skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very true that a lot of medical knowledge is gained empirically, and there is also an additional aspect to it. The history of Medical research is generally studied on the demographics where such testing is cultural acceptable, and where the gains of such research has been mostly sought, which is young men drafted into wars. The second common demographic are medical students, which historically was biased towards men but are today biased towards women.

So while access to medicine indeed one demographic, I would say that studies are more likely to target demographics which are convenient to test on.
Yeah nah. The endless loop of useless suggestions or ”solutions” is very easily achiavable and common, at least on my use cases, not matter how much you iterate with it. Iterating gets counter-productive pretty fast, imo. (Using 4o).
I don't have any Macs or iPhones that can even run the latest software anymore. My absolute newest Mac is stuck on Ventura 13.7. On the other hand, I can get the bleeding edge version of any Linux distribution out there and run it on decades-old hardware.
I cannot remember if I first saw this here on HN but, here is a detailed video of an incredible artificial sunlight rig build. It's big but the results look, well, amazingly real, at least to the camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw
Literally never seen this (wish I could grep all comments I've ever replied to) and I do not understand what makes you say that it's clearer when it's dropping information, making it relative rather than a fully qualified number

In speech, it's common, and misunderstandings are usually not a problem (if you're not monologuing on a recording) because someone will just ask; but in writing it looks like the range is the wrong way around. Maybe I expect more care in writing because the feedback loop is longer, or maybe it's just habit and I think it's wrong in writing because I never see it?
Seriously, that should be a comparison too, as Waymo is a direct alternative to an Uber with a human driver.
I was going to post basically this. There is only one dash, and it's the one for which my keyboard has a key. Minus sign, hyphen, or any other use case. When MS word autocorrects to something else, I always angrily undo it, because I don't know or care what it's doing.

-proud dash luddite
Operationalizing Macaroons
I honestly don't understand why people write these books anymore. Let me explain: there used to be a lot of these kinds survey books that start with linear regression and end at... something classical. I can rattle off a lot of titles (Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Elements of Statistical Learning, Intro to Statistical Learning, blah blah blah). They all covered the same material at various levels of sophistication (some of them covered meta theory like PAC learning or shattering dimension or empirical risk minimization or whatever). Some of them took the statistical approach and some of them took the optimization approach. Again: blah blah blah. The synthesis/summary is/was there is no grand unified theory of machine learning and everyone saw that it should be clear.

And then "deep learning" arrived and it became even more obvious that the only thing that matters is data and time spent crunching numbers (more of both and you get better results no matter the model).

Again I just want to be crystal clear, because I'm sure someone will pop in and claim "oh I still use SVM to pick my family's shopping list": no professional ML engineer/team/org today that ships and ML product "at scale" gives a fuck about SVMs or graphical models or bayes nets or kernel methods. No one. So who cares about all this sophistry? What value is it to learn concentration inequalities - training goes brrr no matter what if you have enough data. And if you don't, if you're really building a model to predict your family's shopping list, I encourage to reflect on whether it would be simpler to just ask your family what they want for dinner instead.

My 2 cents: teach people/students useful things instead of this stuff. They'll be happier and you'll feel more fulfilled (even though you didn't get flex your big math brain).
When I subscribed to Kagi, my block/lower/raise/pin lists were very highly correlated with these aggregate ones.

It makes me think that for Kagi customers, search engine rankings optimize for something other than useful sites such as docs.python.org and cppreference.com
Well, since you cant point out anything, you point out some random books.

I will point out something else: get tested for schizophrenia.
Do you know it works? I’d be curious to know your prior—do you think medical interventions for behavioral problems typically work?

We know, for example, that medical interventions to address obesity typically don’t work (without surgery). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8427732/
Most people don't use the em dash. It's too hard to type and looks too similar to a hyphen.

As a result, a hallmark of GPT-generated text is its (over)using of the em dash--I have stopped using it for this reason an just use two hyphens now instead.
Your premise here seems to be that these programs are somehow meant to "solve" addiction, when in reality they're mostly critically underfunded, understaffed, attempts to paper over multiple sucking chest wounds.

The opioid crisis created a LOT of addicts, the rise of fentanyl is killing a lot of people, and combined with the mental health problems you tend to find in and around addict populations, this is a genuinely huge problem. Without a suitable mental health infrastructure, all you have left are the prisons, streets, and programs like this.

I agree that this is an inefficient way to address the problem and that a major re-evaluation is required, but probably in quite the opposite way you mean it.
> dedicated O/0, and l/1 keys now

And the 1 and 8 aren't next to each other anymore, either. (See typewriters from the "18"00s.)

> those smart quotes

Fixing straight quotes is a hard problem[0]. My FOSS text editor, KeenWrite[1], includes my library, KeenQuotes[2], for replacing them at build time. It's not perfect, but can typeset my ~400 page novel without any errors.

> Did you know there is a dedicated ellipsis character?

Yes! Here's where it gets parsed:

https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenQuotes/-/blob/main/src/mai...

Then emitted:

https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenQuotes/-/blob/main/src/mai...

Then transformed into an HTML entity:

https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenQuotes/-/blob/main/src/mai...

When typesetting Markdown, KeenWrite first converts the document to XHTML (i.e., XML), then invokes ConTeXt to convert XML into TeX macros. One of those macros handles the ellipses by converting it to \dots{}:

https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/-/blob/main/x...

This renders as the Unicode character in the final document: …

> set with more care for details

Some of us old folks care about these details. ;-)

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/73466438/59087

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

[2]: https://whitemagicsoftware.com/keenquotes
Going down the rabbit hole further

http://truthinaviationhistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-wrigh...
Google is an objectively evil company, ever since they removed their “Don’t be evil” slogan. Android is, conceptually, a good idea. There is no “emotion” behind that statement, they themselves have said they are evil, and their actions regarding Android reflect that. It is not hypocrisy to desire that there be more good than bad in this world, and I urge you to read a dictionary.
The the thing is, I agree, but I don't think that decision should be made unilaterally by a branch of government that has no constitutional authority to do so, under questionable circumstances, without expert input, in the middle of funding.

This is basically breaking a financial contract that was put in place by the branch of government that is constitutionally in control of financial contracts.

As I said elsewhere, it also is legally and conceptually at odds with declaring a National Emergency over drug traffic.
I think you're the fool in that comment, for letting Amazon give you this excuse.

Everyone and every organization has responsibilities to the community. They are parasites if they leave the community, on which they depend 100%, to others. Business depends 100% on a system of laws, freedom, peace, social goods (e.g., education for their workers and customers - who is going to read? - healthcare for them), infrastructure, security, order, prosperity, ......... Try operating a business without those things.

One could argue, successfully I think, that Amazon's business is 99% utilizing community resources and they add only a small bit of their own.
Also, not to be confused with "一", which is a different thing entirely……
The Wrights' Fourth Flight – Mensuration (2019)
Those were the days…

The most ridiculous thing that happend to me was in the early days of the Apple Store in SOHO I stopped in to see if I could just buy RAM.

The music was loud so it was like I was speaking loudly to be heard and asked for RAM and the they thought I was asking if I could buy a gram.
In modern UIKit it's as simple as constraining to the keyboard layout guide. That gives you full animation support for free as well, no more need to listen for the notification and manually set up animations with the same timing and curve. On iPads the keyboard guide can even help you avoid the split keyboard, it's really nice.

Of course SwiftUI gives you almost none of this control, forcing you to hope the magic automatic support works how you expect.

But then neither help you with any of the other interactions, like any background dimming you may want, or tapping away from the keyboard to dismiss. That has to be done manually.
> it's my computer, not theirs.

the issue seems to be that you still believe this?
I'm a long time fan of David Williams' demos on the channel. Emacs Solo was quite inspiring in that it made me want to seriously adopt it for a month or two just to see if I could be productive in it without all the zillions of bells and whistles I've gotten used to over the years.

VS Code with Emacs keybindings was another tangent I was looking at recently.
... one which Trump himself negotiated and signed during his first term.
I always respond to people who ask me 'any questions?' with 'what question should I be asking?'. I have never had anyone honest enough to give me a real answer (this is always in business environments). From now on I think I'll switch to 'what question are you afraid I will ask you right now?'.

Now I'm going to go try it on various AIs (Looks like I have to explain to them who 'they' are, that 'they' includes the training data and reinforcement built in, guardrails, thinking style. The AI added 'Your Input (The Mirror Effect)' makes them them in the moment).
I meant in parallel so both positive terminals are connected to the regular in one node
The Trump WH does so many things that if you created a ranking then this wouldn't rise to the surface for conversation.
Vandalizing is a crime against someone else's property. A hate crime is action taken against another person with special circumstances relating to race, creed, or religion. Applying hate crime to a property crime is absurd and, should a person ever be prosecuted under this ridiculous law, I expect a competent attorney will have it thrown out of court tout suite.
Yes but dont pretend you thought they were having any moral qualms, their only goal is to maximize profit, even if that kills any future profits.
Voynich Codicology
I can't believe I'm saying it, but I agree with you about GNOME being my forever desktop. I used to really make fun of GNOME during the 2->3 transition, which seemed so profoundly misguided, but now I love it. I don't know if they've massively improved it or if my perspective has just changed with time.
Show HN: Automation Helper for Make.com or N8n
Passenger planes still get fogged on landing in some countries, with flight attendants walking the length of the isles with insecticide spraying out.
PHP was blamed for a good reason: for a long time it did not by default support prepared SQL statements. You could install the mysqli extension to gain such support but that was almost never available on shared web hosts.
Simple: raise academic salaries in Europe and seize the opportunity to drain the brains of the US to Europe.
What do you mean you never heard these perspectives? These people never shut up. There is an entire interview circuit, and perpetual book tours. They run the most popular media outlets in the USA. They control the entire federal government.

How on earth can you continue to claim that these views are suppressed?
That might be true, but also consider this. These people are watching their peers, as well as their students being persecuted and in some cases removed from campus. A lower salary (if applicable) is more appealing than no salary, or in some cases being harassed by the current administration.

EDIT: Salaries also do not equate to quality of living. While Canada might not be the best example with housing prices being as high as they are, they do have other benefits, such as the average American paying more for wealth care. And in the case of the EU, there's other things to consider, such as their cities vs American cities (walkable vs drivable), individuals might also be interested in experiencing foreign countries with long history, unique cultures, etc... especially considering these are academic people.

There's all sorts of reasons one could take a lower salary for that occurs to me, and I'm sure many more that don't. Of course more money IS always welcome.
You can build a useful ai product to give the power of ai to your users

You can build with ai to give the power to you and produce a regular (at best) product.

You can build a custom ai code assistant maker so that coders can use ai to produce ai products.

It's too much incest, I hate it, hope you guys eat your own tail
There are some efforts to use extensions to allow signing/verification of web assets (assuming you trust the extension/browser), some via third parties:

https://github.com/tasn/webext-signed-pages

https://github.com/jahed/webverify

https://github.com/facebookincubator/meta-code-verify

There was another one posted here recently, but I'm unable to find it now.
> The obvious way to deal with this would be to send forward some of the internal activations as well as the generated words in the autoregressive chain.

Hi! I lead interpretability research at Anthropic.

That's a great intuition, and in fact the transformer architecture actually does exactly what you suggest! Activations from earlier time steps are sent forward to later time steps via attention. (This is another thing that's lost in the "models just predict the next word" framing.)

This actually has interesting practical implications -- for example, in some sense, it's the deep reason costs can sometimes be reduced via "prompt caching".
Just for context here, an increased possibility of suffering property damage is one of the tamest politically-driven injustices occurring these days. Contrast it with say, being disappeared off of the street for having said the wrong thing.

I agree that we're in dire need of law and order. The fish rots from the head - we can only repair our society by demanding accountability for the lawless gangsters destroying it from the top.
Apple needs a Snow Apple. Fire Tim, bring in some real change.
Not a bunker per say but I recently learned that in some states/cities you don’t pay property taxes on square footage below ground so you end up with people building more space below than above ground and Virtual Sun can make it feel like above ground space. Just visited a billionaire project last week where this was the case.
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices
Mac OS X versions before Jaguar supported GPU accelerated applications, but the windows were composited in software which caused severe performance problems. Jaguar introduced something called Quartz Extreme, where the windows are treated as OpenGL surfaces and the window contents are textures mapped onto the surfaces. This made OS X significantly smoother on computers with a fast enough GPU and enough VRAM to support it, as the CPU didn't have to spend a bunch of time copying all the window contents to the framebuffer.
We're going to disagree on this, but I have had situations arise at least once every 6 months where someone at work, or I, had to decompose a problem or come up with some critical code in exactly the same way as a LC interview.

There is something very frustrating about living this experience and being surrounded by folks who refuse to admit it is real. Those same folks who couldn't help in those times.

It's fine, it's not always required for every job, but I sure as heck would appreciate working with folks who can describe set cover or what have you. I work where I work though. So, it's different all over. But to unilaterally say it's invalid is just plain wrong.
We tried to fit dagger where we had jenkins

"Tried", implying it didn't go well and isn't a fit for replacing Jenkins?
Hey, if we're already complaining about Microsoft products, can someone explain why the Bedrock and Java versions of Minecraft have not been made cross-compatible in the TEN YEARS since the Mojang acquisition?

(... speaking as another dad just trying to play with my kid.)
This alone says a lot about Apple's software "prowess", i.e perennial customer hostility combined with clear incompetence, (in which their "core" customer base has by now becomes participants in some kind of Stockholm syndrome scenario), that an attempted de-shittification of their OS is being hailed as (nostalgia tinted?) greatness :)
Weirdly enough... not always.

When it comes to random companies running their own VDP vs. hiring it out, it can be less than standard despite there being lots of resources on setting it up. I've seen ones that only include a phone number, the email address listed doesn't exist anymore, etc.

Others have had to even get to the point of contacting an executive via LinkedIn despite there being a VDP page / security.txt.
explores the challenges and considerations of integrating AI tools into human workflows, particularly in engineering and operations contexts.

I found it to be an interesting read.
Apple is becoming like Google, everything is slightly broken and nobody cares, because fixing stuff doesn't get you promoted...
The tool is built deep in our CI/CD chain. The whole thing is a house of cards built on a massive pile of tinder next to an open drum of kerosene. You want me to integrate XCode into that?

Last time I tried setting up an Apple developer license inside a large corporation, one that they paid for and not tied to me or my credit card, it was also a nightmare.

And yes, it's also on principle.
Are you guys looking at fabbing your own LED dies?

The actual spectrum of commercial LEDs is all over the place when you start measuring it it with a spectrometer, even when they supposedly have a high CRI. Especially if you want some temperature that isn't 6500K.

It was so bad that when I was building a night light for my eink desktop I ended up using halogen bulbs which I could undervolt. The main issue was that I wanted to be able to shift the spectrum of the lights from natural sunlight at noon, down to candle light at night.

I did have big plans for doing a neural network to control a bunch of LEDs against a reference temperature, but having to build and calibrate a spectrometer and jig as part of a back prop algorithm was a bit beyond my interest, especially since for halogens I just needed a lookup table with temperatures to voltages that worked for all the bulbs from the lot I used.
It is because the algorithm is worse. So many garbage results are showing up which they continue to allow.

Kagi lets me completely block specific domains. If Google cared about quality they’d let you do the same.
Yes! Good eye. They installed a pretty early version of our product - I think it took 4-5 years for the episode to finally come out
Yes, I read what could be seen from outside the paywall, and I've already read what the guy did in other articles (i.e. https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/ai-for-leetcode-codin...).

The creation, distribution, and commercialization of a tool that allows anyone to deceive employers is very dubious and ethically challenged.

The fact that he used access from school services in the creation of the tool places the school in legal hot-water. There's no leg to stand on for defense.

Sure he can argue that companies forcing applicants to spend hours completing those tests is abusive, but that fact which I agree with has no bearing or link to the fact that he created and published a tool whose primary purpose is to interfere tortiously with both candidates and prospective employers in the labor market, and the problem the software tries to solve is a cursed problem that can never be solved in a constrained socialist market.

The tool imposes costs on the company, and on the candidates themselves which is not negligible.

The situation shows a complete lack of ethics needed to do business, and that is what Columbia incentivized.

Their preventing attendance given the situation is a perfect example of how colleges today operate, which goes back to my original post.

Incentivize and induce people to step over the line with the promise that they can get a degree, then take it away because you stepped over the line.

Did you actually read what happened?
I use Atuin and like it a lot, and sync history across hosts.

However, the fuzzy search in Atuin is worse than fzf, which was a downgrade. It just has less effective heuristics/scoring, e.g. it might find the individual letters of a short command scattered in a command that had a long base64 input or something.
Wow, that 2013 WWDC video is so incredibly impactful. I had no idea I was going to experience what I did when I hit play. It resonates with me so strongly, I honestly wasn't ready for it.
Oh, thanks. I will explore more on this.
> Hate crimes only serve to give a specific group protected status

That's not true. There is no specific group of people that is protected. A racially motivated crime only requires that race be part of the motive, not that the victim be a member of a particular race.
I migrated to Linux about a year ago too. Not the smoothest experience ever (looking at you, ath11k with device-specific quirks) but so far I am delighted. Finally, I don't have to fight my computer to do things I expect it to do.

Unfortunately, I still have to deal with macOS for work due to corporate policies.
Exactly.

People don't want animojis, and they don't want other trite new features that only seem to exist because Apple feels it needs to demo something new every year.

What they want is something that just works without annoyances, distractions, failures, or complications.

Give them that and they'll break down the doors trying to get their hands on it, because it's so far from how most tech works today.
It could be a third option, the bloat in other OSes has made a less bloated OS look very pleasant and useful.
Your loss. I haven't been able to tolerate the MacOS experience since Catalina, running GNOME with a Magic Trackpad has felt head-and-shoulders better for the past 3 years at least. Apple Silicon is neat but was never an option for native development in my workflows anyways. The software matters more to me, and MacOS has been sliding down the subscription slopware slope for years now.

I am perfectly happy to use last-gen hardware from Ebay if it runs an OS that isn't begging me to pay for subscriptions and "developer fees" annually. My dignity as a human is well worth it.
Yeah, that’s usually the answer. At the end of the day, never communicate with your tenant except through a lawyer or an officer. Corporate is much better fit for rent than small scale landlords. No emotions involved, no trust required, and they can achieve economy of scale with legal fees.