skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have my 2018 Vizio that came with the stupid android tablet. On day one I blocked internet access for the TV, plugged in an Apple TV, and put the android remote in a drawer where it sits to this day.
In the US they deny treatment that is considered essential by their own doctors. I know you were saying the same thing, but your comment seems to minimize the difference.
Are you in it for the glory, for the money, for the experience, for the team and colleagues, for the resume, for the challenge, or for something else? Answer that question and you have your answer.
The Waymo criticisms are absurd to the point of dishonesty. He criticizes a Waymo for... not pulling out fast enough around a truck, or for human criminals vandalizing them? Oh no, once some Waymos did a weird thing where they honked for a while! And a couple times they got stuck over a few million miles! This is an amazingly lame waste of space, and the fact that he does his best to only talk about Tesla instead of Waymo emphasizes how weak his arguments are, particularly in comparison to his earliest predictions. (Obviously only the best self-driving car matters to whether self-driving cars have been created.)

"Nothing ever happens"... until it does, and it seems Brooks's prediction roundups can now be conveniently replaced with a little rock on it with "nothing in AI ever works" written on it without anything of value being lost.
TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work
> That being said, we are not on the verge of replacing and eliminating humans in either white collar jobs or blue collar jobs.

Tell that to someone laid off when replaced by some "AI" system.

> Waymo not autonomous enough

It's not clear how often Waymo cars need remote attention, but it's not every 1-2 miles. Customers would notice the vehicle being stopped and stuck during the wait for customer service. There are many videos of people driving in Waymos for hours without any sign of a situation that required remote intervention.

Tesla and Baidu do use remote drivers.

The situations where Waymo cars get stuck are now somewhat obscure cases. Yesterday, the new mayor of SF had two limos double-parked, and a Waymo got stuck behind that. A Waymo got stuck in a parade that hadn't been listed on Muni's street closure list.

> Flying cars

Probably at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. They won't be cost-effective, but it will be a cool demo.
EHang recently put solid state batteries into their flying car and got 48 minutes of flight time, instead of their previous 25 minutes. Ehang is basically a scaled-up quadrotor drone, with 16 motors and props. EHang been flying for years, but not for very long per recharge. Better batteries will help a lot.

[1] https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/electric-air-taxi-flights-...
Titanium backup requires root to do anything useful at this point, since apps can set a flag to allow backup of their data or not.
Magisk is a way to handle root on Android, it allows to insert system modules to change some things deep in Android.
There used to be a feature called Magisk Hide that could make apps unable to detect you were rooted. Now you have to install other modules to circumvent safety net and other checks.
It's an arms race : google changes the way it detects things, and modules developers update their circumvention techniques. Try to search "magisk hide 2024" and you should find more information
Correct! I was more-so addressing the following statement, not necessarily the mathematical maximum one:

> As it happens, there will always exist a health insurance company with highest denial rate among all companies

If OP was going to start leaning onto "mathematical fact[s]" to support their argument, they should probably be accurate as well. Specifically there will be "multiple" health insurance companies with the highest denial rate (0), not "a" company.
rclone [1] (bidirectional sync) on Termux [2], with Termux:Widget [3] to make syncing as simple as a button press. I backup my stuff to Google Drive, although rclone has many other supported remotes.

[1] https://rclone.org/

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/

[3] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux.widget/
Got it. Cheers.
Termux persists for me via a silent notification—is that what you mean?
Thanks for such a cool project! It's immediately apparent how to use it and I appreciate the brief examples.

Quick question: In the breast cancer example from the README, simple support vector machines from sklearn (the first thing i tried to compare baseline performance, incidentally) seem to outperform TabPFN. Is this expected? I know it's a baseline to demonstrate ease of use rather than SOTA performance, but I am curious.

# (TabPFN)
In [13]: print("ROC AUC:", roc_auc_score(y_test, prediction_probabilities[:, 1]))
ROC AUC: 0.996299494264216

# (LinearSVC)
In [27]: from sklearn.svm import LinearSVC

In [28]: clf=LinearSVC(C=0.01).fit(X_train, y_train)

In [29]: roc_auc_score(y_test, clf.decision_function(X_test))
Out[29]: 0.997532996176144
> does not solely refer to software, it is also a name used for hardware.

A computer that primarily runs a server (or multiple servers) is often colloquially also called a server in recognition of what it is doing, but server is still in reference to the software. If you repurposed that hardware to sit on someone's desk to run Excel, most wouldn't call it a server anymore.

> Think along the lines of mainframe

I am not sure that works. I expect a mainframe running Excel on someone's desk would still be considered a mainframe by most as mainframe usually refers to a hardware architecture. A server, in the colloquial hardware sense, could be of any kind of architecture, including a mainframe!

Regardless, serverless is not associated with hardware as it is usually used. It is, as virtually everyone uses it, about removing/not needing the server in your application, typically used in the context of a service like AWS Lamba which offers the aforementioned runtime environment that negates the need for your application to be a server. In fact, Lambda is specifically named in what looks like a majority of the sibling threads here. It is abundantly clear where the typical use lies. If you know of instances of people using it to refer to another concept, I would love to see it.
Are there any code experiments reproduced for this article? I'm very interested in it
Pick the immediate direction that will put you in a position to work with the smartest people. That’s probably more important than picking a technology.

Your side projects with agents have impressed people in your org. Do those people impress you? My gut reaction is that if they are impressed by the side projects of a recent college grad, they may not be at the top of that field.

At an early stage of your career, the best work environment is one that makes you feel like “damn I’m really going to have to perform to keep up here.” It’s not great to be very early in your career and feel like “damn, I’m the smartest guy in this room.” It can create bad habits and a sense of entitlement.

And the tricky thing is, if you are a high performer, most situations will make you feel like the latter.
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Because they aren't connected to the "cloud", they are completely isolated. Ever hear of a baby cam, definitely useful!

It's not paranoia, it's convenience.
I think there's something inherently wrong with it. At it's core is a fundamental disregard for consent which harms people after prolonged exposure. The consequences of turning control of over our technology to people with an incentive to degrade our sense of dopamine hygiene have been very bad and continue to worsen.

Whatever legitimate needs ads can meet we can find better ways to meet. That is, if we could only get a break from life in a Skinner box.
I dont have a kindle to test, but i wonder if this works on a kindle
My more well-to-do uncle has an older version of this for his absurd setup. Idk that it was the remote's fault or not, but the system was so stupidly complicated it burned into my brain that I'd just much rather not have any of the materialistic garbage it attempted to control. Not judging exactly, because everyone has different preferences, but I just couldn't envision myself loving what amounts to the digestion of video enough to try and wrangle any of it.

A TV and a receiver? Sure, fine. But also the PlayStation, movie server, regular cable input, Roku and Netflix and the "Smart" features of the TV for some reason. So many redundant boxes and services.
Couple of questions:

1) I see the mention of highschool throughout, what about younger hackers that are 13+ (7th & 8th grade)?

2) The directory (https://directory.hackclub.com/) is not working for me. Are there existing clubs in Asia? Specifically Taipei, Taiwan.
> But a lot of this week's TV announcements underscore an alarming TV-as-a-platform trend where TV sets are sold as a way to infiltrate people's homes so that apps, AI, and ads can be pushed onto viewers. Even high-end TVs are moving in this direction and amplifying features with questionable usefulness, effectiveness, and privacy considerations.

They will lose to Apple's 2025 launch of per-room "control panels" with >1M apps, AI, E2EE video conferencing and zero ads.
41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI
To give a practical example, grapefruit juice contains some compounds that inhibit CYP3A4, a metabolic enzyme that influences the metabolism and absorption of many drugs, which is why many prescriptions tell you not to drink it while taking a given medication.

This interaction was not discovered until 1989, and not reported until two years after that. So before 1991, a simple dietary intervention that affected like half of all drugs and that could in principle have been noticed by patient who felt bad after drinking a common household beverage, was bro science.

Which is not to say "and therefore just do whatever", but just to point out that there's plausibly a lot of low-hanging fruit still left if you can figure out where to pick it.
It looks desperate.
Like the Huawei or ASML debacles, it will only fasten the development of homegrown technologies not dependent of US linked firms at the expense of those firms.
Ok, but you make it sounds like the vast majority of people are under such impressions. A lot of people in this thread imply that having a STEM degree confers god-like insight over the plebes that don't have one; I think it is a bit of ironic arrogance. For instance, this thing about the "confidence levels of scientists" for climate change; there is a well-known issue with this myth of a "97% consensus" on that topic. As well, many people think critics of "climate policies" are rubes that "don't know teh science stuff" but actually most do accept humans have contributed to some climate change (but don't agree to the extent that lefts claim when they say migrants come to the US because of it) but rather they disagree about what to do about it.
On their face a lot of these might be bad things, but my criticism is precisely that this "brand" of wokeness that he describes is an oversimplification on a lot of issues.

For example, let's take the claim that COVID vaccines were being prioritized by race instead of age. This is a big claim, in Australia for example I remember people from ethnic groups were considered priority; I don't recall them being prioritized over old people however so it's definitely an argument that I think needs to be treated with seriousness. Where was this, what were the reasons given for it, etc. I do recall certain races being more likely to have more serious reactions to the virus than others; there's socio-economic factors to consider as well (for example, black people tend to live in poorer neighborhoods, we could look at number of people per household, etc.).

So, although I appreciate the effort of actually giving some examples, my main point stands. We ought to contextualize and give a fair reading as to why these decisions are being made, provided that these examples are a fair representation of the modern scenario to begin with. Instead of simply labeling them as "woke".

I think there's a big reaction against diversity that fails to account the reasons, logical, philosophical, ethical that are behind it and why these people think we should have more of it.

I feel like if you want to have these kind of discussions it's more helpful for everyone to actually give proper respect to the opponent's arguments and strong-man their arguments when you take them down. As other posters have pointed out, it seems as though he is making a strawman and then writing a whole essay about it.
Human interventions are some non zero number in current self driving cars and will likely be that way for a while. Does this mean self driving is a scam and in fact it is just a human driving, and that these are actually ADAS. Maybe in some pedantic sense, you are right but then your definition is not useful, since it lumps cruise control/ lane-keeping ADAS and Waymo’s in the same category. Waymo is genuinely, qualitatively a big improvement above any ADAS/ self driving system that we have seen. I suspect Rodney did not predict even Waymo’s to be possible, but gave himself enough leeway so that he can pedantically argue that Waymo’s are just ADAS and that his prediction was right.
I actually like how NULLs behave in SQL. They mean "I don't know" In the modern programming language we all care about Null safety. But no matter how you model your data, you will always run into the situations when you don't know everything. So I believe NOT NULL is not very practical. NULLs in SQL handle these case very well - when the input is unknown your output is unknown
I did an EE/CS dual degree and there was a really interesting difference between the linear algebra courses offered in both departments.

For the EEs we were given a crash course in GE120, which all engineering students had to take. It covered how to use determinants, Gaussian elimination and matrix inversion, and those kinds of “basic” LA tools, plus some simple numerical methods stuff like Newton’s Method. In second year we had a short lab course that focused on how to use Matlab, and a circuits analysis course that pretty much forced us to learn how to represent large sets of equations in matrix form and invert them to solve all of the variables at once. Very very practical.

And then in third year I had to take a 200-level linear algebra course from the Math department to satisfy the requirements for the CS degree. I chose the honours version of it and… holy moly. I thought it was going to be a gimme class but it turned out to be very theory-heavy, of which I had learned almost none in engineering. The first month kicked my ass pretty hard. Once we got out of the low-level theory (which was truly amazing to take in) and into the more advanced things that I’d been using for 2 years but didn’t know “why”, everything changed. Many of my peers were struggling to understand why you’d want to do some of this stuff and I was just super excited to finally understand why the “just turn the crank” math I’d been doing actually worked.
This really necessary? Turn your gists private resolve the issue.

I'm saying this because I already get gists where people coment with good improvements.

But ok, if its in production!
> operates outside the courts and is not enforced by lawyers, which makes the practice particularly interesting to legal scholars like us

That sounds terribly ominous ... Like lawyers are continuously searching for human activities to attach to and leech from.
I love AntennaPod. One app that does its job perfectly
Show HN: I made a text expander to reduce repetitive typing
I recently developed a browser extension called RushType, designed to reduce the hassle of repetitive typing and quickly paste text templates. The idea came from my experience recruiting testers for my paid app on Reddit. At the time, I had to manually adjust message content and attach a promo code for every message—so many repetitive actions. I thought, wouldn't it be great to automate this with a simple shortcut? That’s how RushType was born.

Key Features of RushType:
Customizable text templates and shortcuts: Compatible with almost all text input fields on websites.
Quick date and time insertion: No more manual input for timestamps.
Google Sheets integration: Fetch and paste content directly from a spreadsheet—perfect for handling large volumes of automated messages.
If you frequently post messages online (like job listings, customer replies, or ad copy), this tool can save you a lot of time and effort.

Note: Now is in the process of applying for OAuth verification, so you may see a security warning during login. This is temporary, and we are actively working on resolving it.

This tool is newly launched, and I’d love for you to try it out and share your feedback—it would mean a lot to me!

demo video: https://youtu.be/I9d3XUmlywY
Extension store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rushtype/mdiaogojdg...
Imagine there is a cause, mission, or vision that you care deeply about.

And you want larger numbers of people to care about it, too.

And you're willing to pay someone to help you distribute the message that will persuade those people to care.

That's advertising.

There's a tobacco lobby. There's also an anti-tobacco lobby.
> There's a lot of money to be made in repackaging Britain to be sold to Americans as "high fantasy", btw.

Witcher is repackaging motifs from old Slavic legends with modern twists.
SQL was developed in the 1970s, there’s no way they’d waste all those bytes to spell out UNKNOWN and INDETERMINATE.
The classic example is accidentally committing a binary file or some other large-as-in-filesize garbage -- simply deleting the file preserves it in history, bloating the size of the repo.
Perhaps there is one in your area: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

I'm in Asia so no luck, but on the bright side, tools are quite affordable here.
Agreed, but the thing they wanted was flashy cool design more than features. Ultimately it was more about hype and being trendy is what he sold - with solid UX being number 2.

There were mp3 players, tablets and phones prior to Apple. The main innovation they really provided out kf the gate out of all of those 3 was a touch screen input for the phone. The rest were just incremental improvement / polish on existing product design.

Not that that isn't important (as the sales showed), but we should be clear about what was truly new to market and what was just cleaned up.
Thanks!

Yes, you can store the system value (or indeed any other object capability) in a list.

If a function takes in a List[NodeSystem] parameter, then the function can perform side effects through the methods on NodeSystem.

However, if a function takes in a List[T] where T is a type parameter, then that is not enough to perform side effects, even if that function is later called with a List[NodeSystem] argument. There is no way for the function to access the methods of the concrete type of T.

Hence, you can tell whether or not a function may have side effects from the function signature alone.
What role did Musk do other than invest? You could even say he just got lucky with a gamble.
Same. I had a deactivated account from 2015 I could no longer access .

Subsequent attempts to make new ones were instantly banned for “no reason.”

They did work with me to reinstate the 2015 account. And it’s never been banned or suspended since. I don’t really use it anyway.

But that’s how they are. They trust older accounts. New ones are treated like criminals.
I feel like the same, Null equal null is null is totally right
Yeah, I teach kids how to solder, we use unleaded solder, but always insist they wash their hands after
> I'll cherry pick just one example from this article. The author in one sentence dismisses the entire field of psychoanalysis.

Properly. The issues with psychoanalysis are extensive, well known, and he has discussed them in the past, like the dodo bird verdict. If you are somehow still a fan of psychoanalysis after everything, then you are not going to be convinced by two sentences of criticism, or even three, and there is no point in trying when that is not the primary topic; dismissing it in 1 sentence is correct. (And this is your slamdunk criticism you lead with?)
Wow. The fact that those "animations" (the fire and water effects) were all done with palette shifting is mind-bending.
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Tragically, as you mention, the security restrictions on most apps at this point block filesystem access via adb.

Wild to learn about the OTPs, I'll need to take a look and (likely) rectify that security hole since I manage my backups myself (at enrollment time the keys go in escrow).
This company isn't the only one running autonomous shuttle buses - what makes theirs different from their competitors?
Are you gate-keeping philosophy from neuroscientists? Are you not a fan of the Damasio or Paul and Patricia Kirkland? I don't know; i think you are a bit too dismissive here.
I read a lot of public domain stuff on Google Books or HathiTrust (usually pdfs). I use a small eink tablet.

This was a gamechanger for me. No more eye strain from reading on a monitor.

I will occasionally ask Gemini if I'm confused or need context. Luckily, most models are trained on public domain books!

Edit: I also take notes. Most of the time it's to connect what I'm reading with another book/paper rather than just summarizing.
It's Watch Duty. No link given a The Guardian, so here it is:

https://www.watchduty.org/

I highly recommend Ready for Wildfire, by CalFire. It gives instructions on how to make your home safer, and detailed steps to prepare for, and carry off, an evacuation.

https://readyforwildfire.org/

Arguably, an urban fire is different from a rural wildfire, but the same precautions apply. Urban fires, are IMO, more likely to encounter traffic jams, as happened in the Oakland Hills fire and the Paradise/Camp fire. So from the CalFire site:

> If fire officials suggest evacuating, it’s best to leave right away. This helps you avoid danger and keeps roads clear for firefighters. In big wildfires, there’s no time for door-to-door warnings, so if you’re told to go, do it fast to stay safe.
Disclaimer: am not a doctor + know nothing about this branch of medicine, but this fairly new drug cured one of my family member's (stage 2?) lung cancer that metastisized to brain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osimertinib aka Tagrisso

My understanding is that it's a 3rd generation evolution of immune-system-boosting drugs that "teach your immune system to attack cancer".

I don't know how fundamentally different brain cancer that starts in the brain is vs lung cancer that moves to the brain, but maybe similar approaches are possible?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33508300/
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Scolyer is in the relatively fortunate position of being a world class cancer researcher before getting cancer, so he had the resources of an entire oncology lab to give himself a speculative treatment.
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Don’t do this. The entire history of the Roman republic is people purchasing power and armies, follow the money, abstract it down to .. coin.

Cesar owned armies, owned, then he took them and marched on Rome.

First buy the army.
How do you deal with duplicates when you copy the files?
Haha, I'm talking to a real life Inspector Gadget, how neat! And thanks for answering.
Except they don't consistently behave that way. If NULL means "unknown", why do they show up in outer joins, or when you SUM an empty table?