skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose you have a system that saves 90% of lives on group A but only 80% of lives in group B.

This is due to the fact that you have considerably more training data on group A.

You cannot release this life saving technology because it has a 'disparate impact' on group B relative to group A.

So the obvious thing to do is to have the technology intentionally kill ~1 out of every 10 patients from group A so the efficacy rate is ~80% for both groups. Problem solved

From the article:

> “What is clear is that it’s going to be really difficult to mitigate these biases,” says Judy Gichoya, an interventional radiologist and informatician at Emory University who was not involved in the study. Instead, she advocates for smaller, but more diverse data sets that test these AI models to identify their flaws and correct them on a small scale first. Even so, “Humans have to be in the loop,” she says. “AI can’t be left on its own.”

Quiz: What impact would smaller data sets have on efficacy for group A? How about group B? Explain your reasoning
the model involved in this article was developed by Stanford, and tested by UCLA

so yes I do believe that models will be created with more specific datasets, which is the specialization I was referring to
> that the Whitehouse is DEFINITELY not relying on

No need to speculate; The Atlantic has the deets.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-...

From the first screenshot: "Disappearing message time was set to 1 week."
Sorry I meant good abstractions, not all abstractions.
> Replacing windows is actually one of the easier DIY home jobs you can do

I think you're assuming a baseline level of competence that many don't have. I'm comfortable with electrical work and some plumbing but I wouldn't do my own window installation.
Crashes only on Wednesdays:

https://gyrovague.com/2015/07/29/crashes-only-on-wednesdays/
as a note: in human learning, and to a degree, animal learning, the unit of behavior that is reinforced depends on the contingencies— an interesting example: a pigeon might be trained to respond in a 3x3 grid (9 choices) differently than the last time to get reinforcement. At first the response learned is do different than the last time, but as the requirement gets too long, the memory capacity is exceeded— and guess what, the animal learns to respond randomly— eventually maximizing its reward
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Are you saying the US would respond to all that with a ground invasion in Iran?

A ground invasion of Iran seems extremely difficult, and would be very unpopular, and it's still unclear how that would lead to a wider world conflict.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133375223/the-first-female-c... Twenty Twenty Two!
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Yes, that’s why I said

> However, the government still has to do its part and actually enforce insurance requirements.
It does. Why that is is a story that has many different parts.

One of them is that there really is an infrastructure to communicate what the Republican party stands for that which is connected to the party on an everyday basis. The absence of the Democratic party that potential supporters are complaining about right now is structural. Baudrillard might say "The Democratic Party doesn't exist"

Secondly the left has to work a lot harder for the right because the left's slogan is "another world is possible" which is a constructive project (you have to prove it, you have to build it) and the right's slogan is "there is no alternative". It's not fair but it's the way it is.

The lunatic fringe of the left also has envy for the lunatic fringe of the right. If somebody says "there are only two genders" they don't really need to justify it or explain it any more than saying that my dad believed that and his mom believed that and... People who say the opposite today expect to be to be a fait accompli and manifestly true because they said it and who could dare disagree with them and punish anyone who says otherwise but that's just a position that would be easy for their enemies to defend but impossible for them -- but they circle their wagons and form some tiny world in which it is true. The attack on JK Rowling for instance shows that they've got Kiwi Farms envy, that they think the highest form of activism is the methods of their enemies. Thus it's not so clear that the lunatic left is really left at all, it's certainly not "inclusive".
I can't speak to his purpose but for myself I find it interesting to consider the differences that lead WASM to help you solve a real problem where the preexisting solutions presumably didn't.
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So that's the important part, not that they're low income.
Unfortunately, humans talking to a doctor give lots of additional, misleading hints...
imo calling out a strawman argument is inherently more valuable than making a strawman argument.
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> It's almost as if you'd want to not feed what the patient says directly to an LLM.

> A non-trivial part of what doctors do is charting - where they strip out all the unimportant stuff you tell them unrelated to what they're currently trying to diagnose / treat, so that there's a clear and concise record.

I think the hard part of medicine -- the part that requires years of school and more years of practical experience -- is figuring out which observations are likely to be relevant, which aren't, and what they all might mean. Maybe it's useful to have a tool that can aid in navigating the differential diagnosis decision tree but if it requires that a person has already distilled the data down to what's relevant, that seems like the relatively easy part?
Isn't it kind of clear that it would have to be that the data they chose was influenced somehow by bias?

Machines don't spontaneously do this stuff. But the humans that train the machines definitely do it all the time. Mostly without even thinking about it.

I'm positive the issue is in the data selection and vetting. I would have been shocked if it was anything else.
That's a valid concern, but not an inevitability. I think if they don't want to pay the tax, they could move their business to a tax loophole state like Wyoming. But they shouldn't be allowed to siphon money out of a city without paying into the city. If doing business in CA gives them access to 30+ million potential customers, they can give CA a cut.
Is this basically the source of a lot of Rhys Dharby jokes?
Reminds me of this one:
https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story...
I had a similar experience with my girlfriend and Dr. Worm - genuinely one of my favorite songs of all time!
Isn't "involuntary redistribution of wealth" literally every country on earth though (aside from a few that have such a lack of rule of law that the state can't tax the population)? Do you consider the entire developed world (and most of the rest) a nightmare to live in?

I live in Germany where we have taxes & don't consider it a nightmare.
I would s/based/staged.
> Weird US tricks like getting paid in stock and taking loans with that stock as collateral, with the resulting liability cancelling out remaining tax also don't work there.

That's not how the U.S. trick works, it's taking loans with the stock as collateral in order to defer realizing the capital gains while still being able to spend the money. It's no different from just taking out an unsecured loan, it's just that banks are more willing to give you a larger balance/less usurious rates if it's secured by something.
I’m not sure how useful that framing is because improvisation is effectively composition in real time. By writing down an impromptu or something that was played on the spot it becomes composition when it’s crystallized in this way.

Chopin predates audio recording, so it’s not as if someone recorded his performance and then transcribed it like people do today with jazz solos. I’m assuming that Chopin was the one to transcribe and publish after he had a good idea because few would have the recall to do so accurately.

Sometimes compositions are generated spontaneously by the composer (one pass) and sometimes they require extensive labor and refinement.

It’s not to say that classical music doesn’t also include improvisation, and I agree that there’s not a clear divide between classical mentality and modern sensibilties. Although today, the composition (if not scored) ends up taking it’s final form as an audio recording. More and more the composition exists untranscribed in the DAW session.
ScholarlyArticle: "Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor" (2025)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08737-1

Re: different - probably much less expensive - approaches to RNG;

From "Cloudflare: New source of randomness just dropped" (2005) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321797 :

> Another source of random entropy better than a wall of lava lamps:

>>> "100-Gbit/s Integrated Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations" https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330

100Gbit/s is faster than qualifying noise from a 56 qubit quantum computer?

>> google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests

There's yet no USB or optical interconnect RNG based on quantum vacuum fluctuations, though.
This was obvious to me very early with GPT-3.5-Turbo..

I created structured outputs with very clear rules and process. That if followed would funnel behavior the way I wanted it.. and low and behold the model would anticipate preconditions that would allow it to hallucinate a certain final output and the model would push those back earlier in the output. The model had effectively found wiggle room in the rules and injected the intermediate value into the field that would then be used later in the process to build the final output.

The instant I saw it doing that, I knew 100% this model "plans"/anticipates way earlier than I thought originally.
So you never report or pay heed to the overall accuracy?
yeah, I mean if you can accidentally added to group chats where you can obtain classified information...
One of the biggest expenses I had for my previous home was replacing all the windows. It helped a lot, but unfortunately was $26k to have done properly (could have been done cheaper, but I went for the good stuff) and the net result was a $0 increase in potential sale price. When I sold the house, I only made money on the deal because of the market doubling in the time span I owned the property.

Now I'm looking to buy/build again, and I will still invest in good windows because it makes such a difference on a summer day and with noise, that quality of life difference matters to me, but it seems it doesn't matter to anyone else because it's not priced in and builders don't care. Even if I buy a brand new "energy efficient" track house, it'll have shit windows. Only by building a custom house and mandating these things can I have any hope of getting it if I don't want to dump another $20k-$30k into a house after I buy it.
Poor students qualify[1] for free/reduced lunches.

Did you qualify and decide not to use the program?

1 - Free lunch at 130% of poverty line, which for a family of four is ~$42k USD in 2025. Reduced at 185%, or $59k in 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/13/2025-03...
How do you all add and subtract concepts in the rabbit poem?
>But hormone levels and actual internal organ sets matter a huge amount, more than genes or original genitalia

Or current genitalia for that matter. It's just a matter of the genitalia signifying other biological realities for 99.9% of people. For sure more info like average hormone levels or ranges over time would be more helpful.
Yes - theoretically, some form of ML/AI should be very good at charting the relevant parts, prompting the doctor for follow-up questions & tests that would be good to know to rule out certain conditions.

The harder problem would be getting the actual diagnosis right, not filtering out irrelevant details.

But it will be an important step if you're using an LLM for the diagnosis.
they see, "actual execution", I see, "failed upwards in a ZIRP economy"
I don't believe it is a normal reply on HN, or at least it shouldn't be.

We all know that this technology isn't magic. In tech spaces there are more people telling you it isn't magic than it is. The reminder does nothing. The contextual advice on how to tackle those issues does. Why even bother with that conversation, you can just take the advice or ignore it until the technology improves since you've already made up your mind about the limit you or others should be willing to go.

If it doesn't meet the standard of what you believe is advertised than say that. Not, "workarounds" are problematic because they obfuscate how someone should feel about how the product is advertised. Maybe you are an advertising purist and it bothers you, but why invalidate the person providing the context into how to utilize those tools in their current state better?
I think about this book ALL the time. It was way more terrifying than calming to me. But still absolutely love it / haunted by it.
Non-technical suggestion: if AI represents an aspect of the collective unconscious, as it were, then a racist society would produce latently racist training data that manifests in racist output, without anyone at any step being overtly racist. Same as an image model having a preference for red apples (even though there are many colors of apple, and even red ones are not uniformly cherry red).

The training data has a preponderance of examples where doctors missed a clear diagnosis because of their unconscious bias? Then this outcome would be unsurprising.

An interesting test would be to see if a similar issue pops up for obese patients. A common complaint, IIUC, is that doctors will chalk up a complaint to their obesity rather than investigating further for a more specific (perhaps pathological) cause.
For me, the abundance/yimby movement is an ok answer to the tantalizing but wrong question: what can do to make people's lives better through technology or public policy?

For me, there is a deeper problem that this framing can't answer: the pervasive sense among all people that things have gone wrong and a lack of any kind of stable sense of identity.

The maga right has been successful because they speak to that sense of alienation. That their policies are nonsensical and counter to the material interests of their supporters is utterly beside the point. They promise a reassuring sense of order and stability to a desperate populace. This is cross cutting across economic classes. Rich and poor people alike are fearful of their place in a society that threatens to leave them behind. The strongman is comforting.

Even though the maga movement is not particularly popular (they barely beat a deeply unpopular administration and only because they relentlessly misled their voters and relied on their voters irrational projections of the good they would do them), they are far more powerful than the opposition because they have a far stronger base of support.

Better policy ideas, which I do support, is not the way out of this mess.

To me, it is a grave mistake to think irrationality can be defeated with rationality. Sure, the abundance agenda is rationally superior to maga. But it does not in any way address the pervasive feelings of alienation and disconnection in modern life. At best it offers the promise that we can more comfortably feel these feelings.

The only thing that will truly stamp out maga is a counter movement that address the deeper spiritual issues that we face collectively. Personally, I am not optimistic that will happen until we go through a lot of pain and chaos.

I pray I'm wrong.
I feel this is much more powershell like than bash. The container thing looks much more than a typed object than a plain character device/pipe. Also what is the bourne again part?
The systems of governance pre-ACW and post-ACW were two distinct systems. The pre-ACW was essentially two competing systems of power duct-taped together with the 3/5ths amendment. The post-ACW was one dominant system of power that had beaten another into submission and annexation.

The 3/5ths compromise, and its implicit enshrinement of slavery as an American institution, is as an example of short-term thinking (compromising on the legal definition of a human being, in order to get the constitution ratified) that eventually caused the greater system to unravel. Hundreds of thousands of people died in the civil war, millions of people experienced slavery. It could have been avoided if longer-term thinking prevailed.

I hear you that the Constitution (inclusive of its self-mutating property) survived as a useful document of federal governance. This purported maintenance of a federal union was a huge legitimizer of northern domination of the post-ACW United States. But, I think you'd agree that the "system of governance" that begat the constitution did not survive, that's more what I was getting at. That each successive system of governance can still legitimately claim to be implementing the U.S. Constitution is indeed impressive.
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The GP literally said “giving any medical prominence to gender identity will result in people receiving wrong and potentially harmful treatment” which is categorically false for the reasons the comment you replied to outlined.

Sex assigned at birth is in many situations important medical information; the vast majority of trans people are very conscious of their health in this sense and happy to share that with their doctor.
This is a good point; a man or woman sitting behind a desk doing correlation analysis are going to look very similar in their function to a business. But they probably physically look pretty distinct to an x-ray picture.
POTUS is the Commander in Chief and has discretionary authority to authorize missions like this. Congressional approval is only necessary to finance or not situations POTUS decides to get into. Congress obviously is the only way to formally declare war. These are low grade skirmishes or special operations or any other term to allow not needing congressional approval
Or Blade Runner.
People don't believe it was anything but a huge load of pork to corporate interest with nothing to show.
That's not bad. Btw your docs are really good. Will be checking out the Discord.
Always good to give the warning signs of fascism a read.

POWERFUL AND CONTINUING
NATIONALISM

DISDAIN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

IDENTIFICATION OF ENEMIES
AS A UNIFYING CAUSE
SUPREMACY OF THE MILITARY

RAMPANT SEXISM

CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA

OBSESSION WITH NATIONAL SECURITY

RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT
INTERTWINED

CORPORATE POWER PROTECTED

LABOR POWER SUPPRESSED

DISDAIN FOR INTELLECTUALS & THE ARTS

OBSESSION WITH CRIME & PUNISHMENT

RAMPANT CRONYISM & CORRUPTION

FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS
> I suspect there may be a simpler explanation: a lot of people for some reason really dislike John Gruber and view him as someone who slavishly praises Apple.

I think you are right. Defending Apple's customer unfriendly policies that forced the EU's hand has turned a lot of people off.

I've been a long time reader of Gruber's, pretty much since he starts. And he's always favored Apple in a way that was reasonable. But the defense of the things Apple does that harms customers is not reasonable, and I think that turned off a lot of his former fans.
> They are going to drive anyway

Honestly, arrest them. Someone willing to operate a motor vehicle without a license is one step away from manslaughter.
> Isn't "involuntary redistribution of wealth" literally every country on earth though (aside from a few that have such a lack of rule of law that the state can't tax the population)?

Places with governments that weak also tend to prominently feature involuntary redistribution of wealth. It tends to be more self-service at the hands of the end-recipients and without the kind of ethical theory behind it that is at least the notional framework fo redistribution by functional governments, but it still very much occurs.
Potentially true, but I don’t think so. I believe it is understood and unless you’re familiar with every neuro/behavioral literature, you can’t know. Science paradigms are driven by many factors and being powerfully correct does not necessarily rank high when the paradigms implications are unpopular
I run docker over terraform on my homeserver and use exactly this invocation.
It was a long time ago, but probably did qualify. However it was just what was normal to do and didn't see a need to have them provide lunch.
OK so should we optimize for blindly listening to AI companies then?
It's one of the first things buyers should look at. But they don't. They check out the kitchen cabinets, bathroom fixtures, and lovely floors and wall finishing.
I went through school in the 70s and 80s and always had school lunch. I hardly saw anybody bring lunch to school. Maybe it was because of the schools I went to, but they were public schools. They were "good" schools though (some of the best in the major metro area), so maybe that changes things. In high school I honestly don't remember seeing anybody bring lunch, obviously people did, but it would have definitely been the super minority and definitely not common by any means.
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European food quality is almost always better than America's. The best is probably the French.
You mean, like a greenhouse?
If you grew up in Saudi Arabia raised by a typical family then yeah sure, you probably would be fine with it. Culture of course shapes people and I think it's silly to pretend you could freely swap adults but that doesn't mean that people are fundamentally different.
As long as we're speaking anecdotally, I very rarely took lunch to school in grade school (1980s). Even as a vegetarian in red-meat-eating Utah, I got a hot lunch prepared by real people and the food tasted good.
> I don't see how a blog post complaining about vote counts is any more interesting than a comment complaining about vote counts

I see it as highly interesting, because the reason as to why is very fascinating. I know that's a problem around here to discuss, but I never understood why.
Was Desert Storm/Shield WWIII? Was whatever the other Bush's desert excursions WWIII? Why would anything like what you described become WWIII?
Whats the alternative? Withholding effective tools because they arent effective for everyone? One model thats worse for everyone?

This is what personalized medicine is, and it gets more individualistic than simply classifying people by race and gender. There are a lot of medical gains to be made here.
if you have any connection to the admins of that wiki, it would be great to get MultimediaViewer extension enabled - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer

they're on 1.35 right now which is a bit out of date (lifecycle - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle) but an older branch of MMV should work fine on 1.35
You're right that improvisation was historically very relevant in classical music and that this tradition was mostly lost starting somewhere in the mid-to-late 19th century as the view on how pieces should be performed became a lot more rigid. It still survives in places, such as among organists, and there are many attempts to revive it. But the fact that it is a matter of academic scholarship and study is not that closely related: there are lots of period-contemporary treatises and 'method' books that discuss exactly how pieces should be improvised and/or performed, often in great detail and depth. You can't possibly have that unless people are very much familiar with the practice of writing their music down on paper. That's what 'literate' means basically, it really is as simple as that. It's also something that other music traditions tend to not focus on to anything near the same extent.
Who actually knows? Far beyond what a UK university can afford.