skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a news article that said the deep red smoke is a hallmark of ammonium nitrate.
I am uniquely qualified to respond to this, as about 6 years ago I developed a raw milk cheese that was inspired by Stilton that eventually won 1st place in its class in the World Champion Cheese Contest.

I do not feel that the original claim is overstated. Creating any novel cheese is remarkably difficult–seriously, it's really damn hard–but recreating a cheese that no longer exists and was likely made in a different location under different circumstances is effectively impossible. There are so many hidden variables involved that, even if they had access to the model cheese, a talented cheesemaker could still take years to make a good approximation. And it would only be an approximation. Even with today's advanced cheese technology you cannot recreate terrior.

Since they don't have access to the model cheese, this difficulty is compounded many times.

Edit: I want to add that even though I was at the peak of my cheese game, I was only able to do this because I had effectively unlimited money to throw at the problem and very little oversight from my investors.
Extreme build reproducibility requirement: had a customer in telecom. Their customers (carriers) required downtime no more than 5 (or 10?) minutes per decade — 7 nines I believe.

When they reported a bug they wanted the fix and then they differed the binary to be sure that every code change was related to the patch itself and nothing else. No additional fixes or upgrades. They were willing to pay through the nose to stay on a very old version of the code.

The code was in C (this was mid 90s) — can’t imagine how much harder it might have been with extensive templating and the like.
Any grocery store that’s understaffed/busy ATM. As awesome as H-E-B is, I’ve had to bag my own stuff once in a while. It usually feels a bit rushed and seems to annoy the checker if you’re not super-quick about it.
(waves hands) proteins (or something)
I'm on the community advocates team at GitLab and we really appreciate your feedback. I wanted to point out that our team responded to your post on the GitLab forum, you can see the response here: https://forum.gitlab.com/t/gitlab-support-is-no-longer-proce...
>"I must confess, I actually lied earlier when I told you only one person noticed. Only one person reached out to me to ask if GPT-3 was writing the articles. However, there were a few commenters on hacker news who also guessed it. Funny enough, nobody took notice because the community downvoted the comments."

this is pretty hilarious. Although the genre has probably much to do with it, virtually all business/productivity/ lifestyle/self-help stuff has the same sort of generic tone and is full of crap
> scientists who can be bought off for nothing and blackmailed easily.

Bought off by who? I presume the "elite families" you mention. So either way we are ruled by the wealthy in this model. There are other options of course and I assume you would agree, I just wanted to point out my surprise at this false dichotomy (that's not even a dichotomy since they're mostly the same scenario).

I also agree 100% that STEM professionals should be trained to be citizens first.
Just a side note, but some jurisdictions treat faxing similarly to giving a document in-person. For example, signing a contract and faxing it can be considered the same as certified mail. Generally not so with email. I'm not saying it's right by the way, just that is how it is sometimes.
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I've done something like this - server running off of UPS moved from one building in Manhattan to another about 1/4 mile away, in snow... Not for someone with weak arms.
This seems like quite an overreaction.
That's more like it, but seriously there aren't a lot of articles written about app acquisition and the process of going through and debugging a massive codebase. If they buy it, no one from Microsoft will ever write a blog talking about how the code was a mess and how their team improved it.
I might be tempted to walk to dangerous places, lets avoid walking, I would say it is dangerous because it can be abused.
Twitter is a slot machine composed of humans (2017)
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These days desktop market share is less than mobile, it's not really useful to only talk about desktop.
Sure, there has been evolution. Like the adaptation of white skin for humans in northern latitudes. Why was it so important to evolve pale skin for humans living in high latitudes?

Social distancing in summer as a reason why people don't get sick is an interesting theory, any studies that support it?
In the subject of Artificial Intelligence it says:

> Theorem: No AI will bother after hacking its own reward function.

and then goes on:

> The picture [263] is that once the AI has ﬁgured out the philosophy of the “Dude” in the Cohen brothers movie Lebowski, also repeated mischiefs does not bother it and it “goes bowling”. Objections are brushed away with “Well, this is your, like, opinion, man”. Two examples of human super intelligent units who have succeeded to hack their own reward function are Alexander Grothendieck or Grigori Perelman.

Grothendieck abandoned the mathematical community after modernizing an entire field and eventually secluded himself in France. He is considered one of the greatest mathematicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Retirem...
In this case, the doctors really do know better. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to just about every disease. That's because it's a marker of frailty, not a direct cause for most of these diseases. In other words, correlation does not imply causation.

It sounds like you have too much confidence in published research and not enough confidence in your local health officials.
The answer is proper 12 factor separation of concerns. The last Rails project I had a role in, I complained mightily about the lack of proper config separation and not keeping your effing config in the codebase. They fell on deaf ears, devs would edit the .env file, it would invariably make it to the repo, and database commands would invariably get run on the wrong database, including prod in some instances.

Worse, the CI/CD pipeline would break when I tried pulling the .env file out of the codebase. It took me a while to figure out why and finally keep all the config in the environment and not the codebase, I breathed a great sigh of relief when I was finally able to add .env to the gitignore.

Set DATABASE_USER and everything else to ENV['DATABASE_USER']. Better yet use connection strings instead, they're easier to manage. Devs need to hand-manage their own environment, I prefer direnv, but you can use dotenv if you have to, just dictate that .env has to be in the gitignore. Every single CI/CD platform and PaaS lets you set environment variables. So no .env files get pulled down on git pull, messing everyone's day up.
With GPT-3, I guess lots of upcoming stories of various discussion forums getting the "Sokal Affair"[1] treatment. We'll keep amusing each other by trolling everybody with more fake GPT-3 stories.

I think GPT-3 is very convincing for "soft" topics like the other HN thread "Feeling Unproductive?"[2], and philosophical questions like "What is intelligence?" where debaters can just toss word salad at each other.

It's less convincing for "hard" concrete science topics. E.g. Rust/Go articles of programming to improve performance.

An interesting question is what happens when the input to the future GPT-4 is inadvertently fed by lots of generated GPT-3 output. And in turn, GPT-5 is fed by GPT-4 (which already ingested GPT-3). A lot of the corpus feeding GPT-3 was web scraping and now that source is tainted for future GPT-x models.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24062702
My wife just had a Vitamin D test which came at 15ng/mL, so we are chuckling right now that she is 100% going to die if she gets COVID.

Dark humor aside, that is one hell of a chart. Really helps explain the huge drop in death rate over the summer.

I must say it’s a bit of a missed opportunity to build up herd immunity while the sun is shining here in the northern hemisphere.
Everyone calls me stupid every time I bring up the fact that Twitter had a better TikTok before TikTok in Vine. The blinding fact is that Twitter has never once made a shrewd business movie in ~15 years and is piloted by nimrods.

Even now, they could bring Vine back and compete with TikTok toe-to-toe but they’re evidently allergic to making sound business decisions.
You've retreated to generalities.

The working artists, designers, and other creators I know, and no few I've worked with, don't want to abolish the legal regime set up to ensure them compensation. They don't want to trade what leverage they have for the dole, or for "universal basic income", which is much the same when you'd qualify for either. I've heard and read much the same from their guilds and industry groups.

That doesn't mean the status quo. Many would reform or replace fair use and add orphan-work safe harbors. Others would make copyright protection entirely opt-in, as before Berne. Some would expand "moral rights", or implement them where they haven't been. Others want commonly negotiated terms, like portfolio rights for works made for hire, made defaults, under law. Views on term of protection vary.

There's nothing terribly tired about arguing for copyright abolition, other than that we've heard it for decades now, and political prospects might be worse now than they were then. What is tired is portraying intellectual property as standing on no firm policy foundation, especially no economic foundation. Activists have been making a straw man of economic theory, pretending it got as far as 19th century industrial considerations and stopped, since the nascent years of Internet exceptionalism. The idea that low or no marginal cost of reproduction totally confounds public policy underlying property protection is emblematic. Low marginal cost of reproduction didn't begin with the Internet. It occurred to economists discussing intellectual property, and was well integrated by them, generations before.
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Science in America tends to be practiced in universities, and universities in America are no longer open to the free exchange of ideas.

While it may look like the public is losing faith in science, it's actually the public losing faith in the platform on which science is practiced: academia. If we want the public to regain faith in scientific findings, we need to fix academia.
> Let's leave the medicine to the medical professionals, yeah?

Partially disagree. Yes, they are a very important source of information, but ultimately it is your body and information should flow freely both directions so you (the patient) are empowered to make the best possible decision.

Anecdote:

Doctors are not omniscient. One time when my sister was in high school, she went to the doctor because she had a weird rash. My mom researched skin rash images online for hours and concluded it was shingles. When she brought it up to the doctor he laughed and said my sister was far too young for shingles and that it was probably just an allergic reaction to something she ate. He prescribed some topical ointment to see if it helped.

Well, my mom didn't like that and took her to a different doctor who, unprompted, said: "wow, that looks like zoster (shingles)!"
The Boring company. Develop tech to drill deep tunnels on Mars? Electric cars and batteries cause you will need that on Mars? Even the Cybertruck looks like something destined for Mars.
Being nice to people is great. Zooming BS pablum to the top of HM and wasting everyone's time and energy is not.
That's fair. The RDA at 400 is tiny.
> They'd have to write extra code compared to what they have now to do this

How would they have to write extra code to support this? They already support 3rd party apps. Your analogies are bad.
I forget the name, but when I was in college there was a Mexican buffet chain that had a flag on the table if you needed refills, etc. I used to go there with my friends and the flag went up 5 minutes in and never came down.

We ate a lot then. Me and my friends were the terrors of buffet lines all across town ...
My colleague did the site, but thanks for the kind words (also for flagging the typo)!

Awesome, please let us know if you have any feedback / questions.
That you can make this post without mentioning the continued US/Saudi war on Yemen largely proves their point. People care when oil states are involved in a sport they follow or a US residents life. What is happening to millions of people in Yemen doesn't register.
If you haven't already, please consider opening up a Webcompat issue [1] about this. They'll definitely want to know since that's the sort of scenario that could end up breaking in multiple browsers — not just Firefox! — as tracking protection spreads across the ecosystem.

[1] https://webcompat.com/issues/new
Hi Tom I used to enjoy your blog a lot and your posts on G+ pray continue blogging.
They’ve made some pretty impressive inroads on user profile security, specifically on company best practices to blow it off entirely
Coolest product I've seen on HN – congrats, I'll be recommending to content creator friends!
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> New users will find Instagram confusing and why signup and download an app for 3 different things when you only want one of them?

At a certain scale, a person doesn't make this decision... their friends make it for them.
That is clearly not the case. This particular issue with Zoom was caused by user error, there are settings to prevent exactly what happened, not some endpoint exploit.

The court is open to the public. What threat is "chinese spyware" when you are publishing the meeting anyway?
I've mentioned this before, but my wife is a parathyroid surgeon (parathyroids are the glands that regulate the calcium in your neck) and would beg you to PLEASE monitor your calcium levels if you are supplementing with Vitamin D. She often sees patients on high doses of Vitamin D from well intentioned doctors, but with out of whack calcium levels because of it, and the patients can be very sick without understanding why. Often their doctors don't understand the processes either which is why they end up with her. I'll have her write a blog post about it at some point, but it is a real risk with possible severe long term consequences and she sees it a lot more often these days. She is getting her blog kicked off here (just yesterday actually) https://devaboone.com if you want to follow along.
Harvard students living in dorms will be tested 3 times a week
On multiple occasions I have asked my doctor about drugs that I had researched on my own (not seen through ads) and my doctor was unaware that the drug even existed.

Doctors have to cover a lot of ground, they don't always have time to learn about every treatment option for every possible human ailment.
> I find that starting practicing Rust - differently from other languages - requires "having read the whole reference".

And that's the problem that I have. In high school I was handheld into C / C++ with weekly lessons. By the time I started my career I abandoned C because the things I worked on professionally had no benefit from manual memory management.

Now the thing that I want to write, an embedded database, requires manual memory management and no runtime. I could, in theory, go back and do it in C. It'd be slow working in a language that I haven't done anything in since 2002, but at least I'm familiar with all the conventions.

Do I basically need to spend 40-80 hours doing silly exercises just to ease into the new conventions and mental model?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@twig-tools/logs

hmmm, does it not show up at that link? i just checked and it is listed as public
Missing in the article - it's variable reinforcement of political news that feels very high-stakes. That makes even more addictive and destructive. Sometimes you see something that conforms to your PoV, other times its hand-wringing panic. Which will it be next! Refresh and see...
People have been this divided for a long time. Social Media just helps exhume it better. Started in the 50s.
Ok I also agree with that, but what I mean is that in my opinion, nobody is an expert in everything, right? ... and if someone is wrong about something, they deserve to know the reasons and not just reject their opinion and leave ... then everybody ask why social networks become toxic ... here's the reason
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/trace-93c507a7-2825-4373-a...
I'm having trouble finding the time for a proper literature cull (this is now area of research so I don't keep these articles in my bibliography...), but here's a few:

Very old article about using HVDC to drop prices (still assumes coal is viable, because it uses old tech prices) https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/making-a-single-us-e...

The more publicized papers are those from Clack and Jacobson in PNAS arguing about whether nuclear/storage would be needed or not; both situations assumed that renewables would be far above 50%. There was a really silly lawsuit even, which is pretty awful:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/100-percent-ren...

So even in the case of bad modeling for 100% renewables, the critics are mostly people who think that 80% renewables is quite achievable with our current tech curves, and with building more nuclear.

Apologies again for not being more specific, but hopefully the papers in these press articles will help follow the citation chain to even better modeling. Both spatial and temporal modeling are important for both weather and electricity demand, so it's not an easy thing to get right. And I suspect that the market will find minimums that are quite different than anything these programs will find, due to political and other social factors nor modeled. But the models do show that a different future is possible, at least.
IMO it's (human control, at high levels) all over as soon as a major corporation or state finds a way to gain significant competitive advantage by handing over the reigns to machines. Absent sustained, vigorous opposition and punishment by an alliance of basically everyone else, we'll compete ourselves right into having no choice but to let AI run things, or else become subservient to and marginalized by those who do.

In other words by the time it's a choice, I doubt it'll even be a choice.
Along this line of thinking that "society is being forced into being average", I would reference this piece from Epsilon Theory:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-elton-hootie-line/

TL;DR: In order to be "heard" or to achieve enough of a following to be economically/politically relevant, you must "dynamically range compress" everything to sound the same and appeal to the largest audience, which removes diversity.
I don't believe that all policy should 100% have to be formed from scientific evidence, but there are places where the evidence is well researched and well understood, yet politicians legislate based on their own prejudices, directly flying in the face of both experts and evidence.

In the face of this sort of behaviour, is it not reasonable to ask for more evidence-based policy? Or at least that real evidence be considered where it is available?
I'm not sure what you mean. By "article" do you mean submission? Those can't be downvoted. You can "flag" a submission, but that's not for low quality submissions, but submissions that don't follow the guidelines.
Could you elaborate on why you aren't impressed? This particular example doesn't suffer from either of the main GPT-3 "tells" I've noticed up to this point (weak backbone and nonsensical assertions).

If I had to guess, I would say this essay was written by a human pretending to be GPT-3. Do you agree (except with higher confidence) and that's why you aren't impressed?
The 98% are never split equally. And some percentage of 100% is always swayed by propaganda. That's why it's propaganda that pushes the vote over the top. And in today's democracy, its done under the guise of "education". That's why the self-declared "engaged and well-informed" are often the most targeted, readily swayed, and eager to back the wrong movement.

The anti-vaccine movement is one example of the engaged being swayed to total conviction, and it's easy to question whether they truly care about their children, but love is their motivation. Similarly, many "wrong" movements are for the love of democracy of the country etc.

And looking at the bullet points at the end of the article, those are what even the "wrong" are doing, extremely proactively. And it all starts with the "educator" claiming to be the "reliable information source", which happens to be what Scientific American is also doing here.
Looks like this has been posted a lot on HN recently [0]. Previous Vitamin D & Covid-19 discussions that garnered some comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023703

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22463713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23119949

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23390264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23349962

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23167802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23188675

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23083619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22600685

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
The Congressional antitrust hearings were a week ago.
I think you're spending more time trying to justify your initial failure at finding the story on google rather than just doing the basic research to satisfy your curiosity. I can't tell if you're trolling at this point.
>presumably by official means and not from advertisements

That's why pharmaceuticals have sales reps visiting MDs, sponsoring seminars, etc.
I have been asking that too.

What steps should I take to verify information without becoming an expert in the field?

What about more nuanced political topics?
It does not appear to have been peer reviewed. It is being hosted by a diet book author, which should be a red flag. The most reputable source they cite for correlating Vitamin D level with Covid-19 cases and deaths called the correlation "crude" [0]. It is a weak correlation. Their suggestion that there have been controlled studies on infected patients seems to be misleading. As far as I can tell from the sources they cited, none of them administered Vitamin D to Covid-19 patients. I think the trials they are citing were performed years ago on pneumonia patients, not on Covid-19 patients [1].

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202265/pdf/405...

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939707/pdf/mai...
I think the hurdle is going to be getting it to write accurately. For example, if you want it to write a news article, ideally you want to give it some facts (this event happened, x people died) and it pumps out some accurate prose about it. I'm not sure you can trust GPT-3 to do that. It could produce something that sounds good, but there is not really a guarantee it is not spewing falsities that came from it's training data.
I read this recently, might be helpful to see some of the choices (not all RiscV): https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=705

Edit: A list of riscv implementations: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-cores-list
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