to a proof-of-concept than a complete app.
To be fair that is not the wordings in the original paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11682

I think the pop-sci writer simply didn’t choose a good wording - the original paper is simply about how the (consciousness-orchestrated?) synchronized activities of millions of neurons may be linked to “cylindrical cavity formed by a myelin sheath can facilitate spontaneous photon emission from the vibrational modes and generate a significant number of entangled photon pairs”.

When we don’t have a way to define consciousness and its (let’s called it) orchestration, the notion of “communication” is none-sensible. It’s like if we look at Shor’s algorithm, its BQP efficiency isn’t really due to any “communication” among the q-bits - but more as a kind of “probabilities collapsing” as they go through these quantum gates.

Td;dr I think the phys.org writer is just trying to make it sound more exciting by unfortunately using a miss-leading word
Mpox-AISM: AI-mediated super monitoring for mpox and like-mpox
Show HN: See yourself do anything in a fun comic
I have been trying to learn more about building with all the fun AI tools out there, so I built an app to create comics of yourself.

You can see yourself doing anything!

The stack is: convex, nextjs, tailwind, replicate
> I mean. Should be doing that anyway. Code doesn’t just exist for the computer, but also for humans who have to maintain it.

Harsh! I like to think I am good lecturer.

Depends on the specification of the assignment. In my case I teach data science not software development so the specification is not "bullet proof code that won't break when pytorch releases a new version tomorrow" but rather statistical and data rigour. This is where spent my time when marking, not how maintainable the code is.

CS students turn in MUCH better code, but frequently data is leaking into tests or validation sets etc. making the results either meaningless or compromised.

At the end of the day code quality is strongly correlated to grades.
Cirrus CI is the best CI system out there, and nothing even comes close
Surely the worst value has to go to purchasing a $2+ beverage? I have been told the cup in which it is served can be more expensive than the drink itself.
The "Arc-AGI" $1M Reasoning Challenge
Everyone near a ex empire is currently scrambling for nukes.
Starship’s tiles give it a nice look, and it’s the next-gen Starlink launcher… :-)
There is a general quality issue. Do they even use editors any more? the bad writing alone should be embarrassing.
TMobile fined $60M for unauthorized access to data: the largest fine of its type
Technical site - technical solution - bodycams everywhere/everybody. Car dashcam costs $10 these days (and anyway video recording took a massive scale in the modern war like in Ukraine, so non-currently-fighting militaries better get used to it beforehand). In case of any questionable situation - presumed guilty until there is video clearly showing otherwise - thus no "battery issues", everybody would be carrying 2-3 bodycams and spare batteries just to be sure (already happening when it comes to drones, and soon every soldier will have several drones one way or another, drones are becoming widespread like guns and soldier carrying a gun has been normal for 500 years or so).
My post was long-winded way of saying exactly that: Pax Americana doesn't exist, and never existed. Apparently this rhetoric was lost on you or, more likely, you're being needlessly pedantic here in order to rebut my claim without making any concrete claims of your own.

e: Also why is it that every time I post on HN I get dragged into another stupid argument with you specifically. We need a block feature on this site.
Not Ukraine: when Washington started providing aid to Ukraine, it no doubt made it clear what it expected from Kiev in return (unless the US foreign policy establishment is even more incompetent than I have suspected) and almost certainly, Kiev's not trying to acquire nukes was one of the explicit expectations.
Looks like https://fresh.deno.dev/
A large business, but if this is the best Europe can offer, certainly a short king in comparison.
>But phones and laptops? Yeah, Apple hardware is literally objectively better than the competition.

Objectively? I don't know about that. I think phone hardware is all basically the same. I'm sure there are minute differences that one of us cares about and the other doesn't, but I'd say it averages out to it all being "fine".

In terms of software... Doesn't iOS still not let you install apps except through the app store, and doesn't let apps do JIT? And don't I need OSX if I want to develop for iOS? I don't know, that seems to me like an objective disadvantage of the platform, as a user. It means I can't use my hardware however I please, at least not without some major inconvenience.

>unless you want to do LLMs in which case Apple is still the only game in town

Nah, it depends. 3090s are going for cheap nowadays, and 24 GB is enough to run some hefty models at acceptable performance, and you get a nice gaming card on top. It's not UMA, but hey, it also costs eight times less than a decked out Mac Pro. It's a shame Nvidia doesn't seem interested in bringing large VRAM sizes to the consumer or at least prosumer segment.
Then they go on to say that the way Apple operates iPhone leads to less scams and there is really only one other phone OS.

But their comment is dead now, so I'm not the only one who found it silly.
I guess employees, customers, and the local community don’t count.
After the RedHat/Hyprland fiasco, it feels like RedHat is corrupt with SJW that are focused more on polics than on actual code
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
I agree it takes a toll - but you get well compensated for it.
You can shuffle the choices in multiple choice based benchmarks and models that memorize the benchmark tend to do really badly, almost worse than random guessing.
Wow this ad is incredible, and just as relevant today as it was 40 years ago!
Throwing all the paintings made prior 1937 into an LLM would never get Guernica out of it. As long as it's an LLM this stands, not just today but all the way to the future.

This empty sophistry of presuming automated bullshit generators somehow can mimic a human brain is laughable.

Please please read https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
Don't verizon and play store pixels use the same os image? Sounds like an issue for all pixels.
> I thought it was Pearl Harbor.

Japan wasn't stupid enough to rouse a sleepy giant for no reason. It's no coincidence that the majority America's western fleet was docked on tiny islands thousands of miles away from any then states. The US had also implemented an embargo and provided significant aid to the Allies through Lend Lease. If they didn't attack America during Pearl Harbor, they would attack a ship that's blockading critical oil shipments. Propaganda played a huge role in American's acceptance into these escalations [1].

> We wouldn't have had the second Iraq war

Yes, I knew you were alluding to this, which is why I brought up WWII as a counterexample. My point is that just because you think their geopolitical reporting was counterproductive doesn't change the value of their opioid coverage [2] which lead to multi-billion dollar lawsuits against CVS and Walgreens.

[1] https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/great-debate

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2019/07/20/opioid-fi...
America skews down in a lot of metrics as we accept a huge amount of immigrants who come with nothing from poverty. Europe barely accepts anyone and is a white monoculture, which makes it look better on paper.
> App stores must sign the software on their platform to deploy

This is true, or rather "developers must sign software in order to sell it on the App Store" is true, and I believe this is what you meant.

That's attestation. It isn't DRM.

> offline binaries now require a valid registered Developer Account signed code in order to easily run

"Easily" here means one click. "Not easily", then, is three clicks. The dialog boxes tell you exactly what to do. This is needed the first time you open a program, after which it just opens.

> A bodged on ecosystem like Brew doesn't practically count here

Why don't Homebrew, Mac Ports, and Nix, count here? Practically, I mean.

> as a signed-check block is functionally also preventing most users running unapproved code

This just isn't true though, it isn't even in the same neighborhood as the truth. Most users are, in fact, able to: read a dialog which says "go to Privacy and Security", go to Privacy and Security, and click the button which lets them run unsigned code.

> forced to use a Mac with a Developer Account subscription

Yes, it's true, you do need to have a Mac (or borrow one, cloud code signing does exist) and pay $99 a month, to sign code. Or you can just release it. Weren't we talking about Digital Rights Management? I thought you were going to explain how code attestation is DRM. I haven't seen you do that yet, did you want to?

> there is no practical guarantee your project will reach market (app store rejections are common)

You can just sell software for the Mac. The App Store is completely optional. The checks involved in the attestation process are quite minimal and focus on whether your program is malware. Failing that, you can sell your mal^H^H^H software directly, and users will have to endure three clicks, instead of one, to open it for the first time.
Here is a gist with a mobile-friendly copy of the transcript:

https://gist.github.com/sleaze/bf74291b4072abadb0b4109da3da2...
Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
You can't use the back button to leave a page
I love the sixth of their "Five Pillars of FUTOey Software":

> 0. Don’t Suck This applies to all software, FUTOey or not. We have accomplished nothing if our software is sluggish, unreliable, or lacks key features. Our clients need to be delightful. Our servers need to help our clients be delightful.

https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/
Here's his inaturalist profile: https://www.inaturalist.org/users/256619

19,715 observations of 3,892 species. Incredible contributor!
Why are you bringing up metaphysics when the concern is that the student has seen the exam, so to speak.
Probably all of them. Even the OG non-verizon pixel had verizon garbage baked into it.
The Knowledge Graph: things, not strings
I use Arc Browser's split view though it's not as smooth. I hope they evolve and get closer to this UX eventually.
I like this observation. And it fascinates me each time I see some self proclaimed conscious entity arguing that this just simply cannot be.
I wonder what the Avon looked like back then?

The waters down the west coast can be a little hairy. I asked Claude to analyze the paper and speculate a route and it thought the east coast route, then up the Thames and down the Avon was more likely?

"Modern oceanographic knowledge tells us that the Irish Sea can be challenging due to strong currents, frequent storms, and numerous shoals and sandbanks. These conditions were likely present in Neolithic times as well." (Claude)
I particularly appreciate their funding of the Ladybird browser. Can't wait to see it in action in the future
In what sense is Medicare spending not medical/health spending? How is that a "rhetorical trick"?
What part of it don't you agree with? Factually, deaths from war, globally, are lower now than the early 20th century, by far. Do you think it's a correlation without causation? Do you disagree with number of deaths as a way to measure peace? I think there's a lot of geopolitical evidence to back up the USs ability to deter larger conflicts.
What makes verizon special compared to e.g. t-mobile? i didn't see any t-mobile code in the factory OS.
The idea that you need to buy a fire weapon to self defense against hypothetical encounter with a bad policeman is plain stupid. Do you know what really could help for self-defense against police? A good lawyer. A pistol will just grant that you will die like a dog for no reason.
When I was being low-grade DDoSed the other day my off-grid RPi3B server was taken out by ~60 bogus requests per second. It is otherwise entirely happy with normal HTTP loads, plus being primary DNS server, SMTP, NTP, ...

One podcaster halved its bandwidth bill overnight getting just one of these fixed, see "A saving bandwidth special!":

https://podnews.net/update/podlp-cloud-phone
Ubuntu 24.10 Will Include "Warty Warthog" Easter Eggs
I remember how a 1MHz 6502 easily smoked a 4MHz Z-80 back in the day. Apple could have followed on the II with at least a 2 MHz model.

I wonder at what other clocks did the WDC 65C02 support?
One of my early frustrations with Microsoft's "To-do" app was that it discarded my "today" tasks every day. But now I love that it does this, for the reasons the author describes.

I was used to apps like Asana that would just let things sit there and accumulate and fester. It made me hate how much I wasn't getting done every day. One or two tasks a day piling up over the course of many days just grows into a mountain of shame, and as the author says, it builds this "UGH field" around it that makes me not want to look at it at all, much less try to wade through it. The system was hurting more than helping, really.

I started using To-Do because we recently switched to Microsoft at work, and I'm trying to embrace the ecosystem or whatever. And what was an annoying deficiency (why can't this crappy MS app do what I want) has become a huge relief.

Automatically having my day reset every day has helped me feel more like I can actually get through most of what I realistically intend to do in a day. I take a minute in the morning to throw stuff on the list, MS does helpfully suggest some things (presumably using something they now call "AI"), and then I start working down it. At the end of the day, anything I didn't get to -- honestly, anything that wasn't as important as I thought it would be that day -- is gone. The next day, I start fresh. Re-focus, re-prioritize, and start executing. Everything still gets done, but my focus is on the day ahead rather than days past. And no "ugh field."

I would note that my approach to projects with teams is different, of course. All of those tasks will eventually need to get done, so it's not helpful to let things disappear. But where this does apply is in how much a given contributor wants to bite off in a day. The backlog on a project is the backlog, no getting around it, but a tighter focus each day on whatever's realistic, 3-5 tasks probably, relieves a lot of tension that helps work be more effective, I find.

Last comment, I love that the author also puts things on the list just to scratch them off. I picked up this habit somewhere long ago. It seems silly to do something, then put it on the list, then just scratch it right off, but it has the real effect of notching another task done. Helps limit the days where you feel like you didn't actually do anything, those yak-shaving days. You can look at the "completed" tab and see that no, you did actually do stuff. Another source of shame neutralized.
They got a good run out of that platform, longer than most. But the NeXT platform has gotten a longer run...
Let's say the task is automatically aggregating customer support info.

First step is collecting incoming emails

Second step is summarizing each one

Third step is batching by issue/severity

Notice how there is tolerance for deviance/error. "An error" looks like coding a ticket red instead of yellow, or slightly misrepresenting what a client said. The overall workflow can still be net positive.
Maybe: there is no measurable difference between 'real' reasoning, and 'fake' reasoning.

And if there is no measurable difference... we can't measure 'realness', we just have to measure something different (and more useful) 'soundness'. Regardless of it is reasoning or not internally, if it produces a sound and logical argument: who cares?

I agree: I don't think any measure tested linguistically can prove it is internally reasoning... in the same way we haven't truly proven other sentient people aren't in fact zombies (we just politely assume the most likely case that they aren't).
Firebricks to match demand for industrial heat with 100% wind–water–solar
Was that the name of the contest? I don't remember now! There are some pages about it in archive.org but very hard to find.
I still say they should release a beige Apple IV as an apology for the Apple ///.
is a constant-time algorithm just an algorithm that completes the entire calculation before returning even if it knows the correct answer sooner?
I want my types to be verified before runtime, what should I do with type error at runtime? Yes it will leave me a better error message in logs, but build-time type check will prevent me even rolling this code out.

So yes, its categorically better.
Most guitars are not properly in equal temperament intonation, because that requires compensation at the nut.

In particular, an unwound G string can be off. I got sick of three decades of listening to that out of my main guitar, and earlier this year finally did something out of it with satisfactory results:

https://mstdn.ca/@Kazinator/112332540341043265

Without this string, I cannot get these G and D power chords to be in tune simultaneously:

G:

E |---|---|-*-|
B |---|---|-*-|
G o|---|---|---|
D o|---|---|---|

D:

E x|---|---|---|
B |---|---|-*-|
G |---|-*-|---|
D o|---|---|---|

If you tune the latter D, then the open G is too flat in the former G. If you sharpen the open G, the latter D is out of tune.

The problem is that when we fret the A note on the G string near the nut, it stretches; the string goes sharp. So the interval between the nut and that fret is wider than a tone, without the compensation that shrinks it.

The other strings have the problem, but the unwound G has it worse due to lower tension relative to mass. I'm so happy with the G compensation on that guitar, that it needs nothing else.

Anyways, there are videos out there which do A/B comparisons between ordinary guitars and just intonation. They feature uncompensated guitars, so they perpetrate a fallacy.

The guitarist must experience a properly intonated guitar with nut compensation first, then decide whether going to exotic intonations is worth it.
Why is it that "creative destruction" is so celebrated here right up until you propose eliminating jobs that murder people (either in the direct manner, or indirectly by needlessly denying them care etc) and replacing them with jobs that don't do that. Suddenly all that "people will adapt, people will need to retrain" shit goes right out the window in place of "won't somebody please think of number?"