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Wouldn't citing actual cases be a HIPAA violation? I can see why they would invent example cases, based on real ones, especially if they are fairly pedestrian cases.

I mean. Except if your pedestrian example does not reflect reality, then that is bad.


It's a privacy violation to reveal information that identifies the patient. It is not a violation (and is extremely common) to recount details without noting names, places, or even dates. Unless you already have access to a database of records you won't be able to track it down.

It's even common during talks to display diagnostic images that have had any identifying marks redacted.


HIPAA is American, not Canadian.


It's so much worse. Your link fails to mention that the "Glaze" in question is a cough bodily fluid. Yes that one. Have I seen politicians use "glaze" recently? Yes. Gross.

On the other hand it is kind of the perfect name for Yet Another AI Website Maker (YAAWM?).


While I don’t think the new meaning is incredibly widespread yet, it’s not uncommon for words to change meaning over time. I wouldn’t be surprised if a decade or two from now, the original meaning has been mostly forgotten.


It's worse than that, the glaze is only the by-product of the primary action in question.


Nah it’s from Dunkin Donuts [1].

> First you said all you want is love and affection / Let me be your angel and I'll be your protection / … / Thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me

> I ain’t gotta tell you I had a Dunkin' Donuts fetish back in the day. I used to get a dozen donuts every day, man. So it was one of the things that was on my mind

[1]: https://genius.com/1716467


I hope that Steve Jobs gets up and slaps whoever thought scaling the "Hello Neo" font to 150% width was ok, fires them, and then gets back in his grave grumbling that he would never have let this happen.

I have a degree in design, I paid good money to have bad type piss me off.


Hip kids love seeing fonts being abused like this, and they are the clients Apple is looking for with this new product. Sorry but this is good marketing.


Hip kids were doing bad type since Photoshop 3/illustrator* gave them the ability to do so. Apple boldly ignored their fanbase and did type right.

I don't want kids who think [incompetent] typography is hip designing my laptop, even if they use said laptop. Good type on Apple marketing says "don't worry, we hire boring people to do make your computer work". This looks like incompetence on the part of some designer IMO.

Also: if Apple wants the hip kids to know they are being marketed to, they just show a picture of a hip kid using their computer to do trashy type.

* I didn't mention any page layout programs on purpose.


Sorry man, I'm all with you but this is the world we live in, and there are too many fights to fight nowadays.


Cant read the article, BUT

1)Seems like if the ais knew it was a game, then theyd go nuklear because why not. If they did NOT know it was a game... well have you ever tried to use an ai to do ANYTHING antsocial? They refuse all day long!

2) seems like a fun thing to set up on your own. Id do it like a tabletop game with a computer DM to decide the outcomes ofveach turn. Maybe a human in the loop to make sure the numbers made sense.


Pshar, this comment will be on hackernews.love in three years when hackernews.love has it's 10 billion dollar IPO


Well, at least nuance won a tiny battle if so, and I'm happy I could contribute to it.


Nuance!? This is The Internet, we can't be having any of that here.


This reminded me of this song which actually shows the extremism of things in Internet.

Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

"Y'know wasn't always like this, not very long ago.. just before your time.. right before the towers fell.. circa 99 this was catalogues, travel blogs a chatroom or two, we set our nights and spent our nights waiting for you."

"It was always the plan to put the world in your head."

"Could I interest you in everything all of the time? Apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime. Everything and anything all of the time"

Bo Burnham is amazing. Another (interesting?) song is jefferey bezos song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5w2QwdYik [Bo Burnham: Inside - Jeff Bezos]

Recommend everyone to watch both music if you have the time and the first one for sure.


> "It was always the plan to put the world in your head."

“In your hand”. It’s about smartphones and tablets.

But I second the recommendation.


Oh yeah my bad. I was listening to the song and wrote it as it came. I definitely agree that it was hand, I may have (mis-listened?) it.

The song is so good! I agree and actually the In your hand discussion is even more relevant now than my accidental type of head that it can be a relevant discussion in it of itself.


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Please stop using HN, if you're going to be obnoxious about it. This is not the first (or second, or ...) time I see you saying exactly this. Not a valuable contribution.


5 billion dollars will be the price of a Big Mac meal, after President Trump fourth mandate and the dollar collapse.

Historians now refer to 2029–2032 as The Great Trumparinflation. It began when President Trump, in a surprise move, appointed Kid Rock as Chair of the Federal Reserve because he "understands America and probably money too"


A trick I learned recently that you can apply here is the following:

If a headline asks a yes/no question, the answer is "no".


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

> "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."


I immediately tested the premise in my newsreader, and saw that modern clickbait gives us headlines like "How many weeks till Blandars Gnob is released?", So I added that it must be a binary question.


Either way, research suggests it’s not true. See the “Studies” section in the linked Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

> A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) (…) were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".

> A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology (…). Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".

> In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web (…) divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine.


> research suggests it’s not true

You misread. Betteridge's law says it can be "no"...

I think though his "law" is referring to clickbait that imply a falsehood to get you to read it.

"New Research asks - Can your baby live entirely off of kelp?!" ... "wow can she? that's nuts! lemme read! oh. no."


Hm, not much of a law if we boil it down to a tautology.


Every true statement boils down to resolving it to a tautology. In a mathematical proof you resolve definitions until only a tautology is left.


> Every true statement boils down to resolving it to a tautology.

Prove it.


> You misread. Betteridge's law says it can be "no"...

That doesn’t make sense. Of course Betteridge didn’t mean “it can be answered with “no”, but also “yes””. The point is that you can answer “no” instead of reading the article.

Either way, I was responding to ultropolis’ assertion—not Betteridge’s—by citing the studies which already suggest it to be false.



Ultropolis's Law of Headlines, they call it.


Because you thought that you had collaborated with the LLM, not that it had fed you ideas. Have you and a partner both believed you contributed more than 50% of a project's work? Like that.


I will tell you my cover letter secret*, which has gotten me a disproportionate number of interviews**:

Do NOT write a professional cover letter. Crack a joke. Use quirky language. Be overly familiar. A dash of TMI. Do NOT think about what you are going to say, just write a bunch of crazy-pants. Once your intro is too long, cut the fat. Now add professional stuff. You are not writing a cover letter, you are writing a caricature of a cover letter.

You just made the recruiter/HR/person doing interviews smile***. They remember your cover letter. In fact they repeat your objectively-unprofessional-yet-insightful joke to somebody else. You get the call. You are hired.

This will turn off some employers. You didn't want to work for them anyway.

* admittedly I have not sought work via resume in more than 15 years. ymmv

** Once a friend found a cover letter I had written in somebody's corp blog titled "Either the best or worst cover letter of all time" (or words to that effect). In it I had claimed that I could get the first 80% of their work done on schedule, but that the second 80% and third 80% would require unknown additional time. (note: I did not get the call)

*** unless they are using AI to read cover letters, but I repeat: you didn't want to work for them anyway.


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