skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But since the premise is that any difference breaks the code, will it work the exact same way across different devices? That's what I'm skeptical of.

Unless every dev and tester that touches this shader is using the same hardware, which seems like an obvious mistake to avoid...
I was also diagnosed recently with ankylosing spondylitis after years of pain in my back (I am 37).

For years I thought it was due to a lack of exercise but after spending a year doing yoga, Pilates and physiotherapy things only worsened to the point where I could barely walk and could not bend down at all.

I had to strongly insist to my GP that this was not normal. After a referral to an orthopedic surgeon he ordered an MRI. The results indicated possible AS so he referred me to a rheumatologist. Tested positive for HLA-B27. Another MRI and an X-Ray and the diagnosis was confirmed.

AI was very useful in explaining the test results and doctors letters in plain English.
What we want are thoughtful, substantive comments written by humans. If you can't or don't want to post like that, please don't post until you can and do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Okay got it. Near the top of ganoushoreilly's priority list are:

1. Stopping life-saving treatments for 560,000 children

2. Stopping life-saving treatments for another 20 million people

Ganoushoreilly thinks this might be actually the right course of action, because s/he believes the funding is not audited and "there might be fraud." S/he appears ignorant of the easily discoverable fact that this funding was last audited a jawdropping, wildly irresponsible four months ago. By actual independent auditors.
And marijuana is still schedule 1, surprisingly
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As I understand it, this physically stores the saved pages. DOI simply hands out identifiers and doesn't store anything.
Family Name has a common definition. It is a type of surname passed down through generations. So Taylor Swift has a family name, Björk has not.

That is also why passports have a surname field but not a family name field. Not everyone has a surname but conventions to deal with this vary.

Similarly, passports use the terminology given name because not everyone has been christened and not everyone has a first name - for example I don't.
USAID passed an independent audit literally 4 months ago. [1]

Please elucidate what graft 1) they missed, 2) you've found, and 3) justifies withdrawal of life-saving treatments for millions of people while inflicting enormous damage upon our country's international image?

[1] https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/0-000-25-0...
Elon Musk already held "top secret" security clearance. Because of Space X.
> It's a complaint about inequality towards women, and also the inequality that men face due to misguided masculinity encouraging them not to seek medical advice (and instead rely on DIY nonsense).

It's a generalization that paints men in a negative light, which I took personally.

Anyhow, I don't usually pick fights online, I'm just particularly miserable today because my stupid health keeps hurting me for no reason.

To say something on topic - I've been talking to Claude about my health problems, and, while I still can't figure out what's wrong with me, I find it extremely helpful. It teaches me all sorts of things about health and medicine that no doctor would have the time or patience to explain, and helps out a lot, both with helpful information, and emotional support. I realize that it's kinda bleak to be receiving those things from an LLM instead of a person, but here we are.

I've been to dozens of doctors, spent a lot of money, they all were extremely unhelpful. Claude does offer a lot of advice and information that no doctor ever shared with me.
That is also what I think will happen, I mean these tools right now are just capturing market share with funding rounds and hacks surly? wrapping any foundational modal and trying to scope it down is always going to suck, but once people start to truly nail just training in only the information required to do that job (I described 03-high-mini or whatever it's called as a dumb finance bro with no depth to my wife) and then couch the task LLMs with orchestration LLMs, surly things improve?
RAG + analysis on health data has huge potential. We need to tread carefully, obviously, but I have also used these models + RAG on personal health data at times when the docs were scratching my head. It was very helpful, although I approached it a bit differently. In my case it was my infant in the hospital for breathing / eating issues. I took data from the network tab in mychart and added context additional context, then asked Claude questions. My main goal was to be prepared for rounds in the morning. I wanted to understand what types of information each test was going to give me.

It was pretty good! Unsurprisingly, it did hallucinate sometimes or miss some nuance. But, I knew I was talking to something that did that. It was helpful for me, even with errors. I didn't, however try to just say "hey given all this what's going on with my baby"

On another topic:

If I were you, I'd make this thing speak FHIR or some other common format. That'd make using this thing in an ecosystem of other tools a lot easier. There are even FHIR graphql apis you could just polp on top maybe.
ok thanks. that wasn't the case in the 2010s the last time i tried to use google to investigate the condition.
Yeah, I've always wished for it to be used that way only, but most often when I see it now it's like in TFA: visible in a satellite image.
So, what would you say about looking for intelligence differences between people of different ancestry?

We know quite well that some traits are concentrated in a single place or two: marathon winners come disproportionately from the Rift Valley in Kenya, sickle cell disease is mostly a West African trait and Tay-Sachs disease is concentrated among the Ashkenazim.

Few people dispute the above. The really controversial question is whether there are any such differences from the neck up, so to say.
I think you’ve skipped important words that I’ve said:

> Rust has *almost* no competitors when it comes to the very robust safety guarantees it makes and *none when you combine with the performance niche it services*.

The almost is doing important work in that statement and the none is referring to systems programming. As another commenter noted, SPARK is more than just a cost thing - it fails to scale to non trivial sized projects.

I’m not saying there’s nothing to learn from Ada. All I’m saying is that Rust offers significantly stronger protection and memory safety out of the box than Ada and no language has managed to deliver such memory safety with the performance profile of C and able to target all the same variety of use cases in terms of systems programming (but then also scaling to web services which C/C++ can’t really reach unless you like trivial memory exploits)

> I have not noticed yet anything innovative in this aspect of Rust.

Innovation often times can be subtle like packaging up existing ideas in a friendlier package that can get more mass adoption. If you fail to see the innovation Rust has done with the borrow checker (which afaik is truly novel) and then making the entire language be able to scale from embedded to web services in a cohesive way and also making it a legitimate replacement to C++ in ways that other languages have tried and failed, I think you’ve been too dismissive.
The reason to think it's BS is that the schema of one table, without the whole process around, offers nothing to base such a conclusion on. His target audience is people who neither know or care.

https://bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsky.social/post/3lhrhwmr...

> Social Security systems represent data as a 1NF time-series of change entries: life event changes, legal name changes, address changes, and benefits formula and even statutory interpretation changes.

> Read them forward like logs and calculate rollups which are ALSO versioned.
The HN response to all this has actually been very strange to me. From my perspective, this presidency, and especially Musk working on DOGE, should be one of the most exciting, positive things discussed on here!

I would've thought this crowd would've loved lower taxes (more money to build things!), less regulation (less restrictions to build things!), and an unfamiliar friendliness towards the tech industry (more people to build things with!)... I'm really looking forward to building big things in this country in the next few years!
Is anyone else experiencing networking problems in Azure North Central US?
Since Friday afternoon, we've been experiencing some really odd issues in the NCUS region of Azure. Despite microsoft's status page saying that everyine is green, we're seeing odd behavior such as:

- TLS Timeouts when pushing to ACR repositories

- Databricks queries taking exponentially longer than last week

- ADO builds hanging indefinitely until killed

- Application Insights dashboards only half loading / the other half working on a refresh

- Random, intermittent, authentication issues in the azure portal that work if tried again immediately and without change.

It feels like there are gremlins running around in Azure, but I haven't any proof outside of these experiences of mine and of other colleagues (who are working in different tennants)
There's nothing mean-spirited about asking people to put rough numbers to their beliefs, even approximately. But I do think most people would be genuinely surprised to hear you think there's over a 5% chance Germany the Western democracy won't exist in a generation. If it does happen I need to remember to revisit a lot of things about how I myself understand the world.
You probably will.

I mean, here's a piece of mine from 25 years ago.

https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PC...

I stand by that.

But I wrote things for the Register when I started there full-time 3.3 years ago that now I look at with some regret. I'm learning. I'm changing.

We all learn and we all change. That is good. When you stop changing, you are dead.

Don't be worried about changing your mind. Be worried about if you stop doing so.
> as in Upjohn (from ap John)

Having never heard this name before, I definitely would have to resist the urge to make an updog-style joke if I met something named this.
In arabic we have (bin or ibn) which means son of, and (abu) which means father of.
As one of the founders of everfind.ai, I'm thrilled to see the community engaging with our mission to simplify document search and retrieval. I'm curious—what's the biggest challenge you face when managing your documents, and which integrations or features would transform your workflow?
My surename is Svensson, literally "Sven's son". But patronymic surnames aren't used in Sweden/Norway anymore, so at some point we just got stuck with whatever father was the last in line, a bit weird. Maybe I should try to figure out which Sven it was.

I guess the tradition of it being the man's name passed on means that's why there is no common surnames with *dottir as it is with *son? (Not sure what the english version for a daughter is).

Had some Icelandic friends in school (which still has patronymic names, moved here after they were born), and it was for them somewhat problematic at times that the siblings had different surnames (Björnsdottir and Björnsson), as people don't assume they're family, and especially not that the parents both had different surnames again. Like school pickup with a teacher not knowing the situation.
> find them useful but they are less so when you try to do something novel.

Well over 90% of work out there is not novel. It just needs someone to do it.
Many of the gift checks for my wedding were made out this way. It made it very inconvenient to cash them since there was not yet such a person by one of the names on those checks, and the bank wouldn't deposit them. They insisted the checks would have to say "Mr. OR Mrs." Who thinks of that when sending a wedding gift? Most annoying to me was that I had never heard of anyone having this difficulty before, but it must happen every day.
Then one has to ask: is it producing a facsimile of reasoning with no logic behind it, or is it just reasoning poorly?
My son nearly died, and my persistence was the only thing that saved him. I kept insisting on more blood tests, despite being told he was just dehydrated or going through typical teenage malaise, and that it would pass. Eventually, a blood test revealed something was seriously wrong, and we rushed him to the ER. The doctor told me that if we had waited another two or three days, my son likely wouldn’t have survived.

Now, I spend my evenings trying to learn as much as I can about basic medicine and delving into endocrinology. I don’t blame the doctors themselves—they’re overworked. But I do blame the system that pushes people toward becoming YouTubers instead of doctors.
>Ok, that explains the misunderstanding. From my point of view it's not binary, and yes it's an editorial decision. Moderating and editoring (not a word) are more or less the same thing, no?

IANAL and I don't know if it is something HN has had to deal with directly, so maybe you know a lot more than me, but isn't that what a lot of the Section 230 debate is about? Either way, I think both our positions on this are now clear and reasonable people can disagree on it either way.

>Rather, I'm taking in what the community and software inputs are producing, and then modulating that according to HN principles in an effort to optimize the site for its intended purpose.

I guess to summarize this conversation, I think the success of this post (now number 3 on https://news.ycombinator.com/best with 2 be another DOGE story from a week ago) is maybe an indication that "the community... inputs" are being ignored too much. Much of the community wants to talk about this ongoing story as evidenced by the upvotes and comments. We shouldn't let a small group of flaggers stop that. And perhaps you are making your own work more difficult by only manually greenlighting a very limited number of these stories. Sometimes you need a pressure release valve in the system. I'm not sure this specific post would have been received as enthusiastically if other similar stories were able to get through and you almost certainly wouldn't have to answer so many questions about your own role in moderating this site.
When the executive is also vested with the power of enforcement, then, by construction, it usurps the power of the other 2 branches to check its authority.

Which I think is obvious- a power hungry executive who disputes an attempted check of its authority by one of the other branches can simply decline to enforce.

Ipso facto, unchecked executive power.

Edit: you seem informed, so you should know that issues like these are not new; Andrew Jackson famously ignored the Supreme Court and told them to get bent way back in 1832 after their decision in Worcester v Georgia.

To use a programming analogy, our government's type system has a soundness problem. That means we, as a civilized society, have to follow a few unwritten rules to make sure the system remains functional and doesn't crash. One of those is for the executive to exercise restraint on the technical power they have in the interest of not encountering UB.
Another one to add is that Japanese boys names often end -rō (-郎, "nth son")... including the very plainly named 一郎 (Ichirō, "first son"), 二郎 (Jirō, "second son"), 三郎 (Saburō, "third son"), 四郎 (Shirō "fourth son"), 五郎 (Gorō, "fifth son"), 六郎 (Rokurō, "sixth son"), 七郎 (Shichirō "seventh son"), 八郎 (Hachirō, "eighth son") and 九郎 (Kurō, "ninth son")
mary to molly to Polly? I can kinda see the molly step at least
I send my daughter to a school that has an unschooling philosophy.

Kids set goals on what they want to learn.

They spend 25% of the class time in normal classes.

Of the remaining time, half is spent independently following lesson plans created by the teachers.

The other half is spent creating and following their own lesson plans.
I think the version with names https://love.berk.es/?me=Romeo&you=Juliet should be read only.

Perhaps use base64 or something to hide the names? I guess it offers no advantage, unreadable names makes it more magic.
Waymo is offering L4 rides in multiple cities and scaling fast; they're largely considered to be the leader in the space by a wide margin.

Zoox is just starting to offer L4 rides in Las Vegas & Sf. It's trailing Waymo by a few years, but has good design & core tech.

Tesla is taking a very different & controversial approach, and is generally viewed, by most people with knowledge of the industry (armchair experts on X aside), as far behind in core technology for L4 cars, but as having the best driver assist system. I think they're in for a rude awakening when they try to launch 'real' self-driving cars in Austin, but time will tell.

Overall, do yourself a favor, and check out Waymo videos on youtube.
What would be a better title? "Hallucinating" seems inaccurate. Maybe "Untrustworthy machines"? "Critical thinking"? "Street smarts for humans"? "Social studies including robots"?
Do Marketers Need to Be Writing for AI?
How reliable will funding be going forward? If the program is supported by government grants I wouldn't feel very confident that they will continue to be paid.
> - Why is it better than internet archive?

With the internet archive, the purpose seems to be for public archiving. One could imagine a use-case where you want non-public archives, and are therefore not subject to any take-down requests, especially if they are considered court evidence for example.

By paying directly for your links to be archived, it directly helps fund the service and therefore keep it going. You would want to see some guarantees in the contract about pricing if you were to long-term rely on the service.
> It can be accessed from behind VPNs without any issues, so effectively it doesn't matter that it's not e2e encrypted.

How do these two things correlate? I thought the benefit of E2E encryption is the fact that no one can decrypt your messages except for the participants in the conversation. There’s no keys anywhere on a server that an admin could use to decrypt the conversation. How would being behind a VPN negate that? The VPN still has to go through Discord servers where a key is presumably stored if the information is encrypted at all.
But "AI" tools have more or less seeped into every mainstream product... this is a strong "defensive move" for companies in anticipation of more to come.

We aren't leaving MS Office or Adobe because they already pushed out some minimal innovation. But what about the products you don't even know about? For lawyers, doctors, logistics, sales, marketing, wood workers, handymen? In Europe or Asia?

New product by bringing true innovation could easily push out legacy business by "shiny new thing"(AI) and better UX alone. A lot of software in these areas simply hasn't improved for 10 years - with a great idea and a dedicated team it's a landslide waiting to happen.
> Chesterton described Aquinas as looking quite like Chesterton.

I was unaware that Chesterton met Aquinas! He must have been quite old at that point.

I can't imagine anything that Chesterton could add to this conversation. He's reading the same texts the rest of us are. TBH this pretty much sums up his entire career.
This is exactly why so much garbage collection optimization is apples and oranges. It is trying to mitigate the performance problems from things you shouldn't do in the first place if you care about speed.

Heap allocation, heap deallocation and the pointer chasing that comes along with the memory fragmentation are possibly the biggest killers of speed outside of scripting languages but java was designed in a way that it forces people into way of programming. As a result, enormous research has gone into trying to deal with something that could have been avoided completely.
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Good thing we live in a capitalistic society where this is an n+1 option rather than a socialist society where it is decreed that everyone must use starlink.
> What the neoliberals underestimated was the extent of how nationalistic these rising countries could become

Yeah that was totally unprecedented.. If you ignore examples of exactly that happening at other times in history, like Japan. They went from a very poor feudal society where most people lived as peasants society to an industrial society able to seriously challenge America in less than a century. Violent rabid nationalism came with and facilitated that transition.
pumpkin and munchkin come to mind. Googling, apparently napkin is also from that.
I said I'd be interested, not that I would automatically agree! That would be a bit silly to commit to, no?

If you're going to mention a "plain and obvious" example, you should link to it so users can make up their own minds about how plain and obvious it is.

Re contradictions: there probably are contradictions in the principles I've been describing, because the problem we're trying to solve is complex enough to involve tradeoffs. Perhaps this is what whalesalad means by "You can’t have your cake and eat it too bud."
>Things besides money also matter.

To people, not politicians
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Just tell everyone you're rich. Tremendously rich. It's much cheaper, and smart wealth building has to start somewhere.
I think "downtown" can also have somewhat mixed meanings depending on context as well. Growing up in smallish suburb, people used the word "downtown" there to refer to the busiest part of Main Street where a lot of businesses were, but after moving to New York, I had to get used to the fact that "downtown" was used to refer to "lower Manhattan", and what I would have expected to call "downtown" based on how I was used to it being used is referred to as "midtown".
Yes, was just listing the least intuitive ones.
Why use the cc tld? I'm guessing that choice was made a while back? Unfortunately due to its association with phishing etc, that immediately gave me the impression that the service isn't legit.
Wired looked up their details and made them public.
This is NOT modern SteamOS. This is the old Debian-based version. It would be a very bad idea to try running this version as a daily driver.
Recently interested in HFT. Are there introductory resources that you recommend from an industry point of view?

Books/repositories anything practical
https://archive.ph/lazXh
Cross-promotions are permitted.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising
It does not need to be silent, only factual in the same sense it is in product information on the packaging and so on.

Advertising as contrasted to information is deceitful, manipulative. It's what happens when two brands use the same factory but make people think one product is boring and for poor people and the other one is for sexy, richer people. The proliferation of this kind of mass communication comes from the project to invent and spread desires people otherwise wouldn't have, to satisfy the amount of productivity we've developed over the last century or so. Make people want stuff they don't need and rationally can't defend being in demand of, basically.
Google just opened the door for people to do evil with AI
Saying something again does not provide proof of its actual veracity. Writing it in caps does not make it true despite the increased emphasis. I default to skepticism in the face of unproven assertions: if one can’t prove that they reason then we must accept the possibility that they do not.
There are myriad examples of these models failing to “reason” about something that would trivial for a child or any other human (some are even given as examples in this posts other comments). Given this and the lack of concrete proof I currently tend to agree with the Apple researchers conclusion.