skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is really cool tech, but that’s not at all the takeaway from this. $100,000 and 30 hospital visits are what created the data for the tool to figure out the diagnosis. The question to ask to make your point relevant is what fragment of that data was necessary, keeping in mind that you can’t change the order, because the patient themselves went in that order.
Misleading? Or just misintepretable? Misleading implies the author tries to lead you to a wrong conclusion. The article is very clear about what it really means.

I immediately read the headline as "it happened in a time span of 10 minutes probably a gazillion years ago". So in any case, it's not misleading to everyone, and therefore certainly not "extremely misleading".
I think of Ye from 3 body problem who, even after being warned by a trisoloran that they would concur earth, proceeded to willingly make it happen. And in fact a whole following emerged that wanted the earth to be concurred and worked tirelessly to that end - such was their dissatisfaction with the current state and their belief that only under trisoloran rule could things be made great again.

Then Ye was ditched by the Trisolorans and she felt again betrayed. They, of course, didn't care about her or any of the followers. They were just a means to getting the Earth for themselves.
Ahh, having a family makes sense too. That sounds like a really important conversation to have though - making sure you and your wife each help each other have your own alone time.
> The most common reason middle class+ people say they aren't having children is because they don't have enough money, but it's simply untrue.

Source?

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-exp...

This seems to say because they "don't want to"
Communists are suspicious about people and disregard them because of their parents, leather shoes, german sounding surname or actions as a kid. Kids are doing many things being kids, it's their privilege to do so. Solar Designer came from cracking group.
Update: author fixed it within a few hours.
I think Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition Enhanced violates this ban, then.

There's an ad for Borderlands 4 when you start up the game, and you have to start up the game in order to play.
Stand Alone Complex: (AI) Assistants should be individuals, not puppets
By what appears to be the logic for "open source AI", a locally executable proprietary program would be "open source" (because you can meddle with the executable). To me, that's mostly just "not SaaS". But somehow, a different definition appears to have stuck for LLMs than for other types of software.
I think you mean the typical cherry picking that institutions and organizations do, both religious and secular.
(I'm the Lobsters admin.)

Comments from merged stories do have a label showing where the came from... but only before the merge; afterwards top-level comments are always attached to the primary story which is when things get especially confusing.

For this and other reasons, I'm in the middle of revamping UI for the feature and the database model: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/1456

If anyone is real curious about the fine details, I've done almost all of this feature work on Lobsters office hours streams: https://push.cx/tags#story-merging I plan to continue that work in about four hours on today's stream so it's a great time to ask questions: https://push.cx/stream

As a (much) smaller community, story merging has been valuable for allowing us to build the critical mass of a good discussion. We also avoid rehashing the basics/easy misunderstandings. It's a pretty similar to dang's motivation about wanting to promote novel discussions. I have joked for a couple years that I'd love to see HN copy the feature so that HN can teach everyone how the feature works.
Hah! Exactly. It's turtles all the way down - people can't see their own patterns. This is why therapy is SO important for everyone.
ha not even assembly? Right to opcodes?
So your solution is to have the government control all communications coming from corporations? This is again, extremely draconian.

Corporations aren't fictions, they are organizations of people and resources...just like the government.

You also didn't answer my question: where is the line between art and advertising drawn? If I make a movie and use BMWs in it, and BMW gives me those cars for free to use, am I breaking the advertising law?

As I said in the initial comment, all of these proposed solutions are absolute nonsense. If you dislike advertising's effect on the world, come up with a better way to manage the attention problem. Government control of the media isn't one of them.
I'm pretty sure part of the reason is younger people are easier to manipulate and slap around without consequences.
Did you change your diet? Did it help?
No, not at all. I have several games on my "I Wasted My Money" pile where IAPs or in-game advertisements were added in patches well after release.

Edit: This practice is why policies such as this one being enacted are now necessary. Were it not for policies preventing these sort of practices, they would be far more common.
Startup or no? I assume that might be the difference.
The main use is not having to deal with INT_MIN, the two chief problems of which is that you a) you can't sensibly abs() it, b) most people tend to forget about point a). This problem in my experiences most commonly arises in naive implementations of itoa/etc. which tend to assume that they can just call abs() and concentrate on the positive half-range signed integers. Nope, you can't do this, not all negative integers have a positive counterpart.
(2019)

> SEO, AKA. gaming the search engines. Hugely popular. Often involves creating nonsense sites, and spamming websites and web forums with comments. It pollutes search results for more obscure queries, generally wasting people's time.

Having this essay backdated to pre-LLMs era, I'm wondering what the author would write when he witnesses people using AI-generated content to boost SEO these days.
BC? 3.8 billion + 2024 is still just 3.8 billion.
John Carmack: PCVR a Boutique Niche, Beat Saber Far More Important Than HL: Alyx
Yeah the opium one is a particularly interesting example of "waste." Most of the complaints are about "woke shit" and usual reactionary talking points or whatever but this one is just a generally widely agreed to be a good idea that didn't work. If "we tried something and it didn't work" is sufficient to justify destroying an entire organization, then oh boy does the entirety of silicon valley need to be shut down. "No project may ever fail" is the polar opposite of "move fast and break things" or Musk's "eliminate all process, re-establish the necessary ones once things break."
> So I think that there's a difference between "government takeover to shrink the size of the state" is different from "government takeover to add another layer of unelected bureaucracy to run our lives"

Maybe in the short term, but in the long term they are no different because the power separation is eroded in either case. If you want to reduce the size of the state you need to get congress on board with your plans.
I didn't realize until now how many problems I avoided by using Emacs and ansi-term (and usually tmux running in it). Stuff like struggling with color schemes or remembering key bindings... I just solved them once many years ago and don't even remember anymore how I did it. Same for copy and paste.

A lot of problems mentioned in the survey aren't really problems with the terminal, but, I guess, respondents didn't care about that kind of precision. Like... AWK syntax isn't a problem with terminals at all.
You can do that with a function too, make it a class with a __call__. If you need it, which you won't for this kind a script.
thanks, i'd appreciate if you let me know what you think , this is still very beta
We would live probably 30% shorter. More self healing, more replication, more offset in DNA means you reach eldery quicker. Every replication event contain tiny chance of mutation as well.
In the US you can blame private equity for that. Buying up practices and pushing them to turn a profit by maximizing patient load and minimizing interaction times etc...

We have far more doctors per capita than we did in 1960.
In my experience Linux can have some driver bugs on specific hardware that windows doesn't, like not waking up after suspend on some Nvidia cards with some drivers, etc. But it handles hardware issues miles better.

90% of hard drives that windows does not detect Linux can detect and copy 99% of the data with some IO errors for the rest. Can handle hardware instability like bad rams or too high of an overclock for ages while windows crashes very easily.
Right now you are correct that giving everyone 5k would not produce more stuff so the dollars would devalue.

The idea however is that at the same time as giving everyone 5k, AI workers would produce more than an extra 5k/head of stuff.

As an alternative having the AIs produce all the cars and houses we need but giving all the money to Sam Altman wouldn't make sense as no one would have the money to buy them apart from Sam who couldn't use them all.
Perhaps consider it 'self-healing' as opposed to 'self-remanufacturing'?

Biological wounds often heal with scar tissue which generally prevents the situation from worsening, but is still not as strong as the original undamaged tissue or bone.

If it re-manufactured itself, it'd be as good as the original.

This seems a bit like that, leaking the vegetable oil into the crack, as blood seeps and clots into a cut, then the bitumen and aggregate can flow together in hot days unhindered by the ordinary-occurring oxidization. Still not as good as undamaged, but better.

Seems like an at least good-enough term?
our cancers may get 30% more healing too. so i would say not all that much. i would rather be 30% less accident prone, if that makes sense.
Sounds like you (shouldn't) need a more advanced threat model.
You don’t get all the way to 95 Theses by keeping the boat on an even keel.
I'm concerned about this one thing, if I write and share my thoughts on my blog (and the internet) wouldn't I become a source for AI training and modeling? Could AI end up resembling me by using my ideas and thought process? I wouldn't want my thoughts and ideas to be used in that way, creating a form of immortality.
The Nation of Islam are Muslims. They would be considered theologically descended from the Abrahamic line of religions. They would certainly not be considered a "tribe". And they take their creation mythology from the Koran.

I think you may be talking about the ADOS people who believe all sorts of conspiracy theories like that, but are not a religious group at all. However they do believe black Christians and black Muslims are following the "white man's" religions. In any case, their beliefs would mean the ADOS nutjobs are technically "crackpots", as the initial post indicated, rather than a "tribe".
kind of drive themselves.
Except young people are utilized because they are cheap, not because they are quick or effective. This is not what is being touted (by Musk) here.

Source - spent more than half my career as a consultant.
You must be a Lisp programmer then, because across all the many languages I've worked with so far, all but Common Lisp had a bad ratio - way above 50% - of annoying boilerplate and decorations to code that means something (and with Lisp you beat it only when you start using meta-programming facilities extensively, which is frowned upon in projects that have more than 2 people working on them).

You can solve some of the issues with snippets, but once your snippets start looking like tiny scripts it stops being funny.
I also believe the amount of panel gaps varies a lot per factory.
Maybe the author should be more specific because in the job searches I have done of late, my target companies almost never have junior positions open. Admitted, I do more niche stuff, but if you look for example at how NVIDIA hires, what counts as a junior there is a PhD with 3 conference papers, opensource contributions and a prior internship.
I checked the article again and it says the following right after the quoted part:

> An external links search shows around 2,580 [1] Wikipedia pages linking to CounterPunch, around 2,400 [2] linking to the Daily Kos, and around 1,640 [3] linking to AlterNet.

[1] https://archive.is/PWPNB

[2] https://archive.is/R19OZ

[3] https://archive.is/kNtgq

Considering how many pages there are on Wikipedia, and how many of these results are notes and talk pages, I think one can conclusively determine that these sites are in fact not "widely used" sources.

This isn't to say they're aren't questionable or shouldn't be filtered against of course (nor that they are and should be).
Their BVs.
I see this in situations when terminal relies on readline() to do this stuff, but that isn't installed.
I wonder what the European Commission has to say about all this, since this makes it somewhat difficult for companies with offices in the UK to comply with continental privacy laws.
Process and Performance: How America traded systematic improvement for quick win
Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
I think GP is saying that, when paying with cash, because there is no option for sub-5c prices, the only option is to round to the nearest 5c.

If price is $1.03 then for cash customers, the price has to become $1.05. If paying debit or credit card then the price can stay $1.03 because there is no cost for computing pennies.

The optics of the change is that it does cost more for the consumer if paying cash and if you have a society that wants to push more people to digital transactions then this is how you start to do it along with the optics and ramifications that go with it.
Not exactly my point.

I meant to say: I think the quality varies both per factory and over time.

There's a lot of complexity in industrial production. From the outside it looks like there's only the classic and the revamped design., but I've heard that the internal components are often far from the same.
Coding Newbie
Hey everyone!
I’m completely new to coding and really excited to start my learning journey. There are so many languages and resources out there that it’s a bit overwhelming?
I’d love to hear your suggestions!
In the UK, the answer is that the NHS is simply overwhelmed. There are too many people and not enough doctors so the whole system has been whittled down to the point where it is stateless and transactional. And still another net 600,000 people come here every year and we wonder why it’s getting worse!
Where was this? Because in Italy i've never heard of anyone allowed to miss school for that by their parents.
Could you elaborate a bit more about the diet and its effects?
CSS voxel editor with HTML cuboids
If you have a specification for a program saying "input: variables x and y, output: z holds x+y", you would probably be annoyed if someone coded "x=0; y=0; z=0", though.

Just playing devil's advocate, I think the headline is not bad (could be less ambiguous, but sacrificing brevity)
Because you’re stuck in a conceptual framing where the existence of things you don’t like is subject to your choice. You’ll never be satisfied if your benchmark for good is that every market transaction in the country should be something you’d endorse, or that nobody should ever show you a piece of content you don’t want to see for their own benefit.
Hmm it only happened to me once. When EA bought popcap and the turned my plants vs zombies for iOS into an IAP fest. That made me notice that most mobile games have turned free to play and I simply stopped looking for them. No more gaming on my iPad.

Would you mind naming and shaming your own "I Wasted My Money" pile if it's PC titles?
> It is really the same reasoning with dictatorships, even if the dictator is good, competent and capable his successor most likely won't. Democracy is the best form of government because there are clean, regulated ways to transfer power. Not a scramble for dominance that once settled is meant to last in perpetuity.

You're assuming that there will be a successor, in a democratic sense.
Yeah, he already had the information from the doctor when he prompted GPT, but I wish the project a lot of success, may it help people.
> 1. Define a new cross-terminal-emulator OSC sequence that instructs the terminal emulator to echo back THE WHOLE TERMINFO CAPABILITY STRING, in-band. No "user agent sniffing" with TERM. We detect features directly from now on.

XTGETTCAP does that (kindof), it's implemented by xterm, kitty, and foot.

xterm allows querying keyboard caps, plus a few others

kitty adds to that querying all integer and string caps

foot adds to that bools caps, meaning in foot you can query all of terminfo via it.

what we need to do is bring other terminal emulators up to par with foot's XTGETTCAP, and then we can finally ditch libterminfo for good.
twitter doesn't have near the income it used to have. or audience.
it does have the same profit. 0%
Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92
If it confidently does not further US interests then Musk and friends can describe it honestly and recommend to Congress and USAID leadership that this sort of funding be made out of scope of USAID's mission.
Healthcare has to follow procedures to guarantee it's "public service" (same quality for everyone). Second it's main goal is to verify that sick leaves are not overused because it has bigger impact than curing one person.
That project is so "ambitious" I think it's more responsible to call it "wishful thinking" for these reasons:

1. We haven't been able to sustain a fusion reaction for longer than 1,000 seconds, just a little over 15 minutes.

2. These are research reactors. Scaling-up these reactors to commercial output may not be straightforward and may require considerably more research.

3. These reactors require tritium, which is not exactly abundant, and requires its own technological advancements in order to scale-up production to satisfy commercial needs.

The project's "ambitious goals" is to hit 2030s? I'll be surprised if they hit their goals in the 2040s and even if they do - that's not a scale-out. You're talking another 10-20 years after that in order to have meaningful impact. That puts you in the 2050s or 2060s at the earliest. Using those more realistic timelines it's clear there's a high probability that the AMOC is going to shut down. So high a probability that it would be prudent to plan on it.
I'll update the marketing site to expand on those thanks for the feedback.

> - If it's free, like you say here, that it's free.
I'm not entirely sure but no I don't think I will charge for this, unless I had expensive features users want as I'm out of pocket on this myself. Its namely something I'm hoping to learn from with marketing and foster a community around. I'm not sure where it will go as the moment its a passion project, with a wrapper such as auth that I plan to repurpose for profit in some way such as a second company or selling the code as a starter template.

- What languages does it work for? I can easily add support for others if there's requests so far these are what I added support for:
Mandarin
Spanish
Hindi
Arabic
French
Portuguese
German
Japanese
Russian
Italian
Malay
Persian
Polish
Greek
Czech

- What's the process to start?
1. Add a word you wish to learn
2. It will generate 4 cards for that word with examples for you
3. Review the card based on your memory recall of "good" "okay" "bad" and you'll see the card based on spaced repetition more often until you have marked it as good enough times it will come up less frequently.

- Can it work in the opposite direction, e.g. to help students that speak Chinese pick up targeted English vocabulary based on what they're working on?
I'm open to adding internationalization! But want to get the english app at a point I can justify the time commitment.
Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure
Hi,
I've just finished a rebuild of this function and added a lot of new features: info, page index, minimap, inverted index,...
I think it may be useful for inspection, debugging or just as a learning resource showcasing the PDF file format.
This is a pet project and I would be happy to receive some feedback!
Regards
If you have brew you can install findutils to get gfind which behaves more like you'd expect
> I have a theory that the normalization of homosexuality in the united states was a move by the security agencies to lower their exposure risk

the decades of civil rights expansions, first for women, then african-americans, then disabled, and eventually the gays -- that was all just the CIA trying to do recruiting 2% easier?
This is always in my mind. Whatever we choose to let the ruler du jour do, what would, let us say, the $hitler be able to do when they come to power through the mischoices of our fellow citizens? After all, history tells us that such people will both exist and come to power.

So it behooves us to be a little jealous of our own rights, and to push officials to limit other officials.

There's an interesting fork here where you can argue for a very libertarian view, _or_ you can argue for a "government whose interest is in restraining government (the metagame of 'checks and balances')".
Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
Using business-approved language doesn't actually make your message more friendly.

It's not line Linus was prone to using flowery prose against random novices - the rant he's known for were mostly addressed at senior maintainers who really should have known better.
Absolutely not being sarcastic: one problem it solves is that it is very hard to read as a beginner, so it can be intimidating (although it becomes much easier to read a bit later). This, coupled with the general arrogance of k/q practitioners (again, not really saying this in a negative way) and that k, kdb, etc. deliberately doesn't give you guardrails makes people who write k/q seem a bit 'mythical' and make them feel very clever.

So I think k, q and kdb are fun to work with, but one of the major components of its success is that it allowed a community (in finance) to evolve that can earn 50-150% more than their peer groups who do the same work in Java or C++. 10 years ago a kx course cost $1500 per person per day.
The pressing need to have an electric car you enjoy driving. It may not be your need, but to some people, it is.

It doesn't mean there are no problems with ads today.
The AI company resorts to those pesky costly humans yet again. Almost like it’s a money bonfire of waste.