skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking at whether this would be appropriate for something like server-side mixpanel event tracking. Or for sending transactional emails or text notifications using a 3rd party service like mailgun or twilio.

From what I can tell it is not intended for that purpose, and outright will not work.
I got an idea. Start an HN clone. When you vote something down it gets voted up for everyone else.

Knowledge about this has to be hidden from everyone, though and I don't know how long it can be kept hidden.

I'd actually like to see HN try this for a day. Some of the most substantive content is also the most voted down content.
> In Finland we put Vitamin D in milk that’s sold on normal shops.

Historically, the diet in that region included fish and other foods rich in vitamin D. I'm not sure what's the typical diet like these days.

But yeah, up north you definitely need to increase the intake of vitamin D. Same as Alaska in the US.
Ad prices going up means that more money is being siphoned off by Google from the mental health care service industry.

It's unclear that this is ACTUALLY competition for the service or just competition for the ads. I personally would not do therapy remote unless I had to so any therapist I would be looking for would be local even if I have to do therapy remote in the short term.
> A lot of the corpus feeding GPT-3 was web scraping and now that source is tainted for future GPT-x models

It might be possible to filter out GPT-3 generated text from future training data. Simply feed part of the text to GPT-3, and if it is way too good at predicting what follows you throw it out. The same trick could be used to detect students writing essays with it.

This trick will stop working though as more variants of good text prediction algorithms appear, unless we can do the same test against each one.
On a personal selfish level I was quite happy to see our workloads moving to datacenters that we couldn't (reasonably) physically access, because it replaced "can you go drive to the DC and replace a failing disk" with "we put in the request for smart hands to replace the failing disk". Of course, there's some notable tradeoffs, but it makes me feel better when the business decides to do such things...
Anecdotal, but I've pushed close friends who are reasonably technical to install an ad blocker. Without my urging, they wouldn't have had one at all. When I come across someone who doesn't adblock, it surprises me, but it really shouldn't, as it seems most people don't have an ad blocker.
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Good luck AB testing things in the real world :p
While intercom's advertising may like to tout bots and AI chat, I can't imagine that is why most companies use it. They have a plethora of other features, sort of like proactive marketing automation that make it useful.

If it were just about the chat we would have dropped them for a cheaper solution long ago.

They continue to roll out new features and charge more and more for them though, so they will eventually run us off. Just not yet.
I’ll need to reread some of his posts, but I don’t find this particularly enlightening. Apply has always been pure variable substitution in my mind. From this point of view, of course apply is dependent on the code snippet you’re supplying, it’s the code that’s getting “modified” by the substitution.
This is why services like Google Apps or managed exchange hosting exist. Most people are terrible at IT management. So bad they're far, far from realizing how bad they even are.

When you consider you're getting like 1000 of the smartest tech people in the world to manage your infrastructure for you, for $5/month per user, it's really such a no-brainer. If people are too stubborn to see that, or want to waste time trying to do it better themselves "because it's cheaper", with redundant power, OS patching, zero-downtime changes/deploys, proper capacity planning, proper redundant connectivity, provisioning the right network around it, physically securing the server room, ensuring things are properly cooled, not wet...I could go on forever, and this isn't even the main focus of the business...I'm sorry, but they deserve go to out of business.

I had a very stubborn client once who ran a hotel chain. Won't say what or where, but I wasn't surprised when their random "security through obscurity" VNC server got compromised. I wasn't finishing migrating to the new PCI-DSS compliant system we built, either, so there go 5000 credit cards "encrypted" with some sweet rot13-level bullshit in Turbo Pascal I cracked in about 30 minutes with no code access.
> Arguably, virtual threads also explicitly yield by calling one of the blocking methods in the JDK.

There's nothing explicit here, or nothing more explicit than the ordinary platform threads you use today -- JDK operations might or might not block an OS thread. There is no way you can tell whether a call does that or not, and that behaviour can change (plus, there's forced preemption as an option).

> This is a well-established core difference, I thought you had something else in mind with "explicit yield".

I would say that an explicit colour for yielding qualifies as an explicit yield, and so falls under cooperative. In any event, virtual threads have neither explicit yield-sites nor special yield-site colours, hence they're non-cooperative, and they support forced preemption.
IIRC, some news reports stated Fauci mentioned something about eye-protection last week. Haven't heard anything more concrete than that. It makes sense, but... I doubt most people will do it. I wear glasses half the time, which... I dunno - may be slightly useful?
Jesus, it left a CRATER!
In my experience, often people just double tap the photos to like them on instagram. And since most people hardly used the button for liking, it was a prime real estate for shops to move into.
I can't help but feel that zuckerberg has unduly influenced the president to ban tiktok in order for them to further corner the social media market.

This feels wrong.
This concept is so cool.
I love uMatrix. It removes all annoyances like customer support popups, chat bots, basically anything other than the main domain.

It is high maintainance, only if you visit many new sites every day. For a single site/domain, set it once and go.

There are built in 'recipes' allowing YT embeds, twitter embeds, google capthas if a site wants it.

Once you globally whitelist CDN's (cloudflare and others), it's enough. For popular sites (reddit, YT, twitter use the Recipes)
Yup, with .envs that can be overrided from the command line, the migration command gets a more privileged user set in its environment for just that command, everything else falls back to the file configured production user. Then you can't even fat finger a migration command because you have to set up the privileged environment first.
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That's... actually fascinating, if in a slightly insane way. There's pets, there's cattle... and apparently there's a herd of cloned pets, which I'd somehow never considered before:)
Sure, if I made it sound like I meant "There is no instance where it makes sense to not eat your customer alive" then that is not correct. I am certain these cases exist.
Patient compliance is considered by the bodies that assess the value of medication.
Also, isn't milk consumption unevenly distributed across the whole population? E.g. those with an Asian background I would expect to consume less milk than the population average.
Yes, lots of explosions and other events are filtered out. It's pretty easy to classify large explosions vs. earthquakes both by the depth (earthquakes are rarely so shallow; even a big earthquake that breaks the surface will have most of its energy released 5-15 km below the surface) and by the polarity of the first seismic waves (P-waves) that reach the instruments. In an explosion, all of the waves radiating out will have the 'first motion' being a push outward, away from the source towards the instrument.

However, tectonic earthquakes are rapid sliding movements of the crust along a fault that is a quasi-planar surface. This leads to patterns in the seismic waves, where half of them, two quadrants, show a compressional push away from the source and the other two quadrants have the first motion as tensile, or a pull towards the source. By looking at the geographic locations of the seismic instruments and seeing which show a pull and which show a push, seismologists fit planes separating the quadrants which correspond to the azimuth and inclination of the fault that caused the earthquake.

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Interestingly, the orientation of the fault and the quadrants of push and pull reflect the directions of the stress field in the crust caused by plate tectonic motions, as well as secondary sources of stress such as gravitational loading of the crust from high topography, or the expansion and contraction of magma chambers under volcanoes. In the 60s through the 80s, geophysicists used this information to put together the first models of the rates and directions of different tectonic plates, but we now mostly use GPS for this.
> I don't think most people minds ads

Is that true? I despise ads and the entire advertising industry. I would wear special glasses that would block billboards from my vision if they existed. I pay extra for the ad-free version of Hulu. When I'm at someone's house and they have cable and the TV is on, I find ad breaks incredibly jarring.

Am I just an extreme outlier? It would make me sad for humanity if that was the case. Not minding blatant emotional manipulation in your face all day seems... not great.
Very, very strongly disagree with you.

First, some of the most beautiful math stemmed from an attempt at solving an actual, practical problem, and the path the "discoverers" of such math followed to get there is often profoundly different from the way it's taught.

Your view, which I've been subjected to by most of my math teachers my entire curriculum is the exact reason why most people hate maths because it feels like a bunch of very complicated and hard to learn stuff that seems to serve no purpose whatsoever.

When you've been learning a bunch of very theoretical stuff for decades and finally find an actual application / use for it, my experience is that:

- you do *then* see the beauty of it
- you curse your math teachers and their ancestors to the seventh generation for not having shown you the practical application of the (typically over-generalized) theory he/she was force-feeding you back then.
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My own blog is statically generated too. I don’t have most of these either, because as a user I barely care about any of them or even actively dislike them.
So use fiber, attack largely mitigated. Got it!
I'm not expecting investigative journalism here. I just expect the article about a product launch to be mostly about the product being launched. Like pull out your phone install the app and take a screenshot or two. List what it does and how it works.

Save the corporate strategery and political intrigue stuff for another article.
From the past several years they've been constantly suspending brand new accounts for "security" reasons and requiring a phone number to unlock them, even if the account wasn't doing anything that looks spammy or suspicious.

When opening a support ticket about it, they claim it was a "mistake and" offer to unlock the account but I always suspected it was a disgusting tactic for harvesting phone numbers and I guess I was right.
Libre office is great. They need to undo their change to copy pasting in Calc however: half the time it produces some weird floating cell now instead and is a confusing nuisance. It’s still a great suite of software that I use constantly
I would argue that we would indeed be extinct. The phenomenon of apparent subjective experience is perhaps the most critical property of our existence, and based on the foundations of computer science as we understand them today, it is not necessary for computers to have a subjective experience in order to produce output that exceeds human capabilities.
Been distracted today as I've been playing civ6 far too much, when I should be monitoring these missing arps in a cisco switch.

So CAD then.
In that framing, I'm arguing that there isn't much optimization to be done.

It's appealing to think that we haven't even started of course, but malnourishment has become an economic disease.
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If a <video> tag is attached to the Video, Firefox stops it.

Sites are loading videos in frames (looking at you Reddit) and in GIFs (news sites)
My computer is far from new (it only has 16GB of DDR3) and the switching of tabs in Firefox is instantaneous. With the disclaimer that I only have 17 tabs open.

I am replying only because I think your comment can be misleading to other readers of HN.
How 'bout the Chinese government?
> Personally, as a scientist, I am comforted that there are enough others out there who doubt the entire notion of a scientific establishment that the population should "trust" to make decisions without oversight.

I'm not sure what you're actually proposing, but it sounds dangerously close to "pilots have been in control of airplanes for decades, and they've caused so many crashes, so maybe it's time to try people who aren't pilots."

> I'd rather be ruled over by elite families than squabbling, territorial, overconfident scientists who can be bought off for nothing and blackmailed easily.

Do you really look at history and conclude that, because some scientists are corrupt or dishonest, you'd rather have monarchs control things like safety regulations for medicine, industrial activity, architecture, food, etc.? Again, that sounds very much like the "let's give non-pilots a shot at controlling aircraft."
True, but it heavily depends on what you mean by "can." Doing it safely in Java is a problem, as Java code does not protect from shared state. So I would say it's "sort-of, but not really, as it would be very dangerous unless you know exactly what the thread is doing." On the other hand, if the question is, if Erlang were implemented on the Java platform using virtual threads as processes, would code be able to kill a process arbitrarily, then the answer would be yes.
NetflixParty is the only extension that I actually use that isn't on Firefox. I wish someone made a clone. I wonder if there's something technical preventing that from happening.
I recall working on some Sun machines with hot-swappable CPUs (and, I assume, disks and other peripherals). If they somehow made memory hot swappable (I'm sure it's possible, just uncommon and/or verrry expensive), with hot swap CPUs and disks, and redundant power supplies, you could tear the machine half apart and it would still keep running. Of course, at that point, once everything is hot swappable, there are generally multiples of everything, so your one machine is really more like multiple machines inside one box than a single discrete machine.
I'd use Ada if there was a really good open source version with an MIT or similar license. It does "feel" nice.
Chrome offers this quiet magical feature called ‘tab to search’, Firefox allows you to make custom search key shortcuts but you need to make each of them. It’s just not as easy to use and is a killer feature that’s very fast/useful and missed for anyone who uses it and tries to switch away to Firefox.

It’s the only thing that keeps pulling me back to Chrome, as well as many others I’ve seen discuss it in forums over the years.

There’s no Firefox extension to add it and as Firefox users don’t have it they don’t miss it.

Really, sort this, you’ll quietly unlock a bunch more switches.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1177556
Look how much there was in that warehouse https://cdn.ren.tv/cache/960x540/media/img/26/fb/26fb305fdd5... this was all on Ukrainian tv years ago when the crew was stranded there
Depends on the doctor and specialty. Family medicine covers a massive number of diseases that are treated by thousands of different drugs. Family doctors may, but not always, know about newly approved drugs.
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That's actually the backstory of The Expanse. Earth colonized Mars, Mars eventually rebelled, and the resulting Mars-Earth competition to colonize the rest of the solar system drives much of the story.
Losing one means less affect on the overall mission
Without a reference to go by a quick Google indicates toxicity is only likely by taking far above recommended levels (max recommended is 4000iu daily) for an extended period.

Presumably people on those kind of doses are taking it under medical supervision, or are idiots/under the control of idiots.

I am not a doctor, but without further information it seems that as ever, following the guidance on legit supplies specifically and mainstream medical advice generally is a good rule of thumb.
It is really great to see this researched and documented. While not every A/B test is proof, it is compelling in this case - and confirms my long-head view that these chat bubbles are just bad UX. There is a lot of other recent "UX best practices" that are actually worst practices, but because every unicorn is doing it, teams often feel they should do the same - without asking whether this kind of "engagement" is really serving the core product management objectives.
Those are not precise quotes. With things like this, the details matter.
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IQ can only really be calibrated relative to a specific test for it. I don't think there are tests for which even a perfect score would yield a value above 160, since the scoring is basically what percentile of the population you are scoring higher than. It's not like the tests are even modeled as approximations to some "ideal" test; they are fundamentally about trying to measure deviation against the population at large.

Talking about IQs in excess of human intelligence is not really interesting because of that. It's just not a designed for measuring intelligence as an actual number.
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And American companies. And the American government.
The README links to the original as a reference!
Most footage during the Wuhan lockdown had a near majority wearing goggles in places like grocery stores.
It was limited to prescription drug DTC, but yes, you're point about cost-effectiveness is true. That typically falls on the patient and their insurance, but the system doesn't make the ability to take cost into account very easy at all (i.e. you usually find out the cost when paying for the Rx).
Geez, it's a good thing I removed cell 2FA from all my accounts after getting hacked (SIM card transfer via social engineering)
I feel like this could be presented in a much more engaging manner.

There's one quick video on the main page which shows replacement backgrounds, but the "Examples" page shows about 15 or 16 examples of the same thing, removing a background. It quickly gets to the point of "Ok yeah, so what? Show me something cool to do once the background is gone."

I get that it may be difficult to remove a background the way this service does, but the customer is going to be less impressed with the fact that it works correctly than they are going to be about it having an actual engaging or useful purpose.
While I agree that types are a great tool and ensure a level of robustness in your code, I do think there's tradeoffs. Rails offers a ease of use and robustness in infrastructure that is very compelling.

I could write a web server in OCaml or Rust and it'd be wonderful code that has a lower rate of failure per line. But it may not have the same depth of logging, connection pooling, configuration, etc. I may have to write some of my own auth logic, as I had to do when dealing with JWTs in Rust. Do I trust myself to write auth logic? Even with types it's quite easy to write a logic error that leads to a vulnerability. Meanwhile I'm pretty certain Devise is rock solid.

Also things just take longer in less mature stacks. I had a wonderful time writing a web server in Rust but I'll probably never do it again unless I need serious performance and Rust's libraries mature a little. And Rust's library ecosystem is a lot better than say, OCaml's or Haskell's. Robust code is great, but it's meaningless if you can't get stuff done.
Plenty of mega-corps are full of people who phone-it-in every day, you don't have to work demanding jobs.

I personally love working hard, which is why I only work with startups, which tend to have a higher personal ROI and more meritocracy oriented.
i suppose 2 could blow up, no problem :)
True, I think food supplementation is hard to do in general since the dose needs to be appropriate for anyone that may consume it, with age ranging from infant to elderly.
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> Which is totally, completely and absolutely against the spirit of real science. My 2c.

Absolutely true, but examine the power dynamic. The scientists are only able to provide results (whether for or against) if they have bread on the table. The funders (as private entities) provide an almost inescapable dilemma then for the researchers. So who's more at fault, the scientist or the ones holding the purse strings? Why would we expect scientists to live up to some lofty ideal while others seek only personal profit through them?

Really, this is just a greater indictment of what our system has morphed into, where science and R&D is increasingly seen as the province of private companies, and not to be funded publicly.

(Or worse, to be funded publicly and then gatekept for profit)
But how is that different than seeing a regular doctor? The issue here seems to be having a high deductible in general. In my case, I have a $1500 deductible too and my guy doesn't take insurance either, but I submit the bill in 2 seconds with an online claim and it counts against the deductible.
> it won't be hard to reproduce in an AI

It is fundamentally impossible to determine whether or not "consciousness" has been successfully "reproduced".
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I don’t think having to work hard is abusive. Investment bankers famously work 70, 80 hour weeks voluntarily. Why can’t software engineers work a bit more than 40 hours a week if they wanted to? The ‘low pay’ that people claim is well above market average in most of the world, and above the median US income. People are mostly happy to have the opportunity to work here.

I think that complaints of abuse are thinly veiled xenophobia. You pretend to be helping us, but you just want to protect your own overly inflated salaries from market forces.
> they edited the "GPT-3" article to some extent. For example I would not be surprised to learn that, unable to use GPT-3 for a significant amount of time, they genereated some of the text of the article and then created the rest by hand, or similar.

You should assume all GPT-3 related text (including app demos and screenshots) is cherry-picked unless you can see the text generated in real time for yourself.
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Distribution on film was still incredibly popular up until 2012/2013.
It's probably a bit of both, TBH. ;)
I think it's more of an assumption required by models which say "democracy is a good idea that will work well." In other words, the typical civics class model goes something like "democracy is a good idea that will work well, assuming that (among other things) the public is engaged and well-informed."
This is a good book but I'm not sure it's low-level enough for those people in high school who don't like or haven't learned enough math – he mentions matrices, sin/cos, real numbers, … right in the first chapter!