skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is struggling to catch up so hard that they're only now just working on their metaverse play
Perhaps it's something like 4.8% in Canada and something like 5.1% in the Netherlands? But yeah, that sentence doesn't make much sense.
Yes and I think losing in this way is the most fair result. Ding has gone for a draw in every game where the score was tied, even with white (the first game, which he won as black was just a gift from Gukesh). Today, once again with white he could have pressed the position and played for more. Instead he sacrificed a pawn to play for a draw, and had the more difficult game to play even if it was always 0s. If he'd tried to play for a win today, almost certainly it would have been a draw anyway.

While I was really happy to see Ding's fighting spirit in this match, and to have recovered much of his former strength, I've been rooting for Gukesh since around the half-way point just because Ding has not been playing superior positions for a win. I just don't think thats how a champion plays, even if its a sound strategy to try to win in tie-breaks.
Indeed, 2022 started with unquestionably the most substantial spread of COVID throughout the pandemic, both in terms of wastewater levels and tracked cases. It is clear that early 2022 was a time of very substantial risk. Rates of COVID both in wastewater levels and reported infection rates were the highest of any time in the pandemic.

However, years later in late 2024, measured wastewater levels and serious illness risks appear statistically to be at their lowest of any point over the course of the COVID pandemic.

The linked article states that "we are in freefall" and contains a lot of florid language to imply that we are all at risk of serious disease. We are not. The rate of COVID-related illness is drastically and radically lower at this specific point in time than nearly any other since before the pandemic, and it's rational for people to react as such.

Personally, I'm boosted (so many times I've run out of space on my card), and I've got boxes of N95s, and in the event of any reportable uptick, I have no hesitation in going back to full protection. My loved ones feel the same way. But we are currently in no way at the same level of risk we were just a couple of years earlier.

We will all have to live with COVID in the same way we all live with the flu, pneumonia, cholera and any number of diseases. (The cholera pandemic is, according to the WHO, still ongoing!) We all risk illness and death every single day regardless of COVID; in the area I live, the risk of dying or experiencing serious injury in a car accident is currently greater than the risks of contracting COVID.

It doesn't help us in any way to continue to live in fear after the worst has passed. I don't disagree with a message to stay vigilant, but to say that the sky is falling when it is not is absurd.
I can definitely see why people were upset but I think they are reading a bit too much into it. We all know its a wrapper now but makes little to no difference in reality.

What I'm more disappointed in is that BlenderGPT aka TRELLIS is still not capable of producing truly segmented 3d mesh. The generated output is simply just a blob and not capable of replacing actual 3d modelers (yet).

I've already seen so many claims of being able to generate 3D but they have fallen short of expectation (including BlenderGPT/TRELLIS). Without segmentation, mesh optimizations, there is limited use.

We are so close but because everybody is chasing investment dollars they gloss over the ugly bits and even after 20 months of watching this space there has been little progress.

The true golden chalice of 3d mesh generation is a fully segmented, optimized mesh, UV texture map/material generation and pre-rigged. It appears we are far far away from it still as many FANG/Deepmind or large game engines should be the first.

Unfortunately until then we are stuck with investor dollar grift wrappers on open source products. Not just in 3D but across all domains that AI touches.
Looks like a bird with flashlights on it's wings. You're a kook. :)
I hope the book makes a better argument than you present here for that claim, which on its face makes nothing obviously resembling sense.
Can't wait for Google to abandon this in 6 months and shut it down in two years!

Let's all get invested... not.
The online route is much easier to inject payload into the info stream pumping signals into their brain 24x7. Gives corporations more input bandwidth to pump in advertising.

Ad tech revenue keeps growing ever year cuz more time online = more ads injected into these streams = more Attention captured.
Where Am I? (1992)
When my mom had cancer I told her she better do everything she could to beat it (she was a super hippie no chemicals person). I remember she was taking some horrible toxic chemo pill that made her miserable (like even her, the person taking the pill, had to handle it with gloves taking it out of the bottle), and I was like mom, stop taking it if it makes you miserable. She broke into tears and was suddenly so grateful to me for giving her permission to stop taking it. I hadn't realized she was putting herself through hell because of what I had asked of her.

Friggen moms man. (╥﹏╥)
AI-generated modeling is such a fun concept. If you want to pee yourself laughing, ask ChatGPT to generate SCAD files of things like animals or everyday objects.
Nah. None of the publicly acknowledged US military drones carries the type of X-band air search radar that would be necessary to reliably track a small aerial target. There is some stuff in development with that capability but it hasn't been fielded yet, and for safety reasons it certainly wouldn't be authorized for flight in controlled civilian airspace or over populated areas.
I hate when the press article exagerate the participation of the students, but in this case the press article is fine.

We have(had?) a similar project in our university. Students of high school (17yo?) go once per week for a semenster and help with some project. In some topics is possible to isolate the work and make an interesting task that can be teached and tried in one semester. Nobody expect a groundbreaking result, but it's an interesting aproach to encourage students.
I only know about New Zealand, and we definitely do source a lot of medications from India.

However we have a single payer health system for the most part (you can get medications that aren’t through the system, but you pay full non-US market price), so the big stick is “well we’ll buy from someone else”, easier said than done of course but it seems to work.

Our medical regulator (different body to the purchaser) doesn’t do inspections overseas but does random tests on the products imported to check the quality.
That's if you willingly give out your card information? If you pull out your card and someone unauthorized looks behind your shoulder (or, more accurately, looks at a camera recording and sees your card in there), it doesn't make them authorized somehow.
It's still around, but do you ever hear of anyone using it? For some reason that style of ui has fallen out of favor. I have fond memories of FileMaker.
It would be a nice use of "old" phones as well. Load up some old phones with Virtual Virtual Reality and other games.
100% this is a defense contractor testing new gear.
Yeah we totally agree. That's why we work on the end-to-end app, not on a single prompt. You pick what parameters become knobs in the frontend. So if you have a giant app with 10 parameters (say 5 prompts, 5 numbers), great, wrap those and they become knobs on our frontend. We override during the actual end-to-end testing execution kinda like a Statsig / Launchdarkly (only with typing).
This sounds far fetched but we do have precedent for companies paying for future contingencies up front. The first example I can think of is unemployment insurance. It’s a payroll tax so even if the company goes broke and has to fire everyone the state has some cash on hand to make the employee’s whole.

Something like that could be done here. If you make products that don’t last a reasonable amount of time or you pack up in the middle of commitments then there’s some way for your relevant corporate assets to be transferred to another entity that will take up support.
> > Does this affect search and discoverability in between servers?

> A little.

Can you please elaborate on that?

Thanks for the answers!
Is that actually true? Are people who choose MAID poorer than the average?

The article suggests that they are whiter than the average Canadian. Make of that what you will.
Plenty. It’s the same frequency range as cellphones, just at far lower power.
Neanderthals and Humans Mated More Recently Than Previously Thought
Asimov was a machine. What did he not write about? Materials, space, science & exploration, physics, the Bible.

They say Goethe was one of the last people in history who was still able to understand everything that was known up to then. It seems to me Asimov was as close to that as possible 200 years later.

Anyone here know a writer of our time who can match that?
I agree! It's a shame you're being downvoted just for expressing your opinion. Come on HN, downvoting is not for expressing disagreement...

And yeah. People saying this was exciting chess are lemmings. It was absolutely not. It was yet another boring draw-fest. The format incentivizes prep and penalizes creativity and risk-taking. If my child got very good at that it would be hard to be proud. What a waste of human spirit! Why would I want to watch two extremely smart young men waste months of their lives on this for the sake of boring us? It's perverse. Let's move on to Chess960 already. THAT would be exciting.
"large" is whatever is scary.
In theory. In practice, they have failed to demonstrate a single fully functional headset to any external media, and their marketing strategy is borderline predatory ("lock in a better price for your subscription before it's too late!")

I'll believe it when I see it.
Thank you for making this a one time purchase, not a subscription.
Most people have a few friends and they’re in the same place. “My people” are in the same place today that they were in yesterday and will be again tomorrow. Most people prefer the inefficient and imperfect group chat because it’s personal. Most people can’t imagine anything worse than bringing more technology into their personal relationships. I’m sure this app is great for the small number of us that are fortunate enough to live like ev, without a care in the world, vibing our way around the world… partying with tenacious founders hungry for an exited-founder’s co-sign, but that’s, what, a few thousand people? That’s not social, it’s niche.
Exactly my question too. It seems a little disingenuous not to talk about it. Is it going to try to sell me travel and accom? Venues to meet up with people?

I have no interest unless I see a sustainable, unshitified business model.
I've only heard of one person ever doing it, and that was in the 80s when the average age was older anyway.

I think you've got to reach 1800 by your mid or maybe late teens to have a chance really.
No, but the survival of the "entrepreneurs" who convince people they need those rocks, very much is.

In the OF/pet rock/pidgeon trio, the pidgeon is actually the odd one out; the other two are all about making money by exploiting people's need for socializing.

Alas, "e-celebs" are a step worse than "e-prostitutes". Both exploit parasocial relationships to trap customers, but in the end, OF performers provide customers actual value in exchange for money, while vloggers and influencers also try to sell you all kinds of random shit - their actual business is advertising.

(It's similar to analog world prostitutes vs. telemarketers; the former engage in voluntary exchange of value for money, the latter just try to scam you. That the society scorns the former while accepting the latter is some perverse inversion of morality, if you think about it. One could argue that the value prostitutes provide is poison - but then so is what telemarketers sell, too, and prostitutes don't cold-call you to trick you into buying.)
I'm sure this is exactly the case. Assuming it is, then it's either so close it's not worth reporting on or so close it's worth reporting on accurately
By "strawman" I'm referring to use of "relatively boring" in the NBA parallel, as if that's a generally accepted description of this match.
Demographics in 75+ age group. It’s late here or I would have looked up in Stat Can before posting. But that’s where you should check.
India's 'One Nation, One Subscription' Plan
Primeagen exposes critical security leak in Cognition
where's the link to Calculator++ ?
Could be longer life expectancy for particular demographics that are mostly white.

Or it could just be that 70% of people of all ages today are white, but 80 years ago it was a much larger proportion (I didn't think it would be 96% but I also wouldn't be surprised if it was).

This is pure speculation, I have no data to support either of these hypotheses.
Yes, I think that is not well understood.

When my father-in-law passed, in a rural assisted living facility, we found they had stopped feeding him despite saying they were and our requests that they continue.

We were stuck in this uncomfortable position of not being able to move him somewhere else, being completely blindsided by his (bone and bladder) cancer and how quickly it progressed, and not knowing what standard of care to advocate for understanding that he was passing.

One of the things that was also frustrating is that when we would ask for more pain medication, they would refuse as it might lead him to stop breathing (I thought, ‘so what?’), yet they were making decisions that ultimately accelerated to his demise.

Looking back, I don’t know that ceasing nutrition was a bad choice, but it wasn’t their decision to make. When I talked to friends in healthcare they effectively gave me the ‘oh, you sweet summer child’ talk.

My FIL, while he could communicate, could not wait to be out of pain and I wish he had the agency to make the decision before having to go through endless pain in the delirium of opioids.

There are, of course, details I’m leaving out, but my general takeaway is that in at least some cases the euthanasia debate is not about whether the call is being made, but who is making the call.

That is not alone reason to support one side of the debate or another, but it is an important nuance that I was naive about until I witnessed it first hand.

Edit: what I described does not appear to meet the traditional definition of euthanasia, but I will leave the post in its original form and just clarify that I mean making decisions that hasten someone’s death either passively or actively.
Specifically for credit card numbers those should be easy to detect as they are a specific format.

But generally for PII, passwords etc there is no way to know when something is or isn’t secret or sensitive so either you should accept that the recordings are protected enough or just not record.

Did this controversy arise from Microsoft first assuming that the ”recordings are safely stored” would be enough but then public reception was negative and now they are trying to ”fix” it?
Engines are unbelievable in open positions, so GMs who know that they are up against an engine usually just pawn lock the center and wait for the engine to start sacrificing in order to avoid a draw.
The HackRF usually comes to mind every time I mess around with my Flipper Zero.

(Other items I often hear mentioned in the same conversations are the ADALM PLUTO and the pricey USRP line of radios. Or, "rtl2832u" might be a key term that helps you further narrow down a search more aligned with the sibling comment, though the rtl2832u is a cheap, receive-only device.)

There are the units branded by Great Scott Gadgets (the company belonging to the guy that designed HackRF). And alternately, chinese clones were obtainable for significantly cheaper.

I don't know what the climate looks like these days of getting a hold of these radios.
The first sentence of the article gives the Canadian percentage as 4.7%.
Who decides on the duration of the waiting period? Why can’t people be in charge of their own lives? Especially people in their 80s, they have earned the right to agency.

It reminds me of OB/GYN providers that deny childless women sterilization procedures – even when they are in their 30s – ostensibly on the risk that the woman might change their mind about having children. Some people know things for certain and there is a 0% chance they are going to change their mind.

Yes, irreversible decisions warrant deep consideration. But denying a full grown adult control over their life decisions is cruel and unduly authoritarian.
I'm not sure a link will contribute much? It's just the basic question whether some years (or days or whatever) are so awful that you are better off being dead.

In any case, the linked article says 'States worse than dead can exist and they would have a negative value and subtract from the number of QALYs.'
Ask HN: What percentage of HN users have JavaScript disabled?
Is it worth doing some extra work to have a site work both with and without JS?
In Canada, while the hospital care is covered, the additional supplies and treatment are often paid for by the patient.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-costs-report-1.7404064

"During more than two years of treatment, which included surgery to remove part of the colon as well as 12 rounds of chemotherapy, Percoco paid more than $4,000 out of pocket for prescription drugs, including medications to cope with the side-effects and complications. On top of that, there were costs for colostomy bags, which she had to restock every four days, bandages, physiotherapy sessions and osteopathic consultations, as well as travel and parking."
Little goose poop
You don't know what I got (you don't know what I got)
Little goose poop
You don't know what I got

Well I'm not bragging babe, so don't put me down (goose poop)
But I've got the strongest antibiotic in town (goose poop)
When superbugs come up to me, they don't even try (goose poop)
'Cause once they meet my compound, man, they're gonna die

(Apologies to the Beach Boys)
I agree completely with you regarding not treating our bodies as if we're robots. About a year ago I began lifting weights again, something I hadn't done in more than 20 years, and the difference is amazing.

I used to have very frequent pain episodes that would severely affect my ability to type on a keyboard, and now they are almost completely gone (and when I do get them, it's nowhere near as severe as it used to be).

That said, I still have a Model 100 (as the one depicted in the older pictures in the post) and the ergonomics are IMHO worth it, at least compared to some of the keyboards available, but in particular to builtin laptop keyboards (as you mention, everything is bad about laptops and I treat mine like a very portable desktop: if I need to be on the move, I take my keyboard and trackpad and use the laptop as a small display).

On top of that, the fact that it's programmable turned out to be much better than I had thought. My workflow is heavily customized now and I'm objectively a lot faster than I used to be before. The layers system on this keyboard takes a bit of getting used to (as does the layout itself) but, at least for me, once I got through the learning curve, it's so good I'm going to buy another one to have as a spare.
> After 14 games of 4+ hours each It had gone from being a dead draw with him a big favourite in tie breaks to all over in a few seconds.

_Very_ casual chess follower here. Why was Ding a big favorite in the tie breaks? My takeaway from the match was that Ding seemed to always be worse on time, so wouldn't a shorter time control favor Gukesh?
I get the joke but it actually works the other way: since Android devices had a 2-5 year lag behind Apple for CPU performance it would be harder to hide some hypothetical always-on analysis, especially on the cheaper and slower devices where most of the global growth had been.
This reminds me of a somewhat similar circuit, the capacitance amplifier:

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

Which leads me to think about planned obsolescence in electronic circuits. In many electronic circuits the electrolytic capacitors are the first to degrade, limiting electronics lifetime to 10+ years. What if those capacitors were replaced with amplified capacitors where the capacitor was not electrolytic, say a film capacitor. Maybe the circuit would work the same and last 20-30 years, eliminating a lot of electronic waste and reducing environmental carbon due to manufacturing? Part of the solution to climate change has to be manufacturing products that last longer. Electrolytic capacitors, built in batteries, fans, and parts made of rubber instead of silicone are some of the prime components that cause failures. I have a suspicion car companies have tuned steel formulations and paint to cause rust after a specific number of years as well.
Unless your app doesn't generate output,then grepping the output will not work if it's stderr and it will be confusing
>will euthanasia become another "solution" for those who can't afford proper care and treatment?

Yes, and I would argue that despite the awful connotations, this is not a bad thing.

It’s simply a fact of life that some people have more than others. Sometimes it’s not fair, but it’s still way better than any other social/economic alternative. And those who have more can afford better treatment, that is expensive.

So, assuming we can agree on this, would it not be better to offer some solution, even if not ideal? Remember, it may not be something that you would ever opt for, maybe because you have the means for better solutions, but for many this is a blessing compared to their only alternative which is to suffer. As sad as it may sound.
It's an archive and you are requesting access to the original physical master recording.
Not only that, but JET (the database engine) also integrated into Visual Basic and C++. I was using MDBs in applications long before SQLite3 became a thing.
Forget ollama, just changing the URL from openai to your local server is enough, llama.cpp has a compatible endpoint. Most people just don't bother giving the option since you get a CORS error if it doesn't have a valid cert.
Long live Clipper -- one of my first paid gigs. Amazing platform to write (compiled!) console-based applications with a DB living locally or on a networked drive. Something which does not exist anymore as a market.
Agreed, but requiring one's psychology be stabilized before they can die of despair seems to miss the point
From a morbidly capitalistic point of view, insurance companies should rejoice at the prospect of a very ill person opting for assisted death. I imagine the procedure to end ones life would be much cheaper than multiple years of procedures and medicine to keep them alive.

And if this is the case (which I don't actually know for sure, I'm just speculating), then insurance companies would be incentivized to 'nudge' certain people towards this decision, which is a super duper slippery slope, and at the extreme end you'd have the Rick and Morty dead people spaghetti planet situation.

edit - this of course applies only to people that would have the procedures and medicine that would keep them alive covered.
You should just always put it if it is not current year.
At the risk of sounding sarcastic: the small percentage of the population consuming a huge percentage of healthcare is the older segment, and those with several comorbidities.

Live healthy, live long, die fast.

Live unhealthy, live short, die slow.

Throw in accidents and unexpected life events and boom, you can transistion from health to unhealthy quickly.
And that hockey song was part of Gary Glitter's Rock'n Roll. Here's Part 2: https://youtu.be/Nras3c8r45k

My personal fav hockey song is Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis: https://youtu.be/2gDb_axpfeY