skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in simple terms, it seems these are just rod-shaped RNA plasmids that encode a couple proteins and exist without any kind of membrane or coating, does that seem right? is it that elucidated?
Walmart has low margins, too. Still a very profitable business, because the raw revenue numbers are so huge. The same applies to health insurance.
That’s correct. And I still baffles me that no substantial improvements have been made in that problem space. My grocery shop has a LLM powered Robo-assistant, and doctors are still copy-pasting (or even worse, re-inputting them by hand) text between various pieces of software on a daily basis.

I understand regulation plays a good role in that, but I can’t believe that it is the only reason..
Actually, it’s just obvious when you design the most basic ALU and the circuits for doing the carry.
maybe the time has come for them to actually use this:

https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_granted_patent...

it will burn down their own playhouse too of course
For me it was not confusing; I don't think a newly discovered taxonomic Class would make mainstream news. I was expecting something higher-order and the discovery delivered!
OpenAI publishes IP ranges for their bots, https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/scraper...

For antisocial scrapers, there's a Wordpress plugin, https://kevinfreitas.net/tools-experiments/

> The words you write and publish on your website are yours. Instead of blocking AI/LLM scraper bots from stealing your stuff why not poison them with garbage content instead? This plugin scrambles the words in the content on blog post and pages on your site when one of these bots slithers by.
In these cases, a clinician has already decided that care is needed. It is a third party, who is not responsible for providing care, that is making the final determination. This has little to do with the Hippocratic Oath.
Thanks for the recs,

Mindware by Andy Clark is also a great book on these topics.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mindware-97801998281...
From my European perspective, US Big Tech isn’t being vocal enough in its resistance to EU regulatory overreach.

EU regulation makes starting a tech company very difficult, expensive and risky. I shuttered two of my personal projects when the GDPR came along as the legislation was complex, ambiguous and threatened punitive fines if I didn’t jump through the ambiguously defined hoops. And there are more and more EU-origin laws that I’d have to become an expert in, in order to comply. It’s just not worth the effort and risk. If I ever had a successful project idea I’d start it in America. Particularly with the new administration in 2025.

I will never forgive the EU for its directives that led to all websites prompting for cookies. If the EU lawmakers had any competence they’d have designed the law in such a way to prevent nefarious practices, rather than allowing nefarious practices AND creating a UX nightmare for all users of the whole internet!
>I would suspect there's good money in offering a service to detect AI content on all of these forums and reject it

This sounds like the cheater/anti-cheat arms race in online multiplayer games. Cheat developers create something, the anti-cheat teams create a method to detect and reject the exploit, a new cheat is developed, and the cycle continues. But this is much lower stakes than AI trying to vacuum up all of human expression, or trick real humans into wasting their time talking to computers.
This is great! There are so many fantastic Windows games from the pre-smartphone era, before ads, in-app purchases, etc. came along and ruined things.

BTW if you liked X-Com: UFO Defense and want a blast from the past, try out The X-Com Files[1]. It runs on the Android build of OpenXcom[2], and it's not terribly difficult to set it up to sync Savegames between Android and your desktop.

[1] https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=4595.0

[2] https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5258.0.html
> It's like gas stations that sell food.

The bulk of the profit margin for gas stations come from things other than fuel sales, i.e. the convenience store.
You are reading it correctly. The before game meet n greet was where everyone caught up with everyone else.

Maybe being pre cell phone has something to do with it all.

Where and when I came from, the idea of having to do a "might trigger" rundown did not need to happen because of the dynamics I put into my prior comment.

How about this mess:

Say one chooses to not talk about a dead father confident the game will play out fine. Basically omit the father in the pre-game rundown of potential triggers.

Then the scene happens, and major trigger!

Now what?

Seems to me one falls back on the very basic rules above and acts accordingly.

Nobody else would be blamed. How could they?

The result is the talk didn't solve anything, which us my point and lack of understanding.

Another POV:

DM runs a scene that is a major trigger for someone. Bummer.

Pause game, help that person, right? Take a bit and figure it out? Do they want to end play? Is there something any of us can do? Etc...

Blame and shame aren't the answers. Being a good human is the answer.

Seems like someone is trying to write be a good human rules. Ah well. They tried I guess.
> I came to similar conclusions from your public profile. The defensiveness of your response would be a 7th red flag.

This website is part of my public profile. Allowing people to shape an incorrect narrative of myself on this website is not something I will be doing. Especially when it is coming from anonymous posters who haven't shared their professional credentials.

> you have to correct your online appearance

Obviously I am continuously looking to improve my "online appearance". I disagree with the feedback I've received here. People's emotions are running high on a hot-button topic (immigration and job market woes) so in other locations in this post I'm being called a racist and a conspiracy theorist - I am taking everything here with a grain of salt and doing damage control as anonymous accounts sift through my various online profiles and offer up unsolicited advice. Defending one's position is pretty standard in this situation.

Correcting disinformation ("complaining on linkedin", "no expertise in technology", "political posts", "you're a racist", "you're a conspiracy theorist") is part of maintaining a public profile on the internet.

Lastly, as I stated in my response to the alleged hiring manager with regard to my expertise in technology:

> I guess this isn't shining through on my profiles. Will have to find a way to fix it.
What federal law is that? I heard more than half of states allow it now.
No, you can. There is not another shape that fits.
Imagine if you wanted to buy all your groceries for the week, and had to order them and pay for them one at a time from the grocery store at separate vending machines.

Now remember that, in theory at least, basically everything in the pharmacy that is not behind the counter is more or less the equivalent of the candy by the register in grocery stores, for pharmacies - something they hope you'll go "oh, yeah, I could use that" and buy.

...of course, given that most of the pharmacies I've been to have started locking 90% of their stuff behind "call an associate" barriers anyway, vending machines would probably be a better-scaling model, but that becomes a little awkward because you can't easily mix "things you must go pay at the register for" and "things you bought from the machine", and I think in the limit case you wind up with something like Amazon's experiments in checkoutless groceries to make this work, or a store that's just rows of vending machines and then the pharmacy at the back.
Largely we don't know. That's what makes them cool. This opens up a fairly large debate about where you draw the boundary of "life", "organisms", and "entities". It's a fun debate to have over a few beers since there is no objective correct answer.

My view is that Obelisks are more like Viruses or Viroids, or some kind of mobile genetic element. The key detail is that they appear to be strictly RNA elements (they don't have a DNA counterpart). So they're most likely using host RNA transcription machinery to make more copies of themselves, this is what viroids and satellite viruses like "Hepatitis Delta Virus" do.

What do they do? Well that's the right question. My guess is the kinds of things that bacteriophages do, Obelisks do too. Exploit cells to make more copies of themselves as selfish replicators.
1P will support it in a standards-compliant way soon: https://blog.1password.com/fido-alliance-import-export-passk...

KeePassXC also supports export but not yet using the aforementioned standard: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/11363
No? For this particular case if the api exposed a bunch of bogus contacts then the WhatsApp app would be displaying and autocompleting non-existent contacts to the user throughout the UI, which would be a horrible UX.

There are cases where you can fake data and cases where you need to be able to block access and the apps should respect that.
And it's been replicated?
The thing is, in many corporate and government settings, OSI is trusted by default as "this is open source", and anything not explicitly covered by OSI will cause you a world of pain with your legal department to get an exception.
The absurdity of American healthcare industry can be summed up by this series by “Dr. Glaucomflecken” on YT. Some of the videos are even based on Propublica journalism.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpMVXO0TkGpdvjujyXuvMBNy6...
You can override the default OpenAI url using an environment variable (iirc, OPENAI_API_BASE). Any LLM provider / inference server offering an OpenAI-compatible API will work.
Unfortunately the FDA has limited resource to actually police most of their existing guidelines and will have just as much trouble policing this one.

Buy and cook raw ingredients as often as you can because the only way packaged foods make a profit is either to lower costs or increase prices, and neither option is to your benefit.
? it was 40 years during the height of the cold war. This statement doesn't hold true before and after
Actually there are 2 ways to do more than one processing step at a time: parallel execution and pipelined (a.k.a. overlapped) execution.

Both ways had been used for many centuries for the manufacturing of complex things, as ways to organize the work of multiple workers.
What's wrong with requiring transparency in HOA boards? They seem to be the root of most evil if you have a Condo, from what I hear.
Context on H5n1 (Bird Flu)
Error 403 is your only recourse.
> Largely the same, I acknowledge it's not being done for me and definitely doesn't impact me. Shrug (or eyeroll if so inclined) and move on

Who is it being done “for” if not for the people who play this game? Don’t you have the same stake in changes to the game as anyone else?
I will try to rephrase it and include links to Wikipedia and OSI

> As for whether SQLite is open source, well, the only reason a public domain dedication doesn’t meet the OSD is that it’s not a license. It’s more open.

That's true and I do acknowledge this in the post:

> Instead, SQLite is in the public domain, which means it has even fewer restrictions than any open source license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

[2] https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
We, the people ?
Oh of course, when all the hard cold facts and indisputable evidence is against you, and after getting called on trying to use your own pretend ignorance as a shield, then you pathetically resort to the old "It's impossible to know any facts, because there is no such thing as truth" argument.

That's unmitigated bullshit. Elon Musk now IS the censorship industrial complex of a corrupt government.

You sure have a lot of nerve and contempt and disrespect for the HN community to repeatedly be THAT brazenly unethical and dishonest in a discussion about ethics. Read the room and take the L.

With all due respect, as Musk would tell you, and I literally quote, which you can independently verify yourself: "Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform." [1] ... "Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face." [2]

[1] Notorious troll Elon Musk ripped for demanding more ‘positive, beautiful’ content on his social media platform:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2] Musk Appears to Quote Popular Film in ‘F** Yourself in the Face’ Tweet: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-appears-to-quote-tro...
> Gun and weapon detection is still useful to stop shootings and stabbings that arise out of fights, where one member may suddenly present and use a previously concealed weapon.

Which might be a reasonable thing to aim for? It was mentioned up thread there's >100 school shootings/yr. The vast, vast majority (>>90%) of those are not the "crazy person randomly shoots up school" type, but rather the "two people in a fight / two groups in a fight / targeted revenge on single person".

The former is tracked as an active shooting incident, by the FBI. In 2023 there were 3 such incidents: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/2023-active-shooter-repo... (10 year average is a bit higher).

Of course the downside with the latter is that simply weapons checking at the school won't stop it from happening right before / after school, or otherwise outside of school.
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It looks like various companies with resources are using available means to block AI bots - it's just that the little guys don't have that kinda stuff at their disposal.

What does everybody use to avoid DDOS in general? Is it just becoming Cloudflare-or-else?
Switch to unflavored. The flavorings likely act as MAO inhibitors and synergistically boost the neurological effects of nicotine which by itself is not significantly addictive (but can be habit-forming for some people).

Exception to the rule is menthol flavoring. Menthol is a kappa opioid agonist. In the nervous system, it produces dysphoria — opposite of euphoria, i.e. feeling bleak, anxious, depressed. This effect lasts longer than nicotine’s effect, leading to redosing.
There are many theories about weight training but the practice is that you have to lift a certain volume of heavy weights. I think it is the same with protein.

There was a study that said you got better results if you drink a protein shake and then work out. So that became standard advice for a decade, then somebody did a study where they gave people the shake before or during or after the workout and it was all good.

Some people have GERD and other problems if they eat too soon before a workout. When I was in my late 40s my digestion became more sensitive and I found I could not eat so much before I had to go to the gym. Working out hungry might train your ability to burn fat, but many people can't sustain hard workouts if they're too hungry. Serious athletes like Micheal Phelps who train hard all the time have a hard time eating enough to support all the training they do so it is no wonder he became a spokesperson for a proton pump inhibitor.
Used to be:
- Wake up naturally between 5-6 (usually closer to 5)
- Drink coffee and do the NYT Crossword
- Read news (Bloomberg and Axios emails)
- If it's warm weather (I live in San Diego, so 75% of the year), run 2.5 miles or do 20 minutes of weights (if cold, running gets moved to later when it's warm enough to run)
- Knock off some easy stuff on my to-do list (if I exercise and just do a few productive things early in the day, I tend to be highly productive and in great mental health)
- Eat breakfast (usually scrambled eggs with veggies)

By now it's about 9am, so when I was working I'd usually have standup.

Now, with toddler (and currently pregnant wife in the throes of morning sickness who can't do nearly as much as usual as a result):
- Wake up between 5-6am
- If I wake up before toddler, slam coffee and try to poop in peace before he wakes up. When he wakes up, get him out of crib, change and feed him.
- If I wake up to the sound of toddler screaming because he is awake, get out of bed, change and feed him. Desperately try to finish a cup of coffee and poop before he is done with bottle. Probably fail at this and put on an episode of Bluey so I can poop in peace.
- Entertain toddler until wife texts me that she is awake. Bring her coffee in bed. Make sure to do this without toddler seeing, so he does not rush in behind me.
- When wife gets up, try to be productive and/or eat.
- Exercise whenever I can.
- Be grateful that I now own a business that mostly does not require a ton of work unless I'm making an acquisition.
- Question how I could have lived like this if I were working full time.

My morning was always my favorite time, when I could start my day off just right mentally and physically. My child has stolen that time from me. I love him from the depths of my soul and would give up my well-being for him for the rest of my life if I had to. But hey I know teenagers don't get out of bed at 5am so I'll probably get my morning back at some point!
court ruling a few years ago said it's legal to scrape web pages, you don't need to be respectful of these for any purely legal reasons

however this doesn't stop the website from doing what they can to stop scraping attempts, or using a service to do that for them
Also, at least at Enterprise, there’s no haggling, just a fair sticker price and Kelly Blue Book value for your trade in. There are a couple of the usual upsells like extended warranties, but that’s it. It’s a way less stressful experience compared to dealing with a traditional dealership.

I’ve bought my last 2 vehicles through them and have nothing but good things to say about the whole experience.
That page has a CSV export; it's ~2000 rows.

They appear to have correctly filtered out the "Non-Shooting Incident" sort of results from it (which your picks appear to mostly be) to arrive at the ~900 numbers.
Either sadly or reassuringly, the same rulemaking making processes apply to both contentious things and relatively uncontroversial ideas like these. (Actually, this is an oversimplification, I think ED “Dear Colleague” letters don’t go through the full battery of established processes.)
He steered us to join the war which did end the depression.

Whether it be the new deal or non-isolationist policy, his direction led us out of the great depression which started before his presidency and ended before he died.
If you're flying your drone in a restricted area, then it would be illegal. Many of the drone-downing systems do not permanently destroy it.

On a side note, do you have a TRUST or Part 107?
Weight variances from one day to the next are mostly just water. There's not a lot of point in weighing more than a few times a week.
I can understand why LLM companies might want to crawl those diffs -- it's context. Assuming that we've trained LLM on all the low hanging fruit, building a training corpus that incorporates the way a piece of text changes over time probably has some value. This doesn't excuse the behavior, of course.

Back in the day, Google published the sitemap protocol to alleviate some crawling issues. But if I recall correctly, that was more about helping the crawlers find more content, not controlling the impact of the crawlers on websites.
People have all sorts of emotions about stuff that "just happens". Sure, those emotions aren't logical, but emotions aren't logical.
Is anything important not pipelined?
I haven’t played around with it too much myself, but I remember reading that gzip (or at least python’s compatible zlib library) supports a “seed dictionary” of expected fragments”.

I gather that you’d supply the same “seed” during both compression and decompression, and this would reduce the amount of information embedded into the compressed result.
Note that what constitutes healthcare is culturally defined. Different groups have varying expectations of procedures which is then conflated with other services.

When my baby was born my wife and I stayed in the hospital for two nights during which we received constant checks and meals. I was ready to go because my baby was healthy and I knew it was expensive.

Is this level of service required medical care? I don’t think so. Many choose to have a medical professional at home to help with a delivery for a day or so.

If it is deemed required, how many nights should be offered? I’m sure people with a bad home environment would stay as long as they could. If we set a hard cap of a few days, that’s also bad because some babies need to be at the hospital and it’s very helpful to have that.

Alternatively imagine if the beds are occupied who don’t really need to be there and then a new baby needs to be born?
Sure, in a redutionistic sense. In the same light "Hepatitis Delta Virus" is an RNA plasmid, yet it causes liver cancer in humans. I err on the side that the simplicity of the genetic system should not deceive us into thinking it's trivial. The next 12 months of discoveries is what makes this so exciting.
5am I go for a 2 mile run with my dog

When I get home I start a pot of coffee

Shower

If it's a work from office day I leave for work at 5:45 (~15 minute drive)

1-2 hours of reading HN, twitter, blogs

I grab my sticky note pad and I create a checkbox list of 3-5 things I want to accomplish

I start working through the list
> Another way to interpret this would be that people are becoming increasingly comfortable with telling people they're not comfortable with something, and leaving when others at the table are refusing to take the feelings of others into consideration

Yet another way to interpret this is we’re increasingly catering to narcissists who think that their personal feelings and sensitivities should override the norms and conventions of the group. Your example highlights the problem. You don’t need to tell people to tip toe around someone’s dad having died because that’s a generally recognized social norm.

That’s what it comes down to. People want to just be able to target their behavior to a general, objective social norm, without customizing it for myriad individual sensitivities. That’s a good approach. Don’t do anything that transgresses the social norm. Don’t be offended by anything that complies with the social norm.
Because people don't vandalise the vending machines as often in Japan.
It depends on the type of job. The receptionist at Google or IBM or wherever is going to give you a URL at best.
Depends how you define school shooting as well. Click around on https://www.chds.us/sssc/data-map/ . There are numerous incidents like "Teacher killed himself in classroom after school hours" "Shots fired in the evening, no one injured".
> According to YouTube, about 6 percent of removals from July to December 2023 were abusive, along with 10 times more attempted abusive removals

I uploaded the recording of my father's funeral to youtube, to share as an unlisted video. It attracted two copyright claims - for hymns written in the 18th century.

These were claims - not takedown requests - but I didn't think it was appropriate to share a link to the family that was unable to attend in person that would serve them ads. So I instead made the video private and shared it a different way.

But if I don't contest the claims, how can youtube possibly count them as abusive?
Truly a perineal problem.
<< To do so, court records reveal, the insurers have turned to a coterie of psychiatrists and have continued relying on them even after one or more of their decisions have been criticized or overturned in court. >>

...ok? Is ProPublica seriously trying to assert that they should be barred after a single decision ("one or more" includes "one") has been criticized ("criticized or overturned" includes "criticized but upheld")?