skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Driving down the cost of manufacturing because of process standardization and automation brought down the cost of consumer goods, and labor's value.

We don't need AI to bring down the cost of healthcare. It's well documented to a ridiculous degree now that the United States spends vastly more per-patient on healthcare while receiving just about the worst outcomes, and it has nothing the fuck to do with how much the staff are paid, and everything to do with the for profit models and insurance industry. Our healthcare system is comprised to a large amount of nothing but various middlemen operating between what should be a pretty straightforward relationship between you, your doctor, your pharmacist and the health oversight of the Government.
The Palmer Method of Business Writing – Drills and Worksheets
Not that I care much about Meta or other Socials, but would they also stop data collection and tracking for paying customers?
The terms when the USA didn't just give Russia whatever it wanted.
Solanine
The simple state machines and decision trees that make enemies move and attack in video games, we also call AI.

AI is a loose term and always has been. It's like the term "robot": we call any machine a robot which either a) resembles a human or part of one (e.g., a robotic arm), or b) can perform some significant human labor that involves decision making (e.g., a robot car that drives itself). Similarly, AI is anything that makes, or seems to make, judgements that we think of as the exclusive purview of humans. Decision trees used to be thought of as AI, but today they are not (except, again, in the context of video games where they're used to control agents intended to seem alive).
Probably because the risk of catastrophic damage from moving far outweighs the benefits in that situation.
it quiet a bit interesting, when the assistant make a call to another person who have also an Assindo and both assistants talk to each other. They handle it pretty well !
This is a big deal. Our humanity should be invested in rebuilding our cityscapes in the likeness of our own images (rather than economic or political).

Why aren’t we building cities intended to last hundreds if not a thousand years? (Buildings and infrastructure which age well anyhow).

Too busy wallowing in our own filth?
The current trend in tech marketing is to gush about how awesome your thing is, while being incredibly vague as to what it even does. My guess is that they somehow believe that keeping people wondering will prompt them to enter their email address somewhere just to find out.

When I see a site that is more hype than substance, I assume it's some kind of grift and close the tab.
I agree with this, however, the best sleep of my life was when I was doing Ashtanga yoga regular. It's very physical, but I think it also takes care of a lot of muscle tension - notably in the shoulders, hips, and hamstrings - that are an often unnoticed cause of sleep issues.

Not only did I sleep better while doing Ashtanga, I felt better with less sleep. It was amazing. It's something I've struggled incorporating into my current lifestyle for a few reasons.
Ecosia and Qwant join forces to develop European search index
What's weird is there was a submission last year with almost the same title <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603682> so I guess that partnership failed?
Beautiful. As I’ve grown older and moved back near my parents with my own family, this is something I think about every time we visit. I’m going to start taking some of these pictures.
You’re replying to a LLM bot.
It's a small town shop.
but they are excellent at selling the opposite. Its amazing the average citizen cant look past a campaign catch phrase to the underlying values of the ideology, or demonstrated policy decisions
> There’s a proper way to do this.

Is there? Seems like people will complain however fast you roll out AI, so you might as well roll it out quickly and get it over with.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42113398
Efficiency and lowered costs are not universally good. They strongly favor easily-measured values over hard-to-measure values, which in practice means preferring mechanisms to people.
Criterion also rotates through human-curated collections. They do not offer a full library archivally, which was initially a disappointment when I subscribed. It turns out the curated content is great, changes all the time, and really has movies that are worth watching and I don't already know about -- along with lots of favorites.
Allll the other associated metadata is useful...
Glad for your ex gf, tbh :)
Seems like insurance companies could make a tidy profit by requiring all of their customers to get genetic tests, and then strategically deny those with high risk, and for the rest, raise their rates to unaffordable levels right before they hit the statistical age where the condition in question begins.

Wouldn't surprise me if that ends up being a late stage capitalism strategy.
Just going to leave this here as a counterpoint, since sibling comments feel one-sided on the question:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6957093/#:~:text=In...
Amazon, Walmart couldnt kill India's mom-and-pop stores But rapid delivery might
The point is that the text is not authentic. How do we know that the "reduced references", which basically means that the editor removed what he disliked for his own arbitrary and personal reasons, did not affect the meaning of the text?
Well put. The goal of AI isn't to bring down costs. It's to move (even more of) the profits from the workers to the owners. If the goal was to bring down costs, there are way, way more effective ways to do that.
Another friendly reminder: The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' vanity blog. Don't assume all hate of Elon Musk is purely political when the owner also runs Blue Origin. (Blue Origin has also, arguably, done more lawsuits against SpaceX particularly than actual innovation.)
> Some of us look forward to that future where you mostly just interact with AI.

What is it about that that appeals to you? I'm genuinely curious.

A world without human interaction feels like a world I don't want to exist in.
Twitter is hemorrhaging users and advertisers and is worth a fraction of what it was when Elon let the sink in. It used to be a primary source for media, politics and culture, now it's just a Nazi bar.

I'd consider that burning the platform down, but we may just disagree on semantics.
Not really, the quality we're able to produce at scale is the best it's ever been in the world. The "quality of everything has been in decline" isn't due to advances in manufacturing but the economic factors that are present even without those advances.

Rapid inflation over a relatively short period of time has forced everyone to desperately try and maintain close to their pre-inflation prices because workers didn't and aren't going to get the corresponding wage increases.

I hope eventually there's a tipping point where the powers that be realize that our economy can't work unless the wealth that naturally accumulates at the top gets fed back into the bottom but the US pretty unanimously voted for the exact opposite so I desperately I hope I'm wrong or that this path can work too.
Sorry to hear about your break up, hope you're doing ok.
Bigger Apartment Buildings for Midtown South Under Adams-Council Proposal
sounds like she likes a drink every now and then, and you insist that it, like fun after 10pm, is against your principles
Ok, I'm almost convinced to start lifting weights...

if they release a study showing hair growing I'll be 100% in.
Because they want to make sure that the effort to make C++ ever more complex, baroque, and a pile of shifting sand continues unabated. I'm being sarcastic, of course, but it has felt like that's been their goal for many years now.
Because the USA is for-profit healthcare industry they need to optimise and increase efficiency. That's the only way to make the numbers go up. Therefore fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer administrators (maybe), and more paying patients.
In the case of summarizing it is not time spent with patient is time recording what was discussed.

I recently heard a talk from doctolib (French company that among other offers now the summarization service to doctors) and they mentioned that before AI, doctors were writing on average 144 characters after a patient visit. I doubt half a tweet is the ideal text to convey information.
Her approach might not be the literal peak healthiest, but that doesn't mean its wrong. If she's only having a drink every once in a while and is getting 7+ hours of sleep most nights then the negative effects are probably negligible anyway.

To a certain extent, most people need to sacrifice some amount of health and performance to live the fullest life they can. If you don't feel that you benefit from that, though, and its important for either of you that you share your lifestyle, then perhaps you just weren't that compatible.
Can we trust AI?
Veeery interesting. After realizing that Tora, Tora, Tora! and Midway might make a good double-feature (I tried it, and, they do!) it occurred to me that it might be possible to assemble a film-based curriculum to teach a great deal of the history of roughly 1933-1948, covering the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the war, in a way that's entertaining while being more informative than misleading. There are thousands of films covering the time period from dozens of countries, and lots of those stick reasonably close to historical events, so it might work out.

The hard part, I think, would be tracking down films that give a good sense of the causes and course of more-obscure things like Italy's invasion of Ethiopia. You'd need to find two or three good films on that. Spanish civil war? The invasion and occupation of Poland? The political maneuvering between the Nazis and Soviets before they went to war with one another? The Winter War? These have to be covered by a few films that could act to "teach" the events, but I don't know what those films are and bet most are non-English and not well-known in English, making them harder (for me) to track down.
> We should not accept this. If we don’t, then the future of computing will belong to biology, not logic.

In this quote from Leslie Lamport, I took "If we don't" to mean "If we don't accept this". But the rest of the sentence made no sense then.

Could it be a really awkward way to say: If we don't "not accept this", i.e. if we accept this?
I was turned on to the idea that Pinker might be quite wrong on these claims by David Graeber and David Wengrow in "The Dawn of Everything". I haven't read Better Angels of our Nature, and I haven't spent hours carefully verifying the Davids claims, but I must say, they certainly made it sound very convincing. Enough for me to feel like not reading Better Angels would not be a major loss in my life.

I went to that wikipedia article you link there to see if that gets a mention, and the "Criticism" section is ginormous. So I'm not going to go out on a limb and say you shouldn't be recommending it at all, but I will say that based on the very large number of serious scholars who were apparently upset enough about many of the claims of the book that they then went on to write long serious things criticising it, perhaps in light of that you should reconsider whether it's as "data-backed" as you thought.

It could have crap data, or good data poorly interpreted. The many critics seem to think both.
I think convergent cross mapping came out after Granger causality. Did that ever go anywhere either?
The point is that it's all just metadata. There's a saying along the lines of "the filename is a really bad place to store metadata". Whether the title is the same and/or the album name as an additional qualifier, it's all subject to data entry which is prone to mistakes.
For sure! The simplicity of having the same ideal bus factor for all sizes definitely appeals to me, but maybe due to familiarity, I think I prefer the well-defined units from the version I cited. It's a bit of a https://xkcd.com/883/ situation in terms of how bad your imagination is for what "maximum suffering" would be.
"You can't trust humans" but you can trust a non deterministic black box to take their place?
They expect AI bureaucracy to be more effective than human bureaucracy.

I expect this to be entirely true in some cases.
> If you want flat response but your music has lows that go down to around 20hz, the relative power required to make the 20hz audible to an equivalent volume is exponentially higher than to make 200hz audible.

That can often be the case, but it isn't necessarily always the case.

There is nothing in particular that absolutely prevents a transducer from having reasonably-flat (in an amplitude-vs-power sense) response in the bass region -- including all the way down to 20Hz or below.
Is this just the consequences of rapidly ballooning costs of modern fighter jets? At a tenth of a billion dollars each, there's not much room in the budget for what are even understandable aircraft losses. If I'm not mistaken nothing else is nearly as expensive except the B2. In some ways, losing one of these things is getting pretty close to losing a naval vessel.

Acknowledging this to be the case might help people to understand why they're demanding perfection even if it's risky for the pilots.
I see this discussion as failing to touch on two main points.

This coverage does a poor job of conveying whether he could tell that the craft was climbing, though evidently it was. A crucial detail in his situation was whether the vehicle was responding to his control directions and whether its trajectory was upward, hence without an immediate threat of crash. There is a faint indication that he should have known that his aircraft was in fact climbing and that, as a consequence, he was going to have time to problem solve.

It sounds like the group he led is tasked with establishing the limits of and determining the norms for the operation of the various craft they fly. This suggests that a greater spirit of discovery and exploration of the letter of the rules was in order than he happened to exhibit on that occasion.

He had that command taken away, not his flight privileges, because the shortcoming he exhibited was indicative of his personal unsuitability for exploring the limits of his vehicle and the policies for its operation — in short for doing that particular, exceedingly demanding job. He gets his choice of other posts, but not continuing that crucial and complicated role for which he evidently did not have the right stuff. No shame. Peter Principle avoided. Everybody did the right thing, including his commanders.
It sounds like you are part of a pretty small business given that you're an engineer who knows his customers by name. It may very well be completely acceptable to your customers to have extended downtime, or a button that disappears during a deployment leading to a broken feature for a couple of days until you, or they, realize something is wrong.

Many other companies do not work this way. If you're a huge company like Apple that makes $40M per hour, that type of downtime isn't acceptable. If you're in finance, that downtime doesn't work. If you're in healthcare, defense, aerospace, etc... that downtime doesn't cut it. Yes, you'll still have downtime in those industries from a bad deploy, but you put more checks and balances in place to reduce the odds it will happen.
New York Times Tech Guild Ends Strike Without a Deal
Again, the result holds for all M3 Pro models. The Apple M3 Pro 11-Core even takes the lead in terms of efficiency in some of the benchmarks. The text makes multiple direct comparisons between M3 Pro and M4 Pro efficiency.

It looks like they don't have benchmark results for Cinebench 2024 for some older models, so they're only shown when you switch to Cinebench R23. The Witcher 3 benchmark, for example, does show M3 Pro numbers by default.
"Mac mini Pro" enclosure for M4 Mac mini
Makes sense - to fill UI voids. Thank you for the feedback.
Related : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115390
Counterpoint: AI is actually better at communication than most humans. In fact, even an ancient (in relative terms) article found that AI bots have better bedside manner than human doctors:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/28/ai-has-be...

Today, I expect it's not even very close.

I also believe that AI diagnostics are on average more accurate than the mean human doctor's diagnostic efforts -- and can be, in principle, orders of magnitude faster/better/cheaper.

As of right now, there's even less gatekeeping with AIs than there is with humans. You'll jump through a lot of hoops and pay a lot of money for an opportunity to tell a doctor of your symptoms; you can do the same thing with GPT-4o and get a reasonable response in no time at all -- at and no cost.

I'd much prefer, and I would be much better served, by a capable AI "medical assistant" and open access to scans, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals [1] over the current paradigm in the USA.

[1] - Here in Croatia, I can buy whatever drugs I want, with only very narrow exceptions, OTC. There's really no "prescription" system. I can also order blood tests and scans for myself.
While I largely agree, I was thinking about selfishness and selflessness in a different way.

In game theory, games have global optima and Nash equilibria, and they don't always coincide. Selfless people seek global maximum, selfish people seek Nash equilibrum (maximizing their gain given the others also maximize their gain).

As a society, we have choice to change the rules so that global maximum coincides with Nash equilibrium.
In this scenario, I am your girlfriend, and you are my boyfriend (or from my perspective you are my wife ).

For what it’s worth, I’ve found that if I try to go to bed too early — as my wife often insists — I wake up in the middle of the night. This happens constantly enough that I really try to avoid being in bed before 11pm.
I think it’s ironic that you mention “power concentration” being a bad thing all whilst talking about how you’re looking forward to a foreign billionaire revamping the us government to their own will… the cognitive dissonance here is comical
Grit is grit. If you can do one you can probably do the other.
Interesting concept, but how reliable is the AI in handling nuanced requests, like rescheduling complex appointments or dealing with support reps who ask specific questions? Would love to see how it performs in real-world scenarios, but sounds like it could save time if it’s accurate!
If you are autistic (for example) I'm guessing human interaction can be extremely difficult and very stressful and triggering. Machines are much more amenable and don't have loads of arbitrary unwritten rules the way humans do. Maybe the idea of being entrapped by bureaucracy introduced by machines will be better than the the bureaucracy introduced by humans?
You won't receive better outcomes in this world. The people in charge will simply change what they're measuring until the outcomes look better.
That's been the technical definition in the AI research community for at least 50 years. "AI = machines that think like people" is the sci-fi definition.
It has nothing to do with being an "expert on chronic diseases", and everything to do with not getting yourself formally diagnosed while you're applying for insurance.
This is interesting, and I think plausible, but I find it... surprisinging that the evidence base is so poor. Like, I know entire states have banned smart-phones now, can we see those effects yet? If it's anywhere near as powerful as the author suggests, surely we should?

The second question I have is about the outcome variable on these (but I realise I should probably just go read the damn research) - is it possible that letting people use phone teaches digital skills, at the cost of traditional spelling, for instance?
I'm very surprised by this:

> [with the default enable.auto.commit=true] Kafka consumers may automatically mark offsets as committed, regardless of whether they have actually been processed by the application. This means that a consumer can poll a series of records, mark them as committed, then crash—effectively causing those records to be lost

That's never been my understanding of auto-commit, that would be a crazy default wouldn't it?

The docs say this:

> when auto-commit is enabled, every time the poll method is called and data is fetched, the consumer is ready to automatically commit the offsets of messages that have been returned by the poll. If the processing of these messages is not completed before the next auto-commit interval, there’s a risk of losing the message’s progress if the consumer crashes or is otherwise restarted. In this case, when the consumer restarts, it will begin consuming from the last committed offset. When this happens, the last committed position can be as old as the auto-commit interval. Any messages that have arrived since the last commit are read again. If you want to reduce the window for duplicates, you can reduce the auto-commit interval

I don't find it amazingly clear, but overall my understanding from this is that offsets are committed _only_ if the processing finishes. Tuning the auto-commit interval helps with duplicate processing, not with lost messages, as you'd expect for at-least-once processing.
In various ways, I completely agree with you, but there is a different level of negativity that is happening that is about the levers of power and wealth and what they are doing to the poor and the planet, itself. When a billionaire or government corruptly uses their power to press down on the populace for the gain of the wealthy, the effects are much more deleterious than the gains of we peasants, for example, learning how to no longer be racist or trans- or homophobic.

Those "small" gains are absolutely important, and are essential for our next societal level-up, but the corruption-in-the-large is an order-of-magnitude (or two) more physically destructive. I mean, look how many fools look up to Elmo and his cohort of kleptocrats. And look how the fossil-fuel industry buried the truth of global heating.

That's why I believe that RATM's self-titled debut album is the most important album of the 20th Century. And while I understand rage to be purely destructive, I firmly believe there's a time for righteous anger, especially in the face of oppression and wanton destruction.
Since mainstream social media platforms often employ algorithms that amplify polarization and division to maximize user engagement, I’m seeking information about initiatives and platforms (like the one in this post) designed to foster constructive dialogue, mutual understanding, and healthy online interactions. I would appreciate any references to existing or emerging solutions in this space.
It took me a while to understand your second para.

I found a lot more on the broader topic here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle

It mentions that rotational motion does seem to have an absolute reference frame.
Yes, we can. But should we?
Sean Olive. It's motivated by the fact that engineers are mixing audio on (actually-) flat-response monitors in studios with a slight echo, and a "flat" headphone response is the best way to emulate that. This curve is something they measured and published a paper on. If your headphones sound better with your EQ then they probably aren't meeting the Harman/"flat" target, or you're deviating from the norm in your preferences.

https://headphonesaddict.com/harman-curve/