skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This might sound stupid but I refuse to go to dentists that have "too nice" of an office.

I have a similar rule about all healthcare providers. If your office looks like a West Elm catalog, I can't afford you. I want you to spend money on people and equipment, not a $5000 coffee table.
you must have loads of money to be going around getting multiple opinions
Would be cool to see this slotted in as a more advanced photo editing product akin to Aperture back in the day.

Apple still makes iMovie separately from Final Cut for video, so there's definitely a path there I think to doing something similar for photography.
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ADHD should not be treated as a disorder
Yup, in time (and space) O(M • n), so with M = 1 million and let's say n = 1 million, it takes space 1 trillion. Given a byte per number, it takes a TB of memory, but is otherwise doable.

Ps, you don't want to risk a running time of form O(Mn²).
https://archive.ph/HPXe2
but you don't hate dentists woman? /jk
>Mind you, even if a beneficient mutation occurs, it is still not guaranteed to be passed onto the next generation. It would have to randomly occur over and over again.

Why would it have to re-occur again and again? If the mutation is beneficial to the reproductive success of an organism, by definition their mutation will be passed on with no need for it to occur again by chance. The percentage of the population with the mutation would grow, potentially very quickly if it was a strong advantage over the previous generations. You're also characterising evolution as if to get from amoebas to humans you require a series of billions of independent coin-flips which isn't an accurate model, rather each generation is building on that which preceded it. Take the eye as an organ for example, it predates humanity by a very long time and was not independently evolved by humans - there was no need for it to have been since those genes already existed.

The predictions of evolution are generally supported by the available evidence at any rate, if you'd like to overturn it you'll have to propose a theory that explains the evidence more compellingly.
I think the promise of search was to be able to do confidence-ranked "grep" on the internet. Unfortunately we departed from this, but it's what I desperately want.
Probably you need some kind of "court" system. Or maybe if enough dedicated servers say you're cheating, they just ban you.

Yes this is more effort but from the company's perspective they outsource most of the effort to free labor. It can probably be abused if enough admins from different servers band together though.
AI overwhelmingly prefers white male candidates in test of resume-screening bias
Yes? There are cultures where this would be flat out unacceptable, prevented, and remediated.
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> It doesn't cost that much to have a nice office. A better way of judging is how much stuff your dentist places on 'watch' rather than recommending expensive treatments.

At my company we have been building out a lot of clinics in our expansion, and I assure you it's VERY expensive.
And "financing". We walked into a new dentist's office when moving to a new town, and their (immaculate and luxurious) front desk had racks of glossy literature talking about their various no-interest and low-interest financing plans and we just turned around and walked out. These are not dental offices. They are banks that have a small dentistry operation on the side.
We have the phenomena in the UK of "Turkey Teeth" - people with unfeasibly bright and white teeth after flying off to Turkey to get them done for less money than the UK.

This is mostly caps, not implants.

I generally trust dentists about as much as I trust auto mechanics. i.e. not much unless I know them well.
Manna is such a cool story. It’s too bad the author copped out at the end instead of fully exploring a world with AGI but no robots.
I’ve had that happen and gone back for a later booking for the next step. The dentist took the day off and the assistant said well you can just cancel that it wasn’t needed anyway. Well WTF was I even booked in for?!
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I don't think this is right, for two reasons:

1. As a nit-pick "unconstrained object" is not best modeled by `unknown` because that includes non-objects as well, there's better types to use for that

2. Someone asking you for any unconstrained data would also be `unknown`

`any` is not a type at all, it is an annotation to disable the type system
Dentists function similarly to mechanics for most people: they're the expert who knows everything and you know basically nothing. They tell you something is wrong and they need to do a $X00 procedure to fix it, but you have no way to validate in the moment that this is true.

The funny thing is that with mechanics I think this has long been widely understood. People realize how important it is to find a trustworthy mechanic and to get second opinions. But it's only recently that I'm starting to see people talk about dentists in the same terms.

The lab coat and the expensive degree seem to be more reassuring than the coveralls.
A service my partner and I found that has been helpful for validating dentist's suggestions: https://www.xrayupload.com/about

Totally agree with you by the way - have had the exact same experience.
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>There's no way this tech will ever make a playable version of Mario

Wait a few months, if someone is willing to use their 4090 to train the model, the technology is already here. If you could play a level of Doom than Mario should be even easier.
Reverse Gellman effect: you witness pedants in your own domain surgically tear down a harmless puff piece and immediately know this must be happening 24/7 in every other domain where fun is modestly attempted
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I feel like for myself at least, mobile gaming is more akin to casino gaming than video gaming. Sure, iOS has loads of gaming revenue but the games just ain't fun and are centred way too heavily on getting microtransactions out of people.
I believe there have been studies showing that the attention mechanism allows estimation of gradients for one-shot learning (i.e, based on what you tell the model you want in the input, it will use attention to 'update' the weights of the linear layers to 'learn' new information). This seems to be taking that one step further and just using attention for the weight estimations itself. The key insight here is that by adding more tokens to the weight estimation calculation, you can get more degrees of freedom.

Total aside, but imagining how many levels of functions are present in the calculation of each activation here, and thinking about how regular old differentiation and gradient descent actually work to train these nested parameters, is truly amazing, in my opinion.
This is why the consequences of dishonesty in such asymmetric dynamics need to be not just major, but stunningly, shockingly severe; e.g., seizure of all assets, including homes and anything that would otherwise be protected to totally impoverish them and bar them from any professional position for life. These types of relationships are the bullseye for deterrence through sever punishment; they are deliberative offenses against society, they has severe and compounding impacts, and they are a severe abuse of trust and asymmetric information.

That should also be backed up by a bounty program that allows whistleblowers to get some significant portion of the seized assets.
Odd, my dentist's hygenist complains that people who have their wisdom teeth suck at taking care of them in general.

Mine got pulled for good reason. They were severely impacted, and pushing other teeth out of alignment. (I can still feel that I have out of alignment teeth in the far back of my mouth.)

Not everyone should "keep their wisdom teeth." Sometimes... they gotta go.
The entire western world draws its cultural lineage through the ancient greek civilizations, most of us sub-consciously consider ancient greek history "our" history. Even relatively un-educated New Zealanders on the exact opposite side of the world know who Alexander the Great is.
Google has never not been an ad company, except for that brief period of time where they were talking about how a search engine that serves ads is working against its users interests. Then they needed money so they did it anyway.
How to inspect TLS encrypted traffic
>Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/30/...

https://archive.ph/TSRyD
Treatment plans are used in every medical field and are required for insurance billing.

The bigger problem is that most hospitals and medical offices won't tell you the billing codes for procedure pricing until there's a treatment plan, which requires seeing a doctor first, effectively preventing shopping for care by price.
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That was written about the "standard Pascal" (the first standard). Turbo fixed most of that. (Maybe all, in that Turbo became a de-facto standard, so that even the "all the extensions are non-standard" didn't really apply.)
Saving the world, one GitHub project README banner at a time.

I don't know how I feel about writing CLIs in JS. Just seems a little bit janky to me, and I don't know why. I wonder if there's any push to have something JSXish in Go, even if it requires a pre-compiler to achieve the syntax, just for CLI apps like this. Then again, maybe I'd just rather stick with something like Nim where you can just have a first-class DSL through the macro system.
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There are various userscripts (and add-ons?) that replace the links with its inline images.
9 out of 10 dentists recommend this treatment!
> The college dentist could also just be wrong

Maybe, but then other dentists I saw after college would also be wrong too.

I think you are hitting a core problem with dentists, is that it is hard to verify and get a second opinion. Since insurance only covers one xray a year, etc. it is more economical for people to just get a filling (maybe $50-$100 with insurance) compared with going out and paying out of pocket for a second exam and xrays ($100-$300).
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I had an AI interview me a few weeks ago. I eventually hung up on it becuase it just kept asking me the same damn question for every job on my resume.
It might work alright as a first pass heuristic, but it's definitely not failsafe. My dad had a healthy distrust of dentists for most of his life because the small town not-glamorous dentist he had as a kid would drill anything and everything to bill it and ruined his teeth.

The better heuristic is, I think, to get a second opinion before someone suggests a surgery you aren't sure you actually need.
This isn't "odd" behavior. It's a consequence of using a multibyte encoding scheme. Also, when dealing with case mapping, you can't assume that the character count will remain constant. This is because in Unicode full case mappings can map a character to multiple characters, meaning you might end up with more characters than you started with, regardless of the encoding used.
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I like the way Bob Briar describes Herodotus as an ancient tourist/journalist.
Unfortunately, It'll just be great for insurance to deny necessary prescriptions/procedures/scans because AI review found nothing wrong
The thing is: These broad RIFs have very little to do with individual performance.
I'm predicting that there will be one next year. If it's that easy to mobilize a crowd, there's a parade just waiting to be organized.
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I admit I was assuming they would be heavier, I didn't consider the X1 Carbon. When I think of Thinkpads I still picture the traditional IBM-style Thinkpad. A quick look at the specs shows the 14" X1 Carbon at 2.42lbs, 13" MacBook Air at 2.7 lbs, and a 14" Thinkpad E series at 3.17 lbs.
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In power efficiency maybe, but not top performance
I have always used four Manhattan avenue blocks as a mile... As a life long born NYC'er. Not three.
The CPUs aren't cheap, but they don't cost more than the Mac mini.

The Mac mini will definitely draw more than 20W. TDP numbers can also not be compared between manufacturers at all. And last but not least, for a single core test, maximum power consumption is irrelevant.
This is not new. Average dentist is going $300k in debt for school these days. The average dentist salary isn’t that impressive considering the education cost, so many quickly feel the pressure to sell expensive treatments once they start practicing, then they see how much money they can make through these procedures. The dentists making $500k+ know this.
You are saying that multiple dentists found issues with your wife's teeth, she routinely refuses treatment, and this is somehow a scam?