skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there was no control groups (veggies vs whole grains for example), they selected bunch of studies for metaanalysis with different goals and methodologies, no indications how balanced and what components where in diets in those studies.

This is exact example of junk science.
This is not "running out of cheap labor".

This is tying your hands behind your back and not accepting it.

There's a difference.
I've been tinkering with my own keyboard layout:

https://ladsko.github.io/hexed/

It's hexagonal, compact and optimized for German and English thanks to noted (https://dariogoetz.github.io/noted-layout/)

Right now I'm testing key shapes and sizes and the manufacturing of key caps. I thought I needed a resin printer for best results but FDM printed caps with a blob of epoxy resin on top works surprisingly well.

There's no firmware yet, I have not even decided on a micro-controller or software. But I want to use Kailh Choc v1.

This is my first time exposing this project to the public so I'll be very happy about some feedback!
If you let go of something, it will stop accelerating because there is no longer a force on it, and start following its geodesic. You have to apply a force to make it not do that (like, by standing on the Earth so the ground can push you upward). The natural path (geodesic) of an object near the Earth plotted from a purely space-like (Newtonian) perspective accelerates toward the Earth. But the point of GR is to not have a purely space-like perspective.

(I made up the waffly term “purely space-like” to not have to explain what an inertial frame is, not sure if that’s going to help.)
They will both show acceleration. The one on the mountain will show an upward acceleration from the mountain pushing against the device against the pull of gravity. The rocket would too, but presumably greater if it’s accelerating faster than gravity is pulling. The key is that the gravity acceleration vector never shows up in any context. That’s because it’s not a force and the perceived acceleration is an effect of relativity, caused by the gradient of time and space. It’s entirely counter intuitive to our understanding of force and acceleration that you can observe increasing relative motion without a force based acceleration, but there it is
I guess it was still getting updated. All peripherals are available in USB-C versions for me now.
Objects don't fall down because of gravity, objects move along in straight lines because of inertia. It just happens that, close to large masses, "straight lines" get bent toward the center of mass, and this is what we call gravity.

But the difference is important: when you are falling down, you are in freefall, you don't experience any acceleration in spacetime. It is the surface of the earth that is experiencing acceleration towards you.
I live in Atlanta and I wonder if it's due to the influx of out of state families moving in. It didn't use to be like this. My child was sick recently and we couldn't get an appointment for a sick visit for several days. This too is an office with a dozen docs/NP.

We ended up going to another one of their offices 30 minutes away which had availability (i.e. lower population density?).

For the receptionist that said "it would put you a week away"...that's when you should just push back and say that's fine. There are very few appointments that need to be exact. And you know what, if you're not sure and you're there, ask the doctor if it's ok :)

Also because I'm trying to spread awareness and you'll likely encounter this: Be aware of "hospital/facility fees".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/09/pati...

This happened to us, with a Northside Imaging center in a shopping plaza. A chest x-ray that's normally $50 at a regular center is costing us $500.
librdx looks interesting, I'll be taking a look, thanks!
I updated my macOS and iOS device as soon as I could because I was curious to finally see how these features will work.

Turns out it's not even available today! The Apple Intelligence settings just showed a "Join waitlist" button, I clicked it and it says "You'll be notified when Apple Intelligence is available for [you]".
Though it brings a whole host of other challenges, if I could scan my groceries as I put them in the cart, I could bag them in my own containers as I go. I know a few chains allow scanning while shopping but it's not widespread and I'm not sure if they actually allow you to use your own bags. Theft would be a real problem that can't just be hand waved away but it sure would be ideal and do away with most of the grocery bag problem, at least for me.
Nix explained from grounds up [video]
From the ifixit teardown of the previous M1 model [1], it seems that all the compute is going in the chin.

They can't put the compute in the back of the display itself, while maintaining the same thickness like an iPad (which has the same CPU), because the room behind the displays is dominated by the speaker system, allowing the iMac to have surprisingly good audio quality despite being so thin.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+M1+24-Inch+Teardown/142...
Well... a thorough "meh" to Google. Thanks for the info though, one less thing for me to care about.
Are you sure?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
Apple makes some dubious claims:

> Gamers can enjoy incredibly smooth gameplay, with up to 2x higher frame rates5 than on iMac with M1.

What games do run on the Mac? Certainly, most AAA titles do not.

>Compared to the most popular 24-inch all-in-one PC with the latest Intel Core 7 processor, the new iMac is up to 4.5x faster.

You can build PCs there are more powerful than that Mac, cheaper. And you can easily repair them.
The quest to use AI to build better AI
The human body doesn’t indiscriminately burn its weight in calories as fuel. Energy intake and expenditure is complicated. If someone expends energy through using up their stored glycogen, as most of us do, that may not use energy from fat mass.
William Kamkwamba's autobiography explains how cheap light from his windmill transformed his rural family's life when he built it about 20 years ago. This stuff is not strictly a question of centuries-ago history.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972434
I don't use an iMac, but I do use a single display with a similar resolution, and I personally much prefer it to a multi-monitor setup
Out of curiosity, as a user, have you tried to get it to format an executive email?

My impression of LLM-generated emails has been they tend towards verbosity. At least relative to the minimal-characters some higher-role folks prefer.

I haven't spent much time trying to get them to exec memo edit/format information.
It is in deed a good thing if it is taxed appropriately and goes toward a universal basic income for those who are replaced. Otherwise, it will result in a catastrophe.
You genuinely don't know what you're talking about. .... I find it aggravating how you're so confidently wrong.

This is a fine example of irony.

Let V be a vector space over the reals and L a functional. Let v be a particular element of V. L(v) is a real number. It is a single value. L(v) can't be 1.2 and also 3.4. Thus L is a function.

A function is simply a subset of the product of two sets with the property that if (a,b) and (a, c) are in this subset then b=c.

Can you find a functional that does not meet this criterion? If so then you have an object such that L maps v to a and also maps v to c with a and c being different elements.

Find me a linear map that does not meet the definition of function. Give an example of a functional in which the functional takes a given input to more than one element of the target set.

I think you are not a mathematician and you also don't appear to understand that a word can have different meanings based on context. "generating function" isn't the same thing as "function". Notice that generating is paired with function in the first phrase.

Example: Jellyfish is not a jelly and not a fish. Biologists have got it all wrong!
Have you considered that your way of using the machine is based around the limitations, hence you don't recognize them?

Whenever switching company I went from a 64 gb ram computer to a 16 gb ram. Yes, it worked, but only because I had to adapt to it. But one might not see it if one's never tried.
I'm surprised Apple didn't co-opt charging mousepad tech, like what Logitech uses:

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/innovation/powerplay.html
It's also frankly kinda like comparing apples and oranges as a language. JavaScript (and many of the "bad performance" high level languages minus Rails; Rails is bad and should be avoided for projects as much as possible unless you have lots of legacy cruft) are also heavily designed around rapid iteration. Rust is however very much not capable of rapid iteration, the borrow checker will fight you heavily every step of the way to the point where it demands constant refactors.

Basically the best place where Rust can work is one where all variables, all requirements and all edgecases are known ahead of time or cases where manual memory safety is a necessity vis-a-vis accepting a minor performance hike from things like the garbage collector. This works well in some spaces (notably; systems programming, embedded and Browser Engines and I wouldn't consider the latter a valid target), but webserver development is probably one of the furthest places where you are looking for Rust.
There are Chromebooks currently shipping with 4GB of RAM. People don't understand how low the bar is for normies.
>Most healthcare organizations in the US are profit-oriented

According to the American Hospital Association, less that 20% are for-profit [1]. I'm sure all are extremely budget-conscious, but that's not the same as being profit-driven.

It seems to me that the US optimizes for quality to the detriment of cost and, more recently, access.

[1] https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals
> 16GB base RAM, they finally did it.

I've paid €200 for 128GB RAM in my PC. How much does Apple charge for 128GB of memory?
Yes, I know vaultwarden. And it's indeed simple to start the docker-container. But no every use case can be satisfied with docker.
I find this to be true also. But how can this be? Either feeding a baby in a car is not that big of a deal, or something about the cars or carseats changed? I think it's more like the former.

I'm sure you can get all kinds of dated advice from board-certified physicians too.
No. If you’re that kind of power user, the iMac isn’t for you. Get a Mac mini or studio.
I use AI as a tool and it is nice. Using it for longer made it clear to me that it cannot replace developers. Perhaps that time will come, but even the most advanced AIs still struggle with basic logic. You can test this with a good IQ test as well, provided it is distinct enough for the AI not to recognize it.

That said, have you tried to apply to industry positions? Not the software industry, I meant the industry in general. They are always looking for engineers and that includes software to a large portion today.

I think the bar for your tech stack is as high because there are many in that field. Even I do use node, JS, vue and I do develop software for embedded devices and process automation... Sure, I know much less than a dedicated web developer, but still, I think I could debug my way through JS hell.

You probably won't make as much as some SV grunt in software monkey prison, but it still pays a lot and the work is interesting. You also have the warm fuzzy feeling of doing something that matters. Often that is lacking in many pure software projects. This is just my ignorance for the most part, but still, I like the fuzzy feeling.
I might get away with 48GB (don't know, I have 64 now on my work machine) but I had a lot of swap usage when I was running on 32GB. Some of us do need a lot of ram.
Tata Advanced Systems and Airbus Inaugurate C295 Final Assembly Line in India
I believe just executable files, right? (Still terrible of course.)
I think they keep the chin because it's the only thing that visually indicates that this is an iMac and not a monitor, and thus worth more than $500.
Does the Logitech MX Master come with a driver that overcomes Apple's "unintentional" hobbling of non-Magic mice?
No it didn't the list is too long...I had originally included Australia in the GS but moved it to the GN as per that wiki page. Here's the list I ended up with: https://pastebin.com/f50S0TNa. (Some minor errors still in there, like North Korea and Taiwan are incorrectly labeled.)

Of course my "analysis" is incomplete, I wasn't trying to do a complete analysis, just get an idea for where all the carbon emissions come from. Apparently ~2/3 comes from the Global South (currently). Forecasting models don't have normative parameters.
This is fantastic, Aaron! I love it!

I was surprised to learn that each recommendation for preferences costs nearly 1 cent. From what I can tell, you don’t seem to be caching preferences. For example, each "Let's Go!" click on a show like say "Succession" generates some variation in the preference recommendations. My hunch is that if we ask LLMs to "over recommend" preferences based on the content you’re using (my guess is a mix of MovieLens, IMDb, TMDB, and Wikipedia) and do so in an ordered fashion (preference1 is a solid, but preference7 is a so-so), you could cache these results and strategically display them. For instance, when users choose to "fix" certain categories and get new recommendations for others, these "over recommendations" could help create variations without additional LLM calls. This could be repeated like N times until new categories require further LLM calls.

I am not sure if this would work with the personalized descriptions of recommendations part. I kind of love how they’re tuned based on my selected preferences.

I am curious about the design of the whole system. Fun project! Thanks.
A few games do work on mac. Factorio, Baldur's Gate 3 etc
YouTube deliberately tries to prevent background playback by using web APIs to detect when the page is no longer visible and pausing the video. The extension prevents YouTube from doing that.
Ah that's a shame! Haha yeah, I've found I've got to be a bit more flexible with timings, I've only taken the train a handful of times, but have already experienced a cancellation, and, separately, multi hour delay. But when the train is kind of the destination, a delay isn't too bad, tbh.

I wonder if I've gotten lucky with emptier trains because I generally tend to travel early in the morning? Not sure, it might just be luck; I hope you get to experience another train trip with fewer problems!
Building Circuit Abominations in Factorio [video]
> Usually get a new monitor and a new PC every 4 or so years.

Maybe you're not quite the average consumer that OP has in mind? Maybe you are, I don't know. Either way it's unsustainable and ridiculous that the _average consumer_ would need to replace something after 4 years when it COULD be built to last.
Hopefully 8Gb isn't reserved for Apple Intelligence?
The maintainers of the automation, who've probably been trained to dislike unionization?
I'm pretty sure it's patented in some way considering Logitech is still the only option for that .

The product is already several years old after all (release date 2017)
I just applied for a job at noaa after being asked by a director to apply for the job which was directly related to updating the core weather modelling libraries, some of which are 50+ years old Fortran, and also develop projects to integrate modern ai/ml into the modelling pipeline. I have 10+ years of experience working both as a researcher and a developer, a PhD in physics, and have won multiple grants either applying machine learning to geophysics problems or develop Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling libraries. At least on paper, I should get an interview for this job. I was rejected because:

> We are not able to determine your qualifications as your resume does not show complete information for each job entry, such as beginning and ending dates of employment, duties performed, and/or total hours worked per week

First, my cv did include everything but the total hours worked per week. Second there was no instruction that I could find for writing my CV such that I needed to list the number of hours worked per week. Third there was no way to contest this. Even the person who invited me to apply who would be the hiring manager had no control over this.

I can tell you, this assuredly leads to the unnecessary decline of any system when there’s an impenetrable hr system sitting between applicants and jobs.
Crux, a Precise Verifier for Rust and Other Languages
what a fascinating friend! i just showed my son and he loved the idea. These are the tools we need for our children's good development and growth
Fortunately for users the features cost them nothing.
That might be true if people don't have an iPhone but the moment you start taking photos and videos you're on a trajectory towards one day reaching that limit and get stuck having for only choice to upgrade your iCloud account for more space.
UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hack affects 100M – largest US health breach
I get your point, and Apple doesn't price RAM cheap, but it's worth noting that any RAM doesn't equal any other RAM.

There's a ton of ram types with varying performance levels, and in apple's case it's RAM with direct and performant access from the graphics card (unified memory).
Wow - very interesting take!
> I don't remember it being this bad in the past. Perhaps things have changed in the several years since those publications were published.

There's an analogous pattern happening in clinical trials that I suspect is related: there has been a consolidation by private equity[0].

There are several reasons for this, but the gist of it is that pharmas have moved much of the actual work of running large clinical trials to contract research orgs (CROs) and the cost of recruiting patients for trials, training staff, records keeping, and administering the trial becomes out of reach for small independent sites where clinical trials are executed. It's also more efficient on the sponsor side to interface with one large entity rather than several small entities.

I suspect that the increasing demands of technology and burden of records keeping in both clinical trials and health insurance makes it difficult for small independent sites to operate profitably. So what happens is that many small, independent offices end up joining a larger entity that can consolidate some of the "system level complexity" more efficiently. The tradeoff is that it's no longer about the doctor-patient relationship; it's about efficiency and profits.

I also suspect that part of it is that PE realizes that consolidation lets them control prices. If they can control a network of trial sites, then they have more power to negotiate rates with sponsors and CROs for each patient they sign up to the trial. The bigger the network, the greater their leverage. I think this probably also holds true for healthcare and insurance providers in general.

[0] https://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/private-equity-invests-tri...
It also depends on where the code is running. To put it simply; nobody cares how much RAM the server is using, but they do care if their clientside application isn't responsive. UI being performant and responsive should have priority over everything else.
Imho, one of the reasons Apple built out their hybrid security/privacy arch was so they could trade data transfer for cpu/mem, when it makes sense.

The user sees some additional latency, but Apple can deliver equivalent functionality across hardware generations, with some calling out to servers and some doing on-device processing.

Honestly, I'm mostly impressed that Apple is aiming to deliver OS-level, works-in-all-apps functionality.

Imho, that's what users really want, but MS and Google's product org structures hamstring them from being able to deliver that quickly.
There are so many legitimate reasons to hate the magic mouse.

Ergonimics, the polling rate, the way the glass gets greasy, the scratchy hard plastic on the bottom.

Truly, inferior to the Logitech MX Master in all ways except looks. (which is subjective).

But it takes literally a few seconds to get a days worth of charge out of the mouse, Apple clearly don't want you to leave it plugged in to use as a wired mouse: why? idk, because they hate choice, or perhaps its because they know it would overcharge the battery and bulge, or perhaps even still, people would get weird expectations about "wired being better for latency" despite the mouse not using the data connections on the wire.

We'll never know. But the charging on the bottom is such a non-issue in reality that it makes me wonder if anyone actually owned that mouse, or they just think it looks funny. Personally, I'd rather they fix the other issues with the mouse, the charging was legitimately never an issue.
Every doctor I personally know is double booked at least a substantial portion of every single day. They count on last minute cancellations and no shows just like airlines do in order to maintain their schedules.

Making friends with folks in the medical field is eye opening to say the least. The system is operating redlined and has been since before Covid. Covid just caused the fractures to finally start showing to the average person.

The real thing coming for us is that every doctor I know other than some specialists are simply counting down the days until they can leave the field of direct patient care entirely. Whether this be early retirement, paying off student debt and bouncing, or making a lateral move to research or a tech firm. The field has gotten to be untenable for many, typically the ones who actually care. The profession as a whole has lost its personal agency to the administrative class. It’s not idle talk either - plenty have actually already executed on these plans.
Again, we are in disagreement who misread the data.
Very low desk clutter though. Power cable, maybe a mouse. Nothing else.
> Edit: Maybe what we really need to worry about is an AI developing charisma....

That is the most immediate worry, by a wide margin. It seems to be dangerously charismatic even before it got any recognizable amount of "intelligence".
I've considered it but, sadly, the reasons to not do that are increasing rather than decreasing. Off the top of my head:

Can't use a public transport here without the app. They recently put a little animation on the ticket screen so that you now need to record a video instead of a screenshot as backup for when the app logs you out again; it also only runs on big tech and is only legally obtainable via the big tech stores (no apk download, for example). Germany is really big on privacy and free software but Deutsche Bahn is... very privatised, let's say

Which phone would function as the base installation of Signal, and does Signal Desktop work properly on 5" extreme-DPI screen?

Can I make and receive calls on those devices without being in data/WiFi range? I don't have full coverage at home on either of those and would drop if SIP clients are the solution for that

I also like having a decent camera in the same device. Tried Fairphone before and that was be very borderline (resold it for size reasons in the end); the FOSS software simply isn't there

Exceedingly few games are made for GNU/Linux on screens as tiny as these. Would need to run Android emulation to play virtually any mobile game, including the ones I currently enjoy

I don't think desktop OpenStreetMap software exists with even half the features as I use in OsmAnd, and for editing JOSM sounds not very nice to use on mobile as compared to, say, StreetComplete (different purposes; I use JOSM on desktop but not on a 5" touchscreen)

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The only solution I've found that balances usability, stability, and the freedom to run what you want is the vendor's stock Android (e.g. for the camera app and lockscreen shortcuts) with Magisk and Linux Deploy. From there, you can merge desktop tools like restic for backups with mobile apps running smoothly. The market doesn't seem geared towards people like us, though