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Generally I agree with your overall points but I have one small reservation about this part:

> If you want to break up companies to make it easier for independent therapists, those are the ones to break up.

It's not clear breaking up BetterHelp and Talkspace will do good at this point.
Fundamentally, it's not efficient or possible for all of therapists in the entire US to compete for everyone's eyeballs independently. It's impossible for consumers to meaningfully compare and "shop" against tens of thousands of therapists, nor tens of thousands of suppliers to compete for tens of millions of consumers. You need some mechanism to funnel this down and organize this market. This is why retailers and various dealers and brokers exist, and BetterHelp and Talkspace are the retailers of therapist service, just like Amazon and Walmart are the retailer for many different goods suppliers.
It's frustrating that when this comes up, this comment is always the top one, because it's not true.

We have dozens of RCTs suggesting that vitamin D supplementation prevents respiratory infections[1]. There is a very good chance people could mitigate C19 risk with supplementation.

And I personally trust the vast majority of people to use reasonable enough dosing that overdose is unlikely, especially with appropriate messaging.

Downplaying the risks of low vitamin D (way more prevalent than vitmain D toxicity) seems as dangerous as the early pandemic messaging in the US that masks are ineffective.

1. https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
> these authors tend to want to have that "formatting" preserved almost exactly...missing an important point of web documents. :-)

Yes, I agree :). That's why I said "ironically": they want to preserve their formatting, even though it's terrible, and it looks like they didn't want to think about how to format it anyway.
The Falcon Heavy uses 27 engines and has a perfect track record ,so they've got some credibility here.
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Anecdata caveat and all that, I agree with your views. If I think about how I've used HN in 2020, it is primarily the Octal iphone app and I default to the "Show HN" filter as a workaround.
I imagine people who are hostile to science would change their attitude after going without electricity and hot water for a couple weeks.
When that came out a few years ago [1], I began getting my vitamin D tested through my doctor and slowly ramped up my dosage. It went from 28 ng/mL (70nmol/L) [2] to 32-35 ng/mL (80-87.5 nmol.L). In my own physiology, this required 4,000 IU (100 mcg) daily, orally. 2,000 IU was not quite enough.

I'm going to add another 2,000 IU daily to see if I can reach the recommended 100 nmol/L from the OP. [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867918

[2] converter here: https://www.azcalculator.com/calc/vitamin-d-ngml-nmolL-conve...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28768407/
It is bound to actual release data!

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Website/blob/v2/pack...

The divs are updated every time the website is re-deployed, and it deploys often. This means we don't need to run JS to give you the right date info.
The post started out OK, but then I lost the plot

> Q. It’s easier to tamper with binaries than to write a bugdoor, so reproducible builds do improve security.
>
> I absolutely disagree, every programmer knows how to write a bug or short circuit some logic. Hiding malicious activity in a binary, with a multi billion dollar malware industry determined to find it is more difficult. In addition, once you’ve produced and signed the malicious backdoor, it is not repudiable - you can’t deny you wrote and provided it.
>
> With bugdoors, you don’t need to deny it - you just claim it was an error, and you’re automatically forgiven.

If the binary vendor has the source code, every source exploit is also a binary exploit. If you can make a semi-"bugdoor" that's plausibly deniable, and then augment it with a binary tamper that's deniable as an artifact of non-deterministic compilation, is that not the ultimate coup de grâce?
> And how do you know if they perceive it to be slow?

Ask them, or listen to what they are saying without you asking. (I.e. UI/UX research 101.) For an IDE with a large userbase (for example JetBrains' product line), there are plenty of bug reports / user reviews which complain about performance, and so it's possible to get a picture of how many users perceive your app to be slow.

Note, I chose my words carefully there -- if your users don't perceive the site to be slow, they may still respond positively to imperceptible performance improvements. To measure that you do A/B experiments. There's a lot of ink spilled on this subject; Google has done some really good research here.

> Customers often don't even know it's a possibility that their software could be faster.

Fair, I probably oversimplified there. More precisely, "If speed/performance is a feature that your customers will pay for, you should be able to measure that fact."

You don't necessarily need to invest in the performance improvements to measure this; when Goole investigated this they simply added artificial delay and measured the effects on revenue. From this you can estimate the gradient of the $-revenue / ms-latency slope, and figure out how much it's worth investing in improving your app/site's latency.
Seems like some dedicated hardware here would make this go faster if there's a business for it. For example, if the bandwidth isn't high, you could setup a wireless mesh from point A to point B and connect via some appliance to the NIC.

Walk the length with the appliance and verify there's no dead spots, then just hook up to a power supply and get things done.
My dream is to work for spaceX, but I'm NY. Do you his have remote teams or a NY office?
There's a reason OpenAI added rules for API disclosure: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1287773885308391424
> fortunately at some places multiple developers used uBlock so it wasn't as hard as making the case alone.

Is adblocking not common? Every tech literate person I know uses an ad blocker. I'd say about 30-40% of millennials I know use them, most using ADB or uBlock Origin.

Every time I see someone using a browser with ads I forget what a nightmare the internet is.
Plus anyone first with The News. Any latest Elon Musk achievement, latest Apple announcement, or death of a famous person. Any of these will be 1000-2000 points.
These types of articles are so frustrating and show why media is failing so badly.

This is an article about a product launch that:

* Barely talks about the product at all.

* No demos of what the product does.

* Not even a single picture of what the product looks like.

* Does not link to the actual product's page.

* Very few links at all, and mostly to their own pages.

* Is 50% about the competitor's legal/political issues.

* IS 50% about the parent company's strategy in launching the product.

I don't understand why there can't be 2 articles here:

* Information about the product launch.

* An opinion article about Facebook strategy vs. Microsoft TikTok Trump.

I'm pretty sure everyone just skims these articles because they are so uninformative. Can I be the only person who feels this way?
There's one sentence that addresses the headline and it doesn't explain much...
You ain't kidding about "for a while". A Google Scholar search found "Pure Water for Drinking: A Review of Essential and Toxic Metals in Health and Disease" from 1983 which says:

> Dawson at the University of Texas has found that admissions to state mental hospitals and homicide and suicide rates correlated inversely with the lithium content of drinking water (40). He espouses the extremely controversial view that it be added to the drinking water up to the level of that occurring naturally in other waters with a high lithium content.

(40) is: DAWSON, E. B., FIEVE, R. and SHEARD, M. L.: Shall We Add Lithium to Drinking Water? In Water, Its Effects on Life Quality. Proceedings Seventh Water Quality Symposium 47-52, 1974.

Google Scholar says 3 sources cite it, but that it's only known via a citation.
s/exasperates/exacerbates/
Presumably at least part of the value of the job from his POV was the excitement of it. I've definitely done suboptimal jobs where I just enjoyed them a little and they were a break from the replicable tasks.

Since the customer is never going to know the awesomeness of it, it's really just for yourself.
Maybe there just needs to be better tooling around generating certificates or the "invalid certificate" warning should be toned down.
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Regarding dropping the prod db. I remember when Github dropped their production database because they had prod in their test env setting.

https://github.blog/2010-11-15-today-s-outage/
Firefox does have that, thank you, but I think the Chrome equivalents don't do the trick. I believed for no reason that would be the problem on Firefox too.
This is exactly right. Having the build process be 'reproducible' i.e. deterministic means it is insulated from mysterious action-at-a-distance mechanisms that break things I want or need to be invariant within my CI/CD process.
Why should I trust Firefox with this "enhanced tracking protection 2.0", when Mozilla gets their funding from Google just to be the default search engine?
The left and right limits are required to exist (and finite), but not necessarily to be equal to each other. So f(x) = 1/x and sin(1/x) are out but x/abs(x) is not.
> Inferior developer tools.

Very much an opinion, I prefer the Firefox dev tools, especially with the recent changes.

And while I can’t speak for other OS, scrolling and font rendering looks native on Windows and has for years.
does not seem to be open source. Why is it trustworthy of my entire browsing history?
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We need a better list, but it would be quite some work to make it. I'd like a list of performance, size, implementation language and bus interfaces.

I've been looking at this one for high end (1.9 DMIPS/MHz!):

https://github.com/ultraembedded/biriscv

Google/lowRISC has this one:

https://github.com/lowRISC/ibex

I'm using picorv32 right now on Lattice ECP5- running code out of SPI-flash, but I added an instruction cache for speed.

It's amazing how many RISC-V things are happening all at once right now.

Anybody know of any free RISC-Vs with floating point? It would be helpful to have something similar to ARM Cortex-M4F.

Edit:

From the "riscv-cores-list" I see WARP-V, which I'm not interested in due to "TL-Verilog". But its FPU is this:

http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/HardFloat.html

So all of these RISC-Vs should have optional FPU support based on HardFloat :-) (not that I have any idea of the size of HardFloat).
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Would be even more fun if such things (including the Powder Game) were also affected by device orientation/gyroscope/accelerometers.
In AI research, the territory is not the map.

A half-joking prediction:

at some point we'll solve all arbitrarily hard milestones for AIs and will still find ourselves 'nowhere near having real general intelligence'.

At that point we might start questioning our assumptions about intelligence.
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Yeah looks like 3 for 3 so far. It seems like a big number... as opposed to just 5 (Saturn V). What is the rationale for more smaller engines(other than offset/greater forces/new R&D)?
I've gone back and forth between Firefox and Chrome.

It's just that Firefox is noticeably slower than Chrome (or at least was about a year ago). Even simply switching between open tabs around what feels like 0.5 seconds, whereas on Chrome, tab switching is instantaneous. I've run Firefox in multi-process mode (since that was an option), but even with it, in general it seems like Firefox gets noticeably slower than Chrome when you have a lot of open tabs. I've always preferred and wanted to use Firefox over Chrome, but the performance degradation was too much to bear.
Not as obvious as your privilege.
Interesting they are going for this approach rather than the parabolic near space technique of spaceX. Could these just be different market segments?
We have an internal tool that grovels through dependencies looking for first party code, and then pulls that thread all the way to hyperlinks to the ticket numbers and the commit diffs.

So not only can we build another copy with the same third party code, when we do a bug fix you can validate that you in fact only got that one change into the bugfix.

Even with infrastructure to do surgery on dependencies, it's quite possible to fat finger something and get too much or not enough. So we built a sanity tool that gives the engineering sign-off prior to validation a bit of gravitas.
Related question that I don't know how to quickly find on Internet: imagine that IQ is a good measure for intelligence. I read Ainan Celeste Cawley[1][2] has an IQ of 263 (again, believe this number is accurate for a moment). How do you measure an IQ of 500, 1000, or 5000? I mean, not the actual test but how the test structure would change from measuring normal and outlier IQs?

Disclaimer: I am not an avid science fiction reader but interested in sources talking about superintelligence [3]. Is superintelligence more of the same or it is more about having different layers interconnected?

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

[2] https://www.rd.com/list/highest-iq-in-the-world/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence
I think it just happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061653

GPT-3 just wrote an essay arguing that intelligence is doing nothing.
If you don't need a database at all I kinda understand not wanting to "sandblast a soupcracker" as the saying goes.. but I've definitely seen a very similar trend with Flask apps!

To be frank django has been my go-to for almost every app I've built or prototyped which required a db, sometimes if exposing a REST API is more of the main goal I'll use DRF and then build a minimal frontend SPA using React (served by a separate app within the project). Not sure why it's not taught/used more tbh.
Do you also put that much effort into arguing against climate exaggerationism? Claims like the world is on fire, civilization will end or humans will go extinct because of it? People who won't have children because they believe the world will no longer be suitable for human habitation during their lives.
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Hands back to home row? Mine never left. The fade is a little better, almost usable, but not quite. Certainly not something I want to see hundreds of times a day while I'm trying to get work done. Same problem with full screen apps which also use this system.
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thanks for the info and that link to the source.

Edit:
Isn't this where the 55%, 28%, 17% widths derived from? Looks like a hard coded values?

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Website/blob/d4c638f...
you said that if people touch their mask or adjust it, "I don't see how they're achieving much more than safety theater that way." Covid is primarily airborne. If you prevent your breath and your coughs and your speech from spreading the germ and making it airborne, you're accomplishing a lot. And I feel like "damp mask" is a bit of an exaggeration. A hell of a lot more than "safety theater".
Indeed, the N1 design [1] will finally be done right.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)#Block_A_first_stag...
GPT-3 will revolutionize spam, twitter astroturfing, and high school essays that you didn't study for.
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As a F-1 OPT holder who is starting at a job with $200k base and almost double that in TC, I hate the claim that H1B is abusive. Can you tell me how I am being abused by my employer, who has helped me through every step of the way?

No, I don’t think H-1B is abusive, it’s an opportunity for hardworking people to prove themselves just as, or more capable than the locals. I don’t think you’re truly concerned about my wellbeing, I think you’d just rather have my job.
> I don't think anyone would throw you a murder charge if you dumped the servers hosting GPT3 into the ocean.

This argument is fascinating. What is it supposed to prove? Human beings have dumped boatloads of other human beings into the ocean without facing prosecution as well.
The Wikipedia link mentioned above claims only 2.9 kilotons, rather than thousands of kilotons.

I'm not sure how AN compares to TNT, but there were reportedly 2700 tons of AN, some fraction of which exploded.

In any case, it looks like the same order of magnitude, or at max one order, rather than 3 or 4.

ETA: the linked USGS actually says 1.1 Kt, but that assumes all the AN participated.
It was a trivial half-hour project that I sunk-cost-fallacied into a couple of hours. I wanted to embed LinkedIn into our recruiting lead qualification tool so that you don't have to open a new tab (it's right on the page in a two-pane display). It was enough of an improvement that people could just start their day, qualify some 10 leads, and then bang on with the day. We had a chap build it and it worked really well actually till SameSite became required on Chrome. Opening in a new tab was frustrating enough that people would feel like maybe doing a couple and then push it to the rest of the day and it would fall by the wayside against their "real job", so to speak. Besides, they'd be doing it feeling like an obligation which I don't think puts one in the right frame of mind.
I guess. That an asymmetrical expectation, though. If we require a great effort to politely point out that a blog is devoid of substance, the spammers win. It's also a very important skill these days to understand when you are being manipulated by the tone police into supporting an extreme position, or at least not denouncing it. It's super easy to lure some HNer into espousing an essentially eugenicist position on race and IQ, which weirdly is a topic that always makes it to the front page on HN, but then if you go on to denounce their position as eugenicist, you'll be flagged. I think that inevitably leads to decline in the quality of a community because if you don't have shorthand for "this is autogenerated spam", "this is climate denial", "this is a conspiracy theory", or "this is racist" then you'll instead waste all of your time trying to politely refute the bullshit point by point.
This case is slightly weird. Without evidence, there's no real way to call it out without sounding hostile, which is something you've also discouraged on Hacker News.

It's also why adequate disclosure of AI-generated text is important and it's good OpenAI is advocating that.
There has been some interesting progress with bootstrappable builds in regard to the GNU MES C compiler and building GCC.

https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-we...
Not everywhere, I'd say it's common within specific crowds.

At my company people are either don't know about them, or actually fundamentally disagree with their purpose. (No, it's not an AdTech company, before anyone asks)
You really think Javascript is somehow going to die next year? Percent of users with JS turned off is usually under 1%.
Therein lies the problem. Until a Feynman with the skill to teach this in an accessible way takes on the subject, we'll remain at an impasse. This is really a UX problem.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough"

- Albert Einstein
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GPT's text as quoted in the article has a clear thesis stated upfront, later expands on it with examples, summarizes its arguments at the end, and does all this with gusto.

You cap your comment by a non-sequitur that GPT is not going to replace journalism.

IMO the piece of text generated by GPT offers more insight and is wittier than yours.
I read the first 100 pages of the first book and then literally threw it into a fire.

I believe the "Nope" sentence was something akin to "{character} thought that {thing} because {thing}."

Jesus Christ. Would it kill you a little to show instead of tell?

(And lest people believe I'm not a fan of some good * opera, I'm not ashamed to admit I've read my fair share of BattleTech, Barsoom, and even Lost Fleet, among less highbrow works)
Take a look at the original discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817

None of it is discussing the content, which makes sense given that it was nonsense.

It just makes me further believe a very small minority read the article before jumping into discussion. Like that other GPT-3 post where a ton of the commenters didn't make it to the punchline in the article.

I guess that points to the value of a clickbait headline too.

I remember skimming the article and thinking it was nonsense, but downvoting the "this is GPT-3 nonsense, or the human equivalent," comment. I don't see a contradiction there.

Last, I totally disagree with the author's premise quite strongly. Maybe if you're trying to just pump out clickbait where the whole point is the headline, it'll make a difference in your ability to churn out content.

> However, with very minor editing, you could make these decent. Cut out irrelevant stuff, write a conclusion, and boom - people don't stand a chance of telling the difference.

You can give it a nice form, sure. People might believe it, too, but it'll still be crap.

> The difference is, this is one of the first times technology has the potential to affect jobs in the creative sector.

This is really wrong. MS word, spell check, printers, photoshop, grammar check, the ipad, digital cameras, practically everything in movies and animation these days. Technology has been helping creatives be more efficient for ages. One person with photoshop can do work in a day that would have taken ages not long ago. You can hire Eddie Murphy once instead of a full cast. You can film the mandalorian with massive LED monitor backgrounds instead of a greenscreen, which itself replaced other work.

I guess if your goal is to churn out thought pieces with a nice headline, but zero research and little critical thought, it's going to change the game. All you need to do is say whatever you need to fit your narrative, like the fact that computer technology and automation is just finally starting to affect creative jobs. It'll flow perfectly and people won't be able to tell it's all made up. Maybe the author's right and it's the sad reality that this is what most of the content we read is and what most of the internet content writing jobs consist of.
The Raptor engines are more advanced than those NK-31's right? I mean by newer manufacturing but I remember seeing something about these Russian engines that were closed off in some factory somewhere/later(years) found and they were supposedly still more advanced/powerful(efficient?) than modern rockets.