skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to believe institutional abuse stems from psychopathic tendencies of individuals empowered by/within those institutions. I think the institutions are OK/worthwhile in a vacuum, but struggle to figure out how you avoid having, for lack of a better term, "bad folks" working within them. Review boards always seem to become lazy/apathetic overtime, and the patients often lack agency/collateral to be assertive.
Cool, glad to hear it was useful!
The Cessna probably didn't have TCAS, right? So how did the system know whether to tell the Boeing pilots to raise or lower their altitude? I thought it was a system with a negotiation to avoid instructing both planes to turn the same way.
I recommend taking a listen to these podcast episodes to get an understanding of why string theory won’t be discarded anytime soon:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/10/15/epis...

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/01/28/epis...
It's a PhD thesis... It was put to me that nobody will ever read it and nobody cares what's in it, but it's my thesis and it matters to me :)

Edit: you can see some of the results here btw:

https://github.com/stassa/louise
Dehydration, exposure, and animals will take you a lot faster than begging on the streets and trying to cling on to life or becoming a burden to your village.
As far as historical examples just study Inuit, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, or Scythian practices on the matter.
IPv6 is about 40% of Internet traffic and climbing. It’s disappointing that it hasn’t been faster but I think that qualifies as scale.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage
It's this shit by the way

https://www.countrypure.com/products/fruit-juice/
Diffraction casting: architecture for optical computing
>That's not how collateral damage works.

Not according to the Red Cross:

https://www.icrc.org/en/document/protection-hospitals-during...

Otherwise protected targets like hospitals lose their protected status if they're used as a base of military operations or for other similar purposes.

And the US didn't send a spec ops team to get Bin Laden because they were worried about the Geneva Conventions. They sent one because they wanted to make absolutely certain that they got their target (see Bin Laden's escape at Tora Bora in 2001 for an example of this) and because they were operating in Pakistan so showing up with a whole brigade or carpet bombing the compound wouldn't have gone over well with the Pakistani government. It already didn't go over well with just a surgical strike by spec ops, it would have been much worse if it was done by a larger show of force.
It was for Rails.

https://railslts.com/
Check out https://odh.ohio.gov/know-our-programs/food-safety-program/f....

I would also report the incident to your local health department https://odhgateway.odh.ohio.gov/lhdinformationsystem/Directo....
Yeah, so their documentation serves as the authority on how you're supposed to write your code for it to be "correct D" or "correct Rust". The compiler implementors write their compilers against the documentation (and vice versa). That documentation is clear on these things.

In C, the ISO standard is the authority on how you're supposed to write your code for it to be "correct C". The compiler implementors write their compilers against the ISO standard. That standard is not clear on these things.
How hard?

NP hard?

I wonder why?

:)
It fundamentally contravenes the Hippocratic Oath:

> "Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. . . But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. . .

> Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me."

What's more, euthanasia leads to all sorts of perverse incentives in the administration of medicine, as Canada's MAID experiment demonstrates. It simply isn’t the job of doctors to end lives. It is, in fact, the precise opposite of their jobs -- and I believe you'll find that most doctors are opposed to legalizing euthanasia.

Suffering can be alleviated, and it should be society's job to help patients -- the very word means "sufferers" -- seek care. Many drugs can be spectacularly effective. But today drug-seeking means that you'll be treated like a criminal, whereas there's no hurdle to MAID-seeking in Canada. A grim omen, that.
At the end of the day in Canada, it's the individuals decision. And you can find tons of examples of folks making poor decisions for all kinds of situations, possibly due to the influence of others.

Bodily autonomy should be a universal right. No one should be able to control what adults do with their bodies, IMO. It may lead to some dark places, but that's freedom I guess.
Chills and no other side effects?
Trying to use a whitelist approach for that problem would be indulging in the kind of lack of critical thinking that allows people to believe they're allergic to WiFi, or to take such people seriously.
Curiously, the express model ends up being a more clean style when creating long lived writer streaming endpoints, which is becoming much more popular with LLM’s.

All that was old will be new again.
Testing emojis part 2:
What's the hypothesis for why we're suddenly getting an influx of bots who seem particularly interested in discussing aphantasia?
> Are we socially or systemically incapable of managing those risks given a certain institutional configuration?

Empirically, Canada says "yes".

There are other reasons (philosophical, moral, religious) that will also speak to the folly of what Canada and Belgium are leading the way towards, but we are not to speak of those things any more - so we're left with the "what if we try it and don't like it - can't we just roll it back?" of the early years of another "forward-looking" society from the recent past.
The worst part is that a lot of it is mysteriously capricious with no recourse.

Like, you visit Site A too often while blocking some javascript, and now Site B doesn't work for no apparent reason, and there's no resolution path. Worse, the bad information may become permanent if an owner uses it to taint your account, again with no clear reason or appeal.

I suspect Reddit effectively killed my 10+ year account (appeal granted, but somehow still shadowbanned) because I once used the "wrong" public wifi to access it.
>Okay, well then if government buildings house any members of the IDF or apartheid South Africa's military, then certainly they are also legitimate targets and it is not "terrorism" to destroy them with bombs?

Only if you ignore the distinctions between what was essentially a civil war fought by insurgents (like in Apartheid South Africa) and a war between two sovereign powers.
I don't have synesthesia, this doesn't prevent me to be totally mad in front of bad code lol
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"Due to this experience with 3MDeb, we banned the entire country of Poland for life."

Is this your idea of "this is why we can't have nice things"?
> When a TA is issued, pilots are instructed to initiate a visual search for the traffic causing the TA. If the traffic is visually acquired, pilots are instructed to maintain visual separation from the traffic. Training programs also indicate that no horizontal maneuvers are to be made based solely on information shown on the traffic display. Slight adjustments in vertical speed while climbing or descending, or slight adjustments in airspeed while still complying with the ATC clearance are acceptable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...

I am unsure what it would have told them to do in the RA case though.
Yes it is not a contradiction here.

Economies of scale make cloud more efficient for basic sites like this. It is like using street lights vs. every house putting out a few candles.

In addition we love the grid! We want it to get greener. Put the effort into making the grid energy zero carbon, low pollution while still highly available.

Furthermore using that solar to say charge your work laptop and then hosting the site in CF would net use less energy.
I believe GP's comment is a reference of Chesterton's Fence [1] (an excellent image to load into your brain!). I think they agree with you.

[1] https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
How is it "Palestinian apartheid" when Israeli soldiers are the ones enforcing it?
> In one instance, a Canadian Forces veteran claimed she had been offered Maid in response to a request for a wheelchair lift or ramp at her house. While a subsequent investigation found no record that assisted death was offered, Veterans Affairs discovered four cases in which Maid had been inappropriately suggested. The case manager was suspended and the incident was referred to the Royal Canadian Mounted police.

Hospitals occasionally have angel of death doctors and nurses. Should we get rid of hospitals? There’s consistently a lack of any hard quantitative data about the harm the program causes but there are for the benefits. So for critics what’s left are anecdotal stories some of which are true some of which aren’t.

> In another case, the family of Alan Nichols said he died by euthanasia, with hearing loss listed as the sole criterion. The family reported it to police and health authorities- but neither saw cause to investigate further. The RCMP told the family that Nichols “met the criteria” for assisted death.

> But physicians who provide Maid caution that anecdotes of Canadians slipping through the cracks often ignore other critical details of their respective cases, which must include a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” and do not necessarily suggest a failure in the system.

It’s important to remember that the families of people who die will still look for someone to blame. It’s a very human reaction. I know someone who blames the doctor for causing or accelerating her husband’s terminal cancer diagnosis as well as blaming him for telling the husband he had a terminal diagnosis in the first place (i.e. sapped his energy and strength).

That’s not to say that there shouldn’t be adjustments to the program. But driving it through anecdotes instead of expertise and data is the wrong balance to strike.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/canada-assiste...
If you hire a lawyer, they're going to try to make the strongest argument for your case, even if it's not good.
Okay I admit it, I have morbid curiosity as to what exactly you're implying here.
Thank you for that feedback. I agree NYT does this a lot better. I'll have to improve on that. Not gonna lie to you I suck at CSS/Styling/UX/UI will need to get some help regarding this. However i feel you and it's important for the fun of the game
Ask HN: What are some good APIs to interact with large language models?
I am looking to do simple things like image classification/text classification using APIs without running the LLMs in my local machine. What are some APIs that provide a uniform interface to access different LLMs?
It's not freedom if a government is coercing people into making this desperate 'choice' by failing to provide a reasonable level of social support for the disabled that would prevent them from wanting to end their lives.

People on welfare shouldn't be afraid that they're going to end up homeless because the government is implementing wildly out of control immigration policies and piss poor zoning and permitting that is wildly driving up the cost of living beyond what their non indexed to inflation welfare covers.
HN users seem to have a very dim view of certifications in general.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24855453

It's interesting how people pay for a degree, pay for certifications only to find themselves looked down on as people who don't have better things to pad their CV with. Looks like the best entries are previous jobs.
>They’re afraid of losing out on the revenue from selling replicas

You're aware that you don't need a 3D scanner (much less a 3D scan) to produce a replica of a sculpture (..or a replica of a replica), right?

There's this ancient technique, known as casting, still in use today - which was used to produce some of the very sculptures being scanned in the first place!
That's the crucial point. You can have a super high entropy probability distribution straight from a quantum lava lamp, but if it gives you "hunter2" as a password, you should still not use that password, no matter the entropy of the distribution.
Do you have any slightest idea about the exponent, including how many digits in the exponent? I assume you had no account (otherwise there should have been some logs for that).
> Suffering can be alleviated

Lol. What world are you living in?

Sure, I suppose if you give someone enough downers and obliterate their mind, suffering becomes a non-issue.

Don't pretend this world can alleviate 'all suffering'. It's simply false.
True - we might also learn something from the Greek practice of exposure of infants and the Roman law regarding the rights of the pater familias. All three of them are examples of social failure to model the law of love in some manner.
A single employee made that offer, was fired, and the case was referred to the police. Not exactly a matter of government policy.
While striking, that one seems like anecdata.
I made this a while ago: https://github.com/petabyt/mlinstall
It runs on Windows/Linux/Mac.
So stop regulating the poisons and allow access via a non doctor path, create a framework around it, trying to give the state control over others bodies has just as many negative externalities. Also please try to keep in mind that the original oath was created during a certain eras morality and philosophical leanings, most doctors these days take severely modified oaths mostly to uphold current profesional practices and ethics.
You are describing selective breeding.

GMO is different. It involves the laboratory isolation of genes, and techniques to introduce said genes into an organism such that its DNA is altered. These technique do include gene splicing.

Golden rice is one well known example. It is a GMO plant which has been modified with genes taken from daffodils and a bacteria called erwinium uredovora. It's not just breeding existing species for good qualities.
And the meta-question of "why did the museum choose to waste money on lawyers that way" is "bureaucrat X decided that the scans belong to the museum, so no further logic or rational thinking will be applied unless absolutely forced to".

That's a common property of all large institutions: the reasons why a decision is made may as well be arbitrary, but by golly will they stick to it and die on the hill, if they can.
> But driving it through anecdotes

You really want anecdotes in this case because they point to a system that is just getting rid of people for the wrong reasons. That's called insights.
The white paper has all the details

https://whitepaper.world.org/
The idea that French people constantly fight for their rights isn't true either; they basically just love rioting. Americans interpret this as noble political activity because Americans have an incorrect belief that protesting is an effective method of political change that comes from misunderstanding Civil Rights/Vietnam protests.

But when you actually see interviews with French rioters you find they're all conspiracy theorists who think they've uncovered French QAnon. Or they're farmers who want even more subsidies and want to get rid of climate policy.
There is a more important concept at play here: structured data access as first class citizen. We have pointers and reference but we don't have anything for making more than one jump. I'd argue that about 30% of functional programming is just about accessing stuff.

I was trying to extend Python's dataclasses.replace() function to be able to replace deeply nested elements. In vanilla Python this function is used as obj = replace(obj, element1=newval, element2=newval2). Meaning that to replace nested readonly dataclasses this must be called recursively.

Implementing a sequence of objects (var1.var2.var3) was mostly easy, but playing around the [] operator for sequence or mappings or slices was filled with edge cases. And implementing edge cases is a hornet nest just in itself.

Functions as first class citizens is one of the most useful concept of make dynamic code that remains readable. The next step would be structured accessors as first class citizens.
Given how widespread funeral rites are, I kind of doubt this practice is common.
It might teach you that reality is harsh and to face it.
And yet, that is literally all they are asking to do.
I was waiting for the gruesome tale of a Ruby dev who'd had enough
I honestly think society would be very well served if people that were 85+ and in expensive hospice care with no quality of life decided they wanted to be euthanized instead to take the load off the medical system.
Animals seem to sense when time has come. I imagine, hopefully, sometime in the future, I'm going to be able to walk out into that wilderness. I think the difference is, I would never ask or require someone else to accompany or assist me.
> The ChatGPT site crossed 3B visits last month

With how much profit per visit though?

I just used ChatGPT and 2 other similar services for some personal queries. I copy-pasted the same query in all 3 of them, using their free accounts, just in case one answer looks better than the others. I got into this habit because of the latency: in the time it takes for the first service to answer, I've had time to send the query to 2 others, which makes it easier to ignore the first response if it's not satisfying. Usually it's pretty much the same though. We can nitpick about benchmarks, but I'm not sure they're that relevant for most users anyway. It doesn't matter much to me whether something is wrong 10 or 20% of the time, in both cases I can only send queries for which I can easily check that the answer makes sense.

I see other comments mentioning they stopped their ChatGPT Plus subscription because the free versions work well enough. I've never paid myself and it doesn't look like I ever will, because things keep getting better for free anyway. My default workflow is already to prompt several LLMs so one could go down, I wouldn't even notice. I'm sure I'm an outlier with this, but still, people might use Perplexity for their searches, some WhatsApp LLM chatbot for their therapy session, purely based on convenience. There's no lock-in whatsoever into a particular LLM chat interface, and the 3B monthly visits don't seem to make ChatGPT better than its competitors.

And of course as soon as they'll add ads, product placement, latency or any other limitation their competitor doesn't have, I'll stop using them, and keep on using the other N instead. At this point it feels like they need Microsoft more than Microsoft needs them.
That is one option. It would mean that some drugs, especially those for rare conditions, are never brought to market in the first place because the expected worldwide revenue would be too low to justify spending $1B+ on a stage-3 clinical trial that might fail. Is that a good trade-off? Depends on your perspective I guess.
Chills and weakness. I've had a hard time shitting and I think there's something wrong with my stomach.
Is there a probabilistic test for Mersene primes? I thought they just wanted confirmation via independent calculation.
>Gervais Principle

Reference: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
My apologies. The “break even” calculation in the first paragraph seemed so absurd to me (as much as the $2K per month) that I must have skipped over the second paragraph. Nevertheless, with regard to the second paragraph, to fill the $5B gap it would take over $30 on top (hence $50), which would be quite a high price for many users.
"Pure and holy"

So, I'm supposed to take you seriously? Some words in an oath mean one of my family members has to go insane and claw at himself until he bleeds because his brain has been destroyed by alzheimers? That's "pure and holy" to you?
"Exponentially" larger is a very large number. They wouldn't be able to afford it either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4M cars after fatal crash
Up front: I have always hated Facebook, from a “consumer” perspective. Good on everyone who made money, etc. I dislike the entire entity, to say the least.

I can’t shake the thought that meta played an integral role in the open-source nature of the LLM movement. Am I wrong, I can’t help but think I’m missing something.
Reminds me, in a way, of the "Carnage Heart" video game and programming system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage_Heart
I'd believe it. Many years ago when I was around 10 years old and not understanding the concept of probability properly, I decided I had come up with a way to enumerate the lottery numbers and come up with a reasonably sized set of numbers to place bets for. I proceeded to write 9 pages of numbers for my father to place bets for. It is a 6/49 lottery so 6 balls are drawn from a set of 49 and you need to get all of them right to get the jackpot.

It would have cost a little under 95$ to have played all my numbers (for a jackpot around $1.5M) I gave him however it would have taken a lot of effort to manually enter them. My father just does one page because it is silly. The numbers are silly, everything about this is silly. I completely understand in hindsight. But it turned out page 7 had the winning combination.
Thats extremely optimistic view of the world.
This is interesting. I wonder if this will get in hot waters with Nintendo. They're not the gentle kind when it comes to IP.

I'm guessing they'll wait for them to start shipping products before they invest in the legal show stoppers.
Go has a couple of SIMD uses. Copies is one of them.
I use my middle name, and I get "Dear S." mail.
My father has no middle name.
My mother has three middle names, and her last name is two words.

See "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names":
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
A number is prime if its factors are itself, one, and Chuck Norris.
> Bodily autonomy should be a universal right. No one should be able to control what adults do with their bodies, IMO. It may lead to some dark places, but that's freedom I guess.

I agree with you, but this is one of those things where you need a whole lot of the rest of society built to avoid the kinds of abuses this opens up. Think about things like labor laws - why do we restrict the conditions under which a competent adult can consent to work? Because the power imbalance in the labor market and the broader economy led to working conditions we considered abhorrent and a great many people were forced to work in them on fear of starvation. The posted article points to a similar dynamic - "fears of homelessness led people to euthanasia" is not a problem with euthanasia, it's a problem with homelessness. A doctor pressuring a patient to commit suicide so they don't stress the medical system isn't a problem with euthanasia, it's a problem with resourcing of the medical system.

Again, I'm strongly in favor of bodily autonomy, and I do think that people will do things with that we wish they wouldn't and that's none of our business, but we can't ignore the power and resource dynamics that affect people's lives. We need to also build a society in which we can be sure that people who are exercising that autonomy are doing so freely and without coercion.
RA? Climb or descend. Or any of these more accurately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...