skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprised to hear about Cochrane's results. The science does smell funny. I read a bunch of hypertension papers this last year (I have a home machine and wanted to know how to interpret the results). Beyond the fact that inter-reading repeatability is very poor and a lot of the explanations are very ad-hoc ("fear of doctors" etc), there are other issues.

First problem: natural variance across healthy people is huge. Doctors have a target they think everyone should hit but it's just a gross average, they don't seem to take into account the possibility of genetic variance at all.

Second related problem: it's common to be told what a healthy BP is for an "adult" although BP averages for men and women are quite different, and BP is also heavily affected by age (controlling for health).

Third problem: correlation is not causation. It's a cliché because it's a real issue. The public health community is prone to blurring the line between "two variables are found to be related in a study" and "one therefore causes the other" without doing the work to prove causality, and when I went looking for what studies established BP->cardiovascular disease causality it was remarkably hard to locate firm evidence. It could easily be the other way around. Indeed in most hydraulic systems it's understood that pressure is the result of other mechanisms and under/over pressure is the result of malfunction in pumps or piping. In healthcare they argue it's the reverse: that over/under pressure is the cause of malfunction elsewhere. There's probably a circular relationship but all the material targeted at regular people makes strong claims of causality when the underlying literature seems far less certain.

Fourth problem: perhaps unsurprisingly given the third problem I found studies where people were put on anti-hypertensives and there was no improvement. Actually I read one study where the treatment outcome was purely negative: there was no effect on heart disease or other outcomes of interest but there were lots of patients who fainted due to excessively low BP. This study seemed reasonable well constructed but the negative outcome didn't seem to reduce the field's certainty in anything (a super common problem in public health). Doing trials like this is hard because any time anti-hypertension drugs fail to work it's interpreted as evidence that the damage was already done earlier in life thus requiring ever longer studies to detect.

Fifth problem: a lot of the underlying scientific claims trace back to one longitudinal study in a single village in Japan, done decades ago. It's remarkable how often you follow citations and end up back at this dataset. When you look at what the study did it's kinda sketchy and not particularly convincing, but because the BP->CVD link is hypothesized to be a very slow acting effect it takes a huge effort to collect data. The field seems to be caught in a loop where they exaggerated their confidence early, so now there is not seen to be much point in doing better studies because it'd take years (bad for your career) and why study something that's already "known".
ap1000 and new smr designs - not quite
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The strange thing is, there are lot of cathedral churches with all sorts of demonic-looking creatures on them as decorations; not to mention quite an amount of folklore in which some saint or other would overpower the lesser imps with the strength of his faith and make them do his bidding.
> private business is there to enrich its owners

The value captured by the owners is a tiny slice of the value provided to the society. For example, the value I get from my iPhone is much much greater than the money I pay for it - it's just logical, I simply wouldn't buy it otherwise.

And the value received by the owners is the well deserved reward for creating the business - a very hard and low chance of success endeavor - but essential to our society.

Everything in my life is created by private businesses: from the clothes on my back, the food I eat, the car I drive, the house I live in to the computer I earn my living and write this on.

I lived in a society without private businesses, under communism, and everybody was cold and starving.
I think whether or not you grew up with a significant local population of 'conker trees' probably had a lot more to do with it than age. I'm younger than you (and didn't grow up 'poor') and we played too, 'pre-50s' is ridiculous.
Energy density is a bit less relevant for grid storage, though. Not like you run out of space to put them.
that's why we should build new reactor designs so that things don't go south
Why birds do not fall while sleeping
That's pushing the term beyond its limits.

Nobody reasonable considers ifs and dependency injection to be AI.
I'm not sure how you think certificates work? It's not for 'yourself' - the certificate is an assertion to billions of users worldwide, called relying parties. If you don't care about those, then you can use a private CA. If you do care (and want anyone's browser to work) then it's not a 'personal freedom'.
You say that, but at least half a dozen of these companies in the linked wikipedia list, all western, launched rockets last year. And several more are on track to launch within the next. Rocketlab is a serious competitor with multiple spaceports, a rapid launch cadence, and reusability and next-generation launcher projects in the works. Blue Origin is supplying engines to ULA and seems almost ready to test New Glen. Firefly had a successful launch. Stoke is working on a resuability concept that's even more exciting than starship, and advancing steadily through testing flight capable hardware. The list goes on.

Rocketlab and others even have products which standardize the bus part of the sattellite or probe, so you just attach your science experiment or sensor.
AI never will be able to replace real jobs because of the new requirements that every day new technological development
The thing about R&D spending is that it is speculative. Even if that question does have satisfying answers; it is unreasonable to expect people to prove that R&D will have a commercially successful outcomes with foresight.
Five years to build each SMR is faster than what it takes to build a typical EPR (from 10 to 20 years), but it is still longer than what I expected. Besides, the 5-year figure might have overruns as they work through regulatory hoops towards a permit.

Nevertheless, before even having one built, it will allow Google to say that large model training will eventually not produce CO2.
With my 49" I use OBS + Mouse follow script + OBS preview window on laptop screen and share my entire laptop screen. That way I know the window size is suitable for others viewing from their laptops and the preview follows my mouse and you can tweak zoom levels and mouse boundaries on the fly. Also the OBS preview window opens on launch, without opening the main OBS window. So you never have to see/interact with the main OBS window/application again so it really feels standalone which is great.

https://github.com/BlankSourceCode/obs-zoom-to-mouse
Here's how it looks like apparently:

https://youtu.be/hXUbTKd6pmo?t=29
quite the opposite https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
> And nowadays people don't really grow up at all. They continue playing right into adulthood and old age, with luxury toys.

It would be nice if we stopped stigmatising play. Growing up doesn't mean we stop playing. Acting grown-up might mean stop playing, but it's just that — an act, and a likely childish one. Real adults don't give up on what brings them joy.
> Also, doesn't the conker spiral around your hand hitting it and hurting you?

It does until you learn, usually quite quickly, to do it properly.

Hurting your opponent's hand is a different matter :)
The original reply was looking for a summary of the article which ChatGPT can supply, not more info, which is typically more where one might go to the comments and join the discussion. Two different streets on my map.

Just be aware that comments on HN are subject to all sorts of opinions skewed by bias and sycophantism, the same way Reddit or Mastodon silos tend to be. I think a lot of users think HN has some sort of immunity to that, so the tribalism tends to be strong and stubborn.
The link to the paper seems to be down, here's an alternative one.

https://fitelson.org/proseminar/gettier.pdf

It's really worth a read, it's remarkably short and is written in very plain language. It takes less than 10 mins to go through it.
Indeed, but apparently this is the way it works. I suspect to prevent 'foul-play' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Conker_Championships#WCC...
Author of that paper here -- What an incredibly nice comment to wake up to at 3am, thank you! This paper made me quit neuro and switch to systems that are easier to model (small molecules) which it turns out are still annoyingly difficult!
Great article. I thought it was particularly interesting that there are two approved frequencies for microwaves, and apparently the longer-wavelength 915MHz option provides much deeper heat penetration (~4cm vs. ~1.5cm) that better avoids situations like cooking the outside of something you're defrosting while the middle's still cold.

You can even still buy a few of them, but they all seem to be giant industrial machines.
i never found an AI system which could solve any relevant programming problem. It is good at reading docs and giving a 0-1 start point, but most of everything else is not well understood by them yet.
Threaded headsets work, but it’s an inferior design to threadless. There are no advantages to them at all - except maybe aesthetics!

The only modern bikes with threaded tend to be low end anyway. Best to avoid!
I took a look at Rive a while ago. The thing that made it a no go was the lack of local file saving. There is a lot I really, really liked about it, but without local file saving it did not feel like a serious product to do serious work. I want to use it to make indie games. I want to build hundreds of animations, not the odd animation on a client’s website. For that I need control over my files, and I need the experience to feel more native and less web app.
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Drilling/punching the hole in a conker might be vaguely dangerous, and you're not supposed to carry a stabby tool at school anymore. But the game itself is not that dangerous, though that won't have stopped some schools from banning it.
That is not at all what’s happened with shortened expiry date requirements so far. Industry has proven that it can largely put these systems in place.
agree best strategy should be purex or fast reactors
How would google insure this reactor?
The domain verification process is indeed a weak point - but there's now the upcoming introduction of MPIC (Multi Perspective Issuance Corroboration) to help with that (essentially checking the domain challenges from multiple network perspectives to overcome the risk of BGP-hijacking and similar attacks).

Also, if there's a non-internet connected network or device that uses TLS, it shouldn't be using public/webPKI certificates. Use a private CA, get the root on the managed devices that connect to it, and the problem goes away. That's always been an option.
On the other hand, if we shortly discover an asteroid on course to meet Earth within a concerning time frame or some other predictable disaster coming down the pike, they'll be a mass effort to take giant steps to ensure he and others are not wrong.
You should probably disclose you're the founder of lamini.

Do you have any publicly available validation data demonstrating 100% json compliance?
These panoramic X-rays are typically performed by technicians/adjunct personnel. So I would guess that dentists don't directly pocket the money from them, or willingly recommend them.

A more likely scenario is that dentists are employed by a dental clinic (even if you see the same dentist every time). The dental clinic wants to maximize profit for shareholders, so they invented the "routine dental X-ray" guideline. The guideline is then imposed on the destists as a "performance quota". E.g. if you have 300 patients assigned to you, you are expected to prescribe at least 150 panoramic X-rays to you patient pool. Drop below the quota, and there goes your performance bonus, which you may otherwise be totally worth of.

Of course, there will also be cases where the dental clinic is owned by a single greedy dentist.
Yes, there's more of a degree of redundancy in brains than microprocessors, but the 'lesion' approach tends to involve affecting more than just one neuron. The main point of that section is that you've got to be careful about what you define as a 'function'. In the processor case, if you defined function in terms of a register or instruction working properly, then this approach could actually give you a pretty good map. But if you've defined it as whether a particular game runs, it doesn't give you a good map at all, because most games exercise most functions of the microprocessor, and so which small parts aren't important to that particular game is only incidental. With brains the main thing is the underlying functions are not really known, so you need to approach with care.
That assumes that we don't learn from accidents, which isn't really the case. Nobody builds extremely-unsafe RBMK reactors anymore, for example.

And the TMI accident didnt really make any land radioactive and Fukushima seems cleanup-able.
This is only because it is profitable for Germany to do so, not because of lack of capacity. Germany imports energy when there is low demand (and price) and exports when there is high demand (and price). Look at this chart: https://energy-charts.info/charts/power_trading/chart.htm?l=...
> with matrix-led's the high-low has been solved very well. It used to be bad and now it's almost perfect.

Yes, it works much better on my new Model Y (2024) than my old Model S (2014). But they didn't really solve the original problem, i.e. detecting oncoming traffic vs. street (or other lights) up ahead. The matrix led's darken these areas in any case, and neither street lights or oncoming cars complain of course. But it does not fill me with much confidence.

> Wipers, dunno, they used to be really bad but I have not noticed the issue in the past few months, maybe they have done something.

Then that software update has not come to Norway at least, here they still start wiping in dry conditions, and fail to detect actual rain; so they need to be manually started all the time.

> there are phantom breakings in the exact same spots this and other teslas have driven thousands of times.

Isn't this the problem with AI though? We've taken something we don't fully understand (neural networks) and applied them. We can give them a lot of training data to the point where they seem to be able to do stuff on their own. But when they fail, we really cannot do anything besides adding new nodes to our network and add more training data, and hope for the best. We cannot really say what went wrong, and fix it.
Indeed, there needs to be some sort of connection between the truth and the justification, not just "true && justified".

The problem is that when you're working at such a low level as trying to define what it means to know something, even simple inferences become hellishly complicated. It's like trying to bootstrap a web app in assembly.
I still use FF, for now anyway, so I’m not trying to be a dick here, but we’re talking less than 4% market share, so it’s hard to fault a small team for prioritizing the 82% they get with Chrome+Safari

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StatCounter-browser-ww-mo...
I'm looking to connect with real model and real fashion agencies as well as fashion brands that would like to use this technology in their processes. We are also working on a fashion forecasting tool that reads social media and can predict trends.
ap1000 would have withstanded fukushima. And plants are designed to withstand an impact with an airplane. So all in all, yes, pretty safe. Gen4 will be even better especially with fuel dilation designs
For sure, stuff like implants, cosmetic dentistry, braces, crowns etc. still cost a non-trivial amount (though hopefully most are once in a lifetime things).
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The cuff inflates to constrict the brachial artery until it is completely closed (i.e. the cuff detects no pulse, i.e. the external pressure from the cuff exceeds the maximum systolic blood pressure). Then it deflates until it detects a pulse as blood once again is able to force through the cuff's constriction (this threshold tells it the systolic blood pressure). It continues deflating until once again it detects no pulse (i.e. the minimum diastolic blood pressure exceeds the pressure exerted by the cuff).
Or you can just use something like https://shop.sharkrf.com/shop/srf-ose-pro-openspot4-pro-digi... with any mobile phone (Android or iOS) to do talk with any ham operator over the internet (I know, different use case)
You're starting to get why the game used to be so popular.
> It’s crucial to highlight the resource efficiency of our training process. Our training is considerably more resource-efficient compared to Stable Diffusion (Podell et al., 2023). Meissonic is trained in approximately 48 H100 GPU days

From scratch training of an image synthesis model for the price of a graphic card isn't something I expected anytime soon!
I think it's because the library calls directly the LLM AND saves any debug/trace info. While other tools let you use the standard (eg OpenAI) sdk and uses an https proxy to intercept the requests
Does that make an LLM the perfect academic?
The worst thing about my Tesla are the phantom brakes and "emergency lane assist" function (which should be called "steer into opposing traffic for no reason". If I forget to turn those off before starting, my ride will be pure horror.

LIDAR probably would help to make Phantom Brakes happen less often, simply because there would be another info source for "is there REALLY an object that is dangerous to me?".

Those who say that FSD is "pretty good" are living in a fantasy world. There is hard data on miles between critical disengagements (which really should be called "if the driver doesn't respond within a fraction of a second, people will die"), and depending on region, model, weather etc it's between 13 and 115 miles right now.

Over here in Germany there are statistics that a human driver will have the equivalent every 155,000 miles.

"Pretty good" just doesn't cut it when it's about the risk of killing people.

My Model 3 right now detects about 60-70% of school children crossing the road (keep in mind roads in Germany are narrow, and humans including kids are using the roads, too). 30%-40% of those I would kill every morning on my way to the office.

And the thing is: 70% isn't enough for this, 80% isn't, 90% isn't, 99% isn't, and 99,999% isn't.

Side note: People constantly claim that Waymo is autonomous. It's as autonomous as a tram. They only work because it the cities they operate every single road they use have been mapped by hand and is constantly updated. Send a Waymo into my city over here, and will also kill a couple of kids per day. Years ahead of Tesla? Yes. Good enough? Hell no.
On the one hand, the case seems too little. Some weird opinions (but are you in the free country with free speech to express even weird opinions?), then an interaction back in the 80's(!!!), exactly one weird comment on stage, suggestive behaviour...

On the other hand, it's not a criminal charge. It's about who and how leads an institution.

I've seen post-USSR academic institutions led by old directors for decades, with good scientific achievements in the background, but at the time just being there for the old merits, doing ceremonial stuff and signing the necessary minimum of papers. At the time, academia was centrally financed, so they negotiated the money with the upper ranks of the same age and background.

Their behaviour was weird to many people around: comments about ages & sex (like "women's business is the kitchen"), broad judgements, "don't be stupid kid, turn your brain on" kind of comments, making people unease. Quite likely bitter about the USSR collapse. My female friends said they were told after studying or working in academia that they should go have kind rather than try getting PhD. There was no other institution of the same kind in the city. And after all, why should YOU quit as soon as you get unprofessional treatment?

Recalling this, I can understand the discontent with Stallman and the board.
that's kinda true but not yet commercially deployed. The main idea is on overheat fuel expands and fission reaction is stopped/reduced due to higher distance
re cursors: There is a replacement/amendment protocol for cursor handling coming though I don't know the current status of it. It seemed a lot easier to work with for the vast majority of cases.
The third one is also very good! It’s the first book I would think of if you asked me about Endurance.

The audio book narrated version by Simon Prebble is outstanding.
Maintaining a fork by merging upstream into downstream branches would be a mess: upstream and downstream code would be totally entangled, there would no clean way to edit/remove/reorder downstream commits. You can't easily know what you actually changed (not the full diff, but each "atomic" clean change).

The way the author suggests is way cleaner IMO.
Russia does only the enrichment of the Uranium. The western world already had their own large-scale enrichment facilities and can (and is currently) rebuilding those capacities.
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It's got nothing to do with what committee decides what the expiry is and how they then enforce it. The thing that certs and passports have in common is unrelated to whether the issuer is a governmental body or not.

They're both centrally revokable, attested assertions of identity, where the attestation can be validated with the attester offline.

If you try and come up with a design for any system that includes this type of assertion, you'll end up in a place where you'll probably want it to expire and need re-validation at some point. That expiry is a property of the attestation, and is therefore controlled by the person/group doing the attestation. In the case of a passport, this happens to be the government. For a cert, it's the CA.
I'd say they're in the upper percentiles here in Norway when it comes to making money. Especially if they're having a small privat clinic instead of "renting a chair". So maybe not too much when converted USD, but they're often well off here.

I've had the dentist themselves always do most of the work. The assistant is often shared between multiple dentists in the same office in my experience.