skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of them had pretty serious outwardly observable symptoms, so diagnosis was fairly quick. For the lung disease he went from no symptoms to dead within a few weeks, and there was no specific diagnosis other than some kind of autoimmune response.

My mom has a non-autoimmune related health issue (Costochondritis) that has been difficult to diagnose and she's been dealing with that for the last 7 years or so. It sucks having a health problem that no one can diagnose. Even in the case where you don't have a mechanical issue, the pain is still real.

My concern is that for every person with a rare disease causing vague symptoms, there are more people with similar vague symptoms that don't have an underlying rare disease. When you tell people things like "keep going to new doctors until you find one that believes you", or "do your own research", or "use my AI tool that I diagnosed myself with", those people who don't have an underlying disease will do those things too.

And if they do enough tests, or see enough doctors, they'll eventually get a diagnosis. If they see enough doctors, and push hard enough, they'll eventually find a quack who will do all kinds of procedures on them.

One of my mom's friends was convinced she had endometriosis, she doctor shopped for years until she found someone willing to do surgery in a city several hours a way. She still suffers from complications from the surgery, and her other symptoms are no better off.

I know of a kid who came very close to dying from an infection because his parents were convinced that he had chronic Lyme and they doctor shopped until they found someone willing (but not qualified) to install a central line to administer antibiotics.

Even if you have an underlying condition, doctor shopping and doing your own research is no guarantee that your eventual diagnosis is the right one.

I'm not saying you shouldn't advocate for yourself. Nearly everything is a continuum, but when you cross the line into "Doctors are idiots, only I can diagnose myself territory", you're headed into dangerous waters. Educating yourself is fine, diagnosing yourself is the problem.
Yeah. Classic base rate neglect.
Is it true that if you install a Cyrillic keyboard in Windows it stops some of those malware from installing?
The theory is that they don't want to hack a site in their own country and end up getting a visit from Spetsnaz or get suicided.
I think this is only true in the imperative world, where mutation is used. For the functional world it is probably still trees.
Your utility company subsidizes you.

In the usual contract, you pay an price of 40 cent per kWh, no matter when you use it. But that price is based on a year-round average. Actually, sometimes electricity is super cheap for the utility company, like when the sun is shining in summer and electricity prices go negative. And sometimes it is very expensive, like on dark winter days without sun and wind, when prices are >1 EUR/kWh.

What you can do with balcony solar is skip the cheap summer sun prices (which cost the utility nothing, but they still charge you 40ct), and you still buy at expensive times for 40ct, when it's actually worth much more.
Sure, but I don't like those: I like running, hiking, and bouldering. I don't subscribe to an ethical system where it's better to do things you hate just for the sake of avoiding a GLP-1 agonist; I'd rather take the GLP-1 agonist and do the things I like.
States sue to block new NIH funding policy
The full comment does provide context clues to the author's intent, but it was somewhat poorly worded (i.e., "vast majority of apartments" is easily taken to mean individual units/their tenants, and not the property in the aggregate.)
i mean maybe? he's good at burning bridges and getting away with it. but i gotta think its not gonna help his companies
> where there is objectively a lot of suspicious activity,

The word "objectively" does a lot of work here, and most of it is unpaid. Every election has irregularities, and every election has the losing side casting suspicions around. No, I literally mean every single one. We have search engines now. Just go and look up. It's literally every time.

Sometimes, those suspicions turn true - there are really people who conduct fraud in elections, in various ways. Most often, though, those suspicions are thrown around by partisans unable to comprehend how their side, being obviously morally superior, the only sane side and widely popular, still lost the election. In other words, they are just junk. Without a substantial evidence base, any amount of them do not constitute any evidentiary base. Zero times millions is still the same zero.

> people with expertise in generating ballots

Did you ever actually see a real US election ballot? Generating something like that is beyond trivial. There are many official sites that just let you download a sample ballot. Even if that ballot is somehow modified from the actual one in subtle ways, the actual one is quite simple too. It may be a problem to get the paper exactly right if they check that, but having the code to generate a ballot does not help you there in any way. And also generating something like that would be pretty useless by itself, if you have electoral fraud in mind, because the problem is not producing the paper, it's getting it into the system and getting it counted and not getting caught while doing that.

Summarily, this "expertise" does not enable you in any non-trivial way to perpetrate election fraud, and does not make any hard part of that any easier. Also, you can find people with such expertise - and better - at any design and print shop. They can reproduce any of it - and much more complex designs - without any problem, that's literally what they do all day.

> Yes I will conceed that all this talk is circumstantial.

No, "circumstantial" is way too generous a word for this. "Empty fantasies" is more fitting.
Are you absolutely sure that low prices wouldn't be more important to low income families? It seems like low prices-low income is a better match than slightly high prices-low income.

My understanding of the situation was that low income shoppers are typically extremely keen for a bargain and are quite happy to shop around. And on paper they can just pretend the price is higher than it really is if stability matters that much to their planning.
Indeed, it's hard to imagine how he could move any more to the right.
An "incompetent rescue" can end up with more than one person dead in the wilderness.

Sadly, if rescue is likely to put others in danger, I'd expect to be left to die.
So far, Trump has easily been the most pro-crime president in my lifetime. I weep for my country and the horrible years these people are bringing to us.
> "Millions of eyes on each article"

Only a minority of users contribute regularly (126,301 have edited in the last 30 days):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Number_o...

And there are 6,952,556 articles in the English Wikipedia, so an average article is corrected every 55 months (more than 4 years).

It's hardly "Millions of eyes on each article"
Being a founding engineer at what grows into a billion-dollar company basically is $10 million 10 years from now, but against incredibly long odds, whereas staying at bigger companies makes it more likely than not. There's no risk premium.
Pretty sure OP meant apartment landlords/owners. I can see how you mistook it though, I had to read it a couple of times. Initially, you think individual apartments (i.e. renters) not apartments as in the owners/landlords of the apartments.
Selecting text with a mouse inside a tmux session absolutely honors splits so long as mouse support is enabled.
Something like that I guess.
Here's a company a friend started for balcony solar in Germany:

https://www.instagram.com/we.do.solar/
Another “son” that comes in is when put in a prefix. McDonald is son of Donald (i think this is Irish). In semitic languages, the prefix added is Ben like Benjamin means Son of Jamin. In italian, they add O’Donald (i think) for “of Donald”.
How in the hell is this not on the front page?

Once again, any bad news for OpenAI is censored from reaching the front page of HN.
That doesn't sound like praise to me. When I think WordPress the first thing I think of is the horrible hissy fit there was last year, the other one is the hapless blog owner who finds their blog is crammed full of spam links because they ran an unpatched Wordpress.
I know from genealogy when the patronymics "froze" in my ancestry, and also has a combination of farm names and patronymic surnames, and it's quite interesting to see how seemingly random the traditions were.

(Incidentally, one of my great-great grandfathers was Swedish and the last one in that branch to take his fathers name + son. All of his children kept his last name; my own last name comes from a farm in Norway)
No and I am eagerly awaiting the day I don’t have to hear his stupid name or see his uncanny valley face ever again. Something irks me that the world’s richest man which many people look up to and actively try to emulate is a petulant asshole.

I understand why he’s relevant to this website, I just can’t wait until we don’t have to hear from him anymore.

People with that wealth can do so much good and choose to do so much bad it makes me so sad and angry. Best I can do is care for my friends and family and my community.
I don't think He's overrated at all but I'm also under impression that he can be done in single shot. One day drinks too much, has some family issue, underestimates or overestimates something and he is done.

I also wouldn't be surprised if some bravado thing he does results in a tragedy and people are done with him. Unplugging a server at the Twitter datacenter can be useful method to see what can be discarded and he appears to be following similar methods that can end up having much heavier consequences.
Godot has it's fair share of issues.

Maybe I'll see if they fix C# web exports.
On BEAM/OTP you can control how state is handled at code updates. Finicky but you can.

In most other contexts you'd externalise state to a data store like Redis or RDBMS, and spawn one, kill one or do blue-green in the nebula behind your load balancer constellation.
Lupus Decoupled Drupal Brings Inertia.js-Style Development to Drupal
He's been two steps ahead since like 1984 ... will read!
Maybe! But you could say the inverse of lots of things that SWE's built. SWE's built the bloomberg terminal! SWE's built CRMs! I think its at least possible that LLMs are VERY useful for SWEs and a small number of other professions, but is unlikely to massively scale beyond that
It's about having taste. Some SaaS tools are obviously worth multiples more to your employees than their costs. Same with hardware tools like laptops, monitors etc. I'd throw in catered lunch as another worth-it expense.

It's about knowing which ones are worth it which aren't, rather than having a sweeping policy of either too much or zero bureaucracy to whatever an employee asks for.
> indicates they clearly have large brand value

BlackBerry, Nokia, Yahoo, and MySpace were popular at one point but couldn't keep up.
and compare it to all the times breakthrough is made by iteration
Dr. Who - Kill the Moon. (Spoilers) https://youtu.be/pHOnGSFzd3Y
I'm pretty ignorant of the timeline and I'm only going off of some vague memory and what Wikipedia says.

Note that the OP is from 1992, so Tanenbaum was arguing for micro-kernels well before the Minix 2 1997 release.

From Wikipedia's entry on Minix 1.5 [0]:

> MINIX 1.5, released in 1991, ... . There were also unofficial ports to Intel 386 PC compatibles (in 32-bit protected mode), ...

I found an article online that dates from 1999 but referencing a comp.os.minix post from Tanenbaum from 1992 where Tanenbaum clearly states MINIX is a microkernel system [1]:

> MINIX is a microkernel-based system.

Further, I don't see any reference of Minix 2 being released as FOSS in 1997. Wikipedia claims Minix 2.0.3 released in May 2001 was the first version of MINIX released under a BSD-3 license [0]:

> Version 2.0.3 was released in May 2001. It was the first version after MINIX had been relicensed under the BSD-3-Clause license, which was retroactively applied to all previous versions.

From Wikipedia's entry on "History of Linux" [2]:

> In 1991, ..., Linus Torvalds began a project that later became the Linux kernel. ... . Development was done on MINIX using the GNU C Compiler.

> On 25 August 1991, he [Linus torvalds] ... announced ... in another posting to the comp.os.minix newsgroup

> PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, ...

So, I don't really know if Tanenbaum was talking "in theory" about where best to allocate effort and/or if Minix 1/2 were actually a microkernel design, but it seems so. I'm also pretty ignorant of whether Minix 1/2 could be used on 80286 or 80386 chips.

Though I'm very fuzzy on the details it does seem like the sentiment remains. It looks like Torvalds work on Linux was, either directly or in large part, due to the restrictive licensing of Minix [3]:

> Frustrated by the licensing of Minix, which at the time limited it to educational use only, he began to work on his operating system kernel, which eventually became the Linux kernel.

In a 1997 interview, Torvalds says:

> Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix#MINIX_1.5

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Creation

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20070826212454/http://www.tlug.j...
If Musk believed any of the things he has said in the past, he would not think it worth so much -- not remotely.
Blocking an entire lane of traffic for school children to cross twice a day?

Why even build a road that wide in the first place?
> This plato's quote about books is too often used as something like: "someone smart was wrong about something once, hence everyone is wrong about every new thing forever"

I mean, it is fairly similar to what parent actually wrote, isn't it a relevant quote in the context? You're not actually arguing for one way or another, but simply because you've seen the quote multiple times before, it doesn't apply, or what are you trying to say?

How is the left_pad incident related to developers becoming easier to fool?
Absolutely, we can even make a parallel with UNIX:

UNIX was revolutionary.
Companies poured billions into proprietary UNIX versions: IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX...

Then in 1991, Linus Torvalds released Linux for free.

What was the point of UNIX anymore then ?

Unless OpenAI locks in customers with exclusive data, it risks becoming just another proprietary relic beaten by open alternatives.
The problem as stated, in the article you pulled your quote from, puts no limits on how the host decides whether or not to offer a switch:

> Imagine that you’re on a television game show and the host presents you with three closed doors. Behind one of them, sits a sparkling, brand-new Lincoln Continental; behind the other two, are smelly old goats. The host implores you to pick a door, and you select door #1. Then, the host, who is well-aware of what’s going on behind the scenes, opens door #3, revealing one of the goats.

> “Now,” he says, turning toward you, “do you want to keep door #1, or do you want to switch to door #2?”

All you know is that in this particular instance the host has opened a door and offered a switch. You cannot conclude that the host always opens a door and offers a switch.

The problem as stated allows the host to offer switches only when the contestant picked the door with the prize, or only when the moon is gibbous, or only when the tide is going out. Diaconis and Gardner are completely correct to point out that the problem as stated is under specified and that the intent of the host matters.
Your experience doesn't include Le Cunn, Chollet, et al?
The problem is I'm not doing anything as complicated as what you're describing.

The task was/is to take a grammar for APL from some long forgotten paper and turn it into a lemon parser. Easy, peasy, well within its wheelhouse and it had spectacular initial results with the help of DeepSeek-R1 analyzing its work.

"Oh, good job, robot," me types, "let's work on a lexer. Hmm... you seem to have clipped out some important rules at some point, we need to add those back." Then, boom, Claude is completely worthless.

I want Claude to succeed. It was doing so well then it hit a self-reinforcing wall of failure that it just can't get over even though it can analyze its behavior and say exactly why it keeps failing.

I mean, exactly zero people think the world needs an APL interpreter written by the robots but the point of the project is to see how far they can get without having a human write a single line of code. I know they have limitations and have no problem helping them work around them.

But, alas, this project is shelved until the next big hype cycle.
The HITL support looks good, at least in principle.

If I was advising somebody how to do a really difficult agent task (anywhere I didn't have an idea on how to bootstrap a large training set) I'd consider building a system that lets a human do all the steps manually first, then build something that can automate the steps.
How many gophers would it take to sink Paris? An AI thought experiment
> astrogeology

English needs a better term for this field. I understand that Astrology is already taken, but astro- (stars) geo- (earth) logy (study) is just wrong.

Maybe Exolithology? Or Lunology, if these processes are unique to smaller bodies. Actually, our moon does have a differentiated core (I think the only one in the solar system) so per that argument we're a double planet (also the fact that the moon never has retrograde motion relative to the sun, another unique feature of our moon in the solar system) and thus just Geology is a proper enough name.
From scrolling though his articles he is a guy who likes to write polemic articles declaring companies dead
wow I had no idea the level of discourse on that x website was so low, has it always been like this?
I get the most value out of diagrams that are fast to create during conversations, and largely ephemeral. A tool for sharing understanding, not a resource to be shared widely for long periods of time. I'll often draw very similar diagrams multiple times for different audiences. So the emphasis is very much not on getting it right/perfect, but adapting it for the audience and the moment.

Otherwise if you need something static, I don't know a way around it other than a tool that is capable of understanding a large distributed system - both deployment and codebase - and will auto-regenerate as the code and deployment system changes. In many organizations, the people skilled at diagramming aren't the people that are in the sprints making changes that will slowly break your diagrams over time.
How? What does fixing the economy have to do with not needing to vote?
Fair, but do you think OpenAI and Gemini are going to be like directionally similar? How much of OpenAI's traffic is from Co-Pilot and other related tools, for example. My local IDE probably generates more queries a day than (pick a profession, idk, nurse? insurance sales? construction worker?) does in a month!
Principles of Good Web Design (2008)
This is a PR stunt by Trump to break his promise and to continue to pour money into Ukraine! There rare earth elements are mostly in Russia-occupied lands.
A token is just a token, who uses it how and why is not intrinsic in the token itself. Stocks and bonds have been tokenized, why are those not scam? There are lots of tokens representing different things, economic models and with very different histories following their creation.
Interesting to note, devices that measure time without an onboard Real-Time Clock use the stability and frequency of power to keep time accurate. Devices that don’t have a RTC, or the ability to sync with NTP / atomic clock frequencies, will experience time drift during this frequency shifting period.
This is a great explanation of a point I've been trying to make for a while, when talking to friends about LLMs, but haven't been able to put quite so succinctly. LLMs are text generators, no more, no less. That has all sorts of useful applications! But (OAI and friends) marketing departments are so eager to push the Intelligence part of AI that it's become straight-up snakeoil.. there is no intelligence to be found, and there never will be as long as we stay the course on transformers-based models (and, as far as I know, nobody has tried to go back to the drawing board yet). Actual, real AI will probably come one day, but nobody is working on it yet, and it probably won't even be called "AI" at that point because the term has been poisoned by the current trends. IMO there's no way to correct the course on the current set of AI/LLM products.

I find the current products incredibly helpful in a variety of domains: creating writing in particular, editing my written work, as an interface to web searches (Gemini, in particular, is a rockstar assistant for helping with research), etc etc. But I know perfectly well there's no intelligence behind the curtain, it's really just a text generator.
Energy efficiency happens when an apartment is built or remodeled. The right way to improve it is regulations mandating things like minimum insulation.

I wouldn't say that an energy efficiency assessment hurts, but it's also limited in what it can do to improve the situation. An apartment built with 0 insulation and natural gas heating just isn't going to be environmentally friendly without completely bulldozing the complex.

Transparency is good, but I think most renters really just won't care.
i say "the X website" and I find it very funny
Here’s an exercise for you: put the comment you’re responding to in ChatGPT and ask if this response is a fair interpretation of it. Then, think about whether certain humans are more intelligent than AI.
Yeah fair, I forget HN is very international, this may read as just straight up weird
Yes but they are saying you could - in a power outage - use just the panels, disconnecting them from the grid tie inverter and instead plugging them into a regular off grid charge-controller+battery+inverter setup.

That would cost a bit, but would let you use the same panels for emergency power
Mandate apartments report typical (median or mean) energy costs. No assessment necessary.
The Tragedy of Safari (2021)
You can't take into account something like that when considering fiduciary duty.
I see your overall point, i think it is the wrong comp. It compare more to SAP or Atlassian.
You’d need each gate to have as much seating as a plane. Don’t think I’ve ever been in an airport with gates that big.

Anyway, people would just ignore it.
(2008) Small discussion at the time (21 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=113358
If your home is fully solar powered and you are making more then you're using at the moment, then yes, the meter counts backwards.

Most of the time though, your production will be less than your consumption, so your meter will simply not count the watts you don't pull from the grid.
Ask yourself why you are interested in an investment that has only meager returns if everything works out well? Is it worth your time thinking about +/- €10 per month? If that's the case, you could probably achieve it just by using a little less electricity.
Those drugs do have some really drastic long-term debit of consequences for some. (1)

It is amusing in some way that that doesn't get as much press as all the weight loss and prettification.

(1) https://www.drugs.com/sfx/ozempic-side-effects.html scroll down to serious side effects and note it leaves a very serious side effect
https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/ozempic-cause-muscle-l...